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Climate Change has become the greatest challenge of the 21st century threatening all aspects of society because it’s caused severe changes for people, natural ecosystems and economies around the world. Indonesia is one of the countries most at risk of climate change impact. Knowledge of climate change...

Mongolia is not only a landlocked country located between China and Russia, but also boasts the shortest route between Asia and Europe. The main bridge connecting any country is the axis of transport infrastructure, and the main economic activities such as tourism, foreign trade, exports and imports...

The development of the capital market cannot be separated from the needs and influence of investors. The capital market itself is based on three factors, namely income, liquidity, and investment security. Capital market regulators and stakeholders of the capital market industry must work together to...

A power system stabilizer (PSS) is a device that provides additional damping torque to the power system during the mitigation of oscillations caused by various sorts of disturbances. Bio-Inspired Optimization Algorithms are used to construct PSS on a Single Machine Infinite Bus (SMIB) system and two...

To what extent is the social structure fluid? Does higher education offer opportunities to move past it? It has always been a matter of contemporary sociological and political debate. The continuous and rapid technological changes that characterize modern capitalist economies require a highly specialized...

The fulfillment of food needs in urban areas will not be separated from the surrounding hinterland areas as a unit. Sometimes, the hinterland of an urban area is very extensive and not borderless in administrative areas. This study aims to analyze the potential ability of an urban area, namely the city...

Having Critical Global Literacy (CGL) competence has become increasingly important in this global and interconnected world, especially for foreign language learning students. This competence provides a critical understanding of national and international events so that a student will have broad thoughts...

This worksheet was designed as a part of the development of flipped classroom (FC) model to enhance students’ critical thinking skills in Introduction to Accounting course. The worksheet book was designed as an appropriate media for learning accounting cycle for students in Introduction to Accounting...

This paper proposed a system to survey candidate popularity for governor of Jakarta in 2017 from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Google Trends. While traditional surveys take days or weeks to complete, the system demonstrated results instantly and continuously. This paper aims to measure the...

The circular economy has become a hot issue to discuss in recent years with the improvement related to the environment. In this context, this article aims to develop mapping literature on the readiness to analyse SMEs in developing countries implementing a circular economy. According to the systematic...

The world of education has experienced complex phases of change, one of which is the learning revolution caused by various variables. The purpose of writing this article is to find out how art learning with Gordon Dryden’s learning revolution theory approach is the answer to the challenges of learning...

We evaluate the first three moments of central values of a family of quadratic Hecke L-functions in the Gaussian field with power saving error terms. In particular, we obtain asymptotic formulas for the first two moments with error terms of size O(X1/2+ε). We also study the first and second mollified...

Modern psychological research of servicemen covers a wide range of issues, from the analysis of professionally important qualities to the study of negative mental phenomena related to various areas of their service activities. A separate category of servicemen are cadets of military educational institutions,...

The existence of the coronavirus in the world today makes education evolve in all aspects. The Ministry of Education and Culture orders online learning as a solution for implementing learning at all levels of education. This paper is a part of a position paper that aims to explain the author’s arguments...

Objectives: To examine the relationship between arterial stiffness and diastolic function in healthy normotensive subjects. Methods: For this study, 43 male (40±10 years) and 64 female (40±9 years) subjects were recruited. All were lifelong non-smokers, normolipidaemic, normoglycaemic and had normal...

Objectives: We investigate associations between central hemodynamics and complications in type 1 diabetes. Methods: Cross-sectional study, 676 type 1 diabetes patients, mean±SD age 55±13, 375(56%) male. Central hemodynamics measured by pulse wave analyses (PWA) (SphygmoCor (Atcor Medical, Australia)...

Aim: Important prognostic significance of day-night brachial blood pressure (BP) decline for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has been established. It is little known about diurnal variations of arterial stiffness parameters – augmentation index (AI@75) and aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) as the...

Objective: There are sex differences in resting central pulse wave velocity (cPWV) but it is unclear if there are sex differences in the response to exercise. We evaluated potential sex differences of two measures of arterial stiffness and central pressures before and following maximal exercise. Methods:...

Wireless Sensors Networks (WSNs) are utilized in many diverse applications ranging from security, environmental monitoring, landslide detection, patient monitoring, reconnaissance operations, structural health monitoring and smart buildings. Since in many applications the WSN nodes are randomly deployed,...

For monitoring the early stage of crop growth in China, this paper presents a photosynthesis-based monitoring model for grain production. Not only the normalized difference vegetation index and elements such as the growing degree day are considered, the factors of sunshine and the cost of water resource...

Herein, we propose a method for recognizing human emotions that utilizes the standardized mean value of facial expression intensity obtained from a thermal image and the standardized mean value of the time at utterance. In this study, the emotions of one subject could be discerned with 76.5% accuracy...

Multimedia conferencing is increasingly becoming a very important and popular application over Internet. Due to the complexity of asynchronous communications and handle large and dynamically concurrent processes for multimedia conferencing, which confront relevant challenge to achieve sufficient correctness...

We study non-trivial deformations of the natural action of the Lie algebra Vect(Rn ) on the space of differential forms on Rn . We calculate abstractions for integrability of ifinitesimal multi-parameter deformations and determine the commutative associative algebra corresponding to the miniversal deformation...

Evaluation is a process that analyzes elements in order to achieve different objectives such as quality inspection, marketing and other fields in industrial companies. This paper focuses on sensory evaluation where the evaluated items are assessed by a panel of experts according to the knowledge acquired...

The term Soft Computing was coined by L.A. Zadeh in the early 90's. Since that time many researchers have tried to define it considering different approaches: main constituents, properties, abilities, etc. In addition, the term Computational Intelligence has also gained popularity having a somehow quite...

To support and facilitate online learning and evaluation activities in distance learning activities during this pandemic, relevant media are needed. Therefore educators must be ready to use educational and innovative learning media. Along with the rapid development of technology, many website-based applications...

Based on the characteristics of the post-epidemic era, this article sorts out the teaching experience during the epidemic and conducts online and offline blended teaching research and practice. It starts from the three aspects of students, teachers and classrooms, adjusts the role change of teachers...

Double negation and negative concord statements content negative markers and express exceptions or unusual occurrences. The purpose of this article is to investigate the process of interpretation for hearers to be able to interpret sentences into either negative concord or double negation sentences....

This study aims to examine the criteria of offering dance forms in topèng dhâlâng performance as an industrial commodity. The topèng dhâlâng is a traditional dance performing art with the genre of dance drama in the Sumenep Regency of Madura, East Java. A characteristic of topèng dhâlâng is as the offering...

With the rapid development of the Internet and digital technology, offline physical bookstores are gradually becoming the focus of attention. Traditional and old business models have become “time of the past”, new business models are being explored, and physical bookstores are facing a “painful period”...

The aim of the research is to formulate an instrument which is used to assess the quality of football school management using a development research approach. The development procedure determines the purpose of the instrument, compiling a theoretical framework, indicators of instrument/question items,...

In this paper, the question of whether it is necessary for countries to abolish minimum wage policy is discussed in depth. This paper carries out 3 sections of theoretical discussion: the economic theory of minimum wage diagram, the impact on the economy’s efficiency, and the impact on social quality....

During Covid-19 pandemic, two candidate pairs for the mayor of Surabaya were taking advantage of social media and cyberspace to conduct online campaign. TikTok and Instagram are two social media that were intensely used in their campaign. The campaign period happened from September until early December...

Soap is one type of surfactant made from natural oils or fats. The saponification procedure produces soap. Soap serves to emulsify dirt in the form of oil or other impurities. Many soaps sold in the market use synthetic additives as antioxidants that can interfere with skin health for those with sensitive...

Oral Squamous cell carcinoma cases tend to increase and account for more than 90% of all oral cancers. Among the standard treatments are surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or combination, however most patients with oral carcinoma, especially tongue carcinoma, are admitted to the hospital at an advanced...

The Covid-19 that has hit the world has caused problems in almost all aspects of life, including the world of education. The policy of social restrictions and the implementation of online learning at the beginning of the Covid period until now still triggers many problems in the learning process, both...

The isomorphism and interdisciplinarity of knowledge organization and terminography provide necessary prerequisites for interdisciplinary research in these two academic fields. Based on the literature synthesis, this article reviews the theoretical and applied research of knowledge organization in the...

Inclusive finance aims to provide universal, beneficial and fair financial services for poor areas, small and medium enterprises (SMES), low-income groups and other vulnerable groups. After the epidemic, financing difficulties of SMES are prominent and shows new features. In this paper, the application...

A special material, ULFR-ECC (Ultra-lightweight fire-resistive engineered cementitious composite), is introduced as a new kind of fire insulation. As a special member in the family of ECC (engineered cementitious composites), ULFR-ECC with a dry density of 566kg/m3 possesses the characteristics of strain...