scholarly journals New Records of Cubozoan and Scyphozoan Jellyfish from Sabah Waters, Malaysia

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Chee Hoe Chuan ◽  
Balu Alagar Venmathi Maran ◽  
Tzuen Kiat Yap ◽  
Kai Ching Cheong ◽  
Muhammad Ali Syed Hussein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
New Records ◽  
Skin Irritation ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Coral Triangle ◽  
Jellyfish Species ◽  
Scyphozoan Jellyfish

Jellyfish play a vital role in the ocean’s ecosystem, acting as a nursery for young fishes, crabs, and brittle stars, as well as a source of food for certain charismatic megafauna, such as sunfish and sea turtles. They also pose a threat to human activities, with jellyfish blooms negatively impacting fisheries, power generation, and tourism. However, very little information is available on the biodiversity of jellyfish within the waters of Borneo. Here, we present new records of jellyfish found along the coast of Sabah, Malaysia, located in northern Borneo, bordering the megadiverse region of the Coral Triangle. A total of six species belonging to two classes and six families hitherto not recorded to the state are reported, Chironex yamaguchii, Acromitus maculosus, Crambione mastigophora, Linuche aquila, Netrostoma sp., and Phyllorhiza punctata. Of these, two species (C. yamaguchii and L. aquila) are harmful to humans, with C. yamaguchii capable of causing human fatalities. Reports of harmful jellyfish are useful to the medical and tourism industry, as some of these species may inflict stings and adverse reactions to humans ranging from rashes and skin irritation to fatal envenomation. A checklist has also been provided for all collected jellyfish species from Sabah waters of Borneo, Malaysia.

Skin Care Using Heparinoid Creams for Long-Term Treatment with Oxybutynin Transdermal Patches without Skin Irritation in Elderly OAB Patients

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-03
Author(s):  
Luke Jackson ◽  
Jonathan Noah ◽  
Miguel Seth ◽  
Collin Jared
Keyword(s):  
Overactive Bladder ◽  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Skin Irritation ◽  
Transepidermal Water Loss ◽  
Skin Hydration ◽  
Transdermal Patch ◽  
Transdermal Patches ◽  
Bladder Symptom ◽  
Overactive Bladder Symptom Score

Background: Overactive bladder is an age-related urologic disease. An oxybutynin transdermal patch is used to treat overactive bladder; however, long-term use is not advised because of potential adverse reactions at the site of application. The present study aimed to investigate the advantages of administering a combination of heparinoid cream and oxybutynin transdermal patch treatment for overactive bladder in elderly patients. Methods: Eight patients (>65 years of age) with overactive bladder were included. The heparinoid cream was applied topically for 1 week, and skin hydration and transepidermal water loss were quantified before and after application. Thereafter, patients were treated with a combination of an oxybutynin transdermal patch and a heparinoid cream for 12 weeks, and the sites of application were monitored for adverse reactions. Clinical effects of the combinatorial treatment were assessed based on the overactive bladder symptom score. Results: Application of the heparinoid cream did not decrease transepidermal water loss, but increased skin hydration and improved dryness. Oxybutynin transdermal patch therapy was not interrupted because no skin irritation was observed at the site of application for 12 weeks, and the overactive bladder symptom score decreased significantly (p<0.05). Conclusions: Combination treatment with an oxybutynin transdermal patch and a heparinoid cream improved treatment outcomes, suggesting that skin hydration with heparinoid cream is a promising treatment method to ensure appropriate use of oxybutynin transdermal patches in elderly patients with overactive bladders.

scholarly journals Invertebrates Diversity of Merta Segara and Nyangnyang Beach: Comparison Study of Two Beaches with Different Characteristics

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Buya Azmedia Istiqlal ◽  
I Wayan Kasa ◽  
Deny Suhernawan Yusup
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Line Transect ◽  
Substrate Type ◽  
Invertebrate Diversity ◽  
Type Frequency ◽  
Different Characteristics

The diversity of intertidal invertebrates in Bali was believed to be affected by human activities, due to high rate of development in tourism industry. In order to reveal the real natural invertebrate diversity, it is necessary to investigate it at a kind of untouched beach of Bali. This study was perform by comparing invertebrate diversity (species richness, density, community structure) and human activity (Type, frequency) in Merta Segara Beach, as the beach with frequent human activities, and Nyangnyang Beach, as the beach with little human activities. Invertebrates sample were taken within intertidal zone using line transect-quadrate during low tide. Human activities were observed in the afternoon from March to April 2016. The result showed a significant different in density and community structure between both Merta Segara and Nyangnyang beach as the consequences of different substrate type of both beaches. Walking on substrate or trampling was believed to be the most influencing activity for invertebrate diversity, especially for Merta Segara Beach. Next, a thorough study must be performed to conclusively tie the human activity to the alteration of invertebrate diversity in a coastal area. The high diversity, density and abundance of intertidal invertebrate of Nyangnyang Beach has literally shown that how diverse the biodiversity could be if the beach were protected from overexploited by tourism visitation and activity.

Standards and Standardization Practice

2009 ◽  
pp. 18-41
Author(s):  
Timothy Schoechle
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Early Human

Technical standards have always played a vital role in the development of industrial society. Historically, standards can be traced to origins in the invention of currency and in early human activities such as warfare, trade and printing—in societies as diverse as ancient China and Rome. For example, Venetian war galleys were mass produced: the size, fittings, ropes and even oars were all standardized and interchangeable (Cargill, 1997, p. 18). Throughout history, standardization evolved as a social practice and it tends to reflect the particular political and economic cultures involved.

scholarly journals Research of the Effect of Tourism Economic Contact on the Efficiency of the Tourism Industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 5652
Author(s):  
Yongquan Li ◽  
Rui Li ◽  
Wenqi Ruan ◽  
Chih-Hsing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Regional Tourism ◽  
Effect Model ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Transportation Development ◽  
Regional Tourism Cooperation

Following regional tourism cooperation, the promotion of balanced sustainable development has begun to play a vital role in the tourism industry. Using the West Coast of the Strait urban agglomeration, China, as an example, this study uses a data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyzes the nonlinear relationship between tourism economic contact intensity and tourism industry efficiency by constructing a mixed effect model. The results show the following: (1) In the early stage of regional tourism cooperation, the efficiency of the tourism industry will decrease with an increase in the intensity of tourism economic contact. As regional cooperation tends towards a stable stage, the efficiency of the tourism industry will continue to increase with the strengthening of the intensity of tourism economic contact. (2) The regional economic level harms the efficiency of the tourism industry. The urbanization level has a positive effect on the efficiency of the tourism industry. (3) The level of opening up and transportation development in the region will not only bring tourism resources or tourists, but also lead them to flow out. They have no significant impacts on the efficiency of the tourism industry.

scholarly journals Effects of temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen on excystment of podocysts in the edible jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye, 1891

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhide Fu ◽  
Yixuan Xing ◽  
Zhifeng Gu ◽  
Chunsheng Liu ◽  
Siqing Chen
Keyword(s):  
Dissolved Oxygen ◽  
Enzymatic Digestion ◽  
Optimal Salinity ◽  
Low Salinity ◽  
Rhopilema Esculentum ◽  
Salinity Levels ◽  
Jellyfish Species ◽  
Effects Of Temperature ◽  
Morphological Differences ◽  
Scyphozoan Jellyfish

The scyphozoan jellyfish Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye, 1891 is a species occurring in the traditional fishery in China. However, the yield of this species in fishery has rapidly declined since 1980s. The podocyst is an important phase during asexual reproduction in Scyphozoa and is considered to be potentially important to the population dynamics of jellyfish. In this study, we investigated the microstructure and effects of environmental factors on the excystment of podocysts. Podocysts of greater than 8 months of age exhibited no morphological differences compared to newly formed podocysts. Following excystment, a smooth-edged hole, probably created by enzymatic digestion was observed. Excystment sharply increased when the water temperature was higher than 18°C, suggesting that temperature ranging from approximately 13-18°C triggers the excystment of podocysts in R. esculentum. Stepwise temperature variation suggested that cooling was much more effective than warming in the induction of R. esculentum podocysts to excyst. The optimal salinity and dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions for excystment were observed to be 20‰ and 6 mg O2 l-1 respectively. Furthermore, excystment was suppressed by both stepwise increase and decrease in salinity or DO. Though R. esculentum podocysts could survive extreme environmental conditions such as hypoxia and low salinity, excystment rates were markedly reduced compared to those of other bloom jellyfish species when the DO and salinity levels were returned to normal.

scholarly journals New records of Heloderma alvarezi (Wiegmann, 1829) (Sauria: Helodermatidae) on the coast of Oaxaca and increases to its distribution in Mexico

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 15495-15498
Author(s):  
Jesús Garcia-Grajales ◽  
Rodrigo Arrazola Bohórquez ◽  
María Arely Penguilly Macías ◽  
Alejandra Buenrostro Silva
Keyword(s):  
Species Distribution ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
New Records ◽  
Central Coast ◽  
Photographic Records

This work provides three new photographic records and evidence of increase in distribution of Heloderma alvarezi based on different encounters between human activities and the displacement of this species along the central coast of Oaxaca, Mexico.  Until now, this species occurred only in Chiapas State, however, the new records provide information about the increase in species distribution on the coast of Oaxaca, so this has increased the number of reptiles in Oaxaca to 448 species.  

scholarly journals RESPONSE RATE OF DONORS FOR COUNSELING & NOTIFICATION AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL BLOOD CENTER OF NORTH INDIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-69
Author(s):  
Kusum Thakur ◽  
Kajal Khajuria ◽  
Achchhar Singh ◽  
Simranjeet Kour
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Reactions ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
North India ◽  
Blood Safety ◽  
Donor Pool ◽  
Major Threat ◽  
Blood Center ◽  
Blood Donor Screening ◽  
University Level

Background: Blood transfusion plays a vital role in the management of many diseases but with risk of TTI transmission & many adverse reactions. Blood donor screening and transfusion transmitted infections testing ensures blood safety, so become more stringent all over the world. Aims & objective: The main aim of this study was to assess the response rate of sero-reactive donors. Material and Methods: It was an observational and prospective study done in our department for a period of 13 months during which response rate of TTI reactive donors was analyzed from reactive donor registry. Results: In this study, total 7901 units were screened to TTI screening test. Out of which 130 units (1.6%) were found to be seroreactive. Out of 130 reactive donors, 90 (69.2%) donors were contacted and only 51 (56.6%) donors responded to call & attended counselling and referral to other department for treatment. Conclusion: Universal guidelines, protocols and confidentiality is maintained by every blood center for donor notification. Response rate of reactive donors helps us to frame guidelines to track non responding donors who pose major threat to the healthy donor pool.

scholarly journals ANALYSING STUDENT TOURIST MOVEMENT BASED ON THE UTILITY MAXIMISATION IN DESIGNING TOUR PACKAGE IN JOHOR BAHRU

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W16 ◽  
pp. 205-214
Author(s):  
I. A. Farid ◽  
M. F. Abdul Khanan ◽  
H. A. Umar ◽  
Z. Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Movement Pattern ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Time Duration ◽  
Foreign Exchange Earning ◽  
Wealthy Country ◽  
Utility Maximisation ◽  
Maximum Utility

Abstract. Tourism industry has played a vital role in the economic development of Malaysia by driving influx of people, capital and commodities into a potentially wealthy country. Tourism also contributed to a foreign exchange earning of most South East Asian countries including Malaysia. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the tourist movement pattern from utility maximisation point of view in reference to the spatial pattern of tour package design in Johor Bahru. Tourist movements from one destination to the other solely depends on the tourist attractions sites available in the area and this corresponds to tourist decision on where, when, how and what time to move from one attraction site to the other. The workflow of this study until the final product is the geospatial map of the tour package that has been statistically analyse from the design questionnaire issued to students on tourism aspects. The method used in identifying and determining the utility maximisation of the arrival time and duration time for each attraction is the mode model. From the statistical result, data validation has been constructed to identify whether the result obtain is significantly accepted or fit by using the elementary statistical test. The final output has been presented in various graph to identify the maximum utility for the arrival and time duration for tour package. *For example, tour package G contains Hutan Bandar, Johor Zoo, Johor Grand Palace, Jalan Tan Hiok Nee Bangunan Kedai Lama and Bazar Karat as the listed attractions together with their corresponding arrival times and durations of time spent.

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