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Objective: Vascular stiffness has long been linked with the ageing process. However, it is only since the development of accurate methods for measuring arterial compliance that unravelling this relationship has become possible. Arterial stiffening over time appears to differ between ethnic groups and/or...

Steels, as one of the main components of construction requires great strength. Steel can be modified its strength by adjusting the percentage of the amount of its constituent substance composition. Some substances that can be used as a composition in steel include: Iron (Fe), Carbon (C), Phosphorus (P),...

The dynamic compressive experiments of 2D-C/SiC composites under low temperature were performed on the SHPB system. The low temperatures at 173K and 103K were obtained by controlling the ratio of the absolute alcohol to the liquid nitrogen. The wave shapers were designed to meet the requirements of stress...

One of the main factors which influence the children while watching cartoons is violence as it is a vital part of most of the cartoon programs. Through this, children are induced and attracted of violent contents (Hassan and Daniyal, 2013). Studies have shown that children's television programs shown...

This article describes a new perspective of evaluating internal cost control efficiency for manufacturing enterprises through the efficiency of material, energy, labor and capital to find an efficient way to evaluate the efficiency of the implementation of internal cost control. The conventional way...

Internal thoracic artery (ITA) and small saphenous vein (SSV) are two viable conduits for coronary artery bypass grafts. The aim of this study was to investigate the viscoelastic behavior of the small saphenous vein and internal thoracic artery under compressive and tensile loadings at body temperature....

Background: Cathepsin L (Cat L) is involved in the regulation of vascular aging processes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between plasma Cat L level and arterial stiffness marker through brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) in geriatric patients. Methods: Cross-sectional...

In the groups of processes of distributed systems, it is necessary to make decisions based on agreements; these processes may operate in distributed teams; processes may require the use of shared resources in the form of mutual exclusion. The following question arises: what kind of decision models will...

The study aims to reveal the desired standards of professional competence, as well as efforts in management development of professional competence, and teacher responses to the policies taken by the principal to development the teachers professional competence. This study used a qualitative approach...

COVID-19 still become a major problem for the entire world population, with the number of cases reaching 46 million as of October 2020. The COVID-19 widespread is one of a kind since of the scale, speed of spread, and need of logical information related to this unused disease. Hospitals, especially ER...

This study aims to determine the optimal formulation for the manufacture of instant mixfruit. The research included two stages of preliminary research aimed at characterizing black rice flour. Furthermore, the main research aims to obtain optimization of the instant mix fruit formula with the addition...

The purpose of this study; (1) to analyze the understanding of PAUD teachers in Surakarta about differentiated learning: (2) to analyze the implementation of learning in PAUD Surakarta. The method of this research used in this study is descriptive with qualitative approach. In this study the subject...

The research on scientific creativity plays an increasingly important role in education. Scientific creativity can be viewed as a type of domain-specific creativity. Subjective creativity assessments (SCA) are particularly useful for measuring domain-specific creativity and earned wide popularity in...

In this paper, by adding different additives in Solar Two molten salt in order to form multiple composite molten salts. And testing the thermal performance of mixture molten salt can be comparatively analysis of the modification effects of different additives. The melting point and latent heat of mixture...

The purpose of this research is: (a) to describe the types of psychological conflict of the main actor in the suffragette film based on Kurt Lewin’s perspective; (b) to explain the causes of psychological conflict of the main actor in the suffragette film based on KurtLewin’s perspective; (c) and to...

Risk communication refers to people exchange risk information and management opinions, which is an important part to effectively improve risk management. As a platform for risk communication, the questionnaire survey in Internet of intelligences should have the function of comprehensively sharing risk...

Entomopathogenic fungi have been widely used to control insect pests. The objective of this experiment was to find out the insecticidal activity of filtrate of entomopathogenic fungal cultures exposed to ultra violet (UV) C against the larvae of Spodoptera litura. The fungi used were Beauveria bassiana...

The Sriminosari village is a coastal village in East Lampung district that had mangrove forests. Now, mangrove forests of Sriminosari used as a mangrove ecotourism area and will be developed as a form of proper management to ensure the conservation and sustainability of rehabilitation while simultaneously...

Siti Hawa Padang Mother and Child Hospital is one of the private hospitals in Mother and Child Health Services. It is a Class C Special Hospital. It did not yet have a separate marketing division that was still superimposed on the Head of the General and Staffing Subdivision. There was only 1 staff who...

The habit of farmers selling crops with a slash system is a practice of buying and selling carried out by wholesalers by buying agricultural products before entering the harvest period. The practice of buying and selling without perfect use sometimes causes the unclear amount of the goods sold, to cause...

Protein-based edible coatings with various concentrations (5, 10, and 15%) of chicken protein were prepared from chicken protein isolates using isoelectric solubilization/precipitation. Two batters were used in this study. A new batter containing sweet potato starch (SPS) was prepared and a commercial...

This study introduces an AI-powered system using a customized ResNet50 model to enhance lung disease diagnostics through image analysis. Our model accurately classifies lung conditions, including adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and benign tissue, achieving 93.25% accuracy compared to the standard...

Background: Patients with COPD have increased Cardiovascular (CV) risk and commonly present with altered body composition. Patients with COPD and a low BMI have poorer health outcomes1, while obesity may increase CV risk2. The aim of this analysis was to explore BMI, CV risk, exercise capacity and systemic...

Background: COPD is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Systemic low-grade inflammation is a common finding in COPD. Soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) indicates an inflammatory state and it has an association with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD)....

Rational: Cardiovascular diseases represent the main cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world (1). Arterial stiffness has shown to be an important predictor of cardiovascular events, and pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a marker of subclinical organ damage which can be measured by different...

Smart Computing provides ease of use in term of mobility in the low power computing devices such as smartphone, tablet and experimental board (e.g. RaspberryPi). Low power constraint and low computation capability require a lightweight security system and networking protocol. This paper presents an analysis...

Hiding encrypted text in an image file can possibly be a feasible solution to small-office-home-office (SOHO) and personal use for data and file transmission across digital networks. In this paper, the au-thors propose a simple, low-cost, but effi-cient algorithm to (a) convert a text (short or lengthy)...

The microwave pyrolysis of the low-rank coal is a new technology, which solves the utilization problems of coal cleaning conversion. On basis of experiments, this paper conducted comparative study on microwave co-pyrolysis products of low-rank coal under H2 and N2 atmosphere, respectively. The composition...

Brain tissue segmentation is one of the most important parts of clinical diagnostic tools. Fuzzy C-mean (FCM) is one of the most popular clustering based segmentation methods. However FCM does not robust against noise and artifacts such as partial volume effect (PVE) and inhomogeneity. In this paper,...

A series of V2O5-CeO2/TiO2-SnO2 catalysts were prepared with different CeO2 content to investigate the effect of Ce modification for selective catalytic reduction of NO by NH3. The obtained samples were characterized by BET, XRD, HRTEM,H2-TPR and FT-IR. The catalytic test was also investigated on a fixed...

On the basis of a certain type of radar is proposed to establish based on C / S architecture, teaching and training loop simulation of radar system design. System prototype developed by the host analog receiver with the received signal, and display the data passed to the client, and then displayed by...

Early Childhood Education (ECE) learning evaluation refers to the evaluation of early aged-children' developmental achievement. This is pivotal to measure developmental achievement during and after the learning activity is conducted. From the previous study shown that teacher faced various problems to...

Chemistry is the study that most of the material is abstract. Many students have difficulty learning chemistry especially the reaction rate. Therefore, we need a learning model that can help students think critically, one of which is the 5E Learning Cycle and is supported by a program that can visualize...

This study delves into the impact of serious games on individuals’ awareness on data privacy seriousness. The game incorporates thriller themes, a pixel art-style, and a point-and-click approach that enhances its immersive experience. With the game at hand, the research examines the relationship between...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) levels are modestly but significantly associated with increased risk of total cardiovascular events. Aortic stiffness and wave reflections are also important predictors of cardiovascular events. The aim of this pilot...

Background: Retinal microvascular function can be assessed using flicker light induced provocation (FLIP). Reduced vessel dilation responses to FLIP are noted in various disease conditions. Comparative studies between ethnic groups are scarce, while the importance of different phases of the vessel responses...

Based on the Nagel-Schrekenbercellular automaton model of traffic flow, the article analyzed the influence that driving on the right side takes to the traffic flow (practical capacity) in the condition of light and heavy traffic. With the combination of fluid dynamics and vehicle dynamics, we established...

The paper shows that in China's tax structure of industry, the increase of tax revenue of secondary industry to total tax share can significantly increase the output elasticity of capital elements; the increase of tax revenue of tertiary industry also increase the output elasticity of capital elements...

In order to shorten the inspection path and time-consuming, improve the intelligence degree of the laser inspection robot and apply to the large-scale TSP in the substation, the paper proposes a path planning method based on the improved ant colony algorithm, the navigation method, the walking characteristics,...

A comparison of second order and high order (4th, 8th and 12th order) of finite difference staggered-grid method on 2D P-SV elastic wave propagation has been conducted. The comparison plot of numerical dispersion and accuracy among each order has been generated to show the stability condition. CUDA C...

A new 2000V-4A Junction Barrier controlled Schottky (JBS) diodes module has been fabricated using 4H-SiC. The module is composed of two SiC JBS diodes, and it is used for rectifying circuits. By adopting the proper SBD metal ,optimized structures and fabrication process, we succeeded in achieving good...

This study was done to answers 2 (two) research problems: (i) why is it necessary to establish good corporate governance in overcoming the sectoral dualism of BUMN/SOEs; and (ii) how the BUMN/SOEs based on good corporate governance are able to optimize the management of natural resources in a professional...

The root of Eurycoma longifolia or locally called as Tongkat Ali contains numerous health benefits, mainly due to the bioactive compounds. The main compound of interest is from the group of quassinoids which is also known as degraded triterpenoids such as eurycomanone, eurycomalactone, longilactone,...