Memahami Dimensi Spiritualitas dalam Praktek Pekerjaan Sosial

Spiritualitas adalah aspek penting dalam praktek pekerjaan sosial yang mengarah kepada intervensiyang bersifat psikososial. Spiritualitas dapat memberdayakan klien secara emosional melalui penemuankebermaknaan dan kepastian tujuan hidup. Spiritualitas dapat memberikan pemulihan terhadap korbankekerasan dan pelecehan seksual, juga berperan meningkatkan derajat kesehatan, berkontribusi terhadapkedamaian pikiran dan terbebas dari ketidakpastian akan tujuan hidup. Selain itu spiritualitas adalahcoping strategi pada beberapa pasangan dalam menghadapi masalah kehidupan perkawinan. Kajian inimerupakan kajian literatur yang bertujuan untuk memberikan sumbangan pemikiran terhadap pentingnyamenggali aspek-aspek spiritual klien. Dalam praktek pekerjaan sosial adalah penting untuk menjagasensitifitas dan menghargai keyakinan yang dianut oleh klien. Untuk meningkatkan pengetahuan danketerampilan dalam pemberian pelayanan adalah penting para pekerja sosial mendapatkan pelatihantertentu dalam menghadapi isu spiritualitas secara profesional

Formulation of refined, bleached and deodorised palm stearin with zinc dialkyl-dithiophosphate additive and its tribological performance

Vegetable oils have recently received worldwide attention for their use as a lubricant base stock that has numerous advantages, including their environmental friendliness. In this study, a refined, bleached and deodorised palm stearin was selected as the base lubricant, and its friction and wear performance were investigated with a pin-on-disk tribotester. The effect of zinc dialkyl-dithiophosphate (ZDDP) additive in concentrations of 1wt%, 3wt% and 5wt% on friction and wear performance were evaluated. Commercial semi-synthetic oil SAE 15W50 was used for comparison purposes. The experiments were conducted at a sliding speed of 1.5 m/s under a normal force of 9.81 N for 60 min. Results show that an increase in ZDDP concentrations improved both friction reduction and wear performance of the lubricant. The coefficient of friction (COF) of RBD palm stearin was reduced approximately at 71% when 5wt% of ZDDP was added and it shows that the friction reduction performance of PS+5wt% (COF=0.039) was comparable to SAE 15W50 (COF=0.035). While, wear coefficient of RBD palm stearin was reduced significantly from 2.08 × 10−3 to 8.89 × 10−5 when 5wt% ZDDP additive was added and it shows that the wear performance of PS+5wt% was better than that of SAE 15W50, 1.94 × 10−4. Further analysis of the wear worn surface with a high-resolution optical microscope was also conducted with a surface profilometer to examine the metallurgy of the pin surface and the roughness of the pin

Urban Cholera transmission hotspots and their implications for Reactive Vaccination: evidence from Bissau city, Guinea Bissau

Use of cholera vaccines in response to epidemics (reactive vaccination) may provide an effective supplement to traditional control measures. In Haiti, reactive vaccination was considered but, until recently, rejected in part due to limited global supply of vaccine. Using Bissau City, Guinea-Bissau as a case study, we explore neighborhood-level transmission dynamics to understand if, with limited vaccine and likely delays, reactive vaccination can significantly change the course of a cholera epidemic

Improvement of Sungai Sebulung water quality using Effective Microorganism

Effective Microorganism (EM) is a practical and less costly method to enhance water quality. Sungai Sebulung is one of the rivers in Malaysia that have been treated using EM. This study has been carried out to find the effectiveness of EM and its suitability to the condition of Sungai Sebulung. This study will also evaluate Water Quality Index (WQI) of the river. The WQI of Sungai Sebulung is 56.2 and can be classified as a Class III. The average concentration of DO, BOD, COD, AN and TSS at Sungai Sebulung were 3.88 mg/L, 10.7 mg/L, 54 mg/L, 3.78 mg/L and 26.2 mg/L respectively. The result obtained shows the quality of Sungai Sebulung is the same compared to 2016

Soft Tissue Reconstruction following Hemipelvectomy: Eight-Year Experience and Literature Review

Background and Objectives. Hemipelvectomy is a major surgical procedure that associates with significant morbidity, functional impairment, and psychological and body image problem. Reconstruction of the defect is a challenged since a large amount of composite tissues are needed. We would like to share our eight-year experience with massive pelvic resection and reconstruction. Methods. A retrospective analysis of all cases of hemipelvectomy was conducted in our institution over eight-year period with particular attention given to the reconstruction choices and associated complications. Results. Thirteen patients were included with median age of 39 years (range 13–78) of which all had advanced tumour with stage IIb (54%) and Stage III (46%). External hemipelvectomy was performed in all cases, and resultant defects were reconstructed with variety type of flaps. These include fillet thigh flaps, regional pedicle flaps of different designs, and free flap. Conclusions. Massive pelvic tumour is rarely encountered in our population but can be seen across all age groups and usually due to late presentation. The defects should be reconstructed using local or regional flaps, incorporating the muscle component to enhance flap perfusion. The tissue should be harvested from the amputated limb, as it can limit the donor site morbidity

Wedding Photography Online Booking System (WePOBS) / Anis Ruhana A S Azman

At the moment, the reservation management at AD6 Photography still operating manually. All of the reservation records still being kept in the log book. There are limitations in storing all the booking information in files physically such as the record were exposed to missed customer’s call, data redundancy, and the vulnerability of the log book. Therefore, Wedding Photography Online Booking System (WePOBS) is developed in order to control and manage booking information. WePOBS can allow customers to make online booking and also manage their booking detail by their own. Besides that, this system can reduce the time taken in doing booking process and it will become more ef-ficiently to manage all the prototyping of booking process. AD6 company is focusing on wedding event only. Waterfall model is used as a methodology in developing WePOBS. This methodology consists six phases which are analysis phase, design phase, development phase, testing phase, implementation phase, and maintenance phase. After the implementation of WePOBS is completed, system evaluation is conducted regarding questionnaires given to 30 re-spondents and three experts. The evaluators evaluate six criteria of system which are usability, satisfaction, consistency, user interface, convenience, and customer relation-ship management. Based on respondent analysis, showed that the highest mean was 4.47 (SD = 0.507) for consistency section of the system. It can be concluded that the WePOBS gave more benefits for users and hopefully it will contribute further by evolving to a better booking management system

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy for palm cooking oil discriminator using planar electromagnetic sensor array

Cooking oil is an important product in the Malaysia food industries. Most of the cooking oil products is based on palm oil. However, there are activities in selling cheaper cooking oil by labelling as high quality in cooking oil product. Traditional methods have been developed to measure the quality of the cooking oil product such as the chromatography technique but the cost for the system setup is expensive and requires a large amount of time to analyse the sample. Thus, a suitable and reliable system with less analysis time is needed for widespread industrial uses. This paper has presented a discriminative technique for palm cooking oil using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) with planar electromagnetic sensor array. The sensor consists of a meander sensor and an interdigital sensors which interact with the test samples. Three types of palm cooking oil such as double refined palm oil, refined and deodorized palm oil with peanut and sesame oil, and filtered palm oil were prepared. The results obtained showed that the presented technique was able to differentiate the samples between 20 kHz to 1 Mhz. The results obtained correlate with the theories on EIS technique and planar electromagnetic sensor which are presented in this paper

Analysis of Drought Index in Sub-Urban Area Using Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

The climate change interference and increase of surface temperature have contributed to the changes at the atmosphere that give a significant effect to the availability of water. Malaysia is one of the countries which effected with this event and had been suffered series of drought events in 1997, 1998, and 2014. These problems contribute to the disruption of country’s economic development and quality of life. The using of drought indices for analytical is important and it can estimate the drought affect hat are being experienced accurately. The Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is one of the methods in determination of drought indices. Thus, the objective of this paper is to determine the drought index using the Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for sub-urban river basin which is Pahang River basin. The rainfall and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data were obtained from Malaysian Meteorological Department (Met Malaysia) starting from 1988 until 2018 in determining the SPEI value for sub-urban river basin. RStudio software are being used to determine the value of SPEI for different timescale, which is 3, and 12-month. The significant value of SPEI for the river basin are influence by the population, topography, rainfall, and land use. Findings from this study are believed to the mitigation can be proposed to the related organization to take an action in designing, planning, and managing the water supply and to prevent the serious impact on the agricultural and country economic development as well

Analysis of Drought Index in Sub-Urban Area Using Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI)

The climate change interference and increase of surface temperature have contributed to the changes at the atmosphere that give a significant effect to the availability of water. Malaysia is one of the countries which effected with this event and had been suffered series of drought events in 1997, 1998, and 2014. These problems contribute to the disruption of country’s economic development and quality of life. The using of drought indices for analytical is important and it can estimate the drought affect hat are being experienced accurately. The Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) is one of the methods in determination of drought indices. Thus, the objective of this paper is to determine the drought index using the Standard Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) for sub-urban river basin which is Pahang River basin. The rainfall and potential evapotranspiration (PET) data were obtained from Malaysian Meteorological Department (Met Malaysia) starting from 1988 until 2018 in determining the SPEI value for sub-urban river basin. RStudio software are being used to determine the value of SPEI for different timescale, which is 3, and 12-month. The significant value of SPEI for the river basin are influence by the population, topography, rainfall, and land use. Findings from this study are believed to the mitigation can be proposed to the related organization to take an action in designing, planning, and managing the water supply and to prevent the serious impact on the agricultural and country economic development as well