Mahidol University International College

About: Mahidol University International College is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Tourism & Corporate governance. The organization has 240 authors who have published 485 publications receiving 6095 citations.

Reviewing Thailand's master plans and policies: implications for creative tourism?

Abstract: This article contributes to an understanding of how creative tourism is perceived on a national level, by using Thailand as a case analysis. The primary objective of this article is to investigate Thailand's plans and policies for the creative economy at both national and ministry levels in relation to creative tourism. It also identifies how a national strategic plan can provide a blueprint for individual agency master plans to provide policy support for the development of the creative economy in the tourism sector. Thailand is chosen as an example of how government and related agencies can contribute to a national creative tourism movement in the country, especially in the light of the Tourism Authority of Thailand branding campaign to stimulate creative tourism to the destination. The qualitative research methodology through content analysis is used to scrutinise the plan and policy contents from the selected government agencies. The results demonstrate a better view of how creative tourism is position...

Parallel Shortest Paths Using Radius Stepping

Abstract: The single-source shortest path problem (SSSP) with nonnegative edge weights is notoriously difficult to solve efficiently in parallel---it is one of the graph problems said to suffer from the transitive-closure bottleneck. Yet, in practice, the Δ-stepping algorithm of Meyer and Sanders (J. Algorithms, 2003) often works efficiently but has no known theoretical bounds on general graphs. The algorithm takes a sequence of steps, each increasing the radius by a user-specified value Δ. Each step settles the vertices in its annulus but can take Θ(n) substeps, each requiring Θ(m) work (n vertices and m edges). Building on the success of Δ-stepping, this paper describes Radius Stepping, an algorithm with one of the best-known tradeoffs between work and depth bounds for SSSP with nearly-linear (~O(m)) work. The algorithm is a Δ-stepping-like algorithm but uses a variable instead of a fixed-size increase in radii, allowing us to prove a bound on the number of steps. In particular, by using what we define as a vertex k-radius, each step takes at most k+2 substeps. Furthermore, we define a (k, ρ)-graph property and show that if an undirected graph has this property, then the number of steps can be bounded by O(n/ρ log ρ L), for a total of O(kn/ρ log ρ L) substeps, each parallel. We describe how to preprocess a graph to have this property. Altogether, for an arbitrary input graph with n vertices and m edges, Radius Stepping, after preprocessing, takes O((m+nρ)log n) work and $O(n/ρ log n log (ρ L)) depth per source. The preprocessing step takes O(m log n + nρ2) work and O(ρlog ρ) depth, adding no more than O(nρ) edges.

Fingerroot, Boesenbergia rotunda and its Aphrodisiac Activity

Abstract: Boesenbergia rotunda (Family: Zingiberaceae) as known as fingerroot is a daily food ingredient and traditional medicinal plant in Southeast Asia and Indo-China. It has been shown to possess anti-allergic, antibacterial, anticancer, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and antiulcer activities and also shown wound healing. Its common phytochemical components include alkaloids, essential oils, flavonoids, and phenolics. This plant is rich in boesenbergin, krachaizin, panduratin, and pinostrobin, all of which has been reported to contribute to its remedial properties including aphrodisiac property. Based on established literature on the aphrodisiac property of B. rotunda and possible mode of action, this review article has attempted to compile that B. rotunda could be further explored for the development of potential aphrodisiac treatment.

Exploring the Effect of Religious Piety on Corporate Governance: Evidence from Anti-takeover Defenses and Historical Religious Identification

Abstract: Because religious piety induces individuals to be more honest and risk averse, it makes managers less likely to exploit shareholders, thereby mitigating the agency conflict and potentially influencing governance arrangements. We exploit the variation in religious piety across the U.S. counties and investigate the effect of religious piety on anti-takeover provisions. Our results show that religious piety substitutes for corporate governance in alleviating the agency conflict. Effective governance is less necessary for firm with strong religious piety. As a result, religious piety leads to weaker governance, as indicated by more anti-takeover defenses. We exploit historical religious piety as far back as 1952 as our instrumental variable. Religious piety from the distant past is unlikely correlated with current corporate governance directly, except through contemporaneous religious piety. Our instrumental variable analysis, which is far less vulnerable to endogeneity, corroborates the conclusion.

Elucidating the determinants of business intelligence adoption and organizational performance

Abstract: This research is one of the first few to investigate the adoption and usage of business intelligence among SMEs in the context of developing countries, in this case Thailand. Based on the three-pro...