This research aimed to assess the competency for vocational education administrators under Jurisdiction the Office of Vocational Education Commission Ministry of Education by using the Needs Assessment Process to assess their 5 core competencies and 11 functional competencies. The samples were 201 vocational education administrators. The questionnaire was used for data collection. The statistics were percentage mean and standard deviation respectively. The findings were summarized as follows: 1. In overall the vocational education administrators had high levels for core and functional competencies. 2. The competencies were ordered based on its mean as follows: 2.1 Core competencies: moral and ethics good governance team work achievement motivation and expertise 2.2 Functional competencies: self confidence leadership empowering others organization awareness human resources developmentvisionself controlworks control and monitoring analytical thinking communication and strategic orientation.

Heavy metal is one of the major environmental pollutants. However the protective cellular mechanisms in response to heavy metal stress are not well-understood yet. Previously it has been found that the yeast deletion mutants lacking vacuolar H+-ATPase (V-ATPase) activity which functions in vacuolar acidification exhibited growth defects under cadmium stress conditions. In addition several genes involved in H+-ATPase have been recently found to be required for resistance to aluminum. To investigate the roles of vacuolar H+-ATPase plasma membrane H+-ATPase and mitochondrial H+-ATPase in tolerance to cadmium we examined the growth of yeast deletion mutants lacking different types of H+-ATPase in YPD media containing 80 μM of cadmium. Our results showed that a number of mutants lacking V-ATPase activity were sensitive to cadmium suggesting the important role of V-ATPase in cadmium detoxification. We next examined the growth of mutants lacking genes responsible for different vacuolar functions in order to investigate the functional activities of vacuoles involved in cadmium detoxification mechanism. We found that the mutants lacking vacuolar protein-sorting genes exhibited high sensitivity to cadmium as well suggesting the importance of protein transportation during cadmium stress.

This research was to influence of electrode force affecting the complete of the resistance spot welding. The specimen was mild steel sheet metal has 1 mm. thickness. Then applied the force to the specimen are 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 and 5.0 kN. The welded specimens were tested by tensile shear testing according to JIS Z 3136: 1999 and Macro structure testing according to JIS Z 3139: 1978.The results showed that electrode force had affected on tensile shear and nugget size at 95% confidential (P value > 0.05). The low electrode force had increase the nugget heating because it had a high resistance (Q=I2Rt) and increase the gab between specimen. When the resistance increasing so the current flow will difficult to passed that fusion zone will had a high heating. It will affected to nugget seize heat affected zone and mechanical properties decreasing. The electrode forces are complete 2.0 kN. Tensile shear 6.39 kN and Nugget Size 5.83 mm. This data can be applied to be used as process monitoring of resistance spot weld quality.

In this paper silica-based geopolymer matrix reinforced composites containing approximately 35 50 or 55 wt.% of carbon (HTS 5631 1600tex 24K TohoTenax) advanced basalt (BCF13-2520tex KV12 Int Basaltex) or electrical grade glass (E-glass: E2400P192 Saint-Gobain Vetrotex) roving fibers respectively were synthesized and fabricated at ambient conditions. The flexural properties of the resulting composites which are high toughness: the shear stress plays here a greater role in compared with other ceramic matrix composites were determined on a universal testing machine under three-point bending mode in accordance with novel size-independent method which based on testing specimens at different scale of sample height (H) to span length (L) ratios; The basic principles of the new size-independent approach are presented as well. Microstructures of composites were analyzed by means of scanning electron microscope (SEM) on perpendicular sections the images show the adhesion between the fibers and geopolymer matrix are very good and micro-cracks on both cross-sections and surfaces of geocomposites are determined as inborn defects of inorganic matrix composites.

This industrial research was studied an improvement of efficiency in natural fiber production plant. The objective was improvement process by using IE techniques which this method was once green technology for industrial problems solving. Now process had build-up in process (WIP) due to unbalance times between trimming station and visual inspection of station. Therefore the research studied work of staffs; time study and data analysis through 5W1H were used for analysis of WIP root cause. The cause of problems founded were the transportation loss of between section had over necessity and loss of visual inspection for repair. Therefore it had bottleneck in process. Consequently the researchers applied ECRS in each working processed by separation of repair station. Repairs of items were isolated from the main flow path of the process. Calculating of work flow rate was used for identified operator for repair station. As a result of the above production improvement Times of visual inspection in a lot was decrease from 283.84 hrs to 160.19 hrs. It was decreased in 43.56%. In addition the effect of separation from the repair process made the total times of all process was decreased from 792.78 hrs/lot to 669.14 hrs/lot. It was decreased in 15.60% and decreased work in process had from 17 lots/day to no work in process.