Antenatal care practice and pregnancy out come at Sikuati area, Kudat, Sabah

Antenatal (AN) care is vital for all pregnant women and for reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity. AN care knowledge and specific AN care practices are some of the crucial components of what determines effective AN care. In developing nations, the health of pregnant women can be even more sensitive to these factors. Objectives of this study was to assess the antenatal ( AN) care practice and pregnancy outcome of ever-married women aged 18 to 49 years old having at least one pregnancy experience, residing in kampongs of Sikuati area, Kudat between March to December 2015. Cross–sectional descriptive study, non-probability convenient sampling method was used and 150 eligible participants were interviewed through face to face by trained interviewers using a semi- structured questionnaire and their knowledge of AN care, their AN care practices and outcomes and complications of their pregnancies were recorded. 99% of all the women received AN care, and 64% of the women received essential AN care practice (AN visit of minimum 4 times). The study revealed that overall knowledge amongst the women with good knowledge was 48% and low knowledge was 52%. Despite this, it was found that low knowledge of AN care was associated with essential AN care practice. Additionally, AN care practices, assessed through timing of first AN care visit and frequency of visits, was not significantly associated with pregnancy complications. Despite these results, outcomes were good and all complications were properly and successfully addressed. This may reflect the effectiveness of current programs in place promoting importance of AN care and delivery practices. Maintenance of current programs with targeted interventions to address low knowledge level and the low level of compliance with essential AN care completed are recommended

Multi-site monitoring of heat stresses and micrometeorological conditions in the rice plants communities under various climates. The micrometeorological measurements system for a common measure of the paddy environments

Rice yield can be reduced substantially when the crop is exposed to excessive hest, which will likely occur more frequently under future climates, but the magnitudes of yield losses under open-field conditions are still difficult to predict, despite many efforts being conducted to detennine temperature response in the closed environments. To better understand the occurrence of heat stress under field conditions. we need thermal conditions of rice canopy under heat conditions, which can be very much different depending on other environmental factors, but taking correct measurements of canopy micrometeorology needs careful considerations. In this study, we will distribute a simple but well-designed system for measuring thermal environments of the canopy to different rice growing regions covering continental and coastal climates in low and mid latitude regions. With them, we attempt to establish a monitoring network of canopy thermal environments in the paddy fields that will help to bridge gaps between chamber and open-field and to better assess potential impacts of climate change on rice production. Keyword.: Canopy heat budget, Climate change, Micrometeorology, Multi-lateral research network, Rice. (Résumé d'auteur

A STUDY ON RESIDENTIAL LAND USE MANAGEMENT IN YANGON (Case Study: Kyauk Tan Township) (Tin Swe Myint, 2019)

This thesis aims to examine residential land use management and to analyze the effectiveness of residential land use management of GAD in Kyauktan Township. A survey is conducted on a sample of 300 residents, land grant holders and non-grant holders from this township. KII survey is also conducted on officials of GAD. The study found out that most of the respondents are of age above 30 years, majority are married and only 18.33 percent are singles. For education, 71 percent of the total respondents are only in the basic level. There are 63.33 percent are low income households earning less than or equal to kyat 5 lakhs. For housing, 31.67 percent lives in brick nogging buildings and 11.00 percent, in wooden houses. Land ownership is found as in township area, only 41.67 percent have grants and others have no grants. The land area of 26.67 percent of respondents is only (20×60) square feet whereas the remaining respondents have (40×60) square feet and above. The migrant respondents, who are moving in within last 10 years accounted for 6.67 percent. Some respondents are living in the study area is for their small businesses such as mini-shops and restaurants. In administration of land use, 50 percent of respondents do not know much about grant or lease, why the land revenue has to be paid, and whether the grant is important or not. However, there are 41.67percent that know very well about the grant. All of the respondents said that the grant was a very good opportunity for land ownership. Only 33.33 percent of respondents know about the land laws while others do not. The respondents’ attitude on the accountability of Township GAD, 39.33 percent of respondents stated as very good, and 12.33 percent, as not good. About 75 percent of the respondents liked on activity of Township GAD and 8.33 % disliked. There are 52.66 percent of respondents who would like to read the land laws in Myanmar Version and 13.33 percent disagreed and thought the laws are needed to be in English

An Evaluation of the Coursebook for Second Year Students of Co-operative University Using the Criteria for Textbook Evaluation of Jeremy Harmer

Students of the Cooperative University, Thanlyin have to learn Business English as the minor subject from first year until third year. “Business Result” is prescribed as the coursebook for the Cooperative University, Thanlyin. First year students’ coursebook is Business Result: Elementary; second year students’ coursebook, pre-intermediate; third year students’ coursebook, intermediate respectively. Of them all, the present study is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of “Business Result: Pre-intermediate” prescribed as the coursebook for second year students of the Cooperative University. The objectives of the research are to evaluate the effectiveness of the coursebook, to find out the students’ needs about their foreign language, and to discover whether the coursebook helps the students improve their language skills or not. In this study, this coursebook was evaluated by the students to find out whether it can help the students improve their language skills. The data were gathered from the results of the students’ responses to the respective questionnaires. This study shows the effective ways to help the students overcome the difficulties that they face whenever they learn Business English through their prescribed coursebook

An Integrated Stratigraphic and Biostratigraphic Analysis of Southern Part of Ayeyarwady Delta Basin

Ayeyarwady Delta Basin occupies southernmost part of Central lowlands of Myanmar located between latitudes15°44'00"-17°59'00"N and longitudes 94°15'00"-96°20'00"E covering 3.418x105 Km2. In the present study an integrated lithostratigraphic and biostratigraphic analysis of southern part of the Ayeyarwady Delta Basin was conducted based on outcrops, seismic and well data. During the February 2019 a geological field checking was carried out in three areas; Myaungmya, Purian Point and Mawdin. The outcrop stratigraphy of these areas are examined and collected rock samples for petrological and paleontological analysis. The stratigraphic succession of the areas from older to younger is; Mawdin Fm, Kanbala Fm, Taunggale Fm , Tumyaung Fm, Kwingyaung Fm, Kathabaung Fm and Irrawaddy Fm. The seismic sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Ayeryarwady Delta Basin was conducted by MOGE and eight overall traceable unconformities and important reflectors were identified and correlated as far as possible with the data from the drilled wells and the outcrops. The electrofacies analysis was attempted by using electrical log motif and SP curve of the wells to define boundaries of the formations. Biostratigraphy of the Tumyaung, Kwingyaung and Kathabaung formations are analyzed in conjunction with of the results of MOGE. Paleogene /Neogene unconformity is greatly evident by a remarkable foraminiferal onset. The general marine record is of Lower Miocene age and begins with a relatively rapid basinal deepening characterized by rich planktonic foraminiferal microfaunas. The Oligocene larger benthonic foraminiferal assemblage were not found in the Ayeyarwady Delta area

The efficacy of sequential treatment for Helicobacter Pylori eradication in dyspeptic patients

Myanmar is a high prevalence area of H pylori infection with sero-prevalence rate of 69%. The&nbsp;clarithromycin-based triple therapy is commonly used as empiric first line treatment for H pylori&nbsp;infection in Myanmar. However, the efficacy of sequential treatment for Myanmar patients with Hpylori infection has not been investigated. The objective of the present study is to determine the&nbsp;efficacy and safety of sequential treatment for Helicobacter pylori eradication in dyspeptic patients.</p

Automatic Aging Simulation of the Human Face

An automatic simulation of the face agingsystem is developed. This system can predict howold the person is and then simulate the faceappearance will be carried out based on thispredicted age. Eigen face approach is used forboth age prediction and age simulation systems.Especially, simulation of the age progression isperformed. In Eigen face, face images aredecomposed into a set of characteristic featureimages called Eigen faces. The age predictionand face simulation systems are carried out byprojecting a new face image into this face spaceand comparing its position in the face space withthose of known faces. After that the best matchedface in the face database is examined by theEigen face representation of face. This approachis a simple and powerful means for performingautomatic age simulation for facial images

Automatic Age Prediction of Aging Effects on Face Images

Automatic age prediction system for grayscale facial images is proposed in this paper. Tenage groups, including, are used in the predictionsystem. The process of the system is divided intothree phases: location, feature extraction, andage prediction. Principal Component Analysis(PCA) was used to reduce dimension andenhance class. Finally Euclidean distance wasused to classify the images into one of sevenmajor groups. These groups are: Group1 (0 to10 years), Group2 (11 to 20 years), Group3 (21to 30 years), Group4 (31 to 40 years), Group5(41 to 50 years), Group6 (51 to 60 years) andGroup7 (60 over). The proposed system isexperimented with 1300 facial images on a Core2 Duo processor with 2 GB RAM. One half of theimages are used for training and the other halffor test. It takes 0.2 second to classify an imageon an average. The identification rate achieves95.5% for the training images and 85.5% for thetest images, which is roughly close to human’ssubjective prediction