BACKGROUND Human neutrophil antigens (HNAs) are involved in autoimmune and alloimmune neutropenia and transfusion-related acute lung injury. The HNA-1 system is important in immunogenetics, and allele frequencies have been described in different populations. This study investigated the frequency of FCGR3B alleles encoding HNA-1a, HNA-1b, and HNA-1c among Thai blood donors and compared these fre...

BACKGROUND Active aging is central to enhancing the quality of life for older adults, but its conceptualization is not often made explicit for Asian elderly people. Little is known about active aging in older Thai adults, and there has been no development of scales to measure the expression of active aging attributes. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to develop a culturally relevant composit...

In this study, the social welfare impacts of the interaction of Iranian rice import policies and Thai export policies are analyzed using a game theoretic approach in conjunction with econometric supply and demand models. The joint impacts of increasing the world price of rice, resulting from the export policies in Thailand along with changes in tariff rates in Iran, on social welfare are analyz...

When either Thai or transcribed (Romanized) Thai is sorted alphabetically, words that sound very much alike usually end up far apart. maay and may are thrown to opposite ends of the letter m entries, even though mistaking one for the other causes problems for both foreign students who cannot speak clearly, and Thais who can't spell. This paper explains how and why the difficulty occurs, and sho...

Some immigrants from Myanmar to Thailand have brought Wuchereria bancrofti infections with them, causing a community health problem for Thai citizens. The seroprevalence of bancroftian filariasis was detected in 438 and 512 Myanmar immigrants residing in Bangkok and Ranong Provinces, respectively, along with 81 Thai citizens living in Bangkok. The immunochromatograpy card test was positive in 5...

Since Thai has no explicit word boundary, word segmentation is the first thing to do before developing any Thai NLP applications. In order to create large Thai word-segmented corpora to train a word segmentation model, an efficient verification tool is needed to help linguists work more conveniently to check the accuracy and consistency of the corpora. This paper proposes Thai Word Segmentation...

The aim of this study was to achieve a referral database for dental age estimation of unaccompanied minors of Thai nationality. A total of 1199 orthopantomograms were collected from original Thai women and men equally divided in age categories between 15 and 24 years. On the radiographs, the developmental stage of the third molars was scored applying a modified scoring technique. Inter- and int...

OBJECTIVE To study factors related to health promoting behaviors of Thai middle-aged men. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive research. MATERIAL AND METHOD Nine hundred and five Thai males, aged between 40-59 years, living in six provinces of Thailand, were selected by multi-stage random sampling. Data were collected using interview, physical examination, and laboratory test. RESULTS Thai middle-age...

There is a huge amount of documents in Thai government organizations. Although automatic document image retrieval systems in English have been proposed and developed, there are no specific system which is capable to retrieve relevant information from documents in Thai language. While matching words or optical character recognition (OCR) can be applied, segmentation of the words and characters i...

This paper outlines our collaboration on the construction of a named entity recognizer for the Thai language. This tool will support natural language processing applications in Thai such as high precision information retrieval, summarization and machine translation. Named entity recognition has been quite successfully applied to English due to the interest generated by evaluation conferences su...