The Abudance Crown of Thorn Starfish (Acanthaster Planci) in Coral Reef Ecosystem Tikus Island Bengkulu Province

Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada bulan Juni 2019 di Pulau Tikus Provinsi Bengkulu untuk mengetahui bagaimana kepadatan bintang laut berduri (A. planci), bagaimana kondisi terumbu karang serta bagaimana kepadatan bintang laut berduri (A. planci) pada ekosistem terumbu karang yang dianalisis berdasarkan tutupan karang hidup di Pulau Tikus. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode survey. Pengambilan data kondisi terumbu karang dilakukan menggunakan metode Underwater Photograph Transect (UPT) dan pengambilan data kepadatan A. planci menggunakan metode line Intercept Transect (LIT). Kondisi Terumbu karang Pulau Tikus Provinsi Bengkulu pada 3 stasiun penelitian kedalaman 4 meter didapatkan masuk dalam kategori sedang-bagus. Pada stasiun I didapatkan persentase tutupan 44,4% atau dalam kategori sedang, pada stasiun II didapatkan persentase tutupan 59,33% dan stasiun III didapatkan persentase tutupan 59,04% yang masuk dalam kategori baik. Sedangkan pada kedalaman 9 meter didapatkan persentase tutupan dalam kategori buruk yaitu 13,93-20,20%. Kepadatan A. planci pada 3 stasiun penelitian yang masing masing dilakukan pengambilan data pada kedalaman 4 dan 9 meter semuanya masih dalam status populasi normal atau alami dengan kepadatan tertinggi yaitu 0,004 ind/m² sehingga belum memberikan ancaman yang berarti bagi ekosistem terumbu karang. Kepadatan A. planci pada masing masing stasiun penelitian juga tidak memperlihatkan perbedaan baik itu berdasarkan kedalaman maupun berdasarkan stasiun

PEMANFAATAN ABU LAYANG (FLY ASH) SEBAGAI ADSORBEN PADA MINYAK JELANTAH

A research on the conducted on the use of fly ash as an adsorbent in used cooking oil. This research was conducted with the aim to know the characteristics of fly ash without activation and activation with 6M HCl and to improve the quality of used cooking oil from adsorbent processing based on the Indonesian national standard (SNI). This research was conducted in several stages, namely surface acidity with the titration method, determination of surface area with the blue methylene method, determination of functional groups by FTIR analysis and oil quality based on parameters of acid number, peroxide number and smoke point. The results showed that the acidity of the surface of the fly ash was activated and without activation of 4 and 3.6 m2 / g respectively. surface area of ​​fly ash without activation 17,480 m2/g at contact time 80 and activated fly ash 18,471 m2/g at contact time 70. FTIR spectra of fly ash without activation 795,38 and 779.95 cm-1 and activated 795.38 and 778,02 cm-1 which is a symmetrical stretching adsorption band of symmetric ≡Si-O (≡Si-O-Si≡). Fly ash used for refining used cooking oil (2,468 mg KOH / g) is able to reduce the acid number 0.361 mg KOH / g in activated fly ash and 0.561 mg KOH / g for fly ash without activation, the peroxide number for activated fly ash decreased by 72.34% compared to fly ash without activation 69.14%, oil smoke point purification results from activated fly ash 203ºC and without activation 210ºC which is close to the new oil smoke point value of 200ºC. When compared with SNI, the values ​​of acid numbers, peroxide numbers and smoke points meet the standard

X-ray Temperature and Mass Measurements to the Virial Radius of Abell 1413 with Suzaku

We present X-ray observations of the northern outskirts of the relaxed galaxy cluster A1413 with Suzaku, whose XIS instrument has the low intrinsic background needed to make measurements of these low surface brightness regions. We excise 15 point sources superimposed on the image above a flux of $1\times 10^{-14}$ \fluxunit (2--10keV) using XMM-Newton and Suzaku images of the cluster. We quantify all known systematic errors as part of our analysis, and show our statistical errors encompasses them for the most part. Our results extend previous measurements with Chandra and XMM-Newton, and show a significant temperature drop to about 3keV at the virial radius, $r_{200}$. Our entropy profile in the outer region ($> 0.5 r_{200}$) joins smoothly onto that of XMM-Newton, and shows a flatter slope compared with simple models, similar to a few other clusters observed at the virial radius. The integrated mass of the cluster at the virial radius is approximately $7.5\times10^{14}M_{\odot}$ and varies by about 30% depending on the particular method used to measure it.Comment: 32pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in PAS

Neonatal mortality and education related inequality in cesarean births in Sub-Saharan Africa : multi-country propensity score matching and meta-analysis

Background: Sub-Saharan African (SSA) newborns are ten times more likely to die in the first month than a neonate born in a high-income country. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between educational attainment and neonatal mortality (NM) among women with cesarean section (CS) deliveries in SSA countries. Methods: Using data from recent demographic and health surveys from 33 countries in SSA, we applied propensity score matching to estimate the effect of education attainment on post-CS neonatal mortality using a propensity-matched cohort where being educated was defined as completing at least primary school education Results: The number of reported CS births ranged from 186 in Niger to 1695 in Kenya. The odds of neonatal mortality between uneducated and educated women ranged from as low as 2.31 in Senegal to 35.5 in Zimbabwe, with a pooled overall risk for NM from all of the countries of OR 2.54 (95% CI: 1.72–3.74) and aOR 1.7 (95% CI: 1.12–2.57). From the 17,220 respondents, we successfully matched 11,162 educated respondents with 2146 uneducated respondents. Uneducated women had a 6% risk compared to a 2.9% risk among educated women for neonatal mortality, with an overall risk of 3.4%; babies from uneducated women were twice as likely to die compared to babies from educated women, RR 2.1 (95% CI, 1.69–2.52). Conclusion: Neonates from uneducated women were twice as likely to die following CS delivery than neonates from educated women. This evidence suggests that a means of achieving Sustainable Development Goal target 3.2 to lower newborn and child mortality is ensuring that everyone has access to high-quality care with efforts made at ensuring education for all and improving socio-economic conditions

Searching for Diffuse Nonthermal X-Rays from the Superbubbles N11 and N51D in the Large Magellanic Cloud

We report on observations of the superbubbles (SBs) N11 and N51D in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with Suzaku and XMM-Newton. The interior of both SBs exhibits diffuse X-ray emission, which is well represented by thin thermal plasma models with a temperature of 0.2-0.3keV. The presence of nonthermal emission, claimed in previous works, is much less evident in our careful investigation. The 3-sigma upper limits of 2-10keV flux are 3.6*10^{-14}ergs/cm^2/s and 4.7*10^{-14}ergs/cm^2/s for N11 and N51D, respectively. The previous claims of the detection of nonthermal emission are probably due to the inaccurate estimation of the non X-ray background. We conclude that no credible nonthermal emission has been detected from the SBs in the LMC, with the exception of 30 Dor C.Comment: 9 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ

X-ray Spectroscopy of the Core of the Perseus Cluster with Suzaku: Elemental Abundances in the Intracluster Medium

The results from Suzaku observations of the central region of the Perseus cluster are presented. Deep exposures with the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer provide high quality X-ray spectra from the intracluster medium. X-ray lines from helium-like Cr and Mn have been detected significantly for the first time in clusters. In addition, elemental abundances of Ne, Mg, Si, S, Ar, Ca, Fe, and Ni are accurately measured within 10' (or 220 kpc) from the cluster center. The relative abundance ratios are found to be within a range of 0.8-1.5 times the solar value. These abundance ratios are compared with previous measurements, those in extremely metal-poor stars in the Galaxy, and theoretical models.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, accepted for ApJ

Effects of Organic Turmeric on Liver Integrity and Oxidative Stress of the Brain in Rabbits Exposed to Ultraviolet Radiation

This project investigated the effects of organic turmeric on the liver and oxidative stress of the brain in rabbit acutely exposed to ultraviolet radiation. Thirty five weaned rabbits between 8-10 weeks of age, randomly allocated to control (A) and five (5) treatments: B, C, D, E and F were used for this experiment. Treatment A: fed organic feed without turmeric inclusion and not radiated, Treatment B: fed diet supplemented with 2% turmeric as its constituents but not radiated, Treatment C: fed organic feed without turmeric inclusion before but after radiation, Treatment D: fed organic feed without turmeric inclusion before and after radiation. Treatment E: fed diet supplemented with 2% turmeric before but not after radiation. Treatment F: fed diet supplemented with 2% turmeric before and after radiation. There were significant (

X-ray observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029 to the virial radius

We present Suzaku observations of the galaxy cluster Abell 2029, which exploit Suzaku's low particle background to probe the ICM to radii beyond those possible with previous observations (reaching out to the virial radius), and with better azimuthal coverage. We find significant anisotropies in the temperature and entropy profiles, with a region of lower temperature and entropy occurring to the south east, possibly the result of accretion activity in this direction. Away from this cold feature, the thermodynamic properties are consistent with an entropy profile which rises, but less steeply than the predictions of purely gravitational hierarchical structure formation. Excess emission in the northern direction can be explained due to the overlap of the emission from the outskirts of Abell 2029 and nearby Abell 2033 (which is at slightly higher redshift). These observations suggest that the assumptions of spherical symmetry and hydrostatic equilibrium break down in the outskirts of galaxy clusters, which poses challenges for modelling cluster masses at large radii and presents opportunities for studying the formation and accretion history of clusters.Comment: 15 pages, 14 figures. Accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Societ