English is now regarded as an important medium for international communication among people all around the world in politics education economics and tourism. Vocabulary is an important fundamental element for learning English. It is necessary for students to have lexical knowledge to develop their language proficiencies and communicative competence but Thai undergraduate students are not generally equipped with sufficient lexical items. The concepts and pedagogical implications of the lexical-based learning approach are proposed. It is hoped that this article will be highly beneficial to syllabus design and language instruction in the near future.

“Technology transfer to return productive citizen into the society” is a project of the technology clinic Rajamangala University of Technology Pra Nakhon Chumpornkhet-udomsak. The project objectives are job training for female prisoners and transferring good technological techniques to the community. The target group is female prisoners from the Central Prison and Thonburi Prison. The project is a vocational training workshop. It is found that 100% of trainees are satisfied with the program at a high level and businessmen are interested in ordering the prisoners’ handicraft products to sell in the country and export to other countries.

This paper presents a study on the strength and corrosion resistance of mortars made with binary blends of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and ground rice husk ash (RHA) or ground palm oil fuel ash (POA). The mortar mixtures were made with Portland cement Type I containing 0-40% RHA and POA. RHA and POA with 1-3% by weight retained on a sieve No.325 were used. The water to binder ratio was kept constant at 0.5 and the flow of mortar was maintained at 110±5% with the aid of superplasticizer (SP). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used for analysis. The compressive strength chloride penetration and corrosion resistance of the mortar were determined. The results show that strength as well as the resistance of mortar to chloride and corrosion can be improved by blending with RHA and POA. Thus RHA and POA have a high potential to be used as a good pozzolanic material.

Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon has gained support from the Commission on Higher Education to set up a business incubators unit called Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon - University Business Incubators or RMUTP-UBI. The agency has a principal missihon in creating new potential entrepreneurs by utilizing results of research works inventions innovations and technology of the university. The agency๛s main aim is to get income for oneself for the university and for the country as a whole; as well as to provide information service and consultation to users both inside and outside the university. In 2007 the RMUTP-UBI had incubated 10 entrepreneurs. Among these 2 were start-up companies 3 were incubatees and 5 were pre-incubatees. It also conducted public relations visiting tours trainings setting up activity groups of students and entrepreneurs and providing academic services to meet the goal of the project.

The research analyzes benefit cost and break even point including sensitivity of making biodiesel production factory from palm fatty acid. Biodiesel production system of Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) is used for this study. It is found the present net value has been a deficit of 27024966 baht. The sensitivity of the project has been analyzed by increasing selling price of biodiesel of 5% and 7.5% but reducing material price of 10% and 20%. It is found the present net value still has been deficient. The project will payback at 5th 8th and 10th year be with selling price of biodiesel. is about 31.71 baht per litre. Therefore the cost of palm fatty acid should lower than 2.89 3.05 and 3.82 baht per kilogram. If selling price of biodiesel about 33.30 baht per litre the cost of palm fatty acid should be lower than 4.65 4.82 and 5.58 baht per kilogram. respectively.