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This paper wants to know the various views among Indonesian and foreign scholars on the existence of sharia perda in Indonesia. Their various views traced from their works on books, dissertations/thesis, or papers written on the topic of sharia perda from 2000-2020. The following studies will compare...

The pandemic hits the world today has made educators and parents moved to develop attractive English learning media for young learners to keep them excited while learning from home. Android smartphone devices are currently popularly used for interaction media between young learners and teachers during...

In many countries in the world, the prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) in adults varies greatly between and within countries. Although it does not cause fatal effects, AR can affect the quality of life both socially and financially. Aims of this research was to determine the differences in the prevalence...

Science and technology is the primary productive force, and also the inexhaustible driving force for high-quality development, so the research of technological innovation affecting high-quality development has become the focus of all sectors of society. Comprehensively improving the capacity for technological...

Molluscs are a very diverse group, with at least 85,000 named species and it is estimated that up to 200,000 species occur worldwide. They also inhabit almost all ecosystems. The most well-known mollusc classes are Gastropods (snails), Bivalves (clams, oysters, mussels, and clams) and Cephalopods (squid,...

Tanamori, West Manggarai, East Nusa Tenggara, as a tourism destination area development in Indonesia needs to be supported by the existence of roads as the main means of its development. The road plan is in an area with heavy terrain so it takes a long transportation time. The limited time for completion...

Character issues are the most important issues in human life, so character education that emphasizes the ethical dimension of religion becomes relevant to apply. The author uses the concept of the ideas of Thomas Lickona and the idea of character education according to Yusuf Qardhawi so that it is hoped...

Technology has “two sides of a same coin”. Technology and digitalization transformation are inevitable in the 21st century because it has been in every aspect of life, where 21st century is called a time period known as VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity), due to its robust, and...

Computer tomography (CT) have been routinely used for the diagnosis of lung diseases and recently, during the pandemic, for detecting the infectivity and severity of COVID-19 disease. One of the major concerns in using machine learning (ML) approaches for automatic processing of CT scan images in clinical...

This study investigates empowerment implementation from Macro-perspective. By categorizing organisational structure into two types and examining companies in China and Japan, we adopted a multi-case study approach to explore empowerment in eight high-tech companies. Based on our two-by-two matrix, the...

With the pace of life accelerating and the development of the internet, short videos have become a main part of people’s daily entertainment. Lots of short video apps and platforms tend to replace traditional video platforms. The development of big data and algorithms helps short video apps easily attract...

Ambon Bay is divided into two main parts, namely the Inner Ambon Bay (IAB) and the Outer Ambon Bay (OAB). The quality of Ambon Bay waters continues to decline along with increased activity around the bay. This study aims to determine the health quality of the waters around Ambon Bay from a microbiological...

Gender inequality in economic development is a structural issue influenced not only by social and cultural factors but also by spatial conditions and regional characteristics. This article aims to analyze two key forms of gender-based barriers, glass ceiling and grass ceiling, through a spatial economic...

Smart City has many dimensions in it that need to be fulfilled gradually by every city that pushes itself into the Smart City development concept. One of the important dimensions in Smart City is Smart Branding. The aim of city branding is to attract the attention of tourists, visitors and investors....

The research in this paper analyses and compares the similarities and differences between arena debates and courtroom debates based on the basic research principles of debate, and at the same time provides in-depth analyses and research on two different occasions of debate based on the nature of debate...

With the rapid development of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies, virtual tourism is becoming a novel way to experience tourism. From the perspective of semiotics, this paper defines the types of future virtual tourism symbols and tourists’ identity symbols in detail, and studies...

[Aim] It is essential to set up a simplified causation model in the Grand Canal so as to prevent ship-ship collision frequently. [Data] from year 2018 to 2022, 217 ship collision accidents retrieved from Suzhou Wujiang section. [Method] To apply a complex network model, a visibility graph algorithm could...

Background: Arterial stiffness is increased with chronic inflammatory disorders. The reduction of inflammation by immunomodulatory therapy is associated with a restoration of arterial function. Objectives: To determine whether carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) is increased in subjects with...

Effective outpatient appointment scheduling aims at reducing patient waiting time and operational costs, and improving resource utilization, especially given the stochastic nature of patient arrivals. Unlike many western developed countries, China faces challenges due to imperfect appointment systems...

An unprecedented scale of lockdown has been generated in the world by the highly contagious virus, COVID-19. Consequently, the economies are highly impaired, since businesses are closed, firms stop the productions, and global trade is constrained. The pandemic is challenging the formerly existing economic...

Some studies have reported about adequate relationship between mothers’ knowledge and children’s oral health status. Malocclusion is one of the major health issues after dental caries and periodontal disease which can worsen the oral health-related quality of life. Promoting dental health among mothers...

Simultaneous localization and map building (SLAM) is a key problem for an intelligent robot to accomplish autonomous navigation. And the results of data association are of key importance to the success of the SLAM. In this study, two bottleneck issues constraining SLAM data association are discussed...

This paper presents the analytical calculation of the eigenenergies for a nanoscale symmetric double triangular quantum well (DTQW) in double gate InAlAs/InGaAs HEMT. The symmetric double triangular quantum wells formed by two similar heterostructures are separated by a barrier in the InGaAs channel....

To solve the low resolution of fuzzy association rule in airborne radar data mining using traditional quality measure, a fuzzy support degree improving approach based on QL-implicator was presented. Distinguished from The traditional approach which positive example was gained, non-counter example was...

In order to reduce redundant forwarding nodes and transmission delay, this paper proposes a 2-hop neighbors table based broadcasting algorithm. The proposed algorithm introduces two conceptions which are in-degree of two hop neighbor nodes and out-degree of neighbor nodes. It can reduce the number of...

Electronic Procurement(electronic auctions) aims to cut thechain ofbureaucracyandmake public sectorspendingmoreeffectiveandefficient. Thisarticlediscusses theimplementation process of E-Procurement in four regenciesineastern Java: Sampang, Kediri, Surabaya and Jember with emphasis ontheaccountability...

For those people who have just graduated from high school and become a major of Business English in a college, and who have just started a job involving dealing with correspondence in English, they have to know the fact that it`s not easy to use English language to write a letter in a concise manner...

Vocal music piano accompaniment plays an increasingly high role in modern music performance and receives generation attention of all sectors of society. Vocal music piano accompaniment art should be devoted to pursuing balance of various relations. Hence, higher requirements are proposed for the essence...

Li Bai lived in the flourishing period of Tang Dynasty in China. The flourishing period of Tang Dynasty was the heyday of the development of Chinese literature and art, with poetry and music as its representatives. At that time, "taking in everything with all flowers blooming" was the guiding ideology...

This study investigates managerial insights to facilitate the robust construction of a responsive and sustainable supply chain network. The two goals typically contradict each other because a fast, responsive supply chain may consume sizable resources. A fully optimized supply chain, which operates at...

The RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) can be defined as Automatic identification technology which uses radio-frequency electromagnetic fields to identify objects carrying tags when they come close to a machine reader. In this paper authors designed the analog part using frequency 13.56 MHz in the...

This article is focused on understanding the Soft power strategy in Russia and China. This article dwells upon the concept of “soft power” and its tools and common features, gives some examples of its implementation both in Russia and China. The authors of the article also analyze the impact of humanitarian...

In order to find an effective secret key generation scheme in wireless networks, many based on received signal strength methods have been proposed. However, the secret bit rates of existing schemes are relatively low. To resolve the problem of low generation rate, a vector quantization scheme is proposed...

Acridine orange (AO) and ethidium bromide (EB) are two fluorescent dyes for cell nuclei staining. The nucleus images by these two staining can make it easy to differentiate white blood cell (WBC) from red blood cell (RBC). We applied this principle to the white blood cell count by hemocytometer and this...

This paper discusses the influence of online brand community on brand loyalty from the perspective of community experience with five dimensionsinformation experience, entertainment experience, interactive experience, thinking experience and service experience. It is found that the impact has two pathsone...

Public transportation such as Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) was an alternative solution in reducing traffic congestion in major cities of Indonesia. Trans Mamminasata BRT was one of the urban transportation as part of the government program to provide mass transit for the people of Makassar. An aims of this...

Each person needs information according to his level, whether related to his place of work, or for other needs. Information is no longer as something that is only seen and serves as an information that can be used as a tool to increase knowledge, but more than that, information works a lot in human life...

The theme of World Water Day in 2015 is water and sustainable development, which arouse our great attention to clean water scarcity. There are two models in this paper. Model one is the application of system dynamics in water resources. Aimed at the dynamic nature, the main factors of level, rate and...

Genetic regulatory systems, self-organized systems and other living systems can be modeled as synchronous Boolean networks with stable states which are also called cycles. This paper devises two algorithms based on BDD to compute all the cycles in synchronous Boolean networks and enumerate all states...

Many buildings were built using zinc roofs in North Sulawesi province, Indonesia, there is more than 92 percent of buildings with zinc roofs. Buildings in humid tropical climates often face the problem of excessive heat due to the solar radiation accumulates, especially on roofs that can propagate into...

Code-mixing happens due to bilingualism phenomenon and it is possible to appear in various occasions. This present study deals with exploring the employment of code-mixing in the interaction of examiner and examinee in thesis seminar. Content analysis was employed as the research design. The source of...

The aim of this article was describing the result of research on man’s role in Bedana dance in Negeri Olok Gading, Bandar Lampung, Lampung. This research used qualitative paradigm with descriptive method. The techniques of data collection used in this research were observation, interview, and documentation....

Writing is a result of a process involving idea development and language competence. This study reports the investigation of the pattern of students’ effort of revising a writing project. This qualitative study used in-depth interviews to collect the data from two classes of advanced level students in...

This study aimed to investigate the associations between sleep quality and arterial stiffness in healthy postmenopausal women. A total of 31 healthy postmenopausal women aged between 50 and 74 years participated in this study. Objectively and subjectively measured sleep quantity and quality were concomitantly...

A brief summary A UV-Reactor prototype in the form of a UV chamber with an Internet of Things-based control system (IoT) has been successfully developed. The UV chamber that was constructed is 180 cm in length and is made up of three main parts: two control rooms and one sterilization room. The sterilization...

In this paper, we study the correspondence between the Coupled Dispersionless (CD)-type equations and the Short Pulse (SP)-type equations. From the real and complex modified CD equations, we construct the real and complex Modified Short Pulse (mSP) equations geometrically and algebraically. From the...

Identity crisis occurs because humans receive perceptions or pressures that raise doubts about their character. The issue in leather carving art is marked by low awareness of the local culture significance in creating carved products. This occurs because of a hyperrealist phenomenon in society, which...

The study reported here aims to figure out the language attitudes of the community members of the Konjonese language, a minority language in the Bulukumba Regency of South Sulawesi Indonesia. It involves three villages of sub-district Bonto Tiro; Batang, Bonto Bulaeng, and Tamalanrea. The study is descriptive...

Background: According to current ESH guidelines cardiovascular risk assessment is recommended in vast majority of patients with hypertension. However the groups of patients exist where risk assessment may be challenging. Aim: The aim of our analysis was to compare risk factors, and target organ damage...

Background: It is known that age, blood pressure and diabetes mellitus are determinants of arterial stiffness. There are no studies comparing impact of hypertension and diabetes on structural and functional carotid and aortic changes. Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate structural and functional...