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Prevalence of Hookworm Infection in Schoolchildren with Deference Geography Areas in Indonesia

Blego Sedionoto, Witthaya Anamnart
The prevalence of hookworm infection is a serious public health concern globally. Java Island and Kalimantan Island have differential environmental risk factors for hookworm infection, especially rural areas of Indonesia have high-risk environmental factors for the prevalence of hookworm infection. This...

Factors Affecting the Earnings Management: The Case of Listed Firms in Vietnam

Hien Thu BUI, Huong Hoang Nguyen LE
Research purpose: This study identifies factors affecting earnings management in the case of listed firms in Vietnam. Six factors, which include the number of management board members, the duality relationship chairman-director, auditor size, financial performance, firm size and financial leverage,...

Embedded Experiment Teaching Practice based on System Design

Tao Chi, Lei Wang
Embedded system experiment is an important experiment course of computer science and technology which need a wider range of knowledge, higher requirements for designers and wealth of practical experience. Most college students reflect the existing embedded experimental courses, which are boring and difficult...
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Exploring the Benefits of Habit Building and Social Interaction in Senior Universities for Older Adults in China

Robert James Ford, Wang Chengcheng, Liu Guannan
This paper examines the benefits of habit formation and social interaction for older adults in senior universities (老年大学 lǎonián dàxué) in China. With China’s rapidly ageing population, senior universities provide educational opportunities that promote lifelong learning, skill development, and social...

An Edge-Based Macao License Plate Recognition System

Chi-Man Pun, Wai-Yiu Ho
Pages: 244 - 254
This paper presents a system to recognize Macao license plates. Sobel edge detector is employed to extract the vertical edges, and an edge composition algorithm is proposed to combine the edges into candidate plate regions. They are further examined on the existence of the character "M" by a verification...
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Impacts of Residents’ Characteristics on Travel Attitude toward Weather Information: an Analytical and Empirical Study

Junlong Li, Dawei Chen, Xuhong Li
To explore the relationship between individual characteristics and residents’ travel attitude toward weather information, the hypothesis of dependence of travel attitude on individual characteristics was formally tested. Stated adaptation surveys were conducted to collect residents’ attitudes toward...

Youths’ Interpersonal Relationships: The Roles of Empathy and Spirituality

Ka-yi Chow, Raymond Chi-fai Chui
This study examines the impact of spirituality and empathy on interpersonal relationships among Hong Kong youth, addressing two research questions: (1) What is the relationship of spirituality and empathy with interpersonal relationships? (2) Will empathy mediate the relationship between spirituality...

Youths’ Interpersonal Relationships: The Roles of Empathy and Spirituality

Ka-yi Chow, Raymond Chi-fai Chui
This study examines the impact of spirituality and empathy on interpersonal relationships among Hong Kong youth, addressing two research questions: (1) What is the relationship of spirituality and empathy with interpersonal relationships? (2) Will empathy mediate the relationship between spirituality...
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Research on Multi-Attribute Information Fusion for the Dynamic State of Inland River Vessels

Yaotian Fan, Xianzhang Xu, Chi Wang
The perception and discrimination of the traffic environment and the state of the ship are greatly hindered and restricted during the ship operation under complex weather conditions, especially in the inland river, port and other restricted waters. Aiming at the multi-source, multi-dimensional and heterogeneous...

The design and development of automatic spraying system for automotive wheel hub based on PLC control

Zhong Wu Chang, Guo Wei Xiu, Chi Qing
In the modern auto parts manufacturing, the production of hub is a very important branch. In order to improve the beauty of the wheel hub and corrosion resistance, the finished wheel hub needs to be sprayed. In this paper, the automatic spraying system of the hub is designed by applying the existing...
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Vocational Art Design Education of School-enterprise Cooperation Model

Shiwei Chi, Zhuo Chen, Tiejun Wu
Talents training mode of school-enterprise cooperation in higher voca-tional education is double win mode promoting school development and high-lighting the business interests. Tying fea-tures of Shenzhen, this paper studies building the path to conduct a preliminary exploration based on analyzing the...

A Comparative Study on the Use of “But” by Chinese EFL learners and Native Speakers: A Rhetorical Structure Theory Approach

Shiyu Xia
Conjunctions have long been recognized as effective devices to achieve coherence in English discourse. Among all kind of conjunctions, “but” is used frequently by both native speakers and Chinese EFL learners. However, most previous studies focus on a wide range of conjunctions rather than this specific...
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Determinant Factors of Adolescent Conflict with Mother

Emira Apriyeni, Helena Patricia
The period of adolescence is prone to the conflict with parents, especially with mothers. Conflict between adolescent and their mothers tends to increase, which will have an impact on adolescent problems of psychology such as increased aggressive behavior, depression and even suicide. This study aimed...
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Performance Analysis for Passenger Satisfaction of Kuala Lumpur International Airport

Khuneswari Gopal Pillay, Wei Xiang Saw
Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) serves as the country’s primary international gateway, providing the first impression to airport users and visitors. It also provides incomparable benefits to Malaysia’s economy, such as tourism. Therefore, the airport requires to focus on the passenger’s experience...
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Risk Factors Associated with Coronary Heart Disease Incidents in Bahteramas General Hospital, Southeast Sulawesi Province

Wa Ode Indrawati, Devi Safitri Effendy, Mubarak Mubarak, Nurpratista Andanitya Nadiya Amara
Coronary heart disease is a disease that occurs as a manifestation of decreased oxygen supply to the heart muscle as a result of narrowing or blockage of coronary artery blood flow, the clinical manifestations of which depend on the severity of the coronary artery blockage. The study was conducted with...

Prevention Behavior of HIV/AIDS Transmission in High-Risk Populations

Arulita Ika Fibriana, Muhammad Azinar
Cases of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia continue to increase each year, including in the province of Central Java. One area that has a high HIV/AIDS case is Batang. This region has a lot of localization as a place for risk of HIV/AIDS transmission. In the past year in Batang 75 new cases of HIV/AIDS have been...
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Factors Affecting Anxiety Level Before Examination Electrocardiogram (ECG) in Heart Clinic

Nur Isnaini, Taufanti Yunitasari
Introduction: Anxiety will affect the results of the Electrocardiogram (EKG) so that these worry factors need to be known so that they can be minimized and solutions are found. Purpose: To see what factors influence the patient's anxiety before the ECG examination Method: This research uses descriptive...

Factors Affecting Health Seeking Behavior: A Cross-Sectional Study in Khulna, Bangladesh

Nehela Nazmul, Fatema Tuz Zohora, Khadiza Tahera, A. M. Asif Imtiaz Udoy, Md. Rejaul Hasan Reven, Tahera Islam Noshin, Antu Biswas
Health-Seeking Behavior (HSB) is a vital factor influencing an individual’s health outcomes and overall well-being. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of HSB attitudes among adults in Khulna, Bangladesh, and to identify associated factors, emphasizing the increasing public health challenge these...
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The Effectiveness of Mother Class to Improve Utilization of Maternal and Child Health Handbook

Ellyda Rizki Wijhati
Maternal and Child Health Handbook (MCHHB) is a source of information for mothers and families in monitoring mothers and children’s health; besides that, the MCHHB is also a home-based record that can describe the process of child growth and development. However, the utilization of MCHHB in Indonesia...

Strategic Orientation and Human Resources Management in Public Sector Organizations in the Society 5.0 Era

Maria Elizabeth Lanny Kusuma Widjaja
Strategic orientation is a principle that guides, directs, and influences organizational activities that produce behavior to ensure organizational survival, performance, and innovation. Public sector organizations in the society 5.0 era have the potential to face various changes, environ-mental uncertainties,...

Optimization of the Transportation Problem in the Covid Pandemic with Time-Window Vehicle Routing Problem

Nguyen Thi Xuan HOA, Vu Hai ANH, Nguyen Quang ANH, Nguyen Dac Viet HA
Logistics is one of the most important factors in any country and it has become a crucial topic due to the significant effect of Covid 19 on the world economics. Since the beginning of time, logistics is a critical link for products circulation throughout the world. When the Covid 19 pandemic came, logistics...
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Research on Authentication Method for Virtual Desktop System based on CPK

Lei Ju, QiaoYu Liu, YaPing Chi
Virtual desktop technology separates the users and the resources, contributing to terminal security solutions and improvement of resource utilization. It also provides the convenience for the centralized management of resources. But the introduction of virtualization technology also makes unique safety...
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The Correlation Between Mineral Levels and Bone Loss Risk in Postmenopausal Women

Suryanto, Suci Aprilia
Background: Calcium and phosphate are two minerals that are important for bone formation. Osteoblasts indirectly regulate osteoclast resorption activity under the influence of estrogen. Estrogen itself produces growth factors and contributes to bone formation so that bone mineral density decreases with...

Host Residents’ Support and Perceptions Toward Major Sport Events’ Impacts on Sustainable Development Post-COVID19: Case Study of SEAGAMES 31

Hoa Nguyen Quynh, Chris (Ning) Chen, Chi Pham Chi
The COVID19 pandemic has damaged the global well-being, resulted in increasing poverty and unemployment due to lockdowns and other mobility restrictions and is considered as the deepest global recession since the Second World War (World Bank, 2020). Due to the uncertain circumstance, many sport events...
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A Modified Gauss Plume Model for Drawing the Distribution of PM2.5

Mengshuo Jia
At present, the broadcast of PM2.5 can’t be accurate to all the spot of the city. This paper discusses a new method to draw the distribution of PM2.5 of a city by using mass data provided by the monitoring stations, which can be accurate to all the spot. In order to solve the problem efficiently, we...
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A new Zoning Graded Non-uniform Grid Generation Algorithm Including the Equivalent Width of Technology

Feixiang Gong, Bo Yin, Yanping Cong, Qing Yan, Haokun Chi
Analysis of the generation principle finite difference time domain (FDTD) grid proposed non-uniform meshing algorithm based on the equivalent wi-dth of the geometric. In meshing software, we set Rx, Ry, Rz. If reduced size along the x-axis model, it can be coarse mesh point on the basis of compliance...

Blockchain Application with Health Token in Medical & Health Industrials

Chi Kin Lee
Blockchain refining is a tool that can prove the existence and exact content of any document or other digital-asset at a particular time.It can economically involve human-computer interaction, machine-to-machine (M2M), Internet of Things (IoT) , payment network integration and automation. In the future...
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Relationship between Cigarette Smoking and Candida Colony Count in Dental Student at Faculty of Dentistry University of Sumatera Utara

Puteri Ridha Ramadhani, Nurdiana, Pocut Astari
Cigarette smoking can be described as an activity where a person is enjoying the nicotine smoke produced from the burning tobacco. It contains 4800 chemical substances that are harmful to the body such as nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide, which then cause changes to the oral cavity. One of the changes...
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Effect of Follicle Size on Metaphase II and Cleavage Rate of Goat Oocyte

Sri Wahjuningsih, Muhammad Nur Ihsan
The aim of this research was to determine the effect of follicle size on Metaphase II and cleavage rate of Goat Oocyte. Ovaries from slaughterhouse transported to the laboratory within 2 h of slaugtering in normal saline. The ovaries were cut and classified two classes of follicle size : small (2-4 mm...
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Premature Rupture of Membrane (PROM) Increasing Asphyxia Neonatorum Risk

Efrida Yusriyanti Syamsi, Nuli Nuryanti Zulala
According to WHO, 4 million infants die annually from asphyxia at birth, which represents about 38% of all children’s death under 5 years. The incidence of premature rupture of the membranes (PROM) occurs in 6-20% of pregnancies. The most common complication in PROM is respiratory distress syndrome,...

Discussion on Financing Risks and Countermeasures of Small and Micro Enterprises under Internet Finance

Mingyun Chi
Small and micro enterprises are the important factors to promote the healthy development of China’s macro economy, and also the main body of the economy at the present stage. However, due to the inherent limitations of small and micro enterprises, financing has become an important factor restricting...
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Finite element analysis of Reactive Powder Concrete beam flexural properties

Cuiping Chi, Changchun Pei
By using finite element analysis to study the effects of different water-cement ratio and different fiber composition on the flexural properties of Reactive Powder Concrete beam. The results show that: Firstiy, under the same fiber combination, with the increase of water-cement ratio, the bending moment...
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Relationship of Age, Working and Education With/Regarding the Quality of Live of Elderly

Tris Eryando, Dina Ariha, Daniah, Yossi Fitria Damayanti, Sevrima Anggraini
An increase in life expectancy occurs with advances in science and technology. The increase in life expectancy raises one of the consequences, namely the increasing number of the elderly population. In general, elderly people face weaknesses, limitations, and disabilities, so that the quality of life...

Design Education Introduces an AR Guide to Enhance the Brand Cultural Image of the Zhanghu Community

Li-Hsun Peng, Chi-Yu Pan, Kharisma Creativani
At present, the local government is paying more and more attention to the cultural development of various places, and actively promoting community values is the primary core. Although the Zhanghu Community in Yunlin County has common crises and problems in Taiwanese communities, such as inaccessible...

Research on the Cultivating System of E-commerce Professionals in Universities

Yang LIU, Ze-Xuan YIN, Chen ZHANG, Yi-He ZHANG, Ye WANG, Chun-Yan QIU, Chi-Jun ZHANG, Ren SONG, Yan MA, Xiang LI
In view of the contradiction between the Social demand for talents in E-commerce and the cultivation of undergraduate talents in E-Commerce in recent years, the key to solve the phenomenon of "talent bubble" in E-Commerce is to improve the core competence of E-Commerce. Through combing the undergraduate...

Research for Maintaining Cross-Strait Peace and Economic Development in the Post-Epidemic Era

Hung-Chi Hsu, Hui-Lin Hsu, Mei-Zhen He
The study based on the post-COVID-19 epidemic era to analyses the confusing international economic situation. The article studies the contradictions and antagonisms of the United States, China and Taiwan, and explores the best interests of cross-strait relations through a model of competition and cooperation....
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Eating Behavior and Nutritional Status Among Women Aged 18–55 years During Covid 19 Pandemic

Nor Eka Noviani
Covid 19-Pandemic makes us have to social distancing with others. It could change emotional situation, eating behavior and food consumption. The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between eating behavior and nutritional status (overweight and obesity). This study used a cross sectional...

The Development of Students' Intrapersonal Instrument of Electrical Engineering Program Vocational Schools in Bali

Gede Ratnaya, Gaguk Margono
This research aimed to develop an instrument to measure the intrapersonal skill of Electrical Engineering Program students at Vocational High School in Bali by using Likert scale. This capability is important in regulating and monitoring personal's goals during vocational education at SMK. This instrument...

Analysis of Factors Affecting the Acceleration of Uterine Involution in the Postpartum

Ratna Ningsih
Uterine revolution was a very important process because the mother needs care, and supervision for the recovery of health as before pregnancy. Cases of bleeding are very common and one of the causes is if involution does not proceed normally. This condition causes the mortality and morbidity of puerperal...

Community Organization Model for Smoking Cessation Behavior in Cimahi Tengah District, Cimahi City

Dzul Akmal, Endang Sutisna Sulaeman, Eny Lestari, Emi Widiyanti
Smoking causes serious health problems that are sometimes fatal. Exposure to cigarette smoke causes adverse health effects including death. Various programs have been carried out by WHO or the government to encourage efforts to stop smoking but have not been successful. One approach that can be done...
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Factors Related to Earthquake Disaster Preparedness Among Teachers at Elementary Schools in the Coastal Area of Padang Barat Subdistrict 2018

Nopriadi, Dinia Hafizah, Nizwardi Azkha, Emy Leonita
Preparedness of teacher in elementary school is important to determine the level of student’s knowledge about preparedness through learning process in school. This study was purposed to determine related factors to earthquake disaster preparedness among teachers at elementary schools in The Coastal Area...
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Social Economic Status and Stunting in Toddler

Rosmita Nuzuliana, Ellyda Rizki Wijhati
Stunting is a chronic malnutrition problem which can be evaluated by taking body measurements of height. Stunting is not only about short stature problem, but it is about bigger problems, namely cognitive and motor development problems in children. The objective of this study was to determine the relationship...
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Analysis Demand for Health Service at Abiansemal 1 Public Health Center

Ni Putu Candra Danayanti, Sapto Adi, Anita Sulistyorini, Agung Kurniawan
One of the most important indicators in the health care system is the demand for health services, which can be seen from the average patient’s visits. The number of patient visits at the Abiansemal 1 Public Health Center has decreased successively from 2016 to 2021. The largest decrease occurred in 2016...

A Study on Purchase Frequency Levels in Social Networking Sites With Special Reference to Gender

N. Sarulatha, Sasirekha
Advancements in technology has given rise to a novel online shopping phenomenon known as “social commerce”. Users share their insights, expertise and experiences as content creators. It provides business opportunity to leverage social media for understanding customers and engaging them. Companies gain...

Students’ Perceptions of Cryptocurrency: A Case Study from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Thi My Dung Dang, Nhu Quynh Dang, Uyen Thy Truong Pham, Ha Phuong Thi Phan, Minh Quan Nhu Vo
The world’s financial market has recently suffered from many fluctuations due to currency changes and the crisis, especially after the bank collapsed in the United States, cryptocurrencies have become one of the leading choices made by many investors in the world. It is undoubted that the development...
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The Effect of Breathing Exercise and Range of Motion (ROM) Exercise towards the Decrease of Intradialysis Fatigue Level in Hemodialysis Unit at Dr. Adjidarmo Hospital, Banten

Diana Djupri, Krisna Yetti, Masfuri
Fatigue is a condition of the patient's response that appears after the treatment which is one of the nursing problems in patients receiving hemodialysis therapy. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of breathing exercise and Range of Motion (ROM) exercise towards the decrease of intradialysis...
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Succesfull of Artificial Insemination by Using Chilled Semen on Brahman Cross Cows

Aulia Puspita Anugra Yekti, Enike Dwi Kusumawati, Kuswati Kuswati, Aswah Ridhowi, Herni Sudarwati, Nurul Isnaini, Trinil Susilawati
Successfull of artificial insemination by using frozen semen is relatively low, because of decreasing of sperm motility after frozen process. In this study, the chilled semen was used to increase the succesful of artificial insemination. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the successful of artficial...

The Origin and Development of the “Ordinance on Apparel System” of the Republic of China in the Context of Culture

Defeng Song, Jie Wang
The promulgation and formulation of ordinances on apparel system in past dynasties are not only the factors restricting clothing culture, but also the factors promoting clothing culture. The enactment of the ordinances on apparel system of the Republic of China is the inheritance of the Chinese costume...
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Factors Influencing Commuter Travel Mode Choice - A Study of Travel Survey Data in the Puget Sound Region of the Northwestern United States

Xinyu Shi, Zhuoheng Ying, Zengzhi Zhang, Jingdi Fu
Urban commuters are the main participants in urban transportation, directly affecting the planning, design, and operation of urban transportation strategies. The study of commuting modes is a current research hotspot, and studying the effects of factors such as age, gender, and employ on travel mode...
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Implementation of Inquiry-based Learning Supported by Digital Technologies in Courses of Professional Development for Chemistry Teachers

Zita Jenisová, Jana Braniša, Janka Melušová
Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is based on students` enquire of different situations and formulate relating questions. Experi-mental activity from real-life chemistry using school-measuring equipment con-taining spectrometer connected to com-puter was piloted with 25 in-service teachers attending course...