Political issues on the colors of the Thai national flag: Competitions for meanings in Thai Society
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the competitions in Thai society for the meanings of the colors of the Thai national flag. The data of this qualitative study were collected through observations and in-depth interviews with 20 informants consisting of government employees, political rally participants, sports competition participants, and other people. The data were classified into categories, interpreted, then presented with descriptive analysis. The study found that the meanings of the colors of the national flag depended on the context of each situation where the flag was used as follows. 1) The colors of the national flag are used to represent the country as a nation state. This is when the flag is used abroad in sports competitions, and it is used on sports shirts, the waving flag, cheering spectators wearing small stickers of the national flag on their faces to show it as a symbol of their nation state. 2) The colors of the national flag are used as a political symbol. This is when the flag is printed on various kinds of products such as ribbon hair bows, plastic clapping hands, whistles, and hair bands that people use to show their love for the nation, religion, and the King. 3) The colors of the national flag are used as a sacred object. This is when the flag is used prestigiously to cover the coffins or cremated bones of individuals who have been killed on duty or in service to show their bravery and sacrifice for the country. 4) The colors of the national flag are used as a welcoming sign for HM the King. This is when the flag is used to decorate places to welcome a royal visit, and for people to wave to show their respect and love to HM the King. 5) The colors of the national flag are used to indicate government ownership. This is when the flag is used to show government’s ownership of places such as government premises to show that they are under the government power, and the government workplace.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".