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The conflict between two martial arts colleges is very interesting to study. This study aims to identify sources, types of prejudice and ways to reduce prejudices. This study uses qualitative methods with phenomenological approaches and data analysis models of Moustakas. Data collection techniques using...

A trade war is a conflict that occurs between two or more countries in the sector of trade. The conflict can be seen in the case of an increase in tariffs or other obstacles made to disrupt the economic balance of a country, so that the country changes its economic policy or trade. One issue in trade...

Performance pay is an important part of higher vocational education with independent distribution rights. Performance salary reform is a major change in the higher vocational salary system. At present, the salary of most of the higher vocational teachers is mainly composed of three parts: post salary,...

Hierarchical teaching is a process that completes the individualization of students' learning and the synchronization of teachers' guidance and makes teaching become an efficient and unified process for teaching and learning activities. In the course of this research, students from the Jingdezhen Ceramic...

Male is one of the risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases. It is suggested that testosterone (T) may contribute to cardiovascular events, which is initiated by platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation. Endothelial cells (EC) prevent platelet activation by synthesizing and releasing...

The study examines the impact of mergers on accounting performance of Greek listed firms involved in mergers. More specifically, we studied a sample of thirty-two absorbed listed firms in four sectors (primary sector, technology-intensive industrial sector, commercial and services sector, construction...

Introduction: Previous studies show contradictory results related to the vascular effects of coffee; they suggest that caffeine increases arterial stiffness and negatively impacts vascular health, the aim of this study is to evaluate the acute coffee effects on the vascular stiffness. Methods and materials:...

Translation is the process of transferring one language to another language by changing source language (SL) into target language (TL). Translation is the changing of one language into other language (Webster, 1984). Translation involves a process of language transmitting that turns out to be problematic...

This paper investigates a phenomenon of leadership and factors that determine the formation of an efficient leader. The methods of analysis, comparison, concretization, generalization are used as the operation methods. With the help of action methods scientific theories, confirmed practically, are systematized,...

The conversion of maltose into trehalose has important applications in the manufacture of food and other products. The enzyme trehalose synthase (TreS) catalyzes the interconversion of maltose and trehalose with glucose as a byproduct. In this study, treS was cloned from Pseudomonas stutzeri Qlu3 genomic...

As a reliable technology for connecting a new steel element to the existing concrete structures, the post-installed anchorage is widely used in the field of structural retrofit and strengthening. In order to analyze the mechanical behavior of post-installed anchorage between steel and concrete under...

This paper presents a method of relat-ing optimism and pessimism to multiple criteria decision analysis based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets. We develop the concepts of optimistic and pessimistic point operators to measure optimism and pessimism, respectively. Furthermore, we provide an approach to effectively...

This paper discusses on how the Kohonen Self-Organizing Map (KSOM) is used as a tool to cluster and classify the tropical wood species. Wood features have been extracted through the use of two features extractors; Basic Grey Level Aura Matrix (BGLAM) and Statistical Properties of Pores Distribution (SPPD)...

This study deals with determining service quality of municipalities of Srebrenica, Bratunac, and Milici in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The research is conducted using a questionnaire based on SERVQUAL model which comprises two subscales, one referes to customers’ expectations and another for their perception...

Considered is the dictemic theory within the framework of the general teaching of grammar. The paper shows that the discovery of the dicteme as an elementary unit of text is connected with the analysis of the segmental hierarchy of language. The investigation has led to identifying an additional level...

Two overriding principles are supporting good lesson planning. One is variety, the other is flexibility. The first one means involving students in many different types of activity and where possible introducing them to a wide selection of materials. Flexibility refers to a teacher’s capability to use...

The paper aims to identify the Javanese cultural concept, especially from how the women preserve their politeness strategies in the short film, Tilik, produced by the Racavana Films in 2018. To accomplish the goals, this research applied a descriptive qualitative method that involves attention to document...

Dickens’s “A Tale of Two Cities” was written in Britain, where the labor movement was fierce in the 1850s. The novel depicts the violence and inhumanity in Paris during the French Revolution, while London is portrayed as a savior. Through the comparison of killing and redemption, the novel actually constructs...

This study compares the use of profanity expressions in Japanese and Indonesian languages on the Twitter social media platform by examining profanity expression forms based on six categories, namely genital terms, excretory terms, animal terms, anatomical terms, imbecilic terms, and general terms, as...

There are two concepts of religion in the worldview: world religion and local religion. The world religion paradigm dominates society, so the representation of local religion will always look primitive and strange. Local religions will always be illustrated with backwardness and world religions that...

This study aims to find out the use, connotative meaning, and types of Indonesian idioms based on animal names. The data in this study were taken from Indonesian-language articles contained in news articles, short stories, and opinions on the internet. This research resulted in three major findings....

Mental health accompanies every human being inevitably and has great significance in helping people address life stress and realize their abilities. However, mental health is also a double-edged sword, which mental health issues can hinder people from carrying out daily activities normally and keeping...

Libraries are moving beyond exploratory pilots toward task-focused Artificial intelligence (AI) deployments embedded in technical services and public-facing operations. This article synthesizes the strongest available evidence on implemented systems and proposes a pragmatic framework for evaluation,...

Personalized Learning (PL) has evolved to address the unique needs of individual learners by adapting content delivery based on preferences, prior knowledge and contextual factors. This paper presents a comparative study between two personalized learning models-CEPL (Context Emotion Personalized Learner)...

.The implementation of regional government is greatly influenced by the massive development of communication and information technology. Communication between regional governments and the community and openness of public information are fundamental in local democracy. The flow of democratization has...

The dried fish market: a central economic source for coastal communities in Bangladesh, threatened by the substitution of species, misdescription and low product quality. All these associations have grave implications for the long-term survival of the industry. This work grants a novel image-based platform...

Writing is an extremely important means of communication in the modern world, either in the traditional form or through e-mail. However, English writing has long been viewed as a challenge to most Chinese college students because of their weak language foundation, limited expanse of ideas and less targeted...

Welding structure is widely used in impellers fitted on the large centrifugal compressor and the crack propagation life prediction is studied based on the fracture mechanics. First the finite element structure strength analysis is carried on the three-dimensional entity model of the impeller, and the...

In this paper, different proportion of activated carbon was added to the Rehmannia glutinosa continuous cropping soils including first and second stubble to adjust the phenolic acids content and microbial biomass and improve the soil environment after continuous cropping. Results showed that vanillic...

Two support equipment range merging optimization methods, i.e. direct optimization method and dynamic programming optimization method, were proposed in this paper. Direct optimization method is more suitable for simple systems with only limited types of support equipment, while dynamic programming optimization...

The treble-circuit transmission lines are widely used to increasing energy transportation efficiency and saving land. Because of symmetrical electric structure, the treble-circuit transmission lines suffer from lightning trip-out for more than one circuit in a lightning strike. In this paper, an analysis...

Background: Current data from the Middle East suggest a rapid increase in the incidence of smoking water-pipes (narguileh in Lebanon) in parallel with cigarettes. The social context in which these two behaviors are initiated and associated has not been studied. Methods: Data from a standardized questionnaire...

This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of Malay translated version of the brief questionnaire of smoking urges (QSU-Brief). The translation procedure was done following the standard guidelines. The reliability and validity of the Malaysian version scale were evaluated based on the data...

The article analyzes models of phase equilibrium of water in rocks, where a mineral matrix is treated as an assembly of particles with a determined effective molar mass, depending on dispersibility and surface properties of the mineral matrix. This provides an opportunity to develop a model of phase...

Multi-level inverter is now becoming an efficient and promising technology in sorts of applications, especially in high level voltage inverters. However, the unbalanced voltages between two DC-link capacitors while operating the Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) three-level inverters is an inherent problem,...

End statin is an endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis, specifically acting on endothelial cells, inhibiting its migration, inducing its apoptosis, thus inhibiting the forming of new vessels and tumor growth. But it is not clear about the synergetic mechanism, action characteristic and best regimen. This...

Under the modern enterprise system, it is an inevitable problem for the management to act according to their own interests when making decisions. Therefore, the attitude of management in making decisions will inevitably affect the proportional relationship in the capital structure of the company. In...

Caffeine, which contains a psychoactive substance that has a stimulating effect, plays a part in societal lifestyle, as well as being part of college students’ lifestyle. College students often consume caffeine during the night and morning to help them improve their attention and performance in doing...

Self-concept has been considered as one of the determining factors of a student’s success in learning. A student organization such as drama club can be a place where students build certain self-concept. The current study is aimed at investigating students’ EFL self-concept in relation to their involvement...

Achievement motivation is a hard intention followed by a hard effort which owned by the students in order to reach high learning outcomes. This research at aims to find out the difference of students' learning outcomes as an effect of achievement motivation in writing English descriptive paragraph through...

This paper aims to establish the relationship between two apparent disparate problems: (i) the aggregation of uncertain information modelled by type-1 fuzzy sets via OWA mechanism, and (ii) the computation of the centroid of type-2 fuzzy sets. In order to cut down the computational complexity of the...

The research and application on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is a topical issue in the present computer network field. The current P2P systems can be separated into two types. One is structured and the other non-structured. The Structured P2P system is based on the principle of DHT which aims to solve some of...

Assessing the geometry of the coronary arteries in a patient can help to better explain coronary artery disease (CAD) development. Allometric scaling functions were successfully applied to describe how essential materials are transported through recursive networks, also observed in the coronary tree....

This survey research aims to explore the challenges of using technology in Physical Education. The data was taken through a survey using an open-ended questionnaire that has been distributed through Google forms which were distributed over two months and five days. The population is 49 Physical Education...

For research on the effectiveness of photoshop graphic design computer learning is used a workshop learning model. The learning model chosen was the Jigsaw cooperative learning model and the Group Investigation type. The difference between the two models is that in the type of Jigsaw grouping there are...

This research was aimed to finding out whether it’s related to the Exchange Rate of Rp/USD, Net Foreign Fund (NFF), Consumer Price Index (CPI) to the Jakarta Composite Index (JCI). The population are all data on the exchange rate of Rp/USD, data on all share purchases by foreign investors, all data on...

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly evolving global pandemic for which more than a thousand clinical trials have been registered to secure therapeutic effectiveness, expeditiously. Most of these are single-center non-randomized studies rather than multi-center, randomized controlled trials....

This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in 40 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990–2015. Granger causality tests are applied to infer direction of causality, and the generalized two-stage least squares instrumental...

Intestinal cells play a significant role in human physiological metabolism, immune protection, and development and control of nervous system diseases. With the flourishing development of artificial intelligence technology and arrival of intestinal cellular research enthusiasm, how to obtain knowledge...

The purpose of this study was to assess the financial performance of the Jambi City Government using the Brown analysis method. The data used in this study is quantitative data sourced from the BPK RI Audit Result Report Jambi representatives for the period 2016 to 2019. Measurement of the financial...