Potential Study of The Utilization of Rawa Rantau Panjang Irrigation for Farmers of Lawang Wetan District Musi Banyuasin Regency

This study is where from September 2020 to December 2020. The approach of irrigation areas is based on hydrological areas ranging from the main primary channel of the river, secondary channels to tertiary channels in the farmers’ rice fields. At the same time, the approach of potential utilization of irrigation water Rantau Panjang used the pra method (participatory rural appraisal). In addition to knowing public perception and field facts, conducting Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with questionnaire tools. Furthermore, the data is processed, tabulated, and analyzed with SWOT analysis. This study aims to determine the potential of long-term swamp irrigation utilization for farmers of Lawang Wetan Subdistrict, Musi Banyuasin Regency. The result of the study on the potential benefits of irrigation of Rantau Panjang swamp is 1. The potential of local resources strength to restore the activities of gotong royong in all activities. 2. potentially increase the functional area from 300 ha to 1.000 ha. 3. The potential of the formation, strengthening, and empowerment of water-use farmers associations (P3A). 4. soil fertility rates at the study site based on the availability of nutrients are generally classified as low to moderate so that rice paddy plants are more suitable to be cultivated at this location.

Analisis Penerapan Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Pada PT Sinar Sosro Palembang

PT. Sinar Sosro which is the first ready to drink bottled company in Indonesia and in the world. In developing its business, PT. Sinar Sosro has distributed sales throughout the archipelago, through sales branch offices spread throughout the archipelago. PT. Sinar Sosro in its company management has implemented the Enterprise Resource Planning System, the ERP system built by Sosro's management allows access to data from Sosro's branch offices. Functional area at PT. Sinar Sosro covers: Sales and marketing, Manufacturing, Finance, Accounting, Logistics, Distribution, Inventory, Invoice. In the grip of this functional area, PT. Sinar Sosro uses SAP as its ERP program. The distribution system is capable of handling the company's manufacturing, logistics, inventory, shipping, invoicing, and accounting processes. This system helps control business activities such as sales, delivery, production, inventory management, quality management, and human resources. The modules used in SAP are inventory management, plant maintenance, production, finance and accounting, human resource management.

Identifying Urban Functional Areas in China’s Changchun City from Sentinel-2 Images and Social Sensing Data

The urban functional area is critical to an understanding of the complex urban system, resource allocation, and management. However, due to urban surveys’ focus on geographic objects and the mixture of urban space, it is difficult to obtain such information. The function of a place is determined by the activities that take place there. This study employed mobile phone signaling data to extract temporal features of human activities through discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Combined with the features extracted from the point of interest (POI) data and Sentinel images, the urban functional areas of Changchun City were identified using a random forest (RF) model. The results indicate that integrating features derived from remote sensing and social sensing data can effectively improve the identification accuracy and that features derived from dynamic mobile phone signaling have a higher identification accuracy than those derived from POI data. The human activity characteristics on weekends are more distinguishable for different functional areas than those on weekdays. The identified urban functional layout of Changchun is consistent with the actual situation. The residential functional area has the highest proportion, accounting for 33.51%, and is mainly distributed in the central area, while the industrial functional area and green-space are distributed around.

Fabrication of micro-structured tools for the production of curved metal surfaces by pulsed electrochemical machining

A new, scalable process chain for the fabrication of curved micro-structured metallic tools is developed and evaluated. Arrays of arrows, circles, semicircles and rings with final lateral dimensions of 124 to 819 µm are realised on the tools and successfully transmitted in one process step to stainless steel workpieces with a functional area of 6.5 cm2 using pulsed electrochemical machining. Photolithography-etching or micromilling are applied as initial micro-structuring processes, resulting in micro-structured master forms. These forms are copied into reusable silicon forms. This is followed by epoxy casting and electroforming to obtain the final tools. The tools are made of Nickel and have a diameter of 34 mm. Whilst micromilling, photolithography, silicon casting, epoxy casting and electroforming copy the structures very precisely, the wet etching process induces a widening of the dimensions due to the isotropic character of the process. The advantage of the process chain is the reusability of the master as well as of the silicone forms, which can be copied very precisely and easily with scalable processes to get precision tools with relatively large micro-structured areas. The reusability of the forms makes the fabrication of micro-structured tools relatively cost-efficient. The use of photolithography as the initial structuring process enables the generation of arbitrary, user-defined geometries for the micro-structures on the tool surface. The process chain described has the potential to fabricate lateral structure sizes on tools down to one micrometre.

Most effective mean for lactate clearance in Olympic wrestling (Medio más eficaz en el aclaramiento de lactato en luchadores olímpicos)

This research project determined the most effective training mean for lactate clearance using the subaerobic functional area in Olympic wrestling athletes of the freestyle modality. Eight Olympic wrestlers participated (age: 20.1±2.74 years), using a four-phase crossover study design, in which the athlete performed active recovery alternating each of the training means (Elliptical machine, treadmill, crank ergometer and stationary bicycle); lactate samples were taken 5 minutes after each bout and 15 minutes after finishing the active recovery. The elliptical machine presented the highest average efficiency, with 56.6%, followed by the treadmill with a 54.1% efficiency average; the repeated measures ANOVA F test evidenced differences among the means (p = .001). Likewise, differences were found when performing the post hoc comparisons of minimal significant difference, between the elliptical machine with respect to the crank ergometer (p = .001) and the stationary bicycle (p = .007), but they were not registered between the elliptical machine and the treadmill (p = .737). Of the means analyzed in this study, the highest efficiency in the process of blood lactate clearance during active recovery was evidenced by the elliptical machine and treadmill. Resumen. La presente investigación determinó el medio de entrenamiento más eficaz en el aclaramiento de lactato utilizando el área funcional subaeróbica en deportistas de lucha olímpica de la modalidad de libre. Participaron ocho luchadores olímpicos (edad: 20.1±2.74 años), utilizando un diseño de estudio cruzado de cuatro fases, en el que el deportista realizó la recuperación activa alternando cada uno de los medios de entrenamiento (Elíptica, banda trotadora, ergómetro de manivela y cicla estática); las muestras de lactato fueron tomadas a los 5 min finalizado cada combate y a los 15 min de terminar la recuperación activa. La elíptica presentó el mayor promedio de eficacia, con un 56.6%, seguido de la banda trotadora con un 54.1%; la prueba F de ANOVA de medidas repetidas evidenció diferencias entre los medios (p = .001). Asimismo, se encontraron diferencias al realizar las comparaciones post hoc de diferencia mínima significativa, entre la elíptica con respecto al ergómetro de manivela (p = .001) y la cicla estática (p = .007), pero no se registraron entre la elíptica y la banda trotadora (p = .737). De los medios analizados en este estudio, la mayor eficacia en el proceso de aclaramiento de lactato sanguíneo durante la recuperación activa, lo evidenciaron la elíptica y la banda trotadora.

Developing the Tissue Engineered Heart Valve – a Descriptive Hemodynamic and Ultrasound in Vitro Characterization Study of Heart Valves in a Bioreactor

The inherent limitations of current heart valve substitutes create the premise for the Tissue Engineered Heart Valve (TEHV), considered the perfect substitute. We aimed to compare in vitro hemodynamic performances of our TEHV, the conventional prosthetic valve and similar porcine valves, by ultrasonography and geometry resulting in six valve models analysis. In a bioreactor, pulmonary and aortic physiology were replicated thus hemodynamic characteristics were tested. Using ultrasound, transvalvular pressure gradients and flow were measured and used to calculate their valvular functional area (VFA) and using a high-speed camera, the geometric peak opening area (GOA) was assessed. The obtained results were normalized to the diameter of the biological prosthesis in order to increase the measurement’s accuracy. The ultrasound revealed normal function of all valves and physiologic transvalvular pressure gradients. The TEHV scaffold revealed absence of laceration or dehiscence, and performances in accordance with the control prostheses. The GOA was facile to obtain and the normalized values proved to be greater than the calculated functional area in all analyzed cases and the peak opening areas resulted lesser for the aortic conditions for all six used valves prototypes. To our knowledge, this is the first study to use bioreactors, for in vitro evaluation of heart valves.

Optimal Dispatching of Integrated Electricity and Heating System with Multiple Functional Areas Considering Heat Network Flow Regulation

The integrated electricity and heating system (IEHS) can satisfy the diversified energy demand and improve energy efficiency through electro-thermal synergy and complementarity, which is beneficial for energy transformation and global climate governance. To reduce the operation cost, renewable energy source (RES) abandonment, and purchased electricity of IEHS, an optimal dispatching method of IEHS with multiple functional areas considering the flow regulation of the heat network is proposed. Firstly, the functional area of IEHS is classified and the functional area’s load characteristics are analyzed. Secondly, a heat network model considering refined resistance and dynamic characteristics is constructed and the operation regulation modes of the heat network are analyzed. Thirdly, an optimal dispatching model of IEHS with multiple functional areas considering heat network flow regulation is established to minimize the operation cost of IEHS with multiple functional areas while considering the penalty cost of RES abandonment and time-of-use electricity price. Finally, a certain region in China is taken as a case study to verify the effectiveness of the proposed optimal dispatching model. The case study shows that the quality regulation mode of the heat network considering flow change in multiple stages can effectively reduce RES abandonment by 2.4%, purchased electricity by 5.4%, and the system operation cost by 1.7%. In addition, compared with the independent dispatching of each functional area, the joint dispatching of IEHS with multiple functional areas can reduce the amount of RES abandonment by 95.2% and purchased electricity by 66.5%, and lower the operation cost of IEHS by 23.6%.

Comparison of Dexmedetomidine and Etomidate on Intraoperative Wake-Up Equality, Hemodynamics, and Cerebral Protection in Operation of the Brain Functional Area

In recent years, with the increasing incidence of brain functional area tumors, the clinical application of functional area tumor resection has become extremely urgent. Intraoperative wake-up is an important auxiliary method of this operation, which can effectively reduce the damage of the brain function area caused by the operation and anesthesia itself while playing the role of auxiliary function area and tumor positioning. However, the intraoperative wake-up requires a higher anesthesia effect, so higher requirements are put forward for the choice of anesthetic drugs. Based on hemodynamic and serum molecular observations, this study found that dexmedetomidine- and etomidate-assisted anesthesia were used for intraoperative wake-up in brain functional area surgery, both of which could maintain hemodynamic stability. In addition, the arousal effect and brain protection of dexmedetomidine were better than those of etomidate, and the incidence of adverse reactions was lower during the arousal period. This can provide relevant reference for clinical improvement of the anesthesia effect and surgical safety of intraoperative wake-up.

Human rights to the street: Ethical frameworks to guide planning, design, and engineering decisions toward livability, equity, and justice

Recently, there has been a renewed interest in statements about people’s rights to our streets. Drawing broadly from the literature and from an examination of a comprehensive collection of these rights, this article works toward establishing a comprehensive ethical framework that can be used to guide planning, design and engineering decisions to support pedestrian rights for street and urban livability. To identify and propose these ethical principles and help achieve optimal livability for individuals, groups and society, we: (a) comprehensively examine the literature to clarify the various concepts of street livability and human rights to the street (as related to a collection of various pedestrian rights statements); (b) explore what is being said in these rights to better understand people’s needs and wants; and (c) provide a roadmap for planners, urban designers, and engineers to address these needs in practice. Building on the previous steps and incorporating business practice literature of Functional Area Ethics, relevant functional areas are identified to help professionals act in support of these pedestrian rights.