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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...

According to sample survey data, it indicates that the teaching methods of legal literacy course of universities and colleges in our country is given priority to traditional classroom teaching method, shows that the overall results of this teaching method is low, the reason for this is that this kind...

As a nonlinear time series prediction method, echo state network (ESN) attracts more attention because of its good approximation capability for the nonlinear system. Aiming at the characters of nonlinear time series in the Turbine's condition prediction analysis, such as including noise and presenting...

This study proposes the factors of innovation (i.e., incremental and radical) on SMEs performance in the context of food and beverage (F&B) industry in southern Thailand. This study is in line with Thailand new policy labelled as “Thailand 4.0”; an economic scheme aimed at developing a value-based...

It has been developed a microcontroller-based athlete sprint speed data acquisition system. The infrared sensor has two components that act as start and stop, after which the signal is forwarded to the Nodemcu microcontroller and interpreted as a millisecond time variable. The signal is sent to the user...

In this paper, we investigate the low-rank tensor completion problem, in which we wish to estimate missing values of tensors from incomplete samples its entries. In real world, the low-rank tensor can be seen everywhere and the exact rank of it is often known. Based on the fact that singular values before...

The relationship between customer perceived value and purchase intention has been explored among scholars for many years. However, it is still blurry that when the relationship is stronger and when is weaker. Our study fills the gap by integrating the structural hole theory into the relationship and...

Application tasks are complex and diverse, which need HPC (High Performance Computing) to solve them. The computing efficiency is hugely different when they run in different architectures, because different application tasks have different computing features. The PMC (Processor-Memory- Communication)...

This paper developed a denoising method termed f-x empirical-mode decomposition (EMD) predictive filtering. In this new method, we first applied EMD to each frequency slice in the f-x domain and obtained several intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). Then, an autoregressive model was applied to the sum of...

Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU. Methods:...

This development research aims to develop Chinese digital teaching material for 10th-grade topic 个人 信息 [gèrén xìnxī] (self-introduction) based on flipbook. The research method in this development is the Research and Development (R & D) method using the DDD-E model. Following the development model...

Internal and external stakeholders in Higher Education have been actively pushing entrepreneurship as a profitable career choice among students since the adoption of the National Innovation and Startup Policy and the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020 throughout the Nation. There is...

The approval and quick implementation of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are a milestone in the mainstreaming of decentralized assets in conventional financial markets. Increasing market capitalization and institutional investor take-up of Bitcoin ETFs raise questions regarding their effect...

The present work is focused on examining the effect of reinforcement of Silicon carbide, Titanium diboride, or Silicon carbide+1wt% of Graphite in Aluminum-6061 alloy on mechanical, tribological, and surface morphology. The stir casting method was used to fabricate different composite specimens needed...

Personalized Learning (PL) has evolved to address the unique needs of individual learners by adapting content delivery based on preferences, prior knowledge and contextual factors. This paper presents a comparative study between two personalized learning models-CEPL (Context Emotion Personalized Learner)...

A supramolecular guest copolymer (PNAP-co-PAM) based on naphthol-containing monomer (NAP) and acrylamide was synthesized via Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization. The structure of supramolecular guest copolymer was characterized by NMR and GPC. And the self-assembly behavior of supramolecular guest copolymer...

In this paper, Rare earth (La, Eu, Sm) hydroxide nanorods have been prepared by facile hydrothermal treatment of the corresponding bulk oxide powders. The obtained samples were characterized in detail by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy...

LiFePO4/C microspheres were synthesized by a rheological phase method using nanoplates assembled quasi-microspheres of FePO4·2H2O as raw materials, and the FePO4·2H2O precusors were synthesized via a hydrothermal process. The FePO4·2H2O precursors were characterized by XRD and SEM, and the LiFePO4/C...

This paper aims to establish the relationship between two apparent disparate problems: (i) the aggregation of uncertain information modelled by type-1 fuzzy sets via OWA mechanism, and (ii) the computation of the centroid of type-2 fuzzy sets. In order to cut down the computational complexity of the...

In many countries in the world, the prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) in adults varies greatly between and within countries. Although it does not cause fatal effects, AR can affect the quality of life both socially and financially. Aims of this research was to determine the differences in the prevalence...

Reinforced concrete is the primary material used in coastal and marine infrastructure but is highly susceptible to chloride ion (Cl⁻) diffusion, which accelerates reinforcement corrosion and shortens service life. This study experimentally investigates the vertical diffusion of chloride ions in reinforced...

The purpose of this research is to develop digital Chinese language teaching material for the 11th grade, topic 家庭 [Jiātíng]. This research is Research and Development (R&D) method using the DDD-E development model. The supporting instrument used in this study was a questionnaire. The questionnaire...

This study explores the theoretical foundations, practical implementation, and preliminary evaluation of AI-enhanced blended learning models within a specific secondary education context in Southeast China. As schools navigate digital transformation, developing pedagogical strategies that effectively...

This research elucidates the findings of an investigation that examines and evaluates the degree to which various factors affect mall attributes, content marketing, event marketing, and social media marketing about customer satisfaction, with customer engagement acting as a mediating variable at Pakuwon...

The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 set out an ambitious 15-year program towards making meaningful progress in addressing 17 core global challenges of our time. These Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address socioeconomic, technological and environmental development issues and...

Background: Arterial stiffness is increased with chronic inflammatory disorders. The reduction of inflammation by immunomodulatory therapy is associated with a restoration of arterial function. Objectives: To determine whether carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) is increased in subjects with...

We show that a certain stochastic perturbation of the flow of perfect incompressible fluid under some special external force on the flat n-dimensional torus yields a solution of Navier–Stokes equation without external force in the tangent space at unit of volume preserving diffeomorphism group. If that...

Artificial Neural Networks have demonstrated best effectiveness and excellent scheduling capabilities in realizing many purposes like recognition, clustering, classification, management and even prediction. For this reason, we have used RBF based Artificial NN for the dynamic forecasting of load and...

This paper presents the design of the three-way crossover network by using Bernstein polynomial. The Bernstein polynomial is applied to the Bernstein filter which has the best characteristics with more advantages. For example, it has a maximally flat magnitude, a linear-phase and a maximally flat delay...

While the study on distance learning and its challenges has proliferated, this study describes how teachers confide in the challenges of teaching when schools close and tech issues during the pandemic. Drawing upon the source of data, including an online survey via telephone interviews and Google meet...

Latent heat storage using phase change materials (PCM) provides thermal energy storage systems with high storage capacities in small temperature ranges. Most of the PCM used in applications undergo a phase change from solid to liquid and vice versa storing heat in repeated melting and crystallization...

In this paper, we study the correspondence between the Coupled Dispersionless (CD)-type equations and the Short Pulse (SP)-type equations. From the real and complex modified CD equations, we construct the real and complex Modified Short Pulse (mSP) equations geometrically and algebraically. From the...