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Developing nations witnessed tremendous numbers of domestic bank mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and foreign acquisitions in response to deregulation, technological advances, and the globalization of nonfinancial economic activity. These changes in the corporate governance of banks raise essential questions...

Formation and development of pharmaceutical market inevitably leads to situations that act as catalysts for structural market changes. These situations include mergers and acquisitions increasing market concentration and having positive or negative influence on all market participants. This is why such...

This pilot study analyzed the relationship between habitual mouth breathing and malocclusion in patients diagnosed with upper airway obstruction. A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted by consecutive sampling of chil-dren/adolescents with allergic rhinitis, rhinosinusitis, and adenoid hypertrophy....

This paper presents numerical modeling of lab-scale packed bed thermal energy storage (TES) system. In the packed-bed with 0.30 m diameter and 0.90 m height, monotype storage particles developed from demolition wastes are used. Synthetic thermal oil is be used as fluid phase between 80 – 180°C. Schumann...

In the association rule mining field many different quality measures have been proposed over time with the aim of quantifying the interestingness of each discovered rule. In evolutionary computation, many of these metrics have been used as functions to be optimized, but the selection of a set of suitable...

Systemic inflammatory conditions are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). How exactly inflammation leads to this is not fully understood, but it has been suggested that arterial stiffening, could provide potential mechanisms to explain it. Chronic, systemic inflammatory...

We introduce a new flexible class of continuous distributions via the Hjorth's IDB model. We provide some mathematical properties of the new family. Characterizations based on two truncated moments, conditional expectation as well as in terms of the hazard function are presented. The maximum likelihood...

Feed is the main requirement for broilers farms. However, continuous use of AGP can cause antibiotic resistance in poultry and humans. The effectiveness of feed additives in preventing some disease agents has not been much scrutinized. Among the diseases that often arise is Salmonellosis. This study...

Petobo as the location of the research area is part of the city of Palu in Indonesia, namely in the South Palu sub-district area. The topographic profile of this region is a flat area, most of which is used as rice fields and some have developed into residential areas. In Palu city planning. Before the...

Curriculum upgrade gave a new hope during education process improvement. The implementation of the MBKM curriculum encourages universities to design educational processes that ensure a link and match of the learning process with the needs of employment. For this reason, the integration of the learning...

Indonesia frequently experiences the health issue of anemia. This occurs when there are insufficient levels of hemoglobin in the blood, which is caused by a lack of iron, which is necessary for the synthesis of hemoglobin. Wheat grass is one of the iron-rich foods that can be consumed as an alternative...

The Tadulako site is one of the sites characterized by megalithic culture in the Behoa Valley, Poso Regency, Central Sulawesi Province. The presence of megalithic cultural remains at this site was first recognized by foreign researchers around the 19th century AD. Research in this area is still rarely...

During the Umayyad dynasty, poetry became a complement to the poems of the Jahiliyah era and had many functions. One of the poets who lived during this period was Abū al-Aswad al-Dualī. The formalists claim that literature has a distinctive language raised by the author into a biased work and loses its...

The communication discourse in the Qur’an has been around for a long time since the Qur’an was revealed. It’s just that because the term communication was born in Western countries, the Qur’anic communication discourse was certainly not touched. This research discusses the theme “Intrapersonal Communication...

This study examines the influence of transparency on taxpayer compliance within the context of local government governance. The primary objective is to assess the extent to which public information disclosure shapes citizens’ compliance behavior toward fiscal obligations. Using a quantitative approach...

High-intensity resistance exercise (RE) acutely increases arterial stiffness and blood pressure (BP), coupled with reduced cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFv) and greater flow pulsatility in the cerebral circulation, which may be detrimental to cerebral microvasculature. Because females have different...

Background: Arterial stiffness may provide non-invasive information about cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes. We investigated the association between arterial stiffness and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes and healthy controls. Methods: Patients...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects the hemodynamics of the lower limbs1 and is associated with increased cardiovascular risk and mortality2. The aim of this study was to evaluate central hemodynamics and to test the relationships between lower ankle-pressure index (ABI) and Augmentation index...

We consider surfaces arising from integrable partial differential equations and from their deformations. Symmetries of the equation, gauge transformation of the corrsponding Lax pair and spectral parameter transformations are the deformations which lead infinitely many integrable surfaces. We also study...

A depending on a complex parameter k superanalog SL of Calogero operator is costructed; it is related with the root system of the Lie superalgebra gl(n|m). For m = 0 we obtain the usual Calogero operator; for m = 1 we obtain, up to a change of indterminates and parameter k the operator constructed by...

The Palembang city government has implemented Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) since 2010 until now, in order to carry out the replacement/renewal of the City Bus. The BRT in the city of Palembang called “BRT Trans Musi” consists of two business entities, namely BRT owned by BUMD SP2J (Palembang Jaya Development...

The job satisfaction is reflected by the affective reaction of an individual on to his/her work related factors. This study explores the relationship between individual characteristics, job characteristics with job satisfaction of teachers in vocational schools at the Province of North Sumatera, Indonesia....

This paper studied the effect of triethanolamine(TEA), glycerin(PG) and lignosulphonate(CLS), used as grinding aids respectively, on cement particle size distribution and mortar strength. Grey connection analysis was made between cement particle size distribution and compressive strength. Results showed...

High voltage 4H-SiC Ti schottky junction barrier schottky (JBS) diode with breakdown voltage of 1200 V and forward current of 40 A has been fabricated. A low reverse leakage current below 1.02 × 10-4 A or 4.08 × 10-4 A/cm2 at the 25 and the reverse bias voltage of 1200 V has been obtained. The forward...

In order to realize ahead forecastofgeological structure of coal roadway and reduce coal mine accidents, an advanced detector based on Dynamic and Directional Electric Field Excitation Method was designed by my research group. As an important part of the detector, the electrode has a great influence...

The relevance of the study is due to the need to generalize research in the field of human capital development as a factor of economic growth and identify the causes of weak influence on economic growth. The analyzed theoretical and empirical work in this area allowed us to systematize the concept of...

Background Schizophrenia is a severe brain disease with severe and persistent psychotic manifestations accompanied by dysfunction of cognitive and psychosocial variables. Numerous studies indicate that a mix of genetic and environmental variables may be responsible for the aetiology of...

The real economy is the foundation of a country’s economy and an important driving force for national development. As the foundation of the real economy, manufacturing SMEs are facing the problem of lack of core technology and the urgent need to improve their technological innovation capacity. The progress...

Research purpose: This study aims to identify the impact of financial and non-financial compensation towards decision making steps in internship and to identify the type of compensation that are considered most interesting among interns. Research motivation: Previous...

Following Jakarta’s transition from the capital to a special region, it confronts numerous challenges affecting the Greater Jakarta region. Despite a mandated 30% allocation for green open space, Jakarta’s current provision only reaches 7.56%, according to the 2022 Detailed Spatial Planning Plan. With...

Based on 451 listed A-share and H-share power companies from 2009 to 2023, this study empirically examines the impact of technology innovation investment in power companies on their ESG performance. The research results indicate that increasing investment in technological research and development by...

Background and aim: Several studies (1,2) suggest that patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) show an increase in arterial stiffness, nevertheless the impact on mortality is less documented. (3) Methods: 228 PAD patients mean age (68 ± 9 years) were followed-up for 4,8 ± 2 years. Anthropometric...

Indonesia has a lot of abundant material resources. One of them is the availability of solid wood that can be used for bridge construction. The wood used as a bridge structural element has a 15-20 meters span with class III road loading capacity. However, wood has limited dimensions. Therefore, it is...

Let G be a simple, finite and connected graph. For a natural number k, we define an edge coloring c: E(G) → {1,2,…, k} where two adjacent edges can be colored the same. A u – v path (a path connecting two vertices u and v in V(G)) is called a rainbow path if no two edges of path receive the same color....

Objective: To examine the patterns of antituberculous drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in the Eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: This is a retrospective study of antibiotic susceptibility of 1681 non-repetitive...

The objective of this study is to analyze the influence of external pressures, financial targets and financial distress to the possibility of financial statement fraud. The proxy of financial statement fraud is the Beneish M-Score (1999). I f the M-Score is greater than -2.22, the company is likely to...

The paper deals with recreational resources and potential of the Khulamo-Bezengi Valley in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic. The main attention is paid to recreational resources and development of the area. We distinguished the most promising types of recreation such as traditional-mountaineering, mountain...

The necessity of assessing the competitiveness of the restaurant services regional market in the context of intercultural interaction is substantiated. It provides a possibility of identifying the market as strategically attractive. The Orel region is chosen as the object of study. The intensity of the...

With the Internet industry is becoming more mature and quickly into the mobile Internet era, the Internet business restructuring, transformation, merger becomes more and more realistic. On the one hand, each Internet companies should pay attention to the rational allocation of mobile terminal resources,...

Kedungjati - completion road is a railway line that has not been used, and it used to connect between Semarang and Secang, Magelang Regency. In accordance, with the 2011 National Railway Master Plan (RIPNAS), the Directorate General of Railways of the Ministry of Transportation stated that the need for...

Mangroves are ecosystems that play an important role both ecologically and economically. One of the mangrove forests in Indonesia is The Coastal Mangrove Forest of Langsa City. Human activities and over-development can lead to a decline in the area and reduce mangrove diversity in the future. The purpose...

Tongkonan, aside from being home for Toraja people and as an identity marker, is also functioned as a center of daily activities for Toraja people. Tongkonan could not run its function without having a consecration ceremony called Mangrara Banua. Mangrara Banua is a traditional ceremony held for the...

This paper proposes development of a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) scheme that overcomes the weakness of conventional Carrier-Based PWM (CBPWM) performance on Neural Point Clamp Inverter (NPC). This scheme uses the conventional CBPWM technique to developed Advanced CBPWM. This technique uses triangular...

The concrete construction work process usually has many factors that influence the quality of the concrete, starting from various methods of preparing materials to caring for the concrete. This occurs because of the differences in treatment given to samples in the laboratory and workpieces made in the...

This research focuses on the effect of service time on passenger satisfaction at Yogyakarta International Airport during the implementation of PM 178 of 2015 and PM 41 of 2023. The research highlights the elimination of service time standards in PM 41 of 2023. By using survey research methods in the...

Electrical energy is a very important requirement for life, almost all life activities require electrical energy. The live line voltage installation of the insulator cover on the strain clamp 20 kV system is done by a hand robotic is a forward effort to prevent disturbance on the overhead medium voltage...

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 2013 estimated that more than two billion people worldwide suffer from micronutrient deficiency, also known as ‘hidden hunger’, as only three crops -rice, wheat, and maize dominate the global food system. Also, the advent of a corporate food regime exposed...

Purpose: Technological intervention in all domains has changed the world, and data has become major input for building strategies. This technology intervention has paved the way for digital marketers to collect data for developing marketing strategies destroying consumer privacy. Digital marketing strategies...

The Aceh region, located in the subduction zone between the Indo-Australian and Eurasian Plates, is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, particularly earthquakes and impact loads that can damage building structures. One commonly used building structure system is the unconfined masonry wall, which...