Saravalee Suphakarn

The result from TAM could represent the relative usefulness of the new technology such as the new technology could reduce the working time, increase productivity rate, provide more information etc. which reflex the perceive usefulness.

From the research question “why they are not using bednets?”, the qualitative study could answer this question. Firstly, analyzing the data from the survey might help to describe the characteristics of the respondents who are no using the bednets. After that qualitative method such as participant observation and semi-structured interviews be…[Read more]

One confounder that associate with contact pattern and age is average income per month. People’s income affect their lifestyle, activities, and also contact pattern, which often relate with age and occupation.

The external variables that might influence an individuals’ perceived ease of use or perceived usefulness of a new technology such as internet accessibility/quality, technical support, and lack of electronic devices. These are important factors to use or perceived usefulness of a new technology.

The combination of these information would be able to identify me.

Sex: female
Age: 27 years old
Job position: Veterinarian Practitioner
Workplace: Veterinary Research and Development Center, Eastern Region

Effectiveness : ability to achieve the right result/therapeutic effect in the real condition
Efficacy : capacity to achieve the right result under control condition
Efficiency : ratio of the right output and the resource

Item no. 3 , page 341

“A significant test result (P <= 0.05) means that the test hypothesis is false or should be rejected”

This quote is wrong because a small p-value isn’t always refer to a null hypothesis should be rejected, such as a large random error, and before concluded should make sure about all assumptions of the test. P-value lesse…[Read more]

I’m a veterinarian at the veterinary research and development center (lower southern region) under the Department of Livestock Development (DLD), Thailand. My job has responsibilities about using laboratory technique for animal disease diagnosis which necessary to apply statistic and epidemiology for my routine work and research projects. I…[Read more]

Maternal mortality rate

Definition : The maternal mortality rate is a rate of death of women wile pregnant or within 42 days after pregnancy termination due to causes related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or pregnancy management, but not from accidental or incidental cause.

Calculation: The maternal mortality rate is calculated from the…[Read more]

Dear all staff,

I couldn’t access “Supplementary Reading: Decision Tree Result Evaluation in R”. I’m not sure about it cause from availability of the resource or it relate to my missing something from the class announcement. Please check it again. Thank you very much.

Saravalee S.

Thank you for reviewing. I my opinion, exposed dogs have probability return to susceptible dogs after they receive immediately post-exposure vaccination. However, the protocol of post-exposed vaccination in animal depended on previous vaccination status. For unvaccinated dog, there is evidence that the use of post-expose vaccine alone will not…[Read more]

– The intervention I would like to consider in my modelling is oral rabies vaccine. The model will compared between non-oral rabies vaccine situation and oral rabies vaccine implemented situation.

– According to my modelling about the rabies last week, I followed the model structure from Laager M. (2018). The model consist of 4 compartment…[Read more]

Rabies is viral zoonotic disease cause by Rabies virus (Rabies lyssavirus, Genus Lyssavirus). All mammal species could be infected with rabies virus including humans, dogs, and domestic cats. The virus is transmitted through direct contact, such as broken skin or mucous membranes in eyes, nose, or mouth, with saliva or nervous system tissue of…[Read more]

Topic:
The rabies outbreak after oral rabies vaccine campaign for stray dog was implemented in Thailand.

Rationale:
Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral zoonotic disease which occurs in more than 150 countries and territories including Thailand (1). Recently, the first case of human rabies in 2021 was reported by the Bureau of Epidemiology…[Read more]

You may need to attribute london.gen to the data.boroughs before merge, as below command.

E.cutoff <- c(70, 100, 120, 140, 180)
cat.E <- cut(unlist(data.suicides$E), breaks = E.cutoff, include.lowest = T)
maps.cat.E <- data.frame(ID=data.suicides$ID, cat.E=cat.E)
data.boroughs <- attr(london.gen, “data”)
attr(london.gen, “data”) <-…[Read more]

1. Why was the author interested in investigating the suicide problem in Thailand during the time?

The study used the data during 2011 because it is only year that alcohol data consumption available and the suicide rate has generally been rising since this year.

2. Each of students picks one potential risk factor mentioned in the paper and…[Read more]

For convince those with low digital literacy skills to use electronic recording and reporting system, I think each organization should start with assessment them about the attitude, knowledge, and practice of digital skills. Sometime I found that low skills isn’t just the results of lack of knowledge or practices, it include not quite good…[Read more]

1. There are many reason that location in epidemiological research have not been incorporate as much as possible. Actually, location is one part of description in epidemiology that compose of place time and person. Availability of data, data quality, and incomplete data cause researcher can’t bring it of analysis. Other reason is about the…[Read more]

According to the topic of AMR surveillance system in animal on the floor, Department of Livestock Development (DLD) of Thailand participated to developed Thailand’s National Strategic Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance 2017-2021 which had the collaboration between many stakeholders including DLD, MOPH and international organization like FAO, WHO, a…[Read more]