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Analysis of the influence of shield construction on the surrounding ground surface settlement

Bing Li, Fengying Ji
Based on the background of a double line shield tunnel in Shenyang metro, the construction process of double line shield is simulated by using the finite element analysis software of GTS Midas. The change course of ground surface settlement during construction and the influence of the physical and mechanical...

An Open-Source Solution of Business Intelligence in China Railway Passenger Transportation Decision Support

Jianxiong Wang, Nan Wang
An Open-Source solution based on Pentaho is described in this paper for constructing railway passenger transport marketing assistant decision system as alternative of commercial software, solving the problem of being lack of user custom properties, which will save project costs, and has good expansibility.Furthermore,...

Analyses of the Cultural Differences in Chinese and American Cartoon Movies

Tianjuan Zhou
Cultural differences are reflected in various places, such as in cartoon movies. Study on cultural differences may help to learn from the other cultures and to promote and spread the national cultures and values. In the paper, the author mainly analyzes differences between American and Chinese cartoon...

Advice on Construction of Literature Resources

Zhuqun Li
In the library of the new approved normal four-year university, how to deal with the change of direction of running a college, of function and the structure of the subject construction, etc. is very important. The writer surveyed some libraries in the university famous in economics major and looked into...

The Financial Development and Economic Growth: Based on the Data of City

Bin Gu, He Liu
This paper used urban data as analysis object. The author collected data from 2003-2013, 288 cities in our country as the research foundation, using cross-section data regression of econometric model. This paper explored the correlation between financial development and economic, expounded the action...

Research on the Website Construction of Shanghai A-Level Tourist Attractions Based on eMICA Model

Kaibo Zhou, Xiaobo Jia
This paper uses Extended Model of Internet Commerce Adoption (eMICA model) to analyze the website construction of e-commerce of Shanghai A-level tourist attractions. In the light of eMICA model, this paper divides these websites into different stages in order to find out problems such as slow information...
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On English Enlightenment Education for 3-4-year-old Children in Multimedia Learning Environment

Huanhuan Ren, Chi Ma
English enlightenment education exerts much effects on 3-4-year-old children and may be positively influential to future education of the children. It's concurred that there are many reasons for applying mobile multimedia into English enlightenment education. In this thesis, it's suggested that the implementation...
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Research on Robust Task Space Control Uncertainty Based on Legendre Polynomial

Xinwen Bi, Zeliang Zhang, Ming Ma
Usually, the uncertainty bound is needed to design the control law in conventional robust control approaches. However, the proposed bound may increase the amplitude of the control signal and damage the system. To solve this problem, a robust control law is proposed in this paper. The uncertainty bound...
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A Study of Flexible Management in Enterprise Human Resources Management

Mingqiang Zhu
Follows the economic globalization and the knowledge economy arrival, the traditional rigid management pattern is restricting the enterprise human resources innovation and the initiative seriously, the enterprise human resources only then implements the flexible management to be able to adapt the now...
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The Analysis on Spatial-Temporal Evolution and Impacting Factors of Residential Land Price in Hangzhou: Evidence Based on Spatial Econometric Model

Haizhen Wen, Luhong Chu
In the context of rapid urbanization in China, the land market has become one of the focuses of the whole society. Based on the residential land transaction data from May 2006 to March 2010 in Hangzhou, this paper applies the hedonic price model of spatial econometrics to study the evolving trend and...
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Study on the Practice of Phonics in English Vocabulary Teaching for Primary School Students

Huanhuan Ren, Chi Ma
Phonics exerts considerable influence on contemporary language education and the most of the society begin to pay attention to phonics and actively participate in this educational reform. It has been aruged that phonics instruction for the primary school students may be supported and underpined by the...
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Optimization of Sight Clearance Area Design at Uncontrolled Intersection

Wen Shao, Xuedong Yan, Yunwei Li
Since the lack of traffic control measures, it is necessary to provide the sufficient intersection sight distance to ensure the safety of driving at uncontrolled intersections. At present, the domestic and foreign design standards and specifications concentrate more on the dimensions of square edges...
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Installation and Docking Technology of Control Module for Subsea Production System

Lan Zhang, Yongzhe Li, Yonghong Meng, Liquan Wang, Peng Jia
The docking technology of the subsea production system control module (SCM) is a key part of installation. If the docking accuracy is not reached, or poor stability when docking, the butt joint between the hydraulic joint and the electrical joint cannot be accomplished, may also make the subsea control...
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Artificial Neural Networks in Insurance Loss Reserving

Peter Mulquiney
In this paper we analyse insurance data using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)[1]. In particular, we use ANN for the problem of Loss Reserving. Loss reserving is the practice of estimating the future payments for the claims which have occurred on an insurance portfolio. A difficulty in forecasting future...
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Dynamic Handoff Ordering Adjustment for Multimedia Cellular Network

Chow-Sing Lin, Ping-Jing Huang
In multimedia cellular network, a Mobile Host (MH) requests multimedia services and may experience handoffs to several cells. When the target cell cannot provide adequate bandwidth for a service, instead of directly dropping a request, the MH is put into the handoff queue and hopefully the request bandwidth...
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Inversion detection in text document images

Hamid Pilevar, Ramakrishnan
OCR makes it possible for the user to edit or search the document’s contents. In this paper we describe a special water fill technique for detecting the upside down text document. Each character has a upside and downside filling capacities. A character may have two sides or one side filling capacity...
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Assessing the Effect of Oil Price Shock Using an Energy-Economy Decision Model with Technology Characteristics

Shih-Mo Lin, Chin-Wen Yang, Chung-Huang Huang
The significant jump in world crude oil price over the past year has raised great concern over the economic impact that such a price shock may bring about on Taiwan’s economy, which has been characterized by extremely high import-oil dependence. Previous analyses have been tackling similar issue from...
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An Interactive Intelligent Search Engine Model Research Based on User Information Preference

Dan Meng, Xu Huang
Web service is very important for both e-commerce and e-government. However, web service process based on syntax level can’t deal with some user query very effectively. In order to make user get more information on the internet, semantic web is presented and a lot of related research results have been...
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Investigate C+L Band EDFA/Raman Amplifiers by Using the Same Pump Lasers

Shien Kuei Liaw
A novel hybrid C+L band EDFA/RFA is designed to share the 1480 nm pump laser(s). The concepts are based on three-level amplification mechanism for the C band EDFA and Raman shift amplification mechanism for the L band RFA, respectively. It has the advantage to simplify the pump source design. The optimum...
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High Performance Ring-Cavity Tunable Lasers

Shien Kuei Liaw
We report the investigation of ring cavity tunable laser, which is based on FBG technology. The laser linewidth, power variation and tuning range are 0.015 nm, 0.5 dB and 31.0 nm, respectively. The ring-cavity tunable laser also has 60 dB of SMSR to insure high-quality operation. With the features mentioned...
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New Approach to Financial Time Series Forecasting - Quantum Minimization Regularizing BWGC and NGARCH Composite Model

Bao Rong Chang, Hsiu Fen Tsai
A hybrid BPNN-weighted GREY-C3LSP prediction (BWGC) is used for resolving the overshooting phenomenon significantly; however, it may lose the localization once volatility clustering occurs. Thus, we propose a compensation to deal with the time-varying variance in the residual errors, that is, incorporating...
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An Application of Intellectual Capital on Financial Distress Models by Using Neural Network

Kuang-Hua Hsu, Jian-Fa Li, Hon-Jenq Fan
As the era of knowledge economy is prevalent in U.S. during 1992, knowledge economy plays an important role around the world. The value and competition of the traditional companies accounted on tangible assets. However, in the era of knowledge economy, the value and continuing operation of the companies...
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Object-Based Accumulated Motion Feature for the Compressed Domain Human Action Analysis

Cheng-Chang Lien, Chen-Yu Hong, Yu-Ting Fu
This paper proposed an effective and robust method to detect the rare behavior events within the compressed video directly. New motion feature called object-based accumulative motion vector (OAMV) is generated to extract a prominent motion feature and then polar histograms are used to describe the distribution...
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An Improved Vector Quantizer Design Method: the Codebook Reorganization Algorithm

Ting-Wei Hou, Houng-Kuo Ku, Yuan-Tsung Chen
Generalized Lloyd Algorithm(GLA) is important in vector quantizer design. It runs fast, but it is sensitive to initial conditions and it may find a local optimum. We propose an improved approach based on GLA, named vector quantized codebook reorganization algorithm (VQCRA). VQCRA finds better codebooks...
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An SOM-Based Search Algorithm for Dynamic Systems

Yi-Yuan Chen, Kuu-Young Young
The self-organizing map (SOM), as a kind of unsupervised neural network, has been applied for both static data management and dynamic data analysis. To further exploit its ability in search, in this paper, we propose an SOM-based search algorithm (SOMS) for dynamic systems, in which the SOM is employed...
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Fuzzy Information Retrieval Techniques for Help-Seeking System

Yueh-Min Huang, Yen-Hung Kuo, Jim-Min Lin, Yu-Lin Jeng, Juei-Nan Chen
The forum system is useful for knowledge sharing and help-seeking. However, the existed forums are having the same problem such like nobody to answer the given questions. In order to attack the problem, this study proposes a human-expert oriented forum architecture to perform efficient knowledge sharing....
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Locating Matching Rules by Mining Software Change Log

Ming-Shi Wang, Jung-te Weng
A software system maintenance activity is typically performed under an environment of lacking knowledge about how to process it. This scarcity of knowledge may be caused by various factors, such as the large size and complexity of the systems, high staff turnover, poor documentation and long-term system...
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90-nm Wideband Optical Amplifier Including an Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and a DCF-based Raman Fiber Amplifier with Gain Clamping and Dispersion Compensation

Chia-Hsiung Chang, Hermann Lin
We have experimentally demonstrated the gain-clamped wideband optical amplifier using a DCF-based Raman amplifier and an semiconductor optical amplifier for 90-nm wide bandwidth amplification with good gain flatness (of 3 dB) as well as dispersion compensation of 10Gb/s DWDM signals over 100-km SMF link....
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Difficulty of cooperation in iterated multi-Prisoner's Dilemma situation-Experimental evidence-

Kazuhito Ogawa, Tetsuya Kawamura, Tatsuya Kikutani, Sobei H. Oda
Using the laboratory experiment and simple multi–Prisoner’s dilemma model, this paper explores the effect of the change in the number of contacts and in the contact (payoff) structure, and then the characteristics of the strategy that leads players to reach mutual cooperation. When the number of contacts...
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Image Up-Sampling Using Discrete Wavelet Transform

Ping-Sing Tsai, Tinku Acharya
Image up-sampling is found to be a very effective technique useful in today’s digital image processing applications or rendering devices. In image up-sampling, an image is enhanced from a lower resolution to a higher resolution with the degree of enhancement depending upon application requirements. It...
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Adaptive License Plate Detection

Pramod U. Chavan, Parag Kulkarni, Amit Khandebharad, Dattatray Khope
License plate detection process can be divided in two parts 1] plate extraction, 2] character segmentation. License plate detection relies on illumination conditions, background and mainly on camera resolution. There is absence of any common standard to compare various algorithms for a LPD system, because...