The impact of visual impairment on nutritional status: A systematic review

The aim of this review was to evaluate the literature that has investigated the impact of visual impairment on nutritional status. We identified relevant articles through a multi-staged systematic approach. Fourteen articles were identified as meeting the inclusion criteria. The sample size of the studies ranged from 9 to 761 participants. It was found that visual impairment significantly affects nutritional status. The studies reported that visually impaired people have an abnormal body mass index (BMI); a higher prevalence of obesity and malnutrition was reported. Visually impaired people find it difficult to shop for, eat, and prepare meals. Most studies had a small sample size, and some studies did not include a study control group for comparison. The limitations of these studies suggest that the findings are not conclusive enough to hold true for only those who are visually impaired. Further studies with a larger sample size are required with the aim of developing interventions

Estimasi Emisi Karbondioksida Dari Sektor Permukiman Di Kota YOGYAKARTA Menggunakan IPCC Guidelines

Kota Yogyakarta mengalami peningkatan jumlah penduduk, melihat luas penggunaan lahan yang di dominasi oleh Perumahan yaitu seluas 2.100,71 Ha dari total luas lahan Kota Yogyakarta 3.250 Ha (SLHD Kota Yogyakarta,2014). Semakin meningkat jumlah penduduk semakin besar lahan yang dipergunakan untuk Perumahan/permukiman akan menyebabkan semakin besar penggunaan bahan bakar memasak yang digunakan. Penelitian ini menjadi penting untuk dibahas karena hal tersebut jika dikaitkan dengan adanya PP No. 61 Tahun 2011 tentang rencana Aksi Nasional Penurunan Emisi Gas Rumah Kaca (GRK) dan PP No. 71 Tahun 2011 tentang Penyelenggaraan Inventarisasi Emisi GRK Nasional yang menyatakan bahwa setiap daerah pemerintahan baik kabupaten/kota wajib melakukan kegiatan inventarisasi GRK. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengestimasi emisi tapak karbon dan pemetaannya di Kota Yogyakarta. Berdasarkan hasil perhitungan emisi karbon di setiap kecamatan menunjukan emisi tertinggi berada pada kecamatan Gedontengen yaitu sebesar 994.033 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun. sedangkan untuk emisi terendah ada pada kecamatan Pakualaman yaitu sebesar 20.811 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun. Berdasarkan hasil pemetaan dapat diketahui bahwa dari 14 kecamatan ada 3 kecamatan berada pada emisi skala sangat tinggi 994.000 – 528.000 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun, 3 kecamatan berada pada emisi skala tinggi 528.000 – 186.000 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun, 1 kecamatan berada pada skala emisi sedang 95.000 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun, 5 kecamatan berada pada skala rendah 95.000- 34.460 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun, dan 2 kecamatan berada pada skala sangat rendah 34.460 – 20.811 ton CO2/rumah tangga.tahun

The Prevalence of Dermatological Infection in Outpatient Dermatology Clinic of RSUD Wonosari in January-September 2016

Background: The Skin is a complex organ that protects humans from their surrounding environment, like an infectious pathogenic agent, sunlight exposure, temperature, or other exposures. Skin infections can be divided into bacterial, viral, or fungal infections where infestations of bugs or worms are included. In Indonesia, the exact number of skin infection incidents has not been established. And until now, there are no research reports about the case pattern of skin infections in the area of Kabupaten Gunung Kidul in 2016. Objective: This research aimed to describe the overview of skin infection cases in Outpatient Dermatology Clinic of RSUD Wonosari, Gunung Kidul fromJanuary 2016 until September 2016. Methods: This research was conducted retrospectively based on medical records of all cases of skin infections in Outpatient Dermatology Clinic of RSUD Wonosari during the period of January 2016 - September 2016. Results: All new cases of skin infections in outpatient dermatology clinic of RSUD Wonosari within the period of January 2016 - September 2016 amounted to 303 cases. The cases consisted of 127 cases of fungal infection (42%) with a variety of cases of dermatophytosis, PVC, and candidiasis; 55 cases of bacterial infections (18%) with a variety of cases of impetigo, folliculitis, leprosy, ektima, erysipelas, furuncles, and abscesses; 40 cases of viral infections (13%) with variaty of cases of HFMD cases, Moluscum contagiosum, zooster, warts, varicella; and 81 cases of parasitic infections (27%) with a variety of cases of scabies, creeping eruption, and pediculosis capitis. Conclusion: Skin diseases caused by infections was still a dominant skin disease in the outpatient Dermatology clinic of RSUD Wonosari, with the number of cases 18.35% of all cases of skin and venereal diseases. The most common cause is infection by fungi (7.69%), followed by parasitic infections, scabies (4.91%), bacterial infections (3.33%), and viral infections (2.42%)

Random sequential adsorption of spheres on a cylinder

Inspired by observations of beads packed on a thin string in such systems as sea-grapes and dental plaque, we study the random sequential adsorption of spheres on a cylinder. We determine the asymptotic fractional coverage of the cylinder as a function of the sole parameter in the problem, the ratio of the sphere radius to the cylinder radius (for a very long cylinder) using a combination of analysis and numerical simulations. Examining the asymptotic structures, we find weak chiral ordering on sufficiently small spatial scales. Experiments involving colloidal microspheres that can attach irreversibly to a silica wire via electrostatic forces or DNA hybridization allow us to verify our predictions for the asymptotic coverage

Evaluation of F-Measure and Feature Analysis of C5.0 Implementation on Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Calling

Data growing in molecular biology has increased rapidly since Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology introduced in 2000, the latest technology used to sequence DNA with high throughput. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) is a marker based on DNA which can be used to identify organism specifically. SNPs are usually exploited for optimizing parents selection in producing high-quality seed for plant breeding. This paper discusses SNP calling underlying NGS data of cultivated soybean (Glycine max [L]. Merr) using C5.0, an improved rule-based algorithm of C4.5. The evaluation illustrated that C5.0 is better than the other rule-based algorithm CART based on f-measure. The value of f-measure using C5.0 and CART are 0.63 and 0.58. Besides of that, C5.0 is robust for imbalanced training dataset up to 1:17 but it is suffer in large training dataset. C5.0's performance may be increased by applying bagging or the other ensemble technique as improvement of CART by applying bagging in final decision. The other important thing is using appropriate features in representing SNP candidates. Based on information gain of C5.0, this paper recommends error probability, homopolymer left, mismatch alt and mean nearby qual as features for SNP calling

Kemiskinan dan Migrasi: Analisis Data SAKERTI 2000 dan 2007

Abstract This paper aims to analyze the effect of poverty on migration by using the IFLS 2000 and 2007 data. The results of binary and multinomial logistic regressions on all adults, adults in urban areas, and adults in rural areas show that the poor are less likely to migrate than the non-poorexcept for the case of urban to urban migration, where the poor are more likely to migrate than the non-poor. The results for other economic characteristics such as total value of assets and land ownership for farming consistently show that better economic conditions lower the probability to migrate. Keywords: Poverty, Migration, Urban Migration, Rural Migration, IFLS   Abstrak Studi ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh kemiskinan terhadap migrasi dengan menggunakan sampel individu 15 tahun ke atas dari data Survei Aspek Kehidupan Rumah Tangga Indonesia (SAKERTI) tahun 2000 dan 2007. Hasil regresi logistik biner dan multinomial menunjukkan bahwa untuk semua individu, baik individu di perkotaan maupun di perdesaan, peluang orang miskin untuk bermigrasi lebih kecil daripada yang tidak miskin. Namun, untuk individu di perkotaan, ditemukan bahwa peluang orang miskin untuk bermigrasi dari perkotaan ke perkotaan lebih besar dibanding yang tidak miskin. Hasil regresi untuk karakteristik ekonomi lainnya seperti total nilai aset dan kepemilikan lahan pertanian menunjukkan bahwa kondisi ekonomi yang lebih baik menurunkan probabilitas bermigrasi. Kata kunci: Kemiskinan, Migrasi, Migrasi Perkotaan, Migrasi Perdesaan, SAKERT

The long-term impact of folic acid in pregnancy on offspring DNA methylation : follow-up of the Aberdeen folic acid supplementation trial (AFAST)

Funding This work was supported by the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre at the University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Bristol. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health. R.C.R., G.C.S., N.K., T.G., G.D.S. and C.L.R. work in a unit that receives funds from the University of Bristol and the UK Medical Research Council (MC_UU_12013/1, MC_UU_12013/2 and MC_UU_12013/8). This work was also supported by CRUK (grant number C18281/A19169) and the ESRC (grant number ES/N000498/1). C.M.T. is supported by a Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry Fellowship (grant number 104077/Z/14/Z).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Primordial quadrupole-induced polarisation from filamentary structures and galaxy clusters

We present the first computation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation power spectrum from galaxy clusters and filaments using hydrodynamical simulations of large scale structure. We give the $E$ and $B$ mode power spectra of the CMB quadrupole induced polarisation between $\ell \sim 560$ and 20000. We find that the contribution from warm ionised gas in filamentary structures dominates the polarised signal from galaxy clusters by more than one order of magnitude on large scales (below $\ell \sim 1000$) and by a factor of about two on small scales (\ell \gsim 10000). We study the dependence of the power spectra with $\sigma_8$. Assuming the power spectra vary like $\sigma_8^n$ we find $n=3.2-4.0$ for filaments and $n=3.5-4.6$ for clusters.Comment: submitted to Ap

Associations Between High Blood Pressure and DNA Methylation

BACKGROUND: High blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is influenced by both environmental and genetic factors. Epigenetic processes including DNA methylation potentially mediate the relationship between genetic factors, the environment and cardiovascular disease. Despite an increased risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease in individuals of South Asians compared to Europeans, it is not clear whether associations between blood pressure and DNA methylation differ between these groups. METHODS: We performed an epigenome-wide association study and differentially methylated region (DMR) analysis to identify DNA methylation sites and regions that were associated with systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure and hypertension. We analyzed samples from 364 European and 348 South Asian men (first generation migrants to the UK) from the Southall And Brent REvisited cohort, measuring DNA methylation from blood using the Illumina Infinium® HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. RESULTS: One CpG site was found to be associated with DBP in trans-ancestry analyses (i.e. both ethnic groups combined), while in Europeans alone seven CpG sites were associated with DBP. No associations were identified between DNA methylation and either SBP or hypertension. Comparison of effect sizes between South Asian and European EWAS for DBP, SBP and hypertension revealed little concordance between analyses. DMR analysis identified several regions with known relationships with CVD and its risk factors. CONCLUSION: This study identified differentially methylated sites and regions associated with blood pressure and revealed ethnic differences in these associations. These findings may point to molecular pathways which may explain the elevated cardiovascular disease risk experienced by those of South Asian ancestry when compared to Europeans