Malay mothers’ postpartum experiences often include a period of confinement, similar to other Asian parallel practices of “doing the month”. This confinement period comprised of a set of beliefs, rules, and practices based on traditional eastern medicinal knowledge. Cultural practices of postpartum confinement, or berpantang, among urban moth

In this work, a supercontinuum (SC) source is proposed and demonstrated using a highly-doped, 2 m long zirconia-erbium doped fiber (Zr-EDF) with a dopant concentration of 3800 ppm/wt and a narrow core 100 m long single-mode-fiber (SMF). A graphene based saturable absorber (SA) is used as a passive mode-locker, generating pulses with an average outp

Introduction: Patient’s expectation can profoundly affect the satisfaction towards a new denture construction. Previous studies have stated that, prosthetic treatment failures occur not because of clinical and technical problem but due to unrealistic expectation of the patient who expect the denture to be comparable to the natural dentition funct

The central focus of this work is on the importance of worldview, that is, why a worldview is needed and why it is important to be understood. There are several reasons why a person should understand worldview. The main argument in this paper is that, to explain people‘s knowledge, deeds, perceptions and beliefs about the existence and nature of

What is liberalism? In what ways does liberalism differ from conservatism? These are important and interesting questions, worthy of further discussions. This paper addressed the first question; it described liberalism as a secular worldview in two sections. Section one delineated the meaning, history and objective of liberalism. Section two provide

One of the main problems with symmetric encryption is key distribution especially when involving large number of users i.e to generate identical keys at different locations. To address this challenge, we proposed a novel algorithm of secret key infusion protocol (SKIP) to generate an identical secret key. While, the key is generated based on a prov

In this work, the effect of single and double air inlets on swirling flow in a reactor of fluidized bed gasifier was studied numerically. The reactor diameter (D) was 20 cm, and the reactor length was 7.5D. The geometry of the reactor bottom was conical. In order to generate swirling flow in the reactor, the air inlet pipe with inner diameter of 46

Objective: To investigate the total phenolic and flavonoid content and antioxidant capacity of Syzygium cumini grown in Wonosobo, Central Java, Indonesia. The findings will be used to compare similarities and differences with other current findings for Syzygium cumini leaves and Syzygium polyanthum leaves. Methods: Syzygium cumini was extracted usi

We demonstrate a broad bandwidth multiwavelength laser based on a bidirectional Lyot filter and a semiconductor optical amplifier with a mechanism of intensity-dependent loss as the flatness agent. A wide bandwidth of a multiwavelength spectrum of 32.9 nm within a 5 dB uniformity is obtained under optimized polarization parameters. For this case, t

Solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) of three dimensional steady state heat conduction and its error analysis are elaborated in the present paper by using a Trilinear Galerkin Finite Element method (TGFEM). An eight-node hexahedron element model is developed for the TGFEM based on a trilinear basis function where physical domain is mes