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Abstract-The growing numbers of social problems among youth have become the major fear of the government agencies. Alcoholism among youth is one of the primary topics discussed when studying subject regarding social problems. The seriousness of alcohol consumption leads to the urgencies for researchers to examine the elements that encourage such scenario happened. Thus, this paper aims to explore the various factors that lead to alcohol consumption among youth. Methodologically; the paper employs a quantitative approach to have in depth understanding of the antecedents that lead to the issue. It begins with an introductory background of alcoholism among youth and the scenario of alcoholism among youth in Malaysia as in general. The paper then proceeds to capture the factors that lead youth to consume alcohol exaggeratedly. The analysis provides the factors that lead to alcohol consumption, the frequencies of consumption, starting age of youth to consume alcohol and also correlation analysis on the subject matter. There also some discussion and suggestions on alcoholism among youth.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is a special kind of network communication architecture which has a very wide range of application and the cost-effectiveness of this architecture boosts its adaptability and usability. The erratic use of WSN, its rapid advancement has encouraged the research community to report several standing problems with WSN, among them is the concern of network life and node energy management in a dense network. This paper presents the experimental outcomes of using MDC multi-tier approach in dense network environments. Besides the node density, experiments also consider the interagricultural field hurdles that cause communication disturbance among the nodes that exist in ground level, or at some height above the farming field. The simulated experiment shows the noteworthy results, which comparatively enhance the network lifetime, efficiently utilizing individual node energy, and maximizing the content delivery.

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