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Academic supervision is one of the essential tasks that must be carried out by school principals, since with academic supervision the quality of teacher performance can be maintained and even improved. Teacher performance is assessed based on the implementation of its primary task, that is managing the...

This study presents a financial analysis of a rooftop solar project for industry and considers other benefits including carbon trading possibilities. It suggests exchanging renewable energy certificates that could both bring additional values to the project and be supporting the energy transition process...

Within the context of e-commerce platforms, which serve as the digital marketplace for manufacturers’ new and refurbished products, a dual role in the refurbishing process has emerged. Manufacturers can utilize patent licensing to either profit from new market entrants or retain control over internal...

The rapid development of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the 21st-century education environment provides ample opportunities for English classrooms. Unfortunately, research in various education contexts reported that many teachers rarely integrate technology in the classroom. Therefore,...

This research aims to analyze the role of impression management implemented by Public Relations (PR) in building the brand of private universities in Indonesia. In the context of global higher education competition, private universities need to build a strong brand identity to attract prospective students...

The California Bearing Ratio (CBR) test is normally used for the evaluation of the performance of subgrade in pavement construction. The CBR value is obtained through the field CBR test which is expensive and time-consuming. An alternative to the mechanical CBR test is the Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP)...

The suitability of land conditions and crops is one of the factors that affect agricultural productivity. To get maximum results, agricultural crops must be planted on land that has the right conditions for crops to grow optimally. Lack of knowledge about land characteristics often makes farmers grow...

Using EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) modelling software, this study quantitatively evaluates the potential for energy, water, and embedded carbon reductions in a typical office building in Chennai, India. The study shows the use of design stage simulation for attaining sustainable...

This study focuses on the research of low-carbon tourism in eight ethnic minority settlements covered by Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park. The development of a low-carbon tourism economy in Hainan’s ethnic areas has advantages and disadvantages, as well as opportunities and challenges. Through...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that has brought innovation to scientific laboratory services. This article aims to analyze the implementation of RFID in scientific laboratories, highlighting its benefits and the challenges that need to be addressed. Identifying and tracking equipment,...

The study explores the network structure of the SheRNI platform. The participation of female researchers in R & D domain is significantly imbalancing because of the gender gap. The women researchers face difficulties, biasness and lack of proper guidance that prevent them from matching the pace of...

General Background: Employee performance is a critical factor in organizational success and is shaped by various internal and external determinants, including motivation, work environment, and information technology. Specific Background: Organizations increasingly rely on these factors to improve employee...

Sustainable resource use in agriculture has become increasingly significant as climate change, and resource scarcity put pressures on agri-based industries. Past studies have examined sustainable agriculture and green marketing independently and there is limited research which connects farm-level sustainability...

The rapid expansion of new online teaching and learning technologies has led to a change in the learning and teaching process of tertiary learners particularly during Covid-19 pandemic. With this paradigm shift, tertiary learners’ learning preferences are to be re-evaluated in this research. The research...

The landscape of business, healthcare, and communication in the 21st century has been transformed by Industry 4.0 and the subsequent digital revolution, including artificial intelligence (AI), big data analytics, and social media. These technological advancements have also posed complex ethical challenges...

Artificial intelligence (AI), notably artificial neural networks (ANNs), is right now propelling an evolution in pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). This study explores the classification, applications, and uses of AI and ANNs in the pharmaceutical business, focusing on their significance...

This study investigated how the color and β-carotene content of crude palm oil (CPO) vary as it is processed into Red Palm Olein (RPOn). Significant changes in color and β-carotene content (measured by ΔE values) were observed at each refining stage, including water degumming (ΔE = 8.15), fractionation...

This research aims to describe and compare male and female students’ abilities in creating a peaceable classroom. A quantitative approach by selecting the descriptive and comparative design was employed to conduct this research. Twenty-four secondary students were involved in this research. A questionnaire...

The rapid digitalization of commerce has heightened consumer expectations for accessibility, options, and service quality while presenting new challenges for consumer protection. In response, the Indian government introduced the historic Consumer Protection Act of 2019, replacing the 1986 Act. The new...

This publication introduced the practical elaboration to Sustainable Interactive Systems. Due to the constantly growing energy consumption of digital applications and their contribution to global CO₂ emissions, the sustainable design of web pages represents a major challenge and great possibilities. ...

This paper aims to verify the constructs validity, and to investigate the relationship between variables understudy by combining the Rasch Measurement Analysis and PLS-SEM approach. A number of 350 self-administered structured questionnaires were distributed to mobile telco subscribers in Klang Valley,...

This study explores the effect of pedagogical leadership on academic staff performance within a public university in Zimbabwe. It examines how academic leaders, through their deliberate prioritization of effective teaching and the provision of needed pedagogical support, cultivate a culture of continuous...

This study discusses about the role of hybridity and the meaning of space in Santa Maria De Fatima Catholic Church associated with six of seven Catholicism Sacraments. The hybridity of this church is shown from three aspects; (1) its history that explain the changing from house of chinese kapitan to...

The concept and essence of the project approach in management are described and the expediency of its application in HR management using the method of control questions. The essence of the method is to answer pre-defined questions, the results of which may lead to the conclusion of whether a project...

Objective: Carotid-femoral Pulse Wave velocity (cfPWV), the gold standard for measuring stiffness, is a marker of organ damage (OLD). Even though cfPWV correlates with casual (BPc), central (CBP) and ambulatory (ABPM) blood pressure (BP), evidence is limited for resistant hypertension (RH). Method:...

Background: Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) is a measure of arterial stiffness and vascular aging and an important parameter for cardiovascular risk stratification. A previous study showed high prevalence rates of early vascular aging in an adult population from the North of Portugal. The aim of this study...

Background: Turbulent flow downstream of atherosclerotic plaques produces low amplitude shear waves which travel through the chest and can be measured by skin sensors. This acoustic signature may provide a cheap non-invasive way to diagnose arterial disease. We report measurements of shearing oscillations...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Aortic stiffness and hemodynamics are established biomarkers for cardiovascular events. Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) remains the first choice of treatment in most patients with aortic stenosis. We investigated the effect of SAVR on aortic stiffness and the role...

Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is considered a surrogate marker of arterial stiffness and could be useful for characterizing cardiovascular disease progression even in mouse models. Aim of this study was to develop an image process algorithm for assessing arterial PWV in mice using ultrasound (US) images...

By using the social exchange theory of Hobbes, Blau and others, taking the love view of contemporary college students as the theme, and using the data analysis method of qualitative research, this paper obtains the preliminary conclusion of this study: the mutual gift between lovers is an essential link...

In order to develop the geometric parameters measurement technology of wheel tread, it is important to ensure the positioning precision firstly before measurement. In this paper, a new method with no-contact measurement based on line structured light is given to solve this problem. Here the traditional...

A P-adic Exact Scientific Computational Library (ESCL) for rational matrix operations has been developed over the past few years. The effort has been focusing on converting all rational number operations to integer calculation, and fully taking advantage of the fast integer multiplication of modern computer...

This paper presents classification methods for electroencephalography (EEG) signals in imagination of direction measured by a portable EEG headset. In the authors’ previous studies, principal component analysis extracted significant features from EEG signals to construct neural network classifiers. To...

The advances of Graphic Processing Units (GPU) technology and the introduction of CUDA programming model facilitates developing new solutions for sparse and dense linear algebra solvers. Matrix Transpose is an important linear algebra procedure that has deep impact in various computational science and...

It is shown how in the early days of soliton theory 1976-the early 1980's Francesco Calogero maintained a considerable influence on the field and on the work of the athor Robin Bullough in particular. A vehicle to this end was the essentially annual sequence of international conferences Francesco organised...

Classes of the nonlinear Schrödinger-type equations compatible with the Galilei relativity principle are described. Solutions of these equations satisfy the continuity equation.

Using geometric methods for linearizing systems of second order cubically non-linear in the first derivatives ordinary differential equations, we extend to the third order by differentiating the second order equation. This yields criteria for conditional linearizability via point transformation with...

We study four different approximations for finding the profile of discrete solitons in the one- dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) Equation. Three of them are discrete approximations (namely, a variational approach, an approximation to homoclinic orbits and a Green-function approach),...

A new learning algorithm for advanced robot locomotion is presented in this paper. This method involves both Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) technology and an evolutionary process based on genetic algorithm (GA) for a learning process. Learning is formulated as an optimization problem. CNN Templates are...

At present, the study on meteorological disasters risk is mostly for single hazard-affected body. With the economic and social development in recent years, meteorological disaster risk is appearing with more "system" characteristics. Meteorological disasters not only impact on direct hazard-affected...

The characteristics of blockchain technology, such as decentralization, distributed storage, openness and transparency, can effectively solve the main problems in the supply chain of ecological agricultural products in southern Jiangxi province of China. With the “Internet of Things +”, “big data +”...

The orderly implementation of land administration in the management of land rights certificates through the PTSL system, complete systematic land registration, which includes the first objective of the research is to find out and analyze what the legal bases must be when implementing land administration....

The modern business talent standards, teaching concepts, teaching models, curriculum systems, and talent training models formed in the industrial economy era can no longer meet the needs of social and economic development. The construction of business in the new era is an important way to conform to...

Energy consumption and environmental pollutants have to become present issues. So, the reduced of energy fossil in the community is to overcome the highly prices of oil and gas. Therefore, an alternative energy innovation from biomass is needed. Gasification is to energy produces from solid material...

This research is a descriptive study with mixed methods that describe students’ self-regulated learning through blended learning based on the PMRI approach. In this study, a pretest and posttest were conducted in the form questionnaire to know the category of student self-regulated learning. The research...

Researchers analyzed directive speech acts in electronic media commercial advertisements. This research was conducted to obtain in-depth data analysis of directive speech acts in electronic media commercial advertisements, investigate the form and purpose of commercial advertisement of electronic media....