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This paper examines how distributed educational leadership is enacted within the Italian school context in response to two major contemporary challenges: managing emergency situations in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous learning environments, and enhancing middle management as a lever for...

Maternal mortality remains a significant public health issue in Indonesia, with wide disparities across provinces. While national strategies have focused on expanding health insurance coverage and increasing the number of skilled birth attendants, the role of infrastructure, particularly road conditions,...

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...

Japan has a very blooming and powerful newspaper industry, with the top three largest newspapers in the world are all Japanese newspapers. Some domestic papers have discussed the traits and success factors of Japanese newspaper industry, but none of them have done any empirical study in Japan. This research...

Aim of the present study was to evaluate the anti-fatigue properties of icariin in mice. The animals were divided into four groups, namely the control, low-dose icariin treated, medium-dose icariin treated, and high-dose icariin treated groups, which received distilled water and 5, 10 and 20 mg/kg icariin,...

Three-dimensional modeling is the foundation of graphic expression and virtual reality of digital landscape. This article explores key technologies, methods and applications of three-dimensional modeling of virtual plant in digital landscape; and classifies into manual modeling technology, program generation...

This paper focus on hazards, vulnerability and prevention ability three aspects to establish a model for evaluating the safety of aircraft take-off and landing, choosing high winds, low cloud and low visibility as the hazards. Among them, the trend of wind speed is obtained directly from the CMIP5 multi-model...

Dongcheng District keeps the largest number of historic buildings, the most widely distributed and best-preserved, most feature-rich region buildings in Beijing. The existing historic buildings in Dongcheng District are an important carrier of historical and cultural in the capital, which is also the...

A variable step size Least Mean Square (LMS) algorithm based on the difference of the error signal (ESD-VSS) is proposed. The convergence and steady state behavior of the ESD-VSS is analyzed and the key parameters are given. Simulations are conducted and the results show that, compared with the Modified...

An approach to deal with user preference relations, instead of absolute ratings, in recommender systems is discussed. User’s preferences are then ratings expressed qualitatively by using linguistic terms. This is a suitable technique when preferences are imprecise and vague. On the other hand, to avoid...

In this paper, by using the literature analysis, current research literatures on influential factors of effective instruction in China are divided into two categories: one focus on the theoretical analysis, the other focus on empirical research, and the literatures are combed through and analysed. On...

for implementing the description of jewelry inspection data with two dimension code, based on agent technology, a QRCode generation service is proposed by encapsulating the two dimension code generation system running in the local network environment. The jewelry cert generation service can calls the...

disturbances rejection controller for non-square processes is proposed in this paper. The method design different disturbance controllers by choosing different forms of external input/output disturbance, such as step disturbance, dynamic disturbance. Especially when it comes to input disturbance controller...

Ceramic Coating was initially applied to aerospace field. Nowadays, it is widely applied to petrochemical industry and building fields. This paper introduces the classification, application status, research progress and extant question of Nanometer Ceramic Coating in order to offer some thoughts and...