Effects of Non-Darcy Mixed Convection Over a Horizontal Cone With Different Convective Boundary Conditions Incorporating Gyrotactic Microorganisms On Dispersion

This paper discusses an investigation of the influence of dispersion impact on mixed convection flow over a horizontal cone within a non-Darcy porous medium subjected to convective boundary conditions. By imposing appropriate similarity transformations, the nonlinear partial differential equations governing flow, temperature, concentration, and microbe fields are reduced to a system of ordinary differential equations, which are then solved using the MATLAB BVP4C function. In a few circumstances, the research is brought to a strong conclusion by comparing the findings of the current study to previously published works. Mixed convection parameter λ, buoyancy parameters N1,N2, Lewis parameter Le, bioconvection lewis parameter Lb, Bioconvection peclet number Pe, Biot number Bi, Biot number of Mass transfer Bi,m and also Biot number of motile microorganism transfer Bi,n are all numerically calculated for various values of the dimensionless parameters of the problem. The results also reveal that, in the presence of dispersion effects, these parameters greatly influence the heat, mass, and motile microorganism transfer rates, as well as the corresponding velocity, temperature, concentration, and motile microorganism profiles.

Alpha lipoic acid supplementation affects serum lipids in a dose and duration-dependent manner in different health status

Background: Many studies have investigated the effect of ALA supplementation on lipid profile, and different results have been obtained from these studies. The current systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis was conducted to achive a strong conclusion about the effect of ALA supplementation on lipid profile including total cholesterol (TC), low- and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL, HDL) and triglyceride (TG). Methods: A systematic search was performed in PubMed, SCOPUS, ProQuest and Embase for randomized placebo-controlled human trials that examined the effect of ALA supplementation on lipid profile up to November 2020. The dose and duration of ALA supplementation for included studies were ranged between 300–1200 mg/d and 2–16 weeks respectively. Weighted mean differences (WMD) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were used to evaluate the effect size. Cochran’s Q and I2 tests were also used to assess between-study’s heterogeneity. In addition, subgroup analysis was performed to investigate potential sources of heterogeneity. Dose-response relationship was done using fractional polynomial modeling. Results: Among all eligible studies, 12 studies with a total number of 548 participants were selected. ALA caused a significant reduction on TC (WMD): −10.78 mg/dl, 95% CI: −20.81, −0.74, P=0.002), LDL (WMD: −10.88 mg/dl, 95% CI: −19.52, −2.24, P=0.014) and TG (WMD: −31.02 mg/dl, 95% CI: −49.63, −12.42, P<0.001). There was also a non-significant increaes in HDL concentrations. In addition, dose-response analysis showed a positive association between LDL (Pnon-linearity=0.026), TG (Pnon-linearity<0.001) and duration of intervention in a non-linear model. Conclusion: The present meta-analysis revealed the beneficial effects of ALA supplementation on TC, LDL and TG levels. Moreover, the beneficial effects of ALA supplementation on LDL and TG levels was duration-dependent.

PENGARUH PARTISIPASI IBU DALAM KELAS IBU HAMIL TERHADAP CAKUPAN K4

Abstrak Latar Belakang : Kelas Ibu Hamil (KIH) adalah kelompok belajar ibu-ibu hamil dengan anggota maksimal 10 orang yang merupakan sarana untuk belajar bersama. Puskesmas Menur merupakan puskesmas yang terendah cakupan K4 66,93% dari target 90%. Jumlah peserta dari kelas ibu hamil sendiri 3,4%. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis pengaruh partisipasi ibu dalam kelas ibu terhadap cakupan K4. Metode dan Bahan Penelitian : Jenis penelitian ini observasional analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Besar sampel sebanyak 44 orang, dengan teknik pengambilan sampel accidental sampling. Variabel Independent yang diukur adalah partisipasi ibu dalam kelas ibu hamil sedangkan variabel dependent adalah cakupan K4. Pengambilan data dengan menggunakan kuisioner untuk mengukur partisipasi ibu dalam kelas ibu hamil dan cakupan K4 dengan mengobservasi dari buku KIA dan kohort. Analisis data menggunakan uji statistik Spearman Rho’ dengan α= 0,05. Hasil : Sebagian besar ibu hamil (65,9%) memiliki partisipasi baik, ibu hamil yang berpartisipasi baik sebagian besar (61,4%) cakupan K4 lengkap, dan ibu hamil yang berpartisipasi kurang sebagian kecil (13,6%) cakupan K4 tidak lengkap. Pada analisis data didapatkan p value = 0,004 (p<0,05) artinya ada pengaruh partisipasi ibu dalam kelas ibu hamil terhadap cakupan K4. koefisien korelasi 0,421 yang berada pada rentang 0,40 – 0,599 bermakna kekuatan korelasi antar variable sedang. Sedangkan angka koefisien korelasi pada hasil diatas bernilai positif,, sehingga pengaruh kedua variable tersebut bersifat positif yang kuat. Kesimpulan : ada pengaruh partisipasi ibu dalam kelas ibu hamil terhadap cakupan K4 di Puskesmas Menur Kecamatan Kota SurabayaAbstract Background: Maternal Class is a study group pregnant mothers with members a maximum of 10 to learn together. Menur Public Health Centre is the lowest completeness (K4) ANC of maternal 66,93% from target 90%. Total of participants from the maternal class just 3,4%. This research aims to analyze the influence of maternal class participant to completeness (K4) Antenatal care. Methods and Material: the research was conducted using quantitative observational analytic with cross sectional study approach.. The number of research is 44 pregnant women. The Accidental sampling method is apllied in taking the sample in this research. Data collected by quistionaire to determine participation in maternal class and completeness seen by observing MCH books and cohort. Data analyzed by Spearman Rho’statistic test at significance level α=0,05. Results: Most (65,9%) have a good participation in maternal class, most pregnant women who have good participation (61,4%) have K4 antenatal care scope completely, and a small proportional (13,6%) of pregnant women with lack participation did not have completeness (K4) Antenatal care. Data analize was obtained p value = 0,004 (p<0,05) which means there was influence of maternal class participant to completeness (K4) Antenatal care . Correlation coefficients value’s 4,21 in the range of 0,40 – 0,599 which means the strength between variables is medium. While the correlation coefficient number in results are positively strong. Conclusion : there was influence of maternal class participant to completeness (K4) Antenatal care at working area Menur Public Health Centre in Sukolilo Municipality Surabaya City.

The Tax Optimization Strategy Of Tourism Sector To Increase Banyuwangi Regency’s Income

Purpose: Banyuwangi Regency is intensively optimizing the tourism sector that has enormous natural and cultural potential. The tourism sector has a broad impact (multiplier effect) felt by all layers of businesses, including businesses in the entertainment industry, hospitality and restaurants. These three business sectors will directly affect income through the tourism sector's local tax. The purpose of this study is determine the relationship of the tourist visitation number to the entertainment tax of Banyuwangi Regency, to find out the relationship of the tourist visitation number to the hotel tax of Banyuwangi Regency, to determine the relationship of the tourist visitation number to the restaurant tax of Banyuwangi Regency. Research methods: The analytical method used in this study is Product Moment Correlation Analysis. Results and discussions: The results of this study indicate that the relationship of the Tourist visitation Number (X1) to the Entertainment Tax (Y1) obtained by Pearson product moment value is 0.938 (Very Strong). The relationship of the Tourist visitation Number (X1) to the Hotel Tax (Y2) obtained by Pearson product moment value is 0.955 (Very Strong). The relationship of the Tourist visitation Number (X1) to Restaurant Tax (Y3) obtained by Pearson product moment value from the Correlation Coefficient is 0.889 (Very Strong). Conclusion: The Three tourism taxes had positive correlations with the Tourist visitation

Is There a Temporal Relationship between COVID-19 Infections among Prison Staff, Incarcerated Persons and the Larger Community in the United States?

Background: Our objective was to examine the temporal relationship between COVID-19 infections among prison staff, incarcerated individuals, and the general population in the county where the prison is located among federal prisons in the United States. Methods: We employed population-standardized regressions with fixed effects for prisons to predict the number of active cases of COVID-19 among incarcerated persons using data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for the months of March to December in 2020 for 63 prisons. Results: There is a significant relationship between the COVID-19 prevalence among staff, and through them, the larger community, and COVID-19 prevalence among incarcerated persons in the US federal prison system. When staff rates are low or at zero, COVID-19 incidence in the larger community continues to have an association with COVID-19 prevalence among incarcerated persons, suggesting possible pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission by staff. Masking policies slightly reduced COVID-19 prevalence among incarcerated persons, though the association between infections among staff, the community, and incarcerated persons remained significant and strong. Conclusion: The relationship between COVID-19 infections among staff and incarcerated persons shows that staff is vital to infection control, and correctional administrators should also focus infection containment efforts on staff, in addition to incarcerated persons.

Nonaccelerator study of the residual nuclear strong interaction

The present status and recent developments in the nonaccelerator study of residual strong nuclear interaction in solids are briefly reviewed. The emphasis is on new experimental results and they interpretation which were not available in earlier reviews. Artificial activation of the strong interaction by adding of one neutron to the nucleus causes the global reconstruction of the macroscopic characteristics of solids. The experimental evidence of macroscopic manifestation of the strong interaction in optical spectra of solids which is different by term of one neutron from each other (using LiD crystals instead of LiH) has been presented. This evidence is directly seen from luminescence (reflection) and scattering spectra. As far as the gravitation, electromagnetic and weak interactions are the same in both of kind crystals, it only emerges the strong interaction in deuterium nucleus. Therefore a sole conclusion is made that the renormalization of the energy of electromagnetic excitations (electrons, excitons, phonons) is carried out by the strong nuclear interaction. There is a common place in Standard Model of modern physics that the strong nuclear force does not act on leptons. Our experimental results show the violation of this strong conclusion. Moreover, observation of the isotopic shift phononless line in the photoluminescence (reflection) spectra of the whole series of LiHx D1-x mixed crystals is permit to construct change of the strong interaction coupling, α_{s}, in the wide value range. The necessity to take into account the more close relation between quantum chromodynamics and quantum electrodynamics is underlined. In the first step the quantum electrodynamics should be taken into account the strong interaction at the description of elementary excitations (electrons, excitons, phonons) dynamics in solids. Our experimental results open a new avenue in the investigation of the hadron - lepton interaction via study the low - temperature characteristics (reflection, photoluminescence) of solids and may shed light on a number of fundamental puzzles in modern physics, particularly on the unification of forces

A corpus-based study of representation of Islam and Muslims in American media: Critical Discourse Analysis Approach

Media representations have significant power to shape opinions and influence public response to communities or groups around the world. This study investigates media representations of Islam and Muslims in the American media, drawing upon an analysis of reports in the New York Times over a 17-year period (from Jan.1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2016) within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis. It examines how Islam and Muslims are represented in media coverage and how discursive power is penetrated step by step through such media representations. Most important, it investigates whether Islam and Muslims have been stigmatized through stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. The findings reveal that the New York Times’ representations of Islam and Muslims are negative and stereotypical: Islam is stereotyped as the unacclimatized outsider and the turmoil maker and Muslims as the negative receiver. The stereotypes contribute to people’s prejudice, such as Islamophobia from the “us” group and fear of the “them” group but do not support a strong conclusion of discrimination.

Hubungan tingkat maturitas vertebra servikalis dengan panjang mandibulaRelationship between cervical vertebrae maturity and mandibular length

Pendahuluan: Beberapa tahun terakhir, hubungan antara cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) dengan pertumbuhan mandibula yang dinilai melalui panjang mandibula mendapat perhatian. Pemahaman mengenai pertumbuhan dan perkembangan kraniofasial pasien sangat penting dalam membantu menegakkan diagnosis, merencanakan perawatan, dan keberhasilan perawatan ortodonti. Waktu perawatan ortodonti berhubungan dengan keparahan dan tipe maloklusi yang dikaitkan dengan tingkat maturitas pasien. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis hubungan tingkat maturitas vertebra servikalis dengan panjang mandibula. Metode: Jenis penelitian analitik dengan rancangan cross sectional. Sampel penelitian menggunakan 100 foto sefalogram lateral pasien usia 8-18 tahun dengan Klas I skeletal. Kualitas foto sefalogram lateral baik dan berasal dari laboratorium yang sama. Pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan menganalisis tingkat maturitas vertebra servikalis dan mengukur panjang mandibula pada sefalogram lateral. Uji statistik yang digunakan ANOVA dan Kruskal-Wallis, analisis korelasi menggunakan Pearson. Hasil: Terdapat perbedaan yang bermakna pada panjang mandibula laki-laki dan perempuan, dengan nilai p=0,009. Panjang mandibula pada laki-laki lebih besar dibandingkan perempuan. Peningkatan panjang mandibula tertinggi pada laki-laki terjadi dari cervical vertebrae maturation stages (CVMS) 3 ke CVMS 4 sebesar 8,19±5,79 mm dan pada perempuan terjadi dari CVMS 3 ke CVMS 4 sebesar 6,38±4,51 mm. Hubungan yang paling erat adalah pada tahap CVMS 3 ke CVMS 4 sebesar 0,858 yang bersifat kuat. Simpulan: Terdapat hubungan antara tingkat maturitas vertebra servikalis dengan panjang mandibula, pada setiap tingkat maturitas vertebra servikalis terjadi peningkatan panjang mandibula. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa pertumbuhan mandibula sejalan dengan maturitas vertebra servikalis.Kata kunci: Maturitas, vertebra servikalis, panjang mandibula. ABSTRACTIntroduction: In recent years, the relationship between cervical vertebral maturation (CVM) and mandibular growth assessed by mandibular length has received attention. Understanding the patient’s craniofacial growth and development is very important in helping make the diagnosis, planning treatment, and the success of orthodontic treatment. The orthodontic treatment timing was related to the severity and type of malocclusion associated with the patient’s maturity level. This study was aimed to analyse the relationship between cervical vertebrae maturity level and mandibular length. Methods: This was an analytic study with a cross-sectional design. The study sample used 100 lateral cephalogram photos of patients aged 8-18 years with skeletal Class I. The quality of the lateral cephalogram images was good and came from the same laboratory. Data collection was carried out by analysing the cervical vertebrae’s maturity level and measuring the mandibular length on the lateral cephalogram. The statistical test used was ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis, and the correlation analysis used was Pearson. Results: There were significant differences in the male and female mandibular length, with the p-value = 0.009. The mandibular length in male was higher than in the female. The highest increase in the male mandibular length occurred from cervical vertebrae maturation stages (CVMS) 3 to CVMS 4 by 8.19 ± 5.79 mm, and in women occurred from CVMS 3 to CVMS 4 by 6.38 ± 4.51 mm. The closest relationship was at the CVMS 3 to CVMS 4 stage of 0.858, which was categorised as strong. Conclusion: There is a relationship between the maturity level of the cervical vertebrae and the mandibular length. At each maturity level of the cervical vertebrae, there is an increase in the mandibular length. These results suggest that the mandibular growth is in line with the maturity of the cervical vertebrae.Keywords: Maturity, cervical vertebrae, mandibular length.

Titus und kein Ende

As part of the discussion on the poetics of endings, this paper looks at Shakespeare’s early Roman revenge tragedy as a particularly rich case study. Readers, spectators, and critics of Titus Andronicus have long been puzzled and sometimes annoyed by the sense of uncertainty and irresolution which this play seems to leave us with, even though its final speeches take us through the motions of a strong conclusion. Recent criticism has especially focussed on the figure of the new emperor, whose words close the tragedy with traditional burial orders but whose authority remains in doubt. My paper reopens the case by drawing also on two German adaptations, Heiner Müller’s Anatomie Titus Fall of Rome (1984) and Botho Strauß’s Schändung (2005), as heuristic texts to highlight fundamental ruptures that are at stake here. Trying to put the question of endings also into the religious context of the English Reformation and into the culture of the playhouse, the paper argues that Shakespeare’s dramatic non-ending in Titus may indeed be quite productive.

Environment as the risk factor for tuberculosis in Malaysia: a systematic review of the literature

ObjectiveThe probability for transmission risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) usually occurs in high density communities, crowded and enclosed spaces with inadequate ventilation. Rapid urbanization which includes substandard housing leads to various sanitation and health problems. To investigate the prevalence and incidence of TB by focusing on its environmental risk factor in Malaysia.ContentDatabases search of Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) Plus, MyJournal, Biblioteca Regional de Medicina (BIREME), BioMed Central (BMC) Public Health, Medline, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (CAB), EMBASE (Excerpta Medica dataBASE) OVID, and Web of Science (WoS) was performed, which include the article from 1st January 2008 until 31st August 2018 using medical subject heading (MeSH). Articles initially identified were screened for relevance.SummaryOut of 744 papers screened, nine eligible studies did meet our inclusion criteria. Prison and housing environments were evaluated for TB transmission in living environment, while the other factor was urbanization. However, not all association for these factors were statistically significant, thus assumed to be conflicting or weak to end up with a strong conclusion.OutlookUnsustainable indoor environment in high congregate setting and overcrowding remained as a challenge for TB infection in Malaysia. Risk factors for transmission of TB, specifically in high risk areas, should focus on the implementation of specialized program. Further research on health care environment, weather variability, and air pollution are urgently needed to improve the management of TB transmission.