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In linguistics, a hotly debated question is that why some second language learners are better than others. One practical and applicable theory accounting for the difference in L2 acquisition is “The Input Hypothesis” presented by Krashen. This theory has been evidenced by many experiments carried out...

Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) as a complex and cross-cultural danger to young kids has existed for long. CSA can result in long-term mental health issues, such as eating disorders and depression, lasted until victims’ adolescence and adulthood. Inappropriate sexual behaviors and CSA-involved post-traumatic...

This study aims to: (1) identify the application of poetry teaching materials in Junior High Schools (SMP) with android technology-based learning through the use of mentimeter educational media, (2) describe the response of learners in the application of text-based poetry learning based on mentimeter...

This paper explores the cognitive factors that can adjust the other-race classification advantage (ORCA). 26 Han people and Uygur ethic people were selected to complete the event-related potential (ERP) experiment on different ethnic race classifications. In the experiment, the participants were required...

Cohesion and coherence are essential elements that have a role in forming structural coherence and coherence of the meaning of discourse texts. The formation of a coherent structure and semantic relationship cannot be separated from using the correct elements of cohesion and coherence, which are marked...

This study aims to examine and analyze the effect of sales growth, financial slack, industry type, and managerial ownership on the sustainability report disclosure in companies in the industrial sector listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange for the period 2021–2023. This research employs a quantitative...

Creativity is one of the skills of the 21st century. Therefore, students’ creativity needs to be developed, especially in mathematics classroom. To increase student creativity, it is necessary to understand the perceptions of mathematics teachers on student creativity, so that teachers can train students...

In this paper, we study the problem of solar shadow positioning in the National Mathematical Modeling Contest in 2015, A.This paper established mathematical model of the change in length of the shadow, analysis of the length of the shadow of each parameter, and used to establish the model of painting...

Bad employee performance can have a negative impact on the sustainability of the organization. Employees are the most important element for an organization. The performance of employees has a very important role in determining whether or not the goals of the company are achieved. Employee performance...

Rice is a staple food crop in Indonesia because most of the population consumes rice as a staple food. For optimal production, rice plants must be planted in paddy fields according to their designation and the growing plants’ requirements. Determination of land suitability class is essential to obtain...

Within 38 primer pairs tested, 26 pairs were successfully amplified, and 81 PCR bands were amplified, with an average value of 3.12 bands per primer, 18 pairs showed 100% polymorphic ratio, 2 pairs showed 66.67% polymorphic ratio. In total, 72 PCR polymorphic bands were determined, and in average, 2.77...

Teacher engagement is a newly-emerged concept in the field of Indonesian teacher education. To support this concept, we designed an artificial neural network (ANN) using backpropagation, stochastic learning, and steepest gradient descent algorithms to determine teacher engagement based on the Indonesian...

This study derives from an issue of information ambiguity that became a polemic in the community due to the false information posted on Instagram by MSGLOW. The public claimed that this brand deceived them by stating that it would participate in The Paris Fashion Week event while it only participated...

Today the economic development focuses heavily on commercial services, which is determined by growing economic importance of their production and trade. As it is well-known, in the developed countries and today in many developing ones, the services account for a significant share of GDP. The contribution...

China as a country of economic transition and a big country in the world. In the international trade, She passively accepts the price of the carbon transaction under great pressure from European and American developed countries to control greenhouse gas emissions. In November 26, 2009, the Chinese government...

Taking the gray relational analysis as research method, this paper made the location prediction of exploration, in the eastern region of Yanbian. The known minimum connection degree unit was used as mother sequence, and 26 unknown units was used as subsequences .We made grey correlation analysis , and...

The bop sealing device for testing of layered water injection well is the supporting tools for blowout preventer of layered water injection well test. Many problems exists in the traditional sealing device, such as difficulty for down-pass instruments in testing initial stage, cable bending caused by...

Decision trees are well-known and established models for classification and regression. In this paper, we propose multi-path decision tree algorithm (MPDT). Different from traditional decision tree where the path of each record is deterministic and exclusive, a record can trace several paths simultaneously...

Some individuals may expect the best in their physical appearance. However, some individuals become insecure about their deficiencies or disabilities and try to avoid or cover up any defects or deficiencies in their bodies. Without realizing it, this can be one of the symptomps of body dismorphic. Therefore,...

This study aims to determine how the legal protection for creditors or banks with the destruction of the object of fiduciary security that occurs through the decision of the District Court Number: 26/Pdt.GS/2020/PN Rap. This research is a descriptive research, with the aim of providing as complete data...

This study aimed to determine the factors that affect the performance of employees within an organization. These factors include motivation, self-efficacy, and reward. To analyze and explain the effect of motivation, self-efficacy, and reward partially and the effect of motivation, self-efficacy, and...

Entrepreneurship is an effective approach for overcoming a country's economic challenges. Entrepreneurship requires intent/intent so that entrepreneurial performance also improves. A good entrepreneurial ecosystem should also be considered in order to help entrepreneurship grow. The entrepreneurial...

We use Fama-French to empirically analyze 2,288 portfolios of 26 China stock market industry sectors from 2016 to 2020 of industry sectors. The results show that: Although factor effect is common in China stock market industry sector, it shows obvious difference in factor dominance, among which 19 and...

Nowadays, it is widely acknowledged that social media plays an essential role in our daily life, especially for college students, who have a high degree of demand and desire for social contact. Many studies have found that increased use of social media is associated with the deleterious outcomes of mental...

Demographic characteristics and tourists’ decisions were studied basing on field survey and questionnaires in Daming Lake scenic spot and the impact of demographic characteristics on tourists’ decisions were analyzed using Crosstab analysis. Demographic characteristics indicated that:1) most of tourist’s...

This study aims to examine the influence of social media influencers, risk perception, and return expectations on investment decisions in the capital market, with trust as a moderating variable. This study uses a quantitative approach with primary data obtained through purposive sampling technique, involving...

The Cost Budget Plan (CBP) provides an overview of the cost required for a project. Preparing the CBP must ensure that the calculation of the total material or workers’ wages is detailed and correct. Partner in this public service activity (PSA) is SMK Negeri 2 Surabaya (Senior High School of Public...

This study applies questionnaires, randomly stratifies 552 adolescents of both genders from 26 towns in Yunnan border areas, investigates the sports lifestyle of rural adolescents in Yunnan border areas, and also analyzes the influencing factors. And the following conclusions are obtained. Students'...

Early in 2020, the term YOLD, namely “Young Old”, is an elder between the ages of 65 and 75 who still has the characteristics of a young person. Declining conditions in some aspects need to be adjusted by elders to avoid feeling useless, excluded, lonely or prone to disease. However, if they have a positive...

Learning is a concept of two dimensions (teaching and learning) activity that must be planned and actualized, and directed to the goal achievement or comprehension of its competencies and indicators as an illustration of the learning outcomes. To have teaching and learning activities run well, the media...

Digital technology has transformed teaching and learning, blended learning (BL) has become ubiquitous. Student engagement (SE), which consists of behavioural, cognitive and emotional engagement, is a prerequisite for successful implementation of BL. To effectively enhance SE in BL, influences of gender,...

Purpose: Referral to surgery in thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) is based on maximal diameter (Dmax) measured from imaging, which is known to have a high diagnosis failure rate. In addition to geometry, 4D flow MRI provides a comprehensive time-resolved flow imaging. Thus, our aim was to evaluate the...

Objective: International guidelines advocate conservative management of post-stroke white coat hypertension. The aims of this study were to investigate; i) does WCH/E result in increased stroke risk? and ii) is WCH/E associated with surrogate markers of cardiovascular risk? Methods: The Arterial Stiffness...

Measurement of “unattended” blood pressure (BP) may reduce or eliminate the “white coat effect”. Despite the possible advantages of this approach for BP measurement, only few studies analysed the relationship between unattended BP and cardiovascular events or with hypertension mediated organ damage (HMOD)....

From the perspective of the spatial agglomeration theory, this paper focuses on the impact of changes in the agglomeration level of productive service industry and manufacturing industry and its externalities on urban economic growth caused by the process of urban functional division, so as to have a...

Acute inflammation increases the risk of cardiac and cerebrovascular events, potentially associated with altered hemodynamic load. Wave reflection at the aorta and carotid artery can contribute to central hemodynamic load and provide insight into downstream changes in vascular tone. Acute inflammation...

Background: Previous studies implicated cardiotonic steroids, including Na/K-ATPase inhibitor marinobufagenin (MBG), in the pathogenesis of preeclampsia (PE). We demonstrated that MBG induces fibrosis via mechanism involving inhibition of Fli1, a nuclear transcription factor and a negative regulator...

The row number ratio between high temperature surface air cooler and low temperature one of segmented handling air-conditioning system has great impact on its performance. To study the variation of the system performance on different row number ratios, a performance prediction model of the segmented...

Suspending classes for university students as well as suspending worship services either at university or at public places to combat the Covid-19 disease may affect the spiritual well-being and quality of life of students in Southeast-Asia countries. This research aimed at evaluating quality of life...

Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently one of the leading causes of death worldwide. COPD frequently occur together with cardiovascular disease. The coexistence of the two diseases are associated with worse outcomes than either condition alone. ABPM and 24 h arterial...

Background: Lower cardiac index (CI) in elders without clinical heart disease has been associated with impaired cognitive function and incident dementia. In the present study, we investigated the modulating effects of education level and arterial stiffness on the association between CI and cognitive...

From 2010 a new, complex screening program started in Hungary, it works with the support of 76 professional-scientific societies and companies. Within the framework of the Program in the largest mobile diagnostics center in Hungary 37 comprehensive surveys in free form. This enormous special screening...

Background: Completion of ≥150 minutes/week of physical activity (PA) is recommended for cardiovascular health, but this is achieved only by ~50% of Australian adults. Assessing self-reported PA via quick single-item question is desirable for large-scale cardiovascular research and health screening....

Background: The clinical significance of pressure-dependent intra-beat changes in local pulse-wave velocity (C) has recently come to light [1]. While reported methods require arterial pressure and diameter measurements from a single site to assess intra-beat changes in C, we present an image-free fast...

The Ministry of Research Technology, and Higher Education has set the output of all basic research and capacity building activities to at least produce publications. Accounting lecturer publications in the form of articles, proceedings, and other documents indexed by Scopus are very important both for...

Organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) is the behavior of an employee that exceeds his responsibilities and work standards and OCB behavior affects many positive aspects within the organization. This study aims to determine the effect of mapalus organizational climate on organizational citizenship...

This study was conducted to analyze the effect of cultural and structural transformation in the company. This research was a quantitative correlational study to analyze (1) the effect of transformational leadership on employee engagement, (2) the influence of AKHLAK as an organizational culture on employee...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Tissue transglutaminase (TG2) is a highly expressed protein especially in endothelial cells. TG2 has several functions including transamidation activity which is important in several processes such as extracellular matrix remodeling [1]. TG2 activity takes place in aortic...

Objectives: Identification of factors associated with premature vascular aging in patients with arterial hypertension (AH). Methods: The study included 61 patients (29 men, 32 women) with 1–2 grade AH without cardiovascular complications, aged 40 to 60 years, of which 28 (45.9%) had type 2 diabetes....

Aim: To investigate PWV trajectories before and during the lockdown period among Withings Body Cardio bathroom scale users in France, in which a strict total lockdown was imposed, and Germany, in which partial social distancing measures were adopted. Methods: The study population is constituted by Withings...