The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has significantly impacted peoples lives worldwide, particularly in terms of mental health and wellbeing. The implementation of frequent and restrictive movement control orders has resulted in prolonged online learning for university students. However, limited research has been conducted to test practical interventions aimed at alleviating the negative impact on the mental wellbeing of university students during the pandemic. This mixed-method research study aimed to investigate the usability of e-writing therapy as an intervention tool to improve the mental wellbeing of 40 university students in a public Malaysian higher education institution. A one-group pretest-posttest design was employed, and a mental wellbeing questionnaire based on the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), and the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) was administered to the participants before and after the intervent.....

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(80-x)B2O3-xTeO2-10Li2O-Al2O3 (x=10-60 mol%) mixed glass former (MGF) glasses were prepared by using melt-quenching method to investigate the effect of mixed glass former between B2O3 and TeO2 on the optical properties and to evaluate the radiation shielding ability of the glass. Extremes observed at x=40 mol% for all optical properties parameters were suggested due to large number of non-bridging oxygen. The radiation shielding properties of the glass samples were determined for 0.284 MeV1.333 MeV energy range by using Phy-X/PSD software. The studied radiation parameters have shown enhancement due to high density and high atomic number, Z of Te over B. 2023, S.C. Virtual Company of Phisics S.R.L. All rights reserved...

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Semarang City Coastal Plain is an alluvial plain with groundwater conditions that have a salty, slightly brackish, or brackish taste, and some are fresh. The limited availability of fresh water on alluvial plains is caused by several factors, including the influence of seawater on coastal aquifers. There is connate water or water trapped in the clay layer will affect the quality of groundwater to be brackish or salty. Connate water is water trapped in the cavities of sedimentary rocks, since the deposition occurred. The process is caused by seawater entering the land, or seawater that is trapped during the sedimentation process. The results of the study using the hydro stratigraphic estimation method showed that there were several distributions of salt water that were trapped or trapped in the cavities of sedimentary rocks along the coastal plain of Semarang city. The trapped salt water can be predicted to be caused by the phenomenon of connate water. Based on map data, it is shown tha.....

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This study aims to describe the use of virtual digital engineering laboratories to raise student proficiency in vocational high schools (VHS). Virtual reality technology was used in virtual laboratories to improve students learning experiences. This study's methodology was quantitative. Using virtual digital engineering laboratories, student work was compared before and after to evaluate whether there had been an improvement in their level of competency. Each school's average student grade improved when compared to before adopting a virtual digital engineering laboratory. The findings of this study showed an improvement in the scores at each of the three schools where data was gathered. With a total of 15 students, State VHS 2 Yogyakarta saw a rise in scores from 2.56 to 6.37, and the number of students with scores above 70 increased from 0 to 11 at first. In contrast, State VHS 2 Depok, which had 32 students, had an increase in scores from 5.26 to 8.01 and a jump from 7 to 28 in the p.....

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Teaching Aids using the Word Wall website have their differences in that teaching aid can provide fun learning to students. Nowadays, learning using ICT and technology is a learning that needs to be taken seriously so that education in Malaysia is comparable to that of education in other developed countries. The purpose of this study was to develop a teaching aid for students with learning difficulties in Basic Cooking subjects. Basic Cooking Subject is a Vocational Skills Basic Document according to the Standard Curriculum of Sekolah Menengah Pendidikan Khas (KSSMPK) implemented at SMK Telok Gadong, Klang, Selangor. The development of Easy Match was developed to overcome the problems faced by students with special needs, especially for students with learning difficulties. This study used a qualitative study design using interview instruments by selecting three experts as respondents. As a result of the interview, it is analyzed using the content analysis method. The data findings show.....

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The development of conductive polyaniline (PANI) membrane doped with copper(II) oxide (CuO) by means of the photopolymerization method has been successfully carried out. The photocurable PANI polymeric material was synthesized by mixing 0.011 g of aniline monomer with 0.016 g of ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) crosslinker, 0.021 g of dimethoxy phenylacetophenone (DMPP) photoinitiator and 0.026 g of CuO dopant. The electrical conductivity analysis showed that the as-synthesized CuO-doped PANI (PANI/CuO) film possessed an optimum electrical conductivity value of 39.8110-3 S cm-1 at the dopant loading of 0.011 g CuO. Chemical elucidation by using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) revealed that the PANI/CuO conducting material with several main functional groups e.g., N-H, C-H, C-N, C=C, C=N, C-O and C=O chemical bonds were identified. Meanwhile, optical characterization of the resulting PANI/CuO membrane by using UVvis diffuse reflectance spectrophotometer (DR/UV-vis) .....

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Preeclampsia is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality, which is a serious problem during pregnancy, which is further complicated by issues related to pathophysiology and etiology. The focus of this research is on the early detection of preeclampsia by using machine learning with multiple algorithms. Specifically, the aim of this study is to identify the causes of preeclampsia. A total of 21 articles were obtained from four scientific databases, namely ScienceDirect, Scopus, IEEE, and PubMed, which were published between 2018 and 2022, using several keywords such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Prediction, and Preeclampsia. The method of the review adhered to the principles outlined in a guideline published by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (PRISMA). The systematic review of these articles was focused on the accuracy of prediction of preeclampsia using machine learning. The results showed machine learning was the most popular me.....

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Fake news and disinformation (FNaD) are increasingly being circulated through various online and social networking platforms, causing widespread disruptions and influencing decision-making perceptions. Despite the growing importance of detecting fake news in politics, relatively limited research efforts have been made to develop artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) oriented FNaD detection models suited to minimize supply chain disruptions (SCDs). Using a combination of AI and ML, and case studies based on data collected from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Pakistan, we developed a FNaD detection model aimed at preventing SCDs. This model based on multiple data sources has shown evidence of its effectiveness in managerial decision-making. Our study further contributes to the supply chain and AI-ML literature, provides practical insights, and points to future research directions. 2022, The Author(s)...

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When COVID-19 spread in China in December 2019, thousands of studies have focused on this pandemic. Each presents a unique perspective that reflects the pandemics main scientific disciplines. For example, social scientists are concerned with reducing the psychological impact on the human mental state especially during lockdown periods. Computer scientists focus on establishing fast and accurate computerized tools to assist in diagnosing, preventing, and recovering from the disease. Medical scientists and doctors, or the frontliners, are the main heroes who received, treated, and worked with the millions of cases at the expense of their own health. Some of them have continued to work even at the expense of their lives. All these studies enforce the multidisciplinary work where scientists from different academic disciplines (social, environmental, technological, etc.) join forces to produce research for beneficial outcomes during the crisis. One of the many branches is computer science a.....

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