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Research Article

Sodium excretion as a modulator of genetic influence on arterial stiffness and other cardiovascular phenotypes

Katarzyna Stolarz, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Wiktoria Wojciechowska, Jitka Seidlerova, Edoardo Casiglia, Jan Filipovský, Jan Peleška, Yuri Nikitin, Jan A. Staessen, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, on behalf of the European Project On Genes in Hypertension (EPOGH) Investigators
Pages: 20 - 25
Hypertension is a chronic age-related disorder, affecting nearly 20% of all adult Europeans. This disease entails debilitating cardiovascular complications and is the leading cause for drug prescriptions in Europeans older than 50 years. Intensive research over the past two decades has so far failed...

Determinants of Stock Returns with Liquidity as Moderators: Empirical Study in Indonesia Stock Exchange

Aminullah Assagaf, Dwi Kartikasari
This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting stock returns in the Indonesia Stock Exchange, by selecting a sample of 20 companies listed on the LQ 45 in the last three years. This study found that the growth of profitability as a key determinant in this study exerted positive and significant effect...

Leech Politeness Maxim in Hitam Putih TV Program

Kiki Rizki Sintyani, Mardiningsih
This study aims to describe the form and function of politeness in speaking in Hitam Putih program airing March 2019. The type of research used is descriptive qualitative. The subjects of this study were all the presenters and guest stars who attended the Hitam Putih program on Trans 7. The object of...

The Empowerment of Setabelan Tourist Village Based on Culture and Locality

Siti Zunariyah, Akhmad Ramdhon
Tourism sector has grown into superior sector with rapidest growth in the world and been a locomotive of economic growth. Kelurahan Setabelan of Surakarta City is attempting to develop culture- and locality-based tourist village. Using action research method and John Friedman’s community empowerment...

Strategy of Prabowo Populism in 2019 General Elections

Lisa Rukmana, Aman, Nuzon Sugito
Populism is currently on the rise as many people talk. Both in the Western world and the Asian region. Today many political figures use populism strategies as their political ammunition on the political stage. In Indonesia itself, there was once a populist leader who was charismatic and close to the...

Mining in Southeast Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi: Shadow Economy and Environmental Damage Regional Autonomy Era in Indonesia

Abdul Kadir, Eka Suaib, La Husen Zuada
This article tells about the practice of shadow economy and environmental damage in mining activities in Southeast Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. Natural assets contained in these two regions, especially the mine, attracted the attention of investors to invest their capital. The presence of mining companies...

A Standard Driven Software Architecture for Fully Autonomous Vehicles

Alex Serban, Erik Poll, Joost Visser
Pages: 20 - 33
The development of self-driving vehicles is often regarded as adding a layer of intelligence on top of classic vehicle platforms. However, the amount of software needed to reach autonomy will exceed the software deployed for operation of normal vehicles. As complexity increases, the demand for proper...
Review Article

Chebyshev Polynomials, Rhodonea Curves and Pseudo-Chebyshev Functions. A Survey

Paolo Emilio Ricci
Pages: 20 - 32
In recent works, starting from the complex Bernoulli spiral and the Grandi roses, sets of irrational functions have been introduced and studied that extend to the fractional degree the polynomials of Chebyshev of the first, second, third and fourth kind. The functions thus obtained are therefore called...
Research Article

Determination of Bacteria associated with Urinary Catheters from Patients Suffering from Urinary Tract Infections

Mohammed Bashir, Abubakar Babajo Umar, Mohammed Bilyaminu
Pages: 20 - 23
Urinary catheters act as a reservoir of resistant pathogens. Several factors (type, duration, procedural mistakes during insertion of catheter, associated diseases of patients, etc.) are responsible for the different catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates in different healthcare setups....

The Influence of the Effect of Service Quality and Employee Performance on Community Satisfaction in the Population and Civil Registry Service of Padang City

Yulius Hafiz, Syamsir
In the performance evaluation process in public services, satisfaction measurement is an important element services where to provide better, more efficient, and more effective services is the ultimate goal based on community needs. It is expected that the Population and Civil Registry Service of Padang...

Study on College Students’ Spare Time Management

Chunming Xu, Can Wang, Nan Yang
Since human beings entered the post-industrial society, leisure life has occupied an increasing proportion in people’s life. China began to implement the two-day system from May 1, 1995. With the continuous introduction of a series of policies and systems, the time of studying in school has been reduced...

Review on the Relationship Between Identity and Emotion in Organizational Context

Liying Wang, Liping Lin
Status is a symbol of one’s family, career and society. Identity is very important for individuals, because it will have a very important impact on individuals’ self-cognition and their cognition of other social objects. Some people believe that the identity of an individual will change with the changes...

Income Tax and Capital Structure of Multinational Corporations

Deqiang Deng, Rui Shao
With economic globalization and the deepening of international division of labor, multinational corporations have become an important part of the world economy. Different from the scope of business activities in which domestic enterprises are only distributed in one country, the scope of business activities...

Students’ Reasoning and Fallacies in Indonesian EFL Classroom

Delpani Selpia, Sri Setyarini
This study is about 30 students’ ways of logic and reasoning in English language learning analyzed through HOTS-based questions in a private senior high school context in West Sumatera, Indonesia. All students were in the first grade who just began their first semester in the school. First, class observation...

Relationship Between GPA, Length of Study, and Competency with the Length of Time to Get a Job

Ali Amran, Irmeilyana, Anita Desiani, Rido Prawira Oktarian
This paper discusses the relationship between the GPA, the length of study, and the competency with the length of time to get a first job at the alumni of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences (FMIPA), Sriwijaya University (Unsri). The data source used from the FMIPA Academic Sub Division and...

A Study of College Students’ Autonomous Learning Under the Mode of Distance Education

Liao Yidong, Wei Youqiang
In today’s social background, distance education provides rich learning resources and convenient learning methods for college students’ autonomous learning. Under the mode of distance education, there are many problems in college students’ autonomous learning, such as college students’ strong dependence...

Replacing Plastic: An Assessment of New Material for Food Production Package to Re-Engineer Packaging Industry Based on Multi-Criteria Analyses

Dikky Indrawan, Stevia Septiani
Decisions in relation to planned food package materials to reduce and replace plastic materials are made in the initial phase of investments. Different alternatives of packaging resources and materials are assessed, which requires reviewing many factors. As there many factors are considered, the more...

The Principle of Best Interest and Harm Principle as the Basis for Limitation of the Role of Informed Refusal by Surrogate Consent in Pediatric Patient

Agus Suprapto
This research starts from the problem of ethical dilemma that occurs due to informed refusal by parents or guardians of pediatric patients which has the potential to cause disability or death in children as an implementation of unlimited authority delegation to the family / guardian of pediatric patients...

Implementation of Children’s Numerical Skill Learning Activity in Early Childhood Education

Dadan Suryana, Eva Delfia
The purpose of this study was to determine the process of implementing numeracy skills learning activities in Aisyiyah 27 Bungo Pasang Padang Kindergarten. This research is a type of descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The subjects of this study were educators in the Aisyiyah 27 Bungo Pasang...
Proceedings Article

Six Years in Achieving Maqasid Ash-Shariah: The Case of Islamic Commercial Banks in Indonesia

Sartini Wardiwiyono
As an Islamic system of values, ethics, and principles, shariah has an ultimate objective that is to promote the well-being of mankind in the world and the hereafter. Abu-Zahrah further identified the objective of shariah (maqasid al-shariah) into educating people, upholding justice and promoting social...

Challenges Faced by School Education in the New Media Era

Cai Baojing, Zhu Yongfei, Chen Tingmei
In recent years, new media has developed rapidly, occupying almost every class in primary and secondary schools. It brings us many conveniences and challenges to school education. This paper expounds the challenges faced by school education in the new media era from three aspects: the difficulty of teachers’...

Critical Language Awareness Development: A Pedagogical and Identity Engagement

Ruruh Sarasati
This paper aims investigating the engagement of critical language awareness in pedagogical context and how it can develop student’s identity. As every day students contact new-varied language and culture products from social media, these may contain ideologies, values, and cultures that are foreign to...

“I Feel Nervous and Lose My Ideas When Having Presentation”: Mapping Senior Students’ Challenges in Academic Oral Presentation in English

Marham Jupri Hadi, Baiq Henny Rizka, Tarmizi Tarmizi
This study explored senior students’ challenges when presenting their research proposal and thesis in English. This study was conducted in the English Teacher Education Department of the University of Nahdlatul Wathan Mataram. Five students who did their final project and five lecturers who were involved...
Proceedings Article

Design of Microelementosis Correctors Based on Plant Source of Biologically Active Substances

N.S. Rodionova, E.S. Popov, E.A. Klimova, E.A. Pozhidaeva, A.V. Mashneva, E.S. Boldyreva
This study aimed at investigating the possibility of solving the problem of microelementosis in the diet of various population groups by using available plant sources. The only way to correct microelementosis is to organize the intake of essential elements in the form of artificially synthesized forms...

Interviewing Images: How Visual Research Using IPA (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis) Can Illuminate the Change-Making Possibilities of Place, Space, and Dwelling

Jorella Andrews
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is a qualitative method mainly used in psychology, the social sciences and health science. Beginning with processes of open question interviewing, and taking an idiographic approach, it elicits unusually rich data from persons about specific life experiences,...

The Influence of Financial Flexibility on Enterprise’s Profitability in the Future

Yunyun Cai, Yiding Wu
With the increasing uncertainty of the contemporary economic market economy, its importance has become increasingly prominent in practice. In order to study the influence of financial flexibility on the enterprise’s future profitability, this paper uses factor analysis to measure the enterprise’s comprehensive...

Exploration on the Training Mode of Accounting Talents From the Perspective of General Education

Shiqing Fan
General education is not only an important part of higher education, but also the focus of current higher education in teaching and curriculum reform. As accounting is a professional industry, the integration and mutual promotion of general education and professional education are particularly essential....

New Mode of News Report of “VR + Data News”

Zhongjie Shen
The combination of VR technology and data news brings new experience mode to news communication and changes the original narrative mode of news.VR + data news makes the audience immerse in the virtual data news scene with glasses, and feel the impact of data on the environment by manipulating the change...

An Analysis of Chinese Traditional Legitimacy Theory

Kaiyang Mo
Although the concept of legitimacy comes from the west, in fact, China also has the legitimacy theory of localization. China’s legitimacy thought appears in the form of political legitimacy. Since the Yin and Zhou dynasties, around the core proposition of “consolidating the ruling power”, a large number...
Research Article

Hemodynamic Data Analysis and Site of Measurement in Children and Adolescents

Mirjam Močnik, Nataša Marčun Varda
Pages: 20 - 24
Pulse wave velocity is a method of functional vascular evaluation. The gold standard is the carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity measurement. However, the software allows measurement among radial, carotid and femoral artery. The goal of our prospective pilot study was to compare pulse wave velocity measurement...

Narrative Review of Infection Control Knowledge and Attitude among Healthcare Workers

Abdurahman AlJohani, Karmegam Karuppiah, Alya Al Mutairi, Abbas Al Mutair
Pages: 20 - 25
Background: Infection is one of the major threats to Healthcare Workers (HCW) worldwide. It exposes HCW to more than 20 kinds of blood-borne pathogen infections, especially the most severe cases, namely Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The impact...

Effect of Breeding and Digital Marketing Systems on Profitability of Grouper Fisheries in Langsa City

Muslimah, K.M. Z. Basriwijaya, F. Alham
The opportunity for grouper development is quite large, this is influenced by several factors, including the availability of cattle in large numbers and of relatively good quality, the availability of sufficient animal feed, the availability of food land, relatively easy access to marketing, adequate...

The Experience and Inspiration of the Construction of San Francisco Bay Area

Jiali Zhu
The Bay Area is a coastal region with location and cluster advantages. From a global perspective, the Bay Area economy formed on this basis leads the development of global economy and science and technology. This paper takes the San Francisco Bay Area as an example to understand the general situation...

The Mediating Role of Dynamic Capabilities and Business Model Innovation on the Relationship Between Environment Turbulence and Firm Performance

Dudi Hendra Fachrudin, Agus Rahayu, Nanang Fattah, Lili Adi Wibowo
This paper describes the impact of environmental turbulence on the company’s business model that has led to a global recession. What is surprising is that the cause of the 2020 recession is Covid-19, which is a health crisis, but has an impact on the world economic crisis. Background Problems: The world...

Nudging to Improve: Impact of Nudges on Students’ Progress and Academic Performance

Fahad Azam, Abida Shaheen, Khurram Irshad, Hania Ahmer
Nudge is a concept introduced by behavioral sciences to ameliorate the attitude and behavior of individuals by utilizing the concept of positive reinforcement. The execution of nudges in a targeted and proper way has the potential to induce motivation in learners by identifying and making amends in the...

The Use of Audiobooks as Part of Digital Literacies in Indonesian Students’ Perception

Asmi Rusmanayanti
The emerging concept of digital literacy has much contended nowadays. High or low technologies support varied applications and tools in the EFL context to facilitate teaching and learning English activities. The requirement to improve the capability and be up to date with the newest Information and Communication...

Business to Business Marketing Strategy Planning for the SME Marketplace of XYZ

Fahmi, Maya Arianti, Herry Irawan
This research is motivated by the establishment of the SME Marketplace (SMP) platform as a provider of digital products for SME entrepreneurs. This study aims to plan a marketing strategy for the SMP platform by knowing segmentation, targeting, and positioning (STP) and e-marketing mix. This study uses...

Pre-IPO Accrual Quality and Under-Pricing in the Indonesian Market

Yanthi Hutagaol-Martowidjojo, Mookung Kim
This study investigates the relationship between pre-IPO firms’ earnings quality that is proxied by accrual quality (AQ) prior to the IPO, and their underpricing degree in their early days of trading. Our main argument is that pre-IPO AQ is one source of information risk that affect the degree of information...

Research on the Influence of Place Attachment on Residents’ Attitude and Behavior Based on Structural Equation Model

Taking Beijing as an Example

Lei Jia, Yining Chen, Yaqin Dai
Place attachment describes the emotional relationship between people and places, which is a new perspective in the study of residents’ perception of tourism impact. Taking ‘place attachment’ as the starting point, this paper further studies the effect of place attachment on tourism impact perception,...
Proceedings Article

Descriptive Analysis of Unmet Need Women

Retno Heru Setyorini, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Ari Natalia Probandari, Eni Lestari
The increase in contraception use in countries with high fertility rates can prevent about 40% of all maternal deaths and improve child survival. Knowledge, health education, education level, attitude, husband and family support, previous family planning failure, service quality, and socio-cultural factors...
Proceedings Article

An Analysis of the Soccer Passing Technique Skills

Vega Soniawan, Yogi Setiawan, Eval Edmizal
This research is conducted due to the problems found in playing soccer; where some of the players tend to do wrong passing, inaccurate passing, and lack of passing power and quality. The research aims to describe the soccer passing technique skills in using the inside of the foot in terms of movement...

The Application of the Two Stay Two Stray Learning Model and Co-Op Co-Op for the Improvement of Students’ Learning Outcome in the Environmental Epidemiology Subject

Taufiq Ihsan, Tivany Edwin
This study aimed to determine the improvement of the Environmental Epidemiology Subject’s learning outcomes through Two Stay Two Stray (TSTS) and Co-op Co-op learning model strategy. This study was a classroom action research and compared the scores in the semester of the academic year 2018/2019 (conventional...

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Self Efficacy, Family’s Social Status, and Vocational High School Students’ Interest in Continuing Education to Higher Education

Mayang Nur Sagita Fitri, Tutin Aryanti, Indah Susanti
This research is motivated by the unachieved Vocational High School policy that allows its students to continue their studies to tertiary institutions, which is 20%. The factors obtained at the time of the interview were the students who were still confused in determining their career decisions after...

The Influence of Financial Knowledge, Financial Attitude, and Financial Behavior on Professional Millennial’s Financial Investment Choice

Reza F Pradana, Ferdinand D Saragih, Bernadus Y Nugroho
This research aims to examine the influence of financial knowledge, financial attitude, and financial behavior of professional Millennials on the choice of financial investment instruments (especially in deposits, stocks, mutual funds, golds, and bonds). This research uses questionnaires as a research...

Viewing Environmental Issues from Ecofeminism --- Ecofeminism Views in “The Story of One Hour”

Jiamin Zhang
Women and nature are same in various ways due to their biological status, reproductive role, and discrimination. Ecological feminism is an organic combination of feminist and ecological thoughts that has been present in various forms from the start of feminism in the nineteenth century, articulated through...

The Effect of Taxpayer Compliance and Awareness Towards Local Own-Source Revenue with Tax Sanctions as Intervening Variables

Ati Retna Sari, Rima Dini Alfa Rizki
This study aims to examine the effect of taxpayer compliance and taxpayer awareness partially on tax penalties. This study also examines taxpayer compliance, taxpayer awareness and partial tax sanctions on local own-source revenue. The population were the individual taxpayers in the Regional Tax Service...

Bibliometric Visualisation: an Application in Tourism Higher Education Research

Xiaowen Hu
Higher education in tourism plays an important role in tourism industry development, while few studies have utilized bibliometric visualisation method to explore this research area. A total of 349 papers related to higher tourism education were identified and a set of high frequency word analysis, co-occurrence...

Construction of Intelligent Traceability Management System of Yongbei Golden Pear

Yaqi Shi, Hongmei Gao, Bianbian Xue
As food safety incident occurs frequently, it is necessary to establish traceability system of agricultural products. Intelligent traceability management system can monitor the whole process of food production and effectively reduce the occurrence of food safety problems. Yongbei Golden Pear is introduced...
Proceedings Article

SWOT Analysis: Special Training Center of Athletic

Hari Setijono, Kunjung Ashadi, Amrozi Khamidi
Athletics is a sport branch that fights for medals. The study aimed to evaluate the implementation of a special athletic training center that has been running for two years managed by the East Java Provincial Management of Athletic Union. Qualitative research methods were used to obtain data. The instruments...

Formation of Ideological Security of Minors in the Russian Federation: Counteraction to Extremism

T. N. Balashova, O. V. Nardina
Minors, being active users of advanced communication technologies and joining various virtual communities or communicating with remote users, face numerous threats and risks. One of these threats is propaganda spread by terrorists and violent extremists. Minors who do not have sufficient level of knowledge...