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Nowadays, Coca-Cola could be found in every corner of the world. No matter you are in the most bustling city or a remote village, there must be a Coca-Cola vending machine near by your house. In 1998, the brand value of Coca-Cola reached 83.845 billion US dollars, ranking first in the world for three...

The article presents the methodology of realization of the public-private partnership mechanism in cultural industry, balanced in terms of the correlation between risks and responsibility. This mechanism will allow to reduce costs, ensure investment and lower the risk level in the industry of culture,...

This paper examines the construction risks of four highway construction projects in mainland China. The paper divides risks into two main categories, macro risks and micro risks. Macro risk is the risk that the company itself faces in the project, and micro risk is mainly the risk in the construction...

The Semantic web is the extension of an existing web that defines a standard by which, information is given in well-defined meaning and enables the machines to understand information. Many kinds of research are going in semantic web space. Researchers follow different approaches to retrieve data from...

The coal industry is a pillar industry in China. It is very important for risk assessment of listed companies in the coal industry. Selecting 24 listed companies in the coal industry in China as the research object, build risk assessment indicators for listed coal companies from five aspects: debt-paying...

Algorithmic personalized recommendation has become a consensus, but through the existing literature analysis, as well as the interactive search of "news algorithm", we found that there is another side of algorithmic recommendation: "pseudo-personalized recommendation". From this,...

The article shows that more progressive strategies are those of the fourth generation maintenance and repair based on reliability and repair management (RCM/RBI analysis, riskoriented technologies) of technological equipment maintenance and repair (M&R) which have not found wide application in Russia....

In this paper, a simple decision-making model has been established based on the method of fuzzy opinion centralized decision, and the date about the NBA teams of Weston part has been analyzed. In this model, the Borda number method and weighted Borda number method are presented to rank the capability...

Kelakai is an endemic fern found abundantly in Central Kalimantan. Regardless of its high availability, low economical value, and potential health benefits (natural source of iron, folic acid, antioxidant, antidiabetic, etc.), the utilization of the plant as a food ingredient is still limited. Black...

In conditions of high spatial differentiation of rural territories, an objective assessment of the conditions for the reproduction of human capital is of particular importance. However, the developed methods, firstly, cannot always take into account all the components of human capital. Secondly, they...

Research on digital transformation strategies in higher education performance, which emerged in the second decade of the 21st century, explores the competitive dynamics and complex relationships among stakeholders through the lenses of technology, organization, and social. The aim of this research is...

Rapid improvement of electronic documents in World Wide Web has made overload to the users in accessing the information. Therefore, abstracting the primary content from numerous documents related to same topic is highly essential. Summarization of multiple documents helps in valuable decision-making...

The construction of Tower A in Surabaya’s “X” Project is one of the largest projects owned by PT X with a construction period of four years. The long period of development will certainly lead to various types of risks that can affect the development of the Surabaya “X” Project. This study aims to identify,...

In the paper, the authors propose to consider the problem of MSW management that is relevant for Russia from the standpoint of a circular economy as a continuation of the ideas proposed in the concept of sustainable development and the ecological economy. The authors formulate the criteria for a circular...

Since March 2020, against the backdrop of a massive decline in the global tourism market, there has been an increase in interest in micro-tourism in all countries – travelling within the region of residence or neighboring regions. The study is aimed at solving a serious problem of the development of...

This study investigates the optimization of stir casting parameters for fabricating AA 6061-based Aluminium Hybrid Metal Matrix Composites (AHMMCs) reinforced with silicon carbide and coconut shell ash. A visualization experiment using a glycerine–water model was employed to investigate on the critical...

Research purpose: The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive overview of research trends on perceptions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within higher education institutions. Research motivation: Higher education institutions are key drivers in the SDGs movement, developing...

The selection of materials plays a pivotal role in product design and development. With a plethora of materials available, making the right choice is crucial for a company’s reputation and profitability. This research aims to establish an efficient and systematic platform for optimal material selection...

The supermarket industry in Estonia plays a significant role in gross domestic product (GDP) growth, as it constituted approximately 43% of total retail trade in 2015 and growth amounted to 36% during the period of 2010-2015. At the same time, the growth of shopping gross leasable area (GLA) in Estonia...

This work presents an analytical hierarchy process (AHP) to rank alternatives on energy saving opportunities as provided by an energy audit report undertaken on an onshore and offshore oil and gas operation in Java Sea. The AHP criteria applied include energy saving assessment, financial capability,...

With the continuous penetration of mobile Internet and smart technology into people’s lives, the Internet generation with high spending power and demand has become an important consumer group. The current market demand for mobile phone online ordering, ranking, and payment continues to rise. At the same...

This article evaluates, sorts and classifies regional higher vocational competitiveness of 31 provinces and cities in China with entropy weight method and gray relative analysis method and did a comparative study. The result shows that the region with the highest score of regional higher vocational competitiveness...

Vendor consolidation is becoming an important management focus in recent years due to the need to sharpen cost performance to increase competition in the fast changing business environment. Vendor consolidation can assist company to streamline its operation, concentrate buying power and reduce purchase...

In this paper, we first introduce the development of learning to rank and discuss the problems existing in this field especially the ignorance of total ordering ranking. For dealing with the total ordering ranking problem, we assume a method ¡°feature ranking¡±. Based the assumption, we design two algorithms:...

The article presents a study of the functioning of higher education systems at the regional level in terms of their productive efficiencies. The purpose of this research is to determine the regional higher education systems' effectiveness using a Slack-Based Measure of efficiency (SBM), which is a variant...

Nobel laureate Pissarides (2017) mentioned that the issue of low wages is not unique to Taiwan, But the trend in all countries of the world. Taiwan's labor market, five-day work week, low salary, youth unemployment, AI replaces work, etc., are full of incomprehensible questions. In this depressed market,...

Private equity investment services as the third enterprises financing channel ranking next to bank credit and public financing. After 70 years of development in the Western developed market, it also has been booming development in Chinese market. Although there are few problems that impede the development...

Triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFNs) are a special kind of intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) on a real number set. TIFNs are useful to deal with ill-known quantities in decision data and decision making problems themselves. The purpose of this paper is on developing a new ranking method of...

The article is devoted to the development of the methodology for analyzing the authorized capital of a corporate organization in order to establish the degree of participation of each shareholder in the activities of the corresponding identified business component. In addition, the article examines the...

Malaysia is transforming and growing into an international educational hub. Malaysia is among the top 11th world ranking exporter in the scholarly discipline. However, there is lack of empirical study on mobility programme in higher learning institution. Recently, social media technologies become popular...

Reasonable and effective evaluation of the development level of big data industry is conducive to promoting the development of big data in an all-round way and speeding up the construction of a data power. In view of the insufficient information of the existing index system and the lack of fuzziness...

Based on the characteristics of power grid construction projects, in order to meet the development goals of the power grid, firstly, an index system for optimizing the ranking of power grid investment projects is formulated. By establishing an optimization model based on matter element extension for...

Bayesian network (BN), a simple graphical notation for conditional independence assertions, is promised to represent the probabilistic relationships between diseases and symptoms. Learning the structure of a Bayesian network classifier (BNC) encodes conditional independence assumption between attributes,...

In these years, some of the cities' continued urban sprawl and the loss of farmland which is surrounding urban centers causes their development out of balance. It does great harm to a country as well as people's happiness. Smart growth is a theory which comprehensively gives the solution to this problem....

In professional football, selecting players involves evaluating multiple criteria to ensure optimal team performance. This paper introduces a novel approach for optimizing player selection by combining the Random Forest algorithm for criterion weighting with the multi-criteria decision-making method...

The evaluation of teaching quality is an important work for the universities. Based on the questionnaire survey about teaching quality, we adopt the factor analysis method to synthetically analyze the teaching quality evaluation indexes data, and get every factor scores and the comprehensive evaluation...

A decent and good life is generally always desired by every individual because it can guarantee the future. Because every individual in old age will experience a decrease in income, investing is necessary to get a decent life. Increasing life expectancy makes retirement an essential element in human...

This paper intends to classify the Ljubljana Breast Cancer dataset using C4.5 Decision Tree and Nai?ve Bayes classifiers. In this work, classification is carriedout using two methods. In the first method, dataset is analysed using all the attributes in the dataset. In the second method, attributes are...

In subway engineering construction, the soil between the subway station and the auxiliary structure is considered a confined space. Therefore, it is not appropriate to calculate by Ranking and Coulomb’s classical earth pressure theory. A theoretical calculation method for earth pressure on limited soils...

Dairy Processing Industry is the Primary component of Dairy Industry. The Development of Enterprises is significant to Investors, Consumers and Enterprises Themselves. This Article evaluates four listed companies, Sanyuan, Mengniu, Yili and Bright, and gives suggestions for further development of dairy...

This paper addressed Essential Science Indicators (ESI) as a key performance indicator for universities and focused on analyzing the excellence of academic disciplines from ESI perspective, mainly among world-class universities and Chinese 985-project universities. It illustrated the typical discipline...

Based on the "whole ecosystem" interpretation of the connotation of ecological civilization, this paper constructs an evaluation system of ecological civilization construction with 34 indexes including search engine data-Baidu index from four aspects: ecological environment, ecological economy, ecological...

This study aims to prove the existence of an unusual phenomenon in the short-term investment market of Sharia stocks in Indonesia in 2018. The usual phenomenon that is in accordance with the fundamental analysis of stock investment is “High profit - high return, low profit - low return”. Does this phenomenon...

Background: Short leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with atherosclerosis. The prevailing view is this association exists since LTL is a biomarker of cumulative inflammation and oxidative stress during adult life. However recent studies show that LTL in adults is defined mainly by LTL at birth...

Sustainable development of resource-based cities are an important part of implementing green development. This paper constructs the indicator system of influencing factors of sustainable development of three aspects of the economy, society and environment, uses gray correlation analysis method and entropy...

This article seeks to present a new framework in the performance measurement model of Islamic banks based on the Maqasid Syariah concept. Considering that until now the Islamic Bank performance measurement model still uses conventional measurements such as Camels, Value Added, BSC which are substantially...

Sustainable and green practices remain highly effective for organizations in today’s market characterized by intense competition, risks, and challenges. Long-term success depends not only on business revenue or performance but also on selecting the right green supplier who meets environmental, economic,...

The fuzzy sets theory cannot accurately reflect the hesitation or abstention of decision makers. In view of this problem, introducing the intuitionistic fuzzy sets, we put forward a credit risk evaluation model of big data enterprises based on intuitionistic fuzzy sets. Firstly, a credit risk evaluation...

The notion of semantic information granulation is explored to estimate the information specificity or generality of documents. Basically, a document is considered more specific than another document if it contains more cohesive domain-specific terminologies than that of the other one. We believe that...

This study aims to prove the existence of an unusual phenomenon in the short-term investment market of Sharia stocks in Indonesia in 2018. The usual phenomenon that is in accordance with the axiom “Risk and Return Trade-off” is “High risk - high return, low risk - low return”, both for total risk, systematic...