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DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.155
title: The effect of nutrition education intervention on the amount of school lunch consumption in children aged 3-5 years: case study in Bangkok, Thailand

description: Low vegetable and fruit intake and micronutrient deficiency has been reported for Thai children aged three to five years. Many nutrition education programs have been recommended to solve these problems, especially for preschool children. This study aims to investigate the effect of the novel nutrition education program on the amount of vegetables, fruit, energy and nutrients consumption in school lunches of children aged three to five years. United for Healthier Kids is a nutrition education program that desires to motivate healthy eating via a set of nutrition education tools by encouraging variety in the types of food consumed, increase vegetables and fruit consumption, and promote a healthy environment for preschool children. A total of 380 children, between three to five years of age (196 of which were female), from four schools in Bangkok participated in this study. The amount of vegetables, fruit, and other food intake was assessed by plate waste measurement for three days during the pre- and post-intervention period. Compared with the Thai DRIs, the percentage of vegetables and fruit consumption in the post-intervention period was closer to the recommended amount than in the pre-intervention period with increases of 16.02 and 8.79 in vegetable and fruit, respectively. Energy, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, iron, and vitamin C intake were significantly higher and more closely matched the recommendations in the post-intervention period. Vitamin A and vitamin B2 intake during the post-intervention period was lower than the pre-intervention period and there was no significant difference in the amounts of protein intake between the pre- and post-intervention periods. The new nutrition education has potential to increase vegetables, fruit, energy, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, iron, and vitamin C consumption of children aged 3 to 5 years. Future studies need to explore the effect of the program with larger and more diverse preschool children populations.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.156
title: USE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS OF SHOPHOUSES: A CASE STUDY OF THA TIEN’S SHOPHOUSE, BANGKOK

description: In the changing urban context, proposing new uses for historic buildings such shophouses has mould a constraint to place identity when the application of utilisation is grounded on tendencies of demand and consumerism. The historic urban fabric, as a particular physicality of activity and experience in which meaning is interpreted through a sense of place and authenticity, is disturbed by misuse and excessive growth from the new concept of uses. The study of use transformation is to comprehend the capability of responsive behaviour to place bonding, when use is transforming by internal and external influences e.g. life course, repossession, honourability, obsolescence, and opportunity. A case study of Tha Tien, an area that was thriving since the establishment of the Rattanakosin Island, is to represent uses of shophouses that are evolutionally altering to requirements of urban life. The theoretical framework is developed from understanding of behavioural reaction towards re-making place. The measurement method is conducted from the process of reuse emerging with the construction of meaning during the process of place. The data were gained from a survey of shophouses, behavioural observations and semi-structured interviews with occupants in Tha Tien. Issues contributing to use transformation are analysed and synthesised with the place attachment, incorporating placemaking, urban anthropology and adaptability, in which concept, method and process impact to physical setting and meaning of place through perspective of re-making place. The dissertation is concluded that use transformation does not eliminate the meaning of place but rather constructs the meaningfulness of utilisation by changing of uses and experiences as a creative identity of physical setting and meaning process.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.157
title: "White Men's Burdens?": A Study of Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, George Orwell's Burmese Days, and Graham Greene's The Quiet American as Reflections of Three Phases of Western Colonialism in Southeast Asia

description: Through the three chosen British novels, Western colonialism in Southeast Asia can be seen in three major phases: colonialism at its peak, colonialism during its decline and colonialism at its transformation. This thesis propounds that the roles and statuses of the white male characters (Jim, John Flory, Thomas Fowler and Alden Pyle) are established through their interactions with other characters, most of whom are women. The roles and statuses of these Western protagonists and their interactions with the people residing in the region of Southeast Asia can be seen to reflect three phases of Western colonialism. In Lord Jim (1899-1900), the main character Jim establishes a hierarchical master-slave relationship between himself and other local inhabitants. The relationship between Jim and other characters reflects the peak of colonialism. In Burmese Days (1934), the relationship between Flory and local characters becomes less hierarchical, reflecting Western colonialism during its decline. In The Quiet American (1955), the relationship between Fowler, Pyle and other characters, especially Phuong, reflects Western colonialism at its transitional stage, where European colonialism has begun to give way to American imperialism. The thesis also proffers the notion that though the roles and status of Westerners in Southeast Asia have continually changed, the paradigm of Western power is still in place.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.158
title: L2 ACQUISITION OF WH-OPERATOR MOVEMENT IN ENGLISH OPEN INTERROGATIVES BY L1 THAI LEARNERS: A CASE OF THE FAILED FUNCTIONAL FEATURES HYPOTHESIS

description: Based on the Failed Functional Features Hypothesis (FFFH) (Hawkins and Chan, 1997), the current study aims at investigating L1 Thai learners’ acquisition of the wh-operator movement in English open interrogatives. Two primary objectives included (1) to explore whether the wh-operator movement in English can be acquired by L1 Thai learners and (2) to account for the data by the FFFH. Due to the non-existence of the strong uninterpretable [uwh] feature in Thai, it is hypothesized that L1 Thai learners of English fail to acquire English open interrogatives by means of the operator movement and that variability in English open interrogatives is evident in both production and perception. A Question Formation Task (QFT) and A Grammaticality Judgement Task (GJT) were administered to 20 intermediate and 20 advanced L1 Thai learners. The findings revealed that, despite their low suppliance rates of resumptive pronouns in the QFT, both L2 groups persistently failed to detect the presence of resumptive pronouns in the GJT, with the rejection rates remarkably lower than those of the native controls. Moreover, their use and judgement of resumptive pronouns were rather unsystematic; that is, they seemed to produce or accept open interrogatives irrespective of the presence of resumptive pronouns, which may be ascribed to the fact that the Thai language allows the resumptive strategy in some structures such as the relative construction. In addition, an asymmetry between subject extraction and object extraction was found in the learner data, possibly owing to processing difficulties posed by the former. The study, therefore, concludes that L1 Thai learners cannot acquire the wh-operator movement in English, driven by the strong uninterpretable [uwh] feature absent in Thai, lending vigorous support to the FFFH and, thus, the proposal that Universal Grammar (UG) is partially available to adult L2 learners.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.159
title: The joint effects of management incentives and perceived locus of causality on management earnings forecast disclosures

description: This study investigates the effect of management incentives (directive and transparency) and locus of causality (internal and external) on the willingness of managers to disclose management earnings forecast reports and the accuracy of management’s earnings forecast information. The experimental findings show that managers with directive incentives are less likely to disclose the earnings forecast and provide less accurate information to market participants than managers with transparency incentives, for both point and range forecast forms. In addition, locus of causality contributes to the accuracy of management earnings forecast information when the forecasts suggest underperformance, but the findings reveal no significant differences in the willingness of management to issue earnings forecasts. Managers tend to provide more accurate earnings forecasts in the range form when the poor performance is internal rather than external. There are fewer clear causal effects on the accuracy of point earnings forecasts. When focusing on the joint effects of management incentives and locus of causality, these factors influence the willingness of management to issue earnings forecast and to provide accurate earnings forecast. The willingness of directive managers to issue earnings forecasts is impacted more by internal and external factors than it is for transparency managers. The results show that when performance is affected by external business factors, directive managers’ point earnings forecasts are less accurate. However, there is no joint effect of management incentives and locus of causality on the accuracy of earnings forecasts in range form. The implications of these findings are for regulators related to the voluntary disclosure of management’s earnings forecasts. Particularly, the consideration of an earnings forecast’s form enhances the accuracy of the forecast.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.160
title: Factors Affecting Debt Decisions: Syndicated Loans vs. Corporate Bonds

description: Following the recent developments and expansions in syndicated loans market, syndicate loans are currently accounted for around one-third of borrowers’ total public debt and equity financing. It is one of the main alternative debt instruments for corporations. Syndicated loans are bank loans by their settings but also have many of the corporate bonds’ characteristics. These characteristics have made syndicated loans hybrid debt instruments which combining features of both bank loans and bonds. This study investigates the financial factors behind syndicated loans issuance for a comprehensive sample from 2000 to 2016 of United States non-financial companies which are listed in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ. By directly comparing syndicated loans to corporate bonds, the specific firms’ financial characteristics that reflect transaction costs, debt renegotiation, inefficient liquidation concerns, and information asymmetries are linked to the firms’ debt decisions. The study of multinomial logistic regressions shows that larger firms have a higher likelihood to borrow debt from both markets simultaneously. In contrast with firms’ liquidation value, it limits the power firms’ size which led to lower likelihood to issue joint issuance. The multinomial results also show that the likelihood of raising funds through only one market at a time is higher than joint issuance in a period of crisis. This study also provides some evidences that the recent expansions and developments in syndicated loan market have blurred the distinctions and caused the convergence between two alternative debt markets, syndicated loan and corporate bond markets.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.161
title: A lead-lag relationship between price premium and NAV in property fund and REIT

description: Property fund and real estate investment trust (REIT) play an important role in asset allocation since it increases risk-adjusted return and diversifies portfolio risk. However, in stock market, price of property fund and REIT is deviated from its fundamental value or net asset value (NAV) causing price premium or discount. Understanding causes of price deviation helps investor to plan for investment strategy and generates more profit. Therefore, this paper aims to study the role of price premium in forecasting future performance of property fund and REIT by using vector autoregressive analysis (VAR). Moreover, we examine causes of price premium by studying price pressure from REIT mutual funds trading and investors’ sentiment effect. Unlike previous studies, the results indicate that there is no relationship between price premium and NAV. However, we find that premiums are mainly caused by changing in investor sentiment while REIT mutual funds trading shows no effect to price premium. Furthermore, we find no evidence that price premium reverses to its fundamental price.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.162
title: Political connection and firm performance: evidence from Chinese state-owned companies

description: This paper uses the multiple regression to research the political connection effect in the state-owned enterprise. It has been found that the political connection can significantly enhance state-owned enterprises’ performance. Moreover, the same administration level between state-owned enterprises’ actual controller and CEO/Chairman would enhance ROA and ROE. Additionally, as the proportion of political connection members increases, the ROA will be promoted. The political connection has same impact on the industries with more governmental control and the industries with less governmental control. The “city administration level” shows negative record in the stock market. Furthermore, this paper adopts the Probit Model to test the impact of life cycle stage on the political connection establishment. According to the finding, the political connection is set up in almost each stage.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.163
title: Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Currency Carry Trade and risk factor compensation of Currency Carry trade in G10 and Emerging Market

description: Currency carry trade is one of famous currency speculation strategies through latest decade. Return of this strategy comes from the difference of interest rate between countries. In theoretical world, FAMA uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) assumes change in spot exchange rate is going to offset the difference of interest rate. Therefore, the first objective of this paper is to test violation of UIP which implies possibility to do currency carry trade. Secondly, moving on to determine the relationship between currency carry trade return and exchange rate volatility in some difference aspects because there are evidences about negative relationship between currency carry trade return and market volatility which is exchange rate volatility from previous literature. Finally, this paper employs factor model to investigate the contribution of risk factor such as yield curve factors and investors’ fear factors on currency carry trade return. The groups of data which are considered in this paper are G10 and Emerging countries. According to first empirical result of this paper, it shows the violation of UIP which implies opportunity to earn profit from currency carry trade strategy, since change in spot exchange rate does not offset difference of interest rate. Secondly, the negative relationship between currency carry trade return and exchange rate volatility is consistently appeared while we go through steps of investigating the relationship. This result also accorded with previous literatures which had concluded that currency carry trade strategy is likely to yield favorable return while exchange rate volatility is low and vice versa. Finally, the factor model also yields result consistent with previous works whether it would be significantly negative, significantly negative and positive relationship for VIX index, yield curve slope factor and yield curve level factor to currency carry trade return respectively. Moreover, lagged unexpected volatility also yields significantly negative relationship as well.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.164
title: Performance persistence of hedge fund: A result of different systematic risk exposure

description: This paper has made the statement that the different systematic risk exposure style affects hedge fund performance and performance persistence. Employing maintain low systematic risk exposure (LSR) style leads superior performance for hedge fund during the full-time period. The outperformance of LSR style in this finding challenges the principle of standard Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and being supported by the “Low-volatility anomaly” in the equity market. However, the market timing, one of systematic risk exposure style, is still crucial and should be taken into consideration when managing portfolios systematic risk exposure, especially during the crisis period. Moreover, there is the evidence in support of performance persistence for all systematic risk exposure style. However, in the crisis period, the ability to time the market along with the ability to maintain low systematic risk exposure are proved to be necessary skills of fund managers to have the highest probability of repeating winner performance.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.165
title: The synthesis, modification and application of silica nanoparticles in polymethyl methacrylate denture base

description: This study aimed to investigate amount of γ-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (MPS) silanized on experimental nanosilica particles (NPs), amount of NPs and amount of MPS silanized NP on flexural strength (FS), flexural modulus (FM), and fracture toughness (FT) of NP reinforced polymethymethacrylate (PMMA). The chemisorbed amount of MPS was determined using elemental analysis. Six groups (n=8) were prepared with chemisorbed amount and mixed with PMMA-monomer to make 0.25, 0.5, 1, 5, 10 and 15% (w/w) of NP reinforced PMMA. PMMA without NP served as control. Seven groups (n=8) were prepared with 1% of NPs silanized with 0, 0.061, 0.123, 0.246, 0.493, 0.987, and 1.974 gMPS/gsilica and mixed with PMMA-monomer to make NPs reinforced PMMA. FS, FM, and FT were determined using 3-point bending test. One-way ANOVA and multiple comparisons showed that 0.246 gMPS/gsilica of 1% amount of silanized NP group was significantly highest in FS, FM, and FT compared to the others (p&lt;0.05).
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.166
title: HOST RESPONSES IN PERI IMPLANT TISSUE IN COMPARISON TO PERIODONTAL TISSUE

description: The host response in peri-implant tissue may differ from that in periodontal tissue in a healthy individual. The purpose of this study is to investigate the expression of inflammatory cytokines in peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF)from single implant with two different abutment types in comparison to healthy periodontal tissue. Moreover, the effect of these inflammatory cytokines on the expression of FAK and RANKL were also studied. Nineteen participants with healthy implants and teeth were recruited according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. PICF and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) was collected using sterile paper points. The expression level of inflammatory cytokines including IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, TNF-α, IFN-y was assessed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). varying concentrations of PICF obtained around two abutment materials were treated with human gingival fibroblast cell cultures to study the expression of FAK and RANKL using qPCR. Expression of IL-6, TNF-α and IFN-y was not statistically different from GCF among titanium and UCLA abutment group. However, the level of IL-1α in the PICF from the implants restored with UCLA abutment was significantly higher than GCF (p- value= 0.030). Inaddition, the level of IL-1β in PICF from implants restored with titanium abutment was significantly higher than GCF (p-value=0.032). IL-8 expression in PICF from implant restored with UCLA abutment was significantly higher than titanium abutment ( p-value 0.003). Moreover an up- regulation of RANKL and down regulation of FAK gene was found to be in a concentration dependent manner for both the abutment groups.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.167
title: SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE OUTCOMES ON DENTURE ADHESIVE USAGE AMONG COMPLETE DENTURE WEARERS

description: The propose of this clinical study was to evaluate the subjective and objective assessment factors affecting decision of complete denture wearers to use or not use denture adhesive. Sixty-six fully edentulous using upper and lower conventional complete dentures (aged 53 to 83 years) were recruited in this study. (1) Condition of denture-supporting tissue (ACP classification), (2) denture quality (CU-modified kapur criteria), (3) patients’ satisfaction in prostheses and (4) oral impact on daily performances (OIDP) were evaluated as baseline (T0). All participants were assigned to use denture adhesive (Polident®, Ireland) for 1 month period and made decision by themselves to continue (Group U) or stop (Group NU) using denture adhesive. Patients’ satisfaction in prostheses and OIDP were evaluated again at T1 (T0 + 1 month), and T2 (T1 + 1 month). The results showed that Group U had more significant proportion of unacceptable mandibular denture quality, dissatisfied with their prostheses and oral impact, compared with Group NU (p&lt;0.05). The use of denture adhesive in Group U improved satisfaction in prostheses and oral impact along the study period, while Group NU had worsened on these parameters. Group NU had improved satisfaction in prostheses and oral impact again after they stop using denture adhesive. The results showed that denture adhesive did not necessary for all complete denture wearers. In conclusion, oral impact and mandibular denture quality were the best subjective and objective assessments affected the decision of complete denture wearers to use or not use denture adhesive, respectively. Complete denture wearers who had eating impact or had any activities impact and had unacceptable mandibular denture quality could be improved their OHRQoL after using denture adhesive.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2017.168
title: The quality of complete denture, patient's satisfaction, oral health-related quality of life, and their association

description: The objective of this study was to determine the association of complete denture quality, patient’s satisfaction, and Oral Health-related Quality of Life (OHRQoL). A total of 126 complete denture wearers was interviewed for the primary outcome, OHRQoL, using Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (OIDP) index. Secondary outcomes were patient’s satisfaction and masticatory performance. Denture retention and stability were scored following the conventional and Chulalongkorn University (CU)-modified Kapur criteria. Esthetic-assessment criteria was evaluated from patient’s photographs. It was found that limited eating/chewing was the most common problem, and an ill-fitting denture was a primary cause of any reported problems. Unacceptable denture retention and/or stability associated with lower masticatory performance, eating dissatisfaction, and reported oral impact. CU-modified Kapur criteria revealed higher sensitivity in estimating all patient-based outcomes compared to the conventional criteria. Denture age and esthetic-assessment criteria associated with none of patient-based outcomes. In conclusion, the CU-modified Kapur criteria for complete denture retention and stability evaluation is an alternative tool in estimating masticatory ability and OHRQoL with higher sensitivity. The CU-modified Kapur criteria helps clinician in making decision whether a denture needs refabrication. In addition to professional evaluation, OHRQoL assessment should be used in evaluating a treatment need or outcome.