Implementation of Blended Learning Modality in the New Normal

The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of blended learning modality utilized by the teachers in terms of learning delivery, learning facilitation, and learner’s supports. The study used a descriptive research design and utilized an adopted survey questionnaire as a research instrument in gathering data. In addition, the grades four, five, and six pupils of Miramar Elementary School served as the respondents of this study. The study found that blended learning modality was overall effective in enhancing learner’s academic performance. This has become possible as teachers provided effective facilitations and supports. The finding of the study also implies that school has done rigorous efforts to ensure that there is a quality learning in this time of pandemic. Even though this type of learning modality is ‘somehow’ new to the teachers, the school has ensured that teachers are equipped with knowledge and skills to effectively assist both learners and parents in using the modality

A Review of Milk Production in Pakistan with Particular Emphasis on Small-scale Producers

The purpose of the study is to assess the economics of dairy farming in Pakistan and the prospects for improving the dairy income for small-scale producers, which currently form the backbone of the dairy industry. The document begins with a general overview of milk production in the country, followed by a detailed study of dairy farming in the province of Punjab, with a particular focus on the small-scale producers. Preliminary estimates of the margins in the formal and informal market for liquid milk are provided. The study applies a method of economic analysis developed by the International Farm Comparison Network (IFCN) which is based on the concept of typical farms. Four farm types were selected to represent 'typical farms' in the province of Punjab: one farm with one and three, and two farms with ten dairy animals respectively, one of the latter located near the city of Lahore. Each farm is described in detail with assets, production costs, profits and other economic information presented both graphically and in the text. The study concludes that a sound intervention strategy to strengthen the position of the small scale dairy farms would focus simultaneously on at least three fronts: (1) lowering farm production costs, (2) increasing productivity and (3) promoting a "higher" farmers' share in the consumer milk prices. A more competitive milk marketing system designed to cater for the needs of small-scale dairy farmers would send strong positive signals for small farmers to mobilise their own resources and develop their operations.Livestock Production/Industries,

Effects of Newcastle Disease Virus on Gene Expression Profiling, and Nitric Oxide and Glutathione Production in MCF-7 Breast Canser Cell Line

Breast cancer is a major cause of death for many women around the world. Progress has been made in the survival of breast cancer patients due to improved understanding of the molecular processes, diagnostic techniques and knowledge of the treatment using chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and virotherapy. The field of virotherapy has emerged from the past decade by using oncogenic viruses to selectively kill cancerous cells without harming normal cells. Newcastle disease virus (NDV), an avian paramyxovirus, induces apoptosis in a variety of human malignant cells such as breast cancer cells. In this study, the cytolytic properties of NDV strain AF2240 on gene expression profiling, measurement of Nitric oxide (NO) free radical and Glutathione antioxidant (GSH) were investigated by using RT-PCR, capillary electrophoresis, flow cytometry both under normoxic and hypoxic condition. Multiplex Gene Expression Kit was used whereby the relative expressions of 25 different genes were measured at the mRNA level. The results showed that treatment of MCF7 cells with NDV caused apoptosis, NO production and GSH depletion and changed the expression level of most of the genes involved in tumour progression, cell cycle regulation, cell growth and differentiation, apoptosis, cancer suppression, and DNA damage, as measured by RT-PCR and capillary electrophoresis. Since the mode of apoptosis by NDV is NO and GSH dependent, comparisons of NDV with NO-Donors such as DETA-NONOate and NO-Scavengers like cPTIO were also studied. Increased production of Nitric oxide (NO) and depleted levels of Glutathione (GSH) after treatment of NDV at normoxic condition compared NDV at hypoxic condition were observed. However, addition of DETA-NONOate to MCF-7 cells has induced NO production, GSH depletion. Moreover, NO production and apoptosis were attenuated, and GSH increased after addition of cPTIO either alone or with combination of either NDV or DETA-NONOate to the MCF-7 cells. In addition to the above, co-treatment of NDV+DETA-NONOate depleted NO production and cell death compared to the treatment of NDV alone to cells. From this study, it was concluded that NDV induces apoptosis, Gene expression, NO production and GSH depletion in MCF-7 cells which makes it an effective anticancer agent due to its ability to kill breast cancer cell lines in normoxic and hypoxic conditions

The Investigation of Knowledge Management Practices Among Healthcare Practitioners in Malaysia

Healthcare is regarded as one of the fundamental rights of every human. Healthcare organizations (HCO) are making great efforts to provide to their customers the best possible healthcare services therefore HCO need to constantly view knowledge as one of the organization\u27s strategic asset. Knowledge in HCOs need to be discovered, created, shared and applied. However, the studies on KM implementation in HCO is deemed insufficient. The aim of this study is to investigate the perception of healthcare professionals (HCP) on KM practices in HCO in Malaysia. The investigation includes the HCPs perceived benefits, supporting factors and challenges in implementing KM in their organization. This study adopts a case study research design. Questionnaires were distributed online to HCPs of a HCO. The findings indicate that HCPs were aware of the KM but not convinced with its capabilities and the benefit it could bring to the organization

TriBot : Search And Rescue Robot

In this new era where robotics plays important role in performing dangerous task previously performed by human such as disabling bomb, handling hazardous material and even helping in search and rescue mission. Collapsed buildings are the most unstable place to perform search and rescue mission by human where the weight and size limits the rescuer movements. Sudden movement will cause further damage to the victims who trapped in the rubble and also to the rescuer. Robot with conventional locomotion seems to be not suitable to navigate on uneven and unstable terrain. This project describes the development of a search and rescue robot with non-conventional locomotion which is used to help first responder (Fire Fighters, Police and Medical) in a search and rescue mission on uneven and unstable terrain to determine the location of the victims in confined places such as collapse buildings without causing further damage to the victims and the rescuer. The robot that will be developed is a non-conventional locomotion robot where it have three arms that enable it to move by dragging itself forward, backward, left and right. It should able to move on unstable and difficult terrain and also able to climb stairs. Extra features such as camera, microphone, speakers and other features could be added according the needs of the project. Robots will be a valuable asset in the near future for search and rescue teams from around the world. This project is based on robot that have been developed named TerminatorBot by Associate Professor Richard M. Voyles from University of Denver

A process framework to capture tacit knowledge using storytelling

One of the main challenges in knowledge management is to convey tacit knowledge. Furthermore, there is also a possibility that an expert have difficulties in articulating and conveying this tacit knowledge. Nonetheless,storytelling in knowledge management (KM) context is seen as an effective tool to communicate knowledge, particularly tacit knowledge.While people share stories through face-to-face interaction, we cannot assert that people will learn from this interaction.Firstly, this interaction is not captured and secondly, the knowledge exchanged in the interaction tend to be unstructured which would result in the loss of knowledge value. This paper presents the development of a process framework to construct knowledge story.This framework involves the capturing of knowledge and encapsulates that knowledge into a narrative form

Geochemistry, petrography, geochronology, and radiogenic isotopes of the weakly mineralized intrusions in Thunder Bay North Igneous Complex

The Thunder Bay North Igneous Complex (TBNIC) is located approximately 50 km northeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. It comprises two Cu–Ni–PGE-mineralized mafic–ultramafic intrusions, the Escape and Current Intrusions, and five smaller mafic–ultramafic intrusions whose mineralization potential has yet to be fully assessed, namely the Lone Island Lake, Greenwich, Southeast Anomaly (SEA), and 025 intrusions, and the East–West Connector (EWC). The five gabbroic to peridotitic intrusions are the focus of this study. They are characterized by high magnetic anomalies and crosscut the Archean granitoids and metasedimentary rocks of the Quetico Subprovince. U-Pb dating yielded an age of 1107.6 ± 0.9 Ma for the Escape intrusion, which is the oldest date among TBN intrusions, and an age of 1105 ± 0.9 Ma for the Greenwich intrusion. Field observations and drill core logging of the five intrusions indicates that they are gabbroic to peridotitic in composition with approximately 6-9% sulfides. The sulphides are dominantly pyrite, with lesser amounts of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. Petrographic analysis of the five intrusions show them to comprise gabbronorite with lesser leuco-gabbro, gabbro, and websterites for the Lone Island intrusion, gabbronorite to websterite and lherzolite for 025, gabbro to websterite for SEA, and highly altered gabbro in the EWC and Greenwich intrusions. [...

Tribot : Search and Resue Robot

In this new era where robotics plays important role in performing dangerous task previously performed by human such as disabling bomb, handling hazardous material and even helping in search and rescue mission. Collapsed buildings are the most unstable place to perform search and rescue mission by human where the weight and size limits the rescuer movements. Sudden movement will cause further damage to the victims who trapped in the rubble and also to the rescuer. Robot with conventional locomotion seems to be not suitable to navigate on uneven and unstable terrain. In this final year project, a search and rescue robot with non-conventional locomotion will be develop which it is use to help first responder (Fire Fighters, Police, Medical) in a search and rescue mission on uneven and unstable terrain to determine the location of the victims in confined places such as collapse buildings without causing further damage to the victims and the rescuer. The robot that will be developed is a non-conventional locomotion robot where it have three arms that enable it to move by dragging itself to move forward, backward, left and right. It should able to move on unstable and difficult terrain and also able to climb stairs. Extra features such as camera, microphone, speakers and other features will be added throughout the project. Robots will be a valuable asset in the near future for search and rescue teams from around the world. This project is based on robot that have been developed named TerminatorBot by Associate Professor Richard M. Voyles from University of Denver

New exact solutionsand numerical approximations of the generalized kdv equation

This paper is devoted to create new exact and numerical solutions of the generalized Korteweg-de Vries (GKdV) equation with ansatz method and Galerkin finite element method based on cubic B-splines over finite elements. Propagation of single solitary wave is investigated to show the efficiency and applicability of the proposed methods. The performance of the numerical algorithm is proved by computing L2 and L∞ error norms. Also, three invariants I1, I2, and I3 have been calculated to determine the conservation properties of the presented algorithm. The obtained numerical solutions are compared with some earlier studies for similar parameters. This comparison clearly shows that the obtained results are better than some earlier results and they are found to be in good agreement with exact solutions. Additionally, a linear stability analysis based on Von Neumann’s theory is surveyed and indicated that our method is unconditionally stable