A Geographic Study on Level of Markets in Meiktila

The study area, Meiktila is situated in the southwestern part of Mandalay Region. Meiktila has good transport system with various regions of Myanmar. There are 9 markets in Meiktila. The main aim is to study the markets which serve as tertiary system in the study area. Normally the tertiary functions are consumer oriented and they need a certain number of consumers or the threshold population for their existence. They, therefore, used to locate in population centers or in areas with high accessibility. In this paper, the distribution of market is determined by using GIS based buffer analysis. As a result, distribution of these markets is a great difference with respect to their tributary area, size of their functions, transportation facilities, accessibility and location of market place. Therefore, it is needed to build better transport system to develop for levels of markets in the study area

Applying the Modified Delphi Method to Identify the Taiwanese Electronic Health Record Systems Evaluation Framework and Instrument

The aim of this research is to design an appropriate conceptual evaluation framework with a draft instrument for validating the structure of the Taiwanese EHR systems evaluation framework. According to the knowledge of “Triangulation research method” and both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the modified Delphi method was applied to refine the proposed instrument into practicable for real medical environment based on a quantitative approach. In addition, by calculating content validity index for items (I-CVI) and content validity index for scales (S-CVI), it also indicates the degree of consensus between and within questions in the proposed instrument. In short, an appropriate instrument for achieving its target was generated in this research

Influence of Surcharge Loading, Retained Soil and Restrained Soil on Design of Diaphragm Wall

Many different types of embedded retaining wall are constructed due to the increasing demands. In Yangon, Myanmar is encountered deep excavation problem. Many buildings are damaged due to excavation of adjacent building. Therefore, embedded retaining wall as excavation support system is necessary to be sustainable buildings. There are important that influence of surcharge loading, retained soil and restrained soil on design of embedded retaining wall.  In this paper, diaphragm Wall is emphasized and solved using soil structure interaction analysis. Behaviour of diaphragm Wall wall is based on various factors. Consider with natural and increasing of shear strength parameter of retained and restrained soils to get the level of the dredge line is stiff soil and various distances from wall to surcharge. Sites are located in urban setting, there are near building and separately from main structure. This project involves the construction of 5 m depth retaining wall. In case study (A) retained soils is soft, medium (low) clay, restrained soil is mostly cohesive soil. There are medium (low), stiff, medium, hard soil layers.  In case studies (B to H) are increasing shear strength parameter of retained soil and restrained soil. All cases are considered with various distances from wall to surcharge. According to the soil conditions and distance from wall to surcharge, Wall depth, horizontal and vertical movement of ground and wall deflection are described. When retained and restrained soil reach stiff condition, then ground movement and wall deflection reach acceptable limit and wall depth become more safe and economical condition

Stability analysis of a tall building with mat foundation over sandy soil with soil-structure interaction approach

This paper presents the stability analysis of a tall building with mat foundation founded on liquefaction susceptible soil during design earthquake. The stability of a structural foundation and structure itself is mainly depends on the bearing capacity of underlying soil during and after earthquake. Since modulus of subgrade reaction or stiffness of the soil is a conceptual relation between the soil pressure and deflection, it can be changed with fluctuation of net allowable bearing capacity of underlying soil. Bearing capacity of the soil can also be changed according with the value of liquefaction potential. The loss of spring stiffness occurred more or less depending on degree of liquefactions. Modification of localized spring stiffness of the foundation is carried out by numerical method. For a typical 2 unit 10 storey building, the stress states were chosen at a depth of 12 ft. It belongs to seismic zone 2A. ETABS software is used as a design aid for performance of numerical completion for the analysis of model. The focus of this paper is to study the influence of liquefaction potential on modifying spring stiffness of the soil under the building and potential failure modes of the building to be considered in soil structure interaction

Clinical Profile of Intermediate Syndrome in Organophosphate Poisoning

Organophosphate (OP) poisoning is a major global health problem, causing over 200,000 deaths annually especially in developing countries. In Poison Treatment Center, New Yangon General Hospital, Myanmar, OP poisoning accounts for 14% of total poison admission in 2013, 17% in 2014 and 10.3% in 2015 respectively

Evaluating the implementation of EMR systems from the perspective of health professionals

In health informatics, the updated DeLone and McLean IS success model is reviewed as a mature model in measuring health information system (HIS) success. This research provided an evaluation model to estimate the implementation of electronic medical records (EMR) systems from a health professional perspective by combined the updated DeLone and McLean IS success model, data quality management model, and EMR systems safety attributes. Based on evidence-based management (EBM), this research could be regarded as an empirical example for further EMR systems research since it not only provided a model to measure the Taiwanese EMR systems in two hospitals by implementing a structure instrument and structure equation modeling (SEM) of quantitative methods, but also introduced how to identify the possible effects in such evaluation research

Phylogenetic relationships among Callosciurus squirrels in the Indochina Peninsula: phylogenetic position of C. pygerythrus from Myanmar

The phylogenetic relationships among seven Callosciurus species from the Indochina Peninsula, including the C. honkhoaiensis which is endemic to Hon Khoai Island, were studied using complete mitochondrial cytochrome b gene sequences (1140 bases). We primarily focused on the phylogenetic position of C. pygerythrus, which is distributed in the western part of the peninsula. We identified two main lineages: 1) C. caniceps, C. honkhoaiensis, C. inornatus, C. phayrei and C. pygerythrus, and 2) C. erythraeus and C. finlaysonii. Estimated divergence time between the two lineages was at the junction of the Zanclean and Piacenzian in the Pliocene. Within the first linage, the divergence time of sub-lineages corresponded to the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, although phylogenetic relationships were unclear. These two divergence times estimated in the present study correspond to episodes of global cooling, suggesting that climate may have contributed to the divergence of these Callosciurus squirrels

Electronic health record system evaluation based on patient safety

After describing the general characteristics of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), we consider patient safety. We then proceed to discuss IS evaluation in general terms, followed by HIS system evaluation in particular. The D&M IS Success model, Technology Acceptance model and Task-Technology Fit model are considered as potential candidates for EHR System evaluation. Based upon a critical review of the available literature, we draw some conclusions about the appropriateness of current HIS/EHR evaluation approaches. Finally, we suggest that by incorporating patient safety attributes in any EHR System evaluation framework, then this could lead to improved accuracy, and in turn improved patient care

Classifying the Fields of Subjects Using Case-Based Reasoning

Today text classification is a necessity due the very large amount of text documents that we have to deal with daily. Text classification is a task of assigning a text document into classes. In this thesis, the system will be implemented to classify the fields of subjects using case-based reasoning. This system includes two phases, training phase and classification phase. In these two phases, the system will perform the preprocessing step such as tokenize the document into individual word, remove the stop words and stemming the words as their root words (features). In training phase, the system uses Term-frequency –Inverse Document Frequency (TF/IDF) method to calculate the weight of terms (words) in the document. This weight is statistical measure which is used to evaluate how important a word in a collected document. In classification phase, the system uses the K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm (K-NN) to classify the new document as the appropriate fields. K-NN algorithm will retrieve the similar case in the case base by applying Euclidean distance measure. Thus, the system will classify the new document as the appropriate fields based on the retrieve case