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Candlestick chart pattern recognition
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015);
The technical analysis of stocks and trends has been used by traders for decades to predict a particular market movement. The candlestick chart pattern analysis is a widely-used technical analysis technique. With a large number of patterns, manually identifying patterns from a price chart has been found to be difficult; thus an automatic means is needed to aid investors. In this research the candlestick chart pattern recognition technique is discussed, which can effectively identify candlestick chart patterns and their evaluation. -
Capacity development of rice noodles production through clustering: a case study of Nakhon Pathom province
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2020);
This basic research has 2 objectives: 1) To study the model of Khanom Chin (Thai rice noodle) business cluster in Nakhon Pathom Province, and 2) To study the important components and the guidelines for capacity development related to driving Khanom Chin business cluster in Nakhon Pathom Province. Population and Samples 1) Thai farmers in the cluster of Nakhon Pathom Province 2) Thai entrepreneurs from midstream and downstream groups (processing and marketing) in the cluster of Nakhon Pathom Province 3) people from Thai network support groups ... -
Capacity of the planning agency and national development plan implementation effectiveness: a comparative study of Thailand and Malaysia
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2020);
The Economic Planning Unit or EPU of Malaysia and the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board or the NESDB of Thailand play a major role in setting the direction of country development through national development plans. The objectives of this study were to study why the development outcomes of Malaysia are better than those in Thailand in many areas, especially after the 1997 financial crisis, and how organization theory contributes to development plan implementation and effectiveness evaluation. This research was qualitative ... -
Capital structure and market power
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2016);
Employing a sample set of 289 Thai listed firms during 2005-2014, the research found that leverage leads to increasing market power as measured by Tobin’s Q and sales growth. The explanation is given by the limited liability theory; that is, a firm employs debt as a commitment tool to compete aggressively in product markets. The main finding remained robust through different leveraged firms/groups, different market concentration groups, different time periods, and in different industrial sectors. Additionally, leverage had stronger effects ... -
Capital structures of listed firms in ASEAN
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2014);
The objective of this dissertation is to study the firm-, industry-, and countrylevel factors influencing the capital structures of the listed firms in ASEAN. The 3,750 samples are collected annually for 12 years from 2000 to 2011, resulting in 45,000 firm-year observations. The pooled ordinary least squared regression is used in the analysis for all combined three-level features. The leverage measures cover various proxies of capital structures. The evidence shows that firm size and tangibility are significantly and positively related to ... -
Career and life coping strategies : a case study from ministry of public administration in Bangladesh
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015);
This study was conducted to achieve the objectives of identifying the socioeconomic factors that influence career choice, analyzing the organizational factors inhibiting professionals’ career and life, and analyzing the coping strategies utilized by the professionals in encountering those barriers. -
CASHLESS SOCIETY FROM CASH-BASED ECONOMY TO CASHLESS ECONOMY IN THAILAND
(National Institute of Development Administration, 7/1/2022);
The objectives of this research were to study the changes incurred during the progression from a cash-based economy to a cashless society in Thailand, the factors related to a cashless economy and a cashless society in Thailand, and the development of a conceptual framework for the pursuit of a cashless society and economy in Thailand. The sample group was the population of all regions in Thailand. A total population of 2,800 samples was found. Thailand is likely to develop from a cash-based economy to a cashless economy. This is due to the ... -
THE CAUSAL EFFECTS OF EFFECTIVE HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES AND PERCEPTION OF OWN CULTURE INFLUENCING ON AWARENESS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION TOWARD TEAMWORK PERFORMANCE AMONG 5 STAR-RATED HOTEL STAFF IN THAILAND
(National Institute of Development Administration, 7/1/2023);
The hotel industry is the largest and most rapidly growing industry in Thailand. Many tourists are travelling there from many different countries around the world. The ability for hotel staffs to use multi-languages in communication with guests, such as English, Chinese and Japanese, is becoming more than ever so needed as an absolute minimal requirement. Due to widespread difficulties with the language barrier, many hotels hire native speaker to solve this problem. This study, therefore, explored the effectiveness of human resource practices ... -
Causal factors affecting integrated policy implementation of tourism in Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2021);
The research of “Causal factors affecting integrated policy implementation of Tourism in Thailand.” is the study of causal factors affecting the integrated policy implementation and the proposal of integrated policy implementation model of tourism to implicate administrative policies' directions to sectors responsible for implementing policy based on the national tourism development plan. Therefore, the researcher revised the literature review, concepts, theories and related researches in both of Thailand and overseas in order to achieve the ... -
Causal relationship model of motivation and masculine culture influencing teachers' job engagement and performance competency in Bangkok educational service areas
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2018);
The aim of this research was to develop the causal relationship model of motivation and masculine culture influencing teachers’ job engagement and performance competency in Bangkok Educational Service Areas. -
Central government intervention to local government performance case study of Parknum Samutprakan and Kalasin municipality
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015);
This study has the following four objectives: 1) to examine the nature of intervention on local government organization through public policy; 2) to determine the implications of central government intervention with regards to contents and execution of the local government development plans; 3) to investigate the patterns of local government adaptation in response to central government intervention; and 4) to study local government organizations’ problems and obstacles, and identify recommendations that may be useful to management of ... -
CEO reputations and dividend payouts
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2011);
Over the past decades, there have been numerous discussions about the influence of dividend policy and the value of firms. In many of the literature in this field, frameworks have been developed to show that dividend policy has implications for firms’ value in the imperfect and inefficient capital markets. If dividend policy has an influence on the firm’s value, then it is worth exploring the factors that have an influence on dividend policy. Past literature has found a large number of firm-specific variables as the determinants of dividend policy. ... -
Child labor and school dropout in least-developed countries: Empirical evidence from Lao PDR
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2017);
Even though topics related to child labor and school dropout have been studied worldwide, little attention has focused on child labor and school dropout in the least-developed countries. This paper examines the impact of child labor on school dropout by using national representative data from the Labor Force and First Child Labor survey in the Lao PDR, which serves as a case study of a least-developed country. The endogeneity of child labor to school dropout was controlled by using an average wage of children by province as an instrumental variable. ... -
Child labor force participation : a case study of rural households in Kanchanaburi Province
(National Institute of Development Administration, 1997);
In many less developed societies, children at young ages participate in the labor force. Although the extent of that participation has not been well documented, it is wildly known that the number is quite significantly large and the most important determinant of this phenomenon is poverty. / The objectives of this dissertation are to: (1) estimate the future trends of child labor participation both at national and Kanchanaburi provincial levels, (2) investigate the influence of various household factors such as demography, economy, sociology and ... -
CHINA-ASEAN EXPO EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY IMPROVEMENT STRATEGY
(National Institute of Development Administration, 4/6/2021);
China - ASEAN Expo is the only national class exhibition in China that has the functions of conference, forum and exhibition at the same time. It not only has the role of a general exhibition, but also has a major political, economic, social and diplomatic mission. Although the Expo has been successfully held for 15 years, it is still to be explored whether it can continue to be held successfully and form the China-ASEAN Expo model to be promoted as a model of exhibition, so as to improve the overall level and influence of China's exhibition ... -
Chira Boonmak News Center
(Library and Information Center, National Institute of Development Administration, 2022-01)
In May 1992, more demonstrators gathered on Ratchadamnoen Avenue with the aim to expel the military dictators. The demonstrations became more and more violent, ending in dispersion during the night of May17.After that, wounded, arrested, and lost demonstrators were legion, causing total chaos to find persons missing during the bloody demonstration.To defuse the situation, the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), set up Chira Boonmak News Center as a major hub for seeking and finding missing persons. All NIDA personnel kindly ... -
Christianity and english language teaching: a case study of christian missionary teachers in Thailand
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2016);
The purpose of this study is to investigate influences and correlations between the Christian faith and English language teaching in Thailand. Central research questions explore the religious beliefs leading Evangelical Christian teachers to integrate their Christian faith and how the participants make such integrations into their classroom management strategies. Fifteen missionary teachers in a Christian language school in Bangkok were selected for this investigation. Data were obtained by semi-structure interviews. Results have revealed ... -
Claims modeling with and alternative gamma-exponentiated weibull distribution and ruinprobability approximation
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2016);
In this dissertation, two studies that are beneficial for actuaries and the insurance business are proposed. In the first study, an exponentiated Weibull distribution using gamma-generated distribution is modified to obtain an alternative gamma-exponentiated Weibull (AGEW) distribution; its sub-models include both gamma and Weibull distributions, both of which are popular in claims modeling by insurance companies. Its basic structural properties such as distribution function, density function, and moments were investigated. Moreover, the ... -
Co-production of public healthcare service in local communities: a case study of the family care team
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2016);
The objectives of this research study are 1) To study the structure and operation of the Family Care Team, a network of health promotion and disease prevention services under Thai health security system, 2) To study the components of public co-production in the management of public healthcare services for Thai local communities by the Family Care Team, and 3) To study the factors of the coproduction of public healthcare services for Thai local communities. This study is a qualitative research using the methods of document study, in-depth interviews, ... -
Collaborative resource discovery in mobile peer-to-peer networks
(National Institute of Development Administration, 2015);
Resource discovery is the process to find the queried object also referred as resource searching. With the rapid development of mobile hardware and wireless internet access, it became feasible to use mobile devices in P2P network. Deploying unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications over Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET) has seen a decade effort, but still has many limitations and challenges. Searching in such resultant networks are not efficient and further ineffective mainly due to mobility, peer discovery and connectivity issues. Typical resource ...