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The cocoa bean production (quality and quantity) influenced by soil and climate characteristics as well as farming management (fertilizer, irrigation, drainage, etc). Soil characteristics such as texture and pH closely related to particles transportation from soil to all part of plants (root, stem, leaf,...

Morinda citrifolia L. (Mengkudu) has been widely used in herbal medicine to prevent and treat various diseases. In the Indonesian Original Herbal Medicine Formularies list, Mengkudu is an ingredient for treating hypertension and dyslipidemia. The various efficacy activities are due to the great active...

Demineralization causes plaque calcium (Ca) to dissolve out from the enamel. Prolonged condition would allow enamel caries to worsen. To reverse the condition via remineralization, abundant of free available Ca and phosphorus (P) in the saliva are required. Thus, daily diet with high Ca and P content...

Indonesia is the third largest cacao producer and exporter in the world after Ghana and Ivory Coast. Cadmium (Cd) is one of the metal elements that is often found contained in cacao plants which usually accumulates in cacao bean. Excessive accumulation of Cadmium (Cd) can cause harmful effects on soil,...

This paper examines the benefits of habit formation and social interaction for older adults in senior universities (老年大学 lǎonián dàxué) in China. With China’s rapidly ageing population, senior universities provide educational opportunities that promote lifelong learning, skill development, and social...

In order to determine the ages of magmatism and mineralization, and thus to disentangle the complicated magmatic evolution and the relationship between magmatic process and copper-molybdenum mineralization, the authors carried out a study of LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating of monzonite granite porphyry,...

In this paper, we conduct research on the import and export of iron ore and harmful element detection method based on microwave digestion inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry approach. Our country gradually increased demand for iron ore, iron ore trade, in order to ensure that the quality of...

Rising demand for palm oil increases waste production, mainly empty fruit bunches (EFB), which causes environmental pollution. However, EFB can be converted to biochar as a soil amendment. This research investigates how the integration of EFB biochar (EFBB) and Trichoderma biofertilizer (TBF) impacts...

The difficulty that is experienced by most Chinese language teachers is to determine which Chinese language textbooks are suitable to be applied to Indonesian learners. In Indonesia, most of the Chinese books, including the Chinese Semantic textbooks, are still in full Chinese or English. Learning Chinese...

This study aims to develop physics learning tools of an inquiry-creative-process (ICP) model integrated with ethnoscience and to find its validity in training prospective teachers’ critical thinking skills. This study’s learning tools developed and tested for validity comprise lesson plans (RPS) and...

The aims of this study are: 1) to determine students’ Arabic writing skills before and after applying the ArabEasy Application media at ICP and 2) to determine the effect of the ArabEasy media application on the writing skills of fourth-grade students at ICP. This study employed an experimental design...

With the development of industrialization and civilization, the atmospheric depositions in Haerbin city degraded in recent years. 46 deposition samples were collected to analyze their concentrations of ten elements including Mn, Zn, Pb, Cu, Cr, Ni, As, Co, Cd, Hg in 2008~2009. The samples were analyzed...

This study aims to: (1) describe the roles played by principals and teachers in conducting learning innovations to strengthen higher-order thinking skills; (2) describe learning innovations that have been successfully developed by Laboratory Elementary Schools of Universitas Negeri Malang (LES-UM) to...

The infantile cerebral palsy (ICP) is one of the most critical pathologies resulting in disability. Considering that the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania is industrially developed mountain territory with high pollution level in some locations and a region with insufficient content of iodine in its biosphere,...

PT Adhikara Wiyasa Gani (AWG) faces a physical track especially a magnetic tape durability issue on its Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) due to crossing by heavy-duty vehicles. Free navigation and path planning can be a solution that allows the AGV to dynamically adjust its path without relying on physical...

Background Cognitive, emotional, and behavioural symptoms of schizophrenia affect various areas of mental function. Schizophrenia is a mental condition. The lifetime prevalence of this condition ranges from 0.3% to 0.7%, with rates fluctuating depending on migration, urbanization, and socioeconomic...

Background: Monitoring Intracranial Pressure (ICP) is key for appropriate clinical treatment of patients with conditions potentially causing raised ICP. The adequacy of using Heart Rate (HR), aortic Blood Pressure (aBP) and carotid Blood Flow (cBF) to estimate ICP magnitude (pulse and mean) and waveform...

E-waste gold element content and the main source of content uncertainty is the use of inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) analysis determination. This article takes aurum as an example to analyze, compound and calculate five uncertainty components in resolving process, such...

A study of characteristics and speciation of 7 heavy metals in agricultural soil near mining smelting of Hezhang were analyzed. The heavy metal concentration were determined by using ICP-OES, the chemical fraction concentrations of heavy metal extraction were used a modified BCR-SEPs. Tucker 3 was used...

This study investigates the characterization and processing of lithium (Li) and rubidium (Rb) ores from a new deposit using multiple analytical techniques. For mineral characterization, Mineral Liberation Analysis-Scanning Electron Microscopy (MLA-SEM), X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRPD), and X-ray Fluorescence...

Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometric approach(ICP-OES) is used to determine the cadmium content in pyrotechnics used for fireworks and firecrackers. Element of cadmium is commonly found as impurity in chemical materials used for pyrotechnics in fireworks and firecrackers. Statistical...

Mongolia possesses over 3.6 billion metric tons of phosphate resources, predominantly located in Khuvsgul and Zavkhan Provinces. Despite this abundance, the country lacks industrial-scale phosphate beneficiation and fertilizer production, resulting in over 90% import dependency. Current national fertilizer...

Using ICP-MS to detect Pb in the multi-phase mediumin the artificial reef .The results showed that: Pb of sediment is varied from0.138~0.470mg/Kg, mean0.273±0.106mg/Kg,The sediment distribution of Pb decreased in the order: lower> middle> upper layer in each station. Risk evaluation showed that potential...

Air pollution caused by Atmospheric Particulate Matter (APM) and its impacts have become one of the most important challenges for public health and environmental quality in China since 2000s. Here we report a study of heavy metal pollution in atmospheric deposition in Xi'an city. Dustfall samples were...

E-mount granite Pluton is located at the southwest part of Yangtze plate . To understand the formation environment of K-feldspar porphyritic granite from E-Mount approaches such as major and trace element analysis and zircon LA- ICP-MS U-Pb dating are used. According to the tests and analysis results,...

The purpose of the study was to determine chemical and organic matter compositions of peloid from Lake Khyargas in Uvs province by chemical and instrumental methods, including X-ray, ICP–OES, and GS/MS. Based on our results, it was identified that the peloid from Lake Khyargas belongs to hydrogen sulfide...

Coral reefs and benthic foraminifera are efficient pollution bioindicators for predicting heavy metal pollution due to their great tolerance to high ecological pressures, so that these biota are used as test animals in monitoring the accumulation rate of heavy metals of marine waters. The purpose of...

The content of Chromium in plastic products is (276±6) mg/kg, which is determinated by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) using Microwave digestion. A mathematical model of the uncertainty containing variables such as regression equation, constant volume , weighing weight and so on...

The optimal management of hemodynamic disorders among critically ill patients requires an accurate assessment of hemodynamic status. Global End Diastolic Index (GEDI) is taken for a more reliable indicator of preload in critically ill patients than central venous pressure and doctors tend to arrange...

Rare earth elements (REE) are considered critical raw materials essential for numerous clean technologies. As the discrepancy, their supply and demand increase globally. It is conceivable to recover REEs from secondary sources in order to close the gap. The coal, fly ash, and bottom ashes are collected...

The role of ventricular–arterial hemodynamic interaction in the occurrence of arterial dissection and rupture in vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is unknown. We recently introduced an ultrasound-based method to extract, from common carotid artery (CCA) diameter waveforms, central arterial properties...

Background: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) was considered to be with the severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients, which implies a potential therapeutic target for treatment. We aimed to evaluate the safety and initial efficacy of Tocilizumab treatment for COVID-19 patients. Methods: In the retrospective study,...

This The scientific problem at solving which the present project is directed consists in the development of accurate methods for reconstruction of a three-dimensional map of the accessible of environment with requied accuracy of reconstruction. The problem of consistent aligning of 3D point data is known...

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...

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 artistic creation of modern painting artist Marc Chagall is full of absurdity and his strong artistic emotion is displayed in his works with unique aesthetic characteristics. On the basis of a comprehensive understanding of Chagall’s art, this article takes his representative work “Lovers Under the...

The Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD-1)/Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs), have become a hot spot in the field of cancer research and treatment, and bring new hope to patients with advanced tumors. But, in addition to enhancing the anti-tumor effect of T cells, PD-1/PD-L1...

Adopting microwave digestion and ICP-AES method while detecting Ni Cr Pb Cd As and Hg in lentinus edodes of Shenyang, results show that the average content of the elements is respectively Ni Cr Cd Pb As Hg, Hg was not detected and in some particular samples Cr Cd Pb exceed standard. So the excess of...

Based on the structured light technology, a new study method and system of concentricity measurement of marine propulsion shafting is researched in this paper. The system is consisted of the image information acquisition, the structured light calibration and three-dimensional 3D scanning point cloud...

In order to accomplish task, map building is the key technology in mobile robotic control in unknown environment. In this paper, a mathematical model of map integration is established to solve multi-robot topological map integration problem. A new method which was a combination of the classical ICP (Iterative...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a deregulated host response to infection, and is the most common cause of death in the intensive care unit. Although the pathogenesis of sepsis has made substantial progress, the current clinical treatment of sepsis is basically symptomatic treatment,...

High-speed separation, enrichment, digestion, as well as high-throughput analysis of biomolecules are very important in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, biosciences, etc. for thesepurposes, currently a single piece of porous material so-called "monolith", Has been rapidly developed for Several...

Depending on the displacement and orientation between point clouds, the registration of scattered point clouds is offten divided into two steps: crude and fine alignment. An approach of point cloud classification based on point feature histogram was proposed in this paper. We propose a method of establishing...