The book contains detailed descriptions of the unique desert environment with particular emphasis on vegetation and survival strategies of plants. Nine expeditions through the Southwest of Western Australia over a period of 15 years triggered the interest of the authors to explore also some deserts in the region, which leads to three further excursions into the sandy dunes of the desert. Observ…
This book provides examples of pollutants, such as accidental oil spills and non-degradable plastic debris, which affect marine organisms of all taxa. Terrestrial runoff washes large amounts of dissolved organic materials from agriculture and industry, toxic heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and persistent organic pollutants which end up into rivers, coastal habitats, and open waters. While this b…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems, EMAS 2021, which was held during May 3-4, 2021. The conference was initially planned to take place in London, UK, but changed to an online event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 20 full papers and 1 short paper included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from …
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first International Workshop on Cancer Prevention through Early Detection, CaPTion, held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, in Singapore, Singapore, in September 2022. The 16 papers presented at CaPTion 2022 were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 s…
This book focuses on understanding the shoreline dynamics, nearshore processes and sediment transport around Rameswaram Island and the cities of Dhanushkodi and Arichamunai. Rameswaram Island is located between the Gulf of Mannar on the south and Palk Bay on the north, between the southern tip of India and Sri Lanka, and is unique in terms of physical, chemical and biological processes. The Gul…
This new volume, Biological Assessment of Natural and Anthropogenic Ecosystems: Trends in Diagnosis of Environmental Stress, diverse methods and achievements in assessing the biological state of ecosystems are presented, biochemical, genetic and cytological methods are used, methodological achievements in this area are discussed in this volume. Experimental and practical aspects of the genetic …
The development of level 5's Minimum Competency Assessment questions using Liveworsheets at UPT SMA Negeri 8 Ogan Ilir Regency is aimed to (1) describe the assessment of the students' and teacher's needs; (2) construct products in the form of AKM reading literacy questions level 5; (3) describe the feasibility of the product in accordance to experts; (4) describe the results of validity and tes…
Background: Dental anxiety refers to fear responses triggered by different factors, primarily dental procedures. Among these procedures, tooth extraction is known to contribute to the development of dental anxiety in children. One effective approach to mitigate this anxiety involves using audio distraction techniques. These techniques involve using auditory stimuli to divert children's attentio…
This book analyses the theoretical and methodological foundations of ecotourism and geotourism and examines the essence, content, factors, and models of ecotourism development. The authors conducted research to assess the tourist and recreational potential of ecotourism in Kazakhstan. The study analyses the current state and describes the problems of the long-term development of ecotourism. Bes…
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membuktikan pengaruh model pembelajaran discovery learning terhadap minat belajar peserta didik pada mata pelajaran ekonomi kelas XI IPS 2 SMA Negeri 1 Palembang. Metode penelitian ini adalah eksperimen dengan desain penelitian pre eksperimental dalam bentuk one- group pretest-posttest design. Populasi pada penelitian ini adalah seluruh peserta didik kelas XI IPS …
Production of coffee in Indonesia ranks fourth largest after rubber, coconut and palm oil. Pagaralam is one of the coffee producers in South Sumatra Indonesia Country, with a production of 20.153 tons and the number of farmers in coffee farming is 9,321 families card. This research aims to represent the variables that are significantly related to the net income of farmers in graphical form usin…
Pricing strategy is very important for a business in determining prices with the aim of maximizing profits. This research aims to find out the pricing strategy for Betawi soto and determine the profit level of each Betawi soto producer. The analytical method used is descriptive qualitative with cross tabulation analysis. The data used in this research is primary data obtained through interviews…
This book features selected papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Nanoelectronics, Circuits and Communication Systems (NCCS 2019). It covers a range of topics, including nanoelectronic devices, microelectronics devices, material science, machine learning, Internet of things, cloud computing, computing systems, wireless communication systems, advances in communication 5G and …
This study aims to determine the influence of career development on employee performance at PT Indotruck Utama Palembang Branch. The research method used is a quantitative method. The data used in this research is primary data collected by the questionnaire technique. The sampling technique used was saturated sampling. The population in this study is all employees at PT Indotruck Utama Palemban…
Tax revenue is the biggest source of income for the state. This study aims to analyze the factors that have an impact on motor vehicle tax compliance in the city of Palembang. The factors analyzed were Tax Knowledge, Tax Comprehension, Financial Literacy, Tax Sanctions, and Taxpayer Awareness. This research is a quantitative research. The research method used is the Path Analysis method, the me…
penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh Financial Distress,audit tenure,fee audit,opini audit terhadap auditor switching di perusahaan LQ45 yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia.Teknik analisis menggunakan SPSS versi 27.0 dengan statistik deskriptifdan analisisdan regresi logistik (logistic regression), yaitu dengan melihat pengaruh dari variabel independen antara lain Financial Distre…