Universiti Malaysia Sabah and Kinki University of Japan initiated the annual seminar series in 2003. Named as "Annual Seminar on Marine Science and Aquaculture", these seminars have provided a platform to exchange knowledge about the marine ecosystem and development of aquatic food resources through sustainable fisheries and aquaculture.

Due to increasing number of participants and diverse backgrounds they come from, there is a need to bring the broader issues of global importance into the scope of discussion. This has motivated the transformation of annual seminar series into an international event. Henceforth, the International Seminar on Marine Science and Aquaculture will encompass a variety of perspectives that are rapidly shaping the research interest in marine environment and seafood resources.

The theme of the upcoming seminar schedule in 2013 will be "OCEAN HEALTH & OUR FUTURE". The seminar focus on topics that are thematic or technical in nature and will be open to those having profesional interest in this subject.

Please visit our website for further details: http://www.ums.edu.my/ipmb/isomsa/

Conference Overview

One of the core activities of MASS is to organize its annual conference in order to allow scientists and engineers to interact and exchanging new or recent results or knowledge in the field of solid state science and technology. The first annual regional conference was organized in 1991 and since then MASS never fail to organize this annual regional/international conference. In maintaining such a tradition, MASS always adopt a strategy to invite universities to be a co-organizer. The last three MASS annual regional/international conference, i.e. for 2011, 2010 and 2009 were co-organized with UKM, UNIMAS, and UniMAP, respectively. For this year 2013, the co-organizer is the Universiti Malaysia Sabah.

Conference Scope

The conference covers all areas related to solid state science and technology. For parallel presentation purpose, the scope is categorized into the following list. Author should indicate which area the abstract/paper was written for. However, the organizer has the right to move into different area if necessary.

For more information, visit our official website, http://www.ums.edu.my/conferences/RCSSST27

CALL FOR PAPERS

Language plays a broad range of essential roles in society and institutions with diverse needs, aspirations, cultures, traditions, and practices while linguistics offers numerous approaches to the study of how communities, groups and individuals interact or communicate with one another. To promote the importance of language learning, facilitate our understanding of languages, and broaden our knowledge of linguistics, we are organising the International Conference on Languages, Linguistics and Society in Sabah, Malaysia, which is well known for its multi-ethnic and multi-cultural identity.

The upcoming conference will look into various issues of both global and local concerns especially in relation to the use and learning of different languages. This conference covers topics pertaining to applied linguistics and theoretical linguistics in various institutional, social, and cultural contexts. The conference also welcomes presentations based on studies conducted from inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives, involving research into language/s in different academic disciplines. We hope to provide an interesting platform for researchers, academics, instructors, language practitioners, policy makers, postgraduate candidates, and members of the public to share knowledge and engage in meaningful interactions.

Objectives

We aim to

1. investigate, discuss, and exchange ideas related to the learning and/or use of language in institutional, social and/or cultural settings,
2. explore the benefits of cross-disciplinary studies involving linguistics, and
3. examine the theoretical and/or practicalimplications of new ideas, perspectives, theories, and recommendations concerning different approaches to language teaching and/or language analysis.

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