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{"title":"Thai funeral rites in late modernity","authors":"A. Rappa","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.50","url":null,"abstract":"For at least 700 years, the ancient Siamese and modern Thai people have been conducting funerals. These often end with the cremation of the body. The length of the Buddhist wake depends on the social status of the deceased and his or her wealth. Also, for the descendants of the Tai speakers across Southeast Asia, the words and phrases used in ancient Siamese funerals and modern Thai ones have been deeply intertwined with Tai language, Standard Thai Language, Buddhist rites, and Theravada Buddhist scripture from the Pali canon. The objective of this paper is to convey a narrative snapshot of the nature of Thai funerals as they are practiced today via personal experiences and the existing scholarship by local and farang academics. The paper concludes with the meanings that have come to attach themselves to the fascinating world of modern Thai funerals.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127285059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools in Singapore: building Chinese elitism or settling on meritocracy, Singapore style?","authors":"A. Rappa, Anna Mui-eng Ng","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.37","url":null,"abstract":"Since the People’s Action Party (PAP) came into power in 1959, there has been a series of tensions and tussles between the Chinese educated in their vernacular and the western-trained Chinese, whose own mother tongue is Chinese but who embrace western values such as liberty and western religion. The Special Assistance Plan (SAP) schools in Singapore – for example, Hwa Chong Institution and Catholic High School – were introduced in 1979 and remain the result of an elite education system built to ensure that there remains a core of Chinese-educated elites in Singapore who are educated at the first language levels in English and in Mandarin (Putonghua). This is to offset the balance between the dominant English-educated Chinese and the Chinese-educated Chinese in Singapore. Several problems are associated with the SAP schools, which are analyzed in this study. This study concludes with the power of Kuan Yew Lee and his PAP and provides several possible solutions to the SAP school problem and how they may be fixed over the short term for all Singaporeans alike. Raffles Institution, Anglo-Chinese School, and St. Joseph’s Institution have long histories in Singapore but are not SAP schools, thus proving that SAP schools may not even be necessary in the first place in the globalized world.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132989081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Democracy in Vietnam: a matter of class consciousness?","authors":"A. Rappa","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.41","url":null,"abstract":"Democracy is a Western concept without roots in Asia in general and Vietnam in particular. There are several reasons why Vietnam might be a prospective democracy: (1) its capitalist economy is worth US$371 billion in 2022; (2) the number of civil society associations has risen in Vietnam since 1990. There are increasing signs that space for civil society is opening up; and (3) there are isolated cases where democratic actions have occurred in Vietnam. This article explains why democracy faces significant challenges in Vietnamese late modernity. It uses a seven-question democratic framework to determine the existence of democracy in Southeast Asia. Framework for analysis: The framework for analyzing democracy in Southeast Asia with seven questions is as follows: (1) Are there regularly held elections that are free and fair in the country? (2) Are there external or foreign observers of the elections? (3) Are the ballot boxes stuffed openly or secretly? (4) Are the voters bribed in any way before or during the elections? (5) Is the vote secret? (6) Are there secret police operating beyond the law? and (7) Are there opposition parties that can freely take part in elections with low barriers to entry?","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"248 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114551121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Political Theory and Freedom of Choices","authors":"Rappa Antonio L.","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.010","url":null,"abstract":"Can there be genuine freedom of choice? This paper takes into account competing versions of freedoms and liberties from the Western tradition. There are competing accounts because of the variegated approaches to understanding freedom. There are also various advantages and disadvantages to these varieties of conceptual freedom. If it were possible to place these on a linear scale, there are choices that lie on the right-wing and, at the other extreme, on the left-wing. These propagandist notions of freedom pose serious consequences for the actual choices offered as well as the choices that are eventually made. The paper examines the key arguments made by the most important philosophers of democracy and freedom in modernity. The paper questions whether anyone ought to bother about freedom in the first place. The paper concludes with the major articulations of freedom from both normative and positive political theory.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124439858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Democracy in Thailand","authors":"A. Rappa","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.51","url":null,"abstract":"Summary: Democracy is an alien concept to Thailand. This study analyzes the possibilities for democratic action in the kingdom using a 7-question framework for analysis. The study concludes with the prospects for democracy in the kingdom. Summary of method: The framework for analyzing democracy in Southeast Asia has seven questions as follows: (1) Are there regularly held elections that are free and fair in the country? (2) Are there external or foreign observers of the elections? (3) Are the ballot boxes stuffed openly or secretly? (4) Are the voters bribed in any way before or during the elections? (5) Is the vote secret? (6) Are there secret police operating beyond the law? (7) Are there Opposition parties that can freely take part in elections with low barriers to entry? The study uses two main original tables to record the history of grassroots activism and General Elections since 1969 and supplement the framework.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123427061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analytical Study of a Solar Hybrid Air-conditioning System Assisted Solar Absorption Using R-410A for Refrigeration Applications","authors":"M. Saddam, M. I. Hasan","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.012","url":null,"abstract":"This research focuses on the design, modeling, and simulation of absorption solar air-conditioning systems. Key performance parameters are identified and optimized for maximum efficiency, and the system was simulated using climatic conditions in Thi-Qar, Iraq, providing a good trend for the system to meet domestic airconditioning needs, which has a direct effect on the angle of incidence of solar radiation. The results of solar collectors and their effective performance in saving energy and improving system efficiency were discussed, where the work was performed on a solar heater with an evacuated tube with an area of 1.8 m2. The rate of emitted solar radiation was equal to 1000 W/m2. The average heat load of the solar heater was provided at a rate of 0.190 kW to 1.291 kW. The experiment in this paper was conducted in two stages. First, the solar heater was connected in the first case before the compressor. The reported results showed an increase in energy savings with average heater temperatures rising to 25% to 55% of the total energy consumed in the cooling cycle per day. The gas was heated to temperatures ranging from 45 to 65◦C, while the cooling rate was constant at 3.43. Second, the solar heater was connected after the compressor in the second case. The solar heater provided a significant improvement in system performance factor with an average of 5.1 to 13 and energy amount ranging from 15% to 24% of the total energy consumed. It is noted that the cooling load improved from 3.43 to 5.54 kW. The rate of thermal heating in the second case was from 100 to 160◦C gradually. Finally, it is noted that the second case has a much greater service advantage and economic feasibility than the first, and the system has improved as a result of improving the amount of cooling load while reducing energy consumption and increasing the overall performance of the system factor resulting from the improvement of the special conditions of the coolant used in the (R-410a) cycle.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124312124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Service quality models: A review with respect to fast food restaurants","authors":"C. Udayalakshmi, J. Sridevi","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.30","url":null,"abstract":"Service quality is a measure that indicates to what extent an organization delivers or provides service to its customers against the customers’ expectations. Service quality has been studied by many researchers, who have developed varied models to assess the service quality of a firm or business. This paper, being a conceptual paper, aims to review a few well-known service quality models and also give a gist of a few service quality models specifically developed for fast food restaurants. It also throws light on the disruptive technologies existing in the fast food restaurant industry. In the study, it was found that no single model can assess the service quality of all businesses in all circumstances. Models have to be modified or new models have to be developed based on the hour and environment. Technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, automation, etc., help enhance the service quality of a fast food restaurant","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"252 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114557114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital resource granting in new education policy and socioeconomic in small industry development in India","authors":"U. Yadav, Mano Ashish Tripathi, Ravikesh Tripathi","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.44","url":null,"abstract":"The economy of India cannot accomplish the objective of sustainable economic development until or unless it can put a generous sum into human resources. Education is a fundamental factor in development. It does not just improve the personal satisfaction of an individual, yet, addition, it improves the social advantage of the public. The motivation behind this examination is to discover how public expenditures on education can improve the economic and social state of the society in India. Regardless, the issue is whether further developed levels of education come about on the ground of education to craft skill artisans in small industries like giving digital training or digital education to Indian traditional artisans that may compete with the global handicraft sector. For the development of the handicraft sector, a separate global handicraft index has also been developed by the Indian scholar to give positive competition and advance new education to an artisan of global craft, and that more education spending can advance economic growth is yet sketchy. A few economic and social analysts and researchers have maintained the two-sided connectivity between these two factors, yet some are recommending that economic growth essentially animates the government to spend more on education, not the substitute way. The research question of this study is “do education and expenditures on education get economic and social advancement?” Considering this research issue, the current study utilizes Granger causality methods to conclude the causal connection between the government’s education spending and socioeconomic development in India for the period 1972–2021. Results uncovered that there is no short-run causality between government expenditure on education and socioeconomic growth, yet economic growth influences public spending on education. This provides guidelines to the new education policy (NEP) makers that they should prioritize their attention toward allocation of development and non-development expenditures of the government’s budget to enhance the quality of education and welfare of individuals in the society. Special focus should be given to compulsory primary education, which is already a part of sustainable development goals.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121611514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Utilization of teaching resources for efficient instructional delivery in data processing in senior secondary schools in Anambra state","authors":"Chidozie Emeka Alutu","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.2023.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.2023.53","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to investigate how teaching materials are used in senior secondary schools in Anambra state to facilitate effective data processing and instruction for respondents. The study employed a survey methodology. A total of 120 instructors and 18 pupils made up the 138 respondents who took part in the study’s sample, which was employed in the analysis. A four-part questionnaire that was self-created was the study’s primary tool. The instrument has been validated. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 22 was used to extract the data gathered from the respondents from the Google form and conduct the analysis. In order to determine the frequency and proportion of the entire population, the researcher employed descriptive analysis. Based on the analysis of the data collected, the researcher found that learning data processing becomes easier with the use of instructional materials. It was concluded that instructional materials have a greater advantage to the teacher and respondents. This study contributes to the existing literature on educational technology integration in Nigeria and specifically highlights the need for improved utilization of teaching resources for data processing education. By shedding light on the current state of affairs in Anambra state’s senior secondary schools, the findings of this study can inform policymakers, school administrators, and educators on the effectiveness of instructional materials in teaching and learning data processing.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"47 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130822970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stylistics Variations: An Understanding of Language of Gay People Based on Phonemic Diphthongs","authors":"V. Reynaldo","doi":"10.54646/bijsshr.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54646/bijsshr.001","url":null,"abstract":"The gay vernacular, a language created by the LGBT community, is one of the amazing modern languages of today. To protect themselves from the hurt of societal disgrace, gay individuals started to establish their own language. It also has linguistic characteristics shared by LGBT educators who frequently talk about phonemic diphthongs. To identify the phonetic diphthongs uttered, their focus on their everyday lives of teaching as well as their meanings, this qualitative research employed a case study in conjunction with discourse analysis through production task and elicitation. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather data from purposively selected 8 informants in a secondary school of Don Sergio Osmena Sr. Memorial National High School, Cebu City, Philippines. ˘ The study revealed that the stylistic variation of gay faculty members is in the coinage through colleagues’ speech influence, the creation of own words was through attachment and cropping wherein an original word is cut off and has a new component and meaning, and there are existing words used in gay lingo that have different meanings. In order for everyone to have a deeper understanding of the culture, discursive studies of gay lingo are needed. School administrators should also mandate seminars and other activities for teachers about understanding gay language and its neologisms or the creation of their own words and structural processes.","PeriodicalId":429057,"journal":{"name":"BOHR International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117007716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}