High-quality Development Effectiveness of Provincial Regions in China: Data-driven Evaluation and Spatio-temporal Characteristics

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Healthy and sustainable high-quality development needs to rely on scientific planning and design of assessment system, enabling high-quality assessment to become an important tool to lead and drive high-quality development in China. A high-quality development evaluation index system is proposed, consisting of six dimensions: economic operation, innovation-driven, coordinated development, green ecology, open development, and sharing and harmony, and the temporal and spatial Differentiation in China’s inter-provincial high-quality development levels are discussed after being measured using the entropy weight method. The results show that from the time dimension, China’s overall high quality development level shows a fluctuating upward trend with an obvious growth rate, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai maintained a high level of high-quality development during this period. From the spatial dimension, it is found that China’s high-quality development level has a significant positive spatial correlation between regions from 2014 to 2020, with a stable “high-high” agglomeration in the eastern coastal areas and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the “low-high” agglomeration is mainly distributed in the central plains, and the “low-low” agglomeration effect in the western provinces and regions has spread on a larger scale after 2015, with significant performance in the north-western provinces and regions.

Menstruation and Sex Hormones in Covid-19: Effects in Women of Child-Bearing Age

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Numerous studies have examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women’s mental health and menstrual cycles. However, most of these studies only included outpatients with COVID-19, whereas information on hospitalised women is minimal. ACE 2 is essential for the SAR-CoV2 virus to enter human cells and the human ovary. Since it stimulates steroid secretion, aids in follicle development and oocyte growth, influences ovulation, and maintains the corpus luteum, it stimulates steroid secretion and aids in follicle development and oocyte growth. Hospitalised female COVID-19 patients exhibit menstrual changes and heightened symptoms of mental health disorders. Length of isolation was the most influential factor in overall menstrual changes and mental health in female COVID-19 hospitalised patients. Infection with COVID-19 may affect the menstrual cycle in females. Further prospective research is required to confirm these findings and determine the duration of these menstrual irregularities.

Gene Variants and Epigenetics That Lead to Gender Dysphoria

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These days, the rate of gender dysphoria among transgender individuals has increased drastically. Gender dysphoria is a significant issue affecting every aspect of individuals’ daily activities. It induces significant stress and might eventually cause an impairment. Historically, the etiology of gender dysphoria solely focused on the anatomical aspect, mentioning that men’s and women’s brains are distinct. However, it is now believed to be multifactorial, and emerging researchers are trying to shed light on both brain structures and genes that might contribute to gender dysphoria. To explore the possible etiologies of gender dysphoria, this paper reviews the evidence of how epigenetics contributes to gender dysphoria. The basis includes the role of sex-determining genes, anatomical differences among various populations, epigenetics, and mutation of the RYR3 gene. Epigenetics focuses solely on CpGs methylation. Thus far, these mechanisms could not wholly explain the exact mechanism causing gender dysphoria; therefore, additional research is required to disclose this information. Ultimately, understanding the mechanism of gender dysphoria will promote a better quality of life for individuals experiencing gender dysphoria.

Study of the Processes in Swelling of Expanded Clay Masses Based On Raw Materials of Uzbekistan

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The article investigates the possibilities of obtaining high–quality expanded clay based on the clay of the Gurlen deposit of the Republic of Uzbekistan, with additives from local oil and fat combines – gossypol pitch and local dune sand of Tuprakkala massif. It is determined that the addition of gossypol pitch to the raw mixture within the specified limits significantly increases the swelling of the mass. It was also determined that the addition of dune sand to the mass (together with gossypol pitch) in moderate quantities contributes to an increase in mechanical strength and lengthening of the swelling interval of experimental expanded clay samples.

Transformation of Public Transport Based on Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and Implementation of Buy the Service (BTS) Scheme in A Metropolitan City of Sarbagita, Bali

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The level of congestion in Indonesia’s big cities, including Denpasar, is already so severe. This is inseparable from the phenomenon where most people in Indonesia now have a car transportation system that is growing rapidly. Furthermore, the city is characterized by high car dependence and a low and steadily declining public transport profile. The Indonesian government seeks to transform the public transportation industry so that drivers want to change to public transportation through the implementation of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and most recently, in 2020 the government through the Ministry of Transportation launched the “Buy the Service” program or known as BTS which has been implemented in Indonesia. 5 big cities, namely: Palembang, Solo, Medan, Yogyakarta, and Denpasar. Then followed by Bandung, Makassar, Banjarmasin, Surabaya, and Banyumas in 2021. However, there is an indication that the interest of private car users to switch to using public transportation is very small. The study is intended to evaluate of service or transit improvement. Identify different categories of impacts and how to measure them, discuss the best way to evaluate public transport and identify common mistakes that distort results as well as discuss the travel impacts of changes to the transit system (BRT) and incentives (BTS). The results of this study are expected to explain ways to optimize transit benefits by increasing system efficiency, increasing passengers and creating more transit-oriented land use patterns.

Prediction of Financial Distress on Properties and Real Estate in Indonesia

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Financial distress is a stage of decline in financial conditions which occurred before the onset of bankruptcy. This study was conducted with the aim of knowing the effect of Operating Capacity, Sales Growth, and Debt to Equity Ratio in predicting Financial Distress in property and real estate companies on Indonesian Stock Exchange in 2018-2020. The research method which is used is quantitative research. The sampling technique used purposive sampling method, namely the selection of samples with criteria that have been determined by the researcher. The data used is secondary data in the form of financial statements of property and real estate companies listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange for the 2018-2020 period. The companies selected as the research sample were 38 companies so that the total observations were 114 observations. Financial distress is included as dummy variable, and it is categorized as 1 (one) for companies which experiencing financial distress and 0 (zero) for companies which is not experiencing in financial distress. The result of this study shows that operating capacity sales growth and debt to equity ratio do not affect the company’s probability of experiencing financial distress.

Transformational and Instructional Leadership Styles to Improve Teacher Performance: Literature Review

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The importance of transformational and instructional leadership styles of principals is interesting to study. There are several articles on Transformational and Instructional leadership style reviews found. This literature review aims to determine the transformational and instructional leadership styles of school principals to improve teacher performance. Based on the results of the literature review, it was found that there was a significant relationship between the transformational leadership style and the principal’s instructional style to improve teacher performance, which was seen from the increase in teacher performance and teacher job satisfaction in schools. The results of the review article show a significant relationship between transformational and instructional leadership styles in improving teacher performance in schools. There is a positive relationship between transformational and instructional leadership styles and can have a positive and significant influence on teacher behavior and teacher job satisfaction. Principal’s Transformational and Instructional Leadership is one of the factors that encourage schools to achieve goals actively and efficiently.

Effect of Cadmium Nitrate on Acute Toxicity of Fish Channa Punctatus at 24 Hr. by Dragstedt and Behren’s Method

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This study was carried out on fish channa punctatus to investigate the lethal concentration of cadmium nitrate on fish channa punctatus at 24 hr.
Experiment procedure was repeated five times at the selected cadmium nitrate concentrations, noting the number of fish killed. The mean value was taken. These values were taken to determine LC50 value for 24 hr.
Toxicity of heavy metals it may be depends upon the dose and time of exposure period.

Alzheimer’s disease: Prevention Strategy

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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the age-related infections which can develop to Dementia and nowadays both pervasiveness and rate of dementia rise considerably with propelling age Aβ plaques are commonly found in Alzheimer’s patients. neurofibrillary tangles are irregular growth of protein in the brain. Paul Block and George Mannesco believe that Aβ plaques exist, after they discovered circular buildup. AD is eventually caused by neuronal malfunction and death. Aβ cellulose bodies are considered to be less poisonous than Aβ oligomers. A union of blood pressure in adulthood will increase their risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In the research they found out that old people with 75+ years and the following period are having more risk of dementia and AD. BMI has a bifacial association with dementia and AD has several studies. Due to the uncertain pathophysiological mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease, it is crucial for selecting a precise target population, need for a large sample size, and high cost of the prevention research, it has been a main issue to conduct primary prevention trials. Commonly, healthy seniors are a primary target demographic. Non-pharmacological treatments are helping the patient by enhancing a protective lifestyle like doing physical exercise and a healthy diet. Biomarkers have a priority role to design which group will get in preventative trials, a higher risk of progression of dementia will cut down the studies, however it will decrease the general public’s ability to find the entire community. Primary prevention will evade illness and accomplice pathologies before they arise. Additionally, secondary prevention contains screening to detect disease in its early stages. Tertiary prevention is treating an illness to avoid complex injuries and disability. In a research study, the use of drugs, vitamins, or lifestyle treatments can prevent Alzheimer’s disease, according to the natural definition term the outcome can be a lot of different paths. The possibility of clinical research of AD prevention is full of obstacles.

The Effect of Net Income, Total Cash Flow, And Company Size on Stock Price (Empirical Study on Banking Companies on the IDX)

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This study is to examine the effect of net income, total cash flow and company size on stock prices in the Go Public Banking sector on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The population of this study is 43 banks and the research sample is 28 banks that can be
Sampled in the research period 2018 to 2020 and banks that go public on the IDX. This study uses the analysis method of normality test, t test, f test and correlation analysis, determinant coefficient and multiple linear regression using SPSS version 25 software.
The conclusion of this study is that the net income variable (X1) has a significant and positive effect on stock prices, the total cash flow variable (X2) has no significant effect on stock prices and the firm size variable (X3) has an insignificant and negative effect on stock prices. Meanwhile, simultaneously, net income, total cash flow, and company size have a significant effect on stock prices of banking companies listed on the Indonesia Stoct Exchange (IDX) in 2018 – 2020.