Four-wave interactions play an important role in the evolution of the spectrum of surface gravity waves. This follows from direct simulations of an ensemble of ocean waves using the Zakharov equation. The theory of homogeneous four-wave interactions, extended to include effects of nonresonant transfer, compares favourably with the ensemble averaged results of the Monte Carlo simulations. In par...

More than four million babies die in the neonatal period every year, and most of these deaths occur in poorer countries. The longer the delay in breastfeeding initiation, the greater the chances of neonatal mortality caused by infections. Breastfeeding within the first hour of life has been shown to reduce high neonatal mortality by 22%. During this sensitive period, the protective effect of br...

BACKGROUND Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a prominent clinical problem. There are calls for multi-modal interventions. METHODS We assessed the feasibility of delivering patient education integrated with acupuncture for relief of CRF in a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) with breast cancer survivors using usual care as control. Social cognitive and integrative medicine theories guided ...

The mechanical and disintegration properties of paracetamol tablets formulated using Delonix regia seed gum (DRSG) as a binder have been studied in this work. Acacia BP (ACG) and tragacanth BP (TRG) were used as official gum standards. The mechanical properties, i.e. tensile strength (TS) and brittle fracture index (BFI), showed that with an increase in concentration of the gum binder, the tens...

BACKGROUND We examined the association between salivary mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) copy number and chronic fatigue combined with depression and insomnia. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 58 healthy adults with moderate to severe fatigue (Brief Fatigue Inventory [BFI] ≥4) for longer than 6 months. Subjects were classified as those without combined symptoms, with either depression (Be...

Conventional semi-infinite analytical solutions of correlation diffusion equation may lead to errors when calculating blood flow index (BFI) from diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) measurements in tissues with irregular geometries. Very recently, we created an algorithm integrating a Nth-order linear model of autocorrelation function with the Monte Carlo simulation of photon migrations in h...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain affects a large number of patients throughout the world and impacts greatly on their quality of life, including the ability of a patient to sleep, go to work, and socialize. Guidance on the use of opioids in chronic pain patients is available from the British Pain Society; however, patients receiving opioid treatment for their pain often suffer from symptoms associated w...

Pandemi Covid-19 membuat seluruh aspek kehidupan mengalami perubahan. Kehidupan pekerjaan juga turut terdampak pandemi. Hal ini pekerja harus menyesuaikan diri dengan aturan-aturan baru. Namun tidak semudah itu diri. Ada yang kendala perubahaan ini. Penelitian ingin menguji perbedaan burnout dialami oleh karyawan menjalani work from home (WFH) selama pandemi dan karena gaya kerja adalah penelit...

This paper positions and explores the topic of image-based personality test. Instead of responding to text-based questions, the subjects will be provided a set of “choose-your-favorite-image” visual questions. With the image options of each question belonging to the same concept, the subjects’ personality traits are estimated by observing their preferences of images under several unique concept...