Assessments of heavy lift UAV quadcopter drone to support COVID 19 vaccine cold chain delivery for indigenous people in remote areas in South East Asia

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1101/2021.01.09.21249494 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Andrio Adwibowo

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Indigenous People ◽

Storage Temperature ◽

Vaccine Delivery ◽

Cold Chain ◽

South East Asia ◽

Delivery Time ◽

Delivery Times ◽

Heavy Lift ◽

Operational Time

AbstractVaccine delivery is one important aspect need to be strengthened within health systems. One of the main challenges in COVID 19 vaccine delivery is how to cover indigenous population in remote and isolated forests in South East Asia. Another issue in COVID 19 cold chain delivery is requirement for a carrier that can maintain the suitable storage temperature. Related to this condition, COVID 19 vaccine should be delivered using heavy vaccine cooler box and this demand delivery system equipped with heavy lift capacity. In here, this study proposes and assess the potential used of heavy lift UAV quadcopter to expand the COVID 19 vaccine delivery to indigenous people living in village that impeded by rugged terrain. The landscape and terrain analysis show that access to the villages was dominated by 15%-45% slopes and the available access is only 1.5 m width trail. To transport 500 vials with 10 kg carrier along 2 km trail, it requires 2 persons to walk for 1 hour. By using drone, a straight line route with a length of 1.5 km can be developed. There were at least 3 drone types were available commercially to lift 10 kg load and several drones with payload capacity below 10 kg. For carrying 100 vials to village using drones, it is estimated the required delivery time was 1.23-1.38 minutes. Around 1.57-1.66 minute delivery times were required to transport 250 vials. For carrying the maximum and full loads of 500 vials or equals to 10 kg load, a drone requires in average of 3.13 minute delivery times. This required drone delivery time is significantly below the required time by walking that almost 1 hour. Drones were limited by flight operational times. Whereas all required delivery times for each drone assessed in this study were still below the drone operational time. The lowest drone operational time was 16 minutes and this is still higher than the time required for a drone to deliver the vaccine. Considering the effectiveness and anticipating vaccine vaccination, UAV quadcopter drone is a feasible option to support COVID 19 vaccine delivery to reach indigenous people in isolated areas.

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Understanding conflict resolution strategies in South East Asia

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e627722013-065 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Mrignaini Goel ◽

Mylliem Adrian Lambert ◽

Syafiqah Binti Yahya

Keyword(s):

Conflict Resolution ◽

East Asia ◽

South East Asia ◽

Conflict Resolution Strategies ◽

Resolution Strategies

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CIScoSI Study [Children Immunization Status and cases of Systemic Illness]

Medical & Clinical Research ◽

10.33140/mcr.03.03.02 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

East Asia ◽

Pediatric Patients ◽

Severe Disease ◽

Tertiary Care ◽

Immunization Coverage ◽

South East Asia ◽

Immunization Status ◽

Tertiary Care Hospitals ◽

Total Coverage

To determine the immunization status of pediatric patients under age of 5 years visiting pediatric department of tertiary care hospitals in South East Asia. The aim of this study was to appreciate the awareness and implementation of vaccination in pediatric patients who came into pediatric outpatient Department with presenting complain other than routine vaccination. we can also know the count of patients who do not complete their vaccination after birth. we can differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients and incidence of severe disease in both groups. Immunization is a protective process which makes a person resistant to the harmful diseases prevailing in the community, typically by vaccine administration either orally or intravenously. It is proven for controlling and eliminating many threatening diseases from the community. WHO report that licensed vaccines are available for the prevention of many infectious diseases. After the implementation of effective immunization the rate of many infectious diseases have declined in many countries of the world. South-East Asia is far behind in the immunization coverage. An estimated total coverage is 56%-88% for a fully immunized child, which is variable between countries. Also the coverage is highest for BCG and lowest for Polio.

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Maidstone's woodpecker – an unexpected bird specimen in the herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.2014.0244 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 41 (2) ◽

pp. 230-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Charles E. Jarvis ◽

Joanne H. Cooper

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

East Asia ◽

East India Company ◽

South East Asia

It had long been believed that none of the bird, egg or nest specimens that had been in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane at his death in 1753 had survived. However, a specimen of a rhinoceros hornbill, originally in Sloane's hands, was discovered in the Natural History Museum's collections in London in 2003, and three more Sloane hornbill specimens have subsequently come to light. In addition, we report here a most unexpected discovery, that of the head of a woodpecker among the pages of one of Sloane's bound volumes of pressed plants. The context suggests that the head, like its associated plant specimens, was probably collected in south-east Asia about 1698–1699 by Nathanael Maidstone, an East India Company trader, the material reaching Sloane via William Courten after the latter's death in 1702. A detailed description of the head is provided, along with observations on its identity and possible provenance.

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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474407205.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Subject Matter ◽

Documentary Film ◽

East Asian ◽

South East Asia ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Historical Perspectives ◽

The Third ◽

Wide Range ◽

Global Understanding

Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.

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‘Staring into All Their Yellow Eyes’: Where the Wild Things Are, the 1960s, and the Vietnam War

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2017.0218 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 59-73

Author(s):

Michelle Ann Abate ◽

Sarah Bradford Fletcher

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Vietnam War ◽

Political Engagement ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

South East Asia ◽

Psychological Perspective ◽

Literary Representation ◽

Military Involvement ◽

The 1960S ◽

Alternative Reading

Since its release in 1963, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has been viewed from a psychological perspective as a literary representation of children's inner emotional struggles. This essay challenges that common critical assessment. We make a case that Sendak's classic picturebook was also influenced by the turbulent era of the 1960s in general and the nation's rapidly escalating military involvement in Vietnam in particular. Our alternative reading of Sendak's text reveals a variety of both visual and verbal elements that recall the conflict in South East Asia and considers the significance of the book's geo-political engagement.

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