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Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) is one of the most important theories in modern finance. As a simple, intuitive risk premium model, The CAPM was primarily developed to study the relationship between expected returns on assets and risk assets in the securities market. Scholars have conducted a lot...

People’s way of life has changed after the revolution, disruption and especially the pandemic. Social Media and Cyber Media become daily intake. The presence of these two new media has disrupted the previously existing media such as television, print media and others. The number of cyber media also continues...

Based on the simplified model of symmetrical three adjacent structures interconnected by Kelvin-modeled dampers, the influences of connecting parameters, i.e., stiffness and damping, on the structural seismic responses are investigated numerically. Taking the structural vibration energy as the optimization...

This study aims to produce a feasible, practical, and effective online mathematics learning tool for students at the University of Borneo Tarakan. This research is a development research using the 4-D development model developed by Thiagarajan, Semmel & Semmel which has been modified so that it contains...

This study aims to determine the implementation of Management Audit in all CV divisions. X and to report whether each management division has understood and performed its work in accordance with the SOP applicable to CV. Xand has done its work effectively, efficiently and economically and followed up...

This research objective is to identify the relationship between communicating with employees, upward and downward communication, communication problems and remote working. This study applied the Neo-institutional Theory as the main theory to be applied in this study in order to strengthen the relationships...

Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the best way to prepare ourselves for the future. Despite its growing interest, AI is still poorly understood in different domains. We need to understand AI so that we can regulate the risks of the technology and take better advantage of its benefits. It’s...

This paper aims to examine the determinants of capital structure based on the views of the trade-off theory and the pecking order theory. A hundred and three companies were observed 618 times, differentiated for companies using debt below and above 50% and applying multiple regression to find out the...

Fintech in Indonesia is growing very rapidly, this is also very interesting for researchers. This study looks at the effect of Fintech on the performance and risk of conventional banks in Indonesia. The proxy for fintech in this study is P2P lending and the adoption of fintech technology by banks. The...

Differentiated Instruction is one of choices in order to bridge the issues of students’ diversity that exist in English teaching which focuses on three main points, namely: content, process and products. The uniqueness of the students is always challenging to be involved in English classroom. The aim...

In the previous decade, biometrics referred to the automatic recognition of persons based on their physiological or behavioural traits but unimodal biometrics have their limitations. Due to its potential to overcome some of the inherent limitations of single biometric modalities while simultaneously...

Women's empowerment is a strategic issue that continues to develop in many countries around the world. How an effective empowerment model is developed and its implementation becomes a long and dynamic study. The research aims to explore the development of a women's empowerment model based on...

This study aims to determine and analyze the influence of good corporate governance on earnings management with tax planning as intervening variable. The number of samples studied were 8 companies from a total of 47 companies which were used as the study population. The sampling was done by using purposive...

The activities of urban farming are tenable for everyone as the technology of information expands. One of them is by utilizing social media to obtain information related to the development of urban farming, from selecting seeds to processing narrow land and various businesses to support agricultural...

By the end of year 2019, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged. Psychological distress among frontline nurses in response to COVID-19 pandemic was a serious health concern. This study aimed to assess the level of psychological distress among Jordanian nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. A cross-sectional...

This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of integrating a project focused on traditional natural pesticides into science learning and its impact on student performance. The investigation adopted a pre-experimental research design, utilizing a pretest-posttest non-control group approach. A total of...

Flocks of foreign nationals as top-level managers, high-skilled workers, and investors are encouraged to work at multinational companies and invest a great amount of money in some national strategic projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Indonesian government has responded to these situations, particularly...

Building and economic growth depend on cement production, which must adapt to changing customer tastes and improve the environment, socially, and economically. This study examines how Customer Relationship Management (CRM) helps India cement companies succeed long-term. This study will examine current...

Investment is the investment of resources or capital that is expected to generate profits in the future. Sophisticated sharia fintech, easy to use, and in accordance with Islamic sharia is the right choice for Muslim investors. This study is intended to analyze the effect of attitudes, subjective norms,...

The problem of remote teaching of technical university students of conventional specialities a foreign language is considered. Confident proficiency in a foreign language is one of the conditions for obtaining a promising job in the future. The article compares the productivity of remote learning technologies...

The active growth of the world’s population has led to the emergence and aggravation of the issues of human-nature interaction. Resulting from more than thirty year long discussions at different levels, the term sustainable development had been introduced by the international scientific community, and...

In the post-pandemic era, whether the global economy will recover in a U-shape, a V-shape, a K-shaped, or a L-shaped is still undecided. The economy of people livelihood has the most direct impact on the people and fitness industry has related to the mental and physical health of them. If it can attract...

Objective: The Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) enzyme is involved in degrading extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, including collagen and elastin. Increased MMP-9 levels are associated with increased vascular remodelling and arterial stiffness. Exercise improves age-related vascular stiffening. It...

Hypertension is a contributing factor to pathophysiology of vascular damage and accelerated arterial stiffening. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors are widely used for treatment of persistent hypertension. Along with conventional antihypertensive therapy, nutritional intervention...

Objective: Aortic stiffness evaluation is recommended in standard care as hypertension target organ damage. The main determinants of aortic stiffness are age and blood pressure. We aimed to evaluate the impact of short-term extracellular volume changes induced by dietetic and pharmacological interventions...

Objectives: Arterial elasticity is determined by passive mechanical properties of wall components modulated by neurogenic effects on smooth muscle. We assessed denervation effects on viscoelastic properties of the aorta of Lewis Polycystic Kidney (LPK) disease rats, compared to controls (Lewis). Methods:...

Mobile infrastructure technological development in the last decade leads to novel mobile commerce based advertisement addressing the businesses and end-consumers. Although location-based services developed rapidly in recent years, the reasons why we proposed a new system were lack of an intelligent location-based...

In our research, we develop the robot to combine with the consciousness and behavior which is the conscious and behavior robot (CONBE). In this paper we present the basis system in the CONBE robot that consist of the two main sections as the face recognition and robot gaze tracking. This system uses...

Nowadays less and less people are willing to do hard works. Which makes that the controller based on human skill is needed. Cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC) is a kind of neural networks (NNs) that can easily solve problems of nonlinear system. Compared with other NNs the advantage of CMAC...

An automated wood species recognition system is designed to perform wood inspection at custom checkpoints in order to avoid illegal logging. The system that includes image acquisition, feature extraction and classification is able to classify the 52 wood species. There are 100 images taken from the each...

Orthogonal separability of finite-dimensional Hamiltonians is characterized by using various geometrical concepts, including Killing tensors, moving frames, the Nijehuis tensor, bi-Hamiltonian and quasi-bi-Hamiltonian representations. In addition, a complete classification of separable metrics defined...

In this paper we give a method to obtain Darboux transformations (DTs) of integrable equations. As an example we give a DT of the dispersive water wave equation. Using the Miura map, we also obtain the DT of the Jaulent-Miodek equation.

We present a geometric version of the Lie algebra 2-cocycle connected to quasi- geostrophic motion in the beta-plane approximation. We write down an Euler equation for the fluid velocity, corresponding to the evolution equation for the stream function in quasigeostrophic motion.

We study the dynamics of a network consisting of N diffusively coupled, stable-limit-cycle oscillators on which individual frequencies are parametrized by ωk , k = 1, . . . , N. We introduce a learning rule which influences the ωk by driving the system towards a consensual oscillatory state in which...

This paper studies the features and trends of evolution of College English curricula based on Cooper’s accounting scheme. By examining the formulation processes and implementation effects of altogether six College English curricula from historical and comparative perspectives, it is found that the actors...

Metamodernism defines the structure of the feeling of the contemporary epoch characterized by an appeal to all past cultures in order to find the sources of the new. The phenomenon of memory has become again relevant and in demand in architecture discipline. The desire for constant innovation in modernism...

With the development of culture and technology, digital media platforms have a strikingly effect on journalism. This article analyses the achievements of journalism and communication in digital world ranging from the horizontal application of digital technology in economic development to social stability...

Creative industries are a national strategic commodity to support international marketing. For this reason, modeling creative industry objects are essential for resulting in various shapes and features of the goods. This paper presents to develop learning content in modeling creative goods supported...

Public service advertising makes people aware and organizes their positions to dissolve problems. Conventional implicature is a literal definition, for example, expressed by structural elements of a sentence. Implicature of conversation is pragmatic implications taken through the principle of conversation....

This study describes the making of flute learning multimedia in Vocational of Education. Because during this Covid-19 period, students are required to study remotely (at home). Therefore, so that practicum learning materials can still be conveyed and reached by students, educators create flute applications...

The amount of product support determines the availability and readiness of heavy equipment. Product support as after-sales service is essential for customers to ensure that the heavy equipment purchased is always ready to use and generates optimal output. Leadtime and mechanic speed in resolving equipment...

One of the efforts to increase rice production is using marginal land, such as saline soil. The advantages of Inpari Unsoed 79 Agritan seeds are tolerance of saline soil, leafhoppers, and high productivity. This study aims to: Analyze the comparative advantage of Inpari Unsoed 79 Agritan on saline soil,...

In this work, the distilled biodiesel of waste cooking acids methyl esters (WCME) was blended with petroleum diesel as testing fuels (D100/DB2/DB5/DB20/DB100). The tribological performance of the biodiesel was evaluated using a reciprocating cylinder-on-flat wear test rig (Cameron-Plint TE-77) at various...