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The term stratagem [The western term strategem (from Greek stratēgēma), closely related to strategy and usually considered as a small strategy. In Ancient China and later in East Asia the following hieroglyph 計 was used to express idea of planning the trap.] (計), let alone strategematics—the science...

The accelerated development of infrastructure in western China has exacerbated the risk of rockfall disasters. Flexible gabion barriers have been widely adopted as critical protective measures due to their superior adaptability and construction efficiency. However, existing studies predominantly focus...

The advancement in the wireless communication technology showcases a substantial interest towards reconfigurable antennas due to their vast applications in different wireless and radar communication systems. Their properties can be adjusted in order to obtain the desired radiation pattern direction,...

Tourism has a very important role in encouraging and accelerating a nation’s economic development. Output of goods and services can increase due to tourism activities that can create investment demand and consumption demand. It eventually results in a rise in the output of goods and services in Indonesia...

Due to the long distance and complex terrain, oil and gas pipelines often cross rural roads, highways, railways, etc., which has a great impact on pipeline safety. Based on the calculation model of earth pressure above buried pipeline proposed by Marston, this paper analyzes the force of buried oil and...

With the acceleration of the aging process of China’s population, the problem of caring for the disabled elderly has gradually become the focus of social attention. As the core model of China’s elderly care system, family supporting is facing great challenges due to its long-term reliance on non-professional...

Kulai chili (Capsicum annuum L. var. Kulai) is a key horticultural crop in Malaysia, valued for its high yield potential and importance to local cuisine and livelihoods. However, domestic production falls short of national demand, resulting in significant imports and underscoring the need for more sustainable...

The challenges in estimating the process and the cost of road and highway construction projects in Metro Manila, which is plagued by extreme traffic congestion and inadequate road quality, are the subject of this study. Due to their inability to take into account the particular unpredictability of each...

The conventional agricultural knowledge graph information system employs a ternary triplet linking method based on entity associations to enable question-answering through entity browsing. However, this approach may result in imprecise answers due to unclear user intentions. To address this issue, an...

This research paper aims to bridge the gaps in rural teacher training programme in India, with a focus on enhancing entrepreneurship and skill development. Current frameworks, including DIKSHA and NISHTHA, often fail to meet the diverse needs of rural educators due to centralized content and limited...

The housing crisis resulting in a lack of affordable housing has become an urgent problem that New Zealand faces due to various socio-economic and historical-political reasons. Social housing is one of the ways to address this problem and currently, the country is experiencing a significant increase...

This paper presents a comprehensive financial analysis of COSCO SHIPPING Holdings Co., Ltd., a leading entity in China’s shipping industry. It examines the company’s financial health from 2021 to 2023, focusing on solvency, operating capacity, and profitability metrics. The analysis reveals that COSCO...

Background: Goat’s milk and mung beans are suitable food ingredients for enhancing the diet of stunting toddlers due to their significant nutritious content, particularly in terms of protein and carbs. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the protein, carbohydrate, and protein digestibility...

The study aims to compare the influence of some components of the atmosphere like wind speed, rainfall, temperature, atmospheric pressure and relative humidity on the strength of the signal received (SSR) via digital terrestrial television reception in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, and Jos, Plateau...

Indonesia is an area prone to natural disasters. This is due to its geographical location. Possible natural catastrophes pose a threat and disrupt people’s lives and livelihoods, resulting in fatalities, harm to the environment, destruction of property, and psychological effects. This disaster specifically...

Solar energy has grown to become a key player for renewable energy in Malaysia poised for growth. The inherent issue that has come with such growth is the need to keep track of solar farm development. A fractured understanding of progress causes stakeholders being unable to make decisions with accurate...

This study investigates the effectiveness of using Algodoo, an interactive physics simulation tool, to enhance understanding of collision concepts, specifically focusing on perfectly elastic, partially elastic, and inelastic collisions. An experimental method was employed, where students conducted virtual...

Long Kali village has geothermal manifestation in the form of hot water known locally as “Danum Layong”, which means “hot water” in the language of the local community. Since the site’s inauguration in 2009, there has been a significant decline in visitor numbers, mainly due to inadequate construction...

The calculation for the discharge through check gate is a crucial reference for scheduling operations, and it also constitutes a significant internal boundary condition in hydraulic models. In the actual operation of open channel water transfer projects, although a large amount of real-time water situation...

Global supply chains face increasing disruption risks due to pandemics, geopolitical tensions, and extreme weather events. This study examines whether digitalization mitigates supply chain disruption risk, using panel data of Chinese A-share manufacturing firms from 2010 to 2023. A fixed-effects regression...

The present study makes an attempt to understand how CO2 Emissions from Transport, could be linked to GDP and Population for five BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and S. Africa) by analyzing data for the period 1990-2023. The aim is to assess whether such linkages exist and, if they do, to...

Urban development faces the problem of traffic congestion as one of its major challenges. The conventional approaches to signal control work well in the context of optimization at a single point but do not scale well to large road networks or more complicated environments in which dynamics occur. Recently,...

The rapid deployment of 5G technology is reshaping the digital landscape, with mobile gaming emerging as a prime beneficiary due to its sensitivity to speed, latency, and real-time interactivity. This study examines the implementation of 5G in Makassar, Indonesia, focusing on user experiences, industry...

With the explosive growth of medical data and the rapid development of AI technology, medical diagnosis is transforming from traditional experience-driven to data-driven, and a single machine learning model is often difficult to meet the clinical requirements in medical diagnosis due to problems such...

CuCr25 alloy samples in this study were coated with Cr and irradiated by high current pulsed electron beam (HCPEB) with intermittently increasing pulse numbers from 1 to 100. The results indicated that with HCPEB treatment, initial Cr particles and coated Cr layer remelted and distributed nonuniformly...

Family support, especially from the parents, was important as a coping and motivation in paving an athletic career for Indonesian elite athletes. In this qualitative study, 37 elite Indonesian athletes involved in a national training program and nine sport practitioners who worked with them were interviewed....

Lactic acid bacteria have the ability to produce antimicrobial substances such as bacteriocins. They are of great interest to research due to some of the lengthy annals of safe use and the generally considered safe (GRAS) and presumed safety (QPS) status. Bacteriocins are small, hydrophobic, cationic...

Tourism is one of the key pillars supporting Bali’s economy and due to the COVID-19, it was facing a major drop. However, starting on April 1st 2022, Bali is opening for inbound travelers with a more relaxed COVID-19-related regulation as a part of border opening in the Southeast Asian country after...

In this paper, reviews of several fractures and damage to railway construction in their application to daily use are presented. An overview of technology and application usage of finite element analysis in assessing railways damage is also presented. As happened on the train track, the fatigue mechanism...

With the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, people have been forced to adapt to a “new normal” lifestyle. Working from home, virtual learning, lockdowns, quarantines, and required face mask wearing in public are all part of the new normal. In March 2020, many countries in the world went into lockdown...

Academic procrastination is one of the behaviors or forms of procrastination that is often experienced by every student in doing something that affects the learning outcomes obtained. This study tries to find out how academic procrastination is in students of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education,...

World per capita consumption of fresh dairy products is projected to increase by 1.0% p.a. and production is projected to grow at 1.6% p.a. over the coming decade (2020–2029). To meet up this additional demand, raising high producing dairy cows with proper nutrition and environment is obvious in the...

This study aims to describe: (1) a description of the performance of post-professional teacher development; (2) inhibiting factors for professional development to improve teacher performance and efforts to overcome them; and (3) the driving factors for professional development to improve teacher performance....

The impact of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) is not only on physical health but also on mental health. Nurses are one of the vanguards in handling Covid-19 which is at risk of experiencing mental health problems. This study aims to identify the mental health status of the foremost nurses in handling...

The presence of Blue Plasma Lymphocytes in a patient’s blood sample indicates that the person has been infected with dengue fever. Examination of the blue plasma lymphocytes is carried out under a microscope with visual observation. Blue plasma lymphocytes can now be observed using a computer due to...

The digital revolution has changed the face of the financial industry. One of the adoptions of digital technology in the financial industry is the presence of digital wallet. Digital wallet application is currently very popular and rapidly adopted by the mobile users due to the growth of use of the internet....

The hybrid-flexible (Hyflex) education approach has evolved in line with the transformation of the higher education landscape. This approach combines the elements of face-to-face and online learning. It is flexible for students to choose their participation in class whether attending physically, remotely...

The environmental rule of law paradigm requires the existence of a special mechanism that involves all parties in realizing an integrated environmental law system which is not only aimed at enforcing legal certainty but also for realizing justice for all elements, both humans and the environment itself....

Between 2024 and 2030, it is projected that radiation levels will rise significantly while cosmic energy declines. This period is also expected to bring about a reduction in human attention span, further intensifying the potential risks to human health. As a result, it will be more crucial than ever...

The need for a smooth and reliable internet network on campus is very high, especially since all administrative and learning activities are now carried out online. However, the widely spaced building locations on the Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang (Unimus) Integrated Campus require adequate computer...

The Terusan Tengah Swamp Irrigation System consists of primary, secondary, and collector channels. It currently operates on two-way system, which collector channels primarily used to prevent water from oil palm farming from entering the irrigation system. This area’s water management system is a fork...

Community economic empowerment, especially Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) through government procurement of goods and services (PBJP), is a government strategy for increasing the role of MSEs in Indonesia. However, implementing the policy is hampered by the complexity of PBJP regulations, market...

Information quality has received special attention in the context of e-marketing, due to its important role in increasing customer satisfaction and repurchase intention. This study aims to identify the role of information quality and satisfaction on repurchase intention. This study used the Convenience...

Ferrites, which are ceramic compounds or mixed crystals of different metallic oxides (Fe2O3) and are thought to be made up of cations occupying the spaces between oxygen ions in a close-packed structure. They are classified into two main types based on their magnetic properties: hard ferrites, that possesses...

Artificial intelligence technology is improving in China as technology advances. Artificial intelligence’s rapid development as a new type of technology has sparked inequalities in social information technology, worsening regional and inter-generational development imbalances. Carter et al. proposed...

Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a clinically aggressive hematologic malignancy derived from precursors of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. There is no established standard therapy for BPDCN and the efficacy of conventional chemotherapy is limited, with an anticipated median overall...

Due to the increasingly strict word/character restrictions enforced by most scientific publications, we identified a need for a master document illustrating the “Scientific Methods” that may be applicable to the majority of observational and registry-based studies in hematopoietic cell transplantation...

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,...

Vascular dysfunction and remodelling due to elevated blood pressure constitutes an early step in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic disease. Microvascular remodelling reduces tissue perfusion and impedes blood-tissue exchange. These processes could lead to inadequate perfusion and tissue hypoxia in...

The success of rapid industrialization around the world may be due to automated processes leading to faster and cheaper production methods. Over the past three decades, the method of mixing and pouring concrete on site has been gradually replaced by prefabricated construction techniques in some developed...