Background:Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia that occurs due to abnormal insulin secretion, insulin action or both. Complex disorders occur in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, involving various degrees of decreased beta-cell function, peripheral insulin resistance, and abnormal liver glucose metabolism. Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is a plant that has an antidiabetic effect because of its efficiency in improving blood sugar control and lipid profile.Objectives:To evaluate the effectiveness of Okra fruit on fasting blood sugar and total cholesterol levels in type 2 DM patients.Settings and Design:This study used a quasi-experimental design with a nonequivalent control group approach with pretest and posttest in type 2 DM patients. Methods and Material:The number of samples was 30 respondents obtained by the consecutive sampling technique. Samples were divided into an intervention group and the control group. The intervention was given an okra fruit immersion water once a day in the morning for two weeks and blood samples were taken early before treatment and end of treatment. Statistical analysis used: Statistical analysis using T-test with a 95% CI value.Results:There were differences in the mean of fasting blood sugar levels before and after the intervention (pvalue = 0.000; α = 0.05) and the mean of total cholesterol levels before and after the intervention in the intervention group (p-value = 0.004; α = 0.05). Conclusion:Okra fruit has an effect in reducing fasting blood sugar and total cholesterol levels in patients with type 2 DM.

The survey was conducted in March 2021. The purpose of this survey was to analyze the structure of the mangrove community at Batang Masang Beach Nagari Tiku V Jorong Tanjung Mutiara District Agam Regency West Sumatra. The method used in this study is a survey method. In the mangrove area of ??Batang Masang, 3 observation stations have been determined. Each observation station was drawn by 3 transects over 50 m drawn from the mangrove boundary of the sea to the land. In each transect, 3 plots were placed, each plot consisting of 3 sizes, namely 10 x 10 m for the tree category, 5 x 5 m for the sapling category, and 2 x 2 m for the seedling category. The results of the survey revealed that there were 2 classes, namely the Magnoliopsida class and the Liliopsida class. In the Magnoliopsida class, there are 3 genera namely Acanthus, Rhizophora, and Sonneratia, and there are 3 species namely A. ilicifolius, R. apiculata and S. alba. In the class Liliopsida, there is only 1 genus, namely Nypa, and 1 species N. fruticans. Zone I is dominated by S. alba species, in zone II there are 2 dominant species, namely S. alba and R. Apiculata, and zone III is dominated by R.apiculata species. The criteria for mangrove vegetation are in the scarce criteria with densities ranging from 277.78 to 1066.67 ind/ha

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Managing construction risks with a large number of risks with small impact can increase the additional effort and cost of inefficient construction. Therefore the variables need to be eliminated. The aim of this study is ranking the risk variable based on its frequency of occurrence by integrating time, cost, and quality criteria simultaneously and selecting the top ten variables with the order of the most significant impact. The risk variable ranking based on triple project objective of cost, time, and quality simultaneously is a challenge for particular projects or regions contributing to the risk context. A number of 127 qualitative risk variables of 14 factors occurring in a project to be eliminated require a method/technique. A fuzzy TOPSIS method involving linguistics data is proposed to capture vague conditions. Results show that the top ten rankings of risk variables based on integrating the different weights of cost, time, and quality are successfully identified by concluding that the labour factor is the most dominant variable affecting project risk in context the rehabilitation and reconstruction posttsunami disaster, especially in Aceh-Indonesia. The variables are lack of labour, unskilled labour, undisciplined labour, and low productivity of labour. This condition can differ from different risk contexts. This research is different from other studies that only review cost, time, and quality separately. We stated that to integrate all three criteria of cost, time, and quality simultaneously is more logic to analyze risk variable ranking.

Benzene is well known as a good organic solvent for various processes in industry such as rubber industry, shoes, paint solvents and others. Benzene is a chemical that has long been known to be dangerous to human health because of carcinogenic. One of the informal sectors exposed to benzene is a car painting workshop. This study is intended to determine the levels of phenol in workers urine and analyze the effects of the exposureon the characteristics of the car painting worker in sub districts of Tampan Pekanbaru. The methods used in study are survey and interview. The analysis used in this research is a multiple linear regression, where the independent variable more than 2 variables. They are smoking habit, length of work, duration of exposure and use of PPE. The examination by using the UV-Vis spectrophotometer apparatus. The result showed that were 6 workers who had phenolythuramines level above 20 mg/L exceed of WHO standards. The analysis result found that is affect workers characteristic which is significant to the phenol level in workers urine that has exposed to the benzene.