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Agriculture in South Korea, even with its limited share in the national economy, remains critical for food security, rural livelihoods and regional resilience. This study investigates the impact of climate change on agricultural gross domestic product in South Korea using advanced machine learning techniques....

Given global reach and interconnectedness, the tourist industry is especially exposed to geopolitical disruptions such as war, terrorism, sanctions, and diplomatic difficulties. Using a PRISMA-informed systematic literature analysis of 142 scholarly sources, this study investigates how political landscapes...

User-generated reviews are written by people who have used medications to describe their experience. Drug reviews include descriptions of the effectiveness of the drug, side effects experienced, and the patient’s overall level of satisfaction. Although reviews of medications provide valuable real-world...

Modeling cartilage degeneration in the human tibiofemoral joint demands a balance between mechanical fidelity and computational feasibility. This study introduces an innovative static finite element framework using a non-porous, transversely isotropic (TI) material model to simulate knee joint cartilage...

Objectives: A number of non-invasive devices have been used to measure arterial stiffness in COPD. The aim of this study was to compare the Complior device with the gold standard SphygmoCor Vx device, in patients with COPD and healthy volunteers. Methods: Aortic PWV was measured during a single visit...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Aortic calcifications and inflammation are independent predictors of adverse cardiovascular events. We sought to investigate the association of aortic calcifications and inflammation with in-hospital morbidity and mortality of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods:...

Background: Left ventricular systolic dysfunction, an independent predictor of heart failure (HF) and cardiovascular mortality, may be worse in South Asians and African-Caribbeans (than Europeans) as they have more adverse cardiovascular risk factor profiles. Objectives: We sought to investigate ethnic...

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the axial spine that can manifest with various clinical signs and symptoms1.Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), which is calculated based on the stiffness parameter thus obtained, is theoretically independent of changes in...

Objectives: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating lung vascular disease. Despite advances in the diagnosis of this condition, early detection and ascertainment of the genesis of pulmonary hypertension are still a difficult task.We supposed that the method of Single photon emission computed...

Soil has an important role in the construction of buildings and roads. Overall, the pavement must be strong enough to carry the weight of the vehicle on it. The strength of the road pavement depends on the bearing capacity of the subgrade. One of the efforts to increase the bearing capacity of the subgrade...

Background: Arterial stiffening measured by Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) predicts cardiovascular events and mortality in adults. It advances with age and seems accelerated in children with certain disease conditions such as chronic kidney disease or diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine factors...

Background: Some studies have shown the interest of measuring central blood pressure (CBP). Usually measured non-invasively through a function transfer by applanation tonometry (Sphygmocor®) CBP can also be calculated by echotracking (Art.Lab®) at the common carotid artery assuming the fact that the...

The literature on the acceptance or adoption of unmanned aircraft, aka civil drones, is scarce and under-developed. The majority of literature discusses several social concerns, whereas only little research promotes economic concerns. Additionally, the literature does not consider existing technology...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of lifetime distributions which is called the additive Weibull geometric (AWG) distribution. This distribution obtained by compounding the additive Weibull and geometric distributions. The new distribution has a number of well-known lifetime special sub-models...

A weighted multi-model adaptive control (WMMAC) method is proposed to achieve consensus of multi-agent system with large parameter uncertainty and communication delays, in which H°° control is adopted as local control strategy to deal with smaller parameter uncertainty. Moreover a simple and effective...

Absorptive capacity is a developing research topic within the field of knowledge management, whereby researchers are exploring business methods for improving the capture and valuation of new knowledge entering organisations from external sources. Organisational processes and human-centred systems at...

This paper introduces recent fundamental modifications to the Japanese alliance system known as the keiretsu, and analyses how these changes have affected corporate performance. More specially, the performance of Japanese auto manufacturers, such as Toyota, Nissan and others, has significantly improved...

Information system interoperability has an important role for e- Government development, specially in term of Public management information system. Each country has its own strategy in ensuring interoperability in information system. Nowadays, archiving interoperability among information system is very...

Dried coffee skin (cascara) can be used as a raw material for making kombucha because it still contains a number of important nutrients. The addition of fruit to kombucha fermentation is currently widely used to get the sensation of carbonated drinks but has the potential to increase the alcohol content....

Patriotism education has become one of the major issues concerned by all countries in the world. From the understanding of the historical background and cultural foundation of the formation of Patriotism in Singapore to the text analysis of its moral education textbooks in primary schools, we can find...

Study on the measurement of religious tolerance between two student groups was the analysis on the reliability and the validity of the combined groups, but the analysis result was still doubt because whether the measurement qualities are equivalent to cross the student groups or not. Concept of the religious...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease commonly associated with progressive disability and systemic complications. Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by inflammation and synovial hyperplasia, production of autoantibodies, and destruction of bone and cartilage. One of the assessments of rheumatoid...

This study analyzes the dynamic of exports, imports, labor, and government expenditure in Indonesia in 1990 - 2019. This study using time series data are analyzed using the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) in Eviews 10 software to estimate the relationship between variables. In the VECM test, export,...

This paper analyzed and discussed the teaching reform path of the national traditional sports course in China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) by questionnaires, expert interviews and mathematical statistics. It’s worth pointing out that students who took the course had prominent eye health problems,...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and find YouTube video content that violates the principles of gender justice and evaluate and find forms of legal protection for the rights of commercial sex workers who are used as content on YouTube videos. This study uses a socio-legal research type. The focus...

Japanese music historian Takashi Iba wrote “Technically, Japanese culture was largely imported from foreign countries, then refined into Japanese things.” As a Japanese scholar who would have lived through the late nineteenth century, Iba witnessed the peak of colonialist and imperialist practices by...

Modeling industrial objects needs the formulas of curves and surfaces to construct a precise shape of real goods and simulate some process of form creations. For this reason, the study of the equations of curves and surfaces for objects modeling is essential for resulting in a required shape and feature...

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is widely used as a graduation requirement for students at various levels. Malikussaleh University, Samudera University, and Gajah Putih University have implemented a mandatory TOEFL test with a certain minimum score before sitting for thesis defense....

This research aims to analyze performance evaluation after bureaucratic reform at the Central Bureau of Statistics, Central Sulawesi Province. The sample in this research was employees of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Central Sulawesi Province. The research method used is descriptive qualitative...

Science is one of the important lessons for children with science, there are many things that can be done in a child’s life. Through science to build good character or something can be said positive in early childhood, children can also grow into creative children, critical and open to the surrounding...

Nowadays, students have all kinds of pressure, especially high school students. This age group is in adolescence, they have their own ideas, their minds are sensitive, and they are facing the college entrance examination. Especially in this particular period, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most high school...

Shaanxi Province is defined as a non-water-network area, such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, park water areas, etc., which are not connected with the main river system, and less developed in terms of the search and rescue capability. Once a major waterborne accident occurs, the water search and rescue...

In contemporary society, under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the labor worker’s situation has been serious than before. This problem led to 8.3% job losses in the global revenue. Under this emergency, labour workers are in a weak position, so their rights should be protected. Nowadays,...

Gracilariaceae is a macroalgal family of Rhodophyta which can be found abundantly in tropical waters, including in Southern Coasts of Gunungkidul D.I.Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Coral and sand dominate the substrate of Southern Coasts of Gunungkidul, so it is an ideal habitat for Gracilariaceae. Along with...

Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation highlights two critical components of daily management and policy management that must be guaranteed to assure customer satisfaction and corporate performance. The researchers concentrated on the success of TQM adoption through internal management diagnostic...

Abraham Kuyper is well-known for his assertion on equal freedom for people of all worldviews or religions. This article argues that Kuyper has successfully reconciled these seemingly contradicting notions by developing a concept of civil liberty from a Calvinistic tradition. Attempting to apply a Kuyperian...

Dragon fruit is a leading horticultural commodity that has good prospects for development in Banyuwangi Regency considering that dragon fruit agribusiness is very profitable and market demand is quite high. The problem of limited maintenance management and the weakness of the marketing institutional...

Management of the Flight Information Region (FIR) airspace in Natuna was taken over by the Indonesian Government after being managed by the Singapore Government for a long time. The policy several years ago of delegating the Flight Information Region (FIR) to Singapore over the airspace of the Riau Islands...

Changes in seasons cause an imbalance between supply and demand for fresh marine fish in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. On the supply side, there is oversupply during the fishing season (harvest), while the lean season (west and east) or the fishing season during the total moon production decreases. This...

To find the expressions of cognition, a single unit fuzzy event cognitive computing based on goal was designed. The cognitive data were single unit fuzzy events, cognition, inputting cognition, goals, works, methods and problems; the performance was measured in cognitive computation performance figure....

Traffic congestion has become an inevitable problem in modern society, and the signal control of intersection plays an important role to ensure the effective operation of urban transport. The paper proposes an improved actuated signal control model to improve the running efficiency of intersection. In...

Poincaré map is established for the dynamical model of a two-degree-of- freedom system with two con-straints. Conditions of sticking are analyzed. Periodic motion is found by shooting method, namely fixed point of Poincaré section. Hopf bifurcation and period-doubling bifurcation are analyzed under suitable...

Spinal cord ischemia-reperfusion injury (SCII), which was proposed by Allen in 1911, is the secondary damage of primary spinal cord injury and the main reason resulting in nerve injury complication and sequela [1]. Ginsenoside is one of the ingredients of Ginseng and the monomer composition being purified...

The acroparalysis left after stroke is the main factor affecting patients' activities of daily living, so limb rehabilitation training is particularly important for stroke patients. The modern western medical rehabilitation is dominated by active movement and patients are easy to have fatigue and inimical...

"Dexterity" is an important index to measure the technical level of the robot dexterous hand, which demonstrates the ability to work in any position with the target shape. This study is based on the Shadow dexterous hand, and the mechanical structure characteristics of Shadow dexterous hand are studied....

This paper designed and produced adevice based on c51 MCU. This device recorded the number of cycles of a Bicman tire in a certain timethough theHall sensor, and then calculated the mileage and speed of the Bicman by the number of cycles. Finally it could display the mileage and speedwith a digital tube....