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Living with breast cancer and experiencing a wide range of issues necessitates supportive care (SC). SC provides the necessary services for those affected by cancer to meet their physical, psychological, informational, practical, and spiritual needs. Therefore, this study’s objectives were to identify...

Background: According to the Indonesian Ministry of Health in 2019, the number of people with hypertension in the world continues to increase every year. The number of people with hypertension in the world continues to grow every year and it is predicted that by 2025 there will be 1.5 billion people...

A rainbow vertex antimagic coloring namely rainbow vertex coloring and antimagic labeling. For a bijective function f E ( G ) → ...

Nusantara is the nickname for Indonesia a country that has many islands intertwined with a very wide ocean. The ocean area has an area of 5,877,879 square kilometers which is almost three times that of the land area, which is 2,012,402 square kilometers. The Indonesian mainland is divided into large...

Log hauling is a critical and cost-intensive stage in timber harvesting operations. In Indonesia’s natural forests, log hauling is mechanized by using logging trucks to enhance efficiency and productivity. This study aimed to calculate the productivity, cost, and efficiency of log hauling in natural...

We are approaching a future where artificial intelligence (AI) plays a significant role in our society. AI is progressively becoming widespread in many aspects, ranging from industry, manufacturing, energy, and healthcare to education. Among those sectors, education covers significant societal impacts....

This study aims to examine the effects of work motivation, work competence, and training and development on employee performance in manufacturing companies. A quantitative research approach was employed using an explanatory survey design. Data were collected from 209 employees working in manufacturing...

Background: Mid-life cardiovascular risk factors may be detrimental to cognitive function in later life; however results are inconsistent. We investigated the impact of mid-life blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and obesity on cognitive function. Methods: In a community based sample aged 49.6±6years:...

Copper participates in the redox mechanisms and is a cofactor of enzymes responsible for appropriate structure of elastic fibres. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between plasma copper as well as ceruloplasmin concentrations and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV). The study...

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the Roadmap for the implementation of the Thematic SMI development program which has been ongoing from 2017 to 2021. From the results of this evaluation, a SWOT analysis was carried out to obtain a strategic model for the Thematic SMI development in the City...

Patients with asthma will experience a decrease in pulmonary function due to airway obstruction. Yoga Pranayama is a practice of meditation, self-hypnosis with positive suggestions and breathing exercise for patients with asthma that can cause optimal ventilation. This study was to explain the effect...

Male is one of the risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases. It is suggested that testosterone (T) may contribute to cardiovascular events, which is initiated by platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation. Endothelial cells (EC) prevent platelet activation by synthesizing and releasing...

Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience autonomic dysfunction, with reduced sympathetic and parasympathetic control. This results in alterations in resting heart rate and blood pressure and attenuated responses to sympathoexcitatory stimuli. It is unknown to what extent this impacts...

Introduction: Previous studies show contradictory results related to the vascular effects of coffee; they suggest that caffeine increases arterial stiffness and negatively impacts vascular health, the aim of this study is to evaluate the acute coffee effects on the vascular stiffness. Methods and materials:...

Purpose: To explore new imaging techniques to elucidate some of the differences between both abdominal and ascending aortic aneurysms in the angiotensin II mouse model. Procedures: Angiotensin II-infusing pumps were implanted in male ApoE−/− mice (n = 10). In vivo micro-CT, ultrasound and Positron emission...

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is one of the world's concern with high morbidity and mortality which is marked by low bone density which makes the bone fragile and increases the risk of fracture. It had be known that estrogen plays a role in women's bone health, that is to maintain the activity of osteoblasts...

Gingivitis is an inflammation of the gingiva due to an accumulation of bacterial plaque that can cause periodontal structural damage. In general, to diagnose gingivitis involves clinical measurements and radiographic assessment which are often poorly tolerated by the patients and are also subjected to...

The article considers transformations in semantic regulations in the digital age and provides a philosophical analysis of self-regulation patters from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors analyze the mundane pattern of self-regulation, secondly, characteristics of the existential pattern...

Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU. Methods:...

The Black Soldiers Fly (Hermetia illucens) life cycle is unique. The uniqueness lies in the life of the larvae until the pupae and metamorphosis become relatively clean flies, do not like smelly media and tend to be in a moist to dry medium. Unlike some other types of flies, the BSF life cycle brings...

Parenting is one of the most challenging and stressful jobs. At the same time, its significance lies in the influence it has on the life of the one being parented. Mothers of preschool had difficulties on emotion control, automatic reaction, receive herself and child, and take care themself. These reactions...

Stunting is the most common problem in developing countries, including Indonesia. The problem of stunting is a new issue that harms nutritional problems in Indonesia because it affects the physical and functional aspects of the child’s body and increases the child’s morbidity, even the stunting incident...

Dark Septate Endophyte (DSE) is an endophytic fungus with dark, septate hyphae and has the potential as a biocontrol agent in controlling pathogenic fungi in plants. The purpose of this study was to determine the antagonism of DSE fungi isolated from chili roots against Colletotrichum gloeosporioides...

Hemoglobin electrophoresis is the gold standard for thalassemia carriers screening. Hemoglobin electrophoresis sees an increase in HbA2, where thalassemia patients experience abnormalities in the composition of HbA2. The Mentzer index is a discrimination index formula with good sensitivity, specificity,...

Internal and external stakeholders in Higher Education have been actively pushing entrepreneurship as a profitable career choice among students since the adoption of the National Innovation and Startup Policy and the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 throughout the Nation. There is...

This study investigates Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) integration as a multidimensional construct within the Indian corporate context, using industry leaders as benchmarks. Drawing on S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) data, the research evaluates Mahindra & Mahindra...

.The implementation of regional government is greatly influenced by the massive development of communication and information technology. Communication between regional governments and the community and openness of public information are fundamental in local democracy. The flow of democratization has...

Living in society could not be separated from religion. The fact that religions can create the culture of a nation shows that religions possess an influence that cannot be ignored. Besides, there are also social conflicts that occurred due to religious matters. Those religious conflicts have raised scepticism...

Background: Carboxylation of matrix Gla protein (MGP), a vitamin K dependent process, activates the protein to a powerful inhibitor of arterial calcification. Circulating dephosphorylated and uncarboxylated MGP (dp-ucMGP) and total uncarboxylated MGP (t-ucMGP) are associated with macrovascular disease....

In California, local mosquito and vector control districts have successfully controlled mosquito and vector-borne diseases by improving drainage patterns and applying pesticides. The Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, which is a proposed habitat conservation plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta estuary,...

This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of Malay translated version of the brief questionnaire of smoking urges (QSU-Brief). The translation procedure was done following the standard guidelines. The reliability and validity of the Malaysian version scale were evaluated based on the data...

Multi-level inverter is now becoming an efficient and promising technology in sorts of applications, especially in high level voltage inverters. However, the unbalanced voltages between two DC-link capacitors while operating the Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) three-level inverters is an inherent problem,...

The present study focuses on mathematical modeling of the dynamics of gene expression levels of circadian rhythm. All living organisms exhibit daily (circadian) rhythms. At first glance, there is a feeling that circadian rhythms caused by external reasons, but they exist offline: these processes are...

Self-efficacy is people’s beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives (Bandura 1994). This study aimed to determine the grade 7 self- efficacy and its relation to their problem solving performances in math. Qualitative...

The current study aims to investigate the extent of job satisfaction contribution to employee engagement. Employee engagement has been found as being important to employee productivity and organization performance. Participants were 110 employees of a private property company in Makassar, Indonesia....

In this paper, we focuse that the existing k-anonymity does not fully consider the privacy protection degree issues of sensitive attribute, proposing a (p, )-sensitive k-anonymity privacy protection model based on privacy protection degree grouping of sensitive attribute. The solution can not only effectively...

Achievement motivation is a hard intention followed by a hard effort which owned by the students in order to reach high learning outcomes. This research at aims to find out the difference of students' learning outcomes as an effect of achievement motivation in writing English descriptive paragraph through...

Background: Augmented central artery wave reflection is a cardiovascular disease risk factor. Augmentation index (AI) obtained from peripheral artery waveforms provides qualitatively similar information to AI from central artery waveforms. Little information is available, however, regarding the influence...

Assessing the geometry of the coronary arteries in a patient can help to better explain coronary artery disease (CAD) development. Allometric scaling functions were successfully applied to describe how essential materials are transported through recursive networks, also observed in the coronary tree....

Investing in the capital market is high risk and return. Hence, investors need to use the right strategy by using the bottom line, primarily to determine the intrinsic value of shares. The problem is currently around 85–90% of capital market players in Indonesia experiencing failure because of using...

Aggravating back pain during pregnancy can cause stress for pregnant women and hinder the growth of fetus. Yoga and aromatherapy back massage can help alleviate physiological back pain during pregnancy. The research determines the effectiveness of combined methods of aromatherapy back massage and prenatal...

We examined cross-sectional associations of self-reported PA intensities with arterial stiffness in elderly Caucasians of the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA). Mixed central and peripheral arterial stiffness was measured oscillometrically by the cardio-ankle...

In many countries in the world, the prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) in adults varies greatly between and within countries. Although it does not cause fatal effects, AR can affect the quality of life both socially and financially. Aims of this research was to determine the differences in the prevalence...

Aims: In mice, MEOX2/TCF15 heterodimers are highly expressed in heart endothelial cells and are involved in the transcriptional regulation of lipid transport. We investigated whether coronary heart disease (CHD) in humans is associated with variation in these genes. Methods and results: In 2027 participants...

Prunus jamasakura Siebold ex Koidz. (hill cherry) is included in the family of Rosaceae and used for ornamental plants. The dormant cherry seed has become an obstacle since it takes a prolonged time to germinate. Seed germination can be induced by the application of gibberellic acid (GA3) and coconut...

The research aims to determine the comparison of computing time between the AHP method and a combination of AHP and profile matching on a certain amount of data. Apart from that, this research is also aimed at building a system that can provide recommendations for barebone mechanical keyboards based...

The goal of this research is to analyze the vegetative development and yield of cassava in diverse populations, as well as the Land Equivalent Ratio (LER). This research was carried out from June 2022 to March 2023 at the field of the “Vegetable Seed Production Unit” (“UPBS”), Sekincau Subdistrict, West...

Academic activities in vocational schools vary, shaped by the distinct target skills within each vocational field. Predictably, students encounter specific academic challenges and difficulties unique to their chosen field. Recognizing the importance of academic resilience as a vital component, schools...

In the current digital era, digital architecture management is of vital importance for enterprises to achieve efficient operation and innovation. It is a key link in the process of enterprise digital transformation. Its effective implementation can ensure that the digital projects of the enterprise are...

This study introduces a pedagogical framework integrating digital storytelling (DST) with professional subtitling standards to enhance the translation and subtitling competencies of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. By combining narrative creativity with technical precision, the approach...