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DOI: 10.25606/surf.578c6039-7ce89bf5
title: The Cosmogrid Simulation: Statistical Properties of Small Dark Matter Halos (2048-031)

description: We present the results of the "Cosmogrid" cosmological N-body simulation suites based on the concordance LCDM model. The Cosmogrid simulation was performed in a 30 Mpc box with 2048³ particles. The mass of each particle is 1.28x10^5 Msun, which is sufficient to resolve ultra-faint dwarfs. We found that the halo mass function shows good agreement with the Sheth & Tormen fitting function down to ~10^7 Msun. We have analyzed the spherically averaged density profiles of the three most massive halos which are of galaxy group size and contain at least 170 million particles. The slopes of these density profiles become shallower than -1 at the inner most radius. We also find a clear correlation of halo concentration with mass. The mass dependence of the concentration parameter cannot be expressed by a single power law, however a simple model based on the Press-Schechter theory proposed by Navarro et al. gives reasonable agreement with this dependence. The spin parameter does not show a correlation with the halo mass. The probability distribution functions for both concentration and spin are well fitted by the log-normal distribution for halos with the masses larger than ~10^8 Msun. The subhalo abundance depends on the halo mass. Galaxy-sized halos have 50% more subhalos than ~10^11 Msun halos have. This is snapshot 031 of the 2048³ resolution collection.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3386197
title: Identifying Hot Spots in Rural Community Resilience in Scotland - database

description: Database of nearest resilience infrastructure from each Scottish postcode, commissioned and funded by the National Centre for Resilience. Data are in geopackage format, which is curated by the open geospatial consortium. The data format can be read by GDAL, and hence all major analytical and spatial software (e.g. R, Python, QGIS). The database has two main tables: datazones - a spatial table of boundary polygons. Available from data.gov.uk under the open government licence. postcode_to_POI - a table of postcode to POI type distances with lookups for a range of administrative boundaries. An example query (in R) is shown in 10.5281/zenodo.3386179 to access data in the geopackage. The database was built using the following datasets: Ordnance Survey Open Roads Ordnance Survey Code-Point Open Ordnance Survey Points of Interest The following copyright licences apply to this dataset: © Crown Copyright and Database Right 2019. Ordnance Survey (Digimap Licence).<br> This material includes data licensed from PointX Database Right/Copyright 2019.<br> Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right 2019.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3386198
title: Identifying Hot Spots in Rural Community Resilience in Scotland - database

description: Database of nearest resilience infrastructure from each Scottish postcode, commissioned and funded by the National Centre for Resilience. Data are in geopackage format, which is curated by the open geospatial consortium. The data format can be read by GDAL, and hence all major analytical and spatial software (e.g. R, Python, QGIS). The database has two main tables: datazones - a spatial table of boundary polygons. Available from data.gov.uk under the open government licence. postcode_to_POI - a table of postcode to POI type distances with lookups for a range of administrative boundaries. An example query (in R) is shown in 10.5281/zenodo.3386179 to access data in the geopackage. The database was built using the following datasets: Ordnance Survey Open Roads Ordnance Survey Code-Point Open Ordnance Survey Points of Interest The following copyright licences apply to this dataset: © Crown Copyright and Database Right 2019. Ordnance Survey (Digimap Licence).<br> This material includes data licensed from PointX Database Right/Copyright 2019.<br> Contains NRS data © Crown copyright and database right 2019.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.652
title: Effect of folic acid supplementation on plasma homocysteine level in obese children : a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

description: Background: Obese children tend to consume low dietary folate which is an important cofactor in remethylation of homocysteine to methionine, leading to hyperhomocysteinemia. Objective: To determine whether folic acid supplementation could reduce plasma homocysteine in obese children. Design: Obese children aged 9-15 years with body mass index &gt; median plus 2 SD according to the WHO reference were randomly allocated into 2 groups: receiving either 5 mg folic acid or placebo for 2 months. Fasting homocysteine, creatinine, folate, vitamin B12, insulin, glucose and lipid profiles were taken at baseline and the end of study. Dietary folate intake and physical activity were assessed using validated questionnaires. Results: A total of 50 obese children (31 boys) took part in the study. Their mean age was 10.9±1.6 years and mean BMI Z-score was 3.41±0.69. After the intervention, plasma homocysteine decreased by 15.75% and 6.99% in the folic acid and placebo group, respectively (mean difference 8.76%; 95%CI: 0.26%, 17.25%, p= 0.044). This divergence was more pronounced in boys and it remained significant after adjusting for baseline homocysteine and other confounders. Subgroup analysis showed a larger magnitude of plasma homocysteine reduction in the low folate group. Conclusions: The homocysteine lowering effect of folic acid supplementation was found in obese children especially in boys and those with low serum folate. The further long-term interventional study is needed to determine the effect of the lowered plasma homocysteine on the cardiovascular outcomes in obese children.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.653
title: Development of encapsulation technique for nano-biomaterials using chitosan-based cryogel

description: Curcumin was chosen as the present model biomaterial. A technique was developed and investigated to encapsulate the oil-soluble curcumin into a hydrogel system. The curcumin loaded oil-in-water nano-emulsion was prepared using a chitosan colloidal suspension, and the emulsion was converted into hydrogel by using cryotropic gelation. The cryogel based oil encapsulation was carried out with a ternary system of colloidal chitosan, κ-carrageenan, carboxy methylcellulose sodium salt (NaCMC) suspensions and the effects of the freezing condition (unidirectional freezing rate with and without post-freezing incubation) as well as initial concentration ratio of carrageenan to NaCMC on the properties of the nanocapsules were experimentally studied. The effects of chitosan concentration (1.5, 2.0 and 3.0%), К-carrageenan:NaCMC ratio of the polymer suspension (1:9, 4:6 and 6:4) and MW of chitosan (low, medium and high) on sol-gel formation were investigated. The effects of cooling rate during unidirectional freezing (-0.5, -1, and -2 °C/min) on the morphology of the freeze-dried cryogel specimens and the release behavior of curcumin from the specimens were determined. So were the effects of pH of the phosphate-buffered media on the swelling of the specimens. The key findings are as follows. The encapsulation yields were found to vary from ca 83.9 to 99.6% when a high-MW chitosan was used, and they were influenced by the cooling protocols during freezing, indicating that the gel formation kinetics was related to the degree of encapsulation. The release curves showed that both a burst release and a first order release were achieved simply by changing the freezing conditions. Controlled release of the encapsulated curcumin in an aqueous system could be maintained for 4 days, and the releasable amount of curcumin was found to range from 41.1 to 59.9%. The encapsulation yield as well as the release pattern and releasable amount of curcumin were influenced by the cooling protocol used during freezing. Irrespective of the introduced oil phase composition, controlled release of curcumin was achievable when the cooling rate was sufficiently high at -2 °C/min. When cold incubation was carried out, the release rate became slower than the corresponding case of no incubation because crosslinking was enhanced during the incubation period.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.654
title: Removal of phenolic compounds and phthalic acid esters in two-stage membrane bioreactor treating municipal solid waste landfill leachate

description: Two-stage membrane bioreactor (MBR) was applied to the treatment of leachate from a solid waste disposal site in Thailand. Priority micropollutants in landfill leachate were phenolics 4-methyl-2,6-di-tert-butylphenol (BHT), bisphenol A (BPA) at higher concentrations above 100 µgL-1, PAEs i.e. dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), di-n-butyl phthalate, di-n-octyl phthalate (DnOP), and di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP). It was found that MBR could remove phenolic compounds and PAEs by 77–96%.The removal efficiency of micropollutants are depends on their log KOW as well as their speciation behaviour. In laboratory scale experiment, the removals of BPA, BHT, and DEHP were 65%, 70%, 72%, respectively at initial concentration of 1,000 µg.L-1. The removal mechanisms can be classified into adsorption, biodegradation, and rejection of micropollutants during membrane filtration. The removals of BPA, BHT, and DEHP were found improve using enriched nitrifying sludge in comparison non-enriched condition. In contrast, DEHP was mainly adsorbed on the sludge surface and subsequently rejection by membrane filtration. The biotoxicity of treated water was reduced during MBR treatment as revealed by acute toxicity and genotoxicity tests.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.655
title: Controlled release of Ag+ from silver nanoparticles deposited into polyelectrolyte multilayers and their antibacterial and anticancer activities

description: Silver nanoparticles capped with a different stabilizing agent including Folic acid(FA), Poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid-co-maleic acid) sodium salt (PSSMA), Alginic acid (AL) were prepared. Concentration of stabilizing agent was varied from 0.1 to 5 mM. These silver nanoparticles solutions were characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy and showed the LSPR around 400 nm. Then SNP was formed layer by layer with PDADMAC via polyelectrolyte multilayers technique on glass slide and polyamide suture material. It was found that in low capping agent of SNP was formed more close packing than high capping agent. Then both coated glass slide and suture material were studied the pattern of silver ion leaching from polyelectrolyte multilayer thin film in phosphate buffer (pH 7.4) and acetic-acetate buffer (pH 5.5). The result of this study was shown that the silver ion could release from thin film in pH 5.5 more than pH 7.4 and in low capping agent had trend to release silver ion more than high capping agent. Finally, SNP solution was characterized their anticancer and antibacterial activity via MTT assay and standard method of antibacterial test(ASTME2149-10) sequentially. All condition of SNP was exposed to MCF-7, BT474, ChaGo and Jurkat cell which was a various type of cancer cell and analyzed in IC50, it was performed that SNP-AL and SNP-PSSMA were not toxic and destroy cancer cell. However, SNP-FA could kill cancer cell when increasing concentration of folic acid. It was different to Jurkat cell that all condition of SNP were more toxic than other cell. All conditions of SNP could not toxic to WI-38 cell, so this SNP was not toxic to healthy cell. For their antibacterial activity, all condition of SNP could reduce E. coli nearly 100%. However, SNP with all capping agent could reduce S. aureus less than E. coli depend on the concentration and type of capping agent.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.656
title: Comparative study of diagnostic accuracy between close needle biopsy and open incisional biopsy in musculoskeletal sarcoma

description: Objective: In this study, we purpose to study the diagnostic accuracy and other diagnostic values (diagnostic yield, error, complication) of CNB without real-time image-guidance in out-patient clinic by comparing with open incisional biopsy in musculoskeletal sarcoma patients. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the biopsy cases of sarcoma patients since 2002-2011 from medical records and histopathology database. The diagnostic accuracy in 4 aspects of histopathology: nature (benign or malignant), specific diagnosis, histological type, and histological grade between 2 methods were compared statistically, the gold standard were the histopathology from resected specimens while definite surgery and information of clinicoradiographic/laboratory by clinical course. The other diagnostic values (diagnostic yield, error, complication) were also compared between both methods. Results: There were 200 cases (open incisional biopsy 105 cases and CNB 95 cases). The diagnostic accuracies of open incisional biopsy were 97.14% for nature, 89.52% for specific diagnosis, 89.52% for histological type, 88.57% for histological grade and the diagnostic accuracies of CNB were 96.84%, 89.47%, 88.42%, 86.32% respectively. There were no statistically significant different between 2 methods in all histological aspects (nature; P-value = 0.901 95%CI = -0.432 to 0.380, specific diagnosis; P-value = 0.991 95%CI = -0.227 to 0.224, histological type P- value = 0.803 95%CI = -0.250 to 0.193, and histological grade; P-value = 0.63 95%CI = -0.261 to 0.158). The diagnostic yields of both methods were 98.13% for open incisional biopsy, 97.94% for CNB. It was no statistically significant different also as shown in table 6 (P-value = 0.919 95%CI = -0.469 to 0.520). There were 6 cases (3%) for overall major errors, 3 cases (2.86%) for open incisional biopsy and 3 cases (3.16%) for CNB. There were 18 cases (9%) for minor errors, 9 cases (8.57%) for open incisional biopsy and 9 cases (9.47%) for CNB. There was no related biopsy complication in both methods. Conclusion: The office-based CNB for diagnosis musculoskeletal sarcoma can achieve the acceptable high diagnostic accuracy rates comparing with the open incisional biopsy.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.657
title: The “ideal” woman from Thai and Chinese cultural perspectives – a comparative study on the heroines in Four Reigns and A Dream of Red Mansions

description: Literature is the reflection of society and life, this thesis intends to discuss about the standard of “ideal” woman in Thailand and China through the parallel study method in comparative literature, through the analysis and study of the texts of Four Reigns of M.R. Kukrit Pramoj and A Dream of Red Mansions of Cao Xue Qin, two masterpieces in Thai and Chinese literary history. This thesis will explore the similarities and differences in the value of women, as well as moral codes of female behavior between the two countries from two female characters: “Phloi” in Four Reigns and “Bao Chai” in A Dream of Red Mansions, and from different perspectives such as: religious perspective, literary aesthetic perspective and the social perspective. From this thesis, it can be concluded that in Thai and Chinese society, women must adhere to the traditional cultural values. Even in the modern society, both Thai and Chinese women are more independent than before, but they are still expected to take more family responsibility than social responsibility. This thesis also will be helpful to enhance and deepen the understanding of Thai and Chinese culture through the two novels, in order to inspire modern women to make greater efforts in improving the true gender equality in these two cultures.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.658
title: Knowledge attitude and preventive behaviors towards hand foot and mouth disease among caregivers of children under five years old in Bangkok Thailand

description: HFMD is an emerging disease which has potential to become Thai public health problem in the future. This disease normally affects young children and there is no effective vaccine for disease prevention; therefore, the disease prevention and control mainly rely on HFMD preventive behaviors of their caregivers. The aims of this cross sectional study were to assess the level of knowledge, attitude and preventive behaviors practice towards HFMD; and to determine factors associated to them among home caregivers of children under 5 years old. The 2-stage cluster sampling technique was used to select 9 nurseries from 9 districts in Bangkok and self –administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 456 home caregivers in Bangkok, Thailand. The results indicated that 50.4% of them had low knowledge and only of 3.7% had high overall knowledge about HFMD. Generally, they had moderate (68.2%) to good (31.8%) overall attitude towards HFMD; however, they seemed to perceive that HFMD was more severe than it actually was, since only 1.8% of them had good attitude in severity aspect. In term of behavior, 60% of them performed preventive behavior at good level. Nevertheless, some preventive behaviors were still insufficiently performed. The statistically significant correlation between overall knowledge and attitude (p=0.000, r=0.193); knowledge and behavior (p=0.000, r=0.163); and attitude and behavior (p=0.000, r=0.371) were found in this study. Many socio-demographic characteristics were associated to HFMD knowledge, attitude and preventive behavior, especially family income and education which were associated to all the KAP variables. Results from multiple regression analysis (F=30.497, p&lt;0.001, R² =0.213) revealed that the caregivers’ attitude was the strongest predictor of the home caregivers’ HFMD preventive behavior (β=0.308, t=7.007, p&lt;0.001) followed by family income per month (β=0.205, t=4.698, p&lt;0.001), gender (β=0.127, t=3.021, p=0.003), and knowledge (β=0.086, t=1.996, p&lt;0.047). In conclusion, findings from this study highlighted the need to provide more HFMD educational program emphasizing on attitude change to the home caregivers especially among those caregivers with low income and low education. Providing HFMD information via television should be considered since television was the main source of information of the home caregivers (97.6%).
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.659
title: Food security in dry zone area : a case of Magway, Myanmar

description: This paper is to study food security of Magway City and its nearby areas from Dry Zone of Myanmar. Dry Zone of Myanmar (Burma) is from very central part of the country and consists of three Regions -Magway, Mandalay and lower part of Sagaing. The area was affected by a series of consecutive years of drought. Irregular and scarce rainfall happening continuously in last decade leads to extreme water shortages and it is under a constant threat to the viability of rural livelihoods. In general, dry zone area is included in one of the most food insecure areas of Myanmar and one of the most food insecure areas in the South East Asian region too, with the poor agricultural yields. This paper emphasis is on Magway city and its nearby areas. Qualitative research method with in- depth interviews to the villagers, field observations, and interviews with people who have been participating in food security programme were used for the collection of data. The findings in accordance with the five programmatic action areas reveals that there is no strong sense of food security in the studied areas. The “water management” and “access to credit” areas of Dry Zone Action Plan are the most important factors influence the food security of the dry zone in general. There are a lot of locations which do not have aids programs too. It would be interesting to do further studies in the Dry Zone as a whole in the future.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.660
title: Rehabilitation for prisoners under sentence of death in a human rights perspective : a case study of Bangkhwang Central Prison

description: Prisoners under sentence of death in Thailand usually wait approximately a decade for completion of legal process of their cases, before they become eligible for Royal Pardon. Thereupon, they are eventually released after an amount of time. This outcome and the long time involved makes rehabilitation a highly important issue. The research is concerned with the extent to which Thailand complies with international human rights standards on rehabilitation for prisoners under sentence of death. In particular, it examines the issue of rehabilitation for prisoners under sentence of death at Bang Khwang Central Prison, based on three significant themes, namely, living conditions, rehabilitation programs, and external support systems. The information was obtained through secondary information and field research before being analyzed according to the international human rights framework. The findings show that the rehabilitation for prisoners under sentence of death is unsatisfactory. There are human rights violations on all the three themes. The research further proposes improvements that should be made in order to meet the human rights standards. Prison authorities should treat prisoners under sentence of death with more respect and dignity.
DOI: 10.14457/cu.the.2012.661
title: Beliefs against TB relapse under dots program (2HRZE/6EH) in Vientiane Lao PDR

description: Objective: To evaluate the difference in beliefs between patients who had and had no TB relapse in order to reveal the beliefs against and facilitating TB relapses. Method: The study was conducted in a 9 TB care centers in Vientiane. 23-item, lao version questionnaire of beliefs regarding TB was conducted. The volunteers were treated pulmonary TB patients comprising 22 of relapse and 44 of non relapse. A face-to-face interview was done upon appointment. The volunteers gave a score to each question item. A likert scale of 5 was used. The analyses aimed at the difference in means of the total scores of the two groups as well as the depiction of items and dimensions that gave different means scores. Result: The mean scores and standard deviations were 72.8 (6.63) and 90.7 (6.62) for ‘relapse’ and ‘non relapse’ respectively, p= 0.0001. Of the breakdown data, the perceptions of TB disease scores were 12.5 (2.59) and 18.1 (2.27); the means scores of social aspect beliefs,14.1 (3.32) and 20.4(3.83); the means scores of the self-care beliefs was 21.5 (4.32) and 29.2 (2.68); the means scores of the health care system beliefs,19.7 (1.69) and 21.7(1.11). Conclusion: The patients’ beliefs could affect relapse of pulmonary tuberculosis. Some items as well as the four dimensions of beliefs-perception of TB disease, social aspect, self-care and health care system were remarkably different between relapse and non-relapse groups. Further probes into these beliefs would bring better understanding of the TB-relapse affects of these beliefs.
DOI: 10.25606/surf.578c6039-0a348eca
title: The Cosmogrid Simulation: Statistical Properties of Small Dark Matter Halos (2048-029)

description: We present the results of the "Cosmogrid" cosmological N-body simulation suites based on the concordance LCDM model. The Cosmogrid simulation was performed in a 30 Mpc box with 2048³ particles. The mass of each particle is 1.28x10^5 Msun, which is sufficient to resolve ultra-faint dwarfs. We found that the halo mass function shows good agreement with the Sheth & Tormen fitting function down to ~10^7 Msun. We have analyzed the spherically averaged density profiles of the three most massive halos which are of galaxy group size and contain at least 170 million particles. The slopes of these density profiles become shallower than -1 at the inner most radius. We also find a clear correlation of halo concentration with mass. The mass dependence of the concentration parameter cannot be expressed by a single power law, however a simple model based on the Press-Schechter theory proposed by Navarro et al. gives reasonable agreement with this dependence. The spin parameter does not show a correlation with the halo mass. The probability distribution functions for both concentration and spin are well fitted by the log-normal distribution for halos with the masses larger than ~10^8 Msun. The subhalo abundance depends on the halo mass. Galaxy-sized halos have 50% more subhalos than ~10^11 Msun halos have. This is snapshot 029 of the 2048³ resolution collection.