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Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) are companies that applying syariah rules on their activities. So, the likelihood of IFIs to pay zakat is high. Unfortunately, the realization of IFIs’ zakat payment is below its potential amount. This research aims to identify the preferences of IFIs for paying...

The “Mongolia: Enhancing Resource Management through Institutional Transformation” (MERIT) project, funded by the Government of Canada, aims to strengthen resource management in Mongolia. This is achieved through its technical assistance programs, which focus on building capacity and promoting responsible...

This study explores “self-anchoring” in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students during live Public Speaking classes. Self-anchoring involves shaping students’ public speaking identity through learning experiences. The researchers analyzed data from twenty-seven students at State Makassar University...

The study investigates the effectiveness of augmented reality (AR) as a teaching medium for improving vocabulary learning among elementary school students. The research subjects comprised twenty-four students in the 4th grade of a state elementary school in Sleman Regency in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. More...

Sustainability has become a key necessity among Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), especially in institutionally void environments where regulatory frameworks and support systems are insufficient. We use the hybrid technique of the bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review to...

This paper aims to examine the position of transgender women, who are culturally recognized as one of the gender diversities in Bugis society, in the formulation of public policy in South Sulawesi. This paper is based on qualitative research analyzing primary data in the form of interviews with the South...

The rapid expansion of e-commerce has transformed consumer purchasing activities, positioning digital platforms as the dominant medium for modern transactions. However, this growth has also introduced new challenges in analyzing and predicting increasingly complex consumer purchasing behaviors. Manual...

This study aims to map the development and trends in research on dividend policy through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach. The search process was conducted on the Scopus database using the keywords “dividend AND policy” in the title, abstract, and keywords, which yielded 5,477 documents...

Loose Palm Fruit (LPF) is an oil palm fruit that has ripened and fallen from its bunch, containing high oil content. Each loss of LPF affects the oil extraction rate and results in financial losses. Existing LPF collection methods are not very effective as they require human control and supervision....

The East Timorese exodus community in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) is a group of refugees from East Timor who fled to East Timor in 1999 after a poll won by East Timorese pro-independence groups. The refugees are spread across various regions throughout the NTT region, including Kupang Regency. During the...

Background and objectives: Clinical evidence shows that central (aortic) blood pressure (CBP) is a better marker of cardiovascular risk than brachial pressure [1]. However, CBP can only be accurately measured invasively, through catheterisation. We propose a novel approach to estimate CBP non-invasively...

Integrin αv functions as a receptor for adhesion proteins and is expressed at high density in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC)1,2,3,4,5 whose phenotypic modulation plays a crucial role in arterial ageing and atherosclerosis.6,7. Our aim was to define the arterial phenotype in mice conditionally inactivated...

Background: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is quantified by time difference of arrival of the blood pressure (BP) wave at two sites along the arterial bed (transit time; TT-PWV), or by combining measured arterial pressure and diameter using the Bramwell-Hill equation (BH-PWV). Besides the dependence of PWV...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Smoking increases aortic stiffness which is an important predictor of cardiovascular risk. Electronic cigarettes (EC) simulate tobacco cigarette (TC) and have been advocated as a less harmful alternative. We investigated the acute effect of EC smoking on aortic stiffness...

Background: At present, reservoir pressure parameters are derived from arterial pressure waveforms regardless of the location of measurement. However, a comparison between sites has not been made, and site-related differences may affect interpretation. In this study, we computed reservoir pressure waveform...

Background: The benefit of carotid revascularization is decreased by the occurrence of restenosis at the site of surgery, which is associated with a modestly increased risk of stroke. Preventing restenosis plays pivotal role in the overall treatment and prevention of stroke in patients with carotid artery...

The existence of COVID 19 again raises people’s awareness of endangered species trading problems and calls for rethinking the relationship between humanity and the natural environment. This paper mentions the current problems faced by China in protecting endangered species and states the urgent need...

The service value broker(SVB) pattern integrates business modeling, knowledge management and economic anal- ysis with relieved complexity, enhanced reusability and effi- ciency,etc. The study of SVB is an emerging interdisciplinary subject which will help to promote the reuse of knowledge, strategy and...

Previously, we have proposed a method applying Sequential Probability Ratio Test (SPRT) to the structural change detection problem of ongoing time series data. In this paper, we introduce a structural change model with Poisson process into a system that outputs a set of ongoing time series data, moment...

This paper comments on the challenges and constraints in the internet software development arena. Our study also reviews the methodologies currently adopted by various companies and based on the findings suggest an improved methodology for internet software development. We have adopted an exploratory...

In this paper, the evolution and control of society risks caused by severe emergency infectious disease will be analyzed and studied. Firstly, the evolution chain of society risks caused by severe emergency infectious disease is constructed to analyze the evolution rule of society risks and identify...

The paper aims to define a new kind of logic, referred to as Archimedean-Compensatory Logic, which is constructed from the unification of two different fuzzy logic systems, namely a continuous Archimedean fuzzy logic and a compensatory fuzzy logic. The paper introduces basic definitions and properties...

In our previously reported system, after the first music recommendation process using collaborative filtering was terminated, the second recommendation process based on the scores for impression words finds the most similar music to the successfully recommended music among music that has not yet been...

I propose an orthogonalization procedure preserving the grading of the initial graded set of linearly independent vectors. In particular, this procedure is applicable for orthonormalization of any countable set of polynomials in several (finitely many) ideterminates.

We investigate closed ideals in the Grassmann algebra serving as bases of Lie-invariant geometric objects studied before by E.Cartan. Especially, the E.Cartan theory is enlarged for Lax integrable nonlinear dynamical systems to be treated in the frame work of the Wahlquist Estabrook prolongation structures...

The notion of semantic information granulation is explored to estimate the information specificity or generality of documents. Basically, a document is considered more specific than another document if it contains more cohesive domain-specific terminologies than that of the other one. We believe that...

With proliferous usage in CMC (Computer-Mediated Communication), textspeak (such as c u means see you) has become common words appears in email, SMS, IM, Blog and Twitter. Little research has explored how text-speak affects people’s intimacy when interacting through CMC tools. Thus, this study investigates...

Under the background of “new engineering” construction, in order to improve students’ innovative ability and engineering practice ability, the problems existing in the practice teaching work of mechanical majors in local colleges and universities are analysed, and the practice teaching system and practice...

East Kalimantan is one of the areas rich in mining land, one of which is coal. Coal mining activities in Kaltim are generally carried out with open mining techniques, namely by clearing land, peeling top soil, moving the top layer of soil, and then mining coal. This technique results in physical, chemical...

Psychological subhealth is a bad psychological status between mental health and psychological illness. Paying attention to the undergraduates’ psychological subhealth is an important direction to carry out mental health education. From the angle of ideological and political education, the paper makes...

South Sumatra has an abundant solar energy source waiting to be optimally optimized. This potential is promising in all the economic sectors, such as agriculture. Solar energy application is one of digital farming implementation for agriculture and is expected to ease the farmers’ workload. This paper...

“The Classic of Mountains and Rivers” is one of the representative works of traditional Chinese mythology that has been passed down through the historical process, in the period of pan-media, many creators use “The Classic of Mountains and River” as the material for secondary creation. Among them, the...

Early childhood is a process for children to be able to behave socially. Social behavior is learned and developed from various opportunities and experiences with the community’s environment. Social behavior is behavior that is carried out voluntarily which can benefit/please others without anticipating...

On November 15, 2020, the “Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership” (RCEP) was officially signed, which meant the birth of the world’s largest free trade zone. RCEP is intended to create a comprehensive and inclusive free trade agreement, which provides new opportunities for the development of China’s...

How to know the students' overall cognitive situation quickly and accurately by testing has been a hot issue in teaching. Based on the relevant research at home and abroad over the adaptive testing, and in view of the current adaptive testing is not intelligent enough, this paper presents a personalized...

At present, domestic English teachers have set some intercultural teaching strategies to improve students' enthusiasm. This article mainly bases on students' positive emotion or attitude in learning English to explore intercultural English teaching pattern, in order to set teaching pattern by taking...

PLC principle and application is a kind of theory and practice, engineering practice of the professional course. Among them, PLC experimental teaching is an important part of the course. Many Chinese universities opened the PLC curriculum, teachers use experimental board to describe the whole process...

With the development of education reform, the teaching quality has once again become a hot topic in modern teaching. However, to enhance the quality of teaching they need good teaching environment as a support, not good teaching environment, to enhance the quality of teaching will be limited. In this...

The inconsistency between the radar image information and electronic chart information in the high latitudes can result in much difficulty on the identification of marks, which will be dangerous to the ship's navigation. By analyzing the characteristics of the projection methods of the high-latitude...

Conceptualizing implementation of cloud platform in the project management (PM) context is still rudimentary. Previous studies have not empirically examined the role of cloud-based information management platform in PM, and their effect on project performance. Thus, developing such support will illustrate...

To solve the problems of little vocabulary, lack of interest and no innovation in the primary Chinese writing teaching, attempting to design and build MIIR (Motivation, Inquiry, Reflection and Reflection) teaching model in this paper.

Information technology education goals are the core element of Information technology education. the appropriateness of the target determines the aptness of goal-directed function and evaluation function. This article is based on the significant differences of dualistic urban and rural areas in social...

The economic and social development needs a number of high-quality talents which cannot be cultivated under traditional education mode. Internationalization of higher education is a necessary trend. However, college students lack of the ability of self-learning, self-motivation, self-monitoring and self-regulation...

First of all, Based on the analysis of traffic demand of inter-city channel and the function of the inter-city railway, the alternative evaluation system which include the factor of technical, economic and sustainable development is established. Then, the alternative evaluation method of inter-city railway...

This paper analyses the common disadvantages of circuit course teaching process, puts forward the philosophy that the cultivation of students' innovation ability, the students' diversified and personalized, the resistance capacity, self-discipline, and the awareness of fair competition shall all be melted...

Web services are an important part of the Semantic Web. User and software agent should be able to discover, invoke, compose, and monitor web services with a high degree of automation. OWL-S is an ontology of services that makes these functionalities possible. However, OWL-S doesn’t provide verification...