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Indonesian women postpone marriage for education, career, and financial independence. Society increasingly values self-discovery over long-term commitments. Weddings in Indonesia fall annually. Many economic and non-economic variables may cause women to delay marriage, according to this study. This study...

As the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation with ambitions to become a global halal hub, Indonesia has introduced a self-declared halal certification scheme to expand market access for micro and small enterprises, yet its implementation raises critical legal, institutional, and credibility challenges...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) levels are modestly but significantly associated with increased risk of total cardiovascular events. Aortic stiffness and wave reflections are also important predictors of cardiovascular events. The aim of this pilot...

Background and objectives: From the literature it is evident that increased oxidative stress is integral in the development of cardiovascular disease. We therefore aimed to compare glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione reductase (GR) activity between black and white Africans, and to investigate...

The Riau Archipelago with Tanjung Pinang as capital city has a unique history involves various nations, ethnicities and tribes such as Portuguese, Netherlands, China, India, Malaysia and Singapore. In decades, it shows the influences increased by the Chinese ethnic through social life and culture tradition....

Background: Recent studies suggests cerebrovascular dysfunction precedes amyloid deposition and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, if functional impairments in the hippocampus, as evidenced by reduced hippocampal cerebral blood flow (CBF) during memory stimulation and cerebrovascular...

Background: Molecular pathways leading to stiffening of the central arteries are poorly understood. We searched for differentially expressed proteins by urinary peptidomic analysis in patients with arterial stiffness and healthy controls in a case–control study. Methods: To identify urinary peptides...

Background: Retinal microvascular function can be assessed using flicker light induced provocation (FLIP). Reduced vessel dilation responses to FLIP are noted in various disease conditions. Comparative studies between ethnic groups are scarce, while the importance of different phases of the vessel responses...

Western societies are aging due to an increasing life span, decreased birth rates, and improving social and health conditions. On the other hand, the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) and cerebrovascular (CBV) diseases rises with age. Thus, in view of the ongoing aging pandemic, it is appropriate to...

The effects of the selective angiotensin AT2 receptor agonist, compound 21 (C21), on abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) formation were investigated in normotensive Wistar rats. AAA was induced by perfusion of isolated aortic segments with elastase (Anidjar/Dobrin model). Treatment with C21 (0.03 and 0.3...

Background: Arterial stiffness and large artery function are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease.(1) Individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) have autonomic dysfunction and known to have lower incidence of cardiovascular disease.(2) Limited literatures showed no difference in arterial stiffness...

The coagulation takes place in the physiological system of hemostasis. Hemostasis is known to be disturbed in many diseases leading to hemorrhages or thrombosis. Despite the role of coagulation in hemostasis, recent evidence suggest that coagulation factors are involved in other physiological as well...

Objectives: Reduced deformability of red blood cells (RBC) plays an important role in etiology of various diseases including cardiovascular. The nitric oxide (NO) was identified as one of factors responsible for maintenance of RBC deformability. Reduced bioavailability of NO might be important in the...

Background: Reported cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction (CAD) prevalence in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) varies between studies. As CAD lowers quality of life and may contribute to sudden death in MS, early CAD detection may assist treatment and risk identification. Methods: In 23 MS patients and age and...

Bayesian network (BN), a simple graphical notation for conditional independence assertions, is promised to represent the probabilistic relationships between diseases and symptoms. Learning the structure of a Bayesian network classifier (BNC) encodes conditional independence assumption between attributes,...

This paper aims to statistically test the null hypothesis for identity of the probability distribution of one-dimensional (1D) continuous parameters in two different populations, presented by fuzzy samples of i.i.d. observations. A degree of membership to the corresponding population is assigned to any...

In order to tackle the numerous problems facing with service management in healthcare industry, various quality improvement (QI) techniques are used for improving the quality of services in this section. Among with these techniques, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) has more potential to solve these...

Nigeria is an African country with abundant natural and human resources with an aspiration to be among the top 20 economies in world by the year 2020. Such objective can only be achieved through requisite infrastructural development projects within the Nigeria’s built environment such as road, power...

We describe a few families of orthogonal matrix polynomials of size N × N satisfying first order differential equations. This problem differs from the recent efforts reported for instance in [7] (Orthogonal matrix polynomials satisfying second order differential equations, Internat. Math. Research Notices,...

Conditional symmetry We investigate conditional symmetry in three directions. The first direction is a research of the Q-conditional symmetry. The second direction is studying conditional symmetry when an algebra of invariance is known and an additional condition is unknown. The third direction is the...

This paper discusses the importance of the embouchure technique in Indria Level (basic level) Flute Major Course, in Music Study Program, Universitas Negeri Surabaya. The purpose is students become formed and accustomed to playing flute with proper basic posture. Later, it facilitates practicing and...

The condition of the COVID-19 pandemic that occurred in Indonesia caused various problems in the life of the nation and state. Various kinds of problems such as social, economic, and educational are accompanying conditions. Economic problems, especially the fulfillment of basic rights, have become a...

The purpose of the study is to substitute the theory of interactive ritual chain to analyze the interaction logic, characteristics, rules and motivations of the members of the microblog “Super Topic Community”, and discuss its possible construction results and practical problems.This electronic uses...

Jane Austen’s novels not only show her feminism to the reader but also appeal women to be independent. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma are frequently used for analysing her feminism. Historical writings are regarded as a science because they not only explain the historical evidence...

Suroloyo coffee is a type of coffee originating from the top of Suroloyo, Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta. One of the coffee products that has a distinctive taste in Suroloyo is Robusta. Processing coffee as a beverage depends on the brewing technique used. Coffee brewing is usually done using manual techniques,...

Learning during the COVID19 pandemic through onIine and Iearning from home has severaI chaIIenges and risks of Iearning Ioss that have a Iong term impact. To evaIuate this, we conducted a thorough anaIysis of the Ioss of recorded Iearning evidence documented between March 2020 and August 2021. This systematic...

With the proposal of carbon neutralization and carbon peak strategy, power system decarbonization has become an important path to realize the strategy. This paper combs the experience of Germany in energy decarbonization and deconstructs the impact of German energy policy on energy structure from the...

Human resources are important resource calendar Private Colleges and strengthen the country indispensable to the effective development and scientific management of human resources is the key to prosperity of Private Colleges and Universities. In clarify the meaning and function of human resource management...

Passive Optical Network is designed such that it meets the requirements of NG-PON. According to FSAN, the Time and Wave Length Division Multiplexing (TWDM) is chosen as the best solution to implement NG-PON. EDFA amplifier is used in the system to compensate the effects of degraded signal in both the...

With the increasingly fierce competition among enterprises, the place of cost accounting in enterprises is becoming more and more important; it is necessary to put forward specific requirements about the compilation of textbook of the cost accounting according to the demand of times development. On account...

A two-lane cellular automaton model is developed to investigate the effects of variable speed limit (VSL) control strategy on alleviating accident induced congestion and improving traffic efficiency. The impact of accident duration on traffic dynamics are analyzed by counting the downstream discharge...

In this paper, we investigated the characteristic waveform of sleep spindle by using complex demodulation method (CDM). The ultimate purpose is to develop the automatic sleep spindle detection algorithm for overnight sleep data inspection. The main method includes four procedures. Firstly, the influences...

The aim of the work is to study the use of slag aggregate concrete for the construction of monolithic concrete lining of mine workings. In the coal industry the average of 10-15 m of development workings are constructed to extract 1,000 tons of coal. The monolithic concrete is 97-98% of the total material...

The surface electromyography(sEMG) signal emanates when people contract their muscles. The sEMG signal contains plenty of information about muscle activity. Therefore,it can be used in activity recognition, which makes great contribution to medical devices, e.g., protheses or orthoses control systems....

This article, with the example of different circulation system for a kind of nonlinear, discusses how to make a dynamic analysis of a nonlinear biochemistry system in line whit the character of the system and intercommunication and interaction of each part, thus to establish a realistic ideal mathematics...

To meet the demands of different high bandwidth service, OFDM-PON has been considered as one of the candidates for NG-PON2. In this paper, downstream transmission performance based on LDPC-OFDM coding PON system is studied. The simulation results show that employing the LDPC-OFDM coding in PON system...

In the process of spray pyrolysis, the pyrolysis temperature, particle residence time in the hot zone and so on impact of the product crystal form. Spray pyrolysis is used to synthesize CeO2 on γ- Al2O3 support. The pyrolysis temperature is at a range of 900~1100 , with a particle residence time in the...

On the basis of i.MX6 and embedded Android operating system, this paper designs and implements a SIP Video Phone System successfully. Design of hardware circuits and secondary development process of application layer are presented. From testing results, the displayed videos are fluent; the system is...

In the essay, that cement concrete mixed with Nano-SiO2 ,the cement concrete mixing with Nano scale fly-ash and the cement concrete mixing with Nano-SiO2 have been tested on preventing the adverse effect of sulfates shows that the cement concrete mixing with Nano-SiO2 improves the performance of the...

In recent years, the question of innovation talent has become a major proposition of sustainable development in the world. As the main base of training innovation talents universities have still insufficient in evaluating innovation talents. This article refers to existing research results to build the...

Auto Insurance Course is a market oriented course, with close relation with market and industry. Case study method is a useful way to improve the ability of utilizing knowledge to solve actual problem, and enhance the career competence and ability. Based on the characteristics of the course and case...

In order to study the impact that land reclamation had on coastline of Fujian Province, three phases of Landsat TM/ETM+ image, spanning 15 years, were used to monitor the coastline change. The entire coastline was extracted from preprocessed Landsat TM/ETM+ images based on edge detection operator-Canny....

Present researches on ownership of latecomers of enterprises in technology catch-up pay little attention to indirect influence of ownership on latecomers through industry-school-institute-user platform and market buyer’s power. In this research, resource dependence theory and corporation governance theory...

The purpose of this study is to present a new idea of digital resources sharing and management system integration with cloud computing to provide better service to users with cloud sharing. Looking at present new environment of digital resources utilization, this study researched establishment, solutions...

This paper analyses the Network Program Technique from the perspective of its principle and procedures of implementation as well as its merits and demerits, with the aim to solve the problem of overtime and overspend in software development, and provide the incumbent software developer with reference...

Multimodality has become an exciting frontier of research. In this study, I de-ploy the Appraisal theory of discourse semantics within systemic-functional lin-guistics and the social semiotic approach of multimodal discourse analysis on im-ages and texts to analyze the interperson-al meaning-making of...