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Technology bring possibility to conduct focus group discussion (FGD) virtually, especially during COVID-19. Online FGD conducted to explore needs assessment to design an effective drug prevention program among high-risk youth. 10 Online FGD within 5 participant for each group conducted involving youths from high-risk areas. Sessions recorded with the participants' consent. Online FGD provides flexibility of time and venue, and widens the opportunity to gather more in-depth data. However, online FGD might cause the interactions less dynamic. Thus, it calls for future studies on the effectiveness of online focus group discussion as compared to the conventional face-to-face method. Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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In the era of industry 4.0, it is important for businesses to conduct design and engineering activities via data exchange in cloud computing. Collaborative design in concurrent engineering through virtual reality simulation using digital mock up (DMU) presented in this paper is to construct a simulation in digital environment in order to reduce development time, cost and improve quality of product which will impact to accelerated time to market. However, due to current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic outbreak, the activities could be interrupted. The virtual reality design collaboration seems to be as a solution with the support of cloud storage of product design and satisfy design issue in concurrent engineering. It is also overcome the geographical limitation and social distancing constraint in “face to face” collaboration. Thus, stakeholders’ activities are carried out as usual without interruption in the challenging period during the pandemic. Finally, virtual simulation of collaborative design in concurrent engineering of previous related works conducted by the author are briefly presented. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
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We report two confirmed human bite cases by Lactrodectus geometricus , also known as the brown widow spider. These are the first reported bite envenomation incidents by L. geometricus in Malaysia. The incidents occurred in Tawau, Sabah and Paka, Terengganu. Both men were bitten on their ear while putting on motorcycle helmets. The spiders appeared to have nested in the helmets. The dead specimens were collected and sent to the Invertebrate and Vertebrate Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya for identification. The species identity was confirmed by DNA barcoding.