371 research outputs found
Analytical Study on the Publications edited and published by the Burma [Myanmar] Research Society
No full textThe Burma Research Society (BRS) was founded on 29th. March 1910 and had a programmee to Publish, in printed book-form, important texts from Myanmar palm-leaf and parabike paper manuscripts. The BRS did most valuable work in carefully editing and publishing many old manuscripts texts. The famous Myanmar scholar Dr. Pe Maung Tin served as the BRS General Editor for its Text Program from the early 1920s to about 1940 when the Society had to cease its activities due to the Second World War. After Second World War U Wun (Min Thu Wun) and U Tin E made energetic efforts for the BRS. U Wun served asa the General Editor for the New Series.
This Paper describes authors, editors, editions, printing presses, publishing dates, cover style, arrangements, physical descriptions, series numbers, appendixes, indexes, footnotes, and subjects of these books.And also it identifies the performance of editors who were prominent Myanmar and Pali scholars like Saya Lin, Saya Pwa, U Po Sein, BaganWundauk U Tin, U Lu Pe Win, U Chan Mya, U Wun, U Thein Han, and others. Moreover,abilities of ancient Myanmar authors and role of old Myanmar literature are investigated and expressed in this paper
Advancing HIV Treatment and Health Outcomes: Insights from Comprehensive Cohort Studies on Viral Suppression, Treatment Response, Immune Recovery, Metabolic and Long-Term Complications among People Living with HIV
No full textThis thesis presents a comprehensive investigation into various aspects of HIV treatment and health outcomes, providing insights on key factors that influence viral suppression, treatment response, immune recovery, metabolic factors, and long-term complications. The thesis includes studies encompassing diverse populations across different geographic regions, providing valuable insights into the global landscape of HIV care and studies that focus on HIV epidemic in the Asia-Pacific region.
Viral suppression is estimated in children and adolescents, and adults on antiretroviral therapy (ART), incorporating adjustments for missing viral load measurements. Only 59% of children and adolescents and 65% of adults living with HIV had virological suppression at 3 years after ART. Notably, these proportions vary significantly across regions. These robust estimates enhance the understanding of treatment effectiveness in achieving viral suppression across diverse global contexts. Another investigation focuses on HIV treatment outcomes among individuals who acquired the virus through injecting drug use in the Asia-Pacific region. CD4 recovery and viral suppression improved over time after ART, despite the association of advanced HIV disease at ART initiation and sub-optimal adherence with the outcomes. The results illustrate unique challenges faced by this population and offer insights for tailored interventions and support systems.
The impact of first-line integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTI) on CD4/CD8 ratio recovery is also explored. Compared to other ART regimens, those on INSTI experience higher CD4/CD8 ratio recovery and normalization rates, providing important insights for optimizing therapeutic strategies. Furthermore, the interplay between body mass index, immune recovery, virological failure, weight gain and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk is investigated. Lastly, the incident liver cirrhosis, its associated factors, and CVD risks are studied. Individuals with liver cirrhosis are also found to have higher CVD risk scores, indicating the broader health implications of liver diseases in people with HIV.
In conclusion, this thesis offers a comprehensive exploration of HIV treatment and health outcomes, spanning viral suppression, treatment response, immune recovery, metabolic factors, and long-term complications. The knowledge gained could inform strategies for optimizing HIV care globally and enhance the long-term well-being of people living with HIV
Candidates Campaign Strategies and Vote Shares in the 20th National Assembly Elections
No full text선거에서 후보자가 유권자에게 제공하는 정보는 매우 중요하다. 짧은 선거운동 기간 동안 후보자가 유권자를 대상으로 다양한 홍보 전략을 펼치는 이유가 바로 여기에 있다. 이러한 인식하에 본 연구는 후보자의 홍보 전략을 탐구한다. 그 중에서도 후보자가 활용하는 홍보 매체, 특히 선거공보에 초점을 둔다. 우리는 선거결과에 영향을 미치는 변수로 후보자가 어떻게 선거를 규정하고 홍보하는가를 중요하게 고려한다. 구체적으로 제20대 총선 후보자의 선거공보를 인물, 정책, 매체 요인을 중심으로 살펴보고 이러한 특징이 득표율에 미치는 영향력을 측정한다. 이 연구의 회귀분석 결과에 따르면, 후보자가 자신의 이름을 강조할수록 득표율이 증가하는 반면, 정당명을 강조하는 경우 득표율이 감소하는 경향을 보인다. 또한 의정활동보다는 지역구 이익과 관련한 본인의 업적을 강조할 때 득표율이 상승하는 것으로 나타났다. 마지막으로, 유권자에게 다양한 소통 채널을 제공하는 것이 득표율에 긍정적인 영향을 미친다는 것을 확인할 수 있다. 이 연구의 경험적 결과는 후보자의 선거 전략이 선거 결과에 영향을 미칠 수 있음을 보여준다.Candidates develop and apply various campaign strategies to win elections. Examining campaign bulletins, this study grasps candidates campaign strategies. Furthermore, we estimate the influences of campaign strategies on vote shares. Campaign bulletin is one of the major campaign tools to communicate with voters. Analyzing campaign bulletins in the 20th National Assembly Elections, we focus on three different factors: candidate, policy, and media. This study tests the influences of each factor on election results. The regression results of this study show that stressing candidates names tends to increase vote shares. However, frequently exposing party names is more likely to affect vote shares negatively. In addition, advertising their activities that have brought economic benefits to their constituents tends to help incumbent candidates collect more votes. Finally, according to the regression results, providing various communication channels for voters can affect vote shares in a positive manner
A block randomized controlled trial of a brief smoking cessation counselling and advice through short message service on participants who joined the Quit to Win Contest in Hong Kong
No full text© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.The present trial examined the effectiveness of brief interventions for smokers who joined the Hong Kong Quit to Win Contest to quit smoking. A block randomized controlled trial allocated 1003 adult daily smokers to three groups: (i) The TEL group (n = 338) received a 5-min nurse-led telephone counselling; (ii) The SMS group (n = 335) received eight text messages through mobile phone and (iii) The CONTROL group (n = 330) did not receive the above interventions. Participants with biochemically verified abstinence at 6-month follow-up could receive cash incentive. The primary outcome was the self-reported 7-day point prevalence (PP) of tobacco abstinence at 6-month follow-up. The abstinence rate in the TEL, SMS and CONTROL group was 22.2, 20.6 and 20.3%, respectively (P for TEL versus CONTROL = 0.32; P for SMS versus CONTROL = 0.40). When abstinence at 2-, 6- and 12-month follow-up was modelled simultaneously, the TEL group had a higher abstinence than the CONTROL group (Adjusted OR = 1.38, 95% CI = 1.01-1.88, P = 0. 04). In the Quit to Win Contest, the brief telephone counselling might have increased abstinence, but the text messages had no significant effect. Further studies on intensive intervention and interactive messaging services are warranted.link_to_OA_fulltex
Do fans care about game outcome \uef\ubc A study of stadium attendance in CPBL
No full textThis study focuses on how Game uncertainty(GU) affects stadium attendance in Chinese Baseball League(CPBL) from 2007 to 2016. The result indicates that UOH doesn\ue2t be supported and it also reveals that fans prefer to join a game with high certainty. Furthermore, further study reveals that game uncertainty has an inconsistent effect during the observation period. However it\ue2s obviously that fans don\ue2t prefer a game with a high uncertainty outcome after 2012.
Simultaneously, some baseball club decided to operate on certain baseball stadium, such as Chengcing Lake and Taoyuan Baseball Stadium, for a long term. And the author employs a dummy variable(franchise) to distinguish these games. In the end, the author observes that there is no effect of game uncertainty in franchise games. On the other hand, fans in non-franchise game prefer to attend a game with high certain outcome. More precisely, fans prefer to join the game if home team has higher chance to win
Reading and storytelling.
No full textStories are told all over the world today, whether it be through books, or through conversations with other people. This essay puts forth the argument that the story, as we understand it, is simply something told in conversation. Every Author has something he or she wants to communicate to an audience; namely the Reader. The Reader can also communicate back, in terms of his or her own comments. But when it comes to books, conversation in stories is mostly one-sided, because the Author has majority control of the text. The Reader can of course decide to show any displeasure at the text by simply closing the book and not reading it, but then he or she would be on the losing end. This essay looks at the amount of control both Reader and Author have over the text, and whether it is possible for the Reader to win the game. At the end of it, what the adventure that the Reader goes on does is to search and prove to himself or herself an individual identity that does not need to rely on a narrator to establish.Bachelor of Art
Design Flow of Customized Products Based on Similarity Evaluation with Cubic QFD Based on MAS
No full textState’s Techniques and Local Communities’ Strategies in Land Contestations over Agro-Based Community Forests in Myanmar
No full textForest tenure reforms through community-based forest management programs have gained popularity in the Global South. Agricultural land use and local forest encroachment have caused the global decline of natural forests. Most community forestry (CF) studies have considered local communities as a state intervention target, underestimating their agency in local forest management. Therefore, this study aims to scrutinize land-related and counter techniques employed by the forest department and local communities in Myanmar to determine the incongruent and insufficient arrangement of de jure procedures in state CF programs. The findings reveal that although the CF program is deployed as a land control tool to regain the “reserved forest” status, realizing its institutional goals is difficult owing to local communities’ land utilization practices. Additionally, CF’s rigid institutional approach cannot manage changing, diverse, and minute local land control techniques. Meanwhile, local communities lack the indispensable, customary arrangements, leading to unequal land use, owing to which the state has to become a guarantor of common forest resources. Thus, this nature of contesting encroached forests reveals the need to critically reconsider land rights and invoke more profound steps beyond the framing of the contemporary “bundle of rights”
Genotypic characterization of multi-drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Myanmar
No full textThe number of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases is rising worldwide. As a countermeasure against this situation, the implementation of rapid molecular tests to identify MDR-TB would be effective. To develop such tests, information on the frequency and distribution of mutations associating with phenotypic drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis is required in each country. During 2010, the common mutations in the rpoB, katG and inhA of 178 phenotypically MDR M. tuberculosis isolates collected by the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) in Myanmar were investigated by DNA sequencing. Mutations affecting the 81-bp rifampicin (RIF) resistance-determining region (RRDR) of the rpoB were identified in 127 of 178 isolates (71.3%). Two of the most frequently affected codons were 531 and 526, with percentages of 48.3% and 14.0% respectively. For isoniazid (INH) resistance, 114 of 178 MDR-TB isolates (64.0%) had mutations in the katG in which a mutation-conferring amino acid substitution at codon 315 from Ser to Thr was the most common. Mutations in the inhA regulatory region were also detected in 20 (11.2%) isolates, with the majority at position -15. Distinct mutation rate and pattern from surrounding countries might suggest that MDR-TB has developed and spread domestically in Myanmar. (C) 2016, Japanese Society of Chemotherapy and The Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
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