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Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) are increasingly recognised as essential instruments for advancing sustainability and transparency in the construction sector. Yet, their development, application, and policy uptake remain unevenly distributed across the Global North and South. This systematic...

Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarette), of which the health effects are still unknown, have been sold in Indonesian market since 2010. We sought to examine the portrayals of harms and benefits of e-cigarette in online news media as they have been the new main source of information among Indonesians. This...

As the mainstream model of world economy development, green economy has always advocated green and management concepts throughout the process of economy development in our country. In the meantime, in order to speed up the reality of green development that realizes the long-term plan for promoting social...

Illustrating the advantages and disadvantages of several commonly used methods to develop serial communication program under Microsoft Windows, this article uses a serial communication class through a third party, namely the use the Remon Spekrijse provided free serial port class CSerial the Port class,...

Background: Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the foremost single cause of mortality and loss of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) globally. A large percentage of this burden is found in low and middle income countries. This accounts for nearly 7 million deaths and 129 million DALYs annually and...

Background: Pregnant and giving birth women represent the population that is vulnerable to outbreaks of this infectious disease because of changes in physiology, susceptibility to infection, and impaired mechanical and immunological function. In neonatal outcomes, it was found that babies born to mothers...

Electrical machines is the main course for electrical engineering specialty. The quality of teaching has an important impact on the following professional courses. This paper provides reform and practice in the teaching approach for electrical machinery. By using multimedia development, internet google,...

The circular loop source is calculated by the method of inscribed polygon inner the circle or numerical calculation. The former uses decomposed polygon in each side with electric dipole, then stack all the electric dipole response; the latter adopts the method of digital filter to calculate the integral...

Reliability analysis of bolt-shotcrete support system is essential for the stability control of the underground tunnels. This paper presented a new analytical method for the reliability analysis of bolt-shotcrete support system. Considering the difference of the stiffness of each support unit, the bolt-shotcrete...

Currently we are battling with the outbreak of a new type of infectious disease known as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This virus causes severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 syndrome (SARS-CoV-2). The spread of SARS-CoV-2 from human to human becomes the main transmission source; hence the rate...

The purpose of this paper is to design a direct down-conversion system using sub-harmonic mixer with microstrip lines, it is also called a zero intermediate frequency system. By utilizing the direct conversion configuration, it can not only avoid to use an additional voltage controlled oscillator and...

Influences of curing period and dry density on Moisture content and compressive strength were investigated through eight different densities of foamed concrete be in 650 kg/m³ to 850 kg/m³. The research results show that foam concrete in same age stages with increasing dry density, compressive strength...

Programs in the event-driven style that are typical of mobile and/or Web applications are becoming complex and hard to maintain. For the purpose of reducing the burden put on software developers while reading source code to understand its details, we propose a tool for supporting program understanding,...

The preliminary census identified that Yunnan abounds with out the 1266 natural hot springs and water covered, accounting for about one-third of total of hot springs, and the ranking the first among the provinces and regions in China. In nearly few years, Yunnan's tourism industry association suggested...

Mid-March 2020, face-to-face learning model transformed into online learning. This was done to break the chain of spreading the corona virus in Indonesia. There are various obstacles faced in online learning in universities. This research focuses on problems related to various obstacles that arise after...

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared by WHO as a pandemic and the Government of Indonesia based on Presidential Decree No.11 of 2020 concerning Determination of Public Health Emergencies. COVID-19 is a public health emergency that requires efforts to overcome it. In the education sector,...

The current COVID-19 pandemic which happens across the globe also affects Indonesia. This evidently hinders all sectors of human lives, including the field of education, as students must study from home and teachers give assignments through online platforms such as Zoom, Google Classroom, WhatsApp, etc.,...

With the adjustment of China’s civil engineering industry, the transformation of the economy, and the rise of new engineering technologies, traditional civil engineering development faces significant challenges. The trend of future development is oriented towards intelligent construction. This paper...

To enhance the water solubility and stability of curcumin and to enhance its antibacterial efficacy, this study prepared curcumin liposomes using hydrogenated lecithin as the primary material and Tween 80 for surface modification. The preparation process employed thin film dispersion and high-pressure...

Flexible DC cable has been more and more extensive research, compared to the AC cable, the effect of space charge on the insulation failure of DC cable is more significant. This paper summarized three methods to improve the space charge of insulating materials, namely: nano-partice modification, grafting...

Soil mechanics is an important basic course in civil engineering specialty. According to the characteristics and teaching status of the course, the course teaching contents, teaching methods, practice teaching, assessment methods and quality of teachers are analyzed in order to improve the teaching quality....

The proposed Yangjiawan super-large bridge is located in Lanzhou section of the Yellow River,constructed for Lanzhou-Chongqing railway crossing the Yellow River.This paper adopts mobile bed experiments to simulate the channel near the bridge site,mainly studies flow direction,velocity distribution,surface...

For a two-stage supply chain system which consists of a supplier and a retailer with capital constraint, the supplier provides the retailer with option contract. By establishing the ordering model under option contract for the retailer with capital constraint based on CVaR, the optimal order of retailers...

In batch hot-dip galvanizing, 0.2-0.3 wt% chromic anhydride solution is traditionally used as awater-cooling medium to prevent white rust. It generates a lot of chromium acid mist and wastewater, both of which are very harmful to humans and the environment. In our study, an environmental-friendly passivation...

AR technology is an advanced home automation system, which saves energy and time of design. How to reasonably use AR technology to solve the problems of long design cycle and high investment in the current home design industry, and focus on improving the quality of home space design from the perspective...

The forests in Yunnan province are dense and precious. Meanwhile, the forests fire happens frequently. There are ten models generated with two modeling methods in the study area, Yunnan province. In this paper, the spatial autocorrelation method was applied to analyze and evaluate the performance of...

The use of online assessment tool has been a debatable issue among teachers. However, it can be easy for teachers to assess students’ understanding. They could use an online assessment tool such as google form to examine grammar understanding. This study was aimed to find out students’ attitudes of junior...

The construction project of high-level universities is the most important initiative to achieve the dream of the strong country in education. It is a systematic project. All aspects including laboratory construction and sustainable development must be considered. The construction of the laboratory technicians...

Foundations of towering structures are usually subjected to complex multidirectional loads. For investigating the bearing behavior of bucket foundation in soft soil under vertical-horizontal composite loading, a three-dimensional numerical model was developed in this paper. Combining the Swipe loading...

The aims of this article are to examine the extent of the role and development of learning media in vocational education, focusing on the aspects that must be considered in developing learning media, evaluation of learning media, learning media for vocational education in the form of simulators. The...

The approach of Internet of Everything brings some challenges to the storage and processing of those connected data. Aiming at problems of complex construction process, tedious maintenance of relational table and weak expansibility of table structure when using traditional relational database to store...

Hypertension as a chronic condition requires long-term management, in which self-efficacy is a critical determinant of therapeutic success. Low levels of self-efficacy correlate with perceptions of inability to adhere to therapeutic regimens, thereby potentially increasing the complications risk. This...

This study explores the development of digital ethics literacy as a preventive strategy against cyberbullying among high school students in Indonesia. Recognizing the increasing prevalence of cyberbullying in digital environments, this research investigates the effectiveness of game-based learning using...

The purpose of this study is to understand the status of skills training model of "straight across area" of Yunnan nationality. Our program adopts field investigation, expert interview investigation, qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. The results suggest that the training model of "straight...

Spectrum sensing is an essential part for cognitive radio which is used for directly or indirectly estimating the states of primary users (PUs) to find spectrum holes for second users (SUs). Nowadays, some online spectrum sensing algorithms have been proposed but most of them ignore the time complexity...

This paper examines the investment performance of private pension funds in Hong Kong, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand, segregated by fund universe: Growth (equity), Moderate (balanced), and Conservative (bond) Fund. The adoption of hybrid model is a new attempt and all the three main categories...

This study aims to determine the potential of student leadership through students’ hobbies. The location of this research is SMA Lab, State University of Malang. The subjects were 738 students. The research design used is descriptive quantitative with survey method. The instrument used is a questionnaire...

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...

Possessing a good language proficiency could significantly help one to speak better. However, taking an online test in that target language could impact one’s performance. This paper aims to investigate online test anxiety in a group discussion among graduating students majoring in TESL. Oral interaction...

At present, talent training, scientific research, social service as the three functions of the university are recognized by scholars at home and abroad. Community as one of the important part of society, the university's community service function has been recognized in more and more areas. However,...

The usage rate of sucker rod centralizer more and more broad with the development of a sucker rod pump , adding sucker rod centralizer is very effective to reduce the impact of rod and tubing wear, increase the sucker rod and tubing service life, reduce the frequency of maintenance and the production...

This paper attempts to synthesize and critically examine the empirical research on online learning particularly in EFL classroom contexts during the time of pandemic COVID-19. The research articles reviewed in this study utilized several inclusive criteria including (1) peer-reviewed articles; (2) studies...

This research aims to create collaboration and communication skills assessment tools based on project based learning in improving students’ soft skills that are valid, practical and effective. This research design uses research and development method with Borg & Gall development model adapted into...

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...

Based on the research of related literatures on internationalization of higher education in the era of knowledge-based economy, this article divides internationalization of higher education into eight types of indicators: international philosophy and strategic planning, international organization setting,...

The shock tower, serving as a critical component of the front car body, plays an important role in the stability and ride comfort of the vehicle. In this study, a lightweight optimal design was obtained based on the original steel structure. Stiffness requirements for optimization process were extracted...

The Dai nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China with a large population and deep culture. Huayao Dai which lived in Xinping County, Honghe basin of Yunnan province, is distinguished from other Dai people by its distinctive clothing form. Based on a large number of field surveys, this paper...

This paper proposes a framework for constructing pet knowledge maps. The schema concept layer is designed and built top-down, and the data layer is constructed from knowledge extracted from semi-structured and unstructured data. In the aspect of entity extraction of unstructured data, a symptom-named...

The aim of the research is to increase students’ learning motivation in learning classification of living things subject by using android-based biology educational game that accompanied with e-module. The type of this reserach is is a quasi-experiment research with nonequivalent control group design...