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The road is a land transportation infrastructure essential in facilitating the social and economic activities of the community. Well-constructed road conditions will equip population mobility in social activities and relations. However, road damage at low and high levels will not only obstruct social...

For this purpose, Law Number 14/2008 came into effect, as well as the Minister of Home Affairs’s Instruction Number 188.52/1797/SJ/ 2012. However, up until this point, we have fallen short of our transparency goals. It is the goal of this research to analyze how political competitiveness, financial independence,...

Indonesia ranks fourth in the global list of pepper exporters. This commodity contributes the largest foreign exchange from spices, and thus, the sustainability of Indonesia’s pepper exports is crucial. However, the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic poses several constraints, such as the decline in the...

At the present stage, there are a large number of youth over 14 years old with mental disorders in China, which has not yet attracted attention from the practice and research. At the same time, the rehabilitation system for this group of youth is lacking in China, including a lack of national policies...

Industry 4.0 revolution will have many changes and consequence. In this modern era, information and technology influence all human aspects massively, included parenting patterns. Technology advancement facilitated by internet existence is used by parents to take care of their children, especially early...

Interpersonal communication is the ability to establish relationships with openness, full of empathy and equality. In the context of parents with teenagers, this communication ability is characterized by accepting all conditions of adolescents and being open in communicating so that there is a two-way...

Multimodal artificial intelligence has emerged as an effective approach in medical diagnostics by integrating heterogeneous data sources such as clinical symptoms and medical images, thereby addressing the limitations of unimodal diagnostic systems [10], [15], [12]. The creation of the modular multimodal...

The Supreme Court has issued PERMA Number 4 Year 2019 as a follow-up to PERMA Number 14 Year 2016 concerning Procedures for Settlement of Sharia Economic Disputes. Article 3 Paragraph (2) of PERMA stipulates that the settlement of sharia economic disputes can use a small claim court. The regulation was...

Purpose: The feasibility of pulse wave analysis (PWA) over 24 hours with oscillometric devices has already been shown and first studies indicate additional information compared to single measurements. Nevertheless, diurnal patterns of PWA parameters in healthy subjects, which can potentially serve as...

The Libya Revolution in 2011 believed as a progress for democracy in Libya. However, after the revolution, the situation did not get any better and worsened by chaos in Libya. It is already almost seven years from the revolution and there still no clear future of Libya. The civil war and split government...

The law governing the dispute material in arbitration and Alterntive Dispute Resolution is the law selected in the relevant commercial agreement that poses a dispute between the parties. In the event by the parties to the agreement not set forth on governing law, the parties freely elect the applicable...

It is a fortunate paradox that research motivated simply by a wish to better understand the natural world can later result in the most powerful applications imaginable. By definition, the outcome of any research is unknown until the research is finished. The outcomes are even less predictable at the...

Background: Nitric oxide (NO) and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) regulate arterial wall viscosity (AWV) in young subjects (1). During hypertension, characterised by a decrease in endothelium-derived NO and an early disappearance of EETs, AWV is not modified (2,3). We compared the role of NO and EETs...

Pre-service teachers may hold different motives in choosing a career path as a teacher. The present study aims at investigating the types of motivation to choose a career as an English teacher among participants from a teacher training program in a private university in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Of 23 students...

This study aims to determine the potential for bankruptcy due to the ongoing industrial revolution 4.0 and the difference in potential bankruptcy of retail companies in Indonesia which are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the publication of financial statements for the 2016-2018 financial year....

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) levels are modestly but significantly associated with increased risk of total cardiovascular events. Aortic stiffness and wave reflections are also important predictors of cardiovascular events. The aim of this pilot...

The effects of the selective angiotensin AT2 receptor agonist, compound 21 (C21), on abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) formation were investigated in normotensive Wistar rats. AAA was induced by perfusion of isolated aortic segments with elastase (Anidjar/Dobrin model). Treatment with C21 (0.03 and 0.3...

Objectives: Reduced deformability of red blood cells (RBC) plays an important role in etiology of various diseases including cardiovascular. The nitric oxide (NO) was identified as one of factors responsible for maintenance of RBC deformability. Reduced bioavailability of NO might be important in the...

We describe a few families of orthogonal matrix polynomials of size N × N satisfying first order differential equations. This problem differs from the recent efforts reported for instance in [7] (Orthogonal matrix polynomials satisfying second order differential equations, Internat. Math. Research Notices,...

This study is a quasi-experimental study that aims to determine the effect of increasing student communication skills in discussing students' learning outcomes in basic chemistry learning. The indicators of student discussion skills include: (1) conveying messages well, (2) using clear language, (3)...

Design building codes are primary book for structural design engineers to calculate flexural strength. In the design building codes, concrete has important parts. Those are rectangular stress block model and compression strain. This paper evaluates flexural strength of the reinforced concrete beams using...

The present study investigated the effects of different combinations of cassava powder and palm kernel cake on intake and digestibility of Ongole Crossbred bulls fed a fixed amount of rice straw. Ongole bulls (n=24) were assigned to five dietary treatments (n=5 bulls/treatment for all treatments, except...

Background: Poor sleep quality has been related to poor vascular function and higher risk of cardiovascular disease in the general population. Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibit a high cardiovascular risk, and report poor sleep quality. To date, the association between sleep quality and vascular...

Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience autonomic dysfunction, with reduced sympathetic and parasympathetic control. This results in alterations in resting heart rate and blood pressure and attenuated responses to sympathoexcitatory stimuli. It is unknown to what extent this impacts...

Background: Diabetic hypertensives patients present different hemodynamic pattern than only hypertensive patients. We aimed to investigate the relationship between the diastolic function and the pulse pressure amplification (PPA), an index combining both arterial stiffness and wave reflexion, in diabetic...

This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990–2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a significant...

The Indonesian government has initiated a mandatory national vaccination program to create herd immunity by enacting Presidential Regulation Number 99 of 2020 which was amended by Presidential Regulation Number 14 of 2021. These regulations limit the right to reject vaccinations, which falls within the...

Self Compacting Concrete (SCC) was an innovation in concrete that could compact itself, with high flowability and workability. SCC did not require mechanical vibration in the placement process within formwork volumes. The purpose of this research was to determine the characteristics of SCC with the addition...

The research and development were carried out at Islamic Middle school 5 Klaten. The school has never used the surrounding environment as a learning resource and has not had a learning media such as an encyclopedia for social studies learning activities in the classroom. The research and development...

Tuberculous Meningitis (TBM) is the most common form of central nervous system Tuberculosis (TB), accounting for 5–6% of extrapulmonary TB cases. Nowadays, TBM continues to be a major topic in public health because of its high prevalence worldwide. This retrospective study aimed to describe the clinical,...

Madura Salt Tolerance Corn (var. Duko and var. Elos) and Hybrid Corn (Sukmaraga and Anoman-1) were germinated on 0, 100, 200, 300 and 400 mM NaCl for 7 days. Then its planted by wick system hydroponic also on the same NaCl concentration for 14 days, conducted by using randomized block design with 4 replications....

Feed is the main requirement for broilers farms. However, continuous use of AGP can cause antibiotic resistance in poultry and humans. The effectiveness of feed additives in preventing some disease agents has not been much scrutinized. Among the diseases that often arise is Salmonellosis. This study...

Indonesia frequently experiences the health issue of anemia. This occurs when there are insufficient levels of hemoglobin in the blood, which is caused by a lack of iron, which is necessary for the synthesis of hemoglobin. Wheat grass is one of the iron-rich foods that can be consumed as an alternative...

High-intensity resistance exercise (RE) acutely increases arterial stiffness and blood pressure (BP), coupled with reduced cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFv) and greater flow pulsatility in the cerebral circulation, which may be detrimental to cerebral microvasculature. Because females have different...

Inflammation is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events and reduced endothelial function. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular events and improved vascular function. Whether fitness plays a role during acute inflammation is unknown. Purpose:...

RNNs have local feedback loops within the network which allows them to shop earlier accessible patterns. This network can be educated with gradient descent back propagation and optimization technique such as second-order methods; conjugate gradient, quasi-Newton, Levenberg- Marquardt have also been used...

Abstract. To observe hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects of Melastoma dodecandrum ethanol-extract on type 2 diabetic rats. Except twelve SPF SD rats were as the control group, the rest eighty type 2 diabetic rats were induced by feeding with high-fat and high-sugar diet and intraperitoneal injection...

This study serves to determine the style of language used by Ustaz Syafiq Riza Basalamah in the lectures he delivered. This study uses theories from Gorys Keraf. The data in this study are in the form of utterances delivered by Ustaz Syafiq Riza Basalamah from a video titled The attitude of a Muslim...

Achieving sustainable innovation in resource-constrained settings requires inclusive, context-aware approaches that prioritise end-user participation. This paper presents the ITIKI (Information Technology and Indigenous Knowledge with Intelligence) system as a case study of how Design Thinking (DT) can...

Background: The selective sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor empagliflozin leads to improved cardiovascular, renal and heart failure outcome in secondary prevention. To better understand these effects, we examined vascular function and central hemodynamics. Methods: In this prospective,...

The paper deals with recreational resources and potential of the Khulamo-Bezengi Valley in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic. The main attention is paid to recreational resources and development of the area. We distinguished the most promising types of recreation such as traditional-mountaineering, mountain...

Microwave intermittent drying kinetics of banana slices were investigated under different power levels (250, 400, 550 and 700W), sample thickness (3, 6, 9 and 12mm), heating time (11, 14, 17 and 20s) and intermittent time (50, 60, 70 and 80s) during each cycle. Results indicated that all the four factors...

The mental health of workers holds an important role in determining the success of organization and company. One of the mental health disorders that are easily experienced by workers is work stress. Work stress has an effect on workers’ performance, decision making, relationship, planning, way of communicating,...

The concrete construction work process usually has many factors that influence the quality of the concrete, starting from various methods of preparing materials to caring for the concrete. This occurs because of the differences in treatment given to samples in the laboratory and workpieces made in the...

Online gaming has become increasingly popular among school-age children. In Indonesia, school-age children represent a substantial proportion of online game users, with particularly high use reported among children aged 10–14 years. Parents therefore play an important role in supervising children’s activities,...

Given the significance of lung function (LF) for vascular health in adulthood, there are surprisingly few studies that have examined the interrelationships of their developmental trajectories. Both develop and decline over the life course, though LF peaks in the 20s, and both predict cardiovascular events...

Well-being is a central issue in guidance and counseling services in Indonesia, done to support individuals in obtaining their well-being to be happy, and satisfied about life. This study aims at analyzing psychological well-being of pre-service teachers as a basis for developing their guidance and counseling...

Course books are considered as important elements in the language teaching and learning process. This study was aimed to evaluate a course book used in Preparation Class of Maritime English Test in one of Merchant Marine Polytechnic from three perspectives: teachers, graduates, and cadets. This study...

Background: In Italy, the prevalence of seropositivity for Trypanosoma cruzi in immigrants from endemic countries is about 11.3% (30.7% for Bolivian immigrants). The disease acute phase is usually asymptomatic, often leading to chronic infection that may remain silent for life (chronic indeterminate...

Background: India was one of the countries to institute strict measures for Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) control in the early phase. Since, then, the epidemic growth trajectory was slow before registering an explosion of cases due to local cluster transmissions. Methods:...