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DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.100
title: Lean apartment management system

description: The objective of this study is to eliminate wastes in serviced apartment management process. The serviced apartment chosen as a case study is located in metropolis area of Bangkok. The apartment is run as a family business providing daily and monthly rental. After running apartment for years, the management process is more complicated than expectation. The Lean Principle is adopted to eliminate wastes, simplify process, increase management performance and customer satisfaction. Firstly, literature, research, and relevant study are review. Next, to identify wastes in front office and housekeeping, observation and investigation are applied in 3 fields of the apartment process; resource allocation, working activities, and information flow. Then, a 4-star hotel and a 4-star resort are benchmarking. Next, the Lean Apartment Management System is designed and implemented in the apartment by adopting the Production Operations Transition-To-Lean Roadmap introduced by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Furthermore, lean tools and techniques are implemented in the study. As a result, the organization has eliminated 195 wastes in process from 196 waste; reduced leadtime from 207 minutes to 47 minutes with 24 minutes takt time; saved workforce budget 232,200 baht per year; empowered customer skills; guaranteed service quality assurance; created lean culture; and dramatically increased internal and external customer satisfaction. The customer satisfaction increases in overall front office service 27.1%; and 39.9% in housekeeping service.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.101
title: Quantitative analysis of civetone and normuscone in secretion from viverricula indica and in aromatic remedies by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

description: The quantitation of civetone and normuscone in small Indian civet (Viverricula indica Desmarest) secretion as well as in aromatic remedies were analyzed by gas chromatography/ mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The small Indian civet secretion consisted of civetone, dihydrocivetone and normuscone as main components. The contents of chemical constituents were different between male and female secretion. Civetone (23.6 ± 1.5 µg/mg of secretion) was identified as the major constituent in the female secretion and normuscone (52.1 ± 5.9 µg/mg of secretion) was in that of male small Indian civet. Both civetone and normuscone were also found in civet furs but not in the feces. All aromatic remedies with small Indian civet secretion ingredient in the label showed both civetone and normuscone but the quantity were different. Linearity range of civetone was 0-50 µg/ml with a correlation coefficient of 0.9717, and of normuscone was 0-80 µg/ml with a correlation coefficient of 0.9965. The average recoveries were 97.3-98.0% in secretion and 91.4-105.7% in aromatic remedy for civetone. For normuscone, average recoveries in secretion and aromatic remedy were 98.5 % and 90.0-103.0% respectively. The precision was evaluated by the intra-day and inter-day RSDs of the three concentrations which were less than 8%. LOD and LOQ for civetone were 0.0087 and 0.0165 µg/mg of secretion and for normuscone were 0.0596 and 0.1154 µg/mg of secretion respectively. Civetone and normuscone could be used as qualitative and quantitative markers for civet secretion ingredient in aromatic remedies. Civetone and normuscone contents in commercial civet secretion varied crop by crop and depended on male to female sex ratio of the small Indian civets.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.102
title: The rural community development strategies of South Korea and Myanmar (1970-2010) : a comparative analysis

description: This study compares rural community development efforts of Republic of Korea and Myanmar during 1960s to 2010. The research method is mainly descriptive based on historical and current situations. Primary data are collected in Myanmar to highlight the current level of rural community development through a survey on twenty villages. Villages were chosen from four geographically divided regions with sample random sampling basis. Republic of Korea and Myanmar share common characteristics. Both are located in Asia, started as poor countries, had been staying under military dictatorship for a number of years and egalitarian nature of people in rural areas Nowadays, Korea is one of the economically strong countries while Myanmar is one of the poorest countries in the world. The rural community development movement called Saemaul Undong has significantly changed rural scenes of Korea. During the same period there were no integrated effort towards rural development and many attempts to boost rural life of people were ended up at the cosmetic level in Myanmar. The findings from the experiences of South Korea show successful rural development remain on, agricultural marketing system, presence of incentive scheme for the development, the commitment of national leaders, community leaderships, cross institutional involvement, spiritual reform and finally stage by stage development with long-term orientation. The lessons from the study of rural development model of these two countries reveal that Korea model can be illustrated as proactive strategy and Myanmar’s is reactive strategy. The first model place rural sector development as the country’s priority while it was subordinate to the political stability of urban area in the second. Finally, the vision and real commitment of national leaders to develop their own country make a real difference in the fortunes of these countries.The empirical data from twenty villages under survey in Myanmar reveals two things. Firstly, there is negatively correlated between number of farmland in the village and economic wellbeing of the village. This information highlights interventions should be taken to remedy the economic situation of farm households. Secondly, there is positively correlated between the level of rural development as measured by four aspects (infrastructure, economic, social and environmental) and the level of integration among institutions that active in those areas. Myanmar can adopt the rural community development model of South Korea, at least certain extent, since the two countries experienced similar political structure and socio-economic situations in the past. Based on Korea’s experience, a model for rural community development of Myanmar has been suggested in the last part of the study.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.103
title: An analytical study of Ne Win’s 1962 coup d’etat in Burma

description: Ne Win made military coup and usurped political power from civilian government in 1962. This coup and the period are significant in Myanmar’s modern history because more than forty years of military rule starting from the year resulted in the loss of political space for other political actors. Explanations for this period are still in vagueness and filled with confusion. The coup in 1962 was tried to be legitimized by claiming that it was the means of preventing the breakup of the Union. However, the military seemed to wait for taking political power. Some scholar’s works tried to point out the rift within the military, however, Ne Win’s role is not clear in that framework even though he is the only person who could lead the coup d’état. This thesis analyzed the causes of the coup from triggering motives and structural causes, in particular, focusing on the economic activities of the military before and after the coup related with the course of nationalization and the purge of an officer. Furthermore, the elite group of the military was examined with the pattern of purge as the group is the prominent political actor since War time Burma. Analyzing the mechanism of this coup with political actor, motives and historical structure, author tried to find ‘genes’ of coup d’état in Burma in order to have some hints for future prevention from the view point of rational state governance.This coup d’état was the result of the combination of triggering motives and structural causes. Those factors are intertwined and influenced upon each other. Emotional upheaval of Burmese ethnic nationalism stimulated through religious and federal issues sought for direction to flow out under the circumstances of the political power vacuum. Significantly, core officers group was keen in politics to and had experience of military operations for taking state power in the resistance movement for her independence.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.104
title: Comparative study of inheritance system in Korean and Javanese societies

description: Inheritance in the family is the common process happening in all societies. Patriarchal and matriarchal societies have their own rule in the allotting family properties. This research examined the characteristics of the male-dominated society, in Korean and Javanese societies with purpose to find the similarities and dissimilarities between two societies that have different backgrounds and different culture, but still connected with the same factor, male-dominated societies. With purpose to find it, field research was conducted in some places in Korea and Yogyakarta, Indonesia by interviewing the people in two societies. Confucianism is deeply rooted to the Korean society especially in rural area, the eldest son gets the priority in the allotment of inheritance properties. But, the Korean civil law regulates that all of heirs of the family get the same right in the family. On other side, Javanese society with its long history has been experiencing culture changes. In the inheritance system, Javanese people have common pattern in the allotting inheritance fortunes in the family based on Islamic law, which is the concept of “sepikul segendongan”. But as a part of Indonesian citizen, Javanese also must consider Indonesian civil law as official law in Indonesia, in term of inheritance allotment. It seems that in the allotment of the inheritance fortunes, people in those societies follow the pattern mentioned above. Still, male heirs have more advantages than female heirs. It is understandable that in male-dominated family, male is more superior to female.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.105
title: Well productivity prediction for thinly laminated reservoir using integrated high-resolution logs.

description: Due to increasing costs in hydrocarbon exploration, formation evaluation needs to be efficient in order to avoid excessive expenditures. Proper reservoir characterization in thinly laminated reservoirs is a key to successful field development. These thinly laminated reservoirs are complex due to their vertical heterogeneity. As a result, there is low resistivity contrast between water and hydrocarbon bearing zones when standard resistivity logs are used. Thus, it is crucial to deploy a high resolution formation evaluation in order to capture reservoir pay and detect hydrocarbon zones. This study aims to demonstrate a methodology of using borehole electrical image log to determine effective permeability. The study is the first attempt to develop a numerical technique to build a correlation between synthetic resistivity derived from borehole electrical image tool with other dynamic permeability measurements such as dual packer formation tester. A single well predictive model was used in the process to generate high resolution numerical radial model from high resolution log data. This improving workflow is applied to electrical images to predict effective permeability in other intervals where actual permeability measurements were not acquired. However, this methodology has not been tested with the actual field data. Therefore, this study aims to investigate this workflow when applied to actual field data.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.189
title: Spinal displacement occurred during thoracic spinal manipulative therapy

description: The aim of this study was to investigate the displacement of the thoracocervical spine occurred during the application of the thoracic PA mobilization. Forty-one asymptomatic male subjects (20-30 years) were recruited. The spinal displacement of C3, C5, C7, T2, T4 and T6 was investigated during the application of a set of the central PA mobilization grade III to T6 by a motion capture system. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the distance of the spinal displacement and Spearman rank correlation coefficient demonstrated negative correlation (rs=-1) between spinal displacement and spinal levels. The results indicated the downward trend in spinal displacement when the distance far from T6 spine increased. It showed that the mobilization force could be transferred from local spine along the spinal column to remote area. Therefore, these findings provide possible evidence to explain the mechanism of how thoracic spinal manipulative therapy affected neck pain reduction.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.190
title: Carlibration of an instrumented couch with a motion capture system in measuring force applied and distance

description: The objectives of this study were (i) to describe an instrumented couch which would be able to synchronize with the motion capture system in details; (ii) to calibrate this device. The criterion-related validity and test-retest reliability of the couch were investigated in two conditions: empty couch and a couch with dead weight of known mass of 70 kg. Both conditions were investigated in three directions: vertical, medial-lateral and caudad-cehalad directions. The motion capture system was also investigated by using the grid paper size 40× 40 cm2. The criterion-related validity of both the couch and motion capture system were analyzed by Pearson’s product moment correlation. The test-retest reliability of the couch was analyzed by Intra-class correlation coefficients [ICC(2, 1)]. The percentage error was calculated for both the couch and motion capture system. The Pearson’s product moment correlation of this study showed 1.00 (p&lt;0.05) in both the couch and motion capture system. The ICC(2, 1) of the couch was 1.00 (p&lt;0.05). The percentage error of the couch showed average percentage error to be ranged from 0.41-1.12%. The percentage error of the motion capture system showed 0%. In conclusion, the instrumented couch and the motion capture system are appropriate to investigate both amount of force applied and displacement during manual therapy.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.191
title: Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide and cholesterol crystals induce inflammasome activation in human macrophages

description: Human mouth has long been recognized as a focal infection and being connected to the systemic health. Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by Gram-negative bacteria and their products such as Porphyromonas gingivalis. Atherosclerosis, the major cardiovascular disease, is a leading cause of death worldwide. It is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with cholesterol deposition in the arterial walls. The innate immune response of the vascular tissue is known to play important role in atherosclerosis. A hallmark of the atherosclerotic lesion is lipid-laden macrophages or foam cells which are a source of various proinflammatory cytokines including interleukin-1ß (IL-1ß) produced by inflammasome activation. To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have assessed the role of periodontal infection in atherosclerosis in term of inflammasome activation. In this study, we examined the effects of P. gingivalis LPS and cholesterol crystals on human monocyte derived macrophage in term of NLRP3 inflammasome activation by IL-1ß production and compared the magnitude of inflammasome activation as measured by IL-1ß production between macrophages derived by M-CSF(M2 macrophage) and those derived by GM-CSF(M1 macrophage). The results showed that P. gingivalis LPS and cholesterol crystals induced dose-dependent IL-1ß secretion from both M1 macrophage and M2 macrophage via NLRP3 inflammasome activation when compared with control (p&lt;0.05). No significant differences in IL-1ß production at each concentration of cholesterol crystals were observed between two types of macrophages (p &gt; 0.05). Our results represent the first demonstration that NLRP3 inflammasome activation in human M1 and M2 macrophage via P. gingivalis LPS and cholesterol crystals may be, in part, a possible mechanism of which promote atherosclerosis.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.192
title: Prevalence of jak2v617f and its clinical correlation in thais with myeloproliferative neoplasm

description: Myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) is a group of various chronic myeloid cancers. According to the 2008 WHO recommendation, JAK2V617F mutation is a major diagnostic criterion for these diseases, particularly the Philadelphia chromosome-negative MPN (Ph- MPN). Prevalence of such mutation, however, has been reported differently in numbers based on a study population; never before in Thais. This study aims to explore the prevalence of JAK2V617F mutation in Thai MPN patients and examine its correlation to clinical features. 103 individuals diagnosed MPN after the 2008 WHO recommendation were recruited: 96 Philadelphia-negative MPN and 7 CML. Blood samples were taken for DNA isolation. JAK2V617F detection was examined using AS-PCR and PCR-RFLP. Clinical data at the diagnosed date were matched to the molecular outcome. In the Ph- MPN population, prevalence of JAK2V617F was 68.8 % (66/96): 59.2% (29/49) in ET, 80.6% (25/31) in PV, 70.0% (7/10) in PMF, and 83.3% (5/6) in unclassifiable MPN. None of CML patients exhibited the mutation (0/7). The mutant group had less bleeding history (P = 0.039) and MCV than the wild type (P = 0.006). No difference of all parameters between both groups showed in ET, except slightly higher white cells and platelets level of the mutant than the wild type without significance. In PV, the haemoglobin level of the mutant was lower than the wild type (P = 0.038) while the platelet level was higher (P= 0.014). In conclusion, JAK2V617F does exist in Thai MPN patients. Its prevalence is close to other populations with ethnical difference. The mutant displayed some difference in parameters to the wild type, referring to clinical contribution of the mutation. Nevertheless, other factors can not be overlooked. Vascular circumstances and other intracellular signal transduction molecules could altogether participate in pathophysiology.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.193
title: Effects of phyllanthin, hypophyllanthin and phyllanthus amarus aqueous extract on the expression of human cytochrome P450 3A4 using HEPG2 cells

description: In this study, the effects of Phyllanthus amarus aqueous extract and its active principles, phyllanthin and hypophyllanthin, on the activity and expression of cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) were investigated in HepG2, the human liver carcinoma, cells. Phyllanthin and hypophyllanthin (0.04-25 µM) did not significantly affect cell viability. The extract reduced cell viability with IC₅₀ values of 3.69, 1.76 and 1.24 mg/ml for the incubation periods of 24, 48 and 72 hours, respectively. Phyllanthin (1, 5 and 25 µM) did not affect activity and protein level of CYP3A4, but significantly decreased mRNA level at concentration of 25 µM. Hypophyllanthin did not cause significant effects on CYP3A4 activity, protein and mRNA. The extract at concentration of 0.5 mg/ml significantly increased CYP3A4 activity in a time-dependent manner. As compared to the control, CYP3A4 activity was enhanced by 1.50, 1.92 and 2.29 fold following incubation with the extract for 24, 48 and 72 hours, respectively. The extract also increased CYP3A4 protein following incubation for 24 hours and mRNA levels following incubation for 12 and 24 hours. The effects on CYP3A4 activity and expression found in this study provide information of herb-drug interaction potential, thus further study in vivo is suggested.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.99
title: Genre analysis of thesis and dissertation abstracts in linguistics written by students in Thailand and students in England

description: This study analyzes the structural organization of thesis and dissertation abstracts in linguistics written by students in Thailand and students in England. The data employed in this study consists of 35 abstracts from different universities in Thailand and 35 abstracts from different universities in England. Swales’ move analysis is used as a framework for the analysis. The data is examined in 5 aspects: the frequency of moves and steps, the sequence of moves, the repetition of moves, move embedding, and the generality and specificity of moves. The results show that the moves employed by students in Thailand and in England are quite similar while the steps used are quite different. The major disparity is the tendency for Thai students to omit ‘Move 1: Background.’ Secondly, Thai students tend to follow the conventional sequence of moves while English students do not. The repetition of moves and move embedding are found to be particular characteristic of the English abstracts. Finally, Thai abstracts seem to place emphasis on ‘Move 4: Results’ and ‘Move 3: Methodology’ whereas the English ones place more emphasis on ‘Move 4: Results’ and ‘Move 2: Presenting the Research'. The findings from this study can be beneficial to both the field of linguistic study, World Englishes, as well as the ELT (English Language Teaching), particularly the ESP (English for Specific Purposes). Hopefully, the results from this study can contribute to some understanding, not only of the differences in writing between the two discourse communities in examination, but also of the particulars and the universals of language as well.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2011.106
title: Factors associated with disabilty among children's aged 2-9 years in Southern Thailand : a secondary analysis of Thailand multiple indicator cluster survey 2006

description: This study examined factors associated with disability among children aged 2-9 years in southern Thailand using data from the MICS conducted from December 2005 to February 2006. A stratified two stage samping technique was used with provinces constituting strata. Primary sampling units were blocks for municipal areas or villages for non municipal areas. Our study focuses only on Southern Thailand we selected the available data for children's aged 2-9 years. There are fourteen provinces in southern Thailand we analyzed the data of ten provines which were availbel. sampel size is 5276 children's aged 2-9 years. Bivariate analysis was done using Chi square and Fisher's exact tests. The study found inreased risk of disability among children aged 2-9 years from riral areas are found more prone to develop disability and the opportunity to learning is found a major factors for disability. Association was aso found between nutritional status and disability. Children in the poor, middle and fourth wealth index quintiles being at increased risk of disability compared to children in the richest wealth index quintile. Breast feeding and immunization status are not associated with disability no any significance was found. Continued efforts to promote child early learning opportunities, providing appropriate nutrition to chldren's by providing health education to mothers ot or car takers of childrens. further studies are need to gather information on nutritional status and opportunites to early learning association with disability.