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In 2012, Amir Hossein Gandomi and Amir Hossein Alavi presented the Krill Herd algorithm (KH), a revolutionary biologically inspired method for addressing optimization tasks. On the other hand, another new and powerful metaheuristic algorithm called FOX was proposed by Hardi Mohammed and Tarik Rashid...

This study investigates the impact of business education on the development of entrepreneurial competencies among undergraduate students in Edo State, Nigeria. Despite the growing recognition of entrepreneurship as a driver of economic development, there is limited empirical evidence on how business...

In recent years, several global pharmaceutical organizations are closing down or reducing their operations in India. Considering the growth of Indian pharmaceutical generic market, this trend appears paradoxical. This paper tries to find the fundamental issues present in Indian pharmaceutical sector...

Until the last century, wood was one of the most widely used materials in various aspects of socio-cultural life. This article examines the significance of wood carving as a form of art that has flourished due to the rich availability of natural resources. It highlights how this craft enhances the beauty...

Energy needs are always increasing in various sectors of life. Indonesia, which is below the equator, has extraordinary advantages, one of which is its high potential for solar energy. With high sun exposure throughout the year, Indonesia has the potential to use it to generate electrical energy. One...

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, tremendous Vietnamese lecturers are assumed to have conducted virtual teaching in response to keep track of learning progress. This type of teaching seemingly brings several benefits to students and teachers. However, not all English instructors show their proficiency in...

Role and function of the Carotid Intima Media Thickness (CIMT) and atherosclerotic Plaque (P) in clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors is yet unclear. Cardiovascular Risk Factor Stratification (SCORE) and CIMT with P typing and visualization were assessed in 269 asymptomatic individuals...

Background. No prospective study has examined whether markers of the central hemodynamics, e.g., central pulse pressure, might be a more robust marker of change in the cardiac hemodynamic load, estimated by the change during the study period of the serum levels of N-terminal fragment B-type natriuretic...

Although the viscoelasticity of large arteries has been extensively investigated, few studies have focused on arterial wall viscosity (AWV) itself and its regulation by the endothelium in vivo. This is of particular importance since AWV is a major source of energy dissipation through the vascular system...

Background. Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is widely recognised as an effective surgical method in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with significant internal carotid artery stenosis. Although the association between vulnerable carotid plaques and stroke is well established, little is known about...

Objective: To examine the influence of calibration of peripheral blood pressure on the estimation of central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) from peripheral arterial waveforms using a transfer function. Methods: Central aortic pressure was measured with a pressure tipped catheter (Millar, Houston, Texas)...

Background. Pulse wave analysis (PWA) using cuff based methods emerged within the last years. Compared to traditional sensors used in PWA like catheters and piezo gauges very little is known on the frequency response of cuff based systems according to standard measurement and systems theory. Therefore...

This paper shows a tool for EPN (Extended Place/transition Net)-based mutation testing to evaluate and improve the quality of a test suite for concurrent software. The tool includes functions for (1) construction of an original EPN that represents the expected behavior of concurrent software under test,...

Since the “martial arts into the campus” policy was put forward, the martial arts curriculum has been widely carried out in some primary and secondary school campuses. Although certain results have been achieved, problems have been found in practice, and the school martial arts education mainly has curriculum...

AC8A aluminum is a silicon aluminum alloy which has a Si level between 11-13% wt, the material commonly used to make pistons. There is also the weakness of a piston with a high silicon content, which is brittle or brittle along with the increase in silicon content so that a rough and large primary silicon...

Student learning motivation is an important factor to produce high-quality graduates. It can grow from the inside of themselves (intrinsic) or it occurs because of from outside the students (extrinsic). This study was aimed to reveal both students’ intrinsic and extrinsic factors toward their motivation...

The aim of this study was to investigate the phytotoxicity of Fe2O3 nanocubes, Fe2O3 short nanorods, Fe2O3 long nanorods, TiO2 NPs; and MWCNTs to rice (Oryza sativa L.) seedlings during germination, including rice germination ratio, root length, shoot length and fresh weight. Our investigation found...

The experiment was conducted to compare the effect of nano-selenium and sodium selenite on blood biochemistry, liver antioxidant activity and GPx-1 mRNA expression in rabbit. Twenty-four 10-week-old New Zealand rabbits, female and male in half, were randomly divided into three groups. Rabbits in Group...

This article presents education strategies and results of the research conducted at the University in Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture in the period between 2009th and 2012th by Master’s degree students. The main scope of the research was on situating an architectural intervention in different landscapes....

Many debris flow hazards were triggered in Earthquake area after the Wenchuan Earthquake. In these debris flow hazards, the most notable one is the debris flow in Bayi Gully on Aug.13, 2010. Bayi Gully was a debris flow gully before the Wenchuan Earthquake, in the first three raining seasons after the...

The competition method is an effective teaching method to practice by setting competition rules in the process of PE teaching. It can be regarded as a method to practice according to competition rules and competition forms under the approximate and simulated or real and strict conditions. It is also...

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...

Problems occurring during implementation of handover is a common issue found in hospitals. One of the impacts of problems related to handover is patient safety and the quality of nursing care. Objectives: The Purpose of this paper is to explain the effectiveness of simulation and demonstration methods...

The video recording activities that insisted on realism returned to the stage of documentary after the martial law was abolished in Taiwan in 1980s. The social theme documentary reopened the window for the Taiwanese to understand social reality. These works present strong problem awareness and humane...

More and more enterprises have their own private cloud computing center or the data center to optimize operation and save money. In order to protect sensitive company data, a secure and efficient certificate less tripartite key agreement protocols was introduced into the authentication of the enterprise...

Through a common actual example, a new structure named protection type with twin cavities in a die for the semi-hollow Al-profiles was present. And the selection and the optimization of structure parameters were described in detail. the layout of die holes, the design of the portholes, the structure...

In this paper, a smart home remote monitoring system was designed based on C++ and ZigBee. The system is composed of slave subsystem and host subsystem. The slave subsystem is a wireless sensor network designed by using ZigBee, it performs the real-time detection of temperature and humidity, smog, gas...

The development of the core component of clinical decision support systems (CDSS), the knowledge base, has become a significant bottleneck in its successful application due to lack of effective knowledge representation models. To solve this problem, this paper presents a novel approach by developing...

Delftia acidovorans SPH-1 is a beta-Proteobacterium that degrades a number of organic compounds. Genomic islands play the important role in horizontal gene transfer. Two prophage-related genomic islands (GIs), SPHGIGly-CCC-1 and SPHGIGly-CCC-2, were determined and are integrated into 5’ and 3’ end of...

The study entitled Educational Values in Choreography Analysis of Rentak Bulian Dance in Rengat Barat District, Indragiri Hulu Regency, Riau Province. The research type was qualitative research using ethnochoreology approach. Ethnocoreology was used to reveal Rentak Bulian dance in two domains; text...

In Indonesia’s New Order governance, violations occurred, in which Pancasila Industrial Relation (HIP) was employed as an instrument to give pressure and intimidate the labors. Thus, this concept is considered defective among labors. As democratization opens up the room for political opportunity structure,...

Achievement of the skills competency of students in vocational secondary schools is influenced by school and student factors. Learning practices aimed at improving skills competence are determined by the availability of adequate learning facilities. The independence of learning in practical activities...

The problem of this study was rooting down from the students music learning circumstances, of which they had low skill and knowledge of solfeggio, low ability of transforming solfeggio into a new context, made the lecturer rather difficult to teach them thereof, it is a compulsory to select proper methods...

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...

This study aims to find out how economic literacy, consumption behavior, and is there a correlation between economic literacy and consumption behavior of Islamic university students in Tangerang City. The population was 1282 students and a sample of 305 students. This research used explanatory survey...

The article presents the results of a study devoted to the problem of psychological readiness of high school students to adequate professional choice. In the course of work the structure of professional readiness was clarified, the readiness of high school students choosing a profession technicians was...

Natural disasters occurring in Central Sulawesi in 2018 has caused psychological trauma on people affected, including early childhood (EC) teachers and tutors. Related to this grief, the current study aims at examining the effectiveness of post trauma counseling in developing capability of EC teachers...

In the market analysis of the 2018 national recruitment data and the employment situation in a city, it was found that the current college students have serious imbalances in their actual ability and employment salary expectations. In order to predict the salary of employment, doing this research. For...

The aim of this study is to identify the effectiveness of using the backward chaining technique to teach children with moderate intellectual disability (ID) and low vision the self-dressing skill of putting on a T-shirt. Teaching these children such a skill allows them to be independent and ultimately...

This study was aimed to determine the difference blood sugar level decrease after cycling for 30 minutes using road bike and mountain bike. The concept of measurement of blood glucose level using glucometer and it is taken after the sample doing cycling for 30 minutes. This Quasi experimental research...

Motorcycles as a mode of transportation its use continues to increase in the Surabaya City. One of the negative impacts is motorcycle accidents to increase. Based on IRSMS data are the involvement of motorcycles in the accidents of 82.6% (2,490 motorcycle accidents out of 3,014 accidents in Surabaya...

D. lablab L. is a species of bean that is categorized as local food with its perceived potential as alternative food source rich in nutritional content. This current comparative research aimed at investigating the influences of accessions upon nutritional content of D. lablab found in Malang, Probolinggo,...

This article observes one of the main informative units in the summation of the hisoriological tradition in the Contemporary national history of architecture. The main attention is focused on the methodological synthesis in the activity of the Commission on the problems of Renaissance culture at the...

Two-step stratified sampling was performed from 31 Taiwanese e-health companies and 362 users. By using hierarchical linear modeling, the study presents a research model which includes service innovation, value co-creation, interactive quality, perceived value, satisfaction, and e-loyalty. The results...

The study is to examine the concept in improving the mentioned law inforcement through applying the rules involving customary police or security guard, known as pecalang in Indonesia. The method used here is statutory and conceptual approach to legislation. In collecting the data, documentation and observation...

Providing real-world-based experience through a job internship program provides various benefits for developing intellectual disability skills. This study aims to find the right apprenticeship strategy for intellectual disability people who attend post-school education programs and undergo internships...

This study was designed to assess students reasoning achievement based on net and wall category, using Games Performance Assessment Instrument (GPAI) in Physical Education. The design used in this study was Quasi experimental design which consist of 240 form II students in the district of Hilir Perak,...

The aims of this research to determine effect of PACE learning model on mathematical problem-solving ability. The research method used is quasi experiment. The research’s subject was 64 students at grade 8 SMPN 1 Pariaman, Indonesia. Data were collected through problem solving test and then analyzed...

The needs of the 21st century in education need the creating of young people to have life skills. The life skills can be trained through the learning process and identified through student learning outcomes. Learning outcomes are one of the factors in successful learning. Therefore, a solution is needed...