cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.740
title: A study of English communication problems among Thai employees in a Japanese trading company

description: This study aimed to investigate English communication problems among Thai employees in a Japanese trading company. The participants of the study were Thai employees working as sales staff, sales coordinator staff and administrative staff, in one Japanese trading company in the Sathorn area. A questionnaire was utilized to collect the data, which were analyzed using the SPSS program. The findings indicated that the three positions have problems in English communication in different aspects. Sales staff do not have a problem in any skill of English communication while sales coordinator staff have a little problem in reading and moderate problems in listening, speaking, and writing. Administrative staff, however, have moderate problems in all English communication skills. Speaking was found to be the skill that most participants of all positions would like to learn to improve themselves.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.741
title: Gender and English language learning strategies of undergraduate students at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Tak

description: The purpose of this study is to investigate English language learning strategies used by Thai EFL students enrolled at Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna Tak. It also explores whether or not a difference exists between female and male students in the use of English language learning strategies. Two hundred and thirty-three students in the second semester of academic year 2015 were selected in the study. The Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SILL) adapted from Oxford (1990) was employed as a research tool in order to measure the use of six types of strategies which consist of memory, cognitive, compensatory, metacognitive, affective, and social strategies. The Statistic Package for the Social Science (SPSS) program was used to analyze all scores from SILL questionnaire. The results revealed that the overall use of English language learning strategies by the students was at the moderate level. The most frequent strategy use was metacognitive strategies, followed by memory and social strategies. The least frequent strategy use was cognitive strategies. Furthermore, it was revealed that there is no statistically significant difference in the overall use of English language learning strategies between male and female students. Both male and female students preferred to use metacognitive strategy most frequently, but cognitive strategy least frequently. The findings of this study would be beneficial for teachers to develop effective English teaching and to provide students with successful English language learning.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.742
title: English listening comprehension problems of employees at an international automotive company in Thailand

description: This research investigated listening comprehension problems and provided suggestions for listening comprehension improvement of employees at THAI-SWEDISH Assembly Company. The participants of this study were 132 employees who encountered difficulty in English listening with colleagues, customers, and suppliers in the workplace. The data collection was gathered by questionnaire. The result of this study showed that unknown slang and idioms, speed of speech, insufficient English vocabulary, and outside noise were the major listening comprehension problems of the employees. Practicing listening skill with native speakers was the main way to improve the listening comprehension of employees.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.743
title: A corpus-based study of English synonyms: achieve, acomplish, and attain

description: This study was aimed at investigating three synonymous verbs focusing on the past-tense and past-participle forms, i.e. achieved, accomplished, and attained, in terms of the sense of meaning and collocation in order to examine the similarities and differences with regard to using the most proper word in various contexts. The data was collected from two dictionaries first, namely, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2015) and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (2014). This was compared with the first randomly-searched three hundred concordance lines of each verb derived from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) to obtain more information not specified in the dictionaries. In addition, each synonym was distinguished by tenses and voices in order to determine the particular forms that they frequently tended to occur in. The results showed that the three verbs are near synonyms since they shared some common meanings and collocations; however, there were also some different meanings and collocations. This implies that the three synonyms can substitute for each other in certain contexts. The corpus-based study may benefit English teachers and learners in encouraging their use of corpus-based data as an additional tool for teaching and learning English language, which will in turn enhance learners’ English knowledge and skills e.g. syntax, semantics and style.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.744
title: A corpus-based study of English synonyms: possible, probable, and likely

description: This study examines three synonyms in English, possible, probable, and likely, concentrating on their meaning, grammatical pattern, noun collocation, and degree of formality. Two online dictionaries (the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English) were used in comparison to the corpus-based data (the Corpus of Contemporary American English) via five hundred concordance lines for exploring the similarities and differences between the synonyms. The study discovered that these three adjective synonyms cannot be substituted in all contexts although they share the same core meaning. They have some differences in meaning, grammatical pattern, noun collocation and stylistic information. Furthermore, the corpora provide additional linguistic information not existent in the dictionaries, e.g. grammatical pattern, collocation, and stylistic information, etc.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.745
title: Perceived obstacles to fluency in speaking English among MA students in Bangkok

description: This research aimed to investigate the perceived obstacles to fluency in speaking English among MA students in Bangkok and to find out methods they plan to use to improve their fluency in speaking English. The participants were 57 second-year students at a public university pursuing the degree of Master of Arts in an international program. The pilot study was done before collecting data. Data was collected using the survey method with closed-ended questions and a 5-point Likert Scale to rate the respondents’ perception levels. The data was input and analyzed by using SPSS to calculate frequency, percentage, mean scores and standard deviation. The findings indicated that the respondents’ largest perceived obstacle to fluency in speaking English was vocabulary knowledge, followed by grammatical knowledge. The results also showed that the respondents chose two major methods to use to improve their fluency in speaking English 1) finding a job that allows them to use English speaking skills more, and 2) practicing English speaking with Thai and foreign friends, and watching movies in English with subtitles.Keywords: perceived obstacles, speaking skills, fluency in speaking English
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.746
title: A compasrison study of English speaking anxiety between first year students of Master's Degree Program of Career English for International Communication and those of graduate Diploma Program of English for Careers of a public university in Thailand

description: The mission of the study is to compare the average of communication apprehension and the obstacles of English speaking and the communication strategies employed by first year Master’s degree of Career English for International Communication and Diploma students of English for Careers. Questionnaires were distributed to both comparison groups including 47 students of CEIC program and 16 students of Diploma program. The study was completed with 27 students of CEIC program and 10 students of Diploma program. The statistical data includes frequencies, percentages and means to inspect the average of communication apprehension. In addition, PRCA-24 scoring was used to compute the overall level of communication apprehension and subscores in each dimension.The results signify that both CEIC and Diploma students experienced moderate level of overall communication apprehension. However, CEIC students had anxiety when they were speaking in interpersonal conversations while Diploma students hardly experienced anxiety in any communication situations. Regarding communication strategies, the most significant communication strategies used to expel English speaking anxiety included practice or rehearsal frequently, make a note, take a deep breath and speak slowly. Above all, the teacher’s role is significant to encourage students’ speaking performance and the vocabulary problem is one of the causes that decreases students’ speaking performance.Although Diploma students are seen as beginner English users, they experienced less anxiety than CEIC students because they had the opportunity to speak with families. The moderate level of communication apprehension among both comparison groups indicated they applied strategies to overcome anxiety.
DOI: 10.15473/1415614
title: Wave Energy Prize - 1/50th Testing - WECCA Attenuator

description: This submission of data includes all the 1/50th scale testing data completed on the Wave Energy Prize for the WECCA team, and includes: - 1/50th test data (raw & processed) - 1/50th test data video and pictures - 1/50th Test plans and testing documents - SSTF_Submission (summarized results)
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.747
title: The learners' attitudes toward the use of English language movies with Thai subtitles and English subtitles to improve listening comprehension skills

description: This study aimed to investigate learners’ attitudes toward the use of English language movies with Thai subtitles and English subtitles to improve listening comprehension skills. The participants of the study were the English program freshmen majoring in Journalism (Mass Media Studies) in the faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication in the academic year 2015 at Thammasat University. A questionnaire was utilized to obtain the data, which were analyzed by the SPSS program. The findings indicated that both types of subtitles could improve listening comprehension skills in different aspects. Thai subtitles are useful when leaners need to understand the conversations, feelings and expressions of actors in the movies. Moreover, English subtitles are advantageous to learners in terms of understanding the vocabulary, unfamiliar idioms, proverbs, slang, as well as the accents and dialects in movies. In addition, English subtitles are helpful to learners with regard to using English in their daily life. Therefore, the study concluded that watching English language movies with English subtitles are the most effective way to improve the listening comprehension skills of the learners.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.748
title: Needs and problems in English listening and speaking of tourist police officers at Suvarnabhumi Airport

description: The major objective of this study was to investigate the needs and problems about using English both in listening and in speaking skills among tourist police officers (TPOs) in order to improve their English proficiency and make the communication with foreign visitors much more effective.  The research instrument in this study was a questionnaire including checklist questions and a Likert rating scale.  The participants of this study consisted of 50 TPOs working at Suvarnabhumi Airport.  The questionnaire distribution and data collection were conducted in March 2016.  The data obtained were analysed with the SPSS program and are displayed in the form of descriptive tables by using percentages, frequency count, rank, average mean score and standard deviation.The findings of the study revealed that the overall needs in English listening and speaking skills of the TPOs were at a high level.  In sequence of means, it was discovered that the English language functions in listening regarded to be the most necessary for the TPOs’ work were listening to tourists’ questions, listening to tourists’ complaints and listening to tourists’ English conversations on the phone, whereas giving immigration and customs information, communicating through the phone, offering tourist information, and describing people were considered as the most significant activities in speaking for the TPOs.For the problems concerning the improvement of language functions for the TPOs, the findings indicated that they had a lot of trouble with English use both in listening and in speaking skills.  In terms of listening skills, it was found that their incapability of translating words or conversations as well as the inability to remember the entire information were the major factors causing communication problems for the TPOs.  Concerning speaking skills, the participants were confronted with difficulties in English pronunciation, followed by word stress and speaking English in complete sentences.The results obtained from this study could be employed to design proper training programs to improve the English language listening and speaking skills according to the TPOs’ actual needs and problems, which might be useful for the organisation.  In addition, this research may help course designers to create a guideline for developing teaching materials for English training courses in order to increase the effectiveness of the TPOs’ English learning.
DOI: 10.14457/tu.the.2015.749
title: A study of English communication problems of Thai employees in a multinational company

description: This study aimed to investigate English communication problems of Thai employees in a multinational company. A total of 30 Thai employees, working full-time at ABB Limited, Saraburi branch, completed a research questionnaire designed to elicit information about problems in English and also a standardized test of English competency, with three components: listening, reading, and vocabulary.The findings revealed that listening and vocabulary were the most problematic areas for the participants. Regarding their actual competency level, the Thai employees were weakest on vocabulary skills, while both listening and reading skills were at the average level. The results also indicated a strong relationship between self-rated problems in English and competency on the English test, but only for the listening component. Self-reported reading and vocabulary skills did not correlate significantly with the corresponding test score. Some possible reasons for not obtaining this relationship are discussed further, with recommendations that the sample size should be increased as well as the number of items in the English test. Speaking and writing components were also recommended to provide a more rounded and comprehensive assessment of multinational employees communication skills in English.
DOI: 10.15454/1.5151729067247883e12
title: Improvement of saccharification and ethanol production from rice straw by NMMO and [BMIM][OAc] pretreatments - Biomass composition (Table 1)
DOI: 10.4225/08/5a4f01928dc20
title: Experiment observations of hydraulic fractures crossing or blunting at natural boundaries

description: Video recordings from hydraulic fracture laboratory crossing experiments. Each video is a compilation of two lateral video cameras (and vertical for transparent PMMA) recording direct observation of growing hydraulic fractures combined with fracturing pressure. 

Recordings are from the hydraulic fracture polyaxial lab at CSIRO Energy in Clayton, Melbourne, Australia.  

The data has been converted to H.264 (x264) 1920x1080 .mp4 format.
DOI: 10.17632/29ygc3jzw6.1
title: Data for: Slow and steady, not fast and furious: Slow modulations drive continuous flash suppression best

description: Individual data for all experiments conducted in the study. Normalised suppression durations are presented in this dataset.
DOI: 10.17632/c3xndx53td.1
title: Data for: Genuine Economic Progress in the United States: a Fifty State Study and Comparative Assessment

description: Estimates of the Genuine Progress Indicator for all 50 U.S. states for 2011, including assumptions and referenced secondary data sets for all sub-indicators.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1135170
title: 1.6 Million Twitter Accounts (German)

description: data dump of 1.6 million twitter accounts.

tsv files have the same number of lines and can be interpreted as columns of a database

bin files have the same number of data records, e.g. 32-bit-integer

You can find the documentation on https://github.com/MichaelKreil/twitter-analysis
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1135171
title: 1.6 Million Twitter Accounts (German)

description: data dump of 1.6 million twitter accounts.

tsv files have the same number of lines and can be interpreted as columns of a database

bin files have the same number of data records, e.g. 32-bit-integer

You can find the documentation on https://github.com/MichaelKreil/twitter-analysis
DOI: 10.17632/fkgtcjxjxw.1
title: Data for: Comprehensive analysis and experimental verification of prognostic long non-coding RNAs in hepatoblastoma
DOI: 10.17632/vk6yyx7czm.1
title: Data for: Sediment provenance in the western Pacific warm pool from the last glacial maximum to the early Holocene: implications for ocean circulation and climatic change
DOI: 10.17632/6z3ynd3p3k.1
title: Data for: Sea Level Driven Redox Change in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

description: Benthic foraminifer abundance data from the Western Interior Seaway averaged across ammonite zones.
DOI: 10.17632/8kfxwxy2mb.1
title: Data for: Diagnostic potential of major and trace elements in the serum of bladder cancer patients

description: trace element measurements in serum
DOI: 10.17632/nw5x5zg8p6.1
title: Data for: Diagnostic potential of major and trace elements in the serum of bladder cancer patients

description: trace element measurements in serum of baldder cancer patients, non-tumor bladder diseased patients and controls
DOI: 10.17632/dnhsxxhffc.1
title: Data for: Agreement in Reporting between Trial Publications and Current Clinical Trial Registry in High Impact Journals: A Methodological Survey

description: The agreement between the registry and published paper for the 200 published articles, as well as study characteristics.
DOI: 10.17632/vk6rr7z7tn.1
title: Data for: Tephrostratigraphy of Grotta del Cavallo, Southern Italy: insights on the chronology of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean

description: The file contains row chemical data of the investigated tephra layers and the standard data.
DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-852779
title: Success factors of community businesses in the pubs, housing and transport sectors
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1mdh8s
title: CCDC 1501555: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Julius Sivý, Viktor Vrábel, Thimme B. Gowda|2017|Conference|||
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1mpvqw
title: CCDC 1510559: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Roberta Campos Lino, Iziara Ferreira Florentino, Daiany Priscila Bueno da Silva, Dayane Moreira da Silva, Ricardo Menegatti, Jose R. Sabino, Elson Alves Costa|2018|CSD Communication|||
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.15482/usda.adc/1415610
title: Generation and Characterization of Liposomal Microcapsules for Co-delivery of Hydrophilic and Lipophilic Bioactives in Food
DOI: 10.17632/nkr8zzk47r.1
title: Data for: Green total factor productivity of China’s mining and quarrying industry: A global data envelopment analysis

description: The research data is provided in the excel file.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.ccz3b9p
title: CCDC 896932: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Rakesh Kumar, Sangeeta Obrai, V K Joshi,Vikas Kumar and Siyamak Shahab|2015|Commun.Inorg.Synth.|3|9|
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc104myq
title: CCDC 927983: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Ge Song, Feng Ying Bai, Yan Xie, Yong Heng Xing|2013|Commun.Inorg.Synth.|1|38|
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc1079xg
title: CCDC 930555: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Wenchao Ding, Han Lu, Wugai An, Xu Yingying, Laijin Tian|2013|Commun.Inorg.Synth.|1|41|
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc108pnm
title: CCDC 931880: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Xiu-Mei Li, Jian-Ye Ji, Zhi-Tao Wang, Yan-Ling Niu|2013|Commun.Inorg.Synth.|1|35|
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc10c4h0
title: CCDC 934231: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Jian-Ye Ji, Xiu-Mei Li, Zhi-Tao Wang, Yan-Ling Niu|2013|Commun.Inorg.Synth.|1|48|
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc10tl1g
title: CCDC 948105: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Ya-feng Li, Yan Liu, Wen-yuan Gao, Jing-jing Lu|2014|Commun.Inorg.Synth.|2|11|
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.