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Understanding and perceiving humor in narrative text is not unproblematic. This is not only we have to know the background knowledge of the humor but also understanding the structure of humor in narrative text. As the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor at 2001, David Sedaris 'Me Talk Pretty...

Manganese adsorptive removal is an important treatment process in constructed wetlands to deal with considerable amounts of tailing wastewater, many materials have been proposed for its removal. This work is aimed to examining the potential of biochars sorbent materials for removing Mn ions from manganese...

A nutrition-related problem that profoundly affects the quality of human resources is the high cases of children with stunting. One of the risk factors of children with stunting is low birth weight history. The research aims to analyze the relations between lowbirth weight history with stunting cases....

Results-oriented education as an advanced educational philosophy, has been the people's attention and recognition, and has become the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries the mainstream of educational reform concept. The American Engineering Education Accreditation Association (A-BET) has...

The impact of the low level of community awareness on the banks of the Indonesian Citarum River in disposing of trash in its place, causes it to dispose of waste directly into the Citarum river. This causes the river to become shallow so that the tamping power of the river is reduced, and causes flooding....

The zirconium modified SCR catalysts were prepared by impregnation method, which exhibited high anti-poisoning properties. The optimal property was obtained by the zirconium modified SCR catalyst with Zr/V molar ratio of 1.0. The catalyst samples were characterized by the methods of BET, X-ray diffraction...

This research aims to produce a viable Ritatoon media for validity test media experts, subject experts and field trials. The research uses a model of research and development including the steps of product development and validation. The results of Ritatoon media product with sub-theme “Me and My Ambitions”...

This paper briefly explores the metaphysics of freedom and death through an analysis of the short film, Amito 502, from an existential point of view. It brings into philosophical light the motivating drive by which the film’s main character commits murder as a means of self-realization and a daring act...

would you please only email the master pdf files tAs the funding of practical education in school teaching gradually become rational, coupled with the increasing application of computers in many majors in colleges and universities, the construction of the virtual laboratory has gradually in the implementation....

Due to the long and narrow regional characteristics of Inner Mongolia, there are obvious climatic differences between the east and the west, and various meteorological factors have different influences on the development and utilization of solar energy. The abundance and stability index of solar energy...

This article examines the case of the border conflict between foothills community of Kelud Mountain (PEMKAB Blitar) with District Government (PEMKAB) Kediri. The presence of the East Java Governor's Decree Number 188/113/PTS/013/2012 became a flavoring condiment on this issue. Social construction in...

Plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) is the key inhibitor of the fibrinolytic system, modulating cellular responses associated with vascular remodeling. Elevated plasma PAI-1 has been positively correlated to systolic- and diastolic blood pressure, measured in the brachial artery, and is increased...

The objective of this study was to assess the patients’ perceptions of the communication skills of obstetrics and gynecology residents, highlighting areas where these skills could be improved, and comparing the patient perceptions with the residents’ self-evaluation. This was a cross-sectional study,...

The objectives of the study was To find out to what extent does the design of story book in English match the preschoolers’ language development, to find out how story book in English designed to cope with the Pre-schoolers, to find out the reason why story book in English designed as it was for pre-Schoolers....

Nowadays, inter-country marriages are no longer a strange thing. Differences in parental communication patterns and the use of more than one language in the family affect the process of language development in early childhood, which causes multilingualism and differences in word and sentence structures...

From September to October 2013, President Xi Jinping proposed " One Belt and One Road " initiative and received the support and participation of more than 100 countries and international organizations. “One Belt and One Road” initiative contains China's profound historical and cultural heritage, and...

This paper discusses about the plan and implementation of one of Indonesian Government duties for giving facilities neither physically nor mentally for the sake of the manifestation of the protection and growth development of children. Pamekasan as one of regencies in Madura has developed a Child-Friendly...

Digital transformation has allowed me to learn how to write online. To learn successfully in the digital age, students are required to be able to self-regulate their online learning. This paper first describes the changing face from offline to online learning. It then sheds light on the theories of self-regulation...

Red Palm Olein (RPOn) is the result of refining and fraction of Crude Palm Oil (CPO). In the conventional refining of CPO, carotene which is a pro-Vitamin A is intentionally removed to get a clear colored oil. This research is comparing between two methods are Method I and Method II. Method I is started...

This research aims to analyze five selected song lyrics from Queen’s Greatest Hits album, and it is to generate the meanings from the analysis results. The objectives of this study are to describe the types of interpersonal meaning by looking at the most dominant mood types and value of modality. The...

This article considers new form of the development of the children creative capacity development process – the online scientific-educational project “Children’s Academy of Inventions”. The main principle of the educational network is to favour the transfer of demiurgeous activity traditions through the...

This study aims to investigate the percentage of unforced error, error and point in each badminton shot of beginner single male players in PB. Bimasakti Ternate during the match. This study employed a quantitative approach by using descriptive methods. Moreover, the data analysis employed descriptive...

Objectives. Inhomogeneities of wall characteristics may relate to plaques in a nearby vessel. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association between spatial inhomogeneities of intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) and plaques in the internal carotid artery. Methods....

In 2017, I set out to trial a new approach to teaching writing and speaking to a distance student learning online. This presentation will outline the development of a teaching plan which exploited the relatively new affordances that online tools such as Google docs and Microsoft Skydrive provide to teachers...

Writing skill is one of the active language skills that is important in expressing ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Writing is also a difficult thing for BIPA students, especially for beginners with academic goals. The Indonesian language has the standard Indonesian grammar that BIPA students should understand...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the mediating role of Value Congruence in the relationship between motivation and organizational commitment in non-profit sport organizations. An e-mail sur-vey was conducted with a sample of 223 volunteers in 12 non-profit sport organi-zations in a Jiangxi Province...

During the coronavirus, the economy is experiencing the downtown of the business cycle, which is also the recession in the market. The GDP grows negatively and both business producers and customers do not have the confidence about the future in various industries. IHG, one of the giants of the travel...

Lithium-oxygen batteries (LOBs) are promising candidates for next-generation energy storage systems due to their high theoretical energy density. However, several challenges currently hinder the practical implementation of these batteries, and addressing these challenges requires the use of innovative...

This study aims at examining whether university students are ready to transform and adapt to the emergence of online teaching and learning, which serves as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The factors that usually influence students’ ability to change their learning habits and adapt to these changes...

In this paper, we present nonparametric tests for the two-sample scale problem. The proposed tests include as special case the B.V. Sukhatme, Ann. Math. Stat. 28 (1957), 188–194, and J.V. Deshpande, K. Kusum, Aust. J. Stat. 26 (1984), 16–24 tests. The asymptotic distribution of the test statistics is...

Countries in the Middle-East (ME) are tackling two corona virus outbreaks simultaneously, Middle-Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and the current Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Both viruses infect the same host (humans) and the same cell (type-II alveolar...

Pancasila and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika became the philosophy of tolerance to the dynamics of postmodern life of Indonesian society. The science education becomes the vanguard to provide guidance and counseling to the community to enter the dynamics of postmodern life. Currently the change is moving so fast...

Preparation and characterization of adsorbent from oil palm empty fruit bunches (OPEFB) activated with KOH has been done. Adsorbent was made from carbonated at 100 °C of oil palm empty fruit bunches and activated by using potassium hydroxide (KOH). The experimental design used was a randomized block...

From Shen Congwen’s Border Town to Wang Zengqi’s The Love Story of a Young Monk to Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out and Frog, the image of the Chinese “rural” gradually changed from the idealistic “Peach Blossom Land,” the traditional Chinese spiritual home of harmony and idyll, to the “Yellow...

The result of Baseline Health Research (Riskesdas) 2013 was found out that iron nutritional anemia is still being public health problems with prevalence ≥ 20 percent in adolescents. Anemia iron nutrition is still a public health problem with prevalence in adolescents of 13- 18 years and 22.7 percent...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “First time he kissed me, he but only kissed” is unveiling. Yet, it is often overshadowed by her more celebrated poems. This study attempts for a renewed perusal of this sonnet. This study will reveal not only figurative language, but it also historical background of the...

In this work we present a new hybrid approach for solv-ing the clustering problem for geographic data, which is known to be NP-hard. Two metaheuristics that have prov-en efficiency in combinatory optimization problems have been chosen for the comparison: Simulated Annealing (SA) and Variable Neighborhood...

The purpose of this research is to find and analyze the meaning variation of Kudus society to kretek culture in the framework of healthy and sick concept. Research data were analyzed using social construction theory from Berger and Luckmann. This research uses qualitative approach with case study method...

This action research aimed to study simple sentence construction using past continuous tense in teaching year 4 pupils using the ‘Connect Me’ model. This action research attempted to address the following research objectives which were to determine whether the use of the ‘Connect Me’ model can help pupils...

This study examines the key factors influencing consumer trust in Halal assurance, which is critical for the credibility and sustainability of the global Halal industry. A structured quantitative survey was conducted among consumers at Universiti Poly-Tech Malaysia (UPTM), yielding 188 valid responses...

This article mainly introduces the landscape poetry of Wang Wei in "Without me", Wang Wei as a representative of the Tang Dynasty landscape and pastoral poetry, his poems into Zen thoughts, unique quiet beauty, read his poems can feel the self-consciousness of a poet to the "Without me" of the state....

A novel microporous ZnO/TiO2 heterostructure, which consists of crystalline TiO2 decorated with amorphous ZnO, have been fabricated by a facile one-step synthetic methods. The results showed that the phase composition of the growing units and the intrinsic crystal structure are seriously controlled by...

Exploring the influence mechanism of sharing leadership on employees’ innovative behavior is a new perspective to understand the problem of “how to stimulate employees’ innovative behavior”. Based on social exchange theory and self-recognition theory, this paper introduces innovative self-efficacy as...

Over the years, microwave power has been used as a control parameter for the preparation of activated carbon (AC) via microwave heating due to the volatile nature of temperature inside the microwave. This paper investigates the use of bed temperature as a control parameter for the preparation of activated...

This study aims to analyze the obstacles encountered by students in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA) at Universitas Negeri Makassar (UNM) when completing their final projects and to identify strategies to accelerate this process. The study utilizes a survey descriptive, collecting...

Development of science and technology an important to improving of human resources, especially in the issue of education. The use of media in learning and training activities greatly helps the process of delivering material effectively and efficiently. The use of appropriate media will help encouraging...

Campus restaurants offer benefits to students who live on campus, live with their parents, or live in boarding houses, and they present opportunities to other businesses in the area. However, running a business as a food-service entrepreneur can be challenging because one needs an understanding of the...

Background: Referring to the risk factors for Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in adults, especially found on the staff of Dr. Hasan Sadikin Hospital are hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and stroke. Recognizing risk factors for OSA is very important so that OSA management can be comprehensive with improvement...

The use of relatively expensive and nonrenewable precursors such as natural coal is the main reasons for the high cost of commercial activated carbons. Agricultural wastes are considered as promising precursors for low cost and high surface area activated carbons due to their high volatile matter and...

In this paper, TiO2 photocatalyst with enhanced photocatalytic activity was prepared by Sol-Gel method with the assistance of urea. The specific surface area, structure, and the hydroxyl content were characterized by Brunauer-Emmett- Teller (BET) measurements, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and FT-IR, respectively....