Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is considered to be one of the leading health issues in Thailand. CVD not only contributes to an increase in the number of hospital admissions year by year but also impacts on the rising health care expenditure for the treatment and long-term care of CVD patients. Therefore, this study is aimed at examining the impacts of risk reduction strategies on the number of CVD hospital admissions, Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) and the costs of hospitalisation. To est...

Public Health  Cardiology 

Going global of China’s original picture books with distinctive multimodal features constitutes an important link in spreading Chinese culture. Taking the multimodal discourse analysis of Chinese original picture books A New Year’s Reunion, The Red Shoe and First Trip away from Home as examples, the present article makes a tentative study on strategies for English translation of Chinese original picture books from three perspectives, namely taking both texts and pictures into consideration, maki...

Linguistics 

Depending on the power and influence of the incidental learning, some of the thematic words such as days, months, seasons, numbers, school rules are hung in coloured strips on some school or class walls in our country and recently on the school stair steps. Students are expected to see these words every day and learn the words while trying to understand the contents. Such practices are usually seen at primary or high school level, because students at higher education institutions are considered ...

Linguistics 

The second derivative method which is A-stable is derived using Interpolation Collocation approach. The continuous method obtained are used to generate the main method and complementary methods to solve initial value problems of ordinary differential equation via boundary value technique. Numerical result obtained via the methods shows that the new method can compete with the existing ones in the literature.

Ordinary Differential Equation 

Intentional ambiguity refers to the linguistic phenomenon that the addresser consciously uses some indirect or ambiguous words to express illocutionary forces to the addressee in the specific context. By analyzing the intentional ambiguity from the perspective of pragmatic definition, pragmatic connotation, pragmatic theory and pragmatic value, it shows that the dynamic study of intentional ambiguity based on pragmatics is conducive to explain the phenomenon of intentional ambiguity in communica...

Linguistics 

Background: Recently epidemiological studies have shown that type 2 diabetes mellitus is great a risk factor for cardiovascular mortality. Electrolyte abnormalities are commonly encountered in chronic diabetes mellitus type 2 patients. Aim: The aim of this study was to estimate serum electrolyte levels & HbA1C levels among Sudanese diabetic Patients with macrovascular complications in Khartoum State, Sudan. Materials & Methods: In this case, control hospital based study conducted in Khartoum sta...

Diabetes & Endocrinology  Biochemistry 

Traditional urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs) are deficiently efficient in eliminating most contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), comprising antibiotics, antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes (ARB & ARGs). Such pollutants lead to some worry for nature and human health. This work discusses the performance of the best available technologies (BATs) for dealing with urban wastewater (UWW) to eliminate CECs and ARB & ARGs. Ozonation, activated carbon adsorption, che...

Environmental Sciences 

Agricultural research has shown that depending on the variety, groundnuts can be more or less sensitive to fertilizer inputs. There are varieties indifferent to fertilizer inputs and varieties that are better able to receive this mode of treatment for a given site. The response to fertilization can be manifested in different ways: increasing the number of seeds, increasing the weight of seeds, increasing the oil content, improving the morphological or physiological characters of the plant; simil...

Plant Science 

Social media has rapidly revolutionized the information and communication domain in the world. The applicability of social media in the academic sphere is occasioned by prospects and challenges. Consequently, it has created a bone of contention within the academic realm. The study therefore reviewed social media applications and their preferential utilization by university students in knowledge sharing. This study seeks to address the research problem; the university management has endeavored in...

Information Science 

Funds are provided in different ways to higher education institutions. They are made possible through private or public actors. Usually they are distributed as a form of tuitions, gifts, grants, research donations, etc. Funds are given for the purpose of empowering and promoting the activities of universities, faculties and their staff. When universities show high performance in teaching, research and innovation, they are considered potential for obtaining funds from the agencies that distribute...

Sociology