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Identification of Potential Drug Interaction with Complementary and Alternative Medicines among Chronic Disease Outpatients

10.11591/ijphs.v7i1.11438
Nurul Maziyyah , Apri Nurdianto , Arsitania Kun Fajria
Chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure (CHF) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are related with multiple drug prescription which can lead to drug interaction. The high usage of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in Indonesians can also increase the risk for drug interaction. The objective of this study is to describe CAMs use and identify potential drug interaction with CAMs in CHF and CKD outpatients. The study is a cross sectional study. Data of prescribed drugs and CAMs consumed by the patients was collected by using medication reconciliation process. Data of routine CAMs and prescribed medicines were compared to identify potential drug interactions which were then classified based on their mechanism and significance. The result showed that 6,90 % of CHF patients and 25 % of CKD patients consumed CAMs. Potential drug interaction between the CAMs and the prescribed drugs was identified in 2.74% of patients consuming CAMs. Based on the mechanism, interaction was dominated by pharmacodynamics interaction (69.2%) while interaction significancy was various. It can be concluded that CAMs usage was more familiar in CKD patients compared to CHF patients. Potential drug interaction with CAMs was able to be identified through medication reconciliation process and should be taken into awareness by the healthcare team.
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Page: 59-64
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Train Obstacle Detection System Using Avr Microcontroller and SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor

10.11591/ijeecs.v9.i3.pp650-654
A.A. Aziz , W.R.W. Ahmad
In Malaysia, railway is considered as the backbone of transport, connecting people from all across the country. With the current state of economy, more people prefer to choose train as main transportation especially in big city area such as Kuala Lumpur. With lower cost and relatively the safest form of transports compared to the other transports, like cars, motorcycles or busses, it is a wise choice to use train as daily commute transport. Nowadays, the rail traffic network in Malaysia are getting busier with trains traveling at higher speeds and carrying more passengers with heavier axle loads than before. With the increase of passenger, the risk involved in daily train operation will significantly increase. An improved safety system is required to keep up with the ever growing train loads. The proposed safety system is applied to alert the train operators. The whole system is comprised of an ultrasonic sensor connected to a database and an Atmega328P microcontroller mounted on a custom PCB board. It is found that the train in this country requires a distance of 77 meter in order to completely stop the train with regards to a few assumptions on the average mass and the speed of the train.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 650-654
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Reconfigurable Modulation Scheme for Communication System

10.11591/ijeecs.v9.i3.pp624-628
Mohamed Syed Ali
In any communication system transmitter and receiver are used to transmit the signal via wired or wireless channel. In the transmitter, modulation is one of the processes to transmit the signal efficiently. Likewise, receiver contains demodulation to recover the original signal from the transmitter. In general, the communication system uses one modulation/demodulation process at a time. It cannot use different modulation/demodulation within a single system. To overcome this problem reconfiguration technique is implemented. It is the method using different modulation scheme at the same time. It will increase the efficiency of the communication system. QPSK and BPSK modulation technique is used to transmit and receive the signal.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 624-628
Publish at: 2018-03-01

The Role of Wijaya Kusuma's Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) on Adolescent Health Problems

10.11591/ijphs.v7i1.10398
Khoiriyah Isni , Ratu Matahari
The issue of adolescent health is important for national development. Adolescents need a place that can provide facilities in the form of correct information and life skills improvement programs. So as to deal with various health problems of adolescent. Government efforts to overcome these problems through the establishment of the Youth Information and Counseling Center (PIK-R) that can be done in schools. PIK-R in schools that have been formed can be assessed its role to adolescent health problems. The purpose of this research is to know the role of PIK-R Wijaya Kusuma in overcoming the health problem of adolescent among non-members of PIK-R. The research used qualitative design with case study approach. The data were collected by focus group discussion (FGD) technique on 10 non PIK-R member students. The results of the study reported that PIK-R Wijaya Kusuma has an important role as health information source for non PIK-R member students in facing adolescent health problems. Besides, teachers and NGOs. Awareness of non-members of PIK-R Wijaya Kusuma related to adolescent's vulnerability to high adolescent health problems, peers and family plays an important role in adolescent health behavior.
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Page: 27-32
Publish at: 2018-03-01

A Comprehensive Study and Analysis of LEACH and HEED Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks – With Suggestion for Improvements

10.11591/ijeecs.v9.i3.pp778-783
G. Anitha , V. Vijayakumari , S. Thangavelu
The main interesting aspect of the digital era is the widely spread ease of communication from one end of the world to the other end of the world. There is a revolution in communication, digitalization, globalization, video calling, wireless data transfer and this is possible due to networking. Initially computer networks is the data sharing where data such as documents, file, reports, presentation files, videos, images etc can be shared within a local network or remotely connected networks. Traditional data networking is to empower end-to-end information transfer. The data in such networks are carried across point-to-point links and the intermediate nodes just forward the packets, where the payload of the packets is not modified. Traditional LANs need wires, which may be difficult to set up in some situations.It is very much understandable and clearly visible that wired communication is being completely overtaken by wireless technologies in the recent past. Wireless LANs, by its very nature, empowers with increased mobility and flexibility. Wi-Fi devices get connected to the internet through WLAN and access points. 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz ISM bands are used by Wi-Fi. Also, it is to be understood that, a wireless adhoc network is distributed in its nature. It is also to be noted that, the adhoc nature makes these network to rely on any of the pre-existing infrastructure. The data forwarding shall happen from the nodes very much dynamically based on the connectivity and the routing algorithm used.  
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 778-783
Publish at: 2018-03-01

BIST Architecture using Area Efficient Low Current LFSR for Embedded Memory Testing Applications Applications

10.11591/ijres.v7.i1.pp1-11
M. Parvathi , N. Vasantha , K. Satya Prasad
One of the important block of BIST controller is LFSR and the speed with which BIST operates depends on LFSR systems design. There are methods in implementing LFSR using field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) or digital signal processors (DSPs). BIST controller system speed is then limited to FPGAs and DSPs, which may influence other parameters such as overall area, maximum current, limit and power dissipation. This paper proposes a technique to achieve an efficient BIST controller by redesigning LFSR using GDI based D flip-flops that resulted with low area and low current capabilities. This paper presents three different techniques for implementing flip-flops for an efficient LFSR so that the layout area will be minimized as well as the maximum current drawn will be lower.
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Page: 1-11
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Design and Development of IP for Modified Haar Wavelet Transform (MHWT) Image Fusion using FPGA

10.11591/ijres.v7.i1.pp57-66
Sumant S Yaliagr , Sanket Dessai
The fast growth in the field of digital imaging applications in remote sensing, bio medical and other satellite applications had created an architecture studies for image fusion in capable to store large amount of data and process. An algorithm considered for the process of image fusion for implementation of FPGA is Modified Haar Wavelet Transform (MHWT) based image fusion where at the time four pixels are consider in calculation of different bands as compared to conventional Haar wavelet based image fusion. The process of modification uses far less memory and computation power. The FPGA implementation of MHWT based image fusion is done on Digilent development board with Spartan 6 series FPGA. The architecture is developed in VHDL. The timing analysis is done and report is obtained for I/O interactions, memory units etc. The architecture is made to run in cosimulation with Simulink. The design is tested with different kinds of images and run successfully. The visual analysis of the resultant fused image is achived and observed.
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Page: 57-66
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Harmonic Load Diagnostic Techniques and Methodologies: A Review

10.11591/ijeecs.v9.i3.pp690-695
A.S. Hussin , A.R. Abdullah , M.H. Jopri , T Sutikno , N.M. Saad , Weihown Tee
This paper will review on the existing techniques and methodologies of harmonic load diagnostic system. The increasingly amount of harmonic producing load used in power system are the main contribution in quantifying each harmonic disturbance effects of the multiple harmonic producing loads and it became very important. Literature proposes two different techniques and methods on the harmonic source identification under the soft computing technique classification. The advantages and disadvantages of harmonic load identification techniques and methods are discussed in this paper. In the proposed method, the issue on the harmonic contribution is determine and transformed to a data correlation analysis. Several techniques to identify the sources of harmonic signals in electric power systems are described and reviewed based on previous paper. Comparative studies of the methods are also done to evaluate the performance of each techniques. However, without sufficient information in this inconsistent environment on the property of the power system, accurate harmonic producing load diagnosis methods are important and further investigations in this regard assumes great implication.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 690-695
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Development of Graphical User Interface (GUI) for University Student Health Monitoring

10.11591/ijeecs.v9.i3.pp673-679
Fadzliana Saad , Ismarani Ismail , Muhd Syamir Mohamad
This paper presents the development of GUI to monitor health condition of university students of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam.
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
Page: 673-679
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Simulation of AC-DC Converter for High Power Application

https://ijpeds.iaescore.com/index.php/IJPEDS/article/view/9849
Ramarajan Sundaramoorthy , R.Samuel Rajesh Babu
This manuscript deals with the simulation of AC - DC Zeta converter for high power drive application with greater efficiency, lesser losses and power factor correction. It involves simpler control circuitry with less external components. The explanation of Fundamental function of Zeta converter is given in this paper. To condense the harmonic content the PI, PID and Fuzzy Logic controller are used. The operation of Zeta converter in open loop, closed loop is obtained. Closed loop system of zeta converter proves better performance over open loop system. Open and closed loop circuits are simulated by using MATLAB simulink. By giving disturbance in closed loop and open loop systems, feat of Zeta converter is compared. 
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Page: 336-344
Publish at: 2018-03-01

A Design of Electrical Permanent Magnet Generator for Rural Area Wind Power Plant

10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp269-275
Muhammad Irfan , Ermanu Azizul Hakim , Diding Suhardi , Nur Kasan , Machmud Effendy , Ilham Pakaya , Amrul Faruq
This paper aims to design and simulate an Electrical Permanent Magnet Generator (EPMG) for rural area wind power plant. The generators available in the market mostly are a kind of high speed induction generator which requires high rotational speed and an electricity to generate a magnetic field. In this project, a radial flux generator is designed to have a low speed rotation using permanent magnet type Neodymium Iron Boron (NdFeB). Software used for designing is Finite Element Method (FEM) Magnet software basis. The model also examined with Simulink/Matlab environment. Extensive modifications are applied to get optimum result by changing generator diameter, number of coils, the copper wire diameter, number of poles, and used slots. The simulation results obtained generator speed 500rpm, the average series voltage is 145 Vrms, the generator requires 18cm diameter, number of turn for each coil is 55, diameter of the copper wire used is 0.6mm, and number of poles is 8 pairs and 12 unit slots.
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Page: 269-275
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Design and Analysis of In-Wheel Double Stator Slotted Rotor BLDC Motor for Electric Bicycle Application

10.11591/ijpeds.v9.i1.pp457-464
S. Farina , R.N. Firdaus , F. Azhar , M. Azri , M. S. Ahmad , R. Suhairi , A. Jidin , Tole Sutikno
This paper discusses about design and analysis of double stator slotted rotor (DSSR) BLDC motor for electric bicycle application. Usually single stator (SS) BLDC motor is used in an electric bicycle. This type of motor has low performance and need to be charged regularly. The objective of this research is to design and analysis DSSR motor that have high torque. At starts, design specification for the electric bicycle is calculated. Next, design process for DSSR is carried out by using the desired parameter. Lastly, analysis for double stator slotted rotor is simulated using FEM. Result  for average back emf, average inductance, inner stator flux density, outer stator flux density, average torque and estimate torque constant is obtained. Result for average torque from FEM archieve the requirement of motor torque for DSSR design where the maximum average torque is 16.2 Nm. This research will give benefit to mankind and society in term of environment protection and energy consumption.
Volume: 9
Issue: 1
Page: 457-464
Publish at: 2018-03-01

Hybrid Head Tracking for Wheelchair Control Using Haar Cascade Classifier and KCF Tracker

10.12928/telkomnika.v16i4.6595
Fitri; Universitas Brawijaya Utaminingrum , Yuita Arum; Universitas Brawijaya Malang Sari , Putra Pandu; Universitas Brawijaya Malang Adikara , Dahnial; Universitas Braawijaya Syauqy , Sigit; Universitas Brawijaya Adinugroho
Disability may limit someone to move freely, especially when the severity of the disability is high. In order to help disabled people control their wheelchair, head movement-based control is preferred due to its reliability. This paper proposed a head direction detector framework which can be applied to wheelchair control. First, face and nose were detected from a video frame using Haar cascade classfier. Then, the detected bounding boxes were used to initialize Kernelized Correlation Filters tracker. Direction of a head was determined by relative position of the nose to the face, extracted from tracker’s bounding boxes. Results show that the method effectively detect head direction indicated by 82% accuracy and very low detection or tracking failure.
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Page: 1616-1624
Publish at: 2018-02-10

Development of Virtual Resistance Meters using LabVIEW

10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp133-140
Suman Lata , H. K. Verma , Puja Kumari
This paper presents the development of three virtual resistance meters using LabVIEW. The unknown resistance is measured in terms of a known resistance of high accuracy by employing (a) a real dc voltage source, (b) a real dc current source, and (c) a virtual dc voltage source. In each case, ratio of two voltage signals is acquired by a single-ADC based multichannel data acquisition card. Therefore error of the ADC gets cancelled, when ratio of two voltages is used in the final calculation of the value of unknown resistance. The first two VRMs use a real excitation source and are thus semi-virtual instruments, whereas the third one is fully-virtual as the excitation source is also implemented in the LabVIEW software along with DAC section of the data acquisition card. The three virtual resistance meters have been successfully implemented. The principle of ratio-metric measurement used makes the accuracy (uncertainty) of final measurement free from the uncertainties of the ADC, the DAC and the excitation source. Standard deviations of the readings taken with the three VRMs have been evaluated and compared. It is concluded that the fully-virtual instrument has the lowest and excellent value of standard deviation.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 133-140
Publish at: 2018-02-01

Design and Implementation of Portable Outdoor Air Quality Measurement System using Arduino

10.11591/ijece.v8i1.pp280-290
Teddy Surya Gunawan , Yasmin Mahira Saiful Munir , Mira Kartiwi , Hasmah Mansor
Recently, there is increasing public awareness of the real time air quality due to air pollution can cause severe effects to human health and environments. The Air Pollutant Index (API) in Malaysia is measured by Department of Environment (DOE) using stationary and expensive monitoring station called Continuous Air Quality Monitoring stations (CAQMs) that are only placed in areas that have high population densities and high industrial activities. Moreover, Malaysia did not include particulate matter with the size of less than 2.5μm (PM2.5) in the API measurement system. In this paper, we present a cost effective and portable air quality measurement system using Arduino Uno microcontroller and four low cost sensors. This device allows people to measure API in any place they want. It is capable to measure the concentration of carbon monoxide (CO), ground level ozone (O3) and particulate matters (PM10 & PM2.5) in the air and convert the readings to API value. This system has been tested by comparing the API measured from this device to the current API measured by DOE at several locations. Based on the results from the experiment, this air quality measurement system is proved to be reliable and efficient.
Volume: 8
Issue: 1
Page: 280-290
Publish at: 2018-02-01
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