A Comparative Study of French and Myanmar Proverbs and Sayings in Speaking

This paper is the analysis on the Comparative Study of the Proverbs and Sayings based on speaking in Myanmar and French languages. The necessary data are collected and retrieved from the French dictionary, Myanmar Proverbs and Sayings Book, and the Internet websites. Then the proverbs and sayings from the two languages are presented in comparison with five kinds of metaphors. They are Metaphor concerning animals, human’s habits, situations, things and taste. This paper is written using Comparative and Descriptive Methods, with the aims to expand the knowledge and vocabulary of the usage of related proverbs and sayings, to apply them in real life situations which are similar and different in two languages

Design Calculation of Parabolic Trough Solar Thermal System and Three-phaseTurbo Alternator

Solar energy can be converted into thermal energy with the help of solarcollectors. Electricity can be produced directly from solar energy usingphotovoltaic devices or indirectly from steam generators using solar thermal collectors to heat a working fluid. This research is using the conversion of solar energy into electricity in a closed cycle driven by natural convection. It would mean that electricity is cheaper than from any other renewable technology and cheaper than from fossil fuels. This paper describes converting thermal energy collected by solar collector to electricity by using turbine. Anywhere in Myanmar will cheaply use electricity by using solar turbine generator. Remote areas will improve more and more when getting the efficient electricity. The design calculation and performance predication of 1 MVA turbo-alternator/generator are also mentioned. Design calculation of absorbed flux, useful heat gain and exit temperature is described. And then development of two-tank thermal storage system that uses molten salt as the heat transfer fluid is described

Socializing One Health: an innovative strategy to investigate social and behavioral risks of emerging viral threats

In an effort to strengthen global capacity to prevent, detect, and control infectious diseases in animals and people, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT) PREDICT project funded development of regional, national, and local One Health capacities for early disease detection, rapid response, disease control, and risk reduction. From the outset, the EPT approach was inclusive of social science research methods designed to understand the contexts and behaviors of communities living and working at human-animal-environment interfaces considered high-risk for virus emergence. Using qualitative and quantitative approaches, PREDICT behavioral research aimed to identify and assess a range of socio-cultural behaviors that could be influential in zoonotic disease emergence, amplification, and transmission. This broad approach to behavioral risk characterization enabled us to identify and characterize human activities that could be linked to the transmission dynamics of new and emerging viruses. This paper provides a discussion of implementation of a social science approach within a zoonotic surveillance framework. We conducted in-depth ethnographic interviews and focus groups to better understand the individual- and community-level knowledge, attitudes, and practices that potentially put participants at risk for zoonotic disease transmission from the animals they live and work with, across 6 interface domains. When we asked highly-exposed individuals (ie. bushmeat hunters, wildlife or guano farmers) about the risk they perceived in their occupational activities, most did not perceive it to be risky, whether because it was normalized by years (or generations) of doing such an activity, or due to lack of information about potential risks. Integrating the social sciences allows investigations of the specific human activities that are hypothesized to drive disease emergence, amplification, and transmission, in order to better substantiate behavioral disease drivers, along with the social dimensions of infection and transmission dynamics. Understanding these dynamics is critical to achieving health security--the protection from threats to health-- which requires investments in both collective and individual health security. Involving behavioral sciences into zoonotic disease surveillance allowed us to push toward fuller community integration and engagement and toward dialogue and implementation of recommendations for disease prevention and improved health security

DEBT FINANCING AND ITS DETERMINANTS IN MYANMAR CITIZENS BANK: A Case of SMEs

The objective of the study is to identify the debt financing practices in Myanmar Citizens Bank and to analyze the determinants of debt financing in Myanmar Citizens Bank. Corporate Banking, commercial banking, retail banking, SMEs financing, invoice financing, pledge loan, hire purchase and home loan which are include in debt financing practices in Myanmar Citizens Bank. The main focused of this research is to investigate the debt financing practices and its determinants in Myanmar Citizens bank. This research used both primary data and secondary data. The primary data is collected by interviewing with business owner, they got Jica two step loan from Myanmar Citizens Bank, head office of Yangon. The sample size includes 50 respondents 54 percent of total 93 SMEs, Survey was conducted by using structured questionnaires and used descriptive analysis. Based on the results from the study, it is found out that firm age, firm size, education, experience and financial transparency are involved in determinants of debt in Myanmar Citizens Bank. Many scholars also pointed out that these are the determinants in debt financing area. But after conducting research and analysis, they concluded with the determinants on debt financing are still needed to be explored. This paper also found out that the determinants in Myanmar Citizens Bank has similar results with their findings and recommend for further study in this area since it can benefits for the whole industry of debt financing area

Impacts of Migration on Socioeconomic Life: A Case Study of Hlaingkabar Village, Hpa-An Township, Kayin State

Migration is a crucial part of many people’s livelihood strategy, meaning the capabilities, assets and activities required for their means of living. The majority of the local people dwelling in Hlaingkabar village earn their living by depending on farming. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impacts of migration as an alternate livelihood strategy on socioeconomic life living in Hlaingkabar village, Hpa-An Township, Kayin State. This research applied ethnographic research methods, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. Most of the people living in Hlaingkabar village, Hpa-An Township, Kayin State are Kayin nationals. Hlaingkabar villagers depend on paddy growing, migration work, shopkeeping and odd jobs. Since 1998, family’s social, health and education conditions cannot support by only farming income because of decreases in the rice price, leading to push factors for the villagers to seek to solve their problems through other livelihood strategies, like migration. When they get contacts through their social networks to get job opportunities outside that support a regular income, we can see many pull factors that motivate them to migrate to Thailand as migrant workers. Gradually, due to the contacts of friends and relatives in 2015, both married and single women get more job opportunities than men. Consequently, the child birth rate of the village has become as low as two children per family. Those children, however, get chances to become educated more than before. This research concludes that on the one side migration changes have positive impacts on the local people to develop education, but on the other side it affects family structure, labor shortage in farming

Sentiment Analysis of Hotel Reviews

Mining opinions and sentiments fromnatural language is challenging, because itrequires a deep understanding of the explicit andimplicit, regular and irregular, and syntacticaland semantic language rules. Sentiment analysisactually focuses on polarity detection and emotionrecognition, respectively. Sentiment keywords arebest determined automatically which SentiWordNet for the most part does. SinceSentiWordNetoutputs sentiment value, it is easy to classify thedegree of sentiment. This paper proposes opinionmining applied on hotel reviews data usingSentiWordNet. In this system, users can search theopinions for each hotel according to positive andnegative senses with respect to SentimentAnalysis. Then, these analyzed results aresummarized by using keywords

Design of Speedometer and Recording System for Diesel Electric Locomotive

The paper describes design of speed measuring system and display systems are constructed in Myamna Railways. These systems are based on microcontroller, digital logic circuitry, programming as well as the 7-segment LED display. There are two portions in this research work. They are speed sensing system and display system. The type of speedometer used in Myanma Railways is analog clock system. Significant advantages of the proposed system are the modern techniques. So the replacement of suitable and adaptable system is very important application of for Myanma Railways transport operation. This proposed system is a modified design of speed measuring and indicating instrument or speedometer-based on electronic methods. A digital readout is also implemented. The design system is intend for long term used, high precision, vibration proof and low power consumption. The microcontroller selection, design and construction of one 7-segment display system and proposed circuits are designed and implemented test and results of the system are described

Detection of Signal for Radar Navigational System Using MATLAB

This paper aims to evaluate the performance of target detection in the presence of sea clutter. Radar detection of a target against a background of unwanted clutter due to echoes from sea clutter or land is a problem of interest in the radar field. Radar detector has been developed by assuming the radar clutter is Gaussian distributed. However, as technology emerges, the radar distribution is seen to deviates from the Gaussian assumption. Thus, detectors designs based on Gaussian assumption are no longer optimum for detection in non-Gaussian nature. The theory of target detection in Gaussian distributed clutter has been well established and the closed form of the detection performances can be easily obtained. However, that is not the case in non-Gaussian clutter distributions. The operation of radar detection is determined by radar detection theory with different types of Swerling target models; such as Swerling I, II, III, IV and V. By using MATLAB, these signal detection techniques are developed