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This research aims to develope Financial Web-based application For Indigenous Village Communities at Village Credit Institution in Badung Regency; the Province of Bali; Indonesia. This paper focuses on discussing the initial stages of the research namely investigating awareness and financial literacy...

Given that the number of ageing populations in Malaysia is keep rising, Malaysia must prepare for increased demands on healthcare and social services. Failing to adapt will give tension to public resources and jeopardize the life quality of the senior citizens. Although Malaysia has developed 379 old-age...

Nowadays, the increasing population aging and geriatric health problems have led many scholars to explore the issues of walkability, safety and comfort of walking environment for the old. However, a complete elderly-friendly walking system has not yet been constructed and extended for application. In...

Objective: The incidence of behavior problems is very high among adolescents. Previous studies have shown that behavior problems can affect the physical and mental health of adolescents. And behavior problems closely relates to adolescences’ academic achievement, interpersonal communication, and personality...

The binding of modern separate edition novels adopts the new styles while retaining the tradition, and gradually turns into the modernization direction. Western-style binding entered China in the 28th year of Guangxu (1902), and began to spread from the late 29th year of Guangxu (1903) until the 30th...

Local wisdom is a community tradition that can produce its own experience and may not be experienced by other communities. One form of Jambi Malay local wisdom is the marriage custom, namely Seloko, which is an old literary form known as an oral tradition that is produced, disseminated and passed down...

Ethics and morality is old and constantly updated topic. In the modern science and technology rapid development situation, study of ethics of science and technology is relatively backward. The times call for advanced and reasonable ethics of science and technology. Basic concepts and characteristics...

The purpose of this study is to understand the influence of economic conditions and social relationships on the choice of elderly care models. A face-to-face questionnaire survey was conducted by randomly selecting the elderly from a certain city, and 150 valid questionnaires were completed. Using the...

The long-term effects of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) apheresis (LA) on the progression and regression of atherosclerosis were evaluated by carotid ultrasonography in two severe heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemic patients with carotid artery stenosis. Furthermore, the lipid-lowering efficacy...

To accommodate needs of the society under the new normal state, universities have carried out many reforms from the perspective of policies. Due to impacts of complicated internal and external development environment as well as multiple social factors, concept construction is weak and even deficient...

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and Islamic finance are both categories of investment concepts which largely un-known, they have many things in com-mon: they rely on extra-financial criteria, and considered as attractive areas for de-velopment. This paper provides some clues on the complementarity...

Background: Arterial stiffness is the characteristic of early vascular damage that can be measured by several methods. Sphygmocor determines the carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV). Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) also measures PWV between heart and ankle, independently of blood pressure. According...

Old ancient dance aerobics is an exercise project which is simple to learn, rich in content and suitable for different groups of people. It can inherit and carry forward traditional culture of li nation, promote village culture construction of li nation, boost physical and emotional health of Hainan...

With the vigorous development of the trendy toy market, while it has significantly attracted new consumers, it also faces the dilemma of losing old customers. How to address the challenges of creative bottlenecks and audience change in the trendy toy industry has become a major problem. Based on the...

Acer elegantulum grows fast and is convenient for seed propagation. In this study, we used 2-3 years old Acer elegantulum as the basal plant material to make diverse shapes of vase, stylet and hedge. Later, some high ornamental value maples, including Acer palmatum cv. Dissectum, Nagareizumi and red...

Inadequate and unbalanced development of preschool education is a prominent problem of China’s education. development. In poverty-stricken rural areas, the population of pre-school-aged children generally exceeds the local capacity to provide services, resulting in some pre-school-aged children, especially...

A judgement of aesthetic in arts is, by sheer consensus, a daunting task that requires evaluation of a whole host of endogenous and exogenous cultural factors. A few of them can actually provide very useful hints in tackling foundational problems in Information Science in a more natural setting than...

Confucian philosophy of management is a treasure in Chinese traditional culture. It constructs the core value of Confucianism and establishes its historical status. In the historical records Confucian management philosophy can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, which is based on the essential features...

Introduction: Acute, gravity-induced blood pressure (BP) changes during head-up tilt may generate concomitant variations in carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV). We aimed to separate the pressure-dependent and -independent components of cf-PWV changes observed during head-up tilt. Methods: 30...

This article focuses on some opportunities and challenges that the global used clothing recycling sector faces against the backdrop of fast fashion. The discussion will mainly focus on policy comparisons among different countries, types of technological processes, consumer behaviors, and business models....

The construction of innovative country needs to cultivate and foster a large num-ber of top innovative talents. The top in-novative talents should be those com-pound talents in the fields of technology, management and engineering application, with a solid foundation of specialty, broad international...

The ancient site of the real return is a new research field in digital cultural heritage protection field, using virtual reality technology to reproduce the ancient ruins can be completely without changing the original appearance of the site, and retain the modification to reconstruct the landscape,...

The aim of this review is to find out the relationship between compulsivity and Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and the relevant interventions to date. AN is a type of eating disorders that includes two subtypes: restricting and purging subtypes. Females between 13 and 20 years old are more likely to suffer from...

Purpose: Studies support beneficial effects of isoflavones, but antidiabetic effects of these agents remains unconfirmed [1,2]. This pilot study investigates isoflavones and Inonotus obliquus (chaga) extract effects on diabetes. Methods: Diabetes was induced (streptozotocin 65 mg/kg, nicotinamide 110...

As one of the last works written by Flannery O'Connor, the Southern American writer, "Parker's Back" tells a story about the spiritual quest of a tattoo enthusiast, Parker. Research on this short story does not abound compared with that on O'Connor's other representative works, and in the corpus of it,...

The persistence of globalization comes from its endogenous impartiality. Globalization 1.0 and Globalization 2.0 are aiming at maintaining and expanding the interests of central states, however, no matter whether the central states participate in globalization or not, the Old-type globalization has been...

Dou Yin, known as TikTok, was launched in China in September 2016. This app allows users to create or view 15 to 60-second videos, soundtracked by music clips. After several years it was launched in the market, the downloads gradually surpassed the downloads of FaceBook. In this paper, the author analyzes...

At present, China has a large demand for education industry, with all kinds of education institutions on the market emerging in endlessly. Training that focuses on English training industry ushered in the explosive growth over the past years. New Oriental Education has advantages in the competition with...

Career decision making is a process of individuals realizing that it is an obligation and responsibility in making of correct decisions and being able to make it happen. Self-efficacy is a belief in self-ability to complete their task or responsibility. The purpose of this study was to determine the...

The Chinese-Indonesian ethnic minority is one of the minorities in Indonesia with a long time history of being treated differently, for example the Kerusuhan 1998 (the 1998 riot). Because of this riot, this ethnic minority experienced trauma, held negative stereotypes against the majority, and now tend...

Shape recognition in images represents one of the complex and hard-solving problems in computer vision due to its nonlinear, stochastic and incomplete nature. Classical image processing techniques have been normally used to solve this problem. Alternatively, shape recognition has also been conducted...

Based on the current situation and sorts of plights faced by one-children under the newly revised “family planning” policy, this paper reads, analyzes, and compares the past studies on “the problem of one-child parents’ old-age care” in The Paper (澎湃新闻in Chinese)and Xinhua News Agency (abbr. Xinhua in...

Background: Functional capacity declines with age leading to disability and increased cost of health and social care. In older adults, factors that influence the ability to sustain sub-maximal exercise (a marker of functional capacity) are not well defined. We aimed to determine the contribution of cardiac...

China’s population aging has accelerated mainly because of the continuous decline in fertility and the increase in average life expectancy. Since the implementation of the family planning policy in the 1970s, the overall population fertility has been comfortably below the replacement generation level...

Objectives: The occlusion of the internal carotid artery (ICA) frequently leads to stroke and develops most commonly as a consequence of arterial embolism or atherosclerotic thrombosis. Following acute care, if the patient’s general condition makes it possible, the patient is emitted from the hospital...

This paper examines the evolution of the images of key figures from the Three Kingdoms period across different historical documents, classical literature, and modern popular culture. Drawing upon historical texts such as the record San Guo Zhi三国志 and folk novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms三国演义, as well...

The study related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Yoga for Kids program, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) among children with ASD from infancy(sixth month) to middle childhood (12 years old) (Domain). The research topic-- “is yoga for kids an effective way to help children with ASD-- is inspired...

Imagery painting is an emerging art form that combines western painting materials with Chinese traditional humanistic ideas and philosophy. It is more or less influenced by Western modern art, and combines the concepts of “spirit”, charm” and “feeling for scenery” inherited from traditional Chinese paintings,...

Today, employment seems to be the key to almost everything. However, youth with disabilities (YWDs) face harder time finding employment compared to those able-bodied. YWDs are frequently not considered potential members of the workforce. Stigma, fear and prejudice continue to limit understanding and...

Recently Disney have rolled out the film Mulan which arouses a wide range of discussion. This research tries to find out how Disney film adapts a Chinese story in the Northern Wei period into an international film and why it is possible. Considering the deepening of the globalization and the development...

Background: Identification of intraplaque haemorrhage using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is expensive, technically demanding and sometimes uncomfortable. Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a new non-invasive technique combining multi-wavelength infrared laser light and ultrasound (US) imaging, able to...

Background: Preeclampsia is a common pregnancy disease characterized by hypertension and kidney failure. Recent studies have shown that even in the case of successful delivery, preeclampsia could induce long-term effects in the offspring. Nevertheless, the effects of preeclampsia on the cardiovascular...

Objectives: Non-invasive methodologies for assessing arteriosclerosis, including carotid intimal-medial thickness (cIMT) for assessing subclinical atherosclerosis and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) for measuring arterial stiffness, are well established and validated in adults [1, 2]. However,...

The revitalization of the Kota diamond village on the land of PT. KAI has a public open space concept in which there are various communal and recreational facilities, including mobile food trucks and suspension bridge water tours. The purpose of this research is a sustainable and smart city according...

The glycosylation with O-linked-N-acetylglucosamine (O-GlcNAc) is an enzymatic process found on nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins. Augmented levels of O-GlcNAc-modified proteins have been associated to cardiovascular disease (CD) in male. However, the association of O-GlcNAc and CD in females it’s not...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) is a highly expressed protein especially in endothelial cells. TG2 has several functions including transamidation activity which is important in several processes such as extracellular matrix remodeling [1]. TG2 activity takes place in aortic...

Guanzhong traditional residence is involved in the traditional residence of North China, whose space layout is still traditional courtyard layout of China. Due to the impact of geographic position, culture, religion, life style and customs, traditional residence in Guanzhong is equipped with the space...

In a business, inventory is frequently known as a source of contention. PT Petrokimia Gresik (PKG) is PT Pupuk Indonesia’s (Persero) subsidiary, an agro-industry company that the government always requires to meet national fertilizer supply to ensure food security and perform more efficient and cost-effective...

Combining the general trend of "combination of medical and health care", this paper carries out all-around research work by taking analysis of the development plight of the pension service industry as the main purpose and pension service agencies in Shandong Province as the main research object through...

With the development of the society, the progress of The Times, constantly improve the people's standard of living, people in the pursuit of quality of life also had a higher. But is also due to the development of the society, people's living environment and living space has been a great deal of pollution,...