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Cognitive and Metacognitive Reading Strategies Training in EFL Reading

Xiufeng Zhang, Lu Guo
Taking students of two different classes in the School of Continuing Education in a University as subjects, the present paper represents the conduction of training 20 reading strategies and its results. Through one term of training students’ reading strategies, it has found that the students’ awareness...

Prostitution and the Sugar Baby Phenomenon in France

Azalia Ambia Jacobs, Airin Miranda
The practice of prostitution in various forms in a country, including in France, cannot be avoided, as is the form of its promotion. For example, through trucks around universities in Paris that promote a sugar dating site. With the rise of sugar dating advertisements in society, sugar dating has become...

The Peer Facilitator as Co-educator and Learner: Exploring the Dual Role, Development, and Ethical Considerations in University Peer Support Programs

Nonhlanhla Joyisa
Peer-assisted learning (PAL) has become an integral element of higher education, offering academic support while fostering collaboration among students. Central to these initiatives are peer facilitators, who occupy a dual role as both co-educators and learners. This study explores the lived experiences...
Proceedings Article

The Effectiveness of the Suksaiyad Recipe on Sleep Quality: A Study Based on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) Assessment

Arthitaya Kawee-ai, Thanwarat Tratongkum, Kriangsak Phramphun
Sleep disturbances have become increasingly prevalent, prompting interest in alternative remedies for improving sleep quality. This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Suksaiyad recipe—a traditional Southeast Asian herbal formulation—on sleep quality using the pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI)....
Proceedings Article

Research on the Time-Space Impact Paths of Economic Convergence-Empirical Evidence from 30 Provinces in China

Hewen Yang, Wei Huang, Xun Ma, Yifan Xu, Minyu Huang
By constructing a geographical distance matrix and a technological distance matrix, a double-fixed spatial Durbin model empirical test was conducted using panel data of 30 provinces during 2002–2020 to explore the factors influencing the convergence of inter-provincial economic growth in China. The outcomes...

Students’ Views on Teaching Strategies in Online Speaking Classes at Universitas Negeri Padang

Elfy Syafyeni, Sitti Fatimah
In language learning, speaking becomes one of the essential skills that should be mastered by university students. Besides, the process of teaching and learning speaking gives challenges to the students. The students have a lack of motivation to get involved during the learning process because of their...

Exploration of Teaching and Talent Cultivation Strategies for College English C-E Translation under the background of “Chinese culture going out”

Chan Lin, Jingjing Chen
After officially proposing the “Chinese culture going out” strategy, China has put forward higher demand for translation talents with higher comprehensive quality. University translation major is an important place for cultivating translation talents. It is hoped that the university can adapt to the...

Construction of Quality Monitoring System in Postgraduate Education

Deling Huang, Shufang Xia, Guangxia Xu
Education quality is the soul of postgraduate education. A good quality monitoring system is the guarantee of improving the education quality. We investigated the current situation of the existing quality monitoring systems. We proposed a quality monitoring system, which employs tutor team mode to overcome...

Students' Background Diversity, Their VAK Learning Style and Lectures Teaching Strategies

Aulia PUTRI
As it is seen everywhere, many learners are interested in studying English-whether it is because they want to or because they need to. Those learners come from different countries with different races, cultures, occupations, and economic levels. Therefore, the researcher is interested to analyze about...
Proceedings Article

The design of rice direct seeding machine

S.F. Ding, Q.X. Li, Q. Huang
In order to change the existing status of big turning radius of the large direct seeding machines with diesel and gasoline as fuel and improve the low efficiency and time-consuming condition of the machine driven by human or animal, an electric rice planter was designed. The mechanical parts and circuit...

Teaching a German Online Course Based on Multiliteracy Theory - Practical Insights

Andrea Liebschner
This paper deals with the methods and challenges of teaching a German online course to non-native speakers of German at a British university based on the theory of multiliteracies by the New London Group described in 1996. The course aims to provide knowledge concerning, for example, the German grammar,...

Research on the Literature Acquisition to Improve the Collection Quality of Library in Independent Colleges

Xiongping Huang
This paper introduces the development situation of library in independent colleges of our country and discusses the main problems in collection quality of library in independent colleges like the library in Zhuhai College of Jilin University and proposes the strategies for the acquisition work to improve...

HOW TO COMPREHEND THE SIMILARITY BETWEEN HEBREW BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN? THE INTERTEXTUALITY BETWEEN PSALM 136 AND Q. 55 (AL-RAHMAN)

Lien Iffah Naf'atu Fina
Psalm 136 and Q. 55 have a unique similarity in which the two texts contain continuous refrain, repeated twenty-two times in the case of Psalm and thirty-one times in Q. 55. The extensive refrain in Psalm 136 is unique in the Psalm corpus and while there are three other chapters in the Qur'an containing...

Youth narcissistic and aggression: A challenge for guidance and counseling service in University

Fifi Fitriyah, Budi Purwoko
University student is the next generation of nation that must have a good character, so must be avoided from narcissistic and aggression. The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon and to test the relations. Amazing results about the profile of Indonesian students about narcissistic. A study...

Analysis of 21st-Century Leadership in Higher Education Management

Dedy Achmad Kurniady, Siti Nurlatifah, Aan Komariah, Cucun Sunaengsih
This research aims to describe and analyse 21st-century leadership in higher education. It is important to be continually studied to become an example in implementing in Indonesia higher education generally and similar higher education specifically. While for the specific aim, this research will be developing...
Proceedings Article

Daylight Intensity of Reading Room with Shading Device’s Opening (Case Study: The Library of Universitas Budi Luhur, South Jakarta)

Sri Kurniasih, Inggit Musdinar, Bagus Nurhasan Rachmanto
Daylight entering through the window can be obtained from several sources, namely direct sunlight, clear sky, clouds or reflections of the lower surface and surrounding buildings. Light from each source differs not only in the amount and heat it carries, but also in other qualities, such as color, distribution,...
Research Article

Framingham Risk Score Is an Ineffective Screening Strategy for Coronary Heart Disease in Long-Term Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Survivors

Natasha A. Jain, Marcus Y. Chen, Sujata Shanbhag, Prathima Anandi, Xin Tian, Sawa Ito, Priyanka A. Pophali, Kimberly Doucette, Robert Q. Le, Upneet Chawla, Eleftheria Koklanaris, Richard W. Childs, A. John Barrett, Minoo Battiwalla
Pages: 109 - 116
Long-term allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant (allo-HCT) survivors suffer an elevated risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). We conducted a prospective, nonrandomized, cross-sectional study to screen asymptomatic survivors at a single allo-HCT center using cardiac computed tomography (CT) involving...

Challenges in Making Landscape Waste Dumping Site in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Ida shaheera binti Bakhtiar, Norhidayah binti Md. Yunus, Mohd. Haizal bin Jamaluddin, Muhammad Aizi bin Mat, Muhammad Noor bin Harun
Management of landscape waste dumping site is refer to the way we manage a waste that produces by landscape provided around Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Landscape waste management also refers to the management in dumping site. The area of landscape waste dumping site undergoes significant changes...
Proceedings Article

Quality of Diet Pattern, Sun Exposure, and Vitamin D Statues Among Kurdish Children and Adolescent/Kurdistan Region/Iraq

Kaify Qadir, Hanaa Saadi, Hoger Sedeeq, Hamdia Ahmad
Background and Aim: Vitamin D has revealed huge attention in the scientific and public health community, and over the world around one billion persons in diverse ages and races now being either inadequate or deficient. The study aim is to assess vitamin D status, sun exposure and diet pattern of children...

Research on Teaching Design Module in International Cooperative Institute in China

Beiruo He
Taking the “Collaboration Practice” module in Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Arts in Wuhan Textile University in China as an example, this paper discusses the need of updating educational content of teaching design module in international cooperative Institute based on the characteristics...
Conference Abstract

P106 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CENTRAL PULSE PRESSURE AND URINARY SODIUM EXCRETION IN A POPULATION-BASED STUDY IN SALVADOR, BRAZIL, PRELIMINARY RESULTS

Lucelia Magalhaes, Daniele Brustolim, Diorlene Da Silva, Rodrigo Lima, Antonio Filho, Roberta Cunha, Jamile Gomes, Raquel Dantas
Pages: 110 - 110
Introduction: Central Pressure (PC) has shown to be more reliable in cardiovascular (CV) mortality (1); Salt intake and excretion seems to lead to an increase in this pulsatile component of the arterial flow (2, 3). C entral Pulse Pressure (PPc) data is very few. Methods: A population-based cross-sectional...

Zebrafish as a Model Animal to Strengthen the Discipline Understanding and Interest Guidance of Students Majoring in Green Chemical Engineering and Biomedicine

Gen Li, Sara Toufouki, Alula Yohannes, Yanfang Li, Qiaomei Sun, Jiaheng Liu, Tian Yao, Shun Yao
Due to various reasons, there has always been a misleading understanding of the "non green" of chemical engineering and processes in the whole society, which has directly led to the low interest, confusion and even exclusion of many freshmen in the discipline and major after they entered into...

Practice of Integrating Natural Science Works into College Education

Jianwen Guo, Zihan Chen, Naling Hu
This paper explores the integration of classic works in natural sciences into university education, analyzing how these classics promote critical thinking, scientific literacy, and interdisciplinary understanding. It discusses the process of incorporating these works into modern teaching, assesses their...

Workload of University Professors: On the Example of Accounting Program

Avirmed Davaatseren, Mishigdorj Myagmar
The workload of university professors is not only an economic indicator of their performance but also one of the major factors influencing the quality and effectiveness of their professional activities. For this reason, we have conducted a survey on the adequacy of the workload of the higher education...
Proceedings Article

The Impact of the Post-Pandemic Business Environment on Students’ Entrepreneurship

Yiheng Tang, Aozhong Liu
This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in the business environment in the post-pandemic era and their impact on university students’ entrepreneurship. The aim is to offer new perspectives and empirical evidence to the academic community, contributing to the development and enrichment...
Proceedings Article

LIS Education: An Indian Perspective

Sapna, Dhaval Bhatt
In India, L I S learning is now commemorating an era of presence and attaining a major milestone. Significant progress has been made during this time, thanks to various government initiatives from different departments. Important initiatives have significantly impacted higher education, including the...
Proceedings Article

Spatial Analysis of Residential Land Price in Urban Area of Jimo City Based on GIS

Ming Li Chen, Shu Jian He, Ji Fang Cui, Xiao Guang Zhang, Pei Ru Liu, Rui Hao
In this paper, land prices of the 234sample points are chosen from the collected bargaining points in Jimo city by using the approaches of market comparison, residual and income. Then, SPSS is applied to carry out normality tests of the sample data and eliminate the outlier data. The trend of land price...
Proceedings Article

A High Q&S RTSP Server’s Architecture and Implementation Based On Android

Yang Zhang, Zhiguo Hong, Ning Lv
FFmpeg is RTSP server’s core technology. Since 2010, Android mobiles have the highest speed of development. Android mobiles have enough high-quality devices to help us build server-based applications to provide audio, images and videos for web users. In this paper, by using FFmpeg to encode and decode...

Research and Practice of Scientific Research Management Reform Based on Collaborative Innovation

Lin Zhou, Jinfu Xu, Jiaoyan Dai, Xuebo Xu
Collaborative innovation which has important significance is the activity of optimizing innovation resources. However, in the process of promoting cooperative innovation, scientific research management of local colleges are facing a lot of challenges, such as how to activating the research resources,...
Proceedings Article

Research on the Mode and Method of Fund Management in Colleges and Universities

Yuanyuan Tian
The development of universities in the market economy is severely restricted by capital. In university financial management, how to strengthen capital management, streamline the reimbursement process, optimization of investment gold efficiency, the use of limited funds for sustainable development are...

Study and Practice of Teaching Reformation of Basic Electricity Market Course

Yajing Gao, Jing Zhu, Fushen Xue, Yongjian Sun, Haifeng Liang
Basic Electricity Market Course is a significant professional course opened for undergraduates especially students of the Department of Electrical Engineering, which involves Power System, Economic Management, Mathematics and Politics and so on, having plenty of different characteristics from other courses....
Proceedings Article

Analysis on The Cultivation of College Students' Innovation and Enterprise Capability

Baiyi An, Wei Shen
With the expansion of college enrollment, college graduates’ employment is becoming increasingly severe. At present, in the innovation and entrepreneurship education of students in universities there still existsuch problems as the weak awareness and quality of university students’ innovation, the older...

Performance Information Disclosure at the Estonian Universities

Toomas Haldma, Kristi Ploom, Anneli Lorenz
The main purpose of this paper is to examine the performance information disclosure, its objectives and used performance measures at Estonian public universities. The present study focuses, using the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle model on the linkages between disclosed performance information in various...

Study and Reflection on the Optimized Allocation of Papery and Electronic Resources in University and College Libraries

Fanzi Li, Zhuoyi Xu, Fangyuan Han
Since the traditional libraries can hardly meet the daily demands of the modern students, this paper proceeds from the concept of mobile library, and bases on the patron-driven acquisition (PDA) mode to put forward a plan to optimize the allocation of electronic and papery resources through techniques...

The Deepening of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education and the Reform of Local Colleges and Universities

Jingfeng He, Jie Liu, Gang Cheng
In order to promote modernization, colleges and universities need to cultivate students' innovative spirit and entrepreneurial ability.At the same time, students' practical ability can not be separated from innovation spirit and entrepreneurial ability, because it is an important guarantee to train students...

Analysis of Features of Adaptive Reactions of Students in Urban Environment

Olga A. Dragich, Klavdia A. Sidorova, Tatyana A. Sidorova, Alla G. Naimushina, Marina A. Zharkova
The aim of the study was to examine the features of adaptive reactions of the female organism under the influence of the urban environment during their study at the University. On the basis of a comprehensive study of psychophysiological indicators of urban and rural girls, for the first time psychofunctional...

The Soft Skill Training to Improve the Readiness of Alumni in Entering the Working World

Joni Rahmat Pramudia, Jajat S. Ardiwinata, Elih Sudiapermana, Muhammad Irfan Hilmi
In the era of this global competition, everyone is expected to improve their competencies both in soft skill and hard skill. An excellent human resource does not only have proficiency in hard skill but also in soft skill to handle various challenges and changes of technology in the working world. This...

Consideration on College Physics Teaching Reformation under the New Situation

Lihua Teng, Guanghai Guo
Along with the rapid development of science and technology and continuous changing of social demands, it is imperative for the university physics teaching to reform. The course shall be concise aiming to the compressed teaching hours in each professional training program; the innovative university physics...

The Construction and Perfection of Mental Health Education Model of Poor Students in Colleges and Universities

Shiwei Wu
The problem of poor students in Colleges and universities has a long history. With the transformation of China's economic system and the acceleration of the popularization of higher education, the problem of poor students has become a hot issue to be solved in the development of higher education in China....

A Study on the Student Drain of the Major of Automobile Service Engineering

Zhuo Yang, Yanbo Deng, Shaojia Huang, Xiqing Wang, Mingchen Shi
With the growing of the sale and the car ownership in China, the automotive after-market is full of business opportunities which induce the short supply of talent for the automobile service engineering. Therefore, since the automobile service engineering was approved as a specialty for higher education...

Study on the Construction of Gu Cheng's Isolated City Field

Tingting Zhou
Gucheng Life with poetry for life. He is the main representative of "Misty poetry" and the only fairy poet in China. Jiangxi Normal University students in 2018 year 8 months in Guangdong Meizhou held a "Gucheng Gu City Vision" of the symposium, the meeting belongs to the exchange between student’s discussion,...

Decision Support System Analysis Performance Evaluation Lecturer Using Balanced Scorecard Method in a private University

Adi Rachmanto
The purpose of this study was to develop a decision support system. In analyzing system requirements, this study uses a balanced scorecard method based on four perspectives, namely: customer perspective, financial perspective, internal process perspective and growth perspective. The results of this study...

Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurship Education: Assessing the Impact Toward Entrepreneurial Intentions

M. Rahmat Dzakkiyuddin, Siska Ernawati Fatimah, Adi Setiawan
An imbalance between the number of workers and opportunities available, resulting in an increase in unemployment. Unemployment issues are still not resolved because many human resources are unable to compete for employment opportunities. Data shows that by August 2018, as much as 7,000,691 unemployment...

The Application of Virtual Simulation Software in University Physics Teaching

Weici Liu, Ruisheng Liang
With the development of educational informationization, the deep integration of information technology and curriculum teaching has become the development trend of modern education. The traditional university physics teaching cannot meet the needs of teachers and students in engineering universities under...

The Effect of Financial Literacy on University Student Consumptive Behavior: Case Study on the Economic Faculty of Sriwijaya University

Umar Hamdan, Dian Eka, Samadi W. Bakar, Ahmad Syathiri
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of financial literacy levels on university student consumptive behavior. The definition of financial literacy variable is to have knowledge and beliefs about financial service institutions and financial service products, including features, benefits...

Analysis of Undergraduate Students’ Conceptual Consistency on Chemical Kinetics Using Four–Tier Chemistry Concept Inventory

Iriani Bakti, Rizki Nur Analita
The following research is aimed to investigate undergraduate students’ conceptual understanding and their conceptual consistency in chemical kinetics. Moreover, it is also projected to classify the concepts based on easiness to be understood correctly or other that led to producing alternative concepts....

Identities for Enhancing Their Motivation in Learning English: A Case Study at Jendral Soedirman University

Rizki Februansyah, Eni Nur Aeni
Transportable identities may be defined as characteristics which are latent or implicit but can be invoked during the interaction for particular reasons (Richards in Ushioda, 2011:16). Students’ transportable identities can be a member of local sport club, small scale business owner, a member of university...

Intelligent Science and Engineering Project-based Learning at the Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Gifu University

Minoru Sasaki, Takahiro Nitta, Tetsuya Mouri, Gakuji Nagai, Takeshi Miyasaka
This paper introduces the Graduate School of Engineering program at Gifu University from the aspects of engineering education and STEMA education. This program has been effective by participating in the Experimental Rocket Launching Campaign that has been held in France since 2005 at the Department of...

Development of Online-Based Learning Using Moodle E-learning System in New Innovation and Paradigm of Education Course

Connie, Eko Risdianto, Meizul Zuki
This study aims to develop online-based learning to improve learning outcomes and student motivation in the Innovation and New Education Paradigm courses. The Moodle-based e-learning system at Bengkulu University, which is provided to facilitate online lectures, has not been maximally utilized by lecturers....

Achievement Emotions and Barriers to Online Learning of University Students During the COVID-19 Time

Phuong Vo, Trang Lam, Anh Nguyen
By definition, achievement emotions are emotions that are important and strongly linked with achievement activities or achievement outcomes. Researches have proved that achievement emotions are very important in the learning process of university students as they can affect learning performances, especially...