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This project studies unsupervised timbre representation learning using a lightweight convolutional Variational Autoencoder (VAE) trained on log-mel spectrograms of monophonic instrument notes. Timbre is a multidimensional perceptual attribute shaped by harmonic structure, spectral envelope, and transient...

China’s rapid economic growth over the past four decades has been accompanied by a widening wealth gap and systemic inequities in access to education, healthcare, and employment. With a Gini coefficient of 0.466 for income and 0.704 for household net assets, inequality is entrenched through housing disparities,...

In the alluvial plain area of the Ush Talar River, there is a widespread distribution of fine saline soils. Due to the special properties of fine saline soils, they are highly prone to issues such as salt heaving, thaw settlement, and mud pumping, which often cause harm to engineering structures. Water-salt...

Network protocol conformance testing is a functional black box testing. It tests whether that if the implementation of a protocol consistent with consists with the protocol standards according to the protocol text description. A method of network protocol conformance testing with Petri net is presented....

This paper analyzes the global legislation on river basins, especially the Rhine River protection convention in Europe and the Tennessee River basin authority act in the United States, and evaluates the legislation on river basins by analyzing the changes in the economic environment of the river basins....

As China's economy continues to develop, people's living standards have improved, the material life demands more and more people prefer to buy clothing of luxury brands, so as to promote China to become a luxury consumer. At the same time the economic development also contributed to the progress of science...

In the millennial era, technology has become a necessity and been used in various fields. Technology is often used as a medium to support the process of teaching and learning. Pesantren as one of the educational institutions also facing to technology. This paper aims to describe the readiness of santri...

Modern business entities face a significant number of problems, which ultimately lead to crises and unprofitability. In many ways, these states are due to insufficient amount of operational information for making management decisions. The role of this kind of information is difficult to overestimate...

Service-oriented software system is facing a challenge to regulate itself promptly because of the evolving Internet environment and user requirements. In order to effectively control software of SOA dynamic evolution, by the formal tool Workflow-net, software of SOA model which is composed of four basic...

In view of the cost of traditional design of new fonts, a method of combining deep learning for font style conversion is proposed. By using a U-Net type network structure combining the training method of generative adversarial network, supervised learning part of fonts, the font style conversion ability...

Radio-controlled (RC) car is an interesting leisure activity. RC car motion is controlled by operator's hand. Left hand is to control the throttle and the right hand is to control the direction. A novel physiological index to assess the learning level of operator is proposed in this article. Twelve expert...

Detecting plant diseases quickly is crucial for maintaining good crop yields and sustainable farming. Current approaches often depend on manual inspection or heavy convolutional neural networks that are computationally expensive and too large to run on IoT devices. To address these issues, this proposed...

Oxidation Ditch Algae Reactor (ODAR) is a wastewater treatment reactor utilizing symbiosis between algal cultures and bacteria. ODAR reactors have large circular basin equipped with aerators. Pathogenic Escherichia coli is believed to mostly live in the contaminated area, which it could influence human...

The secondary effluetn of Printing and Dyeing industry wastewater is a typical low load and refractory wastewater. The COD concentration is between 150-200 mg/L. In this pilot study, the treatment effect of lignite-coke and ceramic filter BAF was investigated. By comparison with the laboratory scale...

Based on SBR we discussed on biological removal phosphorus system. In the reaction temperature at 15 and 25 under the conditions of influent COD/TP ratio and COD load of sludge. Total phosphorus concentration of influent was be constant for 10 ± 0.5mg / L, compared to anaerobic paragraph at the end of...

At present, manage systems for entertainment performance chains are built to work as agents to collaborate all participants, such as troupes, theatres and audience etc. Analyzing and mining the mechanism of behaviors of participants is an important issue which can be important gudie to establish such...

Independent college is a special product of the higher education development in China. Due to its own characteristics of independent college, there are many differences in cooperation with companies from the ordinary universities. In this paper, analyze the conditions of the college-enterprise cooperation,...

This study aims to explore groups of intellectual capital items that can measure well the values of company intellectual capital, especially SMEs in Padang. Then developed an intellectual capital model that can be implemented for SME’s, especially in Padang. The population in this study is all micro,...

Road traffic accidents cause hundreds of thousands of injuries, deaths, and economic costs annually, and hence the prediction of severity is significant for effective rescue resource allocation and policy intervention [1]. Machine learning (ML) has been shown to be a valuable tool in achieving the patterns...

Ultrasonic extraction was studied by using single factor test using ethanol as extract material and ethanol extraction method. The results showed that the factors affecting the extraction of flavonoids from grapefruit were in the order of ratio of material to liquid, ultrasonic power, extraction time...

The characteristic of chemical composition of X80 pipeline steel, the microstructure and the existing problems under the condition of high heat input welding were introduced in this paper. The micro-alloyed process of Nb, Ti, V elements in X80 pipeline steel and the influence on the mechanical properties...

In order to verify the feasibility and innovation of grey clustering method for the introduction of weight theory in water quality evaluation. Ming-guan campus of Hebei University of Engineering set up 8 monitoring points to continue water quality monitoring in Handan for 7 days as a cycle of October,...

This paper analyses Tesla’s position and performance in the new energy vehicle industry. Tesla’s leadership in electric vehicle technology and brand influence has contributed to the popularity and marketability of electric vehicles, driving the automotive industry towards sustainable energy. Global market...

In view of some problems in current college English teaching, such as mostly relying on books and textbooks, single teaching resources, outdated teaching contents and low interest of students, etc. In this paper, the author developed a Web-based sharing platform for college English teaching resources....

March 11, 2011, the Richter 9.0 earthquake (defined by Japan Meteorological Agency) occurred in the east of Japan, the epicentre was located at 38.1° N, 142.6° E. tsunami triggered by the Earthquake is claimed up to 23 meters. The combination effect of earthquake and tsunami lead to the Fukushima nuclear...

The judge’s confidence in handing down criminal penalties against the child as the perpetrator of criminal theft should best reflect justice and have benefits for all parties, both child and victim. The study aims to know how the judge’s conviction in handing out criminal penalties against the child...

In this paper, we propose a framework for building a human-machine language dictionary. Given a concept/word, an application can extract the definition of the concept from the dictionary, and consequently “understand” its meaning. In the dictionary, a concept is defined through its relations with other...

Daqing oilfield was put into production in 1960. Excellent achievement is acquired. It has maintain the production of 5000ž104 tons / year for 27 years and 5500ž104 tons / year for 13 years. Main technologies adopted in Daqing oilfield include early-stage water flooding for pressure maintenance, separate-zone...

In this paper, the acicular ferrite nucleation induced by inclusions in pipeline steel welding heat affected zone is researched, including the acicular ferrite nucleation induced by the in-situ reaction inclusions, the acicular ferrite nucleation induced by the formed inclusions after the micro-alloying...

Luxury goods sales are expected to cool down in the Chinese market in 2024. The performance of jewelry is also poor. This is related to the changing consumer attitudes of Chinese consumers. The main consumer group for luxury goods in China is high net worth individuals. The consumption concept of this...

The influence of growth regulators was studied based on yield and quality of table variety 'Moldova' and by the dynamics of post-harvest storage. The use of growth regulators during 30% fungicide load reduction enhances the weight of grapes and berries harvest by 11-14%, increases the mass concentration...

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In order to improve the information management level in the process of automobile tire tread production, the actual condition for the tire production process is analyzed in this paper. The information management system of the extruding line in the process of automobile tire tread manufacturing is designed...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of continuous shade stress during procreation growth stage on isoflavone and lignin accumulation in developing soybean seed. The results showed that continuous shade stress during procreation growth stage could improve the isoflavone and lignin accumulation,...

As a kind of magnesium rich material, magnesium olivine has been proved to be a kind of artificial wetland substrate, which has a good effect on phosphorus removal. Therefore, it selected firing of the magnesium olivine under the 800 , 1000 , 1600 as the research object. The characteristics of phosphorus...

The reduction of major shareholders of listed companies has always been the focus of the market, the important shareholders "clearance" reduction of the case is more common. As of today, the GEM in April 2016 to now, there are 479 listed companies, which have a significant reduction in the behavior of...

The research object is complex-resistant grape varieties. Intensively growing green shoots of grapes were taken as initial samples which were cut into single-eye cuttings and then meristems were extracted in laminar boxes. Experiments have shown that regeneration of shoots from extracted apexes occurred...

This study focuses on analyzing the policy network in improving the quality of the Meranti slum area in Pekanbaru City as part of the effort to realize sustainable cities and settlements. Using a qualitative approach, data was collected through focus group discussions (FGDs) involving key stakeholders...

Compared to time-domain photoacoustic imaging, frequency-domain photoacoustic (FDPA) imaging has much more potential in a clinical setting because of its smaller size and lower cost. Elements. However, because of its poorer signal-to-noise ratio, the FDPA system requires sophisticated image reconstruction...

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) has been widely used in many fields for its advantages of small size, high efficiency, simple structure and low noise. In order to further improve performance of PMSM, it is necessary to do further research of its control strategy. Therefore, this paper mainly...

We used the 7-year-old Zizyphus jujuba 'Zhanshanmizao' as a test material, and sprayed three different concentrations of GA3(50 mg/L, 100 mg/L and 200 mg/L) to it on January 30, 2017. The dynamic changes of antioxidant substances (SOD, POD, O2- and MDA) were measured after the management in order to...

This research applied content analysis by using descriptive approach. The object of the research is pragmatic content in the series of Indonesian ELT textbooks for high school issued by the Ministry of Education of Republic of Indonesia. Moreover, the documents were gathered from the conversation or...

To provide a amplitude, frequency programmable current signal with high precision for fault detection of 10kv rural power line this paper presented a high precision current signal source using DDS (Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis) technology. The system includes two parts which are signal generator...

Nonfinancial disclosures have become a key element in the development of strategic management policies for all types of companies in all sectors. This study focuses on the importance of nonfinancial disclosures in Russia by reviewing their evolution in the 21st century and examining the percentage of...

Investment decisions are an important part of the pre-investment process. The correct method of decision making for investment projects directly affects the investment benefit of the project. However, various investment decision methods and theoretical analyses have deficiencies. These deficiencies will...

Existing studies on investment decisions have found that for rational investors no matter how many decision-making methods or economic markets there are, the decisions they make when investing will maximize their interests. To analyze how stakeholders make investing decisions, in this paper, we firstly...

Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a common degenerative joint condition that affects millions worldwide. Effective therapy requires early diagnosis and precise staging. The study introduces OA-Net, a sophisticated Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) framework intended for multi-stage knee OA severity classification...

Tesla is an American electric car and energy company that makes and sells electric cars, solar panels, and energy storage equipment. We analyze how can Tesla buy and sell the machines in the most profitable way. Based on photovoltaic (PV) and net present value (NPV) rules, the infinite time optimal machine...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of intercropping with Solanum photeinocarpum and Solanum nigrum from two climate-ecology regions (Ya'an campus and Chengdu campus) on photosynthetic characteristics of eggplant under cadmium (Cd) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment:...

In order to optimize the passenger security process, in the paper, a passenger security service process of an international airport in the United States were analyzed and a detailed Petri network model were given. Then, the Markov chain, which is isomorphic to the model were established according to...