Typically, an academic writing style for journals is complicated because those journals use complex vocabularies and sentences. It might be hard for students to read journal articles in detail and in short periods of time. Therefore, this research proposes a Journal Article Selection Model (JASM) based on article abstract using combination of scanning and skimming techniques. JASM aims for two objectives. Firstly, JASM aims to find out knowledge within journal articles in the form of multi-layer topic model, which is the hierarchy of topics and ...

The intense hotel competition becomes a challenge for small and medium-sized hotels to survive and forces them adjust themselves in terms of strategies to attract the potential market and their strategic management to increase their competitiveness and to survive. The group of mature travelers is considered as one of the most potential and lucrative market segments with its significance in size, potential and purchasing power which possible provide the opportunity for hotel industry, including small and medium-sized hotels. Thus, to target this ...

The purposes of this study were:  to study problem and pattern stating on Thai political news presentation by mass media in Facebook fanpage during election announcement by the NCPO that has hatred creating and opinion trends of mass media’s Fanpage This study was a qualitative research. There were interviews with 2 academic journalists and 2 mass media professionals then analyzed from media news presentation and participation behavior showing opinions of the news receiver on Facebook fanpage of Komchadluek and Voice TV21 for 17 news under the ...

This Thesis showcases a study on a problem in harnessing and sharing benefits from Plant Genetic Resources derived from the same plant type that inhabits countries that share borders, with an objective to study principles and concepts, including laws that apply to such case in both international and national levels, i.e., the Kingdom of Thailand, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Federation of Malaysia; as well as to propose a solution to the problem about exploiting and sharing ...

This research aimed to study the policy on the allocation of specific grants to local government organizations (LGOs) from two major funding sources, which are government-specific grants and the grants from provincial administrative organizations (PAOs) in relation to the political changes. The study has two main objectives: 1) to study the government's specific grant allocation policies to LGOs since the beginning of decentralization from 2001-2018 that affect local fiscal independence and to analyze the fiscal disparity that occurred among ...

After the "double reduction" policy was implemented in Yunnan, it was not possible to completely achieve a balanced transition between the various stages of education within a short period of time, and the professional development of primary school teachers showed a clear appearance of "involution". The imbalance in management mechanisms leads to the involution of teachers' professional development motivation, the imbalance in incentive mechanisms leads to the involution of teachers' professional development quality, and the imbalance in evaluation ...

The purpose of this study were 1) to identify the measurement of creative tourists, 2) to construct the creative tourism value proposition from creative tourist’ perspective, 3) to analyze the differences of value proposition among creative tourist segments, 4) to assess destination capability in responding to value proposition of creative tourism, and 5) to develop a guideline for developing creative tourism product, activities, and destination to the Lower Northeastern Provinces Group 2.  Mixed methods research was used in this study. Questionnaire ...

The purpose of this study was to learn life skills and to apply design thinking process with inmates. The research method was action research. The sample consisted of 20 inmates aged 17 to 20 in Bannkaruna Juvenile Vocational Training Centre for Boys. The instruments used in this study include in-depth interview and design thinking process. The results were as follow: the subjects have low self-awareness and empathy than any other life skill component. An analysis of interview and Persona reveal that they lack of confidence, Pessimism and lack ...

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 objectives of this study were to study the civil sector’s communication and negotiation of power in defining the meaning of the Maniq ethnic group and to investigate how the receivers decode the meaning of the Maniq ethnic group in Thai society. A qualitative research design was employed to collect data through documentary research, observations, in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and focus group discussions. The research results in the dimension of discursive production and distribution showed that the meaning of the Maniq ethnic group ...