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Accuration of Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Musculoskeletal Tumour

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4776
Rahadyan Magetsari , Hengkie Marseno , Zikrina Lanodiyu , Punto Dewo
Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) has been reported to be the preferable choice of biopsy for musculoskeletal tumour. While FNAB appears to have advantages to core biopsy in the aspect of simplicity and cost, the diagnostic accuracy should be the most critical parameter in determining the choice of biopsy. This research was designed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of fine needle aspiration in musculoskeletal tumour in Sardjito Hospital from 2010 until 2014. This was a descriptive study from medical record in Sardjito Hospital from 2010 until 2014. The inclusion criteria are musculoskeletal tumours in all age level that has been performed FNAB with subsequent operative treatment and confirmation of histopathology examination in Sardjito Hospital. There were 41 elligible subjects in this study. Concordance diagnosis of FNAB and histopathological examination in all musculoskeletal tumor cases was found to be 86%. In addition, the concordance in soft tissue tumor cases was 94% with the detail as follows: giant cell tumor was 86%, synovial sarcoma was 50% and liposarcoma was 50%. In bone tumours, the accuracy was found to be 60% with the detail as follows: distribute osteosarcoma was 60%, osteochondroma was 50% and chondrosarcoma was 50%. Our data showed that accuracy of FNAB for diagnosis of musculoskeletal tumours was 86% with soft tissue tumour 94%, bone tumour 60% and others 93%. Therefore, Fine needle aspiration biopsy is still important diagnosis tool in musculoskeletal tumours.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 134-136
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Model of Empowerment to Improve Autonomy Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) Tuberculosis Patients

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4781
Syamilatul Khariroh , Oedojo Soedirham , Hamidah Hamidah , Endang Abdullah
Empowerment as not yet optimal health promotion efforts done to enhance the autonomy of Directly Observed Treatment (DOT), which affect the success of the recovery of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The purpose of research was to develop a model empowerment based on Health Promotion and Health Literacy with approach to nursing intervention in an effort  enhance the autonomy of the DOT - pulmonary TB patients. The method was an observational analytic with cross sectional approach. Multistage random sampling was DOT-pulmonary TB patients to decide the district and simple random sampling was assigned to choose the participants, a total of 253 DOT- pulmonary TB patients new case with acid resistant bacilli positive on the advanced phase in this study. The study conducted in five districts in Surabaya City (center, north, south, east and west). Data were collected by questionnaire on variables namely personal, cognitive and affective, nursing intervention, commitment, family supports, health literacy and DOT- autonomy. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with LISREL is used for constructing predictive model. Result : This study found a new model which was developed based on combination of Health Promotion Model (HPM) and Health Literacy (HL). Statistical result confirm that personal, cognitive and affective, health literacy and family support considered as important factors in improving DOT-autonomy. Conclusion : DOT- autonomy will improve by considering four main factors, personal, cognitive and affective, health literacy, family support. This model can be adapted by District Health Office Surabaya City as the main actor regional health development. In addition, this model may become a reference for other district in improving their nursing intervention in community setting.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 164-169
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Periodontal Disease on Pregnant Women (Case Study: Pondok Labu Village, South Jakarta, Indonesia)

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4782
Rikawarastuti Rikawarastuti , Ngatemi Ngatemi , Nita Noviani Harahap
During preganancy, women periodically concern about ANC due to fetus growth, but ignore their own periodontal health. This research was conducted to acknowledge the effect of age, educational background, parity, body mass index (BMI), diabetes mellitus, smoking habit and oral hygiene with periodontal disease on pregnant women. Analytical observation study with cross sectional design was conducted to pregnant women in Pondok Labu Village (Kelurahan), South Jakarta. Purposive sampling was performed among 101 respondents. Chi Square and logistic regression were used for the analysis.  Results shown that periodontal disease on pregnant women were 73.2% (66.3% were calculus and 6.9% were having periodontal pocket of 4-5 mm). It is proven that there is relationship between age, educational background, parity, BMI, diabetes mellitus, and smoking habit to the periodontal disease. On the other hand, oral hygiene highly affected the periodontal disease on pregnant woman. Poor oral hygiene is the dominant factor of periodontal disease on pregnant women after being controlled by age (OR= 21.33, p value 0.005). It is advised for pregnant women to improve their knowledge on how to care for their oral hygiene prior to and during pregnancy, as well as, go through treatments with dentists.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 170-175
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Differences in Physical Activity and Built Environment Perceptions between Younger and Older Adults Living in The Same Rural

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4778
Charilaos Papadopoulos , Brent J Twaddle
This study examined associations between perceptions and physical activity of younger and older adults residing in the same rural/small town community.  Thirty-two adults completed interviews about their community and their physical activity.  Both groups perceived their neighborhood as pleasant and safe to be active. Fewer older adults perceived their neighborhood as having sidewalks. Younger adults reported being more vigorously active and they were more often utilizing private membership clubs for physical activity. Older adults utilized more public recreational facilities. These results suggest that higher perceived quality of the neighborhood built environment can enhance participation in moderate exercise in older adults.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 142-150
Publish at: 2016-06-01

The Reflection of Family Function and Premarital Sex Behavior on Art Community

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4783
Siti Nur Djannah , Bhisma Murti , Yayi Suryo Prabandari , Sapta Anantanyu
The premarital sex behavior in Indonesia based on SKRRI 2012 is a problem which requires the serious concern because it ensues unwanted pregnancy, then take the abortion and carries the venereal disease, therefore the teenager will lose their future. The risk factors related to premarital sex behavior affected by external factor such as the relationship between parents and adolescense. This is occurred in adolescenses who join in an art community of Jathilan, which is Paguyuban Turonggo Wiro Budoyo Wirobrajan Yogyakarta, where the management explains that the members do free sex and they can’t do the family function especially in educating the reproduction health for teenager. This research aims to find out the reflection of family function and reproduction health of and sex in teenager of TWB Community.This research is quantitative descriptive support by qualitative. The data collecting technique is purpose sampling. The research subject is Community members of Seni Jathilan Turongo Wiro Budoyo, total 47 members. The reflection of family function in teenager of TWB community member, majority of family don’t give the education function, affection function, protection function, and socialization function adolescense reproduction health, and the reflection teenager sex of TWB Community is majority doing free sex.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 176-182
Publish at: 2016-06-01

A Qualitative Impact Evaluation of the First Love Yourself (FLY) Women’s Support Group

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4774
Valerie Blackmon , Chalenna Cassell , Cathy G. McElderry , Olawunmi Obisesan
Research has shown that social support groups not only have significant effects on the physical and mental health of individuals, but can also be used as predictors of health outcomes. It is, therefore, important that social workers and other public health professionals are aware of the social support groups that exist in communities so as to find ways to utilize these to meet health needs. The study aims to explore the First Love Yourself (FLY) group, an empowerment-based support group specifically designed to meet the needs of Healthy Start consumers, parents and consortium members. A qualitative analysis of the data gathered from this focus group study yielded several key themes. While participants described finding other community resources helpful, they reported having no other outlet for confidential self-expression and connection to peers other than the FLY group. Group members also reported having improved self-esteem, relationships with their children, partners, and family, and ability to cope as a result of participation in the group. Participants further described gaining knowledge and learning skills that were helpful. This included learning parenting, communication, stress and anger management, budgeting, goal-setting and coping skills and techniques. Finally, qualitative analysis of the data gained from the focus group with participants and the group leader revealed the presence of all 11 curative factors described by Yalom (2005). The primary areas for improvement noted by the group and its leader were related to the frequency of group meetings. Both audiences indicated that additional sessions would be beneficial.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 123-128
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Early Weight Gain during Pregnancy: Which Women are the Most Affected?

10.11591/ijphs.v5i2.4779
Tebbani Fouzia , Oulamara Hayet , Agli Abdenacer
Maternal weight gain during pregnancy is a good prediction tool in short and long term health of pregnant women and their children. To study the effect of early weight gain of pregnant women until the end of the 2nd trimester of pregnancy, depending on their pre-pregnancy body mass index. 116 healthy pregnant women were followed until the 2nd trimester of pregnancy, their weight and height before pregnancy, as well as the current weight at the end of the 1st and 2nd trimesters were collected. Data included age, parity, eating habits and physical activity level. Statistics were performed using the Statview software. The mean pre-pregnancy BMI was 27 ± 5.27 kg/m². Weight gain in the 2nd trimester is 6.33 ± 4.84 kg. It decreases with the increasing age of the mother (25% of women between 20 and 24.9 years vs 12.5% of more than 35). Also, it decreases with the increasing number of children (62.5% in nulliparous vs 25% in multiparous). Breakfast is skipped by 64.5 % of overweight pregnant women in the 1st trimester and 90 % in the 2nd one. 80.17% and 69.83% of pregnant women do not practice any physical activity. Overweight and obese pregnant women before pregnancy do not take enough weight during pregnancy. Prospects will to analyze behaviors related to health and social status.
Volume: 5
Issue: 2
Page: 151-157
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Automatic Detection of Illegitimate Websites with Mutual Clustering

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp995-1001
Kanaka Durga , V Rama Krishna
In the websites the contents will be are similarity when we compared with other search engines. So to check the similar content in the websites and its web contents we created a overhead to the search engine which will severely effect its performance & quality. So to detect the silmilar or same content or web documenattion some techniques are implemented by web crawling research community. So it is one of major factor for the search engines to provide some applicatory data to users in the first page itself. So to avoid such issues we proposed a methodlogy called Automatic Detection of illegitimate websites with Mutual Clustering (ADIWMC) paper we are presenting a peculiar and efficacious path for the detection of similarities in the web pages in web clustering. Detection of same and similar web pages and web content will be done by storing the crawled web pages into depository. Initially the adwords will be extracted from the crawled pages and similarity checking will be done between the two pages based in the usage of adwords. So a threshold value is set for this, if the similarity checking percentage is greater than the threshold then similarity content is reduced and improves the depositary and improves the search engine quality. In the sections of existing analysis and the proposed analysis we are clearly exploring how it works.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 995-1001
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Design of Multiplier for Medical Image Compression Using Urdhava Tiryakbhyam Sutra

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1140-1151
Suma Suma , V. Sridhar
Compressing the medical images is one of the challenging areas in healthcare industry which calls for an effective design of the compression algorithms. The conventional compression algorithms used on medical images doesn’t offer enhanced computational capabilities with respect to faster processing speed and is more dependent on hardware resources. The present paper has identified the potential usage of Vedic mathematics in the form of Urdhava Tiryakbhyam sutra, which can be used for designing an efficient multiplier that can be used for enhancing the capabilities of the existing processor to generate enhance compression experience. The design of the proposed system is discussed with respect to 5 significant algorithms and the outcome of the proposed study was testified with heterogeneous samples of medical image to find that proposed system offers approximately 57% of the reduction in size without any significant loss of data.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 1140-1151
Publish at: 2016-06-01

A Hybrid Model Schema Matching Using Constraint-Based and Instance-Based

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1048-1058
Edhy Sutanta , Retantyo Wardoyo , Khabib Mustofa , Edi Winarko
Schema matching is an important process in the Enterprise Information Integration (EII) which is at the level of the back end to solve the problems due to the schematic heterogeneity. This paper is a summary of preliminary result work of the model development stage as part of research on the development of models and prototype of hybrid schema matching that combines two methods, namely constraint-based and instance-based. The discussion includes a general description of the proposed models and the development of models, start from requirement analysis, data type conversion, matching mechanism, database support, constraints and instance extraction, matching and compute the similarity, preliminary result, user verification, verified result, dataset for testing, as well as the performance measurement. Based on result experiment on 36 datasets of heterogeneous RDBMS, it obtained the highest P value is 100.00% while the lowest is 71.43%; The highest R value is 100.00% while the lowest is 75.00%; and F-Measure highest value is 100.00% while the lowest is 81.48%. Unsuccessful matching on the model still happens, including use of an id attribute with data type as autoincrement; using codes that are defined in the same way but different meanings; and if encountered in common instance with the same definition but different meaning.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 1048-1058
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Design Of A Nonvolatile 8T1R SRAM Cell For Instant-On Operation

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1183-1189
J. Mounica , G.V. Ganesh
Now-a-days, Energy consumption is the major key factor in Memories. By switching the circuit in off mode and with an lower voltages, leads to decrease in an power dissipation of the circuit. Compared to DRAM SRAM’S are mostly used because of their data retaining capability. The major advantage of using SRAM’s rather than DRAM’S is that, they are providing fast power-on/off speeds. Hence SRAM’s are more preferred over DRAM’s for better instant-on operation. Generally SRAM’s are classified in to two types namely volatile and non-volatile SRAM’s. A non-volatile SRAM enables chip to achieve performance factors and also provides an restore operation which will be enabled by an restore signal to restore the data and also power-up operation is performed. This paper describes about novel NVSRAM circuit which produces better “instant-on operation” compared to previous techniques used in SRAM’s. In addition to normal 6T SRAM core, we are using RRAM circuitry (Resistive RAM) to provide better instant-on operation. By comparing the performance factors with 8T2R and 9T2R, 8T1R design performs the best in the Nano meter scale. Thus this paper provides better performances in power, energy, propagation delay and area factors as compared with other designs.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 1183-1189
Publish at: 2016-06-01

An Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System in Assessment of Technical Losses in Distribution Networks

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1294-1304
Dragan Mlakić , Srete N Nikolovski , Goran Knežević
The losses in distribution networks have always been key elements in predicting investment, planning work, evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of a network. This paper elaborates on the use of fuzzy logic systems in analyzing the data from a particular substation area predicting losses in the low voltage network. The data collected from the field were obtained from the Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) and Automatic Meter Management (AMM) systems. The AMR system is fully implemented in EPHZHB and integrated within the network infrastructure at secondary level substations 35/10kV and 10(20)/0.4 kV. The AMM system is partially implemented in the areas of electrical energy consumers; precisely, in accounting meters. Daily information gathered from these systems is of great value for the calculation of technical and non-technical losses. Fuzzy logic in combination with the Artificial Neural Networks implemented via the Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) is used. Finally, FIS Sugeno, FIS Mamdani and ANFIS are compared with the measured data from smart meters and presented with their errors and graphs.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 1294-1304
Publish at: 2016-06-01

A Thorough Insight to Techniques for Performance Evaluation in Biological Sensors

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp986-994
Subhas Meti , V G Sangam
The biological sensor has played a significant and contributory role in the area of medical science and healthcare industry. Owing to critical healthcare usage, it is essential that such type of sensors should be highly robust, sustainable under the adverse condition and highly fault tolerant against any forms of possible system failure in future. A massive amount of research work has been done in the area of the sensor network. However, works done in biological sensors are quite less in number. Hence, this manuscript highlights all the significant research work towards the line of discussion for evaluating the effective in the techniques for performance evaluation of biological sensor. The study finally explores the problems and discusses it under research gap. Finally, the manuscript gives highlights of the future direction of the work to solve the research gap explored from the proposed review of the existing system.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 986-994
Publish at: 2016-06-01

DNA Bar-coding: A Novel Approach for Identifying an Individual Using Extended Levenshtein Distance Algorithm and STR analysis

10.11591/ijece.v6i3.pp1133-1139
Likhitha C P , Ninitha P , Kanchana V
DNA bar-coding is a technique that uses the short DNA nucleotide sequences from the standard genome of the species in order to find and group the species to which it belongs to. The species are identified by their DNA nucleotide sequences in the same way the items are recognized and billed in the supermarket using barcode scanner to scan the Universal Product Code of the items. Two items may look same to the untrained eye, but in both cases the barcodes are distinct. It was possible to create DNA-barcodes to characterize species by analysing DNA samples from fish, birds, mammals, plants, and invertebrates using Smith-waterman and Needleman-Wunsch algorithm. In this work we are creating human DNA barcode and implementing Extended Levenshtein distance algorithm along with STR analysis that uses less computation time compared to the previously used algorithms to measure the differential distance between the two DNA nucleotide sequences through which an individual can be identified.
Volume: 6
Issue: 3
Page: 1133-1139
Publish at: 2016-06-01

Optimal Coordination of DOCR for Radial Distribution Systems in Presence of TCSC

10.11591/ijpeds.v7.i2.pp311-321
Lazhar Bougouffa , Abdelaziz Chaghi
Protective relays coordination is the process of determining the exact relay settings such that the relay closes to the fault would operates faster than other relays. The operating time of each relay depends on two independent variables called Pickup current (Ip) and Time Dial Setting (TDS). In this paper, a PSO algorithm has been presented to determine the coordination of Directional Over-Current Relays (DOCRs) in presence of multi-system FACTS devises. From the simulation result and analysis, the impact of TCSC location in the in 33-bus distribution system on Directional Over-Current Relays has been observed on the optimal relays settings as well as the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in finding optimal coordination of directional over-current relays.
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
Page: 311-321
Publish at: 2016-06-01
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