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2nd International Conference on “International Marketing in Asia Pacific Issues and Challenges (ICIM) – 2013”

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Dear Colleague,
2nd International Conference on “International Marketing in Asia Pacific Issues and Challenges (ICIM) – 2013” is organized by GRD Institute of Management, GRD School Of International Business, Dr.GRD College Of Science, India, in association with the universities from US & UK,  on 07th & 08th March at The Residency Hotel Coimbatore, India.
We invite papers for presentation and proposals for panel discussion related to the conference theme, "Globalization, Innovation, and Leadership", from scholars, business executives, professionals, and public policy makers. Every paper submitted should have a global /international orientation and must be scholarly in content. We welcome conceptual, theoretical and empirical papers, using qualitative and/or quantitative methodologies. Manuscripts submitted must be complete papers. Accepted papers will be published in an "International Edited Book" with an ISBN edited number.
 We particularly welcome papers related to the main theme on such topics as:
  • International marketing
  • Interactive marketing
  • Consumer behavior
  • Brand management
  • Retail management
  • Internet marketing
  • E-Commerce
  • Services marketing
  • Industrial marketing
  • Customer relationship management
  • Neuro marketing
  • Digital Marketing
  • Business in transitional economies
  • Comparative analysis of leadership styles
  • Comparative studies of business law and taxation issues
  • Corporate governance and leadership
  • Cross-cultural/national consumer behavior
  • Evolution and expansion of international marketing
  • Innovations in financial services
  • Innovations in operations management systems and technologies
  • Entrepreneurship
  • International logistics of supply and purchasing
  • International marketing of services, tourism and hospitality management
  • Joint ventures, co-operative ventures and wholly foreign-owned businesses
  • Management information systems/decision support systems in the global marketplace
  • Management philosophy, culture, business ethics and education
  • Regionalism and globalization
  • Strategic alliances and international cooperation
  • World markets and global competitive strategies
 Guidelines for Paper Submission:
Submit an electronic copy of the complete manuscript by 25th February 2013 to the Conference Chair. Unless specified below, guidelines and style for full paper preparation should follow those of the International Studies. Papers should be no more than 20 pages or 5,000 words in length, with an abstract of no more than 100 words. The Conference Chair must receive final revised manuscripts at the earliest. The author(s) must certify that the accepted paper is not copyrighted and has not been published elsewhere. Papers will be arranged for presentation and publication ONLY if at least one of the authors registers for the Conference by the registration deadline. An individual author may not appear on more than three papers.
Important Dates:
Conference Date : 7th & 8th March 2013
Registration deadline is 28th February 2013.
Submit an electronic copy of manuscript by 25th February 2013
Acceptance notification will be sent three days after the submission.

Registration
Participants
Registration before 28.02.2013
Registration after 01.03.2013
International delegates
US$100
US$125
Industry delegates
INR 5000
INR 6000
Academicians
INR 3000
INR 4000
Full time Research Scholars
INR 2500
INR 3000
ion
Please visit our conference website http://grdevents.com providing more details about the ICIM 2013. The conference sessions will let you discuss with researchers, colleagues and friends from across the world. We request you to give wide publicity about the conference. Therefore, we request you to motivate your faculty members to contribute research papers for effective representation from your esteemed Institution in
this prestigious International conference.

Thanking you in anticipation of a favorable action in this regard.
Sincerely Yours,

Dr.K.K.Ramachandran,
Conference chair,
Director,
GRD Institute of Management,
Dr.GRD College of Science,
Civil Aerodrome Post,
Coimbatore-14.

3rd International Workshop on Smart Learning Environments

under the auspices of
the 13th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
July 15-18, 2013
Beijing, China
http://ksei.bnu.edu.cn/SLE2013/home.html

It is important for teachers to get idea of how their students learn; what their students have already known; in what their students are not good enough or have misconceptions; what kind of instructional ways their students like and can learn more efficiently; and, what their students need to know at a particular moment. With the help of computational intelligence, ontology, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, text mining, and information retrieval, Smart Learning Environments (SLE) can be built to know the context of students, e.g., learning style, cognitive trait, competency model, behavior pattern, preference, need, and device, correctly and better by digging and analyzing variety of data. Furthermore, the SLE can then provide the students with personalized and adaptive learning services based on the discovered context. This workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers to know the latest relevant research progress; to share experiences; to discuss key issues; and at the end, to have opportunities to work together after this event.


* Topics of the Workshop:
- Student modeling and adaptivity
- Competency analysis
- Learning behavior/style analysis and recognition
- Data mining and Visualization
- Context-aware and location-based learning
- Tablet Enhanced Learning Environments


* Outcomes of the workshop:
Extended versions of accepted papers will be published by Springer in a book "Emerging technologies in smart learning environment". This book will aim for a world in which change is not only a given but everywhere, and is proactively embraced; a world where the ability to manage change is seen as a distinct competitive advantage, and the learning marketplace is full of alternative models. The premise of this book will be that the world around us, the ways in which we live our everyday lives, the connections we make, the increasingly global community we live in - all of these are inexorably changing the ways we learn as well.


*Workshop Chairs:
Dr. Guang Chen, Beijing Normal University, Canada
Dr. Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada


* For more details, please visit:
http://ksei.bnu.edu.cn/SLE2013/home.html

REFLECTION


DANCER AND DRUMMER

PLOWING THE DEEP SNOW

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Gandhi Bapu's most favourite bhajan.....in different voices


જે ક્ષણે તમે ઈશ્વર સિવાય કોઈનો ભરોસો નથી રાખતા તે જ ક્ષણેથી તમે શક્તિમાન બની જાઓ છો. તમારી બધીનિરાશા ગાયબ થઈ જાય છે.
– ગાંધીજી

જીવનમાં  વીતેલો સમય કદીય  પાછો નથી મળતો
જે સમયને વિતાવવામાં તમને આનંદ આવતો હોય તે સમય વેડફાઈ ગયો ન કહેવાય.
–બર્ટ્રાન્ડ રસેલ


A strong message from Narsinh Mehta of Junagadh who has been beloved of our father of nation...Mahatma Gandhi. Those not knowing Gujarati will enjoy English version by Sonu Nigam. In addition of music, try to get into the message of this Bhajan.


Those who do not know or understand Gujarati: You can listen to  Sonu Nigam's English version, ( No. 3 in serial order) which he sang at the Harvard University.


વૈશ્વિક સંદેશો, વિશ્વ માનવનો.. A universal message from a universal man-written by Narsinh Mehta a centuries  old Gujarati poet- and the most favorite Bhajan of Gandhiji

    અલગ અલગ રાગમાં, અલગ અલગ સ્વરમાં….

વિદ્યાવિહાર સ્વરાંકન રાગઃ ખમાજ

૧. આપણા આશિતભાઈ દેસાઈના સ્વરમાં  Well known Gujarati singer, Aashit Desai- Raag Khamaj(શુધ્ધ ગુજરાતીમાં..’રે’ લગાડીને)

૨. લતા મંગેશકરનાં સ્વરમાં.. In Lata Mangeshkar's voice

૩. સોનુ નિગમનાં સ્વરમાં.. Sonu Nigam sung in Gujarati and its English version, at Harvard(રસપ્રદ રચનાત્મક રીતે હાવર્ડ યુનિવર્સિટીમાં ,ગુજરાતી – અંગ્રેજીમાં એકસાથે ગાયેલું..!)

૪. પંડિત જસરાજ અને શંકર મહાદેવનનાં સ્વરમાં.. Sung by Pandit Jasraj and Shankar Mahadevan

૫.ગાંધીજીનાં દેહાંત સમયે કરુણ રસમાં… At the death of Gandhiji

૬. વાંસળી અને તબલા, ફક્ત વાદ્યસૂરમાં ..      Only instrumental music on flute and tabla

૭. ફિલ્મઃ “વૉટર”માં સમૂહમાં ગવાયેલું… Sung as a chorus, in the film, WATER

 
વૈષ્ણવ જન તો તેને રે કહીયે, જે પીડ પરાઈ જાણે રે.પરદુઃખે ઉપકાર કરે તોયે, મન અભિમાન ન આણે રે... વૈષ્ણવ જન

સકળ લોકમાં સહુને વંદે, નિંદા ન કરે કે‘ની રે.વાચ કાછ મન નિશ્ચલ રાખે, ધન ધન જનની તેની રે... વૈષ્ણવ જન 

સમદ્રષ્ટિને તૃષ્ણા ત્યાગી, પરસ્ત્રી જેને માત રે.જિહ્વા થકી અસત્ય ન બોલે, પરધન નવ ઝાલે હાથ રે... વૈષ્ણવ જન
મોહ માયા વ્યાપે નહિ જેને, દ્રઢ વૈરાગ્ય જેના મનમાં રે.રામ નામ શું તાળી રે વાગી, સકળ તિરથ તેના તનમાંરે.વૈષ્ણવ જન
વણલોભી ને કપટરહિત છે, કામ ક્રોધ નિવાર્યા રે.ભણે નરસૈયો તેનું દર્શન કરતા, કુળ ઈકોતેર તાર્યા રે... વૈષ્ણવ જન

કૉમ્પ્યુટર વિધવા


આપણી ઈન્દ્રિયો જ આપણી શત્રુ છે પરંતુ જો તેમને જીતી લેવાય તો તે મિત્ર બની જાય છે.
– ભગવાન શંકરાચાર્ય

જગતમાં સૌ શરાબીની આ એક જ કમનસીબી છે,
જે શરૂમાં શોખ હો, આગળ જતા પલટાય આદતમાં
- મરીઝ 





કૉમ્પ્યુટર વિધવા                         – ડૉ. ગુણવંત શાહ

કૉમ્પ્યુટર વગરનું જીવન કેવું હોઈ શકે ?

મારી પાસે કૉમ્પ્યુટર નથી. એના વગર મારું કશુંય અટકતું નથી, મારે એ વસાવવું નથી. પરંતુ પ્રશ્નોત્તરી વિભાગ રિડિફ.કોમ શરૂ થયો ત્યારથી શીલા ભટ્ટ મને ઈન્ટરનેટ લેવા માટે આગ્રહ કરી રહ્યાં છે. મારે ઘરમાં માહિતીનું ગોડાઉન નથી જોઈતું. મારે તો માહિતીના વજન વગર હીંચકે બેસીને પ્રેમાનંદનું ‘નળાખ્યાન’ કે વાલ્મીકિનું ‘રામાયણ’ કે કાલીદાસનું ‘મેઘદૂત’ કે ભારવિનું ‘કિરાતાર્જુનિયમ’ કે ભવભૂતિનું ‘ઉત્તરરામચરિત’ કે શુદ્રકનું ‘મૃચ્છકટિકમ’ વાંચવું છે. કોમ્પ્યુટર સાથે જોડાયેલું ઈન્ટરનેટ મારાં ચરણોમાં દુનિયાભરની માહિતીનો ઢગલો ઠાલવી દે છે. કેવળ માહિતી તો ઘાસ જેવી છે. ઘાસ ખાવા માટે ગાય છે. માણસ તો એમાંથી બનેલું દુધ (જ્ઞાન) અને નવનીત (શાણપણ) પામવા માટે સર્જાયો છે. જો માહિતી ખાવાથી જ્ઞાની બનાતું હોત તો ઊધઈ સૌથી મોટી વિદ્વાન ગણાતી હોત. આટલું કહ્યા પછી કહેવાનું કે જો યોગ્ય વિનિયોગ થાય તો કૉમ્પ્યુટર આશીર્વાદ છે. હવે એના વગર નહીં ચાલે. દુનિયા ગામડું બની રહી છે. સરહદો અર્થહીન બની રહી છે. ઈન્ટરનેટ ઘણું આપી શકે તેમ છે. એની સામે એટલો લાંબો સમય ન બેસવું કે જીવન ખતમ થાય. કૉમ્પ્યુટર સાથે જડાઈ ગયેલા પતિની પત્નીને ‘કૉમ્પ્યુટર વિધવા’ કહે છે. કૉમ્પ્યુટર મિત્ર છે, પરંતુ એ તમારા માથા પર ચડી બેસે ત્યારે શત્રુ છે. બધો આધાર મારા–તમારા પર છે.
શ્રી કૉમ્પ્યુટરાય નમ:
લેખકના પુસ્તક ‘ગુફતગૂ’માંથી સાભાર

Odd fishes we didn't know about


This collection of images corresponds to the fish more terrifying story, perfect for nights of nightmare. See fish you thought you did not exist.


Frilled Shark
disgusting fishes
Blob Fish
disgusting fishes
Wolf Fish
disgusting fishes

Rat-tails or Grenadiers
disgusting fishes
disgusting fishes
Lamprey
disgusting fishes
disgusting fishes
Basking Shark
disgusting fishes
Goblin Shark
disgusting fishes