In order to comprehend detailed forest resources, the use of high spatial resolution data is expected. However, the efficeint forest cover type classification method of high spatial resolution data is not cleared yet. So, this study discussed the potential of the forest cover type classification such as classification of coniferous forest, broadleaved forest, and mixed forest, and tree speices ...

Shear-wave velocity (Vs) of soils in Nakhon Nayok City, Central Thailand were determined using the Multi-Channel Analysis Surface Wave technique. The Vs. 35 tested sites weighted average to 30 m depth based on National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) criteria, which revealed NEHRP site classes C, D, and E within study area. Soil class C was found north city. Moreover, most resident...

This paper presents a comparison between different context-sensitive kernel functions for doing splice site prediction with a support vector machine. Four types of kernel functions will be used: linear-, polynomial-, radial basis functionand negative distance-based kernels. Domain-knowledge can be incorporated into the kernels by incorporating statistical measures or by directly plugging in dis...

This paper reports an ongoing study related to the design of conceptual design model of interactive television (iTV) advertisement towards impulse purchase tendency. Despite many studies have been proposing factors of impulse purchase in many different advertising medium like website, mobile, traditional retail store, and traditional television; none of the impulse purchase model is dedicated t...

This study examined the associations between interpersonal strengths and academic achievements and interests in a sample of 248 university students. Interpersonal strengths were assessed by the Inventory of Interpersonal Strengths (IIS), which conforms to the twodimensional interpersonal circumplex (IPC) model of personality. Academic achievement indexed by high school GPA and SAT scores and co...

This study focuses on the tourism websites that are doing destination marketing for some remote areas. This study proposes that when interactivity is put into the website to create users‘ virtue experience with the remote areas, different user may response differently. Two kinds of user‘s personal factors are investigated in this study: Susceptibility to Interpersonal Influence and Personal Inv...

Despite academic feminist debate over several decades, the binary nature of sex as a (perhaps the) primary social classification is often taken for granted, as is the assumption that individuals can be unproblematically assigned a biological sex at birth. This article presents analysis of online debate on the BBC news website in November 2013, comprising 864 readers' responses to an article ent...

PURPOSE To report the accuracy of colposcopically directed biopsy in an internet-based colposcopy quality assurance programme in northern Italy. METHODS A web application was made accessible on the website of the regional Administration. Fifty-nine colposcopists out of the registered 65 logged in, viewed a posted set of 50 digital colpophotographs, classified them for colposcopic impression a...