bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Perception of Pregnant Women in Dealing with Pregnancy and Childbirth during COVID-9 Pandemic in Manado
Authors: Soe Thesa , Wantania John J. E. , Tendean Hermie M. M. 
Published: July 2022

Abstract: Currently, COVID-19 pandemics has caused many deaths worldwide, therefore, the attitude of pregnant women in dealing with pregnancy and childbirth during this pandemic might be influenced. This study aimed to obtain the perception of pregnant woman in dealing with pregnancy and childbrith during the pandemic in Manado. This was a descriptive and observational survey study with a cross sectional design. Respondents were pregnant women of 1st to 3rd semester that visited two primary health cares: Puskesmas Bahu and Puskesmas Sario Kotabaru Manado.The results showed that most pregnant women were 21-30 years old (65.71%), high school education (68.57), housewife (75.71%), multigravida parity (68.57%), on the third semester (48,57%), and had no history of confirmed Covid-19 (94.29%). Moreover, most of the respondents felt happy when they knew about their pregnancy (68.57%), did routine antenatal care/ANC (71.43%), chose that vaccination was absolutely necessary (45.71%), and had to give birth at a health facility (71.43%). In conclusion, most pregnant women did plan and felt happy of their pregnancies. The majority of respondents chose that vaccination during pregnancy was absolutely necessary, and they would carry out routine antenatal care as usual, and had to give birth at a health facility.Keywords: pregnancy; childbirth; pandemic of COVID-19; perception Abstrak: Saat ini pandemi COVID-19 telah banyak menyebabkan kematian di seluruh belahan dunia sehingga dianggap dapat berpengaruh terhadap sikap ibu hamil dalam menghadapi kehamilan dan persalinan di masa pandemi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji persepsi ibu hamil dalam menghadapi kehamilan dan persalinan pada masa pandemi di Manado. Jenis penelitian ialah observasional deskriptif survei dengan desain potong lintang. Responden ialah wanita hamil mulai dari trimester 1 sampai dengan trimester 3 yang berkunjung ke Puskesmas Bahu dan Puskesmas Sario Kotabaru Manado. Hasil penelitian mendapatkan bahwa karakteristik ibu hamil terbanyak berusia 21-30 tahun (65,71%) dengan pendidikan terakhir SMA (68,57%), pekerjaan IRT (75,71%), paritas multigravida (68,57%), usia kehamilan pada trimseter 3 (48,57%), dan tidak pernah terkonfirmasi Covid-19 (94,29%). Selain itu ibu hamil yang merencanakan kehamilan (71,43%), perasaan senang saat mengetahui sedang hamil (68,57%), melakukan antenatal care/ANC seperti biasa (71,43%), dan merasa harus melakukan persalinan di fasilitas kesehatan (71,43%). Simpulan penelitian ini ialah sebagian besar ibu hamil memang merencanakan dan merasa senang karena kehamilannya. Mayoritas ibu hamil merasa bahwa vaksinasi saat kehamilan mutlak dibutuhkan, melakukan antenatal care seperti biasa, dan harus melakukan persalinan di fasilitas kesehatan.Kata kunci: kehamilan; persalinan; pandemi COVID-19; persepsi
Konsep Pembelajaran Perspektif Ibnu Khaldun dan Relevansinya pada Pembelajaran Bahasa Arab di Abad 21
Authors: Azhari Ahmad , Zakiyah Arifa  , Qulyubi Mahsan Nasukha Rais  , Muhammad Hidayatullah  
Published: July 2022

This qualitative research aims to analyze the concept of learning Ibn Khaldun's perspective and its relevance to Arabic learning in the 21st century. The primary data source in the research is the Muqaddimah Ibnu Khaldun, while the Sukender data is in the form of documents, books, or articles related to the research subject. The findings in this study indicate that the learning theory proposed by Ibn Khaldun is Malakah and Tadrīj, while the learning methods he offers are the Tadarruj and Takrīr, Rihlah and Munāzarah Methods. After analyzing the method that Ibn Khaldun offered, the researcher found that the learning concept as outlined by Ibn Khaldun in his Muqaddimah book is relevant to Arabic learning in the 21st century, which demands that learning is student-centered. The learning method offered by Ibn Khaldun leads to an increase in the competence of students. The researcher finds that there is a relevance between the methods offered by Ibn Khaldun and the principles of learning Arabic in the 21st century. It is hoped this research can become a reference in the development of a particular study in Arabic learning in the 21st century.
Networking Institutionalism oleh Kaukus Perempuan Parlemen Lampung dalam Mengoptimalkan Kebijakan Gender
Authors: Cahyadi Kurniawan Robi , Maulida Khairunnisa , Hertanto Hertanto 
Published: July 2022

Keterwakilan perempuan di parlemen masih jauh dari kuota yang sudah di tentukan dalam kebijakan yaitu 30% sehingga peran dari perempuan di parlemen masih kurang maksimal dalam memperjuangkan kesetaraan yang pro gender. Metode dalam penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan deskriptif, dengan jumlah informan sebanyak 11 informan dengan rincian 2 dari pengurus Kaukus Perempuan Parlemen Lampung, 6 dari aparatur pemerintah yang ada di Provinsi Lampung dan 1 berasal dari pengamat kebijakan publik. Hasil yang diperoleh yaitu Kaukus Perempuan Parlemen di Lampung melakukan sinergisitas dengan berbagai instansi pemerintahan di Provinsi Lampung yakni Dinas Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak, Komisi Pemilihan Umum (KPU), kerja sama juga dilakukan dengan Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Damar, Media Massa dan organisasi kemasyarakatan lain yang pro dengan kesetaraan gender, tujuannya untuk pengelolaan anggaran dan pelaksanaan program kerja yaitu mengoptimalkan kebijakan yang berpihak pada kesetaraan gender, namun dari hasil penelitian Kaukus Perempuan Parlemen Lampung belum bisa menjalankan perannya dengan maksimal hal itu disebabkan kurangnya koordinasi dan pertemuan antar pengurus Kaukus Perempuan Parlemen Lampung sehingga kebijakan yang berpihak pada gender juga belum bisa dijalankan dengan maksimal. 5 aspek pada teori jaringan kelembagaan (networking institutionalism) diketahui bahwa aspek keorganisasian belum optimal dikarenakan masih adanya kendala secara internal yaitu kurang intensifnya koordinasi yang dibangun antar pengurus Kaukus Perempuan Parlemen Lampung.
WHEN OBESITY IS HARD TO FIGHT: HOMOZYGOUS POMC MUTATION IN A HISPANIC MALE
Authors: Taylor Brianna , Arevalo Gabriel 
Published: July 2022

POMC is a well-studied polypeptide that plays a key role in several crucial body functions. An error in this gene may lead to problems such as adrenal insufficiency, hypopigmentation, obesity, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, and more. Since genetic testing has become more common, POMC has been targeted for therapeutic interventions that are now widely available for use as treatment. This report demonstrates how genetic testing was utilized to obtain several diagnoses early in life accurately and how that knowledge led to appropriate treatment. Genetic testing can be a powerful tool for physicians; accurate diagnosis directs available therapeutics, tremendously decreases comorbidities, and improves disease outcomes.
Incontinência Urinária e as particularidades de tratamentos dentro das diversas especialidades médicas
Authors: Pacetta Aparecida Maria , Hacad Claudia , Mendes Gomes Cristiano , Leonel Fábio 
Published: July 2022

A incontinência urinária, perda involuntária de urina, é uma condição da saúde que acomete homens e mulheres – em grande ou pequena escala – de qualquer idade, globalmente, dependendo do grau e outros fatores fí­sicos, psí­quicos e emocionais dos seres humanos. A incontinência pode ocorrer em homens e mulheres, em qualquer idade, mas é mais comum entre as mulheres e idosos, embora a incontinência seja mais comum entre os idosos, não é uma parte normal do envelhecimento. É um tema bastante latente na vida das pessoas e esse trabalho apresenta as mais variadas tipologias da incontinência, possí­veis metodologias de tratamento, com viés menos invasivos, e como ele deve ser tratado no dia-a-dia das pessoas. Neste artigo é possí­vel analisar também o quanto as pessoas conhecem do assunto e a qual especialista elas atribuem o conhecimento ao tratamento. São trabalhados os tipos, sintomas, consequências, tratamentos e recomendações. A discussão foi embasada numa pesquisa IBOPE sobre qual é a visão das pessoas comuns com relação í incontinência urinária. Vale ressaltar que a pesquisa não é randomizada nem acadêmica, mas serviu de apoio para que os assuntos fossem trabalhados de maneira abrangente e plausí­vel pelas mais diversas áreas da saúde. O objetivo deste trabalho é trazer a percepção do que é vivido dentro das clí­nicas médicas, no dia-a-dia de um hospital, para facilitar o acesso í informação dos pacientes e familiares sobre o tratamento e cuidados com a saúde miccional. Então essa pesquisa traz alguns números interessantes que norteiam o tema.
Physical Body Deformity Effects on Differential Growth and Body Traits Development in Commercial Broilers
Authors: Jesuyon Oluwatosin Mawunapon A. 
Published: July 2022

Physical deformities have been a recurrent challenge on broiler production in the tropics. The effect of physical body deformity (PBD) on differential growth of 550 commercial broiler chicks of Ross308 strain from day-old to 56 days were evaluated. Experimental design was completely randomized Design (CRD), while treatment groups were normal birds (NB), crooked neck (CN), twisted Leg (TL) and crooked neck+twisted leg (CN+TL). Data were collected on body weight (BWT, g), drumstick length (DST, cm), wing length (WGL, cm), shank+toe length (STL, cm) and leg length (LEL, cm); and were subjected to General Linear model (GLM), α=0.05, regression and Tukey’s Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) procedures of Statistical Analytical Systems software, SAS® v8 (2008). Physical body deformity depressed broiler growth and development significantly (P<0.05) with small to large effects sizes (ds = -1.40 to 0.70). The differences in latent growth between deformity groups were significant (P<0.05), of practical ( dS>0.5) and large (f 2>0.4) importance from age 35 to 56 days. The CN+TL broiler group was most significantly depressed by physical deformity with linear growth speed of 0.43, and quadratic late growth speed of -0.19. Most adverse impact of the deformity conditions on growth and body development spanned from 35 to 56 days, and could lead to rejection of live birds at maturity and low profitability of small flock enterprises in the tropics.
Keywords: Commercial broilers, Physical abnormalities, Growth and development, Torticollis, Valgus-varus angulation
Performance of Glass and Steel Slag Mixtures as a Partial Replacement for Fine Aggregate in Asphalt Concrete
Authors: Ogunsanya Oluwatobi A. , Aluko Olusegun O. , Ogundipe Olumide M. 
Published: July 2022

Solid waste management is a significant challenge particularly in developing countries for example Nigeria. The waste disposal technique is inadequate as negative effects from improper solid waste dumping can be easily visible in the environment. Recycling and reuse of wasteas aggregate in asphalt production may be an economic way to reduce these problems. This research evaluates the viability of crushed waste glass combined with steel slag (GSS) as fine aggregate in asphalt wearing courses. The Marshall mix method was used in production and evaluation of samples. GSS mixtures in the ratio 70:30 (steel slag: glass) were substituted for fine aggregate at varying percentages of 0 to 50 %. This mix ratio was adopted so that the glass content does not exceed 10%.Five samples of GSS content (10%, 20%, 30%, 40%and 50%) were prepared and their Marsha lstability,Voids in Mineral Aggregates, Voids filled with Bitumen and bulk density were evaluated and compared to nominal asphalt mix. While a 10% GSS replacement in modified asphalt resulted in a greater peak stability value of 16.21 kN compared to the standard mix peak stability value of 12.68kN. The 20% GSS replacement resulted in a lower flow value and a significantly higher Marshall quotient of 5.11KN/MM was recorded at 20% replacement, making it preferable. As a result, a 20% replacement is advised for heavily trafficked highways, whereas up to 30% replacement is permissible on lightly traveled roads.
Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation of Ginger Mixed Mode Solar Dryer Integrated with Latent Heat Storage
Authors: AGBETILOYE LANRE ABEL , Anafi Fatai O. , Omisanya Nua O. 
Published: July 2022

This study is concerned with the design, simulation, construction and performance evaluation of a ginger solar dryer integrated with latent heat storage. It was done to address the problem of complete non-availability of conserved energy to precede the drying process for some times immediately after the sunshine hours have elapsed; thereby reducing the wide gap between the solar energy demand and supply. The ginger solar dryer was tested to dry 6 kg of sliced ginger rhizomes. The dimensions of the dryer were calculated by design to be as follows: 1.5638 m, 1.6302 m2 and 1.155 m for collector length, collector area and chimney height respectively. An experiment was conducted to blend Aluminium powder with shea butter at elevated mass fraction of (1 – 5) %wt of Aluminium powder. The third level composition (3%/97%) was considered the most appropriate due to its moderate thermal conductivity of 0.053762 W/mK and highest latent heat of fusion - 164.53 KJ/kg. The ginger solar dryer was tested with ginger slices of (3 – 5) mm average thickness from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm of 11th June, 2019. The average drying rate, collector efficiency and drying efficiency for the period were kg/s, 77% and 30% respectively
Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Direct Drive Electric Powered Hammer Mill Machine
Authors: Bucham Justine O. , Muktar Mustapha , Hassan Mukhtar D. 
Published: July 2022

This research designed, fabricated and tested a direct drive electric powered hammer mill machine. A 3 HP electric motor with speed of 1800 rpm was used to power the mill. The fundamentals of machine design, mechanics of machine and basic workshop technology were applied in manufacturing the mill. The calculated design values for maximum centrifugal force of the beaters mounted on the rotor and the maximum machine shaft diameter of the mill are 27 KN and 12 mm respectively. The working principle of the mill is based on repeated combined hammers (beaters) impacts and collisions of the materials being milled with the housing of the milling compartment. Tests were carried out on the mill using dry maize, dry millet, dry stock fish and the combination of dry maize, dry millet and dry stock fish as samples to determine the mill productivity and milling efficiency. In determining the productivity and milling efficiency of the mill, the initial masses of the samples were made equal. The dry stock fish sample produced the highest mill productivity and milling efficiency. The actual mill productivity of 45.05 kg/h and milling efficiency of 91.12 % were obtained by averaging the mill productivities and milling efficiencies obtained when the samples were tested. From the calculated values of the actual mill productivity and milling efficiency, the mill performance is satisfactory.
Study of Arsenic Sorption from Soil Using Some Selected Microorganisms and Non-Linear Error-Functions Method of Analysis
Authors: Atikpo Eguakhide , Okonofua Ehizonomen S. 
Published: July 2022

This is a Non-linear approach to kinetic evaluation of arsenic sorption from soil using Microorganisms. Minimization of error functions: average relative error, root-mean-square error, normalized standard deviation and standard error of experiment was applied to compensate for linearizing the non-linear models applied in fitting the laboratory data. The laboratory data was obtained from the study of As removal with cultured indigenous Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) and Arthrobacter nicotiniae (A. nicotiniae) used for treating As contaminated soil from Amaonye forest, Ebonye state in Nigeria. Analysis revealed that Asernic removal by the organisms was reaction controlled owing to the fact that the removal was dominated by chemical process deduced from pseudo-first-order as highlighted by the minimum ARE value of -2.0324 for K. pneumoniae action and -1.9868 for the action of A. nicotiniae.
Clustering Based Approach for Ground Truth Inference in Crowdsourced Data
Authors: Odumuyiwa Victor T. , Umeanozie Anurika , Sennaike Oladipupo , Adekola Olubukola , Sawyerr Babatunde , Fasina Ebun 
Published: July 2022

Crowdsourcing provides a means of gathering data from the public in order to infer what the ground truth label of an unfamiliar entity is. Such data are not used for decision making in their raw form until further processing is done to infer ground truth from the crowdsourced data. This paper presents a detailed comparative analysis of the ground truth inference ability of three clustering algorithms on crowd sourced datasets with different experimental scenarios (Initializing centroids and extracting class labels). The algorithms include, the self-organizing maps, the k-means and the expectation maximization clustering algorithm. The three algorithms were experimented on different datasets. The datasets used are Adult2, weather sentiments, emotion, valence5 and employee review dataset Four possible experimental scenarios for inferring the ground truth label from the curated dataset were analysed. The first scenario makes use of the clustering algorithm alone relying on the inner workings of the algorithm to predict the ground truth, while the second scenario makes use of an extract class label mechanism where the ground truth label was inferred by performing a further analysis on the clusters provided by the algorithm. In the third scenario, the centroids of the clustering algorithm were pre-initialized by setting the maximum value in each class from the curated data as a centroid, where centroid might mean something different relative to the particular algorithm. The fourth experimental scenario is a combination of the second and third scenario. Experimental results show that the self-organizing map (SOM) performs best across all the datasets when the weights of the units in the SOM are pre-initialized. SOM had the best performance on the weather sentiments dataset recording 92.49% accuracy and ROC AUC score of 0.88. It also recorded the best overall average accuracy of 50.2% and ROC AUC score of 0.59365 across all the datasets.
Machine Learning Intrusion Detection as a Solution to Security and Privacy Issues in IoT: A Systematic Review
Authors: Darley Olufunke G. , Adenowo Adetokunbo A. , Yussuff Abayomi I. O. 
Published: July 2022

Billions of IoT devices are in use worldwide and generate a humongous amount of data for the IoT system. This continuous stream of data is open to attack during its collection, transportation, processing, dissemination and storage cycle. Also, IoT devices themselves are points of system vulnerability through which the system can be attacked. Machine learning (ML), due to its ability to identify inherent patterns and behaviour in data, has been applied by many researchers to IoT data such that strange patterns or intrusions into IoT systems can be speedily detected and real-time decisions on security and privacy (S&P) protection implemented in a timely manner. Different ML techniques with their different algorithms have provided solutions in various scenarios such that security and privacy requirements for the IoT system can be met. In particular, ML has been successfully applied in intrusion detection and has been shown to perform better than traditional means in flagging new trends of attacks. This paper presents a systematic literature review on ML intrusion detection in IoT. Academic journals from 2011 to 2021 from two databases (IEEE and Proquest) were explored using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework. A review of the final selected papers revealed that data preprocessing, feature extraction, model training and deployment of ML-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) increase computational complexity resulting in greater resource requirement (CPU, memory, and energy); enable ML to be used in the execution of adversarial attacks on IoT devices and networks; require trade-offs between detection accuracy and false-positive events; and highlight the superior performance of deep learning methods over traditional ML ones in anomaly detection. Generally, the changing nature of attacks makes it difficult for any particular IDS to be able to detect all attack types thus making the development of IDS a continuing project.
Effects of Sesame Straw Ash as a Substitute for Cement on Strength Characteristics of Concrete
Authors: Sulaiman Tasiu A. , Ejeh Stephen P. , Lawan Adamu , Kaura Jibrin M. 
Published: July 2022

Concrete is broadly used as a building material across the globe, and its use is raising the need of cement in the construction industries. High price of cement and environmental debasement are the driving problems forcing the researchers to come up with alternative materials from large volumes of agricultural wastes as a partial replacement for cement. This study aims at recycling agricultural waste ash (i.e. Sesame straw ash) as a substitute for cement in the production of sustainable and environmentally friendly greener concrete. Preliminary tests on constituent materials were conducted in order to find out their physical properties. Influences of sesame straw ash (SSA) on cement paste were looked into for addition of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 % by weight of cement. The Compressive and flexural strengths as well as the slump of concrete made with different portions of SSA (i.e. 0 – 25 %) were investigated. A 100 mm cubes and 100 mm X 100 mm X 450 mm beams of SSA-concrete were tested for compressive and flexural strengths at 3, 7, 28, 56 and 90 days of curing in line with procedure outlined in BS 1881-116: (1983) and BS 1881-118: (1983) respectively. The outcomes of the workability test show that as the portion of SSA increases the workability a fresh concrete decreases, but consistency, setting times, and soundness of SSA-cement paste increase as the portion of SSA increases. However, the strengths of SSA-concrete increase as the duration of curing increases, and decrease as the portion of SSA increases. It was detected that strength of concrete produced with 10 % SSA content was beyond the designed strength of 20 N/mm2 at 28 days of curing. Finally, it was concluded that maximum amount of SSA to be used should not exceed 10 % replacement in concrete production.
Development of a Reciprocating Weeding Machine for Cottage Crop Production
Authors: Fayose Folasayo T. , Olaniyan Adesoji , Ogunleye Kayode , Ilesanmi Oluwaseun 
Published: July 2022

Weeding is currently still carried out manually in Nigeria and some of the African countries. This is despite the efforts that have been made to develop different types of weeding machines in Nigeria with different drive mechanisms, features and designs. Up to this point, no model or design have been commercialized but they remain in the prototype stage partly due to sophistication, poor quality and low efficiency. In this study, a prototype of motorised weeding machine, actuated by a reciprocating mechanism was designed and fabricated for use on most subsistent crops plots. The reciprocation prevented the need to move the blades back and front as this action is automatically achieved in one process.The design features included 20o rake angle of the cutting blade, a working depth of 2.54cm and 28cm width of cut. Dimensions and the thickness of blades were designed according to the principles of general soil mechanics. Other machine elements were designed following PSG TECH procedures. After fabrication and assembly, the machine was tested on a 10m 10m plot planted with maize and test result indicated a functional efficiency of 98%, quality performance efficiency of 82.7% and field capacity of 0.036m2/s as against 0.01m2/s with manual weeding. The material for the construction was sourced from locally available materials.The weeding machine has an effective cutting width of 27.5 cm and a production cost of NGN 175, 000.00.