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Differentiated mathematics learning assessment is an essential element that can optimize learning by the principles of the Merdeka Curriculum. This study aims to improve teachers’ ability to develop differentiated mathematics learning assessments, especially those by the Merdeka Curriculum and the socio-cultural...

Physical activity has beneficial effects on prevention of cardiovascular disease. Aerobic fitness is associated with higher central arterial compliance, but its effect on peripheral arterial compliance (pC) is controversial. We aimed to test the hypotheses that aerobic training augments pC at rest and...

Introduction: Parameters of arterial stiffness are independent cardiovascular risk factors for end-stage renal disease patients. Significant changes of these parameters between intra- and interdialytic periods have been reported previously [1]. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to describe the...

The temporomandibular joint disorder is a complex and multifactorial problem involving aspects of muscles and joints. Signs and symptoms are joint sounds and deviations during jaw movements such as opening and closing the mouth. Objectives: This study was aimed to show whether there is a correlation...

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...

We are planning a prospective study in 200 patients with an abdominal artery aneurysm (AAA). Non-invasive measurements will be performed including tonometry-based pulse wave analysis (PWA) and pulse wave velocity (PWV), echocardiography, and 24-hour blood pressure measurements. This study will provide...

While the IOT, Smart Home ZigBee Protocol and CloudDB tech is still in developing in China area, this paper introduces a Smart Home Manage System designed by Visual Studio 2010, a system uses ZigBee Protocol to transmit data and share the database 24/7 by CloudDB, a system promoting the comfortability...

Anemia is still a public health problem in several countries around the world, including in Indonesia. In Indonesia there are 15 million cases of anemia that cause 38,000 deaths every year. The percentage of Anemia in 2007 in the province of Central Kalimantan was 13.5%, still above the national percentage...

This study aimed at identifying teachers’ perceptions of ideal foreign language, in this case, Arabic language, teaching at the elementary education level in the technological age. This study used interview instruments to collect data relating to the research. The object of the study involved 24 Arabic...

The black swan event has the characteristics of rarity and serious consequences. At present, the analysis of black swan events is generally preconceived (that is, the event is assumed to be a black swan event, and then the influence of the event is discussed), or whether it is a black swan event is directly...

Mothers as one of parents has important influence on children schooling. Their self-efficacy is considered to be a predictor to such influence. The objectives of this study are to examine differences of mothers’ self-efficacy that exist based on their educational level and the effect of mothers’ self-efficacy...

Background: Patients with psoriatic arthritis are at high cardiovascular risk. Marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of marine n-3 PUFA on cardiac autonomic function and vascular function in...

Batik Sidomulyo Batu City is one of the hand-crafted batik Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that uses synthetic dyes. The use of dyeing technology in batik making process generates a large amount of wastewater, which can lead a harmful effect to the environment. To date, Batik Sidomulyo SME uses two...

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...

Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans Houtt.) is a native commodity of Indonesia. Propagation of this plant is relatively difficult and takes a long time for germination because of its hard seed coat. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of scarification and gibberellin (GA) application on the nutmeg seed germination....

Foreign exchange trading using hedging methods is one of the core topic in International Financial Management which is one of selective subjects in Accounting Department, Universitas Andalas. During this pandemic Covid-19, the class is conducted through online learning and as the consequences of the...

This study aims to analyze tourism development in Makassar City after the COVID-19 pandemic and provide recommendations for revivating tourism, both in the short term, a year after the pandemic ends, as well as in the medium and long term. This article will be useful for development planning and budgeting...

Urban farming is a solution for the environment and urban communities, especially in marginal areas. These solutions include saving the environment by managing waste, improving urban aesthetics, increasing oxygen supply in the city, and increasing income for urban communities. Especially considering...

This paper draws on a general equilibrium poisson pseudo maximum likelihood model augmented by a dynamic capital accumulation to estimate the effects of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on intra-African trade flows. The empirical results show that the AfCFTA could raise intra-African...

This study aims to develop Sundanese Pupujian Learning Materials based on interactive multimedia. Interactive multimedia in this research refer to learning media by using Adobe Flash which contains texts, graphics, sounds, and videos. Meanwhile, Sundanese pupujian in this research refers to oral-literary...

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...

This study investigated the effects of feeding rats for 24 months on different unsaturated fats (virgin olive, sunflower, or fish oil) on gingival mitochondrial ultrastructure and expression of genes related to mitochondrial biology as well as the amount of circulating fatty acids in the plasma. Results...

Antifungal treatment is currently a serious problem because resistance and attachment of C. albicans often occur and can have an effect on the acrylic resin surface. One of them is adding antifungal concentration from the extract of endophyte fungi Aspergillus sp. contains chemical compounds that can...

Background: Treatment with aspirin is a cornerstone in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in diabetes, whereas its place in primary prevention remains controversial. The effect of once-daily aspirin on platelet aggregation is unclear in patients with diabetes. Furthermore, the...

Objective: It has been previously demonstrated that T lymphocytes may be involved in the development of hypertension and microvascular remodeling, and that circulating T effector lymphocytes may be increased in hypertension. In particular, Th1 and Th17 lymphocytes may contribute to the progression of...

In order to predict subjects with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) from normal elder controls (NC) more accurately, we compared two different kinds of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based feature extraction techniques: multi-slice 2D-DWT and 3D-DWT. The dataset contained...

Cissus quadrangula Salibs have been proven to have an influence on the growth of bone and the healing process in fractures and prevent osteoporosis. Cissus quadrangula Salibs has been widely used as traditional medicine and has proven to increase osteoblast activity, and could accelerate the recovery...

Researches in developed countries, especially in western countries, explained the dynamics of women labor supply during life cycle indicated by exit and re-entry in the workforce. The participation rate of female labor force to return to employment is lower when women are in the early years of childbirth...

Morphophonemics includes two studies in the fields of morphology and phonology. Morphophonemic studies, especially with regional languages as objects, are still difficult to find and rarely carried out. The purpose of this study is to describe various kinds of phoneme changes and morphophonemic processes...

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:...

Background: Glycocalyx is a glycoprotein layer protecting the capillary endothelium. An impaired glycocalyx may precede the development of microvascular complications in diabetes. Capillaroscopy is a new method to estimate the dimensions of the glycocalyx by measuring the perfused boundary region (PBR)....

Li Jinhui (1891-1967) is the founder of the Chinese pop music, the founder of children's song and dance drama, was also the first Chinese song and dance the founder of the school. His children's musical and dance music, in the general population affected quite widely. Ten years after the "May 4th" movement,...

In order to meet the needs of high-resolution seismic data acquisition, a kind of 24-bit high performance digital geophone was designed. The digital geophone was designed with a low-power, high-integration FPGA as the acquisition controller, and SOPC embedded system was established to control the whole...

Business competition in the current era of globalization requires companies to have a strategy to win the market. Management strategy has an important role in the survival of the company. The existence of such competition is also felt by small businesses such as Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The...

The Internet is being widely used as an educational tool with numerous potentials. The students who use the Internet for academic purposes especially they can gain more knowledge and enhance cumulative grade point average. The aim of the study is to explore the students’ attitudes toward Internet usage...

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,...

Objective: To examine the patterns of antituberculous drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in the Eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Methods: This is a retrospective study of antibiotic susceptibility of 1681 non-repetitive...

The number of halal certified products as recorded by the Directorate Generale of Islamic Religious Community guidance reached 60.76% of the total product in circulation. Muslim consumers with 85% of the total population of Indonesia required halal food guarantee. The order of eating in the Holy Al Qur'an...

Human body structures supported by the skeletal system are susceptible to osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures due to aging. The most common fracture among the geriatric population is vertebral fracture (25%), compared to hip fracture (24%). These symptoms, which largely stem from osteoporosis...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the ultrastructure of Gaga chicken spermatozoa after freezing-thawing with Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation in egg yolk lactate ringer diluent. The 3 Gaga chickens used were 10 months old, semen was collected using massage technique, diluted with egg yolk...

This study aims to examine the effect of financial knowledge and living cost on a person’s tax literacy by paying attention to individual behavior (Individual Financial Management Behavior) in making financial decisions in generation Z who are in the city of Padang. This research is causative research...

Background: Curve fitting has been intensively used to model artery pressure waveform (APW). The modelling accuracy can greatly influence the calculation of APWs parameters that serve as quantitative measures for assessing the morphological characteristics of APWs. However, it is unclear which fitting...

There are many quality problems appearing in residential engineering in recent years. Such residential engineering quality problems are investigated. Through statistical analysis of survey samples, 24 kinds of major quality problems and their corresponding features which often appear in residential engineering...

The Rule of the Ministry of Education and Culture number 49 of 2014 on national education standards article 24 verse 5 mentions that the college students who are deemed to graduate, have a right to receive qualifications, degree or appellation, official statements and a companion qualification (diploma...

Objective: The aim of this study to detect nutrition status of a child through Pattern of breastfeeding based on schedule, type, and frequency in working area of Kelayan Dalam Public Health Center Banjarmasin.Technology or Methods: This research used analytic survey with cross sectional design. The population...

This research aims to describe the application of animal welfare to dairy farmers. The research was conducted by field observation method using a structured questionnaire. The participants in the study was 13 people. The application of animal welfare in this study includes 3 aspects, they are: Feed...

This study aims to examine the- impact of accountability, transparency, and oversight on-budget performance. The type of data used in this research is quantitative. This research was conducted using a questionnaire survey conducted by the Regional Device Unit in Bantul Regency. The object of this research...

Background: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is quantified by time difference of arrival of the blood pressure (BP) wave at two sites along the arterial bed (transit time; TT-PWV), or by combining measured arterial pressure and diameter using the Bramwell-Hill equation (BH-PWV). Besides the dependence of PWV...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Smoking increases aortic stiffness which is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. Electronic cigarettes (EC) simulate tobacco cigarette (TC) and have been advocated as a less harmful alternative. We investigated the acute effect of EC smoking on aortic stiffness...