Towards Unifying a Movement: A Reflection on the Current Situation of the Thai Democratic Movement

Vietnam - Laos has more than 2,000 km of common national borders. The coherent relationship between the two nations and the inhabitants of the two countries has been formed and fostered in history and especially developed over the past 7 decades. The Thai ethnic group in Vietnam has over one million people, residing permanently, concentrated in the Northwest region, the region consists of 8 provinces, of which 4 provinces have the Vietnam-Laos border crossing. This paper focuses on clarifying the practical basis for the Thai people to play a role in the traditional Vietnam-Laos friendship and propose some solutions to promote the role of Thai in maintaining, developing the traditional friendship between Vietnam and Laos, now and in the future.

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Shopping Centres, Cycling Accessibility and Planning—The Case of Nova Lund in Sweden

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci4040070 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 70

Author(s):

Till Koglin ◽

Lucas Glasare

Keyword(s):

Conflicts Of Interest ◽

Current Situation ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Power Structures ◽

Literature Study ◽

Shopping Centre ◽

The Past ◽

Whole Process ◽

The Subject

This paper evaluates the history and cycling accessibility of Nova, a shopping centre established in Lund, Sweden, in 2002. The current situation was also analysed through observation and a literature review. Moreover, the study conducted a closer analysis of the history and role of the municipality based on further literature study and interviews with officials. The conclusion of the analysis indicates poor and unsafe bikeways caused by conflicts of interest between politicians, officials, landowners and the general public. It also depicts a situation in which the municipality’s master plan has been ignored, and, in contrast to the local goals, cycling accessibility at Nova has seen no significant improvement since the shopping centre was first established. The reasons for this, arguably, are a relatively low budget for bikeway improvements in the municipality, as well as a situation in which decision-makers have stopped approaching the subject, as a result of the long and often boisterous conflicts it has created in the past. Lastly, it must be noted that it is easy to regard the whole process of Nova, from its establishment to the current situation, as being symptomatic of the power structures between drivers and cyclists that still affect decision-makers at all levels.

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Brief communication (Original). National survey of helminthiasis in Thailand

Asian Biomedicine ◽

10.5372/1905-7415.0806.357 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 779-783 ◽

Cited By ~ 31

Author(s):

Thitima Wongsaroj ◽

Choosak Nithikathkul ◽

Wichit Rojkitikul ◽

Worayut Nakai ◽

Louis Royal ◽

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Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

National Survey ◽

Public Health Intervention ◽

Health Plans ◽

Targeted Intervention ◽

The Past ◽

The North ◽

Helminth Infections ◽

High Infection ◽

Thai People

Abstract Background: Helminth infections continue to pose serious health problems in Thailand. The infections of greatest concern are opisthorchiasis and hookworm. Objectives: We evaluated the prevalence of these infections. The Thai Ministry of Health established a national health plan in 1995 to coordinate health plans for the provincial public health sectors. Methods: A national survey based on probability sampling, interviews, and stool examinations was conducted in 2009 to gather prevalence information of the helminth infections. Results: We found an overall prevalence of helminthiasis among 15,555 Thai people of 18.1%. The highest prevalence was found in the northeastern regions of Thailand. By comparison with previous surveys conducted over the past 5 decades, the prevalence rates have decreased. However, pockets of high infection remain, particularly in the north and northeast of Thailand. Conclusions: Targeted intervention by means of educational programs and public health intervention, and continuing surveillance are indicated.

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Russian Nationalists Fight Ukrainian War

Journal on Baltic Security ◽

10.1515/jobs-2016-0012 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 47-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Natalia Yudina

Keyword(s):

Current Situation ◽

The Political ◽

Nationalist Movement ◽

Current Regime ◽

The Past ◽

Political Consolidation

Abstract In this article, I am going to focus on how the radical nationalist movement in Russia fares in the current situation, given the political consolidation of the current regime, and the war in Ukraine1 and the government’s reaction to it. The article describes the situation as it stood at the end of 2014, which makes it predictably incomprehensive because new updates on the conflict still arrive every day, and there has also been more news about Russian ultra-right forces over the past few months.

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Ludomusicology

Journal of Sound and Music in Games ◽

10.1525/jsmg.2021.2.4.13 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

pp. 13-35

Author(s):

Juan Pablo Fernández-Cortés

Keyword(s):

Video Games ◽

Video Game ◽

Current Situation ◽

Academic Community ◽

Ongoing Research ◽

The Past ◽

Video Game Music

In the past two decades, the study of video game music has come into its own and gained acceptance in the academic community. This subdiscipline, now commonly referred as ludomusicology, is still attempting basic questions concerning how it can be researched. This article aims to present the current situation and to reflect about some of the main lines of research related to the music of video games and their culture, a field of ongoing research that has received little attention in Hispanophone academia up to the present time. This article was originally published in Anuario Musical 75 (2020): 181–99 and has been translated for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games. https://doi.org/10.3989/anuariomusical.2020.75.09

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Special Issue “Digital Twin Technology in the AEC Industry”

Advances in Civil Engineering ◽

10.1155/2020/8842113 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Jisong Zhang ◽

Lihua Zhao ◽

Guoqian Ren ◽

Haijiang Li ◽

Xiaofei Li

Keyword(s):

Structural Design ◽

Structural Engineering ◽

Sustainable Design ◽

Building Design ◽

Current Situation ◽

Special Issue ◽

Sustainable Building ◽

Digital Twin ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Sustainable building design has become a hot topic over the past decades. Many standards, databases, and tools have been developed for achieving a sustainable building. Not until recently have the importance of structural engineering and its contribution to sustainable building design been full recognised. However, due to the highly fragmented and diversity of knowledge across building and infrastructure domains, there is a lack of approach that can address all the sustainable issues within the structural design. This paper reviews the sustainable design from the perspective of structural engineering: (1) reviewing the current situation; (2) identifying the gaps and difficulties; and (3) making recommendations for future improvements. The strategies and indicators, as well as BIM-enabled methodology, for sustainable structural design (SSD) are also discussed in a holistic way. The results of this investigation show that most of the methods are not doing well in terms of delivering a successful sustainable structural design. It is expected that the future BIM could probably provide such a platform to address these issues.

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Reflections on Improving Emission Reduction of Key Pollutants in Jingdezhen

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.722.405 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 722 ◽

pp. 405-408

Author(s):

Jie Huang ◽

Jing Kun Zhou

Keyword(s):

Air Pollution ◽

Emission Reduction ◽

Industrial Structure ◽

Current Situation ◽

Capacity Control ◽

Clean Production ◽

The Past ◽

Pollution Emissions ◽

And Control ◽

Total Discharge

As Ceramics Capital of China, Jingdezhen had very serious air pollution in the past. In recent ten years, through strengthened management and other means, the total discharge of pollutants has been reduced significantly. The article briefly describes the current situation of Jingdezhen City’s emission reduction work, analyzes its challenges in emission reduction and gives several suggestions for improving Jingdezhen City’s emission reduction work, for example, Jingdezhen City shall vigorously promote clean production, reduce production pollution intensity, resolutely eliminate backward technology and capacity, control pollution emissions of new-built projects, realize supervision and control, strengthen leadership, optimize industrial structure, enhance structural emission reduction and so on.

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Employment History and Psychological Well-Being in the Young Unemployed

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1993.72.1.14 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 72 (1) ◽

pp. 14-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anthony H. Winefield

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Well Being ◽

Current Situation ◽

Full Time ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Employment History ◽

The Past ◽

The Unemployed

Data are reported from a study of 78 young people in which those currently unemployed were compared with those in satisfactory employment and full-time tertiary students on various measures of psychological well-being. Although as a group the unemployed were significantly worse off, this did not apply to the 22 who described themselves as having been “mostly employed” in the past. In research on the unemployed one should take into account not only the current situation, but also the employment history.

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Artificial Intelligence along the New Silk Road

China and Europe on the New Silk Road ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198853022.003.0013 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 240-254

Author(s):

Lynda Hardman

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Computer Science ◽

International Collaboration ◽

Research Community ◽

Current Situation ◽

Silk Road ◽

Diplomatic Relations ◽

The Past ◽

The Usa

Chapter 13 gives an impression of the development of the relatively young AI and computer science fields in Europe and China and how the current situation has developed over the past twenty years, where European and Chinese researchers are equal colleagues on an international stage and where diplomatic relations between the USA and China on the international stage have consequences felt directly by European AI researchers in their labs. In what ways are AI researchers in China and Europe competitors with each other, for example in terms of the global shortage of trained AI researchers and practitioners? At the same time, the AI research community collaborates globally, so how can we ensure that the field continues to benefit from open international collaboration?

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Developing a FinTech Ecosystem in Vietnam: Opportunities and Challenges for Startups

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/20208904001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 89 ◽

pp. 04001

Author(s):

Van Thien Hao

Keyword(s):

Market Value ◽

Current Situation ◽

Market Development ◽

The Internet ◽

Young Generation ◽

Research Results ◽

The Past ◽

Potential Market ◽

The Government

In the article, the author has analyzed the current situation of fintech market development and Vietnam’s startup ecosystem in recent years. The research results show that, in the past 3 years, the number of fintech companies in Vietnam has nearly quadrupled, the market value in 2020 is estimated at 9 billion USD. With 72% of adults using smartphones, nearly 64% of the population using the Internet, along with the young generation of technology-savvy, the explosion of e-commerce and the support of the Government, Vietnam is a potential market for implementing tech startup models. Opportunities and challenges for fintech startups in Vietnam have been discussed by the author, from which solutions to develop fintech ecosystems are proposed in the upcoming time.

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