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Qualitative evidence for service design

Patients in South Ethiopia Know How to Manage Diabetes, but Drug Shortages and Costs Undercut Self-Care

This qualitative study examined diabetes self-care in three South Ethiopian hospital clinics. Its 21 participants comprised 12 adults with type 2 diabetes and nine healthcare providers. Patients described medication, diet, physical activity, foot care, and glucose monitoring as daily work negotiated against financial pressure, drug shortages, beliefs, food costs, limited support, and health-system constraints. Patients tended to foreground structural barriers, whereas providers placed more emphasis on knowledge and forgetting advice. Continued counselling, reliable medicines, and peer support emerged as priorities, but these are interview-derived design directions rather than tested interventions.

Temesgen Anjulo Ageru · Cua Ngoc Le · Apichai Wattanapisit · Charuai SuwanbamrungWalailak University · Prince of Songkla University
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In-depth research analyses

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Protein Nutrition71IMPACT SIGNAL
Expert critical assessment

Experts pressure-tested common protein claims and found many still under-supported

A February 2025 Indiana University workshop asked over twenty international experts to pressure-test propositions about dietary protein: methodological limitations, ‘optimal’ intake for muscle synthesis, accretion, growth and repair, needs during weight loss, anabolic thresholds and potentially harmful high intakes. Experts rated evidence from strong support to sufficient to rule out. Most propositions required more research because studies lacked rigor, sample size, duration or relied on surrogate outcomes.

Thai researchersWantanee Kriengsinyos
Regional Energy-System Modeling71IMPACT SIGNAL
Systematic modeling review

Asian energy models focus on electricity while underrepresenting long storage, demand and just transition

A systematic review of 97 South and Southeast Asian energy-system modeling studies mapped sectors, time, space, technologies, tools and alignment with national targets. Models overwhelmingly focused on electricity and solar, wind, hydro and biomass. Long-duration storage, carbon removal, demand flexibility, cross-border trade, socioeconomic co-benefits and just-transition metrics were rare. National long-term scales limited subnational and near-term use. India, Indonesia and Vietnam led, while Brunei, Cambodia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka lacked comparable coverage.

Thai researchersFiruz Ahamed Nahid; Ninaad Desai; Joyashree Roy
Climate and Geotechnical Engineering71IMPACT SIGNAL
Field-calibrated simulation evidence

Climate projections suggest shallower wetting in expansive soils and shorter design piers through 2100

Expansive soils shrink and swell with moisture. A finite-element long-term water-migration model was calibrated with laboratory and TRACON building field data at Denver International Airport, then applied to Colorado Front Range profiles through 2100 under SSP1-2.6 and SSP5-8.5. Compared with a traditional climate approach, wetting depth was 4% shallower in shallow clay and 8% in deep clay. Depths were similar between scenarios, but SSP5-8.5 had lower saturation. Air temperature dominated rainfall. Climate-adjusted profiles reduced pier length 3-6% with rigid and 5-12% with elastic design.

Thai researchersKuo Chieh Chao
AI Commerce and Privacy71IMPACT SIGNAL
Survey structural-model evidence

AI personalization may increase travel-platform use despite continuing autonomy and privacy concerns

Using SOR and Psychological Reactance Theory, the study proposes a Threat-Substitution Mechanism for high-involvement online travel decisions. PLS-SEM on 488 Chinese Gen Y/Z OTA users found AI personalization increased usage intention and reduced reactance, with partial mediation. Privacy concern strengthened the negative AIP-reactance relationship, interpreted as heightened threat-appraisal sensitivity rather than uniform resistance.

Thai researchersHongmei Duan; Ahmad Yahya Dawod
Influenza and Antiviral Trials71IMPACT SIGNAL
Prospective kinetics and simulation evidence

Thai adult data estimate a 10.3-hour influenza clearance half-life to guide antiviral trials

Eighty untreated low-risk Thai adults with acute influenza provided duplicate daily oropharyngeal swabs for 14 days with qPCR viral density. Growth-and-decay fit best, while exponential decay was most parsimonious. Median half-life was 10.3 hours: 9.6 for influenza A and 14.0 for B. Simulations suggested 148 per arm gives over 90% power to detect 40% faster clearance; more variability raises sample needs, while four swabs per day could reduce them to 81 per arm at over 80% power.

Thai researchersPhrutsamon Wongnak; Tim Seers; Podjanee Jittamala; Mallika Imwong; William Schilling; Nicholas J. White
Blue Carbon and Coastal Communities71IMPACT SIGNAL
International research agenda

The next blue-carbon agenda prioritizes coastal communities, equity and credible carbon accounting

Seven years after the previous global assessment, a new priority-setting exercise covered classical mangroves, marshes and seagrasses and expanded systems such as tidal flats, macroalgal forests and shelf sediments. The highest priority was management that supports coastal communities and integrates traditional ecological knowledge, treating legitimacy and equity as prerequisites for durable outcomes. Other priorities covered cost-effective restoration, greenhouse-gas flux accuracy, human impacts on carbon cycling, biodiversity and coastal-protection co-benefits, and remote sensing, ML and data sharing.

Thai researchersMilica Stankovic
Biosensors and Analytical Chemistry71IMPACT SIGNAL
Focused technology review

Epitope-imprinted polymers offer synthetic receptors for bacterial detection without conventional antibodies

Epitope-imprinted polymers use short surface peptides as templates to create robust, accessible synthetic recognition cavities instead of imprinting whole bacteria or proteins. The review covers rational and computational epitope selection, monomers, bulk, surface, nanoMIP and electropolymerization, template removal and examples targeting M. leprae, S. Typhi and N. meningitidis with electrochemical and piezoelectric transducers. Detection limits, imprinting factors and matrix selectivity are discussed alongside AI-assisted, multiepitope, nanomaterial and portable POC strategies.

Thai researchersAhmed S. El-tahlawy; Stefano Cinti; Aziz Amine; Waleed Alahmad
Machine Learning for Materials71IMPACT SIGNAL
Recent advances review

Machine learning can reduce composite experiments, but small and inconsistent datasets limit prediction

The review examines ML prediction of mechanical and tribological properties in fiber-reinforced epoxy, polyester and vinyl-ester composites with silica, graphene, CNT and nanoclay fillers. Studies from 2020-2025 use ANN, SVM, random forests and Gaussian processes for wear, tensile and flexural strength and stress-strain behavior. ML may reduce experiments and aid optimization, but datasets are small, features and units vary and models often fail across systems. Multi-fidelity and physics-informed ML, open databases and standards are proposed.

Thai researchersHemaraju Raju
Malaria and Vaccine Targets71IMPACT SIGNAL
Structural and mechanistic evidence

A conserved PTRAMP-CSS-Ripr complex helps multiple malaria parasites invade red blood cells

Red-cell invasion is essential to malaria. P. falciparum uses a PCRCR complex, but Rh5 is species restricted. Orthologs of PTRAMP, CSS and Ripr from P. falciparum, P. vivax and P. knowlesi formed disulfide-linked PTRAMP-CSS heterodimers and bound the Ripr C terminus as a conserved PCR complex. Cross-reactive antibodies differentially inhibited invasion, crystallography revealed an inhibitory PvRipr epitope, and P. knowlesi cryo-EM confirmed a conserved invasion scaffold.

Thai researchersJetsumon Sattabongkot; Rhea J. Longley
Cancer and Quality of Life71IMPACT SIGNAL
Cross-sectional mediation evidence

Cancer financial toxicity is linked to lower life satisfaction, with hope and support as potential buffers

Baseline ENRICh-II data covered 519 adults diagnosed within the prior year across six ambulatory oncology clinics. Mean age was 52 and 67.2% were women. Financial toxicity, life satisfaction, state hope and social support were measured. Greater toxicity correlated with lower satisfaction (r=-0.34). Hope and support statistically partially mediated the association, with indirect effects of -0.08 and -0.03, also across material, coping and distress domains. The authors propose psychosocial resilience alongside financial assistance.

Thai researchersDavid B. Feldman
AI and Global Health71IMPACT SIGNAL
International priority-setting consensus

Fifty-one experts prioritized outbreak warning and diagnostic equity for global-health AI

An international CHNRI exercise asked 51 experts to score 155 research ideas on feasibility, disease-burden impact, paradigm-shift potential, implementation and equity. Highest priorities included outbreak prediction, infectious-disease diagnostics and early warnings, followed by resource allocation, telemedicine, culturally adapted mobile health and chronic-disease tools. LMIC experts emphasized infectious-disease control and diagnostic equity, while high-income experts emphasized infrastructure and climate analytics, showing why affected regions need decision power.

Thai researchersWiriya Mahikul
Biomass Carbon and Supercapacitors71IMPACT SIGNAL
Device prototype and long-cycle evidence

Macadamia shells became porous-carbon supercapacitor electrodes stable over 10,000 cycles

Macadamia shells were carbonized at 600°C and KOH-activated at 800°C with carbon:KOH ratios of 1:1 to 1:3. Activation raised surface area from 325 to 1,362 m2/g, producing mainly micropores with partial mesoporosity. The 1:3 material reached 170 F/g at 1 A/g in three-electrode 6 M KOH and behaved mainly as an electric double-layer capacitor. A symmetric coin cell delivered 5.4 Wh/kg and 2,500 W/kg and remained stable for 10,000 cycles at 3 A/g.

Thai researchersNattapat Chaiammart; Parinya Chakartnarodom; Apiluck Eiad-ua; G. Panomsuwan
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESEARCH WATCHLIST

Bibliographic research records

Thailand-affiliated bibliographic records. These are not full analyses; they are ordered by Impact Signal and should be verified against the original source.

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Clinical Medicine

Influence of Reconstitution Methods and Diluents on the Physicochemical Characteristics of Poly-L-Lactic Acid Suspensions: An In Vitro Study

Polymers

Thailand-affiliated authors
Woramate Bhorntarakcharoen · Sariya Sittiwanaruk · Wilailuck Phokai · Thanakorn Woramongkol · Thanya Techapichetvanich
Institutions
Siriraj Hospital · Mahidol University
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Clinical Medicine

P1.121. Overall Survival in Patients With Locally Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Who Did Not Undergo Surgery After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy

Diseases of the Esophagus

Thailand-affiliated authors
Somkiat Sunpaweravong · Song Limpchowfar · Apawee Tantawanit
Institutions
Prince of Songkla University · Sirindhorn College of Public Health · Surin Hospital
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Clinical Medicine

Associations of ambient temperature and PM2.5 concentration with temporal variability in emergency department visits for acute gastrointestinal illnesses in central Bangkok, Thailand: a 5-year retrospective analysis

BMC Emergency Medicine

Thailand-affiliated authors
Norawit Kijpaisalratana · Khrongwong Musikatavorn
Institutions
Thai Red Cross Society · Chulalongkorn University · King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
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Clinical Medicine

P1.129. Predictive Value of Baseline Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis(BIA) for Chemoradiotherapy Completion in Locally Advanced Esophageal Cancer: Implications for Prehabilitation

Diseases of the Esophagus

Thailand-affiliated authors
Panpanit Sukwarodwat · Somjai Nokdee · Wilawan Tapalad
Institutions
Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University
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Multidisciplinary

Hot-gas pyrolysis of fresh palm fruit using a cross-draft biomass gasifier–burner: Product recovery, fuel properties, energy performance, and emissions

Next Energy

Thailand-affiliated authors
Nathawat Unsomsri · Natthapol Unsomsri · Kittipong Yenprasertwong · Patchara Koedthong · Sittinun Tawkaew · Songkran Wiriyasart · Sommas Kaewluan
Institutions
Srinakharinwirot University
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Clinical Medicine

How occupational therapists integrate robotic therapy into routine practice: a qualitative study

Disability and Rehabilitation

Thailand-affiliated authors
Chirathip Thawisuk · Sumitra Prompanya
Institutions
Chiang Mai University · Chulabhorn Hospital
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Clinical Medicine

P1.089. Outcomes of Continued Endoscopic Dilatation Without Surgery in Caustic Esophageal Strictures

Diseases of the Esophagus

Thailand-affiliated authors
Thita Intralawan · Natcha Boontanagon · Noppawat Samankatiwat
Institutions
Ratchaburi Hospital
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Multidisciplinary

A Subwavelength Multiband Bandstop Metamaterial Reflector Using Double Interdigital Structure with Tri-Section Step-Impedance Technique for Gain Enhancement

Electronics

Thailand-affiliated authors
Jessada Konpang · Prayoot Akkaraekthalin · P. Chomtong
Institutions
Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep · King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
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Engineering

Mechanical and hydraulic performance of porous asphalt concrete containing recycled PET plastic granule for permeable pavements

Engineering and Applied Science Research

Thailand-affiliated authors
Autsadang Kanapikku · Arsit Iyaruk · Sommart สมมาตร์ สวัสดิ์ Swasdi · Saravut Jaritngam · Arun Lukjan
Institutions
Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya · Prince of Songkla University
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Digital Health

Identification of effective machine learning models for predicting the compressive strength of cold-formed steel Z-shaped profiles

Journal of Structural Integrity and Maintenance

Thailand-affiliated authors
Pradeep Thangavel · Sumit Kumar · Jirapon Sunkpho · Warit Wipulanusat
Institutions
Thammasat University
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Engineering

Surface coating with carboxymethyl cellulose and calcium-crosslinked carboxymethyl cellulose to enhance 3D-printed hydroxyapatite scaffolds

Scientific Reports

Thailand-affiliated authors
Attapong Deedklin · Jintamai Suwanprateeb · Poonsak Pisek · Araya Pisek · Chantida Pawaputanon Na Mahasarakham
Institutions
Khon Kaen University · Naresuan University · Thammasat University · National Science and Technology Development Agency · Thailand National Metal and Materials Technology Center · Walailak University
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Clinical Medicine

Independent Associations of Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Mass Index and Waist Circumference with Site-Specific Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women: A Real-World Cross-Sectional Study

Healthcare

Thailand-affiliated authors
Pattama Tongdee · Sajeera Kupittayanant · Khanidtha Marungrueng · Sayah Ongsricharoenbhorn · Porntip Nimkuntod
Institutions
Suranaree University of Technology
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Global Public Health

Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Functional Bioactive Metabolite Networks in Green Rice Milk Yogurt Enriched with Wolffia globosa

Life

Thailand-affiliated authors
Pongpat Kiatprasert · Sukrita Punyauppa-path · Nonthiwat Taesuk · Sujira Maneerat · Watchara Kanchanarach · Priyapa Najomtien · Srisan Phupaboon
Institutions
Rajamangala University of Technology Isan · Mahasarakham University
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Multidisciplinary

Cultivation and preliminary chemical analyses of the sclerotium-forming, termite fungus garden-associated Xylaria minima

MycoKeys

Thailand-affiliated authors
Er-Fu Yang · Milan C. Samarakoon · Chun‐I Chiu · Itthayakorn Promputtha
Institutions
Chiang Mai University
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Environmental Engineering

System-Level Decarbonization of Rice Milling through Solar PV, Biomass, and Electrified Logistics: A Case Study in Thailand

Environmental Challenges

Thailand-affiliated authors
Kanokkon Vorraapinyaporn · Prapita Thanarak · Unchittha Prasatsap · Nipon Ketjoy
Institutions
Naresuan University
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Clinical Medicine

Weight reduction intervention effectively reduce weight compared with standard care in people living with HIV gaining weight after dolutegravir initiation

Scientific Reports

Thailand-affiliated authors
Pasook Sitthilok · Romanee Chaiwarith · Supawan Buranapin · Kawisara Krasaewes
Institutions
Chiang Mai University
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Clinical Medicine

Effect of Listening to Intraoperative Hemispheric Synchronized Sounds on Postoperative Cognitive Function after Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial

PSU Medical Journal

Thailand-affiliated authors
Wirat Wasinwong · Pongsanae Duangpakdee · Jutarat Tanasansuttiporn · Mantana Saetang · Natparin Saengprateep · Raphiphat Hirannarong
Institutions
Prince of Songkla University
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Clinical Medicine

Effects of flossing technique on transversus abdominis/internal abdominal oblique muscle activation in healthy individuals: A pilot study

Muscles Ligaments and Tendons Journal

Thailand-affiliated authors
Chattrarerk Wongcharoen · Tipwadee Bunprajun · Prasert Sakulsriprasert
Institutions
Mahidol University
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Digital Health

Multispectral Imaging Combined with Tree-Based Ensemble Classifiers for Non-Destructive Varietal Purity Assessment of KDML-105 Rice Seed

AgriEngineering

Thailand-affiliated authors
Khunnithi Doungpueng · Jirasin Prueksawan · Lalita Panduangnate · Prasit Somjinda · Jetsada Posom
Institutions
Rajamangala University of Technology Isan · Khon Kaen University
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Clinical Medicine

Computational design and analysis of a lung cancer vaccine targeting EGFR mutation E709G

Scientific Reports

Thailand-affiliated authors
Tassanee Ongtanasup · Komgrit Eawsakul
Institutions
Walailak University
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Multidisciplinary

Toward sustainable insulation materials: Properties of hemp fiber-based composites

Results in Materials

Thailand-affiliated authors
Siripan Metanawin · Areeya Thongsalee · Apichart Sonthisombat · Krit Poomfuang · Tanapak Metanawin
Institutions
Rajamangala University of Technology · King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
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Environmental Engineering

การคนหาตำแหนง QTL และเครองหมาย SSR ทเชอมโยงกบความตานทานตอ ดวงถวเขยวในถวเขยวผวดำพนธปา

Journal of Science and Technology Kasetsart University

Thailand-affiliated authors
กิติยา อ่ำกุล · กุหลาบ เหล่าสาธิต · รุ่งทิพย์ มาศเมธาทิพย์ · อรอุมา ตนะดุลย์ · ประกิจ สมท่า
Institutions
Kasetsart University · Kamphaeng Phet Rajabhat University
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Environmental Engineering

Core–Shell Zn–Co Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-Derived Catalysts for the Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction

Catalysts

Thailand-affiliated authors
Krittanun Deekamwong · Nichakorn Pornnongsan · Pimrapus Tawachkultanadilok · Yingyot Poo‐arporn · Wanwisa Limphirat · Sirinuch Loiha · Pobporn Promchan · Jatuporn Wittayakun · Sanchai Prayoonpokarach
Institutions
Suranaree University of Technology · Synchrotron Light Research Institute · Khon Kaen University
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Environmental Engineering

Geotechnical and environmental evaluation of cement-stabilized lateritic soil with wood bottom ash for road subbase

Engineering and Applied Science Research

Thailand-affiliated authors
Sommart สมมาตร์ สวัสดิ์ Swasdi · Arsit Iyaruk · Thaweesak Thongkhwan · Arun Lukjan
Institutions
Rajamangala University of Technology Srivijaya

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