Write up about the Conference Multicultural Education and Specia Education (MESPED) 2014 was organized by the Chiang Mai University Faculty of Education. It was a result of the collaboration between the departments of multicultural education and special education to allow educators, researchers, and interest people from around the world to share and discuss knowledge on education for diverse learners. The MESPED 2014 focuses on establishing knowledge base among participants regarding multicultural education and special education to improve quality of education to improve quality of education and life of individuals with disabilities and racial/ethnic minority individuals; permitting educators, researchers, and policy […]
RDG Conference Report of Ronald C. Macatangay
Write up about the Conference The conference will bring together the entire weather science and user communities for the first time to review the state-of the-art and map out the scientific frontiers for the next decade and more. Feedback on paper presented Use a mean layer wind from 850 – 200 hPa with pressure weighting Future directions of research presented Consider writing up the paper for publication Potential foreign collaborators Dr. Carolyn Reynolds, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, USA Dr, Suzana Camargo, LDEO, Columbia University, NY, USA Dr. Johnny Chan, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong Lydia […]
RDG Conference Report of Raymond A. Macapagal
Write up about the Conference The 3rd International Conference UNITWIN UNESCO Network “Culture, Tourism, Development” centered on Tourism and Gastronomy heritage: Foodscapes, Gastroregions and Gastrnomy Tourism to be held from June 16-20, 2014 in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). This meeting aims to present current research and tendencies in gastronomy heritage and tourism based on biodiversity and cultural diversity of our territories, most of them promoted as gastroregions and gastronomy tourism destinations. UNESCO has contributed to reinforce the gastronomy heritage promoting universal value of cultural landscapes, more of them foodscapes, inscribed in the World Heritage List; including culinary and traditional food manifestations […]
RDG Conference Report of Julius Rhoan T. Lustro
Write up about the Conference The Asian Computational Fluid Dynamic Conference (ACFD) was first held in Hong Kong in 1996, with the intention of encouraging scientific and technical cooperation in CFD field among the Asian Countries. Since then, the conference has been held every two years not only to create a professional environment for the scientific and technical communications, but also to promote the friendship between the members and participants. The ACFD conference were held in Japan (1998), India (2000), China (2002), Korea (2004), Taiwan (2006), India (2008), Hong Kong (2010) and China (2012). The 10th gathering of ACFD will […]
RDG Conference Report of Ruth R. Lusterio-Rico
Write up about the Conference The 23rd World Congress of Political Science, organized by the International Political Science Association (IPSA), held on 19-24 July 2014 at the Palais de Congress, Montereal, Quebec, Canada, was attended by around 3,000 political science all over the world. The five-day World Congress featured various activities aside from the plenary and panel sessions, such as book exhibits and launching as well as presentation of achievement awards. Feedback on paper presented The following comments were made by the panel discussant, Dr. Qingshan Tan of Cleveland State University (USA): Cases that do not show the best scenario […]
RDG Conference Report of Gerardo T. Los Baños
Write up about the Conference The Asia-Pacific Writers’ and Translators’ Association 2014 conference titled “Bridging Cultures: Creative Writing and Literary Translations,” is a gathering of 140 authors, editors, translators, and other people from the publishing community in the Asia-Pacific region who come together to engage in dialogue, form networks, and devise strategies to support and enhance the “voice” of that region in the global stage. Feedback on paper presented Surprise that conservative element had such influence on the content of literature in the Philippines, and thus on its publication. Future directions of research presented Monitor the publication and writing of […]
RDG Conference Report of Dennis T. Leyson
Write up about the Conference The conference was attended by thousands of mathematicians all over the world. In the opening ceremonies, the four FIELDS medals (the highest recognition given to outstanding mathematicians) were awarded. There were plenary sessions (1-hour lecture), invited talks sessions (45-minutes lecture) and contributed talks sessions (20- minute presentations). The talks were divided into different fields of mathematics and I attended the Geometry sessions. Feedback on paper presented I presented a poster of my paper on August 14 (Thursday) together with the other poster presentations on Geometry. Posters were posted from 1pm-6pm and standing on posters for […]
RDG Conference Report of Jean Marie V. Juanga
Write up about the Conference The European Network for Housing Research (ENHR) was established in 1988 to provide an organizational platform for institutions and individuals in (and outside) Europe, who are actively engaged in housing research. It now has about 1000 individual and nearly 100 institutional members representing almost every country in Europe. Although ENHR is a European network, researchers from outside Europe are also very welcome to join.( http://www.enhr2014.com/organisation/enhr/) The European Network Housing Research (ENHR) is an annual conference which is usually held in different parts of Europe but is attended by participants worldwide. The 26th ENHR conference, which […]
RDG Conference Report of Cynthia T. Hedreyda
Write up about the Conference The 1st international conference on “ASEAN Microbial Biotechnology Conference” was organized with the goal of providing a venue where researchers in the field of Microbial Biotechnology from the region can share research experiences and obtain updates on technology development and utilization of microbes for biotechnological application. The first two days included Plenary paper presentations in the morning,. a one hour poster presentation after lunch and simultaneous sessions of oral paper presentations (Agricultural Biotechnology, Industrial Biotechnology, Biofuels and Biorefinery, and Biofertilizers) after the poster session. On the third day of the conference, a meeting of representatives […]
RDG Conference Report of Pauline Mari F. Hernando
Write up about the Conference From Brontë to Bloomsbury: Realism, Sensation and the New in Women’s Writing from the 1840s to the 1920s. The International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW) is seeking collaborative partnerships for an extensive project that traces the development of women’ writing from the 1840s to the 1920s. This five-year project aims to trace and reassess, decade by decade, how women’s writing develops across the cultural context of the 1890s to the 1920s: a transformative period in women’s private, public and literary lives. Including the work of canonical authors such as Charlotte Brontë and Virginia Woolf, the […]
