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Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of abundant normal flora in human, but also well-studied as an opportunistic pathogen due to its ability to form biofilm. Biofilm could be formed by biofilm-forming bacteria as its survival method. Valid example for biofilm-associated medical issue is catheter-related diseases,...

Hallyu/Korean Wave themed tourism in Jakarta is increasingly in demand and has its own charm for tourists. One of the tourist attractions/cafes that use the Hallyu phenomenon as a strategy to promote their business is Loonami House. Loonami House offers Korean food & drinks, authentic room designs,...

This study reviews previous research articles on Mobile Game-based Learning (MGbL), particularly in the English language learning context. This study is a systematic review in nature. A total of 26 empirical articles published from 2007 to 2022 were reviewed. The articles were downloaded from Springer,...

This article examined how the closure of Chinese schools in 1966 did not diminish the enthusiasm of the Chinese community to revive education. This study is essential, as the education provided by the Chinese during the New Order era had not received adequate attention from historians. This spirit exemplified...

This study presented the hydrochemical characteristics of groundwater in the “Songinohairkhan district”. We collected 111 samples from deep and dug wells in 2020 and major ions and pollution indicators were analyzed in the laboratory, and calculated the Water Quality Indices (WQI). The most dominant...

Along with developing the Mobile Learning System, Mobile Learning requires adequate facilities, such as a server as a storage medium and as a provider of an API-based web service, especially when there are more and more Mobile Learning users. And to ensure the quality of the web service, a system test...

Potato is a plant from the Solanaceae tribe and one of the staple crops for human consumption. Potatoes have several benefits such as being low in fat and having a better carbohydrate content than rice. Behind the relatively easy cultivation of potato plants, there are problems that are often faced by...

Local wisdom is a sign that the scope of society has a culture and a feature of pride that becomes an identity and is attached to its culture and becomes a treasury and marker of the nobility of society which is often carried through folklore using a unique story structure in a mythical story, one of...

Organizations throughout the world have experienced lack of total and motivated participation by individuals working and engaged with it. Now a day, rising mental health aberration in organizational context leads to lack of participation among executives in almost all organizations of the world. One...

Service quality is something that is directly noticed by customers and is the first determining factor in customer satisfaction. This is because a service interacts directly with customers and its intangible nature and cannot be owned makes customers need evidence that the services they receive are as...

This study target to examine the factors that affect the volume of Indonesia’s coal exports in 1995–2020. This research uses the Error Correction Model (ECM) approach. The finding of this analysis argue wicht in the short term only Indonesian coal production variables are significant and have a positive...

Objectives: A number of non-invasive devices have been used to measure arterial stiffness in COPD. The aim of this study was to compare the Complior device with the gold standard SphygmoCor Vx device, in patients with COPD and healthy volunteers. Methods: Aortic PWV was measured during a single visit...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Aortic calcifications and inflammation are independent predictors of adverse cardiovascular events. We sought to investigate the association of aortic calcifications and inflammation with in-hospital morbidity and mortality of patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods:...

Background: Left ventricular systolic dysfunction, an independent predictor of heart failure (HF) and cardiovascular mortality, may be worse in South Asians and African-Caribbeans (than Europeans) as they have more adverse cardiovascular risk factor profiles. Objectives: We sought to investigate ethnic...

Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic, inflammatory disease of the axial spine that can manifest with various clinical signs and symptoms1.Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), which is calculated based on the stiffness parameter thus obtained, is theoretically independent of changes in...

Objectives: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating lung vascular disease. Despite advances in the diagnosis of this condition, early detection and ascertainment of the genesis of pulmonary hypertension are still a difficult task.We supposed that the method of Single photon emission computed...

Soil has an important role in the construction of buildings and roads. Overall, the pavement must be strong enough to carry the weight of the vehicle on it. The strength of the road pavement depends on the bearing capacity of the subgrade. One of the efforts to increase the bearing capacity of the subgrade...

Background: Arterial stiffening measured by Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) predicts cardiovascular events and mortality in adults. It advances with age and seems accelerated in children with certain disease conditions such as chronic kidney disease or diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine factors...

Background: Some studies have shown the interest of measuring central blood pressure (CBP). Usually measured non-invasively through a function transfer by applanation tonometry (Sphygmocor®) CBP can also be calculated by echotracking (Art.Lab®) at the common carotid artery assuming the fact that the...

The literature on the acceptance or adoption of unmanned aircraft, aka civil drones, is scarce and under-developed. The majority of literature discusses several social concerns, whereas only little research promotes economic concerns. Additionally, the literature does not consider existing technology...

In this paper, we introduce a new class of lifetime distributions which is called the additive Weibull geometric (AWG) distribution. This distribution obtained by compounding the additive Weibull and geometric distributions. The new distribution has a number of well-known lifetime special sub-models...

A weighted multi-model adaptive control (WMMAC) method is proposed to achieve consensus of multi-agent system with large parameter uncertainty and communication delays, in which H°° control is adopted as local control strategy to deal with smaller parameter uncertainty. Moreover a simple and effective...

Absorptive capacity is a developing research topic within the field of knowledge management, whereby researchers are exploring business methods for improving the capture and valuation of new knowledge entering organisations from external sources. Organisational processes and human-centred systems at...

This paper introduces recent fundamental modifications to the Japanese alliance system known as the keiretsu, and analyses how these changes have affected corporate performance. More specially, the performance of Japanese auto manufacturers, such as Toyota, Nissan and others, has significantly improved...

Information system interoperability has an important role for e- Government development, specially in term of Public management information system. Each country has its own strategy in ensuring interoperability in information system. Nowadays, archiving interoperability among information system is very...

Dried coffee skin (cascara) can be used as a raw material for making kombucha because it still contains a number of important nutrients. The addition of fruit to kombucha fermentation is currently widely used to get the sensation of carbonated drinks but has the potential to increase the alcohol content....

Patriotism education has become one of the major issues concerned by all countries in the world. From the understanding of the historical background and cultural foundation of the formation of Patriotism in Singapore to the text analysis of its moral education textbooks in primary schools, we can find...

Study on the measurement of religious tolerance between two student groups was the analysis on the reliability and the validity of the combined groups, but the analysis result was still doubt because whether the measurement qualities are equivalent to cross the student groups or not. Concept of the religious...

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease commonly associated with progressive disability and systemic complications. Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by inflammation and synovial hyperplasia, production of autoantibodies, and destruction of bone and cartilage. One of the assessments of rheumatoid...

This study analyzes the dynamic of exports, imports, labor, and government expenditure in Indonesia in 1990 - 2019. This study using time series data are analyzed using the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) in Eviews 10 software to estimate the relationship between variables. In the VECM test, export,...

This paper analyzed and discussed the teaching reform path of the national traditional sports course in China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) by questionnaires, expert interviews and mathematical statistics. It’s worth pointing out that students who took the course had prominent eye health problems,...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate and find YouTube video content that violates the principles of gender justice and evaluate and find forms of legal protection for the rights of commercial sex workers who are used as content on YouTube videos. This study uses a socio-legal research type. The focus...

Japanese music historian Takashi Iba wrote “Technically, Japanese culture was largely imported from foreign countries, then refined into Japanese things.” As a Japanese scholar who would have lived through the late nineteenth century, Iba witnessed the peak of colonialist and imperialist practices by...

Modeling industrial objects needs the formulas of curves and surfaces to construct a precise shape of real goods and simulate some process of form creations. For this reason, the study of the equations of curves and surfaces for objects modeling is essential for resulting in a required shape and feature...

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is widely used as a graduation requirement for students at various levels. Malikussaleh University, Samudera University, and Gajah Putih University have implemented a mandatory TOEFL test with a certain minimum score before sitting for thesis defense....

This research aims to analyze performance evaluation after bureaucratic reform at the Central Bureau of Statistics, Central Sulawesi Province. The sample in this research was employees of the Central Bureau of Statistics, Central Sulawesi Province. The research method used is descriptive qualitative...

Science is one of the important lessons for children with science, there are many things that can be done in a child’s life. Through science to build good character or something can be said positive in early childhood, children can also grow into creative children, critical and open to the surrounding...

Nowadays, students have all kinds of pressure, especially high school students. This age group is in adolescence, they have their own ideas, their minds are sensitive, and they are facing the college entrance examination. Especially in this particular period, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most high school...

Shaanxi Province is defined as a non-water-network area, such as rivers, lakes, reservoirs, park water areas, etc., which are not connected with the main river system, and less developed in terms of the search and rescue capability. Once a major waterborne accident occurs, the water search and rescue...

In contemporary society, under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the labor worker’s situation has been serious than before. This problem led to 8.3% job losses in the global revenue. Under this emergency, labour workers are in a weak position, so their rights should be protected. Nowadays,...

Gracilariaceae is a macroalgal family of Rhodophyta which can be found abundantly in tropical waters, including in Southern Coasts of Gunungkidul D.I.Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Coral and sand dominate the substrate of Southern Coasts of Gunungkidul, so it is an ideal habitat for Gracilariaceae. Along with...

Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation highlights two critical components of daily management and policy management that must be guaranteed to assure customer satisfaction and corporate performance. The researchers concentrated on the success of TQM adoption through internal management diagnostic...

Abraham Kuyper is well-known for his assertion on equal freedom for people of all worldviews or religions. This article argues that Kuyper has successfully reconciled these seemingly contradicting notions by developing a concept of civil liberty from a Calvinistic tradition. Attempting to apply a Kuyperian...

Dragon fruit is a leading horticultural commodity that has good prospects for development in Banyuwangi Regency considering that dragon fruit agribusiness is very profitable and market demand is quite high. The problem of limited maintenance management and the weakness of the marketing institutional...

Management of the Flight Information Region (FIR) airspace in Natuna was taken over by the Indonesian Government after being managed by the Singapore Government for a long time. The policy several years ago of delegating the Flight Information Region (FIR) to Singapore over the airspace of the Riau Islands...

Changes in seasons cause an imbalance between supply and demand for fresh marine fish in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. On the supply side, there is oversupply during the fishing season (harvest), while the lean season (west and east) or the fishing season during the total moon production decreases. This...