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The spirit of Web 2.0 is through the collective power of communities to create, share and comment on the opinions of the user and others. The purpose of this study is to use the concept of Web 2.0 to design an English article recommendation system for senior high school students who are reading and learning....

In recent years, the digital learning technology has evolved from E-Learning to M-Learning and U-Learning. However, most of these digital learning paradigms do not support the interactive teaching activities in class. With NFC (near field communication) technology, the interactions between teachers and...

The aim of this study was to verify the relationships among principals’ conflict management and school effectiveness from administrative heads’ viewpoints at public vocational schools in Taiwan. This study employed questionnaire survey method to collect the research data. The descriptive statistics,...

Safety is the most important issue while driving. Many traffic accidents occur because of insufficient safe distance. With the advancement of technology, there are cars with a front distance safety warning system. Some of them are with fixed safe distance regardless of the speed of the car. Other advanced...

The positive relationship between competency and work performance were revealed theoretically and practically. However, few studies demonstrated how to use or transform a competency model or job description to investigate the relationship. This study took a document called occupational competency standard...

The application of Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used in our lives with the advancement of related software and hardware technologies. In order to make these IoT modules more intelligent, many IoT modules have begun to incorporate artificial intelligence algorithms. Therefore, this paper develops...

This paper examines the benefits of habit formation and social interaction for older adults in senior universities (老年大学 lǎonián dàxué) in China. With China’s rapidly ageing population, senior universities provide educational opportunities that promote lifelong learning, skill development, and social...

In the face of fierce competition, enterprises begin to build customer-oriented operation conception to meet customers' changing demands. The study suggests that enterprises can build such a kind of culture by taking internal marketing management activities. Otherwise, internal marketing can be regarded...

The promulgation and formulation of ordinances on apparel system in past dynasties are not only the factors restricting clothing culture, but also the factors promoting clothing culture. The enactment of the ordinances on apparel system of the Republic of China is the inheritance of the Chinese costume...

Pattern reformation problem on a grid plane is an interesting problem. Suppose there is a group of mobile robots on a square grid plane with the number of robots equaling to the number of columns/rows of the grid plane. The mobile robots are commanded to change to another formation as soon as possible....

In the worldwide, the actual effect of BPR project is not satisfactory. The internal influencing factors can not be ignored. So, through literature review and basic analysis based on the implementation pattern of four stage model, the model of enterprise internal factors which influence the effect of...

To evaluate the learning performance of students, a final report is usually assigned. Students are asked to form a group which includes several students and they are assigned a specific topic to prepare a report. The way of assignment greatly influences on the results. The purpose of this study is to...

The difficulty that is experienced by most Chinese language teachers is to determine which Chinese language textbooks are suitable to be applied to Indonesian learners. In Indonesia, most of the Chinese books, including the Chinese Semantic textbooks, are still in full Chinese or English. Learning Chinese...

With the continuous development of the social economy and the deepening of urbanization, large buildings are increasing, and disaster risks associated with large buildings, such as fire risks, are also increasing. Because of large buildings, such as shopping malls, business offices, transportation hubs...

In vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs), due to highly mobile and frequently changing topology, available resources and transmission opportunities are restricted. To address this, we propose a burst transmission and frame aggregation (FAB) scheme to enhance transmission opportunity (TXOP) efficiency of...

The state of the art of mobile robot path planning is composed with global planner and local planner. For example, the global planner majorly establishes a suitable path from a knowing map based on the shortest path. And the local planner which computes the velocity command that includes obstacle clearance...

Inspired by the idea of Kuo and Mallick, Bayesian subset selection for inverse Gauss regression models is studied by Gibbs sampler and Metropolis-Hastings algorithm in this paper. Simulation study and the aerobic fitness data example are employed to demonstrate the proposed methodology.

This work proposes a Blind Wavelet-based Image Watermarking (BWIW) technique, based on the human visible system (HVS) model and neural networks, for image copyright protection. A characteristic of the HVS, the Just Noticeable Difference (JND) profile, is employed in the watermark embedding so that the...

This study aims to investigate the effect of budget planning, budget execution, goods / services procurement, and competence of human resources on budget absorption in the regional apparatus organization of Palembang City. The data used are primary data. The sample selection technique was purposive sampling,...

Since spare part availability impacts the fixing rate for defective device, maintaining an acceptable spare part availability level is critical for improving customer satisfaction level. Spare part demand is typically unpredictable due to varying service requests. Most companies set a fix period for...

The brand plays a significant role and influence on the internal operating environment of service-oriented enterprises. Employees’ awareness of brand information can form a self-dissemination phenomenon, which is very important for companies to promote internal marketing smoothly and enhance retention...

The article develops the decision rules to win each set of the Chinese chess game using evaluation algorithm and artificial intelligence method, and uses the mobile robot to be instead of the chess, and presents the movement scenarios using the shortest motion paths for mobile robots. Player can play...

Image algorithms used herein are Tracking-Learning-Detection (TLD) and Speed UP Robust Features (SURF). TLD is used for target tracking and SURF is used for identifying targets. We use zoning identification, with the use of statistical probability to strengthen the efficiency of TLD and SURF. With such...

Bone conduction microphone (BCM) can robustly resist noisy background. In this paper, an industrial parameter measurement architecture has been proposed to measure the main parameters of BCM. For comparing the robustness of BCM, a synchronized record platform has been developed. To observe the speech...

This study is to investigate the strength properties of cement-based composites with circulated fluidized bed combustion (CFBC) fly ash and coal-fired fly ash. Ten different blended cements were prepared to cast mortar specimens. The compressive strength, tensile strength, and flexural strength were...

In recent years, around-view monitoring systems have become a public driving assistant for reducing collision hazards by eliminating invisible areas. Many of such systems provide short range views surrounding the vehicle, limiting its application to parking and reversing. We had developed a wide-scoped...

Ag3PO4 is a photocatalytic material with visible light response, which has a broad application prospect in environmental treatment. However, due to its susceptibility to photocorrosion, high cost and secondary pollution in water, it is limited to some extent. Therefore, we combined Ag3PO4 photocatalyst...

Considering the shortcomings of IDW interpolation, this study improved the IDW algorithm and proposed a new spatial interpolation method that is called Adjusted Inverse Distance Weighting (AIDW). The AIDW is capable of taking into account the comprehensive influence of relative distance and position...

One of the key issues for effective English learning is to make students easily read and speak in English. Although most college students can pass the testing of English writing and/or reading in Taiwan, they still fail or afraid to speak in English. The Kenyon and Knott phonetic transcription, KK phonetic...

The Chinese civilization has been bursting with vitality and vigor in the process of dialogue with other cultures, especially with the Western classic Bible. The “best” translation of the supreme master of Christianity is one of the core issues in the process of translating the Bible into Chinese. In...

This paper proposes a modified copula approach to defining correlation dependence used for pricing credit derivatives. For both single-name and multiname products, how default correlations react to common shocks should be appropriately measured. The copula approach is an effective method for this purpose....

The Russian Composer Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) is considered as one of the most exceptional composers because of his innovations in musical works that possess synesthetic aesthetics and modernist techniques. Particularly, in the score of his fifth symphony, Prometheus, Poem of Fire, Op.60 (1910),...

National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) built a render farm that provides a platform for the industry to render their work in a much more efficient timeframe, allowing for both central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) rendering. The throughput has also been greatly...

An L(2,1)-labelling of a graph G is a function f which assigns labels from {0,1,…,λ} to the vertices of G such that vertices at distance two get different labels and adjacent vertices get labels that are at least two apart. Sierpiński graphs S(n,k) generalized the Tower of Hanoi graphs that constructed...

In universities, educational administration is a key link in the university management, the quality is directly related to the status of competition in college in contemporary society and even the survival and development. Combined with the actual needs of educational administration, using Microsoft...

The graduation thesis serves as a concentrated demonstration of students’ accumulated learning over their four-year undergraduate tenure, representing a pivotal avenue for enhancing the overall competencies of graduates. This study, rooted in an analysis of the current landscape and identified challenges...

Taiwan surrounded by water and has abundant and diversified marine environment and resources, so that Taiwanese life closely depends on marine and coast. However, with the increase of population and the change of economic structure led to the pressures on the coastal zone increase sharply in recent years....

The prevalence of loneliness and social anxiety in modern society is increasing. This has led to growing attention being paid to the human-pet relationship as a means to alleviate psychological issues. This study aims to explore the factors influencing owners’ perceived human-cat relationships and provide...

Humans experience three phases in life, namely birth, marriage, and death. Nativity symbolizes the beginning of life, the moment when a new human being begins to breathe the air of the world. It is an event that brings great joy to the family and community, a symbol of hope and the future. Marriage as...

High space cost and ignoring synonyms in STC (Suffix Tree Clustering algorithm) are challenges for search results clustering. Aiming at these challenges, this paper proposes a WordNet-based suffix tree clustering algorithm (WNSTC). WNSTC can construct a suffix tree containing WordNet synsets. When constructing...

Automatic parking system is a non-accurate modeling system, and the fuzzy algorithm is an excellent choice for the non-accurate modeling. Based on the vehicle kinematics modeling and the experience of artificial parking, we establish the horizontal and vertical models of the vehicle automatic trajectory...

Process condition was changed by preventative maintenance that may lead to the inconsistency of process output. In practice, process engineers have difficulties to discover the inconsistency that the defect wafer may have been produced before the next measurement. This study proposes a virtual metrology...

This paper is intended to integrate Internet Marketing, Customer Experience, E-brand and Integrated Marketing Communications to develop a high benefits Internet Marketing Framework. This framework not only can combine marketing resources effectively, let enterprises obtain the greatest benefits; it also...

With the maturity and popularization of the technology of power electronic transformation, the power drag, rectifier circuit is used in great quantities in the application fields such as power system, which is including diode uncontrolled rectifier circuit, voltage type PWM rectifier circuit. To stabilize...

The black swan event has the characteristics of rarity and serious consequences. At present, the analysis of black swan events is generally preconceived (that is, the event is assumed to be a black swan event, and then the influence of the event is discussed), or whether it is a black swan event is directly...

In performing arts, the piano ensemble literature has a wide variety of repertoire that demands versatile skills such as sight-reading, rhythmic stability, coordination and communication. Piano ensemble playing has a very different training discipline and learning process from the piano solo performance...

The design of high reliability, high efficiency, high power factor and low cost is the development trend of the current switching power supply. Traditional switching power supply, input current of rectifier filter circuit, which contains a large number of harmonics, will cause the power utilization efficiency...

Multi-core processors are becoming widely deployed. However, more cores consume more power. A power saving technique for multi-core systems based on the observation of critical sections is proposed. Since only one thread works in a critical section, other threads on other cores that access the same resource...

The subject of improvisational piano accompaniment aims to develop a student’s capability in accompanying a vocalist, an instrumentalist, or a chorus spontaneously and harmoniously without following a music score. Improvisational piano accompaniment transformed from a secondary subject to a highly demanding...