Age Related Changes in Hematological Values of Myanmar Local Puppies

The hematological parameters were used to monitor the health status and its components also changed according to the ages. However, there were no reports for this issues in Myanmar local dogs. Thus, this study was carried out to investigate the age-related changes on the hematological parameters of local puppies in Myanmar. Ten local puppies with the age of 2-3 month old were used in this experiment, which was lasted for 8 weeks.The daily clinical examinations were conducted throughout the entire experimental period for general health check-up. Haematological parameters (Total WBC count and its differential counts, and RBC, HCT, MCV, HGB, MCH, MCHC and platelets) were measured bi-weekly with Abacus Vet-5 automate haematology analyser. According to the results, the total WBC and eosinophil counts were not significantly different (P>0.05), while lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils and basophils were significantly different (P<0.05) with the aging of experimental animals. The values of RBC, HGB, HCT, MCV, MCH, MCHC and platelets were not significantly different (P>0.05) throughout the experimental periods. Thus, the age-related changes were observed on cell counts of lymphocytes, monocytes, neutrophils, basophils in Myanmar local puppies

Prevalence of Human Papilloma virus in women with Abnormal Cervical Smears from Sarawak, Malaysia

Introduction: Cervical cancer is common cancer and ranked in fourth place in both incidence and mortality worldwide. It is 3rd most common female cancer in Malaysia with a lifetime risk of 1 in 116. Infection with high-risk oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) is recognized as one of the substantial risk factors for the development of cervical cancers. Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted to determine the prevalence of HPV infection and its subtypes among women with various degrees of abnormal smears, who were seen in the colposcopy clinic of Sarawak General Hospital within six months’ period from January to June 2018. We recruited 56 participants. There were 23 each for an atypical squamous cell of undetermined significance (ASC-US) and low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (LSIL) and 10 high- grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL). DNA was extracted, and HPV genotypes were determined via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using two primer pairs MY09/MY11 and GP5+/GP6+. Results: The age ranged from 23 to 56 years, with a mean age of 42.96 years. HPV was detected in 20 out of 56 (35.7%). There were 6 high-risk oncogenic HPVs (18, 51, 52, 56, 58, 68) detected in participants and the most prevalent subtypes were 18, 52, and 58 (20% each). Four low-risk HPVs detected were 6, 53, 70, and 84. There was a significant association between the severity of cervical lesions and HPV positivity (P < 0.004). HSIL had the highest positive predictive value to have HPV infection as 70% compared to 43.4% of LSIL and 9.3% of ASC-US. Conclusion: Distribution of HPV subtypes from women with abnormal smears from Sarawak indicated a high prevalence of HPV 18, 52, and 58. We also identified HPV 70, which has never been reported in West Malaysia. These findings could contribute valuable information for HPV vaccination strategies, particularly for Sarawakian women

Query Classification for Information Retrieval of Conference Papers in Digital Library

Classification is one of the most widelyused data mining techniques with a lot ofextension. Query classification is crucial for websearch and advertising. Classification of webqueries is important to provide search resulteffectively. As more and more documents becomeelectronically available, this system provides tofind documents in large database that fit users’need. Information can be extracted fromsummaries for the words contained in thedocuments. This system presents theimplementation of query classification system forinformation retrieval of conference papers indigital library. In this system, Multinomial NaïveBayes algorithm is used in computing weights ofterms for each classes and then combined theoverall weights. Cosine similarity algorithm isused to find the relevant documents. Resultantdocuments are ranked according to their classweights and similarity value. By using the system,user can obtain more relevant result from digitallibrary since the document can be viewed by theirdegree of similarity values

An Analysis on Tourism Industry Development of Beach Resorts within Ayeyarwady Region

Chaungtha and Ngwesaung beaches are situated in the southwestern part of Myanmar within Ayeyarwady Region. It is located in Rakhine coastal region. These beaches are popular and attractive tourist sites in Myanmar after Ngapali Beach. The paper mainly focuses on tourism industry development. The objectives of this paper are to assess the basic tourism requirements, to assess on tourism development, to find out the perception of tourists and local people on tourism industry and to make a comparative analysis on the development of tourism industry within beach resorts. The research use both quantitative and qualitative methods. Primary data conducted by interviews and discussions with tourists, visitors, local people, hotel managers, authority and responsible persons of departments concerned. Secondary data are also applied in this research; these data are obtained from various departments. The importance of 4As in assessment on perception of tourists is presented in this paper. SWOT analysis is also employed for identifying the strength, weakness, opportunities and treats. This research paper examines the positive and negative impacts of tourism development for beach resorts. According to the interview method, foreign tourists more prefer Ngwesaung to Chaungtha because of natural scenic beauty of blue sea, white sand and lovely sun. Domestic tourists more prefer Chaungtha

An Investigation on the Effectiveness of Prepared Activated Carbon from Lignocellulosic Waste (Groundnut Shell) on the Decolourization of Fish Sauce

The present research work focused on the extraction of natural dye from Mangosteen peel (Garciniamangostana Linn). The physico-chemical properties such as moisture content, ash content, total solids content and pH of Mangosteen peel were determined by association of official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) method. The chemical compounds present in Mangosteen peel were investigated by phytochemical tests. Natural dye was extracted from Mangosteeen peel with pure water at 70ºC for 60 minutes. The physico-chemical properties of extracted natural dye were also determined by AOAC method. An attempt was made on the dyeing of cotton fabrics using extracted natural dye with three different mordants such as zinc sulphate, potassium dichromate, potash alum and three different dyeing methods such as pre-mordanting, post-mordanting and simultaneous mordanting and different dyeing methods on the properties of dyed cotton fabrics were also investigated. Moreover, washing and rubbing fastness properties, staining and colour change of dyed cotton fabrics were assessed by using standard Grey scale

Spatial Variation of Socio-economic Activities and Settlement Relocation in Pandaw Model Village, Kyauktan Township

Socio-economic study is not a new topic in the discipline of social sciences including geography. However, most studies focus on the variation of socio-economic conditions at regional and district levels. This is because census data are readily available at this level. In this paper, intra-village level variation of social economic conditions is analysed with the aim to assess the benefit and cost of settlement relocation with reference to Pandaw Model Village. Pandaw Model Village includes two settlement areas: clustered and dispersed. Socio-economic data of the study area were derived from official statistics and two intensive field surveys and structured interviews. The results found that there show great socio-economic variations between two settlement areas. From the point of socioeconomic variation and physical environment, if dispersed settlements are relocated in clustered areas, the village will benefit from the scale of economic and social welfare. On the other hand, fuel and water supply problems will be encountered