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Traditional belief holds that goals of sustainable investment and financial returns are at odds with each other. However, progressive investors argue that this perceived conflict can be eased through a strategic approach that aligns economic goals with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations....

Cardiovascular fibrosis is a hallmark of aging. We had previously demonstrated, that a steroidal endogenous Na/K-ATPase inhibitor, marinobufagenin (MBG), plays a central role in cardiac fibrosis occurring in the context of experimental uremic cardiomyopathy (Hypertension 2007;49:215–24) via participation...

The conventional sliding mode control cannot converge to zero in finite time, and it has a feeble robustness because of its linear sliding mode surface with uncertain variable disturbances, in order to solve these problems, this paper presents an adaptive global fast terminal sliding mode control (GFTSMC)...

In recent years, with the development of augmented reality technology, the branded app has further derived with augmented reality function focusing on consumer experience, which has been widely preferred by consumers. At the same time, it has also become a new way for brand enterprises to communicate...

This research focuses on the translation strategies used in the translation of the song “How Far I’ll Go”. The data source used in this research is the lyrics of the song “How Far I’ll Go” in two languages. The source language uses English and is sung by Alessia Cara, while the target language uses Indonesian...

To explore the influence of family background on national identity and entrepreneurial intentions among youth in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and to uncover the underlying mechanisms, this study employed a random questionnaire survey targeting young people aged 18–35 in the GBA....

The effects of ionospheric delay (ionodelay) on the positioning accuracy of GNSS receivers at the University of Burdwan, India are presented. One (1) Hz dual-frequency GPS constellation data were logged for 24 h each day for a few days during the autumn season in October 2022 and the spring season in...

Weather stations are built to collect quantitative data on the weather conditions of a place. Monitoring the weather conditions in the current environment is considered to be very important because the erratic weather changes every day. This study tried to create a weather station that can be accessed...

This study examines the elements of Shariah governance in Islamic financial institutions in Nigeria. In this study, a quantitative research method is utilized to gather data via a survey approach using questionnaires. The data were acquired from members of ACE, SAs, academia, religious preachers, banks...

Background. Organic nitrates (e.g. nitroglycerin) are highly selective dilators of muscular conduit arteries. By contrast, the endogenous inorganic nitrite anion (NO2−) is thought to be a hypoxia-dependent dilator of small resistance arterioles, via its reduction to vasodilating nitric oxide (NO) by...

The laboratory heating thermoelectric generator (TEG) combinesthe phase change material (PCM) via solar panels, to achieve the integration of the electricity generation and adjusting indoor air temperature of buildings,to create “perpetually” powered sensor nodes that enable to harvest ofrequired energy...

In this paper, a smart home remote monitoring system was designed based on C++ and ZigBee. The system is composed of slave subsystem and host subsystem. The slave subsystem is a wireless sensor network designed by using ZigBee, it performs the real-time detection of temperature and humidity, smog, gas...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of brand awareness, perceived quality of the brand, brand association, brand loyalty, and brand image on the brand equity of local fashion brand among young consumers in Surabaya. Data from 215 undergraduate students were analyzed using Structural Equation...

In the famous 1910 “cinq variables” paper Cartan showed in particular that for maximally nonholonomic rank 2 distributions in ℝ5 with non-zero covariant binary biquadratic form the dimension of the pseudo-group of local symmetries does not exceed 7 and among such distributions he described the one-parametric...

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a global responsibility for every country, aiming to address discontinuities in social, economic, and environmental development. In Indonesia, the implementation of SDGs involves government agencies, organizations, and the private sector. People’s credit banks,...

The learning paradigm in the 21st century requires technology and the use of appropriate learning models in vocational education. Therefore teachers must be able to choose the benefit of learning models to be applied. One of the learning models that can be used is the Cybergogy model, a learning model...

Bereavement or the death of a loved one can come at anytime and is unexpected. Previous studies have shown that employees that experience bereavement require proper organisational support in order to return back to the workforce as a productive employee. The current study proposes that work life balance,...

Limited previous studies have focused on the benefits of social media engagement on psychosocial well-being. The present study explores the relationship between social media engagement, social desirability, and empathy. It is hypothesised that social media engagement enhances empathy directly and indirectly...

Introduction. Assessing arterial properties and hemodynamics in response to a physiological perturbation might provide additional information on an individual’s “vascular health”. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of measuring changes in carotid stiffness and hemodynamics in response...

Aiming at the problem of high cost of mechanics performance testing and uncontrollable of the experimental accuracy, a new modeling method which called "mapping model" based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) is proposed. The SVM regression nonlinear prediction model was established based on the small sample...

In order to find out the sensitivity of reinforcement factors that influences the geogrid reinforcement on slope stability of mine tailings, this paper designs the test according to orthogonal method. By choosing laying length (L), laying distance (D), laying angle (θ), tensile strength (T) and geogrid...

This research discusses the development of a smart kitchen system for MSMEs in the production of Palembang crackers based on the Internet of Things (IoT) which aims to improve the efficiency of workers in the production kitchen through automatic control of exhaust fans. The system utilizes DHT11, MQ135,...

Against the backdrop of urban stock-based renewal, streets within aging residential communities confront inherent spatial tensions between pedestrian safety and grassroots commercial vitality. Rigid one-size-fits-all crackdowns on roadside business occupation frequently undermine authentic neighborhood...

Legged robotic platforms offer enhanced mobility in constrained indoor environments compared to wheeled systems, making them suitable for surveillance and inspection tasks. This work designs and builds a compact quadruped spider robot using the ESP32 embedded platform. This architecture integrates obstacle...

The Covid-19 pandemic has spread fear and panic throughout the population, causing the tourism business to suffer. Foreign and domestic tourist arrivals have decreased due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This research aims to interpret and offer a summary of the impact of 360-degree video marketing (virtual...

In this paper, we propose a double color images encryption scheme based on Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) sequence, chaotic system and block permutation. Mean Square Error (MSE) of the double images, LSS and 2D-LASM chaotic systems are firstly employed to generate the key streams. Then, divide the plain-images...

Cubature Kalman filter (CKF) is a very popular non-linear filter algorithm recently. CKF obtains better numerical stability and accuracy in high dimensional situation compared to UKF. However, in case of process model uncertainty, the performance of CKF will greatly degrade or even provoke divergence....

Thanks to the structural transformation of consumption stimulated by the domestic economic development and the high-speed growth of culture industries, the “idol industry”, as a branch of the culture industry, has been confronted with great development opportunities in recent years, along with the gradual...

Reinforcement learning (RL) aims to resolve the sequential decision-making under uncertainty problem where an agent needs to interact with an unknown environment with the expectation of optimising the cumulative long-term reward. Many real-world problems could benefit from RL, e.g., industrial robotics,...

In this study, we proposed an application of alcoholism detection via wavelet energy and logistic regression. We collected data sets of 70 volunteers who signed up through advertising, among which 35 were with alcoholism and the rest were healthy. We first used wavelet energy (WN) to extract brain images...

This study aims to examine the impact of interaction with technology, interest, motivation, and netiquette, on students’ attitudes towards using the Metaverse in education. The scope of this study are business school students in Malaysia. Data was collected via questionnaire and analyzed using the statistical...

Distance Learning is an educational system with a broad reach not limited by space and time. At the beginning of 2020 or more precisely in March 2020, all education units in Indonesia implemented the Learning at Home program, or Distance Learning, since the Covid-19 Virus was declared to have entered...

Nanosponges are new colloidal drug carriers with nanosized cavities to encapsulate both lipophilic and hydrophilic drug moieties. They can circumvent the various formulation challenges associated with poor water solubility, low bioavailability, targeting, and controlled release of actives. Lovastatin,...

We construct all partial Noether operators corresponding to a partial agrangian for a system with two degrees of freedom. Then all the first integrals are obtained explicitly by utilizing a Noether-like theorem with the help of the partial Noether operators. We show how the first integrals can be constructed...

A novel photoelectrochemical biosensor incorporating nanosized ZnO semiconductor crystals with enzyme to enhance photochemical reaction has been investigated. In this work, the ZnO nanoparticles and acetylcholinesterase (AChE) were immobilized on Pt electrode by chitosan (CHI) via layer-by-layer technique...

Green Human Resources Management (GHRM) refers to using every employee’s potential to promote sustainable practices and increasing employee awareness and commitment to environmental issues in a sustainable manner. This is to the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) theory, where companies must pay attention to the...

Stunting is defined as chronic malnutrition or failure that occurs during the growth period and can be used as an indicator for nutritional fulfilment in children. Children who have insufficient or poor nutritional intake and have a short body size or very short growth status can put their intelligence...

This study develops a motivational model for online learning targeted at international students in Malaysian universities, exploring the influence of autonomy, competence, and relatedness on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, student engagement, and overall satisfaction. Utilizing a refined instrument...

Purpose: The paper explores the mediating role of results-oriented culture in the relationship between transformational leadership and the performance of results-oriented culture in Vietnamese public service organizations. Research motivation: Although there have been studies referring to aspects of...

On the basis of the thermoviscoelastic constitutive equation and classical Kirchhoff thin plate theory, the motion differential equation of viscoelastic rectangle plate is deduced. Then the expression of rectangle plate deflection under circle distributed dynamic load and temperature is deduced via Laplace...

In this paper, we proposed a novel architecture of a scalp electroencephalography (EEG) based rehabilitatoin system via brain computer interface with robotic and virtual reality devices. More and more attentions had been taken to the brain computer interface, because it is the only way for some special...

Rule-level feature selection, also termed as rule compression, is an important technique for improving interpretability of fuzzy rule-based classifiers. In this paper we present three different rule compression algorithms and analyze their performance and characteristics on the classifiers identified...

IoT (Internet of Things) is a system that allows the interconnectivity of various devices remotely via the internet. Modern IoT devices require a variety of options when it comes to connectivity. The IoT technology currently widely used is LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) due to its low power consumption...

The reliability evaluation of mine ventilation systems involves multiple indicators with diverse characteristics, making index weighting a critical step. To address the limitations of single subjective or objective weighting methods, this paper proposes a combined weighting approach integrating the three-scale...

A tracking algorithm for maneuvering target based on intuitionistic logic inference is developed in this paper. Firstly, in order to simply the calculation, the filtering measurement innovations tacked with the innovation covariance are used as the inputs for the intuitionistic fuzzy inference system...

This paper focuses on enhancing students’ ability of cross-cultural communication and their understanding of cultural differences especially in attitudes and values. Teachers can obtain the goal by providing cultural information, experiencing culture via role-plays, explaining culture with authentic...

This paper discusses on the necessity of functional changes of Yao nationality clothing in northern Guangdong province based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory in psychology. The research methods of literature review and field investigation were used to carry out in the study, and finally proposed...

Stored grain pests detection is essential for grain management. In this paper, we have proposed a machine learning method for stored-grain pest detection. We focus on crustacean pests detection using SVM. The 20 pixels width and 20 pixels height pests and background images are directly utilized for SVM...

Reassembling of shredded paper from a collection of randomly mixed fragments is a common application of computer vision technique. It plays an irreplaceable role in several applied disciplines, such as classical forensics, archaeology, and military intelligence. In this paper we address the reassembly...