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DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1023
title: The effect of topic familiarity on critical thinking skills of Thai secondary students at different English writing ability levels

description: Critical thinking is one of the 21st century skills and has become a main goal in education. It is often referred to as argumentative skills since one must also be a critical thinker in order to form a sound argument. Many research studies explored students’ critical thinking ability through their argumentative essays and found that topic familiarity plays a role in writing performance, especially at the university level. However, only few studies have explored how topic familiarity affects the argumentative skills of secondary students with different English writing ability levels in EFL context. To fill this gap, this study aims to investigate the effects of topic familiarity toward the written argumentative skill of Thai secondary students with different English writing abilities through two aspects: the quality or total scores of arguments and the complexity of argumentation. 37 Thai secondary students were categorized into low, moderate and high levels in accordance with their writing ability. They were assigned to write four argumentative essays responding to familiar and unfamiliar topics. The essays were graded in accordance with Stapleton & Wu’s Analytic Scoring Rubric (2015) before t-test was applied. The findings revealed that the total scores of the essays on the familiar topics formed by the students at all levels were not significantly higher than those on the unfamiliar topics. However, their essays on the familiar topics showed more complexity with higher argumentative elements. The findings indicated that the familiar topics encourage the application of more complex arguments but do not always contribute to higher quality of the arguments.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1024
title: Heteronormativity in children's discourse: gender binaries and sexism in Mulan

description: Movies can be powerful socialization agents, particularly when it comes to the processes of forming gender-perceptions in children. Fundamentally, the portrayals of protagonists, commonly male and female, in certain stereotypical roles and ways can convey ideological “norms” to young viewers. Accordingly, this study explores the portrayals of gender, sexism, and power in two versions of the movie, Mulan (1998 and 2020). Using a convergent parallel mix-method approach, the movies’ transcripts were analyzed for gender-based conversational strategies and conversation analysis. I then compared male and female portrayals through a discourse-historical approach. Findings demonstrate that in the more recent version of Mulan, males are portrayed in ways that are more feminine, and females—particularly Mulan and Xinniang—are portrayed in ways that are more masculine. Thus, in the more recent movie, the power distance between males and females has seemingly decreased. Furthermore, although both versions contain sexist content, Mulan 2020 seems to use sexist discourse to enhance female characters’ power. Based on these results and others, I argue that the differences between the portrayals of males and females in the two movies are possibly influenced by the women’s movement in the United States (where these two movies were produced), and the influence of the Chinese government/market on Hollywood. Overall, the study concludes that although there is a positive development of gender portrayals over time, sexist content still exists in children’s movies. Hence, it is the responsibility of parents to carefully choose appropriate movies for children.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1025
title: Implementing critical pedagogy: an investigation of teacher agency

description: In order to serve the characteristics of language learners in the 21st century, there are several aspects that the field of English language teaching (ELT), still, need to be challenged. Since teachers are viewed as crucial mediators of language learning, this study aimed to investigate two significant notions that have an impact on areas of English language teaching: 1) Relationships between agentic variables of teacher agency on the implementation of critical pedagogy. 2) Influences of teacher agency on teaching practices of ELT teachers. Informed by social cognitive theory: an agentic perspective of Bandura (2001), data were analyzed with a mixed-method design, including 117 ELT teachers who participated in the questionnaire survey and 5 ELT teachers who participated in the interview. The quantitative method was employed in order to explore relationships of agentic variables with a 15-item survey questionnaire. Through the semi-structured interview, the qualitative method was employed in order to investigate the impacts of teacher agency on teachers’ pedagogical practices. The results yield clear indications of the strength of agentic relationships and their influences on teachers’ teaching practices. In the light of the findings, this study offers implications, serving as a benchmark of guidelines to inform ELT programs for professional development and teacher training programs with an emphasis on inclusivity, interculturality, and creating critical thinking in the field of English language teaching
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7392655
title: Atrophy Pattern Maps of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

description: The files contain voxel-wise t-statistics maps showing deformation based morphometry (DBM) based atrophy patterns as well as their longitudinal changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. For more information regarding the participants and method details, see: Dadar, Mahsa, et al. "Cerebral atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis parallels the pathological distribution of TDP43." <em>Brain Communications</em> 2.2 (2020): fcaa061.
description: {"references": ["Dadar, Mahsa, et al. \"Cerebral atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis parallels the pathological distribution of TDP43.\" Brain Communications 2.2 (2020): fcaa061."]}
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1026
title: Being and becoming prosocial language teachers: a critical examination through identity construction of prosocial behaviors in English language teaching

description: With the ongoing pedagogical shift towards more sociocultural perspectives of English Language teaching, a thorough understanding of language teachers is needed. Research showed various behaviors that affected language pedagogy. One of which is any action that benefits or promotes the welfare of others, which can be called ‘prosocial behavior’. (Dovidio et al., 2006). In this sense, this study revealed the identity construction process of prosocial behaviors in English language teachers and how it affected their pedagogical beliefs and practice. Implementing narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000), data came from multiple individual semi-structured interviews of four language teachers with discourse analysis of interview data by elicit saliency in according to the professional identity by Creswell (2005). Major research findings showed emergent themes from deep reflection on the emergent patterns (participants’ integrated value, attitude, and belief systems) used as the judgement to predict teachers’ engagement in professional practices. Its implication concerned possible guidelines to inform programs for professional development with regards to how to engage teachers in the development of knowledge and skills: teacher training programs, teacher development programs, and macro and micro leveled policies and practices.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7392654
title: Atrophy Pattern Maps of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

description: The files contain voxel-wise t-statistics maps showing deformation based morphometry (DBM) based atrophy patterns as well as their longitudinal changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. For more information regarding the participants and method details, see: Dadar, Mahsa, et al. "Cerebral atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis parallels the pathological distribution of TDP43." <em>Brain Communications</em> 2.2 (2020): fcaa061.
description: {"references": ["Dadar, Mahsa, et al. \"Cerebral atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis parallels the pathological distribution of TDP43.\" Brain Communications 2.2 (2020): fcaa061."]}
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1027
title: Genre analysis of personal care product online advertisements: their moves, rhetorical devices, and gender identities constructions

description: The purpose of this study was to examine moves, rhetorical devices, and identity and gender portrayal of the women and men’s personal care product online advertisements. The data was taken from the brand official websites in the period of 2019. The corpus consisted of 1,611 words in total, 841 words of women advertisements and 770 words of men advertisements. The data was both manually analyzed and automatically extracted with AntConc 3.2.4w program. The modified frameworks used in this study were based on: Bhatia’s (2004, 2005) move structure of promotional discourse in terms of move structures identification, McQuarrie & Mick’s taxonomy (1996) for rhetorical device identification, Kress & Van Leeuwen (2006) grammar of visual design for the visual composition and gender portrayal analysis. The findings from the study are listed as follows. It was found that Link button move, a newly added move, was found in the advertisements. In terms of overall move of online advertisements, there were three obligatory moves: Move 1 Headlines, Move 4 Detailing the product or service, and Move 11 Link button. Concerning move found in the women’s advertisements, there were three obligatory moves: Move 1 Headlines, Move 4 Detailing the product or service, and Move 11 Link button, and six optional moves: Move 2 Targeting the market, Move 3 Justifying the product or service by establishing a niche, Move 5 Establishing credentials, Move 6 Endorsements or Testimonials, Move 7 Offering incentives, and Move 10 Signature line and Logo. Regarding the men’s advertisements, there were three obligatory moves: Move 1 Headlines, Move 4 Detailing the product or service, and Move 11 Link button, and four optional moves: Move 2 Targeting the market, Move 3 Justifying the product or service by establishing a niche, Move 6 Endorsements or Testimonials, and Move 10 Signature line and Logo. Regarding rhetorical devices found in the women and men’s advertisements, it was found that Parallelism, Rhyme, and Alliteration were top three devices used in the women’s advertisements, all of which were in schemes. On the other hand, the top three devices found in the men’s advertisements were Parallelism, Pun, and Metaphor. Two-thirds were in tropes: Pun and Metaphor. The results from verbal texts and visual composition revealed women identities as ‘professional and powerful yet gentle,’ while men were perceived as ‘easygoing and energetic yet gentle.’ The results revealed the equality of women and men and the traditionally perceived stereotypes of women and men were less prevalent.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7392621
title: Atrophy Pattern Maps of Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's Disease, and Frontotemporal Dementia

description: The files contain voxel-wise t-statistics maps contrasting deformation based morphometry (DBM) measurements of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) patients against matched normal controls. AD and MCI maps are based on ADNI data, available at: PD map is based on PPMI data, available at: FTD map is based on NIFD data, available at: For more information regarding the participants and method details, see: Dadar, Mahsa, et al. "White matter hyperintensities are associated with grey matter atrophy and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia." <em>Neurobiology of aging</em> 111 (2022): 54-63.
description: {"references": ["Dadar, Mahsa, et al. \"White matter hyperintensities are associated with grey matter atrophy and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.\" Neurobiology of aging 111 (2022): 54-63."]}
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7392620
title: Atrophy Pattern Maps of Alzheimer's Disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Parkinson's Disease, and Frontotemporal Dementia

description: The files contain voxel-wise t-statistics maps contrasting deformation based morphometry (DBM) measurements of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and fronto-temporal dementia (FTD) patients against matched normal controls. AD and MCI maps are based on ADNI data, available at: PD map is based on PPMI data, available at: FTD map is based on NIFD data, available at: For more information regarding the participants and method details, see: Dadar, Mahsa, et al. "White matter hyperintensities are associated with grey matter atrophy and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia." <em>Neurobiology of aging</em> 111 (2022): 54-63.
description: {"references": ["Dadar, Mahsa, et al. \"White matter hyperintensities are associated with grey matter atrophy and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.\" Neurobiology of aging 111 (2022): 54-63."]}
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1028
title: Global leadership competency among Thai foreign relations officers

description: Foreign relations officers (FROs) play an important role in the 21st century, where international cooperation and domestic well-being are interdependent. The high potential and good performance of FROs can help support the government’s efforts to foster citizens’ well-being. However, it seems that Thai FROs’ competencies have not been properly identified and evaluated. As a result, the objectives of this study were (1) to develop a balanced model of global leadership competency (GLC) on personality traits in a Thai context, (2) to investigate whether FROs are suitable for a GLC study, (3) to investigate FROs’ GLC on personality traits, and related factors, and (4) to investigate how to develop and improve FROs’ GLC and related competencies.The population of this study was 333 FROs working across 71 departments of 16 ministries and three independent departments of the Thai government. The stratified random sampling method was employed to select 197 FROs as the sample. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were deployed to answer the four research questions. The quantitative method using descriptive and inferential statistics was used to answer research questions one to three, while semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis were used to answer research question four.In this study, leadership traits and intercultural competence traits were combined and reduced by exploratory factor analysis to eight components as a model of GLC on personality traits. On top of that, the major results of the study are as follows: (1) FROs had a high global involvement level. They were constantly exposed to cross-cultural environments and responsibilities, so the data retrieved can contribute to a better understanding in the field of global leadership; (2) FROs had a fair level of GLC. In detail, FROs were goal-oriented and determined to work, while seeming to apparently lack the intercultural competence aspect of GLC, especially in self/other understanding. As to the underlying personality traits, their strongest personality trait was building partnerships, while they had the greatest difficulty with stress from work. Moreover, they are discouraged by bureaucracy, resulting in very poor traits in terms of confidence, leading change, and anticipating opportunities; (3) GIL, English competency, and having foreign friends/coworkers/relatives in close contact were the factors significantly affecting the GLC levels of the FROs; and (4) the five methods that the FROs frequently use to develop their competencies as well as the six kinds of support that government organizations and the management should provide to help them improve their competencies effectively were identified. In addition to the results, recommendations for government organizations and further studies are provided.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2021.1031
title: การประกอบสร้างความหมายของการุณยฆาตในสังคมไทยร่วมสมัย: บทบาทร่วม การแพทย์-กฎหมาย-พุทธศาสนา

description: การุณยฆาตถือเป็นปรากฏการณ์ทางสังคมที่มีข้อโต้แย้งมากที่สุดอย่างหนึ่ง การรับรู้ของสังคมใด ๆ รวมทั้งสังคมไทยที่มีต่อการุณยฆาตย่อมขึ้นอยู่กับกรอบความรู้ที่สังคมนั้นมี รูปร่างของกรอบความรู้เกี่ยวกับการุณยฆาตประกอบสร้างขึ้นด้วยความชอบธรรมซึ่งมาจากอำนาจและความรู้หลายประการ แต่ที่สำคัญที่สุดสำหรับสังคมไทยแล้วน่าจะประกอบไปด้วยหลักการทางพระพุทธศาสนา กฎหมายบ้านเมือง และกฎเกณฑ์ทางแพทยจริยศาสตร์ผลจากการศึกษานำเสนอข้อค้นพบหลักสี่ประการ ได้แก่ 1) เป็นการยากที่จะกล่าวว่าพระพุทธศาสนาสนับสนุนการทำการุณยฆาตหรือไม่ แต่สามารถแน่ใจได้ว่าอย่างน้อยที่สุดพระพุทธศาสนาก็มิได้ประนามการกระทำที่สอดคล้องกับการุณยฆาตในยุคสมัยใหม่ 2) บทบัญญัติของกฎหมายว่าด้วยพินัยกรรมชีวิตในพระราชบัญญัติสุขภาพแห่งชาติ พ.ศ. 2550 ไม่ได้ทำให้นิติสถานะของสิทธิในการกำหนดชีวิตตนเองซึ่งในที่นี้คือสิทธิในการเลือกตายของปัจเจกบุคคลเปลี่ยนแปลงไป 3) ความชอบธรรมที่สำคัญที่สุดซึ่งมีฐานะเป็นตัวกำกับหลักต่อกรอบความรู้ของสังคมไทยในเรื่องการุณยฆาตคือความรู้ด้านแพทยศาสตร์ 4) ถึงแม้ว่าแพทยศาสตร์จะถือบทบาทหลัก แต่ก็พบความสัมพันธ์ที่จำเพาะเจาะจงระหว่างหน่วยของความชอบธรรมทั้งสามประการรวมกระทั่งถึงความสัมพันธ์กับอัตตาณัติและอัตตาณัติก็ยังคงมีศักดิ์ต่ำกว่าอำนาจแห่งความรู้ การุณยฆาตในสังคมไทยจึงเป็นสิ่งที่อัญญาณัติมีบทบาทนำอัตตาณัติ
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7322755
title: Data Repository for MYRiAD: A Multi-Array Room Acoustic Database

description: In the development of acoustic signal processing algorithms, their evaluation in various acoustic environments is of utmost importance. In order to advance evaluation in realistic and reproducible scenarios, several high-quality acoustic databases have been developed over the years. In this paper, we present another complementary database of acoustic recordings, referred to as the Multi-arraY Room Acoustic Database (MYRiAD). The MYRiAD database is unique in its diversity of microphone configurations suiting a wide range of enhancement and reproduction applications (such as assistive hearing, teleconferencing, or sound zoning), the acoustics of the two recording spaces, and the variety of contained signals including 1214 room impulse responses (RIRs), reproduced speech, music, and stationary noise, as well as recordings of live cocktail parties held in both rooms. The microphone configurations comprise a dummy head (DH) with in-ear omnidirectional microphones, two behind-the-ear (BTE) pieces equipped with 2 omnidirectional microphones each, 5 external omnidirectional microphones (XMs), and two concentric circular microphone arrays (CMAs) consisting of 12 omnidirectional microphones in total. The two recording spaces, namely the SONORA Audio Laboratory (SAL) and the Alamire Interactive Laboratory (AIL), have reverberation times of 2.1s and 0.5s, respectively. Audio signals were reproduced using 10 movable loudspeakers in the SAL and a built-in array of 24 loudspeakers in the AIL. MATLAB and Python scripts are included for accessing the signals as well as microphone and loudspeaker coordinates. For a detailed description, please refer to the latest version of the manuscript. If you use the database, please cite the manuscript as follows: @techreport{dietzen2022myriad,<br> author = {Dietzen, T. and Ali, R. and Taseska, M. and van Waterschoot, T.},<br> title = {{MYRiAD}: A Multi-Array Room Acoustic Database},<br> type = {Tech. Rep.},<br> number = {TR 22-118},<br> institution = {ESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven},<br> address = {Leuven, Belgium},<br> month = {Dec.},<br> year = {2022},<br> note = {submitted for publication}<br> }
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7389550
title: Datasets of "Influence of contrast and texture based image modifications on the performance and attention shift of U-Net models for brain tissue segmentation" Part 2 of 14

description: This dataset is part of the work https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnimg.2022.1012639/full. This is the second part of 14 parts of the full dataset (2/14). It contains 3 sets of simulated T1 weighted brain volumes in 3 simulated scanning sequences of spin-echo. The parameters of simulated scanning sequences are respectively repetition time (TR) = 300ms, 400ms, 500ms, and echo time (TE) = 15ms. Under <strong>each</strong> simulated scanning sequence, there are 500 brain volumes. The segmentation labels for each tissue are contained in the first part which you may find at https://zenodo.org/record/7294916 The simulation process of this dataset involves two processes. The first is to simulate one brain under different simulated scanning sequences. For this, we use BrainWeb https://brainweb.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/cgi/bw/submit_request. In the custom setting, we use spin-echo and apply image artifact the same as the default setting of this page. The second process is to transform each simulated brain from BrainWeb to different anatomical shapes. We use Human Connectome Project (HCP) 1200 subject data https://www.humanconnectome.org/study/hcp-young-adult and randomly select 500 brains as anatomical references. Other details of this dataset can be found at https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnimg.2022.1012639/full where the details of the data construction are discussed. All parts of the whole dataset can be found at: Part 1: https://zenodo.org/record/7294916 Part 2: https://zenodo.org/record/7389550 Part 3: https://zenodo.org/record/7390382 Part 4: https://zenodo.org/record/7390741 Part 5: https://zenodo.org/record/7391205 Part 6: https://zenodo.org/record/7393060 Part 7: https://zenodo.org/record/7393174 Part 8: https://zenodo.org/record/7393347 Part 9: https://zenodo.org/record/7394250 Part 10: https://zenodo.org/record/7394667 Part 11: https://zenodo.org/record/7394939 Part 12: https://zenodo.org/record/7395031 Part 13: https://zenodo.org/record/7395620 Part 14: https://zenodo.org/record/7395622