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How Islam is Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA
Anggi Rizky Firdhani, Lia Maulia Indrayani, Ypsi Soeria Soemantri
This research is entitled “How Islam in Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA”. The objects of this research are the adjectives that collocate with the word ‘Islam’ taken from newspapers in the United States obtained from COCA. The objectives of this research are to analyze what...
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How Personal Grooming Influenced The Entrepreneurship
Lulup Endah Tripalupi, Made Ary Meitriana, Kadek Rai Suwena
This study aims to determine the effect of Personal Grooming on Entrepreneurial Behavior of Micro of Small and medium Enterprises Actors. This study is limited only to find the influence between Personality, and Attitude towards Entrepreneurial Behavior of Micro of Small and Medium Enterprises Actors....
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Analysis of the Stereotype Formation Mechanism of Square Dance Damas in the We Media Era
Xun ZHAN, Yuan-Yi MA, Li-Ping LIU
In the era of We Media, Square Dance Damas have been always constantly recognized as a negative image in many media reports. How is this negative stereotype Square Dance Damas constructed? This study, taking Square Dance Damas violently occupying the basketball court news as an example, combined with...
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Discussion on Strengthening the Construction of Practical Training base in Vocational Colleges and Promoting the Training of Skilled Personnel
Kun Lin, Zhaoyan Xie
China has always been attaching great importance to education. Especially since the reform and opening-up, Chinese economy has experienced great increasing and more excellent talents have been demanded by the market. So, our nation has put forward lots of related preferential policies to cultivate more...
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Readiness and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy Actors of SMEs Snake-Fruit Processed Products in the Conduct of e-Business
Noviaty Kresna Darmasetiawan
SMEs are the backbone of the Indonesian economy, but SMEs access to technology and training is still very limited [1], whereas technology, readiness, and entrepreneurial self efficacy of SMEs actors are a supporting factor in facing increasingly intense competition in this globalization era. The purposes...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Ergonomic Seating Design On Machine Combine Harvester
Ahmad Hanafie, Andi Haslindah, M. Saripuddin, Awaluddin Yunus
Ergonomics is usable in work with the human function of balancing the body dimension with a talking device or machine. Its efforts and others are used for exhausting, regulating temperature, light, and humidity to suit the needs of the human body. The design of the seats on the combine harverter machine...
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Persuasive Da’wah Activities and the Socio-Demographic Factor
Bambang S. Ma’arif, Parihat Parihat, Umar Yusuf, Suliadi Suliadi
Da’wah (Islamic communication, preaching) nowadays tend to its verbalistic activities (Da’wah billisan), but it is rare to conduct Da’wah bil-Hal (by doing). The aims of the research is to understand how the Profile of Persuasive Da’wah base on citizens’ demographic factor. The method of the study is...
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Do Binary Choices Create More Choice Regret
Zi-Fei Song
Knowing how to apply the relationship between choice making under different assortment sizes and choice regret is very significant, to both customers and marketers. Choice overload has been studied widely after Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper’s seminal research on the assortment size with choice overload...
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Action Research: Eliminating bullying by applying conflict resolution’skills
Rohayani Ida, AR. Endang Danial, Malihah Elly, Sundawa Dadang
Almost every child has bullying treats to other whether consciously or unconsciously. He adopted through intercourse or imitating from people close to him. Similarly seen in teenagers in high school age, such as discriminatory attitudes and cannot accept the advantages of others. This study describes...
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Why Should Course Review Horay?
Faninda Rahmawati, Zuhdan Prasetyo
Developing countries are beginning to spur themselves to advance education according to 21st century skills need. The needs of 21st century skills change the paradigm of thinking from high-order thinking skill cannot be taught become the importance of teaching higher-order thinking skills early on elementary...
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Collaborative Learning: How Teachers Use Thinking in Educational Practice
Besarion Meskhi, Svetlana Ponomareva, Alla Belousova
This article presents the results of comparative analysis research devoted to the empirical study`s organization peculiarities of the collaborative teachers` thinking activity in the educational process. The research is based on the understanding of the collaborative teachers` thinking activity, which...
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E-Commerce System for an Electronic Product (Case Study of an E-Commerce Company)
Allandreyanto Allandreyanto, Fitri Ismiyanti
The present study intends to aid e-commerce companies in making decisions concerning their midterm planning for new product expansion related to existing watch products or other products that might be easily distributed by packing well and being dispatched by an expedition company. This study helps a...
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Discourse Analysis on Reading Communism Via Independent Documentary Soundtracks
Mohd. Nor Shahizan Ali
Regarding the issue of independent documentary, the key question to be considered is whether the message conveyed to target groups or intended audiences is fully achieved. The usage of soundtracks to convey the message of an independent documentary is seen as an added value for audiences to digest the...
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Pedestrian Action Recognition Using Motion Sensor and k-NN Classifier
Ningping Sun, Toru Tsuruoka
We focused on the recognition of pedestrian action using motion sensor and machine learning. In this paper, we present our method how to define feature of actions from acquired data, and how to use k nearest neighborhood classifier to data learning and evaluation.
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Correlation analysis of the population and energy--the coexistence of promotion and inhibition
Lingxiao Wang, Yufang Chen, Weifeng Zhu
The energy innovation has brought about an exponential increase of population each time, meanwhile, population growth brings greater energy demand. Hence how to maintain a balanced relation between energy production-consumption and population is of great importance. This paper highlights the relations...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The construction of "smart campus" and the protection of students' privacy in the age of Internet of things
Hui Yan, Yuqi Zhang, Xinyan Fan, Qian Liu
Development momentum in recent years, the Internet of things technology, has become the important strategic development direction of information emerging industry in China. All walks of life increasingly widespread use of Internet of things technology, the Internet of things development prospect is bright....
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Research on Expansive Learning Model Design in E-schoolbag Environment
Xiao-xiao Dong, Hong-hua Wang
With the rapid development of education informationization, our country's education informationization has stepped into the stage of effectively supporting teaching and learning and promoting the individualized development of students. Engeström, the founder of the Third Generation Theory of Activity,...
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Information Transparency and Earnings Management - Evidence from China’s Multi-Tiered Capital Market System
Yong-Yi Li
How to better reduce asymmetric information and lower management flexibility has drawn much attention after a series of financial scandals. To this end, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) finished the first appraisal of information disclosure of listed companies in 2001. Building on the work of the implementation...
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Green Growth Strategy in Natural Resources Management and Its Correlation to Prevention of Corruption: Practices in Indonesia
Wanodyo Sulistyani, Ida Nurlinda
Short term of cash return in natural resources management as economic benefit has been considered as a usual approach in practice. However, environmental degradation has been escalated since this approach ignores its negative impacts to the environment. This, of course, has caused the increase of greenhouse...
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The Potential of the Visual Narrative in Multilingual Environment (the Case of Modern Children's Picture books)
Marina Sazonenko
The article is devoted to illustrated books and how they influence the formation of multilingual environment. A special emphasis is made on picture books as a popular genre of children's modern literature. Visual images occupy a dominant place within modern culture and affect it profoundly. Visual narrative...
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Research on the Practical Reform of the Contents of Post-related Courses for Equipment Support NCO
Zelong Zhou, Zhuo Yang, Zhongmin Liu
This paper discusses the teaching reform of the post-related courses of the non-commissioned officers of equipment support from three aspects: the current situation of the post-related courses of the non-commissioned officers of equipment support, the idea of improving the content of the post-related...
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Fulfilling the lack of employee: The Strategy from Swedish Public Sector practices
Benedicta Retna Cahyarini
The purpose of the study is to describe how Swedish municipalities recruit the current labour market in response to immigration movement. Data from Swedish Immigration Agency (Migrationsverket, 2017) from 2013 to October 2017 show the highest number of asylum applicant was in 2015 with 162.877 applicants....
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Research into How Students in A Correctional Facility Second Chance School in Greece View Science
Georgios Giannoukos
This paper is a follow-up study looking into how inmates view science and was carried out from 20th to 24th November 2018, the first having been conducted in 2014. It was carried out on thirty inmates in the first and second year of a Second Chance School (SCS) at a penitentiary in Greece.
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Writing about Film Adaptation: Film Adaptation in Indonesian Media Discourse, 1927 - 2011
Christopher A. Woodrich
This article examines how the practice of film adaptation, primarily the adaptation of novels into film, has been discussed in Indonesian media discourse since the first occurrences of the practice. As such, it applies a library research approach to review a range of literature related to adaptation...
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E-Learning for a Better Advancement of National Education
Alin Hoerunnisa, Nunuk Suryani, Agus Efendi
The millennium era which is marked by the rapid progress and development of technology should be utilized as well as possible so that it will have a positive impact on various aspects of human life, especially in the field of education. E-Learning is a website-based learning media technology providing...
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Hegemony in Film: How Holocaust is Legitimized through Visual and Linguistic Texts?
Riskia Setiarini
Within the late of 1980s to the early 1990s, a myriad of films containing Holocaust were produced. One of which was Schindlers’ List. The depiction of eeriness of holocaust was wrapped in a scantily flawed film, subtly permeated into people’s minds. The filmmaker spreads their power, asking for people’s...
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The Srivaisnava Way of Life: The Value of Initiation (Pancasamskara) in the Art of Liberation
Natalia Safina
Indian culture is inseparably linked with philosophy and religion. The art of ritual, no matter how complex and symbolic it may be, is based on the religious and philosophical tradition and strictly consistent with its main goal. In this article we consider the features of initiation of the pancasamskara...
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Research on Internet Education Poverty Alleviation in the Era of Big Data
Wanbing Shi, Xiaoyue Zhang
Education promotes people's success through employment (entrepreneurship) after entering the workplace by promoting people's knowledge and skills. For the poor people, effective poverty alleviation through education can effectively cut off intergenerational transmission of poverty. Among the various...
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Perfecting Taxation Policy and Service to Support the Development of “Going Out” Enterprises
Chen Qingping
China has always adhered to the policy of opening to the outside world, and sought to work with other countries to push the economic globalization. On one hand, it should intensify the efforts of “bringing in”. On the other hand, it should pick up the pace of “going out”. When the “going out” enterprises...
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Ambiavalence of Communication Technology and Local Journalists in Bandung
Darajat Wibawa
The development of information technology in Indonesia is inevitable, people are increasingly easy to get information, especially with the presence of internet that able to complete the mass media Indonesia. Internet has the ability to form a very wide public space, as a result of the earth seems to...
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Information Diffusion on Geographical Space and its Application in Risk Analysis
Chongfu Huang
Reviewing the information diffusion in the probabilistic space, in this paper, we proposed the information diffusion on the geospatial space. With the help of background data as the medium, we can use the suggested method to supplement incomplete data to make it complete. The information diffusion in...
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Teacher Perception of National TVET Standard at Vocational High School in Indonesia
Aye Mon, Lilik Anifah
Vocational education is one solution to improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia. The challenge as well as the advantages for Indonesia is a large demographic area, so that the standardization of vocational education is needed. In this study, it is discussed how the perceptions of standard...
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1. How Can Citizens be Informed Examining the Democratic Practices of iVoters
Da-Chi Liao
Democracy is experiencing it is worst setback since the mid-20th Century. The US magazine Foreign Affairs even posed the question in an article entitled “Is Democracy Dying?” Published on April 2018 issue, assessing the impact that exogenous factors have on liberal democracy. The exogenous factors is...
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The Political Culture of Debutant Voters (Analysis Study of Political Culture of Students as Debutan Voters in North Sumatera University)
Adil Arifin
Based on the fact that the debutant voters is one of the potential voters in every election and it have a big number of vote in this present democratic era. So the debutant voters is one of the main targets in any kind of political campaigneither for political party or the candidates leaders in the election,...
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Modeling Academic Writing for University Students
Aunurrahman Aunurrahman, Fuad Abdul Hamied, Emi Emilia
A good piece of academic writing is achieved through hard work and dedication. The hard work and dedication require the academic writing basic knowledge mastery. Yet, this is not an easy task for university students. This conceptual paper proposes how to model academic writing for university students...
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Discussion on the Work of College Network Ideological and Political Education
Xianfa Lan
Since the popularization of colleges digitization, the traditional ideological and political education can not meet the needs of college students. It is urgent to carry out ideological and political education with the times by the means of computer network. It is necessary and urgent to carry out the...
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The Approaches of Word Sentences in Forming and Meaning Translation of Reading Text in the Diploma Class
Dewanto Dewanto
Translation is one transferring one language to another language by using process of changing source language (SL) into target language (TL). Translation is the changing of one language into other language. The translation needs process in transmitting of language, such as word, phrase, or sentence....
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The Role of Families in Young Children's Mental Health
Lala Rubiyah
The major goal is to provide the understanding on how important the role of family in young children's mental health.The condition of family plays an important role in children's development, especially on their mental health development. Based on previous studies, mental health in early childhood is...
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Coping with Negative Attitude Toward Muslims in The Netherlands and Germany: The Role of Religious Moral Values among Indonesian Migrants
Ahmad Muhammad Diponegoro, Mujidin
Since the terrorist attacks in several countries in Europe, little is known about how Muslims, as a minority group, in Netherlands and Germany cope with the challenges associated with engaging their religious practices in a predominantly nonIslamic context. This study aims to investigate how Indonesian...
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Teenagers' Knowledge and Perception about The Staple Food Diversity to Describe Daily Eating Habit
Familia Novita Simanjuntak
Daily eating habit of teenagers is usually described by knowledge and perception based on their family culture/heritage or education experience or social life. This research studies about how the knowledge and perception of teenagers describe their daily eating habit. Staple food is a group of food to...
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Face-to-face is the most effective media for communication over social media
Svenja Arabella Hallerberg, Madawala Liyanage Duminda Jayaranjan, Sumaia Farzana
Global teams need to know how to be successful in effective communication. Global leaders or international students should be able to manage diverse international teams. The paper reveals information into some communication theories and discusses their today's applicability. Technological advancement...
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Human Security In The Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDGs 5) And Its Implementation In Indonesia
Junita Budi Rachman, Yanyan Mochamad Yani, Sayitri Aditiany
This paper is a concern with human security, women matters, and the Sustainable Development Goals numbered 5. The United Nations addressing gender equality and empower all women and girls in SDGs 5 that must be implemented and achieved by all its members in their countries, including Indonesia. Since...
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Studies on Culture and Creative economics in Belgium (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia)
Elisabetta Lazzaro
In recent decades, new forces, such as China, Russia and Brazil, have emerged in the international contemporary art market as part of the creative economy. At the same time the art market is becoming more visible globally, with the same art galleries and the same artists can be exhibited in different...
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Mindfulness Practice in Socially Engaged Ethnographic Fieldwork
Gene Ammarell
In recent years, the Buddhist practice of mindfulness has become the subject of research in the cognitive sciences and a potent tool in clinical psychology and counseling. While Buddhism, itself, is the subject of countless studies in the social sciences and histories of religion, there is a surprisingly...
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Applying Technical Analysis of Stock Trends to Trading Strategy of Dynamic Portfolio Insurance
Jung-Bin Li, Sheng-Hsiu Wu, Mu-Yen Chen, An-Pin Chen
In the trading operation of dynamic portfolio insurance, TIPP (Time Invariant Portfolio Protection), when adjusting active assets, only considers the scale of asset of that time regardless of how market trend proceeds. In other words, TIPP is clumsy in evading loss and pursuing profits. This study makes...
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A Neural Network Enhanced Stereo Vision Obstacle Detection and Avoidance System for Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Fanjun Liu, Binggang Cao
This paper presents a neural network enhanced stereo vision obstacle detection and avoidance system for unmanned ground vehicle. In this paper, we build a neural network to learn the mapping for the left image to the right image under the assumption of a flat road. Using the trained neural network we...
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Unfolding the Practical of Numerical Literacy for Specialist in Teaching Mathematics
Mohamad Rif’at, Sugiatno Sugiatno
This research aims to explain the typical rationale design of mathematics education research for a teacher to become a specialist in teaching mathematics. The structure shows learning environment as a natural way to address the teachers in their primary role and as the approach for effectively improving...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
The Effects of Trade Facilitation on Trade Performance in Africa
Daniel Sakyi, Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor
Pages: 1 - 15
Institutional trade barriers constitute substantial constraints for a number of exporters and importers. These barriers are multidimensional and they impede trade flows and trade performance of many developing countries, including African countries. In particular, the International Trade Centre through...
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Utilization Of Nanogold And Nanosilver To Treat Herpes Disease: Case Study Of Herpes Transmission In Islamic Cottage Schools
Titik Taufikurohmah, Djojok Supardjo, Rusmini Rusmini
This research aims to utilize nanogold and nanosilver to treat herpes disease which suddenly appeared in one of the Islamic cottage schools. How this happened is not a study this time. Nanogold has activity to increase cell proliferation and collagen biosynthesis. Nanogold also has antioxidant activity....
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Digital Workplace Implementation To Promote Gender Equality
Nita Yalina
The focus of this research is to provide an explanation of how the digital workplace can help to promote gender equality in the organization. We conduct interviews with 4 managers and 8 selected woman on different organization regarding expected condition at the workplace. In the Organization perspective,...