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Donald A. McDonald (1917–1973) was a pioneer in hemodynamics. He was Oxford educated and served on the faculty of Universities in both Great Britain and the USA. The problems that were the main theme of his text Blood Flow in Arteries published in 1960 were those concerned with pulsatile blood flow and...

This study aims to determine the effect of instrumental social support and self-efficacy on the performance of employees with disabilities. Respondents in this study were employees with disabilities who worked in Batam. The data used in this study are primary data in the form of data obtained through...

Economic growth cannot be achieved without adequate strategy implemented through projects. Consequently, growth depends on the success of selected and executed projects. On the other hand, project managers, project team members, and other key personnel involved in project substantially influence overall...

Institutional trade barriers constitute substantial constraints for a number of exporters and importers. These barriers are multidimensional and they impede trade flows and trade performance of many developing countries, including African countries. In particular, the International Trade Centre through...

Every language learners are necessary to master four language skills, such as listening, speaking, and reading. This study focus on writing skill. Writing skill in Higher Education is given in the early semester of lectures, with the hope that learners will soon master writing and eventually will be...

Integrity is the quality of honesty and moral principles in a person that is carried out consistently in his life as a whole. Integrity is the personality of someone who acts consistently and intact, both in words and deeds, following values and code of ethics. Efforts to strengthen the dedication and...

In general, this study aims to improve the ability of prospective elementary school teachers to make science teaching materials based on ICT literacy based on ICT media. Specifically, to develop the ability of prospective elementary school teachers to make teaching materials based on scientific literacy....

This research aims to examine the effectiveness of scaffolding methods on the daily prayer ability of mentally retarded student of the Muhammadiyah extraordinary high school. Which means is the scaffolding method can increase daily prayer ability of mentally retarded student. The research approach used...

In a smaller scope, government policies are also inseparable from the protests and demands of society. The example case in the North Sulawesi region is the Government's policy to do the reclamation of coastal beaches in the region of Manado for the construction business area such as mall and another...

This paper proposes an approach to improve the diffusion coefficient of the geospatial information diffusion model. The diffusion coefficient calculated by the average distance formula is appropriately amplified to become the initial diffusion coefficient. Employing a search method, we take two test...

This study aims to determine the effect of the use of E-learning on the competence of doing work using a lathe on students of Mechanical Engineering Education UNNES. The type of E-learning used is Google Classroom which is a product of Google for Education. In addition to knowing the effect on student...

Controversy persists regarding the presence and significance of blood pressure “J-curves” of increased cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk as they relate to older people with isolated systolic hypertension (ISH). Age is an important effect modifier favoring diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in young adults,...

Objectives: To evaluate factors influencing resistive index (RI) and intima-media thickness of common carotid artery (IMT-CCA) as indices of arterial atherosclerosis in hypertensive patients. Methods: 56 treated hypertensive outpatients (mean age 68.9 ± 9.7 years; 31 diabetics) were examined. Fasting...

In the development of human society, the Industrial Revolution has become an important turning point in history, a key factor to stimulate economic development, but also changed the world pattern and human life style. Now the age of Information Revolution based on intelligence has arrived. In this critical...

Emotion analysis from text is a topic of growing interest over recent years. It is because of the growth and availability of internet. The emotion analysis from text and the strength of the emotions in text plays an important role in understanding and predicting the future events. In this paper, we are...

Since the emergence of rabies cases in human in 2008, there have been 174 humans affected by the disease in Bali. Eradication program implementing dog vaccination has seemed to decrease the incidence of rabies cases in human, however the human cases were still found. A lot of resources from local and...

In recent years, the Big Data Innovation Alliance has received widespread attention and rapid development, but its effective organizational model remains to be further revealed. From the perspective of industrial clusters, the Big Data Innovation Alliance can be seen as an industrial agglomeration phenomenon....

Coral reefs are one of the compilers of ecologically and economically important tropical marine ecosystems, but are very vulnerable to damage. Declining sea water quality due to climate change, coastal land use, and inaccurate coastal management patterns can threaten its sustainability. This study aims...

This article aims to provide a critical picture of the great design of character education in Kendari. The aspects that are explored: 1) the vision of character education based on Islamic religious values; 2) mission of character education based on Islamic religious values; 3) character education programs...

This paper discusses the Special Education Teachers’ understanding on the implementation of the Career Transition Program. Sixty-four Special Education Teachers of six Special Education Integrated Programme (SEIP) in Johor, Malaysia were selected using the cluster sampling method. This study used a quantitative...

This research aims to utilize nanogold and nanosilver to treat herpes disease which suddenly appeared in one of the Islamic cottage schools. How this happened is not a study this time. Nanogold has activity to increase cell proliferation and collagen biosynthesis. Nanogold also has antioxidant activity....

This study aims to explore the tourism potential of Denpasar City, especially historical tourism by using the “Zero Point” of Denpasar City. The research method is descriptive qualitative by conducting interviews at Denpasar City Tourism Office and observations directly to the site. The results of the...

The study of vascular adaptation to extreme conditions, and in particular to hypoxia, represents a unique opportunity in cardiovascular physiology, with relevant translational implications. First, it has crucial clinical consequences for about 140 million people worldwide living at high altitude and...

With the development of “Internet +”, the traditional construction industry, relying on Internet technology, has achieved the connection between the network and the industry. The development of “Internet +” has brought about a new round of revolution in informatization and visualization, and has also...

Early childhood education teachers play a very important role in achieving the objectives of sustainable development based program at school. However, many obstacles faced by teachers when implementing a new program including this sustainable based education program. Therefore, a support system is needed...

The focus of this research is to provide an explanation of how the digital workplace can help to promote gender equality in the organization. We conduct interviews with 4 managers and 8 selected woman on different organization regarding expected condition at the workplace. In the Organization perspective,...

The pluralism or monism of economic reality seldom becomes subject of a philosophical reflection. Meanwhile, world crisis of 2008–2009 and correction of mistakes after it made problems of an economic mainstream obvious. Not only the methods applied by the dominating economic theory but also its ontological...

The article analyzes resilience of future railway engineers. At the stage of vocational training, the analysis of developmental characteristics of students and their basic components is of particular importance, since resilience is one of the important factors for ensuring psychophysiological safety....

The purpose of this study is to design and implement a village website. This research conducted used the waterfall method and data collection techniques in the form of interviews, observation, and literature. To facilitate the construction of a website, this study developes a village website using Content...

This study aims to determine the differences in HOTS-based learning models for learning outcomes of vocational learning design, differences in the ability to think creatively towards learning outcomes in vocational learning design; and the interaction between HOTS-based learning models with multimedia...

This study aims to explain how Japanese entrepreneurs achieve success and replicable benefits in entrepreneurial activities. Data for this study was gathered through observations on articles and books. This study used a qualitative method. As a nation that experienced a war defeat, Japan has similarities...

In this paper, cellular neural networks (CNNs) with neutral type delays and time-varying leakage delays are investigated. By applying the existence of the exponential dichotomy of linear dynamic equations on time scales, a fixed point theorem and the theory of calculus on time scales, a set of sufficient...

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of technology-related factors of the urban environment on population and to establish long-time tasks for business in order to improve the ecological situation. We used the materials from the Federal Budgetary Health Institution “Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology...

Leadership, either social, economic, or academic, is distinguished by the multi-dimensional facet. The whole idea is to pursue innovative and novel ideas, search for extraordinary approaches, as well as not being afraid to face the difficulties. In addition, in every field of science, business, or social...

Forestry Code of the Russian Federation provides forests use giving forestry areas with and without forestry resources eliminations. Economic relations in the sphere of forests use are connected with their charged use. In this case forestry resources and rights of forestry areas use becomes a commodity,...

This study aimed at reporting the implementation of the use of digitized local folklores to empower reading comprehension skills of junior high school students. This classroom action study was applied to a number of grade VII junior high school students. It engaged two stories about Palembang City -...

This article aims to review a number of studies on interventions towards children involving parents and/or peers to improve social skills among children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, including reviews of the type of interventions, participants, materials, and setting of interventions...

Background: Central blood pressure values and arterial stiffness have demonstrated to be a useful tool to stratify cardiovascular risk and also as a biomarker. A question that is still unanswered is if hypertension treatment guided by central blood pressure parameters will be even better to promote cardiovascular...

In the article, the authors note that social upbringing is the subject of a special study at present. Moreover, they emphasize the importance of such studies for the organization of teacher training. The main research method was a secondary analysis of sociological studies conducted in the Siberian Federal...

The important reason for tourists to choose a travel experience in a cultural heritage site is to experience the cultural heritage of the destination to seek personal value. This study explores the value link mode of tourists in cultural heritage sites by means-end chain theory, constructs the graph...

The purpose of this scientific and practical work is to conduct research on the chemical composition and quality indicators of cow’s, goat’s and sheep’s milk in the Altai Region and determine the prospects for their use in order to expand the soft cheese production. Statistical data for 2017-2018 indicate...

The Indonesian firms need to prepare and be ready for the globalization and the industrial revolution 4.0. The inward-looking strategy is no longer sufficient to face competition, while the outward-looking strategy provides a significant benefit for the firms to survive and compete. In response to this...

Firstly, this paper constructs a model with employee satisfaction as the intermediate variable, forming the basic hypothesis of three variables: human resource management, employee satisfaction and enterprise performance; secondly, it designs the reasonable items of the questionnaire combined with the...

Kuda Lumping is one of the arts that is developing in the Temanggung Regency. Kuda lumpings are widely exhibited at entertainment events today. Even so, kuda lumpings are always associated with magical things that show the phenomenon of possession of the spirit of “possessed”. This research was conducted...

Adolescents are actually the next generation and future human resources who play an important role in the times. Psychological Well-Being is a condition of an individual who has a positive attitude towards himself in managing his behavior, can create an environment that is compatible with his needs,...

Success and failure is a real phenomenon in human life, as well as in adolescents. In every life, it can not be separated from problems and difficulties. Adolescents today not a few who overcome the difficulties destructively, some of which are the involvement of adolescents in drug cases, suicide, tendency...

The growth of e-commerce market in Indonesia rises rapidly. With the number of internet users reaching 143.26 million people or about 54.68 % of the total population in Indonesia in 2017, it becomes potential mar-ket for the future. Because of these significant numbers of users, it is important to understand...

Modern Islamic Boarding School right now is one of the aims of students to learn a formal subject and obtain a deeper understanding of religious science. The problem in Modern Islamic Boarding School is its leadership management. Modern Islamic Boarding School which is success normally has authentic...

State customer activities inevitably imply signing governmental contracts with companies of various types. Government contract making may result in certain risks and economic security threats for the state customer and it is of primary importance because its successful execution influences the budget...