The determinants of intention to stay at Cameron Highland’s homestay among young domestic tourists

Nowadays, Homestay is a common type of hospitality and accommodation in which visitors share a residence with a resident of the city they are travelling to. There have a lot of aspect that determination of the intention to stay at Cameron Highlands’ homestay among young domestic tourists. The homestay service become one of aspect that affecting the intention of young domestic tourists. Therefore, this study, namely the determinants of intention to stay at Cameron Highland's homestay among young domestic tourists. This study has selected a sample size of 384 sets of respondents from residents who are young domestic tourists in Malaysia. The quantitative research using online questionnaire distributed through Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram. This study uses non-probability sampling methods and convenient sampling of selected samples. After that, SPSS would use to analyses the collecting data by using the descriptive analysis, reliability test, and Pearson correlation. The result show that all of the independent variable (enjoyment, social benefit, economic benefits, and locational benefits) has a significant relationship with the dependent variable intention to stay at Cameron Highland’s homestay among young domestic tourists

Self-Healable Conductive Hydrogels with High Stretchability and Ultralow Hysteresis for Soft Electronics

Stretchable sensors based on conductive hydrogels haveattractedconsiderable attention for wearable electronics. However, their practicalapplications have been limited by the low sensitivity, high hysteresis,and long response times of the hydrogels. In this study, we developedhigh-performance poly-(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/poly-(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly-(styrenesulfonate)(PEDOT:PSS) based hydrogels post-treated with NaCl, which showed excellentmechanical properties, fast electrical response, and ultralow hysteresisproperties. The hydrogels also demonstrated excellent self-healingproperties with electrical and mechanical properties comparable tothose of the original hydrogel and more than 150% elongation at breakafter the self-healing process. The high performance of the optimizedhydrogels was attributed to the enhanced intermolecular forces betweenthe PVA matrix and PEDOT:PSS, the favorable conformational changeof the PEDOT chains, and an increase in localized charges in the hydrogelnetworks. The hydrogel sensors were capable of tracking large humanmotion and subtle muscle action in real time with high sensitivity,a fast response time (0.88 s), and low power consumption (<180 mu W). Moreover, the sensor was able to monitor human respirationdue to chemical changes in the hydrogel. These highly robust, stretchable,conductive, and self-healing PVA/PEDOT:PSS hydrogels, therefore, showgreat application potential as wearable sensors for monitoring humanactivity

One stop shop: backbones trees for important phytopathogenic genera: I (2014)

Many fungi are pathogenic on plants and cause significant damage in agriculture and forestry. They are also part of the natural ecosystem and may play a role in regulating plant numbers/density. Morphological identification and analysis of plant pathogenic fungi, while important, is often hampered by the scarcity of discriminatory taxonomic characters and the endophytic or inconspicuous nature of these fungi. Molecular (DNA sequence) data for plant pathogenic fungi have emerged as key information for diagnostic and classification studies, although hampered in part by non-standard laboratory practices and analytical methods. To facilitate current and future research, this study provides phylogenetic synopses for 25 groups of plant pathogenic fungi in the Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, Mucormycotina (Fungi), and Oomycota, using recent molecular data, up-to-date names, and the latest taxonomic insights. Lineage-specific laboratory protocols together with advice on their application, as well as general observations, are also provided. We hope to maintain updated backbone trees of these fungal lineages over time and to publish them jointly as new data emerge. Researchers of plant pathogenic fungi not covered by the present study are invited to join this future effort. Bipolaris, Botryosphaeriaceae, Botryosphaeria, Botrytis, Choanephora, Colletotrichum, Curvularia, Diaporthe, Diplodia, Dothiorella, Fusarium, Gilbertella, Lasiodiplodia, Mucor, Neofusicoccum, Pestalotiopsis, Phyllosticta, Phytophthora, Puccinia, Pyrenophora, Pythium, Rhizopus, Stagonosporopsis, Ustilago and Verticillium are dealt with in this paper