Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a non-communicable disease and is a severe chronic illness. Early detection of DM is one way to detect the possibility of someone getting DM. This application was made to determine the accuracy of the diagnosis of DM using backpropagation ANN. There are 11 risk factors used, namely gender, smoker or not, heredity, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol levels, HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein) levels, LDL (Low-Density Lipoprotein) levels, triglyceride levels, BMI (Body Mass Index), and HBA1c levels (Hemoglobin A1c). Risk factors are taken based on medical records of DM patients and data on healthy people. The training and testing of artificial neural networks showed promising results for the suitability of network output and desired targets with a correlation coefficient of 0.98043. The results of testing showed promising results for network output and target match desired with a correlation coefficient of 0.97894. ? 2021 Published u.....

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This study was aimed to develop a method for metal analysis in continuous integration using voltammetry techniques. The research subject was copper(II) ions. The objects of research were linearity, scan rate, repeatability of readings, and the presence of Cu(II) levels in well water samples. In this study, a selective electrode was developed with a solid membrane voltammetry system using differential pulse voltammetry measurement. The results showed the regression line of voltammetry method, y = 10.265 ln (x) + 330.47, with a correlation value of 0.9654, the optimum scan rate was 10 mV/s, and within five repetitions of each measurement for one electrode, it showed good repeatability. Meanwhile, the result of regression with the UV-Vis spectrophotometric method for Cu(II) was y = 0.12386x + 0.00879 with a correlation value of 0.9943. The voltammetry method was found to be much better than the UV-Vis method because it was able to be used for analysis up to a concentration of 6.35 ? 10-4 .....

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Postharvest fruits including tomatoes are commonly infected by gray mold disease resulting in significant economic losses in the fruit industry. Therefore, this study aimed to develop botanical fungicide derived from Vernonia amygdalina leaf extract to control gray mold on tomato. The emulsion formulation containing surfactant, oil carrier and water was optimized at different non-ionic alkyl polyglucoside surfactants through eleven combinations of oil to surfactant ratio (0:10, 1:9, 2:8, 3:7, 4:6, 5:5, 6:4, 7:3, 8:2, 9:1 and 10:0 w/w). From eight selected formulations, two formulations, F5 and F7 showed stable in storage, remarkable thermodynamic stability, smaller particle size (66.44 and 139.63 nm), highly stable in zeta potential (?32.70 and ?31.70 mV), low in polydispersity index (0.41 and 0.40 PdI), low in viscosity (4.20 and 4.37 cP) and low in surface tension (27.62 and 26.41 mN/m) as compared to other formulations. In situ antifungal activity on tomato fruits showed F5 formulat.....

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This research reveals the aesthetic observations of visual art sketches in towards of Early Childhood Education (ECCE). Through the approach of arts education can highlight the talents of selected teachers in learning activities to enhance their understanding. This approach involves the artistic aspects of the physical and cognitive movements of early childhood learning. This research focus to identify the distinctive of teachers engage with the basics of sketches techniques in the studies. Furthermore, the research intentions are to open up the conceptual aspects of the art approach in early childhood education towards the teaching essentials of teacher's professionalism. The research approach is qualitatively based on participant reflection according to the sketching approach. Provides explanations of the elements and principles of early childhood education and the basics of sketching techniques for teachers. Sampling with the purpose of three tasks acts as the basic acceptance of th.....

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This paper aims to develop a socioeconomic indicators to measure the wellbeing of the people in Lembah Klang-Langat Extended Metropolitan Region (EMR). A total of 400 respondents comprised heads of household in 15 settlement centres in Lembah Klang-Langat Extended Metropolitan Region (EMR) were selected as study sample. Quantitative approaches using SPSS and AMOS software were in this study. The data were analysed using factor analysis, namely exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The results showed that after EFA and CFA had been applied, only two sub-constructs of socioeconomic construct which were i) social, and ii) economy, and six items of B7_3, B7_4, B7_5, B7_7, B7_10 and B7_11 presented high validity values of CR exceeding 0.6. The analysis found that the measurement model met the measurement criteria for measuring suburban wellbeing. The study findings also showed that the similarity index value was equal to p=0.000, chi-square relative value.....

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This article aimed to design and develop Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) model and a questionnaire survey instrument for Malaysian schools using Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM) in the Design and Development Research (DDR). In Phase 1, literature on PLCs was reviewed to identify the needs of the professional learning communities? model according to the local context. In Phase 2, an agreement of 14 experts on the questionnaire was obtained from FDM. In Phase 3, the evaluation of the questionnaire by 5 experts to assess the questionnaire?s usability was gathered. Based on the final results, a total of 121 items was accepted. The agreement of the experts was between (90% to 100%) and the value of the threshold, d was between (0.09 ? 0.18). In conclusion, FDM in DDR is significant to be applied in the development of a model, practical and cost-saving. ? 2021. Kamarudin Ismail, Rosnah Ishak & Siti Hajar Kamaruddin; published by UIKTEN. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attr.....

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A newly distributed fault-tolerant mHealth framework-based Internet of things (IoT) is proposed in this study to resolve the essential problems of healthcare service provision during the occurrence of frequent failures in a telemedicine architecture. Two models are presented to support the telehealth development of chronic heart disease (CHD) in a distant environment. In model-1, a new local multisensor fusion triage algorithm known as three-level localisation triage (3LLT) is proposed. In 3LLT, a group of heterogeneous sources is applied to triage patients as a clinical process, and the emergency levels inside/outside the home of a patient with CHD are determined. Failures related to sensor fusion can also be detected. In model-2, a centralised IoT connection towards distributed smart hospitals is employed by mHealth based on two attributes: (1) healthcare service packages and (2) time of arrival of a patient at a hospital. Three decision matrices have been used to overcome several is.....

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Green skills need to be developed in vocational education for sustainable future. However, the vocational high school curriculum of agricultural food processing technology in Indonesia does not explicitly state the development of green skills. Teaching materials, such as module are needed to develop vocational students? green skills. This study aimed to develop green skills module for meat processing technology at vocational high schools. Development of this module used the analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation (ADDIE) model. The contents for a green skills module were developed based on a need analysis for the elements of green skills that must be developed in vocational high schools, curriculum and a literature review analysis related to sustainability in meat processing technology. The module was designed using a scientific approach to strengthen active student learning as per the 2013 curriculum policy for vocational high schools in Indonesia. The developed .....

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Overexpression of a number of industrially- and medically-important proteins is always a challenge for most researchers as genes from bacterial hosts especially from the opportunistic pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, as well as from other Pseudomonads were reported to be poorly expressed in E. coli. Examples continue to be published demonstrating that certain Pseudomonas proteins cannot be expressed at satisfactory levels in E. coli owing to their promoter variations, absence of specific molecular activators and poor protein translation. Nevertheless, the extension of E. coli-based technology to Pseudomonas can be used to overcome such barriers. In this chapter, the evolution and modification of genetic tools ranging from types of promoters, elements for interspecies transfer, origins of replications, regulatory genes, genes facilitating in genome integration and host strains, used in the construction of Escherichia-Pseudomonas shuttle expression vectors will be explored and discussed.....

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The objective of this paper is to analyze the development of an effective internal Shariah audit framework for Islamic banks in Bahrain using Islamic agency theory. The questionnaire method and Islamic agency theory were used to examine the independence and effectiveness of internal Shariah audits. The insights from the study are gained through the Islamic agency theory, which has a direct relationship with the degrees of independence and effectiveness. The findings indicate that a well-founded Islamic agency theory could potentially be used as the theoretical foundation in building a conceptual, multifaceted framework. This research fills a gap in terms of the level of development for an effective internal Shariah audit framework in Islamic banks using Islamic agency theory. ? 2021 AESS Publications...

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