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During the pandemic, the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has had a tremendous and massive impact on the entire cross-level education system in Indonesia and the global realm. This study aimed to look at the reflections of gamification activities that are used as a formative assessment tool in learning environments based on academic accomplishment and teachers' engagement. The existing resource presented in this study in the form of 'Quizizz' can effectively transform formal education patterns into online education patterns assisted by virtual classrooms and other online learning media for the evaluation process. The method used in this research is phenomenology to investigate the perspectives and experiences of Indonesian secondary school teachers about remote Quizizz evaluation during the COVID19 pandemic to determine the teacher's perspectives and experiences for media utilisation strategies in the online evaluation. The results of this study indicate that in learning activities during the COVID-19 pandemic, training is needed for teachers to respond to and overcome problems related to changes in the online evaluation process in the education system. Identifying teachers' perspectives and experiences for an online-based evaluation process during the pandemic will contribute positively to achieving maximum student-learning goals and outcomes.

The context of this research aims to analyse the effects of entrepreneurial creativity (EC) empirically on entrepreneurial intention through structural equation modelling by proposing and testing the model that has been developed previously developed. The goal of this study is to understand some of the determinants of entrepreneurial intention among university students consisting of 1,035 respondents. The research findings by testing EC and entrepreneurial intention (EI) models show that student creativity at the university has a very high level of significance in influencing students' own entrepreneurial intention. Moreover, it is followed by creativity within family and the individuals' creativity. The research findings will later become recommendations and options for campus policy in fostering student EI, especially for university students.

This study is intended to obtain standard instruments of the educative family life. Its construct has been formulated based on the research results of family factors influencing the success of the children at school. The instruments involve children measurement instrument (CMI) and mother measurement instrument (MMI) that apply forced-choice scale inventories. The instrument calibration methods are test of construct validity, content validity--face validity, empirical validity and reliability. Through the calibration of the instruments, the results of the 573 family samples revealed the following results: 1) the construct of 12 family variables described the variations in the educational family life as 38.47% child perception and 41.15% mother perception; 2) 45.85% of the items of structure dimension of CMI are valid; 3) 70.50% of the items of process dimension of CMI are valid; 4) 45.65% of the structural dimension of MMI are valid; 5) 80% of the process dimension of MMI are valid; and 6) both instruments, CMI and MMI, are reliable.

At present time, information technology (IT) is widely used in society. At any level of school, students use them for a variety of reasons to find, share, and discuss specific topics. By using technology, integrating IT into the basic professional learning curriculum course has not been created into a new format of instructional design. The purpose of this study is to find out how students feel about the platform and how they use technology in a basic professional learning curriculum course. It is a quantitative descriptive research that assesses students' perceptions of information technology in relation to specific topics. According to the findings of the study, the majority of students in the age range of 20-21 years stated that the most appropriate platform to be integrated in the basic professional learning curriculum course and learning efficiency was achieved for the majority of them by the age range of the respondents from 17 to 19 years. IT has infiltrated virtually every facet of society, including education. It is envisaged that the findings of this study would be used as a foundation for the development of IT integration in basic professional learning curriculum courses in order to maximize student learning outcomes.

It is crucial to address uncertainties in the construction project scheduling to mitigate delays. Probabilistic simulation offers a viable alternative method. This study examined the relationship between project duration and delay risks, as well as identified the most influential activities for modest housing projects using Monte Carlo Simulation. The simulation analysis, which included 2547 iterations, found that, on average, it took 87.39 days to complete a 54-type modest house project, with the shortest and longest durations being 44 and 149 days, respectively. The sensitivity analysis revealed that finishing works, such as painting, doors/windows installation, and cleaning, had the highest uncertainty and significantly affected the project duration. Additionally, the severity analysis showed that wall work was the most impactful activity contributing to delays. Based on these analyses, both finishing works and wall work were identified as the most critical activities significantly influencing the project's completion duration.

In Indonesia, conflict over norms or disharmony in laws and regulations is a legal problem that often occurs. This is motivated by the existence of several legal mechanisms that overlap between the regulations below and the regulations above. As happened in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province between customary law and positive law, which in this case is Qanun law. In this article, we will discuss efforts to harmonize norms between customary law and Qanun in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam using descriptive qualitative methods. Efforts to resolve disharmony in statutory regulations are resolved by several alternatives, namely: 1) Right to Judicial Review of Legislative Regulations; 2) Constitutional Route; 3) Minister of Law and Human Rights Regulation Number 23 of 2018 concerning Harmonization of Draft Ministerial Regulations, Draft Regulations of Non-Ministerial Government Institutions, or Draft Regulations from Non-structural Institutions by Legislative Regulation Makers issued by the Ministry of Law and Human Rights; 4) Regulation of the Minister of Law and Human Rights Number 2 of 2019 concerning Resolving Disharmony in Legislative Regulations Through Mediation.

In one of the smelter projects at West Kalimantan, access road construction was planned to use soil embankment above the geo-membrane layer. But this method is not highly effective considering rainfall intensity is very high in the project location. Therefore, optimization needs to be done to obtain the most effective method in terms of cost and timely accomplishment of the access road. The optimization method is done by making a comparison matrix of the output results of the running simulation schedule on software. From the several methods proposed, the duration of completion, completion costs, and resource requirements are compared and scored to get the most optimized method. Other than that, carbon emissions resulting from each method are also compared. The optimization result concluded that boulder stone layer addition with optimum quantity in the embankment is the most optimal method considering the remaining time and encountering intensive rainfall. This optimized method can result in an accelerated construction duration of 140 days, cost efficiency of 11.46%, and a reduction in carbon emissions of 44% compared to the initial method. This optimization method is expected can be applied to access road embankment projects of soft soil areas in other locations, especially in the Kalimantan region.

The aim of this study is to find out the factors on counsellor's effective skills towards the effects obtained through students' career guidance. Data from Secondary High School Department (DIKMEN) were analysed to investigate the mediation effect of counsellors' counselling skills to career guidance by applying SPSS 18.0. There was continual increase of self-efficacy regarding to students' satisfaction with the skilled career guidance counsellors. This study investigated the long-term stability of the positive effects obtained quantitatively done by the counsellors with improved effective counselling skills on students' career guidance. The result of the study showed that there are seven factors which become the key factors to effective counseling skill to improve the effective counseling skill and the effectiveness of individual counseling namely; attending, leading, reflecting, summarizing, interpreting, confronting, and informing/ advising. By acquiring those seven skills, the counselors contributed significantly to improve the effectiveness of individual counseling towards career guidance.

Background: Rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (R-CHOP) chemotherapy remains the standard of first-line treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). Up to 40% of DLBCL is characterized by relapse and refractory after treatment. Preliminary study reported Hypoxia-inducible factor-1a (HIF-1a) overexpression in 88.5% of DLBCL tumors in the Dr. Kariadi Hospital. Moreover, the role of hypoxia and HIF-1a has previously never been explored in DLBCL. Objectives: To evaluate the effect of hypoxia modulation to increased chemotherapeutic response in DLBCL. Methods: Single blind randomized control study was performed, with pre-test and post-test control group design. Research sampling consisted of DLBCL patients. The inclusion criteria include newly diagnosed DLBCL with HIF-1a overexpression and randomized to receive hypoxia modulation consisting of carbogen inhalation and nicotinamide administration, before R-CHOP chemotherapy. The tissue biopsy, histopathology and immunohistochemical studies were done. Chemotherapeutic responses were evaluated after 10-14 days following the first cycle of R-CHOP chemotherapy. Results: Out of twenty-six DLBCL participants with HIF-1a overexpression, there were 20 participants who completed the research protocol: 10 participants each in the intervention and control group. Demographic, clinicopathological, laboratory and disease characteristics were not statistically different between the two research groups (p>0.05). Baseline tumor volume to be evaluated was also considered equal (172.3 cm3 vs. 152.8 cm3 , p=0.597). Following the carbogen inhalation and nicotinamide administration, serum HIF-1a and lactate reduction can be observed. There was also a significant tumor volume shrinkage in both the intervention and control (mean -85.7 cm3 vs. -118.27 cm3 ) group, though the reduction was not statistically different (Delta 58.85% vs. 65.63%, p=0.474). Conclusion: The addition of hypoxia modulation to R-CHOP chemotherapy for DLBCL has shown beneficial effects on both serum HIF-1a and lactate concentration. However, the benefits did not correlate to increase a better tumor response compared to the control group.

Pekerjaan peningkatan jalan menjadi suatu kebutuhan yang tidak dapat dielakkan guna mendapatkan infrastruktur transportasi yang lebih handal. Dukungan perencanaan anggaran dan estimasi biaya yang baik oleh karenanya harus dilakukan. Model persamaan prediksi anggaran dan biaya dengan Artificial Neural Network (ANN) menjadi alternatif solusinya. ANN menuntut rancangan arsitektur jaringan yang tepat guna memperoleh model dengan tingkat akurasi yang tinggi. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui jumlah efektif neuron dalam hidden layer yang memberikan hasil model persamaan ANN dengan tingkat akurasi tinggi dengan nilai Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) kecil. Pengembangan model didasarkan pada 33 data pekerjaan peningkatan jalan aspal di Provinsi Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta dari tahun 2010 sampai dengan tahun 2021. Delapan belas variabel proyek yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap total biaya pekerjaan digunakan sebagai data input model ANN dan dianalisis dengan berbagai variasi data model dan validator. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa variasi jumlah neuron dalam hidden layer menghasilkan nilai MAPE dengan pola tidak beraturan yang mana tingkat akurasi sangat dipengaruhi oleh data input dan validator. Namun demikian secara umum model dengan jumlah neuron dalam hidden layer 11/­3 kali lipat dari jumlah variabel input menjanjikan hasil akurasi paling tinggi.

Geopolymer concrete is concrete without cement. Cement replacement due to cement production has resulted in a global warming effect. Fly ash as a substitute for cement is a waste of coal production containing pozzolan properties. Concrete must have reliable mechanical properties of the modulus of rupture. This research aims to study the influence of the modulus of rupture on the steam curing of geopolymer concrete-based fly ash as a substitute for cement and alkaline activator of 12 Mol NaOH: Na2SiO3 (3:1). The applied steam curing temperatures are 60oC, 70oC, and 80oC. After steam curing, the sample is stored at ambient curing and submerged in water. The sample beam is 15 x 15 cm x 60 cm to find the value of the modulus of rupture. The test results obtained a modulus of rupture concrete geopolymer steam curing temperature of 80 and ambient curing of 3.87 MPa. Steam curing of 70oC and ambient curing of 3,71 MPa. Steam curing of 60oC and the ambient curing is 2.71MPa. It can be concluded that the higher the steam curing temperature the value of the modulus of rupture is higher.