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DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.317
title: Decentralized rural electrification, human development and equality: a case study of two villages in the dry zone area of Myanmar

description: Myanmar, a newly democratic and developing country has the lowest electrification level among the ASEAN region. The electrification rate for the whole country was 11% in 2005, which improved to 13% in 2008, with the rate in urban areas being 19% and rural areas just 10%. These figures clearly show the lack of access to electrification in rural areas. Decentralized electrification systems could provide practical energy sources for rural people, although such systems are not yet well known and their usefulness has been little studied. Therefore, the main objective of this paper is to analyze the impacts of decentralized rural electrification on human development and equity in the Dry Zone Area of Myanmar. To understand the issues this research study focuses on two villages, namely Mone Taw and Pay Khwinit Pin, under a project by a local NGO called the Renewable Energy Association Myanmar. A qualitative method was used, taking the form of in-depth discussions, observations, ethnographic views, and focus group discussions. An in-depth interview was conducted with five government officers and local officials, two community leaders, 47 households in the selected communities, four NGO staff and academics, and three representatives from small-scale and large-scale enterprises in the private sector. In addition, focus group discussions were carried out in both villages with the village solar committee and households that have and do not have access to decentralized electricity, paying particular attention to the perspective of women. The main conclusion of this paper is that of the three measurements of human development, increased income, higher education and better health, the key reason why communities wish to access lighting at night through decentralized electrification (solar energy in this case) is because communities largely need light at night so children can study. Other than this, few people work at night and there is no link yet between better health and the current status of decentralized electrification. However, communities would like a larger amount of power from decentralized electrification for daily cooking as well as for small and medium-sized businesses at the local level, in addition to lighting at night. Finally, with respect to equal access, in Mone Taw village, for example, the households and the local monastery, which do have access to solar energy, share it with those who do not. This has resulted in equal access to decentralized electrification and the unity of the community, which is not the case in the second village and is something that has not been measured by human development indicators elsewhere.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.318
title: Media and political protest in Thailand : a case study of the coverage of the March to May 2010 protest in the Bangkok Post and the nation

description: Communication is a vital resource for most political actorsand media are an important outlet for social movements, where the quantity and quality of news coverage influence how they are perceived by the public. However, studies showed that mainstream media tend to produce biased coverage of protest groups which challenge the status quo. The present thesis examines whether this tendency is replicated in Thailand’s English-language press. This task is attempted with a case study of the Bangkok Post and The Nation coverage of the 2010 ‘red shirt’ protest. The researcher conducted a mixed qualitative and quantitative analysis of the two newspapers’ daily issues published in the period March 1st to May 31st, 2010 to determine the rhetoric used to describe the protest(ers), the sources of information, the grammar devices and the cultural and ideological frames of reference used. Research findings show that the two print media: (1) over-relied on official sources and gave little voice to the protesters; (2) emphasized violence (and/or the threat of it) as opposing to the issues the protest intended to raise; (3) delegitimized the protest(ers) and framed them as being the Other in an Us-Them framework; (4) covered the protest with a pro-establishment orientation. This study casts light on the discursive structure of BP and TN media message, its cultural, historical and political backgrounds and the rolemedia play in mediating its meanings.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.319
title: Effective factors on application of industrial symbiosis in : case study of Mab-Ta-Phut Industrial Estate

description: Mab-Ta-Phut Industrial Estate (MTPIE) is a famous industrial estate located in Rayong province, eastern part of Thailand. Though most industries in the MTPIE have been continuously developing and implementing waste and environmental management system to comply with national regulation, more than 700,000 tons per year of waste are still emitted. Therefore, a new concept to manage waste by creating network for materials and/or energy exchange among industries, which is so-called ‘Industrial Symbiosis’, has been considered as an alternative system providing benefits for both social, economic, and environment. The industrial symbiosis also leads to resource efficiency improvement as well as competitive advantages because wastes or by-products from one firm can be transformed into valuable inputs of another; hence, material flow would be changed from a linear one (where raw material is consumed and waste is generated) into a circular one. Industrial symbiosis has been implemented in various countries and one of successful and well-known case is Kalundborg’s Industrial Park in Denmark, while many cases cannot be effectively implemented. Therefore, effective factors for implementation of industrial symbiosis in industrial estate were investigated in this study by using Mab-Ta-Phut Industrial Estate as a case study. The study was carried out with questionnaires, in-depth interview, and site survey, both factories in MTPIE and waste processor plants in Saraburi Province. It’s found that effective factors for industrial symbiosis implementation are policy on zero waste, zero landfill, and process adjustment willingness; financial mechanism and initiator available. Whereas, factors related to technology and public participation are not so effective for the case of industrial estate. Therefore, a model for effective implementation of Thailand’s industrial estate has been formulated and modified upon experts’ consideration by using a Delphi Technique.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.320
title: The involvement of Thailand in the Vietnam War (1954-1975)

description: This study aims to study the involvement of Thailand in the Vietnam War (Second Indochina War) (1954 – 1975). There was the fact that through Vietnam War, Thailand sent its troops to fight in Vietnam front, permit United States to use Thai territory to strike North Vietnam, support the U.S in the defense of South Vietnam from North Vietnam and Viet Cong attacks. This study examines how Thailand step by step involved in Vietnam War. Entering the early Cold War period, the Communist Wave after the victory of Communist China in 1949 with the establishment of People’s Republic of China spread out to Indochina states, Thailand considered Communist as a threat to Thai security in particular and to the whole region in general. To protect country to the threat of Communist, Thailand had a turning point in its foreign policy when Thai Prime Minister Luang Phibun Songkhram decided to firmly align the country with United States against the Soviet Union, China and the Viet Minh, as well against with the Communist. From this initial involvement Thailand, step by step, became fully involved in the Second Indochina War, in particular after the U.S. military intervention from the beginning of the 1960s. This study also aims to infer the consequences in the Thai foreign policy after the Vietnam War as well as the lessons for Thailand in maintaining good relations with its neighbors, in particular the lesson about the combination harmoniously of nation's benefit and neighboring countries' benefit as well as the region’s benefit, especially at this time of ASEAN’s effort to build up regional solidarity as a firm basis for “ASEAN Community” that is coming into being.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.321
title: Accuracy of a terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) method to characterize oral fungi

description: Terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) method has been widely used for study profiling of microbial community, however, have some limitations and have never been studies in oral fungi. It is important to evaluate the accuracy of this method as a tool for investigating the oral fungal community. To evaluate accuracy of T-RFLP with quantitative PCR (qPCR) for characterize oral fungi. DNA was harvested from medically important fungi commonly found in the oral cavity: Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, Aspergillus fumigatus and Fusarium spp. cultures. Cryptococcus, Aspergillus and Fusarium DNA were mixed, and 10-fold dilutions of Candida specific DNA were added to the DNA mixtures to represent fungal community models with differential Candida abundance. Species-specific DNA and total fungal DNA was estimated by T-RFLP and SYBR qPCR. For T-RFLP, mixtures were amplified using pan-fungal fluorescent-labeled primers specific to ITS regions and analyzed after digestion with MspI or HaeIII. For qPCR, mixtures were amplified using species-specific and pan-fungal primers, and analyzed. Based on the weight of C.albicans genomic DNA, seven dilutions of Candida-specific targets in fungal community models, corresponding to 100 to 106 copies, were tested. Detection by qPCR was accurate when the abundance of Candida-specific targets was between 102 to 106 copies, whereas the range for T-RFLP detection was between 105 to 106 copies. Candida-specific T-RF proportion in DNA mixtures appeared to be underestimated by 10-fold. Aspergilllus-specific T-RF product was absent from the fungal community model suggesting that the T-RFLP method, or the pan-fungal primers, may have bias against Aspergillus detection. T-RFLP is advantageous for the detection of unknown fungal community, with accuracy when targets are highly abundant. However, it may have bias in the detection of some fungi. The species-specific qPCR assay is then required to validate the detection and target abundance.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.322
title: The role of Lee Kuan Yew and the development of Singapore (1959-1990)

description: Singapore is regarded internationally as a developed country with good economic and financial conditions. Majority of Singaporean are well-educated (in 2012, the literacy rate of people in Singapore is 96.4 percent) and the country also comprise top-class infrastructures, attracting foreign investors to allocate businesses to Singapore. A successful development of Singapore occurred a few years after the independence in 1965. In the 1960s, the newly-born nation was under political and economic instability. Unavoidably, for surviving and the future of Singapore, the government was forced to improve every aspects of the country, including its society and economy. A person who was praised for the success of Singapore is Lee Kuan Yew, the first Prime Minister. During his 31 years in the office, from 1959 to 1990, Singapore not only achieved economic miracle but also had been recognized globally for a robust and proficient government administration. This thesis is meant to explore the development of Singapore, and the role of Lee Kuan Yew towards this development. In addition, other factors that might be relevant to the positive development are also investigated.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.323
title: The effect of Angelica Dahurica extracts on platelet aggregation

description: Platelet aggregation is one of the important mechanisms in hemostasis. Improper platelet function may lead to bleeding or atherothrombosis. Angelica dahurica (AD) has been used in the mixture of Ya-Hom, a Thai herbal formulation, which is used for treatment of circulatory disorder. Imperatorin is one of the major chemical compounds in AD. The aims of this study were to investigate the effects of AD extracts (ADE) and imperatorin on arachidonic acid (AA)-, adenosine diphosphate (ADP)-, and collagen-induced platelet aggregation and their mode of action on platelet aggregation. 0.1 – 1 mg/ml of ADE and 10 – 300 µM of imperatorin were preincubated in platelet rich plasma (PRP) for 3 min before adding agonists. The results demonstrated that 1 mg/ml of ADE inhibited ADP- and collagen- induced platelet aggregation significantly by 62.82% (p=0.000) and 66.28% (p=0.002), while 300 µM of imperatorin inhibited ADP-induced platelet aggregation by 33.96% (p=0.012) compared with vehicle control but not inhibited collagen-induced platelet aggregation. Both ADE and imperatorin inhibited secondary phase of ADP-induced aggregation. ADE increased lag phase in collagen-induced platelet aggregation compared with vehicle control (367.78 vs. 116.35 sec, p=0.008). Both ADE and imperatorin could not inhibit AA-induced platelet aggregation but they could delay platelet aggregation. When induced platelet aggregation by ADP, ADE significantly increased cAMP levels (p=0.027), but did not affect on thromboxane B2 level. In conclusion, the antiplatelet property of ADE and imperatorin at least take part in adenylate cyclase – cAMP pathway.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.324
title: Christian identity in South Korean films after 1997 IMF crisis

description: งานวิจัยนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษาอัตลักษณ์ของคริสเตียนที่ปรากฏในภาพยนตร์เกาหลีใต้ ที่ได้รับการเผยแพร่หลังจากวิกฤติเศรษฐกิจในเกาหลีใต้ ปี 2540 โดยใช้วิธีการศึกษาวิเคราะห์เชิงพรรณา ตามกรอบแนวคิด 4 กรอบแนวคิด คือ คริสต์ศาสนาในประเทศเกาหลีใต้ อัตลักษณ์ความเป็นคริสเตียน ทฤษฎีคู่ตรงข้าม และบริบททางสังคมของประเทศเกาหลีใต้ โดยกลุ่มตัวอย่างที่นำมาศึกษาวิเคราะห์ในการวิจัยครั้งนี้ คือ ภาพยนตร์เกาหลีใต้ 6 เรื่อง ดังนี้ (1) The Soul Guardians (สิงหาคม 2541) (2) Untold Scandal (2546) (3) Old Boy (2546) (4) Love, So Divine (2547) (5) Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2548) และ (6) Secret Sunshine (2550) อัตลักษณ์ของคริสเตียนที่ปรากฏในภาพยนตร์เกาหลีใต้ทั้ง 6 เรื่องนั้น เกี่ยวเนื่องกับ (1) ศีลธรรมของคริสเตียนในเรื่องของการห้ามฆ่าคน และการห้ามผิดประเวณี (2) ค่านิยมความเป็นคริสเตียนในด้านแนวคิดเรื่องความรักตามคำสอนของพระเจ้า (3) ความเชื่อของคริสเตียน คือ เชื่อพระเจ้า เชื่อการอธิษฐาน และเชื่อเรื่องความบาปของมนุษย์ (4) หลักปฏิบัติของคริสเตียน ซึ่งได้แก่ หลักปฏิบัติต่อพระเจ้า หลักปฏิบัติต่อคริสเตียน และหลักปฏิบัติในการอธิษฐาน และ (5) สัญลักษณ์ของคริสเตียน สัญลักษณ์ที่ถูกพบมากที่สุดนั้นเป็นสัญลักษณ์ในเชิงสี โดยสีที่ถูกพบมากที่สุดคือสีดำ ซึ่งสื่อความหมายในแง่ความโศกเศร้า ความตายและความบาป และสีขาว ซึ่งสื่อถึงพระเยซูคริสต์ อัตลักษณ์ของคริสเตียนที่ปรากฏพบในภาพยนตร์เกาหลีใต้ที่นำมาวิเคราะห์มีความสัมพันธ์กับปรากฏการณ์ทางสังคมและวัฒนธรรมในเกาหลีใต้ภายหลังวิกฤติเศรษฐกิจเกาหลีใต้ ได้แก่ การฆ่าตัวตายหมู่ ทัศนคติที่เปลี่ยนไปต่อการผิดประเวณี บทบาททางสังคมและเศรษฐกิจที่เพิ่มขึ้นของสตรี การรักษาภาพพจน์ของบาทหลวงคาทอลิก และความไม่พอใจต่อคำพูดของอดีตประธานาธิบดี ลี เมียง บัค
DOI: 10.18112/openneuro.ds001894.v1.2.2
title: Longitudinal Brain Correlates of Multisensory Lexical Processing in Children
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/vzi6zb/iluvkg
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DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.325
title: Thais and Koreans attitudes and consumer behavior towards premium coffee

description: The objective of this study is to understand about the relationship between the consumer and the brand image of Starbucks Coffee. The author chose to study "Starbucks" because of the "Starbucks" is an American coffee shop, which is worldwide well-known. Starbucks offers the unique with distinctive patterns decorating, the coffee flavors, and impressive service. Drinking coffee in Thailand and Korea originally had a culture of elites before. Later it was spread to the middle classes and to the ordinaries. The coffee shop happens a lot in that time until the happening of another coffee culture came to Thailand and Korea rapidly. Such as shop “Starbucks” were selected as case studies with qualitative analysis methods, using the questionnaire by in-depth interviews as samples which are 40 people in Thailand divided 20 for Thai respondents and 20 for Korean respondents. The results showed that both Thailand and Korea, most of respondents have the main purpose of buying coffee from to refresh the body and drowsiness during work or study until the coffee becomes part of everyday life. While drinking coffee at the store, there are other activities such as reading or internet chatting through mobile phones. Modern and tasteful definition is that the respondents said when asked what Starbucks indicates the identity of the consumer.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.326
title: Determination of anti-obesity drugs in dietary supplements for weight control by capillary electrophoresis

description: Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) was developed for simultaneous separation and quantitative analysis of five anti-obesity drugs adulterance in dietary supplements for weight control: phentermine, sibutramine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and fenfluramine. The suitable condition were obtained using a 100 mM tris-phosphate buffer at pH 2.5 containing 20% acetonitrile in a fused-silica capillary under applied voltage of 25 kV and temperature of 25 oC. Achieve base line resolution was obtained with Rs &gt; 2.0 and analysis time within 10 min. This method allows the limits of detection (LOD) and limits of quantitation (LOQ) in ranges of 0.10-0.20 and 0.45-1.00 ppm, respectively. Highly linear relationship in concentrations levels of all analytes in a range of LOQ to 50 ppm was obtained with coefficient of determination r2 &gt; 0.999, along with acceptable intraday and interday precision in migration time (tm) and the measured concentration shown by RSD of &lt; 1.0% for tm and &lt; 4.1% for the measured concentration. Satisfactory accuracy was also obtained with recoveries of 96.3-104.9% at LOQ, 95.3-103.7% at 5 ppm and 96.1-104.7% at 30 ppm. Using this method for analysis of real samples extracted by 1:10 ethanol:water with proper dilution, sibutramine was found to be adulterated in four out of eight capsule samples of weight control, with the amount levels up to 2.7% w/w or 6.4 mg/capsule. In addition, a 20 mM ammonium acetate buffer at pH 4 containing 30 to 50% ACN or 40 to 70% MeOH was found to achieve CZE separation of five anti-obesity drugs, that may be used as a volatile buffer in mass spectrometry. Product ions mass spectra of five anti-obesity drugs were also obtained using electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry with a quadrupole-time of fight mass analyzer.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.327
title: Effects of CYP2D6 and UGT2B7 polymorphisms on Tamoxifen pharmacokinetics and treatment outcomes in Thai breast cancer patients

description: Antiestrogen tamoxifen (TAM) is used as adjuvant treatment in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. TAM is a prodrug which is converted to endoxifen (END), an active metabolite with approximately 100 times higher affinity with estrogen receptor than TAM, by CYP2D6 then is excreted via glucuronidation by UGT2B7, one of the enzymes in UGTs family. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the impacts of enzyme polymorphisms on TAM pharmacokinetics using TAM and END plasma concentrations. Fifty-nine female breast cancer patients were included in the study. Average age was 50+9.3 years old, 76% of them were premenopausal and 85% had estrogen receptor positive breast cancer. Allele frequency of CYP2D6*10 and UGT2B7*2 were 0.53 and 0.28, respectively. Patients with CYP2D6*10/*10 had lower END concentrations compare to CYP2D26*1/*10 and CYP2D6*1/*1 (14.7+14.7 vs 17.9+9.8 and 22.4+12.8 ng/ml, respectively, p = 0.045). Polymorphisms of UGT2B7 alone did not have any impact on TAM metabolism, however, among patients with CYP2D6 *10/*10 (n=20), one with UGT2B7*2/*2 tended to have higher END concentrations compared to patients with UGT2B7*1/*1 and UGT2B7*1/*2 (27.2+7.2 ng/ml vs 9.03+4.9 and15.6+19.7 ng/ml, respectively, p= 0.073). Regarding treatment outcomes, low END concentrations that might be related to worse results shown in mammography screening. In patients with END concentration less than 15.3 ng/ml, the percentage of mammogram result as BI-RADS&gt;3 was higher when compared to patients with higher END concentrations (41.2 % vs 19%). Adverse events were also found more frequent in patients with higher END concentration (26.7% vs 3.4%, OR 10.18, p = 0.034). In summary, this study confirmed impacts of CYP2D6 and UGT2B7 polymorphisms on pharmacokinetics of TAM. END concentrations tended to be related to treatment outcomes of Thai breast cancer patients.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.328
title: General form of slightly compressible modules

description: In this thesis, we determine a general form of slightly compressible modules. Let R be an associative ring with identity and M a right R-module. A right R-module N is called an M-slightly compressible module if, for every nonzero submodule A of N, there exists a nonzero R-module homomorphism from M to A. In the case that M = N, N is, in fact, a slightly compressible module. Moreover, we provide conditions for any right R-module to be an M-slightly compressible module and study some properties of M-slightly compressible modules. Next, we introduce the concept of M-slightly compressible injective modules. A right R-module N is called an M-slightly compressible injective module if every R-module homomorphism from an M-slightly compressible submodule of M to N can be extended to M. Moreover, we study some properties of M-slightly compressible injective modules and also provide examples of them. Finally, we introduce the concept of sub-M-principally injective modules. A right R-module N is called a sub-M-principally injective madule if for any nonzero submodule A of M, any R-module homomorphism from A-cyclic submodule of A to N can be extended to M. Moreover, we study some properties of sub-M-principally injective modules and also provide examples of them.