Middle Eastern/North African women have worse IVF outcomes with decreased live birth rates per blastocyst transfer and increased miscarriage rates compared to Caucasian women.

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The improvement of quality health service has become a national and global mainissue in the health development. This is due to great demand of service in healthorganization to provide optimum service health. The effort of improving qualityhealth service consists of health organization and health professionals. This studyaimed to describe patient satisfaction of service quality of health professional indental clinic of RSUP Dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo Makassar. The samples of thisdescriptive survey study were patients of the hospital who fulfill criteria ofinclusion. Intake of samples by purpose, and sample size was 85 people. Patientsatisfaction was determined using RATER dimensions -reliability, assurance,tangible, empathy and responsiveness. Service quality, which was assessed basedon average of percentage of patient answers, is considered good if satisfaction is ≥60% and bad if satisfaction is ≤ 60%. The results show that the reliability,assurance, tangible, empathy, and responsiveness of health officer, are 82.4%,76.5%, 89.4%, 87.1%, and 78.8% respectively. The study concludes that servicequality of the dental clinic in 2007 was good.

Diare shigellosis pada balita merupakan masalah serius sebab dapat menyebabkan kematian. Untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor risiko kejadian shigellosis pada anak balita dilakukan studi kasus kontrol di beberapa rumah sakit di Kota Makassar dengan 68 kasus dan 136 kontrol. Datamengenai jenis kelamin dan status gizi anak balita, pemberian air susu ibu (ASI) eksklusif, status ekonomi, pendidikan ibu, kebiasaan ibu mencuci tangan memakai sabun, kepadatan hunian rumah, sarana air bersih, danjamban keluarga dikumpulkan dengan wawancara dan observasi serta dikategorikan dan disaring (screening) dengan uji chi square. Enam variabel dengan nilai p < 0,25 dimasukkan dalam uji regresi logistik yang menghasilkan3 variabel dengan nilai p < 0,05 (gizi rendah, ASI tidak eksklusif, dan status ekonomi rendah). Uji regresi logistik tahap kedua dengan 3 variabel ini menghasilkan model shigellosis = 1,47 gizi rendah + 1,471 ASI tidak eksklusif + 1,022 status ekonomi rendah – 2,546” dengan nilai oddsratio (OR) = 4,352 (gizi rendah), 4,353 (ASI tidak eksklusif), dan 2,779 (status ekonomi rendah). Studi ini menyimpulkan bahwa gizi balita yang rendah, pemberian ASI yang tidak eksklusif, dan status ekonomi ibu yang rendah merupakan faktor-faktor risiko penting kejadian diare shigellosis padabalita.Kata kunci: Balita, diare, shigellosis, status giziAbstractShigellosis diarrhea is a serious issue to children under five years old since it may lead to death. To determine the risk factors influence to children under five shigellosis, a case control study conducted in hospitals in Makassar involving 68 cases and 136 controls. Data on sex, nutrition status of children under five, exclusive breastfeeding, economic status, education, hand washing with soap, house density, clean water facility, and toilet were collected by interview and observation. All collected data were categorized and screened using chi-square test to obtain variables for logistic regression. Sixvariables with p value < 0,25 were putted to logistic regression resulted 3 variables with p value < 0,05 (low nutrition status, p value = 0,00; nonexclusive breastfeeding, p value = 0,00; low economic status of mother, p value = 0,00). These variables gave final model of “shigellosis = 1,47 low nutrition status + 1,471 nonexclusive breastfeeding + 1,022 low economic status – 2,546” with odds ratio (OR) = 4,352 (low nutrition status), 4,353 (nonexclusive breastfeeding), and 2,779 (low economic status of mother). This study concludes that low nutrition status, nonexclusive breastfeeding, and low economic status of mother are important risk factors of shigellosis in children under five.Key words: Children under five, diarrhea, logistic regression, shigellosis, nutrition status

<span>This paper presents, wavelet based de-noising technique for on-site partial discharge (PD) measurement signal. The signal is measured from medium voltage power cable at 11 kV distribution substation. The best mother wavelet, decomposition level and the type of threshold for the de-noising technique are selected based on the signal to noise ratio (SNR) aggregation. The SNR aggregation is determined based on the minimum, maximum, mean and standard deviation parameters.   The same standard de-noising procedure is applied for two different PD signals and the selection parameters are done based on the accuracy of de-noising analysis. The analysis is performed in MATLAB software environment and Daubechies 2 (db2) is found as the best mother wavelet at tenth decomposition levels with soft threshold type. This study is specifically performed to develop the de-noising procedure for on-site PD measurement. Overall results indicate that the right selection of the de-noising procedure will help to improve the PD signal detection from on–site measurement.</span>