Self and belonging in movement

Christine Yeh writes about displacement and new identities created through movement in There There by Tommy Orange

Morfometry Diversity of Uceng Fish (Nemacheilus fasciatus) With Truss Method In Downstream of Yeh Sungi River

This study aims to determine the morphometric diversity of uceng fish that live in the downstream of the yeh sungi river and the environmental influence on the morphometry of the uceng fish that lives in the lower reaches of the yeh sungi river. This research was carried out in the Lower Sections of the Yeh Sungi River, Kediri District, Tabanan Regency, Bali Province. This research began on January 3 to April 17, 2019. The research method used was descriptive observation method by holding a series of sampling objects under study or data objects directly at the research location, in this study the intended data objects were uceng fish and types other fish caught as well as water quality. Uceng fish was measured by the truss method and the characters observed were 13 characters, namely A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5. The results of the study showed that the morphometry characters of Uceng fish (Nemacheilus fasciatus) that live in the lower reaches of the Yeh Sungi river were 13 characters observed at the Stasion I, Station II, and Station III, from the characters observed 5 characters had similarities (38.46% ) that is on the characters A1, B1, B2, B4, and B5, while 8 characters have differences (61.54%), namely the characters A2, A3, B3, C1, C2, C3, C4, and C5. The high difference shows that uceng fish in the downstream of the Yeh Sungi river are resistant to environmental changes, other fish caught include broom fish, beboso fish, wader fish, catfish, gouramy fish, klepek batu, and cork fish and range water quality parameters during the study were temperature 25 0C, pH 5-7, DO 6 ppm, NO3 - 0.5 mg / l, and KH 6-10 dH

Using media to improve the informed consent process for youth undergoing pediatric endoscopy and their parents.

Background and study aims Youth undergoing pediatric endoscopic procedures and their parents demonstrate suboptimal comprehension of the informed consent (IC) process. We developed informational videos discussing key IC elements for pediatric endoscopy and evaluated their effects on youth and parental comprehension of the IC process. Patients and methods A randomized controlled trial of the video intervention was performed among youth undergoing endoscopy and their parents at an academic children's hospital. Randomization occurred at the time of enrollment using permutated blocks. Following the IC process with the proceduralist, subjects underwent structured interviews to assess IC comprehension. An Informed Consent Overall Score (ICOS: range 0 - 4) for comprehension was calculated. Results Seventy-seven pairs of children and their parents participated. Intervention recipients (N = 37 pairs) demonstrated higher ICOS scores as compared to control counterparts (mean (standard deviation): 3.6 (0.7) v. 2.9 (0.9), intervention v. control parents, P < 0.0001 and 2.7 (1.1) v. 1.7 (1.1), intervention v. control youth, P < 0.0001). Conclusions A media intervention addressing key elements of the IC process for pediatric endoscopy was effective in improving comprehension of IC for youth undergoing endoscopic procedures and their parents

Optical surface waves in periodic layered medium grown by liquid phase epitaxy

Optical surface waves propagating along the surface of a multilayer stack have been observed. The multilayer stack is grown by liquid phase epitaxy. The transverse intensity distribution measured is found to agree with our theoretical calculation

Observation of confined propagation in Bragg waveguides

A new type of waveguiding in a slab dielectric bounded on one side by air and on the other by a periodic layered medium (grown by molecular beam epitaxy) has been demonstrated