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A horizontal liquid-solid multi-tube circulating fluidized bed was designed to study the influence of front header distributor, liquid velocity,Kenics static mixer to various particle’s distribution and discuss the pressure of front header to back header. The CCD image measurement and data processing...

This research aims to identify the potential of utilizing adventure games to emphasize the waste disposal as environmental problems through the use of visual elements. Adventure game is one of the popular game genres that is known for its ‘open world’ system that allows players to explore every inch...

This study presents an acoustic comparative analysis of word-initial and non-word-initial short vowels in Ordos Mongolian and Standard Mongolian based on a speech database constructed from field recordings[1]. A corpus drawn from an Ordos Mongolian dialect dictionary was recorded, annotated in Praat,...

Reinforcement learning (RL) aims to resolve the sequential decision-making under uncertainty problem where an agent needs to interact with an unknown environment with the expectation of optimising the cumulative long-term reward. Many real-world problems could benefit from RL, e.g., industrial robotics,...

This study aims to determine the effect of substrate types on the crude activity of cellulase enzymes from local agricultural waste such as peanut shells, coconut fibers, brans, and teak leaves with the variations of incubation times (day 1, 3, 5, and 7) produced by Trichoderma viride. Enzyme activity...

Digital Inclusive Finance (DIF) has improved the convenience and efficiency of financial services, reduced banks’ operating costs, and promoted the stability of commercial banks. This study aims to explore the impact of DIF on credit risk in Chinese commercial banks. An empirical analysis is conducted...

The background of this research was based on the lack of adequate research results to describe bound vowel graphemes in the Balinese script writing system with all its complexities. The purpose of this research was to decipher bound vowel graphemes and their behavior in a writing system based on Balinese...

Innovative entrepreneurial activities originate from the identification of entrepreneurs’ opportunities for innovation. Using the questionnaire survey method, the hypothesis of complex relationship between entrepreneurial creative thinking, optimism degree and innovation opportunity identification was...

Self-management is behavior change that is managed by the individual himself to change behavior with self-awareness. The application of self-management techniques through group counseling activities proves the effectiveness of reducing student aggressiveness. Before doing the treatment, the researcher...

The paper presents a survey of some new results concerning the approach to construction of explicit solutions for nonlinear evolution equations du/dt = F[u], proposed in [1, 2].

In the starting phase, despite incentives of government support policies and related entities’ supports, startup companies face many difficulties in accessing external information and resources to innovate current business models. The role of management resources in building relationship networks to...

This paper proposes a framework for constructing pet knowledge maps. The schema concept layer is designed and built top-down, and the data layer is constructed from knowledge extracted from semi-structured and unstructured data. In the aspect of entity extraction of unstructured data, a symptom-named...

This study aims to see if there is any influence of the training series method on the ability passing of SSB Putra Wijaya Padang soccer players. This type of research is a quasi-experiment conducted at the Kompi A Lapai Padang field starting from July 4 to August 3, 2018. The population in this study...

The features of professional pedagogical activity increase the likelihood of teachers’ health decline. However, having the resources to cope with difficulties can mitigate the tension caused by occupational stress. In recent years, many authors have noted that chronic fatigue syndrome is a multi-causal...

Numerous factors contribute to a company’s worth, one of which is Tobin’s QThe greater the Tobin’s Q value, the more promising the growth prospects of the company. This is because the greater the market valuation of a company’s properties is in relation to its market value, the further likely it is that...

Organic waste, such as fruit peels, has potential to be processed into useful products, for example through fermentation into garbage enzymes (GE) or also known as eco-enzymes. This study aims to determine 16S rRNA gene fragment amplicon of metagenomic DNA, antibacterial activity against the Staphylococcus...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes one-third of deaths in Indonesia. Utilisation of the Indonesian National Health Insurance Scheme (JKN) to cover CVD is increasing. Reducing CVD costs in hospitals requires appropriate interventions. This study aims to evaluate the potential cost savings for patients...

This paper attempts to analyze the factors affecting the carbon emissions in China, and the central, eastern and western regions of this country respectively, by building models of carbon emission affecting factors and using inter-provincial panel data from 2005 to 2009. This research shows that the...

One translation model in Southeast Asia languages is "word for word translation" between Arabic and Javanese language. This model reflects a great relation of Asian, Arabic, and Javanese cultures. This cultural relation was shown in the moral ethic book of Bidayatul-Hidayah written by Imam Al- Ghazali,...

Thyroid cancer remains one of the most common endocrine malignancies, with a steady global increase in incidence. In Uzbekistan, persistent iodine deficiency continues to influence the structure and clinical course of thyroid malignancies. This research aims to evaluate clinical, morphological, hormonal,...

In this paper we are interested in developments of the elliptic functions of Jacobi. In particular a trigonometric expansion of the classical theta functions introduced by the author (Algebraic methods and q-special functions, C.R.M. Proceedings and Lectures Notes, A.M.S., vol 22, Providence, 1999, 53-57)...

This paper intends to explain two issues, the Proto-Austronesian reflex (PAN) into Buru language (Br) and its correspondence with Collins's (1981) view. A PAN top-down approach reconstructed by Blust and Trussel (2015) is employed to see the realization in Buru. The data that have been collected using...

Students’ engagement is aimed at understanding the students’ willingness to participate in developing a learning environment and school environment. The students’ willingness is shown routinely and strategically. The students’ attitude toward school can be known from the quantity of their engagement....

We attempt to reconstruct the irreducible unitary representations of the Banach Lie group U0(H) of all unitary operators U on a separable Hilbert space H for which U - I is compact, originally found by Kirillov and Ol'shanskii, through constrained quantization of its coadjoint orbits. For this purpose...

Background: The exact mechanism by which electrical carotid baroreceptor activation (CBA) lowers blood pressure in patients with hypertension has yet to be fully elucidated. Given the central role of the kidneys in blood pressure regulation, the aim of this study was to assess the impact of CBA on renal...

Several The following research focuses on analysing waste biomass generated thru the processing of specific tropical fruits, such as Dragon fruit, Duku, Mangosteen, and Snake fruit. The amount (in %) of produced fruit waste biomass (skin, peel) during fruit processing was monitored, and collected waste...

The results of observations obtained in VIII classes of SMP Negeri 5 Bukittinggi City showed that the students’ affective competence was still low. The efforts that can be made to overcome these problems are to use Sheet PowerPoint on Mind Map in learning. This research aims at determining the effect...

This research explored the distinction in perception toward the activities of managing quality and achieving performance among small-scale herbal enterprises in the suburbs of Jakarta. Based on prior literatures, the model of quality is constructed by five dimensions, while the performance is elaborated...

For the ideological and political education of the course “Signal Analysis and Processing”, the implementation method suffers from indoctrination teaching and lack of student interest, etc. Starting from the learning habits and interests of contemporary college students, we intend to implement the ideological...

Q. 4:34 is regarded by some scholars as one of the most controversial verses in the Qur'an. This verse can be divided into two parts: the first part deals with the qiwamah "guardianship" of males and the second part with the beating (darb) of the disobedient wives (nashiz). This last part is usually...

Background: Monocytes are an essential cellular component of the innate immune system that support the host’s effectiveness to combat a range of infectious pathogens. Hemopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) results in transient monocyte depletion, but the factors that regulate recovery of monocyte populations...

This study aims to compare herding behavior and risk tolerance between male and female investors in Aceh. The primary data used in this study was collected using questionnaires. The population in this study are investors in Aceh Province, Indonesia with a total sample of 386 respondents. The analytical...

Reinforcement Learning is widely applied in the field of virtual agent training, enabling them to accomplish specific tasks. The agent is trained to navigate and collect yellow bananas in a large, square world that contains many yellow bananas and blue bananas. The goal is to allow agents to collect...

For any graph G = ( V , E ) , the vertex set V and the edge set E, and let w be the edge weight of graph G, with ...

Objectives: Examine the effect of erroneous estimation of wave speed (C) on the magnitude and time of the separated pressure (P) and velocity (U) in arteries. Methods: Pressure and flow were measured in the aorta of 11 dogs and C has been determined using the PU-loop technique. The waves were separated...

The paper puts forward a new model of electric-loading test rig for testing remanufacture automatic transmission to meet the demands for testing different types of remanufactured automatic transmissions. The sub-systems, including electric & electronic control systems and the mechanical components, were...

This study aims to examine whether the disclosure of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions proxied by the GHG Emission index, environmental performance proxied by the PROPER rating, and CSR disclosures proxied by the CSR index affect the financial performance proxied by Tobin's Q. To test these three hypotheses,...

This study investigates how trade openness affects economic growth in developing countries, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We use a dynamic growth model with data from 42 SSA countries covering 1980 to 2012. We take the Pooled Mean Group estimation technique, which is suitable for drawing...

Let G be a simple graph. For a bijective function f : V ( G ) → { 1 , 2 ...

Investment in the company’s financial activities has been one of the most important subjects. With the complexity and multiplicity of factors which influence investment decision-making, investment decision-making behavior not always serve the goal of listed companies, which results in the inefficient...

The characteristics of city size distribution can affect the regional energy efficiency. The empirical analysis based on the provincial panel data of China show that the regional energy efficiency is in an "inverted U" relationship with the concentration levels of city size distribution. The study demonstrates...

The C-U-C training mode combined with the development needs of local industry and technology, which is from the application of innovative talents training objectives that construct the curriculum system, practice teaching system and quality control system. The C-U-C training mode is promoting the practice...

Image Inpainting expertise in reconstructing mislaid image parts. It is the technique for filling an unknown area or scratched area of an Image developed on the nearby information present in the image that is not recognizable by ordinary viewer. In proposed method two Inpainting algorithms, the traditional...

Based on the equivalence relation, we can partition a set U, formally, different equivalence relations correspond to different partitions of U. In this paper, based on Yager's work, we discuss how to compare the different partitions, moreover, we obtain some indexes to select a better partition from...

We derive discrete systems which result from a second, not studied up to now, form of the q-PVI equation. The derivation is based on two different procedures: “limits” and “degeneracies”. We obtain several new discrete Painlevé equations along with some linearisable systems. The parallel between the...

It is known that many integrable systems can be reduced from self-dual Yang-Mills equations. The formal solution space to the self-dual Yang-Mills equations is given by the so called ADHM construction, in which the solution space are graded by vector spaces with dimensionality concerning topological...

The objectives to be achieved in this study were to determine the effectiveness of group counseling through modeling techniques to improve the learning discipline of VIII grade students of MTs Negeri 9 Sleman. The type of research in this study is experimental research. The research design used in this...