Previous literature describes Thai children as unusually polite, deferent, and behaviorally restrained. Yet, in a recent study employing teacher reports, Thai children were reported to show many more behavior problems than American children. Such a finding may reflect culture-linked differences in the perspective of Thai versus American teachers. To explore this possibility, we used trained obs...

Title of Document: FROM CHINA TO THE US: NUTRITION, DIET AND ACCULTURATION OF CHINESE EMPLOYED IN HIGH-TECH INDUSTRIES – RESULTS FROM A WEB-BASED SURVEY. Chunling Wang, M.D., 2007 Directed By: Nadine Sahyoun. Ph.D., RD, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Background: Due to the fast development of economies in China and the great needs of professionals in the US, the population of highly e...

Thai traditional medicine is one of the most valuable heritages handed down from Thai ancestors. In spite of increasing popularity of Western modern medicine, Thai traditional medicine is still widely used in taking care of health in daily life especially among the rural Thais. For the past decade, the government and private organizations have worked in collaboration to restore the values and p...

This study examined Australian English speakers’ and Thai-English bilingual speakers’ ability to perceive word-final stops in English and Thai. Thai bilinguals lived in Sydney, Australia, for 5.5 years on average (range = 0.2 – 30.3). In Experiment 1 (categorial discrimination test), Thai bilinguals were able to discriminate stop contrasts differing in place of articulation in their two languag...

* Faculty of Information Technology, Rangsit University. Abstract With the rapidly increasing number of Thai text documents available in digital media and websites, it is important to find an efficient text indexing technique to facilitate search and retrieval. An efficient index would speed up the response time and improve the accessibility of the documents. Up to now, not much research in Tha...

Thai speech synthesis by rule has been developed. In order to synthesize F0 contours of Thai tones, the generative model of F0 contours (Fujisaki's model) for tonal languages is applied. Along with our method, the pitch contours of Thai polysyllabic words were analyzed. Rules are derived and applied to synthesize Thai polysyllabic tone sequences. We performed listening tests to evaluate intelli...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Thai version of the neck disability index (NDI) in neck pain patients. MATERIAL AND METHOD The NDI was translated into Thai. The translation strategy used international standards. Forty-six Thai patients with neck pain were included in the present study. Thai version NDI, short form-36 (SF-36) and visual analogue scale (VAS) were compl...

This paper presents a characteristic study of Thai segmental duration and adapts the analysis results to construct a Thai phone duration model for Thai speech synthesis. The study uses Hayashi's categorized linear regression model to analyze the effects of various factors including current phonemes themselves, surrounding phonemes, phone positions in word, phone positions in phrase, part-of-spe...

Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory in usage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized imperfective aspectual marking on the verb. Furthermore, Thai has verb final deictic-path verbs that form a closed class set. The current study investigated if obligatoriness of these grammatical categories in Thai and English affects the expression of co-occurring temporal e...