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From the perspectives of sociolinguistics and social semiotics, on the basis of Luke Rowland’s theory of glocalization and Kress’s theory of multimodal semiotics, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis methods, this study focuses on analyzing the commercial linguistic landscape...

The enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of lactate to pyruvate is called lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), essential in producing energy present in cells for various tissues, including the liver, heart, and skeletal muscle. Although the increased LDH activity is due to vascular thrombosis, bleeding, and...

This paper highlights the phonological modification of teachers' instructional talk in teaching English to secondary school students in South Sulawesi. The descriptive qualitative method was employed involving 10 English teachers teaching at ten different secondary schools. This study implemented direct...

This study aims to determine the differences in forgiveness, hope, and satisfaction with life based on family- related characteristics, namely birth order, the total number of siblings, parents’ marriage status, housemate, parents’ age category, parents’ occupation nature, and parents’ education, aside...

Background and Objectives: The competency test for prospective GP, Doctor Profession Program (UKMPPD), is obligatory for the Indonesian Doctor. However, the low-graduating rate has been an issue for years. Kemendikbud suggests peer-mentoring and UMI have been implementing it since 2017. Therefore, the...

An electrochemistry sensor composed of glass carbon electrode modified with [ZnSO4{ZnCl2(u-S-CH2CH2NH2}]n was used for the determination of mercury(II) ions with differential pulse voltammetry(DPV) in 0.1mol/L KCl solutions. The proposed electrochemistry sensor had good operating characteristics towards...

This study explains the effect of corporate performance, corporate values and corporate governance mechanisms on executive compensation. The sample is 16 firms listed in the manufacturing company for the period of 2010-2016 (112 research data). Results of F test show that the regression model used to...

This paper presents a dual circular polarization microstrip antenna with different sizes of two square patches stacked, so that it can realize dual-band antenna. Right circular polarization in S band is achieved by the upper patch antenna with diagonal corner cut method and with single feed method. The...

The article analyzes the problem of alcohol behavior of women of reproductive age in Eastern Siberia and assessment of their quality of life. The authors analyze the current research of this problem and make a conclusion about the ambiguity of the solution of the problem of alcohol behavior in women...

By using gauge transformations, we manage to obtain new solutions of (2 + 1)-dimensional Kadomtsev–Petviashvili (KP), Kaup–Kuperschmidt (KK) and Sawada–Kotera (SK) equations from nonzero seeds. For each of the preceding equations, a Galilean type transformation between these solutions u2 and the previously...

We consider the rational potentials of the one-dimensional mechanical systems, which have a family of periodic solutions with the same period (isochronous potentials). We prove that up to a shift and adding a constant all such potentials have the form U(x) = 1 2 2 x2 or U(x) = 1 8 2 x2 + c2 x-2 .

In order to study Trf 2 protein function in the sperm production, the Trf2 gene was studied and the protein function was predicted in this paper. Based on blast searches with the mRNA sequence of human Trf 2 and the bovine-EST databases, we used fragment assembly and RT-PCR technology to amplify sequence....

With the rapid development of social networks like Facebook and WeChat and so on, the social characteristics of the emerging e-commerce has become increasingly prominent and the varied demand for products rises in the same way, and the commercial value of niche products has also been surging with a blowout...

Firstly, this paper analyzes the information disclosure status of A-share listed companies in Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Through the statistics and analysis of information disclosure assessment results, it finds out that the information disclosure level of listed companies has been obviously improved....

This paper researched the correlation between the management capability and the corporate environmentLal investment of enterprise by using the operating data from A-share heavily polluting industry listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen (2010-2015). It can be found that: it is a "U" type relationship...

This paper measures the new industrialization level and its development tendency in Chongqing by analytic hierarchy process and grey correlation degree analysis through a specially-constructed evaluation indicator system. As the study demonstrates, the city's longitudinal new industrialization development...

Students’ conception is defined as the way students make sense of a range of natural phenomena. Identifying students’ conception is essential because it leads to more focused teaching and enables teachers to prevent and eliminate misconceptions. The four-tier test is chosen because it is a stronger and...

Plasminogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1) is the key inhibitor of the fibrinolytic system, modulating cellular responses associated with vascular remodeling. Elevated plasma PAI-1 has been positively correlated to systolic- and diastolic blood pressure, measured in the brachial artery, and is increased...

Speaking is a very important skill that needs to be practiced in the classroom. However, students are commonly afraid to communicate in the classroom especially when it comes to oral communication. Based on the finding in the preliminary study the main reasons are the fears to get negative response towards...

To investigate the impact of the degree of marketisation on the innovation efficiency of manufacturing enterprises. Taking the financial report data of 3300 listed manufacturing companies and the total marketisation index of their regions as samples from 2012 to 2021, the two-stage DEA model is used...

This paper mainly studies the impact of enterprise digital transformation on technological innovation. Based on the whole industry data of A-share listed enterprises, the paper analyzes the text of enterprise annual report and extracts digital keywords to construct core explanatory variables, and takes...

Offline Reinforcement learning (RL) uses the collected data to train agents without interaction with the environment. However, due to the inconsistent distribution between the data set and the real world, the training samples collected in the real environment cannot be well applied to offline RL. In...

The studies of prosocial behavior have been wide and various, but few researchers use embodied cognition theory to study prosocial behavior. As important sensations to individuals, the influences of haptic sensations on cognition have rarely been studied. In this study, embodied cognition theory is used...

The braking system is one of the supporting factors for safety and security on trains. In railway braking systems in various countries, composites have been used as brake shoe materials because composites meet several criteria to replace cast iron brake shoes. Nylon has been used in various automotive...

In order to investigate the uplift bearing characteristics of micropiles in typical weathered rock with shallow overburden in mountainous areas of Zhejiang Province, China, the vertical uplift static load tests of micropiles were conducted in Ningbo, Taizhou, and Lishui by the Infrastructure Department...

From 2002 to 2011, the relation between education investment and GDP is linearly increase in China, the speed of increasing is an inverted "U" type, the whole country and the four class areas based on regional differences classification are all so. Study shows that the economic effect of education investment...

Based on the corporate life cycle theory, the effects of corporate excess cash holdings on firm value is conducted in this paper. The results show that a significant inverse U-shaped relation exists between excess cash holdings level and firm value. It indicates that lots of companies face the problem...

This paper aims at discussing the roles of accurate and efficient diagnosis of brain tumors in enhancing patient diagnostic results and treatment plans. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) plays a significant role in the diagnosis of brain tumors because of high-resolution imaging of the brain region. But...

In today’s digital world, machines are evolving beyond basic speech-to-text systems. This project develops an emotionally aware solution that recognizes both spoken words and the underlying emotions. The system combines Constant-Q Transform (CQT) for capturing time frequency audio features with Recurrent...

Background: The mechanisms of endogenous progenitor cell trafficking in response to tissue injury in humans are poorly understood. Methods: We based our study on a model of transient myocardial injury, provoked by the use of cardiopulmonary bypass during cardiac surgery in 39 patients. Bone marrow (BM)...

The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is a core challenge in manufacturing optimization under dynamic disturbances and energy constraints. This paper proposes a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning method for dynamic energy-efficient scheduling. The framework decomposes decisions into two...

The panoramic radiographs offer a synoptic view of the dentoalveolar anatomy but is cumbersome to analyze reliably in the presence of concurrent caries, loss of periodontal bone and impactions. By utilizing modern deeply learned object detectors (YOLO-family) that have become commoditized, the review...

Abstract—This paper presents a controller for DER inverters in the distribution side to act as shunt active filters and mitigate the power quality issues in the grid without the installation of additional FACTS devices. The inverter is able to inject the real power available at the DC link from renewable...

With the expected growth in mobile robotics the demand for expertise to develop robot control code will also increase. As end-users cannot be expected to develop this control code themselves, a more elegant solution would be to allow the end-users to teach the robot by demonstrating the task. In this...

Children under five are an age group that susceptible to malnutrition and considered as one of the vulnerable groups in nutrition. Malnutrition in infants may result in disruption of physical growth and intelligence of children. Failure to grow due to malnutrition in infancy (the golden age) will have...

This paper discusses the impact of digital economy development on the level of industrial synergistic agglomeration and the mechanism of its role based on the panel data of 110 cities in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from 2011-2019. The results show that: (1) The development of digital economy in the...

People's violations on social order regulations are have become a common phenomenon. As illustrations, traffic rules are violated every day, roads and sidewalks are shifted into a street vendor's booth or a parking lot. As can be seen from the foregoing violations of the public order, Indonesian society...

With big projects implementation, such as space station and cargo spacecraft in orbit increasing the dosage of the secondary power supply, the requirement of increasing the for reliability, used in great quantities however on-orbit secondary power supply of power MosFET can only conservative derating...

With the continuous development of the Internet, community-based Q&A (CQA) system has become an effective platform for people to access online information and help. People can submit their own question in CQA and get answers from others. There will be an enormous amount of questions all the time, and...

In this article, a compact RFID reader antenna operated on UHF band and WLAN with circular polarization is proposed. The antenna is comprised of an inverted L-shaped strip and an asymmetric U-shaped strip. The antenna is fed by a coplanar waveguide (CPW) line. The simulated result for -10-dB impedance...

The financial industry has always considered stock market forecasting to be vital. In recent years, the application of reinforcement learning techniques in stock market prediction has gained attention. This study aims to explore using Deep Q-Networks (DQN) and Double Deep Q-Network (DDQN) for stock market...

Artificial intelligence not only promotes the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry but also intensifies the job substitution effect. To explore the nonlinear impact of artificial intelligence on the job performance of manufacturing employees, a conceptual model of artificial intelligence...

With the intensification of global environmental issues, the disclosure of environmental accounting information has a profound impact on corporate value. Based on the data of 1,200 listed companies in heavy - pollution industries from 2019 to 2023, this study uses the Tobin’s Q value as a measure of...

Background: prolonged circulatory unloading associated with head-down tilt bed rest (HDTBR) is followed by cardiovascular deconditioning. Aim of the study was to investigate to what extent large artery function and arterial-ventricular coupling (VA) are involved. Methods: ten healthy male volunteers...

This paper designs three spatial correlation models, and uses dynamic spatial Durbin model to empirically analyze the impact of online retailing on household consumption expenditure from two dimensions of space and time. The results show that: online retailing has only a short-term impact on household...

This study aims to identify the composition and distribution characteristics of plant flora of Urban Ecological Wetland Park in Tianjin Lingang. Results show that plant species of Wetland Park in Tianjin Lingang are relatively rich.There are 246 vascular plants from 171 genera and 73 families.16 families,37...

Fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) have been widely used in retrofitting or strengthening concrete structures in recent years. This is due to the various advantages of FRP composites, including high strength-weight ratio, high tensile modulus, superior corrosion resistance and ease of applying in strengthening...

At the present stage, the issues of digitalization of economic processes and the penetration of information technologies into all areas of activity are very relevant. The aim of the study is to identify the features of enterprise management in the context of digitalization and the formation of an algorithm...