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This paper contrasts net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) as core discounted cash flow diagnostic indicators for investment decisions, linking their theoretical characteristics to practical evaluations. The study poses three questions: when and why these two standards align; when...

Background: This study aims to translate two arterial measurements, aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (aPWV) and carotid Intima-Media Thickness (cIMT), into a combined Vascular Ageing Index (VAI), to evaluate the predictive power of VAI and utilize it to identify a sub-group with Healthy Vascular Ageing (HVA). Methods:...

This research aims to examine whether a company's financial performance and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting affect the value of the banking firms listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). This study uses 33 banks as a sample for three-year periods from 2016 to 2018, resulting...

Manual analysis of endometrial thickness from transvaginal ultrasound (TVUS) images can lead to inconsistent interpretations due to varying expertise among medical professionals. Accurate endometrial thickness measurement is crucial for successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments and increased...

Indonesia has the potential to achieve net-zero energy building because it has the ability to meet building energy needs from sources that are cheap, locally available, and renewable, e.g. solar energy. The current pandemic conditions force the building design to adapt so that it can be a place that...

A series of aerodynamics experiments were conducted to identify the effects of lateral leakages to the wind pressures distribution on the porous wall of buildings. The wind pressures distribution on the porous exterior walls of buildings had been studied by aerodynamic experiments in wind tunnel. The...

The objective of this research was to examine and analyse the influence of Net Premium Growth, Claim Ratio and Risk Based Capital affect the Financial Performance of Line Insurance Companies. The study population was insurance companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2014–2018. The sample...

At the recently held Conference of Parties (COP-28) UN Climate Summit in Dubai, India remained non-committal on reducing fossil fuel use or making any firm commitment to reducing carbon emissions, although under tremendous pressure from the developed countries. This is due to India’s concerns regarding...

In this paper, Effect of different contents of Ce on ZK20 magnesium alloy by conventional metallographic, X-ray, SEM, XRD, analysis of Ce element exists in the form of ZK20 magnesium alloy and microstructure of action the results show that: in the experimental range (0% ~ 0.68%Ce (mass fraction)), with...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous melatonin (MT) on photosynthetic characteristics of radish under aluminum (Al) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment: seeds were soaked with 0 (CK), 50, 100, 150 and 200 mol-L-1 concentrations of melatonin solution. The results...

The Stimulated Raman Scatting (SRS) sometimes plays a negative role in a fibre OPO ring cavity, which may consume the signal laser power. We established a mathematical model for describing the SRS process in the OPO cavity. A SRS threshold is presented. The SRS net effective gain should be smaller than...

The subject of the research is an opportunity and advisability of a financial crypto-currency regulation. Wherein the work has an aim to substantiate an opportunity and necessity of introduction of government regulation for crypto-currency. In the research are used instruments of government financial...

Health bank level method that had been changed three times, from CAMEL, CAMELS to RGEC is Bank Indonesia’s strategy in order to protect banking sector which is susceptive to economy crisis. It is attractive because RGEC method is just implemented in Indonesia’s banking sector and it known from international...

This research will discuss regarding the design of implementing Solar Power Plants (PLTS) through technical analysis with two systems, namely, the On-Grid system and the Off-Grid system. In addition, it will discuss economic analysis using the Net Present Value (NPV), Profitability Index/Benefit Cost...

When rectifier station of LCC-HVDC has power fluctuations running at large load, AC filters controlled in groups at rectifier station are switched frequently. That problem potentially has impact on service life of corresponding circuit breaker and threatens the safe operation of the DC system. In this...

The purpose of the study is to substitute the theory of interactive ritual chain to analyze the interaction logic, characteristics, rules and motivations of the members of the microblog “Super Topic Community”, and discuss its possible construction results and practical problems.This electronic uses...

The idea behind this research is that theoretically macroeconomics condition as well as financial performance together should correlate with companies stock price. The main purpose of this study is to know how strong is the correlation of companies financial performance and macroeconomics condition to...

The title in writing this business plan is "Business Plan of Abon Cakalang "Bless" in North Minahasa Regency". Business plan of abon cakalang "Bless" is said to be feasible to run because it is supported by marketing aspects, organizational and management aspects, production aspects, and financial aspects....

Community mental health is a serious challenge that must be encountered by a country. The results of the I-NAMHS (Indonesia-National Adolescent Mental Health Survey) show that one in three teenagers in Indonesia has mental health problems, while one in twenty teenagers in Indonesia has had a mental disorder...

This study aims to examine the impact of financial resilience, risk and company size on sustainable business in companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. The study focuses on companies that consistently submitted environment, social and government reports from 2018 to 2022. The analysis employs...

To carry out their duties more effectively, health care professionals in the UAE often ask about the population structure and the main causes of mortality and morbidity in the country. This paper summarizes what is known about these topics drawing on secondary data sources that are available in the public...

PoC is a half-duplex PTT service using VoIP technology based on cellular net-work packet domain carrying. ROHC is used to implement the header compres-sion in PS domain, which can improve the transmission efficiency of the air in-terface. This paper describes the working principle and the modes of operation...

This study aims to determine the public’s response through social media according to the Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia through Twitter. Using Twitter accounts, community coalition accounts responded to the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia, particularly the @laporcovid accounts. The Covid-19 case in Indonesia...

At present, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has become an essential evaluation metric for economic development. However, existing evaluation models only concentrate on enhancing the accuracy and ignore the environmental influence for continuous development. In this work, we initially involve the material...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous melatonin (MT) on photosynthetic characteristics of Chinese cabbage under aluminum (Al) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment: leaves were sprayed with 0 (CK), 50, 100, 200 and 400 mol-L-1 concentrations of melatonin solution....

This paper investigates the loan conditions and bank risk exposure for the risk valuation factors of loans within the commercial bank industry. We use the listed companies in the Taiwan Economic News, sort out the financial indicators in 2007-2018, and empirically explores the impact of enterprises on...

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...

In the transition towards a net-zero future, the integration of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles into decentralised process plant design plays a pivotal role. This study explores the potential of hydrogen production from biogas using reforming and electrolyser technologies, with...

Social networking media has been the major source of communication between individuals in the world over, hence, the label cyber-world. This includes Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, Flicker, Frienster, Blogs, Podcast, Youtube, Tumblr and Skype, among others. Users of these forms of media made...

The fog probability in urban area is determined by the observatory data. Taking the regular grid to be the assessed unit, the Fragility Exponential (FE) is computed upon the gird cell, in which the density of the road-net is stood for, and the FE can be modified according to the important facility distributed...

In the context of global economic integration, multinational corporations (MNCs) face significant currency risks due to cross-border transactions involving multiple currencies. This study evaluates the effectiveness of hedging strategies—including futures, forwards, options, swaps, and loan hedging—through...

This study analyzes the level of education participation in districts/cities in Central Java Province using the K-Medoids algorithm. The data used includes gross enrollment rate (APK), net enrollment rate (APM), school enrollment rate (APS), and expected years of schooling (HLS). The elbow method was...

The high operational costs of Diesel Power Plants (DPP) in remote areas have pushed the Indonesian government to implement a dedieselization program. This initiative aims to replace or integrate existing DPPs with renewable energy (RE) sources, a strategy being implemented in isolated areas like Nusa...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous abscisic acid (ABA) on photosynthetic characteristics of Chinese cabbage under aluminum (Al) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment: leaves were sprayed with 0 (CK), 1, 5, 10 and 20 mol-L-1 concentrations of abscisic acid solution....

In this article, we have studied the inventory and pricing strategies for deteriorating items with ramp type demand and shelf life. In practice, there are many commodity such as food, medication exist the shelf life expiration date. Therefore the shelf life expiration date has become an important research...

With the rapid development of economic construction and the further development of enterprise information, computer and network technology are gradually applied to enterprises to improve efficiency and quality, and information management is an important part of modern enterprise management, so the design...

Drought stress adversely impact on the global crop growth and productivity. It is especially important to elucidate the physiological characteristics on plants under drought stress. With the prolongation of drought time, chlorophyll content continued to decline. Root activity increased significantly...

The purpose of this research is to analyze whether the project X that was planned to be built by the developer is economically eligible. This research of feasibility used Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate Return (IRR), Payback Period (PP), Profitability Index (PI) and Cash Flow analysis methods....

To prolong the service life of hydraulic structures of irrigation systems and dams there were developed and patented method and device of creating impervious coating of irrigation channels, impervious geotextile coating of low-pressure earthen dams, a device for sealing butt joints of trays providing...

The development of financial technology is currently growing by payment transactions can be done easily using digital wallets, so customers do not need to use cash to make some payments. The competition of fintech service providers in Indonesia is getting more competitive, based on the varied services...

To objectively evaluate the credit level of Metaverse listed companies, this paper introduces technological innovation capability into the index system, and constructs the credit evaluation index of Metaverse listed companies from five aspects: profitability, solvency, growth capability, operational...

For the shipping industry’s competition, the merges among companies bring lots of problems such as routing optimization and integration.Based on this, which is more suitable for the characteristics of shipping system, is studied in this paper.Firstly, taking the reorganization of the COSCO networks and...

Passive design has widely been identified as one of the most economical and effective strategies for reducing energy demand. This research is based on the physical surveillance, and has adopted physical environment fieldwork test and data analysis methods to evaluate the effectiveness of passive space...

Previously we built a Max-Plus Algebraic model for the problem of the hierarchical structure of the Semi-Double Track railway line based on the Petri Net model. Then we also perform a delay simulation on the model obtained. Based on this research, we conclude that the Petri Net model does not reflect...

With proliferous usage in CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication), textspeak (such as c u means see you) has become common words appears in email, SMS, IM, Blog and Twitter. Little research has explored how text-speak affects people’s intimacy when interacting through CMC tools. Thus, this study investigates...

Web services are an important part of the Semantic Web. User and software agent should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor web services with a high degree of automation. OWL-S is an ontology of services that makes these functionalities possible. However, OWL-S doesn’t provide verification...

With the development of Internet and information technology and increasing number of net citizens in China, e-commerce is now in the ascendant, so does express industry. However, the domestic express enterprises have unsatisfactory services and low utilization ratio in logistics facilities. What's more,...

Using the Landsat 5 TM images in 2002 as source data, the paper constructed individual tree biomass models of seven principal species based on the data from field surveying and fixed Plots in Tahe and Amur forest Region in Daxiangan Mountains. The remote sensing biomass model between TM images and data...

This paper contributes a meaningful framework and approach to the understanding of the fundamental of e-learning and explains why it is proliferating throughout a rapidly evolving learning society. This is the important comprehensive and coherent framework to guide our understanding of e-learning in...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous indoleacetic acid (IAA) on photosynthetic characteristics of Chinese cabbage under aluminum (Al) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment: leaves were sprayed with 0 (CK), 50, 100, 150 and 200 mol-L-1 concentrations of indoleacetic...