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.

Examining Identity Formation of Third Culture Kids Through Transnationalism Experience

Abstract: Globalization has resulted in the significant migration of workers and their families, either parents bringing along their children, or reuniting with them in their host countries, or workers settling down in their host countries and raising their families (Ittel, 2012). These children, called Third Culture Kids (TCK) or “Global Nomads” (Sheard, 2008) comprise a group of individuals who are considered culturally unique. One of their characteristics is travelling with their expatriate parents in several countries and growing up in cultures other than their so-called “passport culture.” Bonebright described them as combining “portions of both their home culture and the host culture, building a new cultural identity that reflects all their experiences without developing a sense of belonging to any single culture” (2010, 52).

An In-Silico Investigation of Menthol Metabolism

Abstract: Prevalence of mentholated products for consumption has brought great importance to studies on menthol9s metabolic pathways to ensure safety, design more potent derivatives, and identify therapeutic benefits. Proposed pathways of (-)-menthol metabolism based on metabolites found experimentally in previous works by Yamaguchi, Caldwell & Farmer, Madyastha & Srivatsan and Hiki et al. were not in agreement. This in silico approach is based on the three in vivo studies and aims to resolve the discrepancies. Reactions in the pathways are conjugation with glucuronic acid/sulfate, oxidation to alcohol, aldehyde & carboxylic acid, and formation of a four-membered/five-membered ring. Gas-phase structures, standard Gibbs energies and SMD solvation energies at B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p) level were obtained for 102 compounds in the pathways. This study provides a more complete picture of menthol metabolism by combining information from three experimental studies and filling missing links in previously published pathways.

Co-adaptation in a Handwriting Recognition System

Abstract: Handwriting is a natural and versatile method for human-computer interaction, especially on small mobile devices such as smart phones. However, as handwriting varies significantly from person to person, it is difficult to design handwriting recognizers that perform well for all users. A natural solution is to use machine learning to adapt the recognizer to the user. One complicating factor is that, as the computer adapts to the user, the user also adapts to the computer and probably changes their handwriting. This paper investigates the dynamics of coadaptation, a process in which both the computer and the user are adapting their behaviors in order to improve the speed and accuracy of the communication through handwriting. We devised an information-theoretic framework for quantifying the efficiency of a handwriting system where the system includes both the user and the computer. Using this framework, we analyzed data collected from an adaptive handwriting recognition system and characterized the impact of machine adaptation and of human adaptation. We found that both machine adaptation and human adaptation have significant impact on the input rate and must be considered together in order to improve the efficiency of the system as a whole.

Similarity Measurement for Sentiment Classification on Textual Reviews

Abstract: Sentiment classification on textual reviews refers to classifying textual reviews based on whether they are positive or negative. This research focuses on classifying movie reviews, and is benchmarked on the IMDB dataset, which consists of long movie reviews, using accuracy as the evaluation metric. In sentiment classification, each document must be mapped to a fixed length vector. Document embedding models map each document to a dense, low-dimensional vector in continuous vector space. This research proposes to train document embedding using cosine similarity instead of dot product. Experiments on the IMDB dataset show that accuracy is improved when using cosine similarity compared to using dot product, while using feature combination with Naive-Bayes weighted bag of n-grams achieves a new state of the art accuracy of 97.4%.

Book Review: Alan Collins, Building a People-oriented Security Community the ASEAN Way

Abstract: Book Review of the Monograph: Collins, Alan (2013), Building a People-oriented Security Community the ASEAN Way, New York: Routledge (= Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series 49), ISBN-13: 978-0415608688, 192 pages