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The Very Useful Linear Indefinite Equations in Applied Sciences

Lijiang Zeng
The number theory is an important branch of mathematics. The paper introduced some methods of solving linear indefinite equation in convergent and the so-called extended Euclid's algorithm, and got two results about linear indefinite equation. And it is very important for our understanding and using...
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Clinical Practicability of Extending the Length of Gastrointestinal Decompression Cathetering

Lei Sun, Xin-Quan Gu, An-Na Wang, Fan-Ping Meng
Objective: We intended to investigate the appropriate length of the stomach tube in the treatment of gastrointestinal decompression. Material and Methods: The patients in treatment of gastrointestinal decompression cured by our department from January 2013 to May 2015 whom were divided into 2 groups...

Building Towards Expertise

Marcel Martin, Paul Ouellet, Zeesham Aslam
To build towards expertise, one has to accept to modify his way of practicing, including: 1) A need to reflect on and about the action and near the action in 'in situ' laboratory, 2) A continuous concern about our competence to practice, (presently medical education is in fact discontinuous with periods...

The Different Effects of Selective Attention and Divided Attention on Audiovisual Temporal Integration

Jingjing Yang, Qi Li, Xiujun Li
Human brains integrate various kinds of information from different modalities to perceive our complex environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of attention on the processing of audiovisual temporal information. Fourteen subjects participated in our experiment. Visual, auditory...
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Forecasting the Environment Changes with the ARMA Model for Application to an Oil Tank Fire Hazard

Ni Yuanzhi, Zhang Jie, Lyu Ming, Bo Yuming
In oil tank farm, the fire hazard causes a great loss to both people and property. Once there is a fire, to avoid more loss, a reliable, secure and practical method for putting out a fire is needed. And under this circumstance, the accurate forecasting of the changes of the environment, such as temperature...
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Research on Spread Spectrum Communication Technique based on Binary Offset Subcarrier Frequency Sweep and Related Methods

Wenzhun Huang, Yuting Zhang, Xinxin Xie, Shanwen Zhang
In this paper, we conduct theoretical research on spread spectrum communication technique based on binary offset subcarrier frequency sweep and related methods. At present, most of the spread spectrum signal generation did not give the effect of channel filter, and a large number of related studies have...
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Construction and Implementation of Vocational Curriculum Process Evaluation System in “task-driven project” Teaching Mode——Experiences in "International Marketing" Curriculum

Li Chunhong, Wang Dongwu, Zhang Yunqin, Gao Huihui
Teaching evaluation system is the most important link of vocational college teaching quality assurance, which plays important role in collage teaching management and the collage development. Teaching evaluation system is a systemic engineering with rich connotation and denotation. From the teaching evaluation...

An Analysis on Commercial Film Techniques and Effects Using Positive Factors of Evaluation Database System

Yoji Kawamura
Pages: 1 - 6
This study aims to systematically shed light on what kind of effects are brought about by the film techniques in individual commercial messages. Based on audiovisual experiments, with positive factors as the evaluation index, we considered what could be analyzed from film techniques and their effects....

Relationship Research between Chinese-character Continuation and Language Difficulty Level in Chinese Text

Zezhi Zheng, Dongjie Zhou
Text grading is beneficial to compile, recommend and evaluate the textbook, etc. Therefore, the measure of difficulty level of texts has received considerable attentions from researchers. In this paper, the static difficulty of units of language and knowledge, like Chinese-characters and words or phrases,...

Discussion on Strengthening the Construction of Practical Training base in Vocational Colleges and Promoting the Training of Skilled Personnel

Kun Lin, Zhaoyan Xie
China has always been attaching great importance to education. Especially since the reform and opening-up, Chinese economy has experienced great increasing and more excellent talents have been demanded by the market. So, our nation has put forward lots of related preferential policies to cultivate more...

Research on the Training Mode of Aerospace Talents in Colleges and Universities

Shang Lin, Yang Qiong
The aviation industry is a symbol of a country's strength in science, technology, economy and national defense as well as its industrialization level, and it is a strategic industry of the country. At present, students trained in China cannot meet or match the needs of enterprises, in terms of both the...

Technogenic Impact of Mining Industry on Natural and Social Spheres in Areas of Passage of Economic Corridors “China–Mongolia–Russia”

A.D. Abalakov, N.B. Bazarova
The anthropogenic impact of mining industry on the environment and population is considered. Considerable attention is paid to the environmental safety of human life in terms of the toxicity of mineral raw materials mined in the areas of the “China- Mongolia-Russia” economic corridors. The objects of...

A Study on Improving Ideological and Political Education in Private Colleges and Universities

Hong Hu
This paper analyses the affinity and pertinence of Ideological and political education in Colleges and universities from two aspects, including the content of affinity and pertinence, the measures of affinity and pertinence. It is hoped that through the analysis and discussion of this paper, we can promote...
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Pedestrian Action Recognition Using Motion Sensor and k-NN Classifier

Ningping Sun, Toru Tsuruoka
We focused on the recognition of pedestrian action using motion sensor and machine learning. In this paper, we present our method how to define feature of actions from acquired data, and how to use k nearest neighborhood classifier to data learning and evaluation.

Research on the " flipped classroom" teaching mode based on the idea of innovation and entrepreneurship education

Hong Zhao
Information technology is a brilliant achievement of human civilization in the 21st century. With the development of information technology, our work and life become more simple and efficient, its simple and efficient superiority covers all areas of society. As an important part of society, education...

Research on Expansive Learning Model Design in E-schoolbag Environment

Xiao-xiao Dong, Hong-hua Wang
With the rapid development of education informationization, our country's education informationization has stepped into the stage of effectively supporting teaching and learning and promoting the individualized development of students. Engeström, the founder of the Third Generation Theory of Activity,...

Trade Potential Analysis between China and Europe under “the Belt and Road” Initiative

Pei-Zhi WANG, Yu-Han ZHENG, Li-Ping SUN
Recently, the European market has become an indispensable part of Chinese foreign trade. In 2013, China put forward “the Belt and Road” initiative in order to communicate the Eurasian Continent. There has been 24 European countries joining in “the Belt and Road” initiative while most developed countries...

A Study of Customs Tax Risk Management

Jing-Hui DUAN, Yu-Le PAN
This paper studied customs tax risk management. Our research contents are summarized as follows: First, we build Customs Tax Risk Management System (CTRMS). This system includes risk management goal programming, risk analysis and identification, risk quantification and ranking, risk disposal, risk monitoring...

Study on the development strategy of homestay tourism from the perspective of eco-tourism

Jingchun Hu
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...

Social, business, and academic leadership: a short introduction

Wadim Strielkowski
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...

Good Governance: A Norm for the Administration or a Citizen’s, Right?

Henk Addink
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...

Performance Evaluation of Data Migration Policies for a Distributed Storage System with Dynamic Tiering

Atsushi Nunome, Hiroaki Hirata
Pages: 1 - 8
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...
Research Article

Retinal vascular calibers in contemporary patients with chronic systemic inflammatory diseases: The Greek REtinal Microcirculation (GREM) study

Evaggelia K. Aissopou, Athanase D. Protogerou, Theodore G. Papaioannou, Maria Tektonidou, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Panagiotis G. Theodossiadis, Coen D.A. Stehouwer, George D. Kitas, Petros P. Sfikakis
Pages: 1 - 6
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...
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The effects of pipe water smoking on endothelial function in healthy non smoker volunteers

Rania Gaber, Manal Hamesa
Pages: 1 - 5
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%)...
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Complex vasoactivity of liraglutide. Contribution of three gasotransmitters

Eszter Sélley, Gergő A. Molnár, Szilárd Kun, István András Szijártó, Boglárka Laczy, Tibor Kovács, Ferenc Fülöp, István Wittmann
Pages: 1 - 9
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...

Spontaneous Concept Learning with Deep Autoencoder

Serge Dolgikh
Pages: 1 - 12
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...

Indigenous Peoples and Their Struggle for Citizenship and Collective Identity in Indonesia

Triyanto Triyanto, Rima Vien Permata Hartanto
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...
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Ecotoxicants in the System Water-Soil-Plant and Possible Risks to Public Health

Tamila Nasirovna Ashurbekova, Zaira Gadzhievna Natalia Gadzhibutaevna, Natalia Gadzhibutaevna Isaeva, Elmira Mugutdinovna Musinova
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...

Social, economic and academic leadership: some introductory remarks

Wadim Strielkowski
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...
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Turmeric Can Prevent Cochlear Damage Due To Ototoxic Drugs

Tengku S.H. Haryuna, Sari Anggraini
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....

Review of the Management Theory and Method of Loan Limitation

Mu Zhang, Meng Wang
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...
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Software Design of an AGI System Based on Perception Loop

Antonio Chella, Massimo Cossentino, Valeria Seidita
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...
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A Neural Network Enhanced Stereo Vision Obstacle Detection and Avoidance System for Unmanned Ground Vehicle

Fanjun Liu, Binggang Cao
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...

Improve Immunity by Doing Yoga Asanas as Spiritual Healing

A Review

Made Kurnia Widiastuti Giri, I Wayan Muderawan, Komang Hendra Setiawan, Ketut Indra Purnomo, Putu Arya Nugraha
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....

Land Comprehensive Value Evaluation Model

Ti Xiang
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...
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Identifying the Strength of Emotions in Relation with the Topic of Text Using Word Space

Anatoly Beltiukov, Mohsin Manshad Abbasi
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...
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Risk Mapping of Risk Factors Associated with Human Rabies Cases in Bali Province, Indonesia

Yuni Yupiana, Chaerul Basri, Ernawati, S Sihombing, Farida Zenal, Caitlin Pfeifer, Mark Stevenson, Luuk Schoonman, James McGrane, Fajar Tjaturrasa
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...

Social, Economic and Academic Leadership: Some Remarks

Wadim Strielkowski
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...

Research on the Innovation Efficiency of Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Based on DEA Method

Xia Gao, Zhongkai Yang, Zhaogang Sun
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),...

Analysis on the Fear When Facing Death

Shengxuan Sun
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...

An Introduction: COVID-19 Pandemic and Academic Leadership

Wadim Strielkowski, Jing Wang
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...
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ML Based Smart Energy Meter Observing & Bill Supervision Using Raspberry Pi

V. Amala Rani, T. Thaj Mary Delsy, D. Marshiana, N. Praveen, P. Kartheek
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,...

Emoji Use in Computer-Mediated Communication

Emmanouela E. Manganari
Pages: 1 - 11
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...

On Value Goals of State Governance Modernization

Xiaodong Li
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...

E-government as an Effective Way of Interaction Between Government Authorities and the Population

Aleksey Ruchkin, Tatiana Kruzhkova, Olga Rushitskaya, Gulnara Dyuzelbayeva
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...

Using Architectural Runtime Verification for Offline Data Analysis

Lars Stockmann, Sven Laux, Eric Bodden
Pages: 1 - 14
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...

Transformative STE(A)M Education for A Sustainable World

Peter C. Taylor
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...
Research Article

Inkjet Printed Melatonin on Poly(vinyl alcohol) Oral Films: Uptake in an Ex Vivo Oral Mucosal Pellicle Model

Yin Ming Khor, Simon Gaisford, Guy Howard Carpenter, Bahijja Tolulope Raimi-Abraham
Pages: 1 - 6
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...
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Mind the Measure: On the Effects of Antidumping Investigations in Egypt

Nada Hazem, Chahir Zaki
Pages: 1 - 14
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...

Money Attitudes in Monetary and Non-Monetary Criminals in China

Yuxuan Chen
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...