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Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major microvascular complication of diabetes, in which chronic hyperglycaemia, oxidative stress, and vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) overexpression drive pathological retinal angiogenesis. Current anti-VEGF therapy requires repeated intravitreal injections,...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) gives enormous contribution across economics. Therefore, technology adoption becomes a must to help SMEs grow. The purpose of this study is to provide an existing literature review on technology adoption in SMEs. This study identified and evaluated peer-reviewed journal...

COVID-19 has become a world pandemic. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has predicted causes of mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, and stress among students. This study aims to describe the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the factors affecting the mental health status of...

A large aspect of treating people fairly is ensuring the fairness or the measure of sentences passed. In Malaysia, judges have started to use, even before the Covid-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence (AI) to aid in passing sentences for certain offences such as physical and sexual assault, theft, drug...

The portable generator is a type of power supply system that contains a battery to maintain power to provide power to electronics in the event of a power surge or outage. This paper presents energy management system for a portable generator uninterruptible power supply using LiFePO4 battery and smart...

The use of patient lifting or carrying equipment has become ubiquitous in hospitals and other healthcare settings. While these tools have provided significant benefits in patient care, there are still limitations in their functionality, particularly in scenarios where patients require specific types...

An increased emphasis on comprehensive tourism development has been seen in recent years. In-depth theoretical exploration and analysis on the creation and promotion of comprehensive tourism brands, however, have not been taken into account by the current research, which has primarily focused on the...

Increasing hydrophobicity and antioxidant activity was an effort to improve the quality of edible film. Adding durian seed flour (DSF) and microemulsion was expected to increase cassava starch (CS)-based edible film properties. The objective of this research was learned about the effect of DSF and microemulsion...

German language beginner learners faced difficulties in learning the listening skill, such as limitation in vocabulary knowledge, the pace of oral L2 input, and the lack of listening materials. Because of those, learners’ learning results are not optimal. Learners are pushed to use learning strategies...

Suppose G a simple, and finite graph. A labelling of a graph G is a bijection f from V(G) to the set {1,2,…,|V(G)|}. Rainbow antimagic coloring is a bijection f if for any two edge u and v in path u − v, where w(uv) = f(u) + f(v) and u,v ∈ V(G) and if in each pair of vertices u and v there are no two...

Noise-level measurements of household appliances and road traffic from residential buildings in Dingqiao are conducted using a noise-level analyser and integrating sound metre. The environmental noise status of 18-storey residences is evaluated using sound pressure level (SPL) constraints with superimposed...

This study investigates the impact of China’s Environmental Protection Tax (EPT), implemented in 2018 as a quasi-natural experiment replacing the pollution discharge fee, on high-quality enterprise development. Utilizing a difference-in-differences (DID) model with panel data from listed companies on...

Women’s participation in higher education is an important manifestation of efforts to achieve gender equality, in line with SDG Goal 5. Therefore, it is important to intensify the promotion of SDG Goal 5 in the academic environment, including at Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS). Currently, UNS has organised...

This study presents a MATLAB-based approach to automate subroutine generation for ABAQUS ground stress simulations, significantly reducing the manual effort and potential for error in complex engineering projects. The automated tool achieves high accuracy and consistency in stress calculations, verified...

Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by persistent difficulties in reading, numeracy, and problem-solving skills. Although there is no specific medication to cure dyslexia, various intervention strategies have been developed to enhance affected individuals’ learning abilities and...

This paper focuses on the safety of building structure in shallow-buried section of complex geological tunnel, and takes Banzhulin Tunnel of Xubi Railway as an example, and analyzes the impacts of tunnel construciton on the surface building structures in shallow-buried section using the Midas GTS NX...

Research Objective: This research aims to analyze the implementation of technology-based Control Testing by the Compliance division in a life insurance company, as well as how much influence control testing has on the governance of life insurance companies. Method: This study uses a quantitative...

This article examines the dilemma faced by the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in balancing humanitarian concerns with national security imperatives in their response to the Rohingya refugee crisis. The MMEA is tasked with safeguarding Malaysia’s maritime borders and combating transnational...

India’s marital culture is evolving. Relationship boundaries are becoming more diffused as a result of nuclear families, women being monetarily independent, and a reduction in social inhibitions. Due to COVID-19, there was a rapid change in the workplace environment where the line between the work and...

The Constitutional Court, as a judicial institution, was born from the womb of reformation, with the aim of building a culture and court management to produce quality decisions supported by information and communication technology (ICT). As a judicial institution, the Constitutional Court is required...

Sustainable development is a crucial criterion for the progress of contemporary society. The Smart Cities and Smart Villages development initiative serves as a tool to measure the effectiveness and impact of sustainable development strategies. The comparison of policies on rural and urban smart concepts...

This article discusses the importance of understanding and measuring brand power in an increasingly competitive market landscape. Brand power encompasses meaningfulness, differentiation, and salience, which influence consumer behavior and engagement. A strong brand power can enhance customer loyalty,...

CKD is one of the global health problems due to a decline in quality of life often with the development of kidney dysfunction and increased mortality. CKD is progressive and requires dialysis. Patients who undergoing hemodialysis experience a decrease in physical activity which further adds to the health...

In a time increasingly shaped by environmental crisis, returning to Romantic poetry offers a different way of thinking about humanity’s relationship with nature. This paper explores how imagination in the works of Wordsworth and Coleridge can be understood as an ethical and ecological force. Rather than...

General Background: Information literacy is a fundamental competency in the digital era, encompassing the ability to access, evaluate, and use information ethically within technology-supported learning environments. Specific Background: At SMAIT Nurul Islam Tengaran, multimedia-based digital communication...

The prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae remains a significant threat to the treatment and control of infections. The development of rapid methods that provide information on the antibiotic susceptibility of K. pneumoniae may play a crucial role in mitigating drug resistance....

The therapeutic relationship is a condition that needs to be built and appropriately developed to support the success of the counseling services provided. Self-competence and the counselor’s internal state play a significant role in building a therapeutic relationship with the counselee. One of the failures...

This paper shows that a “shared knowledge” is an important aspect for supervisor-international student’s relation for master level. Indeed, Conversation Analysis method is not designed to understand physiological issues on international students’ problems and pressure, but the Conversation Analysis excerpts...

This study explores the adoption, utilization, and impact of Point-of-Sale (POS) systems within Kolkata’s diverse retail sector amid ongoing digital transformation. As digital payment technologies reshape retail operations, POS systems have emerged as vital tools in enhancing operational efficiency,...

This study examines the dietary preferences of Turuchan pikas in its natural habitat. We found some correlations between the chemical composition of plants and their selection by pikas: individuals prefer nitrogen-rich plants both while grazing and caching; plants high in secondary metabolites primarily...

This study examines the end-to-end communication paradox in institutional elderly care by applying Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) and developing the concept of Digital Void. The research is motivated by contemporary family complexities—including geographic dispersion, economic constraints,...

There have been various paradigm shifts in the higher education sector due to massification. Legal education is undergoing a steady shift away from the traditional professional self-regulation, towards regulation by market forces. The rise of technology and globalisation has remoulded the market force,...

Introduction: Ascending aorta aneurysm and dissection are the most common cardiovascular complications affecting Marfan syndrome patients (MFS). Recent large increase in life expectancy of MFS driven the growing prevalence of descending aorta (DAo) dilation and dissection. Despite local abnormal vortices...

Background and Aims: Arterial volume compliance is a major determinant of cardiac afterload. More than 50% of the arterial volume compliance resides in the proximal aorta. Researchers often use area compliance for the estimation of volume compliance, assuming an invariant vessel length over pressure...

Vascular calcification (VC) is linked to post-transplant cardiovascular events in the long term. We aimed to evaluate whether pretransplant chest X-ray based aortic arch calcification (AoAC) or pulse wave velocity measurement can better predict post- transplant cardiovascular or cerebrovascular events,...

Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience premature aging. Arterial stiffness increases with advancing biological age and predicts cardiovascular disease. However, only limited studies investigated arterial function in individuals with DS. Thus, the impact of DS on vascular function still remains...

The carbon market is growing in quantitative and qualitative ways as climate change becomes a reality. Particularly, forests are recognized as carbon sink by the United Nations, and its role is drawing more attention as a cost-effective way of mitigating climate change. In Korea, the forest carbon offset...

Objectives: Vascular aging results from endothelial dysfunction and increased arterial stiffness, a independent determinant of cardiovascular (CV) events, that is amplified by the presence and progression of arterial hypertension (AH). Age related changes in hemodynamic variables1 may predict negative...

Purpose/ Background/ Objectives: We have shown that aortic stiffness improves as early as 3 months post-kidney transplantation (KTx). Aortic stiffness index β0, a blood pressure independent parameter, has been proposed to be a better indicator of vascular wall property. This study was designed to examine...

Changes in central hemodynamics and arterial stiffness are associated with augmented cardiovascular risks and have been reported in obese adults with metabolic syndrome. It is unclear whether this observation may also be present in young healthy obese adults with normal metabolic profile. Objectives:...

After the founding of The People’s Republic of China, social modernization and industrialization developed rapidly, and the pattern of educational marriage matching appeared new characteristics. In order to explore the characteristics of its change trend in depth, this paper, based on the theory of homogeneity...

We propose a Drawing-Frequency based Layered (DFL) Canvas approach to reduce a synchronization delay in collaborative web applications. The synchronization delay consists of a network delay and a drawing delay. The network delay is well-argued topic by various researches. We focus on the drawing delay,...

This study proposes an implementation of pulse-coupled phase oscillators over multiple field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) communication links. Two FPGAs are connected by a gigabit transceiver and a First-In First-Out interface. To verify the effect of communication delay between FPGAs on oscillator...

This investigation deals with the mechanism of peristaltic transport of a non-Newtonian, incompressible and electrically conducting fluid with variable viscosity and an endoscope effects. The magnetic Reynolds number is taken to be small. The mechanical properties of the material are represented by the...

We extend the traditional formulation of Gauge Field Theory by incorporating the (non- Abelian) gauge group parameters (traditionally simple spectators) as new dynamical (nonlinearsigma- model-type) fields. These new fields interact with the usual Yang-Mills fields through a generalized minimal coupling...

In addition to GA-deception, the lack of fitness differences among low-order schemata can also degrade GA's search. Therefore, a coding should present adequate superior low-order building blocks at the early stage of search. This paper aims to reveal the inherent periodicity in the search process of...

Literature for children in cyberspace like YouTube is easily accessible by anyone around the world. Unknowingly, it has led to cultural exchange. As a result, there is an exchange from different localities, so that it can enrich the culture of the watchers or listeners. This study aims to look at cross-cultural...