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Smart cities with artificial intelligence as the core have a profound impact on changing the way cities are built and managed. This paper mainly studies the innovative application of intelligent technology in smart cities from four aspects: intelligent transportation, intelligent security, intelligent...

Power conversion with transformer less boost inverters are crucial for enhancing standalone photovoltaic generating systems’ dependability, efficiency, and affordability. In order to improve system efficiency and power density, a unique transformer less boost inverter topology that does away with large...

Industrial simplification is one of the important issues that must be solved for the sustainable development of Macao’s economy. As the main source of Macao’s retail industry, luxury goods are one of the effective paths for Macao to achieve economic diversification in the future. Based on the current...

The Arjonegoro Commuter Line Route Sidoarjo–Bojonegoro plays a crucial role in connecting densely populated areas and economic centers in East Java, including Sidoarjo, Surabaya, Lamongan, and Bojonegoro. This service is critical in supporting people’s daily mobility. Given that this service is still...

This study adopts an international comparative research methodology and selects three countries with different cultural backgrounds and characteristics of preschool education systems--China, New Zealand and Japan--as the objects of the study, so as to systematically sort out and deeply compare the differences...

Transportation management plays an important role in supporting population mobility, socio-economic activities, and regional development, especially in dense cities like Cirebon. This study analyzes the implementation of Trans Cirebon Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) using the POAC (Planning, Organizing, Actuating,...

Chinese manufacturing enterprises, as one of the significant boosters of national economic growth contributors, regarding as the key elements for future development of sustainability. In recent years, China’s manufacturing transformation and the Dual Carbon goals (carbon peaking and carbon neutrality),...

Under global economic integration, supply chain finance is crucial for relieving enterprises’ capital pressure, but traditional models are troubled by information asymmetry and inefficient risk control, with SMEs’ financing gap exceeding $5 trillion. The integration of blockchain and AI provides a new...

This study aims to analyze the effect of the number of business units, the number of workers, and the number of exports of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector on Indonesia’s gross domestic product (GDP), then analyze the effect of the national economic recovery policy (PEN) on GDP in...

Accurate measurement of blood pressure (BP) is a critical goal for appropriate diagnosis and management of high BP. The measurement reference standard is brachial cuff BP, but recent large-scale meta-analyses show major deficiencies in the accuracy of this method. Indeed, irrespective of cuff technique...

Mindanao is pre-dominantly inhabited by Malay Muslims. The Mёranao group is one the 13 Muslim ethno-linguistic groups in Mindanao, Philippines. The Mёranaos or Iranuns inhabit Lanao del Sur. Spanning out in diaspora, the Mёranaos are also dispersed in different areas in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao in...

This article tries to explain the institutionalization of post-electoral political links. This research is motivated by the case of a member of the East Java DPRD from the Indonesian Democratic Party faction who succeeded in winning legislative elections for two consecutive periods, namely the 2014 and...

Using cutting-edge digital technologies to transform conventional accounting procedures is known as “digital transformation” in accounting businesses. This evolution seeks to improve precision, effectiveness, and decision-making skills, assisting the sector in navigating the rapidly evolving technological...

This cross-sectional research paper aims to evaluate the main challenges of remote assessments during COVID-19 in one of the UAE government colleges. The remote assessment challenges I am targeting in the papers are (1) academic honesty (2) technical issues and (3) measuring students’ performance. I...

The impact of covid-19 has been tremendous across all sector of life, including education. The presence of Covid-19 has necessitated the implementation of online learning, which has led to imperfections in the education process. Learning loss has occurred, with one aspect being the emergence of student...

This study focuses on identifying preferential techniques for multi-classification of natural language when dealing with multiple dialects. This research investigates dialects in Trinidad and Tobago and addresses the challenges associated with analyzing and classifying such linguistically diverse data....

This research aims to investigate the phenomenon of fishermen's dependency on middlemen and its impact on their welfare. Employing a narrative phenomenological approach through in-depth interviews, this study seeks to delve into and reconstruct the firsthand experiences of fishermen in their interactions...

Currently, big data analytics (BDA) has become an important resource for enhancing marketing capabilities and performance, which brings new development opportunities for the development of BDA-enabled marketing capabilities (BDAMC). However, there is a lack of exploration of the role of BDAMC and marketing...

This study examines the simulation of land use changes in transportation node areas, specifically around ports and train stations. The objective is to predict future land use changes in these regions. Several interrelated analytical methods are employed to address the research questions. These include...

This study aims to analyze the application of the AISAS model (Attention, Interest, Search, Action, Share) in the WhatsApp Marketing strategy of Raja Kurma Bengkulu, an MSME engaged in the trade of dates, Hajj/Umrah souvenirs, and Middle Eastern specialty products. A qualitative case study approach was...

Increasingly developing technology has opened up new opportunities in various aspects of life, including in military operations. The research focuses on developing to detect Yolo and Wifi signals using drones as a search and rescue tool for missing soldiers on the field of operations. The loss of a soldier...

With rising business failures in emerging economies like Morocco, there is a need for more accurate prediction models. Traditional statistical methods often struggle with complex financial data and have been mainly used in Moroccan studies. This work aims to fill this gap by applying advanced machine...

Under the background of “double carbon” target, reducing emissions has become a general trend, and carbon emissions from the power industry account for a large portion of the country’s overall carbon emissions, so the construction of a new power system with new energy as the main body has become the...

This research seeks to determine the factors contributing to the limited community involvement in the implementation of CSLRP in Deli Serdang Regency and to explore strategies to address these issues. The research is classified as empirical legal research using a sociological approach. Considering the...

Hypertension and arterial aging engage a plethora of key signaling pathways that act in concert to induce vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic changes leading to vascular degeneration and extracellular matrix (ECM) changes responsible for alterations of the mechanical properties of the vascular...

Models of haemodynamics play a central role in current research directed to understanding and addressing cardiovascular disease. Although conventional windkessel and wave models are very useful, they are incompatible due to conflicting assumptions and neither comprehensively explain the basis and interdependencies...

It has been suggested that accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGE) is involved in several pathophysiological processes in the vessel wall. Soluble isoform of receptor for AGE (sRAGE) acts as a decoy for capturing circulating AGE, prevents them from binding to the cell-surface receptor and...

This study aims to determine: (1) the influence of Return On Assets (ROA) on institutional ownership, (2) the influence of Earning Per Share (EPS) on institutional ownership, (3) the influence of Return On Equity (ROE) on institutional ownership, (4) the influence of ROA on stock prices, (5) the influence...

Throughout history, human societies have strived to ensure that every individual has access to sufficient food, promoting an active and healthy life. Having access to enough food persists as a pressing issue at the intersection of nature, society, and technology although there is a significant worldwide...

Israel and Iran have been engaged in an expanding conflict across the Middle East since the late 1990s. Following the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, the escalation of conflict between the two counterparts have been intensified into another level. According to reports in media, Iran and Israel have...

Ghana’s textile and apparel (T&A) industry faces persistent challenges, including low export performance, quality issues, and limited competitiveness, which is reflected in the absence of textile exports in the 2023 trade report. This study analyses government initiatives, policies, and programmes...

Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) possess exceptional optical and chemical attributes, rendering them highly suitable for environmental surveillance and biomedical diagnostics. When stabilized with polyethylene glycol (PEG), these nanoparticles achieve enhanced colloidal stability and biocompatibility, facilitating...

Paradata is used to improve the quality of analysis and data collection in F2F interviews. Its collection allows to increase the response rate by analyzing non-responses. Based on the binary logistic regression constructed for datasets including ESS 2010 (ESS-5) and 2018 (ESS-9) data in Germany, was...

Vascular calcification was regarded as an innocent bystander in cardiovascular disease. It was considered to be the passive chemical nucleation of calcium and phosphate ions on cellular debris and therefore the end-stage of atherosclerosis. Currently, vascular calcification is understood to be an actively...

Proteins are the main molecular components of the arterial wall. Alterations in the amounts of specific proteins in both the extracellular matrix and in vascular cells are believed to be associated with different arterial pathologies, however only sparse data is currently available, particularly in relation...

Background: The arterial system is viscoelastic rather than purely elastic. There exist various methods to characterize the purely elastic nature of arterial compliance, each method yielding different values. The pulse pressure method (CPPM), estimating compliance by matching the pulse pressure (PP)...

Blood flow imposes shear stress on endothelial cells (ECs). ECs are able to convert these mechanical stimuli into intracellular signals that affect cellular function. As deregulated autophagy is associated with an acceleration of a variety of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases where impaired flow-mediated...

Stem cell-based therapies for vascular regeneration in patients with cardiovascular ischemic diseases initially relied on a very simple concept: therapeutic stem/progenitor cells might differentiate into vascular cells, mainly of endothelial phenotype, increasing new vessel formation and tissue perfusion...

The contribution of arterial functional and structural changes to left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction has been the area of latest research. There are some studies on the relationship of arterial stiffness (a.s.) and left atrial (LA) remodeling as a marker of diastolic burden. Little is known...

Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality and morbidity in Western countries, but the underlying mechanisms are still poorly understood. Genetic polymorphisms, once thought to represent a major determinant of cardiovascular risk, individually and collectively, only explain a tiny fraction...

Biomedical research is increasingly based on the efforts of PhD students. This talk will trace the development of the author’s research, and show how this experience can be used to optimize PhD training. The basis of the research has been that essential hypertension is associated with increased peripheral...

Background: Brachial blood pressure (BP) may not reflect central BP due to systolic BP (SBP) amplification. Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) elicit vascular irregularities that may affect SBP amplification or other central BP indices (including pulse pressure [PP], augmentation pressure...

Intrusion Detection System(IDS) has received attention to deal with the illegal access to the network. However, IDS has a critical problem which outputs a tremendous number of logs. Analyzing these logs apply a large amount of load to a network manager. In this paper, we propose a novel visualization...

In order to improve the applications for an industrial robot, it is necessary to increase its flexibility and accuracy. The machine vision technology is an effective solution. In order to reduce the influence of the size, deformation etc., the target extraction method with fusion of color space and moment...

This paper proposes an obstacle avoidance method based on a multi-layered non-contact impedance model for control of the biosignal-based electric wheelchair. The proposed system can calculate a virtual repulsive force before the collision by multi-layered impedance fields covered around it. This system...

As the exponential increase of data in the world, machine learning, pattern recognition, data mining etc. are attracting more attentions recently. Classification is one of the major research in pattern recognition and a large number of methods have been proposed such as decision trees, neural networks...

In this paper a generalized class of finite population variance is suggested and its large sample bias and mean square error are derived. Further some special cases of this class are considered along with a numerical example to compute and compare their biases and mean square errors.

Scientific computational experiments often span multiple computational and analytical steps, and during execution, researchers need to store, access, transfer, and query information. Scientific workflow is a powerful tool to stream-line and organize scientific application. Numbers of tools have been...

This paper presents a new chaos-based image cipher using a plaintext-related permutation. The cat map and Lorenz system are employed to shuffle the positions of image pixels and generate the diffusion keystream, respectively. The control parameters of the cat map, i.e. the permutation key, are determined...

Emergency management is a highly relevant area of interest in operations research. Currently the area is undergoing widespread development. Furthermore, recent disasters have highlighted the importance of disaster management, in order to alleviate the suffering of vulnerable people and save lives. In...