Peningkatan Perilaku Cinta Lingkungan Pada Golden Age di Taman Kanak Kanak Kartika Kodim Ende NTT

Penanaman sikap cinta lingkungan pada usia dini menjadi hal penting dalam proses pembelajaran terutamanya bagi generasi yang duduk di Taman Kanak Kanak, yang dikategorikan sebagai Golden Age dalam penelitian ini. Perilaku cinta lingkungan yang diproses melalui kegiatan membuang sampah pada tempatnya di TK Kartika Kodim Ende menjadi fokus utama penelitian. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat peningkatan perilaku cinta lingkungan melalui kegiatan membuang sampah pada tempatnya. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK) dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif melalui observasi langsung, wawancara dan dokumentasi yang melibatkan 18 siswa/i kelas B2 TK Kartika Kodim Ende. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa: 1) Perencanaan dan pelaksanaan pembelajaran kegiatan membuang sampah pada tempatnya di TK Kartika Kodim Ende dengan kategori baik. Dalam hal ini langkah-langkah yang dilakukan guru berdasarkan perencanaan yang telah dibuat meliputi; a) pemberian pemahaman kegiatan memilah dan menempatkan sampah pada tempatnya, b) menyedikan bak sampah terpilah jenis organik dan anorganik, serta c) memperaktekkan pemilahan dan penempatan sampah sesuai jenisnya ditempat yang benar, 2) Perilaku cinta lingkungan melalui kegiatan membuang sampah pada tempatnya berkembang sangat baik dan mengalami peningkatan sebesar 40%. Dimana siklus I sebesar 60% meningkat menjadi 100% pada siklus ke II

Assessment of Groundwater Quality and Hydrogeological Profiles within Odeda Local Government, Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria

Groundwater quality can be affected by human activities such as agriculture and improper sewage disposal facilities currently in use by some homeowners within Odeda local government, Ogun State Nigeria. Sixty groundwatersamples collected from hand-dug wellswere analysed for physicochemical and bacteriological parameters using standard procedures. Results were integrated with multivariate and hydrogeochemical analyses to assess groundwater quality and hydrogeologycal facies within the study area. The range of values for the measured parameters  include: pH (5.91 – 7.4), EC (101- 1142 μScm-1), TDS (50 - 581 mg L-1), NO3-(3 - 18 mg L-1), Cl- (25 – 234 mg L-1 ), BOD (0.1 – 17.9) and E. Coli (ND - 45×10cfu mL-1). The piper trilinear plot shows that the dominant hydrochemical facies in  the study area is the Ca2+– Cl− type. A correlation analysis and a principal component analysis reflect dissolutions from basal rocks and contamination from biological wastes possibly arising from surrounding septic tanks or municipal waste disposal sites. There is need for a continuous monitoring of groundwater by relevant regulatory authorities to safeguard the human health and environment within the study area

CLEAN UP SAMPAH, EDUKASI SAMPAH DAN PEMBENTUKAN BANK SAMPAH DI SDI BHOANAWA 1 KELURAHAN RUKUN LIMA KABUPATEN ENDE

ABSTRAKSDI Bhoanawa 1 adalah mitra dalam Program Kemitraan Masyarakat yang merupakan sekolah dasar yang berdiri pada tahun 1980. Sekolah ini terletak di tengah-tengah pemukiman warga Bhoanawa Kelurahan Rukun Lima Kabupaten Ende. Masalah sampah tidak lepas dari kehidupan manusia, dimana ada manusia selalu saja ada sampah yang dihasilkan. Sampah disekolah adalah sisa-sisa kegiatan sekolah seperti kertas, plastik bekas, kemasan makanan ringan dan sisa lainnya yang tidak terpakai lagi yang ditemukan disekitar lingkungan sekolah. Sampah-sampah tersebut juga ditemukan dilingkungan sekolah SDI Bhoanawa 1 maupun dilingkungan perumahan sekitar sekolah. Tujuan dari kegiatan ini adalah untuk memberikan edukasi tentang permasalahan sampah dan melakukan aksi langsung dilapangan dengan melakukan clean up sampah dan pembentukan Bank sampah dengan lokasi sasaran di SDI Bhoanawa 1. Pada kegiatan pengabdian ini tim pengabdian juga menggandeng komunitas Anak Cinta Lingkungan Kabupaten Ende (ACIL) Ende. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini adalah Metode Sosialisasi, Clean Up, Pembentukan Bank Sampah. Hasil Kegiatan pengabdian ini berjalan dengan baik, hal tersebut terlihat dari antusias siswa SDI Bhoanawa 1 dalam mengikuti rangkaian kegiatan ini. Banyak hal positif yang diperoleh dari kegiatan ini dimana siswa-siswi SDI Bhoanwa 1 mendapatkan materi pengelolaan sampah yang baik. Siswa-siswi SDI Bhoanawa 1 mampu memahami sampah, masalah dan solusi, serta dapat mengambil manfaat dari sampah. Hal tersebut dapat dilihat dari hasil Post Test setelah kegiatan dimana terdapat peningkatan pembamaman siswa akan sampah, masalah dan solusi serta pegelolaan dan pemanfaatannya. Peningkatan tersebut sebesar 80%. Kata kunci: clean up Sampah; edukasi sampah; pembentukan bank sampah. ABSTRACTSDI Bhoanawa 1 is a partner in the Community Partnership Program which is an elementary school that was founded in 1980. This school is located in the middle of the residential area of Bhoanawa residents, Rukun Lima Village, Ende Regency. The problem of waste cannot be separated from human life, where there are humans there will always be waste produced. School waste is the remnants of school activities such as paper, used plastic, snack packaging and other unused remnants found around the school environment. The garbage was also found in the SDI Bhoanawa 1 school environment and in the housing environment around the school. The purpose of this activity is to provide education about waste problems and take direct action in the field by cleaning up waste and establishing a waste bank with a target location at SDI Bhoanawa 1. In this service activity the community service team also cooperates with the Anak Cinta Lingkungan community in Ende Regency (ACIL). Ende. The method used in this activity is the Method of Socialization, Clean Up, Establishment of a Waste Bank. The results of this service activity went well, it was seen from the enthusiasm of SDI Bhoanawa 1 students in participating in this series of activities. Many positive things were obtained from this activity where the students of SDI Bhoanwa 1 received good waste management materials. The students of SDI Bhoanawa 1 are able to understand waste, problems and solutions, and can take advantage of waste. This can be seen from the results of the Post Test after the activity where there is an increase in students' understanding of waste, problems and solutions as well as management and utilization. The increase is 80% Keywords: garbage clean up; waste education; the establishment of a garbage bank

Chronology and function of a new circular mammoth bone structure from Kostenki 11

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Cambridge University Press via the DOI in this record.We report on assemblages of charcoal, burnt bone and microlithic debitage retrieved by flotation from a new circular mammoth bone feature discovered at Kostenki 11-Ia, Russian Federation, the first time a mammoth bone circle has ever been systematically sampled in this way. New radiocarbon dates are used to provide the first coherent chronology for the site, revealing it as one of the oldest such features on the Russian Plain and confirming occupation of this region during Greenland Stadial 3 at the onset of the last glacial maximum. Implications for human activity within and around the mammoth bone feature are discussed.Leverhulme Trus

Thermographic imaging in sports and exercise medicine: A Delphi study and consensus statement on the measurement of human skin temperature

This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Elsevier in Journal of Thermal Biology on 18/07/2017, available online: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtherbio.2017.07.006 The accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version.© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The importance of using infrared thermography (IRT) to assess skin temperature (tsk) is increasing in clinical settings. Recently, its use has been increasing in sports and exercise medicine; however, no consensus guideline exists to address the methods for collecting data in such situations. The aim of this study was to develop a checklist for the collection of tsk using IRT in sports and exercise medicine. We carried out a Delphi study to set a checklist based on consensus agreement from leading experts in the field. Panelists (n  =  24) representing the areas of sport science (n = 8; 33%), physiology (n = 7; 29%), physiotherapy (n = 3; 13%) and medicine (n = 6; 25%), from 13 different countries completed the Delphi process. An initial list of 16 points was proposed which was rated and commented on by panelists in three rounds of anonymous surveys following a standard Delphi procedure. The panel reached consensus on 15 items which encompassed the participants’ demographic information, camera/room or environment setup and recording/analysis of tsk using IRT. The results of the Delphi produced the checklist entitled “Thermographic Imaging in Sports and Exercise Medicine (TISEM)” which is a proposal to standardize the collection and analysis of tsk data using IRT. It is intended that the TISEM can also be applied to evaluate bias in thermographic studies and to guide practitioners in the use of this technique.Published versio

Phase transition systematics in BiVO4 by means of high-pressure-high-temperature Raman experiments

We report here high-pressure–high-temperature Raman experiments performed on BiVO 4 . We characterized the fergusonite and scheelite phases (powder and single crystal samples) and the zircon polymorph (nanopowder). The experimental results are supported by ab initio calculations, which, in addition, provide the vibrational patterns. The temperature and pressure behavior of the fergusonite lattice modes reflects the distortions associated with the ferroelastic instability. The linear coefficients of the zircon phase are in sharp contrast to the behavior observed in the fergusonite phase. The boundary of the fergusonite-to-scheelite second-order phase transition is given by T F − Sch ( K ) = − 166 ( 8 ) P ( GPa ) + 528 ( 5 ) . The zircon-to-scheelite, irreversible, first-order phase transition takes place at T Z − Sch ( K ) = − 107 ( 8 ) P ( GPa ) + 690 ( 10 ) . We found evidence of additional structural changes around 15.7 GPa, which in the downstroke were found to be not reversible. We analyzed the anharmonic contribution to the wave-number shift in fergusonite using an order parameter. The introduction of a critical temperature depending both on temperature and pressure allows for a description of the results of all the experiments in a unified way

Assessment of Left Ventricular Geometrical Patterns and Function among Hypertensive Patients at a Tertiary Hospital, Northern Tanzania.

With hypertension, the cardiovascular system changes to adapt to the varying neuro-humoral and hemodynamic changes and this may lead to the development of different left ventricular geometric patterns, each carrying a different risk profile for major adverse cardiovascular events. Using a consecutive sampling technique, a cross-sectional, prospective, hospital based study was done and two hundred and twenty seven (227) hypertensive patients were studied. The distribution of different abnormal LV geometrical patterns was 19.8%, 28.2%, 22% for concentric remodelling, concentric hypertrophy and eccentric hypertrophy respectively. With echocardiographic criteria, the proportion of patients with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) was higher when left ventricular mass (LVM) was indexed to height(2.7) than to body surface area (70.0% vs. 52.9%). Duration of hypertension markedly influenced the type of LV geometry with normal LV geometry predominating in early hypertension and abnormal geometrical patterns predominating in late hypertension. The left ventricular fractional shortening decreased with duration of hypertension and was common in patients with eccentric hypertrophy. Age of the patient, systolic blood pressure, duration of hypertension and body mass index were found to be independent predictors left ventricular hypertrophy. About 70% of hypertensive patients had abnormal geometry existing in different patterns. Eccentric hypertrophy had more of clinical and echocardiographic features suggestive of reduced left ventricular systolic function. Hypertensive patients should be recognized as a heterogeneous population and therefore stratifying them into their respective LV geometrical patterns is useful as way of assessing their risk profile as well as instituting appropriate management

Continuous Multi-Parameter Heart Rate Variability Analysis Heralds Onset of Sepsis in Adults

BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis of sepsis enables timely resuscitation and antibiotics and prevents subsequent morbidity and mortality. Clinical approaches relying on point-in-time analysis of vital signs or lab values are often insensitive, non-specific and late diagnostic markers of sepsis. Exploring otherwise hidden information within intervals-in-time, heart rate variability (HRV) has been documented to be both altered in the presence of sepsis, and correlated with its severity. We hypothesized that by continuously tracking individual patient HRV over time in patients as they develop sepsis, we would demonstrate reduced HRV in association with the onset of sepsis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We monitored heart rate continuously in adult bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients (n = 21) beginning a day before their BMT and continuing until recovery or withdrawal (12+/-4 days). We characterized HRV continuously over time with a panel of time, frequency, complexity, and scale-invariant domain techniques. We defined baseline HRV as mean variability for the first 24 h of monitoring and studied individual and population average percentage change (from baseline) over time in diverse HRV metrics, in comparison with the time of clinical diagnosis and treatment of sepsis (defined as systemic inflammatory response syndrome along with clinically suspected infection requiring treatment). Of the 21 patients enrolled, 4 patients withdrew, leaving 17 patients who completed the study. Fourteen patients developed sepsis requiring antibiotic therapy, whereas 3 did not. On average, for 12 out of 14 infected patients, a significant (25%) reduction prior to the clinical diagnosis and treatment of sepsis was observed in standard deviation, root mean square successive difference, sample and multiscale entropy, fast Fourier transform, detrended fluctuation analysis, and wavelet variability metrics. For infected patients (n = 14), wavelet HRV demonstrated a 25% drop from baseline 35 h prior to sepsis on average. For 3 out of 3 non-infected patients, all measures, except root mean square successive difference and entropy, showed no significant reduction. Significant correlation was present amongst these HRV metrics for the entire population. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Continuous HRV monitoring is feasible in ambulatory patients, demonstrates significant HRV alteration in individual patients in association with, and prior to clinical diagnosis and treatment of sepsis, and merits further investigation as a means of providing early warning of sepsis

Transport of glutamine into the xylem of sunflower (Helianthus annuus).

Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plants were grown on nutrient solution with ammonium nitrogen. After 12 days of growth the ammonium in the nutrient solution was labeled with N (99%). Three hours later glutamine-N in the xylem exudate was labeled for 56% as shown by GC-MS; this percentage increased to 63% after 8, and to 69% after 24 hours of incubation. When the xylem exudate had been collected from the epicotyl instead of the hypocotyl, 15-N abundances were 52%, 56% and 63% respectively. Results are consistent with an import of glutamine into the transpiration stream during its ascension in the xylem. On basis of the differences in abundance of double-labeled, single-labeled and unlabeled glutamine between the two sampling sites it was estimated that at least 20% of the xylem glutamine was imported into xylem along this distance (~4cm)

Temporally consistent predominance and distribution of secondary malaria vectors in the Anopheles community of the upper Zambezi floodplain.

Regional optimisation of malaria vector control approaches requires detailed understanding both of the species composition of Anopheles mosquito communities, and how they vary over spatial and temporal scales. Knowledge of vector community dynamics is particularly important in settings where ecohydrological conditions fluctuate seasonally and inter-annually, such as the Barotse floodplain of the upper Zambezi river. DNA barcoding of anopheline larvae sampled in the 2019 wet season revealed the predominance of secondary vector species, with An. coustani comprising > 80% of sampled larvae and distributed ubiquitously across all ecological zones. Extensive larval sampling, plus a smaller survey of adult mosquitoes, identified geographic clusters of primary vectors, but represented only 2% of anopheline larvae. Comparisons with larval surveys in 2017/2018 and a contemporaneous independent 5-year dataset from adult trapping corroborated this paucity of primary vectors across years, and the consistent numerical dominance of An. coustani and other secondary vectors in both dry and wet seasons, despite substantial inter-annual variation in hydrological conditions. This marked temporal consistency of spatial distribution and anopheline community composition presents an opportunity to target predominant secondary vectors outdoors. Larval source management should be considered, alongside prevalent indoor-based approaches, amongst a diversification of vector control approaches to more effectively combat residual malaria transmission