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Women are often a marginalized and biased position compared to men’s positions by a gender. This research aims to describe the position of women in Dian Purnomo’s novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam based on Sara Mills’ critical discourse analysis model. This research is a qualitative research...

Background Psychiatric settings often encounter pathological self-mutilation cases. It has associations with many mental conditions, including psychosis, drug addiction, mood disorders, intellectual impairment, and personality disorder. A well-known case of self-mutilation is Vincent Van...

Based on the Web technology system, the online teaching platform of ideological and political education in colleges and universities designed with Spring framework as the core is designed to give full play to the characteristics of online education, complement the advantages of traditional classroom...

Lung Disease treatment is crucial in the medical industry since it is the third most prevalent cause of mortality worldwide. Recently, assistive solutions have greatly benefited from the use of technologies like deep learning and machine learning. This involves the use of a variety of technologies, including...

The purpose of this study is to investigate customer behavior regarding healthy and ecologically friendly food products. This study evaluates the amount of environmental concern, health consciousness, and attitudes about the purchase of environmentally friendly and nutritious food products. On the basis...

This study has been developed for the synthesis of hydroxyapatite using low-cost dolomite material. We investigated the influence of calcination temperature and feed gases on the decomposition of raw dolomite, and the relation between the calcination temperature and the phosphorus affinity. Also, the...

The world of commerce has become a very crucial part of its influence on economic growth. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a breakthrough in the business world in the midst of current technological developments. IoT has increased labor productivity by up to 25% in some sectors such as manufacturing. IoT...

The patients ‘ main objection was the application of public services in a queue of patients online and offline in the RSUD Madiun City, East Java, Indonesia. The number online is generally lower than on site, when services are merged hence all hospital patients are offline. Over 90% of outpatients are...

In such a massive “politicization” of social and cultural life, it appears that the role of Technological Higher Education Institution (Lembaga Pendidikan Tinggi Teknologi/LPTT) in national development is diminishing and less significant with the decline of the role of technology at the national level....

In an ideal life, students hope to have good physical and psychological health to carry out their roles and obligations smoothly and successfully and be productive and useful. However, sometimes, the reality is that many things hinder these expectations. Several factors can overcome the obstacles experienced,...

The global epidemic has entered its fourth round since the Wuhan outbreak of a new coronavirus pneumonia at the end of 2019, and compared to the prior three rounds, the current Omicron strain is more contagious and spreading more quickly. How are local governments managing outbreak prevention and control...

Therefore, the study examines the impact of tourist attractions on visitors’ interest in returning and the factors that affect visitors’ interest in visiting tourist attractions. The associative approach using differential sematic measurements is the technique employed. The 132 respondents who worked...

The use of the MyPertamina application influences the lower middle class. The limited information and the exposure of the lower middle-class community have implications for the realization of the distribution of subsidized fuel oil. The writing of this article aims to determine the effect of the performance...

The Healthy China strategy has made the concept of health increasingly popular and also promoted the progress of China’s insurance industry, especially the development of health insurance. However, the comprehensive development level of China’s commercial health insurance industry is still far behind...

At present, the world is greeting a “service economy era,” and China has given the emerging service industry an important strategic position and development significance. This paper selects the development of the modern logistics industry as the representative of the current emerging service industry,...

This study develops interactive electronic worksheets for students based on discovery learning and chemical representations of salt hydrolysis, and the relevance of describing teacher and student answers in relation to the developed electronic worksheets. The purpose was to Research and development by...

High use of energy in Indonesia becomes one of issues encouraging innovation to create energy that is easily obtained and can be renewable sources. In addition, the use of energy derived from fossils has a negative effect on the environment such as global warming. Biogas is an alternative energy used...

Electoral processes are always hectic. In the case of Puebla, Mexico in 2019 an extraordinary election was held after the governor elected in 2018 passed away a month after taking office. This article presents a case study where the negative political advertising used in the campaign of the elected candidate...

Film is a unique form of art because it can reflect human life through its character, story, and conflicts. Every human being has their own psychological condition that affects their personality. The psychological condition of a human being is very complex and shaped by the many life experiences they...

Maritime education textbooks are prepared by utilizing the natural surroundings and local wisdom found on the coast of West Nusa Tenggara. This textbooks also carries religious values and character values that can increase understanding in early childhood. This study aims to determine the teacher’s perception...

A method for representation of soil media and boundary conditions in a cross section of ground layers is presented. The method is based on algorithms used in computer graphics, called raster scan algorithms, RSA. The method may be applied to various soil mechanics solutions, especially slope stability...

In the academic and professional spheres of today, virtual teams have become a popular method of collaboration, necessitating an efficient evaluation of team performance in these digital contexts. This study examines the effective- ness of team-based learning in a sophisticated simulation game for virtual...

The objective of this study is to examine the effect of green promotion, green physical awareness, and environmental awareness on purchase decision at green coffee shop named Retrorika Coffee Bar and Resto Malang. The sample consisted of 160 respondents taken by applying purposive sampling technique....

Cybersecurity is getting more and more important in this big data era. Neural Network-based cryptosystem which is a complex system and deserve more research study for improvement. This article will discuss and analyse existing neural network-based cryptography performance and techniques. The in-depth...

The ability to estimate distance between people has been an important aspect in contact tracing especially in this Covid-19 pandemic. This is because, distance is one of the crucial element in determining whether a person is a close contact or not. In this context, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and...

The purpose of this study is to examine whether recommendation quality can predict customer loyalty, a) recommendation quality; b) perceived serendipity can predict decision satisfaction, decision satisfaction can predict customer loyalty, and decision satisfaction can mediate the prediction of a) recommendation...

Objectives: Sex differences for parameters of arterial wave reflection and arterial stiffness were reported from single office measurements, but circadian patterns were not extensively investigated up to now. The aim of this study was to determine sex differences between day and night values of ambulatory...

Objective: This study examines effects of high salt diet on arterial blood pressure and aortic function in rats. Methods: Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either high salt content chow or normal chow from weaning. Weight, tail-cuff systolic blood pressure (SBP), water and food intake, and urine output were...

Introduction: The PORT-VASPh Cohort was designed to contribute to a better understanding of vascular function in children and adolescents, mostly focusing PWV and other complementary aspects of arterial hemodynamics. Methods: The PORT-VASPh cohort is a prospective and observational study, with 953 children...

Background/Objectives: Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is a cofactor for nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Oxidative stress, reported in black populations (1), may lead to the oxidation of BH4, the uncoupling of eNOS, decreased NO and increased superoxide levels (2,3). We compared BH4 and markers of oxidative stress...

Background: SNPs on chromosome 9p21.3 risk locus have been associated with cardiovascular diseases. We have established a direct mechanistic link between 9p21 noncoding risk interval and susceptibility to aneurysm in a mouse model with a targeted deletion of the 9p21 noncoding cardiovascular disease...

Background: Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a non-atherosclerotic, non-inflammatory vascular disease involving medium-sized muscular arteries, whose pathophysiology is still unknown. Objectives: We aimed at identifying systemic vascular alterations in usually non-affected arteries of patients with...

Background: Hyperuricemia is common in patients with hypertension, diabetes and obesity. Whether it is an independent cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) or not remains controversial. Purpose: To determine the prognostic value of uricemia in the setting of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods: Retrospective...

Background: We tested the association between birthweight and arterial stiffness measured by aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) and cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) in a birth cohort of 30 year old Jamaicans. Methods: Participants were from the 1986 Jamaica Birth Cohort. Arterial stiffness was measured...

Obesity is associated with diabetes and an increased cardiovascular risk. Leptin-deficient mice (ob/ob) are used as model of metabolic disease: they are characterized by obesity and insulin-resistance. Aim of this work is to identify early cardiovascular alterations in young ob/ob mice using micro-ultrasound...

The blended learning method is used in the intermediate accounting subject in the Diploma program, Andalas University. The lecturer provides five videos and a PowerPoint to increase the student’s understanding of the subject. The teaching method used is Teaching Center Learning (TCL) and Student Center...

Background: Aortic root dilation and type A aortic dissection are the most common cardiovascular complications of Marfan syndrome (MFS). Current clinical management of MFS patients relies on a close follow-up of aortic root diameter and preventive aortic root surgery in case of severe or fast-progressing...

Background and objectives: It is widely accepted that regular physical exercise reduces the BP, particularly in hypertensive individuals. It is recommended in the prevention of hypertension to assist in BP control. The BP lowering mechanisms of exercise remain largely elusive, we therefore evaluated...

Background: Vascular stiffening is part of the ageing process. However, it is not clear which vascular stiffness parameters are closely associated with chronological age. Methods: Fifty-eight participants (38 men), age 69.57 ± 10.46 (mean ± SD, range = 47–90 years) who have had transient ischaemic attack...

We developed a playful biofeedback system using a wearable device and modular interactive tiles. In this approach we suppose that patients could regulate exercise intensity on their own through biofeedback. We propose biofeedback play system called “bioToys” based on exercise with the modular interactive...

Biorepositories collect biospecimens like blood and tissue from the patients along with associated clinical and pathological data. Medical research tends to require sharing of biospecimens and associated data at a large scale across multiple biorepositories. The objective of this review is to identify...

We study maintenance of a complex dynamic system consisting of ageing and unobservable components under a predetermined threshold reliability level. Our aim is to construct an optimum replacement policy for the components of the system by minimizing total number of replacements or total replacement cost....

We investigate Lie symmetries of Einstein's vacuum equations in N dimensions, with a cosmological term. For this purpose, we first write down the second prolongation of the symmetry generating vector fields, and compute its action on Einstein's equations. Instead of setting to zero the coefficients of...

This research aims to describe how modelling was implemented in learning writing poetry for international students. The teacher took several steps to increase students’ creativity in writing poetry, namely; 1) Prewriting/ modeling 2) Arrangement/ Brainstorming 3) Drafting/ Creating Poetry, and 4) Revising....