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Towards Net-Zero: A Comprehensive Carbon Footprint Assessment for Sustainable Business Practices
Alexander Robert, Livia Evangeline Florencia, Oktaviani Oktaviani, Michelle Michelle
This study examines the organization’s carbon footprint and the economic impacts of Net Zero initiatives, highlighting the significant disparities in emissions across Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3. Hypothesis 1 confirms that Scope 3, primarily from business travel, constitutes the largest share of emissions...
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Save Our Planet’ Training as A Progressive Mission: From Human Development to Sustainable Development
Azhimatul Noor Bashari Diyanti
The emergence of various training courses, for a long time, is considered as the main remarkable and reliable programmes to upgrade skills, knowledge, and even personal growth in a short time outside formal education institutions. This non-formal education is interchangeably formed as coaching, mentoring,...
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The Existence of Wuli and Its Philosophical Meaning According to Pata Dela Text of the Ngadha People of Flores, Indonesia
Watu Yohanes Vianey
The object of this study is the existence of wuli artifacts and its philosophical meaning according to Pata Dela Text of the Ngadha ethnic tradition of Flores. The basic question is what is the philosophical meaning of wuli according to the philosophy of life of the Ngadha people, which is implied in...
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Driving Market Performance: Strategic Innovation in Indian Real Estate Firm Practices
Manaswini Sood, Neeraj Bansal, Kulwinder Singh, Jagmohan Singh, Kapil Kumar Aggarwal
The real estate industry is one of the core pillars of the economy and has a significant impact on both the actions and lifestyles of people and organizations. Real estate companies strategically need to devise innovative conduct practices to enhance their profitability and competitiveness and must comprehend...
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Governance of Mandatory Health Insurance and Access to Healthcare: A Comparative Analysis of Morocco and South Korea
Star-Allah Maria, Cherkaoui Mounia
The Objective: To comparatively assess how governance choices within the Mandatory Health Insurance (MHI) systems in Morocco and South Korea shape effective access to healthcare, through the analysis of three key di-mensions, namely: institutional architecture, financial structure, and the organiza-tion...
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Lecturers’ Perspectives Through E-learning by Using Moodle for Post-Graduate Students at STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo
J. Priyanto Widodo, Joko Slamet
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) is an open-source Learning Management System (LMS) gaining more popularity in colleges and universities such as STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo. However, successfully implementing Moodle at STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo for post-graduate students among their courses...
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The Influence of Social Media Engagement on Social Desirability and Empathy of Chinese Youth in Hong Kong
Raymond Chi Fai Chui, Isaac Ip
Limited previous studies have focused on the benefits of social media engagement on psychosocial well-being. The present study explores the relationship between social media engagement, social desirability, and empathy. It is hypothesised that social media engagement enhances empathy directly and indirectly...
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Formalizing Resource Ownership Semantics of Spinlocks with the Coq Proof Assistant
Sebastian Luis S. Ortiz, Justin Gabriel R. Enriquez, Henry N. Adorna, Alfonso B. Labao
As the transistor count in modern central processing units (CPUs) reaches the physical limits of Moore’s Law, the parallelization of software-based compute has become the next step in maximizing the instruction-level and thread-level parallelism of modern multi-core architectures (e.g., advanced superscalar...
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The Determinants of University Service Quality: A Panacea for Long-Term Success for HEI
Wilbert Kudakwashe Chidaushe, Mini Sebastian, Stegi Shine, Precious Precious Onneile Alade, Martin Tatenda Dzimbanhete, Alice Monyi
The research explored the determinants of university service quality in higher education institutions in Botswana. The significance of the study was to avail the key service characteristics that contributed towards quality in higher education institutions in Botswana. The methodology of the study was...
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A Holistic Approach to Human Resources and Community Engagement
A Case Study of a Malaysian Logistics Company
Hooi Ching Khor, Yin Kuan Ng, Ka Fei Lai, Luen Peng Tan, Kum Lung Choe
A surge in demand for logistic services is resulted from the rising demand of manufacturing, food and beverages and perishable products, and the people’s online purchasing lifestyle in Malaysia. Despite the bright future of the logistics sector, however, the sector only accounted for 3.7% of total employment...
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Orgamic Farming for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Karnataka - An Analysis
Ashoka K., B. Jayarama Bhat
Agriculture is the major occupation in India. It provides livelihood opportunities to majority of the population. Increasing population demands more food for the people. Hence, increasing agricultural production and productivity is the need of the hour. Sustainable agriculture emphasizes ensured access...
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Internalizing the Value of Pancasila Local Wisdom Based on the Saprahan Tradition Strengthening the Character of the Nation
Hasmika, AR Endang Danial
Character is unique values, manifested by a person’s personality which is formed from the internalization of various policies that are believed and used as a way of seeing, thinking, behaving, acting in everyday life. Seeing that recently character problems have tended to decline, marked by cases of...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P9.04 A NEW METHOD FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF CENTRAL ARTERIAL STIFFNESS DURING STRESS
F. Faita, V. Gemignani, E. Bianchini, R.M. Bruno, T. Bombardini, L. Ghiadoni
Pages: 167 - 167
The continuous monitoring of arterial stiffness during pharmacological and dynamic stress is an intriguing and partially unexplored topic. In this work we present a new method for the continuous assessment of the aortic-to-carotid pulse transit time (PTT), which is inversely proportional to the pulse...
Journal: Artery Research
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P5.15 THE INFLUENCE OF THE MEAN BLOOD PRESSURE ON ARTERIAL STIFFNESS PARAMETERS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS AND SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS WOMEN
A. Cypiene, J. Dadoniene, R. Rugiene, Z. Petrulioniene, A. Laucevicius
Pages: 167 - 167
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P9.03 REGIONAL AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AND SYSTOLIC DIAMETER MEASURED USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
S.S. Hickson, M. Butlin, M. Graves, I.B. Wilkinson, C.M. McEniery
Pages: 167 - 167
Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk. However, PWV is usually determined between the carotid and femoral sites, ignoring the proximal ascending aorta which may stiffen most with age. We tested this hypothesis by assessing regional PWV and aortic diameter...
Journal: Artery Research
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PO-05 BUFFERING OF CAROTID ARTERY PRESSURE AND FLOW PULSATILITY DURING COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT IN HEALTHY ADULTS
Kevin S. Heffernan, Nicole L. Spartano, Jacqueline A. Augustine, Wesley K. Lefferts, William E. Hughes, Gary F. Mitchell, Randall S. Jorgensen, Brooks B. Gump
Pages: 167 - 168
Journal: Artery Research
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P9.02 EVALUATION OF PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AND AUGMENTATION INDEX IN SUPINE AND SITTING POSITION
J. Nuernberger, R. Michalski, A. Opazo Saez, A. Kribben
Pages: 167 - 167
Background: Despite the introduction of arterial stiffness measurements in the recommendation of the European Societies for Hypertension and Cardiology, pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (Aix) are still not used routinely in clinical practice. Possibly, current techniques, although non-invasive,...
Journal: Artery Research
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P6.07 AORTIC STIFFNESS IS AN INDEPENDENT PREDICTOR OF NEW ONSET ATRIAL FIBRILLATION IN CHRONIC HEART FAILURE PATIENTS WITH REDUCED SYSTOLIC FUNCTION
S. Bonapace, A. Rossi, M.A. Cicoira, G. Arcaro, F. Valbusa, E. Barbieri, C. Vassanelli
Pages: 167 - 167
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
4.4 ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN OBJECTIVELY MEASURED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ENERGY EXPENDITURE AND CENTRAL HAEMODYNAMICS. THE ADDITION-PRO STUDY
A.S.D. Laursen, A.-L.S. Hansen, N. Wiinberg, S. Brage, A. Sandbæk, T. Lauritsen, M.E. Jørgensen, B. Kiens, N.B. Johansen
Pages: 167 - 168
Objective. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, improvements in conventional risk factors do not explain the full benefit of PA on CVD risk. Therefore, we examined the association between PA and central haemodynamics to provide new insight into...
Proceedings Article
Voice Improvement After Thyroid Surgery
Edo Wira Candra
Patients with enlarged thyroid gland (goiter) that cause paralysis of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) or hoarseness usually have associated with thyroid malignancy. Malignancy can be directly or indirectly related to RLN. Cases of vocal cord paralysis associated with benign thyroid disease or goitre...
Journal: Artery Research
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P9.01 NON - INVASIVE EVALUATION OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE COMPOSITION: COMPARISON BETWEEN THE REFERENCE ANALYZER AND A NEW GRAY SCALE MEDIAN COLOR-MAPPING SOFTWARE
P.J. Forcada, S.A. Gonzalez, D. Olano, E. Cavanagh, S. Obregon, C. Castelaro, C. Kotliar
Pages: 167 - 167
Introduction: The non-invasive analysis of plaque echolucency (ECL) with Adobe Photoshop® has proven to reduce the subjectivity of ultrasonic evaluation of atherosclerosis. However, ECL provides information concerning only one of the aspects that contribute to vulnerability (plaque echodensity). Hemodyn...
Journal: Artery Research
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P6.06 SYSTEMIC ARTERIAL PROPERTIES DURING NORMAL PREGNANCIES IN HEALTHY WOMEN
M.E. Estensen, E.W. Remme, A. Swillens, T. Henriksen, O.A. Smiseth, L. Gullestad, P. Segers, S. Aakhus
Pages: 167 - 167
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
4.3 CAROTID HEMODYNAMICS DURING SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULATION VIA HANDGRIP AND COLD PRESSURE TESTING IN YOUNG HEALTHY SUBJECTS
F.J. Londono, T.S. Klopmeijer, D. Georgakopoulos, E.G. Lovett, P. Segers
Pages: 167 - 167
Introduction. Assessing arterial properties and hemodynamics in response to a physiological perturbation might provide additional information on an individual’s “vascular health”. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of measuring changes in carotid stiffness and hemodynamics in response...
Research Article
Efficient Keyword-Related Data Collection in a Social Network with Weighted Seed Selection
Changhyun Byun, Hyeoncheol Lee, Jongsung You, Yanggon Kim
Pages: 167 - 173
Data mining in a social network can yield interesting perspectives to understanding human behavior or detecting topics or communities. However, it is difficult to gather the data related to a specific topic due to the main characteristics of social media data: large, noisy, and dynamic. To collect the...
Research Article
Effective Management of ReRAM-based Hybrid SSD for Multiple Node HDFS
Nayoung Park, Byungjun Lee, Kyung Tae Kim, Hee Yong Youn
Pages: 167 - 176
Recently, the research of Hybrid ReRAM/MLC NAND SSD is rapidly expanding into the storage areas. Most existing researches of Hybrid SSD are based on a single storage, while the management of multiple nodes like HDFS is still immature. In this paper a new efficient cold data eviction scheme is proposed...
Research Article
A new derivation of the plane wave expansion into spherical harmonics and related Fourier transforms
Agata Bezubik, Agata Dbrowska, Aleksander Strasburger
Pages: 167 - 173
This article summarizes a new, direct approach to the determination of the expansion into spherical harmonics of the exponential ei(x|y) with x, y Rd . It is elementary in the sense that it is based on direct computations with the canonical decomposition of homogeneous polynomials into harmonic components...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Using Web-based Animated-tutors to Improve Word Recognition for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Taryadi Taryadi, Sattriedi W. Binabar, Era Yunianto
A variety of different technologies are used to intervene in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) increasingly every year as more and more children are diagnosed with ASD. One of the technologies used is the use of images, multimedia, and animation with the help of computer technology to provide...
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Processing of Olein Fraction Red Palm Oil with Minimal Refining Method and Optimization of Deodorization Process
Deny Sumarna, Sumardi Hadi Sumarlan, Susinggih Wijaya, Nur Hidayat
Red Palm Olein (RPOn) is the result of refining and fraction of Crude Palm Oil (CPO). In the conventional refining of CPO, carotene which is a pro-Vitamin A is intentionally removed to get a clear colored oil. This research is comparing between two methods are Method I and Method II. Method I is started...
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Research on International Education Mode of Accounting Talents
Haifan Lu
The internationalization of accounting puts forward new requirements for the training of accounting talents. This paper tries to solve the problem of how to cultivate international compound accounting talents in accounting major in Colleges and universities. Focusing on the domestic international undergraduate...
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Information Retrieval Using Matrix Methods
Case Study: Three Popular Online News Sites in Indonesia
Ferry Wiranto, I Made Tirta
This research is part of data mining, a sub-section of information retrieval and text mining. This research focuses on finding an approach to getting relevant documents online news documents with a specific threshold value and improving computing performance to get relevant documents with large documents....
Proceedings Article
Teaching Factory Readiness in Vocational High Schools
Ilma Nurfadlilawati, Erna Krisnanto, Trias Megayanti
This study aims to determine the readiness to implement teaching factory learning in the Modeling Design and Building Information Vocational Program at SMK Negeri 2 Ciamis Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive research method with a quantitative approach. The level of readiness is seen from four aspects:...
Proceedings Article
Inclusive Education in Surah Abasa Verses 1–10
Rofi Atina Maghfiroh, Mohamad Ali, Muh. Nur Rochim Maksum
Someone who has physical differences, abilities, and attitudes that are different from other people or people with disabilities often face discrimination, one of which occurs at school. Thus, in responding to this, building a tolerance attitude is needed through inclusive education implemented by schools....
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Semiotics Analysis of Gender Roles in Television Ads in Hygiene Product
Ine Vania Putri, Nala Nandana Undiana
More than just introducing products, advertising can also play a role in socializing gender roles which forms certain stereotypes. The research on the Attack Easy advertisement version of “Mother is Beautiful when Washing” and “Soklin Lantai”, which carries the theme of family, aims to learn signs that...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Biomechanical Properties of Fixed Liver
Yubin Zheng, Wu Zheng, Yanli Wang, Feng Wang
Pathologic sampling is the initial stage of the pathological research and forensic identification, if the thickness of samplings can not meet the requirements, observation results will be affected, resulting in a higher rate of misdiagnosis. This paper aims at studying the biomechanical properties of...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research and Realization of the Intelligent Automatic Programming System of the Worm Gear Grinding Machine
Kuibang Zhang, Jiang Han, Lian Xia, Qingyan Yang
In order to meet the machine tool could intelligent machining for the new worm wheel gear, a parametric zero programming CNC system is developed based on the modern embedded control technology. The ARM + DSP + FPGA as CNC module hardware platform, and using VS2005 VC + + module development CNC worm wheel...
Proceedings Article
Construction of CT Skills Cultivation Mode in Integrated English Course
Yin Yang
Critical thinking (CT) is the essential goal of learning and central to higher education. Integrated English Course (IEC) provides a good platform to equip students with CT ability. This paper constructs CT skills cultivation mode in Integrated English Course from four steps: constructing interaction...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Semi-Hertzian Theory and its Application in Wheel Wear Calculation
Qiyue Yin, Zhenggang Lu
With the rapid development of the railway industry, the speed and load of the railway vehicle has been significantly increasing but operation environment of the railway vehicle becomes worse. All these will cause problems for the wheel-rail wear. And all the problems will cause potential risk to the...
Proceedings Article
Type-2 aggregation operators
Zdenko Takác
The paper deals with an extension of aggregation operators from the set of real numbers (or interval [0, 1]) to the set of fuzzy truth values (fuzzy sets in [0, 1]). We define so-called type-2 aggregation operator and show that an extension of ordinary aggregation operator by convolution is a type-2...
Proceedings Article
Defending Against SYN Flood Attack under Asymmetric Routing Environment
Tao Jianxi, Zhou Li, Zhou Zhou, Yang Rong, Yang Wei, Liu Qingyun
SYN Flood attack is still one of the major distributed denial of service attacks. Any network device or computer system with connection state table may have the possibility of suffering from this attack. Moreover, under asymmetric routing environment, unidirectional traffic problem makes it more difficult...
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Enforcing Multiple Security Policies for Android System
Tao Guo, Puhan Zhang, Hongliang Liang, Shuai Shao
The popularity of Android makes it the prime target of the latest surge in mobile malware. Protecting privacy and integrity of information is helpful for Android users. Currently, malicious software often achieve the purpose of privacy theft and malicious chargeback by sending short messages, making...
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Research on Negative Influence and Strategies of Multimedia Education in Universities
Ziyan Zhang, Linan Fan
This paper focuses on misunderstanding and negative effects on multimedia education as well as its usage. Also, the paper provides a degree which should be used in multimedia education, such as encourage teachers’ guidance, pay attention to students’ feedback, establish teaching-accumulations, as well...
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Impact of Mobile Learning on Distance Education
Yongbin Zhou
Mobile learning is another new learning model following the emergence of digital learning, and a new research hotspot in the field of education technology. How to make effective use of mobile communications technology to assist the all types of teaching and learning has become the research center of...
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Changing Behaviour to Save Energy: ICT-Based Surveillance for a Low-Carbon Economy in the Seventh Framework Programme
Baki Cakici, Markus Bylund
In research and development of information and communication technologies for sustainability, there is a strong belief that human behaviour can be monitored at the individual level to generate different signals, and that these signals can be used to influence individuals to behave differently. We analyse...
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Analysis on the Problems in Teachers’ Salary in University and College and the Strategy to Encourage the Teachers
Chunmei Zhang
Internal income distribution in university and college embody the market competition principle of "more pay for more work". Though this spirit inspire enthusiasm of university teacher, it makes the growing income gap between teachers more. The main reasons are the emphasis on salary, the evaluation guide...
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Stereotypical constructions of the Middle English alliterative poetry in their functional aspect
Elena Babaina
This article provides a description of stereotypical constructions of the Middle English alliterative poetry based on a semantic analysis of narrative structures. These constructions prove to be common also to Middle English verse romances what can witness their genetic unity.
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Contrastive Analysis of Indonesian and Javanese Languages and Its Prospective Implication for Language Learning
Roni Sulistiyono, Pujiati Suyata, Triwati Rahayu
This study was aimed at analyzing contractive comparisons between Indonesian language and Javanese one. Both languages are belong to the Western Malay Polynesian group, but then have developed under varieties of influences and have experienced differences in some respects. The contrasts between both...
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Terrorist Threats for the Critical Infrastructure of the State
Grenda Bogdan, Slachcinska Edyta, Majdan Pawel
Critical infrastructure has a crucial role in the functioning of the state and the lives of citizens by providing social or economic conditions for development and security. Therefore, it can be assumed, that the state for its smooth develop needs solutions which can guarantee the necessary level of...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Intrusion Tolerant Control for Warship Systems
Yuanbao Chen, Shuang Huang, Yunfei Lv
With the adoption of large amount of information communication technology (ICT) and the increasingly frequent cyber-attacks, security issues have gradually become key problems for warship systems. Warship systems, as a special mobile information combat platform, have higher requirements for timeliness...
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ECC-based RFID/NFC Mutual Authentication Protocol
Weiguang Huo, Qingkuan Dong, Yuan Chen
RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) is a generic term for technologies that use radio signals to automatically identify objects in the IoT (Internet of Things). NFC (Near Field Communication) originating from RFID is a wireless peer-to-peer communication technology, which is widely applied to mobile...
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Innovative Thoughts of Ideological and Political Education for College Students in Self Media Environment
Yanhong He
The development of the self media has affected the reform of Ideological and political education of college students , the application of self media in college education can not only enrich the ideological education of college students, but also to some extent, it has a certain impact on College Students'...