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The research investigates the main elements that drive low-income users to adopt e-wallet solutions. The study used quantitative research methods to deliver a structured questionnaire through an online platform to West Malaysia’s targeted respondents. The research team gathered information through stratified...

This study explores the role of Problem-Based Learning (PBL) in enhancing creativity and fostering sustainable business practices in the educational sector. As businesses face increasing sustainability challenges, there is a growing need to prepare students with the skills necessary to develop innovative...

Lengko Ajang Church, located in Lengko Ajang Hamlet, Golo Wangkung Village, Congkar District, East Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province, is one of the oldest churches in the Manggarai Raya area. The church was built by Fr. Wihelmus Janssen, SVD, in the 1930s using wooden materials. The...

The Mahakam River, one of the longest rivers in Kalimantan and Indonesia, is now recognized as a potential water tourism destination. Initially serving as an essential transport route for Borneo’s natural resources, the river has evolved into a tourist attraction, particularly with the arrival of the...

A comprehensive review followed a systematic approach and attempted to explore the concept of brand image and its relation with consumer behavior targeting pharmaceutical sectors with special reference to over-the-counter drugs. Approximately 200 articles were collected that were published from 2000-2022....

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a significant cause of vision impairment and blindness among diabetic patients, characterized by progressive retinal damage. Early and accurate detection is crucial for effective management and treatment. This research explores advanced deep learning techniques to enhance...

This study aims to investigate the effect of employee participation and change self-efficacy on two active aspects of behavioral support for change (i.e., cooperation and championing). Also, this study attempts to examine the mediating role of change self-efficacy those relationship between employee...

Urban activities are highly complicated and demand a high level of mobility. The urban area is teeming with diverse activities, such as healthcare, offices, industry, commerce, and services. Those activities are influenced by the number of populations. It is because the populations are a subject that...

Empirically, this research examines the effect of profitability on income smoothing practices with the moderating variable of firm size in the manufacturing industry during the 2017 – 2019 period which is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. 75 data used in this research were selected 225 data using...

There is still a pressing need to develop small-diameter vascular vessels for vascular reconstructive procedures. Tissue Engineering offers the prospect of being able to meet this medical demand, as it allows the development of structurally complex blood vessels substitutes 1. Accordingly, the ultimate...

Objective: PWV is an important indicator of arterial stiffness and cardiovascular diseases. Local PWV would provide a more accurate estimation of local stiffness than does regional PWV. Local PWV is commonly determined by loop techniques, such as the PU-loop method and the aim of this study is to examine...

Purpose: Different altered flow dynamics may influence ascending aorta (AAo) dilation morphotypes in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) (1). Using 4D-flow CMR, we aimed to identify flow variables related to root or ascending dilation in BAV. Methods: One-hundred and one BAV patients (no severe valvular disease,...

Social media, one of the developing technologies, has an important role in information dissemination, especially information related to COVID-19. One of the media utilized as the fastest information source related to COVID-19 is Instagram. However, behind the advantages of access and rapid distribution...

Background: Both the Sphygmocor (S) and Vicorder (V) devices can be used for pulse wave analysis (PWA). However, large studies comparing data from both devices are lacking. Methods: 1,722 men (78.5±4.7yrs) from the British Regional Heart Study underwent PWA with S and V devices. Brachial blood pressure...

The work performed is unique in its kind, since it represents the development of instrumental methods for studying an urgent problem – the increase in competitiveness and ensuring sustainable development of industrial enterprises. The purpose of the study is to develop a system for assessing the impact...

From the essential approach position, the article examines the modern educational organisation formation and functioning as a scientific, educational, training, socio-cultural object that meets the needs of a society; the domestic pedagogical education development priorities and directions are determined;...

Blum and Hewitt first proposed two-dimensional automata as computational models of two-dimensional pattern processing?two-dimensional finite automata and marker automata, and investigated their pattern recognition abilities in 1967. Since then, many researchers in this field have investigated the properties...

Sihm et al. (2014) introduced modified optional unrelated question RRT model in both binary and quantitative response situations wherein the prevalence of the sensitive variable and the sensitivity level of the underlying sensitive question could be estimated simultaneously without using a split sample...

Content-based recommender systems (CBRS) are tools that help users to choose items when they face a huge amount of options, recommending items that better fit the user's profile. In such a process, it is very interesting to know which features of the items are more important for each user, thus the CBRS...

Despite an increase in energy efficiency of WSNs research in couple of last years, still the key challenge in the design of WSNs remains to maximize the quality of service (QoS) and energy efficiency of network system. The layered strength and functionality collaboration is commonly considered as one...

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the key factors that act as a barrier to m-commerce (e-commerce through mobile phone or any wireless device) adoption in developing countries, and to investigate the ways to overcome these barriers. 27 face to face in-depth interviews were conducted...

The current study has investigated the similarities and differences in the predictive effects of subjective well-being (SWB) predictors among the elderly in a range of countries, specifically between China and western countries. The results from a total of 12 studies across more than 20 countries have...

With the intensively spreading COVID-19 epidemic around the world, people have faced problems and dramatic changes in daily life, being unable to work as usual and living normally as routines. The consequences in that situation may reflect on the mental health of people since they bring people chaotic...

In the Indonesian constitution, the President is the holder of government power as well as the head of state. The Constitutional Court in Indonesia through its Decision Number 013-022/PUU-IV/2006 and Number 6/PUUV/2007 stated that the articles contained in the Criminal Code are in principle contrary...

Although Japanese language is one of the most quoted examples in speech acts and politeness research, current publications focus on distinct areas of criticism speech acts and politeness. Very few of them enquire into the varied aspects of politeness strategy in criticism speech acts. Furthermore, politeness...

As the pioneer of experimental art in the 20th century and the representative of Dadaism and surrealism, Duchamp plays a very important role in the development of art. His influence is all over the world, and Huang Yongping is one of his followers in China. There are traces of Duchamp in many of Huang...

Shelters play a significant role in connecting public transportation providers and users. As online-based public transportation usage is rapidly growing, the urban spaces need to catch up to accommodate those online-based user mobility needs; for instance, by providing pick-up points or drivers’ waiting...

This paper presents the simulation works of PID based speed and position controllers for the DC motor used in mobile robot applications. The mathematical model of the DC motor modelling is developed using Matlab System Identification Toolbox based on its input and output signals obtained during open...

Contemporary art may be more closely related to personal life and social problems. From a simple visual point of view, people can only see the external modeling beauty or ugliness of contemporary art works, but identify whether they have certain cultural values from the psychological and social levels....

South Korea’s soft power is a potential factor that can help the country achieve more. It can increase economic developments, technological advancements, and current policies. Effective implementation of soft power in South Korea will result in a democratic political system. This paper describes the...

Robot is a complex system consisting of multiple joints and connecting rods with complex coupling relationship between multiple inputs and multiple outputs, making it very difficult to establish the dynamic model of the robot. In order to realize the real-time control of the robot and improve the control...

Software is no longer a passive tool, but is an active agent in shaping modern communities. Yet, to date, software engineers do not endeavour to explicitly state requirements which a software system must fulfil if it is to positively contribute to the well-being (that is the social sustainability) of...

This paper focuses on the characteristics of Internet and explores the influence and countermeasures of Internet on the values of our university students. The Internet as an important invention in twentieth century, is affecting everyone's life, especially have an important impact on how to deal with...

The gear wheel reducer of self-propelled weapons is the final reduction gear drive in the drive system. Under the same ratio of transmission, using reduction gear can reduce the load of transmission, drive shaft, main reducer, differential mechanism and half shaft, the size becomes smaller and the drive...

This paper analyzed on temporal and spatial differences of the wheat water footprint in the Yellow River Basin during 1984-2013. The results showed: (1) GWF and BWF both decreased, (2) the GWF proportion rose from 25.7% to 35.7%, (3) the BWF proportion decreased from 74.1% to 64.3%, (4) the highest WPWF...

Independent spanning trees (ISTs for short) in networks have applications such as reliable communication protocols, the multi-node broadcasting, one-to-all broadcasting, reliable broadcasting, and secure message distribution. However, it is an open problem whether there are ISTs rooted at any node in...

In April 2020, Atlantis Press was alerted to fake proceedings articles hosted on our platform. These articles, mostly in computer science and engineering, were generated by the SCIgen computer program and were all published between 2006-2018. Immediately after receiving the alert, Atlantis Press initiated...

The concept of green exhibition design points out that the main forms of exhibi-tion design are entity design and virtual design. The key variable of green exhibi-tion design is entity based on the "4R" principle. A new exhibition entity evalua-tion model has been proposed based on the energy recovery...

There are many factors that influence industrial competitiveness in different industries or different stages of growth of the industry, and the decisive factors vary greatly. Based on Potter's "Diamond Model", this article is to build the theoretical framework of competitiveness analysis of rare earth...

Since the introduction of the uncertainty theory, a new paradigm in economy and finance is formed with the in-corporation of new models that allow a greater degree of accuracy to the reality of the environment of organiza-tions based on the fuzzy logic theory. This article empha-sizes the importance...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the economic development disparities between regional in the South Sumatera. The important things in economic development are the human resources and the productive capital with colaboration of the policy from government. This paper compares the condition of seven...

This paper presents a four-layer framework for distributed software test automation, which is composed of test component layer, test component management layer, test scheduling layer and test domain layer. According to the target of testing, the problem space of software test divide into several feature...

Peer-to-Peer Video-on-demand (P2P VoD) systems have attracted great interest in research community. Many hybrid methods have been proposed to provide high-quality video-on-demand services to support VCR-like operations, which can scale to large population of users. In this paper, we propose a hybrid...

This paper relates to local wave decomposition and back-propagation (BP) neural network.With local wave method, an arbitrary acoustic emission signal can be decomposed efficiently and accurately into a set of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and a residual trend. The energy feature parameters extracted...

Science and technology competition and innovation and entrepreneurship training programs are important methods to promote the students engaged in scientific and technological innovation activities and to train students' innovative ability of science and technology. Several measures are taken to systematically...

With the mature of three-dimensional GIS technology, digital campus is gaining more and more attention as micro-reflection of digital earth. As current two-dimensional GIS has some limitations and much three-dimensional information cannot be fully utilized, with Sketchup three-dimensional modeling and...