EDITOR NOTE

Abstract

The present Thaksin University Journal (TSUJ) Vol. 23 No. 2 (May - August 2020) is the second issue out of three issues that will be issued in the year 2020. This issue was also published with 10 interesting research articles which are the multidisciplinary of science and technology of research articles in applied geography (1), agriculture and technology (3), food and drug (1), applied chemistry (1), material physics (1), irrigation engineering (1), wind energy (1) and applied physics (1). All of published articles were evaluated and selected from The 30th Thaksin University Annual Conference: Thailand Driven Research and Innovation, on May 30, 2020, by editorial boards and then peer reviewed through the TSUJ standard procedure. Again, some of research articles in this issue might more or less affect to your research work. Consequently, we do expect that these articles will be referred and cited in the near future by our valuable TSUJ readers and customers. 

I would like to inform our readers and customers that the next issue of TSUJ (Vol. 23 No. 2 (September-December 2020) has been prepared and managed in the same way of this present issue. This means that another selected 10 research articles from the same conference as mentioned above will be considered and reviewed by some expert researchers using the publishing platform of TSUJ. In addition, TSUJ (Vol. 24 No. 1 (January-April 2021)) will be organized and managed for everyone again using the same TSUJ management system. 

As we know that since 2019 our world population including Thailand have been struggled and faced with the new virus disease pandemic. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. The best way to prevent and slow down transmission is to be well-informed about how the COVID-19 virus disease causes and spreads. Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands or using an alcohol-based rub frequently and not touching your face. At this time, there are no specific vaccines or treatments for COVID-19. However, there are many ongoing clinical trials evaluating potential treatments. For this reason, we would like to have some research articles about the coronavirus disease and its related information to be published and directly shared to the interdisciplinary science and technology community. At the same time, TSUJ would like to welcome all prospective research scholars to read and submit their good quality of original manuscripts for publishing research articles, academic articles, socially-engaged articles and letters to editor on multidisciplinary on science and technology which are not under review or under consideration for publishing in any other national or international academic journals. All articles published by TSUJ are made immediately available nationwide and worldwide on open access through Thai Journals Online (ThaiJo) system. 

And last but not least, we would also like to inform that the committee of TSUJ quality improvement to the international level has been already formed and announced by the president of Thaksin University. We actually plan to accomplish this challenging issue in the year 2022. From now on, we have begun to work more seriously and try to reach the goal as fast as we can. Thank you very much for being in parts of TSUJ and see you again in the next issue.