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Kimaragang is the typical ethnic group in Kota Marudu, Sabah. The uniqueness and identity of Kimaragang’s community can be regarded in terms of their costumes and textiles – as an ideographic symbol of Kimaragang’s people. The Kimaragang traditional costumes are divided into two, sinudot and lapoi. The...

The selection of an ideal living environment is a complex process that involves multiple attributes, which makes the decision of an appropriate living environment difficult. Hence, a suitable assessment model is needed to solve the complexity. The multiple attribute decision-making methods-Fuzzy Delphi...

Human is the primary question for us. It is only by answering this question that we can define the field of what we can or ought to do. The procedure we use implies formulating of the correlation between our individual self and the supraindividual. Various anthropologies propose different understanding...

As one of the products of the global economic development in the new era, E-commerce is now tending to the stage of rapid development, and it plays a vital role in the economic development of China and even the whole world. Especially after the COVID-19, the development of online retailing has entered...

The film Babel embodies the globalisation and multiculturalism of the world. This essay discusses cultural barriers and explores the possibilities of transcultural development and cultural identity. It employs a semiotic analysis to Babel to focus on the argument that fluid identity in the transcultural...

This article’s impetus was the representations of motherhood in the film entitled Bad Moms. It elaborates how the film problematized the construction of good motherhood or what was considered to constitute good mothers. By using the perspective of feminist cultural studies, the article unfolds the issue...

The Covid-19 outbreak around the world has had an impact on various aspects of life, one of which is the education process, especially through face-to-face learning. Based on these problems, a policy emerged that learning changed from face-to-face to learning at home via online (in the network). Based...

In response to the demands of intelligent manufacturing, this study delves into the entire production process data of engineering machinery enterprises, constructing a data-driven model for predicting and optimizing production process quality. This model integrates support vector machines, AdaBoost,...

Over the past decades, China has spared no effort to improve firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) and promote high-quality development. A substantial body of academic research has emerged on this topic. No doubt executive salary can influence managerial work attitudes and initiative, potentially reducing...

This research aims to create new batik motifs typical of Surabaya with the source of the idea of the Remo dance which is a traditional dance originating from the city of Surabaya. Through the products and works of art produced, this industry can strengthen cultural identity, preserve traditions, and...

West Liaohe River Basin, which is known as a typical ecological vulnerable district of Northeast China, is taken as a case study in this paper. By collecting 3 period Landsat TM image of 1992,2002 and 2012, the landscape pattern figure is interpreted. Landscape sensitivity index and landscape adaptability...

This study aimed at revealing the significance of the implementation of Indonesian-German bicultural information literacy to foster positive values and attitudes towards learning the German language in university. The qualitative approach was used in this research because many specific and contextual...

It is a gradual development process that the creating of fine solid materials from mechanical comminution to the single-fluid electrospraying, and to the coaxial electrospraying. From these processes, a series of materials can be exploited for innovation education to the graduate students who will begin...

Wooden structures pollute the environment considerably less than the structures made of bricks, glass or concrete. Walls that use composite gypsum and cardboard-based materials and gypsum and cellulosic fibers-based materials for the interior surface of the walls have been selected for the evaluation...

With more attention going to security of hotels, an effective hotel monitoring system was required. Based on the Samsung S3C2440, the proposed system uses the Linux system to accomplish the intelligent video surveillance. Using the image acquisition process and the embedded BOA server, designed an intelligent...

Student’s capabilities are among the most commonly discussed research in higher education. In the Indonesian history, developing student capabilities is well-documented aligning with Patrap Trilokathe, a local wisdom-based education. This was initially raised by Ki Hadjar Dewantara which was then scrutinized...

Globalization and modernization demanding society must be able to follow the development of information technology through gadgets in various models and application features that make it easy for people to get extensive, fast and diverse information. Internet optimization becomes the basis of digital...

Children learn through playing and chanting. Children's song lyrics can help building good characters in their early of age. They can feel the presence of song lyrics as a media for accompanying their play activities. This research aims at exploring character education values at al-Qalam Islamic Integrated...

The essence of names in a multilingual-multicultural nation is as an identity. These names will give a special identity to a person in the development of his/her personality. Selecting names is not merely a ritual dedicated to just-born babies but it is also a hope and a prayer with meaningful denotation....

The basic fact that teachers are victims of school bullying has already existed. The scientific cognition of their survival dilemmas is conducive to building a long-term mechanism to prevent and control school bullying. In order to avoid the plight of school bullying due to social public opinions and...

The article proves that Chinese students’ mastering musical styles of European culture associated with a different musical tradition from the Chinese one is productive when using digital technologies. The semantics of the musical style, which is inextricably linked to the value system of a certain historical...

The Indonesian nation must be built by prioritizing character development because this character building will make Indonesia a great, advanced, and glorious, dignified nation. Today the rapid progress and sophistication of technology makes habits begin to be abandoned. Children now prefer to play gadgets...

The government of Indonesia has developed anti-terrorism regulations, particularly since the Bali bombing in 2002. The regulation is prepared to counter radical ideologies, and for this reason, the government cooperates with many stakeholders, particularly religious institutions. The participation of...

Row houses have developed in Indonesia since the 1970s. This increase in houses is according to the dynamics of population growth in urban areas. The row house is a building that is not stacked with a floor area of not more than 70m2, which is built on land with an area of 54-100m2 plots. This study...

The attainment of social peace and human welfare depends fundamentally on biodiversity, which is the cornerstone of sustainable development. The built environment significantly contributes to the loss of biodiversity and places a great strain on natural resources [1]. Therefore, fulfilling Sustainable...

In the era of Industry 4.0, data has become a valuable commodity. The continuous growth of data has the potential to be burdensome or rendered useless if not managed effectively. Various sectors of human activity have now become substantial data sources, often called Big Data. Open Science principles,...

The design of modern Balinese craft products in the current digital era, visually still displays the cultural content of local Balinese traditions, although there are also those who break away from this traditional content. This research aims to discuss the design of modern Balinese craft products which...

In the teaching practicum programs, stimulating ESL/EFL preservice teachers’ (PSTs) pedagogical competence is essential in the transformative learning (TL) framework. This paper discusses stimulating PSTs’ pedagogical competence (PC) for TL through critical reflection on ELT practicum. Critical reflection...

Social media platforms have emerged as crucial arenas for businesses to engage in communication and promotional activities. But the willingness of consumer engagement in generic interactive content within official corporate online platforms has declined. Instead, influencer marketing has emerged as increasingly...

This paper examines the community’s response to adaptation and resistance to the ongoing marginalization process. Islamic and Arab culture have been present in Banyuwangi since the 18th century, contributing to the Osing Tribe’s religious landscape. In addition, there is a transformation of Islamic political...

The spatial form and construction of the five basic types of Ukrainian wooden church’s towered log roofing was analysed aiming to identify possible formal and constructive analogies with the roofing of other wooden religious buildings in the world. No complete constructive-spatial analogues of Ukrainian...

As a specialized course of improving the humanistic quality and language basic skills of college students majoring in languages, British and American literature teaching faces problems of improving teaching methods all the way. Some researches have proved that building and using of corpus is an important...

Nowadays, many countries of the world are witnessing the tendency of refocusing the building materials industry upon the types of concrete, whose distinguishing characteristic is the reduced consumption of portland cement. The studies aimed to develop effective composite binders and expand the raw materials...

Chinese Brands are large but not strong, and China lacks true global brands. Product, corporate, and country brand are all of crucial important to building Chinese global brands. A survey on Chinese consumers is conducted to examine their attitudes and purchase intentions toward five automobile products...

Global economic growth suffered a slowdown since the financial crisis in 2008 and it was never back to the level before the crisis. This becoming challenges for Indonesia to be able to sustain its economic growth. Moreover, the economic hegemony in the unipolar world is now replaced by multipolar worlds....

This study analyzes the multimodal communication patterns within on-line instruction videos on such social media platforms as Youtube and Instagram raising such questions as: what does it mean to learn on-line and how can multimodal communication and analysis be used as a tool for learning? First, the...

The purpose of this research was to determine the leadership style, motivation, school organizational culture and obstacles faced by the principal in improving the quality of Aron State Elementary School in Pidie Regency. This research used a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The research...

BIM (Building Information Modeling) has gained wide acceptance in the building industry in recent years. It is changing gradually from traditional 2D representation of building product and fragmented contributions, and from the stakeholders to 3D product model and stream lined lifecycle management in...

Building brands at social media are challenging as consumers are easily swayed away to through a click; therefore, marketers need to gravitate the 3.196 billion of social media users based on Statista reports that the total spending might thrive at USD 4.5 trillion. Facebook’s community is a force to...

The abstract should summarize the contents of the paper in short terms, i.e. 150-250 words. The research aims to determine the level of wave energy attenuation in various coastal building scenarios. Data collection was carried out at wave frequencies of 1Hz, 2Hz and 3Hz. The variables measured involve...

Big data is a collection of structured and unstructured data in large volumes and stored in one unit from the internet of things (IoT). In the government planning sector, big data is a supportive instrument to find gaps and weaknesses in governance. This study aims to analyze the use of big data in urban...

Big data technology has great application value in Internet finance, which can well solve the problem of supervision failure caused by the rapid development of Internet finance in China. Based on the panel data of 31 provinces and cities in China from 2013 to 2019, this paper constructed a panel regression...

Since the 1980s, shadow banking has emerged and rapidly developed due to the rapid progress in financial liberalization and innovation in financial instruments, thereby fostering the prosperity of the global financial market. This study begins by examining the emergence and development of the shadow...

Urban allotment gardens and community gardens were always crucial in building urban resilience in periods of crisis. They were critical during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution, the two World Wars, the Great Depression, and more recently in the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper presents a brief...

As a crucial vehicle for reforming modern vocational education, the core mission of the industry-education integration community is to innovate collaborative talent cultivation mechanisms. The Triple Helix Theory reveals the three-dimensional coupling relationship among government, universities, and...

In the globalization era, world seems no boundaries. Information is easily accessible to everyone, including adolescents, regardless of their location or time. Adolescents who are in the stage of seeking for their identity, nowadays, they can absorb many values from all over the world through the development...

As an ideological and political course for socialist quality culture of contemporary college students in universities, Situation and Policy focuses on students’ ideological quality education and its importance goes without saying. However, the facts that the effectiveness of this course is low, the construction...

Despite female employment in certain professions, most women before feminist movement, especially those from leisure class, practically resorted to marriage as a means of procuring financial support and domestic security, and thus being reduced to inferior status in domestic life in exchange for accepted...

This paper studied the strategy to construct the curriculum system based on the idea of arts-and-engineering combination and summarized four principles for the construction. Taking building decoration engineering as an example, this paper put forward specific construction strategies, including the strategy...

Islamic boarding school is a part of global community. It could not avoid the change that happens in the society, even though it is usually located in the villages that are geographically untouchable by the global dynamics. The adaptation of Islamic boarding school to change is needed, so that its existence...