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The scientific approach is an effort to develop learners' abilities in mastering scientific concepts more easily and systematically. In science-centered learning, learners are trained to perform scientific activities such as observing, collecting data, analyzing data, summarizing and then creating reports...

Every language has its own addressing system, including Javanese and Indonesian language. The media play an important role in showing the differences in these language systems. One of the medias exhibiting this language phenomenon is a movie which uses two languages: source language (utterances) and...

Students with learning disabilities, in most countries, encounter a variety of academic difficulties and to help overcome them, teachers must provide special educational services with careful consideration to the students’ limitations and needs. The academic success of these students requires that each...

From the perspective of complexity science, the influencing factors of household financial behavior in China are presented, then the current situation and development characteristics of household financial behavior also given. The complexity characteristics of household financial behavior in China, such...

This study examined correlations of historical changes in diet and physical inactivity with the rise of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in Kenya. Historical data on diet, wage jobs by industry, urbanization, gross domestic product (GDP), and morbidity due to NCDs were extracted from Kenya Statistical...

Land surface processes have become a great concern in the context of global change and increased natural hazards all over the world. In this paper, dynamic characteristics of land cover changes have been investigated over a period of about three and half decades (1972–2016). This study focuses on the...

We construct a theoretical model that examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and foreign direct investment and employ panel data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to test the implications of the model. We find that HIV/AIDS has a negative but diminishing effect on FDI. Furthermore, the...

This paper uses new measures of value added in exports in two sectors (textiles and clothing, and agriculture) to examine the linkages between trade facilitation and infrastructure on the one hand, and value chain participation on the other. It applies network analysis methods to derive a summary measure...

This paper uses a novel manufacturing firm-level survey data in 19 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to explore the linkages among a number of export-market destinations (e.g., China, India, other Asia, EU, US, MENA, SSA excluding South Africa, and South Africa) and performance. The paper also examines...

How will Brexit impact on Africa? This paper looks at the available empirical evidence and carries out a Computable General Equilibrium simulation, focusing particularly on the prospects for the East African Community (EAC). The paper makes three main points. First, while the direct impacts through investment,...

In this work, a new four-parameter zero-truncated Poisson Topp Leone Burr XII distribution is defined and studied. Various structural mathematical properties of the proposed model including ordinary and incomplete moments, residual and reversed residual life functions, generating functions, order statistics...

Important challenges facing global healthcare include the increase in the number of people affected by escalating healthcare costs, chronic and infectious diseases, the need for better and more affordable elderly care and expanding urbanisation combined with air and water pollution. Recent advances in...

This study aims to identify the key dimensions that constitute a mature e-Government ecosystem through a systematic review of the existing e-Governance maturity models and a meta-ethnographic approach. The study identifies online presence, facilitating interaction, integrated ecosystem, online payments,...

Objectives: Trial registration has a great potential to increase research transparency and public access to research results. This study examined the availability of results either in journal publications or in the trial registry from all studies registered at ClinicalTrials.gov. Methods: All 137,612...

One of the most important characteristics of innovation is that it is a continuous process in every organisation. The financial performance of organisations is strongly dependent on successful innovation. Innovation rate resp. the pace of technological change is mainly influenced by investment in research...

This study aimed to know: (i) the effect of a reciprocal teaching style with eyes, hands, and foot coordination overall towards field tennis groundstroke capabilities; (ii) the effect of a reciprocal with high of eye, hand and foot coordination towards tennis groundstroke capabilities; (iii) the effect...

The article identifies the role of innovations in the economic development of a state and a region during innovative development transformation. Regional and industry differentiation by companies' innovative activity level is analysed. Priority areas of innovative activity development in pioneer businesses...

The security inspection robot is mainly used for large-scale warehouse security and automatic inspection of various warehouses, community security inspections, industrial site monitoring and other automated inspections. The security inspection robot uses the SLAM algorithm to map the inspection target...

The article is devoted to the creation of applications for e-learning, the elements of which are implemented in the educational process of many universities of the Russian Federation, describes the problems that arise and demonstrates possible ways to overcome them. The authors share many years of experience...

North slope of Qinling Nanshan loop (Xi’an) drive mechanism of environmental governance is an important theoretical and practical problems, north slope of Qinling Nanshan loop (Xi’an) drive mechanism of environmental factors mainly include internal and external factors, through the analysis and the choice...

This paper presents two new simple statistic respectively to detect the long memory time series of the changes from smooth to non-stationary and persistence in smooth change from non-stationary variation point, two statistics under the null hypothesis is given the limits of the distribution, and proves...

As part of a monitoring study of public requests based on citizens’ appeals, a research group of the Institute of Educational Management of the Russian Academy of Education revealed that the issue of legal regulation of general education in the Russian Federation, in terms of choosing the form of education,...

This research aims to determine the effect of gender and experience on whistleblowing intention. This research is a comparative research. The population was governmental auditors and accounting students which are acknowledgement as inexperienced auditors. The sample was chosen by using total sampling...

The problems that analyzed in this study are a decrease in the profitability of pharmaceutical sub sector companies. The decrease in the profitability indicates a company's financial performance it’s also declined, thus the company's capability to generate earnings also decreased. This study aims to...

Municipal wastewater reclamation and reuse has been an effective way to solve problems of shrinkage and drying up of rivers and lakes. The residual pollutants in recycled water may pose a risk to groundwater. A field study on the spatial and temporal variations concentrations of nitrate, ammonia and...

This study examined the social movements of Kedungdendeng peasants, the resistance carried out by Kedungdendeng peasants using a critical ethnographic perspective, especially the process of the occurrence of the peasant resistance movements, the forms of pre-reform peasant resistance and the forms of...

With the continuous improvement of China's tax system con-struction, the tax-related matters of enterprises have gradually increased, and the tax burden has become an important expendi-ture of enterprises. Whether to minimize the cost is one of the important links in the realization of the financial...

Based on data released by BPJS Kesehatan at the beginning of February 2018, the current population of Indonesia who became BPJS participants amounted to 192,029,645 people with the highest number of participants using central government funds, which amounted to 48.07%. The classification based on BPJS...

The subject of this research is the economic relations arising in the process of using bonds by regional Russian authorities. The objectives of the bond issue by the subjects of the Federation of the Russian Federation are the following: financing the budget deficit, cash ruptures of budget implementation,...

The article deals with the development of fuzzy cognitive models of the processes of analysis and management of the quality of education as a multifactor system. The approach based on definition of trajectories of achievement of target indicators of education quality with the use of technologies of knowledge...

Leadership is a topic that has been relevant for researchers since the beginning of human history. The concept of leadership can be found in psychology, history, economics, physics, mathematics, computer sciences, and virtually any other field of science one can think of. The more one starts digging...

The traditional model of college English teaching has a lot of problems such as the pressure of classroom management, the enthusiasm of students' participation in class and the difficulty of continuous learning after class. Based on Lacan's mirror stage theory, this paper explores the application of...

Discourse markers, for a very long time, had been regarded as the detritus of a discourse, useless, meaningless and unworthy of academic attention. In tandem with discourse analysis and pragmatics in the last five decades, discourse markers have been attracting more and more attentions from scholars....

This research aims to analyze the factors that are considered by consumer when using online travel agent and to analyze the position of the two online travel agents discussed in this research, which are Traveloka and Pegipegi.com. The data were collected by distributing questionnaires to two hundred...

In order to solve the problems of optimal division of rice irrigation map into checks, “RIS” software package was developed which implements dynamic programming methods and works on the basis of Windows operating system. The algorithm of design block operation is described based on a dynamic programming...

Village development plan is a guide or model potential exploration and development ideas that focused on the participation of the village community in the overall development process. The concept of participation is in line with the value of "cooperation" which has become part of the confidence and trust...

The author's approach to ensuring psychological safety in the educational process is presented. Cadet classes place increased demands on the capabilities and resources of the child, therefore the task of accompanying these educational programs from the point of view of ensuring the psychological safety...

This study aims to systematically shed light on what kind of effects are brought about by the film techniques in individual commercial messages. Based on audiovisual experiments, with positive factors as the evaluation index, we considered what could be analyzed from film techniques and their effects....

The paper is devoted to the technical and economic justification of the automobile road construction of low intensity roads. The design choice offered for comparison presents the construction of roadway surfacing in which the role of the broken stone underlayer is carried out by over-compacted fine soil....

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of rational emotive behavior group counseling against the assertive behavior of students SMPN 1 Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta. Rational emotive behavior group counseling has not been used for counseling process at SMPN 1 Mlati, Sleman, Yogyakarta. This research...

The architecture of postmodernism, as a western invention, was received with great interest in Japan. Of the huge number of materials, creative means, images and symbols that could be seen in the postmodern works by Western architects, Japanese masters did not take any interest in a particular school...