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The study compared students’ reading comprehension and English vocabulary before and after instruction using two different instructional strategies: the original semantic mapping strategy and the semantic mapping strategy in conjunction with collaborative learning. The study involved two groups, one...

In order to quantify the fusion behavior of new and old asphalt during the hot recycling process, and to detect the degree of fusion of blended asphalt in different reclaimed asphalt pavement, this paper designs an experimental method to measure the fusion degree of new and old asphalt during the hot...

Apart from having a positive impact on people’s welfare, tourism in Bali also harms ecosystem sustainability, especially regarding the issue of the groundwater crisis. The increase number of tourists is of course accompanied by an increase in the need for clean water. PDAM is only able to meet around...

This study examined the effect of an interactive-based instructional approach on the science performance of Grade 6 learners at Batuan Elementary School. A quasi-experimental, non-equivalent control group pretest–posttest design was employed involving 50 learners divided into control (n = 25) and experimental...

The SARS-CoV-2 virus as the cause of COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic since March 2020. The clinical signs of COVID-19 are heterogeneous, such as 20–51% of patients were accounted have at least one comorbidity, with diabetes melitus (10–20%), hypertension (10–15%) and other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular...

Translation is a complicated activity for students to do individually. They face many linguistic and cultural problems alone, so their products of translation are poor grammatically, lexically, and mechanically. Through this research I surveyed their response and described how their opinions on the application...

Atherosclerosis was considered the main cause of abdominal aorta aneurysms. Many researchers suggest the presence of the association between these two entities. The aim of this paper was to evaluate the presence of atherosclerosis in the aorta and the arteries of the lower extremities, as well as stenoses...

Learning model are useful for helping students to learn and to provide an environment for interactive students experiences. Therefore, learning model has a strategic role especially for the achievement of entrepreneurial character building in students. Furthermore, the challenges that occur in the internalization...

The Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD-1)/Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs), have become a hot spot in the field of cancer research and treatment, and bring new hope to patients with advanced tumors. But, in addition to enhancing the anti-tumor effect of T cells, PD-1/PD-L1...

Introduction Head and neck cancer is the 8th with the highest mortality rate and a low 5-year survival rate of 40-50%. In patients who experience recurrence or metastases, especially in nasopharyngeal cancer and are HPV-positive, first-line immunotherapy can be performed through immune...

In order to study the application of roof directional drilling in thick coal seam gas control, and compare the input of roof directional drilling and roof high suction roadway, the roof directional long hole gas extraction test was carried out in Jincheng mining area. After the completion of the construction...

Few studies evaluated cardiac or carotid abnormalities in patients with arterial hypertension and diabetes according to the presence of peripheral artery disease detected by abnormal ankle brachial index (ABI). For this purpose, we studied 99 diabetic hypertensive patients with abnormal (n=50, ABI≤0.9...

The study aimed to determine the aerobic endurance (Vo2Max) of PJKR Department students at SD FIKK UNM, with a sample size of 25 male students. The survey method was employed, and the “Bleep Test” over a 20-m distance was used as the instrument. The results showed a total Vo2Max value of 879.60 ml/kg/min,...

X-type-slag is rich in Fe2O3 so that it can absorb microwave and generate heat easily. By replacing some sand with X-type-slag, cement concrete can improve the function of removing ice with microwave. The feasibility has been verified through specimens experiments tested in lab. The results show: while...

LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 powders were synthesized from co-precipitated spherical metal hydroxide, Ni0.8Mn0.1Co0.1(OH)2. The effects of the complexant (NH4OH) concentration in base solution on the microstructure, crystalline structure and electrochemical properties of the product were studied. The results...

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus increases as someone grows older. This increase is related to changes in lifestyle, including smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, eating patterns that lacks of vegetables and fruits, obesity, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia. This study aims to determine...

This research was conducted to determine the panelists’ acceptance of 3 pandanus amaryllifolius extracts and eucheuma spinossum. Formula hair tonic extracts pandanus amaryllifolius and eucheuma spinossum consist of PG helm, Aquades, Alcohol 96%, methyl paraben, menthol, D-Phantenol, armotan, pandanus...

Fats are a group of organic bonds consisting of elements Carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O2), which have soluble properties in certain solvents (fat solvents) such as petroleum benzene, ether. Flexibility is the effectiveness of a person in adjusting himself to do all the activities of the body...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of micro and macro role playing methods and children’s self-concept on social abilities of children aged 5-6 years at An Nisa Kindergarten Medan. This research was conducted at An-Nisa Kindergarten in Medan on Jalan No. 18 Medan in the odd semester...

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2). Anyone could have asymptomatic to severe symptoms. Radiological examinations, such as X-rays and CT-Scans, are needed. CT- Scan thorax is an examination to assess the progression,...

Abstract. Objective: To observe and analyze the application value in clinical diagnosis of the diabetes patients with blood lipid inspection. Methods: From June 2013 to June 2014 we select 50 patients with diabetes and 50 healthy people in physical examination as the research object, they can be divided...

Photonic jet is a localized sub-wavelength beam generated at the shadow-side surfaces of microscale dielectric cylinders or spheres, when they are illuminated by an electromagnetic wave. We demonstrate the potential of the photonic jets for micro-etching using a nanosecond Near-IR laser (l=1064 nm) that...

Identify the study of character values in the meaning of Yogyakarta batik motifs and describe the implementation of character values through the Yogyakarta batik vocational school. This type of research is qualitative research and Research and Development (R and D). The subject of the product trial was...

The Sports School is a school that facilitates student athletes to focus on practicing sports and achieve achievements in sports but also get formal education at the School. So that students will undergo many activities and must also be good at managing the time between exercise and learning education...

The reduction of obesity is possible through the use of exercise. It can also be used as a treatment in improving health status. Obese people have higher levels of Low-density lipoprotein/LDL cholesterol, which has the probability of leading to risk of degenerative diseases such as hypertension, stroke...

The study of entitled “Doctor-Patient of Communication Activities and Model in Free Consultation of Orthopedic Hospital Prof. Dr. R. Soeharso Surakarta” aims to find out how the effectiveness of doctor-patient communication by digging information in the implementation of free consultation on activities...

Introducing a wavelet neural network model (WNNM) at a route maintenance stage to predict the position of nodes in ad hoc networks, a new weighted clustering algorithm (WCA) is presented. Using the nodes’ position information from GPS, this algorithm predicts the position of nodes at next time by WNNM,...

This study discusses the effect of firm size, leverage, profitability, liquidity, and audit quality on going concern audit opinions. The sample of this study was obtained using a purposive sampling method with a focus on manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the 2018-2020...

Objective: Situational teaching method with PBL is applied in the clinical teaching of patients with ectopic pregnancy. Its clinical curative effect is discussed and analyzed. Methods: A total of 100 nursing students in our hospital were randomly assigned to two groups: the observation group and the...

Local anesthetics are very commonly used in dental extraction procedures. Local anesthetics are performed to relieve pain locally in an anesthetic region for a short period. Lidocaine is one type of local anaesthesia that is often used in the field of dentistry. Infiltration anaesthesia is the most common...

Violation of parking is a legal term. Our country’s law stipulates that there should be no-stop signs and markings, road sections with isolation facilities between motor vehicles and non-motor vehicle lanes and sidewalks, and crosswalks and construction sites. No parking; Railway crossings, sharp bends,...

Background: Although impaired arterial function has been associated with adverse prognosis in chronic Heart Failure (HF), its role in Acute HF Syndromes (AHFS) has been little studied. We prospectively investigated the prognostic role of arterial function on mortality and HF Hospitalizations (HHF) in...

The crisis of energy reserves in Indonesia, especially in petroleum and high plastic waste usage, causes a very worrying problem in Indonesia. One way to overcome this problem is to process plastic waste into alternative liquid fuels. This study aims to determine the effect of temperature and the effect...

The purpose of this research is to find out the influence of product quality, sales promotion, and distribution channel on the level of oyster mushroom sales volume in Kutalimbaru district, North Sumatra, Indonesia. Samples in this study amounted to 50 producers of oyster mushrooms. Data obtained through...

This study aims to identify: the behavior of small business actors in making financial decisions, especially decisions related to investment, saving and consumption; measuring the level of financial literacy of small business actors, and measuring the role of financial institutions and the Ngada Regency...

This study aims to obtain information about elementary teacher competencies in solving math problems. This research uses quantitative and descriptive methods. Quantitative methods are used to determine elementary school teacher competency, proportion correct, and item difficulty, while descriptive methods...

Shigellosis is an acute inflammatory disease in the human digestive tract. One of the pathogenic bacteria that causes shigellosis is Shigella dysenteriae. Some natural ingredients believed to have good antibacterial activities are Meniran (Phyllanthus niruri L.) and Kenikir (Cosmos caudatus Kunth.)....

Gummy candy is a snack made from sugar or a mixture of sugars with a particular texture and elasticity. The ingredients for the gummy candy in this study included Semboro orange, dried rosella flower and agar powder. The study aimed to determine the effect of variations in the comparison of Semboro orange...

Oil palm against a background of widespread poverty in the outer islands, where a large, very poor rural population that was not technically conversant with high input agriculture lived side by side with a prosperous commercial estate plantation sector. While many smallholders in these regions cultivated...

The improvement of school sports laws and regulations is of great significance to the fair education of school sports and the realization of students’ sports rights. The methods of literature research, logical analysis and mathematical statistics were employed in this paper to analyse 22 legal judgments...

In order to explore the effect of the particle size distribution of fly ash on the pore structure of low-temperature concrete, the fly ash was prepared with different particle size distribution. Under low temperature condition, the porosity and pore size distribution of fly ash blended cement mortar...

Background: Carotid Intima Media Thickness (IMT) and stiffness are associated with cardiovascular events. The study aims were to perform a head-to-head comparison of the Wall Track System (WTS) and ART.LAB for carotid IMT, distension and diameter echotracking measurements as well as inter- and intra-observer...

Iron deficiency can cause anemia. Changes in iron status in anemia can affect the immune system, making infection easy. When the number of infections increases, efforts made to overcome anemia are one of them by consuming wheat grass containing iron. This study was an experiment with factorial complete...

Hypertension causes the highest death in Indonesia namely in the amount of 37%. The highest category suffers from hypertension in Indonesia is at age 65-75 years old namely 26,7% - 27,9%. Hypertension is the increase of systolic blood pressure more than 140 mmHg and diastolic pressure more than 90 mmHg...

Recently Weber et al. invasively obtained aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) as a function of age. [1] Systolic and diastolic aortic pressure were determined as well. PWV can be used to derive total arterial compliance, Ctot, as Ctot=k/PWV2. With Ctot and Stroke Volume (SV), aortic Pulse Pressure (PP)...

Rationale: In severe idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, iPAH, pulmonary vascular resistance is increased due to remodeling of the small (resistance) arteries. Most information on arterial remodeling is limited to assessments of averaged increases in wall thickness. Quantitative information on...

Yogyakarta is a city that is synonymous with peace; as the slogan Yogyakarta is comfortable, and almost no conflicts or violence appear. In the past five years, there have been nearly 35 violent incidents in Yogyakarta. This paper wants to describe the typology of conflicts and violence that occurred...

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a clinically defined disorder of the nose characterized by symptoms triggered by allergen exposure, leading to an IgE-mediated inflammation. It is a global health problem affecting up to 50% of the world's population, with symptoms extending beyond nasal obstruction, rhinorrhea,...

Anomaly detection by tracking if the context of a video stream has changed could be useful, but supervised training to classify video context can be cumbersome and error prone. Instead, we apply a cascade of clustering techniques that operate on a weakly supervised video data lake to extract a context...

Pork is a type of meat that is often used for counterfeiting products with a composition of beef. This counterfeiting can provide large profits to producers, given the price of pork is far below the price of beef. So we need specific methods to ensure the halal product. The purpose of this study was...