Investigation of Noise Pollution in an Educational Building – Case Study of Babylon University in Iraq

Acoustic conditions, considered an indicator of the level of comfort, are a major concern in educational facilities since they are linked to students’ well-being and learning capacity. In this study, measurements of the acoustical comfort conditions were performed using portable IEQ meter have been assessed in four selected areas of environmental engineering department building (The classroom for fourth year, student’s corridor, teacher’s corridor and reception area) in the University of Babylon in Hillah City. This was done by analyzing the data measured for 13 months from August (2020) to August (2021). Statistical analysis by using the linear regression test was performed to determine the relationship between the selected areas. Noise is the major parameter for the educational areas that can interfere with the students’ activities and eventually, this will have a detrimental effect on the students’ physical and psychological health. The acquired results were compared to the reference values specified in the handbook to international standards for noise compliance in academic educational facilities. The results show that all the studied areas in the Environmental Engineering Department had back-ground noise levels out of the recommended threshold limit values (>50 dB) revealed that the indoor environment of these areas was of poor quality, indicating the require for interventions. This study can be considered a pilot study for future comparable research on Iraqi universities.

Managing in early COVID-19: The Nigerian optometry experience

This study was designed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices of Nigerian optometrists and optometry students with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, while also assessing its impact of their daily personal and professional routines. The Google Forms suite was used to design an online struc- tured survey/questionnaire. This was sent to Nigerian optometrists and optometry students along with a message soliciting their voluntary participation. This survey took place between 10th April and 15th May 2020. The responses received were electronically transmitted to the authors and populated via Google suite software. Descriptive statistics and inferences were then derived from these data. A total of 399 valid responses were logged during this study. Of these, 183 (45.4%) respondents were optometry students from the eight optometry education departments in Nigeria. Optometric doctors made up 216 of the respondents. 86% of optometrists reported having cases of COVID-19 in their state. No optometrists reported suffering from the COVID-19 disease while one (0.5%) student had been infected with COVID-19. Twelve percent of student respondents felt educational facilities were adequate to cater for post COVID- 19 resumption, while 21.5% of students felt that the ongoing academic session should be restarted. The COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted greatly on service delivery among Nigerian optometrists and optometry education. Educational institutions must also adjust to current realities in order to be able to provide safe and adequate training when the academic section resumes or restarts.

Community Empowerment Through Red Onion Cultivation with Polybags on 1 Ilir Urban Village, Palembang City

1 Ilir Urban Village is a village located on the Musi River edge. These Urban Village is quite broad, however underdeveloped area compared to other places in the city of Palembang. Many people live below the poverty line, lack green open space, and have inadequate educational facilities. Most of the population earns a living as laborers, while the women are ordinary housewives. To increase the income of homemakers in helping to improve the family's economy, we conduct training to increase community knowledge in red onion cultivation in polybags by utilizing a narrow yard of the house. The purpose of the activity is to provide motivation, knowledge, and skills to residents, especially housewives, by using the house's yard for onion cultivation to increase productivity and welfare. The methods used to achieve the objectives are surveys, counseling, and training the community on the use of yard land for onion cultivation in polybags and direct practice of red onion cultivation. Based on the process and results of the service that has been carried out, the training participants are very enthusiastic and understand and can carry out onion cultivation in polybags.

INTEGRASI PENDIDIKAN DALAM KITAB HADIS AL-ARBA’IN AL-NAWAWIYAH

<p><span>Pengi</span><span lang="IN">ntegrasi</span><span>an </span><span>konsep </span><span lang="IN">pendidikan agama Islam dalam kitab </span><span>klasik kedalam kehidupan </span><span lang="IN">di dunia modern </span><span>adalah suatu persoalan yang penting</span><span lang="IN">. </span><span lang="IN">Tujuan</span><span> penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk</span><span lang="IN"> menyingkap konsepsi pendidikan Agama Islam yang terintegrasi dalam kitab </span><em><span>a</span><span lang="IN">l-Arba’în al-Nawawiyah </span></em><span lang="IN">yang masih terpendam dan menampilkan pembaharuan dalam pemahaman hadis baik secara tekstual maupun kontekstual. </span><span>Jenis penelitian ini adalah library research, dengan menelusuri Hadis-Hadis yang mengandung kata kunci <em>ta`lîm, tarbiyah, tahdzîb, </em>dan<em> ta’dîb</em> di dalam kitab tersebut, kemudian dipetakan secara tematik (<em>mawdhû`î</em>) dengan menggunakan metode penelitian kajian isi<em> (content analysis),</em> deskripsi (descriptif analysis) melalui pendekatan pemahaman tekstual dan kontekstual. Hasil penelitian ini adalah dalam kitab <em>al-Arba’în al-Nawawiyah</em> secara ekplisit menyebutkan <em>keyword</em> pendidikan</span><span lang="IN"> atau pengajaran</span><span>sebanyak 3 dari 42 hadis. Dalam kitab <em>al-Arba’în al-Nawawiyah </em>menunjukkan adanya banyak konsep pendidikan dan pengajaran yang masih eksis untuk diaplikasikan pada masa modern. Hadis tidak hanya berbicara tentang ibadah saja, seperti shalat, zakat, puasa, dan haji sebagaimana asumsi mayoritas umat pada umumnya. Akan tetapi cakupannya menyeluruh dengan berbicara berbagai persoalan hidup termasuk di dalamnya tentang pendidikan. Kandungan Aspek Pendidikan dalam <em>al-Arba’în al-Nawawiyah</em> mencakup seluruh komponen pendidikan modern, yakni komponen pendidik, peserta didik, tujuan pendidikan, materi pendidikan, metode dan strategi pendidikan, sarana dan prasarana pendidikan.</span></p><p><span>[<strong><span lang="IN">Integration </span><span>o</span><span lang="IN">f Education </span><span>i</span><span lang="IN">n The Book </span><span>o</span><span lang="IN">f Hadith </span><span>a</span><span lang="IN">l-Arba'in </span><span>a</span><span lang="IN">l-Nawawiyah</span></strong><span>.</span><span> <span lang="IN">The integration of the concept of Islamic religious education in classical books into life in the modern world is an important issue. The purpose of writing this article is to reveal the concept of Islamic religious education which is integrated in the book <em>al-Arba'în al-Nawawiyah</em> which is still hidden and displays a renewal in understanding hadith both textually and contextually. This type of research is library research, by tracing the Hadiths containing the keywords <em>ta`lîm</em>, <em>tarbiyah</em>, <em>tahdzîb</em>, and <em>ta'dîb</em> in the book, then mapped thematically (<em>mawdhû`î</em>) using content study research methods. Analysis</span></span><span>and</span><span lang="IN"> description through textual and contextual understanding </span><span>approaches</span><span lang="IN">. The results of this study are in the book <em>al-Arba'în al-Nawawiyah</em> explicitly mentions the keyword education or teaching as much as 3 of the 42 hadiths. </span><span>I</span><span lang="IN">n the book <em>al-Arba'în al-Nawawiyah</em> shows that there are many educational and teaching concepts that still exist to be applied in modern times. Hadith does not only talk about worship, such as prayer, zakat, fasting, and hajj as the majority of people assume. However, the scope is comprehensive by talking about various issues of life, including education. The content of the Educational</span><span> aspect </span><span lang="IN">in<em> al-Arba'în</em> <em>al-Nawawiyah</em> includes all components of modern education, namely the components of educators, students, educational goals, educational materials, educational methods and strategies, educational facilities and infrastructure.]</span></span></p>

School Location Analysis by Integrating the Accessibility, Natural and Biological Hazards to Support Equal Access to Education

This study proposes a new model for land suitability for educational facilities based on spatial product development to determine the optimal locations for achieving education targets in West Java, Indonesia. Single-aspect approaches, such as accessibility and spatial hazard analyses, have not been widely applied in suitability assessments on the location of educational facilities. Model development was performed based on analyses of the economic value of the land and on the integration of various parameters across three main aspects: accessibility, comfort, and a multi-natural/biohazard (disaster) risk index. Based on the maps of disaster hazards, higher flood-prone areas are found to be in gentle slopes and located in large cities. Higher risks of landslides are spread throughout the study area, while higher levels of earthquake risk are predominantly in the south, close to the active faults and megathrusts present. Presently, many schools are located in very high vulnerability zones (2057 elementary, 572 junior high, 157 senior high, and 313 vocational high schools). The comfort-level map revealed 13,459 schools located in areas with very low and low comfort levels, whereas only 2377 schools are in locations of high or very high comfort levels. Based on the school accessibility map, higher levels are located in the larger cities of West Java, whereas schools with lower accessibility are documented far from these urban areas. In particular, senior high school accessibility is predominant in areas of lower accessibility levels, as there are comparatively fewer facilities available in West Java. Overall, higher levels of suitability are spread throughout West Java. These distribution results revealed an expansion of the availability of schools by area: senior high schools, 303,973.1 ha; vocational high schools, 94,170.51 ha; and junior high schools, 12,981.78 ha. Changes in elementary schools (3936.69 ha) were insignificant, as the current number of elementary schools is relatively much higher. This study represents the first to attempt to integrate these four parameters—accessibility, multi natural hazard, biohazard, comfort index, and land value—to determine potential areas for new schools to achieve educational equity targets.

Quality Education and Educational Facilities in Secondary Schools: A Nexus

This study examines the educational facilities which are important in providing quality education at secondary schools. The researcher examined the appropriateness of physical infrastructure, teaching-learning material, library, computer laboratory, and science laboratory at secondary schools to find out nexus of quality education with these provided educational facilities. The research design of the study was quantitative in nature. The research population included 194 secondary schools in Bahawalnagar, 194 head teachers, and 3739 SSTs. The sample of the study was comprised of over 45 head teachers and 90 sets of all the secondary schools of Tehsil Bahawalnagar selected by using cluster random sampling technique. A questionnaire was developed on a 5- point Likert scale to examine & analyze the educational facilities including teaching-learning material, computer laboratory, and library and science laboratory. An observation checklist was also developed and used for the collection of data. The further checklist was divided into three options yes, no and status further divided into two options useable and unusable, appropriateness, and inappropriateness. Data was collected & analyzed using descriptive statistics including percentage and frequency to examine the appropriateness of educational facilities. Quantitative data was analyzed using computer-generated software SPSS. Results revealed that the majority of the respondents were agreed with educational facilities. The study concludes that the researcher observe the educational facilities through a checklist maximum facilities were present, useable and appropriateness of these was also registered. Research study recommended that more opportunities for students may be available for experience science being exposed to more practical’s work in labs which may enhance better performance in science subjects.

Pembuatan Westafel Otomatis dengan Memanfaatkan Kondensasi AC sebagai Sumber Air

The problem of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has not stopped. It was necessary to implement the Covid-19 protocol to avoid spreading, one of which is to wash hand regularly using and circulating water. Based on these reasons, it was still necessary to develop automatic hand washing equipment which is currently a primary need in public places, offices, and educational facilities. This study aims to modify the automatic sink using the Arduino Uno R3 microcontroller as a data processor and Ultrasonic HC-SR04 as a sensor; testing the function of the tool, namely automatic soap and water faucet, hand dryer, piezoelectric buzzer as an air level alarm, by utilizing the results of AC condensation as an water source. The results of this automatic sink modification can meet Covid-19 standards and can be used by all groups, especially schools and offices that have started to be active, so that with this tool it can reduce the spread of Covid-19. In addition, it is that the source of water from the condensation can be used as an alternative to water to save the current increasing use of PDAM water.

Pandemi dan Pemenuhan Hak Anak: Studi Kasus Peran Unicef di Yaman pada Masa COVID-19

Covid-19 outbreak that was discovered in China in December 2019 has crippled the world economy and caused the delivery of humanitarian aid to Yemen to be hampered. In addition, there are still wars that cause damage to health facilities. The war, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Cholera disease are adding to the devastating effects on growing children in Yemen. UNICEF, as an IGO that focuses on children, reports that in 2020 there were approximately 34 cases of child abuse and attacks on educational facilities involving children. This research describes the role of UNICEF in Yemen from 2019 to 2020 in fulfilling children’s rights due to 3 disasters, namely Covid-19, internal conflict, and cholera that occurred in the country. This research looks at the role of international organizations as aid providers which is manifested in the form of Humanitarian Assistance. As a descriptive study, data for this research is collected from 2019 to 2020, including reports from The UNICEF, the WHO website, the UN website, and various verified mass media. UNICEF's role in the form of Humanitarian Assistance in Yemen is manifested in 5 programs: education, child protection, nutrition, health and sanitation. Keywords: UNICEF, Yemen, Humanitarian Assistance, Covid-19 Pandemic, Children’s Rights.

Peran Guru Sekolah Dasar Dalam Menerapkan Pembelajaran Di Tengah Pandemi Covid-19 Di Wilayah Tertinggal, Terluar, Dan Terjauh (3T)

The remaining, outer and farthest areas is a minimal area of its effectiveness of education, this is due to lack of educational facilities and infrastructure. Covid-19 pandemic is currently a very serious barrier for education conditions in the 3T region. So how is the teacher involved in finding solutions to the current pandemic problem? Teacher creativity will help the children of the nation remain in its education at the Covid-19 pandemic in a new teaching technique. The research methodology in this writing uses qualitative research methods with a descriptive approach. It will analyze and analyze the various conditions and situations of some of the data gathered in the observations. This method will also focus on to describe the circumstances that are transparently specifically and in-depth. As for the findings in writing are describing the importance of education in the 3T stake, discovering the impact of a pandemic against education in the 3T stake, and how teachers and governments continue to run the study in the middle of the Covid-19. The role of elementary school teachers creativity is the solution to the learning process at the Covid-19 pandemic in the outmost and furthest reaches of the county Wilayah tertinggal, terluar dan terjauh merupakan wilayah yang masih minim tingkat efektifitas pendidikannya, hal ini disebabkan kurangnya sarana dan prasarana pendidikan. Pandemi Covid-19 saat ini menjadi hambatan yang sangat serius bagi kondisi pendidikan di wilayah 3T tersebut. Maka bagaimana peran guru dalam mencari solusi akan masalah di tengah pandemi saat ini? kreatifitas guru akan menolong anak-anak bangsa untuk tetap terlayani pendidikannya di tengah pandemi Covid-19 dalam teknik pengajaran yang baru. Metodologi penelitian dalam tulisan ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif. Metode ini akan menganalisis, menggambarkan dan menyimpulkan berbagai kondisi serta situasi dari beberapa data yang dikumpulkan dalam pengamatan. Metode ini pun lebih akan memfokuskan untuk mendeskripsikan keadaan yang terjadi secara transparan, spesifik dan mendalam. Adapun temuan-temuan dalam penulisan ialah menguraikan pentingnya pendidikan dalam wilayah 3T, menemukan dampak pandemi terhadap pendidikan di wilayah 3T, dan bagaimana peran guru serta pemerintah tetap menjalankan pembelajaran di tengah pandemi Covid-19. Peran kreatifitas guru sekolah dasar adalah solusi penerapan proses pembelajaran di tengah pandemi Covid-19 di wilayah tertinggal, terluar dan terjauh.

Local Communities Participation in Mangrove Management for Tsunami Disaster Mitigation at Palu City Coastal

In September 2018 there was an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 Mw in Palu Bay, which was followed by a tsunami. The impact of this disaster is the destruction of building infrastructure, the environment, and loss of life. 4,194 people died and damaged 8,107 buildings, 43 health facilities and 386 educational facilities. Mangroves as one of the ecosystems located on the coast can reduce the impact of the tsunami. This research aims to analyze the participation of local communities in mangrove management. The method used in this research is qualitative, and the analysis used in this research is descriptive and comparative method, and the data used in this research is the results of interviews obtained from several communities who live around the coast of Palu city. The importance of this research is to compare the participation of the community in three research locations. The results of the research show that communities at the research locations are starting to realize the importance of mangroves for reducing the impact of the tsunami, so that after 2018 many communities have started planting and managing mangroves.