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Vulnerability Assessment of Snowstorm in Altay

Guili Sun, Zhen Cao, Lu Li, Haiyan Lu
This paper takes the county-level administration of Altay as the evaluation unit, and uses the frequency of historical snowstorm as the expression of the risk of snowstorm disaster in Altay area. The snow disaster vulnerability index system is established from snow physical exposure, sensitivity and...

Corporate Governance Determinants for the Mitigation of the Likelihood of Financial Distress

Hafiz Mahmud Ahmad, Desi Adhariani
This study aims to examine the effect of corporate governance factors on the likelihood of a company being exposed to financial distress. The factors investigated are the nature of ownership (family or institutional), the proportion of independent directors, and the sizes of the audit committee, board...

Improvement of Innovative Infrastructure as a Means of Economic Development

Alla Nikonorova, Dmitry Morkovkin, Natalia Isaichykova, Valery Nezamaikin
The article examines the effective introduction of innovations into practice and their influence on the improvement of infrastructure and economic growth in the region. Presently, the lack of proper mechanisms and of organizational regulations in the field of innovative infrastructure improvement hampers...

An Artist's Diaries and Personal Notes as a Source of Understanding His Art -- Joan Miro's Catalan Notebook

Ksenia Orlova
An important source of studying art in modern art history are notebooks, personal letters with friends, interviews and talks. But researchers have an important task to keep impartiality and some distance from the object of their research. The article covers this issue using Joan Miro's personal correspondence...
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How Physics can help in understanding Cardiac Rhythms Predicting & Control of complex oscillatory behavior

Shiuan Ni Liang, Le Duy Manh, Wei Yin Chiang, Pik Yin Lai, C. K. Chan
We discuss our recent theoretical and experimental work in cardiac systems. The first is about the rhythmic variation as the cardiac myocyte cell culture synchronized, and how it can be explained in terms of the frequency enhancement phenomenon in coupled excitable systems. Another work concerns the...

Evaluation Model Analysis of Sports Instrument Influences on Class drill

Xueqiang Zhu
This research, based on Abraham Harold Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the healthy definition of “WHO”, analyzes relevant value indicates such as the fitness value, metal health value, entertainment value, the value of education, ornamental value and social value to grab a rough understanding that hand...
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Research on Failure Mode and Ductility of Waste Fiber Recycled Concrete Columns under Small Eccentricity

Jing-Hai ZHOU, Hong WANG, Ze LI
This paper studies small eccentric compression test of eight waste fiber recycled concrete columns with recycled coarse aggregate replacement ratio, waste fiber length, and waste fiber incorporation as parameters. The test is carried out on the failure mode and ductility of the waste fiber recycled concrete...

Research on the Main Research Topic Teaching Model for Environment Art Design Major

Ding Liwei
The cultivating objectives of the Environment Art Design Major are the application competence of social practice and designing ability for environment design. The expert teaching models are confronting with the new challenges for many years and the original teaching model cannot suit for the requirements...

Computing Literacy as a Foundation for Digital Learning

A.Z.R Langi
Computing literacy is fundamental in future learning, as human learns to have smart living in a society and environment where computing is pervasive. As we are approaching a singularity point where the intelligence of computing entities exceeds that of humans, we need to transform ourselves to have favorable...

Investigation and Thinking on the Middle-elementary School Teachers-training with Case-study

Hong-Guang Ha, Xiao-Ping Xiang
To have a proper probe into the current situation of teachers training in Ankang, with the help of the theories of pedagogy in teaching, we made a research into the training process and had the statistics in the training. When the detailed analyses are done, we put forward the new ideas and some strategies...

Fresh Agri-Food Supply Chain Retailers and Suppliers Price Game

Qian Tong, Xiaoxi Tong, Yuanyuan Li
In the supply chain of fresh agricultural foods and food safety, participants for each activity are making their efforts to obtain the maximize benefits, and every interests owners are playing the maximizing benefit Game. As the main parts in the supply chain, suppliers provide their Optimal order quantity...

Study on the Computer Aided English Instruction from the Learning Perspective of Constructivism

Lei Liu
Constructivism, one of the core development modes of teaching, receives certain external environment support and is extensively accepted and applied in the computer aidedEnglish instruction under the premises of rapid development of computer technology and constant innovation of college English instruction...

The Contribution of the Vocational Teachers’ Professional Competence toward Vocational High Schools’ Performance

Abdul Haris Setiawan
This research aims to determine the contribution of the vocational teachers’ professional competence toward the Vocational High Schools’ performance. This research is ex-post facto. Statistically, based on the data and analysis techniques, this research is descriptive quantitative. The population was...
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Combustion Analysis and Operation Adjustment of Thermal Power Unit

Jun Li, Weiwei Li
The characteristics of main low nitrogen combustion technologies are to be introduced. By analysis of unit’s typical outfire accident after low nitrogen combustion transformation, proposed some targeted solutions to optimize operation of the thermal power unit, such as adjustment of the air distribution,...
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Synthesis of Ultrafine Copper Oxide Powder with Plasma-dynamic Method in the Coaxial Magneto-plasma Accelerator

Golyanskaya Evgeniya, Kruchkova Maria, Sivkov Aleksandr
One of the most promising trends in modern physics is the high-temperature superconductivity. Analysis of high-temperature superconductors revealed that almost all of them are complex copper-based oxides. Studies have shown the possibility of using them for the synthesis of coaxial magneto accelerator....
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A new Bayesian classification algorithm based on attribute reduction

Hongmei Nie, Jiaqing Zhou
Naive Bayesian classifier is a simple and efficient classification method. However, the assumption of the independence of its attributes is difficult to be satisfied, which influences the classification performance. In this paper, a new classification algorithm is proposed, which is based on the attribute...
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A small UAV deviation control roll research

Tianxiang Hu
This paper according to the small UAV structure characteristics, the taxiing control structure and control law design are studied and proposed front wheel and rudder deviation control scheme and control structure, analysis, including the front landing gear, pavement condition, brake system, wind and...
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Comparison of the Influence of Amino Trimethylene Phosphonic Acid and Sodium Gluconate on the Performance of Concrete

Xingdong Lv, Beixing Li, Yan Shi, Huaquan Yang
Comparison of the influence of amino trimethylene phosphonic acid (ATMP) and sodium gluconate (SG) on the performance of concrete are investigated in this paper. The comparison of the effects of ATMP and SG on concrete setting time at 20°C or 35°C, concrete slump loss, concrete compressive strength and...
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The Preliminary Research of Guojuanyan Debris Flow Characteristics and Prevention Measures Post-Earthquake

Shun Yang, Hai Huang, Huali Pan, Jiankang Liu
Sichuan Basin come into rainy season entirely in the early July, 2013, Dujiangyan city of Wenchuan strong earthquake district encountered a hundred-year rainstorm process, which raised numerous Secondary Mountain hazards as collapse, landslide and debris flow etc. Generally, high frequency of debris...
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Research Advance in the Use of Catalysts for Sludge Pyrolysis

Yang Xu, Guori Dong, Fang Chen, Hongyong Li, Jibin Wang
In recent years, the discharge amount of all kinds of sewage is increasingly increased, and therefore the handling problem of sewage sludge, an inevitable product of sewage treatment, has drawn more and more attention. As a new type of sludge treatment technology, the production technology of bio-oil...
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Influence of Grounding Material’s Property on the Impulse Grounding Resistance of Grounding Grids

Leishi Xiao, Qian Li, Huizhong Xue
The conductor material properties such as resistivity and relative permeability have great influence on impulse grounding resistance of grounding grids in regular dimensions. The intensity of the influence is also different under different soil conditions. By building a 1:1 grounding model and using...
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Design Research of Machine Frame on Three Dimensional Models

Zhanjun Liu
The present paper takes some machine frames as the object of study, three dimensional model is based on the CATIA software, the model and the hypothesized assembly are carried by the CATIA software. It is firstly introduced the aviation manufacture project development by proposed new request, the CATIA...
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Sustainable Consumption from the Perspective of Environmental Ethics

Shao-hua Zhou, Ping Fang
Consumption is extremely important for our society and it is the foundation of human existence and development. It is not only an economic issue but also an important ethical issue. Nowadays there are some unhealthy phenomenon occurs in the consumption areas. Food waste, a prominent issue, is harmful...

Thoughts and Suggestions on Undergraduates Innovations Experiment Project

Jinjin Liang, Xiaoqun Sun, Jiangang Wang, Haojiang Cai
Scientific research and implementing ability are the fundamental methods for cultivating talents. Undergraduates participate in the research and practice are the fundamental principle of teaching. Undergraduates innovations experiment project follows the principle of interest driven, independent practice,...
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Local Shape Similarity Retrieval of Mechanical Parts

Jiale Wang, Yin Jun
A scale-invariant shape feature is proposed. The shape feature is extracted on gray voxel models by a SIFT-like algorithm to describe the local shape information of 3D models. Shape feature vectors are constructed by a BoF method. A distance function that supports the part-in-whole matching is employed...

The Bologna Process in Higher Education of Belarus

Larysa Sliapniova, Alexander Tsyganov
Belarus joined the Bologna process in spring 2015, which called for the need to converge higher education systems of Belarus and countries of the European Higher Education Area. Higher Education systems in different countries are brought to standard in several ways. The member states of the Bologna process...
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Heat Load Forecasting of District Heating System Based on Numerical Weather Prediction Model

Hongying Yang, Shuanglong Jin, Shuanglei Feng, Bo Wang, Fei Zhang, Jianfeng Che
This paper reports an application of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) in the heat load forecasting field. The NWP is applied to obtain the correlated weather parameters of the heat load, and then the properly structured Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model is designed to perform the prediction. Satisfactory...
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Waterworks comprehensive monitoring management system design based on T-S model

Yan Bai, Wengang Zheng
This paper designs a set of PLC technology, network information technology, configuration technology in the integrated monitoring and management system, which has the advantages of unified management, reasonable open source, optimizing the configuration and overall saving. In the process of water treatment,...

Comparing Circular Histograms by Using Modulo Similarity and Maximum Pair-Assignment Compatibility Measure

Pasi Luukka, Mikael Collan
Pages: 1 - 12
Histograms are an intuitively understandable tool for graphically presenting frequency data that is available for and useful in modern data-analysis, this also makes comparing histograms an interesting field of research. The concept of similarity and similarity measures have been gaining in importance,...

The Detection of Corruption and The Role of Accountant in Achieving Good Public Governance

Rozmita Dewi YR
The Government of Indonesia has been conducting various corruption eradication efforts; however, these have not been able to effectively prevent corruption in Indonesia. Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has managed to unravel corruption cases through a thorough detection and investigation....
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Contour Segment Feature Weighting in Infrared Automatic Target Recognition

ShiWei Chen, ShengXiu Zhang, XiaoGang Yang, NaiXin Qi
We study automatic target recognition (ATR) in infrared (IR) imagery by applying two recent computer vision techniques, Hierarchical description of contour and Bag-of-Words (BoW). We propose the idea of contour segment (CS) features which are extracted from the outer contour of IR target image and we...
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Chopped carbon fiber reinforced CeO2/PMMA/PVDF superhydrophobic composite coating with enhanced abrasion durability

Binrui Wu, Chaoyi Peng, Weimin Li, Zhiqing Yuan, Liping Sheng
The practical applications of bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces are often restricted by poor mechanical wear-resistance. CeO2 nano particles toughened polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) composite coating with water contact angle (WCA) of 152° and sliding angle (SA) of 5°...
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Stochastic Non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra Mutualism systems with Impulse Jump and Markov Switching

Fangxia Lu, Zuomao Yan
In this paper, we investigate a stochastic non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra mutualism with impulse jump and Markov switching, and two sufficient conditions for stochastic persistence are established.
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Analysis on Development of Overseas Soldier Power

Yu-lin Zhu, Li-fu Cheng, Jun Wang, Xiao-ming Wan, Hao Zhang
With the growing popularity of soldier information equipment, the requirement for electric power supporting individual soldier combat increases. Now available power sources such as alkaline battery and lithium battery may not meet the demands any longer, and the contradiction between supply and demand...

Entrepreneurial Motivations and Risk Decision Making: A Theoretical Framework

Junping Yang, Kuangjian Wu
From a purely theoretical standpoint, the paper aims to see if there is a relationship between entrepreneurial motivations and risk decision making and at the same time explore the role of cognitive traits, including risk perception and self-efficacy, in the relationship. Based on established theories...
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The simulation of transient braking force effects for disc brake caliper bench test machine

Ming-Hsiung Ho, Chih-Yi Chang, Pin-Ning Wang
This study analyses a disk braking caliper bench testing machine under braking conditions, to testify its structure characteristics. The analyzed objects include rotating axes and six counterweights. The first step is to use the design software SolidWorks to build axis and counterweights models. Next,...
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A Feedback based Probability Selection for Frame forwarding in AVB switched Ethernet

Ang Gao, Yansu Hu, Lixin Li, Xu Li
In order to support real-time quality of service in time-sensitive and time-tolerant coexisting network in Ethernet, a set of IEEE standards for transporting and forwarding real-time content over Ethernet are proposed that known as Audio Video Bridging (AVB). By bandwidth reservation and priority isolation,...

Analysis of Volatiles from Fresh and Dry Rhizome, Pseudostem and Leaf of Musa Basjoo

Chenxi Zhu, Feng Xu, Hongmei Wu, Xiangpei Wang
Background: Musa basjoo Sieb. et Zucc. is widely distributed around the world, used to treat a variety of diseases. Volatile oils as an important component of the Musa basjoo, but it received less attention. In this study, Volatile constituents in both fresh and dry rhizome, pseudostem and leaf of Musa...

A Novel Role-based Access Control Model in Cloud Environments

Jun Luo, Hongjun Wang, Xun Gong, Tianrui Li
Pages: 1 - 9
In Cloud environments, the relationship between resources and users is more ad hoc and dynamic. The role-based access control (RBAC) model is an appropriate access control model for Cloud environments. When using the RBAC model in Cloud environments, some new elements should be considered. This paper...

The Teacher's Perception on TPM-Kurtilas Implementation in Amal Keluarga Kindergarten- Bandung

Aan Listiana, Yeni Rachmawati
This study aims to obtain data on the teacher's perception of the implementation program of character development through the Teaching Pyramid Model based on 2013 curriculum (TPM-Kurtilas). The data required as an input for improvement because the program is still a pilot study project. The data was...

An Empiric Study in the Effectiveness of Student Training Based on Organizational and Pedagogical Conditions of Mobile Learning

Aleksandr Volodin, Natalia Bondarenko, Andrei Volodin
The paper reports on the contents of the empirical research on the evaluation of the effectiveness of the student training based on organizational and pedagogical conditions of the mobile learning. We specify the stages and the content of the experiment as well as its conditions and sampling. The sample...
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The Single-vector and Multi-vector Mixed Compressed Storage of Tangent Matrix

Wenjiao Da, Xiuli Wang, Jing Wen, Han Zhang
Matrix is a mathematical object, commonly used in scientific computing and engineering calculation. We are not interested in data itself in the data structure, but interested in how to store the elements in the matrix, and make the various operations can run effectively. The main purpose of the compressed...
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Risk Factors of Post-earthquake Fire for Constructions Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process Approach

Hsiaomei LIN, Chingyuan LIN, Juicheng KO, Yushiang WU
Urban area is always gathering huge population and different kinds of activities. Once there is any disaster, it would be very possible to have unrecoverable damage. For the post-earthquake fire in constructions, it would caucus damage not only in civilians' lives but also property. Therefore, it becomes...

Use of Multimedia Learning Technology Based Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Chandra Anugrah Putra
Recently, teachers have various problems when implementing the learning in the classroom. Learning problems are caused because the teachers do not understand the characteristics of learners with learning content. Multimedia as a new product of modern technology seeks to involve all the senses, including...
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Super-Resolution for Surveillance Video Via Adaptive Block-matching Registration

T. Lu, W. Yang, Y.J. Wan
In recent years, numerous surveillance cameras are widely installed in the streets, residential areas and traffic routes to protect the national public security. Since interested objectives are often far away from the camera, the resolution of these target images are always in low-resolution (LR). It...
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An Adaptive Threshold Algorithm for Joint Sparse Recovery

N. F. Dong, J. X. Wang
This paper presents a new greedy algorithm for joint sparse recovery, called adaptive threshold simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (AT-SOMP). In this algorithm, an adaptive threshold is designed based on subspace decomposition to stop the iterative process, during which the support of target signal...
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Research and Development on the MPPT Intelligent Control Device for WPVC Power Generation System

Zhongnian Li, Lei Zhou
A new type of  WPVC(Wind PhotoVoltaic Complementary) power generation system is researched & developed, the system performance-cost ratio is high, the"D/D/D"(Direct-current/Direct-current/Duty-ratio)-"D/D/ D"(Direct-current /Direct-current/ Duty-ratio) MPPT (Maximm Power Poin Tracking) intelligent control...
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Mechanical States Studies on Half-span Swinging Arch Bridge of Open Thin-walled Section in the Construction Stage

Jinghua Fu, Sheng Li, Zhi Li
Basing on an actual swinging arch bridge, some mechanical properties in the construction stage that the half-span swinging structure breaking away the brackets are analyzed by the finite element software ANSYS, such as the structural curve mode, bracing cable force, key section stress and the global...

Optimal Resource Allocation of the Press

Xue Yang
The paper studies the optimal resource allocation of the press. Four decisive factors are market share, satisfaction, sales and the number of ISBN assigned. We are made to increase the profits of the press and reduce the gap between expected sales and actual sales at the same time. We set the numbers...

Study on Financing Mode Innovation in New Urbanization Construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Qiong Wu
From the perspective of new urbanization construction of the Yangtze River economic belt, in this paper we firstly analyze the financing demand of it, and then describe the disadvantages of the traditional mode of financing, and finally explore how to construct diversified and sustainable urbanization...