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Objective: There has been little inquiry addressing whether or not concerns about adverse effects of energy drink usage are relevant in the Caribbean. This survey investigated energy drink usage and adverse consequences among tertiary level students in Trinidad and Tobago. Methods: A cross-sectional...

This article describes that the level of capitalization of the insurance market is an essential indicator for assessment its level of development, the monitoring introduction of which will help to provide the effective tools for problem-solving monitoring of risks and supervision in the insurance market....

Advancement in information technology have created opportunities for the use of mobile applications (app) for activity monitoring. This study aims to observe the feasibility of using mobile app for monitoring ACL injuries during dynamic sporting activities in a two-year prospective cohort study. This...

This study aims to determine the effectiveness and feasibility of developing digital comic media to overcome academic procrastination for students. This research uses quantitative and qualitative methods which carried out through research and development approaches. The activities carried out in this...

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a basic method for analyzing the intrinsic structure of non-negative matrices but cannot work well when datasets include some subsets drawn from different generative schemes. This paper proposes a novel switching NMF algorithm, which simultaneously estimates...

We exhibit the solution of the initial-value problem for the system of 2N + 2 oscillators characterized by the Hamiltonian H(p^0,pˇ0,p^_,pˇ_,q^0,qˇ0,q^_,qˇ_)=12[p^02−pˇ02+Ω2(q^02−qˇ02)]        +q^0−Ωqˇ02b∑n=1N[p^n2−pˇn2+ωn2(q^n2−qˇn2)]+p^0−Ωq^0b∑n=1N[−p^npˇn+ωn2q^nqˇn] where N is an arbitrary positive...

Among various natural food sources, spirulina contains β-carotene which is higher than other sources that is used to overcome malnutrition. However, spirulina was widely marketed in the conventional form such as capsules and tablets which are less favorable for consumption. In order to increase its acceptability,...

With the development of Internet technology and mobile terminals’ popularity, mobile reading apps have become a common way of reading in today’s society. This paper takes the WeChat Reading app as the object of studying. It examines the product, pricing, channel, and promotion strategies of the WeChat...

Aggressive T-cell depletion, in vitro or in vivo, is a prerequisite for survival of haplo-identical stem cell transplantation. The classical T-cell-depleted transplant, immunomagnetically enriched CD34+ cells, is very safe with respect to graft-versus-host reactivity, but associated with very high transplant-related...

Numerous facts, studies, and practical observations substantiate the profound influence of students’ attitudes towards learning on the educational process, its outcomes, and the overall quality of education, particularly when they are training to become educators. Moreover, given the inherent individual...

The diversity of brain disease can be attributed to the complexity of the nervous system. External, genetic, and epigenetic factors such as physical trauma, illness, and environmental factors can cause and worsen brain disease. The advancement of technology has led many to seek a lifestyle that is both...

How can we make digital education more inclusive? Based on interviews with teachers and underserved students about their experiences with online teaching during the COVID pandemic, we advance the knowledge about equity and digital education. We identify specific opportunities and challenges to inclusion...

A workflow modeling method based on the expanded P/T system (hereafter to be called the xP/T system) is put forward to make the correctness verification of the graphical modeling easier and simplify the complication of Petri net modeling. Meanwhile the correctness verification of the modeling is given....

Laser metal deposition process is an additive manufacturing technology that is capable of producing three dimensional components as well as repair of an existing worn out components. Processing parameters play an important role on the resulting properties of the processed materials using the laser metal...

The condition in character education of environmental awareness in the formal school is not yet completely able to develop the students' characters to participate and to behave with environmental awareness. Therefore, a value education model is developed by involving three educational environments based...

Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) has been widely used in the out-of-band management functions, IPMI protocol itself has some security issues, and major server manufacturers further develop independent out-of-band management products based on t, but also increased the out-of-band management...

This study aims to (1) develop an integrative thematic textbook for the 1st grade of elementary school oriented to improve critical thinking skills; (2) to know the feasibility level of integrative thematic textbooks (3) to know the level of legibility of integrative thematic textbooks; and (4) to know...

Dissatisfaction issues rise for the usage of only one piece of writing as a basis for assessing writing skills make many teachers look for alternative assessment type, like portfolio assessment. A high interest given to the usage of portfolio coincides with the rapid development of technology integration...

This research purpose to observed the competency of physical education and sport teachers at Town Jayapura, Regent Jayapura and Regent Keerom in Papua Province with survey. The competency of physical education and sport teachers as a variabel independent through survey with posttest design only. There...

Prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the world has increased significantly in the last decades. Post meal physical exercise studies could improves blood glucose levels in diabetic patients. Plyometric exercise is a simple body movement that usually uses in body weight management. Therefore the aim of this...

This research aims to find out the effectiveness of using duolingo application to improve students’ speaking and listening skills. The research was carried out at SMP IT Al-Hafit Pekanbaru involving 58 students in the 8th Grade as the research sample. This study uses quantitative research methods with...

A common problem in this study is the effect of industrial work practices of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial learning outcomes toward students' interest in entrepreneurship in the grade XII at the state vocational high school1. Variables in this study are industrial work practices of entrepreneurship...

The purpose of this study is to identify coping strategy, religious coping, and cognitive distortion among single mothers. The samples of this study were a hundred respondents that selected from the communities of single mothers in Yogyakarta. Data collected with a set of questionnaires that consists...

Nowadays, the search for potential probiotics from lactic acid bacteria continues to develop exclusively for pharmaceutical applications. This study aimed at evaluating the potency of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from fermented brine of romaine lettuce as next-generation probiotics. The study...

The carrying capacity of rice plants to meet national food demand is inseparable from effective and efficient cultivation techniques. The need of rice plants for fertilizer is a recurring problem, due to the farmers’ tendency to apply fertilizer, especially urea, at the excessive doses. Balanced fertilizer...

The incidence of breast cancer in Indonesia reached 58,256 and was ranked first in 2018. Estrogen has an important role in breast cancer carcinogenesis, especially through the interaction of 17β-Estradiol. The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in average hormone levels based on the...

During the dry season, several areas in Indonesia experience drought. Communities in some areas have difficulty getting clean water. One solution to overcome this problem is to use a machine that produces water from the air. This machine works by utilizing the evaporator as a component to condense water...

The importance of medical big data mining in scientific research cannot be ignored. In order to cultivate undergraduates’ medical scientific research literacy, improve their scientific statistical thinking and ability to solve practical problems in scientific research, it is necessary to combine scientific...

To grasp the mental health status of freshmen at Chongqing University of Science and Technology and analyze the sources of factors affecting freshmen’s mental health. This study constructed a mental health management model to measure the psychological status and mental health of 1,321 college freshmen...

This study examines how different amounts of styrene–butadiene rubber (SBR) affects the mechanical and thermal properties of natural rubber (NR) composites. NR–SBR blends containing 0, 10, 20, 30, and 50 wt% SBR were prepared with a constant carbon black content (30 phr) and standard curing additives....

The purpose of this research was to investigate the overreaction anomaly in stocks listed on the IDX30 and LQ45 amid the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020. An overreaction anomaly or price reversal occurs when looser stocks outperform winner stocks, which can be seen from the ACAR value of each stock. The samples...

With the continuous improvement of artificial intelligence (AI), its applications significantly increased. Increasingly, scholars have conducted a series of studies on AI in psychology. In this paper, bibliometric analysis has been used to understand the research contents and evolution trend of AI in...

Fuel supply chains face critical challenges in balancing service reliability and cost efficiency, particularly in emerging markets with limited storage capacity. PT XYZ, a fuel distributor in Timor Leste, experienced two stockout incidents and two demurrage events in 2023, resulting in financial losses...

Traditionally " "Bz/" "T is used to obtain the apparent resistivity values in the data interpretation of grounded-wire source transient electromagnetic, which leads to the problem of multiple solutions. Using Bz, this problem can be solved. Because with the change of resistivity, the Bz is a single-valued...

Most elderly has decreasing quality of sleep. Sleep patterns of elderly are different from children and adults, the need of the elderly to sleep is 5-7 hours / day. Elderly often awakened in the middle of the night because of physical changes due to age and disease patterns, sleep quality significantly...

The general problems existing in the t team construction of the discipline of ideological and political education management in colleges and universities is analyzed for exploring its nature, defining its concept, and making distinction between itself and its relative concepts. Then the team construction...

Based on the SI communicable disease model, this paper established the model of quality safety information diffusion by comparing the system composition of SI model and the diffusing process with the model of quality safety information diffusion. Then, the paper overcomes the defect that and are fixed...

Background: Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) is one of the major risk factors related to the development of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Sodium intake is linked to elevated blood pressure and can be estimated by 24-h urinary sodium excretion. The objective of this study was to correlate 24 h urinary...

Resistance exercise (RE) is currently recommended for most adults and is important for reducing risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and improving quality of life. Despite functional and musculoskeletal benefits, high-intensity RE has been shown to acutely increase arterial stiffness...

Background: In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the number of hospital visits was significantly decreased. There was a decrease in the number of outpatient visits from 9911 patients in January to 5586 patients in May 2020 in UNS hospital. This study aims to know the association the level of stress, hospital...

In the era of digital technology that continues to develop, the world is moving towards transactions with a very positive approach. Over the last two decades, digitization has revolutionized not only consumer marketing but also industrial marketing. The effect of digital marketing communication on product...

The (Hamiltonian, rotation- and translation-invariant) "goldfish" N-body problem in the plane is characterized by the Newtonian equations of motion ¨zn - i zn = 2 N m=1,m=n an,m zn zm (zn - zm) -1 , written here in their complex version, entailing the identification of the real "physical" plane with...

A needs analysis has been carried out in 2022–2023 at four universities. Of the 142 respondents, 88% of students agreed that learning would be developed as a flipped classroom learning model based on an online learning management system, 65% offline. The aim of the research is to develop a learning model...

The implementation of new accounting standards has become a key change in the development process of bank-based insurance companies as the regulatory and standardization requirements of the financial industry continue to improve. Driven by the new accounting standards, the business model and financial...

This study aims to: 1) Produce a reality group counseling guide to improve the self-concept of Vocational High School students in Sleman Regency, 2) Know the effectiveness of a reality group counseling guide in improving students’ self-concept. This research is using the development approach (Research...

The satellite image time series classification plays a crucial role in remote sensing and offers multiple applications for agriculture, land management, and disaster monitoring. Although deep learning methods are powerful, they suffer from overfitting in some cases, especially when there is a lack of...

As cultural exchanges become more widespread, the trade of cultural products has great potential. And in the context of the digital era, China should use the Internet to further expand the trade of cultural products. This paper aims at assessing the export efficiency of China’s cultural products using...

Stroke can happen to anyone regardless of age, it can happen repeatedly or just happen to everyone. Stroke is the number one cause of disability. Every stroke sufferer has different stages in achieving recovery. Individuals adapt to survive and can rise again to continue life. This resilience concept...

In a dynamic world, integrating agriculture with artificial intelligence (AI) can address major issues like population growth, food security, and climate change while promoting sustainability and innovation. Using the information acquired from the field, farmers who include AI in their farming operations...

The article defines a set of measures aimed at preventing erosion by agricultural forestry in agricultural production, taking into account environmental and economic efficiency. By types of agricultural landscape to protect the soil from erosion, research and production experiments on the implementation...