The effect of thermal to the diameter of Nd : YAG crystal during growth process

The Nd:YAG crystal grown in a pure argon atmosphere using Czochralski method with ADC (Automatic Diameter Control) r.f. heating is reported.The conditions required to grow Nd:YAG single crystals are described. The pull rate was 0.75 mm/h with a seed rotation of 15 rpm. All runs were made with growth along the c-axis direction

DILEMMA BETWEEN THE USE OF AUGMENTED REALITY AND THE INFLUENCE OF WORK IN LEARNING

Abstract This article aims to analyze the problems that often arise in society regarding the use of Augmented Reality technology and gadgets. The problem is the feeling of dilemma when using gadgets as learning media to activate the Augmented Reality feature as a new innovation in learning. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The data is taken from the relevant literacy and then described and analyzed related to the contents of the use of Augmented Reality technology and the use of gadgets in learning. The results obtained are positive and negative impacts caused by the use of gadgets and the application of Augmented Reality in learning. Therefore, if humans can think broadly and futuristic and are aware of the changing times, it is hoped that humans can blend in and interact with technology. So that it can eliminate or minimize negative impacts and can benefit from positive impacts. For this reason, it is necessary to have an awareness, commitment, and certain regulations in the use of gadgets and Augmented Reality. Keywords: Device, Augmented Reality, Learning, Dilemma. Abstrak Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis permasalahan yang kerap timbul di masyarakat terkait penggunaan teknologi Augmented Reality dan gawai. Permasalahan tersebut ialah perasaan dilema saat menggunakan gawai sebagai media pembelajaran untuk mengaktifkan fitur Augmented Reality sebagai inovasi baru dalam pebelajaran. Metode yang dipakai ialah kualitatif deskriptif. Data diambil dari literasi yang relevan kemudian di deskripsi dan dianalisis terkait isi tentang pemanfaatan teknologi Augmented Reality dan penggunaan gawai dalam pembelajaran. Hasil yang diperoleh ialah adanya dampak positif sekaligus negatif yang ditimbulkan dalam penggunaan gawai dan penerapan Augmented Reality dalam pembelajran. Oleh karena itu, bila manusia dapat berfikir secara luas dan futuristik serta menyadari terhadap perubahan jaman maka diharapkan manusia dapat berbaur dan berinteraksi dengan teknologi. Sehingga dapat menghilangkan atau meminimalisir dampak negatif dan dapat meraih manfaat dari dampak positif. Untuk itu perlu adanya suatu kesadaran, komitmen, dan peraturantertentu dalam pemanfaatan gawai dan Augmented Reality. Kata Kunci: Gawai, Augmented Reality, Pembelajaran, Dilema

Perancangan Kinerja Kepala Sekolah Menengah Atas dalam Perspektif Balanced Scorecard (BSC) Menggunakan Analytical Network Process (ANP) (Studi Kasus : SMA ABC Jakarta)

Education in the sense of schooling is now leading to the process of industrialization. The world of education can no longer be considered as a social institution only but must be treated industrially, which is treated or managed professionally. Due to the increasingly fierce world of competition today, if educational institutions are not managed professionally, then the customer will leave educational institutions if they are poorly managed. In various case studies, the Balanced Scorecard has provided many benefits to the development of education management, especially SMA ABC Jakarta does not yet have a performance measurement based on the Balanced Scorecard method. In the Balanced Scorecard method, the measurement is based on four perspectives, namely, financial, customer, internal business processes, and growth and learning perspectives. Therefore, a good performance design needs to be done to realize the vision of this ABC Jakarta High School. So, a performance design was carried out for the Principal of SMA ABC Jakarta using the perspective of the Balanced Scorecard method. Then, the weighting and prioritization of each KPI are carried out using the Analytical Network Process with the help of Super Desicion software. The results of this study are in the form of a Scorecard List, and there are 13 Principal KPIs from each perspective, namely 1 KPI from a Financial perspective, 9 KPIs from an Operational perspective, 2 KPIs from a Customer perspective, and 1 KPI from an HR perspective. Then, for the priority results of this KPI, it is found in the operational perspective, precisely on the KPI for the Implementation of Supervision of the Learning Process by Schools or O9 with a weight of 0.1992 or in the percentage of 20%, this indicates that the Implementation of Supervision of the Learning Process by Schools is the most important thing. compared to other KPIs.Keywords - Analytical network process, Balanced scorecard, Perancangan kinerja, Software super decision

Focused Sonography in Cardiac Arrest

Cardiac arrest (CA) is a high mortality event where the ability for clinicians to diagnose etiology and assess for intervention has a direct impact on patient outcomes. Bedside ultrasound (US) has emerged in current literature as a clinical tool to aid clinicians in CA resuscitation, though it remains underutilized. Reversible etiologies that can be efficiently diagnosed with US include tension pneumothorax, hypovolemia, pulmonary embolus with acute cor pulmonale, and cardiac tamponade. Other US findings may provide evidence in regard to prognosis. In this review, we present major applications of US in CA, compare existing protocols, and propose future research needs

Rhinosporidiosis presenting as an urethral polyp

Rhinosporidiosis is an inflammatory disease caused by Rhinosporidium seeberi, a protoctistan mesomycetozoa, member of a group of novel aquatic parasites, characterized by hyperplastic polypoid lesions of the nasal cavity and rarely other mucous membranes. We report an unusual presentation of rhinosporidiosis as an urethral polyp, which is only the second case of rhinosporidiosis reported from Pakistan

Peningkatan Motivasi dan Hasil Belajar pada Materi Puasa melalui Teknik Pisang Cabe pada Siswa Kelas V SDN Delegan 2 Prambanan Tahun Ajaran 2017/2018

This research aims to determine the application of cooperative learning of Pisang Cabe technique in improving motivation and results of material learning fasting students class V Elementary School Delegan 2 Prambanan year 2017/2018. This research is a class action research (PTK). Data collection techniques using participatory observation, questionnaire (poll), tests, and documentation. The results showed that the student's motivation increased on the I cycle of 60.57% increase in cycle II by 83.3%.  The results of the study in the I cycle reached an average of 78.4 with the highest value of 95 and the lowest value of 60, with a proof of a proof of 76%, increased in the cycle II by an average of 87.2, with the highest value of 100 and the lowest 75 with a proof of proof of 100%. The results of this study showed that application of Pisang Cabe technique (Think with Spouse, Find and Share) is effective in improving motivation and learning outcomes of students on fasting material

Relationship between mathematical thinking, mathematics anxiety and mathematics attitudes among university students

This study investigates the relationships between mathematics anxiety, attitudes toward mathematics and mathematical thinking among university students. A 60-item questionnaire included mathematical thinking rating scale, mathematics anxiety rating scale and mathematics attitudes rating scale completed by 203 university students from the Faculty of Science, Engineering, Food Science, and Human Ecology in one of the public university in Malaysia. The correlation analysis was used to establish relationship between mathematical thinking, mathematics attitude, and mathematics anxiety and independent t-test was used to investigate differences between the two gender groups and two race groups on their mathematics anxiety, attitudes toward mathematics and mathematical thinking. The results indicated that a significant high positive correlation exists between mathematical thinking and mathematics attitude (r=.856, p<0.05). Also there was negative moderate correlation between mathematical thinking and mathematics anxiety (r=.-576, p<0.05). There was also negative correlation between mathematics anxiety and mathematics attitude (r=.509, p<0.05). In conclusion, these findings indicated that level of mathematics anxiety is related to mathematical thinking and mathematics attitude. On the other hand, students' backgrounds in terms of their majors have no effect on the three constructs

Phytochemical analysis, antimicrobial, antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory activities of ethanolic extract of Centaurea solstitialis L. and its different fractions

396-403Resistance to conventional antimicrobial regimes is one of the issues of concern in healthcare and it drives the need for development of new antimicrobial agents. Medicinal plants, as rich source of biochemical and bioactive compounds, serve as potential source for new drugs. Here, we evaluated the ethanolic extract of Centaurea solstitialis L. and its different fractions (n-hexane, choloroform and n-butanol soluble fraction) for antimicrobial, antioxidant and enzymes inhibitory activities. Antibacterial activity against two Gram-positive and three Gram-negative bacteria species were determined by using agar well diffusion and 96-wells microplate methods. Similarly, antifungal activity against two fungal strains was also evaluated by agar well diffusion method. Antioxidant activity analyzed by measuring the scavenging activity of DPPH radicals and acetylcholinesterase, butrylcholinesterase and chymotrypsin inhibitory activity was determined at 10 µg/mL and 1.0 mg/mL concentrations. Results revealed that the ethanolic extract of C. solstitialis and its different fractions possesses significant (P<0.05) antibacterial activity and effective against fungi Aspergillus niger and Macrophomina phaseolina. Significant (P<0.05) DPPH scavenging activity (88.52±0.23%) among all fractions was noted. n-Butanol fraction showed significant acetyl-cholinesterase (78.55±0.76%) and butrylcholinesterase inhibitory activity (78.1±0.41%) with IC50 values of 54.6±0.39 µg/mL and 211.9±0.15 µg/mL, respectively. Maximum chymotrypsin inhibition activity was shown by crude ethanolic extract (87.76±1.17) with IC50 value of 38.23±0.75 µg/mL. It is concluded that C. solstitialis extract and its fractions possess significant antimicrobial, antioxidant and enzyme inhibitory activity

Task Decomposition and Synchronization for Semantic Biomedical Image Segmentation

Semantic segmentation is essentially important to biomedical image analysis. Many recent works mainly focus on integrating the Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) architecture with sophisticated convolution implementation and deep supervision. In this paper, we propose to decompose the single segmentation task into three subsequent sub-tasks, including (1) pixel-wise image segmentation, (2) prediction of the class labels of the objects within the image, and (3) classification of the scene the image belonging to. While these three sub-tasks are trained to optimize their individual loss functions of different perceptual levels, we propose to let them interact by the task-task context ensemble. Moreover, we propose a novel sync-regularization to penalize the deviation between the outputs of the pixel-wise segmentation and the class prediction tasks. These effective regularizations help FCN utilize context information comprehensively and attain accurate semantic segmentation, even though the number of the images for training may be limited in many biomedical applications. We have successfully applied our framework to three diverse 2D/3D medical image datasets, including Robotic Scene Segmentation Challenge 18 (ROBOT18), Brain Tumor Segmentation Challenge 18 (BRATS18), and Retinal Fundus Glaucoma Challenge (REFUGE18). We have achieved top-tier performance in all three challenges.Comment: IEEE Transactions on Medical Imagin

The Role of Genetic, Dietary and Lifestyle Factors in Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome: A Review of the Literature from Prenatal to Adolescence

The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is described as a cluster of health conditions that are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The clinical diagnosis of MetS in pediatrics is challenging due to differing criteria, although the estimated prevalence continues to rise. The increased prevalence of childhood obesity and insulin resistance, in both developed and developing countries, is believed to be a major contributor to MetS diagnosis in children. We review the current literature surrounding genetic predisposition, maternal influence, epigenetics, environmental and lifestyle factors pertaining to pediatric MetS with a specific emphasis on obesity and insulin resistance. We highlight and discuss recent, key studies in prenatal through to adolescent populations and review evidence suggesting that children may be pre-disposed to obesity and insulin resistance, prenatally. We also discuss several key lifestyle drivers of these conditions including poor nutrition and dietary habits, insufficient physical activity, use of electronic devices, over-consumption of caffeinated and/or sugar-sweetened beverages, as well as the importance of sleep during childhood and adolescence in relation to metabolic health. We conclude with recommendations for preventable methods to tackle this growing pediatric public health issue, which, if current trends continue, will undoubtedly compromise the health and longevity of the next adult generation.