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Tighter market competition and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic requires small and medium industries to be able to win the market and survive in the competition. Small and medium industries are required to have advantages that can make them able to compete in the market. So it can be said that the success...

The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has announced the intention to launch the digital yuan, officially called the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), for the public use. The inception of the DCEP raises some important questions. How would the DCEP impact China’s existing economic model? How would...

HIV infection is a globally recognized health issue, characterized by the invasion of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, leading to the development of AIDS. People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) encounter multifaceted challenges encompassing bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions. The pivotal role of self-acceptance...

This study describes the perception of stakeholders about the importance of accounting professional ethics education. This study aimed to see the differences in stakeholders’ perceptions, namely lecturers, alumni and students. In contrast to previous studies, which only looked at the conceptual differences...

The global crisis in early 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic has influenced the batik industry in Kampung Laweyan, resulting in a 60% drop in sales and a bankruptcy threat. Despite these difficulties, Laweyan batik craftswomen have maintained the functioning of their businesses at that time. They have...

Digital transformation is a key driver of efficiency and effectiveness in construction projects in the Industry 4.0 era, but its implementation in Aceh faces specific local and operational barriers. These barriers include uneven internet and cloud infrastructure across districts, limited APBA budget...

China’s economy has shifted from the stage of high-speed growth to the stage of high-quality development. Under the concept of green development and sustainable development, the ESG performance of strategic emerging industries has attracted much attention. This study uses the financial data of listed...

This research examines the difficulties faced by students at SD Inpres Manimeri II, Teluk Bintuni, in learning Indonesian poetry, by emphasizing the importance of the value of mutual cooperation in the learning process. Using literature study and fieldwork methods, this research identifies specific challenges...

A workflow net is a computational tool for modeling business processes. Their verification is crucial for ensuring that the processes they model follow a criteria of correctness. In this paper, we observe that workflow net constructs can be mapped to programming language features. This mapping allows...

Adult obesity has been extensively studied in economics and public health, yet the empirical role of ambient climate conditions remains underexplored. This paper examines the relationship between average ambient temperature and adult obesity using U.S. county-level panel data from 2006 to 2018. Using...

The reduced costs associated with deploying and utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have spurred their widespread adoption across various industries, including aerial photography, information gathering, and search and rescue operations. However, this rapid uptake has also raised concerns regarding...

As electronics become more complex and able to do numerous jobs simultaneously, heat generation becomes inevitable. Therefore, to improve the devices’ capacity to dissipate heat, the heat transfer assembly is used. Electronic circuits and gadgets are more prone to malfunction when their operating temperature...

This research adopts marketing 4C theory to explore customer’s purchase intention on green packaging beverage products between two groups of female college students in Vietnam and Taiwan. The study conducts a qualitative method by moderating two focused groups to understand different buying perspectives...

Graduate unemployment is a pressing issue that significantly impacts both individuals and the broader economy. While various initiatives attempt to address this problem, particularly from Universities of Technology, many of these efforts, such as entrepreneurial and Work Integrated Learning (WIL) programs,...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Obesity is associated with increased risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Leptin-deficient mice (ob/ob) are widely employed to investigate obesity. This study is aimed at providing a micro-ultrasound (mUS) longitudinal evaluation of the ob/ob mouse in terms of...

Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD) are treatment options for end stage renal disease (ESRD). However, few are known on the cardiovascular impose of those therapeutic modalities. Our aim is to uncover endothelial damage and subclinical atheromatous process in male patients on chronic...

Background: Hypertension has adverse effects on microvascular function but there are limited methods that permit non-invasive assessment of the microcirculation in man in vivo. We used Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to assess microvascular reactive hyperaemia in skeletal muscle following a short period...

Background: Middle age represents a life period where incidence of cardiovascular events typically augments. Our aim is to investigate any association between peripheral vascular rheology and distribution of coronary artery disease (CAD) in middle aged erectile dysfunction (ED) population. Methods:...

Purpose: The prognostic significance of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) remains to be determined in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). We investigated the predictive value of cfPWV for various endpoints in T1D. Methods: At baseline, cfPWV was measured using the SphygmoCor device in 652...

Arterial stiffness may influence the contour of the peripheral pulse, suggesting that contour analysis of the digital volume pulse (DVP) might be used to estimate peripheral blood pressure and a stiffness index (SI). The objective is to establish a transfer function that estimates the peripheral blood...

Background: Women with a history of pre-eclampsia (PE) are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. We evaluated the cardiovascular health of women who had PE in comparison with women who had normotensive pregnancies. Methods: We assessed heart rate-adjusted augmentation index (AIx SphygmoCor),...

Background: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is independent predictor of cardiovascular outcomes. Antihypertensive treatment reduces PWV, but it is unknown whether this results from an unloading of stiffer elements in the arterial wall or a structural change in the wall. Methods: To distinguish between these...

Background: Ischemic stroke from carotid plaque embolism remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, the effect of T2DM on early carotid plaque burden and composition is sparsely elucidated. We assessed carotid plaque composition by carotid magnetic...

Background: The systemic arterial load imposed to the left ventricle (LV) is a major determinant of normal/abnormal cardiovascular function. The LV mean ejection pressure (LVMEP) is the best estimate of load faced by the LV throughout ejection. The contribution of the steady and pulsatile blood pressure...

This paper introduces a study of spoken dialogue agent systems using emotional expressions as affective human computer interaction. The paper describes an experiment investigating the effect that the expression and words of the agent have on people, introduces a spoken agent for customer services using...

With significant impact on the personalized product configuration, Interactive Genetic Algorithm is introduced to respond to customer requirement. For the user could conveniently design their favorite product and interact with the system by a graphical interface, the car console conceptual design system...

A numerical model has been formatted including ocean, rain drainage, urban channels, and pumps by the software MIKE FLOOD which coupling MIKE URBAN, MIKE 11 and MIKE 21. The different scenarios have been simulated. The flooding warning water level of the urban channel is low to the spring tide height,...

We give a new derivation and characterisation of the generalised elliptic genus of Krichever-Höhn by means of a functional equation.

This paper concerns linear standing gravity water waves on finite depth. We obtain qualitative and quantitative understanding of the particle paths within the wave.

Multi-objective optimization focuses on simultaneous optimization of multiple targets. Evolutionary game theory transforms the optimization problem into game strategic problem and using adaptable dynamic game evolution process intelligently obtains the optimized strategy. The problem of multiple frequency...

Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is an evergreen tree indigenous to Banda Island of Indonesia. In 2018 nutmeg production in Indonesia was 36,242 tons from 202,325 ha land, whereas the biggest production from the center production i.e. North Maluku Province. The aim of the study was to determine the performance...

Wood has shrinkage properties, so it affects the availability of the maximum dimensions of wood available in the market. To meet the need for dimensions that are larger than the maximum dimensions available in the market, laminated boards and beams are made. The dimensions such as thickness, height and...

Bugis house changes due to adaptations made by residents to meet current needs, slowly the original pattern of Bugis house gradually changed from the past until now. This research will trace the shape of Bugis house changes in three areas in the Soppeng Regency. Data on the phenomenon in the field, namely...

Drying is the final step of the film processing cycle which aims to remove the water present in the emulsion layer. The result of the film processing is an undamaged emulsion, free from dust particles, crystal deposits, stains, and artifacts. This research aims to make radiography film dryer with a timer....

The critical period hypothesis (CPH) proves a limited and specific period of language acquisition. Penfield and Roberts first supported CPH in 1959. Later, Lenneberg also supported it in late 1967 [1]. Based on the necessity of finding out the relationship between language learners’ starting age and...

Education is a deliberate and well-thought-out effort to create a learning environment and learning process in which students actively develop their potential for religious spiritual strength, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skills required by themselves, their community,...

The iron-steel industry is a resource and energy intensive industry and results to abundant GHG emissions because of a mass of fossil fuel consumption. In recent years, air quality in North China becomes worse and worse. In order to analyze the GHG emissions of the iron-steel industry, we made the survey...

To solve the problem of low security in cloud storage system under the background of rapid prevailing cloud technology, this paper studies the design and implementation of User Autonomous Encryption Cloud Storage System based on Dokan. With the help of Dokan's file development model, a specific file...

Nowadays, the teaching quality of teachers is mainly measured by teaching quality evaluation. Therefore, teachers' teaching quality evaluation has become priority among priorities in teaching management of colleges. This article mainly discusses relevant contents of teaching evaluation in colleges from...

Electricity Cost Remote Control in Marketing Business has been playing an important role in the business management of electricity information collection. Through analysis on the information about electricity cost remote control, it can study the cost control data and provide the real-time estimation...

Under the background of the development of the Internet plus sports, this paper uses the method of literature review, field survey, theory combining with practice to analyze the current development situation of our country's sports venues. It researches management and operation strategy of stadiums,...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of spraying melatonin (MT) on photosynthesis of Chinese cabbage seedlings under NaCl stress. The result showed that net photosynthetic rate (Pn), stomatal conductance (Gs), water use efficiency (WUE), light use efficiency (LUE) and transpiration rate...

The decision to finance part of the firm's assets with borrowed funds has important managerial implications. If the firm finds it increasingly difficult to service its debt (paying interest and repaying the borrowed funds) because of excessive borrowing, its management will be under pressure to make...

With the rapid economic and industrial development, China speeds up development of nuclear power (NP) to face the energy and the environment changes, and plans to increase in nuclear capacity to at least 58 GWe by 2020. Nowadays 16 provinces, regions and municipalities in China are petitioning for the...

All the countries of the world need a good environment to develop their economy, it is sad to see the recession of the financial crisis in recession. This paper aims to comprehensively study the Russian financial crisis in 2014 and find the reason of the phenomenon. And we hope warning those investors...

Rubber products are widely used, and some of them have no obvious plastic deformation on surface, there exists huge risk, so the prediction of the fatigue life of rubber materials is very important. In this paper, the fatigue life of rubber materials is accurately analyzed by using advanced computer...