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In 2020, as COVID-19 broke out in many places around the world, countries began implementing different lockdown or isolation policies. Working online from home or shutting down your business is becoming a part of life. However, in the face of the surging demand from people in all aspects, supply has...

A teacher's optimistic belief in creativity can encourage and motivate students to be more creative. This study aims to analyze the perception of prospective elementary school teachers on the confidence of teacher creativity in teaching practice. This research design uses a mixed method to thoroughly...

Countless previous studies have manifested the negative consequences of physician burnout and its relating causes. However, the recent occurring pandemic, COVID-19, might change the whole picture for the problem. While hypothesizing that physician burnout changes before and after the pandemic and gender...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a comprehensive spatial data processing technique, of which fundamental meaning, function, background and developing process are introduced in the paper. It is reviewed and emphasized that GIS has been applied to forestry industry fully and systematically in recent...

The COVID-19 epidemic has greatly facilitated online teaching and learning in universities, making the factors influencing college students’ learning performance and their causal feedback increasingly complex. In this regard, system thinking is used to analyse factors such as students’ self-efficacy,...

Aiming at knowledge reasoning ability of fuzzy petri net depending on the parameter and the parameters usually obtained by specialist, an algorism based on artificial immune algorism for obtaining the optimum parameters was proposed. Firstly, the fuzzy petri net and generating rules were defined and...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by NADPH-oxidase (NOX) participate in vascular tone control, but their effects in the arteries of respiratory muscles is poorly understood. Possible targets of vasoregulatory ROS influence are NO-pathway in the endothelium and Rho-kinase pathway in smooth muscle...

With the maturity of Internet technology and the restrictions on traffic control in the context of COVID-19, e-commerce platforms and external media platforms such as Weibo, WeChat, and Tiktok are increasingly closely combined to seize the market using contactless transactions to achieve the transformation...

Foreign investment acts as a significant part in a country’s economic and trade development, which is mainly manifested in the form of multinational companies. Under the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, international trade has fluctuated greatly, which has had a great influence on foreign investment....

Lectures during the COVID-19 pandemic have obstacles that need to be found for practical solutions. Computer Graphics as a practicum subject in normal conditions is usually carried out by the lecturer’s direct instruction method as the tutor. This method turned out to be ineffective in the Learn From...

The manufacturers’ quick response to their market demand largely depends on whether their production logistics system is in a balance and coordination status. A simulation experiment of production logistics balance is conducted for a manufacturing enterprise in the process of processing production, using...

A pleasant environment is needed to increase student motivation in learning physical education, especially in the early elementary classes. The pleasant atmosphere can be created through the use of Rope Ladder (Rolade) Physical Activity learning media. The current study aims are to identify and analyze...

In the context of new industrialization and green development strategy, it remains to be tested whether industrial synergistic agglomeration in city clusters can promote green innovation behaviors of firms in the region. We measured the degree of synergistic agglomeration of productive services and manufacturing...

2019 Corona Virus (COVID-19) is a wide spread disease sweeping the world. It generates the impact on both the macroeconomics and microeconomics as well. From the macroeconomic and microeconomics perspective, the economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic has been devastating, on which a lot...

As the COVID-19 epidemic emerged, not only has people’s physical health been seriously threatened, but their mental health conditions also have been negatively affected. Under such circumstances, high school students’ emotion problems, especially anxiety, should be taken seriously. As students suffered...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Cognitive decline is highly prevalent amongst end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients and is accelerated upon initiation of hemodialysis (HD) [1]. ESRD increases aortic stiffness and blood flow pulsatility, which may damage small vessels of target organs like the brain [2]....

As a new generation of media technology, new media is an important way for the public to obtain information about the coronavirus. However, as the development of new media is getting better and better, the information of new media is mixed, and the authenticity is difficult to distinguish, which undoubtedly...

The COVID-19 has had an uncertain impact on the world’s stock markets, bringing challenges or opportunities to all industries. This article adopts the descriptive statistical analysis and an event study approach to evaluate whether and how the COVID-19 has affected the animation, comic, and game (ACG)...

Covid-19 pandemic have halted student creativity and innovation programs in SMA Negeri 1 Krian. The existence of a community service program initiated by the State University of Surabaya aims to revive the vacuum of digital works creation and production in SMA Negeri 1 Krian. The two activities that...

Background: Higher cerebral blood flow (CBF) pulsatility was found to be associated with severer brain white matter lesions in the elderly [1]. It was hypothesized that the central/elastic arterial stiffness/compliance may directly affect CBF pulsatility. However, it is still unclear which carotid stiffness...

The COVID-19 pandemic impact on almost the whole world, also had a significant impact on students, who experienced changes in the way they attended classes, from offline face-to-face instruction to online distance learning. To explore the influential factors affecting students' classroom experience,...

The purposeof this study are to find (1) the historical andsocial contexts contained in the critical humorous discourse of the response to covid-19, (2) thediversity of power that is opposed by the critical discourse of humor against the response to covid-19, and (3) ideology that is upheld by a critical...

As is known, the Covid–19 pandemic has changed the way of teaching and learning. In learning listening skills, many teachers or lecturers use social media such as YouTube. This study discusses the exercises that can develop listening skills teaching materials obtained from audiobooks (Hoerbuch–Deutsch)...

Self-defeating work behavior will become more common if human resources exploitation continues. A good organization practice needs to be performed to avoid employees’ self-defeating work behavior. Our research is among the first to examine the organizational antecedents of self-defeating work behavior....

This article aimed to analyze the influence of supervision of principals and teacher competencies on the performance of teachers of SD Negeri Palembang. This article was analyzing the responsibility of the principal for the quality of learning carried out by teachers and analyzes the fewer atmospheres...

French writer Albert Camus, in his novel La Peste, tells the story of an outbreak of plague in the city of Oran. During the pandemic, a group of people are led by the main character, Dr. Rieux, struggle to fight the disease, while other characters take different actions and attitudes from Dr. Rieux....

Objectives: We aimed to investigate the association between isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) and central blood pressure (BP) in a nationally representative population. Methods: A total of 2029 adults without anti-hypertensive medicine, aged ≥19 years old participated in the 2013–2016 National Nutrition...

The COVID-19 outbreak at the end of 2019 brought immeasurable damage to people worldwide, especially in China - the first country to be attacked. The response has been a tough time for governments, health care workers, and the infected and uninfected who must be isolated. But with such a vast, live threatening...

In China, family education in remote areas has always been an issue of great concern to the country and the education community. The outbreak of COVID-19 has brought education in remote areas into a special period. To better understand the current situation of family education in remote areas of China...

Aim: To investigate PWV trajectories before and during the lockdown period among Withings Body Cardio bathroom scale users in France, in which a strict total lockdown was imposed, and Germany, in which partial social distancing measures were adopted. Methods: The study population is constituted by Withings...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized attendance management systems, automating processes for efficiency. However, existing face recognition attendance systems are limited to determining presence or absence, leaving a research gap in providing real-time absence notifications...

Since the COVID-19 appeared in 2019, the price of gold futures has been quite different from the past. We analyzed the supply and demand of gold futures during the epidemic and found some of the reasons for the rise in gold futures prices. Besides, we expect to use the ARIMA to model the COMEX gold futures...

As a family of heat pipe, oscillating heat pipe (OHP) has many additional unique operating parameters. This paper examined the characteristic of temperature evolution from start-up until dry-out stage of an OHP with extra-long dimension using methanol as the working fluid. The temperature evolutions...

Through the firewall can define one of the key points to prevent invasive; monitoring network security and give the alarm in case of abnormalities, especially for the great amount of information through the removal of inspection, but also should make log register; provides network address conversion...

The convergence process has been a recurrent topic since the establishment of the European Union. Historically, there have been sizeable income disparities between West and East Europe. When coupled with a global crisis, this gap could have unforeseen implications on regional economies. When COVID-19...

Background: Effects of short-term interventions on large artery stiffness assessed by pulse wave velocity (PWV) have mainly been explained by concomitant changes in blood pressure (BP). However, lower body negative pressure (LBNP), which increases sympathetic activity (SA) has a specific effect on PWV...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed conditions in various fields in the world, especially education. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced learning to be done online as an effort to break the chain of the spread of Covid-19. This became the background of research on teacher readiness in Geographic Information...

Blended learning, an educational approach that combines online and face-to-face components in the classroom, is becoming the basic mode of education in the future. The comprehensive online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in China in 2020 provides direct experience and lessons for blended learning....

Considering the critical role of health workers in handling COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of Health of The Republic of Indonesia provides monetary rewards in COVID-19 incentives for health service providers, including nurses who interact directly with COVID-19 patients. The incentives are expected to...

This study aims to determine the public’s response, how the video can inspire and boost product branding on the market, and the most influential recommendations. This research methodology uses qualitative content analysis with data collection using the purposive sampling technique with reporting criteria...

The unique function and healthy concept of Wushu are the basis for its inheritance and development. This paper makes an in-depth investigation and analysis on the role of Wushu in the COVID-19 by using the methods of literature and questionnaire, and finds out the opportunities and challenges of its...

One thing that must be protected during the Covid-19 pandemic is children. Although many experts say that children are not susceptible to this virus many children are infected and some of them die. Therefore, education is needed to prevent transmission of Covid-19 in children. Education about COVID-19...

Background: The range of central blood pressure (BP) found in individuals with high-normal brachial BP overlaps the one found in hypertension (HTN) and normotension. As central BP is possibly a better predictor of cardiovascular (CV) disease, the aim of this study was to determine the risk associated...

The authors consider secondary socialization as a process of gradual change of ideas about the surrounding reality in the individual’s mind under the influence of some social institutions. As the state of the modern world could be characterized with the terms of information age or information society...

The outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic at the end of 2019 had a huge impact on the world economy. This article is based on the actual economic development at this stage, combined with the research results on the impact of the epidemic on the economy, and the existing research results from the...

At present, research on energy-saving and emissions reduction is still mainly theoretical construction and not much quantitative research on evaluation, particularly study of the empirical analysis on the provinces and the national is rarely. In order to arrange energy-saving and emissions- reduction...

As the world’s largest source of tourists and one of the world’s most prestigious tourist destinations, China has huge potential and countless tourism resources. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Internet began to emerge, and the travel E-Commerce platform came into being. After more than two decades...

The widespread use and introduction of distance education have led to a large number of novel theoretical and empirical studies. The potential impact of distance learning on student motivation and academic performance is very important, especially these days due to the pandemic. Most studies have investigated...

Due to its concise, simple and unambiguous qualities, the Petri net method has become a reliable and accurate way of analyzing protocol. However, with one model conducting one point, the required models of the key points of protocol analysis, namely, the protocol performance evaluation and the protocol...

The outbreak of COVID-19 first took place in China in 2020 and the Chinese government took many immediate policies to prevent the spread of the virus. All these behaviors are likely to make an impact on people’s mental health, especially adolescents and young adults who are more vulnerable. Thus, in...