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Rapid technological developments have changed many things in the construction industry, particularly in the development methods. One technologies that gives a considerable influence in this industry is a prefabricated system, where the building components have been produced previously in the factory...

TikTok, a popular short video app in China, played a significant role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Offering a window into people’s daily lives against this traumatic background, TikTok was used as a research site in this study to figure out how Chinese people manifested their experiences and feelings....

Objective: The ASINPHAR@2action programme aims at raising awareness to early vascular ageing (EVA) through a community-based intervention. This preliminary analysis is focused on the analysis of the proportion of participants with abnormal arterial stiffness (AS) and the definition of its main determinants. Design...

Background: The ventricle in aortic stenosis (AS) is influenced by both valvular and vascular factors. The importance of afterload on left ventricular (LV) remodeling is not completely understood. Traditional imaging techniques which rely on geometric assumptions may not assess regional remodeling accurately. Aim:...

Misconception can happen in students because of several factors. The existence of misconception makes students wrong in constructing knowledge that will be continue to the next level of education. One of the factors that can lead misconception is thinking style of students. There are four types of thinking...

Dermaji is one of the villages in Indonesia that has been categorized as a digital village. The village, which is part of the Lumbir Subdistrict, Banyumas Regency, has received various awards in the use of digital technologis, including in 2018 having been named as Informative Village by Central Java...

Incontestably, a superior brand is not desirable but a primary requisite for the organisations in this extremely competitive environment. Hence, the organisations attempt to figure out ways to achieve it. One of the established components to building a successful brand is strong and unique associations...

Background: In heart failure patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF-LVAD), arterial pulsatility in the brain is reduced and diastolic blood velocities (Vmin) are maintained. The effects of such altered hemodynamics on kinetic energy and, importantly, energy loss in the cerebral...

The coast surrounds areas geographically of the archipelago. Most of the fathers there work at sea, sail or go overseas. The business of sailing and going overseas makes the father figure far from home, even though one of the functions of father’s care is to support academic success. The purpose of this...

Women are closely related to the word feminism. Women are very interesting to study, because women have a very important role. Likewise with documentaries that talk about emancipation. This study aims to describe the reality of women’s lives during the Dutch colonial period, as well as their relationship...

Idris Sardi is an Indonesian music figure who is widely recognized by the public for his achievements and musical works. This study discusses the musical development of Idris Sardi in pedagogy and heutagogy approaches. A qualitative method was used with a narrative approach. Data collection was conducted...

"Top down" training that has been done is considered unable to increase the competence of pedagogical tutors. The purpose of this study are: (a) to identify what are really needed by tutors community to improve their pedagogical competence in their training, and (b) to figure out a perfect conceptual...

The purpose of this research is to figure out the forms of the word “when” and describe its contexts in Japanese language. This descriptive-qualitative research employed a writing technique while the data are analyzed using a distributional method. The data consist of sentences containing the word ‘when’...

Background: Left ventricular (LV) afterload patterns consisting of late-systolic loading has been linked to LV remodeling and fibrosis in a number of studies. The contributions from arterial wave reflections (WR) has therefore garnered much interest. Aortic dilation may facilitate the adverse effects...

The blending phenomenon of offline-online religious practices is considered a solution for today’s churches strug­gling to reconsider their identity and expression in communicating the faith during the pandemic. However, this hybrid approach still cannot provide theological conviction for the churches...

–This article touches on the issues of the study of the Sakha pantheon of Aiyy deities. The goal of this article is to examine the work and research dedicated to studying the upper Aiyy deities. This research utilizes comparative and descriptive methods to reveal the similarities and differences in representations...

Safety risks are complicated in the metro construction, so the identification and control of the risk factors as well as the mitigation of coupling effect of risk events are the important ways to improve the safety performance of the deep foundation pit construction project. The purpose of this paper...

Public sector accounting is regarded as a critical component of accounting students’ foundational skills that should be mastering. Basically, in terms of transaction recording, public sector accounting differs significantly from finance or managerial accounting. So it is important to give an interactive...

It is quite difficult to get the temperature field of flow liquid from the three-dimensional perspective by hand calculation. But we figure out an unusual method to obtain the temperature, and we also use 3D software to simulate and test. In order to facilitate the calculation, we use cuboid bathtub...

The purpose of this research is to see parenting and level of self-esteem. This research using descriptive analytic methods in junior high school, with a cross-sectional approach The Self Esteem scale and parenting were given to 60 students. The univariate analysis showed that 51 students (85%) with...

The purpose of this research was to explore the traditional games as a means of learning resource two dimensional figures materials in primary school. The research was conducted in the area of Banyumas by observing a wide variety of traditional games that have relevance to mathematical concepts. The...

Objectives: Hemodialysis patients are at greater risk of increased arterial stiffness. Regular aerobic exercise has been shown to reduce arterial stiffness in hemodialysis patients. However, the impact of a more realistic intradialytic form of exercise, such as pedaling, is unclear. Therefore, we aimed...

Background: Cardiovascular (CV) disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in COPD 1 . Aortic pulse wave velocity (AoPWV), an independent predictor of CV risk, is elevated in COPD 2 , however, there have been no longitudinal studies of AoPWV in COPD. The Assessment of Risk in Chronic Airways...

According to traditional theory, painting should be the imprint of mind, which serves as a principle to both artists and the audience. Guo Xi, an ancient Master of Landscape painting, sticks to the principle by conveying his mind when drawing the outline of the landscape. Chinese traditional aesthetics...

Gibran Rakabuming Raka is a figure who has a lot of public attention. Not only because his status as the son of the President of the Republic of Indonesia (Joko Widodo), then Mayor of Surakarta, and now elected as vice president in the 2024 election, but also because of the controversy accompanying him....

Background: Previously regarded as a measure of pressure wave reflection, central augmentation pressure (AP) may be influenced by the pattern of early ventricular ejection. We examined the relationship of AP to first-phase ejection fraction (EF1), a measure of ventricular ejection up to the time of the...

Background: Perioperative acute kidney injury has been found to occur in 12% of patients undergoing lower limb revascularisation (Arora et al., 2013). The aim of the current double-blinded, randomised and sham-controlled pilot study was to determine the effect of remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC)...

The comparisons of fastness of the different coating processes of electroless silver plating on polyethylene membrane surfaces were investigated. The average fastness values of the impregnation (from 2.0 ± 0.5 in I3-1 to 4.0 ± 0.5 in I2-1), the brush (from 4.0 ± 0.3 in B3-1 to 4.5 ± 0.3 in B2-1) and...

The political contestation of President Joko Widodo’s supporting team and the opposing team from Gerindra, Prabowo Subianto, is one of the big issues that attracts Indonesian society’s attention over the last four years, since 2014 until today (2018). The political contestation which should be receding...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Arterial stiffness and aortic hemodynamics are independent predictors of adverse cardiovascular events. Indications for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) are increasing in number and Aortic Valve Calcifications (AVC) are an important prognostic factor of TAVI....

Background: Individualized weighing of the risk-benefit of anticoagulation is recommended in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) that have low established risk scores or, conversely, are at increased risk for bleeding1. Parameters of arterial stiffness and wave reflection could improve risk stratification,...

The realization of character building in the learning process becomes the purpose of analysis in this research. The analysis of this study was conducted to overcome many attitude problems in the elementary school through the process of education in the schools. The research process was done by using...

Klana Sewandana is a central figure in Reyog Ponorogo’s story who is known as a powerful king with the mainstay weapon of Pecut Samandiman. This research aimed to; 1) examine the prototype forms of Klana Sewandana figure in the form of Wayang Golek Reyog Ponorogo; 2) examine the symbolic meaning of the...

Prior becoming one of renowned tourist sites in Yogyakarta, Giriloyo was a quiet hilly village in which the people were commonly employed as Sultan’s tomb keepers. Yet, they were able to make batik using hand-painted method, called nyanthing, and fortunately their talent was discovered by the courtiers...

Background: Raynaud’s phenomenon of the hands is a great burden and reduces quality of life. In some patients, complaints may be resistant to vasodilatory treatment, for which additional options are very limited. Previously thoracic sympathectomy has been shown effective, but with great surgical burden....

Purpose: The ejection duration (ED) is an important indicator of ventricular function as well as ventriculo-arterial coupling. Thus, the non-invasive oscillometric determination of ED from arterial pressure waves could enhance methods of pulse wave analysis. The aim of this work was to test and to validate...

Augmentation index (AIx) is a widely used measure of wave reflection and aortic stiffness. It rises with age in a curvilinear manner whereas central augmentation pressure (AP) and pulse pressure (PP) from which it is determined (as AIx=AP ÷ PP) rise linearly with age. Apparent flattening of AIx over...

Background: Routine ultrasound exams are conducted to assess fetus development. Heart defects and cardiac function are the main areas investigated in an ultrasound assessment. However, prenatal assessment of the fetal arterial stiffness is yet to be established in the ascending aorta. Aim: To investigate...

This study aims to describe the role of Sunday school tears and parents in educating children to be obedient and respectful. The research was a kind of literature study, of which the data was purely secondary data that obtained from the library. Since the study belongs to qualitative study, thereof,...

This study examines the speech acts used in the short film entitled ‘The Underdogs’. The purpose of this research is to determine the way ideas are discussed between employees in a company. Speech acts have been chosen as the main topic of the research to figure out how ideas are conveyed in a work discussion—as...

Microplastics are small-sized and microscopic plastic materials produced by both commercial product development and the breakdown of bigger polymers. Microplastics can be hazardous to the environment and animal health as a contaminant. For the first time, scientists discovered microplastic contamination...

Objective: PWV measurement devices are technically demanding, expensive and prone to artefacts, thus limiting the measurement of arterial stiffness in primary care. The CARDIS consortium developed a non-contact device based on the detection of skin movements induced by arterial pulses through a laser...

The purpose of this study is to describe the dimensions of the text, discourse practices and socio-cultural practices in the short story "Dua Wajah Ibu" by Guntur Alam. The theory used is the literary sociology theory. The method used is qualitative method with Fairclough's model of critical discourse...

Background: The cold pressor test (CPT) has been used to detect vasospastic angina, but its sensitivity for predicting vasospasm is low. The aim of this study was to determine if the estimation of coronary flow reserve capacity in the left anterior descending coronary artery using transthoracic Doppler...

Intelligent image recognition is a technique that enables image information to be digitized quickly and accurately. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an important technology in the field of application research such as machine vision and pattern recognition. This paper summarizes the background...

Nowadays, smartphones and wearable devices are parts of a broader computing offering that include connected screens in the workplace and in public spaces. User experience designs will be of a critical importance. This phenomenon affects individual, organization lifestyle including educational industry....

It is hard to program a traditional forest sub-compartment management with a long programming cycle and high energy input and lack of computer technology support, such, this paper presents a visualization technology of the sub-compartment management procedure based on WF. The paper, with the programming...

Background and Aims: Arterial volume compliance is a major determinant of cardiac afterload. More than 50% of the arterial volume compliance resides in the proximal aorta. Researchers often use area compliance for the estimation of volume compliance, assuming an invariant vessel length over pressure...

This article discussed the dress practice of female university students of English Letters Department Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia. The primary objectives of this research were to explore how these female students defined the dress they wore and how they responded...

This study attempts to investigate the issue of identity seen from the issue of power relation in Saman, a novel by Ayu Utami. In particular, this study focuses on discussing the phenomenon of identity as an effect of superiority in the social order from postcolonial perspective. Data analysis revealed...