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Addressing the endeavor to diminish maternal and neonatal mortality (0–28 days) is crucial, given that the rates of maternal and infant mortality have not yet met the targets set by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This study seeks to assess the efficacy of the E-Health Birth Planning and Complication...

Ecolodge provides guarantees against the use of toxic chemicals, tests for environmental impacts starting from materials, buildings and other physical activities, and significantly contributes to the development of the local community’s economy. In this study, we aim to analyse the implementation of...

The unprecedented novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has put a halt in various sectors including tourism. Malaysia, along with other ASEAN state members, are not exceptional. This article aims to elucidate the existing collaboration between Malaysian and ASEAN healthcare travel post-pandemic and carve...

This work proposes design development of a new Computer Numeric Control (CNC) milling-cum-3D printing hybrid model. The successful prototyping of the machine with CNC Milling and 3D Printing ability may be accessed as a workstation and is viable for limited production. Initially the layout of the machine...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is defined as tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains resistant to at least isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP), confirmed through drug sensitivity testing or rapid molecular diagnostics (e.g., GeneXpert). Due to this resistance to first-line...

Bucket foundations, favored for their low cost and ease of installation, have seen widespread adoption in marine renewable energy projects such as offshore wind farms. However, marine soils often exhibit high sensitivity, which can markedly influence soil strength and penetration resistance during installation....

The Open University Malaysia Digital Library promotes digital information literacy skills among its learners by organizing frequent workshops. The aim of the workshop is to improve learners’ digital information literacy skills. This paper presents the findings from the investigation on the impact of...

A formal talk is used by the teacher to minimize misinterpretation in delivering the materials. Thus, classroom interaction can run well, and the students understand what the teacher teaches. In contrast, the teacher also uses an informal talk in classroom interaction to build a relationship with the...

The capture of small pelagic fish larvae, practiced for several decades using the light fishing gear Siru-siru, primarily targets individuals from the flexion to post-flexion stages. The fishery has received little scientific attention and remains largely unmanaged. This study examines the fishing activities...

This mixed-methods study examines time management challenges and techniques among employees in Hungary, with a particular focus on mid-level managers in multinational corporations. A questionnaire survey of 345 employees identified eight prevalent time management problems—including procrastination, meeting...

Ulos Traditional Fabric is one of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Indonesia originating from North Sumatra. Muara is one of the sub-districts, precisely in North Tapanuli district, where most of the population are Ulos weavers. One of the typical Ulos that is only made in the Muara area is Ulos Ikat...

Aim: Mechanisms through which SGLT-2 inhibitors achieve cardiovascular and renal protection are still unknown. We investigated whether dapagliflozin modulates Na and water balance and systemic and renal vascular parameters like endothelial function, arterial stiffness and renal vasodilating capacity. Methods:...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Arterial stiffness and aortic hemodynamics are independent predictors of adverse cardiovascular events. Indications for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) are increasing in number and Aortic Valve Calcifications (AVC) are an important prognostic factor of TAVI....

Background: Individualized weighing of the risk-benefit of anticoagulation is recommended in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) that have low established risk scores or, conversely, are at increased risk for bleeding1. Parameters of arterial stiffness and wave reflection could improve risk stratification,...

Background: The literature demonstrates that anger is associated with cardiovascular disease, but the underlying physiological mechanisms remain undefined. Endothelial dysfunction, present in atherosclerosis, has also been associated with anger. Purpose: To examine the association between anger and...

Background: Arterial stiffness, often expressed in terms of pulse wave velocity (PWV), is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease. PWV can be determined locally and non-invasively, by means of ultrasound. Aim: To assess PWV, local compliance (Cs), distensibility (Ds) and Young’s modulus...

Introduction: Higher aortic stiffness and central blood pressure (BP) are associated with reduced cognitive performance in older adults. Cognitive performance tends to be higher in older women compared with older men, unexplained by differences in years of formal education and/or presence of atherosclerotic...

Hypertension is associated with endothelial dysfunction and increased cardiovascular risk. Caveolin-1 regulates nitric oxide(NO) signaling by modulating endothelial nitric oxide synthase(eNOS). The purpose of this study was to examine whether HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor improves impaired endothelial...

Background: The measurement of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is useful to predict storke and cardiovascular events in hypetensive patients as our previous cohort study Non-invasive Atheroslerotic evaluation in Hypertension (NOAH) sutdy. As the cfPWV is useful, but not easy to measure, it...

Background: Arterial stiffness has been known as an independent contributory factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is widely accepted as a simple non-invasive measure of arterial stiffness. The aim of our study was to test whether abnormal PWV could identify patients with...

Background: Many reports have shown that brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) has an effect on evaluation of atherosclerotic change and would be one of the prognostic factors for hypertension (HT). It has been reported that chronic kidney disease (CKD) would influence the prognosis of HT or diabetes...

Towards human motion intention recognition in active rehabilitation, an algorithm of pattern recognition and localization is proposed. Large changes in the overall action signal were paid more attention rather than accu-racy of local signal. The ARM of Cortex-M3 core was used in data acquisition and...

This study was conducted to assess the effects of L-arabinose on the antioxidant and drug metabolizing enzymes in rats. Forty-eight rats were equally divided into six groups. The rats in three groups were respectively administered with 500, 1 000 and 2 000 mg/kg L-arabinose for 38 days. In blank control,...

Research on environmental cost calculation method for electricity production and benefit assessment method considering low-carbon energy saving, can promote the realization of low-carbon production in power industry. First, the measurement for environmental factors and costs were studied in the paper,...

Cloud Computing is often regarded as form of "green computing". However, the growth of cloud computing also goes hand in hand with an increasing demand for energy, caused by a continuously growing demand for content, data-intensive applications and bandwidth. The debates on the energy implications of...

To research the anti-freeze performance of road fiber concrete in erosion solution, trabecular specimens that contained three kinds of water-cement ratio (0.44, 0.42 and 0.40) was formed. Half of it were treated with protective agent and then placed in distilled water and 10% Na2SO4 solution. The mass,...

A effective method for comparing the thermal conductivity of insulation film was developed here. The thermal simulation on Ansys software indicated that different materials at same thickness exhibit different temperature distribution in this system. Base on this, the new measurement structure was fabricated...

Oxy-fuel combustion is an important development direction of combustion technology, and the key technology to reduce the cost of flue gas purification is the reduction of denitration cost. Based on the experiments and simulation process with Aspen Plus of pressure denitrification process, the reaction...

People are striding into the mobile Internet era, and smart phone has become the main communication tool for college students. At the same time, it is one of the most dependent, convenient and fashionable way of life. As a result, campus college students are becoming the main force and leader of mobile...

The purpose of this study is to know the magnitude of the influence of lecturer competence on the productivity of lecturers of Private Colleges in Aceh. The population of this study were lecturers at eight private universities in Aceh, namely University of Gajah Putih Takengon, Al Muslim Bireuen University,...

After the Constitutional Court/Mahkamah Konstitusi (“MK”) Decision in the case of Judicial Review of Law Number 23 of 2014 concerning Local Government against The 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, which was pronounced in MK Plenary Session on Wednesday, 5 April 2017, the authority...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the produced insulin. Morinda citrifolia has been widely used as herbal medicine to prevent and to treat diabetes as well as health supplements. It contains flavonoids...

The influence of seawater flow velocity on calcareous deposits formed under galvanostatic polarization mode was studied. The protection potentials of electrodes shifted positively with increasing flow velocities which were monitored versus time at various flow velocities. The whole curves of potential...

Using structural materials with high damping property is known as one of the most effective method to solve vibration and noise problem at present, and polyacrylate is one of the most widely polymer damping materials. Polyacrylate was often used as a resin matrix in waterborne damping coating for its...

To assess the impact of heavy metal contamination on the soil-rice agricultural ecosystem, the distribution of heavy metals in Zhangjiagang City was analyzed by taking samples from the paddy fields. The result show that contents of Cu, Pb in soil were increased and here are analogous pollution sources...

With the development of space technology, the large diameter long-life of the space telescopes became more and more urgent. This paper mainly discussed the feasibility of the space telescope on-orbit maintenance for science unit module. This paper took the WFC3 module of the Hubble space telescope for...

Getting general solution for optimal control of stochastic nonlinear system is a hard task, the main difficulty is state variable and the control variable influencing each other,so system does not satisfy the separation theorem. To solve this problem, this paper use horizon optimal control strategy,...

This paper aims to offer a lightweight design method of the missile engine support structure based on the topology optimization by taking advantage of the computer numerical simulation and 3D printing technology. Taking use of 3D printing in the shape of heterogeneous structures and personalized manufacturing...

Indonesia has 12% or about 3 million infertile couples. Only half of that amount can be helped according to desire. 30% of these infertile partners are male as a cause in infertile couples. And there is a tendency for a meaningful increase. Almost every couple in the world wants a child, but unfortunately...

This paper describes the development and the use of a three-tier diagnostic instrument to identify the misconception of the students in algebra. The three-tier diagnostic test was developed using the theoretical framework by Treagust. The first tier assessed content knowledge; in the second tier, a reason...

Objective: Diabetes, hypertension and heart disease inflict a heavy health burden on the Caribbean Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. This study assessed the prevalence of self- reported diabetes, hypertension and heart disease in lower socioeconomically placed individuals accessing welfare grants. Method:...

This study evaluated the incidence, serotype distribution, and antimicrobial susceptibility of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in Saudi Arabian children. This multicenter, prospective, clinical surveillance study included children under 5 years of age, residents of one of the seven study health areas,...

This research aims to know the difference in effectiveness between the PBL and DRTA in terms of critical thinking and reading comprehension in elementary school. This study is a quasi experiment research. The subject of research is the elementary school students. The instruments used were the utilization...

This paper presents some steps of teaching EFL students to create an ESP course design in their ESP class by applying a project-based instruction (PBI). This study was conducted due to the background of the students’ low achievement in understanding ESP subject. The purpose was that by using PBI students...

The worse impact of climate change on the life system shows that the implementation of Sustainable Development method has not been optimal yet. For more than two decades, environmentalists have adopted Green Building approach to achieve energy efficiency, resource conservation, highperformance design,...

This study aims to: 1) Develop Money Market media to facilitate students in counting and knowing currency class III primary school, 2) Knowing the feasibility of Money Market counting and knowing currency class III primary school that have been developed. This research is a type of research and development...

This paper explores the applicability of MICE tourism development strategy. To plan and implement this, different management and decision making tools were used including literature study, surveys and interviews as well as SWOT analysis. A series of interviews was conducted in order to identify actions...

Character Education teaches habits of ways of thinking and behavior that help individuals to live and work together as family, community and state and help them to make accountable decisions. This study aims to determine the implementation of character education through school culture in the formation...

The development of toddler is very important to be noticed by a mother, because when the transition phase occurs the children, learn to regulate and control themselves in doing poop and pee, therefore in this phase toilet training is very important to be implemented. A mother's perception has a very...

Steel is used in construction, Bridges, ships, boilers and other projects on the metal structure, or is used in the manufacture of machinery and equipment parts, which can produce defects such as corrosion and crack due to the effect of load and environment. In order to ensure the healthy use of steel,...