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Who is the Better Leader?

Based on Linear Regression and Neural Network Model to Predict the Post Election Performance of the United States

Zeheng Zhang, Yi Jing, Weihua Li, Zenyu Guo, Yixuan Zhao
The general election of the United States has ended, and Biden has been elected president of the United States. Domestic and international scholars in the United States are studying Biden’s economic and political adjustments in different ways, especially the differences compared with trump's....

The effect of perceived service quality of visitors to Nanning Garden Expo Park on their intention to revisit the park

Changyuan Huang, Tatchapong Sattabut, Chaiyawit Muangmee
Research Purpose: To analyze the impact of visitors’ service quality perception on revisit intention in Nanning Garden Expo Park. This study utilizes a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to conduct in-depth interviews with senior managers of enterprises, experts in the field...

Revolutionizing Loan Verification in Banking: The Role of Smart Contracts

Maruf Ahmed, Luo Song
The financial industry is evolving with the adoption of blockchain technology, addressing traditional challenges like inefficiency, fraud, and lack of transparency. This paper presents a hybrid blockchain-based loan verification system tailored for the banking sector, combining the security of decentralized...

BP neural network integration model research for hydraulic metal structure health diagnosing

Guangming Yang, Chongshi Gu, Yong Huang, Kun Yang
Pages: 1148 - 1158
Several potential network structures are chosen to do a large number of experimental analysis, historical data is divided into training sample and testing sample, and the corresponding neural network model is established with BP learning algorithm. After checking the testing sample, a superior network...

Adaptive Fuzzy Control for Path Tracking of Underactuated Ships Based on Dynamic Equilibrium State Theory

Dehui Qiu, Qinglin Wang, Jie Yang, Jinhua She
Pages: 1148 - 1157
This paper presents an adaptive fuzzy backstepping control method that incorporates the dynamic equilibrium state (DES) theory to carry out path tracking for underactuated ships in presence of parameter variations and external disturbances induced by wind, wave and current. First, the optimal DES reference...
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P108 Relation Between Abdominal Aorta and Carotid Artery Responses to Sympathetic Stimulation using Duplex Ultrasound

Anne-Jet Jansen, Jenske Vermeulen, Suzanne Holewijn, Dick Thijssen, Michel Reijnen
Pages: S148 - S148
Background: Sympathetic stimulation in central arteries, such as the carotid artery, lead to vasodilation in healthy subjects and vasoconstriction in those with cardiovascular disease. Moreover, this response has independent prognostic value for future events. Whether the aorta demonstrates similar responsiveness...

The Effect of Supply Chain Speed, Responsiveness, Flexibility and Competence on the Profitability of PT. Bank Negara Indonesia

Muhammad Abid Prima Kawiswara, Veny Megawati, Stefanus Budy Widjaja Subali
This study aims to analyze the effect of supply chain agility, which consists of speed, responsiveness, flexibility, and competence, on the profitability of PT. Bank Negara Indonesia. This study applies a quantitative approach using Structural Equation Modeling. The data used in this study was primary...
Proceedings Article

Application of Association Analysis and Visualization Methods in Car Parts Repair

Ye Li, Xiaoping Du, Bo Yang
This article combines association analysis and visualization methods, mining relations and laws for car parts repair. Firstly, process the original data into data that can be used in the association analysis, then use apriori algorithm of association rules method for mining association relationships...
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Numerical Analysis on Three Dimensional Dynamic Flow of Vehicle Hydrodynamic Coupling

Zhifeng Dong, Gong Dan, Yuzhao Zhang
Hydrodynamic coupling is one of the important components in the vehicle transmission system, in which, the power of engine is transmitted through the circular flow of the hydro oil. The three dimensional fluid model was built, and the dynamic flow in the hydrodynamic coupling was calculated with calculation...
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Image segmentation algorithm based on the second clustering and level set method

Jie Hai, Li Wu, Haiyan Wu, Hailong Du
Improve the level set algorithm by Lagrangian particle enhanced replanting algorithm and increase the reduced segmentation accuracy brought about by the algorithm for uneven image pixel for medical CT image. Based on Literature [4], the combination of Lagrangian particle enhanced replanting algorithm...
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Auto-detection of arch curve from dental meshes

Ting Wu, Libing Zhang
Building the form of dental arch is of great importance for orthodontic diagnosis and treatment. This paper presents a novel automated method for detecting the arch curve from dental triangular meshes with minimal user intervention. The feature region between gingiva and teeth were firstly extracted...
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Research on Gas Insulated Switchgear Internal Fault Diagnostic Methods

Yadong Si, Xinmiao Jia, Zhi Guo, Yuliang Jia, Tiemin Feng, Wei Ma, Yuhui Zhang, Hong Zhang, Huiyan Cao, Yingying Yang, Ling Guan
The types of internal fault and their influencing factors in GIS are analyzed. The key technologies and researching results of UHF, ultrasound and SF6 decomposition method on site for GIS internal fault detecting are presented, compared with each other and analyzed. The methods of fault location and...
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Research on Case-based Teaching of Engineering Software Based on Mechanical Applied Talents Training

Shukun Gan
In order to strengthen the comprehensive application ability of engineering software for mechanical application talents.By summarizing the teaching experience and using the example teaching, the UG software 3D modeling of the LPG storage tank and the design and analysis of the working platform of ANSYS...

The Influence of School Leadership and Teacher Professionalism on Learning Innovation at SMP Negeri 32 Oku

Zulkifli
Teachers as the most important component in the learning process must have professional competence in carrying out their functions and responsibilities. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of principal leadership on learning innovation, to determine the effect of teacher professionalism...
Proceedings Article

Innovative Practice of Online Teaching Model for College Physical Education Courses Empowered by Information Technology Education

Shu Zhai
In the wave of informatization education, traditional college physical education courses urgently need innovative teaching models to adapt to the development of the times. This paper explores the innovative practice of online teaching models for college physical education courses. Firstly, it elaborates...
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Analysis of the Current Situation of “Specialized and Special” Enterprises Based on GM (1.1) Model

Tong Chen, Lin Feng, Wenxin Fan, Ran Tao, Keying Chen, Kexin Pan, Ciren Basang, Fushun Bai, Xingcheng Wen, Yunqian Lv
Since the identification of the first batch of “specialized and special new” enterprises in 2019, China has continuously increased the cultivation of “specialized and special new” enterprises and achieved positive results. By 2022, a total of 4 batches of “specialized and special new” enterprises have...
Conference Abstract

P107 Endothelial Dysfunction Associated with Arterial Stiffness in Postmenopausal Women with Obesity

Patricia Lizette Ramírez Soltero, Leonel García Benavides, Marycruz Barocio Pantoja, Brandon Giovanni Illescas Vidrio, David Cardona Müller, Ernesto Germán Cardona Muñoz, Sylvia Elena Totsuka Sutto
Pages: S147 - S147
Background: Endothelial dysfunction (ED) represents an initial step of “vascular failure” [1]; several factors affect the functionality of the endothelium. Obesity [2] and estrogen deficiency [3] are independently associated with this. The early detection of ED is essential to intervene and prevent its...

Indigenous People Communication Patterns in Papua’s Success as the Host National Sports Week 2021

Teri Wanena
The success of the Papua Province and West Papua Province as the host of the National Sports Week (PON) Papua 2021 cannot be separated from the communication patterns of indigenous peoples. The reason is that indigenous peoples in Papua have a central position regarding the implementation of sports competitions...

Long-Run Financial Sustainability of the Registered Old-Age Care Centres in Malaysia: The Roles of Endowment and Waqf

Nur Hayati Abd Rahman, Khairunnisa Abd Samad, Fariha Aiza Ramly, Zulkefli Muhamad Hanapiyah, Muhammad Syukri Abdullah, Noraznira Abd Razak
Given that the number of ageing populations in Malaysia is keep rising, Malaysia must prepare for increased demands on healthcare and social services. Failing to adapt will give tension to public resources and jeopardize the life quality of the senior citizens. Although Malaysia has developed 379 old-age...
Proceedings Article

Enhancement of Time-domain Optical Coherence Tomography Images Using Stationary Wavelet Transform

Manting Luo, Tengfei You, Qiukun Zhang, Jianfeng Zhong, Shuncong Zhong
Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) was proposed to enhance time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of multilayered thin-film structures. Multi-level SWT decomposition of OCT images was conducted and the SWT detail coefficients could be employed for feature extraction of multilayered structures’...
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The Research for DISO DC-DC Converter Based on the Topology of Push-Pull M2DC

Wei Lin, Yihui Zheng, Lixue Li, Xin Wang, Chunming Zhao, Jianping Lie
In order to improve the flexibility and make energy transmissing between power system and distributed generators more efficient, a double-input single-output DC-DC converter based on the topology of push-pull modular multilevel DC converter is presented in this paper. First, it selects the topology structure...
Proceedings Article

Information Integration of Engineering Construction Project Based on Management Process

Bo Cui
n Chinese information field of engineering construction, the traditional information management is on the function-oriented and data-oriented base, and cannot provide comprehensive and complete process-oriented support in the process management. There is a big gap especially in the information integration...
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Toxicity of CuO nanoparticles on the root of Arabidopsis thaliana

Lina Xu, Mou Yu, Jing Zhao
CuO nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in commercial applications. With increasing CuO NPs production, CuO NPs are likely to present in the environment and pose a potential threaten to ecosystem. In this work, 20 and 50 mg/L CuO NPs and 0.15 mg/L Cu2+ were used to test the toxicity to Arabidopsis thaliana...
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Application Of Metaheuristic Methods For Education Scheduling (Case Study Of Bali State Politechnic)

Komang Ayu Triana Indah, Ida Bagus Putra Manuaba
Lecture Scheduling Problems are very complex problems, where the core of the scheduling is how to schedule several components consisting of students, lecturers, space, time, and courses by taking into account certain limitations and constraints. The aim to be achieved is to apply the Tabu Search Metaheuristic...

The implementation of a culture of discipline for the state civil apparatus (ASN) in Gorontalo Regency (A Study of the Application of Discipline Ambassador Vest)

Srihandayani Suprapto, Nelson Pomalingo, Haedar Akib
Discipline Ambassador Vest is one of the efforts of the Gorontalo Regency government to enforce discipline for the State Civil Apparatus (ASN). This research aims to find out the extent to which the application of the discipline ambassador vest affects the ASN in the Gorontalo Regency government. The...

Oriented by Communication Skill Cultivation—Research on Application of Standardized Family Members to Pediatrics Practical Teaching

Cui Liu, Jintang Wang, Yu Fu, Shuxia Bai, Na Deng
To solve the unique communication difficulty in pediatrics, enhance medical students' skills and introduce SFM for the teaching and assessment of medical students' communication skills. Methods: 120 students from two classes were selected as research object; applied SFM to pediatrics skill teaching and...

The Impact of High-Box-Office Film Events on Stock Returns of A-Share Film Industry Companies

Yanbin Mo
This paper takes Nezha: The Demon Child’s Sea Chaos, China's first animated film to break the 10 billion box office, as the research object, aiming to further reveal the impact of market events of leading film and television IPs on the stock price fluctuations of related listed companies. By constructing...
Conference Abstract

P106 Effect of Açaí-Juçara on Central Pressure in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity

Tainah Ortiz, Fernanda Gorski, Tatiana Lehnen, Liliana Boll, Bruna Eibel, Alexandre Lehnen, Eduardo Barbosa
Pages: S146 - S146
Introduction: Açaí-juçara is a fruit with a antioxidant content that can modify the vascular environment and attenuate the effects of obesity. Objective: To evaluate the effect of açaí-juçara on pulse pressure parameters in overweight or obese individuals. Methods: Randomized clinical trial with 23...

The Semantic Analysis of Ambiguity in Advertisements

Tian Dong, Pingping Shao
Advertising ,as a commercial instrument, plays an essential role in people's life, especially for the merchants and consumers. A good advertisement needs to be concise, creative, impressive, and persuasive. While, ambiguity, a ubiquitous phenomenon, can satisfy the need of advertising language. This...
Proceedings Article

Hyperspectral Imagery Further Unmixing Based On Analysis Of Variance

Lei Wang, Zhenfeng Shao
Hyperspectral imagery unmixing model based on sparse regression uses the existing endmembers’ library as priori information. Usually, the existing endmembers’ library contains almost all kinds of ground objects. Even though sparse regression-based imagery unmixing method added sparse constraint to the...
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Opportunistic Network Coding and Signal Combining ARQ for Two-Way DF Relay Network

Fei Wang, Dongmei Zhang, Kui Xu, Jingzhou Yang, Yang Liu
For the purpose of improving the throughput and reliability of the two way decode-and-forward (DF) relay networks, we propose an opportunistic network coding and signal combining (ONCSC) based automatic repeat request (ARQ) protocol. We assume that the relay node (RN) has a buffer which can store the...
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Analysis of Wave Localization in a Disordered Periodic Viaduct Undergoing In-plane Vibration

Guo-Jun Sheng, Qian Huang, Man-Qing Xu
Based on the wave transfer matrix method, wave localization in a disordered periodic viaduct undergoing in plane vibration is investigated according to the Wolf’s algorithm in this paper. With the proposed model, the influences of the pier-height and beam-length disorders on the wave localization are...
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Analysis of mechanical characteristics force signal of high voltage circuit breaker

Yang Gao, Zhang Bo, Aoran Xu, Fangxin Dai, Weiliang Zheng
According to the characteristics of the corresponding rigid points in the actual force signal, the background and characteristics of signal analysis are described in this paper for the purpose of obtaining this feature point and the extraction and calculation of the moment of the force signal is realized,...
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Dynamic Time-History analyses of Ground Reinforced Concrete Tank in Water Supply System under Bi-directional Horizontal Seismic Actions

Mingzhen Wang, Lin Gao
The reinforced concrete tank in water supply system is a typical fluid-filled structure. There are liquid-solid couple effects and liquid sloshing in the fluid-filled structure under seismic actions. The existence of liquid storage changes the dynamic characteristics and seismic responses of the structure....
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Real-Time 3D Hand Gesture Recognition from Depth Image

Lin Song, Ruimin Hu, Yulian Xiao, Liyu Gong
In this paper, we propose a novel real-time 3D hand gesture recognition algorithm based on depth information. We segment out the hand region from depth image and convert it to a point cloud. Then, 3D moment invariant features are computed at the point cloud. Finally, support vector machine (SVM) is employed...

A Novel Two-Stage DEA Model in Fuzzy Environment: Application to Industrial Workshops Performance Measurement

M. R. Soltani, S. A. Edalatpanah, F. Movahhedi Sobhani, S. E. Najafi
Pages: 1134 - 1152
One of the paramount mathematical methods to compute the general performance of organizations is data envelopment analysis (DEA). Nevertheless, in some cases, the decision-making units (DMUs) have middle values. Furthermore, the conventional DEA models have been originally formulated solely for crisp...

Design and Assessment of Project-Based Learning (PjBL) for Improving Design Skill in Modest Fashion Design Course

Indarti, Yulistiana, Urip Wahyuningsih, Fadlilah Indira Sari, Li Hsun Peng
Project-Based Learning (PjBL) has become one of the learning models that has been set by the Indonesian government as a learning model based on student centers. The purpose of the study was to describe how the design and assessment in the PjBL model to improve design skills in the Modest Fashion Design...
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A Novel Reinforcement Method for Soft Soil Foundation: Numerical and Experimental Investigations

Xu Liu, Wang Tang, Yaoting Zhu, Zhifa Yu, Ju Chen
The utilization of soft soil in civil engineering projects is fraught with challenges, primarily due to its inherent weaknesses including high water content, high void ratio, high compressibility, low permeability, and low bearing capacity. This study proposes a novel three-dimensional sandy drainage...
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Automated Grain Quality Testing Using CNN, Densenet, Mobilenet

M. S. B. Kasyapa, B. Sumalya, J. Mahesh Chandra, P. Bhanu Prasad, S. Adhitya
Millions of people around the world depend on rice as their main crop. And the quality of the grain has a great influence on its market value and social acceptance. Traditional methods of counting and classifying rice grains are time-consuming and manual. This results in inconsistent and inaccurate final...
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Does the Rural Labor Transfer Employment Promote the Sustainable Growth of Household Tourism Consumption in the Context of Internet?—A Data Analysis Using Econometric Way on Instrumental Variable

Yurong Zhu, Huarong Wang, Jie Liu, Yuge Li
With the rapid development of the Internet, the trend of taking the household as the basic tourism consumption unit is becoming more and more obvious. However, there are few studies focus on household tourism consumption potential from the perspective of rural labor transfer employment. Based on the...

The Effect of Urban and Rural Origin on Young People’s Fertility Intention: A Multi-chain Mediation Effect Mode

Xiaowu Chen, Xinyi Chen, Yanfei Xie
In recent years, the fertility rate of China’s population has continued to decline, which will cause security risks for national and social development, Urban and rural background is a significant factor affecting the fertility willingness of young people. Therefore, based on the Chinese General Social...
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The study of the biomass pyrolysis kinetics and volatile product characteristics influencing on slagging basing on the TG-DTG-FTIR technology

Hongliang Zhang, Yongbiao Yang, Jie Song, Ling Jiang, Jiancheng Yu, Xudong Wang
Research the pyrolysis kinetics of eucalyptus and the absorption band and characteristic peaks of volatile pruducts under the heating rate 10?•min-1, 30?•min-1, 60?•min-1respectively. The experimental results show that eucalyptus pyrolysis process can be divided into 3 stages: moisture volatilizes stage,...
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Uncertainty levels are determined based on experimental data

Fucun Qu
In the robust control theory, the norm boundary of uncertainty set (i.e. the uncertainty level) is an important issue. When the level of uncertainty is too large, the results will be too conservative, and when the uncertainty is too small, the results will be too optimistic. Two methods for determining...
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Optimal Design of Medium-and-low Speed Maglev Train Levitation Sensor for Small Radius Curve

Jun Li, Jun Wu, Zhongxiu Li
One of the most important features of medium-and-low speed maglev train is the ability to turn the small curve. When the train is in the small curve, as each levitation electromagnet module is a rigid structure, which cannot bend and deform, the electromagnet module and the F-shaped rail dislocate from...
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Deformation behavior of 7050 aluminum alloy panels with variable thickness by shot peen forming

Mingtao Wang, Yuansong Zeng, Xuepiao Bai
Shot peen forming is an effective plastic forming method for integral panels with variable thickness used in aeronautical industry. 7050 aluminum alloy flat plates and 3-stiffeners panel were peen formed. The deformation behavior of those workpieces was investigated. The results reveal that the contribution...
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Microscopic Image Segmentation of Chinese Herbal Medicine Based on Region Growing Algorithm

Qing Liu, Lijun Zhang, Xiping Liu
In order to effectively separate the target region of the microscopic image of Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM), and lay the foundation for the subsequent image recognition processing, a microscopic image segmentation method of CHM by using region growing (RG) algorithm is put forward based on the characteristics...
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Observation on Spammers in Sina Weibo

Yong Xu, Yi Zhou, Kai Chen
Micro-blogging service has been developing and evolving rapidly in China which has led to a significant rise in social spamming attacks. However, little is known about these spammers. Thus, in this paper, we presented an observation on spammers in Sina Weibo, the biggest micro-blogging community in China....

A Framework for Constructing Elder-Friendly Walking System Based on Living Circle Scale

A. Case Study of the old residential community in Jiangtai, Beijing

Zihe Li, Ruier Chen, Huiling Wu, Changming Yu
Nowadays, the increasing population aging and geriatric health problems have led many scholars to explore the issues of walkability, safety and comfort of walking environment for the old. However, a complete elderly-friendly walking system has not yet been constructed and extended for application. In...

Analysis of HOTS content in the science process skills Students’ and Teachers’ Handbook of the Merdeka Curriculum

Irham Nugroho, Insih Wilujeng, Pujaningsih Pujaningsih, Muis Sad Iman, Witanti Witanti, Ani Arifah
This research aims to analyze science process skills (SPS) and higher order thinking skills (HOTS) questions in Natural Science textbooks for elementary school students in Indonesia. Using a qualitative approach, data was collected from independent curriculum student and teacher handbooks for grade IV...

Study on the Developing Environmental Index System of TCM Industry——Is Based on the Empirical Data from Zhangshu City and Bozhou City

Renwenya Luo, Junyong Wagn, Xia Liu
Objective To use the Delphi method to construct the environmental index system of TCM industry development, and to provide suggestions and countermeasures to better promote the development of TCM industry. Methods The index pool was initially formed through literature analysis, and 20 experts in the...