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Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste contributes to half of the total landfill waste in New Zealand (NZ). Further, C&D waste is the largest waste stream in Auckland with 40% of waste going to landfill. This study adopts a mixed-method approach to collect and analyse data. In total, 37 semi-structured...

This paper is based on an ongoing research concerning Wingit in Javanese architecture and interior. Wingit is a Javanese concept associated with unseen spirits, and therefore regarded as a trace of animist-dynamist belief. However, in this research, Wingit is regarded as a concept related to aesthetics...

One of the most employed yet simple algorithm for cluster analysis is the k-means algorithm. k-means has successfully witnessed its use in artificial intelligence, market segmentation, fraud detection, data mining, psychology, etc., only to name a few. The k-means algorithm, however, does not always...

The development of the utilization of electrical energy sourced from the sun is currently experiencing very rapid development. The use of electrical energy sourced from the sun is not only used for industrial generation, currently the transportation industry also utilizes electrical energy sourced from...

This study aims to examine the effect of psychological capital and social support on the well-being of physical education teachers in Indonesia. This study involved 248 physical education teachers who taught in private and public schools located in urban areas. The sample ratio of males and females is...

Education plays an important role in shaping the future of the younger generation. Education can improve the quality of knowledgeable human resources, as well as personal development and skills needed to achieve success in life. Educational Games are a creative and innovative learning media that can...

The rise of the Industry 4.0 revolution has greatly impacted the Communication and media sector. The adaptation of artificial intelligence among public relations practitioners in Malaysia has shown an interesting phenomenon to study. Accordingly, this study seeks to explain the phenomenon and challenges...

IoT has revolutionized various sectors by facilitating automation and improving efficiency through the interconnection of billions of devices. However, this rapid expansion has exposed IoT networks to an increasing number of security vulnerabilities, with spoofing attacks being one of the most prominent...

General Background: Learning media play a crucial role in supporting elementary science education by facilitating student engagement and conceptual understanding. Specific Background: In third-grade classrooms, science topics such as animal food classification are often taught using conventional methods...

In both film and animation, shot design has evolved into a crucial element that supports the development and movement of the narrative. Shot design encompasses aspects such as framing, composition, camera movement, and transitions, all of which together form the visual language of film. This visual language...

The growth of the financial market drastically affected by the infusion of artificial intelligence and accelerated the acceptance of Robo-advisors—algorithm-driven platforms that provide automated portfolio management and investment recommendations. While prior research has examined technology adoption,...

This research is qualitative research that has aims to determine socio-emotional-based mathematics learning. Socio-emotional development is closely related to interaction, either with others or with other objects. Socio-emotional learning results in the creation of a harmonious learning climate or atmosphere...

With the importance of oral communication skills and digital literacy skills for 21st- century learners (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2006), there is an increasing tendency to incorporate technology in language learning and teaching. In this trend, PechaKucha Presentation (PKP), a unique, fast-paced...

Microvascular and metabolic physiology are inextricably linked. Thus, metabolic dysfunction impairs microvascular function and microvascular dysfunction impairs normal metabolism. The relationship is therefore reciprocal, justifying the concept of a ‘Metabolic-Microvascular Dysregulation Syndrome’. For...

Purpose: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is an independent predictor of future cardiovascular (CV) events. Aortic pressures (central) and low testosterone independently predict future CV events and mortality. The relationship between testosterone, central pressures and wave reflection indices in ED patients...

The COVID-19 emergency has notoriously adversely affected youth’s mental health, leading to a dramatic increase not only in clinically relevant disorders but also in generalized sub-syndromic affective maladjustment and emotional dysregulation. As youth mental health apps hold unique potential for support...

Tea breeding programs in Sri Lanka have produced a diverse range of tea varieties. However, Sri Lanka has limited genetic diversity due to tea’s non-native origin. This study aimed to develop an efficient in vitro mutagenesis protocol for tea to enhance the genetic diversity of existing elite tea cultivars....

This study aims to evaluate the disclosure of sustainability reporting on big four banks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange through content analysis. Sustainable reporting always prioritizes environmental issues, although sustainability itself is not always environmental. This study provides a more...

This study provides an empirical analysis of the socio-cultural obstacles that hinder the empowerment of women entrepreneurs in Capital region of India -Delhi. While fintech has the potential to offer significant benefits, such as increased financial inclusion and access to capital, women entrepreneurs...

The overall impact of glucose-lowering on vascular complications and major clinical outcomes, including mortality, in type 2 diabetes is still an open issue. While intensive glucose control has undoubted benefit for microvascular endpoints, the relationship between glucose-lowering approaches and reduced...

Take home messages 1.Both ‘Metabolic NAFLD’ and the features of insulin resistance/the metabolic syndrome (MetS) increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), even independent of obesity 2.‘Metabolic NAFLD’ and insulin resistance share common pathophysiology, which may explain their link with...

Because measurement of arterial stiffness is highly dependent on blood pressure (BP), methods independent of BP are required. Ultrafast echography (UFE, Supersonic Imagine, Aix en Provence, France) makes use of very fast sampling rate (up to 10 kHz), so transient events such as pressure wave arrival...

The art of batik motifs provides identification for regions in introducing distinctive characters both through colouring and various designs. This distinguishing feature provides an attraction for batik lovers and at the same time an icon of a potential cultural tourism object. This article provides...

Despite years of research, there are still some contentious aspects of arterial hemodynamics that have remained unresolved. These were discussed during a workshop entitled Arterial hemodynamics: past, present and future held in London on June 14 and 15, 2016, with keynote contributions by Nico Westerhof,...

Aim: In diabetes patients, we explored relationships between markers of diabetic angiopathy, diabetic complications and adverse outcome. Methods: Patients were recruited from 3 observational studies from Steno Diabetes Center, Denmark and one randomized, double-blind, international, multicentre study. We...

Introduction: Matrix Gla Protein (MGP) is highly expressed in cardiomyocytes and is upregulated after acute and chronic pressure overload and in myocardial hypertrophy in mice and humans. However, no study addressed the relation between cardiac function and MGP in humans. Methods and results: In 767...

The non-invasive assessment of aortic (central) pressure evolved as an emerging clinical research area over the last two decades. Several non-invasive methods and devices were developed to support these investigations. A variety of technical approaches and sites of peripheral signal acquisition have...

Vascular dysfunction may be an important pathway through which ageing and other factors, such as diabetes and obesity, can cause diseases of the heart and brain. Vascular dysfunction includes dysfunction of large arteries (due to arterial stiffness), the microcirculation (microvascular dysfunction) and...

Background: Aging is associated with increased arterial stiffness and chronic low-grade inflammation. Acute inflammatory stimulus in the presence of low-grade chronic inflammation briefly increases the risk of cardiovascular events. The risk of cardiovascular events also increases substantially in older...

Multivariate meta-analysis has potential over its univariate counterpart. The most common challenge in univariate or multivariate meta-analysis is estimating heterogeneity parameters in non-negative domains under the random-effects model assumption. In this context, two new multivariate estimation methods...

Understand the behavior of Fuzzy Rule-based Systems (FRBSs) at inference level is a complex task that allows the designer to produce simpler and powerful systems. The fuzzy inference-grams –known as fingrams– establish a novel and mighty tool for understanding the structure and behavior of...

Collaboration is one of the effective approaches that help us to share knowledge together and exchange ideas within team members. Sometimes, helpful new knowledge that is not held by the members emerges as a result of the collaboration. Such knowledge often contributes to get prime solutions in the collaboration...

In this paper, we consider a partially linear single-index model when missing responses and nonlinear regressors with measurement error are taken into account. Utilizing data imputation for missing values and regression calibration for error-prone regressors, we not only estimate the parameters in the...

The Somos 4 sequences are a family of sequences satisfying a fourth order bilinear recurrence relation. In recent work, one of us has proved that the general term in such sequences can be expressed in terms of the Weierstrass sigma function for an associated elliptic curve. Here we derive the analogous...

Event monitoring and determination is a popular application in WSN. Considering the special circumstance that some nodes of the wireless sensor network are faulty, a fault tolerant schema for data aggregation based on event clustering was proposed. Also, an improved HRTS algorithm named T-HRTS which...

Early Childhood Education is designed as the first level of education given to children to understand their surroundings. The learning process was carried out through a combination of learning and playing. One of the basic competencies stipulated in the 2013 PAUD curriculum is KD 3.8, consisting of knowledge...

Soap is a product that is one of the people’s needs, used as a body cleansing agent, which is available in many forms and perfume that can be selected according to your needs. Natural soap products are rarely used in the market. Today’s soap products use a lot of artificial ingredients as their active...

Symbiotic microorganisms usually have the same secondary metabolite activity as their host. The aims of this study were determine the biodiversity of symbiotic microorganisms from Caulerpa racemosa grown in Lemukutan Island, Indonesia and evaluate their antibacterial activity. Thirty eight bacterial...

Bamboo has been talked about a lot by international communities in the world eco-label, specifically because it has big potential to be used as a sustainable material. As the third biggest country to produce bamboo globally, Indonesia has been supporting the regulation to establish bamboo nationally....

Many factors can cause damage and environmental pollution. Natural damage can be caused by human factors. Human population and environmental problems cannot be separated. Human needs for food, fuel, shelter, and other needs as well as the increase in domestic waste have the potential to cause damage...

The COVID-19 pandemic forces teachers and students to adapt rapidly to the online learning situation. Teachers have to adjust the traditional face-to-face instruction to online learning. This change affects science learning, especially in teaching biology. This study aims to explore the roles of technology...

Digital technology has made things easier for people during the pandemic especially for accessing health services. They can consult with a doctor, order medication, and make appointments for laboratory examinations via the application. This research aims to understand the assertiveness of medical mobile...

Dance is an art that combines body and emotion. Body and emotion are the soul of dance and the joint force between them forms the unique artistic charm of dance. The expression of body and emotion gives the dance vitality, revealing the endless rhythm of life. The blend of body and emotion is a sign...

A wound is a condition where the continuity of tissue is broken, which disrupts the function and anatomical structure of the body from the outermost surface to the deepest layer. When an injury occurs, the body will carry out a healing process consisting of four stages: haemostasis, inflammation, proliferation,...

The agricultural sector in Bali Province is increasingly being displaced by other sectors to support tourism. This is indicated by the reduction of agricultural land to non-agricultural land, even though agriculture is a sector that is very much needed by Balinese people to support life both in the present...

Persons with disabilities are a citizen group that has constitutional political rights. They are an inseparable part of the arrangement of Article 28D of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. This study aims to analyze the active participation of persons with disabilities when they channel...

Learning in early childhood education today should adapt to technological advances or the competency framework of the 21st century. The application of current learning that prioritizes High Order Thinking Skills as the main capital to compete in the 21st Century. Critical thinking in children is a very...

Shape grammar for cane webbing design is the way of seeing and doing it. The utilization of cane webbing, which is usually for furniture design, has potential use in the implementation of architectural design. When traditional handcrafters make cane webbing on a plane of furniture, the design can be...

The rapid development of information technology has promoted the arrival of “Big Data Era”. In the perspective of big data era, blended teaching mode is a diversified and interactive new teaching method. This paper explores the innovative mode of blended teaching of Practical Military English for graduate...

The National Development and Reform Commission has mentioned the work vision of the manufacturing industry transformation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area many times in conferences, as well as initially completed the reform plan focusing on technology and patents as the key points of...