Shinawatra University (SIU) is a private international university in Thailand, established by Dr.Thaksin Shinawatra and his colleagues. The campus was designed and developed by Soontorn Boonyatikarn in 1997. The Ministry of Universities granted the license for operation in 1999. The first Shinawatra University Council Meeting was held on 19 May 2000, and the first batch of students was admitted in September 2002. As of 2018, the university had students and faculty members of over 30 nationalities.
PurposeThis review assesses the environmental, social and governance (ESG) knowledge structure and its relationship to women's leadership and board gender diversity in firms' corporate agendas. The pertinent issue of women and gender equality in organizations has been extensively addressed in the literature, warranting a holistic and comprehensive analysis.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from the bibliometric approach, a science mapping analysis based on two techniques was applied to evaluate the impact of ESG on organizational diversity.FindingsCurrent and emerging trends are associated with (1) Gender diversity and its impact on ESG disclosure, (2) Gender diversity and organizations' ESG performance and (3) Bank Financial performance based on gender diversity. Future trends primarily revolve around ESG's impact on organizational performance.Research limitations/implicationsAs gender diversity has been heavily considered, if not mandatory, in ESG reporting, this issue remains a highly sensitive subject. Implications would be imminent for large corporations and the larger business ecosystem.Originality/valueThis study's originality lies in its science mapping approach, which uncovers the current and future trends of board gender diversity, women leadership and its association with ESG and firm performance.
Carbon-filled polylactic acid produced by fused deposition modeling is a sustainable feedstock for lightweight structural parts, but performance depends on process-controlled porosity and interlayer fusion. The coupled effects of layer thickness, infill density, and print-path speed on simultaneous tensile, impact, and hardness performance in carbon–PLA systems remain insufficiently quantified. This study aims to define a multi-response analysis for carbon–PLA FDM. Eighteen coupon sets were fabricated in a factorial design spanning 0.15-0.25 mm layer thickness, 20-60
Aluminum-boron carbide (Al-B4C) composites have shown promise as lightweight, wear-resistant materials; however, weak particle-matrix bonding, melt-stage clustering, and unstable friction have limited reliability. Addressing these linked defects is essential for high-strength components. Prior work did not vary the interface design, dispersion, and solid lubrication simultaneously within a single process history, leaving the synergy untested. This study aimed to determine whether engineered interphases produced by ultrasonic dispersion and trace 2D lubricants increased the tensile strength and stabilised sliding wear. A balanced factorial crossed interphase route (electroless Ni-P, sol-gel TiO2 -> TiC, in situ Ti/B), ultrasonication on/off, and graphene or hBN at 0-1.0 wt. %; XRD/EDS, interphase-thickness and dispersion statistics, and quantitative masks for pull-out and tribofilms supported the analysis. Tensile and pin-on-disk tests yielded wear, friction, and UTS. Graphene-bearing hybrids with Ni-P or in-situ Ti/B maintained UTS >= 330 MPa and reduced wear to <= 0.2 mm3 & centerdot;m-1 with steady friction near 0.20; transfer films reached 65-80% coverage and 95-105 nm median thickness. Ultrasonics sharpened the TiC interfacial coherence and reduced particle pull-out. The results indicated that metallurgical or ceramic interphases paired with graphene produced a low-wear, high energy efficiency on the strength-wear map and surpassed states.
Sustainable natural-fiber-reinforced epoxy composites are attractive for lightweight components, yet their design is constrained by the coupled effects of the chopped-fiber architecture on mechanical performance and moisture ingress. In Phoenix sp. for fiber/epoxy systems, a unified work linking fiber length, fiber loading, and water-uptake kinetics under consistent processing and standardized testing has remained limited. This work establishes a design window for chopped Phoenix sp. fiber-reinforced epoxy composites by quantifying the combined effects of fiber length and fiber weight fraction on mechanical response and immersion-driven transport descriptors. Alkali-treated Phoenix fibers (10-30 mm) were incorporated into a DGEBA epoxy using hand lay-up, followed by compression consolidation and staged curing. Specimens were characterized using ASTM tensile, flexural, impact, and hardness tests, and ASTM D570 immersion testing at controlled temperatures with diffusion-kinetic fitting. A distinct optimum was obtained at 15 mm and 20 wt%, where tensile strength increased from 35.2 +/- 2.1 MPa for neat epoxy to 58.7 +/- 2.8 MPa and impact strength reached 24.3 +/- 1.9 kJ & centerdot;m-2. At higher fiber packing, reduced wetting continuity and defect sensitivity were reflected by a decline in tensile strength to 44.6 +/- 3.8 MPa at 50 wt% (15 mm). Water uptake increased strongly with fiber fraction, with saturation rising from 0.45% for neat epoxy to 9.58% at 50 wt% under the reported immersion condition. These results define an actionable length-loading window for selecting Phoenix fiber/epoxy formulations and provide transport descriptors for durability screening in moisture-exposed service conditions.
The primary objective of this study was to assess employee performance among individuals working remotely, considering the mediating role of digital literacy and the moderating influence of technostress within public universities in Malaysia. A structured questionnaire was used to gather 320 responses from university lecturers. The data were analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) technique through smartPLS-4. The findings indicate that work-from-home (WFH) does not exhibit a direct significant relationship with employee performance, except for an indirect relationship mediated by digital literacy. Conversely, technostress significantly and negatively moderated the relationship between digital literacy and employee performance. Moreover, technostress moderated the indirect relationship between WFH and employee performance through digital literacy. Consequently, digital literacy is essential for the successful implementation of effective work-from-home strategies that enhance employee performance and well-being at work. University management should prioritize enhancing digital literacy before implementing remote work strategies. Additionally, management should address employee technostress levels, as it can influence both digital literacy and employee performance. Future research should explore these findings in other service sectors, such as information technology and customer services.
