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Greenwashing is becoming a prevalent issue in the present era. It is a deceptive marketing technique of conveying misleading or fake representation to the public to believe that the product/service or the company is environment friendly than actually it is. Green washing is a practice of appealing the...

In regions like rural Indonesia, the unique nature resulting from limited global economic and technological engagement demands bespoke solutions over generic ones. This research focuses on the transformative potential of design for rural Indonesian communities, offering critical insights for similar...

Scientists call diabetic maculopathy a pathological disorder. It’s one of the most serious consequences of diabetes [1]. When diabetic patient having so much sugar level in the body that time its impact on some part of body one part is retina. The retina has macula when near macula having some red dots...

Bubonic plague is an infection spread mostly to humans by infected fleas that feed on rodents which is also known as ‘Black death’. It killed millions of Europeans during the middles ages. Bubonic Plague is an infectious disease caused by a specific type of bacterium called Yersinia pestis. Which is...

Female directorships become significant contributors to corporate decision-making by targeting 30% of women on the board requirement under the Malaysian Code of Corporate Governance 2017 (MCCG 2017). Gender diversity in board composite attracts attention in corporate governance studies, while vast literature...

This research was conducted based on the problem of students’ lack of interest in learning mathematics. The aim of this research is to determine the description of the use of animated video media, the description of students’ interest in learning mathematics, and the influence of the use of video media...

Research has shown a relationship between learning with happiness and motivation in learning, but the relationship between these aspects of learning and academic performance is not clear. This study’s purpose was to understand these associations in sample of first grade students in Hong Kong. The students’...

The tourism business is one form of support for increasing state revenues. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, countries in the world experienced a significant decline in the tourism sector. Therefore, more concentration is needed as a form of effort to increase the tourism business. The government and tourism...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, opinions in the form of hashtags related to the early vaccination period are trending in early 2021. Among those hashtags, two hashtags that will be discussed here are #TolakDivaksinSinovac and #JokowiDivaksin. In this paper, those hashtags will be analyzed in the context...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a system of indicators for assessing the effectiveness of entrepreneurial ecosystems based on platform solutions. These indicators can further be used as a mechanism for tracking the ongoing transformations in business environment. Scientific publications, normative...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a common manifestation of atherosclerosis and obesity is one of its well-established risk factors 1–5. PAD is classified in intermittent claudication (IC) and critical limb ischemia (CLI), according to the its severity6. Therefore, we...

Objective: To investigate carotid strain and displacement and to assess their relations with arterial stiffness and cardiac systolic and diastolic parameters. Methods: Study population consisted of 40 healthy subjects (aged 17–38, median-22). All subjects underwent comprehensive transthoracic echocardiography...

Introduction: Reservoir pressure parameters derived from pressure waveforms captured at various arterial sites predict adverse kidney function independently of conventional cuff blood pressure (BP). However, there has never been an analysis directly comparing if associations with kidney function may...

Objectives Non-invasive, cuff-based systems are currently available for the assessment of central haemodynamic parameters. The aim of the current study was to compare measurements of cardiac output (CO) derived from pulse waveform analysis (Vicorder) with an inert gas re-breathing method (Innocor) in...

Renovascular hypertension is an uncommon cause of secondary hypertension. Percutaneous angioplasty is considered in selected patients. Retrospective study of patients undergoing renal artery revascularization, in a tertiary centre, in 2004–2017. Demographic, biometrical, radiological and clinical data...

Background: Non-invasive measurement of Central Blood Pressure (CBP) in the clinic setting is the advantage of the validated, tonometer-based SphygmoCor device. Recently, a novel brachial cuff-based SphygmoCor device (XCEL) has been tested and validated against the tonometer-based method of CBP measurement....

In order to connect the heavy-tailed operational risk measurement model with management model, a model identifying the crucial supervising parameters of operational risk is built after the heavy-tailed operational VaR’s sensitivity is theoretically researched by the elasticity analysis method. Further,...

In this article, based on the half-Cauchy distribution, we propose a new distribution called Kumaraswamy- Half-Cauchy distribution. Various explicit expressions for it’s moments, generating and quantile functions, mean deviations, reliability parameter, density function of the order statistics and their...

On a symplectical manifold M4 consider a Hamiltonian system with two degrees of freedom, integrable with the help of an additional integral f. According to the welknown Liouville theorem, non-singular level surfaces of the integrals H and f can be represented as unions of tori, cylinders and planes....

The Feshbach-type reduction of the Hilbert space to the physically most relevant "model" subspace is suggested as a means of a formal unification of the standard quantum mechanics with its recently proposed PT symmetric modification. The resuting "effective" Hamiltonians Heff (E) are always Hermitian,...

Research purpose: Basel Committee (2004) sets the Basel 2 with three pillars as Pillar 1 (Capital Adequacy Requirements) and Pillar 2 (Supervisory review) in order to improve bank efficiency. More specifically, the Pillar 1 with information disclosure requirement to support bank-related parties in financial...

This study aims to analyze the impact of profitability, solvency, liquidity, firm size, and audit opinion on audit report lag. The population in this study are Property and Real Estate Enterprises registered on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for the 2017-2020 period. The sample selection in this study...

The art of Chinese prehistoric ancient painted pottery is unique. Underneath its fullness of form and luxuriant pattern, it reflects the aesthetic consciousness of self-observation of prehistoric ancestors. Ancient painted pottery schema (图式) is a holistic visual presentation of form, pattern, structure,...

East Sumba Regency is an dry climate area, which has an impact on water availability, especially for agricultural production. Additionally, this area has a large area of land that can be optimize for productive agricultural areas. Several factors that affect productive land are climate, land management,...

This paper introduces social preference theory into the research of horizontal intergovernmental relationship in Mega-region in order to better reveal the micro motivations of local governments in forming the intergovernmental relationship during regional integration process. Through model construction,...

The development of the creative industry is growing rapidly in Indonesia in line with technological advancements. This research focuses on the strategies used to enhance the competitiveness of Linkrafin, which is based on the cultural heritage and local wisdom of Jember Regency. This study employs a...

Teaching in Industrial Revolution 4.0 era addresses to create the 21st century skills, so there is a need to develop an instrument for assessing these skills. This research aims to develop a test of critical and creative thinking skill which fulfils the validity and reliability criteria. These skills...

This study aims to determine body condition score, reproductive performance, and feeding management in the housing group system Pangestu. Evaluation of body condition score is carried out directly by feeling the part of the loin area (back) which describes the longissimus dorsi muscle, muscle, and fat...

Lightning protection design for 10kV composite distribution tower differs from transmission towers and the traditional iron tower due to the insulation of composite material and complexity of lightning protection design for 10kV distribution lines. Related research is still in blank. Key points of lightning...

The national college entrance examination, as an important and time-honored tool for selecting the distinguished personal, has facilitated one after another group of students to enter into the institutes of higher learning, thus bringing out excellent person to contribute to the modernization process...

Two-layer lattice-type metamaterials unit is loaded above the coaxial feed microstrip antenna in order to gather electromagnetic wave by using the zero refraction index effect. The -type metamaterials unit is printed on the antenna substrate, and the band gap effect is used to suppress the backward wave...

The issue is aimed at the demand of cognizant Cyberspace, analyzed the spatial and temporal characteristics of Cyberspace. By means of researching the mapping mechanism between cyberspace and geo-space, constructs the theories and geographical cognitive models of Cyberspace. Based on the theory of cartography,...

Under the background of increasingly standardized logistics market and more intense market competition, there are more needs to establish logistics centers with sound logistics functions and improved information network. Choosing a reasonable location is particularly important to build the logistics...

With the constantly advancing of university engineering education accreditation, in the curricular of assessment of teaching quality, establishing an effective quality guarantee system that meets the standard of engineering education accreditation becomes one of issues that need to be addressed urgently...

Lots of domestic and western classic works have described the narrative scenes related to "tea". In terms of the paintings which use "tea" as their "pigment", the tea illustrations of a Russian artist, Andrew Gorkovenko, must be mentioned. Tea illustration belongs to a subsidiary branch of contemporary...

Bus load forecasting is the foundation to make power grid to be secure, economic and efficient, and also is the concrete measure and effective way to promote national energy saving and emissions reduction. Based on daily load curve of typical areas, and by means of subtractive clustering, the regional...

Carson McCullers has been considered as one of the most influential American southern women writers in the 20th century. Her first novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a spiritual presentation of the Southern Americans against the background of American South in the 1930s, the time between the Great...

The cultivation of scientific research and innovative ability is the core of postgraduate education. In this paper we presented some useful practical approaches for improving scientific research and innovative ability of graduated students. We build up the knowledge system of the students with innovative...

Efficient network resource utilization is crucial in the field of Virtual Network Embedding (VNE). The diversity of virtual topologies belong to various services providers (SPs) severely affects the efficiency of VNE algorithms and fairness between SPs. To achieve high resource utilization of the physical...

The paper introduces the data transmission system in the Petroleum Industry with the help of programming systematically. The wellsite data could be available for the usage of other Petroleum Service Departments by using this system. The perfection of Internet technology enables network programming to...

This paper formulates the 3D Stochastic Stowage Plan-ning (3D SSP) problem. The key objective of 3D SSP is to minimize the number of container movements and maximize the ship´s stability considering multiple scenar-ios. The binary formulation of this problem is described and an alternative formulation,...

With the development of Chinese economic, political, cultural and social changes, the national treasury will be certified public accountants, certified public valuer and registered tax accountants to combine, and to carry out unified management for certified public accountants. In order to obtain employment...

The ecological environment in the hilly area of Sichuan is the important resource of the new countryside construction in this region. Under the guidance of the new requirements on the new countryside construction proposed by the coordinated urban and rural development, the protection and rational utilization...

Present raw geo-tagged photo routes cannot provide information as enough as complete GPS trajectories due to the defects hidden in them. This paper mainly aims at analyzing the large amounts of geo-tagged photos and proposing a novel travel route restoring method. In our approach we apply the Hidden...