เส้นทางความสัมพันธ์ของการลงทุนในทุนมนุษย์ด้านการศึกษาและการดูแลสุขภาพสู่การพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจสังคมของประเทศไทย

This research aims to 1) investigate the pattern of causal relationships among human capital investment, related socioeconomic factors, and economic development in Thailand; and 2) analyse and compare the effect of educational and healthcare investment on economic development. The path analysis approach is employed using data from 2001–2012. The findings show that 1) education and healthcare investment indirectly determine GDP per capita and Thai well-being through four social variables and three economic variables. Therefore, both cognitive and non-cognitive human capital can be sources of economic development. For the result of objective 2), the total effects show that healthcare investment has a comparatively greater effect on GDP per capita than educational investment. However, healthcare has a lesser effect on well-being than educational investment. Thus, educational investment is still important for Thailand’s economic development. Besides, the longevity of labour and educational access opportunities at secondary level were found to be significant intermediate socioeconomic factors for the transmission of human capital to the economic development of Thailand. The policy choices for fostering human capital accumulation and economic success are to increase the government’s health budget and encourage people to take care of themselves. From the educational aspect, in order to increase the potential for economic development, the quality of education should be concentrated. Acquisition of the requisite labour skills should be the expected educational outcome

An update work of pulse oximetry screening for detecting critical congenital heart disease in the newborn

Background: Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is the commonest group of congenital malformations and affects 7-8 per 1000 live born newborns. Nevertheless, it is estimated that more than 50% of babies with undiagnosed CHD are not detected by routine neonatal cardiac examination. Aim: To find the incidence of CHD in newborns and to determine the accuracy of pulse oximetry for detecting clinically unrecognized critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) in the newborns. Methods: Pulse oximetry was performed on clinically normal newborns within 4 hours of first day of life. Inclusion criteria: All newborns who were admitted in postnatal ward & Neonatal Intensive care unit (NICU). Exclusion criteria: babies and neonates with a prenatal diagnosis of duct dependent circulation. If oxygen saturation (SpO2) was below 90%, then echocardiography was performed. Results: During the study period, 4926 live born neonates were examined. Nine out of 12 neonates with SpO2<90% had CCHD. Four neonates had tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), two had tricuspid atresia, two had transposition of great arteries (TGA) and one had truncus arteriosus. The incidence of CHD was 33.49 per 1000 live births and CCHD was 1.82 per 1000. A pulse oximetry cut-off value of below 90% for detecting CCHD showed 90% sensitivity, 99.94% specificity, 75% positive predictive value (PPV) and 99.98% negative predictive value (NPV). Conclusion: Pulse oximetry is safe, feasible and noninvasive and also used to screen for CCHD. It is the nice method to detect the CHD along with the physical examination of neonates by medical personal.peer-reviewe

A Rare Case of Budd Chiari Syndrome in a Child

A 7-year- old male child presented with the complaints of tense abdominal distension and swelling over feet since 1 month. The patient had repeated episodes of similar complaints since last two years with partial or complete relief after taking various forms of allopathic therapy. On imaging, Budd-Chiari syndrome was diagnosed which was hallmarked by occluded Inferior venacava (IVC), caudate lobe enlargement and heterogeneous liver enhancement. Initially thrombolysis done leading to complete remission for the patient for 15 days, later on again the patient developed similar complaints for which balloon venoplasty and hepatic vein stenting was done

Assessment of Infrastructure Resilience in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Water Infrastructure in the 2015 Nepalese Earthquake

Despite the emerging literature on resilient infrastructure systems, the number of studies related to developing communities is rather limited. The majority of the existing studies focus mainly on resilience of infrastructure networks in developed countries. Infrastructure networks in developed countries are less vulnerable to the impacts of catastrophic disasters due to the existence of established design codes and management processes and the availability of financial and technological resources. Catastrophic disasters usually have more extensive impacts on infrastructure systems in developing countires. The objective of this study is to investigate the resilience of infrastructure in developing countries using a case study of water system in Kathmandu Valley in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepalese Earthquake. First, a new systemic farmework for assessment of infrastructure resilience was developed. Second, data obtained from various sources including pre-disaster condition, post-disaster damage assessments, and interviews with different stakeholders were used in assessment of different components of resilience in the water system.The study investigated three dimensions of resilience in Kathmandu Valley’s water system : (1) exposure ; (2) sensitivity ; and (3) adaptive capacity. Through a systemic analysis, various resilience characteristics such as coupling, response behaviors, and types of interdependencies that affect the resilience of the system were identified. The findings of the study highlight different factors that influenced the resilience of the water system in Kathmandu Valley. These results provide new insights regarding infrastructure resilience in the context of developing countries.This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number CMMI-1546738. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this ma-terial are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation

Qubits quantum state transfer through coupled single mode resonators

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Evaluating Distributed Leadership in Open Source Software Communities

This paper suggests that leadership in Open Source Software (OSS) communities can be better conceptualised as collectively shared, communal processes or ‘distributed leadership’. The quality of distributed leadership and its role in the Community performance can be, however, difficult to evaluate and improve. In order to address this problem, the paper develops an integrated analytical framework that organizes leadership practices along three dimensions: technocratic, empathic and network. We apply and further elaborate this framework in relation to the Drupal OSS community in which we follow the interactions over three months of four developers who have generic leadership roles. The findings show how the repertoire of leadership practices of each developer pattern into a particular leadership style. These leadership styles are then used to show how they co-constitute the overall leadership capacity of the Drupal community. This paper, thus, offers granular and discriminatory insights into our understanding of leadership, which plays a central role in sustaining open communities. This research also holds practical implications for evaluating and improving distributed leadershi

Magneto Dielectric-Laden Miniaturized Wideband Meander Line Antenna for Mobile Devices

This research presents a miniaturized wideband meander line antenna (MLA) using a magneto dielectric (MD) material for mobile device applications. The proposed MLA attached the lower and upper ground planes of the folder-type chassis, connected electrically by grounding strip. The MD material (ECCOSORB MF-124) was subsequently loaded onto the coupling element area of the MLA. The MD-laden MLA was ultracompact (10 mm × 25 mm × 1 mm), with the electrical size of 0.015λ × 0.039λ × 0.0015λ at 470 MHz. The surface current distribution was simulated to determine the optimal parameters of the MD-laden MLA. To verify, a prototype antenna was fabricated and the experiments were performed. The measured impedance bandwidth (S11<−6 dB) covered the frequency range of 467–1012 MHz (73.6%), with an omnidirectional radiation pattern. The radiation efficiency was in excess of 90%, rendering it suitable for the DVB-H/LTE13/GSM850/900 applications

Micro- And Macroeconomic Implications Of Heterogeneity In The Production Of Human Capital

We derive a tractable nonlinear earnings function that we estimate separately individual by individual using NLSY79 data. We obtain three ability measures, a rate of skill depreciation, a time discount rate, and a population-wide estimate of the human capital rental rate. We utilize these parameters to verify a number of heretofore untested theorems based on the life cycle model. We show how these human capital production function parameters relate to cognitive ability, personality traits, and family background. Finally, we show that accounting for individual-specific heterogeneity dramatically reduces estimates of population-wide persistence of permanent and transitory shocks by over 50 percent