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COVID-19 has become a world pandemic. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has predicted causes of mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and stress among students. This study aims to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the factors affecting the mental health status of...

An increased emphasis on comprehensive tourism development has been seen in recent years. In-depth theoretical exploration and analysis on the creation and promotion of comprehensive tourism brands, however, have not been taken into account by the current research, which has primarily focused on the...

Increasing hydrophobicity and antioxidant activity was an effort to improve the quality of edible film. Adding durian seed flour (DSF) and microemulsion was expected to increase cassava starch (CS)-based edible film properties. The objective of this research was learned about the effect of DSF and microemulsion...

This article examines the dilemma faced by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in balancing humanitarian concerns with national security imperatives in their response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. The MMEA is tasked with safeguarding Malaysia’s maritime borders and combating transnational...

India’s marital culture is evolving. Relationship boundaries are becoming more diffused as a result of nuclear families, women being monetarily independent, and a reduction in social inhibitions. Due to COVID-19, there was a rapid change in the workplace environment where the line between the work and...

The Constitutional Court, as a judicial institution, was born from the womb of reformation, with the aim of building a culture and court management to produce quality decisions supported by information and communication technology (ICT). As a judicial institution, the Constitutional Court is required...

Sustainable development is a crucial criterion for the progress of contemporary society. The Smart Cities and Smart Villages development initiative serves as a tool to measure the effectiveness and impact of sustainable development strategies. The comparison of policies on rural and urban smart concepts...

CKD is one of the global health problems due to a decline in quality of life often with the development of kidney dysfunction and increased mortality. CKD is progressive and requires dialysis. Patients who undergoing hemodialysis experience a decrease in physical activity which further adds to the health...

The therapeutic relationship is a condition that needs to be built and appropriately developed to support the success of the counseling services provided. Self-competence and the counselor’s internal state play a significant role in building a therapeutic relationship with the counselee. One of the failures...

Introduction: Ascending aorta aneurysm and dissection are the most common cardiovascular complications affecting Marfan syndrome patients (MFS). Recent large increase in life expectancy of MFS driven the growing prevalence of descending aorta (DAo) dilation and dissection. Despite local abnormal vortices...

Background and Aims: Arterial volume compliance is a major determinant of cardiac afterload. More than 50% of the arterial volume compliance resides in the proximal aorta. Researchers often use area compliance for the estimation of volume compliance, assuming an invariant vessel length over pressure...

Vascular calcification (VC) is linked to post-transplant cardiovascular events in the long term. We aimed to evaluate whether pretransplant chest X-ray based aortic arch calcification (AoAC) or pulse wave velocity measurement can better predict post- transplant cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events,...

Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience premature aging. Arterial stiffness increases with advancing biological age and predicts cardiovascular disease. However, only limited studies investigated arterial function in individuals with DS. Thus, the impact of DS on vascular function still remains...

Objectives: Vascular aging results from endothelial dysfunction and increased arterial stiffness, a independent determinant of cardiovascular (CV) events, that is amplified by the presence and progression of arterial hypertension (AH). Age related changes in hemodynamic variables1 may predict negative...

Purpose/ Background/ Objectives: We have shown that aortic stiffness improves as early as 3 months post-kidney transplantation (KTx). Aortic stiffness index β0, a blood pressure independent parameter, has been proposed to be a better indicator of vascular wall property. This study was designed to examine...

Changes in central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness are associated with augmented cardiovascular risks and have been reported in obese adults with metabolic syndrome. It is unclear whether this observation may also be present in young healthy obese adults with normal metabolic profile. Objectives:...

Spraying disinfectant all over the body in the disinfection room is being used to prevent the spread of the SARS- CoV-2 as the cause of the Covid-19 disease. Due to chemical disinfectants have high toxicity to the body, a relatively safe natural disinfectant is needed. The purposes of this study were...

This study is research qualitative, to contribute to learning media development in SMK Negeri 1 Palembang. The multimedia is in the form of accounting comics with accounting cycle materials for class X. Comics are made in comic books and animated videos that can be accessed through web blogs. This research...

Based on finite difference time domain (FDTD) method, a monoaxial anisotropic perfectly matched layer was used as absorbing boundary condition, a gauss pulse signal with a bandwidth of 0-10GHz and a peak value of 1V was used as excite source, the impedance of microstrip was 50 , excitation signal source...

To study the biotherapy effect of Shenfuweikang herbs in treatment of gastric cancer, Kunming mice were grafted with a mouse gastric adenocarcinoma cell line MFC. Mice received different doses of Shefuweikang herbs after grafting. Tumor size was periodically measured and tumor weight was determined after...

The paper presents the steps of calculating the stress-strain state of coal pillars by finite element method. The estimated area included the following blocks: the rock of roof and soil, coal pillar, broken-down rock, and the area of complete roof displacement. All the blocks were taken linearly deformable...

As one of the four recluses in Northern Song Dynasty, Zhong Fang went into politics after 30 years of seclusive life in Zhong Nan Mountain. At that time, he started to write books and participated in political affairs so that he was favored by Song Zhenzong. In his lifetime, Zhongfang had always been...

Current measurement is one of the most important work in online monitoring of the electric system. Self-powered and intelligence are key areas of the current measuring sensor. In this paper, a self-powered current measuring sensor was designed, which realizes synchronous measurement and power supply...

Microwave pyrolysis is a new research method for deeply processing of low-rank coal. This paper conducted comparative study on microwave co-pyrolysis products of low-rank coal under CH4 and N2 atmosphere, respectively. The composition and content of tar and bluecoke were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass...

Due to the high complexity and strong coupling of industrial circulating cooling water system, single and isolated technology can never fulfill the energy-saving need. Thus a system energy-saving theory named MOAR was proposed and explained with practice, including four principles: management of system...

The determination of C fractions in lab requires prior extraction steps that are laborious and time-consuming. Ozonation chemiluminescence can avoid the problem and has been successfully used to measure the C and N compounds in air or water, thus was proposed to determine C fractions of organic materials....

This paper designs an M out of N Safety Computing System based on general-purpose computers. The system consists of some computational nodes and a comparator. For the synchronization among the computational nodes, task synchronization was applied. The comparator designed based on the FPGA is implemented...

Empowerment is necessary for the era of competition and service because every organization needs employees who are fast, responsive and independent so they can be competitive through human resources and strengthen the capability and commitment of employees. The lack of empowerment of nurses in hospitals...

The purpose of this study is to investigate users' intention of spreading anti-rumors of natural disasters in social media. Adopted from Technology Acceptance Model, the theoretical model was constructed. 196 questionnaires were collected. Descriptive statistics and Structural Equation Model were employed...

Cavity sound pressure level is a very important measure when dealing with the design of resonator based power generating sound absorbers and sound diffusers. This paper presents results from experimental study of the performance of the second generation iARG-X2 power generating Helmholtz resonator. The...

A novel environmentally friendly composite was prepared with short-chopped grass segments (SGS) and starch by hot-pressing method. The effects of ratio of raw materials and hot-pressing temperature on the performance of composites were studied. Results showed that the tensile strength increased with...

This study aims to predict demolition waste generation rate (DWGR) of the detached house by their types and materials when they are demolished. To achieve this objective, required data was collected based on material information of the buildings investigated before demolition. By using the established...

Historical aspects of depreciation and impairment of assets have been the subject of a number of scientific studies. A lot of works have been considering this issue from the time of the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. But, unfortunately, the practice of depreciation and impairment of assets...

The overlapping communities identification in complex networks was studied with the parallel algorithm from local extension. The algorithm thought originated from clustering of modularity. Firstly, based on the Map/Reduce framework, the core node was selected according to the distribution and aggregation...

In this paper, GaSb-based material in the near-infrared semiconductor laser has a broad application prospects. For the problems and etching solution suitable particularly critical of etching GaSb-based material. we studied on different etchant experimental analysis the HCl+HNO3(30+1)@T=5 ,37% HCl, HNO3+(0.08MHCl+CH3COOH)...

Indonesia has a target of tourist arrivals in 2019, a total of 20 million tourists to visit. Ternate City is the one of government target to increase tourist visitation. They saw that this city has a a variety of tourism products especially the gastronomy who was known influences spice in Europe since...

Recently, The effectiveness learning of equivalent education is influenced by many kinds of factors, those are, tutor motivation, tutor commitment, leadership, means and infrastructure, finance, and working environment. This study aim to analyze the influence of tutor commitment factor, leadership, work...

The article presents a comprehensive study of the mechanisms for the formation, implementation and effectiveness evaluation of the resource potential use. The evaluation is based on a multilevel system of indicators taking into account the specified charac-teristics of the corresponding resources. While...

Despite of having the world’s fourth largest population, Indonesia was categorized in the low level of Human Development Index (HDI) by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Reading as one of the literacy indicator became one of the causes domain, the result of reading test in PIRLS 2011 at...

With the advancement of various reform tasks, from the perspective of business content, service objects, and service channels, traditional power grid enterprises are facing a new business mode in electricity retail sector. Based on enterprises’ core influencing factors analysis of new business mode adaptability,...

This article discussed the dress practice of female university students of English Letters Department Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia. The primary objectives of this research were to explore how these female students defined the dress they wore and how they responded...

for years, Bandung which earns a nickname as Paris Van Java is famous as a tourism destination, especially for the Japanese tourists. The Japanese tourists visit Bandung to enjoy the tourism and cultural places. Various tourist attractions and tourism activities have been developed so that it has attracted...

The high-permeability Distributed Generation (DG) was connected to the power grid, so that the state estimation of the active distribution network(ADN) needs to consider the uncertainty of the DG output. In this paper, an interval state estimation method for active distribution network considering the...

This research aims to describe and analyze the impact of moratorium policy on civil servant capacity in delivering services. Qualitative descriptive approach was used to explore how Malang district government responses civil servant moratorium policy. This study shows that Malang district government...

This research is one of the studies that refers to the socio-economic conditions of the Bangka community, especially in the village of Riding Panjang. The purpose of this study was to explain the livelihood strategies applied by the community of Riding Panjang Village post tin. This is based on a variety...

The article is devoted to the research of the tendencies typical of the institutional provision of the innovation activity management and the regional scientific and technical cooperation in the European Union. The most typical characteristics of the institutional provision of the innovative activity...

The main contradiction faced by Chinese football is the contradiction between the growing material and cultural demand of the people and the development of the football. To resolve this major contradiction, you must start with a "soccer ball from the doll". The youth is the future of the country, the...

According to the time-varying and nonlinear characteristics of rod-less pumping system with water as power, a fault identification method was put forward based on BP neural network. Through studying fault mechanism and vibration signal characteristics on pumping unit, the time and frequency domain feature...

As China's economy enters a new stage of high-quality development, the improvement of the quality of manufacturing enterprises has become the key to improving the quality and efficiency of China's economy. This paper takes Nanjing manufacturing enterprises as an example to reconstruct the quality competitiveness...

The development of Paragliding in Central Java since the 1990s, but until now its development is still inferior to the regions of West Java and East Java, especially regarding the sustainable tourism icon. The research was conducted to examine the development of paragliding triangle as an icon of air...