cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1471
title: What are the perceived problems of LITU post-graduate students in terms of English business writing skills

description: This study planned to analyze the problems in English business writing skill of post-graduate students at the Language Institute Thammasat University. The study intended to survey the perceived problems and to collect suggestions for improving English business writing skills. The quota and a priori criteria sampling methods were used to conduct the survey via online questionnaires. The participants was 80 students who used English business writing in their workplace.The results of the study proved that the perceived problems of LITU post-graduate students in terms of English business writing were divided into four kinds of problems. First, the problems in English language principles were using correct grammar followed by using correct punctuation. Second, the problems in structure of English writing was managing complex and difficult writing tasks or a variety of business contexts and situations followed by using correct sentence structure and creating good writing that is quick, concise and accurate in the first draft. Third, problems with vocabulary were using a dictionary or spell-checking for spelling and rechecking the words in the message all the time followed by using unnecessary words and outdated expressions. The last problems, which related to personal and cultural issues, were individual cultures in terms of style or tone of writing followed by time constraints in writing tasks. The suggestions for improving in English business writing skills such as practicing, reading a good example, taking short training course, studying from the internet, using in diary, having writing tasks corrected by a specialist, listening more and trying to speak with native speakers, studying vocabulary and grammar, and living in an English language environment.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1472
title: A survey of vocabulary learning strategies used by Thai graduate EFL learners

description: This study investigates the English vocabulary learning strategies used by Thai graduate EFL learners when acquiring English vocabulary. The research seeks to help EFL learners recognize their own behaviors while developing their vocabulary knowledge as well as determine which learning strategies are most appropriate for Thai graduate EFL students. The sample was 54 Career English for International Communication (CEIC) students during the academic year 2018 – 2019 who responded to a self-report questionnaire adapted from Schmitt’s (1997) taxonomy to gather information about (1) background information and (2) vocabulary learning strategies used by the participants. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive statistical methods.The findings of the study revealed that ‘guessing from context’ was the most frequently employed strategy for finding a new word’s meaning, along with ‘watching English movies and TV programs’ for consolidating vocabulary. The least commonly used strategies were ‘putting English labels on physical objects’, ‘playing word building games’, and ‘keeping a vocabulary notebook’. The results showed that vocabulary learning strategies were employed more frequently by higher achieving students in general. It is notable that higher achievers used a ‘bilingual dictionary’ more than lower achievers, whereas lower achievers preferred employing social strategies like ‘asking the teacher or a classmate for the meaning’. Further results showed that the lower achieving students tended to use the least popular cognitive strategies like ‘using flash cards’, ‘keeping a vocabulary notebook’ or ‘putting English labels on physical objects’ considerably more than higher achievers did.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1473
title: Needs and problems in English listening of Thai immigration police

description: English skills are required by immigration police who work at the airport. Especially one of the communication skills, listening, is needed to communicate with the foreign visitors they meet at work. This study aimed at investigating immigration police’s needs and problems in English listening. The sample size of the study comprised 53 immigration police, with 27 commissioned and 26 non-commissioned officers who work at the airport in Bangkok. The questionnaire was used as an instrument. Statistical analyses including frequency, percentage, standard deviation and mean score were applied.It was revealed from the finding that the most significant listening abilities for immigration police were listening to tourists’ general conversation — their questions, requests, and personal details. Due to the nature of immigration police work, they also needed to listening to tourists’ specific English conversations e.g. when investigating or interrogating suspicious foreigners. With regards to the main problem in English listening of the immigration police, it was discovered that listening to English spoken by Indian and Chinese people was the most problematic for them. As well, being able to catch the words when the foreign tourists speak fast was discovered as a large barrier in listening for them. When comparing the differences in needs and problems between non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers, both needs and problems were not different. However there was a huge difference in their mean scores. It was revealed that non-commissioned officers encountered difficulties in English listening more than the commissioned officers did in all every aspects. This was because their educational background knowledge were quite different. Therefore, they should upgrade their English listening skills to be more effective for the best operation.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1474
title: Investigating science and political science students' English vocabulary learning strategies at a public university

description: This study was conducted to investigate the most and least used vocabulary learning strategies by university students. The participants were 186 first year students aged from 18-25 years from the faculties of science and political science. The questionnaire used in the study was adapted from Schmitt (1997) and Intaraprasert (2004), which consisted of three parts: part one was general information, part two contained 30 statements on vocabulary learning strategies, and part three was an open-ended question.The results revealed that the five most used strategies by science students were using an online dictionary, taking notes on vocabulary in the classroom, using an English-Thai dictionary, learning new vocabulary through classroom activities, and speaking Thai with English words. In contrast, the least used strategies by science students were using an English-English dictionary, classifying groups of English vocabulary by synonyms and antonyms, using an electronic dictionary, writing down English vocabulary on a piece of paper and putting it in the bedroom, and putting the vocabulary in a favorite song. For political science students, the five most used strategies were using an online dictionary, taking notes on vocabulary in the classroom, using an English-Thai dictionary, speaking Thai with English words, and two strategies (learning new vocabulary through classroom activities and using verbal repetition). The least used strategies were using an English-English dictionary, listening to English radio programs, writing down English vocabulary on a piece of paper and putting it in the bedroom, classifying groups of English vocabulary by synonyms and antonyms, and using an electronic dictionary.
DOI: 10.21227/tbp6-vb72
title: Open Repository for the Evaluation of Ransomware Detection Tools

description: This repository contains the results of running more than 70 samples of ransomware, from different families, dating since 2015. It contains the network traffic (DNS and TCP) and the Input/Output (I/O) operations generated by the malware while encrypting a network shared directory. These data are contained in three files for each ransomware sample: one with the information from the DNS requests, other with the TCP connections another one containing the I/O operations. This information can be useful for testing new and old ransomware detection tools and compare their results.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1475
title: An investigation of Thai learners’ understanding of English phrasal verbs: the case of Thai high schools students in Thai and English programs

description: The main purpose of the current study was to investigate the understanding of each type of English phrasal verbs of Mattayom 5 students studying in an English program and a regular program in a public school in Krabi, Thailand. The study also aimed to determine the difference in the understanding of English phrasal verbs between students from the two programs. The participants were 60 high school students: 30 from an English program and the other 30 from a regular program. The quantitative method was used to answer the research questions. Three different tests were used to measure the students’ understandings of phrasal verbs: a multiple-choice test, a matching test, and a gap-filling test. The findings showed that English program participants understood literal phrasal verbs the most followed by aspectual phrasal verbs and idiomatic phrasal verbs in all three tests. Meanwhile, regular program participants understood literal phrasal verbs the most followed by aspectual phrasal verbs and idiomatic phrasal verbs on Test 1 and Test 2. In Test 3, they understood aspectual phrasal verbs the most followed by literal phrasal verbs and idiomatic phrasal verbs. In addition, there was a significant difference between the two groups regarding the understanding in English phrasal verbs.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1476
title: A study of figurative language in advertisements from wellness tourism magazines

description: The objectives of this study are (1) to investigate types of figurative language employed in print advertisements from two wellness tourism magazines, and (2) to analyze the frequency of occurrence of figurative language found in four adverting elements of the two magazines. Content analysis is performed on 255 advertisements from Mantra Wellness and Organic Spa magazines published during the years 2017-2019. Based on McQuarrie and Mick (1996), this study focuses on nineteen types of figurative language: alliteration, anadiplosis, anaphora, antimetabole, antithesis, assonance, ellipsis, epanalepsis, epanorthosis, epistrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, paradox, parison, pun, rhetorical question, and rhyme. A descriptive statistic is also adopted to analyze the types of figurative language and to measure the amount of them in the advertising elements. The findings demonstrate that parison and alliteration were used most often in each advertising element, followed by assonance, hyperbole and rhyme. Alliteration is the most frequently employed type of figurative devices in headlines and slogans, while parison has the highest usage in subheads and copy. Furthermore, figurative devices in repetition operation style, particularly repetitive sound, are mostly employed in advertising language of wellness tourism magazines.
DOI: 10.17632/k3bnw2kg4y.1
title: Data for: Mechanisms behind hazard perception of warning signs: An EEG study

description: Data for hazard perception of warning signs
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.11888733.v12
title: Simulated zero-crossing wave period (3-hourly, 1850.01-2014.12) from FIO-ESM v2.0 historical experiment r1i1p1f1

description: Simulated zero-crossing wave period (3-hourly, 1850.01-2014.12) from FIO-ESM v2.0 historical experiment r1i1p1f1, which is branch from Jan 1, 301 of piControl experiment. The grid, named gx1v6, is the displaced pole (the North Pole displaced to the Greenland) grid with 1.1 degree in longitude and 0.27-0.54 degree in latitude.
DOI: 10.17632/wjdfbdkh5z.1
title: Data for: Temperature and Temporal Drift Compensation for Al2O3-gate ISFET-based pH Sensor using Machine Learning Techniques

description: This contains the data for ISFET SPICE Macromodel and the CVCC circuit schematic and netlist. It also contains data for various ML techniques and Bayesian inference for temperature and temporal drift compensation.
DOI: 10.17638/datacat.liverpool.ac.uk/1024
title: Risk factors for acute human brucellosis in Ijara, north-eastern Kenya
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3685455
title: Battery and water heater energy elasticity performance optimisation

description: This dataset provides actual data demonstrating the INVADE European Union initiative (https://h2020invade.eu/) from the Bulgarian pilot situated in Albena resort, Bulgaria (https://albena.bg/). It represents results from two different approaches to energy elasticity - using a 200kWh industrial sized battery with a combination of a PV, as well as using water heaters with a combination of thermal solar collectors. For both approaches, the system takes into account the energy prices as listed in the Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange (http://www.ibex.bg/en), as well as weather forecast for the expected energy production from the solar panels. <strong>Battery.xlsx</strong> (16 days worth of data for the battery as follows): Timestamp: the time stamp of the entered data point IBEX SpotPrice (EUR/MWh): the energy price for the current data point Consumption (kWh): the current energy consumption from the grid as taken from the energy meter into the facility ChargingPowerRegulation (kW): control signal received from the system to charge the battery DischargingPowerRegulation (kW): control signal received from the system to discharge the battery EnergyLevel (kWh): the energy level of the battery PV Production (kWh): the produced energy by the PV installation ActualSolarIrradiation (W/m^2): the current solar irradiance ActualTemperature (℃): the current temperature <strong>WaterHeater.xlsx</strong> (1 month worth of data for the water heater as follows): Timestamp: the time stamp of the entered data point IBEX SpotPrice (EUR/MWh): the energy price for the current data point Consumption (kWh): the current energy consumption from the grid as taken from the energy meter into the facility EnergyLevelHeat (kWh): the current thermal energy level in the water boilers EnergyHeatCapacity (kWh): the current thermal energy capacity of the water boilers HeatProduction (kWh): the current thermal energy production by the solar thermal collectors ActualSolarIrradiation (W/m^2): the current solar irradiance ActualTemperature (℃): the current temperature Please, make all Creative Commons license attributions for usage of this dataset to "Albena AD (https://albena.bg/)"
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3685456
title: Battery and water heater energy elasticity performance optimisation

description: This dataset provides actual data demonstrating the INVADE European Union initiative (https://h2020invade.eu/) from the Bulgarian pilot situated in Albena resort, Bulgaria (https://albena.bg/). It represents results from two different approaches to energy elasticity - using a 200kWh industrial sized battery with a combination of a PV, as well as using water heaters with a combination of thermal solar collectors. For both approaches, the system takes into account the energy prices as listed in the Independent Bulgarian Energy Exchange (http://www.ibex.bg/en), as well as weather forecast for the expected energy production from the solar panels. <strong>Battery.xlsx</strong> (16 days worth of data for the battery as follows): Timestamp: the time stamp of the entered data point IBEX SpotPrice (EUR/MWh): the energy price for the current data point Consumption (kWh): the current energy consumption from the grid as taken from the energy meter into the facility ChargingPowerRegulation (kW): control signal received from the system to charge the battery DischargingPowerRegulation (kW): control signal received from the system to discharge the battery EnergyLevel (kWh): the energy level of the battery PV Production (kWh): the produced energy by the PV installation ActualSolarIrradiation (W/m^2): the current solar irradiance ActualTemperature (℃): the current temperature <strong>WaterHeater.xlsx</strong> (1 month worth of data for the water heater as follows): Timestamp: the time stamp of the entered data point IBEX SpotPrice (EUR/MWh): the energy price for the current data point Consumption (kWh): the current energy consumption from the grid as taken from the energy meter into the facility EnergyLevelHeat (kWh): the current thermal energy level in the water boilers EnergyHeatCapacity (kWh): the current thermal energy capacity of the water boilers HeatProduction (kWh): the current thermal energy production by the solar thermal collectors ActualSolarIrradiation (W/m^2): the current solar irradiance ActualTemperature (℃): the current temperature Please, make all Creative Commons license attributions for usage of this dataset to "Albena AD (https://albena.bg/)"
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1477
title: Need analysis in English skills for hotel settings: a case study of business English student trainees

description: he purpose of this study was to investigate student trainees majoring in Business English at Phranakhon Rajabhat University in terms of their needs and problems in using the English skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing related to their works during internships at various hotels before graduation. The participants were 30 students and their supervisor who were working in various hotels. The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. The findings revealed that most of the student trainees working for hotels evaluated themselves with moderate English language skills for listening, speaking, reading and writing. The students rated their ability in speaking and reading higher than that in listening and writing. Overall, the students perceived that they need to improve all kinds of English skills. Listening seemed to be the most problematic skill. Apart from listening, writing is another problematic skill in which they rated themselves with a lower score when compared with speaking and reading.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1478
title: A survey of perceived needs in English skills of Thai employees working in a Japanese trading company

description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceived needs in English language skills and needs to improve English language skills of Thai employees working in a Japanese trading company. The participants were 40 employees working in the sales department. The data were collected using questionnaires. The findings revealed that the participants perceived their writing skill to be at a fair level of proficiency. This was the lowest rated skill out of four and the one that participants needed to improve the most. The participants viewed that the first priority for a training course should be improving writing skill.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1479
title: A Study of attitudes toward the English speaking ability of students in the hotel industry sector

description: This study explored the attitudes of Thai students toward English-speaking ability. The participants in this study were 30 Thai students who were studying at the Hotel and Resort Management Department (International Program) at Dusit Thani College, Bangkok. The data were collected through a questionnaire with close-ended questions. The results of this study revealed that Thai students agreed that English-speaking ability was important for their future career in the hotel industry. The finding also indicated that positive attitudes can potentially lead to positive behaviors in terms of seeking to improve their English-speaking skill. In addition, the results showed that a positive attitude may lead to the willingness to work in an English-speaking environment. The findings of this study imply that a positive attitude toward English-speaking ability should be cultivated because it can motivate students to learn and speak English. To do this, teachers or educators need to create interesting lessons with the help of different approaches, techniques, and procedures in which the students' attention is gained. Additionally, students should be encouraged to become more active and cooperate in the process of learning as this can help them learn the language better.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1480
title: Attitudes towards World Englishes of Thai government officers in an international relations organization

description: This study aims to explore attitudes towards World Englishes of Thai government officers in an international relations organization. There were 100 participants which were choosing through convenience sampling method. The instruments used for collecting the data were paper-based questionnaire and semi-structured interview. The data obtained from the paper-based questionnaire was quantitatively analyzed through SPSS while the data from the semi-structured interview were qualitatively analyzed by descriptive analysis. The results showed that the participants relied on standard forms of English. They preferred to learn English with native teachers. Most of them agreed that speaking English with native-like performance was beneficial to their jobs. However, the participants had positive attitudes towards non-native accents. They realized that the knowledge about non-native varieties differences was beneficial for their jobs in order to understand interlocutors’ backgrounds and deliver more effective communication.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2018.1481
title: A corpus-based analysis of reveal, disclose, and divulge

description: This study was to investigate the similarities and differences of the three synonyms, reveal, disclose, and divulge, by using the criteria of collocation, grammatical patterns, and formality of the contexts. The data was analyzed by two instruments in the study. The first instrument was the Cambridge Dictionary. The other instrument was the British National Corpus (BNC) with 100 concordance lines. The result revealed that although the three synonyms, reveal, disclose, and divulge, shared the same meaning as near synonyms, they were utilized in different contexts in terms of collocation, grammatical patterns, and formality of the contexts. Furthermore, the BNC provided more details of collocation, grammatical patterns, and formality of the contexts than the Cambridge Dictionary. It was summarized that the three synonyms, reveal, disclose, and divulge, were not interchangeable in all contexts.