OBJECTIVE To assess the quality of life (QOL) of Thai postmenopausal women with overactive bladder (OAB), stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and mixed urinary incontinence (MUI). MATERIAL AND METHOD A total of 420 Thai postmenopausal women (120 had SUI, 60 MUI, 120 OAB and 120 controls) were recruited QOL was assessed by the Thai version short form 36 (SF-36). RESULTS There was no significan...

Thai Traditional Medicine (TTM) has a long history in Thailand and is nowadays considered an effective alternative approach to the modern medicine. One of the main knowledge in Thai traditional medicine is the use of various types of herbs to form medicines. Our main goal is to bridge the gap between the traditional knowledge and the modern biomedical knowledge. Using text mining and visualizat...

This paper presents the VSLHDS project (Very Large Scale Hypermedia Delivery System), one network collaboration research between NII and NAiST. The goal of this project is the study design and implementation of a very large scale hypermedia delivery system integrated with Natural Language Processing based approach to Thai text retrieval. Distance learning tutorials have been setup between NII a...

OBJECTIVE Cultural or ethnic factors may play an important role in subjects' pain reports. The aim of the study was to compare the prevalence of orofacial pain symptoms between Finnish and Thai populations. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Finnish study population comprised the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966, of which 5696 subjects participated in the present study. The Thai sample consisted of ...

A 26-year-old man residing in a village of Thai Nguyen Province, North Vietnam, visited the Thai Nguyen Provincial Hospital in July 2008. He felt a bulge-sticking pain in his left eye and extracted 5 small nematode worms by himself half a day before visiting the hospital. Two more worms were extracted from his left eye by a medical doctor, and they were morphologically observed and genetically ...

INTRODUCTION The rural areas of Northern Thailand are home to a large cultural diversity of ethnic minority groups. Previous studies have shown that young people in rural Thailand have low levels of knowledge on HIV/AIDS and high sexual risks. We compared sexual behaviors between the lowland Thai youth and the youth from ethnic minority groups. METHODS AND FINDINGS This is a cross-sectional q...

Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of common health conditions that affects patients' health-related quality of life. Our purpose is to assess the reliability and validity of Thai-version of Sino-Nasal Outcome Test 22 in chronic rhinosinusitis. Methods Permission for translation of SNOT-22 from English language to Thai language was obtained from the developer. The translation proc...

Mang thai giả có thể là một bệnh lý tư duy hoặc rối loạn triệu chứng cơ không biệt định. Trong báo cáo này, chúng tôi ghi nhận trường hợp nhân nữ, 24 tuổi, vào viện với “vết sẹo sau mổ”, trước đó xuất hiện các như mất kinh nguyệt, bụng to lên, cho rằng mình thai. Bệnh vết mổ ngang dưới rốn gần giống lấy Qua quá trình thăm khám, theo dõi nhân, số thiết được đặt ra trong 3 hợp: hoang tưởng mang t...

The paper presents the ongoing project Longdo Thai Online Dictionary Service. Longdo comprises of two parts: the word look up service part (or search part) and the dictionary contents building part. In the first part, users access Longdo via its web site or the software client to look up Thai meanings of foreign words (currently English, Japanese, and German are supported). The search database ...

Abstract—Codemixing in spontaneous speech has been widely discussed, but not in virtual situations; especially in context of the third language learning students. Thus, this study is an attempt to explore the linguistic characteristics of the mixing of Japanese, English and Thai in a mobile Line chat room by students with their background of English as L2, Japanese as L3 and Thai as mother tong...