Passiflora edulis leaf extracts were added as an active ingredient for alcohol-based hand sanitizer (ABHS). Matured leaveswere air-dried, powdered, and soaked in methanol (1:10, w/v) for 24 hours. The solvent-free crude extract was used toformulate hand sanitizer utilizing varying amounts of leaf extract (1,3 and 5% w/w). The antimicrobial activities of the leafextracts and the...
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Design of Patient Specific Hip Prosthesis based on Finite Element Analysis: A Comparative Study
This study aims to develop a patient-specific hip implant for osteoarthritis conditions and to compare with intact and conventional implant. The femoral bone with head and shaft region was segmented from the pelvic griddle and converted into 3D model. The parameters such as femoral ball diameter, shaft length, acetabular cup diameter, and neck angle were...
Automating mosquito taxonomy by compressing and enhancing a feature fused EfficientNet with knowledge distillation and a novel residual skip block
Identifying lethal vector and non-vector mosquitoes can become difficult for a layperson and sometimes even for experts, considering their visual similarities. Recently, deep learning (DL) became a solution to assist in differentiating the two mosquito types to reduce infections and enhance actions against them. However, the existing methods employed to develop a DL model for...
Design of an Exoskeleton Robot for Lower-Body Rehabilitation
This paper presents a design of an exoskeleton robot to aid in lower-body rehabilitation of patients who have trouble with walking. The robot is intended for people who suffered from spinal cord injuries, brain trauma, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, and stroke. Specifically, a robot for rehabilitation can aid therapists and patients by letting the robot...
Conductive Filament Composites from Waste Battery Rod-Derived Exfoliated Graphite for Fused Deposition Modeling 3D Printing: A Two-Level Factorial Design Optimization Study
This study used carbon rods from spent zinc-carbon batteries as a source of exfoliated graphite (EG) to produce conductive filament composites for fused deposition modeling 3D printing. The EG filler was prepared through microwave irradiation, while the resulting 3D printable electroconductive EG composites were prepared using polylactic acid (PLA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) as the...
An Enhanced Segmentation and Deep Learning Architecture for Early Diabetic Retinopathy Detection
Diabetic retinopathy is a serious complication needing prompt diagnosis and medication to avert vision loss. Lesions caused by the condition are difficult to track because they are hidden behind the eye’s structure in small and subtle forms. To extract relevant features., we created a robust pipeline using multiple preprocessing techniques., image segmentation architecture (DR-UNet) with...
AI in Tourism: Leveraging Machine Learning in Predicting Tourist Arrivals in Philippines using Artificial Neural Network
Tourism is one of the most prominent and rapidly expanding sectors that contribute significantly to the growth of a country’s economy. However, the tourism industry has been most adversely affected during the coronavirus pandemic. Thus, a reliable and accurate time series prediction of tourist arrivals is necessary in making decisions and strategies to develop the...
Drying Characteristics of Herbs, Spices, and Medicinal Plants
The acceptability of food is significantly increased by the addition of herbs, spices, and medicinal plants. These biomaterials improve the shelf-life of food, delay its oxidation, and impart health-promoting properties as natural therapies. The physical and chemical properties of aromatic and medicinal plants are determined by their moisture content since water is the most significant...
Understanding Employees’ Energy Saving in the Workplace: DR and the Philippines’ Realities
Understanding how employees act at work to save energy and the meaning for sustainability and environmental protection is essential. This research aimed to analyze the influences of Subjective Norms (SN), Descriptive Norms (DN), and Environmental Knowledge (EK) on employees’ intention to save energy (ISE) in the Philippines (PH) and the Dominican Republic (DR). The effects...
Towards Personalized Medication Management: A Novel Approach to Medication Reminder Using Wearable Sensors and IoT
This study proposed a novel approach to personalized medication management using wearable sensors and IoT (Internet of Things) technology. The aim is to develop a medication reminder system that is tailored to the individual needs of patients, taking into account their specific medication schedules and dosages. The system uses wearable sensors to monitor the patient’s...
