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The present study examines the impact of technology adoption, digital literacy, and regulations on the sustainability of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in ASEAN, with partnerships between FinTech and banks or traditional financial institutions as intervening variables. The focus of this...

This research aims to explore the knowledge of the use of plants as Medicine and explore the current problems of their sustainability in Bener Meriah Regency. Through interviews and observations, it was found that the threat came from three main factors: structural, cultural, and ecological. Structural...

Foundations of towering structures are usually subjected to complex multidirectional loads. For investigating the bearing behavior of bucket foundation in soft soil under vertical-horizontal composite loading, a three-dimensional numerical model was developed in this paper. Combining the Swipe loading...

The dimension of tolerance is one of the pillars of the formation of democracy, living in a multicultural era it is important to understand the self-assessment of tolerance of young people, or what young people themselves think, how open they are, for example, in categories such as: (I) tolerance of...

The ignitability of upholstered furniture was experimentally studied by using wooden crib as ignition source. Three different ignition source assembles were assessed and compared by measuring their combustion heat release rate, total calorific value, combustion duration, and temperature. Results indicated...

Creative thinking skills are very important in learning mathematics. A learning model is essential to help students enhance their creative thinking skills, such as the Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) model. This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the Contextual Teaching and Learning...

The learning paradigm in the 21st century requires technology and the use of appropriate learning models in vocational education. Therefore teachers must be able to choose the benefit of learning models to be applied. One of the learning models that can be used is the Cybergogy model, a learning model...

High population growth rates still need to be solved in almost all parts of the world. Over the past decade, Indonesia has been ranked fourth in the world regarding population. The family planning program has produced positive results. However, changes in the organizational structure of the institution...

The tourism industry develops quite rapidly every year in Indonesia because Indonesia is known for its various kinds of natural beauty and cultural diversity and as a result the number of foreign and local tourists visiting tourist attractions in Indonesia continues to increase. Having the privilege...

Padlet has been widely deployed in teaching and learning writing skills. A growing body of literature recognizes this tool’s virtues, such as increasing students’ motivation and involvement in learning, alleviating their anxiety, and improving their language use and idea organization. However, few studies...

In 2022, Indonesia migrated its television broadcasts system to digital, opening up opportunities for new players to enter public television scenery. This study explores the use of Unreal gaming engine-powered Virtual Set systems for small broadcasters. The results show that they can use it to produce...

The Indonesian government has an obligation to provide protection to Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) when they are still in Indonesia, when they are in the destination country and after finishing their contract. PMI who has finished working have more problems, one of problems is the of sources of income....

This study aims to determine the use of mobile banking amongst generation Z in the Wonosobo Regency with the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) approach. This analysis uses independent variables, namely perceived benefits, perceived ease of use, social influence, experience and trust. And the dependent...

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (Moodle) is an open-source Learning Management System (LMS) gaining more popularity in colleges and universities such as STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo. However, successfully implementing Moodle at STKIP PGRI Sidoarjo for post-graduate students among their courses...

Limited previous studies have focused on the benefits of social media engagement on psychosocial well-being. The present study explores the relationship between social media engagement, social desirability, and empathy. It is hypothesised that social media engagement enhances empathy directly and indirectly...

The research explored the determinants of university service quality in higher education institutions in Botswana. The significance of the study was to avail the key service characteristics that contributed towards quality in higher education institutions in Botswana. The methodology of the study was...

The continuous monitoring of arterial stiffness during pharmacological and dynamic stress is an intriguing and partially unexplored topic. In this work we present a new method for the continuous assessment of the aortic-to-carotid pulse transit time (PTT), which is inversely proportional to the pulse...

Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk. However, PWV is usually determined between the carotid and femoral sites, ignoring the proximal ascending aorta which may stiffen most with age. We tested this hypothesis by assessing regional PWV and aortic diameter...

Background: Despite the introduction of arterial stiffness measurements in the recommendation of the European Societies for Hypertension and Cardiology, pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (Aix) are still not used routinely in clinical practice. Possibly, current techniques, although non-invasive,...

Objective. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, improvements in conventional risk factors do not explain the full benefit of PA on CVD risk. Therefore, we examined the association between PA and central haemodynamics to provide new insight into...

Patients with enlarged thyroid gland (goiter) that cause paralysis of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) or hoarseness usually have associated with thyroid malignancy. Malignancy can be directly or indirectly related to RLN. Cases of vocal cord paralysis associated with benign thyroid disease or goitre...

Introduction: The non-invasive analysis of plaque echolucency (ECL) with Adobe Photoshop® has proven to reduce the subjectivity of ultrasonic evaluation of atherosclerosis. However, ECL provides information concerning only one of the aspects that contribute to vulnerability (plaque echodensity). Hemodyn...

Introduction. Assessing arterial properties and hemodynamics in response to a physiological perturbation might provide additional information on an individual’s “vascular health”. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of measuring changes in carotid stiffness and hemodynamics in response...

A variety of different technologies are used to intervene in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) increasingly every year as more and more children are diagnosed with ASD. One of the technologies used is the use of images, multimedia, and animation with the help of computer technology to provide...

The aims of this study is to determine whether or not there is code switching and code mixing that were done by the teachers in elementary school in Garut, while they are teaching or communicating with their students, describing the forms of code switching and code mixing, and the factors that cause...

This study aims to determine the readiness to implement teaching factory learning in the Modeling Design and Building Information Vocational Program at SMK Negeri 2 Ciamis Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive research method with a quantitative approach. The level of readiness is seen from four aspects:...

Purpose: The oxidative damage of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on human kidney proximal tubular epithelial cell (HKC) and the nucleation and growth of calcium oxalate (CaOx) crystals modulated by normal and injured cells were investigated. Methods: The method of CCK-8 was used to detect the proliferating...

This study was aimed at analyzing contractive comparisons between Indonesian language and Javanese one. Both languages are belong to the Western Malay Polynesian group, but then have developed under varieties of influences and have experienced differences in some respects. The contrasts between both...

The construction must seriously study material standards, and have knowledge of building materials, and fully understand the scope and use of properties of the coating was not to be careless with the wrong paint, applied over the interior facade. After the sun and rain, appeared in a short unexpected...

This study tried to explore cause of Cibaduyut image decay as Bandung tourist destination for shoe shopping from both functional and emotional components and to clarified whether image or other factor that give more influences on visiting decision. Qualitative approach was employed by interviewing 20...

This research are aimed to know: 1) the achievment level of clinical competence of medical-surgical nursing among DIII vocational students of nursing, 2) the standard competence of medical-surgical nursing based hospital among DIII vocational students of nursing. The reseach metheod was using descriptive...

Hypertension is a serious health problem because the high number of morbidity and mortality. Generally, the treatments of hypertension throughout two ways, pharmacological and non-pharmacological. Anti-stroke exercise was the one of non-pharmacological therapy that is recommended for hypertension. The...

Aiming at the problem of high cost of mechanics performance testing and uncontrollable of the experimental accuracy, a new modeling method which called "mapping model" based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) is proposed. The SVM regression nonlinear prediction model was established based on the small sample...

A horizontal liquid-solid multi-tube circulating fluidized bed was designed to study the influence of front header distributor, liquid velocity,Kenics static mixer to various particle’s distribution and discuss the pressure of front header to back header. The CCD image measurement and data processing...

Acid gas removal (AGR) units are widely used to remove CO2 and H2S from sour gas streams in natural gas processing. When foaming occurs in an AGR system, the efficiency of the process extremely decreases. In this paper, a novel approach is suggested to regularly predict the gas dew point temperature...

The number of Internet-enabled end-user devices such as personal computers, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, etc. is increasing constantly. However, since the devices themselves are becoming ever more energy-efficient, their overall energy consumption in the use phase of their life cycle seems to be...

Continuous learning among teachers has an important role to enhance the effectiveness of teacher’s daily learning activities in the organization, in order to improve teacher’s knowledge and competencies, and ultimately for achieving educational strategic goals. Based on a preliminary survey, it had been...

Growth and inactivation regression equations were developed to describe the effects of temperature on Salmonella concentration on chicken meat for refrigerated temperatures (⩽10 °C) and for thermal treatment temperatures (55–70 °C). The main objectives were: (i) to compare Salmonella growth/inactivation...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a major nosocomial pathogen worldwide. Malta is one of the countries with the highest MRSA prevalence in Europe, as identified from hospital blood cultures [1]. However, community prevalence of MRSA has never previously been investigated. This study...

In this transformation era, that humans be able to become competitive subjects to innovate in every single area. The disruption era that grows along with the industrial revolution 4.0 were called digitalization was brought many effects for its changing. As the agent of change, the learner should be able...

This study aims to analyze: Women's Empowerment Model: A Strategy For Increasing Local Economic Resources. The location of the study was determined in seven rural and urban areas which included creative industry centers in Buleleng Regency. A number of key informants are set as many as 50 people who...

The importance of the use of budgetary tools for solving business impact (stimulate) on the economic entities in the regions of the Russian Federation with the view of successful functioning of the economy in the new industrialization is substantiated in the article. Due to the significant amount of...

In this research, the researchers compared mathematical problem solving ability between the students who were taught using Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) and those who were taught using conventional approach, according to their self-regulated learning. This is quasy-experimental research. The...

This research aims to identify the preferences of SMEs to popular social media as a medium of interpersonal communication today i.e. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram to be used as marketing communication media of its business. The analysis refers to the Kietzmann Honeycomb Framework covering...

The aims of this article are to examine the extent of the role and development of learning media in vocational education, focusing on the aspects that must be considered in developing learning media, evaluation of learning media, learning media for vocational education in the form of simulators. The...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of professional commitment, organizational commitment, legal protection, reward, level of religiosity, and moral intensity of internal auditor toward intention to conduct whistleblowing (study at pratama tax service office in Semarang city). The...

The Indonesian literary community in East Java has experienced very rapid development. Especially in recent developments, the literary community continues to grow and increase in the East Java region--and at the same time develops literary publishing institutions. In this community, interactions between...

A facile method for the synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) onto CdTe quantum dots (CdTe-QDs@MIPs) was successfully developed, and for the first time used as a sensitive fluorescent nanosensor for specific and rapid determination of caffeic acid (CA) in apple juices. Sol–gel polymerization...

With the warming of the global climate and the increase of the greenhouse effect, it has seriously threatened the sustainable development of human beings. Many countries have adopted corresponding countermeasures to resolve this situation. China has also taken active measures and issued corresponding...

To the optimization control problem of traffic signal timing of single intersection, an optimization method based on the Clustering Genetic Algorithm(CGA) was put forward. In a cycle, we take the total number of queue vehicles of corresponding release lane at the end of each phase as the performance...