In this research it was investigated in detail about the physical and specific characteristics of rice stubble to develop eco-product for the community economy. The amounts of heavy metals and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in rice stubble spread thinly by variety of wood finishes and paints were examined for selection of the most appropriate materials which reduced the environmental impacts. Finishes were used in this study such as lacquer vanish wood preservative polyurethane shellac aerosol paint oil color natural dye and synthetic dye. This research was divided into two parts; the first part of this study consisted of analysis of seven heavy metals such as lead cadmium chromium cobalt tin arsenic and mercury (product criteria of green label Green Label Thailand and Eco-labeling 2009/894/EC) the second part consisted of analysis of volatile organic compounds and Environmental Impact Assessment for analyzing product life cycle through choices about materials and energy. Finally the respondents’ perception of the factors affecting product design were examined by measuring the satisfaction toward the designed products. The subjects were classified into three categories such as producer group designer group and consumer group. The experimental results showed that the standardized finishes of rice stubble were shellac lacquer wood preservative vanish and polyurethane respectively. Basket Weaving Techniques were the appropriate ones for the processing of the finished rice stubble because of less waste reducing urea formaldehyde usage man-based method less energy intensive less transportation energy and less adjusted procedure. The examples of designed products were desk lamp tablemat and hand bag. Producer group and designer group had a different opinion about the use of low-impact materials and the avoidance of hazardous substances. Producer group had significant differences of opinion with designer group and consumer group about the appropriate proportion of product design and the color making a product aesthetic. Among three groups of respondents there were not different opinions about the product aesthetic the ergonomically designed products the environmentally conscious products the friendly processed products the natural processed products and the easily end-of-life treatments.

This research study and development of actions designed to reduce the rate of Production of odor House of wood charcoal Community groups Were Sarapee Aranyaprathet Province sakaewPrachantakham Prachinburi. Study materials are made of wood charcoal. And determine the appropriate form furnished house has many of the current medium. Products include standard tests to determine the standard of wood charcoal. in the structure of furniture design. The research study and development of actions designed to reduce the rate of Production of odor House of wood charcoal. vetiver from interviews with experts in the design. Conclusions regarding the manufacture and design of a study to determine specialists as appropriate. Researchers have taken a home furnishing is correct. Then residents of the residential-sized survey about home furnishing 30 who works as follows. Front of the house. The average was 4.6 most of the comforts average was 4.6 most security average is 4.75 most of the design value is 4.7 the overall satisfaction is at its greatest. The test standard furniture. The testing of materials furniture wood charcoal. Static force acting on the basis of a test ride. The static force exerted on the backrest. In the test criteria. The static pressure test on the arm to the side and the force acting on the wing surface at the head. In the test criteria. The static pressure test on the press arm. In the test criteria. Criteria to test the force exerted on the seat and the backrest against the switch. In the test criteria. Force acting on the basis of the test. In passing the test. The impact tests and shock at the surface of the bracket. In the test criteria. Criteria for testing for the one side then drop free In the test criteria.

The objectives of this research is to study the current competencies assess competency requirement of community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs in the central region of Thailand and provide them guidelines toward ASEAN Economic Community. The research instruments used for data-gathering were semi-structured interview. The results of the interviews were created by using independent variables in questionnaire. The samplers of this research are the 189 community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs with a 82.54% response rate. The results were as follows : Attributes and skills indicated by current competencies were at high level while knowledge was medium level. The competency requirement attributes skills and knowledge were at high level respectively. The fundamental preparation for competency of community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs in the central region of Thailand toward ASEAN Economic Community should develop competencies in knowledge attributes and skills especially in the international trading regulation international language information technology and management. The community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs should increase skills in the continuous expertise in product development and organization as well as seeking for new markets and creating continuous business networking including organizational innovation acceleration. The community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs should develop attributes to seek for business opportunities widen continuous knowledge and innovation and increase potential organizational development. The suggestions were that the community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs should develop competencies and seek for source of information and ask for government support to get into ASEAN Economic Community. The government sector should support knowledge skills attributes and cooperate with school financial and other to develop potential of community enterprise (OTOP) entrepreneurs in a long term.

Thailand has become a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) which aims to stimulate economic growth social progress sociocultural evolution and also cooperation among its members. The main goal of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is to transform the region into a single market and production base to become more stable and prosperous. Hence in order to prepare ourselves to the changes in a very near future it is essential to encourage and support students to improve their working skills and knowledge to enter the ASEAN community confidently. In order to examine on the acknowledgement and the preparation in terms of working skill for ASEAN undergraduate students in the first year of Food Service Industry Program were chosen by using purposive sampling. Fifty-five questionnaires were collected. The result shows that most of the students at 75.47 percent are female 52.83 percent of them are eighteen years old and 43.39 percent use internet regularly. The evaluation on students’ knowledge capability and working experience which are considered to be beneficial for entering the ASEAN community shows that most of the students are very well prepared in both personality and potential. Moreover the majority are also very well educated about ASEAN in terms of economic growth social progress sociocultural evolution. The research also analyzed on the differences on gender of the students and channel of the resources about ASEAN that may have an impact on their knowledge and potential. The result shows that there are no significant differences between each gender and channel (P ≤ 0.05).

This research was to analyze the content of locality and method to symbolically communicate locality through cultural commodities focusing on the process of analyzing the meaning from the tourist commodities of Klong Lat Mayom floating community along the framework basing on semiotic theories and the in-depth information collection in the real phenomena to understand the contexts related to the research issues. The findings reveal that the locality reflected in the cultural commodities had 3 content issues namely 1) naturalism of life associated with water without dependency on technology and the love in the value of trees as the component 2) traditional way of life which was simple with handicraft as the prime livelihood and 3) in-trend culture by which the reconstruction of old things and diversity were presented on the commodities. Symbolic communication was done through 3 forms namely 1) paradigmatic communication which was the results of using the parts to communicate 2) intertextuality by using clues of old things to create value with the new meaning and 3) construction of opposites or bipolarity to clearly differentiate between urban and rural societies. The research findings could expand the perspective on the use of local culture as the factor to enhance the capacity of tourism to assure its development and sustainability.