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Background: Vascular calcification is a marker of atherosclerotic burden and is associated with increased risk of cardiac events. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between clinical cardiac risk factors and aortic root calcification (ARC) in patients with a coronary calcium score...

Objective: The impact of obesity measured by BMI on cardiovascular diseases remains controversial. We investigated the impact of obesity measured by BMI on the prevalence and correlation of aortic root calcification (ARC) and coronary artery calcification (CAC) in patients assessed by multi-detector...

This study aims to obtain preliminary data related to children's perceptions of gadgets and YouTube and what content is often watched by children. YouTube is one website on the internet that can be accessed easily to exchange information in the form of videos. Respondents in this study were preschool...

Underdeveloping countries have a high prevalence of worm infection. Some causes of this condition are poor environmental sanitation, lack of personal hygiene, consuming food contaminated with worm's eggs and low levels of socioeconomic education. More than 1,5 billion people or 24% of world population...

This study aimed to determine the risk factors for endemic cases of Septicaemia Epizootica (SE) diseases and prevalence of immunity (antibody titer) to SE in Aceh Barat, Aceh. 336 samples of buffaloesblood were takenbased on age level guided by the a stratified random sampling. Antibody titers were tested...

The paper aims to study the influence of a chief executive officer (CEO) characteristic on banking financial performance. CEO is the leader who will lead the company to achieve the vision, mission, and short-term target. Shareholders will determine the CEO to run the company for a specific term. Financial...

Traditional games are the result of past human cultural processes which are rich in local wisdom values. The games are played from generation to generation. They have many benefits, including vehicles and media, to stimulate early childhood development. However, traditional games are slowly starting...

The people’s disapproval of the presidential election system during the New Order era was due to the fact that it was deemed less democratic and had the potential to produce authoritarian leaders, so that is an indication of the many problems that eventually led to constitutional changes or the 1945...

Foreign bodies in the ears, nose, and throat are one of the most common cases in the otolaryngology emergency unit in a hospital. Delays in treatment can lead to increased morbidity and mortality. This study aims to determine the characteristics of patients with foreign bodies in the ears, nose, and...

With globalization evolving and global technological improvements today, we are becoming acquainted with a medium called social media. Social media is where individuals can communicate, interact, even publish and express themselves freely. It is no exception as a new vessel for social media users to...

Background: High blood pressure (BP) at a young age and increased left ventricular mass (LVM) are associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular mortality. In addition, ambulatory 24-hour central systolic BP (24cSBP) is more closely associated with LVM than either 24-hour peripheral SBP (24pSBP)...

This study aims to examine the correlation between young legislative candidates and the increase in novice voter participation, as well as to explore novice voter orientations in the 2019 legislative election. In Banda Aceh, the 2019 legislative election saw a rise in young candidates compared to 2014,...

Background: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (aoPWV), the gold-standard measurement of arterial stiffness, has been found associated with cardiac and vascular organ damage. Less information is available with regard to the correlation between local carotid stiffness (CS) and cardiac and vascular preclinical...

Social determinants can lead to health status stratification, including post Covid-19 syndrome (PCS) incidence. Furthermore, studies related to PCS on physical, psychological and social determinants have not been widely studied in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to analyze social determinants...

Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality beyond that attributable to smoking. Increased arterial stiffness has been identified in COPD, however it prognostic value has not been established. The Framingham risk...

Objective: Increased brachial (bBP) and aortic blood pressure (aBP) have been linked to increased arterial stiffness and cardiovascular risk in older individuals. Literature suggests that increased alcohol intake is associated with increased BP both acutely and long term in older adults and heavy alcohol...

The morning and evening twilight brightness are important to probe the properties of the upper atmosphere. We conducted a short survey of broad band twilight sky brightness measurements by using a portable photometer with 5 second resolution, in five places with different elevations. The darkest zenith...

This research aims to determine the attitude on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as sangkal putung patient satisfaction. Attitude is defined as psychological construct that can be realized through beliefs, feelings, and relevant behavioral components that can predict patient’s satisfaction...

Family Planning (KB) Postpartum is important because postpartum control is safe and can increase family planning coverage, be effective in terms of time and reduce Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). Postpartum family planning coverage is still very low. Objective : To making evaluation of postpartum IUDs...

Character-building education is related to character components that contain behavioral values to develop in stages at an early age until higher education. The connection between knowledge of behavioral values with attitudes or emotions. To implement them, it must start at an early age. The government...

Umbul Brintik (Brintik Spring Water), located at Central Java Indonesia has a therapy pool mainly for sick people. There’s this long age myth about the existence of a big tree near the pool said or believed to have magical effects for heal sick people. This has attracted many people to the pool. However,...

Dioscorea spp is a wild plant which is an important food source, however there are no published studies on the nutritional composition of this plants growing at Manokwari Regency. Physical analysis includes color testing using the brand Minolta Reflectance Chromameter type CR-300. Chemical analysis includes...

The purpose of this study is to develop the feasibility and effectiveness of teaching materials to improve the language development of children aged 5-6 years group B at RA Al-Mahabbah. This research was conducted at RA Al-Mahabbah BatangKuis Lubuk Pakam Desa Baru Dusun II, BatangKuis in the even semester...

Advanced age is the most substantial risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis (OA), which consequently declines elderly mobility and activities. So, countless elders get a functional impairment or disability. All three aspects of a person’s environment (physical, social and attitudinal) affect...

Fatigue is a significant dominating risk factor for transport workers, especially for long-distance truck drivers. Fatigued driving can easily lead to decreasing the drivers’ judgment ability, slow reaction, and an increase of operational errors, and as well as increased probability of road traffic accidents....

This study aimed to determine the butterfly pea nutrient content and dry matter and organic matter in vitro digestibility with different harvest ages, fertilized with NPK at 80 kg/ha dosage. This study used butterfly pea, which was cut at different ages in the second defoliation. There were four treatments,...

The curriculum is a set of plans and arrangements regarding the objectives, content and learning materials as well as the methods used as guidelines for the implementation of learning activities to achieve certain educational goals. Learning objectives will be achieved optimally if supported by an adequate...

Climate change significantly threatens the livelihoods and cultural heritage of indigenous communities in Bangladesh, especially in the Chattogram Hill Tracts consisting of Rangamati, Bandarban, and Khagrachari districts. This study explores how the Chakma tribe in Rangamati has adapted to and remained...

Introduction: There are known issues and ongoing discussions regarding calibration methods using peripheral mean and diastolic or peripheral systolic and diastolic pressure for the determination of central systolic blood pressure. The aim of this cross-sectional study is an analysis of determinants for...

Concrete is a split mixture, sand, cement, water, and additives. The concrete to be designed is made of a mixture of cement with bottom ash + sawdust, split, sand, and water. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using bottom ash + sawdust and the ratio between bottom ash + sawdust...

Research reactors are important neutron sources for research and radioisotope production purposes. The common problem of these facilities is their obsolete instrumentation and control (I&C) systems. The spare parts are not still available as their production is discontinued; therefore, the maintenance...

With the development of cross disciplines and permeability increasing, the social demand for high quality talents is more and more serious. Therefore, the sports colleges and universities should pay more attention to training students majoring in Physical Education and Training. This article used the...

Sustainable society is connected with common action for better quality of the human environment and life, as well as comprehensive management of the natural resources. The paper highlights 45 years methodological experiences of problem solving training based on interdisciplinary case studies in different...

Under the background of the Internet era, every industry has made great achievements in the informatization construction. The Internet is constantly integrating into all aspects of our life and becoming an indispensable part. In such a background, as an enterprise, in order to enhance their competitiveness,...

This paper investigates the problems of developing leadership capabilities in young Chinese people. It analyses youth as a socio-demographic category, characterizes the key specific features of the Chinese young generation including their typical parameters. The article also interprets the problems in...

Background: Increased arterial stiffness caused by elevated Blood Pressure (BP) can be indicated by the Cardio-ankle Vascular Index (CAVI). However, the relationship between arterial stiffness and BP is complex. In addition, changes in BP may contribute to increased risk of cardiovascular disease associated...

Objective: Primary arterial hypertenion for teen has caused a lot of debate today, there is too much uncertainty about platelet functional changes in patients with PAH. The objective was to evaluate platelet activity in healthy and suffering from PAH groups of 17–18 year old boys. Materials and methods:...

This study aims to visualize communicable disease data analysis so that it provides benefits in policy making. In research applying Business Intelligence (BI) using the Tableau data analysis tool to develop a Health Area Vulnerability System based on communicable disease data in the City of Semarang....

Agroforestry has emerged as a vital strategy for environmental conservation and climate resilience, with trees playing a key role in carbon dioxide sequestration. However, community engagement in agroforestry and its impact on climate resilience in Tanzania remains underexplored. This study assessed...

Background: A negative aortic-brachial stiffness gradient (ab-SG), whereby aortic pulse wave velocity (aPWV)≥brachial PWV (bPWV) predicts mortality independent of aPWV in dialysis patients. Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have increased risk of renal damage and exhibit haemodynamic abnormalities...

Office central blood pressure (cBP) have been shown to better predict cardiovascular events than standard peripheral pressure. With Vasotens software and BPLab monitor (OOO Petr Telegin, Russia) is now possible to estimate central pressure over 24h. However to date, no data have shown that 24h monitoring...

Vocational High Schools (SMK) have technical and practical learning methods. The teachers always give simulations for students directly for the best education. Both must follow the trends of machine and technology innovation. Three-dimensional printing (3D printer) is increasingly being used by industry...

It is very important to promote information quality of college students for their creatively acquiring, processing and applying effective information at the age of Big Data. In line with the requirements of present social development for application-oriented information technology undergraduates the...

This Logistic model on consumers’ willingness to buy brand ginseng products and measurement analysis of influencing factors. Results show that consumers buy brands of ginseng products under the influence of a variety of factors, the primary factor for the consumer's personal factors, including consumer's...

Because since the arrival of the current media era to the current Political Education in Colleges ring and internet have brought no small impact, it also allows the current academic circles began to explore new paths Campus Ideological Education Innovation Development, some scholars have proposed to...

Agility is arguably one of the most important characteristics of successful Information Age organizations. The study of agility organizations is currently one of the hottest topics in the organization study field. In this paper, we first put forward an agile command and control (C2) organization model...

SR Ranganathan in 1931 proposed a theory called The Five laws of library science. This theory became a foundation for the world of librarianship and influenced the library science. The emerges of technology in life made it necessary to redefine the five laws of librarianship. This research aims to describe...

In the context of the Internet era, network technology has been widely used in many fields of society, and the audit work is also affected by the Internet era. Compared with before, the object of audit work and the environment have undergone significant changes, the enterprise audit work is moving in...

The role of ventricular–arterial hemodynamic interaction in the occurrence of arterial dissection and rupture in vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is unknown. We recently introduced an ultrasound-based method to extract, from common carotid artery (CCA) diameter waveforms, central arterial properties...

Some sub-districts in Bali province have stunting prevalence more that national average which might be associated with the environmental health condition in those areas. This study aimed to examine the association between environmental health factors with stunting prevalence among children age 2 – 5...