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Hybrid Recommendation System for Visual Novels Using Content and Collaborative Filtering
(2025-01-01) Unjindamanee S.; Poopradit J.; Kaewmanee P.; Sujipisut P.; Phienthrakul T.; Hunchangsith K.; Unjindamanee S.; Mahidol University
This paper presents a hybrid recommendation system for visual novel discovery, integrating content-based filtering and collaborative filtering within the Machine Learning Visual Novel Recognition and Recommendation (MLVNR2) platform. The system combines hierarchical tag metadata and user interaction histories to generate a ranked list of relevant visual novels. The hybrid strategy blends content and collaborative signals while safeguarding semantic relevance. A user study involving thirty-one participants achieved a perfect top-3 hit rate and an average top-10 reciprocal rank of 98.4%, while additionally revealing strong novelty discovery, with 83.9% of recommendations introducing users to unfamiliar titles. More than 80% of participants reported positive satisfaction. In terms of precision at cut-offs, the system delivered 84.9% for the top three results, 76.8% for the top five, and 61.6% for the top ten. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of combining semantic metadata similarity with user behaviour patterns for personalized visual novel recommendation.
Identifying Probabilistic Sufficient and Deterministic Necessary Conditions for the Development of Regenerative Behavior of Coastal Tourists: A Resource-Based and Goal Framing Perspective
(2026-01-01) Muangasame K.; Fakfare P.; Muangasame K.; Mahidol University
This study investigates the probabilistically sufficient and deterministic necessary conditions that develop regenerative behavior among tourists in coastal destinations. An integrated model was tested using a quantitative approach by drawing on the resource-based view and the goal framing theory. The data from 850 tourists revealed that organized resources, valuable resources, and hedonic goals are both sufficient and deterministically necessary for regenerative behavior. Rare and inimitable resources emerged as essential preconditions. Furthermore, the Combined Importance–Performance Map Analysis identified substantial performance gaps across several constructs, which highlighted critical areas for managerial intervention. The study contributes to the theoretical advancement of regenerative tourism by integrating resource-based view and motivational frameworks through sufficiency and necessity lenses. Practical implications include strategies for destination managers to enhance institutional coordination, emphasize emotionally engaging experiences, and prioritize the protection of valuable, rare, inimitable, and organized resources in order to elevate tourist engagement in regenerative practices.
Unprecedented Burning in Tropical Peatlands During the 20th Century Compared to the Previous Two Millennia
(2026-03-01) Wang Y.; Feldpausch T.R.; Swindles G.T.; Moss P.; McGowan H.A.; Sim T.G.; Morris P.J.; Benfield A.; Courtney-Mustaphi C.; Wahl D.; Montoya E.; Githumbi E.; Honorio Coronado E.N.; Augustijns F.; Verstraeten G.; Jess O' Donnell J.O.D.; Tibby J.; Benavides J.C.; Hapsari K.A.; Schittek K.; Ramdzan K.N.M.; Bao K.; Cole L.E.S.; Anderson L.; Gałka M.; Akpo O.E.; Strobel P.; Bala P.R.; Dommain R.; Marchant R.; Sukumar R.; Chawchai S.; Kavil S.P.; Mooney S.; Kelly T.J.; Gao Y.; Voulgarakis A.; Boom A.; Burton C.; Berrio J.C.; Ribeiro K.; Anderson L.O.; Hardiman M.; Spater M.; Page S.E.; Gallego-Sala A.V.; Wang Y.; Mahidol University
Tropical peatland wildfire incidence has risen in recent decades, driven by drainage for land use and intensified by severe droughts with global climate change. These disturbances have altered vegetation structure, disrupted ecosystem functioning, and increased carbon emissions, particularly in Southeast Asia. However, the long-term history and characteristics of wildfires in tropical peatlands remain largely unknown. Here, we compiled fifty-eight macro-charcoal records from peatlands across the tropics, ranging from lowland forested to montane peatlands, to assess millennia-scale changes and controlling factors of tropical peatland burning. We divided the datasets into four main sub-regions: Neotropical, Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian ecoregions to explore regional variability. Tropical peatlands had high burning levels between 0 and 850 ce, followed by a relatively low and stable period until a marked increase during the 20th century. The general trend in tropical peatland burning follows changes in global temperature, and climate variables that control the length and severity of drought events have a notable influence on peat burning before 1900 ce. During the 20th century, regional differences were observed, with declining fire trends in the Neotropical and Afrotropical regions and increasing fire trends in the Indomalayan and Australasian regions. This difference is likely attributable to human activities, and such intervention is also evident in palm swamps and hardwood swamps under similar wet, weakly seasonal climates. With the increase in anthropogenic pressures on peatlands and greater climate variability, future wildfires in peatlands are likely to become more frequent and widespread across all tropical ecoregions. Conservation and sustainable land-use practices could be used to mitigate and control peatland burning and protect these carbon-rich sinks.
Trapped in Place: Changing Mobility Patterns and Lifestyles of Thai Moken
(2026-03-12) Husa L.C.; Sasiwongsaroj K.; Chaisingkananont S.; Chaidee V.; Husa L.C.; Mahidol University
Mobility restrictions, cultural preservation, and intersectional marginalization are interrelated challenges that profoundly affect indigenous and nomadic populations. Restrictions on their movement through national borders, conservation measures, and development policies disrupt long-established spatial practices, economic systems, and kinship networks. While cultural preservation is essential for maintaining collective identity, it is often complicated by external interventions such as the commercialization of cultural heritage, state assimilation initiatives, and the pressures of globalization. The Moken, a traditionally semi-nomadic seafaring people of the Andaman Sea, are a prime example of these intersecting dynamics. Their experiences therefore provide an excellent case study for examining the intertwined dynamics of mobility, identity and marginality in today's maritime Southeast Asia. Field research conducted from November 2024 to March 2025 on the islands of Surin and Phayam has shown that the Moken's way of life has gradually shifted toward sedentarism. In this article, we argue that the preservation of the Moken's valuable cultural knowledge, both in terms of their profound understanding of their maritime environment and their sustainable use of natural resources, depends crucially on maintaining their "semi-nomadic" identity. However, as their ancestral habitat continues to shrink, they are at risk of losing not only their centuries-old identity but also their valuable cultural practices. This article focuses on the question of what remains of traditional spatial concepts and mobility patterns today and what new patterns have emerged because of changing living and environmental conditions.
Grassroots Security: The Meira Paibi Movement and the Intersection of Gender, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Manipur
(2026-03-12) Saisin A.; Chaisingkananont S.; Saisin A.; Mahidol University
This article explores the Meira Paibi movement in Manipur, India, as a vital site of grassroots women’s activism operating within a militarized and ethnically contested landscape. Drawing on feminist security studies, intersectionality, and securitization theory, it examines how Meitei women redefine security through everyday acts of resistance, moral regulation, and community care. Originating in the late 1970s, the Meira Paibi or “women torchbearers” have evolved into informal agents of justice, patrolling streets, confronting state violence, and upholding social norms. Using a documentary-based methodology, this study analyzes how the Meira Paibi challenge dominant security discourses and engage in counter-securitizing acts, exemplified by the 2004 naked protest custodial violence. Their activism blurs boundaries between public and private, and resistance and regulation, exposing the embodied and relational dimensions of grassroots security. Yet the movement is not without contradictions: while confronting militarized patriarchy and challenging the state, their exercise of moral authority often reinforces maternalistic authority, moral conservatism, and community-level biopolitical regulation. By situating Meira Paibi within critical feminist and security frameworks, the article contributes to broader debates on gendered resistance, informal governance, and localized peacebuilding, arguing that women’s agency in conflict zones must be understood through a nuanced lens that embraces both their emancipatory potential and their internal tensions.