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Teachers’ interaction and students’ perceptions toward their favorable teaching style may elevate students’ motivation. Thus, the current study aims to investigate senior high school students’ perceptions toward group work in EFL classes, recruiting senior high school students and distinguishing them...

Over time, relational databases remain an important part of today’s statistics management notwithstanding the need to maximize efficiency in order to improve its rate of data retrieval. This review looks at ten influential papers that explore various aspects to do with performance enhancements. We discuss...

Malnourished children may have compromised immune system. Snake head fish was well known for its albumin as a potential immunomodulator by enhancing both humoral and cellular immune response. This research aim to develop snakehead fish albumin into karageenan that can be accepted. We used snakehead fish...

Objectives: Shorter leukocyte telomere length is associated with cardiovascular risk and decreased nitric oxide bioavailability. Aforementioned are also linked with increased oxidative stress and inflammation. 1,2 Telomere length, NO metabolites (NOx), blood pressure, oxidative stress and inflammation...

Background: Increased arterial stiffness has been established in patients with COPD (1). However, the changes in aortic stiffness over time and contributing factors are still unknown. We hypothesise that there would be a significant change in aortic stiffness in COPD over one year. Methods: Aortic pulse...

In 1960, most Singaporeans living in slums and crowed settlements. The Housing & Development Board (HDB) was set up in 1960 to solve Singapore’s housing crisis. Within 10 years, HDB built a large number of houses which successfully solved the housing crisis. Now HDB has built more than 1 million...

This article highlights a cultural tradition of the Dayak Dusun tribe, residing in a region called Kalahien in the Central Kalimantan Province of Indonesia. The tradition in question is known as Panindrai. Panindrai involves making contributions to families mourning the loss of a loved one. The aim of...

Tartary buckwheat is a kind of food and medicinal material and it contains abundant protein. Tartary buckwheat protein has the characteristics of indigestibility and other physiological activities The main purpose of this paper is research the prebiotic effects of protein extract of tartary buckwheat...

Nowadays, many researches have concentrated on team negotiation in various negotiation environments. Although the effectiveness of team negotiation has been proven, the effects of team member's solidarity behavior on the process and outcome of negotiation have not been explored yet. In this paper, the...

Cipangopaludina chinensis which is a kind of benthic invertebrates was taken as experimental invertebrate. In the condition of the Roxithromycin, the activity of APND and GST abstracted from the liver and kidney tissues of Cipangopaludina chinensis to investigate the effect of Roxithromycin on the biochemical...

Smart grid can be used to continuously measure, monitor, predict and even control electricity consumption. However, the energy consumption information may reveal the privacy of users. In this paper, we propose a new privacy-preserving smart grid system based on a k-times short dynamic group signature...

Establishing indicators oriented towards the creation of a global society to the detriment of new forms of neo-colonialism. In the relations between Developed and Emerging Countries as part of the Global Health Diplomacy, there is a risk that the former can adopt behaviors induced by the financial needs...

This study reports how to combine a technology readiness model within an information system (IS) success model in the context for assessing the readiness and success factors of an IS integration. As it is indicated by many IS studies, that most of the IS models are developed by adopting, combining, and...

Of particular concern from a health perspective is the evidence that many adolescents appear to get insufficient amounts of sleep. Sleep patterns change considerably from childhood to early adulthood, with dramatic shifts occurring during adolescence, with a tendency towards delayed sleep times and wake-up...

The article is devoted to the results of the study of the phenomenon of “Russian hospitality” in Russian classical literature. The dichotomous nature of the phenomenon of "hospitality" - as a sociocultural phenomenon, on the one hand, and the practice of hosting guests, on the other hand, is considered...

Selective eating and hyperphagia are frequently encountered in individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). They may increase arterial stiffness, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, via excessive sodium intake, nutritional deficiency, and obesity. Therefore, primary prevention of cardiovascular...

To implement the new May decrees of the Russian president, a significant breakthrough in the social and economic development of our country will require huge financial resources - more than 35 trillion rubles over the next 6 years. The state budget does not yet have sufficient funds, so the new government...

As midwives of a new era, intellectuals are playing a pivotal role in the construction of the modern state at any time. Group of scholars as the core of Hu Shih also gave them own observation and efforts, put forward and practice the modern state founding ideas of "Good Governmentalism" in May Fourth...

Heterosis is a powerful and valuable tool for commercial beef producers, especially cow calf operations. Despite the importance of heterosis, and its extensive genetic analysis, little understanding exists of its molecular basis. We applied RNA-Seq technology to assess transcriptome-wide allele-specific...

There is a major impact on children who have to experience the terrifying nature of domestic violence. These are only, of course, negative results and alters the affects children’s attachment relationships. “Domestic violence can be defined as the systematic pattern of abusive behaviors in a relationship...

This research presents the probability of default profiles of non-financial public companies in Asia’s market. Investors may need to monitor the market which they want to invest in. In this case, the probability of default is used to represent the financial condition. Using the Merton model as a structural...

Introduction: Invasive intra-aortic pressures are the gold standard for accurate Blood Pressure (BP) measurement. Hypertension management is guided by brachial cuff BP although its accuracy has been questioned. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that there may be a discrepancy between brachial and invasive...

Background: Exercise is part of antihypertensive therapy. However, little is known about the effect of different types of exercise on hemodynamic variables in systemic arterial hypertension (SAH). Purpose: To evaluate the effect of an aerobic (AE), resistance (RE) and combined (CE) exercise session on...

Background: High aortic blood pressure (BP) predicts clinical outcomes beyond peripheral BP. Aortic BP may differ according to level of systolic BP (SBP)-amplification but these differences cannot be identified using current non-invasive BP measurement methods. In this study, we sought to determine if...

Type 2 diabetes (DM2) and poor glycemic control adversely affect common carotid intima media thickness (IMT), considered marker of preclinical atherosclerosis. However, studies evaluating the effect of DM2 and glucose levels on IMT did not consider carotid diameter, known to affect IMT. A certain IMT...

The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act 2021 aims to enforce human rights standards in the entire supply chain from raw material to end product. It applies to bigger companies that have their administrative headquarters or registered office in Germany, including companies which have a branch office...

Background Postpartum depression (PPD) is a common psychological disorder that affects many new mothers worldwide. The prevalence of postpartum depression in Indonesia is around 23.8%, higher than the global average of 13%. Postpartum depression is believed to be associated with cultural...

The Covid-19 phenomenon has implications for the crisis in almost all sectors in Indonesia, even globally. PT H.M. Sampoerna experienced a crisis when employees were infected with Covid19, there were casualties and became a Covid-19 cluster as in May 2020. To maintain trust & reputation, PT. H.M....

Alas Purwo National Park has a buffer area, namely Kutorejo Subvillage, Kalipahit Village, Tegaldlimo District, Banyuwangi Regency. The communities around the buffer area have local wisdom in the use of medicinal plants. Therefore it is important to carry out an ethnobotanical study in this area as a...

MySejahtera application has been adopted by the Malaysian government since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. It is a digital tracing tool with functions, amongst others, to assist the government to monitor and control the spreading of the COVID-19 cases. Data ownership and privacy are...

To overcome shortcomings that C/OS-II based on static priority scheduling policy may block the tasks in low priority for a long time task scheduling policy based on high response ratio scheduling preferentially is added and achieved .This scheme divided the task in the system into significant tasks and...

The capability of control elements to manage the reactor operation does not merely relay on their negative reactivity worth, but also the speed required to shutdown the reactor when operation state leads to an accident condition. The response speed of control elements is characterized by delay time which...

A diversity of social life is a big challenge in bringing harmony to the political values. Sometimes in social life, harmonious values that should be the foundation of building a peaceful social life foundation instead turn into a threat of social disintegration because it only promotes anti-humanist,...

In the era of Big Data, the multidimensional datasets from electric power, medical treatment and other industries are often unbalanced, and the positive data usually costs more seriously when being classified. According to different datasets, the distribution tendency of datasets may reduce the accuracy...

Data mining is the extraction of present information from high volume of data sets, it's a modern technology. The main intention of the mining is to extract the information from a large no of data set and convert it into a reasonable structure for further use. The social media websites like Facebook,...

Background: Central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) may be more predictive of cardiovascular events than brachial BP. Therefore, non-invasive methods of determining central BP, which are suitable for routine clinical use, are required. The aim of this study was to compare estimates of cSBP provided by...

The article highlights the factors that may affect structural modernization of the industrial production sphere. Its economic substance and managerial identity are revealed. A conceptual model of managing functioning and development of a region’s industrial complex in the way of the “restructuring” factor...

The ranked-set sampling technique has been generalized so that a more efficient estimator may be obtained. This technique allows more than one unit from each set to be quantified. Consequently, the number of units to be sampled may be reduced significantly and as a result, the corresponding cost would...

The rise of the Far East is a national priority for the entire XXI century. To develop enabling environment for doing business and attracting investments, the free economic zones with a special legal regime for entrepreneurial business – the territories of advanced social and economic development and...

This article aims to discuss ritual as one of the signs of maritime culture. This is revealed through the certain characteristic of how rituals toward the sea such as nadran, sedekah laut, and labuh saji are held by the coastal community. Ritual as an event presents in a spare time as the form of liminalities....

The principle of democracy upholds the rights of every citizen in terms of freedom of expression. Muslim has rights and even has to think and argue. The right to freedom of expression should not violate the rights of other people because basically, every citizen has the right to freedom of opinion which...

In newsboy model, the relationship between unit cost and order quantity of retailer is established, and the optimal decision of retailer is given. By analyzing the optimal decision of the retailer, it is found that the optimal order quantity of the retailer based on the cost curve may be larger, smaller...

Blood pressure variability (BPV) is due to complex interaction of cardiac and vascular factors and is influenced significantly by baroreceptor control. The cardiovagal baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) has been shown to depend on vascular compliance and this may explain recent epidemiological association...

Introduction: Central Pressure (PC) has shown to be more reliable in cardiovascular (CV) mortality (1); Salt intake and excretion seems to lead to an increase in this pulsatile component of the arterial flow (2, 3). C entral Pulse Pressure (PPc) data is very few. Methods: A population-based cross-sectional...

The ground-breaking developments in non-invasive imaging over the last 50 years has provided a range of exciting new tools for physiologists and clinicians interested in large artery structure and function. The main focus of my lecture will be on MRI and PET/CT. MRI can be used in a number of different...

Some classical types of nonlinear periodic wave motion are studied in special coodinates. In the case of cylinder coordinates, the usual perturbation techniques leads to the overdetermined systems of linear algebraic equations for unknown coefficients whose compatibility is key step of the investigation....

This quantitative study investigated the relationship between Shanghai preschool teachers’ beliefs and their practices of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP). Altogether 182 respondents from 13 preschools in Shanghai completed Teacher Beliefs and Practices Survey (three to five-year-olds) (including...

Dating shows have now penetrated the television audiences of China. The basic fundamentals of the show are to find two compatible contestants, starting them on a road of love and romance. The contestants need to reveal particular issues regarding their characters and background hoping for an attraction,...

For a long time, Starbucks had almost the entire coffee market in China. However, this situation has been disrupted by the emergence of local coffee brand Luckin, which has given Starbucks a powerful rival in the Chinese market. In less than three years, Luckin has more stores in China than Starbucks,...

The paper looks at differences when someone learns a new language through a sociolinguistic way, seeing how things like where someone lives may affect what they learn and what all that means for giving everyone a fair education. Utilizing an integrative methodology inclusive of both quantified data examination...