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Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) is a well known toxic carcinogens. Therefore, the convenient and quick detection of Cr(VI) in the environment is highly desired . In this study, a new method for determination of Cr(VI) was developed based on its quenching effect on the fluorescent of carbon quantum dot (C-dots)....

Skalmierski's theory of stretched violin plates [6] is briefly described. In the course of developing a computer model for the theory, it was necessary to address the geometry of violin plates. Following Skalmierski's theory, various methods of inducing tensions into violin plates were considered. One...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the health center services, analyze the potential benefits of health centers, making recommendations based service development and potential community health centers.This research uses descriptive analytic method with cross sectional approach. The results showed...

The Lane L8 of main-bridge of Xianyue Flyover across over Success Avenue is a reconstruction project with span of 39m+50m+39m. The circular-curved steel box girder has a uniform cross section with a multi-chamber single box. The characteristics of drag-type incremental launching and segment division...

The purpose of this research is to describe the advantages of using ATA Carnet system for temporary import activities in order to the company corporate and business especially in Indonesia can implement this system in the process of the activity temporary imports and also to know the comparison on the...

The evaluation of the use of TOEFL as a language assessment is the main concern to be studied on this paper. Using qualitative method, the researchers evaluate some specific questions mainly derived from a set of criteria which are practicality, test reliability, validity, authenticity and washback effect....

This article attempts to analyze the development of an ideology of Islamism that rejects the political system of democracy through the reasoning of civil society. As a study of civil society and democracy, this article has significance in understanding the complexities of democratic practice in the scope...

One of the factors that related to biological aging in humans is genetic. The aging process can occur due to genetic accumulation and epigenetic modification that lead to progressive cellular damage and weakened tissue functions that causing limitation of abilities to maintain the balance/ homeostasis....

This is a research contains analysis and case study on visual communication design, especially in game design. Game has become a visual activity that gives meaningful experience for the player in relation to its narrative and culture. The research method of this research is using qualitative interpretative...

This research was done with the aim to test and analyze internal and external factors regarding beta and return stock. The internal factors are Dividend Payout Ratio, Asset Growth, Debt to Equity Ratio, Current Asset, Asset Size, Price Earnings Ratio and Return on Asset. Whereas the external factors...

The information service industry is regarded as one of the new poles of growth for China's economy with much more effective productivity of factors and it is overall most competitive in the Yangtze River Delta region. In this paper, the quantitative analysis of total factor productivity (TFP) growth...

In order to mobilize valid data in virtualized resource pool quickly, reduce resource scheduling execution time and improve resource utilization. The paper proposed a virtual resource scheduling strategy based on improved frog leaping algorithm. A mathematic model of leapfrog algorithm in cloud computing...

Introducing soccer for early childhood students is very beneficial, because they are in the range of golden ages in learning development. This research aims to find the proper strategy to help students get the benefit on learning passing, dribbling and shooting in soccer. By a quasi-experimental study,...

In recent years, the country has paid more and more attention to the social security work, increased the investment in the social security industry, promoted the development of social security, improved the quality of life of the residents, and promoted the overall consumption level of our country. The...

An exemplars-based two-step image inpainting algorithm is presented. Firstly, the input image is inpainted synchronically with its coarse version via the patch-GST-based inpainting priority and best-match patches based on the weighted SSD. This inpainted image is plausible except some artifacts in the...

A novel neural network approach is presented for solving nonlinear bilevel programming problem. The proposed neural network is proved to be Lyapunov stable and capable of generating optimal solution to the nonlinear bilevel programming problem. The asymptotic properties of the neural network are analyzed...

The basic mechanical properties of the perlite air-entrained concrete (PAC) material were measured using DIC method in this paper, and the deformation behavior and failure mechanism of the material was also researched. The experiment results show that using DIC method could not only exactly measure the...

Cloud Computing, as an emerging, virtual, large-scale distributed computing model, has gained increasing attention these years. Meanwhile it also faces many secure challenges, one of which is authentication. Amlan Jyoti Choudhury et al proposed a user authentication framework to ensure user legitimacy...

An improved Dijkstra shortest path algorithm is presented in this paper. The improved algorithm introduces a constraint function with weighted value to solve the defects of the data structure storage, such as lots of redundancy of space and time. The number of search nodes is reduced by ignoring reversed...

In order to provide efficient and suitable services for users in a ubiquitous computing environment, many kinds of context information technologies have been researched. Wireless sensor networks are among the most popular technologies providing such information. Therefore, it is very important to guarantee...

An effective approach for coverage holes was proposed, called Distance-assistant Coverage Hole Parching (DACHP) strategy. DACHP strategy would achieve the purpose of patching coverage holes using redundant sensor nodes within the wireless sensor networks. Simulation results show, compared with DFNFP...

The paper presents a method of parallel-hierarchical transformations for rapid recognition of dynamic images using GPU technology. Direct parallel-hierarchical transformations based on cluster CPU-and GPU-oriented hardware platform. Mathematic models of training of the parallel hierarchical (PH) network...

Four-wheel steering system can comprehensively improve the steering performance of the car. Compared with two-wheel steering car, four-wheel steering car improve the steering performance of the car at high speed. In this paper, the frequency domains corresponding of the vehicle steering system were obtained...

This research was conducted since January until April 2016; located on Gusung Island; Selayar Archipelago Regency. The research objective was to determine the network marketing model of Coral Trout Grouper (Plectropomus leopardus). The study used a survey method with a case study approach; through the...

In order to clarify the economic growth dynamics of high-tech parks and the method of improving total factor productivity, this paper adds dummy variables to the stochastic frontier model method to consider the difference of total factor productivity among different economies, and combines clustering...

Teachers in the 2013 curriculum must be able to compare the application lesson that is local, national and international. The teacher should also be able to make questions for daily exam that have local, national and international content. It is not easy to make questions with local content. Making questions...

Over a decade, Indonesia economic growth is rising gradually and has made remarkable progress across a broad range of economic and social dimensions. The number of HDI has been growing significantly since earlier 2000, followed by decrease of total amount of poverty from 40 to 8 percent1. Nevertheless,...

The objective was to test S. palustris which has high antioxidant activity for bioactivities that may alleviate obesity: lipase inhibitory activity and lipid accumulated in 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Water, 50% methanol and methanol extracts of S. palustris were tested for lipase inhibitory activity and lipid...

This study aims to improve the acquisition of Indonesian vocabulary in early childhood in an Islamic school, in Bandung. The focus of his research is on the implementation of the Reggio Emilia Approach (REA) to improve the mastery of Indonesian vocabulary in early childhood 5-6 years. This study used...

Herding behavior in financial market as a theoretical concept get going to be popular since 1990s. There are many articles that discuss and investigate herding behavior in capital market, but our understanding about antecedents and outcomes of herding behavior is still very limited. The majority of empirical...

The annual global mortality rate of cancer has increased dramatically. Although various therapies are used for cancer, the results have not been satisfactory. Chemotherapy is currently the most common treatment option. However, serious side effects and drug resistance impede the therapeutic efficacy...

This study aims to find out first year student satisfaction at the Faculty of Engineering, Yogyakarta State University (FT UNY) on lectures, assessment of learning outcomes, academic services, and their effects on learning motivation. This ex post facto research was conducted from January 2019 to July...

Novelty value defined as being genuine, real, or true, plays an important role in the consumption intention and decision. Not only novelty value, emotional value as phychological component is essential for consumer to consider in the buying process. According to some researcher, the key factor that affect...

The art education is one of five fields in the preschool education, and the rhythmic activities constitute the infants’ music education significantly. Chongqing x Kindergarten is taken as an example in the paper. With the rhythmic activities as the research object, the observational method, questionnaire...

The activity of the agro-industrial complex is determined both by the available resources (land, labor, fixed and current assets), the technologies used, the scientific and technical potential, and the existing production and economic relations in the system, which is the agro-industrial complex. Production...

This study aims to describe: (1) how the preschool children’s naming competencies in language acquisition, (2) how the naming competencies in language acquisition of preschool children relate to their cognitive development. It is a qualitative research The data source of this research is ten kindergartners...

Mentawai archipelago separated from Sumatra milions years ago. The utilization and management of landscape units of the Mentawai community in siberut, is strategies to maintain their survival. A large sea barrier promotes biodiversity differ from other areas include flora and fauna endemic. The observation...

Classroom situational adaptive teaching and evaluation requires the consistency among specific teaching situations, teaching activities and evaluation methods based on subject content. The basic concepts and requirements of classroom situational adaptive teaching and evaluation are: Teachers’ teaching...

This research aims to determine the effect of company size, age, growth, profitability and media exposure on corporate social responsibility. The purposive sampling method was used to obtain the financial statement of 45 companies out of a total population of 63 listed in LQ 45 from 2015 till 2017. The...

Women’s representation in the legislature as the subject of national development is still underestimated, this is indicated by the small number of women who are members of the legislature as at both the central and regional levels. The purpose of this research is to examine the factors that cause the...

Computing the solutions to real life problems has become the need of the hour and has become a matter of utmost importance. In earlier times, it took days/months to compute and use algorithms to make things work, but as time passed on, computers became faster and more efficient, and these computations...

A syllabus is an important document for teaching which contains the outline of course, including topics, weekly schedule, assignments and tests. A syllabus serves as a communication medium for both theories and practices that will be exposed during study to students. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate...

The Taub-NUT four-dimensional space-time can be obtained from Euclidean eight-dimensional one through a momentum map construction; the HKLR theorem [9] guarantees the hyperkähler structure of R8 descends to a hyperkähler structure in the Taub-NUT space. Here we present a detailed and fully explicit construction...

This research was conducted to Determine the relationship of age on the vital lung capacity. An unknown problem is the unknown relationship of Age on Vital Lung Capacity at eagle Soccer School Padang. The sample of this study was Carried out on 16 Eagles FC Soccer athletes. The method used in this study...

In recent years, the film market in mainland China has developed rapidly, and the box office has increased year after year. In 2019, the total box office of the mainland Chinese film market was 64.1 billion yuan. How to market, promote and encourage viewers to consume is an important factor influencing...

This study aims to determine the effect of Taxpayer Awareness and Tax Sanctions on Taxpayer Compliance in Individual Taxpayers in Medan City. The population in this study is an individual taxpayer in the city of Medan. The results of the research analysis showed that Taxpayer Awareness and Tax Sanctions...

The policy of prohibiting the use of disposable plastic bags in force in Indonesia is an attempt by the government to reduce the amount of plastic waste. However, the effectiveness of the policy is still questionable, because it is only applied in modern retail stores, while the biggest contributor to...

In realizing food sovereignty, food independence, and food security, the government establishes national food reserves consisting of government food reserves, regional government food reserves and community food reserves. The development of national food reserves is intended to anticipate shortages of...

This paper explores the features of youth perception of the message semiotic aspect and its impact on the communication process effectiveness through the use of neurotechnologies. A neurophysiological study using a stationary IT tracker made it possible to obtain new objective data on the level of visual...

Background: Quality and nursing service in the hospital is decided by management of leadership managerial in unit nursing room which is done by chief room. They have planning and evaluation rules in a unit to be expected to act and motivate nurses in these rooms. However, some cases often occur low motivation...