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This study aims to identify a financial distress condition for insurance companies using existing methods such as the Altman Z-score and Ohlson O-score and also approach a new discriminant model using the data from 2017 to 2021. In order to improve the quality of estimation and forecasting of the financial...

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and data processing technology, products and personalized services based on artificial intelligence have been widely used in different industries. With the accelerated aging of the social population, the current issue of elderly care has become an...

Strengthening the cost management of power grid projects is an important way to improve the efficiency of project management and the level of business efficiency of enterprises. Based on the maturity related theories, this paper constructs a fuzzy theory-based power grid engineering cost management maturity...

A survey of 209 Women entrepreneurs was used in this study to examine how sustainability factors affect women business owners’ interest in and capacity in the rural Karnataka districts of Ramanagara and Kolar. They were looking into how microenterprises helped other businesses maintain long-term viability...

In recent years, the state has been actively promoting the concept of energy saving, green and sustainable development. In this paper, according to the characteristics of two kinds of industrial waste slag, silicon powder and fly ash, and the agricultural by-product of rice husk powder, the uniform design...

In motorbike companies in Serang Raya, this study looks at the relationship between feedback-seeking behavior and sales-oriented behavior as a predictor of the relationship between sales ability and sales performance. It also looks at this relationship as a necessary quality that a salesperson must possess...

Eddy current non destructive test (ECT) were used for decades to assess magnetic conductive materials considering its reliability and its portability. The success of the ECT process mainly depends on the performance of the ECT’s probe. The performance of the probe can be evaluated by applying frequency...

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the economic and health sectors and many obstacles in resolving industrial relations conflicts. One of the ways to resolve the conflict between employers and employees are through the action of mediation. This research aimed to know the role of mediators in resolving...

Introduction: There are known issues and ongoing discussions regarding calibration methods using peripheral mean and diastolic or peripheral systolic and diastolic pressure for the determination of central systolic blood pressure. The aim of this cross-sectional study is an analysis of determinants for...

The study investigated test taker characteristics and ICT variables as predictors of academic achievement in computer-based test. To direct the study, five research questions and five null hypotheses were developed. The study used a multiple prediction design within a correlational research design. All...

This study aims to determine the effect of Electronic Word of Mouth on Twitter social media on purchasing decisions for Emina cosmetic products. Variable X used is Electronic Word of Mouth and variable Y used is purchasing decision. This research uses explanatory survey research using a quantitative...

This paper presents current viewpoints on the socio-cultural factors contributing to the lack of human behaviour change necessary to combat the global environmental challenges of the climate crisis. The focus of the paper is on how we can develop embodied agency to better understand the more-than-human...

The purpose of this research was to describe the intrinsic elements contained in Gelong Sangpulo Dua. This study applies a qualitative descriptive method. The data in this study are the intrinsic elements of Gelong Tallang, Gelong Tabang, Gelong Tondok, and Gelong Tedong, while the data source is the...

Introduction: Nitroglycerin (NTG) has a particularly marked action to reduce augmentation pressure (cAP), attributed to a reduction in timing or amplitude of pressure wave reflection. However, a recent study suggests that cAP is determined in large part by ventricular contraction/relaxation dynamics....

Background: The cost of conventional advertising to recruit participants for clinical trials is expensive and can be ineffective. Social media may be a useful tool to improve participant recruitment. This study evaluated the use of Facebook advertising to recruit participants into a clinical trial. Methods:...

In todays advanced technology environment, we come across a number of research areas that require extensive data processing. These areas include but not limited to, modeling and simulation of accuracy, safety and reliability of nuclear weapons, global warming, weather forecasting, DNA computing, nanotechnology,...

Internet of things (IoT) will create new opportunities to build applications that better integrate real-time state of the industry. With Web services accomplishing similar function proliferated, industrial enterprises have to choose appropriate Web services according Quality of Service (QoS) properties....

In this study, the synchronized response in the chaotic cellular neural network for a grayscale visual stimulus was investigated in the viewpoint of neural coding. Simple gradation patterns were used as visual stimuli and the synchronized response was analyzed by the correlation of the spike firing times....

In this paper an efficient estimation procedure to estimate the current population mean in two-occasion successive sampling has been developed. An exponential regression type estimator of current population mean is proposed and corresponding optimum replacement strategy has been suggested. The superiority...

We give a hierarchy of many-parameter families of maps of the interval [0, 1] with an invariant measure and using the measure, we calculate Kolmogorov­Sinai entropy of these maps analytically. In contrary to the usual one-dimensional maps these maps do not possess period doubling or period-n-tupling...

This study aims to determine the concentration of Benzyl Amino Purine (BAP) and the exact origin of scion shoots to optimize the growth of durian (Durio zibethinus Murr) grafting seedlings. This study was arranged in a completely randomized design (CRD) consisting of two factors with four replications....

This study aims to decide the strengthening of digital literacy in developing technology-wise attitudes through Civics. In the rapid development of technology, it requires people to understand the rules that govern the order in technology, such as social media. The technology literate generation must...

Under the environment of implementation the strategy of rural vitalization, how to cultivate the design talents in the more practicing and effective way to serve rural vitalization for the economic and cultural development of the whole society has become the major task of design education reform and...

The increase in population has resulted in the city of Jakarta being hit by a waste problem which continues to increase every day. A waste bank is a solution to reduce the existing waste problem, because a waste bank is an environmentally friendly waste management that is carried out by recycling waste...

Internet is a necessity for most Indonesian people. People who live in rural areas often face problems or difficulties accessing information via the Internet. Their problems are commonly poor connectivity from Internet Service Providers (ISP), such as network breaks and slowdowns. To solve the problems,...

Poverty not only means limited material resources, but also has a significant impact on human being’s psychological aspects. According to previous studies, poverty had a negative impact on people’s decisions. However, it has been neglected that more complex impact can happen when the poor are making...

This paper aims to study the DC-link faults and recovery scenarios based on a 12-pulse HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) link system. DC-link to ground fault is considered as one of the most serious fault that can occur on HVDC-link. Therefore, in order to understand the system behavior in the presence...

An edge magic total (EMT) labeling of a graph G = (V, E) is a bijection from the set of vertices and edges to a set of numbers defined by λ: V ∪ E → {1,2, …, |V| + |E|} with the property that for every xy ∈ E, the weight of xy equals to a constant k, that is, λ(x) + λ(y) + λ(xy) = k for some integer...

Concrete is a split mixture, sand, cement, water, and additives. The concrete to be designed is made of a mixture of cement with bottom ash + sawdust, split, sand, and water. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using bottom ash + sawdust and the ratio between bottom ash + sawdust...

Hyperactive children with concentration barriers have less attention and less concentration with activities or lessons that children are doing. This study aims to determine the effect of the electric maze educational game on the concentration of hyperactive children. This study uses a quantitative research...

Few studies have established a link between ‘motion’, ‘nihilism’, and the ‘new machine’, although nihilism is a typical psychological feature in postmodern texts and the alienation of the new machine is a factor that cannot be ignored. This essay analyses the nihilistic tendencies of the characters and...

The provision of simple housing for low-income Indonesians has been a concern of the Indonesian government as a provider of simple housing for many years. This can be influenced by the pattern of behavior of the Indonesian people in the life cycle of a person and family. Housing Careers is one of the...

The objective of this research is to analyze the effect of risk perception, problem framing, risk propensity, and information asymmetry to the investment decision in capital market. Data used in this research is the primary data collected from 55 respondent beginner investor in West Sumatera. Technique...

Practice teaching is an important teaching link in NCO academies, it is directly related to the implementation of personnel training objectives. Academy Sergeant construction to perfect the practical teaching system to improve the Cadet element can meet the demands of army development is of great practical...

Linear diffraction grating interferometer measures displacement via two orthogonal signals generated from the optical outputs of fringes. Due to noises and regulation errors, two signals are not perfect. This paper presents a precision measurement method of displacement for given two non-orthogonal signals....

The research design used was both qualitative and quantitative. The sample size determined was 450; these included undergraduates, graduates, and newly employed personnel who had a brand sense. Simple random technique was used in the administering of the questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics...

Objective: To study the genetic problems of powdery mildew resistance gene in tobacco. Method: after tobacco powdery mildew resistant variety and susceptible variety provided by a greenhouse during May 2015~ May 2016 were selected as the research object, to build a genetic model, genetic laws of resistance...

This paper presents how data mining can be applied to RFID proximity tracking data captured in a production setting. The WINEPI algorithm is explained and used for mining sequential patterns from transaction data produced by portable RF transceivers that can be attached, for example, to the personnel...

With the development of diversified communication services in smart grid, user demand and communication capacity have increased constantly, which imposes severe challenges on electric power telecommunication. Especially, the Metro Access Network (MAN) needs to aggregate and exchange a wider variety of...

This paper presents two kinds fully differential operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) circuit, one is a flipped voltage follower circuit structure (OTA1), the other is a source follow circuit structure (OTA2). The two OTAs' transconductance can all be accurately set by the control voltage. Two...

Introducing stone cutting machine in short, and conducting an analysis through a decomposition and dismantlement of a product labeled Mod.4110B. Then come up with an eventual and ultimate modification concentrated on the additional shell, independent handle grip, more comfortable auxiliary grip, less...

Remanufacturing technology is an emerging technology, which is widely used in industrial field, since it prevents the recast of waste and outdated components through remanufacturing them again and guarantees that the quality of remanufacted components is not lower or even higher than new products. By...

curriculum directly affects teaching results. Currently, since the applied graduates fail to adapt to the working life quickly, this paper firstly proposes the concept of “converse and dynamic curriculum design”, which means design the teaching goals based on the job requirements and in turn, determining...

Data reconciliation consists in modifying noisy or unreliable data in order to satisfy a mathematical model (herein a material flow network). The conventional approach relies on least squares minimization. Here we show that the setting of fuzzy sets provides a generalized approach that is more flexible...

In this article, a delay dependent memory robust model predictive control (RMPC) algorithm was proposed for uncertain polytopic state delay systems with input constraints. The state delay is time-varying with an upper and lower bound. We minimize a cost function by minimizing its upper bound for the...

In this paper, we apply the method of "invariant eigen-operator" to study the Hamiltonian of several different qubit-environment models. We find the invari-ant eigen-operator in terms of these models, which directly leads to the ener-gy-level gap for total system.

Tibetan belongs to the main branch of Tibetan branch of the sino-tibetan language family .In China,Tibetan can be divided into Weizang Kang and Amdo dialect branch. Xiahe dialect, which belongs to Tibetan Amdo dialect, is a typical language without tones. In its phoneme system,there exists consonant...

The fluctuation of foreign exchange rate has a fatal influence on one country’s domestic economy, foreign trade, and the relations between international economies. In this paper, I prove the Pass-through Model of Tange(1997) and propose a group of criterions of national economic security including the...

Since the surge of the outbound direct investment (ODI) of the emerging economies, the limitations of the traditional Ownership-Location-Internalization (OLI) paradigm of foreign direct investment were exposed. The main puzzle is how to interpret emerging economy ODI when the fundamental buildingblock...

Research reactors are important neutron sources for research and radioisotope production purposes. The common problem of these facilities is their obsolete instrumentation and control (I&C) systems. The spare parts are not still available as their production is discontinued; therefore, the maintenance...