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Populism is currently on the rise as many people talk. Both in the Western world and the Asian region. Today many political figures use populism strategies as their political ammunition on the political stage. In Indonesia itself, there was once a populist leader who was charismatic and close to the...

This article tells about the practice of shadow economy and environmental damage in mining activities in Southeast Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. Natural assets contained in these two regions, especially the mine, attracted the attention of investors to invest their capital. The presence of mining companies...

In the performance evaluation process in public services, satisfaction measurement is an important element services where to provide better, more efficient, and more effective services is the ultimate goal based on community needs. It is expected that the Population and Civil Registry Service of Padang...

Since human beings entered the post-industrial society, leisure life has occupied an increasing proportion in people’s life. China began to implement the two-day system from May 1, 1995. With the continuous introduction of a series of policies and systems, the time of studying in school has been reduced...

This study is about 30 students’ ways of logic and reasoning in English language learning analyzed through HOTS-based questions in a private senior high school context in West Sumatera, Indonesia. All students were in the first grade who just began their first semester in the school. First, class observation...

With the increasing uncertainty of the contemporary economic market economy, its importance has become increasingly prominent in practice. In order to study the influence of financial flexibility on the enterprise’s future profitability, this paper uses factor analysis to measure the enterprise’s comprehensive...

This study aimed to determine the improvement of the Environmental Epidemiology Subject’s learning outcomes through Two Stay Two Stray (TSTS) and Co-op Co-op learning model strategy. This study was a classroom action research and compared the scores in the semester of the academic year 2018/2019 (conventional...

Athletics is a sport branch that fights for medals. The study aimed to evaluate the implementation of a special athletic training center that has been running for two years managed by the East Java Provincial Management of Athletic Union. Qualitative research methods were used to obtain data. The instruments...

The development of ELISA method to detect patients with schistosomiasis in Indonesia is a detection of the antigens that are derived from the peripheral vessels in the blood serum. This research is conducted in the Napu Plateau of Poso Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. The goal is to develop ELISA...

The purpose of this study is to find out and describe the attempts to preserve Minangkabau songs by the Dpllust band in Padang and figure out the privileges experienced by Dplust band after the group was founded. This study is classified into qualitative research. It used phenomenological approach with...

Nouns play an essential role in the daily use of language, primarily identifying and naming people and things. Different language users have distinct rules and habitual methods to form words, as well as to pronounce and define grammars. These fixed and conventional language rules are influenced by speakers’...

This article aims to find out how the differences of policy, market and culture between Korean and Chinese influence the process of Chinese localization and the development of Chinese television industry. The collection of literature summaries from journals and news, the research methods of the literature...

The success of the vaccination program is influenced by the presence of social media. Facebook gives vaccine repellents access to share content, express opinions about vaccines, communicate and interact. In revealing their identity, vaccine repellents are inseparable from risk and conflict. The main...

Artificial intelligence has greatly improved the efficiency of industry and life, but its algorithmic framework is often a black box, leading to a lack of understanding of how computers give decision results. So, the interpretability of artificial intelligence has been widely concerned in recent years....

This research explores the integration of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) - based digital applications in teaching basic concepts in Algebra at a State University in the Philippines. The study aimed to design a module-based STEAM education program designed to enhance students’...

This paper operationalizes the general unfolding model for polytomous responses under the condition of equal-distances between the successive thresholds of an item. Using the joint maximum likelihood estimation (JML), two algorithms are proposed for parameter estimation, each with a different technique...

Although there are abundant studies addressing the technical aspects of lean manufacturing, few have been done to examine the influence of national culture on its effectiveness. Moreover, the “true” relationship between national culture and operational performance from practising lean manufacturing is...

During the period of lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a complete switchover to e-learning was mandatory for all universities to ensure pedagogical continuity and support for students in these exceptional circumstances. Indeed, since 16 March 2020, face-to-face courses at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah...

The ease of access to digital financial services, particularly digital wallets, has strengthened the effectiveness of social engineering techniques as a tool for criminals. Digital wallets offer convenience for transactions without requiring strict identification, which increases the risk of criminal...

This article discusses the cultural acculturation of the Kamandaka Legend as an effort to preserve the local wisdom of Banyumas. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method supported by field interviews and hermeneutic theories from Jurgen Habermas. The main purpose of this article is to identify...

This article defines the parameters of the seeding disk designed for clustered sowing in a pneumatic seeding apparatus. To ensure the tight placement of seeds in the cluster, the holes in the group must be positioned as closely as possible. However, excess seeds tend to stick more to closely spaced holes...

Obesity is becoming a global epidemic and is associated with cardiovascular disease. Genetic factors play a significant role in the disease etiology but less is known about the interaction between genes and diet composition. This study is aimed to investigate the effect of diet and/or genotype on microcirculation...

The purposes of the present study were to know the types of errors found in English sentences constructed by the students of the English Department at Sriwijaya State Polytechnics. Two hundred pieces of writing written by a hundred students from fifty students in the first year, twenty-five students...

This paper uses exhaustive disturbed particle swarm optimizer(EDPSO) as local search algorithm for memetic algorithm, and improves it by using a novel knowledge space mechanism. The innovative mechanismbased on two key points: 1. using effective high-frequency ratio (EHFR) as a novel indicator for problem...

With colorful and changing light effect, crystal lamp has become the first choice for the indoor lighting facilities. Crystal lamps have many identical or similar elements in structure, so using CAD technology can assist the designers for the design and modeling of crystal lamps rapidly. In this paper,...

Software as the true consumer of power and its potential contribution to reach sustainability goals is increasingly being acknowledged. Studies so far have presented successful results and methods to address the energy consumption of the software, indicating that different stakeholders striving for green...

We propose a statistical approach with which to identify the indexes crucial to classifying Chinese yams by shape. The proposed approach comprises two steps. The first step is to estimate the diameters indicating the shapes of yams along their length, and the second step is to characterize the shapes...

In order to improve trial efficiency and realize the automatic recognition of the micro-expressions of criminal suspects in the interrogation process, according to the characteristics of the human torso micro-expressions posture, A 6 points human torso model which is used to describe the human torso...

This was an evaluation of home respiratory therapy (HRT) services administered through the Madinah Home Medical Program (MHMP) Center of the Ministry of Health (MoH), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Using a retrospective design and descriptive analyses, we analyzed 83 patient records for the clinical...

This study reports the implementation of blended learning applied in early childhood education teachers training in PP-PAUD dan Dikmas Jawa Barat, Indonesia. Operationally, there are two approaches concerning the implementation of blended learning, they are conventional approach and online approach....

The use of IS believed to bring positive impact on the productivity and competitiveness of the organization. Most organizations in all sectors of industries, commerce, and government become fundamentally dependent on the use of information system especially startup companies. Start-up companies are considered...

The problem of radiation contamination makes the control relevant based on monitoring studies of large areas and large masses of the population. The issue of the development of measuring equipment base is relevant. The main quality indicator of radiation monitoring devices are random measurement errors....

This research was aimed at investigating effectiveness of CLIL to improve students' English for Mechanical Engineering (EME) competence. EME is designed for mechanical engineering students who learn English as a supporting subject. Two groups of semester two Mechanical Engineering student who had same...

This paper has the modest aim of exploring and problematising the ways in which the terms bahasa daerah and local language are used. It does this at two levels: the societal and the individual. This brief discussion has examined some elements of the terminology employed at the societal and individual...

The scientific article presents studies of three Armenian manuscripts of the 17th-19th centuries. These are Collection of Liturgical Texts, Hmayil and Herbal Treatment Guide (Treatment Book), originating from the scriptoria of the Crimean peninsula (Bakhchisaray, Kafa, Karasu-bazar). Manuscripts are...

Security and convenience is the main consideration for the user to select the Internet payment, and also the key issue of the development of the Internet payment industry. At present, on Third-Party Payment Platform, E-bank and other Internet payment platform, when users change the password, pay or transfer...

Recently mobile network technologies develop quickly. To meet the increasing demand of wireless users, many multimedia proxies have been deployed over wireless networks. The caching nodes constitute a wireless caching system with an architecture of P2P and provide better service to mobile users. In this...

Since the seventy years of the founding of New China, great progress has been made in the development of the culture industry of Shaanxi Province. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the education of cultural self-confidence at college has been enhanced continuously. However,...

Background: Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) can be biased by the measurement of carotid–femoral (c-f) distance on body surface. We wondered whether the estimation of distance according to body height could be used. Methods: Three cohorts of altogether 596 subjects (mean age 58.9 years) were studied....

This research is based on the phenomenon of industrial development in urban communities that have a social system of communities. The focus of the study relates to home industry management patterns and shoe product dynamics. Theoretically, the City community leads to individual interests with various...

Creative industry plays a big role in terms of creating Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in East Java that measures the size of a region’s economy. In 2016, creative industry in East Java still dominated by these top three leading subsectors - culinary, art and fashion. Performance efficiency assessment...

Motivation acquires crucial decrees in listening competences for the reason that it hands the students more self-sufficient to grasp their intentions. This study attends to the relationship between students’ listening motivation and anxiety. The objective of this study is to criticize the correlation...

Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) systems have been widely used in higher education as an effective e-learning platform. With its large user community and virtual facilities in various disciplines, including education, recreation, tourism, business, etc. Second Life (SL) has become one of the most dominant...

Due to the continuous development of medical technology and the improvement of people’s living standard, the average life expectancy of people is also increasing. Many developed countries and some developing countries are now facing the increasingly serious problem of population aging, with the elderly...

As the old saying goes “Hunger breeds discontentment”, appetite and sexual desire are indispensable and can be controlled rationally, which will last a whole lifetime. In this article, in the contrast between China and Japan’s family films, through food, table, time and city as a symbolic memory unit...

Sorghum extract has an allelopathic potential to control weeds. Allelopathy is the suppression of a plant’s growth by a toxin released from a nearby plant of the same or another species. One factor determining plants’ contribution to releasing allelochemicals is abiotic stress, such as drought. This...

In today’s society the marketing process is not only done conventionally but also the role of digital technology has brought changes in online marketing, making it much in demand by business people in promoting their products. As a result, business people are increasingly interested in implementing online...

This study aims to provide information on business development strategies MSBs in economic recovery post COVID-19 pandemic in Kupang-East Nusa Tenggara. The type of research used in this study is a qualitative descriptive approach. The sampling technique in this study was Proportional Random Sampling...

The COVID-19 pandemic causes many problems, one in particular is domestic violence. Based on various reports, the number of domestic violence cases has increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this study is to examine some of the literature to identify factors which increase in domestic...

This research is based on several teacher’s performance problems that arose recently. Some teachers do not have discipline in time; some teachers do not master the technology in teaching; and some of the teachers never make a lesson plan in learning process. This study aims to prove whether there is...