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Development of a Web-Based Indoor Navigation System Using an Accelerometer and Gyroscope: A Case Study at The Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University
Authors: Štefanička Tomáš , Ďuračiová Renata , Seres Csaba 
Published: January 2018

Abstract
As a complex of buildings, the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava tends to be difficult to navigate in spite of its size. An indoor navigation application could potentially save a lot of time and frustration. There are currently numerous technologies used in indoor navigation systems. Some of them focus on a high degree of precision and require significant financial investment; others provide only static information about a current location. In this paper we focused on the determination of an approximate location using inertial measurement systems available on most smartphones, i.e., a gyroscope and an accelerometer. The actual position of the device was calculated using “a walk detection method” based on a delayed lack of motion. We have developed an indoor navigation application that relies solely on open source JavaScript libraries to visualize the interior of the building and calculate the shortest path utilizing Dijsktra’s routing algorithm. The application logic is located on the client side, so the software is able to work offline. Our solution represents an accessible lowcost and platform-independent web application that can significantly improve navigation at the Faculty of Natural Sciences. Although our application has been developed on a specific building complex, it could be used in other interiors as well.
Increased serum levels of spectrin degradation products in patients with schizophrenia
Authors: Cetin Ihsan , Demirel Omer F. 
Published: January 2018

Abstract

Objective
Under various patho-physiological and physiological conditions, spectrin breakdown reactions generate several spectrin breakdown products of 120 kDa (SBDP120) and 145 kDa (SBDP145). Previous studies indicating that there is the existence of a raised breakdown of α-spectrin in schizophrenic left superior temporal cortices. In this study, we aimed to investigate serum levels of SBDP120 and SBDP145, which has not been previously examined, and investigate their relationships with clinical parameters in patients with schizophrenia.

Methods
Forty-four patients with schizophrenia, followed by psychotic disorders unit, and 44 healthy controls, age and gender-matched volunteers with no psychiatric history, were included in this study. Sociodemographic form was applied to both groups. Turkish version of positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS) were implemented to the patients. Serum SBDP120 and SBDP145 levels were determined by Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay.

Results
Serum SBDP120 ng/mL and SBDP145 ng/mL levels of the patients with schizophrenia were significantly higher than healthy controls. Even more important, serum SBDP120 levels were positively correlated with PANSS scores in patients with schizophrenia.

Conclusions
These findings may provide evidence for disturbance of neuroplasticity, membrane/cytoskeleton stability, dynamics, and remodelling in schizophrenia patients and support the neurogenerative theories for explaining the etiology of schizophrenia.
The comparison of two glucose measurement systems: POCT devices versus central laboratory
Authors: Kilic Baygutalp Nurcan , Bakan Ebubekir , Bayraktutan Zafer , Umudum Fatma Zuhal 
Published: January 2018

AbstractBackgroundGlucose meters are used for two purposes: point-of-care testing and the self-monitoring of glucose, both of which are very important in the management of diabetes, hypoglycemia, or hyperglycemia and in therapeutic decisions.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to determine the test reliability of glucose meters and to compare their results with those of the clinical laboratory method.Material and methodsEvaluation was made of five different types of glucose meters which are generally used for hospitalized patients. Capillary and venous specimens were obtained concurrently from each patient. The former were analyzed in the glucose meters, and the latter in the laboratory analyzer.ResultsOf 1837 glucose meters read-outs, 1748 capillary and venous comparisons were evaluated. The majority of the glucose meter measurements were within acceptable limits. The error percentage distribution of glucose meters indicated that the accuracy of glucose meters is higher in the prediabetic/diabetic measurement range than at normo-/hypoglycemic levels.ConclusionIn general, the glucose meters and laboratory method were observed to be compatible. However, health care professionals and self-monitoring diabetic patients should be aware of the evaluation of glucose meter results, and should cross-check, as frequently as possible, with laboratory values.
Differences in structure, allergenic protein content and pectate lyase enzyme activity of some Cupressaceae pollen
Authors: Acar Şahin Aydan , Aslım Belma , Tan Sema , Alan Şenol , Pınar Nur Münevver 
Published: January 2018

Abstract

Objective
Cupressaceae pollen has commonly been reported to be an important aeroallergen and causal factor of spring, autumn and winter pollinosis in many countries. The aim of this study was to compare of the structure and allergenic protein content of Cupressus arizonica Greene., Cupressus sempervirens L. and Juniperus oxycedrus L. pollen in detail and contribute to Cupressaceae pollen allergen diagnosis and therapy studies in Turkey.

Methods
The pollen structure were examined by LM and SEM. Pollen protein content was investigated by Bradford protein assay, sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), Western blot analysis and two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (2DE PAGE), respectively. Pectate lyase (PL) enzyme activities were compared. Immunoblotting was carried out by using extracts of the three taxa pollen collected from Turkey.

Results
All three taxa was found very similar in terms of pollen morphology however, intine thickness was prominently different. Cupressus arizonica pollen extracts showed the lowest PL activity. Five sera specific IgE of all allergic subjects showed reaction with only C. arizonica pollen extracts.

Conclusions
As a conclusion, the pollen structure, protein function or protein structure and isoforms of allergens could affects allergenic properties of the pollen. This study also may help to improve the Cupressaceae pollen allergen diagnosis and therapy.
The Variability of Neural Responses to Naturalistic Videos Change with Age and Sex
Authors: Petroni Agustin , Cohen Samantha S. , Ai Lei , Langer Nicolas , Henin Simon , Vanderwal Tamara , Milham Michael P. , Parra Lucas C. 
Published: January 2018

AbstractNeural development is generally marked by an increase in the efficiency and diversity of neural processes. In a large sample (n= 114) of human children and adults with ages ranging from 5 to 44 yr, we investigated the neural responses to naturalistic video stimuli. Videos from both real-life classroom settings and Hollywood feature films were used to probe different aspects of attention and engagement. For all stimuli, older ages were marked by more variable neural responses. Variability was assessed by the intersubject correlation of evoked electroencephalographic responses. Young males also had less-variable responses than young females. These results were replicated in an independent cohort (n= 303). When interpreted in the context of neural maturation, we conclude that neural function becomes more variable with maturity, at least during the passive viewing of real-world stimuli.
Economic aspect of tissue glue in thyroid surgeries
Authors: M. O. Harish , Pillai Suresh 
Published: January 2018

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">Tissue glue or adhesives are the recent advances in closure of the skin wound. They have been used as an alternative to the sutures, staples and plasters. They have been found to be cosmetically better compared to other modes of wound closure. Whether the tissue glues are economically feasible for routine use has to be found out. The aims and objectives of this study is to find out the cost-effectiveness of tissue glue in comparison with traditional suture technique in thyroid surgeries.</span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Methods:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">This is a prospective study to find out the economic aspect of tissue glue in comparison with silk suture in fifty three patients who underwent thyroidectomy at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Results:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">The overall cost for tissue glue procedure was significantly less when compared to silk suture technique. </span></p><p class="abstract"><strong>Conclusions:</strong> <span lang="EN-IN">Iso amyl-2-cyanoacrylate is excellent tissue glue. Though the initial cost of tissue glue is higher compared to silk sutures, the overall cost including the anaesthetic cost, hospital stay and reviews is considerably less. Thus we conclude that the tissue glue is economically cheaper compared to suture methods.</span></p>
Supply Response Analysis Of Paddy In Kediri : Managerial Implications
Authors: Choirina Vifi Nurul , Hartono Slamet , Suryantini Any 
Published: January 2018

Research of farmer’s response analysis to price is important to increase paddy production in Kediri. Farmers are conducted as the object of the research because they are the decision maker on all of farming activities. This study is aimed to know the effect of harvest area response, productivity response, supply response paddy, and managerial implications in Kediri. The analysis method used the Nerlove approach through harvest area response and productivity response. Data were collected annually from 1992 to 2015. The result showed that harvest area in previous year was the significant factor to the harvest area. Grain price, fertilizer price index, rainfall, harvest area in previous 2 years and 3 years had no significant effect. Factors which had significant impact for the productivity were grain price and productivity in the previous year, but fertilizer price index, harvest area, and rainfall had no significant effect. Paddy supply-elasticity in short term and long term was inelastic so that supply paddy was unresponsive on grain price changing. Managerial implication formulation consists of procedural implications and policy implications. Procedural implications included the use of a transplanter, jajar legowo system, use of fertilizer in 6 right-ways completed with a demonstration plot. The policy implication is was composed by price and non-price policies. Price policies were showed by costs of good sold which was supported by coopertaion between farmers and BULOG and the use of combine harvester. Non-price policies were embodied with the increasing of cropping index and wetland transformation into settlements.
Development Strategic Farming System of Local Coffee in Kepulauan Yapen Regency-Province of Papua
Authors: Kapitarau Elias Edison , Hartono Slamet , Irham Irham 
Published: January 2018

This research conducted in KepulauanYapen Regency Province of Papua. Objectives of this research to: (1) knowing and explaining internal factors (weakness and strength) and factors of external (threat and opportunity) farming system of local coffee KepulauanYapen Regency Province of Papua, (2) Formulating for development strategy of farming system local coffee correct to be applied in KepulauanYapen Regency Province of Papua. Method used in this study is descriptive analysis method. Determine of location done by purposive. Data part of primary and secondary data. Samples of respondent counted 40 and for Analysis of data using SWOT method. Result of SWOT analysis and IFAS-EFAS matrix show development of farming system district Kepulauan Yapen Province of Papua reside in II quadrant with weakness factor and opportunity more uppermost than threat and strength. Weakness more uppermost at that is exploiting of land in farming system of local coffee, plantation local coffee which have is old, not plant superioring seed of local of coffee, widespread land of farming location and the limited officer of extension agent (PPL). While opportunities which must be exploited wide of farming area, land is fertile and climate supporting growth coffee crop.Using superioring seed will be able to increase product and productivity local coffee. Formulation of the core strategies that should be used as a local coffee farm development strategy in KepulauanYapenRegency namely; optimizing land, improving farming techniques, to establish areas of local development of coffee farming an affordable, performing a selection of local coffee varieties and build the garden collection, increase farmers’ land ownership status are certified, Pursue partnerships and improve human resources/ farmers local coffee in KepulauanYapen Regency.
A COMPARATIVE SURVEY OF KNOWLEDGE OF ANTISEPTIC AND DISINFECTANT USE AND EFFECT OF INTERVENTION ON MEDICAL AND SURGICAL STAFF NURSES IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL
Authors: Kanchan Chattar , Sangeeta Dabhade , Balasaheb Ghongane 
Published: January 2018

Objective: The study was carried out to find the knowledge and awareness of medical and surgical section nurses about the use of antiseptic and disinfectants and the immediate and late impact of an educational intervention like seminar and workshop in the knowledge of nurses.Method: This is a questionnaire-based pre- and post-test cross-sectional study. 200 nurses [100 working in medical wards and 100 working in surgical wards and Operation theatre (O.T.)] were selected using random number sampling method. First a pre-test was given. Then an educational intervention in the form of power point presentation was carried out and post-test was given. One more test was carried out 1 month after post-test to check retention of knowledge by nurses.Result: In both medical and surgical pre-test, most of the questions answered correctly were in below 25% response. While in post-test number of the questions answered correctly was increased and maximum number of number of the questions solved correctly were between 50-75% and 75-100 percent. Individual response in the pre-test both medical and surgical nurses showed that maximum number of nurses have responses between 25-50% and 50-75% while response rate has increased in post-test where maximum number of responses were between 75-100%.Conclusion: Our study suggests that educational intervention has positive impact on the knowledge of nurses. There is a need to carry out such educational interventions periodically which will be helpful for better retention of knowledge by nurses.
Service Quality and Non-Muslim Satisfaction Using Sharia Bank Products and Services
Authors: Mamuaya Nova Ch 
Published: January 2018

Some studies show that religious belief does not take effect affecting consumer using sharia bank products and services. This research has implemented six dimensions of Othman and Owen which modified five dimensions of Parasuraman with adding compliance dimension. The six dimensions of Othman & Owen are known as CARTER (compliance, assurance, reliability, tangible, empathy, and responsiveness). The research purpose is to analyze compliance, assurance, reliability, tangible, empathy, and responsiveness effect on non-Muslim customer satisfaction on sharia bank products and services at Manado Sulawesi Utara partially or simultaneously. The data was gathered with questionnaire instruments of 70 respondents, measured with five Likert scale five dots. The research result shows compliance, assurance, reliability, tangible, empathy, and responsiveness has significant effect on customer satisfaction. Responsive has most strong effect and compliance is the weakest. Keywords: Sharia Bank, non-Muslim, quality service, customer satisfaction, Manado
Fraud Detection in the Banking System in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Authors: Badejo B.A , Okuneye B.A , Taiwo M.R 
Published: January 2018

Fraud is an epidemic dimension that has eaten deep into the banking sector as well as the entire economics in Nigeria. Its devastating effect manifests itself in the deteriorating balance sheet of banks as well as in economic backwardness. Apparently, measures to detect and eradicate fraud in banking sector have been quite ineffective as the fraudulent practices have been on the increase in recent times. Thus, this study evaluates the various challenges of detecting and combating fraud in the banking sector in Nigeria. The results from the descriptive analysis showed that lack of adequate motivation is not a major cause of fraud in banks, looting of fund by bank managers and directors constitutes the major form of fraud in Nigeria. Furthermore, it is recommended that government should strengthened existing anti-graft agencies and to enhance their financial independence. Those managers and director involved in looting of fund should be persecuted to serve as a deterrent to potential fraudsters. In addition, bank staff should be properly screened to test their morality and integrity before recruitment. Adequate internal control mechanism should be established to serve as check and balances among the bank staff. There is also the need for the anti-graft agencies to be strengthened in order to adequately complement the effort of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) at nibbling the incidence of bank fraud in the bud.Keywords: banking system, fraud, fraud detection, fraud prevention, Nigeria
Flypaper Effect of Regional Expenditures in Yogyakarta
Authors: Rudi Muh 
Published: January 2018

One of the consequences as a result of the implementation of regional autonomy is that local governments must have sufficient financial resources to pay their autonomy government. The financial capacity of local governments would determine the ability of local governments to perform the functions of government. Considering Article 5 of Law No. 33, 2004, sources of regional revenue are regional revenues, balance funds/ transfers and financing. When local revenue comes from the transfers, the stimulation of expenditure is different from the stimulation that arises from local revenue (especially local taxes). This study focuses on identifying the flypaper effect on expenditure areas and its classification with samples of five districts and cities in Yogyakarta during 2006-2015. This paper argued that during the period among flypaper did not occur in the expenditure area and sub expenditure areas. In addition, flypaper found only in capital expenditure, while expenditure is not a suspect. Keywords: flypaper, autonomy and fiscal needs, local autonomy, Yogyakarta
Dynamic Sleep Scheduling on Air Pollution Levels Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Network
Authors: Abror Gezaq , Widodo Rusminto Tjatur , Al Rasyid M. Udin Harun 
Published: January 2018

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can be applied for Air Pollution Level Monitoring System that have been determined by the Environmental Impact Management Agency which isÂ PM10, SO2, O3, NO2 and CO. In WSN, node system is constrained to a limited power supply, so that the node system has a lifetime. To doing lifetime maximization, power management scheme is required and sensor nodes should use energy efficiently. This paper proposes dynamic sleep scheduling using Time Category-Fuzzy Logic (Time-Fuzzy) Scheduling as a reference for calculating time interval for sleep and activated node system to support power management scheme. This research contributed in power management design to be applied to the WSN system to reduce energy expenditure. From the test result in real hardware node system, it can be seen that Time-Fuzzy Scheduling is better in terms of using the battery and it is better in terms of energy consumption too because it is more efficient 51.85% when it is compared with Fuzzy Scheduling, it is more efficient 68.81% when it is compared with Standard Scheduling and it is more efficient 85.03% when compared with No Scheduling.
Feature Extraction For Application of Heart Abnormalities Detection Through Iris Based on Mobile Devices
Authors: Kusumaningtyas Entin Martiana , Barakbah Ali Ridho , Hermawan Aditya Afgan 
Published: January 2018

As the WHO says, heart disease is the leading cause of death and examining it by current methods in hospitals is not cheap. Iridology is one of the most popular alternative ways to detect the condition of organs. Iridology is the science that enables a health practitioner or non-expert to study signs in the iris that are capable of showing abnormalities in the body, including basic genetics, toxin deposition, circulation of dams, and other weaknesses. Research on computer iridology has been done before. One is about the computer's iridology system to detect heart conditions. There are several stages such as capture eye base on target, pre-processing, cropping, segmentation, feature extraction and classification using Thresholding algorithms. In this study, feature extraction process performed using binarization method by transforming the image into black and white. In this process we compare the two approaches of binarization method, binarization based on grayscale images and binarization based on proximity. The system we proposed was tested at Mugi Barokah Clinic Surabaya.Â We conclude that the image grayscale approach performs better classification than using proximity.
Um Estudo do Estado da Arte Sobre a Utilização do Lúdico em Ensino de Química
Authors: Soares Márlon Herbert  Flora Barbosa , Garcez Edna Sheron da Costa 
Published: January 2018

O presente trabalho apresenta um estudo bibliográfico das pesquisas acadêmicas desenvolvidas em jogos e atividades lúdicas no ensino de química no país. Analisamos produções acadêmicas de programas de pós-graduação, artigos de periódicos e publicações em congressos da área. Foram selecionados teses e dissertações do Banco de Teses da CAPES e da Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do IBICIT; artigos dos periódicos: Química Nova, Química Nova na Escola, Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Química e Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências; e trabalhos publicados nos Encontros Nacionais de Ensino de Química, nas Reuniões Anuais da Sociedade Brasileira de Química e nos Encontros Nacionais de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências. Visando uma contribuição para a fundamentação teórica do lúdico na prática docente, primeiramente abordamos a natureza do jogo, apresentando inicialmente definições referentes ao termo jogo, seguido pelas teorias psicológicas baseadas em suas funções de finalidade biológica, no desenvolvimento cognitivo e psíquico do indivíduo, finalizando com as características formais sobre o jogo. Visualizando o quadro geral das produções e as características que têm se destacado em seu desenvolvimento, compreendemos que o campo de pesquisa sobre o lúdico no ensino de química ainda está em estruturação e necessita de um maior aprofundamento teórico, bem como de uma melhor compreensão do potencial do lúdico e a importância e necessidade de sua exploração frente a discussões e aprofundamentos teóricos no ensino e química.