Recording the Fragrance of 15 Types of Medicinal Herbs and Comparing Them by Similarity Using the Electronic Nose FF-2A

Medical herbs have been recognized till now as having different constituents that act on the human body. However, the fragrance of herbs is a complex mixture of odors, which makes it difficult to qualify or quantify the scent objectively on the human sense of smell. In this study, aromas of 15 medicinal herbs were recorded using an electronic nose FF-2A, and their characteristics were compared with aroma samples of wine such as Le Nez du Vin, to determine which wine aromas are similar to each medicinal herb. Thereafter, the aromas of the 15 herbs were standardized to create a reference axis for the aroma of each herb, and the similarity of tea herbs to the reference axis was examined. Additionally, the results were compared with those obtained by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In FF-2A, the measured scent is recorded as an absolute value. We succeeded in calculating the similarity of the scents of other herbs with the axes of the scent of each herb by standardizing their scents and creating new axis data. Conversely, although GC-MS is able to identify the components and concentrations of fragrances, an electronic nose can analyze fragrances in a way that is uncommon with GC-MS, such as comparison of similarities between fragrances.

How NFTs Influence Society: A Look at Scarcity Mindset, Generational Gaps in Education, and the Impact on the Environment

I propose that non fungible tokens (NFTs) will affect the greater public, and specifically the art market, at an exponential rate due to three factors. The first, scarcity mindset, drives the human sense of urgency for a particular commodity (Garvey, 2021). The next factor is the potential use of NFTs in real world applications or throughout the economy. The attraction of NFTs is that they are indiscriminate and allow anyone from various socioeconomic backgrounds to buy in. As scarcity seemingly increases, NFTs appear to be a good investment; but are there real world applications or do they merely exist within the virtual realm? The last determinant I would like to explore is the environmental impact of NFTs on the physical world. When comparing virtual ‘tokens’ used to fund digital art to paper money exchanged for a piece of physical artwork in concrete space, theoretically the former is much less detrimental to society. However, through practice-led research, I have conducted a six month investigation from May 2021 through October 2021 to uncover the true ramifications NFTs have on the world.

Monologue and Organization Studies

In this essay, we propose that recent work in management and organization studies is typically inclined to understand organization and organizing as dialogic in form. Dialogicity is characterized by dynamic interlocution on the part of active human sense-makers and, in our critical reading, evokes a romanticized social landscape that fails to reflect the more prosaic features of organizational life. To address what we see as certain limitations of the dialogic view, we introduce a complementary point of reference: that of monologic organization. This perspective provokes reflection on those situations in which meanings are predetermined at the outset and communication consists of the strictly controlled, routine reproduction of formal scripts. We draw on the works of Mikhail Bakhtin and Michel Serres to reclaim monologic as a pertinent view of organization and its processes. Finally, we provide micro, meso and macro level examples to illustrate and discuss the heuristic potential of a monologic view.

Literature Review : Hubungan Tingkat Kontrol Asma Dengan Kualitas Hidup Penderita Asma

Knowledge is the result of knowing someone by sensing certain objects, sensing can occur through the five human sense, namely the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Good knowledge can couse good preventive behaviors. Early prevention is the only thing that can be done to avoid the recurrebce of asthma. The prevention is done to minimize the risk of asthma attacks. This literature review aimed to determine the correlation between knowledge about asthma and the prevention of recurrence of asthma. This literature Review accessed PUBMED by combining the keywords “Knowledge” and “Prevention Asthma”. Participants in this study were patients with asthma who had a P-Value of 0,000. The Results showed that there was a correlation between knowledge about asthma and efforts to prevent the recurrence of asthma. This study is expected to be a reference for hospitals or health centers to increase educational activities and knowledge about asthma.Keyword: Asthma Knowledge, Asthma Prevention AbstrakTingkat kontrol asma merupakan suatu tingkatan pengamatan manifestasi asma pada penderita asma atau berkurangnya maupun menghilangnya penyakit asma melalui pengobatan. Tingkat kontrol asma terbagi atas terkontrol penuh, terkontrol sebagian, dan tidak terkontrol. Pengklasifikasian tersebut memudahkan dalam mengetahui derajat berat dan ringannya penyakit asma serta untuk mengetahui respon terapi. Penyakit asma memberikan dampak negatif terhadap kualitas hidup penderita asma. Dampak negatif yang ditimbulkan antara lain terganggunya aktivitas sehari-hari, tidak dapat mengikuti pelajaran sekolah, tidak kuat untuk melakukan kegiatan olahraga, dan hilangnya hari kerja bagi penderita asma yang bekerja di kantor. Kontrol asma berhubungan dengan kualitas hidup. Semakin buruk kontrol asma, maka kualitas hidup akan semakin menurun. Literature Riview ini bertujuan untuk Mengetahui hubungan tingkat kontrol asma dengan kualitas hidup pasien asma. Literature review dilakukan dengan menggunakan artikel yang bersumber dari database online yaitu PubMed, Garuda dan Google Scholar dengan kata kunci “Asthma AND Asthma control level”, “Quality of life”, “Tingkat kontrol asma”, dan “Kualitas hidup” dengan batasan 5 tahun terakhir. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa ada hubungan tingkat kontrol asma dengan kualitas hidup penderita asma. Tingkat kontrol asma salah satu faktor yang mempengaruhi kualitas hidup pasien asma.Kata Kunci: Asma, Tingkat kontrol asma, Kualitas hidup.

THE EASTERN PHILOSOPHER AND THE WESTERNIZED PROPHET

Gibran Khalil Gibran is one of the few Lebanese authors who has bridged the East and the West and is justifiably considered a citizen of the world. His book of highly estimated prose poems, The Prophet is one of the most widely read books of the 20th century. It reveals Gibran’s philosophy about different aspects of life, mainly the precept in the Gospel of Matthew about the importance of the human sense of mutuality which summarizes a Christian’s duty towards his/her neighbor and states a fundamental ethical principle. In addition to this golden rule, The Prophet reflects Gibran’s beliefs in Christianity. Being a true mirror of the Sufi mysticism of Islam, it also shows his idealistic opinion on pantheism. From this perspective, the research will focus on the combination of his beliefs in Christianity, Islam, and pantheism in The Prophet, as well as his firm conviction in creating the united and unique structure of a Christian-Muslim synthesis which he deeply adhered to.

The astonishment of view

This work examines the concept of beauty connected with vision in terms of utopia, pre-vision and sharing from a pedagogical perspective. Starting with the pandemic's need to 'see beyond', the analysis will develop in three directions: - Educational direction: i.e., the ability to go beyond the perimeter of the usual spaces of action of pedagogy, interpreting the challenges due the pandemic how opportunities to experiments other “educational vision”. In this sense, the debate on distance learning and face-to-face learning can be interpreted. - Scientific direction: The value of the scientific community's knowledge, skills and research’ passion investigating a new perspective to the well-being and safety of humankind became evident during the pandemic. - Global direction: i.e., as a greater awareness that safety may only happen if everyone is safe, in a planetary and not an individualist or sovereigntist view of well-being. Pedagogy should redefine globalisation in a human sense.

Literature Review : Hubungan Pengetahuan Asma dengan Upaya Pencegahan Kekambuhan pada Penderita Asma

Knowledge is the result of knowing someone by sensing certain objects, sensing can occur through the five human sense, namely the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Good knowledge can couse good preventive behaviors. Early prevention is the only thing that can be done to avoid the recurrebce of asthma. The prevention is done to minimize the risk of asthma attacks. This literature review aimed to determine the correlation between knowledge about asthma and the prevention of recurrence of asthma. This literature Review accessed PUBMED by combining the keywords “Knowledge” and “Prevention Asthma”. Participants in this study were patients with asthma who had a P-Value of 0,000. The Results showed that there was a correlation between knowledge about asthma and efforts to prevent the recurrence of asthma. This study is expected to be a reference for hospitals or health centers to increase educational activities and knowledge about asthma.Keyword: Asthma Knowledge, Asthma Prevention AbstrakPengetahuan merupakan hasil dari tahu seseorang dengan cara melakukan penginderaan terhadap obyek tertentu, penginderaan dapat terjadi melalui panca indra manusia yaitu dengan indra penglihatan, pendengaran, penciuman, rasa dan raba. Pengetahuan yang baik maka perilaku pencegahan juga akan baik. Pencegahan sejak dini merupakan satu-satunya hal yang bisa dilakukan untuk menghindari terjadinya penyakit asma, pencegahan dilakukan untuk memperkecil risiko terjadinya serangan asma. Literature Riview ini bertujuan untuk Mengetahui hubungan pengetahuan tentang asma dengan upaya pencegahan kekambuhan pada penderita asma. Literature Review ini mengakses database melalui PUBMED dengan mengkombinasikan kata kunci ‘’Knowledge’’ AND ‘’Prevention Asthma’’. Partisipan pada studi ini adalah pasien dengan penderita asma yang didapatkan P-Value 0,000, diperoleh dengan menggunakan metode melalui cross sectional. Hasil Literature Review ini menunjukkan bahwa adanya hubungan pengetahuan tentang penyakit asma dengan upaya pencegahan kekambuhan penderita asma.Studi ini diharapkan dapat menjadi referensi pihak Rumah Sakit atau Puskesmas untuk meningkatkan kegiatan terhadap pendidikan serta pengetahuan tentang penyakit asma.Kata Kunci: Pengetahuan Asma, Pencegahan Asma

An Update on Smell and Sensuality

When thinking of smell, we usually consider it only as one of the five senses. Compared to the rest of senses, smell has been underestimated. By conducting a research, we will be able to discover how mistaken we are. The human sense of smell is more powerful than it's usually given credit for and plays a major role in human health and behavior than many experts in the field are aware of the sense of smell is present in our daily activities and, depending on the gender, perception may differ, as well as from the anatomical structure of the olfactory organ between genders to the stimulus of the odor. The fragrances determine our everyday food choices, places where we choose to spend with our life partner. Scents can determine our sexual behavior, in building infant-parent connection and create our habits as well. It can also warn us against the selection of food, persons, also death. In this case, the loss of smell can be related with an olfactory organ dysfunction, but as well can have an endocrine, genetic or psychical basis. The olfactory dysfunction can change our habits and basically our whole life. It is irrefutable that while talking about smell which we consider as one of the senses, we can talk about sensuality which broadly covers the relationship between smell and perception of reality. Sensuality in a general sense can be defined as the perception of the surrounding things through the senses, as sensory pleasure, and unlike sexuality, which can be translated as the reception of biological, psychological and physical stimuli. Aim of the study: Currently all of our senses are mostly well known. We are trying to consider the topic from many different sides to make ourselves more and more advanced. We are trying to unite a couple of subjects to prove that we can connect one with another to explore how advanced our organism is. In this research we are trying to look closely at the two different topics and glue them together. Trying to improve and update the connection between the sense of smell and sensuality. This is possible due to the relationship between the smell and the part of our brain responsible for memories and memory, i.e. the limbic system. In this way, we can process the aroma stimulus into memories, we associate smells with specific situations, places, people or things [1]. Therefore, the objectives we have in this study are the following: The nose as an olfactory organ and the anatomical differences as to structure; the olfactory system is strictly connected with the sense of smell; sex, as a gender, something that make us different from each other; physical and psychological disorders and influence of smell. Taking into consideration the amount of work and research on the sense of smell and the still uncertain issues related to it, it is certain how important it is for life and science to fully understand its properties. Over time, with the development of science and technology, there is an increasing wish to learn about such a complicated machine as the human body. Material and methods: In the first part of this research, we will gather all the information that is commonly available so far in the international bibliography, as well as the achievements and utilities obtained to date. Following we will analyse all the new concepts that exist on the topic of sense of smell in connection with sex and sensuality, also how the smell can change due to various disorders and try to summarise it based on the latest research.

Assessment of Personal Relaxation in Indoor-Air Environments: Study in Real Full-Scale Laboratory Houses

The relationship between chemical concentrations in indoor air and the human sense of comfort and relaxation have been reported. We investigated the effect of the sum of volatile organic compounds (ΣVOCs; sum of 79 VOCs) on the level of relaxation in two laboratory houses with almost identical interior and exterior appearances. The electroencephalogram (EEG) was monitored to evaluate the degree of personal relaxation objectively. The experiments were conducted in laboratory houses (LH) A and B with lower and higher levels of ΣVOCs, respectively. A total of 168 healthy volunteers participated, who each performed the task for 20 min, followed by a 10-min break, and EEG was measured during the break. Simultaneously as subjective evaluations, the participants were asked to fill a questionnaire regarding the intensity of odor and preference for the air quality in each LH. The subjective evaluation showed a significant association between ΣVOCs and participants’ relaxation (OR: 2.86, 95%CI: 1.24–6.61), and the objective evaluation indicated that the participants were more relaxed in the LH with lower levels of ΣVOCs than that with higher levels (OR: 3.03, 95%CI: 1.23–7.50). Therefore, the reduction of ΣVOCs and odors in indoor air would have an effect, which is the promotion of relaxation.

Edukasi Kesehatan Dalam Upaya Pencegahan Dan Pengendalian Kesehatan Mata Pada Anak

ABSTRAK Anak adalah tunas, potensi, dan generasi muda penerus cita-cita perjuangan bangsa, memiliki peran strategis dan mempunyai ciri dan sifat khusus yang menjamin kelangsungan eksistensi bangsa dan negara pada masa depan. Di Era 4.0 yang terjadi sekarang di dunia, banyak masyarakat yang beralih menuju dunia teknologi digital. Salah satu teknologi digital yang banyak dimanfaatkan oleh semua kalangan adalah gadget. Tidak terkecuali pemanfaatan gadget ini oleh anak-anak. Gadget akan mempengaruhi kondisi psiko-sosial pada anak, terlebih gadget juga akan berdampak buruk pada kesehatan anak. Dan tanpa disadari juga, karena terlalu seringnya mereka bermain dengan teknologi, mata sebagai indera penglihat manusia akan terpengaruh oleh radiasi yang ditimbulkan. Oleh karena itu, dengan dilakukannya pemberdayaan kader terkait kesehatan mata diharapkan peran kader dalam upaya pencegahan dan pengendalian kesehatan mata pada anak dapat berjalan optimal. Program kemitraan ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pemahaman kader terhadap upaya pencegahan dan pengendalian kesehatan mata pada anak. Target utama program ini adalah kader kesehatan di Dusun Sukosari, Desa Pandansari, Kecamatan Poncokusumo, Kabupaten Malang. Kegiatan ini meliputi survei awal terkait kesehatan mata pada anak, dan melaksanakan penyuluhan tentang upaya pencegahan dan pengendalian kesehatan mata pada anak dengan menggunakan metode penyuluhan dan diskusi interaktif. Hasil dari kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah adanya peningkatan pemahaman kader kesehatan terkait Penyakit Mata khususnya upaya dalam pencegahan dan pengendalian penyakit mata pada lansia di Dusun Sukosari, Desa Pandansari, Kecamatan Poncokusumo, Kabupaten Malang.Kata Kunci : Anak, Indera Penglihatan, Kesehatan Mata ABSTRACT Children are the shoots, potentials, and the next generation of the ideals of the nation's struggle, have a strategic role, and have special characteristics and traits that ensure the continuity of the existence of the nation and the country in the future. In era 4.0 that is happening now in the world, many people are turning towards the world of digital technology. One of the digital technology that is widely utilized by all circles is gadgets. There is no exception to the use of this gadget by children. Gadgets will affect psycho-social conditions in children, especially gadgets will also adversely affect the health of the child. And unwittingly, too, because too often they play with technology, the eye as the human sense of vision will be affected by the radiation caused. Therefore, with the empowerment of cadres related to eye health, it is expected that the role of cadres in efforts to prevent and control eye health in children can run optimally. This partnership program aims to improve cadres' understanding of efforts to prevent and control eye health in children. The main target of this program is health cadres in Sukosari Village, Pandansari Village, Poncokusumo District, Malang Regency. This activity includes initial surveys related to eye health in children and conducting counseling on efforts to prevent and control eye health in children using counseling methods and interactive discussions. The result of this community service activity is an increase in the understanding of health cadres related to Eye Diseases, especially efforts in the prevention and control of eye diseases in the elderly in Sukosari Hamlet, Pandansari Village, Poncokusumo District, Malang Regency. Keywords: Children, Sense of Vision, Eye Health