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In order to solve the problem of spectral distortion and the fuzzy texture in visible and infrared image fusion technology, a novel visible and infrared image fusion method based on the Nonsubsampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT) and Pulse Coupled Neural Networks (PCNN) is proposed in this paper. First,...

In this article, we deal with the problem of native language interference in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language. In the theoretical part, we define the concept of the interlingual interference with an emphasis on various areas of language in which it occurs. In the analytical-interpretative...

Whether we like it or not, digital gaming and social networking are already wide-spread activities in our culture. More and more homes are now equipped with video-game consoles, computers, tablets or smart phones. The main purpose of this paper is to present an outcome of a preliminary studies done in...

China’s government controlled firms face two conflict tasks: For one thing, government should credibly delegate efficiency to firms to make them competitive. For the other, the government also needs to control the firms to achieve their political goals. We suggest one way in which the China’s government...

On the basis of risk analysis, the risk control and risk sustainability should be assessed for the requirement of risk management on the meteorological disaster so that it can keep safeties during large-scale activities. Thus, the AHP model combined with the method of experts score is introduced in the...

We report on the development of a real-time system for facial expression horizontal asymmetry analysis and visualization. In this system, the image signal input from a webcam is analyzed using OpenCV, and feature parameters (facial expression intensity) are measured separately for the left and right...

Objective: Situational teaching method with PBL is applied in the clinical teaching of patients with ectopic pregnancy. Its clinical curative effect is discussed and analyzed. Methods: A total of 100 nursing students in our hospital were randomly assigned to two groups: the observation group and the...

The article is devoted to the consideration of the stages of development and implementation of a digital economy development strategy in our country, as well as the methodology for evaluating the digital economy projects effectiveness and forecast. The application for evaluating the digital projects...

The evaluation of an AGI system can take many forms. There is a long tradition in Artificial Intelligence (AI) of competitions focused on key challenges. A similar, but less celebrated trend has emerged in computational cognitive modeling, that of model comparison. As with AI competitions, model comparisons...

Violation of parking is a legal term. Our country’s law stipulates that there should be no-stop signs and markings, road sections with isolation facilities between motor vehicles and non-motor vehicle lanes and sidewalks, and crosswalks and construction sites. No parking; Railway crossings, sharp bends,...

The purpose of this study is criticizing the effectiveness of government expenditure to speed economic growth in Indonesia. Three Stage Least Square (3SLS) is used. This study applied data for 32 provinces in Indonesia for the period of 2012 to 2017 to ascertain the relevance of Solow Swan’s Neo Classic...

Background: Although impaired arterial function has been associated with adverse prognosis in chronic Heart Failure (HF), its role in Acute HF Syndromes (AHFS) has been little studied. We prospectively investigated the prognostic role of arterial function on mortality and HF Hospitalizations (HHF) in...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden shift towards online learning in education system. The readiness of lecturers in conducting online learning is one of the essential pre-conditions for online learning in medical education system. Aims: This study aims to measure lecturers’ attitudes...

In China’s green governance project, enterprises occupy a dominant position. In recent years, in the field of corporate governance, executive incentive have become a common concern for academics and business owners. Therefore, how to formulate a reasonable and sound incentive mechanism to encourage executives...

Objective: Patients in hemodialysis frequently have cognitive dysfunction (CO/DY). Hemodialysis session often results in acute intravascular volume loss, fluid shifts, hypotensives episodes, decrease of cerebral perfusion and cerebral ischemia, all of which may cause transient deterioration of cognitive...

Objectives: In the general population aortic stiffening assessed by carotid femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) is associated with cognitive dysfunction (CO/DY). Data in chronic kidney disease (CKD) are limited. Our study tests the hypothesis that large artery stiffness and microvascular damage in CKD...

The Poset Cover Problem aims to find a minimum set of posets that cover a given input set of linear orders. This problem has practical applications in data mining, particularly in constructing directed networks from sequential data. The decision version of the problem is known to be NP-hard. In this...

The Metaverse is a big step forward for the Internet that lets people live in a multisensory digital world anywhere and at any time, giving them a “deep feeling of presence.” On the one hand, these features are attracting tech companies and multinational corporations that are interested in the economic...

Today’s era is the era of the Internet, interface design has long been closely related to our lives. In recent years, the popular materialized design style has gradually been replaced by a flat design style, now flat design has become the mainstream in website interface design, it follows the “less is...

In the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in the trend toward environmental sustainability with the shift to renewable energy sources. Nevertheless, the fundamental question is whether using renewable energy could spur economic growth in general and Vietnam exchange rate in particular. This...

In this paper, we discuss the existence of fixed point for set-valued mappings in partially ordered partial metric spaces. Our theorems improve some result of Sedhgi et al (2013). By using the contraction’s mapping principle of Aydi et al (2012) and partial ordered’s definition on Gregorio (2014), we...

In this study, we report the design and investigation of a Janus MoWC monolayer, derived from pristine Mo2C MXene through first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). By introducing compositional asymmetry in the MXene structure, we aim to tune its electronic and catalytic...

Pedagogical Scripting is the process of developing an educational scenario designed for a specific learning context between the professor and the learner. It is intended to make a complex learning situation more coherent and to integrate different resources and activities. This semantic proximity is...

AI models have been widely used as recommender systems in domains such as nutrition, medicine, health status prediction and physical activity. However, their application to drug recommendation is limited due to the complex nature of the medical data stored in Electronic Health Records (EHRs). Existing...

While applications of clustering in business commonly focus on business products or geographic concentrations, occupation clustering concentrates on the knowledge, skills, interests, and abilities of employees. Occupation clustering analysis provides more insights into the talent, knowledge, and skills...

Considering intensive interaction with technology, the effect of technology allocation on IT professional’s work outcomes should not be ignored. Our study thus tries to explore the interplay of technology characteristics and individual factors which in turn will influence the job outcomes. Theoretical...

In order to solve the increasingly serious traffic problems in the city, how to achieve effective management and control of the traffic information has become an urgent problem that should be solved in transportation of our country. This paper proposes a design on traffic signal of wireless sensor network...

A 30-day incubation experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of a long-effect additive (NAM), dicyandiamide (DCD), and glucose additions on N transformation in soil. The results showed that both NAM and DCD enhanced N transformation into soil microbial biomass N and fixed NH4+. Glucose addition...

Purpose Observed and analyzed the curative effect of Shenqi two thistles Er Zhi decoction in the treatment of IgA nephropathy of qi-yin deficiency. Method Used 80 cases of IgA nephrosis patients treated in our hospital from January 2012 to January 2014 as the research object, divided into two groups,...

With the popularity of artificial intelligence and computer vision, an increasing number of software engineers attempt to make their systems be able to recognize the user, through the way of face recognition, e.g., Characteristic Points (i.e., CP)-based face recognition. Generally, the traditional CP-based...

Network intrusion detection has been intensively investigated in recent years. In this paper, we propose an adaptive method based on ant colony clustering to discover unknown attacks. The focus of the method is the clustering process of an ant colony movement. The structure of the intrusion detection...

To build a great modern socialist country and realize national rejuvenation, “Made-in-China 2025” plan points out the direction, and the corresponding reforms are urgently needed for higher vocational education which training a large number of innovative type technical and skilled talents. This article...

This paper emphasizes the necessity of a strategy to prevent the misuse of charitable foundations for terrorist financing. Our preliminary assessment focuses on cases involving the misuse of charitable funds and charitable foundations around the globe. Following an introduction to the situational crime...

The development of non-invasive technology to perform pulse wave analysis and accurately determine central blood pressure has facilitated the study of central blood pressure as a physiologic and biomarker parameter. Central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) has been shown to be significantly associated...

Quadrature index spatial modulation (QISM) with two constellations is presented to exploit the potential spatial diversity gain from spatial domain in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) channel system. In this paper, we consider a transmitted spatial vector formed by mapping two constellations symbol...

Objective or negative. In this work, we apply a simple method to adapt a general purpose polarity lexicon to a specific domain. We propose and evaluate new features to be used in a word polarity based approach to sentiment classification. We consider different aspects of sentences, such as length, purity...

Background: It is was suggested that, in resistant hypertension, the presence of particularly pronounced microvascular alterations may contribute to explain the relative lack of response to treatment. Similarly, in diabetic patients, the persistence of an altered microvascular structure, despite the...

Background: It was proposed that early vascular ageing may be an important mechanism of vascular damage in large conductance arteries. However it is not known whether aging may also affect small resistance artery morphology. Patients and methods: For this reason, we investigated 100 patients with essential...

Despite central pressure’s predictive power of cardiovascular risk, brachial pressure is the clinical standard. However, amplified brachial systolic pressure varies significantly with age, and during therapy. Our aim was to modulate individual arterial and ventricular parameters in an experimental model...

Little attention is paid to the factorial structure of (the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, CES-D) among Chinese older adults. This study examined the latent structure of the short-form and full scale CES-D in older adults in China. A sample of 3770 older adults aged over 65 was...

Since 1955, text summarizing has evolved. We could observe all the various approaches in several languages, although most of these methods were for significant languages such as English, French, etc. Other scholars have figured out how to summarize their material in their language (a language other than...

Enterprise charity is to show the enterprise is not only responsible to the shareholders' interests but also pay more attention to ecological environment, charity and more of the social public welfare of stakeholders, which has become the inevitable trend of enterprise development and the effective ways...

The professional knowledge and skills which the professional teachers of mathematics needed are analyzed, as concludes fundamental methods to develop professionally for professional teachers of mathematics. To realize the specialization of a mathematics teacher and to enhance the professional development,...

In our former work, we propose a new construction of compiling technology course which divides compiler into two levels: compiler technology and compiler theory. In order to meet the requirement of both two levels, we make a large amount of time to research for the valid experiments. With our practice,...

Combining the construction and application of biochemistry curriculum system in local universities, we summarize the significance, construction goals and implementation plan to construct the biochemistry online open curriculum in local colleges and universities. Our research will provide reference for...

In this paper, we consider the problem of development of equivalent circuit of non-linear element with the current-voltage characteristic controlled either voltage or current, which can be modeled without any changes of scheme in accordance with design requirements. For solving the problem we use an...

To explore the role of MDP to improve analysis of refractory ankylosing spondylitis symptoms of erythrocyte sedimentation rate and CRP. Methods: randomly selected in December 2013~December 2014 in our hospital 60 cases of patients with ankylosing spondylitis,and divided into control and experimental...

With the development of environmental protection industry, environmental protection equipment manufacturing industry is a growing demand for professionals in the aspects of environmental protection equipment engineering. On the same time, the profession in our country is just began and many questions...

Many Internet applications take addresses as input. However, addresses on the Internet are always non-normalized, which cannot be used directly. In this paper, we propose an Administrative Divisions Extracting Algorithm to normalize Chinese addresses on the Internet. Our approach proceeds as follows:...

To enhance the effectiveness of on-the-job training, we discuss the advantages of PPT courseware combined with narration and inserted textbook file at the preparation stage, teaching stage, review stage, study based on actual work demands and subsequent improvement stage, as well as its advantages in...