Since I left Thailand, I have been faced with many novel experiences such as new culture, strange people, English speaking environment, and also various kinds of food that I am not familiar with. In addition, I have gotten an incomparable experience from my housemate’s research. She is a Thai Ph.D. student researching fireflies in Thailand. Under good support of her scholarship, she can researc...

ABSTRACT. . This study reports an experimentally designed evaluation of Reality Orientation. Twelve elderly residents were chosen for the experimental group and 13 residents were chosen for the'nli-treatment control grodp. Both classroom Reality Orientation and 24-hour Reality Orientation were introduced on the experimental floor. A pretest-posttest control group design was used with two instru...

evaluation criteria for different versions of the same database the concept of information, during its development, is connected to the concept of entropy created by the 19th century termodynamics scholars. information means, in this view point, order or negentropy. on the other hand, entropy is connected to the concepts as chaos and noise, which cause, in turn, disorder. in the present paper, ...

in quranic view, man is a divine viceroy on earth. he is the only creature that enjoys divine characteristics such as those of 'creation' and 'creativity'. no exerted efforts of psychologists of modes of behaviour managed to distort the special status of 'man', though he is 'weak'. 'insidious', 'greedy', 'hasty', 'unbala...

The five-part theoretical scheme that Erich Jantsch devised to describe interrelations among disciplines provides interdisciplinarians with a sound framework for interdisciplinary knowledge. However, when Jantsch introduces the concept of human purpose into the category of "interdisciplinarity," he departs from the foundational ground of structuralist epistemology and builds his scheme for both...

The nature and extent of use of a website is an important determinant of the success of an electronic business initiative. Hence, it becomes important to understand the different factors behind the use of a website by its intended users. Such an understanding would enable an organization to recognize the drivers of the use of its website and to strive to reduce the gap between the planned and t...

The Padua points are a family of points on the square [−1, 1] given by explicit formulas that admits unique Lagrange interpolation by bivariate polynomials. Interpolation polynomials and cubature formulas based on the Padua points are studied from an ideal theoretic point of view, which leads to the discovery of a compact formula for the interpolation polynomials. The L convergence of the inter...