Toponyms in the Western Region of Thailand

Village names or toponyms in the Western region of Thailand, i.e. Kanchanaburi, Nakorn Pathom, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Samut Songkhram, Samut Sakorn and Suphan Buri, in this study are drawn from a complete list of names in Thamniap Thongthii 2535 BC (Provincial Records 1992). The aims of this study are: 1) to analyse the linguistic structure of Thai village names 2) to set up dimensions for the semantic features of the village names in the western region of Thailand and 3) to make a frequency count of the general names which are the first morpheme of a name. The result are as follows: 1) the linguistic structure of the village names is the same as that of the grammatical word structure in Thai 2) there are five major semantic dimensions of the village names, namely, the geographical features which include water or sources of water, elevated land areas and other geographical areas, the nongeographical features which consist of plants, animals, uncultivated or the cultivated land and profession, constructed objects, numbers, persons, and other ethic languages, the locative or directional features which are divided into prepositional locatives and noun locatives, the auspicious features and the descriptive features, and 3) the village names to the western region of Thailand rely significantly on physical geography of the area.

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Developing a Portal to Build a Business Community

Web Portals ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-438-5.ch016 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 335-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Alex Pliaskin ◽

Arthur Tatnall

Keyword(s):

Business Community ◽

Western Region ◽

School Students ◽

For Profit ◽

Development Organisation ◽

The Western Region ◽

Set Up ◽

Government Grant ◽

Medium Enterprises

In June 2000 the Western Region Economic Development Organisation (WREDO), a not-for-profit organisation sponsored by the six municipalities that make up the western region of Melbourne (Australia), received a government grant for a project to set up a business-to-business portal. This innovative project was to create a horizontal portal, Bizewest, which would enable the whole range of small to medium enterprises in Melbourne’s West to engage in an increased number of e-commerce transactions with each other. Although Bizewest ceased operations in June 2003, the portal project as a whole must be considered to be a considerable success as it produced substantial benefits in compiling a register of businesses in the region, interesting many small to medium enterprises in the benefits of e-commerce and training school students in the design of e-commerce Web pages.

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The BIZEWEST Portal

Electronic Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-056-1.ch085 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1396-1400

Author(s):

Alex Pliaskin

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

State Government ◽

Western Region ◽

Development Organisation ◽

Eastern Australia ◽

The Western Region ◽

Set Up ◽

Government Grant ◽

Medium Enterprises ◽

Business To Business

In June 2000, the Western Region Economic Development Organisation (WREDO), a notfor- profit organisation sponsored by the six municipalities that make up the western region of Melbourne, received a state government grant for a project to set up a business-to-business portal. The project was to create a “horizontal portal”—BIZEWEST—that would enable small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Melbourne’s west to engage in an increased number of e-commerce transactions with each other. The western region of Melbourne contains around 20,000 businesses, and is regarded as the manufacturing, transport, and distribution hub of South-eastern Australia (Tatnall, Burgess, & Singh, 2004). Traditionally, this region had encompassed much of the industry in metropolitan Melbourne.

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The BIZEWEST Portal

Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-989-2.ch015 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 94-97

Author(s):

Alex Pliaskin

Keyword(s):

State Government ◽

Western Region ◽

Development Organization ◽

For Profit ◽

Not For Profit ◽

Eastern Australia ◽

The Western Region ◽

Set Up ◽

Government Grant ◽

Medium Enterprises

In June 2000, the Western Region Economic Development Organization (WREDO), a not-for-profit organization sponsored by the six municipalities that make up the western region of Melbourne, received a state government grant for a project to set up a business-to-business portal. The project was to create a “horizontal portal”—BIZEWEST—that would enable small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Melbourne’s west to engage in an increased number of ecommerce transactions with each other. The western region of Melbourne contains around 20,000 businesses, and is regarded as the manufacturing, transport, and distribution hub of South-eastern Australia (Tatnall, Burgess, & Singh, 2004). Traditionally, this region had encompassed much of the industry in metropolitan Melbourne.

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Land-Use Efficiency in Shandong (China): Empirical Analysis Based on a Super-SBM Model

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su122410618 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (24) ◽

pp. 10618

Author(s):

Yayuan Pang ◽

Xinjun Wang

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Utilization Efficiency ◽

Scale Efficiency ◽

Western Region ◽

Cultivated Land ◽

Construction Land ◽

Sbm Model ◽

Land Use Efficiency ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

The Western Region

A reasonable evaluation of land-use efficiency is an important issue in land use and development. By using a super-SBM model, the construction and cultivated land-use efficiency of 17 cities in Shandong from 2006 to 2018 were estimated and the spatial-temporal variation was analyzed. The results showed that: (1) The land use efficiency levels were quite different, and low-efficiency cities impacted the overall development process. (2) The efficiency values of construction land generally fluctuated and rose, meaning that room remains for future efficiency improvements. Cultivated land generally showed a high utilization efficiency, but it fluctuated and decreased. (3) The construction land-use efficiency was highest in the midland region, especially in Laiwu city, followed by the eastern region and Qingdao city, and the western region. The spatial variation in cultivated land presented a trend of “high in the middle, low in the periphery,” centered on Jinan and Yantai city. (4) Pure technical efficiency was the main restriction driving inefficient utilization in the western region, while scale efficiency played that role in the east. Based on the findings, policy suggestions were proposed to improve the land-use efficiency in Shandong and promote urban sustainable development.

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