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Purpose: Testosterone levels are decreased in hypertensive patients compared to normotensive subjects with similar age. Measurements of carotid IMT or aortic stiffness are reasonable for detecting vascular organ damage (OD) in patients with arterial hypertension. We investigated whether low testosterone...

Fe thiolate complexes Fe(bpy)(pyS)2 (M) were synthesized, the properties of complexes were characterized by 1H-NMR and MS and the effects of reaction conditions on catalytic performance had been studied. The results indicated that when the pH value of catalysis system was 11.6, ethanol/water was used...

In this paper, the application feasibility of HTS tapes on tokamak magnets is discussed and the existing four kinds of HTS high current conductors are summarized. Furthermore, an YBCO conductor structure suitable for a 10 GJ tokamak TF magnet is designed and the current carrying capacity is evaluated....

The aim of this study was to describe family environment support and formulate early family-based intervention program by describing the acceptance, belief, understanding, planning, and intervention of children with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The study used a qualitative descriptive method and involved a family...

The aim of this research is to test the effectiveness of bibliothera-py technique to decrease students' negative thoughts toward spe-cial need children. This research was conducted in an inclusion school where interactions between special need children and normal students are managed. One group pre-test...

Objective: Morning blood pressure (BP) surge is considered to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. On the other hand, there is increasing evidence that central systolic pressure (CSP) is stronger correlated with target organ damage and cardiovascular events than peripheral systolic...

As one of the “Four Great Chinese Classics”, San Guo Yan Yi (the Three Kingdoms) takes an important position in Chinese literature. It contains a lot of military terms like weapons, military attires and military strategies or tactics with unique Chinese cultural elements or connotations which may generate...

PU material is promising in pervaporation application. Polyether-based PU prepolymers were used to prepare a series of PU membranes. Then, the structure and properties of the above-prepared membrane materials were characterized by means of FTIR and swelling experiment. And the performance of pervaporation...

Two chiral poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) derivatives, poly(N-(tert-butoxycarbonyl)-Lphenylalayl (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene-2'-yl)methylamide) (PEDOT-Boc-Leu) and poly(L-phenylalayl (3,4- ethylenedioxythiophene-2'-yl)methylamide) (PEDOT-Leu) modified electrodes were used to recognize 3,4-...

Since a long time ago, most of mosque role has been merely for worship, mosques in Cirebon are included. Now, as time flies, the function of mosque in the area has transformed to be religious tourist resorts. The program has an impact on improving the socio-economic environment of the community. The...

Most of routing algorithms for On-chip communication are neither application-aware nor routing packets using multiple paths. In addition, they hardly consider link bandwidth variation resulting from widely applied global asynchronous local synchronous (GALS) mechanism. In this paper, we propose a bandwidth-based...

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely used as bone graft in form of porous HA/scaffold. This research has a purpose to fabricate HA scaffold by using different biotemplates and determine which biotemplate will give well pore structure on produced HA scaffold. First, HA scaffold obtained used bamboo template....

PT. Tangguh Samudera Jaya is a stevedoring company which operates the wharf 303, 304, and 305 at Terminal 3 in Tanjung Priok Port. Terminal 3 is predominantly serving international container stevedoring and small portions of domestic containers. Every time a vessel berths at Terminal 3 Tanjung Priok...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore the physiological vascular adaptation to exposure to high altitude and to test the hypothesis that its impairment might play a role in the pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness (AMS). Methods: 34 healthy volunteers (age 38±11years, 13 women) were studied...

Background: In patients with Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) a greater prevalence of structural and functional cardiovascular (CV) alterations has been described, possibly explaining the higher incidence of CV events, as compared to subjects matched for age and sex. Aim of this study was to analyze...

The National Narcotics Agency (BNN) is an investigator of money laundering crimes mandated by UUPPTPPU Number 8 of 2010 concerning the Prevention and Eradication of Money Laundering which acts against money laundering crimes whose origins are from the practice of circulating narcotics and psychotropic...

This research investigated the aspartate kinase (AK) of Corynebacterium pekinense (CpAK). The amino acid residue A297, which is closely related to feedback inhibition, was selected for site-directed mutagenesis, high-throughput screening, and enzyme kinetic analysis. In this research, the enzyme activity...

Quality of Work Life as a contemporary perspective on HRM is related to meaningful, satisfying, and effective work environment that meets with the organizational and personal needs. Moreover, having quality of work life will lead to better well being of the workers and society. This 3 years long study...

Aims of this study is to determine the level of community participation and understanding the forms of participation to reduce disaster management in Tanjung Sari village, district of north Cikarang, Bekasi. This research is a descriptive qualitative which is describes and sets out the findings in the...

Solar photovoltaics (PV) on building rooftops is a major contributor to the decarbonization of energy systems and provides electricity close to consumption. However, high shares of PV challenge distribution grids and require energy storages due to the fluctuating daily and seasonal production profile....

Education can prepare the young generation in the future to build their knowledge which makes learning more meaningful by using media. One of the media that can be used is interactive learning media in the form of articulate storylines. This study aims to determine the significant influence between articulate...

Stunting remains a major issue in Kecapi Jepara Village, driven by factors such as unbalanced nutrition, low birth weight, low maternal education, and inadequate prevention services. To ad-dress this, the SiD1A application has been introduced to enhance the competence of PKK (Family Welfare Empowerment)...

Background: Vascular structural(intima-media thickness, IMT) and functional(carotid stiffness, cPWV)alterations are related to different pattern of left ventricular (LV) geometry in general populations and in hypertensives. The relationship between vascular damage and LV geometry has not been analyzed...

A new class of distribution function based on the symmetric densities is introduced, these transformations also produce nonnormal distributions and its pdf and cd f can be expressed in parametric form. This class of distributions depend on the two parameters, namely g and h which controls the skewness...

During the construction of inclined shafts mouths in Kuzbass mines cast-in-situ concrete or reinforced concrete support is applied. Due to coal production increase, there is a necessity to build new coal enterprises, and as a consequence, the necessity to construct inclined shafts and mouths of the inclined...

The high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard was developed by JCT-VC in 2010 and was officially released in 2013. Compared to the previous video coding standard of H.264/AVC, HEVC can save about 50% bit-rate for equal perceptual video quality, but the computational complexity significantly increases....

Background: Postprandial regulation of central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) is impaired by obesity-related disorders. The present study aimed to examine the effect of hypocaloric diet intervention on cSBP when performing oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in overweight/obese men and explore its mechanism. Methods:...

Background: Vascular calcification is a marker of atherosclerotic burden and is associated with increased risk of cardiac events. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between clinical cardiac risk factors and aortic root calcification (ARC) in patients with a coronary calcium score...

Objective: To study the effect of propranolol on osteoclasts. Methods: (1)propranolol at the doses of 10-2 µmol/ml, 10-3 µmol/ml, 10-4 µmol/ml, were added into the osteoclasts for coculture for 72 h, then tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) and toluidine blue staining was used to detect the effects...

Research was carried out on determination of the Seismic vulnerability index and sediment thickness using the HVSR method in Mamuju, Tapalang and Malunda districts from June 30 to July 1 2021. This research aims to determine the thickness of the sediment layer at the research site and determine the value...

People are using customer satisfaction scores as consideration to set new goals and grow their business. In customers’ sight, a satisfaction score can be seen as a reasonable rating that shows how good the business quality is. They prefer businesses with high ratings over others. Customer satisfaction...

In China, boarding schools in remote regions have become the primary living and learning environments for millions of left-behind children. Yet little is known about how dormitory environments influence their residential well-being. This study examines newly constructed dormitory buildings at H School,...

Background: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (aoPWV), the gold-standard measurement of arterial stiffness, has been found associated with cardiac and vascular organ damage. Less information is available with regard to the correlation between local carotid stiffness (CS) and cardiac and vascular preclinical...

Coffee consumption is increasing and it has become part of people’s lifestyle, so there is a need for an innovation in coffee making with the addition of local ingredients such as tiwai onions. This study analyzed the chemical profile using FTIR and the antioxidants of coffee, tiwai and their mixtures....

The aim of this work was to optimize the distillation conditions for extracting cinnamomum cassia oil from cinnamomum cassia bark by steam distillation. The orthogonal test was conducted to investigate the effects of the three main factors on cinnamomum cassia oil yield, including the solid-liquid ratio,...

This study aims to determine the classification of sectors that make up GRDP and trigger economic growth in Ende district. The method used in this research is quantitative descriptive analysis using Klassen’s typology analysis.The sectors that trigger economic growth in Ende district for the 2015-2019...

Multi - level inverters (MLIs) have emerged as a vital component in modern power electronics, offering superior performance in medium and high-power applications such as electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and industrial drives. By synthesizing a staircase waveform from multiple voltage levels,...

Objective: This study aims to compare the cytotoxicity and adhesion difference between oxalate monohydrate (COM) and dehydrate (COD) crystals and African green monkey kidney epithelial cells (Vero). Methods: Through the detection of cell viability, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release amount, expression...

Porphyrin and its derivatives are widely investigated for cancer therapy because of their high selectivity to cancer cells. By labeling gamma and beta emitting-radionuclides to a porphyrin which selectively binds to the cancer tissue will produce a safe and potential radiopharmaceutical. The present...

In this paper, Fe thiolate complexes Fe(phen(pyS)2 (M) were synthesized and the properties of complexes were characterized by 1H-NMR and MS. The effects of reaction conditions on performanceof Fe thiolate complexes Fe(phen(pyS)2had been studied. The results of catalytic performance implied thatwhen 2.0...

This study was conducted to determine the effect of organizational commitment on turnover intention. Respondents numbered 81 people from all departments in the hotel. Questionnaires with a 5-point Likert scale were used to measure 21 indicators of organizational commitment and turnover intention. Data...

A State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) is a company business entity in which all or most of its capital is owned by the state through direct participation from the separated state assets. The research method in the present study is normative juridical supported by library data. Violation of the principle of...

This paper empirically examines the impact of ESG performance of power enterprises on their financing costs by constructing A fixed-effect model, combining the generalized moment estimation method of the system and the instrumental variable analysis method, based on 451 listed companies of A-share and...

The rapid evolution of autonomous transportation networks and smart mobility solutions has necessitated the integration of adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) models to enhance public engagement, optimize traffic flow, and ensure predictive traffic management. This research proposes a human-centric...

Inclusive education is an educational service system that provides opportunities for all children to study together in the school with attention to diversity and individual needs. This research aims at knowing about how school doing identifying all children as special individual needs. This study uses...

Central blood pressure is increasingly considered to be more predictive of cardiovascular events than peripheral pressure. Central systolic pressure (cSBP) can be estimated from the late systolic shoulder (pSBP2) of the radial pulse waveform. The Omron HEM-9000AI utilizes this technique to non-invasively...

Community pharmacists are the most accessible healthcare professionals. Recently, the increasing trend of tramadol and gabapentinoids prescription has become a global problem, with a high risk of misuse and abuse. This study mainly assessed the knowledge and practice of Lebanese pharmacists regarding...

Background: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) was considered to be with the severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients, which implies a potential therapeutic target for treatment. We aimed to evaluate the safety and initial efficacy of Tocilizumab treatment for COVID-19 patients. Methods: In the retrospective study,...

This article describes the sub-themes chosen by the principal in the moral debate program. This research is included in survey research. Respondents of this study were the Principals of the State Elementary Schools of Malang City, East Java, Indonesia, with a total of 82 school principals as respondents....

Epoxy resins (EP) are high-performance thermosetting polymers that are often used in construction applications because they are very stable in size, strong, resistant to chemicals, and attach well to other materials. But because they are naturally brittle, they can’t be used in situations where there...