In support of a large, combined Australia-United States of America military exercise at Shoalwater Bay in south-eastern Queensland during March 1997 (TANDEM THRUST 97), the United States Navy sent the Deployed Public Health Laboratory (DPHL) into the field with the forces. The purpose of this was preventative medicine as well as disease and vector surveillance. Among the numerous potential thre...

Laboratory methods and questionnaires to assess the relative reinforcing value of food (RRV-F) have been developed, but this is the first study to validate an online questionnaire measure of the RRV-F. Participants (281 college students) completed an online survey assessing demographic variables, food preferences, and the RRV-F. A subsample (n=21) also completed a laboratory food choice session...

Ivan Havel remembers when in the late 1970s the Czechoslovakian state police began watching his apartment. For months he had been hosting unofficial science seminars, and the police didn't like it. "It politicized me, says the soft-spoken computer scientist and brother of Czechoslovakian president Vaclav Havel. "The police would check the people who came and ask them to identify 'themselves. Th...

Water quantity and quality joint operation is a new mode in the present dams' operation research. It has become a hot topic in governmental efforts toward integrated basin improvement. This paper coupled a water quantity and quality joint operation model (QCmode) and genetic algorithm with Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Together, these tools were used to explore a reasonable operation o...

Pokdakan Gempa 01 merupakan kelompok pembudidaya udang Vanname (tambak skala rakyat) di desa Kurau Barat, Kecamatan Koba, Kabupaten Bangka Tengah merintis usahanya mulai tahun 2020. Monitoring kualitas air masih dilakukan secara manual dan belum menerapkan teknologi. Padahal, tambak rakyat tersebut berpotensi untuk dapat scale-up ke yang lebih besar, apabila mampu mengaplikasikan teknologi, sal...

Snails in the mangrove ecosystem have an important role ecology of nutrient dynamics, especially West Munjang Kurau forest, Central Bangka. On other hand, 60-70% forest has experienced significant damage and potential decline. Therefore, limited research been carried out to provide information about species composition snails four zones with different conditions. Gastropod samples were taken ba...

Kemampuan reversible thinking pada ilmu matematika sangat wajib dipelajari oleh setiap siswa fungsinya adalah membantu selama pembelajaran berlangsung dan dapat mengatasi beragam permasalahan yang sifatnya reversible. Tujuan dari jenis penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif ini untuk menganalisis kemampuan dalam mengikuti pelajaran himpunan di kelas. Untuk tahun 2022/2023, kelas VII SMP Swasta BPI P...