Modernization of Gundam…..I talked a bit about the idea yesterday in the comment section for ghostlightnings article on Gundam 00’s final battle and how I thought the show might be an attempt to update Gundam for the 21st century paradigm we live in now.  Gundam Tribute I think has much the same idea in mind, only now it is about the Gundam sound rather than the core concept itself.

First off I bet some are asking “what is Gundam Tribute exactly”?  Well simply put it’s a collaboration between Sunrise/Bandai and Lantis and some of todays most popular music artists and idols in Japan to cover some of the classic Gundam songs and make an album out of it.  This is of course part of the 30th anniversary celebration for the franchise, but as I mentioned to the ghost yesterday I think it’s also a further example of Bandai’s current strategy of branching out and trying to bring new fans into the fold.  How exactly does this work with the music?  Well when you have the likes of Jam Project, CooRie and Little Non the latter two of whom are popular in the moe and eroge branches lending their status to Gundam songs (and vice versa) it may just help to bring the fans of their music into a greater awareness of Gundam and may even legitimize it for them as well.  Idol status goes a long way in Japan and while Gundam is an established tradition it’s not popular with all.  Gundam Wing branched out to female viewers and Gundam Seed branched out to a younger generation, but I think Bandai is always looking for new opportunities, and that’s an interesting thing.  I guess we’ll see what’s what, but for now I’m kind of eager to do some cross comparisons of the song covers on this album with their originals and to go over what they did with the pieces and what I as long time Gundam fan liked and disliked about these updates.

This article is going to be a little youtube video heavy so just bear in mind when you load the rest that it might take a little bit longer than normal.

Ai Senshi By Jam Project (Original By Daisuke Inoue)

Alright so the way the way I plan for this to work is pretty simple.  The originals on top and the covers on the bottom.  This is an overall great start to the album with one of the more famous and popular classic Gundam songs in Soldiers of Sorrows insert Ai Senshi, which has already seen many covers from Gackt to American artist Andrew “Party Hard” W.K.  The original was actually sung by Daisuke Inoue (not the same one that invented Karaoke) and plays out like an upbeat cheer with lyrics that are actually kind of depressing whereas the new version fits in nicely with JAM Project perfomance style of music.  Very high energy to go with the upbeat nature of the song as well and it’s also neat to hear each of the voices of the JAM Project have their crack at the song.   Moving on.

Toki Wo Koete By Faylan (Original by Mami Ayukawa)

Zeta Gundam’s first openings cover gives me mixed feelings on this one.  It’s hard to imagine a more technoish sound coming out the modern version than the one from the 80’s and I kind of miss the awesome guitar solo in the beginning of the original version.  Faylan’s version sounds just a bit to artificial to me.  Damn Autotune……

Toki Wo Koete By Miyuki Hashimoto (Original by Hiroko Moriguchi)

Zeta Gundam’s second opening cover is different in better way than the first one I have to say.  This is the opposite of what Faylan’s was like and now we have the cover sounding less like a synthizer driven song than the original.  We’re also able to better here Hashimoto’s voice since she isn’t filtered like Faylan’s and she even seems to be borrowing a bit from Hiroko Moriguchi’s style.  It’s different yet familiar, a good combination for this Gundam fan.

Silent Voice By  Yozuca* (Original by Jun Hiroe)

Also known as the only ZZ Gundam song that I felt was memorable, this is the second opening for that series as covered by Yozuca.  The original marked the shift in tone from goofy to serious with it’s slower beat and the sense of urgency it brought….especially compared to the absurd Anime Ja Nai.  This cover manages to capture a lot of what I felt made Silent Voice so memorable with it’s chorus, but it’s neat to hear a softer singing style from Yozuca as well during the verses.  As if she chose to take the lyric “silent voice” to heart during that part.  Still not the most memorable of the covers though.

Issenman-Nen Ginga By Aira Yuhki (Original by Jun Hiroe)

This cover manages to take the more gospel/rock ballad like version by Jun Hiroe and give it a more whimsical sound.  In this case I think I actually might prefer the cover version to the original just for how different it sounds compared to most Gundam music I’ve heard.  Always interesting to hear new styles for old standby’s and especially so when they are enjoyable as this.

Eternal Wind By Aki Misato (Original by Hiroko Moriguchi)

It’s kind of hard to top Gundam F91’s ending theme with a cover, but this one gives it a go.  There’s something missing in the atmosphere for much of the beginning song though I have to say and I’m not sure I like Misato’s singing voice as much as Moriguchi’s for this song.  While the instrumental gives us some surprises later on by giving us a different sound (not exactly what I would have hoped for mind you) it’s still missing that tempo change and added intensity at around the halfway point that the original really sold itself for me on and Misato’s voice never quite gains the intensity I would have hoped for.  Again though as I said it’s hard to top the original in this case.

Stand Up To The Victory By Rey (Original by Tomohisa Kawasoe)

I recall hearing that when Victory Gundam first came out that Japanese didn’t know what to make of the rock driven opening that the early 90’s brought to the franchise.  I wonder what they’d think about this version now if they could have seen into the future.  It’s definitely got the same high energy and it’s still rock, but it’s just a little different and Rey has done a nice job of making it their own.  Can’t complain.

Just Communication By Minami Kuribayashi (Original by Two-Mixx)

I think everybody has heard this one at least once.  For me it has a long history because it was the first anime opening that I actually got to see on broadcast television in it’s original form.  You see back when I was just starting out on this whole anime fandom thing the only easy way to watch any was on YTV here in Canada and the dubbing companies used to love to cut up and replace the original theme songs with their own which usually turned out to be utter drivel.  Bandai however made history here when they chose to send Gundam Wing to YTV with only the dub track being inserted for English speaking viewers and YTV ran it as it was.  Needless to say turning on this show Gundam Wing to see what the deal was and seeing this Japanese theme song left a huge impression on me and no it’s being covered.  Love telling that story by the way.  Anyway Just Communication is known for it’s eurobeat/dance flavour, but the cover seems to be going for something more like an akihabara para para club beat flavour.  Can’t say I’m down with it as much, but I bet otaku are having a field day with this one somewhere.

Fly In The Sky By Little Non (Original by Ushima Hitofumi)

I was always more partial to the second G Gundam opening “Trust You Forever” (I mean it had Master Asia and Schwarz Bruder grappling and sounded like a Gaogaigar song to boot) and never quite felt all that big on Fly In The Sky, but this has to be the most radically different sounding cover on the entire album in a bad way.  Fly In The Sky’s original sound gave more of that feel of a martial artist challenging himself to reach the heights of his discipline, but Little Non’s version sounds all “lolied up” and more like something that would go with a magical girl anime about trying your best, making friends and all of that other sugary sweet stuff.  Granted G Gundam was about that stuff to, but in so much more of a manly way (Men communicate with their fists after all).  I’ll say no more…..moving on.

Dreams By Masami Okui (Original by ROmantic Mode)

Over half of the selling point of the original version of Gundam X’s first opening for me has always been that rocking 40 second lead so it’s a good that that Okui’s version has that too, albeit with a much different style that includes actual vocals.  I’m not sure what else to say then other than I think this is a pretty neat cover, especially with the use of back up vocals that sneak in and out of the song, but certainly give it some extra points in terms of style.  Also looks for the tempo change around halfway through and the inclusion of some piano.  The original was a lot more static in terms of sound so again neat stuff for this cover.

Resolution By Masaaki Endoh (Original by ROmantic Mode)

I like to call the original the final countdown of Gundam songs, but here’s what I think is neat about the cover version……first of all it’s not the same singer for this Gundam X opening follow up as it was for the original which adds some variety to this part of the album (I’m actually surprised they chose two Gundam X openings and left out Turn A Turn) and second it’s by the guy who sang the Gaogaigar theme.  That means about 1000% more guts and passion for this version of the song and that is most welcome.  Love this cover.

Kaze Ni Hitori De By Kageyama Hironobu (Original by Daisuke Inoue)

We go back to the original movie trilogy for the final section of this album with Gundam’s own folk song.  Here’s the problem though…..I think this one sucks.  Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore Kageyama Hironobu and the contributions he made to JAM with his Project there, but this man is simply meant to be a loud and energetic performer who is there to rock your socks in concert and his voice simply does not lend itself to the folk nature of this song.  His voice sounds strained as if he just wants to belt out the lyrics as per his norm, but he knows it’s not going to happen and I know this song just isn’t happening.  Shame…..

Beginning By rino from CooRie (Original by Daisuke Inoue)

The song from the psychedelic acid trip scene from the third movie (spoilers shall not be included) is covered here by rino and it’s nice to here something different from Inoue who pretty much does every song from the original movie.  Rather than be all eerie  and unsettling with it’s musical accompaniment this cover appears to seek to be more lamenting with it’s usage of piano and rino’s soft vocals.  I think it works personally and as head to the finale of the album (as this song was used for the penultimate moment of the original TV series) I think this cover fits in quite nicely as part of the tribute album.

Encounters By Granrodeo (Original by….you guessed it, Daisuke Inoue)

And so we arrive at last at Encounters which was the send of song for the original Mobile Suit Gundam movie trilogy and thus would be an appropriate sendoff for this tribute album under any circumstances, however…..holy shit is this amazing.  Now the original was like a cheesy love ballad that fit perfectly with the ending of the series, but Granrodeo (you may have heard them doing the opening for Needless which aired a couple seasons ago with the song “Modern Strange Cowboy”) has turned this into a full blown rock ballad and the most radically different sounding song on this album in good way.  In fact I have to say this is probably my favourite cover song on the entire album.  What a way to end things off with such a bang.

Well….that about does her again.  As always I recommend most of the albums I do runovers of otherwise why would I be bothering to listen to them in the first place, but I’d especially recommend this one for the Gundam fan.  If you can get a hold of it then I say snatch it up, otherwise there’s always youtube.  Hope you all had fun and here’s one more Gundam relevant bonus video (as if this thread didn’t have enough) to lead us off that I just say today and thought was pretty neat.

Defend My Love by Namie Amuro

It’s Namie Amuro singing a song with Amuro Ray in the music video and the song is pretty damn catchy too as far as I’m concerned

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For the last few weeks I have been paying attention to the contents of my dustpan after I have swept my studio floor and run the ‘magic mop’ over it. The ‘magic mop’  has a disposable cloth attached to the head to which dust and most other debris firmly sticks. I noticed a long time ago that you can’t flick anything onto a Korean floor without it reappearing some days later, stuck to the sole of your naked foot or clinging to your sock. Grains of rice, once hardened are especially annoying.

In Europe at least, and especially in Britain, carpets are often the preferred choice for floors and in some aspects they are wonderful because they absorb most small debris. ‘Sweep it under the carpet,’ an idiom I am often asked to explain, really isn’t necessary with small things as you can deposit them on the floor and at most all you need do is  rub you foot over it a few times to permanently erase whatever was underfoot.  All bodily bits, small scraps of food, cigarette ash etc, can be banished for ever in the pile of your pretty carpet or rug.

Ten years ago I moved into a new house in England and after a year decided to rip up the carpets that had lain on the front room floor for well over a decade. Even after months and months of hovering the floor and liberally sprinkling it with various scented and odour eating carpet powders, I was never able to feel comfortable sprawling out in front of the TV.  The carpet was old but it never actually looked dirty and the unpleasantness I felt probably arouse from the fact that I occasionally detected odours emanating from it, odours which weren’t unpleasant but weren’t mine. You wouldn’t want to wear a stranger’s unwashed clothes so why would you want to lay on their ancient carpets, carpets that had be ‘worn’ by several families. Even after meticulous cleaning, I regularly wrestled lengthy black hairs embedded within the pile. They were of Greek extraction because Greek students had lived in the house, some three years before I moved in.

When the carpet was eventually dragged out of the house, departing in a dusty cloud, the wooden floor on which it had lain, was covered in a thin coat of what looked like sand except it was finer and softer and most likely organic in origin. The carpet had acted like a filtration system so that only the finest particles escaped through to the floor boards.  Once this was hoovered away, you could see the small spaces between the floor boards were caked with dirt that had been compressed into them over many years. This had to be gouged out with a knife before I could sand the boards. Once the front room and dining room were rid of carpeting and the floors washed, scrubbed, scrapped, sanded and treated with linseed oil, the need to dust became a monthly rather than weekly routine.

The decision to banish the muck absorbing carpet, and to subsequently ban outdoor shoes from inside the house, was finally made after I noticed a small brown thing on the floor. I smoked marijuana at the time and on two occasions I had discovered dope on the floor though one discovery turned out to be either dog shit or a clinka that had fallen out of my nephew’s nappies. This mistake only transpired when I inhaled the joint I had rolled from it. Needless to say anything brown and lumpy and laying on the floor was assumed to be dope before anything else.  Though I suspected what it was, it needed confirming.  I sniffed it and instantly retched – cat shit, the worst carnivore shit of all!

Ten years ago the streets around my house were liberally ornamented with piles of dog shit. I know because I used to stick small cocktail flags in them to draw attention to them; it was a form of social protest. When walking to work I would count the passing turds and often, in just half the street, I would count as many as thirty. I had some intimate relationships with the turds in my street: one had been laid in the furthest corner of my lawn, just under the privet bush. I couldn’t fail but notice it as it was large and shaped more like a small cow pat than one of those curled and tapering whippy whirl turds that Korean kids are so expert at drawing.  In 2000, when I first arrived in Korea, I wondered why so many ice creams had been drawn on tables especially as the Baskin Robbins opposite my haggwon scooped ice cream out of large tubs rather than deposited it whirled. Only the smallest dog could have maneuvered its arse into the required position under the privet bush to deposit the poop, a Korean size handbag dog for example, dog,  but this specimen’s owner had to be big.

I watched that turd for an entire summer and well into winter and witnessed its transition from a wet mess to one with a crusty top, rather like a pie that then turned white after an infection by some strain of white, turd eating mold. Eventually, internally atrophied and dehydrated by a hot summer, it collapsed into itself. Gradually absorbed into the  ground around it, it disappeared but by that time it was late winter.  Back on the pavements I even began to recognize individual dog’s shite and could sometimes trace their various daily messings down the street. One example was a particularly big deposit which was almost orange  in colour. I imagined the owner, walking their dog in the  anonymity provided by the early morning darkness, allowing it to shit in one spot and the next day  dragging it a little further down the road so as to share the messes equally around the neighbourhood. As dogs like to do their business in the same area, I would imagine that the moment the dog started to squat on its hunches the owner had to drag it further before letting it spill its backside onto the pavement. I estimated the owner probably took a month to circumnavigate the crescent before the dog had to poop in approximately the same place and if even house numbers were the victims one month and odd house numbers the next target, the cycle could have been extended to two months. Despite the copious piles dotted about the street you never saw an owner allowing their dog to foul the pavement so never trust dog owners who walk their dog in the dark.

Some owners were equally as thoughtful and seemed to think that it was okay for their dog to shit on the road. For several days, as I ate breakfast, I was treated to the view of another enormous turd, strange how they all seem to have been enormous, as it was squelched all over the tarmac  by passing cars. Neighbours who made their dogs pooh on the road probably perceived themselves as good citizens while those who used the pavements were anti-social. Eventually I put a rather hostile placard on my front lawn and several neighbours then did the same;  instantly, the appearance of new turds ceased and those remaining were old and in various stages of atrophy, dehydration and decay. I kept counting the turds walking to work however, as the number of  deposits beyond the borders of my placard’s influence  had significantly increased.

I’m digressing: My point is Europeans and especially the British prefer to wear outdoor shoes inside their houses which is a custom I find horribly disgusting and more so if you have carpets which act as toilet paper to the soles of your poohey shoes. There was so much shit on the streets around my house, and there still is, that natural decay and rain swirled it everywhere so that even if the ground looked clean, you could guarantee  it was coated in canine fecal matter. Wearing shoes indoors, when so many dogs foul the pavements is a disgusting habit.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a dog turd on a Korean street and even if there were it would only be a little thing as most Korean dogs are handbag dogs and incapable of passing anything more than a few pellet sized faeces. And yet Koreans never wear shoes inside their houses and often don’t wear them in workplaces.

When you live in a room which is barren of carpets your awareness of your own bodily debris grows. When you have a carpet you assume that the  bit of nail you blow onto the carpet, or the bogey you roll and flick onto that beautiful Axeminster, simply vanishes. I can flick a toe nail across the room and know that in a day or two it will reappear in my dustpan along with a grain or two of rice, a few hairs and other bits of fluffy stuff. Occasionally I’ll spit out a nail to deliberately see when and where it will re-emerge.

I’ve noticed there are rarely any hairs on the central part of the floor because these are blown to the edges of the room by the draft from open windows and passing bodies and for some reason, the biggest trap of body hair are the sliding door groves. Every few weeks I need to clean these out. Pubic hair has the most amazing ability to float into places like your fridge or kitchen work-surface and though you might find this abhorrent and are thankful that your carpet seizes them before they become visible, I’d rather  see the occasional curly devil on a plate or in the fridge than lurking in the pile of some horrid carpet, rotting slowly among years of bodily refuse, embedded and matted with all sort of unthinkable crap, dead skin cells, bogeys, shoe dirt, dog and cat muck, grit, rain water etc, etc. And then, thinking we are being hygienic, we sprinkle the carpet with floor powders that temporarily scent the air. What happens to them once they have embedded themselves in the carpet? I doubt such powders disappear.

I live alone and so my observations are based on my own bodily sheddings but how greater the pollution if you live with other people or a family and have pets. Carpets are such filthy things and what we do with them is not much different to that other dirty British habit, thankfully disappearing, of blowing gunge out your nose and into a hanky which you then keep warm and moist  in your pocket, the perfect environment for viruses and bacteria, before putting your face back into it and snorting out another load.  Having a carpet on your floor is a little like sleeping in the same bedding without ever washing it.

Cleaning a carpetless room is a joy because its effortless and now Samsung have even marketed a robotic floor cleaner that cleans your floor when you are out. Everything is exposed in a Korean room as there  are few true hiding places. And if you want to wash the floor or give it an occasional scrub or douse it in bleach, well that too, is easy. Carpets can’t be washed and I’m sure all carpet shampoos do is drive the dirt deeper and enliven their parched innards. There is probably a surge in a carpet’s bacterial and fungal population following a shampoo.

In Korea, many westerners don’t remove shoes indoors preferring to stick to their own customs and there are others, myself included, who will occasionally wear shoes on their floor if  for someone reason they have to return briefly indoors because they’ve forgotten something. This is a habit I am trying to break but when you’re in a rush it is difficult. You very, very rarely see Koreans walk on their living space floor wearing shoes, not even for a few seconds. I have noticed that on the odd occasion I have breached Korean custom, I have subsequently felt the deposited dirt left by my shoes, when barefooted. You can’t see it but its there despite the fact you only walked on the floor for a few seconds.

Korean students, especially younger ones, will sometimes cringe and tell me how dirty I am if I suck my pen. Often they will shout ‘ji ji’ (dirty) which is the  word used to small kids and in the same  category as English words like ‘pooh pooh’, ‘wee-wee’ and ‘tinkle’. If sucking a pen is a little ‘ji ji’ then having a carpet or rug is  infinitely dirtier, indeed it is positively filthy! Next time you flick some item onto your Korean floor, just remember, it’ll be back – most likely stuck to the ball of your foot.

지지 – dirty – (but a word used to small children), haggwon – 학원 – a private school like a homework club or after school study center.

There are things I want to give up, and studying isn’t one of those. College is really squeezing me dry, especially my mind. I’m in the verge of breaking down and wanting to curl in the corner and rock myself. I miss vacation, though it had been a month since and 2 weeks away from another, I still do. I miss sleeping at night without the need of thinking what I should’ve done, should be doing and shall do the next day. Beside me right now is a complete endoskeleton of a (dog fish) shark; it doesn’t bother me really- I’m cocky that way. I am worried with what I should be studying next Tuesday night (4 different endoskeletons, goddamn scientific names, orders, classes, and phyla.)

I do not want to be eaten alive metaphorically, let alone literally.

TOP TEN THINGS I SHOULD BE DOING RIGHT NOW:

10.  Resting so I can study later tonight

9. Reading my books.

8. Skimming the sh*t I photocopied I while ago

7. Lying in my bed scanning my notes

6.  Doing my English homework

5. Searching for songs for English (Again)

4.  Trying to write my own script for English (Yes, again)!

3.  Studying for Logic Pre-test

2.  Studying for our English Exam about phobias and “useless facts” (OH YES. English is pretty much fucked up already)

1. STUDYING FOR F*CKING COMPARATIVE ANATOMY LAB. EXAMS!

THINGS I AM ACTUALLY DOING RIGHT NOW:

2. Blogging

1. PRACTICALLY, NOTHING!

3104713    เภสัชวิทยาเปรียบเทียบ    Comparative Pharmacology

ความแตกต่างของชนิดและสายพันธุ์สัตว์ที่มีผลต่อการตอบสนองฤทธิ์และความเป็นพิษของยา การเปรียบเทียบความแตกต่างทางสรีรวิทยาของสัตว์แต่ละชนิดและสายพันธุ์ที่มีผลต่อการดูดซึมยา การกระจายตัวของยา การเปลี่ยนแปลงทางชีวภาพของยาภายในร่างกาย และการกำจัดยาออกจากร่างกาย มโนทัศน์ในการเลือกสรรยาที่มีฤทธิ์จำเพาะต่อสัตว์บางชนิด การขยายผลการศึกษาการใช้ยาในสัตว์ทดลองไปยังมนุษย์

(Species and strain difference of animals resulting in variation of drug responses and toxicities; comparison of physiological difference of animal species and strains in drug absorption, distribution, biotransformation and excretion; concepts of pharmacological selectivity; pharmacological studies in experimental animals and extrapolation of the results to human.)

(3104713 จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)

3106701    วิสัญญีวิทยาเปรียบเทียบ    Comparative Anesthesiology

เทคนิคการใช้ยาและเครื่องมือในการวางยาสลบสัตว์เลี้ยง สัตว์ป่า และสัตว์ทดลอง การดูแลสัตว์ขณะสลบ การช่วยคืนชีพ

(Techniques in anesthesia for domestic, wild, and laboratory animals, monitoring anesthesia, cardiopulmonary resuscitation.)

(3106701 จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)

373444     เรื่องสั้นเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Study of Short Stories

วิจารณ์และเปรียบเทียบเรื่องสั้นจากประเทศต่าง ๆ ทั้งทางตะวันตกและตะวันออกในด้านรูปแบบ เนื้อเรื่อง และความคิด

(Criticizing and comparing short stories from both Western and Eastern countries in terms of form, themes and concepts.)

(373444 มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์)

373445     วรรณคดีเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Literature

เปรียบเทียบวรรณคดีของชาติต่าง ๆ เน้นในด้านประวัติศาสตร์ สังคม ปรัชญาจิตวิทยา และสุนทรียศาสตร์

(Comparison of the literature of different nations with emphasis on history, philosophy, psychology and aesthetics.)

(373445 มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์)

385385     ดนตรีเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Music

ลักษณะดนตรีชาติต่างๆ ทั้งตะวันออกและตะวันตก เปรียบเทียบกันในด้านโครงสร้างของเครื่องดนตรี การประสมวง บทเพลงและอื่น ๆ

(The music of various nations of the East and the West: comparison of their musical instruments structure, types of ensembles, and types of musical works.)

(385385 มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์)

388411     ศาสนาเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Religion

เปรียบเทียบประวัติ หลักคำสอน พิธีกรรม และปรัชญาชีวิตของศาสนาต่าง ๆความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างศาสนา อิทธิพลและความสัมพันธ์ต่อชีวิตและสังคม

(Comparison of histories, doctrines, ceremonies, and philosophies of life of various religions. Relations between religions. Influence on and relation to life and society.)

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3343712    ระบบการควบคุมยาเปรียบเทียบ    Comparative Drug Regulatory Systems

การวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบระบบกฎหมายเกี่ยวกับยา และผลิตภัณฑ์ที่เกี่ยวข้อง ขั้นตอนการขึ้นทะเบียน การออกใบอนุญาต และการเพิกถอนใบอนุญาต การควบคุมมาตรฐานและคุณภาพ การควบคุมการกระจายยา ฉลากยา การโฆษณา และการใช้ยา การรับผิดต่อผลิตภัณฑ์ การวิจัยและพัฒนายา และการทดลองทางคลินิก อำนาจหน้าที่โครงสร้างและการจัดองค์กร การบังคับใช้กฎหมายของหน่วยงานควบคุมยา ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างหน่วยงานควบคุมยากับองค์กรทางการค้าและองค์กรวิชาชีพ วิวัฒนาการและสิ่งแวดล้อมของการควบคุมยา

(Comparative analysis of systems related to pharmaceuticals and related products, licensing, registration and withdrawal processes, standards and quality control, control of distribution, labelling, advertising, and drug usage; product liability, research and development of drugs and clinical trials; regulatory enforcement jurisdiction, organization, structure, and produres of drug regulatory agencies (DRAs); relationship between DRA and trade and professional organizations; evolution and environment of drug regulation.)

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423311     กายวิภาคศาสตร์เปรียบเทียบของคอร์เดท     Chordate Comparative Anatomy

การเปรียบเทียบสัตว์มีกระดูกสันหลังแต่ละพวกในด้านโครงสร้างและวิวัฒนาการ

(Comparative study of the vertebrates in their structure and evolution.)

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423464     วิทยาภูมิคุ้มกันเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Immunology

ออนโตจีนีและกลไกของระบบภูมิคุ้มกัน ฟาโกไซโทซิสไฟโลจีนีของคอมพลีเมนต์เปรียบเทียบระบบภูมิคุ้มกันในสัตว์ไม่มีกระดูกสันหลัง และสัตว์มีกระดูกสันหลังการประยุกต์ของวิทยาภูมิคุ้มกันเปรียบเทียบ

(Ontogeny and mechanism of immune system, phagocytosis, phylogeny of complement, comparison of the immune in invertebrates and vertebrates, application of comparative immunology.)

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454213     การเมืองเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Politics

หลักการและวิธีการในการวิเคราะห์เปรียบเทียบระบบอำนาจ สถาบัน วัฒนธรรมและพฤติกรรมทางการเมืองที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการเปลี่ยนแปลงทางเศรษฐกิจและสังคม

(Principles and methods for comparative analysis of political system, power, institutions, culture, and behavior as related to socio-economic change.)

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455431     นโยบายต่างประเทศเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Foreign Policy

แนวคิดและทฤษฎีที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการกำหนดนโยบายต่างประเทศ การวิเคราะห์นโยบายต่างประเทศอย่างเป็นระบบของกลุ่มประเทศที่พัฒนาแล้ว กลุ่มประเทศกำหลังพัฒนาและกลุ่มประเทศที่พัฒนาน้อย

(Concepts and theories of foreign policy making processes. Systematic analysis of foreign policies of developed countries, developing countries and lessdeveloped countries.)

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457341     ระบบการปกครองท้องถิ่นเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Local Government System

ระบบการปกครองท้องถิ่นของประเทศต่างๆ ทั้งที่พัฒนาแล้วและกำลังพัฒนาวิเคราะห์ถึงโครงสร้างและหน้าที่ของรูปการปกครองท้องถิ่นในแบบต่างๆ เพื่อนำมาเป็นแนวทางในการพัฒนาระบบการปกครองท้องถิ่นของไทย

(Local government system in developed and developing countries; various structures and functions of local government, vis-a-vis the development of Thai local government.)

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457441     ชุมชนเปรียบเทียบ     Comparative Communities

เปรียบเทียบลักษณะของชุมชนในท้องถิ่นต่างๆ ทั้งในด้านโครงสร้างกระบวนการและความสัมพันธ์ทางสังคม ตลอดจนพฤติกรรมขนบธรรมเนียมประเพณีและวัฒนธรรมที่มีอิทธิพลต่อการเมืองการปกครอง และการพัฒนาท้องถิ่น

(Comparative characteristic of local communities in structures, processes and social relation including behavior, tradition and culture; culture and social influences on politics, government and community development.)

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458325     การบริหารรัฐกิจเปรียบเทียบและการบริหารการพัฒนา     Comparative Public Administration and Development Administration

ทฤษฎี แนวคิด พัฒนาการ สถานภาพปัจจุบันและแนวโน้มของการบริหารรัฐกิจเปรียบเทียบ วาทกรรมว่าด้วยการพัฒนา ทฤษฎีในการบริหารการพัฒนา บทบาทของนักบริหารการพัฒนาปัญหาและอุปสรรคในการพัฒนาประเทศ

(Theories, concept, development, state of the art and trend in comparative public administration. Development discourse. Theories in development administration. Roles of development administrations. Problems and obstacles of national development.)

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