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Oil palm cultivation by smallholders is an agriculture sub-sector that urgently requires transformative changes to support rural development in Indonesia. A transformation of this sub-sector requires the adoption of new and innovative approaches that support sustainable outcomes. This paper presents...

Frequent shifts in political leadership in Indonesia often trigger conflicts through sudden policy changes that demand extensive social and financial resources. This phenomenon has generated policy fatigue, a condition in which society becomes weary of inconsistent policymaking, particularly when the...

Most administrative reforms in public organization yield unstatisfactory outcomes. They are blocked outright or implemented less seriously. However, empirical studies that seek to draw lessons from the experience of adminstrative reform implementation are rare. By case studi, the process of reform in...

The improvement of living environment is a key content of improving rural environment and promoting rural development. The report of the 19th national congress of the communist party of China stressed that in implementing the strategy of rural revitalization, it has always been a top priority for the...

It is estimated that the share of females in management of Russian business companies is probably the highest in the world. Even though, in Russia women prevail among middle managers, while their share remains small in the top-tier management and among the large business owners. A number of women, who...

The olfactory bulb is an important structure in olfactory information processing. Exploring electrophysiological characteristics of dissected olfactory bulb neuron in vitro is helpful to improving the understanding of the mechanism of the olfactory information processing. In this work, a novel neural...

Many educators still have difficulty in conducting online assessments, especially for those who have not been facilitated by the Learning Management System application or the like. Therefore, this study aims to develop an online assessment method that is effective and can be easily carried out by almost...

This research focuses on the digital literacy and social media tools on their roles, functions, and perceptions in academic and professional domains. The findings reveal that 89% of the respondents self-assess their digital competence while 91.90% have participated in some form of training on digital...

This study discusses the efforts of community reconciliation after the conflict in the plan to build a cement factory in Sukolilo District, Pati Regency, Mount Kendeng Area.The purpose of this study was to determine the background of the emergence of a conflict over the plan to build a cement factory...

Terrorism prevention is often focused on adolescents, even though it is true that the use of children in terrorist acts is a global issue. Few studies do discuss the prevention of terrorism in early childhood, a critical phase or golden age that is instrumental in the formation of a child’s character....

In recent years, the global economic uncertainty has increased and the fluctuation has become more and more intense. How to maintain sufficient financial flexibility to deal with the uncertainty of the market and achieve stable development is the current focus of accounting circles. It is also an area...

This study aims to explore strategies for competitive action conducted over time with a dynamic process model of the competitive interaction between firms with a top management team (TMT) psychological perspective. The data analysis was based on a sample of 124 respondents from the top management team...

In order to promote the service level of tourism supply chain, the fault tree of tourism supply chain was compiled to diagnose the service reliability, which is based on questionnaire. Via giving the calculation methods of top event risk probability and bottom events risk equivalent and taking Pingyao...

Nobel laureate Pissarides (2017) mentioned that the issue of low wages is not unique to Taiwan, But the trend in all countries of the world. Taiwan's labor market, five-day work week, low salary, youth unemployment, AI replaces work, etc., are full of incomprehensible questions. In this depressed market,...

The foreleg mechanism plays an important role to carry out climbing stairs and crossing obstacles for wheelchair climbing-stairs. Multi-sensors are placed on different site of the foreleg mechanism, and their measurement values timely decide and control the foreleg position and posture change. The driver...

Brands are an important carrier of cultural dissemination, and high-quality urban brands are beneficial for cities to gain an advantageous position in competition. As one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, Shandong Province has set the goal of building a strong cultural province and has made...

This paper investigates how Malaysia and India incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their operations. The alignment of sustainable corporate practices was identified and measured. The authors employed a qualitative research design to analyze data collected from numerous industries....

A series of aerodynamics experiments were conducted to identify the effects of lateral leakages to the wind pressures distribution on the porous wall of buildings. The wind pressures distribution on the porous exterior walls of buildings had been studied by aerodynamic experiments in wind tunnel. The...

Factors of national economies competitive abilities are researched in the article on the basis of system implementation of Industry 4.0. It is noticed that the majority of economically developed countries in their competitive abilities to a greater extent are focused not on natural but acquired factors...

To address the unclear transverse seismic mechanism of column-type bent piers, this study investigates the advantages of three-column bent piers compared to single-column bent piers in terms of force distribution and plastic hinge zones. Numerical models were established using OpenSees to analyze the...

R&D investment has already become the strategic investment in the process of the growth and sustainable development of enterprises. The previous researches indicate that the R&D investment is affected by corporate governance. It is of significance to research on corporate governance improvement so as...

A kind of distributed array structure micro channel heat sink is studied in this paper. The fluid height and the ratio between fluid and channel are optimized by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) thermal-mechanical coupling method. The typical heat sink is fabricated by UV-LIGA and non-silicon MEMS...

Nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a main cause of activity limitations, absenteeism, and high health care expenses. The prevalence of CLBP is estimated at approximately 23%, and activity limitation due to low back pain had been found in 11% to 12% of the population. Low back pain is consistently...

Cloud computing is a new computing technology with great potential value. It utilizes large-scale hardware and virtual resources to provide users with dynamic application services. In order to maximize the use of cloud resources, give full play to the maximum potential of cloud computing, mining efficient...

Malaysia is transforming and growing into an international educational hub. Malaysia is among the top 11th world ranking exporter in the scholarly discipline. However, there is lack of empirical study on mobility programme in higher learning institution. Recently, social media technologies become popular...

The Covid-19 pandemic has made school services done through online learning. Although the development of ICT-based learning has been introduced for a long time, most schools in Indonesia still use conventional methods for its learning process. Therefore, many problems were faced when the Covid-19 pandemic...

During the current pandemic, online learning is one solution to break the chain of spreading the virus. The use of online learning media is needed to support the implementation of online learning. The purpose of this study was to determine the intensity of online learning media used by mathematics teachers...

It is a fortunate paradox that research motivated simply by a wish to better understand the natural world can later result in the most powerful applications imaginable. By definition, the outcome of any research is unknown until the research is finished. The outcomes are even less predictable at the...

The stack is a very special data structure that can only be inserted and deleted on its side, and is a very special linear table. It in accordance with the first to go out of the order of the principle of data storage, that is, first entered the data into the bottom of the stack, the last entry into...

It is an important and hot topic for researchers to develop an efficient and robust feature selection method from gene expression profile data with thousands of genes and small sample size. At present, most of feature selection methods are constructed models to use all samples of gene expression data,...

Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases globally. Malarial infection is one of the top causes related to maternal and infant mortality rates worldwide. Malaria is the second most common cause of infectious disease-related death in the world, after tuberculosis. This paper will explain the importance...

Providing written corrective feedback on student’s writing is one of the ways to guide students in improving the quality of their writing. In providing written corrective feedback to student’s writing, the lecturer should select the appropriate types of written corrective feedback by considering the...

The purpose of this study is to describe the teacher’s perception of the task of compiling and analyzing HOTS questions. A quantitative approach with this type of descriptive research. The sample was determined by using area quota non proportional random sampling technique. The instrument used in data...

In order to investigate the seismic effect analysis of High-Filled Cuter Cover Tunnel based on equal load reduction rate and considering the timeliness of filling, three load-reducing materials, namely, EPS board, low-pressure solid soil and rubber granular improved soil, are selected, and the effects...

The stone terrace of Gunung Padang site located at the top of the mount, a couple of years ago had become polemic as the oldest pyramid in the world. Based on the results of the research, until now it did not find all data to support it. From archaeological thought, the stone terrace in the prehistoric...

This study investigates the integration of multimodal learning platforms in enhancing students’ English grammar knowledge in an EFL context. The research aimed to compare the effectiveness of two digital platforms—WhatsApp (WA) and Google Classroom (GC)—in supporting grammar instruction through multimodal...

Universities around the world are concerned with the student dropout phenomenon, which is particularly prevalent in the early years. Research indicates that the main reason for early dropout is the wrong choice of academic study domain. In this work, we have tried to provide decision-making support to...

An e-commerce web site is very much effective for visitors to buy on-line shopping achieving a high conversion rate which added a new explosion in the business sector. People tend to explore online for finding the items they need and buy in real time. For this companies use different machine learning...

Background: Molecular pathways leading to stiffening of the central arteries are poorly understood. We searched for differentially expressed proteins by urinary peptidomic analysis in patients with arterial stiffness and healthy controls in a case–control study. Methods: To identify urinary peptides...

Nigeria is an African country with abundant natural and human resources with an aspiration to be among the top 20 economies in world by the year 2020. Such objective can only be achieved through requisite infrastructural development projects within the Nigeria’s built environment such as road, power...

Suroloyo coffee is a type of coffee originating from the top of Suroloyo, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. One of the coffee products that has a distinctive taste in Suroloyo is Robusta. Processing coffee as a beverage depends on the brewing technique used. Coffee brewing is usually done using manual techniques,...

Mobile applications have become one of the primary ways people communicate, shop, organize their lives, play, and even work. About 40% of the world’s Android users are in China. There are many kinds of tourism and travel related app both available in the Apple App Store and various Android app stores...

Elective courses have become the focus of attention in the new curriculum reform of high schools. The effective implementation of elective courses has also become the top priority of this curriculum reform. The implementation of elective courses and the effect of their implementation have a direct impact...

This study aims to examine catalytic pyrolysis with activated natural zeolites. A pyrolysis reactor with three levels of separator as a result of development was used to study the catalytic pyrolysis of plastic waste into liquid fuel at intervals of 200 - 400 oC and operating time of 30-90 minutes. As...

The purpose of this study was to determine the reasons for Generation X to use social media and especially WhatsApp Groups (WAG), the interactions they were having and the impact their use of social media was having. A descriptive qualitative case study methodology on a Generation-X WAG in Boyolali,...

Objective: the effects of ozone concentration on the content of N and P in soybean. Methods: Taking Glycine max (L.)Mer. as an experimental material, the pot experiment was implemented in the open top chamber (OTC). The Three treatments with three replicates for each treatment were deployed: CK(atmospheric...

Social media is an alternative environment in practicing language and using language. The use of WhatsApp group nowadays is rapidly increasing, it aims for education. This study to investigate the students’ perceptions on the use of track-changes and WhatsApp groups as media for learning English structure...

The use of digital technology today is not only as a complement, but has become a top priority in efforts to provide services to the community, especially students. As managers, principals have a responsibility to provide access to digital technology and provide an understanding of how important its...

In view of the frequent occurrence of human activity loess landslide, this paper focused on the influence of the main human activities such as irrigation, excavation, loading and mechanical vibration. The most typical mechanism of loess landslide caused by irrigation was the creep liquefaction mechanism...

In rapid-changing digital world, cybercrime has grown into a worldwide danger that ignores borders, cultures, or laws. Because people now rely heavily on linked systems, getting insight into what drives hackers mentally is a key to building smarter defenses, responses, and probes. The research looks...