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In this digital information age, more and more people are over-dependent on electronic communication, such as e-mail, voice mail audio-conferencing and video-conferencing. Simultaneously another challenge to many people has emerged with the question: how does it happen that people with high IQ (intelligence...

Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a major problem in Indonesia. In 2016, Incidence Rate (IR) = 77.96/100.000; Case Fatality Rate (CFR) = 0.79%. Semarang City, the Capital of Central Java Province, is an endemic area of DHF. Gunungpati is a subdistrict that has a high incidence of DHF. Some health workers...

The 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly stated the tasks and objectives of cultivating high-quality talents in higher education institutions. The science and engineering colleges have been focusing on cultivating students' science and engineering expertise and skills, ignoring...

This research presents a description of a technology-based English learning in an Indonesian context project completed by rural high school students. It employed a descriptive qualitative research method in a class consisting of 35 students. The data were collected from videotaped observations, interviews...

The search for new approach to organizing educational process at school, choosing forms of education, allowing to form a creative personality interested in continuous self-education and eventually interested in conscious choice of engineering qualifications (including Bauman Moscow State Technical University)...

This research analyzes the Indonesia Financial Service Authority (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan-OJK)’s best practices on assurance function to assure good corporate governance inside the institution. OJK introduces a new approach called 'combined assurance' to achieve this objective, which integrated all the...

With the emergence of “nation-state” and the advancement of world history, “nation-state” is the inevitable stage in the development of human society, and the construction of “nation-state” and “nation” has become a realistic choice. Going through the evolution process from “freedom” to “consciousness”,...

Information technology has changed almost all fields of our social life and this means the arrival of information era. The development of the information technology in education brings a profound revolution to the traditional teaching mode and foster the reform of college English education. However,...

The rising risks of climate change and Indonesia’s dynamic urban and industrial development has meant that many areas have become vulnerable to flood. Historical data from 1811 to 2017 clearly shows how floods have causing major disasters across Indonesia’s archipelago, and data from 1990 indicate that...

Transparency and accountability in the process of budget policy-making are two of the necessary principles which are conducted through the transparent presentation of information which is accessible to the public. The reason is that every use of funds must be accountable for its utilization of the resources...

Heat pump and thermal storage sizing studies require modelling to ensure capital and operational costs are minimised. Modelling should consider added flexibility, e.g. grid services, sector coupling benefits, e.g. utilising excess wind production, and access to electricity markets, e.g. time-of-use tariffs....

The article presents the results of the research aimed at Medication Administration improving for pregnant woman with acute respiratory viral. During this social research a medical and social portrait of woman with acute respiratory viral was developed, the analysis of satisfaction and preferences in...

At present, with the development of economy, higher requirements have been put forward for maintaining social stability. Criminal activities that endanger social stability must be cracked down at the embryonic stage, and there is no room for criminals to develop, so as to ensure social stability and...

Increasing number of visitors to Parangtritis Beach affect to increases the health and safety risk. Data of Tourism and Cultural Office Bantul Regency, more than 30 tourists are victims due to rip current and 220 tourist stung by Jellyfish in 2019. This study aimed to : 1) identify potential hazards,...

Background: Recent studies proposed that deceleration in pulse wave velocity (PWV) following reactive hyperaemia might reflect arterial distensibility and endothelial function. We therefore investigated methodological aspects and clinical determinants of new indexes of flow-mediated slowing (FMS) of...

Catecholamines are organic compounds derived from amino acids tyrosine and phenylalanine, which acts as neurotransmitters and also functions as hormones in the blood circulation. They bind to plasma proteins and circulate in the blood stream. High levels of catecholamines will cause increase in the heart...

Background: Maximum aerobic capacity (VO2max) is associated with lower cardiovascular and total mortality. Step tests can be used to provide an estimate of (VO2max) in epidemiological or home-based studies. We compared different methods of estimation of VO2max and heart rate recovery and evaluated the...

As complete learning, discussion in blended learning also requires an evaluation for students’ higher-order thinking skills to find out how the concept works out. Further, discussions in the blended learning environment combine face to face and online learning. The purpose of this study is to evaluate...

Hydroxyapatite (HA) has been widely used as bone graft in form of porous HA/scaffold. This research has a purpose to fabricate HA scaffold by using different biotemplates and determine which biotemplate will give well pore structure on produced HA scaffold. First, HA scaffold obtained used bamboo template....

Internal medicine covers a wide range of care types and is closely related to a variety of basic and clinical disciplines. The teaching of diagnostics should be deepened in internal medicine internship, and skill trainings should be carried out through clinical practices. By doing so, it will be made...

School evaluation is an important part of quality education. In essence, evaluation is a feedback for the evaluated individual on the quality of their performance, results and efficiency of their performed work, but it also contributes to the development of the personality of the pupil and their self-evaluation...

This paper proposes a framed-based extended MIDI-pitch detection algorithm based on variable sampling technology. Symbols P--, P-, P+ and P++ are used to present four different logarithmic frequencies around the MIDI pitch P (integer) within 100 cents interval and called as extended MIDI-pitch to enhance...

This is a class action research that aims to improve students' critical and creative thinking skills through the application of problem-based learning model on fourth-grade students of SDN Gayungan I / 422 Surabaya. This study was conducted during two learning cycles. The subjects of the study were the...

The purpose of present teaching reform was to enhance the innovation and entrepreneurial ability of college students. We took the concept of innovation and entrepreneurship education and of the OBE education model throughout the electronic technology practice process. We introduced new practice contents,...

This paper investigates storage stability (165-day period) of whole oat flour obtained by hydrothermal treatment and stored at 40 degrees Celsius in cloth bags and flour mixture containing 66.7 percent of whole oat flour obtained by hydrothermal treatment, 13.3 percent of fenugreek seed powder, 6 percent...

The purpose of this study is to develop e-module learning media with inquiry based website in the subject of gasoline motor technology of automotive education program at Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo. The subjects of the study were the second semester students of Automotive Education, Universitas...

The intention of the present study was to see the improvement of students’ mathematical connections skills. Improving mathematical connections capabilities by developing Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) based learning tools. This research is a research development (research and development), the...

Public transportation is one of the transportation media which is frequently used as an alternative if people don't bring or don't have the private vehicle. Nowadays, people in Padang city are frequently used "angkot" and "go-jek". The existence of these two transport gets the different response. The...

The article substantiates the need to take into account the features of the segment of people with disabilities in the development of marketing policy of commercial banks and identified barriers to banking services in this segment. The role of the Bank of Russia in the creation of high-quality service...

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are biologically-inspired variants of Multiple Layer Perceptron (MLPs). Meanwhile, support vector machines (SVMs) are supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data used for classification and regression analysis. In some research...

In this paper, Linear Footloose Capital Model (LFC Model) is used to explain the spatial agglomeration principle of real estate investment, and regional return on capital determines the direction of real estate investment, while the rate of return on capital is influenced by combined action of both market...

Higher order thinking skills need to be owned by someone who lives in the 21st century, to deal with the constantly changing environment and complex challenges. Aspects of thinking skills are also needed to determine moral actions in the sphere of character. Such thinking skills include critical and...

The research aims at describing how Gurindam Dua Belas (G12) is used as a learning resource in Islamic Education. G12 is a documenttype literary work derived from the local wisdom of Riau Islands’ Malay. In Islamic Education classrooms, the use of G12 benefits the students because of its great rhythms,...

The purpose of this article is to provide a legal analysis of marine aggregate extraction in Indonesia from the perspective of maritime security. Maritime security threats cover various illegal activities over the ocean. Current marine aggregate extraction in Indonesia has contributed to a new threat...

In this article authors prove the relevance of using information technologies to teaching as a whole, and to teaching Life Safety as a curriculum subject in particular. In the process of education, upbringing and development of the modern generation in the information environment, it is necessary to...

Practice training is an important part of the training program for engineering professionals in local agricultural universities. The monitoring and evaluation of teaching quality is very important. On the basis of a correct understanding of the basic problems of quality evaluation in the practical training...

Dibenzothiophene and its derivatives are components of high-sulfur crude oil, and these sulfides would reduce the oil quality and increase sulfur dioxide emissions when burned, which will decline environmental quality. Compared with the traditional desulfurization method, biodesulfurization has many...

In the era of "Internet plus", the media matrix is formed gradually, which for higher vocational colleges to carry out the education of ancient Chinese learning has brought opportunities and challenges. Based on the investigation of five vocational colleges in Dalian, this paper used the methods of questionnaire...

The ore transportation system of strip mines is a representative discrete-event sys-tem, so the data concerning facilities and resource are collected and extracted to obtain their statistical probability by Expertfit; Based on Flexsim, Then 3D model is developed, incarnating the relationship among transport,...

Currently, the multimedia language lab listening teaching gradually replace the traditional listening teaching in college English listening teaching. In this text, we point out the problems existing in the traditional listening teaching, analyze the advantage and defect of multimedia teaching, and put...

Divergent characteristics of subjects require different strategies of teaching and learning. Learning skill subjects such as listening, speaking, reading, and writing requires the learners to do more practical activities because the objective is to acquire language ability, whereas that of content subjects...

Chinese herbal medicine is a treasure of historical and cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, also is an important carrier of the development of Chinese medicine culture communication, and the cornerstone of the development of medical and health in China. The protection and development of Chinese...

Teaching evaluation plays an important role in college teaching activity, and how to ensure high teaching quality while the teaching scale is expanding gradually is a core issue in independent colleges. This paper presents an intelligent optimization model based on PSO algorithm for the scale of enrollment...

Parent's creativity very necessary to support early-childhood development. This study aimed to determine the level creativity of early-childhood parents through mastery content services in counseling. Subject in this study involved 13 Early-Childhood Parents at BKB PAUD Al-Fath. Data analysis used a...

Weighing technology is closely connected with people's life. A wide-range low-cost high precision portable piezoelectric weighing sensor system were designed for the wide weighing scale range applications based on improved resistance strain gauges Wheatstone bridge. Sensing unit, processing circuit,...

This study was undertaken to investigate the impact of several shooting distances of cal.177 (4,5 mm) air rifle toward the anatomical pathology changes of gunshot wound (ballistic wound). This observational study, used two domestic dogs (Non SPF) obtained from a local dog breeder. The shooting distance...

A flow stress calculation model considering the interval softening was established based on the the single- and double-hit true stress-strain curves of IN718 alloy for multiple-pass hot continuous rolling process. The data calculated by the single-hit flow stress model and the double-hit softening fraction...

In order to promote the development of real estate in Zhanjiang City, this essay uses the method of econometrics to establish the regression model with the related indicators of real estate development in Zhanjiang from 2000 to 2013 as the econometric analysis. The results show that the total real estate...

The identification of stone inscriptions is of great significance to the study of Chinese characters and the exploration of ancient history. Characters are the symbol of civilization. The identification and analysis of the stone inscriptions can determine the age when they belong, and can help to study...

We compare the use of artificial neural networks and Gaussian processes for forecasting. We show that Artificial Neural Networks have the advantage of being utilisable with greater volumes of data but Gaussian processes can more easily be utilised to deal with non-stationarity.