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How Do Market Orientation and Innovation Effect in Increasing Business Performance? Empire Study of MSMEs in the City of Semarang

Kesi Widjajanti, Eviatiwi Kusumaningtyas Sugiyanto
This study aims to analyze the effect of innovation and market orientation on business performance through competitive advantage. This study focuses on analyzing the effect of innovation and market orientation on business performance through competitive advantage. This research was conducted on the...

Educational Technology: Citizen Perception of the Digital Strategy for the Prevention of School Dropout in Public Universities

Gilberto Murillo González, Mijael Altamirano Santiago, German Martínez Prats
This research establishes an analysis of citizen perception on the use of digital tools such as text messaging tools (SMS) in the prevention of school dropout in public universities in southeastern Mexico, with emphasis on the Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (UJAT). The results obtained from an...

Indonesian EFL Learners’ Preferences Toward English Accents: British vs Indonesian Accents

Amanda Narasya Zefanya Wardana, Sahiruddin
Reflecting on previous studies, this research discusses the impact of World Englishes and the sociocultural factors that shape students’ attitudes towards their own accents and native accents. This study examines how English Department students in Indonesia perceive native-speakerism and its impact on...

Analysis of Green Accounting Implementation in Utility Companies in Indonesia (Case Study on PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero))

Endah Endah, Vogy Gautama Buanaputra
This research aims to analyze the implementation of green accounting in utility companies in Indonesia, specifically through a case study of PT PLN (Persero). The objective is to enhance understanding of how utility firms can incorporate environmental considerations into their financial reporting and...

Monster Cows and the Doing of Modern Biotechnology in Sweden: An Intersectional Risk Analysis Confined Space

Anna Olofsson, Susanna Öhman
Pages: 186 - 196
In this article, the aim is to analyse how the insemination of images of a cow is entangled with perceptions of gene technology through the ‘doing’ of risk, nature, periphery and gender in Sweden. Two types of data have been used; the 1996 Eurobarometer survey on public opinion and a corpus of articles...

How is One in Time

Xiaodan Liu, Cheng Zhang
The phenomenological movement is a movement of continuous innovation and development of (phenomenological) thought itself. Starting from the question of “How Is One in Time”, this thesis analyzes the observing ego and the pure ego in the immersive sensory state from the perspective of phenomenology....
Proceedings Article

Sustainable and Smart: Rethinking What a Smart Home is

Maha Salman, Steve Easterbrook, Samar Sabie, Josie Abate
The term Smart Home typically refers to dwellings augmented with high-tech responsive systems such that heating, air conditioning, lighting, appliances, entertainment outlets, and architectural components are computerized and managed, often via a remote control. Smart homes promise comfort, convenience,...
Proceedings Article

Parameter Estimation of Least Squares Collocation

Lihong Jin
In this paper, based on penalized least squares, the penalized weighted sum of squares is set up, we deduce the calculation method of a positively definite regularity matrix and obtain the corresponding results in least squares collocation model. According to the foundational properties of the random...
Proceedings Article

Acquisition of English Causative Psych Verbs by Chinese Learners

Jiandong Kang, Binhua Hou
This study centers upon, the form-meaning connections of second language (L2) causative psych verbs. More specifically, it attempts to (1) interpret the Chinese learners’ internal representation of knowledge on English causative psych verbs, (2) explain how and to what extent the transfer of the first...

The design of knowledge flow Mechanism within Virtual technology innovation team

Qin-qin Zhao
Within the Virtual Technology Innovation Team (VTIT), knowledge sharing and flow is the key to success. Identifying the critical success factors to the knowledge flow mechanism of VTIT and taking targeted strategies is helpful to improve the efficiency of knowledge flows and knowledge creation. In this...

The Comparative Analysis of Entrepreneurial Innovation Cognition in the Three Main Industries-Take Hebei as An Example

Rongping Li, Huidong Cui
The paper discusses five aspects about innovation to enterprises survival and development, how to set innovative strategic goals of enterprises, the incidence of innovation types to enterprises innovation, the effect factors and results of innovation success and the entrepreneurs' views to policies of...

A Study on the Impact of Model United Nations Activities on Improving Student’s Comprehensive Quality of Military Academy

Qingshan Yin, Jingjing Zeng, Cuiping Zhang, Ying Zhan, Yin Wang
In recent years, the rapid development of Model United Nations activities in military and civil academies in China has not only enriched the extracurricular activity of foreign language teaching, but also provided a good platform for improving student’s comprehensive quality. On the basis of the practice...

The Approaches of English-Indonesian Translation in Huesca and Song IV Poems

Danti Pudjiati, Nu'umah A. Ashri
Chairil Anwar is the greatest poet in Indonesia who translated two English poems into its language. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine the approaches of translation taken by him and to find out how these approaches deal with the translation result. The data were two poems, Huesca...

Analysis of Value-Added Tax Treatment of Unit Linked Life Insurance Services

Muhammad Ravin Alhakim, Yohanes Yohanes
Unit linked insurance companies have two activities, namely assurance services and investment management services. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether or not unit linked life insurance services are included in the terms of Taxable Services that impose Value Added Tax (VAT), and how the imposition...

The Theoretical Foundations and Application of Whole Language

Ting Jiang
Different language teaching approaches reflect people’s different demands and needs about language learning during different periods. This paper is going to focus on Whole Language, which is a relatively new approach to teaching and learning language. Many people are neither much familiar with the theoretical...
Proceedings Article

Challenges of Teaching Statistics to EFL Undergraduates: Action Research

Kusumarasdyati Kusumarasdyati
The present paper reports the challenges that the researcher had when teaching statistics to undergraduates majoring in the teaching of English and how to overcome them. It attempted to describe: (1) how to increase their motivation to learn statistics, and (2) how to improve their ability in statistical...

What Is More Important: Ideas or Money By the Case of Magnitogorsk State Conservatory

Yakoupov Alexander
The article deals with the problems of money and ideas. It states how greatly a manager’s work is facilitated if he switches from finding funds to understanding the idea, and the more attractive the idea is, the faster it is to find the money. The author focuses on the value of an idea to the society....

Analysis of Innovative Talents Cultivation for Dialogue Education in “Internet Plus” Era

He Bei
The generation of Internet brings about a tremendous change to the world, and the Internet development presents a new trend with the presentation of the concept of “Internet plus”. “Internet plus” is the advancement of Internet thinking and the fusion of Internet and various industries. Such integration...

Collaboration in EFL Classes: Listening to Teachers' and Students' Voices

Luh Artini, Ni Nyoman Padmadewi
The 21st century learning is characterized by the 4Cs: Collabora-tion, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Communication. Peda-gogical practices, therefore, should accommodate interactions and active thinking among students. Putting students into groups is one strategy that can be expected to encourage...
Proceedings Article

Using Network Concept Method and Data Mining Techniques to Implement Self-realization and Happiness Factor analysis

Wen yan Wang
This paper is achieved by means of the method of Information content Inclusion Relation-IIR and Data mining techniques. We present what an IIR is, and how IIR can be identified from both a concept and a database, and then reasoning about them. Data mining techniques and tools are developed for finding...

EFL Teachers’ Views on Learner Autonomy

Siti Nurfiqah
Indonesia is one of the Asian countries which has just little field regarding learner autonomy. Moreover, it is still doubted that if teachers generally accept the views about learner autonomy or even to what extent they understand about it. As a response, this study was conducted to investigate the...

Exploring the Effects of Using Game on Students’ Vocabulary Mastery: A Case Study in Instructional Material and Media Development Class

Ida Miftahul Jannah, Niken Kuswari, Izzatul Muna, Kartika Nabilla
The fundamental issue is how to teach vocabulary as effectively as possible, since vocabulary became the most important factor in learning English. Vocabulary should not be learnt separately or by memorization without understanding. This aimed to explore the effectiveness of using game in Instructional...

Communication Technology and Stronger Community Alienation

Nurudin
This research background consists of some aspects: (1) communication technology development which increases rapidly, (2) technology influences society’s attitude and behavior, (3) the society’s alienation existence of technology product. The research problem which proposed was “how is the communication...

Management of Character Education (Analysis on Students at Unima Sociology Education Study Program)

Yoseph Daniel Ari Santie, Romi Mesra, Paulus Robert Tuerah
The Indonesian nation is a large nation, with a population of around 240 million people, occupies the fourth position in the world, but has very complex and serious problems, such as the fragility of commitment to the basic values of life that are becoming guidelines, which we know as views nation’s...

The Prospect of Cultivating Maggot (Black Soldier Fly Larvae) to Build the Village Economy and Reduce Household Waste

Rusdi Faizin, Teuku Athaillah, Nurul Munawarah
Unconsciously, garbage and household waste are increasingly piling up and will continue to grow. The result will be a serious problem for the environment and public health. Maggot has two benefits at once, to act as a waste bioconversion agent as well as animal feed containing high protein. The purpose...

The Contemporary Value of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze and Its Industrial Discourse Power

Jing An
The Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze has successfully applied for world-class and national-level intangible cultural heritage projects. Driven by the eye-catching intangible cultural heritage, the government of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garze should think about the following issues, such...

The Role of Peacekeeping Operations: The Case of East Timor

Alla Borzova, Johnatan Da Costa Santos, Maria Nova Sibarani Dame
The United Nations (UN) was established with the main objective of ensuring and promoting world peace. UN peacekeeping missions are the most visible instrument of the Organization’s work in promoting world peace. In 1999, with the establishment of the Peace Mission in East Timor, the UN assumed all the...

Analysis of Andragogy Theory and Practice

M. Givi Efgivia, Erminawati, Elli Fitriani, Herni
Andragogy is the art and science of teaching adults to learn, how to help adults learn according to their needs or to motivate adults to learn to use their experiences to achieve new learning experiences. Adult education (andragogy) is different from children’s education (pedagogy). Children’s education...

Management of the Educational Change in the Covid 19 Pandemic Era

Lenie Okviana, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni
The challenge of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 became very concrete for the world of Education in Indonesia after the government approved the new platform for the Freedom to Learn policy. Many technical aspects, for example, related to facilities, must be prepared. In short, the policy feels too fast...

Design Framework as a Prototype of Islamic Medicine Engine to any Disease Especially for Covid-19 Based Al-Qur’an and Hadith Using Meta-Deep AI and Particle Swarm Optimization

Imam Cholissodin, Arief Andy Soebroto, Mohammad Muallif, Aurick Yudha Nagara, Renny Nova, Tamara Gusti Ebtavanny
In the Islamic world, as a part of the faith, every Muslim must believe that every time there is a disease, Allah SWT has also sent down the medicine. The current issue is that the extraction of information related to diseases and drugs from the Qur’an and Hadith has not been optimal, given the increasing...

EFL Students’ Remote Learning Experience During the Covid-19 Pandemic Outbreak

Nuriyatul Hamidah, Ahmad Takhfif
As the school closure is implemented, it affects the way teaching and learning at educational institutions from elementary to higher education in Indonesia. This situation promotes what we call remote learning. This research aimed at discovering and comprehend the lived experience of college students...

Practical Application and Challenges of PBL (Problem-Based Learning) in Preschool and Elementary Oral English Class

Yue Xu
The Problem-based learning (PBL) is a common technique of instruction in higher education. In recent years, PBL has also been applied to elementary teaching. However, PBL in the practical application in preschool and elementary education is in the developing stage. Therefore, the focus of this article...

Implementation of Flood Mitigation Experiment-Based Learning to Increase Safety Awareness in Early Childhood

Rita Nurunnisa, Agus Sumitra, Andrisyah, Nurul Fitriani, Tini Sekartini
This research was conducted aiming to find out how the application of direct learning strategies based on flood mitigation experiments that teachers do in learning in an effort to increase awareness of self-safety in early childhood. Group B consisting of 10 children consisting of 5 boys and 5 girls...

Taxation Analysis of Manamu Handwoven as a Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise in Bali

Wayan Eny Mariani, Ni Nengah Lasmini, Sang Ayu Made Krisna Dewi Natalia
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) have an important role in the Indonesian economy for the Indonesian government as evidenced by the existence of the Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs. This ministry specifically deals with the MSME sector starting from formulation, and implementation, to policy...

Capturing Culinary Culture in Digital Era: Food Photography’s Influence on Gastronomic Perception and Cultural Identity

Monika Rani, Umang Bhartwal, Sandeep Raheja, Simran
Food, once limited to the sphere of eating, now shows a complex part for it goes past simple support. It exists as a form for cultural expression and an art form to share and exhibit. Images related to food surge, and the ubiquitous hashtag for “#food photography” often accompanies those images to underscore...
Conference Abstract

P7.09 CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CENTRAL AND BRACHIAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND ASYMPTOMATIC CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS

R. Böcskei, B. Benczúr, A. Cziráki, F. Molnár, M. Illyés
Pages: 185 - 185
Last year we presented that PWVao is a significant marker of early atherosclerosis. Now we were interested about how could the comparison of the central and brachial blood pressure predict the early atherosclerosis. The aim of this study was to analyze the relation between the central and brachial blood...

Successful Aging Among Older People: How Social Support Contributes to Psychological Health

Wenjing Mo
This article reviews both theoretical and empirical findings on the effects of receiving and providing support on psychological health of older people, addressing confounding effects from perspectives of gender and functional status. Psychological health is the key to successful aging. It is generally...

The Analysis of Three Main Investment Criteria: NPV IRR and Payback Period

Haotian Dai, Ningfan Li, Yuhan Wang, Xinrui Zhao
Net Present Value is a simple, straightforward measurement when judging investment projects. It considers the time value during the calculation, which converts the money from the future to the present value, However, it can miss leading the investor at a certain case. In this paper, we will mainly be...

Influence of Demographic Variables on Environmental Consciousness of The Low Income Communities

M. Syaom Barliana, Tetsu Kubota, Usep Surahman
The global society is currently faced to problems an constraints in energy saving measures, one of them is a lack of environmental awareness. Therefore, prior it enters the technical problems of energy saving as part of sustainable architecture, the required first of all the banging and raise public...

Study on Influencing Factors of Mobile Internet on Enterprises' Management Capability

Tao Fu, Ersi Liu
This paper uses the methods of literature review, expert interview, and questionnaire survey to study the seven characteristics of mobile Internet which have impact on enterprises' management capability in comparison with desktop Internet, and further uses the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) method...

Living Face Verification via Multi-CNNs

Peiqin Li, Jianbin Xie, Wei Yan, Zhen Li, Gangyao Kuang
Pages: 183 - 189
In face verification applications, precision rate and identifying liveness are two key factors. Traditional methods usually recognize global faces and can not gain good enough results when the faces are captured from different ages, or there are some interference factors, such as facial shade, etc. Besides,...
Proceedings Article

An Indoor Localization Algorithm Based on Convex Optimization under NLOS Environment

Long Zhang, Pinpin Lv, Chunqi Jiang
In the actual indoor localization system, the existence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors is a very important reason for the reduction of localization accuracy Therefore, how to deal with NLOS error becomes a research hotspot in the study of localization technology. In this paper, a robust quadratically...

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Competence on Micro Business Performance

Endang Sungkawati
This research focuses on entrepreneurial competencies required by traditional herbal medicine sellers, how they can survive against competition and crisis, and how they realize that they have entrepreneurial competencies like those of other successful entrepreneurs. Increasing entrepreneurial competence...

The Implication of Visa-Free Policy for Foreign Labors in Indonesia: Legal and Economic Impacts

Ruth Caroline R.A. Silalahi
Globalization does not only cause a rapid rotation of investment and information, but it also affects labor issues. In discontinue economic rollout and continue the economic development, the most important foundation that has to be highlighted is that all efforts must be based on the capabilities of...

Interest of Mechanical Engineering Students to Become Entrepreneur

Sunyoto
Entrepreneurship is one of the compulsory subject or course for students in mechanical engineering department, technical faculty in Semarang State University. It is expected that this subject can be used as a provision for students if after graduating they want to become entrepreneurs. But how many students...

Management of Education Facilities and Infrastructure

Noer Kamilatus Sholihah
The research focus is how the management of facilities and infrastructure at Wali Songo Pacet, Mojokerto Vocational High School. The research purpose is to describe the management of facilities and infrastructure at Wali Songo Pacet Mojokerto Vocational High School. This method uses a qualitative approach...
Proceedings Article

Architectural Concepts and Safety Precaution Awareness on the Digitally Architecture Design Studio

Noor Cholis Idham
Building information technology has overtaken the way architect designing a building. The use of Building Information Modelling (BIM), somehow, sifted the designer viewpoint from general to detail- integrated aspects of the building. To indicate the system from detail preference will directly causing...

The Influence on Tax Rate and Tax Sanction on Tax Compliance of Non-Employees

Rizki Indrawan, Vicky Dzaky Cahaya Putra
This study aims to examine how tax rate and tax sanction retribution increase tax compliance. Independent variables in this study are tax rate and tax sanction and dependent variables are tax compliance of non-employees. Development of developing countries in various fields is being actively carried...

Improving Students’ Vocabulary Through Words Games at Grade VI of SDS Setia Padang

Athessa Widya Arwandi, Hermawati Syarif, Havid Ardi
The problem of this research is based on the phenomena of students at VI class of SDS Setia Padang. Based on the observation, the students’ still have lack of vocabulary. There are various teaching methods have been offered by the experts, one of them is through of word games. Word games mostly used...

Analysis of Multilingual Community Conversations on Online Media

Diana Rizki Oktarina, Nuria Haristiani
The use of language in a speech community, can be influenced by the rules that exist for a speech community. A person may have more than one speech community, which often reflected through their conversation style. The purpose of this research is to understand the conversation characteristics of three...