THE ARCHITECTURE OF VIETNAMESE TEMPLES – A STUDY FROM AN ARTISTIC PERSPECTIVE

The pagoda in Vietnam is an architectural work with many artistic values. The pagoda is a sacred space, and it gathers the cultural and artistic values of the Vietnamese people. In addition, it has satisfied the living needs of life, meeting the aesthetic needs of the people. The temple is the most complete collection of visual elements, closely combining and supporting each other in a unified whole. From an artistic perspective, the temple is the most typical architectural art of the Vietnamese people. The beauty of the temple is reflected in its sanctity. The art of architecture and decoration of the temple expresses the thoughts and feelings of the Vietnamese people. Besides, it shows the creativity and aesthetic aptitude of the Vietnamese people. The pagoda is a typical example, a uniqueness that creates the unique beauty of the Vietnamese people.  Article visualizations

RELATIONSHIPS OF TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY TO THE BIODEGRADATION OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS IN SOILS

This work focused on monitoring CO2production, microbial growth and residual hydrocarbon concentration during bioremediation experiments performed on laboratory soil microcosms. A natural soil was artificially contaminated with hexadecane and adjusted with inorganic nutrients to stimulate biodegradation. Microbial growth, CO2production and residual hexadecane were periodically monitored at different soil water contents ranging from 0.15 to 0.25 g water g_1 of dry soil and at different temperatures ranging from 20 to 25oC. Results showed that the humidity has a greater effect on microbial activity and contaminant degradation than the temperature. The study established the experimental regression equation of temperature and humidity to the hexadecane mineralization rate, an important parameter in assessing the ability to convert organic carbon into inorganic carbon. The difference between the results of the hexadecane mineralization rate obtained from the experiment and calculated from the regression equation is not too high, from 2% to 20%

Analysis of Corporate Governance Index Using ASEAN Balanced Score Card and Firm Performance

Governance plays a crucial role in most activities of socio-economic life. For any organizations, units, businesses or higher, a country, a community, the role of governance becomes more important than ever. For businesses, with globalization taking place and market becoming more competitive than ever, good Corporate Governance is now considered as a factor of success. Good corporate governance will help the company improve its ability to access to various sources of capital and operate more efficiently. However, in Vietnam particularly, Corporate Governance system still need to enhance and improve. Therefore, with the aim of surveying the current situation of Corporate Governance practices in Vietnam and giving the analysis of its impacts on businesses’ performance, this research is conducted from a sample of 60 listed-companies in both Construction and Food & Beverage industry for the time 2015, 2017 and 2018. By using the tool of ASEAN balanced scorecard to evaluate Vietnam Corporate Governance practices on 05 aspects: Rights of shareholders, Equitable treatment of shareholders, Roles of stakeholders, Disclosure and transparency and Board duties and responsibilities, the paper came to the low results of companies’ Corporate Governance practices in Vietnam. Based on this method, different relationships were found, one of which is the positive relationship between Corporate Governance Index and Tobin’s Q. Keywords: Asean Score Card, Corporate Governance Index, Performance DOI: 10.7176/RJFA/11-6-02 Publication date:March 31st 202

FACTORS AFFECTING COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN KHMER FESTIVAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN MEKONG DELTA, VIETNAM

Abstract: The Mekong Delta has rich and diverse tourism resources, it is also a long-standing residence of the Khmer community with a specific culture. Exploiting community-based tourism from festivals will contribute to preserving ethnic and cultural identities, eradicating poverty, and improving people's living standards in the region. The objective of this study was to examine the factors affecting the community's participation in the development of Khmer festival tourism in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. The research methods used include descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, and regression analysis. The data was collected from the results of a survey of 1258 travelers to the Mekong Delta. SPSS 20, and AMOS 24 software are used to analyze and evaluate the scale and test hypotheses. The research results show that the factors affecting the community's participation in the development of Khmer festival tourism in the Mekong Delta include (1) Economic benefits; (2) Cultural and community; (3) Resources of tourism; (4) Policies for the development of community tourism; (5) Community environment; (6) Tourism products and services. Some contents were discussed, proposed solutions with governance implications to attract community participation in the development of Khmer festival tourism in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

A multi-microcontroller-based hardware for deploying Tiny machine learning model

The tiny machine learning (TinyML) has been considered to applied on the edge devices where the resource-constrained micro-controller units (MCUs) were used. Finding a good platform to deploy the TinyML effectively is very crucial. The paper aims to propose a multiple micro-controller hardware platform for productively running the TinyML model. The proposed hardware consists of two dual-core MCUs. The first MCU is utilized for acquiring and processing input data, while the second is responsible for executing the trained TinyML network. Two MCUs communicate to each other using the universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) protocol. The multi-tasking programming technique is mainly applied on the first MCU to optimize the pre-processing new data. A three-phase motors faults classification TinyML model was deployed on the proposed system to evaluate the effectiveness. The experimental results prove that our proposed hardware platform was improved 34.8% the total inference time including pre-processing data of the proposed TinyML model in comparing with single micro-controller hardware platform

IMPACT OF THE EVFTA AGREEMENT: A STUDY ON VIETNAM'S EXPORTED GOODS

Abstract The research aims to assess the quantitative impact of the Vietnam-European Union Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) on Vietnam's export growth to the EU market. The study employs quantitative analysis using the SMART model with data on export turnover and scenarios of tariff reduction to 0% when EVFTA takes effect. Based on the export turnover data and necessary parameters, the analysis results show an increase in Vietnam's exports to the EU market when EVFTA becomes effective. As a result, the research proposes some implications to promote Vietnam's export activities to the EU in the future

Factors affecting the decision to choose a university of high school students: A study in An Giang Province, Vietnam

It is important to provide high school students with the necessary information for them to consult and make a decision to choose a university. The study aims to identify and evaluate the influence of factors in the decision to choose a university for high school students. The questionnaire survey method was used to collect data from 393 students from eight high schools in An Giang Province, Vietnam. Exploratory factor analysis and linear regression were used to analyze the data. The research results show that students are quite satisfied and quite certain with their decision to choose a university, while there are six important factors affecting the decision to choose a university. Influential factors with decreasing order of magnitude are: i) Factors consulted by teachers, family, friends, and relatives; ii) Factors of future job opportunities; iii) Factors of media activities; iv) Factors of learning conditions; v) Factors of university reputation; vi) Factors belong to the students themselves. The findings of the study show that there is no statistically significant difference between the group of males and females, between grades 10, 11, and 12. Besides, there is a statistically significant difference between students in high schools. The findings of this study have theoretical and practical implications for university admissions in Vietnam. Proposals made to university administrators were discussed. From the research results, we want to help students find the right university, and support universities to improve the efficiency of admissions

Corporate Social Responsibility, Board of Directors’ Affect Financial Performance: Evidence in Vietnam

ABSTRACT Purpose: The study aims to explore corporate social responsibility and corporate governance issues such as the board of directors’ characteristics that affect the financial performance of the manufacturing listed companies on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange in Vietnam.   Theoretical framework: The study is based on the agency theory, stakeholder theory and the fundamental corporate social responsibility to clarify its role and the importance of information disclosure to interested parties when making economic decisions.   Methodology: Using pooled Ordinary least squares causes biased results because of autocorrelation and heteroscedasticity, thus the authors conduct Feasible Generalized Least Squares to increase the reliability of findings.   Findings: The research results show that there are four statistically significant factors that affect financial performance: corporate social responsibility, board gender diversity, ownership concentration, and government ownership.   Research, Practical & Social implications: The obtained results highlight the direct relationship between corporate social responisibility and financial performance, implying that these listed companies can improve their firm value based on the mentioned factors.   Originality/value: by examing the significant relationship between CSR and performance, the author emphasizes the role of managers in disclosing information relevant to their responsibilies to the environment and community. The problem is still a limited concern by corporates in the emerging market as Vietnam

IMPLEMENT POLICIES ON TRAINING AND FOSTERING CADRES AND CIVIL SERVANTS OF KHMER IN THE MEKONG DELTA, VIETNAM

Cadres and civil servants who are ethnic Khmer people in the Mekong Delta have an essential position and role in implementing the Party's guidelines and guidelines, policies, and laws of the State to present with the people and directly manage society to achieve order, stability, and development. Cadres and civil servants who are ethnic Khmer people are the bridge between the Party, State, and the people, reflecting the people's legitimate thoughts and aspirations for the Party and State. Based on the method of document research, and secondary data, the paper outlines the characteristics of the Khmer people in the Mekong Delta; viewpoints and lines of the Party, policies, and laws of the State on training and retraining policies for cadres and civil servants who are ethnic Khmer people; On the basis of the actual situation of the policy, the thesis has proposed a number of solutions to improve the effectiveness of the policy on training and fostering cadres and civil servants who are ethnic Khmer people in the Mekong Delta.  Article visualizations

TỶ LỆ CHẾT CỦA VI KHUẨN DO PHÂN GIẢI CỦA VIRUS TRONG VỊNH NHA TRANG, NAM TRUNG BỘ, VIỆT NAM

Bacteria play an important role in microbial loop in marine waters and are strongly regulated by top-down controls by two groups, virus and microprotozoa. Bacterial mortality rates, because of viral lysis and microprotozoan grazing, were estimated using dilution method in Nha Trang bay in December 2014. The bacterial mortality rates were marked different among sampling sites and reflected by different in environmental conditions and layers in water column. In Nha Trang bay, the viral lysis on bacteria was, in similar trend with previous studies, high where their main hosts abundance, such as at surface and in the estruarine front area. Bacterial growth rate was low in Cai estuary and higher in mid of Nha Trang Bay and Hon Tam stations. The bacterial mortality rates in Nha Trang Bay were mainly because of the viral lysis (1.59-2.05 day-1) rather than of microprotozoan grazing (0.00-0.36 day-1). The microprotozoan grazing on bacteria in Cai estuary was significantly higher than in others sites (0.36 day-1 versus 0.00-0.05 day-1).Vi khuẩn có vai trò quan trọng trong vi lưới thức ăn ở biển và chịu sự chi phối top-down bởi hai nhóm chính virus và động vật nguyên sinh. Tỉ lệ chết của vi khuẩn (TLCVK) do phân giải của virus và bị ăn bởi động vật nguyên sinh trong vịnh Nha Trang, Khánh Hòa, được đánh giá sử dụng các thí nghiệm nuôi pha loãng. TLCVK có biến động khác nhau theo đặc trưng môi trường của vị trí thu mẫu và theo độ sâu trong cột nước. TLCVK do phân giải của virus cao ở tầng mặt, ở khu vực front cửa sông, và ở khu vực có độ phong phú cao của vi khuẩn thể hiện mối quan hệ giữa virus với các yếu tố môi trường và với độ phong phú của vật chủ. Tốc độ sinh trưởng của vi khuẩn thấp ở vùng cửa sông Cái và cao hơn ở vùng front cửa sông cũng như trạm Hòn Tầm. Lượng vi khuẩn trong vùng nghiên cứu mất đi chủ yếu bởi sự phân giải của virus (TLCVK biến thiên 1,59-2,05 /ngày) hơn là bị ăn bởi động vật nguyên sinh (TLCVK biến thiên 0,00-0,36 /ngày). Ở trạm cửa sông Cái, TLCVK do bị động vật nguyên sinh ăn cao hơn đáng kể so với các trạm khảo sát còn lại (0,36 /ngày so với 0,00-0,05 /ngày)