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This paper presents the series of shaking table tests performed on a new electricity-generating Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) called to as Tuned Mass Piezo-Damper (TMPD), which intends to harvest electric power using the vibrational energy of the structure on which it is attached. The tests were conducted...

The Wavelet transform is a new-style mathematic analysis tool, which is considered as a great breakthrough of tools andmethods recently.This paper introduces the theoretical basis of wavelet transform, clarifies methods of signal de-nosing based on wavelet transform and gives the characteristics of all...

Whole language approach, as an education concept, has a great influence on language teaching. Whole language approach takes language itself as an entirety, paying attention to cultivating the students' comprehensive language ability and expanding the category of language teaching to other aspects related...

COD standard discharge of wastewater in offshore oilfields is an important part of oilfield wastewater treatment. The polymer-contained oily wastewater from oilfields in Bohai Sea was taken as the object. Combining with the wastewater treatment experiments, the major composition of COD as oils, polymer...

Objective: This work was aimed to study carbon footprint calculation method of printing enterprise. Method: Carbon footprint calculation methods and procedures were studied based on ISO 14064-1 standard and the actual operations of printing enterprises. Carbon footprint of a specific printing enterprise...

This paper proposed a new method to analyze the body shape without touching via image processing technique. First, the edges of images are extracted via some edge detection methods. Second, these edge images are analyzed by some measures such as body length and width which can effectively disclose the...

Living in a networked and digitalized learning society, people need to study lifelong to perfect their knowledge system and adapt to the development and changes of the society. But with vast amount of resources available, efficient learning is a matter worth studying. This paper first briefly analyzes...

This study is designed as a qualitative case study to explore the application of the instant messaging platform QQ in an EFL class in China, aiming at promoting learners’ critical literacy. After analyzing the data collected in observation, surveys and interviews, this study finds that QQ can serve for...

Education for Persons with Disabilities is a special socio-economic resource which is of paramount importance, aimed at reducing their isolation and economic de-pendence. The article is devoted to inves-tigating the problems of effectiveness of educational services for persons with dis-abilities and...

As an international language, English has received special attention. Universities generally set up various types of English teaching. In the current evaluation system, the self-evaluation is widely used and also is a more important method of formative evaluation; it can have continuous improvement and...

This paper tries to implement a new teaching model facilitated by smart mo-bile phone that can motivate students. Under this new approach, students are supposed to be keener on English study, so that their English competence should be promoted. The comparison of pretest and posttest and the questionnaire...

Since nature fracture develops in the low permeability reservoir, the anisotropy has a great impact on areal sweep efficiency of water flooding, however most of the current methods don't consider and describe the influence of anisotropy. This paper introduces the frontal water equisaturation interface,...

The impact of noise on stock market is one of the main reasons for inefficiency of information, and deviation of stock price. The measure of noise trading is beneficial for judgment of stock value. This paper has authenticated the existence of noise trading in SHSE A-share market through the variance...

In this paper, a novel fall detection and automatic alarm system has been designed and presented, which consists of sensor module, control module and communication module. The sensor modules composed of 3-axis accelerometers are placed on object’s pocket to monitor the object’s acceleration. System is...

Financial management is the core of modern enterprise management. At present, the financial management of SMEs exist many difficulties and problems. It is difficult to adapt to the requirements of economic globalization and the development of the enterprise itself. This passage aims current situation...

The confidentiality and usability of sensitive data in outsourcing processes are particularly important in open systems. When the user's attribute is revoked or restored in the CP-ABE system, the flexibility of the dynamic change of the corresponding strategy is a challenge. In the paper, we presents...

This paper talks about the water-associated problems that occur in San Gabriel, Honduras, and claims a few present coping methods. It is necessary to solve the water problem in Honduras as soon as possible to get rid of a series of severe health problems, including diarrhea outbreak and parasitism. Coping...

Under the background of "Double First-Rate", the training of talents in advanced colleges and universities began to move towards a new stage. This article is mainly for the study of the training of applied talents, bringing out of the idea of the construction of School-enterprise collaborative education...

In the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, the five layers tidal currents fields of M2, S2, K1 and O1 constituents were computed hourly in a period based on the three-dimensional model established by Jan O. Backhaus. The computation results indicate that three convergent and divergent regions of tidal currents...

With the continuous development of science and technology, the disciplines are more and more detailed, resulting in a number of branches, and combination of similar branches has produced many edge disciplines. At the same time, multidisciplinary integration also accelerates tend of development in the...

The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation of organizational justice, supervisor-employee relationship, and job satisfaction to nurse' turnover intentions in private hospitals. A survey study with a total of 152 nurses from two hospitals. Technique of taking data using closed questionnaire....

With the development of the Internet, consumers have been more and more involved in the process of co-creating value. However, the research on the supply chain involves little. This paper introduces the efforts of consumers and retailers, based on Stackelberg game Model, the supply chain profit model...

This thesis according to this hot technique of Wireless Mesh Network day by day mature background, on the foundation of comprehending the basic theories of Wireless Mesh Network, we emphasizes a rightness how to keep enough bandwidth and band rate in much jump of the Mesh environment in certain analysis...

Blooms of harmful algae and phycocyanin represent a significant and expanding threat to human health and aquatic resources throughout the South Korea. Algal blooms can be seen in a variety of phenomenon in nature, ranging from massive accumulations of cells that discolor the water, to dilute, inconspicuous,...

Abstract—In recent years, with the emergence of different size of the display devices, image is inevitably reduced or enlarged (referred to as resizing) to adapt to different display devices, content-aware image resizing technology is becoming a research hotspot. When resizing the images, this technology...

Metal-assisted chemical etching (MaCE) of silicon (Si) is a well-used method for the fabrication of Si nanostructures. To simplify the control etching for the fabrication of Si 3D nanostructures, we developed a new method using direct electric field to control the etching direction. We examined the MaCE...

With the rapid development of modern science and technology, college graduates with comprehensive abilities are in great demand. Training their students to meet the need of this information era is a glorious and urgent task for high educational institutions. Tracking the development of modern technologies,...

The photovoltaic (PV) power surges with varied with sunlight intensity and temperature, resulting in great fluctuation of power on the side of synchronization on AC busbar micro-grid. Configuring an energy storage system may allow that the grid output is fallen into a specified interval for the purpose...

With the globalization of economic development and the needs of social life, English has increasingly become a global communication tool. In the past the traditional teaching model cannot meet the needs of a good social development. Schools should make full use of multimedia and network technology, the...

Over the past years, laser scanner has been frequently used in rock engineering. Several filters have been developed to extract bare-Earth points from point clouds while few filter for point cloud data of rock which is a special kind of point cloud. To find a suitable filtering method for rock points,...

China's early institutional choice of arbitration institutions caused it to become locked-in and resistant to change. The paper reviews how the path-dependent nature of Chinese legal reform determines the specific characteristics of the Chinese arbitration system. Moreover, it reveals that outer forces,...

An important factor in civil engineering to promote social progress and economic development, civil engineering involves the use of many of the materials and equipment. In order to improve the stability and reliability of civil engineering, science needs to use the material. Composite material is a material...

Traditionally " "Bz/" "T is used to obtain the apparent resistivity values in the data interpretation of grounded-wire source transient electromagnetic, which leads to the problem of multiple solutions. Using Bz, this problem can be solved. Because with the change of resistivity, the Bz is a single-valued...

This research is conducted to answer two questions research, namely (1) how the influencing attribute does table of city attractiveness on a city brand love (2) How does the influence of city brand love on tourist behavior (visiting back and positive word of mouth This research examines 162 tourists...

High intensive shortwave light can be obtained through triboelectrification induced triboplasma discharge in sliding friction. Therefore, It will present a new method for emitting shortwave light which can be used as light source to control agricultural pests by wind-driven sliding friction without extra...

This article discusses the importance of women hair as an identity symbol in relation with the development of information technology and industry. Women hair has became a commodificated human organ. Advertisements of some hair cosmeti products that showed beautiful image of celebrities' hair have bother...

The main aim of this study is to test and investigate the roles of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in mediating the relationship between organizational culture and turnover intention. From the aim of the study, the following specific objectives have been derived: To plot the cultural profile...

This research is aimed to: 1) find the data of SMK Muhammadiyah 1 Imogiri Special Regency of Yogyakarta's teachers' obstacles in preparing pictorial stories as media of prime assistance learning, 2) produce pictorial stories as media of Prime Assistance learning of X grade students of SMK Muhammadiyah...

This paper proposes a decision support process for incomplete hesitant fuzzy preference relations (HFPRs). First, we present a revised definition of HFPRs, in which the values are not ordered for the hesitant fuzzy element. Second, we propose a method to normalize the HFPRs and estimate the missing elements...

The service trade of international education is a profound reflection of the strength of competitiveness a nation's education has. Since China's accession to WTO, domestic education industry gradually started to present itself to the service trading market. Education service trade has greatly evolved...

To increase state revenues, it needs public awareness to perform its obligations to pay taxes. Currently, tax revenue in Indonesia is low. It takes a special effort to raise awareness of taxpayers, one of them by doing socialization. Socialization strategy conducted by the tax office is done by using...

With the Chinese economic growth rate of downward pressure, economic growth is going into the high-speed stage, it is showing a new economic normal, but also brought greater pressure to the employment of college students. At the same time, with the continuous development of social economy, science and...

Most elderly has decreasing quality of sleep. Sleep patterns of elderly are different from children and adults, the need of the elderly to sleep is 5-7 hours / day. Elderly often awakened in the middle of the night because of physical changes due to age and disease patterns, sleep quality significantly...

This paper presents a method for detecting image impulse noise and using median filter to filter out impulse noise according to the test results. The method will contain the subspace of the subimage of the impulsive noise, and the kernel function is mapped into a hypersphere in the high dimensional space,...

Though motion posture correction technology based on the computer vision technology has been developed to decrease the loss from sports injury, there still exists some weakness. The joint movement of the same athlete varies in different sports program. Under high movement speed, the angle changes of...

According to the cement sulfate corrosion resistance properties of Portland cement mixed burning shale to determine the erosion test method, and analyzes the influence of different system of calcined shale sulphate corrosion resistance properties of Portland cement. The results show that: calcined shale...

According to the content and characteristics of Ideological and political education website, this paper designs a the network education platform with teacher-student interaction, psychological counseling, student self-display and other functions based on Web development technology of .NET, using ASP.NET...

Structures and catalytic activities of CO molecule on monoclinic ZrO2(111)(M = Ce, Ca and Pr) surface has been studied by using density functional theory (DFT). Calculations indicate that on the stoichiometric ZrO2(111) surface, the preferential adsorption structure is the Zr-CO configuration. The adsorption...

There are various computer modeling techniques based on the behavior of sound as a ray or wave to measure Room Impulse Response (RIR). The Image Source Method (ISM) is used to measure the RIR for various positions of source at different frequencies. The other methods are too complex, time consuming and...

In 2007, agricultural insurance as an important agenda in building a new socialist countryside in the central No. 1 files, and Jilin province is determined one of the six pilot province agriculture in the files. This article analysis the present situation of Jilin province which is under the national...