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Objective: To examine changes in ventriculo-arterial coupling (VAC) and left ventricular systolic function (LVFSYS) after a period of intensified antihypertensive treatment in patients with hypertension and type-2-diabetes. Methods: Patients were categorized as controlled- (CH), uncontrolled- (UH) or...

Most studies in lip-based speaker identity recognition fail to make full use of the changing characteristics of lips and have limitations of heavy information processing work and low rate of successful recognition. A new method of lip characteristics extraction and speaker identification based on the...

Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a measure of vascular organ damage. After a cardiac event, patients can be proposed to follow an educational and exercise program to prevent future events and improve their cardiovascular risk. We hypothesized that the improvement of aerobic performance will depend...

Problematic children are thought to originate from a pathological family environment, especially having mothers who have persistent daily stress which is reinforced by the inconsistency of emotional support shown by the teacher at school so that children strengthen the emergence of problematic behavior....

Advertising in Indonesia many are wearing system sign with figure women who tend to sensuality. Phenomena aesthetics in advertisement put forward exploitation pull power body and sensuality for strengthen sell power from a product as advertisement Condom Fiesta version of Safety Airlines. Advertising...

The obstacles in learning geometry are especially the concepts of congruence and harmony that students often experience. The type of obstacle is that students do not understand the difference between the concept of congruence and the harmony of a two-dimensional figure. Another obstacle is that students...

Physiotherapy is the form of health services devoted to the patient to develop, maintaining and restoring motion and using the handling of manually, increase of motion, equipment. Physiotherapy is one way to handle sports injury in a more modern. An injury caused by the sport of one of them is not a...

Pregnancy is associated with profound vascular adaptive changes. Cross-sectional studies show greater arterial stiffness in gestational diabetes than in normal pregnancy. However, the time course of maternal cardiovascular hemodynamics in normal and diabetic pregnancy can only be appreciated in longitudinal...

Background/aims: The impact of chronic hepatitis C (HCV) virus infection on atherosclerosis is controversial. In this pilot clinical study, we examined whether HCV patients significantly differed in markers of subclinical atherosclerosis compared to patients with alcohol-related chronic liver disease. Methods:...

The article "N.Z. Yartsev—an outstanding figure of the artistic culture in Siberia" is devoted to Nichola Zakharovich Yartsev, a prominent artist, who had a notable influence on the musical culture of Minusinsk in the 19th and 20th centuries. The article reveals the importance of the activities of N.Z....

Kartini is known as a figure of anxious hero and a high social spirit. In addition to fight for the emancipation of women, Kartini is also concerned with the fate of local wisdom of Jepara is the art of carving. The things that encourage Kartini to notice the fate of the carvers in Jepara is quite surprising....

In order to realize facial recognition with different characters such as illumination, posture and noise and improve the recognition precision, a facial recognition method based on discrete wavelet transform and least squares support vector machine is proposed. the discrete wavelet transform is used...

Efforts to increase the nutritional content of a food ingredient can be done by conducting research related to menu formulation by substituting various food ingredients to increase the nutritional content. This research is addressed to figure out the nutritional content and acceptability of the Hemoglobin-increasing...

This study aims to determine the psychological dynamics of victims who saw firsthand the tragedy of the football supporter at the Arema match with Persebaya at Kanjuruhan Stadium. This research uses phenomenological qualitative methods. Participants in this study consisted of two people using purposive...

Objectives: Androgen deficiency confers an independent risk for cardiovascular events and total mortality. Hypertension, a major contributory factor to the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD), has been associated with increased prevalence of low testosterone. We investigated whether low androgen...

With the development of social media platforms, digital feminism has grown up in cyberspace. Many research pays attention to one case or one platform in the digital feminism study, while few studies focus on the comparison of feminism in the social media of the different features. This study can fill...

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...

Objectives: Arterial elasticity is determined by passive mechanical properties of wall components modulated by neurogenic effects on smooth muscle. We assessed denervation effects on viscoelastic properties of the aorta of Lewis Polycystic Kidney (LPK) disease rats, compared to controls (Lewis). Methods:...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sector in Nunukan Regency and and to identify the effect of Pandemic Covid-19 on Nunukan Gross Domestic Product. The research method used is a descriptive qualitative approach...

This research paper aims to figure out the main categories of redundancy errors in English writing tasks for Chinese undergraduates as well as the relations between different kinds of redundant constituents and learners’ English proficiency. Taking error analysis as the theoretical framework, this research...

The research examines on three questions. The first question is to figure out how practices on responding to hazards, disasters, and disaster risks are applied in the field and to what extent human resources and facilities supports the policies, regulations and plans for hazards, disasters and disasters...

Is subliminal priming able to affect people’s choices and decision-making The prisoners’ dilemma is a canonical example of a game analyzed that shows why two individuals might not cooperate each other, even if it appears that it is in their best interest to do so. In the regular version of the prisoner's...

Technology is believed and proven to provide support for teaching and learning in the classroom. Nevertheless, it also turns out into problems when the teachers are not ready for its use. This study aims to investigate the support technology offers to EFL teachers in their teaching practice and figure...

For the last few decades, the dominated learning theory had transmitted from Behaviorism to constructivism. As a result, a large number of language scholars and educators have paid much emphasis on learners, aiming at cultivating them autonomous learners. The traditional “chalk and talk” teaching mode...

This paper is aimed to figure out a better design of the toll plaza on the highway, considering the economic reason in addition, to relieve more and more serious congestion at the entrance and exit. We break the traditional thinking and design an arch-shaped toll plaza which consists of two layers (the...

This lontar’s Yusup is an old literary form of traditional poetry. There is an esoteric aspect to Lontar Yusup. The Lontar Yusup manuscript consists of four basic songs and 12 pupuh. One of the pupuhs is the pupuh Kasmatran Kawitan (Samudana), contains the journey of the Prophet Yusuf when he was his...

Nyadran is one of Javanese tradition commonly done once in a year, that is, in Ruwah – Javanese year. Javanese society usually has tradition to conserve various culture of their ancestors, which is, one of them is nyadran. They still do the tradition of nyadran. The aims of this research are (1) to describe...

Objectives: Diabetes is associated with cardiovascular risk and increased arterial stiffness. Whether large artery stiffness is associated with diabetes per se or concomitant hypertension is currently unknown. Methods: Male, Wistar rats (6 weeks) were divided into control (n=8), control with anti-hypertensive...

The development of book, both on cover or content, has been changed depending on the trend of design at that time. Nowadays, among many various books, biography is a kind of book that attracts readers. Biographies are becoming more frequently published, both written by writer and the figures themselves....

Objectives: Diabetes is a complex disease associated with cardiovascular complications. This study compared baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) in diabetic rats with and without anti-hypertensive treatment. Methods: Diabetes (induced by intraperitoneal injection of streptozotocin at 6 weeks of age) and control...

The steel collar is an important part of textile machine, which not only requires good abrasion resistance, but also have more stringent requirements for ovality and irregularities, as shown in Figure 1. Generally low carbon steel collar is carburized (or carbonitrided) after quenching to increase its...

Banten is a relatively new province. It used to be a part of the Province of West Java but then established itself since year 2000 by the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 23 Year 2000 dated October 17th, 2000 with their center of government at the city of Serang. Expansion of Banten from West...

Nowadays, the acute and chronic adverse health effects caused by benzene exposure have attracted wide attention. In this paper, we evaluate the health risk based on the four-step method recommended by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). We present a method using the Monte Carlo Simulating Software...

Populism has been vastly present in Indonesia as a political strategy to gain vote in election, but it has been almost completely left out from scientific inquiry. The dynamics of populism in local election also occurred in Bandung City, where in 2013, populist new mayor (Ridwan Kamil) had been elected....

The purpose of this research is to analyze the visual meaning of the Gundala poster in 2019. The method used in this study was the semiotic method; Ferdinand de Saussure developed the semiotic approach. Gundala was an Indonesian superhero created by Hasmi, and in 2019, the superhero figure made by the...

This study aims to determine (1) the form of individual interests in novel Sebelas Patriot by Andrea Hirata based on the Perspective of Comte’s Rationality; (2) the cause of individual interests in novel Sebelas Patriot by Andrea Hirata based on the Perspective of Comte’s Rationality; and (3) the impact...

In working out a model that would make optimization of the feature of toll plaza , such as shape ,size and merging-pattern, our team decided to apply the Queuing Theory and simulation software Vissim to figure out parameters of microcosmic traffic model .Studying on a large sum of relevant data. We then...

Chinese piano music was established on the base of the national music system, including silent mode, and horizontal melody thinking etc., and thus has different performing methods and techniques with western piano music. For example, on the performing methods of fingering, key touching method and pedaling...

Background: Arterial diastolic asymptotic pressure (P∞) is the pressure reached when the heart stops beating. Determination of the reservoir pressure (Pr) requires a value of P∞ which was previously assumed (1), calculated (2) and measured (3, 4) as 0, 35, 14, 24 mmHg respectively. The effects of varying...

Abstract—A continuing stream of innovation in technology and Internet are keeping transforming the world and business into a new stage. It is not surprising that e-commerce become the critical part in modern commercial society and it enables a lot of new products, services, and develop new business models,...

Language is a verbal product produced by humans to communicate with each other as a form of social interaction. Language helps humans to think regularly, patterned and systematically. Humans can express their meanings and feelings through language verbally and in written form. Javanese language has varied...

Aceh Province is one of the regions in Indonesia that has an Inclusive Economic Development Index score of 5.55 and this is lower than the national figure of 5.75. However, Aceh is still in the satisfactory category. The purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of Poverty, Gini Ratio Index,...

This article aims to figure out the commodification of the Qur’an in the marketing brand of Dinar Khoirur Rooziqiin (Dinar KR). As a new product in the gold business sector, Dinar KR has won a place in the people’s hearts. Its community extends to various regions in Indonesia and even neighbouring countries....

Scientific research and teaching are two important tasks of college education, but there are two misunderstandings in dealing with teaching and scientific research. On the one hand, it focuses on research and neglects teaching. On the other hand, it believes that scientific research has little influence...

Nowadays China is experiencing a boom in study abroad, which also attracts the attention of countries notably in western areas. But with the trend for overseas experience comes a psychological burden on international Chinese students, to figure out ways to curb mental problems, this article first covers...

Objectives: Hypertension is associated with increased arterial stiffness, which is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk. Aortic systolic blood pressure (SBP) and/or pulse pressure (PP) better predicts cardiovascular events than peripheral blood pressure. The present study compared the discriminative...

Parents are examples and role models for children. Children are excellent imitators and they will imitate what their parents do. The role of a father is very important in raising and taking care of children. If there is no balance between the roles of mother and father, it is feared that the child will...

Background: Carotid femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is directly associated with arterial stiffness in major elastic arteries and predicts future cardiovascular events (1). Little is known of cfPWV as a marker of vascular health in children. Semi-automated cuff-based devices for assessing cfPWV are...

Objectives: Increased carotid-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity (PWVc-f) identify hypertensive patients at high CV risk, independently of systematic coronary risk evaluation (SCORE). Testosterone is associated with aortic stiffness, however whether this association is different in hypertensive patients with...

This study aims to find out how the representation of disabled characters in Scarlet Heart and how audiences interpret the character discrimination with disabilities in Scarlet Heart. Scarlet Heart Korean Drama 2016 has become the first Korean drama who obtain 11.3 rating. Representations store physical...