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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,...

The American Psychiatric Association defines Tardive Dyskinesia (TD) as involuntary athetoid or choreiform movements generally of the tongue, lower face, jaw and extremities (may involve the pharyngeal, diaphragmatic, or trunk muscles). Tardive dyskinesia is an iatrogenic condition that arises following...

At the end of 2019, Covid-19 pandemic swept across the country. As the last line of defense for residents to prevent the epidemic, community is facing huge ordeal and challenges. In the face of the severe epidemic, the smart community has played a pivotal role with the new generation of information technologies...

The railroad track is very important as a means of crossing the train itself, especially for lines that have a fairly extreme elevation, where for the railroad itself it is not allowed to have a track with a very high grid. This study uses the finite element method with assistance from LISA...

Agriculture plays a dual role in climate change, acting both as a source and a potential sink for greenhouse gas emissions. Achieving net zero emissions requires innovative farming practices that not only sustain crop productivity but also enhance carbon sequestration. This study investigates the effects...

An adaptive fuzzy network method is proposed for measuring flexible truss deformation by using situ strain in this paper. The relation matrix between strain and arbitrary deformation nodes of truss is first derived by using inverse finite element method. Based on the elements of matrix, strain measuring...

Communities who live in the border areas of Indonesia (Napan Village, Timor Tengah Utara District, East Nusa Tenggara Province) and Bobometo Village, Timor Leste (District Oecusse) consume television in a very unique way. Although they are Timor Lestean, people in Bobometo watch Indonesian television....

This paper focus on searching the bottleneck in the security checkpoint to meet the trade-off between the security and convenience. we allocate certain time to each step which meet the duration of Poisson distribution. Then, with the airport security model based on Petri net, the whole process is simulated...

Xylanase enzyme is an extracellular enzyme that has the ability to hydrolyze xylan to xylose. Xylanase can be produced by thermophilic bacteria and is a natural xylanase that is active and stable at high temperatures and alkaline pH, so it has the potential to be used in industrial and biotechnology...

Drag performance in the cabaret show in Yogyakarta is a modern Indonesian performance which prioritizing cross gender roles. The characteristics of male actors with female attribute, causing negative public responses, where they were expected to behave in accordance of their sex. The expression of the...

This research is entitled ‘Classification of semantic types of Balinese adjectives’. Classifying semantic types of Balinese adjectives. The data sources of this research are Balinese phrases and clauses uttered by selected informants, and additional phrases and clauses made by researchers that have been...

Drought stress is a major abiotic factor limiting tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze) productivity worldwide, particularly in Bangladesh, where climatic variability is increasing. This study aimed to screen a diverse collection of tea genotypes for drought tolerance under nursery and field conditions...

The purpose of this paper is to understand the effect of surface roughness of the specimen on obtaining the creep characteristics by using bending creep tests. To this aim, a numerical study has been performed on the creep damage development of the specimen by implementing the different surface roughness...

This study aims to analyze the effect of (1) sales growth and (2) asset structure on capital structure in real estate and property companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). This research is classified as causative research, using secondary data with a population of all real estate and property...

Bangka island is the biggest island in Bangka Belitung Province and located between Sumatra and Kalimantan Island. Furthermore, Bangka seas are connecting Natuna sea with Java sea and also become a important part of Indonesia Throughflow. This geographic condition makes Bangka island has a unique oceanography...

One of sectors present a main contribution improving district net income on Kabupaten Serdang Bedagai is on agricultural with husbandry sub-sector, which sub-sector has a closed chain from upstream to down compared to another sector. The objective of this study is to determine the value influence of...

Arteriosclertic lesions leading to increased stiffnes of the walls. The goal of the research was to estimate changes in the mechanical properties of femoral artery in swine with experimentally induced arteriosclerotic changes by western type diet. Methods: 32 white female pigs (40 kg), were divided...

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...

In this paper, a new method is proposed to measure the reliability of service composition. The service composition is related to structure and interaction associated. This paper first studies structure associated service composition description language BPEL; while to the service interaction, it models...

Organizations that concerned on profit without responsiveness on environmental and social influences created from business operations, consequently cannot hold its life in the long term (sustainable). The government as a public sector organization is obliged to pay attention to the three pillars of sustainability,...

Teacher leadership and teacher development are key to building capacity for sustainable school improvement. Evidence shows the importance of teachers working together and learning together in generating capacity for change. Building leadership capacity requires constructivist learning approaches where...

Considering the impact of distributed power on the net load, the short-term load forecasting model established by SR-LS-SVR from the global perspective of the distribution network. The model parameters are quickly optimized by fine-grained parallel PSO. The accuracy, robustness and efficiency of the...

This research is a class action (classroom action research), which aims to increase students' interest in learning mathematic through learning model of Experiential Learning.The subjects of the research are the students of IX class at SMP Negeri 13 Parepare of 17 students, it consists of 9 male students...

In marketing education services and increasing customer loyalty is the school able to plan the right strategy to review the market and customer needs of educational services. Marketing strategy is a plan of an organization made to do marketing by introducing its organization to the public. Educational...

This research will show about (1) the characteristics and implementation of the ANTASARI blended learning model; (2) The appropriateness of implementation blended learning model ANTASARI; (3) the effectiveness of the ANTASARI implementation blended learning model to improve soft and social skills pass...

Belitung Regency has passsed Transmission Assessment Survey (TAS) in 2012, 2014, and 2016 respectively, which means that the Mass Drug Administration (MDA) in Belitung is being considered successful. This research has been conducted in February-November 2017, which aimed to analyze the program of filariasis...

Multidrugs Resistant-Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) caused by drugs resistant at least Isoniazid and Rifampicin Mycobacterium tuberculosis affects tuberculosis cases eradication efforts in the world. In 2014, 153 countries had reported MDR TB cases. MDR-TB can be caused by irregularity in taking medication tuberculosis...

This study aimed to determine the feasibility study of oyster mushroom farming in Pandowoharjo Village, Yogyakarta. The present study also seeks to identify a suitable business strategy for oyster mushroom business farming. Pandowoharjo is well-known for the location of Jejamuran Restaurant, a unique...

Wheat stands as a crucial staple crop for a substantial portion of the global population, contributing significantly to food security. However, the productivity and expansion of wheat cultivation face substantial challenges due to the prevalence of diseases, resulting in considerable annual crop losses....

The analysis makes use of information for seven BIMSTEC member nations from the ‘Government Finance Statistics Yearbook’, which is produced by “the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund”. Using region’s panel data, we inspect the connection between ‘remittances and financial development’. Pooled...

Setting up new strategies to prevent the growth and fatal rupture of aneurysms remains a challenge. The rat xenograft model of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) has been used to develop gene and cell therapies with the aim of countering the expansion of the diseased arterial wall. It is of primary importance...

For achieve fast and reliable power data transmission, we propose a novel Intensity Modulation and Direct Detection (IM/DD) optical Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. In this system, we utilize Discrete Hartley Transform (DHT) instead of Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) which is...

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...

The paper analyzes current expenditure system of united territorial communities, which includes funding of education, culture, health care, social safety net, housing and community amenities, infrastructure development, which together ensure territories` sustainable development. It has been proved that...

The objective of national accounts is to present a model of the real economy in the most accurate way. It means that not only officially recorded data from business accounting are included, but also model computations are used (e.g. in estimating the size of the shadow economy or correcting a phenomenon...

Longan fruit comes from a subtropical climate, and it can grow well in Indonesia. With the drying process of longan can also be beneficial as a tonic for the maintenance of insomnia and neurosis. Once the longan fruit separated from the skin and seeds, longan fruit put in plastic containers and then...

Background: Recently, atherosclerosis-associated disease has been reported simultaneously increased. Whereas, to date, no atherosclerosis vaccine is available. Since the epitope mimicry between malondialdehyde low-density lipoprotein (MDA-LDL) and arginine specific epitope gingipain (Rgp) on the Porphyromonas...

Background: Atherosclerosis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of vessel walls associated with infiltration of immune cells which their function is controlled by different co-stimulatory and co-inhibitory receptors. We investigated the expression of co-inhibitory molecules on the memory and effector...

Introduction: Bioimpedance analysis (BIA) is becoming more widely used in clinical practice to measure water body compartments. BIA allows to calculate: total body water (TBW), lean body mass (LBM), fat mass (FM), intra- and extracellular water (ICW, ECW). Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate...

In order to improve trial efficiency and realize the automatic recognition of the micro-expressions of criminal suspects in the interrogation process, according to the characteristics of the human torso micro-expressions posture, A 6 points human torso model which is used to describe the human torso...

With 2 mol% Al3+ ions and 8 mol% Eu3+ ions co-doping,nano-size[K0.8Y0.63Eu3+0.08Al0.02][Mo0.2W0.8O4] phosphor was synthesized by the sol-gel method. Through XRD, DTA-TG, SEM and photoluminescent analysis, its morphology, crystal structure and luminescent property were discussed and it is found that one...

Objective: this study examined the effects of flavonoids from Eucommia ulmoides (FEU) on antioxidant systems, lipid peroxidation and oxidative deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) damage after exhaustive exercise. Methods: the mice were then divided into four groups, one control group and three FEU treated groups....

The objective of this study is to verify the effects of 0.1% povidone-iodine (PVP-I) as subgingival irrigation on chronic periodontitis patients after 4, 6 and 8-week treatment. A clinical trial was conducted on 18 patients from 30 to 65 years old (mean age: 51.1±11.2) with moderate or severe chronic...

This study focuses on the entrepreneurial leadership of headmaster in realizing achievement school, case study in Public Junior High School 1 Lamongan (SMP Negeri 1 Lamongan), researchers based their study on 5 (five) entrepreneurial competencies of principals as Permendiknas Number 13 of 2007 concerning...

Background: Forkhead box O 3a is a transcription factor, a member of the Forkhead box O family. It has a crucial role in both oncogenesis and tumor suppression. Cellular localization and phosphorylation status are considered to be prognostic factors for cancers. Loss of Forkhead box O 3a was found in...

This study aims (1) to find out the pattern of ICT utilization in learning of writing in public high schools in Buleleng Regency and (2) to know the effectiveness of its application. The study used a developmental research design. One class was chosen at SMAN 1 Singaraja and at SMAN 3 Singaraja as the...

In this paper, we study the extreme events taking place on complex net-works with different assortative net-work structures. Using random walk models, we build the formalism of ex-treme events on networks. We then present the definition of network as-sortativity, and discussed its relation-ship with...

An Electro-hydrostatic actuator (EHA) structure with joint of pump control and valve control is proposed for more electric aircraft (MEA) braking system, the working principle of the system is analyzed, and on the basis of that, the mathematical models of the system components are established. To compromise...

The article deals with a textology question in Ninth Epode by Horace. The verses 17-18 gives as follows: adhuc/ad hunc frementesverteruntb is mille equos / Galli canentesCaesarem. The usual understanding of the noun hunc is to him, i.ÿe. to Marc Antony, mentioned in vv.ÿ11-13. Meanwhile the previous...

Background: The Arteriograph is a cuff-based oscillometric device for non-invasive assessment of central systolic blood pressure (cSBP), aortic augmentation index (Aix) and aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV). Reproducibility of Arteriograph measurements and the agreement with SphygmoCor in diabetic patients...