cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2016
title: Functional equations with trigonometric function solutions

description: The first part of the thesis treats the problem of characterizing the trigonometric and hyperbolic sine-cosine functions. Our method arises from Kannappan's work of 2003 which solved the functional equation f(x - y) = f(x)f(y) + g(x)g(y) for functions whose domain is a group, whose range is a subset of the complex field and without any additional conditions. We use Kannapan's technique to determine the general solutions of the functional equation f(x+y) = f(x)f(y) - g(x)g(y) which together with Kannappan's result give a complete characterization of the trigonometric sine-cosine functions. Next, the functional equation f(x - y) = f(x)f(y) - g(x)g(y) is used to characterize the hyperbolic sine-cosine functions, and inter-relations among the solution functions, resemble certain well-known hyperbolic sine-cosine identities and generalizing the classical d'Alembert functional equation, are obtained. The second part of the thesis gives characterizations of the trigonometric and hyperbolic tangent-cotangent functions. There are two approaches in this part. The first approach is along the line treated by Dobbs in 1989 for the trigonometric tangent function. It is analytic in character and makes use of continuity and differentiabilty at one specific point. Dobbs defined the class of real-valued functions T of real variable, called tangential functions, as those satisfying the functional equation T(u + v) = [T(u)+T(v)]/[1-T(u)T(v)]. We apply the result of Dobbs to characterize the trigonometric cotangent function and then proceed to use Dobbs' approach to characterize the hyperbolic tangent-cotangent functions through their respective functional equations. The functions considered are to have the real numbers and/or its subset as their domain and range. The second approach is discrete in character and stems from the work of Rhouma in 2005 which gave a closed form solution to the recursive difference equation yn+2=(ynyn+1-1)/(yn+ yn+1) . This is a discrete functional equation of much recent interests in itself. We generalize the technique of Rhouma to find the closed form solutions of certain rational recursive equations and use the results to characterize the cotangent-tangent and the hyperbolic cotangent-tangent functions.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2017
title: Factors affecting anxiety and depression in Myanmar migrant adolescents in Bang Bon district, Bangkok, Thailand

description: This study was conducted on the February 2010, to describe the independents variables of the demographic factors, socio-economic factors, parental factors, educational background and the school status, behavioral factors and access the association of these independent variables with the dependent variables of (anxiety, depression) among the Myanmar migrant adolescents in Bang Bon district, Bangkok, Thailand. The data was collected the interviewer administrated questionnaire. The majority of the respondents were in the age of 18-19 years old and two hundred and seventy one adolescents were participated in this study. Most of the adolescents were single, Myanmar and Karen, full time workers, had attained middle school education. Most of the adolescents were not attending the migrant school. Most of the respondents lived together with their friends and relatives, some lived with their spouse. 64%of the adolescents have both parents, 16% had divorce parents and 19% had single parents. Majority of the teens mothers’ had primary education and only 36% of the teens mothers’ had anxiety, depression. 35% of the teens were drinking alcohol and 25% were smoking; only 5.5% of the teens had forced sex against their will. The prevalence of anxiety in those migrant teens had 22.1% and depression was 12.9% mild depression and 1.8% moderate depression. In bivariate analysis, race, income, good relationship with friends and parental conflicts were associated with both anxiety and depression (p&lt;0.05). All behavioral factors were not associated with depression but some associated with anxiety. A strategy for the mental health for these groups should be seen as a strategic investment which will create many long term benefits for individuals, societies and health systems. Professions in mental health such as psychologists, psychiatric nurses and social workers, should receive special training for appropriate knowledge and skills among migrant adolescents.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2018
title: Framework of error-resilient video coding using flexible macroblock ordering and error concealment for wireless video transmission

description: The H.264/AVC standard adopts a robust error resilience tool at the encoder known as Flexible Macroblock Ordering (FMO). The main goal of this tool is to provide a macroblock-level interleaving tool to spread out consecutive burst errors in a frame. Past research proposed the use of macroblock-coded bit-count which acts as spatial information as indicator of macroblock importance, and uses a two-pass encoding process to generate the macroblock-address map. In this dissertation, we propose to use a distortion measure based on concealment error which acts as temporal information as an indicator for a choice of macroblock-address-map of each picture. To avoid the incurred delay and complexity computing of two-pass encoding, we also propose a one-pass encoding scheme to generate the macroblock-address maps. Furthermore, we present a framework that combines one-pass FMO map generation and error concealment algorithms to improve the video quality due to transmission errors. The one-pass FMO map generation is accomplished by using feedback in terms of spatial and temporal information to simulate spatial and temporal error concealment at the encoder. The choice of error concealment method at decoder is applied according to parameter derived from residual information obtained at the encoder during the map generation process. Our simulation results performed under slow and fast fading channel confirm that the proposed technique can reduce the number of undecodable macroblock up to 80.54% and PSNR improvement are up to 6.09 dB when compared with methods that don’t use FMO and uses a simple non-motion compensated error concealment.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/0uh08m
title: Generic Codebook.csv

description: Description of variables for the household data collected.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/5zyps7
title: 7. WA-indicator-guide_29_Aug.pdf

description: West Africa Indicator Guide
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/dxaefj
title: SENTINEL LANDSCAPE HH v1 1 (TRADUIT) +jbinam.docx

description: Questionnaire that was used for data collection in Burkina Faso (French).
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/jwbjsk
title: 1. HH_Burkina_AG.docx

description: Questionnaire that was used for data collection in Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/l5jmyq
title: 1. SENTINEL LANDSCAPE HH v1 1 (TRADUIT) +jbinam.docx

description: Questionnaire that was used for data collection in Burkina Faso (French).
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/ozwz4l
title: 2. SL-HH INSTRUMENT(English).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application for Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/rhsgzo
title: 2. SL-HH INSTRUMENT(French).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application forBurkina Faso.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/tcgovn
title: Household_Raw.csv

description: Raw Data exported from CSPro
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2019
title: Testing validity of purchasing power parity for emerging Asian countries : evidence from Thailand, Taiwan and South Korea

description: This study tests the validity of relative purchasing power parity (PPP) in Thailand, Taiwan, and South Korea. This study examines on the effect of the inflation extracted from stock returns (Chowdhry, Roll, and Xia, 2005) and other inflation proxies in short run and long run. In short run, the results of least-squares regression method do not reject the hypothesis of short run PPP at 95% confidence level in the case of Thailand and Taiwan, using the extracted inflation as inflation proxy. In the case of South Korea, the result rejects the hypothesis at 5% significance level. The results also reject the hypothesis of short run PPP in the case of other inflation proxies. In long run, this study tests evidences of PPP in both strong form and weak form, using unit root and cointegration tests. The results support the validity of PPP in strong form at 5% significance level in the case of Thailand, using traded goods price index (TPI) as price proxy. The results also support the validity of PPP in weak form at 5% significance level in the case of Taiwan, using TPI as price proxy. In other cases, the results do not support the PPP.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2020
title: The correlation of effective dose from calculation method and the patient skin dose measurement using solid state detector for abdominal computed tomography examination

description: Computed Tomography (CT) is a diagnostic imaging modality resulting in higher patient dose than other radiological procedures. As the rapid growing of CT, the patient dose from CT examination is questioned and needed to know. As the direct measurement of patient dose is not practical, the patient skin dosemeter (PSD) has been developed by Unfors to measure dose directly. The aim of this study is to determine the patient dose from abdominal CT using PSD and correlate to the calculated methods. Fifty-eight patients in CT upper abdomen and eighty-six in CT whole abdomen were prospectively included in the study. The collected data were patient age, gender, height, weight, body thickness, kVp, effective mAs, slice thickness, number of series, CTDI[subscript vol] and DLP from CT scanner, Siemens SOMATOM Sensation 16 at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. The effective dose was determined by applying the conversion factor for different regions of the body and patient groups and scanner factor. In this study, the PSD was attached to the patient skin close to the gonad (over left ovary position for female and over left testis position for male) to measure the skin dose. Result: The average patient skin dose, CTDI[subscript vol], DLP and effective dose per scan series for CT upper abdomen were 0.27 ± 0.22 mGy, 11.77 ± 1.02 mGy, 352.26 ± 44.35 mGy•cm and 5.24 ± 0.69 mSv respectively. For CT whole abdomen, the results per scan series were 7.64 ± 3.56 mGy, 11.41 ± 0.94 mGy, 485.59 ± 66.80 mGy•cm and 7.02 ± 1.40 mSv, respectively. The diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) for CT abdomen is 35 mGy for CTDI[subscript w], 800 mGy.cm for DLP and 12.0 mSv for effective dose. The average patient skin dose, CTDI[subscript vol], DLP and effective dose for all series were 1.10 ± 1.01 mGy, 42.12 ± 10.18 mGy, 1260 ± 337.67 mGy•cm and 18.71 ± 5.02 mSv, respectively for upper abdomen and 31.50 ± 14.69 mGy, 42.26 ± 11.74 mGy, 1763.19 ± 410.74 mGy•cm and 25.46 ± 6.63 mSv for whole abdomen which were very high as the protocol for CT abdomen requires 3-5 series. Conclusions: The effective dose could be determined by using the correlation between the average effective dose and the skin dose of the value 17.82 mSv.mGy-1 and 0.92 mSv.mGy[superscript -1] for upper and whole abdomen, respectively.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2021
title: Enhancing caring of nursing students, Southern colleges-net under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health

description: The objectives of this study were: 1) to study trend of enhancing caring of nursing students, Southern Colleges-Net under the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health in the next decade (2009-2018) and 2) to propose futures of enhancing caring of nursing students, Southern Colleges-Net under the Jurisdiction of the Ministry of Public Health for determination the policy and plan of nursing education. The Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research (EDFR) method was used in this study. Samples were 1) the stakeholders group (nursing students, nursing instructors, registered nurses, and clients) and 2) the experts group (expert in nursing education policy, nursing curriculum, and nursing education). The findings revealed that trends of enhancing caring of nursing students should emphasize on well-rounded of knowledge the factors influencing caring behaviors and the qualification of graduate nurses. The details are following: 1. Trend of the affecting factors on nursing profession and nursing education: 1) Owing to the rapidly changing and high-competitive social situation, people require the better quality of health services than in the past, 2) People have a right to be informed on health benefits and they increasingly advocate for themselves, and 3) A nurse has to have well-rounded of knowledge and resources, particularly the updates on any happenings. 2. Trend of the important factors influence to caring behaviors: 1) Caring behaviors can be initiated by direct instruction and observation, 2) The ethic and virtue continuously and regularly should be fostered since they are still the nursing students, and 3) Caring should be provided as the main policy of nursing services, be proud of nursing profession. 3. Trend of the qualification of graduate nurses: 1) Having knowledge and professional skills, 2) Respect the value, dignity and individualism of yourself and others, and 3) Nurses can integrate nursing science and other relevant sciences through holistic nursing performance. 4. Trend of the ways for enhancing caring in nursing students: 1) The subordinate activities should be created which integrates caring in their daily life, 2) Nursing instructors can be the good role models who provide caring to nursing students both in the classrooms and in the clinics, 3) Appreciate the nursing students who conduct the caring behaviors regularly and respect the human dignity and values equally.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2023
title: Application of FTIR spectroscopic and mass spectrometric techniques for the investigation of the alteration in erythrocyte contents and phospholipids subspecies of type 2 diabetic patients after oral high fat loading

description: It is well recognized that postprandial dyslipemia is an inherent feature of diabetic dyslipidemia highly prevalent in type 2 diabetic patients (T2DM) even with normal fasting triacylglycerol (TG) level. In addition, several studies also demonstrated that the postprandial TG increase provided adverse affect to many cell types. Since erythrocyte is the major circulating blood cell being easily exposed and susceptible to biochemical changes, thus the aim of the present study was to apply the FTIR spectroscopic and Mass Spectrometric (MS) techniques for investigating the effect of postprandial TG increase on the changes of biochemical contents and phospholipids (PL) subspecies in erythrocytes of T2DM patients compared to healthy control subjects. The study was done in 11 T2DM patients and 10 of age- and sex-matched control volunteers. All subjects received high fat meal contained 40 g fat/m2 body surface area and blood was drawn at before and four hours after the meal. FTTR results revealed that the integrated areas of bands in lipid, protein and sugar-phosphate regions in T2DM group were significantly different from those in control group, especially the olefinic band, which indicates double bonds in lipid structure, remained unchanged relative to fasting state. These findings were in agreement with the results of PL analyzed by LC-MS. Mild alteration of erythrocyte PL molecular species were observed in T2DM group whereas control group showed marked changes particularly the significant increase in total saturated and monounsaturated fatty acid-containing phosphatidylcholine (p&lt;0.05). The results of the present study indicated that there were metabolic abnormalities found in major structural substances of erythrocytes of T2DM patients, especially of the rare remodeling of PL fatty acids during the meal period which was an important process for PL turnover in normal erythrocytes. Impaired alterations occurred in biochemical structure of erythrocytes of T2DM probably explain the less flexibility regularly observed in blood cells of diabetic patients. In conclusion, these findings could be a potential target for future therapeutic treatment in order to correct these abnormalities that would prevent the risks of microvascular complications in T2DM patients.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2009.2024
title: Effects of green tea waste in total mixed ration on milk production, nutritient digestibility and antioxidant activity in cross-bred lactating cows

description: To study the effect of dietary green tea waste supplementation on milk production, nutrient digestibility and antioxidant activity in cross-bred lactating cows. Six cross-bred lactating cows were used in the experiment. They were randomly divided into three groups of two cows each. A Latin Square (3×3) design was used in this study. Each period lasted for 25 days; the adjusting and collecting periods were 10 and 15 days, respectively. Cows were fed ad libitum with total mixed ration (TMR). TMR was the mixture of silage and concentrate at the ratio of 39:61 (DM basis). The compositions of a basal diet (control) and two treatment diets were the same except for the difference of the green tea waste concentration. Dietary green tea waste was varied by using green tea waste. The concentrations of green tea waste in control diet and two treatment diets were 0%, 5% and 10% (DM basis), respectively. No effects of GTW supplementation on feed intake, DMI/%BW, MY and MY/DMI. Milk protein percentage was increased (P&lt;0.05) for cows fed with 10% GTW when compared to the control group. The percentages of milk composition: total solid, fat, protein, solid not fat and lactose were not significantly affected. No significant differences (P&gt;0.05) were observed in nutrient digestibility, milk allantoin concentration and VFA concentrations. The oxidative stress index, TBARS concentration and ascorbic acid concentrations were not different in this study. It can be concluded from this study that GTW can be used as a source of protein, at both level 5 and 10% (DM basis), in the diet fed to cross-bred multiparous cows during mid-lactation period without any deleterious effect on milk yield, nutrient digestibility and performance. Replacement of conventional ingredients with GTW in cow’s diet showed a better net income than using conventional feed.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/7tirnw
title: Generic Codebook.csv

description: Description of variables for the household data collected.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/9zbu4t
title: 2. SL-HH INSTRUMENT(French).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application forBurkina Faso.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/baw5mk
title: 2. SL-HH INSTRUMENT(English).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application for Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/jxw0dq
title: BF_Indicators_Codebook.tab

description: Burkina Faso Indicator Codebook
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/kj5tvv
title: 1. SENTINEL LANDSCAPE HH v1 1 (TRADUIT) +jbinam.docx

description: Questionnaire that was used for data collection in Burkina Faso (French).
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/lmg0pz
title: SL-HH INSTRUMENT(English).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application for Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/ryjxko
title: SENTINEL LANDSCAPE HH v1 1 (TRADUIT) +jbinam.docx

description: Questionnaire that was used for data collection in Burkina Faso (French).
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/tjtsea
title: 0. Disclaimer.pdf

description: Disclaimer for data use.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/vej3za
title: 3. Household_Raw.csv

description: Raw Data exported from CSPro
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/y91a4b
title: 7. WA-indicator-guide_29_Aug.pdf

description: West Africa Indicator Guide
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/ytnej6/ddtokp
title: 4.WAM_Household_ver.tab

description: Cleaned and verified household data from Western Amazon SL
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/4dj2xx
title: 6. BF_Indicators.Rmd

description: R script used for the calculation of the livelihood indicators.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/dctj7y
title: BF_Indicators_Codebook.tab

description: Burkina Faso Indicator Codebook
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/fgtd6x
title: 4. BF_Computed_Indicators_Data_2016-01-15.tab

description: Calculated livelihood indicators for the Burkina Faso sites.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/ggagho
title: SL_BukinaF_Indicators.R

description: Burkina Faso Household Indicators ( R Scripts)
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/ol46eo
title: BF_Household_Indicators.xlsx

description: Burkina Faso Household Indicators (Excel FIle)
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/tmhl1d
title: 0. Disclaimer.pdf

description: Disclaimer for data use.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/wtxfzf
title: 7. WA-indicator-guide_29_Aug.pdf

description: West Africa Indicator Guide
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/yzabvz
title: 2. SL-HH INSTRUMENT(English).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application for Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/zgidk1
title: 4. BF_Computed_Indicators_Data_2016-01-15.tab

description: Calculated livelihood indicators for the Burkina Faso sites.
DOI: 10.25606/surf.578c6039-8f686007
title: The Cosmogrid Simulation: Statistical Properties of Small Dark Matter Halos (2048-742)

description: We present the results of the "Cosmogrid" cosmological N-body simulation suites based on the concordance LCDM model. The Cosmogrid simulation was performed in a 30 Mpc box with 2048³ particles. The mass of each particle is 1.28x10^5 Msun, which is sufficient to resolve ultra-faint dwarfs. We found that the halo mass function shows good agreement with the Sheth & Tormen fitting function down to ~10^7 Msun. We have analyzed the spherically averaged density profiles of the three most massive halos which are of galaxy group size and contain at least 170 million particles. The slopes of these density profiles become shallower than -1 at the inner most radius. We also find a clear correlation of halo concentration with mass. The mass dependence of the concentration parameter cannot be expressed by a single power law, however a simple model based on the Press-Schechter theory proposed by Navarro et al. gives reasonable agreement with this dependence. The spin parameter does not show a correlation with the halo mass. The probability distribution functions for both concentration and spin are well fitted by the log-normal distribution for halos with the masses larger than ~10^8 Msun. The subhalo abundance depends on the halo mass. Galaxy-sized halos have 50% more subhalos than ~10^11 Msun halos have. This is snapshot 742 of the 2048³ resolution collection.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/1ccmzo
title: 7. WA-indicator-guide_29_Aug.pdf

description: West Africa Indicator Guide
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/ewwpvh
title: 2. SL-HH INSTRUMENT(French).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application forBurkina Faso.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/iq3c6z
title: 3. Household_Raw.csv

description: Raw Data exported from CSPro
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/oobwl4
title: 6. BF_Indicators.Rmd

description: R script used for the calculation of the livelihood indicators.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/soezyf
title: SL-HH INSTRUMENT(English).7z

description: CSPro Data Entry Application for Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/tkex0z
title: 1. HH_Burkina_AG.docx

description: Questionnaire that was used for data collection in Ghana.
DOI: 10.34725/dvn/3i1upw/zxgdj6
title: 6. BF_Indicators.Rmd

description: R script used for the calculation of the livelihood indicators.