Community Empowerment Through Homegrown Medicinal Plants and The "Wedang Uwuh" Herbal Beverage Cultivation in Seketi Hamlet

Rural community empowerment is an effort to develop independence and community welfare through the improvement of knowledge, attitudes, skills, behaviour, abilities, awareness, and resource utilization. This is carried out by establishing policies, programs, activities and assisting with the problems related to the priority needs of the community to increase community activities through the cultivation of homegrown medicinal plants. The homegrown medicinal plants (TOGA) are traditional medicinal plants. These medicinal plants are used for making Wedang Uwuh. The ingredients consist of various types of spices namely: ginger, cloves, nutmeg, lemongrass, cardamom, cinnamon, sappanwood, and rosella. The method of implementation used is through the diffusion of knowledge and direct practice. These activities were carried out for the residents of Seketi Hamlet. The results of the activities that have been carried out in Seketi Hamlet are as follows: the community gets insight into TOGA plants; people acquire skills in how to process TOGA into Wedang Uwuh herbal beverage which can help increase endurance (immunomodulators) to protect against Covid-19 pandemic; adding or increasing community activities through the use of house yards as TOGA growing media. Therefore, it is necessary for the Head of Seketi Hamlet to consider doing several things, namely the provision of advanced programs via entrepreneurship training to produce superior products from TOGA yields, and community cooperation in the continuous care of the “Seketi Hamlet Health Garden” for long term benefits.

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Pelatihan Pembuatan Eco-Friendly Detergen Daun Balik Angin (Alphitonia Excelsa) pada Kelompok Ibu-ibu di Desa Mandi Angin

Agrokreatif Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ◽

10.29244/agrokreatif.7.3.269-278 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 269-278

Author(s):

Kurdiansyah ◽

Muhammad Faisal Machdie ◽

Gusti Abdul R. Thamrin

Keyword(s):

Environmentally Friendly ◽

Community Empowerment ◽

Forest Area ◽

Residential Areas ◽

Community Activities ◽

Community Skills ◽

Infusion Method ◽

Implementation Method ◽

The Impact ◽

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Special Purpose Forest Area (KHDTK) Lambung Mangkurat University is a forest area with types of plants and trees. KHDTK is close to residential areas. The existence of community activities around KHDTK will indirectly have an impact on the sustainability of KHDTK. The community activities that impact KHDTK are bathing, washing, and latrine activities (MCK). This community activity provides insight into the impact of using chemical detergents on health and the environment, as well as increasing community empowerment around the KHDTK area in processing natural resources in the form of processing leaves into environmentally friendly detergents. The implementation method consists of two steps, the first step is counseling, and the second step is the preparation of eco-friendly detergents. Counseling carried out by providing knowledge about the impact of synthetic detergents and the manufacture of environmentally friendly detergents. In this activity, the active ingredients used are balik angin leaves because these leaves contain saponins. Leaves balik angin extraction using the infusion method. The results of the evaluation of the activities showed an increase in public knowledge about the impact of synthetic detergents on the environment and an increase in community skills in making environmentally friendly detergents. This activity is very useful in increasing the knowledge and skills of the community.

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Turkish Muslims in a German city: Entrepreneurial and residential self-determination

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v12i1.252 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Sarah Hackett

Keyword(s):

Residential Patterns ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Self Employment ◽

German City ◽

Post War ◽

Oral History Interviews ◽

The City ◽

Insight Into ◽

Term Objective

Drawing upon a collection of oral history interviews, this paper offers an insight into entrepreneurial and residential patterns and behaviour amongst Turkish Muslims in the German city of Bremen. The academic literature has traditionally argued that Turkish migrants in Germany have been pushed into self-employment, low-quality housing and segregated neighbourhoods as a result of discrimination, and poor employment and housing opportunities. Yet the interviews reveal the extent to which Bremen’s Turkish Muslims’ performances and experiences have overwhelmingly been the consequences of personal choices and ambitions. For many of the city’s Turkish Muslim entrepreneurs, self-employment had been a long-term objective, and they have succeeded in establishing and running their businesses in the manner they choose with regards to location and clientele, for example. Similarly, interviewees stressed the way in which they were able to shape their housing experiences by opting which districts of the city to live in and by purchasing property. On the whole, they perceive their entrepreneurial and residential practices as both consequences and mediums of success, integration and a loyalty to the city of Bremen. The findings are contextualised within the wider debate regarding the long-term legacy of Germany’s post-war guest-worker system and its position as a “country of immigration”.

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Moving Songs

The Oxford Handbook of Musical Repatriation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190659806.013.42 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 590-606

Author(s):

Sally Treloyn ◽

Matthew Dembal Martin ◽

Rona Goonginda Charles

Keyword(s):

Cultural Heritage ◽

Knowledge Transmission ◽

Intercultural Relationships ◽

Cultural Negotiation ◽

Intercultural Collaboration ◽

Present Collection ◽

Intergenerational Knowledge ◽

Early Phases ◽

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Repatriation has become almost ubiquitous in ethnomusicological research on Australian Indigenous song. This article provides insights into processes of a repatriation-centered song revitalization project in the Kimberley, northwest Australia. Authored by an ethnomusicologist and two members of the Ngarinyin cultural heritage community, the article provides firsthand accounts of the early phases of a long-term repatriation-centered project referred to locally as the Junba Project. The authors provide a sample of narratives and dialogues that deliver insight into experiences of the work of identifying recordings “in the archive” and cultural negotiation and use of recordings “on Country.” The entanglement of local epistemological frameworks with past and present collection, archival research, repatriation, and dissemination for intergenerational knowledge transmission between spirits, Country, and the living, is explored, showing how recordings move song knowledge from community to archive to community and from generation to generation, and move people in present-day communities. The chapter considers how these “moving songs” allow an interrogation of the fraught endeavor of intercultural collaboration in the pursuit of revitalizing Indigenous song traditions. It positions repatriation as a method that can support intergenerational knowledge transmission and as a method to consider past and present intercultural relationships within research projects and between cultural heritage communities and collecting institutions.

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Medicinal Plants and Mushrooms with Immunomodulatory and Anticancer Properties—A Review on Hong Kong’s Experience

Molecules ◽

10.3390/molecules26082173 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (8) ◽

pp. 2173

Author(s):

Grace Gar-Lee Yue ◽

Clara Bik-San Lau ◽

Ping-Chung Leung

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trials ◽

Medicinal Plants ◽

Infection Control ◽

Immune Modulation ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Medicinal Mushroom ◽

Immunomodulatory Effects ◽

Anticancer Properties ◽

Further Development ◽

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The immune modulating effects of selected herbs deserve careful studies to gain evidence-based support for their further development. We have been working hard on many items of medicinal herbs to gain insight into their immunomodulatory effects relevant to cancer treatment in particular, while infection control is not excluded. Nine of them have been selected to give the results of our exploration on their biological, particularly immunomodulatory activities. Since Hong Kong people especially favor one medicinal mushroom, viz. Coriolus versicolor, a number of clinical trials using Coriolus for cancer-related studies are included in this review. While immune modulation platforms are being built for relevant studies, a brief account on the research targets and related procedures are given.

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Hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy after parathyroidectomy in a patient with uremia: A case report and literature review

Journal of International Medical Research ◽

10.1177/0300060520942115 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 48 (7) ◽

pp. 030006052094211

Author(s):

Wei Zhang ◽

Feng Xue ◽

Quandong Bu ◽

Xuemei Liu

Keyword(s):

Heart Failure ◽

Case Report ◽

Secondary Hyperparathyroidism ◽

Calcium Supplementation ◽

Severe Heart Failure ◽

Cardiac Complications ◽

Refractory Heart Failure ◽

First Case ◽

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Hypocalcemia is a rare, but reversible, cause of dilated cardiomyopathy. Although cardiomyopathy may cause severe heart failure, calcium supplementation can reverse heart failure. We report here a patient with uremia and secondary hyperparathyroidism, who was complicated by persistent hypocalcemia and refractory heart failure. The cardiac failure was refractory to treatment with digitalis and diuretics, but dramatically responded to calcium therapy and restoration of normocalcemia. As a result, the patient was eventually diagnosed with hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of this disease to be reported in a patient with uremia. Findings from our case may help clinicians to better understand hypocalcemic cardiomyopathy. Our case might also provide new insight into long-term cardiac complications and prognoses of patients undergoing parathyroidectomy due to secondary hyperparathyroidism.

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R Coronae Borealis Stars: Long-Term Photometric & Spectroscopic Studies

Highlights of Astronomy ◽

10.1017/s1539299600021298 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 379-379

Author(s):

P.L. Cottrell ◽

L. Skuljan ◽

P.M. Kilmartin ◽

C. Gilmore ◽

W.A. Lawson

Keyword(s):

Radial Velocity ◽

Spectroscopic Studies ◽

Photometric Data ◽

Decline Phase ◽

Dust Clouds ◽

Medium Resolution ◽

Formation And Evolution ◽

R Coronae Borealis Stars ◽

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For more than a decade we have been able to acquire and analyse a significant amount of photometric data of the highly variable R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars. This has made been possible by a photometric service observing programme instigated at the Observatory. These photometric data have been combined with less extensive spectroscopic coverage, particularly of the decline phase of these stars. These have been supplemented by observations obtained at Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories for a radial velocity study. Significantly more spectroscopic observations are now being acquired with the development of a new medium resolution spectrograph at Mount John University Observatory. In this poster we will present recent photometric and spectroscopic results for a number of the RCB stars in our sample. This observational and analysis work can be used to provide further insight into the nature of these stars, their likely progeny and progenitors and the processes that are involved in the formation and evolution of the obscuring dust clouds which cause the decline phase.

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Characteristics of Liparis loeselii (L.) Rich. populations in selected Natura 2000 areas in eastern Poland

Folia Geobotanica ◽

10.1007/s12224-020-09371-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 55 (3) ◽

pp. 151-162

Author(s):

Danuta Urban ◽

Joanna Sender ◽

Ewelina Tokarz ◽

Andrzej Różycki

Keyword(s):

Natura 2000 ◽

Total Carbon ◽

Habitat Conditions ◽

Total Carbon Content ◽

Poor Fen ◽

Calcareous Fen ◽

Liparis Loeselii ◽

The Individual ◽

Insight Into

AbstractIn view of the sensitivity of Liparis loeselii to changes in habitat conditions, we carried out a study with the aim to monitor population numbers, identify the individual features of the Liparis loeselii population, analyse habitat conditions, identify threats and propose conservation measures to preserve the species. The investigations were conducted in seven unmanaged objects located in three Natura 2000 areas in eastern Poland. The results of this study provide a new insight into Liparis loeselii ecology. The analysed populations inhabited some habitat types: extremely poor fen, transitional mire, rich fen, calcareous fen, spring-fed fen. The content of nutrients was similar in all the habitats. A CCA analysis revealed that the total carbon content, pH, and redox potential of the substrate determine differences between the habitats analysed. Juvenile individuals represented a maximum of 12% of the analysed populations and were the least abundant group of these plants. The flowering was primarily influenced by hydrological conditions. Based on the long-term observations reported in this article, it can be assumed that the species stands a chance of surviving at the localities analysed, provided that the habitat conditions do not change dramatically.

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Dark metabolism: a molecular insight into how the Antarctic sea‐ice diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus survives long‐term darkness

New Phytologist ◽

10.1111/nph.15843 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 223 (2) ◽

pp. 675-691 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Fraser Kennedy ◽

Andrew Martin ◽

John P. Bowman ◽

Richard Wilson ◽

Andrew McMinn

Keyword(s):

Sea Ice ◽

Antarctic Sea Ice ◽

Fragilariopsis Cylindrus ◽

Dark Metabolism ◽

The Antarctic ◽

Insight Into

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The demise of #NSFW: Contested platform governance and Tumblr’s 2018 adult content ban

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444821996715 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146144482199671

Author(s):

Jeanna Sybert

Keyword(s):

Core Values ◽

Term Survival ◽

Long Term Survival ◽

Community Values ◽

Critical Moment ◽

Platform Governance ◽

Sexually Explicit ◽

Explicit Content ◽

Insight Into

On December 3, 2018, Tumblr announced that it would ban sexually explicit content from the platform, drawing immediate backlash from users. The ensuing discord on the site is conceptualized here as contested platform governance, or a conflict between users and ownership, in which not only are a platform’s policies and features challenged, but also its core values, identity, and/or purposes are put into question. By examining 238 Tumblr posts, this analysis identifies the unique ways users combatted the ban and (re)inscribed community values, while also contesting the owners’ legitimacy to govern the platform. Holding implications for the site’s long-term survival, such conflicts capture a critical moment in which the boundaries of power between users and ownership are challenged and, possibly, transformed. By examining Tumblr’s Not Safe For Work (NSFW) ban through the lens of platform governance, this study offers insight into how power and its limits are negotiated online.

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An Insight into the Polymeric Nanoparticles Applications in Diabetes Diagnosis and Treatment

Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/1389557521666211116123002 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 ◽

Author(s):

Parisa Dehghani ◽

Monireh Esameili Rad ◽

Atefeh Zarepour ◽

Ponnurengam Malliappan Sivakumar ◽

Ali Zarrabi

Keyword(s):

Polymeric Nanoparticles ◽

Synthetic Polymers ◽

Diagnostic Methods ◽

Diagnosis And Treatment ◽

Diabetes Diagnosis ◽

Transport Mechanisms ◽

Different Types ◽

Treatment And Diagnosis ◽

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: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a type of chronic metabolic disease that has affected millions of people worldwide and is known with a defect in the amount of insulin secretion, insulin functions, or both. This deficiency leads to an increase in the amounts of glucose, which could be accompanied by long-term damages to other organs such as eyes, kidneys, heart, and nervous system. Thus, introducing an appropriate approach for diagnosis and treatment of different types of DM is the aim of several researches. By the emergence of nanotechnology and its application in medicine, new approaches were presented for these purposes. The object of this review article is to introduce different types of polymeric nanoparticles (PNPs), as one of the most important classes of nanoparticles, for diabetic management. To achieve this goal, at first, some of the conventional therapeutic and diagnostic methods of DM will be reviewed. Then, different types of PNPs, in two forms of natural and synthetic polymers with different properties, as a new method for DM treatment and diagnosis will be introduced. In the next section, the transport mechanisms of these types of nano-carriers across the epithelium, via paracellular and transcellular pathways will be explained. Finally, the clinical use of PNPs in the treatment and diagnosis of DM will be summarized. Based on the results of this literature review, PNPs could be considered one of the most promising methods for DM management.

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