OBJECTIVES The Republic of Korea (Korea) has experienced a steady increase in the number of births from immigrant women over the last 20 years. However, little is known about the birth outcomes of immigrant women in Korea. This study compared Korean birth data from immigrant and native women who married native men, and explored the factors that affected birth outcomes among immigrant women. D...

Thailand achieved Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in 2002 through three main public health insurance schemes; the tax-financed Civil Servant Medical Benefit Scheme (CSMBS) covers sector employees and dependants (7.1% of total population), payroll-tax financed Social Insurance (SHI) private (17.2%), (UCS) remaining majority (75.7%) [1,2]. Registered migrant workers are covered by SHI while volun...

Drawing on upper echelons and internalization theories, this study investigates the association of CEO’s demographic characteristics firm-specific advantages (FSAs) with internationalization small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To address gaps identified in literature, it was hypothesized that founder’s characteristics, including educational level, previous start-up industry experience, immig...

We argue that when immigrant earnings are considered in the context of post-arrival human capital investment: cohort quality should be defined in terms of the present value of the whole earnings profile; and, an appropriate definition of “macro” effects is obtained using the earnings profile of the native born cohort entering the labour market at the same time as an immigrant cohort. We illustr...

Muay Thai (also known as Thai boxing) is a martial art originated from Thailand. It is a discipline to make a barehanded fight by efficiently combining eight limbs. Because of its uniqueness, Muay Thai has become popular internationally. Many people travel to Thailand in order to study Muay Thai. At the same time, many Muay Thai schools have been opened in many countries. To efficiently utilize...

BACKGROUND Peripheral neuropathy is the most common complications of diabetic patients and leads to loss of plantar cutaneous sensation, movement perception, and body balance. Thai foot massage is an alternative therapy to improve balance. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Thai foot massage on balance performance in diabetic patients with peripheral neuropat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability and validity of the Thai version of disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument for patients with hemifacial spasm (HFS) as well as their response to botulinum toxin treatment. MATERIAL AND METHOD A Thai version of HFS-30 has been developed with the permission of the author. Thirty patients with HFS were asked to complete this Thai HFS-3...

This was a cross sectional study to measure any difference between Thai and Non-Thai households in the prevalence of food security and the effect of state and local buffering mechanisms on household food security status in Nong Loo Sub-district in Kanchanaburi Province. Seventy-five point eight percent of 211 households (120 Thai and 91 non-Thai households) were food insecure. Non-Thai househol...

OBJECTIVE We examined differentials in the prevalence of 23 parent-reported health, chronic condition, and behavioral indicators among 91,532 children of immigrant and U.S.-born parents. METHODS We used the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health to estimate health differentials among 10 ethnic-nativity groups. Logistic regression yielded adjusted differentials. RESULTS Immigrant children...

This paper describes an alternative formalism for Thai syntax parsing based on a lexicalized tree adjoining grammar (LTAG). We first briefly present some formal background concerning LTAG, which is necessary for an understanding of LTAG and its application to Thai. Specifically, we address several issues regarding difficulties in parsing Thai sentences and how to resolve these issues using LTAG...