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Communication is a very essensial aspect of cross-culture care nursing practice. Nurses will meet some obstacles in the situations where they do not communicate as their patients` language, and it will lead to the poor quality of nursing care. Objective: The purpose of the study is to explore the student...

Manganese (Mn) is known to be essential for maintaining the proper function and regulation of many biochemical. To investigate the toxicity of Mn on bird brains, 50-day-old cocks were fed either a commercial diet or a Mn-supplemented diet. the following were determined: Mn concentration, Ca2+ concentration,...

Gear boxes and direct-drive systems are commonly used in the transmission of large wind turbines. The components such as blades, rotor, gear box and the generator should be set up coaxially in the nacelle. Thus, the total weights of the nacelle increases with the size of the wind turbines. This research...

Coalescence effect of the surface disposal devices is greatly impacted by the large amount of aging oil because of its complicated interfacial properties, which heavily affects oil production. The typical aging oil properties are evaluated, interfacial properties and the causes of formation are discussed...

The article focuses on the nature and factors that define tax potential of a state. Tax potential is unlocked during the process of forming tax liabilities according to an existing procedure and rules of tax assessment. The article also shows relation among the actual, latent and prospective tax base...

SMEs are an important part of China's economy, as well as an important force to promote domestic economic and social development. Especially at present, it is playing a more and more important role in ensuring the appropriate growth of the national economy, optimizing the structure of the economy and...

First-passage and last-passage algorithms, which are two diffusion Monte Carlo methods, can obtain charge density on a conducting surface. In general, the first-passage algorithms have been used to obtain the capacitance of the arbitrary-shaped conductors. In contrast, the last-passage algorithm was...

Variable-speed fans are employed to support cold source for direct air-cooled units, and their speed regulation can ensure continuous control of condenser pressure and turbine power. The condenser pressure closed-loop control system is, on the basis of safe regulation, designed to ensure the unit changing...

Bali is a province with the highest number of tourist destination in Indonesia, and the capital city is Denpasar. To make the Balinese culture can sustain, the government of Denpasar city creates events for the culture preservation. This research will study the uniqueness and success of the culture preservation...

Modelling the testing system brings the idea of model driven into testing field. Reusing testing resources is the core of the model, which effectively shortens the testing cycle. When the testing requirements or design specifications of the system under test (SUT) are changed, the testing system designers...

Optimization of machining parameters has great concerned in manufacturing environments, there for in this study cutting force and surface roughness are optimized based on machining parameters. Many researchers have established the relationship between the surface roughness and machining parameters, but...

A novel compact wideband circularly-polarized (CP) helix antenna is presented in this paper. Unlike conventional helical geometry, our design adopts a tapered metal strip which is rolled into a conical shape and is simply fed by attaching to a 50? coaxial cable. All the configuration parameters are optimized...

Empirical studies show that individual investors do not always behave rationally and do not use standard investment portfolio selection tasks. In this paper we focus on investor choices and the basic elements affecting them. The paper presents optimization model based on a measure of investor satisfaction....

The objective of this paper is to investigate a hybrid threshold denoising algorithm based on wavelet transform for the ultrasonic liver image. A novel hybrid threshold function first is discussed. The hybrid threshold denoising algorithm based on the wavelet transform is then performed for ultrasound...

Welfare can be significantly different and are subjective for each group, community or individual. Benchmarking indicators and welfare measures at the macro level is basically only useful for comparative studies between citizens in different countries, and certainly does not give a realistic picture...

This article aims to report the results of a study of a model of digital-based social movements that can strengthen civic virtue. In this study social movement is seen as citizenship education in the socio-cultural domain. This study used a qualitative approach with case study design. The focus of the...

In the tourism development, there are several major issues discussed as research topics, one of them is the issue of customer loyalty. Guest loyalty is very important the hotel management should pay attention to it. Hotel Concordia is one of the two-star hotels in Bandung that has a problem of the low...

The issues of increasing the efficiency of agriculture are relevant in connection with the growth of the world population. One way to solve this issue is to collect and analyze big data to support decision-making in the industry of crop production. Such an approach can allow a farmer to monitor the condition...

The analysis of performance monitoring unit(PMU) can not only effectively characterize the operation characteristics of the program, but also provide a basis for performance optimization. Because of the huge number of PMU performance counters in cloud environment, there are some problems such as low...

KZK equation is used as the base of calculation. When the grazing angle of the source is smaller than the critical angle, the Snell’s law can not be used to determine the progressive direction of the evanescent wave in the sediment that is necessary for solving the KZK equation by using the finite difference...

This study aims to determine the impact of the application of ISO 14001, Financial Performance measured by Return on Assets and Return on Equity on the Disclosure of Corporate Social Responsibility in non-financial companies listed on the Stock Exchange in 2014-2016. The method used is descriptive method....

This study aims to determine the decision to buy fashion products for students through online shops in the city of Makassar. This research is a qualitative research with a qualitative descriptive analysis  approach that uses 10 informants and students on several campuses in Makassar City. The data in...

Managerial skills possessed by principals are very important in determining a school's quality, so it requires principals who have adequate managerial competence. Successful and successful implementation of the principal's leadership in managing school organizations is very dependent on the principal's...

The DTII (K) belt conveyor is a general series of products, and the machine frame legs can be classified as type I legs and type II legs. Using Visual Basic 6.0 as the development platform, taking secondary development on the SolidWorks software, the dimension driving method and the programming design...

This study aimed to describe the style of the language of opposition politician groups in Indonesia, which could lead to relations of power non-visible (hidden power) with the ideological process that appears in oral or written discourse. This study uses a Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis model....

The purpose of this research is to obtain empirical data regarding the closeness of the relationship between gratitude and well-being for unfixed-salary teachers in the "X" junior high school Bandung Regency. This research uses a correlation method with Pearson correlation test, and the measuring-instruments-used...

The article talks about the need for constant maintenance of a healthy lifestyle to maintain strength in healthy patients and recovery. Questions of influence of physical training and sports on a human body are considered. The authors described positive changes in the body when performing motor exercises....

Strengthening of Rumah Pintar Al Barokah House partners as the center of various activities in the Cibeureum Village area of Wetan. Al Barokah Smart House. The lack of optimal performance of local managers and the lack of maximum effort in developing centers from each of the existing centers is the main...

English plays an important role in this modern era. As one of the most used language in the world, English becomes one of the compulsory courses that students need to learn at their schools. There are many media that can be used to learn English. One of the mediums is by using a movie. Movie is considered...

The “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” is a crucial period for China to build a modern animal husbandry industry, and it is also an important period for Sichuan Province to leap from a large animal husbandry province to a strong animal husbandry economy. In order to understand the development of animal husbandry...

Due to various reasons, oil and gas there are accidents associated with open emission formation fluid with subsequent ignition. Such accidents sometimes have catastrophic consequences. Extinguishing gas wells is done by method of limiting oxygen access to the burning area. This method includes applying...

The purpose of the study was to suggest and prove the hypothesis that a neural network can make it possible to evolve a neural network model for developing an innovation and investment policy of real economy organizations. The model suggested includes sustainable use of capabilities of three types of...

Pancasila has become the country's ideology for Indonesia for more than seven decades. However, efforts to foster the state ideology remain challenging especially since the country's citizens are now faced with several consequences of the so-called the disruptive era. This paper discusses the challenges...

This paper tries to summarize the focuses of the study on international students and help others to follow what the scholars and educators are doing in this field. By referring to a large number of research papers and documents through CKNI and other searching engines, the authors finds that the research...

The article aims to discuss about Body Mass Index (BMI) of women. The research uses mix method. The data are collected by studying 186 participants. The participants are 99 early women adults and 87 late women adults. All of them join the sport recreation program in different sport clubs in Bandung....

P and PI control methods are widely used in the closed-loop con-trol of the inverters in various power electronic equipment. How-ever, PID control method is barely adopted. In this paper, from an in-depth analysis of the operation and control processes of pulse width modulation (PWM) inverter, it is...

There are many problems in the teaching of mechanical principles. For example, the content of the textbooks is outdated, the learning time is reduced, the teaching theory is out of touch with practice, the student-to-faculty ratio is small and the method of assessing students is backward. These problems...

The idea and goal of laboratory construction of logistics management major, the demand function and planning scheme of laboratory construction, and the design and implementation of experimental project are studied. Combined with the common problems existing in the practical teaching of logistics management,...

The problem of corruption in Indonesia continues to be headlines almost every day in the Indonesian media. Even after the New Order's authoritarian regime collapsed, it was clear that the practice of corruption had proven to be a tradition and culture which had widespread, entrenched and influenced the...

In general, the purpose of this study is to formulate a strategy to improve the competitiveness of wood craft products in Gianyar. Data were collected using interviews, observations, questionnaires, and documentation. Then the data obtained were analysed using: IFE matrix, EFE matrix, IE matrix and SWOT...

To solve the problems that bank-to-turn (BTT) control is highly coupled and do not have a fast response time as well as that skid-to-turn (STT) control lacks of flying stability, this paper divides flight time of surface-to-air missile (SAM) into two stages by fully taking the advantages of both BTT...

Classification models of patron visits in library may help the library to reveal factors that affect patron visit and to predict how frequent a patron visit the library. This research aims to design classification models of patron visit in Library of Universitas Negeri Malang using decision tree model....

For the problem that the mechanical arm is unstable under water and the position accuracy is low. This paper designed an underwater manipulator test platform. Good attitude control and high grip accuracy can be achieved. Through the analysis of the mechanical body, the overall structural layout of the...

The study discusses the problems associated with substantiating the optimal size of the investment budget. At present, the generally accepted approach is the one that involves a joint analysis of two schedules: of investment opportunities and of marginal cost of capital. This approach assumes that the...

Introduction: This study aims to investigate how image settings affect carotid Intima-Media-Thickness (IMT) and diameter estimation performed with Carotid Studio (Quipu-Srl). Methods: Fourteen healthy volunteers (24.4 ± 4.4 years; eight men) were recruited. Longitudinal scans 3-cm-deep of common-carotid-arteries...

The development of engineering centers at the universities is a very important challenge for the Russian innovation system and the economy as a whole. Due to the specifics of its activities, engineering centers, on the one hand, are an important part of the technological chain of creating competitive...

This study was aimed to describe the problems faced by students in learning Chookai and how the efforts of lecturer to overcome the problems. The research design was action research. The data were taken through a questionnaire to the students and documentation studies. The Respondents in this study are...

Students’ intercultural competence should be considered as an important outcome of institutional internationalization in today’s higher education. Chinese universities should make good use of diversified educational resources to promote students’ intercultural competence. This paper first introduces...

This research aims to determine the dominance of the organizational culture characteristics values toward the improvement of employee performance in at a company in Banten, so as to encourage accelerated achievement of employee’s superior performance. The method used is a survey with a causal approach,...

Based on a eddy current transducer (ECT), a probe has been designed to research metal–dielectric structures (MDS). A scheme that uses a computer as a generator and receiver of signals from windings is proposed. The measurement procedure allowing one to detect defects in laminate composites with a high...