Hubungan Antara Hasil Pemeriksaan Darah Lengkap Dengan Derajat Klinik Infeksi Dengue Pada Pasien Dewasa Di Rsup Dr. Kariadi Semarang

Background: Complete blood count which is usually done to screen patients suspected dengue infection is through the examination including platelet count, leukocyte count, hematocrit, and hemoglobin levels. The existence of an exact value of the result of blood test for each grade of dengue infection is expected to greatly assist medical officers in order to more easily classify and manage patients based on the clinical grade.Aim: To determine the correlation between platelet count, leukocyte count, hematocrit, and hemoglobin levels with clinical dengue grade infection.Methods: This was retrospective observational analytic research with cross sectional approach. Samples were taken from medical records of patients admitted to adult dengue infection in Dr. Kariadi Hospital. Data that taken from medical records were age, sex, platelet count, leukocyte count, hematocrit, hemoglobin levels, and the degree of dengue infection according to WHO 2009 criteria. The statistical analysis used descriptive analysis and hypothesis test by using Spearman correlation with SPSS for Windows 18.Results: 114 adult dengue infection patients were included in this research. The analysis by Spearman correlation test found a significant weak negative correlation between platelet count with clinical dengue grade infection (p<0.001 ; r=-0.341), a significant weak positive correlation between leukocyte count with clinical dengue grade infection (p=0.033 ; r=0.2), there was no significant correlation between hematocrit with clinical dengue grade infection (p=0.606 ; r=0.049), and there was no significant correlation between hemoglobin levels with clinical dengue grade infection (p=0.759 ; r=0.029).Conclusions: There was a significant correlation between platelet count and leukocyte count with clinical dengue grade infection, so that platelet count and leukocyte count may be considered to help determine the clinical grade of dengue infection. There was no significant correlation between hematocrit and hemoglobin levels with clinical dengue grade infection

Managing Oil Palm Plantations More Sustainably: Large-Scale Experiments Within the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme

Conversion of tropical forest to agriculture results in reduced habitat heterogeneity, and associated declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Management strategies to increase biodiversity in agricultural landscapes have therefore often focused on increasing habitat complexity; however, the large-scale, long-term ecological experiments that are needed to test the effects of these strategies are rare in tropical systems. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)—one of the most widespread and important tropical crops—offers substantial potential for developing wildlife-friendly management strategies because of its long rotation cycles and tree-like structure. Although there is awareness of the need to increase sustainability, practical options for how best to manage oil palm plantations, for benefits to both the environment and crop productivity, have received little research attention. In this paper we introduce the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Tropical Agriculture (BEFTA) Programme: a long-term research collaboration between academia and industry in Sumatra, Indonesia. The BEFTA Programme aims to better understand the oil palm agroecosystem and test sustainability strategies. We hypothesise that adjustments to oil palm management could increase structural complexity, stabilize microclimate, and reduce reliance on chemical inputs, thereby helping to improve levels of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. The Programme has established four major components: (1) assessing variability within the plantation under business-as-usual conditions; (2) the BEFTA Understory Vegetation Project, which tests the effects of varying herbicide regimes; (3) the Riparian Ecosystem Restoration in Tropical Agriculture (RERTA) Project, which tests strategies for restoring riparian habitat; and (4) support for additional collaborative projects within the Programme landscape. Across all projects, we are measuring environmental conditions, biodiversity, and ecosystem functions. We also measure oil palm yield and production costs, in order to assess whether suggested sustainability strategies are feasible from an agronomic perspective. Early results show that oil palm plantation habitat is more variable than might be expected from a monoculture crop, and that everyday vegetation management decisions have significant impacts on habitat structure. The BEFTA Programme highlights the value of large-scale collaborative projects for understanding tropical agricultural systems, and offers a highly valuable experimental set-up for improving our understanding of practices to manage oil palm more sustainably.This work was funded by The Isaac Newton Trust Cambridge, Golden Agri Resources, ICOPE (the International Conference on Oil Palm and the Environment), and the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number NE/P00458X/1]

Towards Efficient and Scalable Data-Intensive Content Delivery: State-of-the-Art, Issues and Challenges

This chapter presents the authors’ work for the Case Study entitled “Delivering Social Media with Scalability” within the framework of High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet) COST Action 1406. We identify some core research areas and give an outline of the publications we came up within the framework of the aforementioned action. The ease of user content generation within social media platforms, e.g. check-in information, multimedia data, etc., along with the proliferation of Global Positioning System (GPS)-enabled, always-connected capture devices lead to data streams of unprecedented amount and a radical change in information sharing. Social data streams raise a variety of practical challenges: derivation of real-time meaningful insights from effectively gathered social information, a paradigm shift for content distribution with the leverage of contextual data associated with user preferences, geographical characteristics and devices in general, etc. In this article we present the methodology we followed, the results of our work and the outline of a comprehensive survey, that depicts the state-of-the-art situation and organizes challenges concerning social media streams and the infrastructure of the data centers supporting the efficient access to data streams in terms of content distribution, data diffusion, data replication, energy efficiency and network infrastructure. The challenges of enabling better provisioning of social media data have been identified and they were based on the context of users accessing these resources. The existing literature has been systematized and the main research points and industrial efforts in the area were identified and analyzed. In our works, in the framework of the Action, we came up with potential solutions addressing the problems of the area and described how these fit in the general ecosystem

Prediksi Batas Cekungan Jawa Timur Utara Dengan Pegunungan Selatan Di Daerah Magetan - Plaosan Dengan Metode Gravitasi

-Geophysics investigation with the gravity method to antisipate the existence of boundary of North East Java Basin with the South Mountains in Magetan - Plaosan have been done at 2 – 11 December 2004 by using gravitymeter La Coste & Romberg type G-I177, and resulted 50 station. Data measured field is the observation gravitation position height and terrain conection for A until D zone. To obtain the complete Bouguer anomaly, reduction of field data was performed with standart correction. Bouguer density of rock is obtained 2,30 gram/cm3. Regional and residual anomaly was obtained from filtering of complete bouguer anomaly by using polynomial surface fitting. The quantitative analysis of second order residual anomaly was performed by using Grav2DC for windows. The modelling resulted Lawu lava with density 2,35 gram/cm3 and culminate deepness is 300 m, Tuf Jobolarangan with density 2,20 gram/cm3 and culminate deepness is 300 m, sediment rock with density 2,10 gram/cm3 and culminate deepness is 123,84 m, Igneous rock with density 2,70 gram/cm3 and culminate deepness is 1.721,53 m. Basin boundary marked with the exsistence of sediment rock and igneous rock in subsurface of the area. Interpretdion of modelling indicate that Magetan - Plosan area anticipated to represent the south boundary of North East Java Basin with the South Moantains. Keynotes : Gravity, terrain correction, Bougeur anomal

The emergence of a growth industry: a comparative analysis of the German, Dutch and Swedish wind turbine industries

*Financial support from the Swedish National Energy Administration is gratefully acknowledged. We would also like to express our deepest gratitude to all the people in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden who have contributed to the empirical content of this paper by allowing us to interview them. We are also grateful to Bo Carlsson and Michael Durstewitz for useful comments on an earlier draft. The objective of this paper is to compare the evolution of the wind turbine industry in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. Four factors stand out in explaining the relative success of the German industry: (1) creation of variety in an early phase, (2) establishment of legitimacy of wind energy, (3) the employment of advanced market creation policies in a later phase and (4) the use of industrial policy to favour the domestic industry. Implications for policy include fostering legitimacy for the new technology and creating powerful, predictable and persistent economic incentives