Distribusi Unsur Hara Kalium Tanah dan Kadarnya pada Tanaman Padi Sawah di Wilayah Sub Das Serayu Hilir Kecamatan Sampang Kabupaten Cilacap

This study aims to determine: (1) distribution of soil potassium nutrients in paddy fields in Serayu Watershed Downstream, Sampang District, Cilacap Regency, (2) distribution of soil potassium nutrient availability, K-content in plant tissue with rice yields in Serayu Watershed Downstream, Sampang District, Cilacap Regency, and 3) fertilizer recommendations potassium in paddy soil in Serayu Watershed Downstream, Sampang District, Cilacap Regency. The study method was conducted by determining 9 sample points by the making of SLH (Homogeneous Land Unit) map with a scale of 1:50.000 by overlaying the Sampang Disctrict Administration Map, the Soil Type Map, the Slope Map, and the Land Use Map. The variables mesured were pH H2O, pH KCl, DHL (electrical conductivity), redox potential, K-available, K-content in plant tissue, climatic conditions, plant varieties, and wet grain rice yields. The results showed that the distribution of potassium nutrients in Sampang District had a low status. The paddy varieties cultivated during research in Sampang District consist of Ciherang, HT Logawa, Inpari 32, and IR64. The climatic condition of Sampang District is the optimal climates for paddy cultivation. The best correlation result with crop yield was between K-available and crop yield. The value of K-available has a determinant coefficient of 47.37% of the yield of rice, while the K content in plant tissue has 19.45% of the yield of rice. Fertilizing recommendations in the research area is 87.73 kg K2O/ha or equivalent to an average of 175.47 kg KCl/ha.

Description of Knowledge and Attitudes about HIV/AIDS on Young Homosexuals in Sleman Regency Yogyakarta

Introduction: Homosexuals community is one of the communities which have the possibility of spreading HIV/AIDS infections. According to the pilot study in a homosexual community in Sleman Regency, at least 78 people are teenagers and have a risk to be infected with HIV/AIDS. This study aimed to describe the knowledge and attitudes of young homosexuals about HIV/AIDS, and also the correlation between it in the Sleman Regency of Yogyakarta. Method: This research is descriptive-analytic. The number of samples is 30 young homosexuals with a total sampling method. Data are collected with questionnaires. Data analysis using univariate test and bivariate test with Spearman Rank correlation. Result: The results showed that knowledge about HIV/AIDS among young homosexuals is a moderate category about 56,7%, low category about 26,7%, and high category about 16,6%. The attitudes towards HIV/AIDS among the young homosexual majority is good about 43,3%, neutral attitudes about 33,3%, and worse attitudes about 23,3%. There was a significant positive correlation between knowledge of HIV/AIDS with the attitudes towards HIV/AIDS among the young homosexual in Sleman Regency indicated Spearman Rank correlation 0,541 with a p-value of 0,002. Conclusion: The knowledge about HIV/AIDS among the young homosexual majority is an average category. The attitudes towards HIV/AIDS among the young homosexual majority is good behavior. There was a correlation between knowledge and attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among young homosexuals in Sleman Regency Yogyakarta. It is important to nursing to give them health education continuously so the spreading of HIV/AIDS in teenagers can be controlled.

Heterosis, Combining Ability, Genetic Diversity and their Interrelationship in Pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millspaugh]

Background: The development of superior hybrids is must to break the existing yield plateau ( less than 800 kg/ha) in pigeonpea and hence, the genetic mechanism governing the heterosis in pigeonpea must be decoded. Methods: The present study was laid down using randomized block design during kharif 2018-19 at GBPUAT, Pantnagar with 36 genotypes (8 parents and 28 F1 hybrids) of pigeonpea. The estimates of combining ability were evaluated by using the Griffing’s, Method II, Model I. The observations recorded for yield and related traits were subjected to the estimation of genetic diversity (GD) using the D2 statistics. The correlation between heterosis and different parameters viz., parental mean (PM), specific combining ability (SCA), mean of general combining ability (MGCA) and genetic diversity (GD) were estimated by using Pearson’s correlation. Result: High estimates of SCA variance and more than unity ( greater than 1) average degree of dominance for all the characters indicated the presence of over dominance. The SCA followed by MGCA were found to be most reliable parameters to predict the heterosis. The parents having high x low or high x high per se performance, good x poor GCA effects and with medium genetic diversity resulted in high frequency of heterotic hybrids.

Correlation Between Carbon Monoxide Level In Exhaled Air and Pulmonary Function On Grill Street-Vendors In Medan City

Background. Air pollution is the result of household waste responsible for 3.8 million death and 7.7% of all mortality over the world. One air pollutant which tends to increase year by year is carbon monoxide (CO). CO is produced as the result of the imperfect combustion of machines and the combustion of charcoal. The purpose of this study is to assess the correlation between CO level in exhaled air and pulmonary function on grill street-vendors in Medan city. Method: This study is an observational analytic with a cross-sectional approach. The subjects were grill in Medan city who fulfilled certain inclusion and exclusion criteria with the consecutive sampling method. This study data is primary data which is collected using a questionnaire, smokerlyzer, and spirometry. Result: The subjects of this study are 25 grill street-vendors. Most subjects in this study have red (40%) and green (32%) zone in CO exhaled test and as in pulmonary function test, restrictive (56%) and mixed-type (40%) are the most. The Spearman correlation result between CO level in exhaled air and pulmonary function FEV1 and FVC are not significant (p=0.068 and p=0.251). Conclusion: There is no significant correlation between CO levels in exhaled air and pulmonary function

The Significant Effect of Entrepreneurship in Appraising Unemployment Problems in South East, Nigeria

The cram widen the concept of entrepreneurship, the impact, the influence and the need to stick firmly to economic development, job availability, modernization and industrialization in the course of entrepreneurial development in South Eastern region. The researches explore numerous studies on entrepreneurial development in Nigeria, Africa and beyond. The study applies research design for the research method, population sample, sample size and sample techniques. The analysis employ descriptive statistic, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA), mean scores and correlation methods as tools applied to analyze the respondent questionnaires; in other to understand what the data is informing the researcher. The results shows strongly agree and agree are significant with significant value of 0.000 with 80.3% correlation rate of the variables and the mean score of 4.0 approximately, which implies that the alternative hypothesis will be accepted. One way analyses of variance also validate the correlations significant level with 0.000 significant values for the respondent questionnaires. The one way ANOVA result agreed with that of correlation result to accept the alternative hypothesis. Having assessed the study, the decision rule implies that entrepreneurial development has effective benefit to job availability in South Eastern region.

Mobile Phone Addiction: Determinant Factors among Students in a Malaysian Public University

The present study was conducted to examine mobile addiction determinant factors among university students in higher education in Malaysia. A total of 162 students responded to the online survey questionnaire. The study employed a quantitative-based research method to obtain data, and the research instruments consist of a set of combined questionnaires adopted from two Ph.D. studies. The correlation result between mobile addiction and attitude showed a stronger association than with the purpose of use. However, linear regression only indicated a significant contribution of students’ attitude towards mobile addiction variance. Keywords: Attitude; Mobile addiction; Purpose of Use: University students eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6iSI4.2905

SELF-REGULATION AND FEAR OF MISSING OUT (FOMO) ON COLLEGE STUDENTS INSTAGRAM USERS

This study aims to test the relationship between self-regulation and Fear of Missing Out (FoMO). This research was conducted on 100 college students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia, from representatives of 11 faculties. The data collection method used the FoMO scale and the self-regulation scale. The reliability test used Cronbach’s alpha, and the validity test used the product-moment correlation technique. Validity Test uses product-moment correlation technique, while Reliability Test uses alpha Cronbach. Test validity with N = 40 and table = 0.312 (p=0.05). FoMO scale of 40 items. There were 31 valid items and nine deciduous items moving from 0.334 to 0.715 with a reliability of 0.916. At the same time, the scale of self-regulation is as much as 50 items. There were 38 valid items and 12 deciduous items moving from 0.316 to 0.704 with reliability of 0.925. Based on the results of the study obtained Fcount = 0.739 with Ftable=1.69 (F count < Ftable) and r count = -0.595 with p = 0.000 (p < 0.05) so based on the results of the analysis that there is a significant relationship between FoMO and self-regulation in students Instagram users at Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, Indonesia. The correlation result indicates a negative value, meaning the higher the self-regulation, the lower the FoMO, or the lower the self-regulation, the higher the FoMO. Then obtained the value of coefficient self-regulation variable determination against FoMO of 35.4%

ROLE OF CONTRAST ENHANCED COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN IN DIAGNOSIS OF LOCAL SPREAD, DISTANT METASTASIS AND STAGING OF BREAST CARCINOMA

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death for women worldwide. The accurate clinical staging of patients with breast cancer is important in determining the most appropriate treatment. The present study investigated the value of staging CECT in detecting asymptomatic distant (lung, liver and bone) metastases in patients with primary breast cancer. Material And Method: 30 patients with Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System category (BI-RADS) 4, 5 and 6 lesions underwent unenhanced breast CTand contrast material enhanced CTbefore histopathological correlation. Result And Discussion: In present study, 5(16.6%) cases shows metastasis into the lungs, 3(10%) cases shows metastasis into the liver, 3(10%) cases shows metastasis into the bones, 1(3.3%)case show metastasis into multiple site(lung and liver), 18(60%) cases shows no any evidence of metastasis. By contrast, 12 of 30 patients (40%) with stage III were upstaged to stage IV and 13 patients (43.3%) of those were originally stage IIIB or IIIC. Conclusion:CECTappears as an essential imaging modality to detect presence, extent and localisation of metastasis.

Comparative Evaluation of Saliva and Serum Proteins in Diabetics and Normo-Glycemics

One of the most probable markers of inflammatory response is serum protein. Recently, serum levels of these some proteins have been proven to be useful in clinical diagnosis. In this study, we comparatively investigated serum and saliva C - reactive protein (CRP), α-amylase and α-glucosidase activities in type II Diabetic and Normo-glycemic humans. Two hundred and thirteen (213) subjects of 173 Diabetics and 40 Non-diabetics (Control) were ethically recruited from the central hospital, warri, Delta State. For each participant, serum and saliva was collected and laboratorily analyzed for α-amylase, α-glucosidase and CRP levels, while comparing mean differences between groups with a student t-test and statistical measure of association (correlation). Result showed a statistically significant increase in CRP and α-amylase activity of diabetics than non-diabetic subjects, with a statistically significant increase in salivary and serum CRP, α-glucosidase and α-amylase levels across groups. This finding is suggestive that saliva and/or serum levels may be useful bioanalytes for non-invasive, alternative diagnosis of blood glucose levels. Similar studies that corroborate the efforts of this study is recommended. Further studies that assay other saliva and serum biomarkers may also be useful and thus recommended.

Investigating relationship between fluid and crystallised intelligence and vocabulary size in students learning French as a foreign language

In this study, the relationship between fluid and crystallised intelligence and vocabulary size was investigated among Iranian students learning French as a foreign language. Studies emphasised on the importance of vocabulary size and language comprehension and tried to discover mental and intelligence factors related to this issue. To administer the present quantitative study, the Persian Adaptation of Baddeley’s (1968) Grammatical reasoning Test for Fluid Intelligence, Persian Test of Baghaei & Tabatabaee (2015) for Crystallised intelligence, and Nation’s (2012) Test of Vocabulary Size were instrumented. Population of the study was 100 intermediate learners of French language from three branches of Safir institute in Tehran. Data was analysed using SPSS and correlational tools to specify the variables correlation. Result showed that there is a significant relationship between crystallised intelligence and size of vocabulary (p<0.1), while there was no significant relationship between fluid intelligence and vocabulary size (p>0.5). It was concluded that fluid intelligence does not predict learners’ vocabulary size, but crystallised intelligence as grows gradually determines learners’ vocabulary size.