Building Process of Public-Private Dialogue During Major Reforms In Myanmar

Since 1962, Myanmar has experienced stagnant economic growth despite its rich natural resources, demographic strength, and being located at the crossroad of Asia. To improve policy and regulation, Myanmar\u27s private sector must advocate policy or administrative course of action to the government. Therefore, the purpose of the research was to evaluate the public-private dialogue (PPD) before and after the change of the government, and change of UMFCCI leadership during major reforms in Myanmar. Research questions were focused on the design, implementation, and benefits and risks of PPD. This qualitative case study, based on cross-sector collaboration theory, included semistructured interviews with 26 key participants who have deeply involved in the PPD building process since very beginning. Data were categorized for thematic analysis and the PPD building process was compared before and after April 2016 because there was a change of government and Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries leadership. Findings included differing levels of conceptualization, capacity constraints, and the need to coordinate among development partners. Additionally, differing commitment level among local and foreign businesses indicated that creating the right conditions and being able to establish a collective purpose are important for successful cross-sector collaboration. This study contributes to positive social change for policy makers and collaborators interested in creating a positive regulatory environment through collaboration

Motivation And Revisit Intention Of International Tourists In KALAW (Thet Thet Myo Thant, 2022)

The purpose of this study includes to find out the affecting destination attributes and motivation factors on tourists’ satisfaction based on visit experience. It explores whether international tourists trip experiential satisfaction affect on revisit intention towards Kalaw. This study is done by considering the pull and push theory. Primary data are gathered from 133 visitors from selected 10 tour agencies. The study revealed that among five destination attributes, nature, culture attraction, friendly people, and climate has strong positive effect on the experiential satisfaction of the international tourists. Among them, nature of Kalaw has the greatest positive effect on experiential satisfaction. The study found that all push factors (motives) have positive effect on the experiential satisfaction of the international tourists. Among them, adventure has the greatest positive effect on experiential satisfaction. The survey data revealed that between pull and push motivation factors, pull factors (destination attributes) have more positive impact on experiential satisfaction. The results of the study show that experiential satisfaction has positive impact on the revisit intention of the tourists. According to the findings, it is suggested that officials and policy makers should pay attention to natural attributes not to be destroyed in the future. In addition, Myanmar hotel and tourism ministry should develop more adventure tours and arrange rescue teams for the safety of the visitors to increase experiential satisfaction. By following these suggestions, the revisit intention of the international tourists can be raised and thereby, lead to promote the tourism related industry in Kalaw

Application of Queuing Model to Minimize the Waiting Time in Fuel Stations

The purpose of this paper is to study how the queuing model is applied to minimize the waiting time in fuel stations. In many fuel stations there had been long queues to collect the fuel as a result there may be a rare of the products in recent time. This type of station makes the customers to wait for more than hours. The service station in cities sells products to the available customers in a random order, which results to long queue in fuel stations. In this paper a single channel multiple server model is considered to reduce the waiting time of the customers

Effect Of Single And Co-Doping Of Strontium And Silver On Properties Of Sol-Gel Derived Quaternary Bioactive Glass

Bioactive glasses (BG) have been considered as one of the most promising materials for bone regeneration due to its property to bond with both soft and hard tissues and the capability to release ions overtime that have a positive effect on the bone cell proliferation and differentiation in-vitro and in-vivo. However, the bone regeneration in patient who suffer osteoporosis disease and the re-occurrence of bacterial infection limit its biomedical applications. BG can bond to hard tissue and degrades over time but the bone regeneration capacity of osteoporotic bones is generally slower than that of normal bones. Therefore it limits the application of BG. Also, bacterial infection is serious sometimes it needs to second surgery with a lot of suffering and there is still re-occurrence of bacterial infection after surgery. To overcome this limitation, the implant BG should possess long-term antibacterial property. However, these limitations could be overcome by doping of therapeutic ions into BG system. Hence, the purpose of this study is to dope strontium (Sr2+) and silver (Ag+) into quaternary silicate BG to enhance the in-vitro bioactivity (particularly bone formation for osteoporotic disease) and antibacterial properties (bacterial infection re-occurrence). This is performed by sol-gel method which include mixing, gelation, aging, drying and calcination. BG with S53P4 composition was used as a control and two new compositions (S50P4 and S55P4) was developed from SiO2-CaO-Na2O-P2O5 quaternary system. Strontium (Sr2+) is bone seeker trace elements which possess positive effects on bone formation (osteogenesis). Thus, the Sr2+ concentration of 1, 3 and 5 mol% was chosen and the compositions were categorized as BG-1S, BG-3S and BG-5S in this study. On the other hand, low concentration of Ag+ has an effect on bacterial infection and the concentration of 1, 2 and 3 mol% was chosen for silver doping and denoted as BG-1A, BG-2A and BG-3A accordingly. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed that the doping of Sr2+ and Ag+ did not change the silicate structure as well as combeite phase. The in-vitro bioactivity test soaking in Hank’s balanced salt solution (HBSS) for 3, 7 and 14 days confirmed on the hydroxyl-carbonated (HCA) formation on the specimens’ surface with emerging of HA peaks in XRD and the carbonated (C-O bond) and phosphate groups (P-O bond) in FTIR spectra. However, less intense apatite formation was observed in Ag doped BGs compared to Sr-doped BG while Sr-BG showed the enhanced in apatite formation after 14 days soaking in HBSS. The in-vitro biocompatibility test with MC3T3-E1 osteoblast like cells proved that 3 mol% of Sr2+ and 1 mol% of Ag+ observed the highest in both cells proliferation (cells viability) and Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity. Moreover, the mineralization staining for bone-like formation was improved after Sr2+ and Ag+ doped into glass formulation compared with undoped specimen (BG-0). Interestingly, the multi-doped (Sr and Ag) bioglass specimen (BG-3S1A) showed cytocompatibility which demonstrated the positive effect of the combination of Sr2+and Ag+ ions on MC3T3-E1 osteoblast cell proliferation as well as the staining areas for BG-3S1A are significantly higher than those of other specimens. Moreover, the bacterial response of multi-doped composition (BG-3S1A) had the comparable inhibition zone of Ag-BG against E.coli and S.aureus bacteria. Summarizing, the multi-doped combination of Sr2+ and Ag+ ion into bioactive glass was successfully developed by sol-gel method and exhibiting improved in-vitro biocompatibility and antibacterial properties

Colchicine-induced pancreatitis in an elderly patient with renal impairment: A case report

Colchicine is widely used in the treatment of acute gout. It has a narrow therapeutic window and can be extremely toxic in vulnerable older patients especially those with renal impairment. The most common side effects are gastrointestinal related, such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain. Colchicine-induced acute pancreatitis is very rare especially within therapeutic dose range. We report an atypical presentation of acute pancreatitis caused by a therapeutic dose of colchicine in an elderly patient with preexisting chronic renal disease

3D Virtual Tour For TAIPING Zoo

This project is building the system that would give users to feel virtual world. The main objective of the project is about entertainment, information and educational purposes. At the current situation, the website does not provide the link which directs to view the virtual environment, tour around and entertaining with 3D animals and objects. This project provides user to have more opportunities that they cannot get in the real world like getting closer and discover wild life animals. To provide virtual tour does not require travel but having an experience of moving through the selected areas. The project will really be helpful to users will get information and can think of what is the zoo like before they go to the zoo. A virtual tour is virtual reality simulation of an actually existing location, usually comprising 2D images, a sequence of hyperlinked 3D objects of the real location, as well as other multimedia elements such as sound effects, music, narration and text. To build virtual tour for the whole TAIPING zoo providing the images and information of all animals is quite big task to get done alone. Therefore, it focuses on 5 cages and information about the animals inside each cage, and zoo environment. It will provide the map for user to choose animal that they desire to see. The expectation of this project is that user would feel satisfied with tour around virtual environment and 3D objects, and get information of the animal. With this project, zoo TAIPING would be more interactive and can attract more visitors' attention

Factors Influencing the Likelihood of Attrition among Baccalaureate Nursing Students at Assumption University of Thailand

The current study investigated the factors hypothesized to influence the likelihood of attrition among baccalaureate nursing students at Assumption University of Thailand. The study employed path analysis to test the research hypotheses, based on participants’ responses to a survey questionnaire. The sample consisted of 180 second, third, and fourth year nursing student participants obtained through convenience sampling. The study’s findings showed that role discrepancy positive (self-in-role value is higher than perceived obligatory role value) had direct and indirect influences on the likelihood of attrition, being mediated by academic satisfaction. Moreover, clinical setting anxiety had an indirect influence on the likelihood of attrition, being mediated by academic satisfaction. Although the levels of role discrepancy negative, clinical setting anxiety, and burnout were high among the participants, there were no significant direct influences of these variables on the likelihood of attrition. Additionally, nursing student participants reported high levels of academic satisfaction and low levels of likelihood of attrition during their education and clinical training at Assumption University of Thailand

Effect of E-Service Quality on Satisfaction and Customer Loyalty of Online Organic Product Shoppers in Myanmar (Phyo Thet, 2022)

This study aims to examine the effect of e-service quality on customer satisfaction and to analyze the influence of customer satisfaction on customer loyalty towards online organic product shoppers. The data are collected from 355 online organic buyers by using structured questionnaire designed with 5-point likert scale. The study reveals that five e-service quality dimensions: efficiency, system availability, fulfillment, privacy and security, and personalization have a strong positive effect on customer satisfaction while assurance does not have a significant effect on customer satisfaction. Among those significant practices, system availability is the main determinant of customer satisfaction. Regression result also reveals that customer satisfaction has a significant positive effect on the loyalty of online organic shoppers. For system availability, online organic shops should extend more channels such as twitter, telegram, and viber etc. Online organic shops should continue offer mobile banking payment with no additional percentage or cash on delivery for efficiency. Organic shops should use strong security measures to improve the security of their page and to keep the confidential information of the customers. To focus personalization, online organic shops should apply Facebook’s consumer-centric targeting tools for greater precision. Finally, online organic shops should apply e-service dimensions in conducting market survey to find out the satisfaction levels of the online organic shoppers

Feature Selection for Categorization of Online News Articles in Myanmar Language

In text mining, the feature selection plays an important role to reduce the high dimensionality of feature space. It can improve the accuracy of the document clustering process and help to avoid overfitting problem. Nowadays, the enormous amount of news article documents is widely available on the internet due to the rapid development of the web. Consequently, there is an urgent need to extract useful content from overloaded information. The categorization of online text documents is crucial to avoid information overload and it can help readers to find rapidly their interesting topic. The problem arises for text categorization is the large number of features space. This study has two phases, documents preprocessing and feature selection. Document preprocessing contains documents collection, syllable segmentation, word segmentation, removing stop words for extracting features from the collection of Myanmar online news documents including sport, health, crime etc. In this study, TF-IDF weighting method is adapted for feature selection. The experimental result shows the adapted TF-IDF method has higher performance than based TF-IDF method