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Impairment of vascular endothelial function is an early sign of atherosclerosis. An active lifestyle is suggested to be positively associated with favorable endothelial function as opposed to a sedentary lifestyle. The aim of this ongoing study (Lifestyle, Biomarkers and Atherosclerosis Study) is to...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a deregulated host response to infection, and is the most common cause of death in the intensive care unit. Although the pathogenesis of sepsis has made substantial progress, the current clinical treatment of sepsis is basically symptomatic treatment,...

This study explores the challenges in implementing the scientific approach perceived by the EFL pre-service teachers and investigates the EFL pre-service teachers’ strategies to overcome the challenges. This research applied a descriptive qualitative design with the in-depth interview as the data collection...

Based on the Socio-cultural Theory and its key notion of Zone of Proximal Development, this study constructs a Dynamic Assessment writing Framework, which integrates three stages of writing process into the pre-writing – mediation – post-writing dynamic assessment model. The thesis conducts a detailed...

In order to solve the contradiction of bandwidth narrowing and gain reduction caused by miniaturization of micro strip patch antenna,this paper designs a novel miniaturized wideband micro strip antenna by combining slotting on radiation patch with slotting on ground plate. The miniaturization of the...

Rapid development of modern communication has a close relationship with the support of information talents, who benefit from the continuous perfection of discipline establishment. Partial content in HF Electronic Circuit is taken as the reform object, and the flipped classroom is taken as the reform...

Feature selection (FS) is a crucial data pre-processing process in classification problems. It aims to reduce the dimensionality of the problem by eliminating irrelevant or redundant features while achieve similar or even higher classification accuracy than using all the features. As a variant of particle...

Preliminary study conducted in some elementary schools located in Semarang found that the information and communication technology-based learning media was not optimally implemented. The type of this research is Research and Development with Waterfall SDLC research model consisting of: analysis, design,...

Enterprise marketing capabilities constitute the core competitiveness of the important part. In practice, companies tend to focus on the performance perspective of corporate marketing capabilities, while ignoring the marketing resources and their ability to take advantage of the ability to influence...

A silicon photoconductor apparatus having improved efficiency in infrared radiation detection by sandblasting the reflective surface of the apparatus and thereby creating a near-infinite number of reflecting angles and a corresponding multiplication of quantum energy yield. This article describes its...

The aim of this paper is to present the process and impact of the education reform of 1999 in the curricula and ways of implementation of this reform at pre-school institutions, primary schools, lower secondary schools (gimnazja) and upper secondary schools (post-gymnasium schools) taking into account...

Construction of hydro power projects in the Himalayan region poses various problems which can have direct implication on the cost and time schedule of the projects. Varying geological conditions necessitate use of modern methodologies for ensuring stability and overall time bound completion of the project...

Neural machine translation has recently achieved promising results with the big scale corpus. But there is little research on the small scale corpus, such as Mongolian. Mongolian belongs to the agglutinative language while Chinese is a pictograph. It is necessary to do some pre-processing for both Mongolian...

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This study examined the social movements of Kedungdendeng peasants, the resistance carried out by Kedungdendeng peasants using a critical ethnographic perspective, especially the process of the occurrence of the peasant resistance movements, the forms of pre-reform peasant resistance and the forms of...

The article that discusses Garuda bird on Hindu-Buddhist era and Islamic times aims to reveal more depth about how Garuda's position and role in Javanese cultural perspective. In addition, to know the forms of Garuda and its application from the Hindu-Buddhist era and its transition into the Islamic...

This paper focuses on children’s experience and learning opportunities in ethnically diverse pre-school settings. The study involved 60 children and three teachers from three PERPADUAN (Unity) Pre-school settings. A qualitative methodology was applied to explore children’s experience and learning opportunities....

The paper deals with the reconstructed logic of the historical conceptual change of ideal worldview types in the early history of Indian and Western civilizations. The primordial naturalistic outlook characterized by pre-reflexivity and a total neglect of human subjectivity was first superseded by elitist...

Creative-critical thinking skills are two things that are inseparable. Critical-creative thinking skill is a skill demanded in the 21st century to survive in facing the world change. Creative-critical thinking skill is very important for pre service teachers. This will affect the ability to think of...

In traditional vacuum resurgence control process, there are some problems such as insufficient moisture regain, unsatisfactory moisture content absorption and large steam loss. In order to solve these problems, we put forward the vacuum pre-conditioner’s thermodynamic parameter model to control the vacuum...

With the increasing water depth, semi-submersible platform mooring system weight has increased rapidly. Because the coupling of the platform and mooring system will directly affect the safety of platform location, the mooring system must use the design of multi-component mooring line. The paper introduces...

The main objective of this research was to depict school as professional learning community (PLC) as a way of continuous professional development (CPD). In this research, case study is used with 4 stages namely: (1) pre-field; (2) field work; (3) data analysis, and (4) evaluation and reporting. The findings...

Students’ poor performance in Geometry is due to their problem in visualizing. Therefore, teaching strategy for Geometry should be embedded with visualization techniques. Visual learning Geometry Kits also known as VLGeo-Kits, is a teaching approach that consists of 3-Dimension blocks, screencast video...

This study aims to determine the effect of the use of E-learning on the competence of doing work using a lathe on students of Mechanical Engineering Education UNNES. The type of E-learning used is Google Classroom which is a product of Google for Education. In addition to knowing the effect on student...

Controversy persists regarding the presence and significance of blood pressure “J-curves” of increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk as they relate to older people with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH). Age is an important effect modifier favoring diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in young adults,...

Nurse skills are very important in treating patients with PCI (Percutaneous Coronary Intervention). If the actions taken are not appropriate, it will have an impact on the patient’s condition and even cause death. In theory, behavior or skills can be improved by the learning process. This study aims...

Corona Virus’ pandemic (Covid-19) has affected all of the world’s aspects, such as economics, lifestyles, culture, education, etc. Most schools and universities have been shut down for the safety of students. Then e-learning has been employed in many schools and universities to keep education going on....

This research aims to find out the metacognitive awareness portrait of prospective teacher students after learning with lesson study and assignment in the form of learning journals. The type of research is a pre-experiment research with one-group pretest-posttest design. Research sample consists of 30...

This research is an experimental study that aims to compare the effectiveness of the Two Stay-Two Stray and Pair Checks cooperative learning models on Mathematics learning outcomes. This study uses a quasi-experimental approach with a non-equivalent control group design. This design uses 3 groups, each...

The increasing of Diabetes Mellitus type 2 caused by several factors, such as lack of diet compliance of patients. Spiritual care is non -pharmacological treatment that has not been widely applied to improve dietary compliance in patients with Diabetes Mellitus type 2. This research aims to determine...

This research is conducted to motivate students’ speaking skill in English. The purpose of this research is to design a learning model namely ‘Storytelling’ to be used as a valid, practical, and effective model to teach English speaking skills at Junior High School (SMP) level. This research is a development...

Martial arts is an outstanding spiritual creation through the historical choice. As a kind of cultural form, it contains the rich cultural connotations. In this paper, using the research methods of literature, logic reasoning and so on, the interpretation of the traditional martial arts culture has been...

Active safety and passive safety technology have been developed for many years in foreign countries. According to the studies by some foreign authorities, pre-crash seat-belt can protect the occupant in collision more effectively, and reduce the injury during the accident greatly. In this paper, sled...

As a lag of urbanization products, city village distribute like island in the urban fringe. In order to better understand the situation of the village in the real life, this paper aims at the status quo of the pre-school education in the semi-urban and rural villages in the villages and villages that...

The application of the first hand historical materials in history teaching of high school is conducive to enhancing learning interest, cultivating autonomous learning ability, erecting correct emotional attitude values and realizing the innovation and reform of teaching methods. We should expand Historical...

Based on BIM technology, this paper expatiates on the application concept of BIM in the current construction and installation project. Through the application of Autodesk Revit in the construction of building model and the application of integrated design in pipeline, electromechanical and so on, the...

In the construction of construction projects, the method of risk assessment is mainly affected by human factors, which leads to the accuracy and objectivity of the evaluation results. In order to ensure the accuracy of the evaluation results and scientific factors to reduce the impact of human factors,...

With the progress and development of society, people recognize the value of arts education in the deepening of early childhood music education is increasingly subject to people's attention. 3-6 years old children in a particular age, their psychological and physiological are in its infancy, very imperfect...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) remains as one of major public health problems in Indonesia. During the years, Jakarta has become the province with high number of DHF cases. To reduce the cases, DHF prevention initiative can be done through health education. The objective of this study was to assess the...

in the process of peak period income estimation in the tourism scenic of minority areas, the estimation results obtained by traditional estimation methods are affected by the mutability of tourist amount, existing local optimal problem, causing bigger error. Therefore, this paper proposes a method of...

To solve the estimator’s inconsistency in calculating the proposal distribution and the particles degeneracy phenomenon of the Rao-Blackwellized particle filter (RBPF), an improved method of RBPF based on fusing Precision laser pre-observation information particle swarm optimization (PSO) is proposed...

In China, countless docking problem always exists in the agricultural production and marketing process. It often leads to blind planting and unsalable depreciated phenomena. Although the e-commerce is a good idea of exchanging supply and demand information and reducing the circulation cost, it faces...

This study examines the governance of how external auditors (EAs) rely on internal audit function (IAF) from a new perspective. We use Signaling Theory embedded in a Throughput Model to trace the sub-processes of different stages of the reliance decision. We consider the last revision made to the International...

In recent years, the competitions among financial institutions have become more and more intense. In such a case, financial institutions’ demands for talented persons with solid financial engineering expertise are increasing day by day. At the same time, considering that risk management is one of the...

Phonics is one important part of language learning and it contributes to language literacy through involving learners understanding the relationship between letter form and speech sound. It's made evident that younger learners are shown the ability to learn a foreign language in many researches and thereby...

Much attention is focused on the study of flipped classroom. This research is conducted among top students with the purpose of confirming the effect of flipped classroom. It found that flipped classroom does not merely implies learning by oneself, even if objects are top students, teachers are expected...

This investigation examines all-optical multicast routing in wavelength-routed optical networks with sparse Multicast Capable (MC) nodes that have three phases. The first phase is the MC node placement, and the maximum path count first (MPCF) algorithm is utilized to obtain candidates for MC nodes. The...

A novel training paradigm for artificial neural networks had been developed and presented in this article. In the proposed approach, a revised version of particle swarm optimization (PSO) had been employed to find out the optimal connection weights of feed-forward artificial neural networks for given...

License plate detection process can be divided in two parts 1] plate extraction, 2] character segmentation. License plate detection relies on illumination conditions, background and mainly on camera resolution. There is absence of any common standard to compare various algorithms for a LPD system, because...