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This study investigated the relationship between physical fitness and forehand topspin performance among adolescent table tennis athletes. A cross-sectional research design was employed involving 39 athletes from the Indonesian Table Tennis Association. Physical fitness was assessed using the Eurofit...

This research aims to formulate an appropriate business strategy to enhance the competitiveness of Zazil Bakery Maros. The bakery business competition in Maros Regency has become increasingly intense with the emergence of many similar enterprises, requiring Zazil Bakery to develop effective strategies...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015. 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form the basis for this agenda. This agenda clearly shows that global partnerships are needed to solve world-wide problems. Besides, solving these problems should...

Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG 10) aims to reduce inequalities within and among countries by promoting inclusive and sustainable development. In South Sulawesi, Indonesia, regional disparities along the South-North Development Corridor persist, with uneven economic growth and human development...

In Mongolia, two subspecies of brown bears are distributed: the common brown bear are in the northern forested area of the country, and the Gobi bear (Mazaalai) inhabit the southwestern desert area. The Gobi bear, a desert-dwelling species, is critically endangered due to its extremely small population....

This article explores the complex interrelationship between climate change and gender inequality. The study reveals that climate change does not affect women and men equally; due to social, economic, and institutional factors, women are more vulnerable to its impacts. Natural disasters, food and water...

Background: Age and blood pressure (BP) are known to be the main determinants of large artery stiffness. However other factors may lead to an inappropriately high pulse wave velocity (PWV). We investigated the determinants of inappropriately high PWV in hypertensive patients and their possible role in...

Background: Several works analyze arterial parameters’ (stiffness levels, wall thickness, etc.) association with variations of body mass index (BMI) in pediatric populations. However, none integrate different arterial parameters as comparable continuous (standardized) variables, in order to assess their...

Background: Heart rate (HR) is directly associated to central-to-peripheral pulse wave amplification. We aimed at evaluating the associations between heart rate and each BP component in a cohort of healthy adolescents. Objective: 470 healthy adolescents (17±1.4 years, 56% boys, brachial BP 123/67±11/7...

Purpose: Regular calorie restriction (CR) improves endothelial function and lowers aortic stiffness in older mice and humans; however, adherence to sustained CR remains poor, and possibly unsafe in normal weight older adults. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) is an important signaling molecule...

Systolic blood pressure (SBP) differs between the brachial artery and aorta. Prospective data suggest that central pressure predicts future cardiovascular events, but it is unclear if it is superior to brachial pressure. Methods and Results: A systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis...

Risk assessment and risk matrices are powered tools used in risk management and help guide in the process of decision-making in organisations. Nevertheless, risk matrices have their own weaknesses and strengths. This paper provides a critical overview of the development and use of risk matrices in different...

Burst firing in subthalamic nucleus (STN) has been suggested to be highly associated with the motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease, which result from a loss of dopamine. Although it is clinically very important to clarify the mechanism underlying the bursting dynamics, complex interactions between STN...

The passive reflectionless transmission-line model can reproduce physiological cochlear properties. We have applied an optimization technique to obtain good parameter values that give a desired cochlear property. However, we found that, in some case, it is difficult to find the sub-optimal parameter...

On an arbitrary almost-Kähler manifold, starting from a natural affine connection with nontrivial torsion which respects the almost-Kähler structure, in joint work with A. Karabegov a Fedosov-type deformation quantization on this manifold was costructed. This contribution reports on the result and supplies...

We obtain a basis of joint or proper differential invariants for the scalar linear hperbolic partial differential equation in two independent variables by the infinitesimal method. The joint invariants of the hyperbolic equation consist of combinations of the coefficients of the equation and their derivatives...

We study integrability of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations consisting of the nonlinear d'Alembert equation 2u = F(u) and nonlinear eikonal equation uxµ uxµ = G(u) in the complex Minkowski space R(1, 3). A method suggested makes it possible to establish necessary and sufficient compatibility...

The Internet provides convenience for college students to learn English online. At present, there are numerous strategies for English listening training, but the combination of English listening training and Internet needs to be studied more deeply and applied more widely. Built on practice, this paper...

Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell is one of the species developed in industrial forest plantations that has the potential for pulp and paper. Therefore, this research aims to determine the concentration of N, P, and K nutrients in the Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell tree components. This research was conducted...

The implementation of physical education (PE) has the potentially will not run optimally because it is implemented through distance learning. PE teachers have a heavy responsibility in implementing distance learning. This study aims to determine the differences in the responsibilities of PE teachers...

In the middle and late Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuyuhun people gradually entered political field of Central Plains Dynasty, and cultural merging came with the interaction of the crowd. Although Tuyuhun Kingdom located in the northwestern area, Tuyuhun people’s epitaphs whose unearthed places were known...

The objective of the research is to analyze the appropriate strategy for improvement and rejuvenation of traditional markets in the city of South Tangerang. The study was constructed at Serpong tradional market, Jombang traditional market, Ciputat traditional market, Bintaro Sektor 2 traditional market....

To continue the study of Sumatran lichen, six species of the genus Cladonia were screened for phytochemicals and their antibacterial bioactivity. The procedure included sequential extraction (semi polar solvent), antibacterial activity tests using the agar diffusion method, and microdilution to determine...

Investment decision is an activity carried out by the investor for investing their fund. For this reason, investors must consider many factors. Investor consider accounting information in investment decision. However, investor psychology, which is reflected by a personal signal, is more dominant in investment...

With the rapid development of science and technology, the media is constantly updated in the current information age, and it increasingly affects people’s daily lives. This paper attempts to explore the impact of media multitasking on employees’ work engagement. Based on the survey of employees in different...

Let Epn be the n-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space of index p and M(n, p) the group of all transformations of Epn generated by pseudo-orthogonal transformations and parallel translations. We describe the system of generators of the differential field of all M(n, p)-invariant differential...

In the study of the influence of modern civilization on Asian languages, linguistics can provide a rich basis in three aspects: loanwords, mixed languages and language strategies, and plays an important role in Asian civilization and language research. Firstly, loanwords are the product of civilization,...

The purpose of this study is to describe the content level of the nature of science as a product, process, and attitude contained in the student science book Grade 4 Theme 4 “Various Jobs” published by the Ministry of Education and Culture 2017 Revised Edition. This research is qualitative, using a content...

City branding is one of the tools or intermediaries for the community to be familiar with a tourism destination. Branding is an identity in introducing the potential and advantages of tourism in certain areas including Riau Province. Therefore, the Riau Provincial government formed a branding that represents...

The main purpose of this paper is using modification of nanoparticle layers to increasing the hydrophilic surfaces and enhancing the evaporation behaviors in stainless steel plate. When the products being made, use three different kind of fluids, acetone, ethanol and water to testing the benefit for...

With the development of educational globalization, college English teaching should not only emphasize students' language learning, but should also pay more attention to the cultural and ability preparation for students and try to cultivate their intercultural communicative abilities. This paper first...

A field experiment was conducted to investigate the single and combined of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and cooper (Cu) on the growth and development of rice plants and the uptake of these heavy metals by rice. The results revealed that the growth and development of rice plants were more affected by combined...

In order to simulate the flow structure accurately and find out the inducement of unstability in a centrifugal compressor with casing structure, three different cases of models were established. By contrasting the simulation result of Case1 and Case2 with experiment data, the accuracy of grids model...

Collaborative Fusion and determination of innovation are the keys of development to innovation and entrepreneurship education .In the national economy and social development thirteenth five year plan of the new situation, the innovation and entrepreneurship education in Colleges and universities, especially...

Triangular norms, or t-norms for short, play an important role for the semantics of fuzzy logics. Although an enormous number of examples and a remarkable number of construction methods for this kind of operation has been established, a uniform approach is still outstanding. This paper is devoted to...

The Chirp-Z transform (CZT) algorithm is a digital signal processing algorithm, it is applicable to the general case calculating limited width of the Z-transform along the spiral curve. The CZT is more flexible than the Fast Fourier transform (FFT) in calculating the frequency spectrum, so it is used...

In a long period of time, resources can’t be shared inside Pearl River West City Circle, fragmented situation made the group hard to form a healthy industrial structure on agglomeration advantage and scale advantage. Based on this, the article measures economy and industry associations inner this group,...

Establishing the mechanism of earthquake insurance and carring out the corresponding business will play a significant role in preventing and mitigating disaster in the area where occur earthquakes frequently. In this paper, we discussed the specific role of earthquake insurance in preventing and mitigating...

China is carrying out the development of three-dimensional transportation because of the advantages of overpasses. However, the researches of road lighting in China are based on the model of ordinary roads. Due to the lack of the research on the road lighting of three-dimensional transportation, this...

Parents give lives to their children; they biologically determine the quality of intelligence of their children even at birth. The socio-economic background of the parents exposes the children to after birth factors that help in nourishing or malnourishing the children. The type of education a child...

Under the currently trend of the library collection quantity increasingly, the book disordered problem became more common which caused the reader too hard to find a book that they want. To solve these problems, this paper design the accurate location algorithm based on RFID intelligent bookshelf, and...

Security Enhanced Android is the integration of Android with SE Linux launched by NSA to strengthen security. This system adopting Mandatory Access Control prevents attacks and enforces application isolation. Also, it provides an implementation of SE Linux in current Android environment. Therefore the...

With peak oil behind us, nuclear generation capacity dwindling, and increasingly daunting looking carbon emissions targets, we are moving to a world where we must consider transitioning to renewable energy sources. Renewables are time varying and their inherent unpredictability must challenge our everyday...

In this work, SAW resonators with high temperature piezoelectric LGS substrate have been studied. A layer of AlN piezoelectric film is deposited on the SAW devices. The influences of the AlN film on the characteristics of the SAW device have been explored. The simulation results show that the resonance...

ECU (Electronic Control Unit) plays an important role in automotive electronics development as the core component of the vehicle. There are problems such as large overhead, unbalanced resource allocation in the current AUTOSAR ECU mapping algorithm that’s widely adopted. To solve the problems, this paper...

The teaching process includes “teaching” and “learning” of two aspects, and the teaching process of adult higher education is the autonomous learning process of students under the guidance of teachers. It respectively establishes scientific and reasonable “teaching” quality monitoring system and “learning”...

The social education of contemporary college students’ socialist core values is from a broad perspective to explore the issues related to the contemporary college students’ values education: Firstly, what kind of relationship exists between the contemporary college students’ values education and social...

This study concentrates on international high school development and trends in Chongqing, China. It was discovered that the number of students who are studying abroad has been growing significantly and the majority of students struggled because of the language barrier during their first semester. Although...