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The paper analyses cocoa farmers’ integration into global markets taking into account trade reforms in five cocoa producing countries. The analysis investigates price transmission mechanisms from world to domestic cocoa markets in the context of trade liberalizing policy reforms. The empirical analysis...

Since 2011, Government of Semarang City has planned the construction of a rail-based Mass Public Transportation System. This discourse is getting closer to realization in mid-2018, where the Semarang government sets Light Rail Transit (LRT) as the rail-based Mass Public Transportation System that will...

Performance pay is an important part of higher vocational education with independent distribution rights. Performance salary reform is a major change in the higher vocational salary system. At present, the salary of most of the higher vocational teachers is mainly composed of three parts: post salary,...

The article is devoted to the problem of exploring the prospects for the development of a futures market in the agrarian sector of the economy, which will provide savings for agricultural producers by increasing their creditworthiness, protection against possible fluctuations of prices, clearer planning...

Hierarchical teaching is a process that completes the individualization of students' learning and the synchronization of teachers' guidance and makes teaching become an efficient and unified process for teaching and learning activities. In the course of this research, students from the Jingdezhen Ceramic...

As a private university, Dalian University of Science and Technology always attaches great importance to strengthening party building. Through continuous promotion of the board of directors, the president's office, the party committee, the party and government joint meeting (hereinafter referred to as...

Male is one of the risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases. It is suggested that testosterone (T) may contribute to cardiovascular events, which is initiated by platelet adhesion, activation, and aggregation. Endothelial cells (EC) prevent platelet activation by synthesizing and releasing...

This study aims to determine the knowledge of school students on the threat of Urban Heat Island (UHI) in Surakarta City. This study uses a quantitative descriptive approach with survey methods and image interpretation. This study aims to determine the threat of UHI in Surakarta through image interpretation...

This research aimed to investigate the used of Computer-Based TOEIC by the students of bussiness administration, Bali State Polytechnic. The research method was descriptive qualitative method which emphasized on the objective measurement of the collected data. The data were collected through questionnaire...

The article focuses on the narrative structure of K. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. The phenomenon of Englishness as an ambivalent category is described through the peculiarities of the narrative structure of the literary text. The linguistic study of chronotope in the text under analysis makes it...

The study examines the impact of mergers on accounting performance of Greek listed firms involved in mergers. More specifically, we studied a sample of thirty-two absorbed listed firms in four sectors (primary sector, technology-intensive industrial sector, commercial and services sector, construction...

To provide affordable context recognition for general households, this paper presents a novel technique that integrate image-based cognitive Application Program Interface (API) and light-weight machine learning. Our key idea is to regard every image as a document by exploiting “tags” derived by the API....

Indonesia is a country that has the largest coconut plantation in the world, with its main copra products. The quality of copra produced from rural areas is low and complained by the international market because it is thought to contain aflatoxin. This paper describes the fast-drying machine to produce...

The limited availability of health resources in the high public demand requires the health programs and service providers, especially in Public Health Center (Puskesmas) to make efficiency. This study aims to provide information about the level of technical efficiency of Puskesmas in Indonesia in organizing...

This research is entitled “Bullying Effect as Reflected in Palacio’s Wonder: A Psychological Approach.” The objectives of the research are: 1) to describe the plot of the novel, 2) to describe the bullying effect experienced by the main character, and 3) to describe the moral value of the novel. The...

Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience autonomic dysfunction, with reduced sympathetic and parasympathetic control. This results in alterations in resting heart rate and blood pressure and attenuated responses to sympathoexcitatory stimuli. It is unknown to what extent this impacts...

Introduction: Previous studies show contradictory results related to the vascular effects of coffee; they suggest that caffeine increases arterial stiffness and negatively impacts vascular health, the aim of this study is to evaluate the acute coffee effects on the vascular stiffness. Methods and materials:...

Background: Double Burden of Malnutrition (DBM)—the coexistence of undernutrition along with overnutrition—is a significant public health issue in the Asia-Pacific region. The scope of the DBM in this region is largely unknown. This review aims to determine the prevalence of under- and overnutrition...

Purpose: To explore new imaging techniques to elucidate some of the differences between both abdominal and ascending aortic aneurysms in the angiotensin II mouse model. Procedures: Angiotensin II-infusing pumps were implanted in male ApoE−/− mice (n = 10). In vivo micro-CT, ultrasound and Positron emission...

This paper selects Quality Measure Theory as research method which is based on five dimensions of Parasuraman’s SERVQUAL to analyze the reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, and tangibility of Bali tourism product. In-depth interview method is also used to testify satisfaction of tour group...

With the development of society and the continuous progress of science and technology, the business environment is constantly changing. Among them, the civil aviation transportation industry is a relatively special case. In the traditional value chain, the civil aviation transportation industry is not...

This study aimed to identify and analyze the factors of education that affect the presentation of accounting information. The case study was conducted in Pharmaceutical wholesaler company (PBF) in Bandung City Indonesia. The method used in the research was a quantitative method by performing a linear...

This study focuses on teachers perceptions of the professional competence in the digital age. As a competent teacher is always required to improve knowledge, attitudes and skills continuously and keep up with the times as an effort to improve professional competence. This study aims to: 1) explore the...

Philosophy has a powerful role in training and cultivating people’s thinking quality with their strong speculative power. We must clearly understand the importance of philosophy education in basic education, especially in primary school education. On the basis of the analysis of the current situation...

To reduce the toxicity of oiled land plants-accumulators were used. Para-aminobenzoic acid and the biological preparation Baikal EM-1 were used with biologics and zeolite-containing clays. It was found that seeding accumulating plants treated with the Baikal EM-1 biological product, repeated watering...

Nowadays, the digital technology is a wildly use in education. There are many educational proposes from ICT such as teaching, learning, assessment and evaluating. Science is one of the problematic knowledge about nature, phenomena, substance, theory, and law. Also, it concerns in science process skill...

This qualitative descriptive study aimed to describe the profile of understanding layer of the Conic Section concept toward Mathematics Education Students 2016 of FKIP UKSW. The understanding layer includes eight layers, Primitive Knowing (Pk), Image Making (Im), Image Having (Ih), Property Noticing...

Translation is the process of transferring one language to another language by changing source language (SL) into target language (TL). Translation is the changing of one language into other language (Webster, 1984). Translation involves a process of language transmitting that turns out to be problematic...

Gender mainstreaming, as an effective strategy to realize gender equality, has become a guideline for the cause of gender equality and women's development and the promotion of public policy in China. Integrating gender equality and women's development into the strategy of harmonious society; Give full...

With the arrival of the new trade era, the development of cross-border e-commerce enterprises in China brings great opportunities and challenges. Cross-border e-commerce applied undergraduate talent training, not only related to the operation of cross-border e-commerce enterprises, but also has an important...

Modern requirements for resource saving seriously raise the issues of secondary use of basic raw materials and auxiliary materials in the production cycle. Food production, in addition, uses water in significant quantities and as an auxiliary material. Unconditional superiority in such processes is occupied...

Cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents should focus on education. This article elaborates the development of the innovation and entrepreneurship education training system of higher vocational college students from six aspects: perfecting the talent cultivation quality standard, improving...

In this paper, we established a model of the birth and death process with blocking growth. Based on the theory of stochastic process and the classical model of birth and death process, we calculated the expectation and variance of population. We also showed the influence of blocked items on the population...

There are some factors that influence the parents' and the community's participation. Therefore, this study was conducted to find the relationship between the education level and the income of the parents and their participation towards the implementation of education at schools. This study was conducted...

The purpose of this study is to explore how much influence of social support on teacher career perception of prospective teachers. This research uses descriptive correlational method with quantitative approach. The population of this research was 129 students of the 5th semester of Informatics Engineering...

This paper investigates a phenomenon of leadership and factors that determine the formation of an efficient leader. The methods of analysis, comparison, concretization, generalization are used as the operation methods. With the help of action methods scientific theories, confirmed practically, are systematized,...

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between personality traits, internship satisfaction, and employment intention, and whether personality traits are moderators of internship satisfaction and employment intention. The sample was 100 valid questionnaires collected from the students...

The conversion of maltose into trehalose has important applications in the manufacture of food and other products. The enzyme trehalose synthase (TreS) catalyzes the interconversion of maltose and trehalose with glucose as a byproduct. In this study, treS was cloned from Pseudomonas stutzeri Qlu3 genomic...

In the field of cloud manufacturing, in order to evaluate cloud service composition better, simulation could be introduced into the process of cloud service composition. This job requires adding simulation information to the service description document. Besides, for achieving the simulation of cloud...

The narrow particle size distribution of poly (vinyl silicone) microspheres were prepared by the hydrolysis-polycondensation method with vinyl silane (VTMS) as raw materials. And the influences of pH value, oil/water ratio on the morphology, particle size and distribution of the microspheres were studied....

Against the backdrop of educational reform, music education becomes more and more important in colleges and universities, by being the important constituent in quality-oriented educational structure in colleges and universities, which can not only cultivate students' music accomplishment, but also push...

To grasp the rules, highlight the key points and improve the integral level and quality of normal university's discipline construction, the concrete measures include: correctly handle the relationships between key breakthroughs and integral improvement, the implementation of requirement and long-term...

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is one of the world's concern with high morbidity and mortality which is marked by low bone density which makes the bone fragile and increases the risk of fracture. It had be known that estrogen plays a role in women's bone health, that is to maintain the activity of osteoblasts...

In this paper, China's paper-cutting animation theories are teased out by making use of the study methods related to semiology, by which a new level for studying China's paper-cutting animation theories was achieved. From the view of symbolic features and cultural connotation, this paper studies China's...

This paper is written to reveal the performance of directive speech acts by an English teacher in SMAN 1 Kediri, Indonesia. This speech act type is worth analyzing as this speech act frequently occurs in classroom interaction. Three points that become the focus of analysis are the type, function, and...

The main body of the new type of agriculture is the core force of the development of China's agricultural products e-commerce and the reform of the agricultural supply side. Providing effective policy support and encouragement to different types of new agricultural operators is a top priority for pushing...

As a reliable technology for connecting a new steel element to the existing concrete structures, the post-installed anchorage is widely used in the field of structural retrofit and strengthening. In order to analyze the mechanical behavior of post-installed anchorage between steel and concrete under...

Along with the advancement of technology, the usage of Computer-Based Test (CBT) is increasing. However, many problems emerge due to this matter, such as equivalency issue which has been widely examined. Another emerging critical issue is its relation with individual differences aspect of test takers...

For mode I surface-cracks detected from structures, a method to evaluate stress intensity factors Kest was suggested by measuring the opening displacement distributions along the crack and calculating stress distributions around it. The stress intensity factors of surface-cracks with different lengths...

The World now is facing the common enemy namely terrorism, and Islam becomes one of world culprits as an actor of terror. The doctrine of jihad is accused as the cause of radicalism in Islam. Jihad is considered as an emotional expression which is implemented by terror actions, taking some Indonesian...