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From Music To Animacy: Causal Reasoning Links Animate Agents With Musical Sounds, Minju Kim, Adena Schachner
From Music To Animacy: Causal Reasoning Links Animate Agents With Musical Sounds, Minju Kim, Adena Schachner
Psychology Faculty Articles and Research
Listening to music activates representations of movement and social agents. Why? We ask whether high-level causal reasoning about how music was generated can lead people to link musical sounds with animate agents. To test this, we asked whether people (N=60) make flexible inferences about whether an agent caused musical sounds, integrating information from the sounds’ timing and from the visual context in which it was produced. Using a 2x2 within-subject design, we found evidence of causal reasoning: In a context where producing a musical sequence would require self-propelled movement, people inferred that an agent had been present causing the sounds. …
Preschoolers’ Spontaneous Gesture Production Predicts Analogical Transfer, Minju Kim, Caren M. Walker
Preschoolers’ Spontaneous Gesture Production Predicts Analogical Transfer, Minju Kim, Caren M. Walker
Psychology Faculty Articles and Research
We explore the link between children’s gesture production and analogical reasoning. Specifically, we ask whether children who spontaneously gesture when completing a retelling task are more likely to engage in analogical transfer, compared to those who do not gesture. To test this, 85 5-7-year-olds listened to three superficially distinct stories that shared a common abstract problem and solution. After each of the first two exemplar stories, participants were asked to retell the story events to a naïve listener and their speech and spontaneous gesture(s) were coded. For the third story, participants were asked to generate the analogous solution themselves. Results …
Art Of Design Management, Saied Farisi
“Computer Says No!”: The Impact Of Automation On The Discretionary Power Of Public Officers, Doa A. Elyounes
“Computer Says No!”: The Impact Of Automation On The Discretionary Power Of Public Officers, Doa A. Elyounes
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The goal of this Article is to unpack the “human in the loop” requirement in the process of automation. It will analyze the impact of automation on street-level bureaucrats and lay out the steps policy makers need to take into account to ensure that meaningful human discretion is maintained. This issue is examined by comparing two algorithms related to the use of automation to detect and investigate fraud in welfare benefits. The first algorithm is used by Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance Agency for detecting and investigating unemployment fraud. This is a draconian algorithm with the ability to automatically decide to cut …
The Right To Feast And Festivals, Juan C. Riofrio
The Right To Feast And Festivals, Juan C. Riofrio
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Festive behavior is a basic characteristic of human life, as evidenced from ancient times. Humans need to use ceremony and ritual in specific places and times to mark their triumphs, joys, and sorrows. However, some categories of individuals are harmed because they cannot celebrate the most important highlights of their lives through such festive feasts: prisoners, mariners at sea, soldiers on the frontlines, workers subject to the pressures of ungenerous employers, towns occupied by oppressive invaders, and impoverished individuals who cannot afford customary celebrations, among others. When feasts and festivals are restricted, societies lose well-being, communities lose identity, and individuals …
When Art Might Constitute A Taking: A Takings Clause Inquiry Under The Visual Artists Rights Act, Thomas A. Shelburne
When Art Might Constitute A Taking: A Takings Clause Inquiry Under The Visual Artists Rights Act, Thomas A. Shelburne
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
At first glance, a federal statute protecting the moral rights of artists and their artwork seems like a unanimous victory. But it turns out that government action protecting certain works of art attached to buildings may give rise to a valid takings clause claim under the Fifth Amendment. Without compensation, a regulation requiring a landowner to maintain someone else’s property on his land would constitute a taking. The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) requires landowners to maintain protected artwork attached to buildings or potentially face statutory damages. Although only one court has heard and subsequently denied a takings …
Equal Protection And Ectogenesis, Brit J. Benjamin
Equal Protection And Ectogenesis, Brit J. Benjamin
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Ectogenesis is the gestation of a fetus in an artificial womb. This suite of technologies, now in use to preserve the lives of premature infants, is on the cusp of being a viable method of reproduction from conception to term. This Article argues that an equal protection challenge to a ban on utilizing ectogenetic technologies should be analyzed under intermediate or strict scrutiny. Should the US Supreme Court apply the rational basis or rational basis “with bite” standard of review to such a challenge, the petitioner should prevail.
The nature of ectogenesis is a technological alternative for a sex-specific organ. …
Privacy Beyond Possession: Solving The Access Conundrum In Digital Dollars, Nerenda N. Atako
Privacy Beyond Possession: Solving The Access Conundrum In Digital Dollars, Nerenda N. Atako
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The advent of a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) could reshape the US payments system. A retail CBDC would be a digital representation of the US dollar in the form of an account or token that is widely accessible to the general public. It would be a third form of US fiat money that is created and issued by the Federal Reserve and complementary to physical cash. CBDC proposals have suggested a myriad of retail CBDC design models with an overwhelming interest in a retail CBDC that either implements a centralized ledger system or some form of a distributed …
Race Cartels: How Constructor Collaboration Is Curbing Innovation In Formula 1, Chandler C. Gerard-Reimer
Race Cartels: How Constructor Collaboration Is Curbing Innovation In Formula 1, Chandler C. Gerard-Reimer
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Formula 1 is in the midst of a copycat scandal: technology has made it possible for teams to reverse engineer clones of competitors’ race cars. This is a less than ideal state of affairs for the championship series, which prides itself on being the pinnacle of motorsport and automotive innovation, thanks in large part to the cars’ rapid rate of technological advancement. In order to address this problem, the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Formula 1’s governing body, must increase independent innovation efforts by amending the technical regulations to restrict the extent of presently allowed inter-team collaboration. Worried that the …
Confronting The Biased Algorithm: The Danger Of Admitting Facial Recognition Technology Results In The Courtroom, Gabrielle M. Haddad
Confronting The Biased Algorithm: The Danger Of Admitting Facial Recognition Technology Results In The Courtroom, Gabrielle M. Haddad
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
From unlocking an iPhone to Facebook “tags,” facial recognition technology has become increasingly commonplace in modern society. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and call for police reform in the United States, it is important now more than ever to consider the implications of law enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology. A study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology found that facial recognition algorithms generated higher rates of false positives for Black faces—sometimes up to one hundred times more false identifications—than white faces. Given the embedded bias of this technology and its increased prevalence, the …
Let Me Get My Glasses, I Can’T Hear You: Sheet Music, Copyright, And Led Zeppelin, Brandon P. Evans
Let Me Get My Glasses, I Can’T Hear You: Sheet Music, Copyright, And Led Zeppelin, Brandon P. Evans
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Musical copyright infringement cases are experiencing an identity crisis. The crisis is that courts are beginning their analyses of the similarities between compositions by examining visual, rather than aural, evidence. Prior to the 1976 Copyright Act, copyright protection extended only to musical works reduced to sheet music. That sheet music, which is filed with the US Copyright Office (Copyright Office) as a “deposit copy,” represents the sum of the composition’s copyright protection. Even though Congress amended the Copyright Act to allow for sound recordings of a composition to function as a deposit copy post-1976, courts—particularly the Ninth Circuit—begin evaluating musical …
Prediction Intervals For Fractionally Integrated Time Series And Volatility Models, Rukman Ekanayake
Prediction Intervals For Fractionally Integrated Time Series And Volatility Models, Rukman Ekanayake
Doctoral Dissertations
"The two of the main formulations for modeling long range dependence in volatilities associated with financial time series are fractionally integrated generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (FIGARCH) and hyperbolic generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (HYGARCH) models. The traditional methods of constructing prediction intervals for volatility models, either employ a Gaussian error assumption or are based on asymptotic theory. However, many empirical studies show that the distribution of errors exhibit leptokurtic behavior. Therefore, the traditional prediction intervals developed for conditional volatility models yield poor coverage. An alternative is to employ residual bootstrap-based prediction intervals. One goal of this dissertation research is to develop …
Analysis Of Turbulence Model Uncertainty For Canonical Flow Problems Including Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction Simulations, Aaron James Erb
Analysis Of Turbulence Model Uncertainty For Canonical Flow Problems Including Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction Simulations, Aaron James Erb
Doctoral Dissertations
"The purpose of this research is to present results of an uncertainty and sensitivity analysis study of commonly used turbulence models in Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) codes due to the epistemic uncertainty in closure coefficients for a set of turbulence model validation cases that represent the structure of several canonical flow problems. The study focuses on the analysis of a 2D zero pressure gradient flat plate, a 2D wall mounted hump, and an axisymmetric shock wave boundary layer interaction, all of which are well documented on the NASA Langley Research Center Turbulence Modeling Resource website. The Spalart-Allmaras (SA), the Wilcox (2006) …
Fabrication Of 304l Stainless Steel And Aluminum Parts By Laser Foil Printing And Process Automation, Chia-Hung Hung
Fabrication Of 304l Stainless Steel And Aluminum Parts By Laser Foil Printing And Process Automation, Chia-Hung Hung
Doctoral Dissertations
"This work presents research conducted on a novel metal additive manufacturing process, called Laser Foil Printing (LFP), to fabricate metal parts with various geometries layer by layer using metal foil as the feedstock. To investigate the processability and characteristics of LFP for fabricating metal parts, the materials included 304L stainless steel and Al-1100 aluminum alloy. The LFP process parameter windows for both 304L and Al-1100 were determined, and the optimal process parameters with stable formation of the melt pools were selected to fabricate dense metal parts. The microstructure and properties of LFP-fabricated parts were characterized and analyzed using tensile testing, …
Convective-Diffusive Transport In Krogh Cylinders: A Model For Pharmacokinetics, Xianjie Qiu
Convective-Diffusive Transport In Krogh Cylinders: A Model For Pharmacokinetics, Xianjie Qiu
Doctoral Dissertations
"Drug delivery to inside of the tumor is the important problem. The dynamics of drug delivery is presented here. Previously and particularly for directed delivery, a stirred tank model has been used, which appears to have worked well when compared to experiments. However, the stirred tank models do not include all the mass transfer resistances and towards that end we have used a distributed system called Krogh cylinder. This study focuses on the Krogh cylinder model simulation, both on the fluid flow and the mass transfer. The capillary network is broken down into cylindrical cells, each containing a capillary and …
Thermomechanical Simulation And Process Optimization For Hot Rolling Of Steel, Shouvik Ganguly
Thermomechanical Simulation And Process Optimization For Hot Rolling Of Steel, Shouvik Ganguly
Doctoral Dissertations
"Hot rolling is a manufacturing process that involves large material deformation, complicated geometries, contact conditions and non-uniform temperature gradients. Steel industries are motivated to prevent hot rolled steel products to be defect free and with desired shape and size. In order to simulate the process accurately, it is essential that the material model for steel accounts for the viscoplasticity and changes in properties that occur in steel at elevated temperatures as grain growth and recrystallization.
The healing of existing voids during hot rolling was investigated using finite element simulations. Voids are highly undesirable as they not only degrade the product …
Characterization Of Alaskan Modified Asphalt Binders And Mixtures, Jun Liu
Characterization Of Alaskan Modified Asphalt Binders And Mixtures, Jun Liu
Doctoral Dissertations
"Modified asphalt binders and mixtures have been used more in recent years in Alaska. However, there has not been systematic characterization and performance data development for these materials. This study intends to systematically characterize the Alaskan asphalt binders and mixtures and identify the performance benefits of these materials through laboratory tests and field sections monitoring. The research contains five sections: 1) a comprehensive characterization on the morphologies, chemical and rheological properties of modified asphalt binders and mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures with these modified asphalt binders. The lab testing results were further confirmed through field surveys of recent paving projects …
Modeling Time Series With Conditional Heteroscedastic Structure, Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Isuru Panduka Ratnayake
Modeling Time Series With Conditional Heteroscedastic Structure, Ratnayake Mudiyanselage Isuru Panduka Ratnayake
Doctoral Dissertations
"Models with a conditional heteroscedastic variance structure play a vital role in many applications, including modeling financial volatility. In this dissertation several existing formulations, motivated by the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedastic model, are further generalized to provide more effective modeling of price range data well as count data. First, the Conditional Autoregressive Range (CARR) model is generalized by introducing a composite range-based multiplicative component formulation named the Composite CARR model. This formulation enables a more effective modeling of the long and short-term volatility components present in price range data. It treats the long-term volatility as a stochastic component that in …
Investigation Of Packed Bed And Moving Bed Reactors With Benchmarking Using Advanced Measurement And Computational Techniques, Binbin Qi
Doctoral Dissertations
"Trickle bed reactors (TBR), as typical packed bed reactors (PBR), are widely used in various fields. Very limited information regarding the flow behaviors, hydrodynamic, and mathematical models in extrudate catalyst shapes, such as cylinders, trilobes, and quadrilobes, can be found in literatures because the major focus was on spherical shape. Therefore, a hybrid pressure drops and liquid holdup phenomenological model for extrudate catalyst shapes was developed based on two-phase volume averaged equations, which showed high accuracy against experimental data. The maldistribution and dynamic liquid holdup were investigated in quadrilobe catalyst using gamma-ray computed tomography. A pseudo-3D empirical model was developed …
Improving Student Confidence With Electronic Health Record Order Entry, Arindam Sarkar, Anjali Aggarwal, Larissa Grigoryan, Susan G Nash, Nidhi Mehrotra, Roger J Zoorob, William Y Huang
Improving Student Confidence With Electronic Health Record Order Entry, Arindam Sarkar, Anjali Aggarwal, Larissa Grigoryan, Susan G Nash, Nidhi Mehrotra, Roger J Zoorob, William Y Huang
Faculty, Staff and Students Publications
INTRODUCTION: Despite near-universal utilization of electronic health records (EHRs) by physicians in practice, medical students in most ambulatory settings gain limited experience with placing EHR orders. In this study, an individual preceptor site investigated the usefulness of a targeted curriculum in improving students' EHR confidence and clinical reasoning skills.
METHODS: Family medicine clerkship students assigned to one community health center were invited to participate in this prospective, survey-based study. In their first week, students observed a preceptor performing EHR tasks. For the remainder of the 4-week clerkship, students utilized decision support tools, assigned a working diagnosis, entered unsigned orders in …
Non-Traditional Component Of Metabolic Syndrome In Children With Obesity: Assesment Of Tg:Hdl-C Ratio As Insulin Resistance Component, Nur Zati Iwani Ahmad Kamil
Non-Traditional Component Of Metabolic Syndrome In Children With Obesity: Assesment Of Tg:Hdl-C Ratio As Insulin Resistance Component, Nur Zati Iwani Ahmad Kamil
Student Works (2020-2029)
Paediatrics metabolic syndrome (MetS) is on the rise parallel to the increased prevalence of childhood obesity. Although insulin resistance (IR) is an important variable in the diagnosis of MetS, the existing paediatric definition of MetS only measures elevated fasting blood glucose (FBG). Arguably, many children with severe IR can still regulate their FBG, especially in children with obesity. Therefore, this study aims to assess the utility of triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (TG: HDL-C) ratio as an IR marker in the modelling of paediatric MetS among children with obesity using structural equation modelling (SEM). This is a cross-sectional study in which …
Chitosan/Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Composite Scaffold Incorporated With Trichostatin A For Bone Regeneration, Teerawat Sukpaita
Chitosan/Biphasic Calcium Phosphate Composite Scaffold Incorporated With Trichostatin A For Bone Regeneration, Teerawat Sukpaita
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This study synthesized a chitosan-based scaffold incorporated with trichostatin A (TSA), an epigenetic modifier molecule, using a freeze-drying technique to achieve promising bone regeneration potential. The scaffolds with various biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) proportions: 0%, 10%, 20%, and 40% were characterized. The addition of BCP improved the scaffolds' mechanical properties and delayed the degradation rate. From all physicochemical parameters, 20% BCP scaffold matched the appropriate bone scaffold requirements and was selected for further development. The proper concentration of TSA was also tested. Our developed scaffold released TSA and sustained them for up to 3 days. The scaffold with 800 nM …
การพัฒนาไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์, สุรีย์พร โอฬารสกุลวงศ์
การพัฒนาไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์, สุรีย์พร โอฬารสกุลวงศ์
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
การศึกษานี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อเปรียบเทียบคุณสมบัติทางกายภาพและองค์ประกอบทางเคมีของไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์ที่ผลิตจากเปลือกหอยแครง (ไบโอซีลเลอร์) กับไบโอเซรามิกรูทคาแนลซีลเลอร์ซึ่งมีจำหน่ายในท้องตลาด (ไอรูทเอสพี) โดยทำการสังเคราะห์ผงไตรแคลเซียมซิลิเกตจากเปลือกหอยแครง และตรวจสอบองค์ประกอบทางเคมีด้วยการทดสอบการเลี้ยวเบนของรังสีเอกซ์ ผลการทดสอบพบว่าสารที่ผลิตได้ประกอบด้วยไตรแคลเซียมซิลิเกตเป็นส่วนประกอบหลัก จากนั้นจึงนำมาผสมกับสารเติมแต่งเพิ่มเติมเพื่อผลิตเป็นไบโอซีลเลอร์ ทำการทดสอบคุณสมบัติทางกายภาพของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีตามมาตรฐานการทดสอบไอเอสโอ 6876/2012 ได้แก่ การไหลแผ่ เวลาแข็งตัว ความหนาชั้นฟิล์ม การละลายตัว และความทึบรังสี นอกจากนี้ได้ทำการศึกษาค่าความเป็นกรด-ด่าง และปริมาณแคลเซียมอิออนที่ถูกปล่อยออกมาที่ระยะเวลา 3 ชั่วโมง 1 วัน 3 วัน 7 วัน 14 วัน และ 28 วัน รวมถึงศึกษาองค์ประกอบทางเคมีหลังแข็งตัวเต็มที่ของซีลเลอร์ทั้งสอง คุณสมบัติทางกายภาพของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีมีค่าผ่านตามมาตรฐานไอเอสโอ 6876/2012 ยกเว้นคุณสมบัติด้านการละลายตัว สำหรับค่าความเป็นกรด-ด่างของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีในช่วงระยะเวลาที่ทำการทดสอบพบว่ามีค่า 9.23-10.35 และ 8.83-10.39 ตามลำดับ ส่วนปริมาณแคลเซียมอิออนที่ถูกปล่อยออกมาพบว่าไอรูทเอสพีปล่อยแคลเซียมอิออนมากกว่าไบโอซีลเลอร์อย่างมีนัยสำคัญทางสถิติในช่วงแรกแต่ไม่แตกต่างกันที่ช่วงระยะเวลา 14 และ 28 วัน นอกจากนี้การศึกษาองค์ประกอบทางเคมีของไบโอซีลเลอร์และไอรูทเอสพีหลังแข็งตัวเต็มที่พบองค์ประกอบที่ยืนยันการเกิดปฏิกิริยาไฮเดรชันของวัสดุ ดังนั้นจึงสามารถสรุปได้ว่าไบโอซีลเลอร์มีคุณสมบัติทางกายภาพที่ดีและมีคุณสมบัติใกล้เคียงกับไอรูทเอสพี
รูปแบบการค้าและศักยภาพการส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรสำคัญของประเทศไทย: การวิเคราะห์แบบจำลองแรงโน้มถ่วงกับกระแสการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์, วีระชัย เพ็งเปิ้น
รูปแบบการค้าและศักยภาพการส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรสำคัญของประเทศไทย: การวิเคราะห์แบบจำลองแรงโน้มถ่วงกับกระแสการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์, วีระชัย เพ็งเปิ้น
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
ประเทศไทยเป็นประเทศผู้ส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรที่สำคัญ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งในกรณีของข้าว ยางพารา และมันสำปะหลัง อย่างไรก็ตาม ในช่วงหลายปีที่ผ่านมา โดยเฉพาะหลังจากปี พ.ศ.2552 แนวโน้มการส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรของประเทศไทยเริ่มอยู่ในทิศทางที่ลดลง อันเป็นผลมาจากการมีคู่แข่งทางการค้าที่มากขึ้นทั้งจากประเทศในภูมิภาคอาเซียน แอฟริกา และยุโรปตะวันออก ดังนั้น การศึกษาถึงปัจจัยที่กำหนดการส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรของประเทศไทยจึงมีความสำคัญเพื่อเป็นแนวทางวางนโยบายในการส่งเสริมความสามารถการแข่งขันด้านการส่งออกสินค้าเกษตร นอกจากนี้ หากพิจารณางานศึกษาถึงปัจจัยที่มีผลกระทบต่อการค้าระหว่างประเทศ สิ่งที่เป็นประเด็นสำคัญคือข้อมูลกระแสการค้าที่มีความสมมาตรหรือมีการค้าตลอดช่วงเวลา อย่างไรก็ตาม การเกิดข้อมูลกระแสการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์เป็นสิ่งที่พบได้บ่อยในข้อมูลการค้าระหว่างประเทศ อันเป็นผลจากการที่ประเทศต้นทางมีการค้ากับประเทศคู่ค้าไม่พร้อมกัน หรือประเทศคู่ค้าบางประเทศไม่มีการค้าในบางช่วงเวลา งานศึกษาก่อนหน้านี้พยายามจัดการกับปัญหาข้อมูลกระแสการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์ด้วยการละทิ้งข้อมูลการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์หรือการแทนที่ข้อมูลการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์ด้วยค่าข้อมูลที่เป็นบวกจำนวนที่น้อยแล้วประมาณค่าในรูปแบบสมการเชิงเส้นตรง ซึ่งวิธีการดังกล่าวอาจไม่เหมาะสมเนื่องจากก่อให้เกิดปัญหาความอคติของข้อมูล (Selection Bias) การศึกษานี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อเสนอเทคนิคการประมาณค่าแบบจำลองแรงโน้มถ่วงกับกระแสการค้าที่เป็นศูนย์ในสินค้าเกษตรสำคัญของประเทศไทย ได้แก่ ยางพารา ข้าว และผลิตภัณฑ์มันสำปะหลัง ลักษณะข้อมูลแบบพาเนลรายปี ตั้งแต่ปี พ.ศ.2543-2562 ด้วยวิธี Heckman Selection Model เพื่อจัดการกับปัญหา Selection Bias รวมถึงประยุกต์ใช้ Heterogeneous Firm Model จากงานศึกษาของ Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) เพื่อจัดการกับปัญหา Heterogeneous Bias โดยการเพิ่มตัวแปรระดับผลิตภาพ (Productivity Threshold) ในแบบจำลองที่สะท้อนว่า ประเทศไทยตัดสินใจส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรเมื่อระดับผลิตภาพสูงมากเกินกว่าต้นทุนทางการค้า จากการศึกษาพบว่า การประมาณค่าแบบจำลองได้รับผลกระทบจากปัญหา Selection Bias และปัญหา Heterogenous Bias ในสินค้าเกษตรทั้ง 3 รายการ โดยปัจจัยที่กำหนดให้ประเทศไทยตัดสินใจส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรพิจารณาจากขนาดเศรษฐกิจของประเทศคู่ค้า ระยะห่างระหว่างประเทศ และระดับการเปิดประเทศเป็นหลัก อย่างไรก็ตามเมื่อพิจารณาถึงปัจจัยที่มีผลกระทบต่อการส่งออกสินค้าเกษตรแยกรายสินค้าพบว่า ยางพารา ควรให้ความสำคัญกับขนาดเศรษฐกิจของประเทศคู่ค้าควบคู่กับการให้ความสำคัญกับนโยบายของภาครัฐที่สนับสนุนการผลิตและการตลาดโดยพิจารณาถึงราคาซื้อขายยางพารา ควรยกระดับการเปิดประเทศและสนับสนุนการค้ากับประเทศคู่ค้าเพื่อนบ้านให้มากขึ้น สำหรับข้าว ควรให้ความสำคัญกับขนาดเศรษฐกิจของประเทศคู่ค้า การยกระดับผลิตภาพแรงงานการผลิตข้าวของเกษตรกร และขยายการค้าด้วยการยกระดับการเปิดประเทศที่มากขึ้น และสำหรับผลิตภัณฑ์มันสำปะหลัง ควรให้ความสำคัญกับขนาดเศรษฐกิจของประเทศคู่ค้าและสนับสนุนการค้ากับประเทศคู่ค้าเพื่อนบ้านให้มากขึ้นเช่นกัน
Removal Of Ferrous And Arsenic From Contaminated Groundwater By Co-Precipitation Coupling With Membrane Separation Process, Bonita Pen
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
This work aimed to treat contaminated groundwater with arsenic and ferrous iron pollutants to be drinking water standard following by WHO by co-precipitation process and membrane separation process. The relative effect of different solid media types (scouring sponge, scouring pad, plastic ring, and activated carbon foam) and operating conditions on oxygen mass transfer coefficient (KLa) and hydrodynamic bubble parameters was studied. The optimization process of ferrous oxidation and arsenic removal was observed by Design of Experiment (DOE) with Central Composition Design of Response Surface Methodology (CCD-RSM). Lastly, separation process was experimented with conventional process and membrane technology, i.e., settling process, …
Using Deep Learning Technique For Price Action Analysis In Gold Trading, Kwan Boon-Long
Using Deep Learning Technique For Price Action Analysis In Gold Trading, Kwan Boon-Long
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
We introduce a new structural deep learning model purposing is to be able to learn price action trading features that subjective traders are using to make trading decisions based on the visual recent and actual price movements, rather than relying solely on technical indicators. The model combines convolutional neural networks (CNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) to improve the trend forecasting of gold prices for better trading signals compared to traditional strategies. As the gold price is a time series data, it is appropriate to apply CNN and LSTM for forecasting. The concept of our model is that CNN could …
Natural Rubber Films Reinforced With Cellulose And Chitosan Prepared By Latex Aqueous Microdispersion, Naipaporn Sutipanwihan
Natural Rubber Films Reinforced With Cellulose And Chitosan Prepared By Latex Aqueous Microdispersion, Naipaporn Sutipanwihan
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Plastics are one of the derived products from petroleum material, which have been used in many applications worldwide, because of their various properties. However, plastic wastes create toxic environmental pollutions and problems because of their toxic constituents and non-biodegradability. Accordingly, nature materials have been proposed as a substitute for petroleum materials for bioplastic production. Natural rubber (NR) is a product from natural, which is well-known for its high elasticity. However, there are some drawbacks such as low tensile strength and low abrasion resistance. Moreover, its applications are also limited because of its poor resistance to oil and solvents. Therefore, the …
Techno-Economic Analysis Of Monoglyceride And Diglyceride Production From Waste Cooking Oil, Napat Olarachin
Techno-Economic Analysis Of Monoglyceride And Diglyceride Production From Waste Cooking Oil, Napat Olarachin
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Monoglycerides (MGs) and their derivatives are widely used and considered the most important group of emulsifiers. These emulsifiers can be produced from waste cooking oils (WCOs) via two-step transesterification-glycerolysis or hydrolysis-glycerolysis processes. The transesterification-glycerolysis process has the advantages in terms of a high reaction rate and a high process yield. For hydrolysis, triglycerides are converted to free fatty acids (FFA) at higher reaction temperature, but water is used as a reactant. Therefore, the separation process is not complicated. This study simulated the techno-economic comparison of four different scenarios of MG and DG production using ASPEN Plus V11 simulation software. In …
The Urinary Proteomic Analysis And The Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms In Dogs With Calcium Oxalate Urolithiasis, Sumonwan Chamsuwan
The Urinary Proteomic Analysis And The Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms In Dogs With Calcium Oxalate Urolithiasis, Sumonwan Chamsuwan
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
Calcium oxalate (CaOx) urolithiasis is one of the most common stone components which frequently occurs in both humans and dogs. Hypercalciuria is one of the predisposing factors commonly found in both people and dogs with calcium urolithiasis. The genetic factors are also involved with the pathogenesis of stone formation, and the relationship between calcium handling and vitamin D receptor (VDR) polymorphisms has been demonstrated to be related to calcium urolithiasis in human populations. Moreover, some urinary proteins may be involved in the process of stone formation. The present study aimed firstly to evaluate the relationship between VDR polymorphism in dog …
In Silico And In Vitro Studies On Inclusion Complexation Of Anthraquinone Derivatives With Beta-Cyclodextrin Derivatives, Amy Oo
Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)
In this study, we investigated the cytotoxicity of 6 anthraquinones (ventilanone K, emodin, chrysophanol, aurantio-obtusin, 1-O-methyl-2-methyoxychrysophanol, and questin) toward A549 lung cancer cells and emodin (ED) exerted the most potent cytotoxicity with IC50 value of 34.27 ± 1.27 µM. The anti-cancer activity of ED has been well reported but its usage in practical applications has been restricted due to its poor solubility. To address this issue, we performed inclusion complexation of ED with βCD, hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin (HPβCD), 2,6-di-O-methyl-β-cyclodextrin (DMβCD), and sulfobutylether-β-cyclodextrin (SBEβCD) theoretically using molecular dynamics simulations and experimentally using phase solubility study and cytotoxicity screening toward cholangiocarcinoma cell lines (KKU-213A …