Thermal Comfort for various Altitudes and Land Covers in North Sumatra

Thermal comfort refers to the suitability of meteorological conditions for humans with the environment. Temperature is the main meteorological variable, which determines the thermal comfort as expressed in various climate indices. This study aims to analysis the distribution of thermal comfort, and to identify environmental factors influencing the comfort situated in North Sumatra, Indonesia. We applied the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) to determine the heat stress level for 2011 - 2020. The higher UTCI value indicates more uncomfortable conditions related to the higher heat stress. The results showed that the average value of UTCI in North Sumatra was categorised at moderate heat stress. Densely urbanised area in the eastern region contributed to high heat stress, whereas mountainous areas in central to west regions were at low level. Our findings found that climate season affected the distribution of heat stress level. The low heat stress occurred in December-February, while high heat stress happened in June-August. Further, findings revealed that altitude and land cover have contributed to UTCI variation by more than 75% variance

Nu-Covid Eduboard: Edukasi Pesan Gizi Seimbang dan Protokol Kesehatan pada Siswa MDA Al-Muhajirin di Kota Medan

The Covid-19 virus is a virus that spread quickly either directly or indirectly. Prevention of the Covid-19 virus can be accompanied by a strong immune system, namely by improving a healthy lifestyle with balanced nutritional foods. Nutrition education stands for an effort to increase knowledge of nutrition and eating behavior which is important for elementary school children. The media which common to use is a playing board that can help students to understand and recall what has been conveyed. Based on this reason, the Medan Kota 02 KKN-T group designed a program to increase understanding of nutrition to prevent Covid-19 among elementary students in MDA Al-Muhajirin, in Kota Matsum IV Village. The activity began by filling out a pre-test to find out student's knowledge before receiving education material. After that, continued with delivering nutrition and covid materials including an explanation of the balanced nutrition cone, then continued with the health protocol material, playing the board game by attaching food stickers to the picture of the balanced nutrition cone and matching the picture with the health protocol description. In the last session, all the students were asked to filling out the post-test. The impact of this program is that students understand and apply how to maintain healthy and balanced nutrition guidelines (PGS) and comply with prokes. The results indicated that the value of the participants from pre-test to post-test increased not too significantly, namely by 0.034, which could be caused by knowledge bias due to distraction. The distraction may be caused by the participants' unpreparedness in receiving the material, the class conditions that are not supportive, and the lack of initiative of the participants to take notes and understand the material provided. Nu-Covid eduboard may be an alternative program for increasing student knowledge about balanced nutrition guidelines and prokes in covid-19 pandemic situation.The Covid-19 virus is a virus that spread quickly either directly or indirectly. Prevention of the Covid-19 virus can be accompanied by a strong immune system, namely by improving a healthy lifestyle with balanced nutritional foods. Nutrition education stands for an effort to increase knowledge of nutrition and eating behavior which is important for elementary school children. The media which common to use is a playing board that can help students to understand and recall what has been conveyed. Based on this reason, the Medan Kota 02 KKN-T group designed a program to increase understanding of nutrition to prevent Covid-19 among elementary students in MDA Al-Muhajirin, in Kota Matsum IV Village. The activity began by filling out a pre-test to find out student's knowledge before receiving education material. After that, continued with delivering nutrition and covid materials including an explanation of the balanced nutrition cone, then continued with the health protocol material, playing the board game by attaching food stickers to the picture of the balanced nutrition cone and matching the picture with the health protocol description. In the last session, all the students were asked to filling out the post-test. The impact of this program is that students understand and apply how to maintain healthy and balanced nutrition guidelines (PGS) and comply with prokes. The results indicated that the value of the participants from pre-test to post-test increased not too significantly, namely by 0.034, which could be caused by knowledge bias due to distraction. The distraction may be caused by the participants' unpreparedness in receiving the material, the class conditions that are not supportive, and the lack of initiative of the participants to take notes and understand the material provided. Nu-Covid eduboard may be an alternative program for increasing student knowledge about balanced nutrition guidelines and prokes in covid-19 pandemic situation