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This research investigates the impact of innovation capability on sustainable competitive advantage among Indonesian SMEs, taking into account the green economy as a strategic orientation and government support as a moderating factor. The study employs Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to assess the...

The prevalence of hypertension has increased over time. Patient motivation in complying with medical nutrition therapy is an important factor in the treatment and prevention of complications. Self-efficacy and family support can increase patient motivation. The aim of this research is to determine the...

The curriculum is a set of recommendations for planning class activities that includes objectives, content, and instructional materials. It strives to serve as every teacher’s starting point when implementing teaching and learning standards. Putting the independent curriculum into practice has been implemented...

Fantasy characters such as dragons, hydra, loch ness, chimera, and other creatures are often visualized with animation media, which are then made into films and games. However, to create the animations of these creatures’ motions, it is necessary to consider the proportions of the body, characteristics,...

This study explored longitudinal changes of parents’ views on risky online behaviors and positive technological development (PTD) of early adolescents in Hong Kong. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with nine parents (four fathers and five mothers) from five families with adolescent...

Deceptive designs, also known as dark patterns, are user interface tricks websites and applications use to manipulate user behaviour and collect data without informed consent. These patterns include misleading language, asymmetrical options, and hidden information. Websites commonly manifest these deceptive...

Many elderly people require constant monitoring of their vital signs. Every day, going to hospitals for checkups or being admitted for monitoring of vital signs is tiring; therefore, there is a high demand for smart health monitoring systems. To support elderly healthcare, this paper introduces the SmartLife...

The purpose of this study was to obtain a description of the application of cooperative learning model type Think Talk Write can improve student learning outcomes in problem-solving circumference and area of rectangles in class VII Gatot Subroto SMPN 4 Palu. This research is Classroom Action Research...

Background: Interaction between gentics and epigenetics has been largely described in Atherosclerotic Disease and the relations varies widely according to the population, clinical characteristics and the study type. Objective: Compare genetic and epigenetic factors in two middle age populations with...

Background: Compared to regular active breaks, prolonged uninterrupted sitting amplifies postprandial glucose and insulin in overweight/obese adults with and without type 2 diabetes; and impairs lower limb endothelial function (a predictor of cardiovascular disease) in healthy adults. However, the effects...

Motion graphics is a form of video-based advertising that incorporates corporate or other business advertising as a promotional medium for a wider community. The main purpose of this study is to develop motion graphic as promotional media for Batam TV, so that program publication can be distributed and...

Introduction: Radial intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) is sometimes used as the reference standard for validation of brachial cuff BP devices, and there is an emerging ‘wearables’ market seeking to measure BP at the wrist. However, brachial systolic BP may not be a good representation of the radial...

Background/Aim: Smooth muscle function is explored by sublingual glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) administration in vascular function protocols, in order to compare with endothelium- dependent vasodilation of the brachial artery by flow-mediated dilation (FMD). The aim of this study is to evaluate the hemodynamic...

Background: At least 15–20% of all ischemic strokes are attributable to atherosclerosis [1]. We analyzed three statistical methods for 12 traditional risk factors (TRF) i.e. age, sex, arterial pressure, Intima Media Tickness (IMT), Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) in order to predict the presence of carotid...

Objective: To evaluate the human recombinant growth hormone replacement (hrGHr) in the metabolic parameters and vascular system in adult patients with childhood onset hypopituitarism (COH). Patients and methods: Fifty-one adult with COH were selected for the study. They were divided into 2 groups: 1-...

In normotensive conditions, it has been confirmed that S-nitrosothiols, as a source of NO, interact with hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and create new substance/s with specific vasoactive effects. This interaction could represent new regulator pathway also in hypertension. The aim of the study was to investigate...

Focusing on the trajectory of sustainable economic development requires structuring of the system of financial indicators so as to forecast and evaluate the effectiveness of businesses in the context of global challenges and an unstable internal and external environment. Small and medium-sized enterprises...

Objectives: Liquorice consumption elevates blood pressure [1–3], but the liquorice-induced haemodynamic changes in the upright position are unknown. We investigated haemodynamics after liquorice exposure in healthy volunteers during orthostatic challenge. Methods: Haemodynamics were recorded from 22...

The government supervision is the key to guarantee work safety. In order to improve the level of safety production supervision of the government, a performance evaluation indicator system of safety production supervision within city and county two levels for the local government has been established...

Recently, due to the advance in dynamic image processing, computer animation, augmented reality (AR), and so forth, it has become increasingly apparent that the study of four-dimensional pattern processing (three-dimensional pattern processing with time axis) should be very important. Thus, the study...

This paper proposes archaeological distribution map system sharing archaeological information. Many archaeologists want to analyze the distribution of relics and/or remains. Excavation information, however, cannot be opened until verification and research are completed. Archaeological information sources...

A procedure of demand forecasting using data mining techniques is proposed to forecast the sales amount of new short life-cycle products for an actual food processing enterprise. The enterprise annually produces 100∼150 kinds of new items with short life-cycle between one week and three months to...

This paper deals with propositional fuzzy modal logic with evaluated syntax based on MV-algebras. We focus on its semantical theory from the viewpoint of Pavelka's graded semantics of propositional fuzzy logic, investigate the L-tautologies based on different Kripke frames. We also define the notion...

Image dehazing utilizes a very complex algorithm that requires intensive filtering and floating-point arithmetic operations. Consequently, processing speed is the most significant bottleneck in its application in some vision tasks such as mobile platforms. In this paper, we propose an optimized single...

MeiJiang river basin was selected as study area in this paper because it is a typical representative in the mountains of south China. Firstly, the study area was classified into several catchments in ARCGIS platform based on DEM data. Secondly, this paper withdraws the measuring indicators of the geomorphology...

A class of involutive Wick algebras (called anyonic-type Wick algebras) is selected and some its elementary properties are described. In particular, the Fock representtions of the selected anyonic-type commutation relations are described. For the class of so-called r-yonic systems the question of the...

Computer-aided symbolic and graphic computation allows to make significantly easier both theoretical and applied symmetry analysis of PDE. This idea is illustrated by applying a special "Mathematica" package for obtaining conditional symmetries of the nonlinear wave equation ut = (u ux)x invariant or...

Chinese characters are different from other characters in the structure, and they have become symbols representing the Chinese nation in the long process of development. This requires teachers of Chinese as a foreign language in teaching start from practice, from the characteristics of Chinese characters,...

This study aimed to determine whether or not there are differences in cardiorespiratory endurance between students living in highland areas and students living in lowland areas. This study used a quantitative descriptive research with a survey method that compares 2 sample groups that have different...

The precision and expense of biological research have grown in inverse proportion during decades of ongoing bioinformatics technology development, with steadily increasing accuracy and gradually decreasing spending. In the meantime, the demand for data analysis has skyrocketed for questions that have...

This study aimed to explain the effect of the potential fish, the number of boats, fishing gear and working capital on the income of fishermen in the province of West Sumatra. The data used were panel data (cross section and time series) consisting of 7 regencies and cities in West Sumatra during 2012...

There have been suggested diverse interpretations of the engraving on a piece of mammoth’s tusk which has been discovered at the Mezhirich upper Paleolithic site (Ukraine). The author suggests other version of the engraving’s interpretation – the four elements that are placed frontally are the fragments...

The Building Information Modeling (BIM) Repository is required to adapt to its users who access BIM objects independently through the Common Data Environment (CDE). BIM objects are not always easy for all users to understand and misperceptions may occur due to users’ varying abilities and learning styles....

We present some observations on the asymptotic behaviour of the coefficients in the Laurent series expansion of solutions of the first Painlevé equation. For the general solution, explicit recursive formulae for the Taylor expansion of the tau-function around a zero are given, which are natural extensions...

During the deposition process, many factors play a role in the dynamics of the system including materials’ characteristics and media onto which the materials dropped. The stick-slip model has been applied to simulate the depositions of polydisperse granular materials. As the size of the materials varied,...

As the only foreign religion among the three traditional religions in China, Buddhism has a history of more than 2,500 years. Buddhism was founded by the ancient Indian Prince Siddhartha Gautama and was introduced to China during the Eastern Han Dynasty, along with the art of sutra illustration to represent...

Benedictine monks have played a crucial role in not only the shaping of Christianity, but also the political landscape of Carolingian Europe. One such monk, named Willibald, produced a valuable hagiographical text about Saint Boniface, who was archbishop of Mainz and a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon...

Sad Frog is popular on social media in China as part of Sang culture, but its original name is Pepe the frog and now a culture of hate in the US. Cyberculture and cyberplace provide fertile environment for the reconstruction and spread of memes. By comparing and analyzing the differences in Chinese and...

Since translation is a process of being cross-culture communication, it will be a problem to evaluate whether a translation achieves the purpose of cross-culture communication. Therefore, to answer the question clearly and concretely above, this article will study the translation of The Dumb Waiter (Harold...

Bureaucracy is culture’s characteristic. Therefore, bureaucracy is embedded in the core of culture and can be seen from the individuals and institutions behavior that carry out bureaucracy. This study examines the form of funding bureaucracy from the government to fishers. What is the funding mechanism,...

Based on six waves of pooled cross-sectional survey data from the second (1990) wave to the seventh (2018) wave of the World Values Survey (WVS) database, this paper uses the statistical software Stata to conduct an ordinal logit analysis on the collated data with reference to the Life Satisfaction Approach....

Livestream commerce – a business model in which retailers, influencers or celebrities sell products and services via online video streaming - has been surging dramatically in China over the past five years. This paper defines and identifies the key features of livestream commerce and reviews the timeline...

The balance of a wage decrease as a result of world economic regression and incentives to promote worker’s productivity has become a major problem most companies are faced with, especially during the epidemic seeping through 2020. This essay starts with analyzing the compensation plan of three companies...

The civil aviation transportation industry of our country is growing explosively. The hydraulic system of civil aircrafts is crucial to the whole civil aircraft. This paper focuses on the hydraulic system of civil aircraft, which includes the Relevant Parameters of Reliability, the prediction and the...

In order to diagnose and resolve issues occurred on navigation equipment quickly and accurately, an optimal search algorithm, Hash table and Hash function on a troubleshooting database of navigation equipment, are presented. The algorithm can directly find the issue reason and solution by searching Hash...