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Introduction: Central (aortic or carotid) pulse pressure (PP) is more strongly associated with local organ damage and possibly mortality than brachial PP. Aim: To investigate for the first time the association of femoral (f) PP with all-cause mortality, and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD), coronary...

This paper has the modest aim of exploring and problematising the ways in which the terms bahasa daerah and local language are used. It does this at two levels: the societal and the individual. This brief discussion has examined some elements of the terminology employed at the societal and individual...

The aim of this study is to explain the persuasive language styles representing game play by focusing on: (1) the linguistic forms; and (2) the type of speech acts, designing a particular persuasive strategy. This study applied pragmatic-stylistic perspectives along with a model analysis of Halliday’s...

The deep integration of information technology and curriculum teaching is topic focus of e-Education nowadays, and it is also a fundamental change in the classroom teaching structure supported by information technology. The key is to construct a new teaching model. The ultimate goal of applying information...

The scientific article presents studies of three Armenian manuscripts of the 17th-19th centuries. These are Collection of Liturgical Texts, Hmayil and Herbal Treatment Guide (Treatment Book), originating from the scriptoria of the Crimean peninsula (Bakhchisaray, Kafa, Karasu-bazar). Manuscripts are...

To reduce the load of the electric car, a light yet strong body is needed. Therefore electric car’s body is made of hemp fiber. The purpose of this research is to know the bending strength towards the variation of hemb fiber structure. The compositions used in this research are Exposion Resin General...

In this research, the Robust Regression method used for face recognition tested its performance with illumination variations on the training dataset. Experiments were carried out using Cropped Yale Face Database B. By using this standard face database, generally the data for the training process used...

In recent years, with the further opening up of border areas in China and its rapid development, such as the further advancement of the construction of the Golden Port in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan Province, a large number of foreign personnel, especially Burmese migrant workers, have been attracted...

This study aims to describe the component analysis of Knowledge Management at Postgraduate IAIN Kendari that includes elements of people, process and technology. This research uses qualitative descriptive method, research respondents are students, Postgraduate lecturer at once Manager IAIN Kendari. Data...

The fast sealing technology of mine roadway is an effective method to isolate spontaneous combustion zone, poisonous and noxious gas source or gas accumulation area by establishing effective sealed wall quickly. Aiming at the problems of poor sealing effect, cumbersome operation, difficult construction...

The article presents the results of the influence of technological factors on the efficiency and time of the gravel screening process on the roller grooved sorting with an auger intensifier. The article obtains the dependences of the efficiency of the gravel separation on the material feed to the sieve,...

Indonesian mining law has decided to adopt bankruptcy as a tool of power to control mining business in Indonesia. Under article 119 Act number 4 year 2009 states that government has the authority to withdraw mining licenses in the event of bankruptcy. In this law states in this cases is government exercises...

Questions of globalization process which influence various aspects of human life are considered in the article. Destruction of cultures and cultural values act as a result of this process. Destruction of family values is an important problem in the modern world. Religion presents a restraining mechanism...

This study focuses on the entrepreneurial leadership of headmaster in realizing achievement school, case study in Public Junior High School 1 Lamongan (SMP Negeri 1 Lamongan), researchers based their study on 5 (five) entrepreneurial competencies of principals as Permendiknas Number 13 of 2007 concerning...

Security and convenience is the main consideration for the user to select the Internet payment, and also the key issue of the development of the Internet payment industry. At present, on Third-Party Payment Platform, E-bank and other Internet payment platform, when users change the password, pay or transfer...

Infertility is a very complex physiological process, is a special reproductive health defects, it is different from other clinical diseases, due to its physiological and psychological factors coexist, so it often has serious impact on the family, society. Most of the infertility patients are eager to...

In ZigBee networks, a tree topology is often used to construct a wireless sensor network for data delivery applications. However, the distributed address assignment mechanism provided in the ZigBee specification make inefficient use of the address space, which may cause the orphan problem. In this paper...

When the EMU(Electric Multiple Units) is passing by the windbreak wall gap, the crosswind strikes at its surface, causing the aerodynamic performance exceeds the standards and making influence on the train safety and the passenger comfort. Therefore, the study of this problem is particularly important....

An early development in testing for causality (technically, Granger non-causality) in the conditional variance (or volatility) associated with financial returns, was the portmanteau statistic for non-causality in variance of Cheng and Ng (1996). A subsequent development was the Lagrange Multiplier (LM)...

In this paper we bring forward various kinds of methods to enhance the production of remain oil on the wells completed by limited entry fracturing through the analysis of the number of layers to be employed, remain oil distribution and the capacity of production of the wells.These methods are fracturing...

"Bao Wan contest" is probably the most cited major event of the second half of the capital markets in 2015. From the initial treasure can silently holdings placards, Ampang low-key intervention, and Vanke former largest shareholder of Huarun group to silence, to sound tough against Bao Vanke management...

The current street monitoring is more traditional way, backward management and inefficient. Now on the street lamp monitoring system research is the use of wireless network technology and GIS technology to achieve automatic monitoring of street lamps, but the lack of street lamp system logic structure...

This paper argues how Japanese law and jurisprudence contributed to relieve grievance of victims in environmental pollution caused by economic activities. Japan has experienced severe environmental pollution along with its economic growth since the 19th century. However, the grievance of pollution victims...

This topic will focus on how the religion could influence the post-conflict development in Aceh, Northern Indonesia. This topic also will discuss the position and potency of religion in the conflict resolution with analysis how successful religion could stop the Aceh Conflict and bring peace to Acehnese...

Anxiety is the signal and phenomenon of a threat that can be divided into mild, moderate, severe, and very severe anxiety based on its level. Anxiety can cause pathological changes in the body including the oral cavity. Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is one of the disorders in oral cavity that can be affected...

The world has entered an era of disruptive innovation where transformation is needed. In the conceptual age, a business needs to have new experiences and create ideas. This paper aims to identify the most important challenges of Small Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in utilizing innovative opportunities....

The decentralized system of the Indonesian government to give jobs to the region to carry out development in the area in response to the various regional development policy. Offend public policy perspective the role of government and stakeholders. The focus of the stakeholders in this research is student...

This study aims to determine the business approach by using the concept of ecoefficiency in increasing competitive advantage based on the effort of green product. Based on the amount of industrial increase in proportion to the amount of pollution increase resulting from the industrial production process...

This research aims at analyzing the level of physical condition with the possession of medal of Central Sulawesi contingent on XIX national sports event in 2016 at West Java. The purpose of this research is to describe the physical condition and medal position as the inputs for sports education both...

In the "Internet +" agriculture era, with the help of emerging information technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing and big data, the entire industrial chain of agricultural production and business activities has been optimized and upgraded. This has become the direction of agricultural reform....

The foreign exchange market is a chaotic dynamic system. We apply the RBF network-based chaotic time series prediction on the daily USD/RMB exchange rate. We apply the RBF network and phase space reconstruction to find the optimal embedding dimension in the foreign exchange market from the point view...

Recently mobile network technologies develop quickly. To meet the increasing demand of wireless users, many multimedia proxies have been deployed over wireless networks. The caching nodes constitute a wireless caching system with an architecture of P2P and provide better service to mobile users. In this...

A distributed mutual exclusion algorithm has been proposed for large-scale distrib-uted systems in the Internet environment. The algorithm combines the advantages of centralized algorithm and distributed algorithm, and taking into account the system fault tolerance, while message complexity is decreased...

Due to various reasons, there are some differences in learning English between students of Zhuang nationality and students of Han nationality in China. In order to improve English learning of students of Zhuang nationality , this paper analyses the previous researches on learning styles and points out...

Since the seventy years of the founding of New China, great progress has been made in the development of the culture industry of Shaanxi Province. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the education of cultural self-confidence at college has been enhanced continuously. However,...

The propagation behavior of the arterial pulse wave may provide valuable diagnostic information for cardiovascular pathology. pulse wave imaging (PWI) is a noninvasive, ultrasound imaging-based technique capable of mapping multiple wall motion waveforms along a short arterial segment over a single cardiac...

The electrification ratio in Indonesia reached 98.3%. Power plant technology innovations are needed, is it can be applied in rural areas with more environmentally friendly energy sources. One of them is rainwater. This is supported by the average rainfall in Indonesia which is quite high, which is 1000-4000...

Background: Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) can be biased by the measurement of carotid–femoral (c-f) distance on body surface. We wondered whether the estimation of distance according to body height could be used. Methods: Three cohorts of altogether 596 subjects (mean age 58.9 years) were studied....

The purpose of this study is to determine the perception of guest visits to guest services by the Protocol of Universitas Komputer Indonesia (UNIKOM). Public perception of the organization influences the efforts of PR to establish, build, and maintain the image of the organization, so that the directorate...

In an effort to build a word spotting and indexation system for the Balinese palm leaf manuscripts, text area detection and image patch extraction in the text area must be done effectively. However, there is no space between words in writing with Balinese scripts. This paper aimed at describing a complete...

The article is devoted to the urgent pedagogical problem of creating formalized pedagogical models in the transition from “traditional” forms of organization of the educational process to E-learning. The language of predicate logic is chosen as the language used to formalize the description of the educational...

This paper analyzes the reasons why corporations pay dividend. With the conduct of sample analysis, several opinions are proposed in the paper. Many researchers have put forward important theories, such as agency theory and signaling theory to explain the rationale behind dividend payment. Moreover,...

in various regions of the Russian Federation, accidental explosions of natural gas due to improper operation of gas stoves in apartment buildings with death or injury of people cause a wide public response. It is difficult to restore (dismantle) building structures damaged by natural gas explosion and,...

By observing three classrooms of one teacher from Guangdong province of China and making online and offline interviews with the observed teacher and three students from the observed classroom, the main factors influencing college students’ English grammar learning are found: beliefs, learning strategies,...

The ultimate purpose of this study is to develop a new Kampong Improvement Program (KIP) in collaboration with the residents to improve their indoor environmental conditions, focusing especially on their indoor air quality (IAQ) and health of occupants. According to the WHO’s report in 2013, acute respiratory...

Cycle rickshaw is one of the modes of paratransit transportation that has advantages in supporting the sustainability of the transportation system in Klojen District, Malang City. However, the provision of cycle rickshaw that is not in accordance to the needs of the community in Klojen District causes...

Fisheries Port (PP) Labuan is located in Teluk Village, Labuan District, Pandeglang District, BantenProvince. Fisheries Port (PP) Labuan has a land area of 8,500 m2, overlooking the Indian Ocean Sea west of Sumatra and Sunda Strait with the coordinates of location: 060 24 ‘30 “LS and 1050 49’ 15” BT....

Accounting fraud which in auditing language better known as fraud has now become a kind of headline news in the media. The detection of fraud is an attempt to find out that an act of fraud has occurred, who is the culprit, who is the victim, and what causes it. This study aims to determine the effect...