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The power system in China faces three new changes. The first one is the “Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality” national strategy; the second one is to establish the new generation energy system where the green and clean generation will be used to support most of the demand. And the third change is a new...

The article is devoted to issues related to comparing the costs of owning a car and using a taxi in sharing economy. The article provides a methodological approach related to the full accounting of costs and the calculation of costs per kilometre with the corresponding microeconomic model building. The...

Under the new trend of the global competition focusing on value and efficiency, the key to maintain the comparative advantage is to gain competitiveness in the higher value chain. In front of the “re-industrialization” wave of the developed countries such as the US, and many challenges such as the loss...

The article covers the issue of efficiency assessment of individual oil and gas businesses that use key performance indicators. The authors try to improve the efficiency assessment methodology on the basis of SPACE-method. The approach is relevant as it suggests the transition from qualitative efficiency...

Almost one in six deaths worldwide is due to infection, although the speed and accuracy of conventional diagnostic techniques are limited. Medical image analysis, such as CT and MRI scans, can now be done more quickly and accurately thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), which has become a potent tool...

The city of Macao has always been a typical example of reclamation. With more room for variety of land uses especially for public facilities, it brings opportunities for city development. However, some unexpected impacts have been discovered regarding land reclamation in Macao. This article analysed...

Multilevel DC/AC Inverters have various structures. They have many advantages. Unfortunately, most existing inverters content too many components (independent/floating batteries/sources, diodes, Capacitors and switches). The author introduces the "Laddered Multilevel DC/AC Inverters” in this paper that...

Object detection is the very backbone of computer vision. Applications surface in autonomous vehicles, healthcare diagnostics, and surveillance systems. All the conventional methods of object detection typically require massive amounts of annotated data and use heavy computation, making it hard to use...

Portfolio investment is the core of all kinds of investment activities in the financial market, is an investment decision under uncertain conditions, is an important branch of the economic field. The portfolio is a common way to avoid risk. A portfolio is generally considered to be a combination of bank...

The purpose of this article is to reveal the limitations of the Regional Integration Agreements (RIAs) laid down by the neoclassic market fundamentalism. The author then goes on to describe these limitations as a few controversies. For example, at one point, capitalism requires free enterprise, free...

Skin cancer remains one of the most common and life-threatening diseases globally, making early and accurate detection crucial for effective treatment. This study introduces a deep learning-based solution that significantly enhances skin cancer diagnosis. The proposed system employs a Convolutional Neural...

In the article it is discussed the particularities of mechanism of the special economic zones (SEZ) based on using advantages of public and private partnership. At present the SEZ of technical implementation type are the most perspective. In this work the possibility of creating the economic zone on...

Since the promulgation of the Double Reduction, new requirements have been placed on both schools and teachers. The improvement of schools and the degree of teachers' adaptation vary from region to region. This paper is based on interviews with nine elementary school teachers, one educational department...

The point of collective investment is to organise investments under professional management to collect funds from separate investors and later invest them with high yield. So, investments of several investors are managed as a unified portfolio, with every investor having his own share that is proportionate...

The purpose of this article is to find potential approaches to establishing institutions of the mutual common use by the BRICS. The topic is time-relevant, because there is a need to look for ways which could help create the toolkit to make a consensus at the international level without establishing...

In the background of the digital period, more and more e-commerce companies have emerged. However, the competition also becomes more intense than before own to a large number of rivals. In this case, it is important to offer the customers recommendation to boost their satisfaction and loyalty. This work...

Based on the goal of improving the accuracy of all-day outdoor parking lot detection, and considering the difficulty of detecting small spatial targets in many images and the problem that the detection performance at night has a large gap with that at daytime, the all-day outdoor parking lot detection...

The purpose of the article is to substantiate and update the strategic development of the region in the face of challenges of digital transformation of all aspects of life. In response, regions have to switch to new models and tools for survival, apply new approaches: institutional, platform, project....

In the information-based modern society, the informatization and Internet of residents’ clothing, food, housing and transportation are inevitable development trends under the tide of the times. Sharing economy is one of the emerging business forms under the tide of the Internet. In recent years, new...

The work provides theoretical analysis of the problem concerning formation of the professional mobility for specialists in the area of life safety. Also includes the criteria and indexes of the professional mobility for specialists in this area; results of the empirical study for the extent of the graduated...

This paper proposes a fast deblurring method based on back propagation neural networks (BPNN), in which the symmetry of blur function is utilized to reduce the size of network. In the image block used to be training vector, the pixels that have the same distance with centrral pixel are set the same weight...

This study aims to analyze community perspectives on the sustainability of household biogas utilization in Pinrang District, South Sulawesi. Biogas is considered as one of the renewable energy solutions that can reduce dependence on fossil fuels and manage organic waste effectively. This study uses a...

Imagining living in the past without the facilities that are available to people today seems a bit too hard to survive. We live in an era where our dependency upon technology in our routine tasks has driven us to a point where we take most of gifts of technology for granted. Technology has transformed...

As our technological world continues to evolve, people are encountering different forms of pressure incrementally, both physical and mental. The world for teenagers has completely reshaped itself into another form compared to the childhood their parents had experienced. The importance of education had...

Cross-border online gambling crimes occur frequently and have broken through the boundaries of traditional crimes in the context of globalization and the increasing development of Internet technology. For instance, a crime committed in one country can have adverse consequences for citizens from other...

English has been highly valued as one of the major subjects in Chinese College Entrance Examinations. And with globalization, acquiring skills to use English has become a common goal for most families. Existing studies have revealed the effects of family income on students' academic performance...

This article focuses on northeast China’s economic development and explores the region’s economic developments one by one from a historical viewpoint. To begin, the development of northeast China is examined through three historical stages: the modern period before the founding of New China, which was...

The Russian non-profit organisations (NPOs) went through the long pass from political actors to social-oriented assistances and then to some drivers of socio-economic development [1]. Avoiding the engagement of the population in political actions, the Russian government pays significant attention to...

In the field of face recognition, how to extract effective nonlinear discriminative features is an important research topic. In this paper, we propose a new kernel orthogonal projection analysis approach. We obtain the optimal nonlinear projective vector which can differentiate one class and its adjacent...

Color Image Recognition is one of the most important fields in Pattern Recognition. Both Multi-set canonical correlation analysis and Kernel method are important techniques in the field of color image recognition. In this paper, we combine the two methods and propose one novel color image recognition...

As one of the most popular research topics, sparse representation (SR) technique has been successfully employed to solve face recognition task. Though current SR based methods prove to achieve high classification accuracy, they implicitly assume that the losses of all misclassifications are the same....

Both net present value (NPV) and equivalent annual cost (EAC) are appropriate methods for modifying an investment project. While Net Present Value may assist investors in evaluating the project’s cash flows, EAC illustrates the cost of several projects over a year. The purpose of this research is to...

Time Synchronization is a key technique which synchronizes the LPs (Logic processes) of PDES (Parallel and Discrete Event Simulation). After having described shortcomings of the existing algorithms for Time Synchronization, this thesis mainly proposes a new approach based on time dams. It introduces...

Dark matter is one of the most mysterious subjects in cosmology. When people try to analyse the characteristic of a kind of object that they cannot observe it directly, how will they do? Just like the invisible dragon in Carl’s gauge, when we cannot observe an object, how can we ensure that it exists....

We introduce basic theory of genetic algorithms in this paper, Build one hybrid genetic algorithms model base on genetic algorithms in solving product optimization problem. And we realize the model by software. The disposal result of real data tells us that the model has good practicability and accuracy...

In recent years, educational gamification is getting more attention together with the fast advancing of technology as one efficient way to boost learning outcome. Incorporating gamification in learning has an overall better outcome in many aspects. With the popularity of digital gaming, the potential...

The financial market is a nonlinear and frequently changing complex dynamic. Volatility, as one of the important indicators to measure the return of financial assets, occupies an indispensable position in the field of financial measurement. With the development of machine learning and massive data technology,...

Against this background of an extremely competitive labor market, this study aims to investigate the contribution of anchoring heuristics in modification of framework in labor market supply and demand at the scope of individual decision making. Theoretical insights from anchoring theory, Michael Porter...

Minimization of energy consumption is one of the most important research areas in Wireless Sensor Networks. Nowadays, the paradigms of computational intelligence (CI) are widely used in WSN, such as localization, clustering, energy aware routing, task scheduling, security, etc. Though many fuzzy based...

Advertisements are projections of social values and representative glimpses of the cultural background of periods of time, and one of the apparent changes in commercial narratives is the common perception of gender roles. In this paper, several commercials of American male grooming brand Old Spice are...

Financial instruments traded in the markets and investors’ situations in such markets are becoming more complex. The paper examines the main aspects of options, emphasizing the variety of exotic options and their place in financial markets and the risk management process. As the exact valuation of exotic...

This research proposal aims to investigate people’s endorsement of sexual double standards (SDS) when they perceive unintended pregnancies in different commitments to relationships. 400 male and female heterosexual students (age: 18–22) from Nanjing Vocational University of Industry Technology in China...

Chinese cinemas had undergone a series of development. Women’s roles in films were long being discussed. Two representative movies: Two Stage Sisters and Sophie’s Revenge, one from the socialist revolutionary era and one made during contemporary society, reflected feminist ideologies’ effects on movies....

Existed simulation works are always too dependent on a kind of particular techniques or tools to perform horizontal comparison and integration. There is no formal description for the simulation objects which leads to the lack of semantic support in the simulation. In order to guarantee the reusability...

Most of the students are not able to perform well in their exams, and we want to figure out why things happen like this. The study, through experiments, assessed impairments on working memory functionality due to heightened levels of stress. We hypothesized that difficult working memory tasks would elicit...

As the quality of life improves and people pay more attention to health, the fitness industry is growing rapidly. There is one leading company in China and the United States, Yesoul and Peloton. In this work, the two companies’ business models are analyzed in detail, and the advantages and disadvantages...

This paper will discuss issues in data mining and business processes including Marketing, Finance and Health. In turn, the use of KDD in the complex real-world databases in business and government will push the IT researchers to identify and solve cutting-edge problems in KDD modelling, techniques and...

Medical researchers seek to identify and predict profit (or effectiveness) potential in a new medicine B against a specified disease by comparing it to an existing medicine A, which has been used to treat the disease for many years, called medicine assessment. Applying traditional data mining techniques...

Tsingtao Beer was set in 1903 as one of the most famous and biggest beer brands in China. However, in 2020, Yang believes that the coronavirus and the quarantine policies limited tourism and also have an impact on the sale of the Tsingtao Beer [1]. This paper mainly illustrates the Sale volume changes...

One out of every 700 live newborns worldwide is affected by Down syndrome (DS), a genetic disease brought on by an extra copy of chromosome 21. For impacted children to receive the right interventions and have their quality of life improved, early diagnosis is crucial. Traditional techniques for identifying...