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Linear diffraction grating interferometer measures displacement via two orthogonal signals generated from the optical outputs of fringes. Due to noises and regulation errors, two signals are not perfect. This paper presents a precision measurement method of displacement for given two non-orthogonal signals....

Parasitoid fly Ormia Ochracea has a remarkable ability to detect the direction of incident sound stimulus via its unique acoustic sensory organs. Based on the anatomy of them, a bionics acoustic sensing device is designed to mimic the localization function of the ears of the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea....

The growing instability of financial markets is making it harder to allocate capital efficiently among key asset types such as equities and bonds. Traditional static asset allocation methods struggle to adapt to dynamic market conditions, leading to growing interest in dynamic allocation strategies in...

In order to develop highly reliable software in a cost-effective manner, it is necessary to manage software reliability at the early test phases. Most of developers at those phases perform a test and debug activities together. In this paper, we propose a new reliability estimation model to manage the...

For ill-posed linear bilevel programming problem, this paper studies how the leader motivate the follower to maximize its own profit. Firstly, we present a coordination model. Then, under some conditions, we establish two examples. Finally, numerical results show that the proposed method is feasible.

User interests drift modeling is the fundamental and key technology of Personal Recommendation System (PRS), and is arising more and more attention by researcher from home and abroad. At present, web user interests drift model is in its original phase for the reason of many aspects, and there also exist...

English is a two-credit subject that offered to non-English Department students in Universitas PGRI Madiun for the whole four years. Furthermore, taking the English Proficiency Test is one of the requirements for students before they graduate from university. Unfortunately, most students are not familiar...

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 study delves into the integration of Popiapiara - a local cultural value emphasizing mutual care - into the sustainable development of Buton’s traditional culinary heritage, countering globalization’s threats. Through qualitative interviews and focus groups with 30 local culinary entrepreneurs and...

Objectives: The transfemoral approach is commonly used for carotid artery stenting (CAS) however in cases of severe peripheral vascular disease or unfavorable aortic arch anatomy, the transradial access remains a viable alternative. We report a series of patients with aorto-iliac disease or unsuccessful...

Objectives: Transradial vertebral artery (VA) angioplasty might be a viable alternative to the transfemoral approach in cases of peripheral artery disease or anatomical variations of the aortic arch. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of transradial stenting of symptomatic...

Cultivating critical thinking (CT) and intercultural communication competence (ICC) currently has been put on the top agenda in English teaching and education. Effective and successful communication across cultures is established on the premise of CT and ICC as well since these two skills overlap to...

Among the pollutants in the power industry emissions, sulfur dioxide so far has the most serious impact on the environment. In the desulfurization process, it is common to have data with complex correlations, high real-time, and huge amount. Data mining has become an important technique to deal with...

In developing countries, public health professionals and scientists need targeted training and practical skills to respond to global emerging infectious disease threats. The Certificate in Emerging Infectious Disease Research was developed in 2008 to aid such professionals to respond to complex emerging...

This paper presents the synthesis of Barium Oxide Nanoparticles (BaO-NPs) on a large-scale by a simple and cost-effective co-precipitation method. The as-synthesized BaO-NPs were characterized in aspects of their structural, morphological, compositional, and optical properties. X-ray diffraction was...

The ability of students to solve problems is an ability that must be continuously trained and improved. The ability to solve problems in citizenship courses is the ability to analyze problems and find effective solutions to solve problems in the lecture. Through this research, researchers want to know...

Fixed point theory plays a crucial role in solved real world problems in terms of nonlinear problems or differential equations for a suitable mapping. In numerous problems, it is difficult to find an exact fixed point for some contractions mapping. Hence, it is necessary to develop numerical algorithm...

Introduction: Fully automated cuff-based devices have been developed for the assessment of arterial stiffness via pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurement, such as the VaSera device (Fukuda Denshi). To date, measurements were confined to the heart-to-ankle segment, yielding PWV and stiffness indices that...

The complex oil-water relation of study area related to sedimentary facies. But the unconformity resulted from frequent tectonic movements puzzled the study of sedimentary facies. Based on the detailed study on the cored wells, the main identification marks of sedimentary facies have been analyzed via...

Indonesian youth unemployment rates are among the highest when compared with other countries. Unemployed youth in Indonesia reached 25.1 percent of the total workforce. Therefore, there must be a serious effort to reduce the unemployment rate. Learning Model entrepreneurship through business incubators...

The existence of gadget is like the two sides of a coin. On one side, it brings benefits to our life, but on the other side, it facilitates negative behaviour impacts to its users, and the patterns for rural children may be different than those of urban. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the...

Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in Malaysia where HPV16 and HPV18 genotypes are more prevalent among 88.7% of women. It is preventable if the pre-cancerous cells were identified early via Pap smear, HPV DNA or Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA) test. Prophylactic HPV vaccines were...

This study aimed to determine the students’ problem solving ability in solving the volume of a solid of revolution questions in online Integral Calculus Learning through zoom implementing Student Centered Learning. The research method used in this study was descriptive qualitative method. The subjects...

Food poisoning from cassava remains one of the most consumed food crops globally, many countries rely heavily on the variety of cassava products edible food whiles pharmaceutical companies use cassava to produce drugs such as aspirin and acetaminophen, alcohol-based medications among others. In Ghanaian...

A simple and general approach for calculating the elliptic finite-gap solutions of the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation is proposed. Our approach is based on the use of the finite-gap equations and the general representation of these solutions in the form of rational functions of the elliptic Weierstrass...

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of the Advance Organizer Learning Approach in teaching first-year high school students to read narrative text. The study is set up as an experimental study, with the data collected via pretest and posttest while the training material is delivered...

The education development has entered the Literacy Acceleration era in The Knowledge Age. Learning media innovation plays an important role for students in the development of technology as a learning medium, particularly in the usage of technology-based learning media. During the COVID-19 epidemic, many...

Abstract—The modeling research is conducted in this thesis, according to the characters of the highway power-ground plane modeling and with the adoption of the vector fitting modeling method. The modeling of a real four-floor PCB power-ground plane is completed, via the comparisons of model time domain,...

Although evidence suggests sport and recreation are powerful contributors to worldwide public health, sizable gender differences persist. It is unknown whether country characteristics moderate gender differences across countries. The primary purpose of this study was to examine if countries’ levels of...

Dermatophytosis is a global burden of disease, as it affects around 20–25% of worldwide population. Many antifungal drugs have been developed to treat dermatophytosis that mainly inhibit the ergosterol biosynthesis. Terbinafine as the drug-of-choice has fungicidal effect by inhibiting ergosterol synthesis...

We study the problem of parameter estimation in in wideband bistatic MIMO radar system. Firstly, we propose a novel algorithm to estimate Doppler stretch and time delay in fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) domain. Secondly, we also construct two sub-array models based on the peaks of fractional Fourier...

E-learning is the interaction between a learner who strives to acquire knowledge or skills by instruction, or study with a remote knowledge source, one that is physically separated from the learner. E-learning referring to learning via the internet has become a major phenomenon in recent years. But many...

Aiming at the issues of high cost, large size, high maintenance cost for traditional frequency characteristic test instrument, this paper introduces a design process of frequency characteristic test instrument based on USB2.0. The whole system took single clip microcomputer as the control core, and the...

In this paper, we first investigate the discrete 2D analytic signals with some properties such as Discrete Bedrosian’s theorems. Second, based on the derived discrete properties of discrete 2D analytic signals, we provide an image decomposition method via the above principles to decompose image. Experiments...

The approach to measuring and assessing the intensity of innovation activity is based on the ratio of investment efforts and indicators of labor productivity dynamics caused by them. Two methods based on this approach are proposed. In one of them the innovation activity intensity is measured via decomposition...

Background: In this study the effect of chronic ethanol consumption on vascular wall abnormality via oxidative stress was examined. It was also intended to find out whether vitamin E inhibits the abnormality induced by ethanol in rat vascular wall. Methods: Twenty-four male wistar rats were divided...

Since aortic pressure cannot be measured noninvasively, pressure signals are often measured at more superficial arteries and a transfer function is applied to obtain a surrogate for the central pressure curve. These transformations are usually derived from measurements in a specific group of subjects...

Introduction: Mass open communication via social media and the internet causes infodemics and information gaps. The COVID-19 pandemic has become a driving force in global adoption of digital technology such as the internet, including in Indonesia. Individuals need eHealth literacy to assess the information...

Fundamental scientific concepts are integral to our daily lives, influencing decision-making and problem-solving, spanning from the intricate principles of physics governing everyday motions to the biological processes affecting health. This qualitative research delves into the teaching and assessment...

In this paper, adaptive control system with neural network (NN) will be designed. At the beginning, parallel feedforward compensator (PFC) will be designed by using one-shot experimental data of controlled system via differential evolution (DE). From the obtained PFC and the ideal almost strictly positive...

Energy has been used in maritime transportation, while fossil fuels began to be used more extensively since the industrial revolution to carry more products and obtain higher propulsion power. However; climate change appeared as one of the striking problem areas around the globe, where the scale and...

Agriculture is confronted with major challenges in choosing the most appropriate crops to be cultivated, as soil quality, climate fluctuation, and inefficient management of resources tend to result in low yields. To overcome this, we suggest a Machine Learning-based Crop Recommendation System that utilizes...

Introduction: Endovascular trophoblasts (EVasT) of the rat express smooth muscle (SM) proteins and contract ex vivo upon exposure to endothelin-1 (ET1). Contraction is mediated via ET1 receptors A and B (ETA, ETB). In vascular SM ETB, in variance from ETA, exerts relaxation through activation of nitric...

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world, and it has made learning to switch to distance learning. One type of distance learning is online learning. Indeed, when students and teachers conduct learning connected via the internet, it becomes difficult to interact, especially synchronously. The interaction...

The integration of geochemical and geophysical methods was applied to epithermal gold-quartz veins exploration in Chukotka tundra (North-East Russia). The feature of the investigated area is that the gold-quartz veins are blind and are located 50-120 m below the surface under the layers of low-resistive...

More and more attention has been paid to the sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) by scholars and practitioners since it concerns about both the social and environmental benefits of supply chain. Meanwhile, game analysis has proven to be an effective research method in SSCM research. This research...

The rising prevalence of obesity is associated with a higher risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. Because it can induce weight loss, metformin, a long-used drug for treating diabetes, is used as an off-label medication for the treatment of obesity. However, the mechanism underlying this effect...

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between reinforcing factors and the behavior of early detection of cervical cancer in women of childbearing age (WCA) in Medan City. Research Methods Correlational quantitative research design involving 150 WCA as respondents through non-probability...

The 2018 Riskesdas data indicates that the prevalence of anaemia in Indonesia remains high, with estimates of 26.8% among individuals aged 5-14 years and 32% among those aged 15-24 years. Anaemia can have detrimental consequences for adolescents, including impaired cognitive function, reduced concentration...

The objective of this paper is to test the success factor of e-travel model among small travel enterprises (STEs) in Indonesia. The data was collected by e-survey via My3q free online survey. Respondents were 145- users of travel websites chosen employing purposive sampling technique. Research variables...