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In this work an open source scientific software platform OpenGeoSys (OGS) was utilized for the simulation of fluid flow and solute transport in fractured porous media. A particle based method was proposed which takes use of velocities calculated by finite element method (FEM) to obtain flow patterns,...

A force estimation model using motor current signals was deduced in this paper for a tendon-driven prosthetic finger grasping objects with its distal phalanx. Models of the prosthetic finger were first established. As driving moment of each joint could be calculated form motor current, stable grasping...

Creative industry nowadays is considered to be one of the promising industries that can contribute significantly to one country's economics. Creative industry is very potential to be developed because the main resource of the industry is unlimited, since the main resource of the industry is the intellectual...

Polarization effects and polarization charges on the interfaces between GaN and AlGaN in GaN/AlGaN RTD on cplane GaN substrate destroy its RT conditions. To pave the way for electron transportation through GaN/AlGaN RTD in the mode of resonant tunneling, the influence from polarization effects was analyzed...

Speaking is one of the basic skills possessed by each individual. In developing speaking skill, it will better if it is done since the children studying in kindergarten. But in fact, the speaking skill often gets a lot of obstacles during its development. Hence, this study aimed at describing the basic...

The major purpose of this study was to investigate the abilities of inquiry biology teachers when they were preparing inquiry-based teaching trough mentoring program. First, 9 biology teachers from different high school was analyzing biological content potential to inquiry, then they found their inquiry...

This study aims to enhance students’ core competencies by applying the Blended Cooperative ELearning (BCeL) in Research on ELT course. Students’ core competencies include soft skills, hard skills, and academic character. BCeL is teaching and learning method where face-to-face classroom is combined with...

This article aims to examine the implementation of character education in inclusive schools. The study used descriptive qualitative. Data collection was carried out through a literature study. Information sources on literature studies are scientific research journals, books, undergraduate theses, and...

Introduction: Medical students tend to reduce their sleep, in an effort to adjust and cope with their workload and stressful environment. This study estimated the prevalence of and the relationship between poor sleep quality and stress among medical students. Methods: This cross-sectional study was...

Twice-yearly child health weeks are an effective way of reaching children with essential child survival services in developing countries. In Kenya, child health weeks, or Malezi Bora, were restructured in 2007 from an outreach-based delivery structure to a health facility-based delivery structure to...

Stroke is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and its late burden has mainly been attributable to developing countries. Lebanon is one of these countries where epidemiological studies on stroke burden are scarce but necessary. Thus, the present study was conducted to assess the prevalence...

The significance of resident survey in the region. In the study, the environmental awareness of the residents in Pearl River Delta is analyzed with the sixteen dimensions to realize whether there are differences in the attitudes of the residents in Pearl River Delta in solving environmental problems,...

This research is the preliminary research of the development of a Self Massage Therapy Model for migraine healing. In Indonesia, research on the migraine prevalence in large populations has not been widely carried out, so that valid data about migraine prevalence have not been widely known. The peak...

The sustainability of companies largely determined by the performance of which is owned by the company. This study aims to determine the determinants of business sustainability in the sharia People's Financing Bank Harta Insan Karimah (BPRS HIK). This research is qualitative research using primary and...

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...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of applying hybrid learning through Quipper media on improving mastery of 2013 curriculum specialization material in inclusive schools. The research method used was a quasi-experimental research design with a control group design pretest random pretest....

A large international response was needed to bring the 2014/15 West African Ebola virus disease outbreak under control. This study sought to learn lessons from this epidemic to strengthen the response to future outbreaks of international significance by identifying priorities for future epidemiology...

This study analyzed the effect of good university governance and organizational commitment on private higher education institution performance. Performance indicators used on this research was adopting the Kanji’s Business Excellence Model indicators. The research took place in one of private higher...

Ζ-carotene isomerase (Z-ISO) is an important enzyme in carotenoid biosynthesis. Here, the Brassica oleracea var. capitata Z-ISO (BocZ-ISO) gene sequence was obtained from Brassica database (BRAD), and preformed for bioinformatics analysis. The BocZ-ISO gene mapped to chromosomes 5, and contains an open...

The widespread development of information and communication technologies, the introduction of innovations led to the transition to a new stage of economic development, which was called "new economy". At the highest level, the authorities declared the priority role of the development of the innovation...

This study aims to analyze risk management in the inventory cycle of manufacturing companies and aims to provide recommendations to reduce identified risks. This study uses small and medium enterprises as a case study because it has limited resources to respond to potential risks that threaten business...

This study aims to prove that the administration of red dragon fruit extract (Hylocereus polyrhizus) has an effect on membrane lipid peroxidation and liver tissue damage triggered by hyperlipidemia in white rats (Rattus norvegicus). This study used trueexperimental design with using 30 male Wistar rats...

Agriculture in Western Siberia is a dynamically developing sector that has its firm foundation in results of agricultural research. Plowing-up of high-fertility soils led to changes in the direction of soil formation. It reflected in their quality and productivity. Vastly increased anthropogenic burden...

Characterization of natural products based on the antioxidant activity gains tremendous interest in the past decade. In the current work, the antioxidant activity of the methanolic extract of Ageratina adenophora and Ageratum conyzoides leaves were determined. Both plants belong to the family Asteraceae...

Blended learning is an appropriate lesson in today’s era of rupture and globalization. It is a kind of learning that combines face-to-face learning in the classroom and online learning through students’ smartphone / computers. The problem in this research was to know how far students’ understanding about...

This article discusses the evaluation of supervision program as the main duties of Islamic Religious Education Supervisor at School. These duties include academic and managerial supervision conducted by Islamic religious education supervisors throughout Ponorogo schools. In this case, Ponorogo was chosen...

Recently, Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg was on trial for the misuse of personal data. In 2013, the National Security Agency was exposed by Edward Snowden for invading the privacy of inhabitants of the United States by examining personal data. We see in the news examples, like the two just described,...

In this paper, in view of laser cladding of the iron base materials, new method for laser cladding of iron-base materials were proposed. Firstly, heat transfer mechanism of the laser cladding process and metal solidification theory was studied. Second, by laser cladding test bench, laser cladding experiments...

In order to study the influence of wind - hydro hybrid power plant on power grid, the paper represents the method of wind - hydro hybrid power plant, a simulation model combined wind turbine system, hybrid power system with electrical network, SVC, PSS and large hydro power plant was built by Matlab/Simulink....

Poskesdes (Rural Health Post) is a Community-Based Health Effort established to optimalize the potentials existing in the community to improve the health status and the utilization of health services. This quantitative study was to analyze utilization of rural health post by the knowledge and attitude...

This paper contains a discussion about the turn taking strategies used by the characters to defend women`s self-image in the Peri Kopi novel written by Yetti A.K.A. The purpose of this study is to decribe the story the turn taking strategies used in the novel, and what image of the women, as character,...

In the era of information, with the increasingly developed network, "to earn money by taking photos" is a self-service model under the mobile Internet. The user downloads the APP, registers as a member of the APP, and then takes a task that needs to take photographs from the APP and earns the reward...

The objective of the research was to analyze the factors influencing accounting students to understand accounting with spiritual quotient as the moderating variable (an empirical study on Students of University of Sumatera Utara (USU), State University of Medan (UNIMED), and State Islamic University...

Running business in group, in Indonesian is Sentra Peternakan Rakyat (SPR), which are sustainably running business together is the hope for all the farmers and also the government to meet the needs of national meats. In the past, some of farmers must disband and terminate its business due to wrong strategy...

A detailed three-dimensional finite element analysis model for an aero-engine compressor blade was established. Blade vibration response was experimented, considering a dry friction non-linear response method for solving for the fan blades. It can’t be calculated using the ANSYS platform when considering...

The mobile Internet era breaks the original closed business model and changes people’s way of life and consumption. Cross-border marketing can open up new living space for enterprises or brands, and also can make brands glow with new vitality due to superimposed synergies. Taking commercial banks as...

Parent-adolescent sexual communication is a crucial subject in terms of knowledge transferring for an adolescent to spare from the dangers of sexual behavior. This is due to the notable role of parents in conveying sexual information and exerting a significant influence on adolescent sexual behaviors,...

This study was aimed at (1) analyzing the values of the global citizenship and (2) finding the dominant global citizenship values in the student’s book of Pancasila and civic education for grade XII. This study is a content analysis. The unit of analysis in this study was the content of the student’s...

The purpose of the study was to determine whether the performance of LunangSilaut as an integrated independent city was in line with the expectations of the local population. The study involved 200 respondents who were asked to answer a questionnaire containing 28 statements. Of the 200 questionnaires...

This study aims to find empirical evidence of the effect of book-tax differences on earnings growth. Earnings growth is measured using changes in net profit after tax. The independent variables used in this study are temporary differences and permanent differences, while the dependent variable is earnings...

This study aims to determine the effect of skills training on diversification of processed fish products and community development to increase entrepreneurial interest in Randegan Kulon Village, Jatitujuh District, Majalengka Regency. This research is a field research with quantitative descriptive approach....

Tacca tubers (Tacca leontopetaloides) was used to produce many kind of foods but has limit in utilization. Tacca tubers has a high starch and amylose content which can be a functional food by increasing the resistant starch content. The objective of this research was to evaluated the effect of autoclaving-cooling...

This study is aimed at examining the existence of Okun’s law, the negative relationship between economic growth and unemployment using First Difference Model to secondary data on real Gross Domestic Product and the open unemployment rate of Indonesia during the period 1986 – 2018. Okun’s law exist in...

This study aims to determine the practice of corporate taxpayer self-assessment system in terms of formal and material compliance. The type of qualitative research with an interpretive approach was chosen to understand the phenomena behind the practice of corporate taxpayer self-assessment system. The...

Crowdsourcing innovation is characterized by loose organizational structures, free will of participants, strong innovation goals and information asymmetry, which can easily induce solvers’ opportunistic behaviors, such as fraud, intellectual property theft, free-riding and so on. In order to create an...

The constant rise in cases of Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya worldwide has made control of Aedes aegypti a principal concern. The most recommended plan to control mosquito-borne diseases primarily lies on vector management and disturbing their disease-transmission cycle. Wide-ranging use of different classes...

Metacognition is one of the core competencies that must be achieved in 2013 curriculum learning. It includes four types of metacognition skills, namely; problem-solving, decision making, critical thinking, and creative thinking. The use of teaching materials such as student electronic worksheet (e-LKPD)...

Malaria is a disease and a world health problem, due to the fact that its potential vector has the capacity to transmit and spread, leading to wide-ranging concerns and international impacts. This study, therefore, aims to create a spatial model of environmental sanitation as a determinant of the spread...

The Kingdom of Lesotho like other developing countries participates in a number of international cooperation platforms. These kinds of platforms occur both at bilateral and multilateral parameters geared towards social development and economic growth as well as International Trade and support. China...

This type of research is correlational. The entire study population Alang Ponggongan PPS students enrolled. The study was conducted in the field of PPS Alang Ponggongan Birugo Bukittinggi. Data measured by flexiometer waist flexibility and speed measured by a test Sabit kick in the target box for 10...