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In 2017, I set out to trial a new approach to teaching writing and speaking to a distance student learning online. This presentation will outline the development of a teaching plan which exploited the relatively new affordances that online tools such as Google docs and Microsoft Skydrive provide to teachers...

Writing skill is one of the active language skills that is important in expressing ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Writing is also a difficult thing for BIPA students, especially for beginners with academic goals. The Indonesian language has the standard Indonesian grammar that BIPA students should understand...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the mediating role of Value Congruence in the relationship between motivation and organizational commitment in non-profit sport organizations. An e-mail sur-vey was conducted with a sample of 223 volunteers in 12 non-profit sport organi-zations in a Jiangxi Province...

During the coronavirus, the economy is experiencing the downtown of the business cycle, which is also the recession in the market. The GDP grows negatively and both business producers and customers do not have the confidence about the future in various industries. IHG, one of the giants of the travel...

Countries in the Middle-East (ME) are tackling two corona virus outbreaks simultaneously, Middle-Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and the current Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Both viruses infect the same host (humans) and the same cell (type-II alveolar...

Pancasila and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika became the philosophy of tolerance to the dynamics of postmodern life of Indonesian society. The science education becomes the vanguard to provide guidance and counseling to the community to enter the dynamics of postmodern life. Currently the change is moving so fast...

From Shen Congwen’s Border Town to Wang Zengqi’s The Love Story of a Young Monk to Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Frog, the image of the Chinese “rural” gradually changed from the idealistic “Peach Blossom Land,” the traditional Chinese spiritual home of harmony and idyll, to the “Yellow...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “First time he kissed me, he but only kissed” is unveiling. Yet, it is often overshadowed by her more celebrated poems. This study attempts for a renewed perusal of this sonnet. This study will reveal not only figurative language, but it also historical background of the...

In this work we present a new hybrid approach for solv-ing the clustering problem for geographic data, which is known to be NP-hard. Two metaheuristics that have prov-en efficiency in combinatory optimization problems have been chosen for the comparison: Simulated Annealing (SA) and Variable Neighborhood...

The purpose of this research is to find and analyze the meaning variation of Kudus society to kretek culture in the framework of healthy and sick concept. Research data were analyzed using social construction theory from Berger and Luckmann. This research uses qualitative approach with case study method...

This action research aimed to study simple sentence construction using past continuous tense in teaching year 4 pupils using the ‘Connect Me’ model. This action research attempted to address the following research objectives which were to determine whether the use of the ‘Connect Me’ model can help pupils...

This article mainly introduces the landscape poetry of Wang Wei in "Without me", Wang Wei as a representative of the Tang Dynasty landscape and pastoral poetry, his poems into Zen thoughts, unique quiet beauty, read his poems can feel the self-consciousness of a poet to the "Without me" of the state....

Development of science and technology an important to improving of human resources, especially in the issue of education. The use of media in learning and training activities greatly helps the process of delivering material effectively and efficiently. The use of appropriate media will help encouraging...

Campus restaurants offer benefits to students who live on campus, live with their parents, or live in boarding houses, and they present opportunities to other businesses in the area. However, running a business as a food-service entrepreneur can be challenging because one needs an understanding of the...

a X-band microwave monolithic low-noise amplifer is presented in this paper. This LNA has been realized by 0.15um GaAs process.it exhibits high performance: over 8GHz~12GHz, power gain is above 20dB; the ripple variation of power gain is less than ±0.7dB; The 1dB compression point is more than 10dBm;...

A Ku-band wideband low noise amplifier is presented in this paper. This low noise amplifier has been realized by 0.15um GaAs process.it exhibits high performance: over 12GHz~18GHz, power gain is above 18.5dB; the ripple variation of power gain is less than ±0.7dB; The 1dB compression point is more than...

The Chinese civilization has been bursting with vitality and vigor in the process of dialogue with other cultures, especially with the Western classic Bible. The “best” translation of the supreme master of Christianity is one of the core issues in the process of translating the Bible into Chinese. In...

In this paper, we propose a placement method for island-style FPGAs. This me-thod consists of three steps: recursive bi-partition with terminal propagation con-sideration, minimum-cost flow initial placement and low temperature simulated annealing optimization. Unlike the traditional partitioning-based...

In essence, instructional leadership is a principal leadership model that emphasizes efforts to improve instructional quality. Therefore, the principal must be present in all school programs related to instructional. This research aims to determine the dimensions and behaviors carried out by school principals...

We compared antioxidant activity and biological compounds of ginseng root extractions between ultrasound (US) and microwave extraction (ME). The maximum total ginsenoside content of ginseng root extraction was 27.53mg/g under the ultrasound conditions of 60?"? for 2h (50 kHz, powder 250W). It was higher...

Penajam Paser Utara (PPU), an Indonesian land for rural and urban areas, has gained attention as the proposed location for the country’s new capital city (Ibu Kota Nusantara/IKN). PPU has a unique socio-cultural environment presenting a blend of traditional rural values and urban influences. The uniqueness...

Textbook research is an important aspect of teaching research. Only through in-depth and careful research of textbooks, can we prepare and teach well, and finally achieve the teaching objectives. Interchangeable characters (通假字), variant characters (异体字), and ancient-present characters (古今字) are the...

Background: An efficient public health workforce is necessary for improving and maintaining the health of population and such a workforce can be prepared through proper educational programs and trainings. Objectives: The present study aims to investigate the needs in the public health education programs,...

Research to study the effect of temperature and sulfonation time on the preparation of Methyl Ester Sulfonate (MES) surfactant using CPO-based Methyl Ester (ME) as raw material has been carried out. The temperature was varied 80 oC, 90 oC and 100 oC; while the observation time is carried out every 1...

This paper shows that a “shared knowledge” is an important aspect for supervisor-international student’s relation for master level. Indeed, Conversation Analysis method is not designed to understand physiological issues on international students’ problems and pressure, but the Conversation Analysis excerpts...

Human creative very be required for building a family and development nation. A creativity that is defined as something process and in sense product that a dimension individual. Person creative that have the characteristics of the smooth (Fluency), flexibility (Flexibility), original (Originality), decomposition...

This study focuses on the traditional communication model of traditional leaders in the indigenous tribe 'Kasepuhan Cisungsang', namely an indigenous tribal community, in Banten Province, the westernmost part of the island of Java in Indonesia. The 'Kasepuhan Cisungsang' indigenous tribe has existed...

Principals and teachers need to know what is really happening in the classroom in their school area. The principal and teacher must be well acquainted with all their students, guardians of students, and the community around the school. The purpose of this study is to create a model of learning supervision...

This study aims to describe (1) the affixation process in language of Dayak Tunjung, (2) the reduplication process in language of Dayak Tunjung, and (3) the composition process in language of Dayak Tunjung. The results of this study are expected to provide clear information for speakers and as a contribution...

As one of the most important macroeconomic factors, the unemployment rate has played a significant role in individuals’ decision-making and policy-making processes. This paper primarily analyzes unemployment rates and is dedicated to unveiling the connections between regions, years, and unemployment...

Mathematical achievement of the students in Indonesia is low and it can be seen in PISA and TIMSS. Mathematics is one of the subjects that require higher order thinking skills, such as metacognition. This research was conducted to find out the correlation between attitudes toward mathematics and metacognitive...

Four year overseas studies and Chinese background made me be aware of the presence of many misconceptions in the understanding of Chinese business, tradi-tional culture and education. Certain the-ories related to politics or military like “thick face, black heart” and “Sun Tzu on the art of war” are...

“Things are me, and I am the things” is the universe view theory that human is an integral part of nature or the identity of objects and self. It determines that Confucianism and Taoism have become the basis of philosophy and aesthetics in Chinese traditional art, and form a unique freehand artistic...

A TSMC 0.18 µm RF CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) for 3 GHz–5GHz ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is presented. The designed LNA employs single-ended to differential conversion and is successfully implemented using the noise-canceling technique. This paper introduces common-gate stage performance and...

Audiences are exposed to more and more TV commercials of luxury goods, including perfumes. This paper analyzes TV commercials of female perfumes and fragrances from four luxury brands, namely Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Lanc"me and EstŽe Lauder. By using content analysis method, This study discusses...

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...

This reflective paper aims to explore the need to embrace alternate pedagogical practices in the traditional curriculum. Being an academic who teaches first-year students and leads the First-year Experience Programme (FYE) at a university of technology has allowed me to reflect not only on my practice...

Background: The metabolic signature associated with subclinical diastolic left ventricular (LV) dysfunction in the general population is unknown. Objectives: This population study aimed at identifying a specific profile of circulating me-tabolites associated with asymptomatic diastolic LV dysfunction. Methods:...

The article aims to give a theoretical justification and experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of the program promoting positive attitudes toward a healthy lifestyle in adolescents in the context of extracurricular education. Research methods. The leading research method is a pedagogical experiment...

An ultra-wideband low noise amplifier(LNA) based on the cascode configuration with resistive feedback is presented in this paper. A shunt-shunt feedback resistor and a pre-π matching network is employed to achieve wideband input impedance matching, and to enhance gain response and reduce noise for using...

A dual-band reconfigurable low noise amplifier(LNA) for T/R module is designed based on SMIC 65nm CMOS process In this paper, the low noise amplifier can operate in L/S band optionally. The simulation results shown it has a larger than 20dB gain and smaller than 2.5dB noise figure for both L and S bands,...

Accounting is often regarded as a frozen figure. While, most of the accounting steps involve human element, but often being overlooked. In contrast with neoclassical economics assumptions, human behavior is not able to be predicted by a simple mathematical formula. The feeling and emotion often take...

The cases of sexual crime are high in Indonesia. In Semarang, the cases are 52% of child abuse cases. This is because children do not get enough sexuality education, including how to protect themselves from sex crime. The children’s skills in protecting themselves from sex crimes will help them to act...

In this paper, we proposed a new pipelined ISR-ANT ME design to further shorten the critical path of the ISR-ANT ME circuit [1], which can make it operate in a lower operating voltage. The proposed design is very simple, which only needs to insert the pipelined register to cut the critical path of ISR-ANT...

This research is a descriptive research by using qualitative analysis to describe the behavior of heads in addressing the authority possessed with regard to the implementation of regional autonomy. Data unearthed from the informant who exposed the non-policy job by the Mayor. Field of thiese results...

Multimodal communication can simply be defined as communication through modes such as pictures, gestures, sign languages, and such. Photographs are relevant to literary studies because they too can narrate. Photographs can perform as unreliable narrators, drawing fuzzy borders between reality and imagination...

Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU. Methods:...

The demographic data stated the huge number of Indonesian students, it is around 49,186,236 students. It makes Indonesia becomes the 7th largest in the world. With this huge number, if the students are educated through a standardized education system, developing 21st century skill students (4C; critical,...

The language of Muara Jambi village has already established itself in the international world of archeology with a word grown on its own land: menapo. This is how the villagers refer to the mysterious temple complexes surrounded by walls and canals, many of which are still piles of ruins and earth mounds...

The term “Sustainable farming (SF)” relates to a general approach, a broad production system using methods that involve society (farmers), environment, and economy. This concept aims to support health and well-being of the society and to work with nature, while still aiming for being profitable businesses,...