Level of Awareness on Disaster Risk Reduction of the University of Eastern Philippines Employees and Students

The researchers looked at how well academics, students, and non-teaching staff at the University of Eastern Philippines System were aware of disaster risk reduction. Education, agriculture, health, fisheries, and marine resources were all used to measure awareness. The research also revealed a link between awareness and a number of personal characteristics, as well as a substantial variation in awareness amongst student groups. The study used a 30-item Likert type instrument to assess disaster risk reduction awareness and used a descriptive-correlational research approach. Percentages, means, multiple regression analysis, and analysis of variance were used to examine the data. The study's findings revealed that faculty members were well-versed in disaster risk reduction in education, agriculture, and health, as well as disaster risk reduction in fisheries and marine resources, infrastructure, and the environment and natural resources. The students were well-informed on disaster risk reduction in the areas of education, agriculture, and health, as well as disaster risk reduction in the areas of fisheries and marine resources, infrastructure, and the environment and natural resources. The six components of the degree of awareness were known to the non-teaching employees. Exposure to newspapers and television was shown to be substantially associated to the level of disaster risk reduction knowledge among faculty and non-teaching personnel. Students' newspaper exposure and year levels were shown to be substantially connected to their degree of disaster risk reduction knowledge. There is a considerable variation in disaster risk reduction awareness across the three categories of respondents.

A Thorough Analysis on the Primary School Teachers’ Belief in Modeling Balinese Local Wisdom of Tri Hita Karana

When there is no selection procedure, the introduction of other cultures as a result of globalization has the potential to diminish the culture of local populations. When a country has a good character basis, the selection process should be carried out. As a reference for education in Indonesia, the 2013 curriculum emphasizes eighteen characteristics derived from native wisdom that must be incorporated into the teaching - learning activities. The present research aims to examine primary school teachers' perspectives on incorporating a Balinese local value known as Tri Hita Karana into character education instruction. It's a survey research that included 94 primary school teachers. The findings indicate that elementary school teachers in Buleleng, Bali are conscious of the importance of incorporating Tri Hita Karana values into learning process; they trust that Tri Hita Karana idea is really in line with character education values, and that incorporating Tri Hita Karana values into the teaching - learning activities will enhance students' personality and national pride.

Statistical Assessment of the Runoff Variability of Small Rivers in the Middle Zeravshan Basin

The article deals with the issues of statistical assessment of the variability of the runoff of small rivers in the Middle Zeravshan basin. For this purpose, the average monthly and annual water discharges were used, taken into account at 11 hydrological stations located on small rivers and water resources in the Middle Zeravshan basin. Calculations to estimate the coefficient of variability of river runoff were carried out for two periods: the first calculation period includes the base climatic period (1961-1990), and the second calculation period includes 1991-2018. Based on the analysis of the results obtained, an increase in the value of the coefficient of variation (Cv) in the second calculation period relative to the first calculation period was revealed.

Pedagogical Support is a Necessary Condition for Creation and Development of a System of Lifelong Rural Education Providing the Training of High-quality Agricultural Specialists

Currently, there are two main options for training agricultural specialists in the Russian Federation. The first option is studying in a college (technical school) or mastering university programs through bachelor's, specialist and master's programs. The second way is to form a stepwise organisation of continuous agricultural education: a specialised general education school, a college (technical school), a university, and an institution of additional professional education. Insufficient attention to the change and development of new social statuses by students makes it difficult to fully disclose the educational potential of the system of continuous agricultural education. Thus, it is necessary to organize pedagogical support for students' adaptation to current changing academic situations. It is also essential to consider lifelong agricultural education not only as advanced training in the workplace, but also as a transition from specialized training in a secondary general education school to secondary agricultural vocational education, and then to the development of programs of higher agricultural education and subsequent regular, professional development throughout the entire period professional activity.

Geochemical Analysis of Groundwater for Drinking, Irrigation, and Human Health Impacts in Uddanam Area of Srikakulam District of Andhra Pradesh, India

The current study's goal is to discover the geochemical analysis of groundwater in the uddanam area of the Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, India. In the current study area, 50 groundwater samples were collected and analyzed for physicochemical properties such as cations, anions, total hardness, conductivity, and alkalinity. This was assessed for its suitability for drinking and irrigation purposes by calculating pH, EC, TDS, hardness, and alkalinity in addition to major cations (Na+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+) and anions (HCO3-, Cl-, SO42-, NO32-, F-). Chemical indices such as SAR, percent Na, permeability index, RSC, Kelly's Ratio, Magnesium Ratio, and Non-carbonate hardness (NCH) have been calculated based on the analytical results. Water with high alkalinity may be aesthetically unfit for drinking, whereas water with high TDS and TH may not be recommended for consumption by people suffering from kidney and related diseases. Geogenic, anthropogenic influence, agricultural activity, and mineral dissolution, Presence of high TDS and TH levels were the primary causes for chronic kidney disease (CKD), not suitable for drinking and irrigation purposes.

Mobile Application on Malay Medicinal Plants based on Information Crowdsourcing

Mobile Application on Malay Medicinal Plants Based on Information Crowdsourcing is an application that provides information on Malay medicinal plants. The information in this application is obtained from a crowd of people including researchers, Malay villagers, traditional medical practitioners, and the public who are willing to share their knowledge and information on Malay medicinal plants. This project focuses on the use of Malay medicinal plants that contain nutrients which is good for human health. There are a lot of Malay medicinal plants founded by the researcher that can help to treat human illnesses. This project involves crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is the best way for people to get information from the researchers and crowd people. This project is related to crowdsourcing information systems. Crowdsourcing information systems are information systems that produce informational products or services for internal or external customers by utilizing the potential of crowd people. This project promotes knowledge sharing and awareness among researchers, Malay villagers, traditional medical practitioners, and local herbs entrepreneurs, and the public towards Malay medicinal plants. This project applies the concept of Wikipedia whereby the information is obtained from a crowd of people. It allows the researchers, Malay villagers, traditional medical practitioners, local herbs entrepreneurs, and the public to share their knowledge and findings on Malay medicinal plants on the internet easily. This project also focuses on motivating the public that there are a lot of Malay medicinal plants that can be used for health care. This project is developed in the Malay language as it provides information on Malay medicinal plants and the target user is Malaysia’s citizens. For future enhancement, this project plan to be developed in English and wider target users from other countries.

Exam the Synergistic Potency of Tea Leaves Extract (Camellia Sinensis) and Moringa Leaves (Moringa Oleifera) as an Inhibitor of the Growing of Some Bacteria that Cause

Issues of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms have become a genuine wonder and needs to discover arrangements viable with the peril it addresses. Therefore, scientists have arisen calling to go towards regular other options and sources given commonly by nature. The study focused on the synergistic effectiveness of the cold (E1) and hot (E2) aqueous extracts of the leaves of two plants, Camellia sinensis, and Moringa oleifera, compared with (E3) which is control treatment, subsequent to researching some dynamic and active mixtures in the two plants separates utilizing phytochemical investigation and infrared spectroscopy analysis (FTIR). In addition, their utilization as anti-infection agents to delay the growth of some positive and negative isolated pathogenic bacteria that cause food contamination, by measuring the inhibition zone for bacteria growth, and determine the MIC assay for concentrates. The outcomes showed that the main mixtures combinations that were subjectively analyzed by FTIR were phenols, polyphenols, alkaloids, flavonoids, and other significant mixtures. Results showed that there were significant differences among the bacterial species towards each concentrate, just as clear critical differences among the pre-arranged concentrates towards every one of the confined bacterial species.

The Underlying Factors of Soil Susceptibility to Erosion in Central Parts of Southeastern Nigeria

Soil erosion in southeastern Nigeria has a high devastating tendency which created a natural geologic hazard is causing loss of arable farm lands, destroying properties and other social infrastructures like pipelines, roads, bridges, over head and underground cables that are being exposed and or washed away by deep gully erosions. Investigations into the underlying factors of soil susceptibility to soil erosion in southeastern Nigeria led to this work. The study areas are the twenty six Local Government Areas within the centre of the zone which are Anaocha, Orumba North, Aguata, Nnewi South and Orumba South in Anambra State; Umunneochi, Bende, Ohafia, Arochukwu and Isuikwuato in Abia State; Afikpo North, Afikpo South, Ivo, Ohaozara and Onicha in Ebonyi State; Aninri, Oji River, Ezeagu, Udi and Awgu in Enugu State, and Idea to North, Idea to South, Okigwe, Orlu, and Orsu in Imo State. The dataset for this research work are from secondary and primary sources. Secondary Data were extracted from other journal publications among others, while primary data were in the form of measurement during field visit, photographs and geophysical soil survey and verification. Descriptive Statistics, Student t-test and Chi-square test analysis were used. The result shows that the soils across the study area generally are predominantly sandy with a mean of fine sand at 28.22% and coarse sand at 43.40%, while the mean of clay and silt are very low, 17.82% and 10.56% respectively. The study concludes that high sand content in the composition of soil in the study area is responsible for high rate of soil erosion in the area and therefore recommends a policy framework from the government of Nigeria that will encourage a paradigm shift from roots and tubers crop production that exposes the soil, to orchard plantation.

Designing Mobile Information Architecture (IA) m-Health Learning Application for Traditional Malay Medicinal Plants with Medicinal Properties Using Cultural Dimensions

There is deficiency of content structuring in existing m-Health application due to weak structuring of information architecture and poor usage user interface design. The reason is explained by the lack of incorporating cultural elements in the design of information architecture. The study purposes two designs for Mobile Information Architecture (IA) m-Health learning application for traditional Malay medicinal plants with medicinal properties using culture dimension. The main objective is to design mobile learning application for m-Health Malay Traditional Plant by using User Cultural Dimensions. The second research objective is to design mobile learning application for m-Health Malay Traditional plant by using culture dimension. The first design is based on high power distance and uncertainty avoidance. Design showing detail on the function and more structure on the access of the information of the m-Health application design and the second design is based on low power distance and uncertainty avoidance. Design is showing more on the graphics and image to access on information in the m-Health application design. Those designs are being be evaluated and user persona prefers designing two over design one. The design was evaluated and the result show it is proven that designing m-Health application towards content, context and navigation is partly influenced by culture. The design can be used by stakeholder, SMEs and end users to conduct mobile learning. As a conclusion, the design was developed for m-Health based on cultural dimensions and user persona. Future work may involve incorporating cultural dimensions and user persona in other different type of applications such as mobile travel, mobile banking, mobile shopping, mobile entertainment, mobile gaming, mobile creative industries, mobile trade, mobile commerce and mobile education.

Integrating Balinese Local Wisdom of Tri Hita Karana: Primary School Teachers’ Belief

The arrival of foreign cultures due to globalization will be able to fade the culture of local communities if there is no selection process. Selection process can be done if a nation has a strong character foundation The 2013 curriculum as a reference for education in Indonesia has been emphasizing eighteen characters derived from local wisdom that need to be integrated in the teaching and learning process. The current study intended to explore the believe of primary school teachers on integrating Balinese local value called Tri Hita Karana in teaching character education. This study was a survey study followed by 94 elementary school teachers. The results show that elementary school teachers in Buleleng, Bali are aware of the significances of inserting the values of Tri Hita Karana in the learning process, they believe that the Tri Hita Karana concept is very much in accordance with the values of character education, and the integration of Tri Hita Karana values into the teaching and learning process will strengthen the students’ character and national identity.