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This article explores the complex interrelationship between climate change and gender inequality. The study reveals that climate change does not affect women and men equally; due to social, economic, and institutional factors, women are more vulnerable to its impacts. Natural disasters, food and water...

Background: Age and blood pressure (BP) are known to be the main determinants of large artery stiffness. However other factors may lead to an inappropriately high pulse wave velocity (PWV). We investigated the determinants of inappropriately high PWV in hypertensive patients and their possible role in...

Background: Heart rate (HR) is directly associated to central-to-peripheral pulse wave amplification. We aimed at evaluating the associations between heart rate and each BP component in a cohort of healthy adolescents. Objective: 470 healthy adolescents (17±1.4 years, 56% boys, brachial BP 123/67±11/7...

Purpose: Regular calorie restriction (CR) improves endothelial function and lowers aortic stiffness in older mice and humans; however, adherence to sustained CR remains poor, and possibly unsafe in normal weight older adults. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is an important signaling molecule...

Risk assessment and risk matrices are powered tools used in risk management and help guide in the process of decision-making in organisations. Nevertheless, risk matrices have their own weaknesses and strengths. This paper provides a critical overview of the development and use of risk matrices in different...

Burst firing in subthalamic nucleus (STN) has been suggested to be highly associated with the motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease, which result from a loss of dopamine. Although it is clinically very important to clarify the mechanism underlying the bursting dynamics, complex interactions between STN...

We obtain a basis of joint or proper differential invariants for the scalar linear hperbolic partial differential equation in two independent variables by the infinitesimal method. The joint invariants of the hyperbolic equation consist of combinations of the coefficients of the equation and their derivatives...

The Internet provides convenience for college students to learn English online. At present, there are numerous strategies for English listening training, but the combination of English listening training and Internet needs to be studied more deeply and applied more widely. Built on practice, this paper...

Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell is one of the species developed in industrial forest plantations that has the potential for pulp and paper. Therefore, this research aims to determine the concentration of N, P, and K nutrients in the Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell tree components. This research was conducted...

The implementation of physical education (PE) has the potentially will not run optimally because it is implemented through distance learning. PE teachers have a heavy responsibility in implementing distance learning. This study aims to determine the differences in the responsibilities of PE teachers...

The objective of the research is to analyze the appropriate strategy for improvement and rejuvenation of traditional markets in the city of South Tangerang. The study was constructed at Serpong tradional market, Jombang traditional market, Ciputat traditional market, Bintaro Sektor 2 traditional market....

To continue the study of Sumatran lichen, six species of the genus Cladonia were screened for phytochemicals and their antibacterial bioactivity. The procedure included sequential extraction (semi polar solvent), antibacterial activity tests using the agar diffusion method, and microdilution to determine...

Investment decision is an activity carried out by the investor for investing their fund. For this reason, investors must consider many factors. Investor consider accounting information in investment decision. However, investor psychology, which is reflected by a personal signal, is more dominant in investment...

Let Epn be the n-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space of index p and M(n, p) the group of all transformations of Epn generated by pseudo-orthogonal transformations and parallel translations. We describe the system of generators of the differential field of all M(n, p)-invariant differential...

The purpose of this study is to describe the content level of the nature of science as a product, process, and attitude contained in the student science book Grade 4 Theme 4 “Various Jobs” published by the Ministry of Education and Culture 2017 Revised Edition. This research is qualitative, using a content...

The main purpose of this paper is using modification of nanoparticle layers to increasing the hydrophilic surfaces and enhancing the evaporation behaviors in stainless steel plate. When the products being made, use three different kind of fluids, acetone, ethanol and water to testing the benefit for...

A field experiment was conducted to investigate the single and combined of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and cooper (Cu) on the growth and development of rice plants and the uptake of these heavy metals by rice. The results revealed that the growth and development of rice plants were more affected by combined...

In order to simulate the flow structure accurately and find out the inducement of unstability in a centrifugal compressor with casing structure, three different cases of models were established. By contrasting the simulation result of Case1 and Case2 with experiment data, the accuracy of grids model...

Triangular norms, or t-norms for short, play an important role for the semantics of fuzzy logics. Although an enormous number of examples and a remarkable number of construction methods for this kind of operation has been established, a uniform approach is still outstanding. This paper is devoted to...

Parents give lives to their children; they biologically determine the quality of intelligence of their children even at birth. The socio-economic background of the parents exposes the children to after birth factors that help in nourishing or malnourishing the children. The type of education a child...

Security Enhanced Android is the integration of Android with SE Linux launched by NSA to strengthen security. This system adopting Mandatory Access Control prevents attacks and enforces application isolation. Also, it provides an implementation of SE Linux in current Android environment. Therefore the...

In this work, SAW resonators with high temperature piezoelectric LGS substrate have been studied. A layer of AlN piezoelectric film is deposited on the SAW devices. The influences of the AlN film on the characteristics of the SAW device have been explored. The simulation results show that the resonance...

Because the Asphalt concrete pavement heavy-duty rutting, low temperature cracking and anti-fatigue cracking problems are prominent, the author mix the BRA rock asphalt and polyester fiber into the asphalt mixture preparation of wide temperature field asphalt mixture in accordance with various proportions....

Lembaga Bahasa dan Pendidikan Profesional (LBPP) LIA has made use of a blended learning type. It is a face-to-face training combined with self-paced e-learning from Smart Choice Series equipped with iTools. These materials are already in use for almost four years and are approaching the ending or evaluation...

The length, number of layers, plane and longitudinal heterogeneity of injection wells of the second class reservoir are serious. The fractures are used to relieve the contradiction between the plane and the strata, and the channel edge and get the remaining oil potential difference between site type....

There is bias in customer reviews and the associated ratings. We propose a method to identify and reduce such bias on the part of reviewers. There are three phases in our approach. Firstly, we conduct Rating-aware sentiment analysis for each review text accompanied with the numeric ratings. Then, we...

Over 700 distinct indigenous communities form today’s Indonesia. Their historical coming together was built upon five strategic principles, known as Pancasila. The Pancasila are collectively represented by the phrase and goal ‘Unity in Diversity’. Indonesia’s Ministry of Education directs teachers to...

One criteria to achieve the sustainability of a university is when all fund needed can be fulfilled well. And to reach stable university financial is by determining an accurate tuition fee for the students. So then, this research has an objective to determine the Tuition Fee per Credit Hour per Student...

Stress redistribution induced by excavation often results in tensile zones in the surrounding rock mass. It is of great theoretical and practical significances to analyse the localizations of deformation and damage and to study the complete stress-strain relation for mesoscopic heterogenous rocks under...

With the increasing exchanges between China and many countries around the world, the emergence of the multi governance subject has been promoted by the emergence of the community policing, which forms the structure of the network based on the state organs. This paper considering the foreign management...

It's one of key points to mountainous area human resource development that practitioners training of Bed and Breakfast in remote mountainous area. This paper uses both Accurate Judgment theory and Transfer Diffusion theory. Designed a PAT training model which aims at practitioners of B&B. It suggests...

English is taught as one of local content in most elementary schools in Indonesia. However, there is still lack of concern on preparing students to teach English in elementary school in for will-English teacher students. This paper aims at describing the activities and strategies used by students in...

This research was aimed to 1) improve learning media using Adobe Flash in Batik Technology course as an instructional form for The Fashion Design Education program, 2) know the feasibility of the Adobe Flash as a learning media Batik Technology course. Using R&D (Research and Development) approach, this...

In A Rose for Emily written by William Faulkner, the heroine Miss Emily, kills her lover and stores the corpse at home for several decades. Miss Emily seems morbid, however, she is a tragic character who calls for sympathy. This essay is in an attempt to construe her murder case as an outcome of personality...

Halal tourism is a new phenomenon based on demographic factors and needs to be taken into consideration by tourism destinations. Nature tourism, especially tourism in national parks, in this case, also has the potential to become a halal tourism destination. However, the parks' halal value still requires...

This article contains local wisdoms of Karonese, it covers some proverbs that refers to leadership model. It is based on discourse analysis that scrutinizes some selected local wisdoms of Karonese. It aims to find the description of leadership model in local wisdom of Karonese and how they are implemented...

Considering the problems of flexible control of classroom bell time,the idle state information of the classroom is not easy to obtain and difficult to detect the classroom environment information, a classroom integrated management system based on internet of things is researched and designed. By using...

The ship-borne aviation navigation positioning system usually receives superposed signals of the direct signal and multipath signal. Since the direction of arrival of multipath signal and the multipath time delay parameters vary with the ship attitude and sea environment time-variation, the angle and...

The bank supervision in China promotes four instruments coming from Basel III standards announced from Basel committee. What effects will it have on Chinese commercial banks This paper develops models with a sample of 29 commercial banks in China by measuring risk averse with Z-score, and finds that:...

Elastic index is the required important parameters in the theoretical analysis and design calculation of components. Mechanical testing method and electrical measuring method are commonly used in engineering mechanics experimental. This article discusses the ultrasonic method which is used to measure...

Japan has unique natural and ethnic characteristics, and it is a rich and coordination strong collectivism, and it is a rigorous nation with requirements in a variety of manners, which not only produces a very wide range of cultural taboos in exchanges between China and Japan, and impact on the world...

This paper presents a real-time online monitoring system scheme for power transmission line to achieve the objective of giving early warning to disaster and making decision for extra-high voltage power transmission line. Monitoring terminals with a S3C6410 ARM11 processor as core is equipped on the line...

Three-dimensional reconstruction is used to get more detailed information on the current scenes such as the overlook of a city or a car. The process of reconstruction is based on binocular vision system. In this paper we apply binocular vision to quadrotors. As a result, more information is obtained...

Based on the basic thought of industrialized building, one prefabricated external thermal insulation system ETIS with point supported horizontal keel was designed in this paper. Bad support was fastened on the structural wall and horizontal keel was fastened on bed support. Then panel was fixed on horizontal...

The Xiaojiashan Tungsten deposit is located in Barkol district, Xinjiang. The ore bodies occur in the Hercynian granite intrusions and contact between the intrusion and wallrock which consists of the second lithologic section of the first Sub-Formation in Middle Devonian Dananhu Formation (D2d12). Quadrupole...

We pose and solve the problem of formulating the basic methodological principles of research of accumulated scientific knowledge about the psychology of giftedness, which is characterized by internal contradictions. The elimination of these contradictions is impossible without comparing and bringing...

The phenomenon that represent electricity concept can be used to explore students' electricity concepts. Students' conceptual change toward electricity concept is taught through facilitation process, both in static electricity and dynamic electricity. The subjects of this research were 25 students of...

Based on the analytical geometry method, small-plane bending deformation theory and approximate deflection curve equation, a simplified calculation method of section angular displacement will be proposed in this paper, which have been certified by the finite difference method. Then, the influence of...

Clothing store display is the most important aspect of terminal clothing sales, in the moment "Terminal Winning" marketing era, how to build a science and attract the attention of consumers clothing store environment is an important means of corporate marketing. In today image element is the dominant...

Segmented polyether-polyester polyurethanes with an amorphous hydrophilic soft segment phase were prepared from 4,4’-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), polybutylene adipate glycol 2000 (PBA2000) and polyethylene glycol 1000 (PEG1000) with 1,4-butanediol (BDO) as the chain extender. Further more, the...