Sa Dec has long been one of the main centers of the Mekong River Delta region where the Vietnamese, the Chinese and the Khmer took place the cultural exchanges, in which Goddess cults is typical production. By analyzing and generalizing written materials and combining with fieldwork, observation and in-depth interviews on the basis of cultural exchanges theoretical platform such as historical particularism and the context-based interpretation, we find out that: (1) About origin, there are three elements included in the cult: Viet factors, Cham factors, and Chinese factors. (2) About faith structure, the local community preserves the faith for goddesses who are the first owner of the land, the protectors of the land; blessing goddesses for good weather conditions, for peace and prosperity; Thien Hau Goddess who always gives spiritual blessings and lucks etc.. About the form of ceremonial practice: traditional shamanic dances (Mua Bong Roi, for instance) also provide significant characteristics such as diversity, fusion, and folk-based wisdom, which greatly help preserve the valuable identities of the contemporary communities in Sa Dec.

Aprototype of peppercorn solar assisted dryer with capacity of 5kg per batch was designed and fabricated. Experimental results showed that drying time decreases with an increase of drying-air velocity. In addition, it increases with the layer thickness of drying material. The drying time was from 7-9 hours when the pepper was dried from the moisture content of 64 ± 1% (wet basis) to 13 ± 1% (wet basis) at the drying temperature of 600C, the drying-air velocity is from 1.0 to 1.5 m/s and the layer thickness of drying material is in range of 13 to 40 mm. Pepper products are black, wrinkled skin, characteristic strong smell and ensure food hygiene and safety. The product was not contaminated with Escherichia coli.

Kappaphycus alvarezii is a seaweed containing numerous carbohydrate with biological activities, especially fucoidan. Fucoidan is fucose polysaccharides (FCSPs) with diverse biological activities including antioxidant, anticoagulant, antiviral, antitumor, anti-inflammatory... and especially immune activity. In this study, fucoidan purification and immune acitivity from Kappaphycus alvarezii algae (collected at Dam Mon area, Khanh Hoa provine) were investigated. Fucoidan was purified from the extract by gel filtration chromatography, the content and the purity in fractions were determined. The molecular mass of fucoidan was determined by GPC and the immune activity of fucoidan was evaluated with MTT. The average molecular weight of low fucoidan was 4.2 kDa. Fucoidan has been shown to be effective in the treatment of several types of cancer that cause peripheral blood mononuclear hyperplasia Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell (PBMC), at a concentration of 250μg/ml exhibiting toxicity and toxic depressant activity.

Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas. In this study, the enzyme assisted extraction, was extracted of triterpensaponin from Bacopa monnieri. Screening factors include the ratio of raw materials: solvent; pH; temperature, extracting time and enzyme concentration. The optimum conditions for extracting triterpensaponin from Bacopa monnieri with a cellulase enzyme modeled as Plackett-Burman model showed a treatment temperature of 50 °C, a ratio of 1: 21 (w/v), enzyme concentration 0.81% (v/w), pH 5.3 and 37 minutes extraction time achieved the highest triterpensaponin content of 2.63 (% g/g CK). (1.3 times higher than that of control no enzyme). Thus, the enzyme-assisted extraction method is an effective method, which improves the extraction efficiency of triterpensaponins from Bacopa monnieri.

The critical stylistics is a new field of study in contemporary Western learning styles. With limited to non-literary texts, critical stylistics has the purpose of seeking and exposing ideological underpinnings of texts for social equality and progress. Therefore, in order to help readers with an overview about critical stylistics, this article aims to present four main aspects of critical stylistics, including its origins, formation process, purpose of research, and a set of analytical tools. This article is to provide Vietnamese readers with basic knowledge about the critical stylistics so that the readers can apply the critical stylistics principles and how to conduct critical stylistics in research practices in Vietnam.

In this article, we examine the cognitive space elements of the Vietnamese and English perception verbs, based on the research data of 3,946 surveyed statements with perception verbs from two sets of English-Vietnamese, Vietnamese-English novels: The adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Love after war. Through this research, the cognitive space elements of the perception verbs including internal and external factors are recognized. Based on the perceived characteristics drawn from this study, many linguistic problems such as metaphor, metonymy, conceptualization are explained and how language is formed in our mind and how it is understood between speakers and listeners, and how perceive language is created.

Through surveys of works on realistic literature in French literature in the nineteenth-century, published since the 80s of the twentieth century, we found that many researchers have praised the writing method and the meaning of critical realist literature but lowered naturalist literature, and considered natural literature as a decadent literary line. This paper aims to prove that Naturalism is a part of the realism literature which cannot be classified as decadent literature because Naturalism looks at real life from the perspective of real natural history.

Nguyen Vy, one of many typical faces of the new poetry movement from 1932 to 1945, continued writing and literary activities in South Vietnam the period 1954-1975. Therefore, Nguyen Vy and his poetry are always interested in literary critics. The Poems of Nguyen Vy in the reception of literary criticism in South Vietnam of 1954-1975, refers to two issues that southern literary critics have argued: Nguyen Vy - the poet with desire for innovation and innovation and Nguyen Vy - a poet with a sense of protest and a creative personality. These are the qualities that make up the poet Nguyen Vy.

Kieu Thanh Que had been both a researcher and a literary critic of Vietnamese literature in the first half of the twentieth century. In his literary career, he has published many valuable works of researches and critiques. Among them, the “Literary Criticism” written in 1942 reflected great contributions to the literary criticism of Vietnamese literature, not having fully developed at that time. In this book, he has established the foundations of literary, art and literary criticism; he has initially introduced the other researchers and literary critics in the West which had ever been very popular. The article introduces the theoretical researcher, and points out his contributions in the book.

Until now, the identification cultural and literary of a region has been approached in a variety of ways. In each of these ways, the reader has a different recognization on the culture and literature of that region. In this article, we rely on the research of Ca Van Thinh to identify the culture and literature of the Southern with aspects such as folklore, literature, literary history, culture and education. From the results of this research, before of all, we want to confirm the contributions of Ca Van Thinh with the opening of the road to study the culture and literature of the Southern; and then, we would like to emphasize the traditional cultural aspects of the Southern that Ca Van Thinh devotes his own life to research.

Existentialism is Western philosophical movement that came into being after the Second World War when people faced countless insecurity in life, the crisis of the truths, values. It affects life, which is present in Vietnamese literature, first in the southern urban literature, then the renewal of this philosophy has spread throughout the country. Ho Anh Thai is a famous contemporary Vietnamese writer with about 30 works which have been known by many local and international readers. Especially, novel is the most successful genre of him showing a keen sense of reality with a world of broken, unsafe, exhausted humanity and truths, conflicting values. Statistics - classifying, analyzing – synthesizing, comparing, form, studying prosody method are used to show the basic stamps of existential spirit in Ho Anh Thai novel. On that basis, innovative efforts of writers are acknowledged in innovation and cultural integration, and current literature both in content and form.

Nguyen Thi Kim Hoa composed many genres: short stories, long stories, and literature but all came from a human inspiration. Those are the concerns, thoughts and vibrations of the author about the real life and people in the sunny and windy areas of Phan Rang. The article is based on research results combined with analysis - synthetic methods to introduce the unique features in artistic inspiration and style of young writer Nguyen Thi Kim Hoa.

The Divine Water Jar is a typical fairy tale, as the same sort as Sleeping Beauty. This fairy tale is associated with the motif of a beauty who does not smile and talk. This fairy tale has many prosodic specifications in constructing the character – especially in the description of the lightening complexion. Besides, there are various points of view from the folk tale perspective used to make the image of beautiful woman convincing and eye-catching. In a view, these details and methods show Vietnamese people’s concepts and taste of beauty. In another view, Vietnamese writers’ innovation and creativity is presented.