Search all articles

+ Advanced search
Search articles within:
169929 articles

A model for low-frequency bursts in subthalamic nucleus neurons

Shigeru Kubota, Jonathan E. Rubin
Pages: 49 - 53
Burst firing in subthalamic nucleus (STN) has been suggested to be highly associated with the motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease, which result from a loss of dopamine. Although it is clinically very important to clarify the mechanism underlying the bursting dynamics, complex interactions between STN...

An Improved Parameter Value Optimization Technique for the Reflectionless Transmission-Line Model of the Cochlea

Takemori Orima, Yoshihiko Horio
Pages: 49 - 52
The passive reflectionless transmission-line model can reproduce physiological cochlear properties. We have applied an optimization technique to obtain good parameter values that give a desired cochlear property. However, we found that, in some case, it is difficult to find the sub-optimal parameter...

Deformation quantization for almost-Kähler manifolds

Martin Schlichenmaier
Pages: 49 - 54
On an arbitrary almost-Kähler manifold, starting from a natural affine connection with nontrivial torsion which respects the almost-Kähler structure, in joint work with A. Karabegov a Fedosov-type deformation quantization on this manifold was costructed. This contribution reports on the result and supplies...

Basis of Joint Invariants for (1 + 1) Linear Hyperbolic Equations

I.K. Johnpillai, F.M. Mahomed, C. Wafo Soh
Pages: 49 - 59
We obtain a basis of joint or proper differential invariants for the scalar linear hperbolic partial differential equation in two independent variables by the infinitesimal method. The joint invariants of the hyperbolic equation consist of combinations of the coefficients of the equation and their derivatives...

On Integration of the Nonlinear d'Alembert-Eikonal System and Conditional Symmetry of Nonlinear Wave Equations

Renat Z. Zhdanov
Pages: 49 - 61
We study integrability of a system of nonlinear partial differential equations consisting of the nonlinear d'Alembert equation 2u = F(u) and nonlinear eikonal equation uxµ uxµ = G(u) in the complex Minkowski space R(1, 3). A method suggested makes it possible to establish necessary and sufficient compatibility...

A Study of Basic Strategies and Construction of College English Listening Training on Machine

Lihua Tang
The Internet provides convenience for college students to learn English online. At present, there are numerous strategies for English listening training, but the combination of English listening training and Internet needs to be studied more deeply and applied more widely. Built on practice, this paper...
Proceedings Article

Nutrient Concentration of N, P and K in the Components of Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell Tree in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Ria Paranoan, Wawan Kustiawan, Marjenah Marjenah, Wahjuni Hartati, Syahrinudin Syahrinudin, Sukartiningsih Sukartiningsih, Triyono Sudarmadji
Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell is one of the species developed in industrial forest plantations that has the potential for pulp and paper. Therefore, this research aims to determine the concentration of N, P, and K nutrients in the Eucalyptus pellita F. Muell tree components. This research was conducted...
Proceedings Article

Different Responsibilities of Physical Education Teachers in Urban and Suburbs in Implementing Distance Learning

Ermawan Susanto, Dimyati Dimyati, Komarudin Komarudin, Joko Purwanto
The implementation of physical education (PE) has the potentially will not run optimally because it is implemented through distance learning. PE teachers have a heavy responsibility in implementing distance learning. This study aims to determine the differences in the responsibilities of PE teachers...

Investment Decisions: The Effect of Risk Perceptions and Risk Propensity for Beginner Investors in West Sumatra

Erly Mulyani, Halkadri Fitra, Fiola Finomia Honesty
Investment decision is an activity carried out by the investor for investing their fund. For this reason, investors must consider many factors. Investor consider accounting information in investment decision. However, investor psychology, which is reflected by a personal signal, is more dominant in investment...

Impact of Media Multitasking on Work Engagement Under the Background of the Internet Based on Resource Limitation Theory

Zhengjie Xu, Yang Zhao
With the rapid development of science and technology, the media is constantly updated in the current information age, and it increasingly affects people’s daily lives. This paper attempts to explore the impact of media multitasking on employees’ work engagement. Based on the survey of employees in different...

On Invariants of Immersions of an n-Dimensional Manifold in an n-Dimensional Pseudo-Euclidean Space*

Djavvat Khadjiev
Pages: 49 - 70
Let Epn be the n-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space of index p and M(n, p) the group of all transformations of Epn generated by pseudo-orthogonal transformations and parallel translations. We describe the system of generators of the differential field of all M(n, p)-invariant differential...

The Influence of Modern Civilization on Asian Languages from the Perspective of Linguistics

Jiaqi Liu
In the study of the influence of modern civilization on Asian languages, linguistics can provide a rich basis in three aspects: loanwords, mixed languages and language strategies, and plays an important role in Asian civilization and language research. Firstly, loanwords are the product of civilization,...

Analysis of the Nature of Science in Grade 4 Student Books Theme 4 “Various Jobs” Published by the Ministry of Education and Culture 2017 Revised Edition

Ike Sutriyani, Anatri Desstya
The purpose of this study is to describe the content level of the nature of science as a product, process, and attitude contained in the student science book Grade 4 Theme 4 “Various Jobs” published by the Ministry of Education and Culture 2017 Revised Edition. This research is qualitative, using a content...

City Branding of Province of Riau on National Law

Adi Tiaraputri
City branding is one of the tools or intermediaries for the community to be familiar with a tourism destination. Branding is an identity in introducing the potential and advantages of tourism in certain areas including Riau Province. Therefore, the Riau Provincial government formed a branding that represents...
Proceedings Article

Effects of single and combined pollution of Pb, Cd and Cu on growth, metal uptake and translocation in rice

Heng Wang
A field experiment was conducted to investigate the single and combined of lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and cooper (Cu) on the growth and development of rice plants and the uptake of these heavy metals by rice. The results revealed that the growth and development of rice plants were more affected by combined...
Proceedings Article

Numerical analysis of Separate Vortex in the Diffuser

Yong-rui Sun, Chuan-lei Yang, He-chun Wang, Xiang-huan Zu
In order to simulate the flow structure accurately and find out the inducement of unstability in a centrifugal compressor with casing structure, three different cases of models were established. By contrasting the simulation result of Case1 and Case2 with experiment data, the accuracy of grids model...
Proceedings Article

Tomonoid extensions: the key for the construction of t-norms

Thomas Vetterlein
Triangular norms, or t-norms for short, play an important role for the semantics of fuzzy logics. Although an enormous number of examples and a remarkable number of construction methods for this kind of operation has been established, a uniform approach is still outstanding. This paper is devoted to...
Proceedings Article

The Simulation of the Chirp-Z Transform Based on MATLAB GUI

Huang Yongping, Li Caixia, Tian Xiuli
The Chirp-Z transform (CZT) algorithm is a digital signal processing algorithm, it is applicable to the general case calculating limited width of the Z-transform along the spiral curve. The CZT is more flexible than the Fast Fourier transform (FFT) in calculating the frequency spectrum, so it is used...
Proceedings Article

Research on Industrial Relation and Group Effect of Pearl River West City Circle

Hongmin Zhang
In a long period of time, resources can’t be shared inside Pearl River West City Circle, fragmented situation made the group hard to form a healthy industrial structure on agglomeration advantage and scale advantage. Based on this, the article measures economy and industry associations inner this group,...
Proceedings Article

The Preliminary Research to Earthquake Insurance—Combined with the Example of Yunnan Province

Wenli Ding, Dairen Hu
Establishing the mechanism of earthquake insurance and carring out the corresponding business will play a significant role in preventing and mitigating disaster in the area where occur earthquakes frequently. In this paper, we discussed the specific role of earthquake insurance in preventing and mitigating...
Proceedings Article

Parents’ Socio-Economic Background as a Predictor of Students’ Performance in E-Learning Education

Smart Odunayo Olugbeko, Emmanuel Nkoro Asagha, Patrick Aliu Akinmusire
Parents give lives to their children; they biologically determine the quality of intelligence of their children even at birth. The socio-economic background of the parents exposes the children to after birth factors that help in nourishing or malnourishing the children. The type of education a child...
Proceedings Article

Research of the Books Localization Algorithm in Library Intelligent Bookshelf System Based on RFID

Yuanzhong Shu, Yannan Su, Xiaohong Peng, Mengzhe Mei
Under the currently trend of the library collection quantity increasingly, the book disordered problem became more common which caused the reader too hard to find a book that they want. To solve these problems, this paper design the accurate location algorithm based on RFID intelligent bookshelf, and...
Proceedings Article

On the edge of supply: designing renewable energy supply into everyday life

Maria Angela Ferrario, Stephen Forshaw, Peter Newman, William Simm, Adrian Friday, Alan Dix
With peak oil behind us, nuclear generation capacity dwindling, and increasingly daunting looking carbon emissions targets, we are moving to a world where we must consider transitioning to renewable energy sources. Renewables are time varying and their inherent unpredictability must challenge our everyday...
Proceedings Article

Research on the LGS SAW sensor coated with AlN film

Lin Shu, Yu Wang, Bin Peng, Xingzhao Liu
In this work, SAW resonators with high temperature piezoelectric LGS substrate have been studied. A layer of AlN piezoelectric film is deposited on the SAW devices. The influences of the AlN film on the characteristics of the SAW device have been explored. The simulation results show that the resonance...
Proceedings Article

Discussion on the Social education of contemporary college students’ socialist core values

Xiaolin Wu
The social education of contemporary college students’ socialist core values is from a broad perspective to explore the issues related to the contemporary college students’ values education: Firstly, what kind of relationship exists between the contemporary college students’ values education and social...

International High School Development in Chongqing: Test Preparation vs. University Preparation

Dongfang Liu, Vincent Brancato, Fang Da
This study concentrates on international high school development and trends in Chongqing, China. It was discovered that the number of students who are studying abroad has been growing significantly and the majority of students struggled because of the language barrier during their first semester. Although...

Blended Learning with Smartchoice iTools

Elvina Arapah
Lembaga Bahasa dan Pendidikan Profesional (LBPP) LIA has made use of a blended learning type. It is a face-to-face training combined with self-paced e-learning from Smart Choice Series equipped with iTools. These materials are already in use for almost four years and are approaching the ending or evaluation...

Discussions on Architectural Engineering Bidding Skills

Zhiguo Huang
Architectural engineering bidding is a piece of specialized work in which various factors such as subject, object and environment should be considered. Therefore, it is required to use skills of engineering budget making, engineering bidding decision and engineering bidding offer in the process of architectural...
Proceedings Article

Research on the Application of Students Self-management in Chinese Universities

Cui Sun
Students self-management takes up an important position in universities management. It influences the main part and progress of the management of universities. The goal of modern education management is to promote the all-round development of students, thus improve their comprehensive quality. The current...

Cost management and Control Research Based on The Case of the Tobacco Enterprise Distribution Center

Zhongzheng Wang
Tobacco enterprise distribution center is the logistics institution of tobacco enterprise. Under the function of many factors, cost management of tobacco enterprise distribution often caused an increase in the enterprise management cost. This paper analyzes the main factors affecting the cost management...
Proceedings Article

An Approach for Reducing the Numeric Rating Bias

Xiu Li, Huimin Wang, Jian Xu
There is bias in customer reviews and the associated ratings. We propose a method to identify and reduce such bias on the part of reviewers. There are three phases in our approach. Firstly, we conduct Rating-aware sentiment analysis for each review text accompanied with the numeric ratings. Then, we...

Revitalising Cooperative Values in Indonesian Educators for a Professional Learning Community

Christine Pheeney
Over 700 distinct indigenous communities form today’s Indonesia. Their historical coming together was built upon five strategic principles, known as Pancasila. The Pancasila are collectively represented by the phrase and goal ‘Unity in Diversity’. Indonesia’s Ministry of Education directs teachers to...

Determining the Tuition Fee per Credit Hour by Learning Experience and Implementation of Activity Based Costing (A Study at A Private University in Bandung)

Elizabeth Tiur Manurung, Arthur Purboyo, Yulia Trinita
One criteria to achieve the sustainability of a university is when all fund needed can be fulfilled well. And to reach stable university financial is by determining an accurate tuition fee for the students. So then, this research has an objective to determine the Tuition Fee per Credit Hour per Student...

Study on the Evaluation of the Balance System between Cultivated Land Occupation and Compensation

Yukun Guo, Jiayi Wang
As a basic system in China, balance system between cultivated land occupation and compensation exposed some problems in the implementation which needs to be improved. In view of its implement effects, the paper uses methods of comprehensive analysis, field survey, statistical analysis and case analysis...
Proceedings Article

A Study on the Model For Mesoscopic Heterogenous Rocks Under Uniaxial Tensile Loading

Yunhua Zhu
Stress redistribution induced by excavation often results in tensile zones in the surrounding rock mass. It is of great theoretical and practical significances to analyse the localizations of deformation and damage and to study the complete stress-strain relation for mesoscopic heterogenous rocks under...

An Appraisal of Linguistic Capital Behavior Among Acehnese EFL Learners

Nyak Mutia ISMAIL, Iskandar Abdul SAMAD, Siti Sarah FITRIANI
Nowadays, the power of English has changed people's perspectives toward their own native languages. Those who could speak English are recognized as knowledgeable persons. Nonetheless, traditional languages, Acehnese, should not be ignored, but it is preserved to avoid it from extinction. Literature has...

Research about Training Model of Bed and Breakfast in Remote Mountainous Area

Hao-Xing Liu, Ge Wen
It's one of key points to mountainous area human resource development that practitioners training of Bed and Breakfast in remote mountainous area. This paper uses both Accurate Judgment theory and Transfer Diffusion theory. Designed a PAT training model which aims at practitioners of B&B. It suggests...

STUDENTS' COMPETENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS: DESCRIPTIONS THROUGH TEACHING SIMULATIONSSTUDENTS' COMPETENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS: DESCRIPTIONS THROUGH TEACHING SIMULATIONSSTUDENTS' COMPETENCE IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO YOUNG LEARNERS: DESCRIPTIONS THROUGH TEACHING SIMULATI

Dodi Siraj Muamar Zain
English is taught as one of local content in most elementary schools in Indonesia. However, there is still lack of concern on preparing students to teach English in elementary school in for will-English teacher students. This paper aims at describing the activities and strategies used by students in...

The Improvement of Learning Media in Batik Technology Using Adobe Flash

Kapti Asiatun
This research was aimed to 1) improve learning media using Adobe Flash in Batik Technology course as an instructional form for The Fashion Design Education program, 2) know the feasibility of the Adobe Flash as a learning media Batik Technology course. Using R&D (Research and Development) approach, this...

The Tragic Love of an Aristocratic Lady-----On Personality Distortion of Miss Emily

Zhi Deng
In A Rose for Emily written by William Faulkner, the heroine Miss Emily, kills her lover and stores the corpse at home for several decades. Miss Emily seems morbid, however, she is a tragic character who calls for sympathy. This essay is in an attempt to construe her murder case as an outcome of personality...

The Implementation of Halal Tourism in Indonesia National Park

Bhayu Rhama, Mochamad Doddy Syairul Alam
Halal tourism is a new phenomenon based on demographic factors and needs to be taken into consideration by tourism destinations. Nature tourism, especially tourism in national parks, in this case, also has the potential to become a halal tourism destination. However, the parks' halal value still requires...

Embedding Information Security Literacy in College Education

Wang Jin, Zhou Hui
Information security becomes essential since China has entered the information society. Information security literacy will be the core quality of information literacy. College students in all disciplines must have some information security literacy. However, the current university information security...

A Critical Discourse Analysis: Leadership Model as Reflected in Local Wisdom of Karonese

Elkana Putra Tarigan
This article contains local wisdoms of Karonese, it covers some proverbs that refers to leadership model. It is based on discourse analysis that scrutinizes some selected local wisdoms of Karonese. It aims to find the description of leadership model in local wisdom of Karonese and how they are implemented...
Proceedings Article

Research and Design of Classroom Integrated Management System Based on Internet of Things

Zhongwei Zhao, He Gong, Yizhe Sun, Bin Liu
Considering the problems of flexible control of classroom bell time,the idle state information of the classroom is not easy to obtain and difficult to detect the classroom environment information, a classroom integrated management system based on internet of things is researched and designed. By using...

Consolidating the Status of the Communist Party of China under the mass line

Yingfeng Xu, Jingxian Xu
The historical materialism about the principle of the people's creators of history, is the foundation of theory about our party's mass viewpoint and mass line. Mao Zedong, as the main representative of the Communist Party of China, basing the mass viewpoint of Marxism, put forward the party's mass line...
Proceedings Article

Improvement and Research of Multipath Time Delay Estimation Algorithm for Ship-borne Aviation Navigation Positioning Signals

Hongsen Xie, Peng Zhou, Weijun Chen, Baokuan Luan
The ship-borne aviation navigation positioning system usually receives superposed signals of the direct signal and multipath signal. Since the direction of arrival of multipath signal and the multipath time delay parameters vary with the ship attitude and sea environment time-variation, the angle and...

Basel III, risk aversion and bank performance: evidence from Chinese commercial banks panel data

Qin Song, Wei Zeng
The bank supervision in China promotes four instruments coming from Basel III standards announced from Basel committee. What effects will it have on Chinese commercial banks This paper develops models with a sample of 29 commercial banks in China by measuring risk averse with Z-score, and finds that:...
Proceedings Article

Research of Detection Method of Server Network Storm Attack

Liao Lang
In the detection process of server network storm attack, the traditional method takes the signal detection algorithm, because the attack number is large, the detection error is big. According to the problem, an improved server network storm attack detection method is proposed based on improved density...
Proceedings Article

The Partition of Semantic Web Data

Yonglin Leng, Fuyu Lu
With the rapid growth of the Semantic Web data, RDF data storage has become a hot research topic in the field of data storage. Distributed storage is an effective way to solve the scalability of RDF data, and data partition is the key to realize the distributed storage. In this paper we use graph clustering...

Cultural taboos and performance characteristics in Japanese daily life

Zhang Yaping, Zhang Xiao
Japan has unique natural and ethnic characteristics, and it is a rich and coordination strong collectivism, and it is a rigorous nation with requirements in a variety of manners, which not only produces a very wide range of cultural taboos in exchanges between China and Japan, and impact on the world...