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With the rapid development of social economy, people's living standards gradually improve, more and more people choose to travel close to nature, relieve the pressure of life, to meet their pursuit of spiritual and cultural life, in this context, China's tourism industry is facing broad prospects for...

Leadership, either social, business, or academic leadership, has a lot in common. It is all about looking for the new and innovative ideas, unconventional approaches, novel solutions, as well as showing one’s initiative and commitment. Moreover, it is about leading approaches, leading ideas, and leading...

The central issue of our article is: can principles of good governance be regarded as norms for the administration or is it a citizen’s, right? The underlying issue is the mutual relation between both types of requirements regarding good governance and whether we will be able to express our preference...

We have proposed a distributed storage system which autonomously migrates data blocks into a suitable storage node by considering their access frequency and read/write ratio. In this paper, we show that revised data migration policies can rapidly distribute input/output (I/O) hot spot over the storage...

Background: Chronic systemic inflammatory diseases (CSID) are associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Widening of retinal venular calibers has been independently associated with systemic inflammation and cardiovascular risk in the general population. We aimed to test the hypothesis...

Background: Water pipe (WP) tobacco smoking is gaining wide popularity among young and middle aged males and females. Aim of the work: The aim of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect of 1st pipe water smoking on brachial Flow mediated dilatation% (FMD%) and Nitrate mediated dilatation% (NMD%)...

Background: Incretine hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) causes dose-dependent relaxation of the thoracic aorta of rats and other arteries via nitric oxide (NO), cAMP and ATP-sensitive potassium channels, however, through a mechanism not thoroughly described. Hereby we aimed to determine the mediators...

In this study we investigate information processing in deep neural network models. We demonstrate that unsupervised training of autoencoder models of certain class can result in emergence of compact and structured internal representation of the input data space that can be correlated with higher level...

One of the forms of socio-cultural pluralism of Indonesia is the existence of indigenous peoples with their customary law system. Indonesia as an archipelagic country, the number of indigenous peoples is estimated at around 40-50 million, out of more than 10,000 ethnic and sub-ethnic groups spreading...

The article presents the results of a study on the content of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in water, soil and in plant products that are directly used by humans for nutrition. During four years of observation, water analysis demonstrates high arsenic concentrations. The arsenic content ranges from...

Our rapidly changing and deteriorating modern world is marked by globalization and digitalization that are making it both smaller and more far apart. In addition, it is marked by the growing inclinations to sustainable economic growth that arises in the face of such threats as global warming and global...

The high use of ototoxic drugs, especially antibiotics such as aminoglycosides and anticancer drugs such as cisplatin still can not be avoided as a therapeutic option. The use of ototoxic drugs can cause damage to the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals leading to hearing loss and balance disorders....

Reasonably determining and using the loan limitation granted by commercial banks to their corporate clients, it has important theory meaning and realistic meaning for commercial banks to strengthen risk prevention and for lenders and borrowers to improve operational performance. In this paper, we summarized...

According to the externalist approach, subjective experience hypothesizes a processual unity between the activity in the brain and the perceived event in the external world. A perception loop therefore occurs among the brain's activities and the external world. In our work the metaphor of test is employed...

This paper presents a neural network enhanced stereo vision obstacle detection and avoidance system for unmanned ground vehicle. In this paper, we build a neural network to learn the mapping for the left image to the right image under the assumption of a flat road. Using the trained neural network we...

Today, citizens of the world are faced with enormous problems in various aspects of human life due to the problem of the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on all sectors of Indonesian people’s lives. One of the sectors that was significantly affected was the health sector....

Lack of consideration for the cost of environmental degradation,the land value has always been assessed mistakenly. Considering both the economic gains and the environmental degradation cost, our team propose the Land Comprehensive Value Index (LCVI). Then we establish the Land Comprehensive Value Evaluation...

Emotion analysis from text is a topic of growing interest over recent years. It is because of the growth and availability of internet. The emotion analysis from text and the strength of the emotions in text plays an important role in understanding and predicting the future events. In this paper, we are...

Since the emergence of rabies cases in human in 2008, there have been 174 humans affected by the disease in Bali. Eradication program implementing dog vaccination has seemed to decrease the incidence of rabies cases in human, however the human cases were still found. A lot of resources from local and...

Leadership, either social, economic, or academic, is distinguished by the multi-dimensional facet. The whole idea is to pursue innovative and novel ideas, search for extraordinary approaches, as well as not being afraid to face the difficulties. In addition, in every field of science, business, or social...

This paper uses DEA method to evaluate innovation efficiency of 40 typical artificial intelligence enterprise in our country, which inputs element as human (research and development personnel accounted for the ratio of the total number of employees) and capital (the ratio of R&D and business revenue),...

Why death is not as scary as it sounds? This is the question this paper attempted to answer. To do so, the paper discusses the problem from three aspects. First, the two possibilities about what will happen after we die. Second, the wrong image in our mind for the process of dying. Third, fear of losing...

In general, any form of leadership, either social, economic, or academic is determined by the quick response to the social and economic changes. The leaders are the ones who seek to exploit the creative destruction brought about by the unexpected events. The events of the recent months have changed...

Nowadays the power consumption is increasing unknowingly in our houses and Some faulty devices will consume more energy than what it is taken. So, to overcome those defects a system is being proposed that will provide the information about the power consumption and faulty loads by the system and also,...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of extant knowledge on emoji use in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). A compilation of 46 empirical studies published between 1998 and 2020 are presented as a critical review and in a Summary Table that reports the methodology, sample, key...

As the value goals change as per the varying theme of the times, people desired for the unity and harmony during war and unrest years, but fought for democracy and freedom under great empire’s ruling. However, at present, as the social conflicts and economic stagnation occur, people are longing for communion...

The issue of interaction between citizens and businesses with authorities during the pandemic has become particularly relevant in the context of self-isolation. E-government has become the only window of opportunity to receive state aid, appeals, and benefits. In this regard, it is necessary to constantly...

Analyzing runtime behavior as part of debugging complex component-based systems used in the vehicle industry is an important aspect of the integration process. It is a laborious task that involves many manual steps. One reason for this is that, as of today, the analysis is usually not performed on the...

Students of the natural sciences learn to understand objectively and reductively the world out there – at arm’s length - the world of naturally occurring systems. However, this materialistic worldview has not only fueled the 4th Industrial Revolution but has also triggered the Anthropocene, an unprecedented...

There is a growing interest in the use of melatonin in preventing radiation-induced mucositis with potential beneficial effects including prevention of mucosal damage, the emergence of ulcers and the loss of proliferative progenitor stem cells caused by radiation. Local drug delivery to the oral cavity...

This paper examines the impact of the antidumping measures initiated by the Government of Egypt on imports during the period 2001–2015. Our contribution is twofold. First, the paper distinguishes between the effect of antidumping measures on the value, the volume and the price of imports. Second, it...

The current investigation examined the difference in money attitudes between inmates who committed monetary crimes and those who committed non-monetary crimes. Monetary inmates (N = 219) and non-monetary inmates (N = 174) responded to a questionnaire that included the Money Attitude Scale (MAS). Results...

This research conducted in order to find out the related cases of distillation and illegal sales of crude oil mining products in the Bojonegoro East Java Province area remain in Wonocolo village. Whereas according to the mandate of the 1945 Constitution that all natural resources should be controlled...

This paper addresses the issue of non-uniform motion deblurring for a single photograph. The main difficulty of spatially variant motion deblurring is that, the deconvolution algorithm can not directly be used to estimate blur kernel, due to the kernel of different pixels are different with each other....

In this preface we stress the relevance of the traditional collaboration between Engineering and any field of Mathematics in order to build intelligent decision-aid tools, as it is illustrated by the twelve papers contained in this Special Issue. These papers, selected by means of a standard peer review...

Enterprise strategic alliance is a win-win business competition mode that has been developed in both academia and industry. How to allocate total profit fairly in an uncertain environment, however, is an important factor affecting the stability of the strategic alliance. To handle this problem, this...

SOME MEASURES RELATING PARTITIONS USEFUL FOR COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE We investigate a number of measures relating partitions. One class of measures we consider are congru- ence measures. These measures are used to calculate the similarity between two partitionings. We provide a number of examples...

We study the dynamics of a particle moving on the SU(2) group manifold. An exact quantization of this system is accomplished by finding the unitary and irreducible representations of a finite-dimensional Lie subalgebra of the whole Poisson algebra in phase space. In fact, the basic position and momentum...

High-stakes (dangerous, catastrophic) risks take on a wider profile as progress unfolds. What are the impacts of technological and social change on the risk landscape? Due to the complexities and dynamics involved, we can only answer these questions approximately. By using the concept of fuzziness, we...

Research purpose: Our research purpose is to explore the relationship of three important components: Corporate Governance, Audit Committee, Strategic Management Accounting. Research motivation: Corporate governance includes a system of institutions, policies, and laws in order to effectively organize,...

Several applications of an explicitly invertible transformation are reported. This transformation is elementary and therefore all the results obtained via it might be considered trivial; yet the findings highlighted in this paper are generally far from appearing trivial until the way they are obtained...

Since sleeping has a vital role in learning and practice, as well as physical health. Having a good sleep quality helps maintain executive cognitive functions, sensorimotor integration, concentration, and memory processing. Nevertheless the COVID-19 pandemic leads to make any changes in sleep schedule...

Hainan Li dance is one of the important resources in our national dance culture treasure-house and is also the art with the most national features in Li aesthetic culture. This paper focuses on the analysis of Li dance features, and discusses the way to protect and develop Hainan Li dance under the time...

According to our school's training target for basic industry base of applied talents, our school has set up a mode which is in accordance with the school talent training target and diversified tests of social needs. Meanwhile, our school has achieved the goal to cultivate students' ability to apply for...

Along with the continuous development of the city, the related education structure is continuously improved, social requirements for innovation and entrepreneurship being gradually upgrading, college students are the main employment groups in the society, under the employment situation, improve the related...

With the development of China's opening-up, more and more western cultures get into our sight. As people face with unfamiliar cultures and countries, some inevitable cultural conflicts might happen in communication, which will seriously affect the contacts being carried out smoothly. Learning and using...

Vocational guidance work is a highly specialized career currently of our country. This paper discussed the professional degree of China's vocational guidance in colleges and universities, and introduced a series of solution to enhance the professional degree, such as to construct the guidance agencies...

With the economic development entering into a new normal situation, the reduction of prospective students, fresh economic development field and new requirements on vocational talents quality all highlight that the goal of higher vocational education should change from extending business to doing good....

Under the circumstances of more and more surging upward in construction field, if want to successfully ensure the quantity?quality and safety of each construction engineering project, this requires that our construction project managers constantly strengthen their connotation construction and qualities'...

Firstly, this paper briefly summarizes and analyzes the concept and main characteristics of innovation and entrepreneurship education in local application oriented colleges and universities. And it takes them as the sample of reforming and developing the innovation and entrepreneurship education in local...