Isogeometric analysis for functionally graded microplates based on modified couple stress theory

Analysis of static bending, free vibration and buckling behaviours of functionally graded microplates is investigated in this study. The main idea is to use the isogeometric analysis in associated with novel four-variable refined plate theory and quasi-3D theory. More importantly, the modified couple stress theory with only one material length scale parameter is employed to effectively capture the size-dependent effects within the microplates. Meanwhile, the quasi-3D theory which is constructed from a novel seventh-order shear deformation refined plate theory with four unknowns is able to consider both shear deformations and thickness stretching effect without requiring shear correction factors. The NURBS-based isogeometric analysis is integrated to exactly describe the geometry and approximately calculate the unknown fields with higher-order derivative and continuity requirements. The convergence and verification show the validity and efficiency of this proposed computational approach in comparison with those existing in the literature. It is further applied to study the static bending, free vibration and buckling responses of rectangular and circular functionally graded microplates with various types of boundary conditions. A number of investigations are also conducted to illustrate the effects of the material length scale, material index, and length-to-thickness ratios on the responses of the microplates.Comment: 57 pages, 14 figures, 18 table

Pengembangan Berpikir Kritis dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Menggunakan Project Citizen

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kebutuhan untuk mengembangkan kemampuan berpikir kritis dengan pembelajaran yang lebih inovatif yaitu menggunakan project citizen. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan di Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana Salatiga dengan subjek penelitian mahasiswa. Data diambil melalui studi dokumentasi, angket, tes, observasi, dan wawancara. Pengolahan data dilakukan dengan statistik dan didukung teori-teori tentang berpikir kritis seperti teori mengenai sikap positif untuk berpikir kritis dari John Langrehr (2006), kemampuan berpikir kritis dari CCEI (2004), karakter berpikir kritis dari Moore and Parker (2009) dan teori-teori yang berkaitan dengan project citizen seperti teori mengenai research-oriented learning dan inquiry learning. Penelitian dilakukan dengan metode quasi eksperimen untuk uji beda antara kelas yang menggunakan project citizen dan kelas konvensional. Untuk pengembangan digunakan desain eksperimental dengan menambah pemahaman mengenai berpikir kritis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengembangan berpikir kritis menggunakan project citizen yang didahului dengan pemahaman tentang berpikir kritis akan lebih maksimal

Mekanisme Ketahanan Terinduksi Oleh Plant Growth Promotting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) Pada Tanaman Cabai Terinfeksi Cucumber Mosaik Virus (CMV)

. Taufik, M., A. Rahman, A. Wahab, and S.H. Hidayat. 2010. Induced Resistant Mechanism byPlant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) on Pepper Plants Infected By Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV).Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria can suppress disease intensity through systematical induction resistance or yieldhormone of growth regulator. The purpose of this research was to determine the mechanism of induced resistance CMVinfected chilli plants by measureing accumulate salicylated acid (SA), peroxidase (reverse transcriptase-polymerasechain reaction) (RT-PCR) and banding patterns of plant protein. The results showed that the application of PGPR canreduce of disease incidence pepper plants that was infected by CMV. Application PGPR can significantly improveplant growth and reduce the occurence of CMV infection symptoms. Mixture of isolates PG 01 and BG 25 gave betterresponse of plant growth compared to other treatments. The occurence of the disease on infected chilli plants treatedwith isolates mixture of PG 01 and BG 25, and single isolate of BG 25 was 8.33%, while the application of singleisolate of PG 01 caused the desease intensity up to 16.67%. The accumulation of salicylates acid and peroxydasewas higher in the chilli plants applied by PGPR. The technique of RT-PCR was able to detect CMV using spesificprimers. No difference of total protein band patterns between tested plants and control

An analysis of safety perception in the street of Kuala Lumpur

Urban safety is an important focus area of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and New Urban Agenda (NUA) were developed. Safe City Programme were introduced in Malaysia in 2004 in parallel with DG 11 that aiming on making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable for the citizens. Safe street contributes to a better quality of life and have been identified as important factor in contributing to a walkable and sustainable city. A safe, vibrant life initiate an active public realm where streets re seen as urban spaces. Pedestrian are encourage to walk when the environment is safe and accessible. Safety perception is the main focus of this research where case study approach is adopted. A mixed method was designed in order to fully evaluate and assess the phenomenon. 150 questionnaires were distributed randomly among pedestrian at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur and structured observation were performed. Triangulation of both statistical and thematic analysis were conducted and findings from this study revealed that both physical and social elements does contribute to safety perception. Findings demonstrate that as far as sustainable city is concerned, all aspect are crucial and need to be addressed. The aim of this paper is to assess the characteristic of a street in contributing to safety perception

MP-4 Study of Parasitic Diseases - Goat's Digestive Zoonoses In Gorontalo District

The purpose of this study is to study the parasitic-zoonotic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in goats in Gorontalo District. The results of this study in the long term are expected to contribute to the Gorontalo regional government in the development of the livestock sector, especially in terms of handling diseases in goats and anticipating the presence of goats

Application of region growing segmentation method for mangrove zonation at Pulau Kukup, Johor

The anticipated impact of Sea Level Rise (SLR) for the next century has been studied for the past long years. Prolonged submergence and changes in tidal inundation frequency changed the intertidal community landscape including the mangroves zonation pattern. This study aims to identify the mangrove species distribution at Pulau Kukup, Johor using a high resolution, Worldview-2 satellite data. Mangrove extent was extracted from multispectral and panchromatic images using region growing segmentation method. Several thresholds were used to identify the best-fit segmentation parameters. Eleven plots of 100m transects were established in the study area to sample the representative mangrove trees. The type of mangrove species, tree height, Diameter at the Breast Height (DBH), elevation, coordinate location and the sediment sample were collected during the field survey based on Point-Centre-Quadrate Method (PCQM). The general characteristics of mangrove tree were investigated and sampled from 186 mangrove trees. Rhizophoraapiculata and R.mucronata were found dominating the outer part of the mangrove island facing the seaward area. From the field analyses, the relative density of Rhizophoraapiculata and R.mucronataare 41.9% and 16.7% respectively. The mangrove characteristic and coordinate locations were then mapped out and used as a reference point for training processes. The image classification is determined based on Bhattacharyya method and the mangrove zonation pattern was mapped from the result

Mycobacterial CYP121 as a target for anti-TB drug discovery

Despite the introduction of the first line treatment regimen forty years ago and the continuous trials since that time to introduce new regimens, tuberculosis (TB) is considered to be the cause of considerable mortality worldwide. Recent research highlighted the Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)CYP450s as potential drug targets. This article reviews mycobacterial CYP121 as a target for anti-TB drug discovery

Subclinical hypothyroidism among Egyptian children with systemic lupus erythematosus

Background: Thyroid autoimmune diseases have been associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism are seen, but hypothyroidism is the most common abnormality. Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) has been reported among adult lupus patients. SCH is not without risk as it might contribute to a proatherogenic state. Objectives: This study was aimed to assess the frequency of SCH in a group of Egyptian children with SLE and its effects on the serum lipids. Methods: Forty patients with pediatric SLE who regularly follow up at our center were enrolled in this study. They were subjected to routine laboratory investigations of SLE and measurement of serum lipids (serum triglycerides, cholesterol, LDL and HDL) as well as free thyroxine (T4), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and anti-thyroperoxidase antibody (anti-TPO-ab) titre. SLE activity was assessed using the systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index (SLEDAI). Results: Six patients (15%) were found to have SCH while the remaining 34 patients (85%) had normal thyroid function. Anti-TPO-abs were positive in 4 out of the 6 (66.6 %) SLE patients with SCH and in 20 out of the 34 (58.8%) SLE patients with normal thyroid function. In SLE patients with SCH, TSH correlated positively yet insignificantly with anti-TPO-ab titre and the duration of SLE (p = 0.17, p = 0.12, respectively). There were no statistically significant correlations between the serum lipids of SLE patients with SCH and their thyroid function or anti-TPO-ab titre. Conclusion: SCH is not uncommon among children with SLE. This SCH does not seem to affect serum lipids. However, further longitudinal studies on wider scales are needed to assess the long term effects of SCH in those patients.Keywords: SLE, anti-thyroperoxidase antibodies, subclinical hypothyroidismEgypt J Pediatr Allergy Immunol 2011;9(2):87-9

IMECE2005-82906 CORROSION PREVENTION COMPOUNDS ON THE FATIGUE LIFE OF 2024-T3 ALUMINUM ALLOY

ABSTRACT Corrosion-Prevention-Compounds (CPC) are commonly used to prevent corrosion in the aircraft industry. The presence of corrosive environment on aircraft structures has detrimental effects on the aircraft components which reduces the fatigue life and may also accelerate the crack growth rate in the structures. This is an experimental study on 2024-T3 aluminum alloy to investigate the effect of fatigue crack growth (life from threshold crack growth to final failure) using CPC on fatigue life. The corrosion fatigue with the presence of water-vapor reduces the total fatigue life. The fatigue life with the CPC treatment is shown to increase the fatigue life due to the protection from the corrosive environment containing water-vapor. Test results are obtained for various stress ratios and frequencies with and without the CPC treatment under constant amplitude fatigue loading in water vapor. The second aspect of this work is to investigate the effect of periodic overloads and the limitation in their spacing cycles on the fatigue life under constant amplitude fatigue loading. The results confirm the earlier work that the fatigue life increases due to the periodic overloads in 2024-T3 aluminum alloy. The interactions between overloads that are controlled by the spacing cycles between overloads are also examined. From scanning electron microscopic work the transition from the ductile to brittle mode is observed clearly in this experimental work