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Discovery of fuzzy predicates in database
Taymi Ceruto Cordovés, Orenia Lapeira Mena, Alejandro Rosete Suárez, Rafael Espín Andrade
Advanced technologies have enabled us to collect large amounts of data. These data may be transformed into use-ful knowledge. Because of our limited ability to manually process the data, it is necessary to use automatic tools to mine useful knowledge. Many data-mining methods have been proposed which...
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Video Structured Description System with Private Cloud
Tang Qianjin
Video surveillance system is more and more significant in public safety currently, but the video is unstructured data, which can not meet the demand of data mining applications. The text description of video content is a feasible direction. Cloud computing is one of technologies to solve the computing...
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A Hierarchical Study on the Efficiency of the City Commercial Banks in China
Sen Wang, Anqi Wang
City commercial banks have become an important pillar of the banking system in China. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used to study the efficiency of city banks at this paper, and evaluate the effects of four indicators profitability, liquidity, security and sustainability on bank efficiency. This...
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Study on Vocabulary Learning Strategies for Chinese English-Majors
Yougen Lou
This paper attempts to explore the overall pattern of English vocabulary learning strategies used by some Chinese English-majors. In addition, both similarities and differences in English vocabulary strategies used between male English-majors and female English-majors. 105 first-year English-majored...
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The Creative Thinking in the Art Design Education
Yijie Liu, Shu Zhang
TA qualified design person must have a rich knowledge of humanities in addition to specialty basic knowledge and professional skills. Only in this way can we realize the people-oriented design belief from the perspective of science and technology as well as the value of existence. Meanwhile, the author...
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Analysis and Reference of Renewable Energy Development in Developed Countries
Jie Meng, Ran An
The development and utilization of renewable energy sources and increasing the proportion of renewable energy in energy production and consumption structure is one of the ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. At present, the development of renewable energy in the world is widely concerned by many...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on the SMA damping control of large-span spatial structures under multi-point input
Jianbo Dai, Xiyu Zhu
Considering the adverse effects of the multi-point input of large-span spatial structure, the SMA damper bar was designed to replace original bars in the structure. In this paper, there were two projects to replace SMA damper bars, one was replaced of some lower chord's bars, The other was replaced of...
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Analysis of Animal Models of Oral Ulcers Based on the Characteristics of Clinical Symptoms of Chinese and Western Medicine
Huan LI, Ming BAI, Yan-yan MIAO, Ming-san MIAO
Objective: To analyze the methods and characteristics of animal model of oral ulcer and the characteristics of Chinese and Western medicine oral ulcer disease anastomosis. Methods: To summarize the characteristics of animal models of oral ulcers, modeling methods, analysis of oral ulcer animal model...
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The Analysis of Influence of Job Stressor upon Performance and Turnover Intention of Broker-Dealer of Equity Securities in Surabaya
Bambang Hadi Santoso Dwidjosumarno
The long-term goal of this research is to make the Indonesian capital market equals/parallel to other capital markets in the Asia Pacific region. The research is conducted in securities companies which are Members of Indonesia Stock Exchange located in Surabaya City, East Java Province. The number of...
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Analysis of Urban Accessibility of High Speed Railway Based on DEA Index--Taking Wuhan-Guangzhou High Speed Railway as An Example
Xuan He
With the gradual deepening of the social and economic impact of the high-speed railway, the evaluation of the impact of high-speed railway construction on the pro?vinces and cities along the route (especially the accessibility evaluation) is particularly important. This paper is taking Wuhan- Guangzhou...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Preparation of Sustained-release and Salt Containing Anticoagulation
Su Zhao, Guang-Yi Ma, Xiao-Ying Yang, Ying Ji, Jie Ren, Miao Yu, Zi-Ou Liu
Sustained-release and salt containing anticoagulation is a kind of admixture which can take the initiative to melt snow on the road. However, currently most of products on the market are foreign products, and few domestic products do not have a long-term effect. To enhance sustained-release and long-term...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Study on the Construction of Lightning Protection and Safety Supervision System in Qingdao
Bei Wu, Pengfei He, XiaoLiang Xu
Qingdao city has built lightning protection supervision system in 2013, and the system has basic information collection, daily safety management, lightning protection business data integration and the full information management functions of the ultimate decision-making analysis. The system not only...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Study on the Intelligent Technology of Power Distribution Network
Feng Wang, Jing Shi, Rui Zhao, Jinhui Liu, Jun Liu, Hao Tian
10kv distribution networks of power energy assigned to users play part in an important role, generally conventional 10kv line one permanent fault will cause the whole route broke down. And we find the fault point is wasted time and energy . Recently, it’s possible that run intelligent high voltage electric...
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Research on Marxist Outlook of Nature and Environmental Construction of New Socialist Countryside in Hainan
Hong Suo
With Chinese economic development in recent years, ecological problems seem to be more severe and even influence the normal work and life of human beings. Under this situation, Marxist outlook of nature arouses the attention of people again. It is a subject treating the relationship between human beings...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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A Railway Transportation Safety Assessment Method Based on Safe State Index
Yijia Yang, Xiaoning Zhu
In order to make a better railway transportation safety system and reduce the number of railway accidents, we establish a safety status index to assess the railway transportation safety level. We calculate the risk value by classifying the safety information provided by the China Railway in accordance...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Prediction of low-order blade frequency noise of submarine propeller based on surface panel method
Zhonghua Liu
The unsteady loading(dipole source) on the blade surface was calculated by a potential-based surface panel method. Then the time-dependent pressure data were used as the input for Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings formulation to predict the acoustics pressure. The blade frequency noise of submarine propeller...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on the Accurate Continuous Calibration System for Current Transformer
Yonghong Fan, Jiandong Zhao, Huaguang Li
The current transformer, as one of the basic electrical system components, by its accuracy and stability, ensures the metering, protection and analysis of the power system. The current transformers are wildly used since 1884, when the electromagnetic transforms were invented. Recently, the capacity of...
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Impact of Russian and Foreign Students' Personal Characteristics on Learning Outcomes
Olga Berestneva, Oksana Fisochenko, Olga Marukhina, Sergey Romanchukov
The article is devoted to studying interpersonal characteristics of Russian and foreign students training in the specialty of ®Linguistics¯ and the impact of these characteristics on students' performance results. The methods ®subjective control level¯, ®type of thinking¯, ®tendency to victim behavior¯...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Electromagnetism of ultramafic rocks from the Luobusa ophiolite studied at room temperatures and pressures
Lanfang He, Ling Chen, Xuefeng Xue, Rujun Chen, Weili Li
It is generally accepted that a major phase of the Earth's upper mantle is represented by ultramafic rocks, including olivine pyroxenites, dunites, and peridotites. Studies on the electrical conductivity of ultramafic rocks continue to attract a great deal of interest, and much progress in the study...
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Analysis of Currency Internationalization with Trade Structure
Xuefeng Zhang
Degree of internationalization of currency can be reflected by the trade structure at the denominating level. This paper established a three-sector macroeconomic model with representative households, enterprises and governments. We introduce import and export trade settlement structure on representative...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Personalization Recommendation Framework in Mobile Computing
Wonseok Kim, Euiin Choi
Recently, with the development of IT technology, the transition to the ubiquitous environment has been made so that various devices can be used to access information anytime and anywhere, and the computer can decide to provide useful services to the user. In this context aware mobile environment, context...
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Introducing Collaborative Teaching into Elective Courses Across an Engineering University: Effect of Teacher's Characteristics on Student Evaluations of Teaching
Rongjun Pan, XiaoJin Feng, Xuewen Feng, Huiqin Wu
Collaborative teaching can benefit the students with diverse learning characteristics a lot to access and achieve high academic performances. Student evaluations of teaching is widely used as a metric to estimate instructor effectiveness. To estimate the effects of different teachers' characteristics...
Research Article
Entropy Measures of Probabilistic Linguistic Term Sets
Hongbin Liu, Le Jiang, Zeshui Xu
Pages: 45 - 57
The probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) are powerful to deal with the hesitant linguistic situation in which each provided linguistic term has a probability. The PLTSs contain uncertainties caused by the linguistic terms and their probability information. In order to measure such uncertainties,...
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Research on Risk Assessment Technique of Financial Investment And its Applied Research
Fuqin Yue
As the constantly development of the financial market, the risk assessment technique of financial investment, which is an important way and a key technique, is concerned by more and more people. The ability of risk assessment technique is excellent or not is significant to the investor in fact. The key...
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Relationship of Voters' Ideology, Disbelief of Political Parties and Disappointment in Government With Voter Disappearance In 2014 Presidential Election in Riau Province
Rodi Wahyudi, Mr Nurhamin
The high number of absentee voters in the presidential and vice presidential elections can lead to a lack of authority in the eyes of the people. This study aims to determine the relationship of voter ideology, mistrust of political parties and the disappointment of the government with the absence of...
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Analysis of Business Information Services Innovation in Bantaeng, South Sulawesi
Badu Ahmad
This article aims to explain how public service innovation forms in business licenses in local government in Indonesia. For this purpose the study was conducted in Bantaeng district, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The research was conducted using qualitative so that data collection techniques include...
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A Study on the Application of UI Design in Shaping Product Image
Xin Meng, Chong Feng, YuChuan Ji
In the information age, digital products are increasing, and UI design has received extensive attention and promoted the establishment of enterprise product image, becoming an important part of the implementation of enterprise design strategy. UI design in shaping product image is mainly reflected in...
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Image Mosaic Algorithm of Sequential Images Based on Voronoi
Zhicheng Wang, Qian Xu, Zhiheng Wang, Xiaopeng Guo, Yaxing Yang
The image sequence of Vehicle panorama camera platform has the characteristics of serious distortion, large parallax and large amount of data, which can lead to invalid montage for the image sequence by adopting the common image mosaicking method based on features. In this paper, Voronoi algorithm is...
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A Research on Curriculum of BTI from the Analysis of Students' Needs
Biyun Zhang
This research, in consideration of the status quo of translation education and its research in China, strives to study BTI curriculum in Yan'an University from the perspective of needs analysis, which is an efficient and indispensable step in curriculum design. To provide a greater insight into BTI curriculum...
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Problems of Development of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Russia and Methods of Solving Them
Olga Chemodanova, Gleb Grib
The problems of the SME sector development in our country are really topical at present. The role of SMEs in the Russian economy has significantly increased in the conditions of the 2014-2015 economic crises and the difficult geopolitical situation of our country in the world arena. Small and medium-sized...
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The Influence of the Philosophical Concept of Yin and Yang on the Modeling of Folk Patterns
Hong Nie, Sibo Yang
Throughout history, the Chinese concept of Yin and Yang has a long history and is deeply rooted. The philosophy of Yin and Yang includes the idea of Yin-Yang and eight diagrams, the concept of "Yin and Yang interact and generate all things" which centers on the reproduction worship, and the philosophical...
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The Differences in Online Advertising Acceptance in China and Slovakia
Radovan Madlenak, Lucia Madlenakova
Advertising, marketing and commercial activities on the Internet are the most recent trends of the last years. In most countries of the world, the Internet is operated on a fully commercial basis. More than a half of its users need it for commercial purposes. Marketing experts in businesses are the main...
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Acetylation of Asiatic Acid and Its Hepatotoxicity Prediction
Ida Musfiroh, Ita Puspitasari, Ahmad Muhtadi, Rahmana E. Kartasasmita, Slamet I. Surantaatmadja
Asiatic acid (AA) is one of the triterpenoids isolated from pegagan (Centella asiatica (L.) Urb.), which has the antiinflammatory activity. The present studies were aimed to synthesize triacetyl asiatic acid (2,3,23-triacetooxy-12-ene asiatic acid) and to predict its hepatotoxicity properties. Acetylation...
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An Adaptive Algorithm for Music Beat Tracking
Zhanchun Gao, Yuting Liu, Yanjun Jiang
On the basis of Time Domain Analysis, this paper proposes a method for music beat tracking. Through this method, music beats are detected and tracked by timestamp and intensity value. Generally, the beat-areas of music signal converge more energy than other areas, therefore, the spots of beat can be...
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Business English Correspondence Characters and Role in foreign trade
Zhang Bin
With the accelerating process of globalization, foreign trade has become an important criterion to judge whether a country can integrate with the world successfully, and it is a fast-track for a country to reach out to the world.In foreign trade, we need to do business communication with different countries...
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Teaching Reform and Innovation of Engineering Training
Haijun Mo, Hua Jiang
Engineering training is a very important practicum in the universities of technology, which aim at cultivating students innovation thinking and practice ability. However, the engineering training is facing kinds of difficulties, such as how to make a scientific and optimized arrangement for the engineering...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Asset Management and Method of Power Grid Projects based on the Life Cycle Theory
Jiang Zhu, Hang Yin, Chaochen Xu, Yang Wei, Guanqing Wang
With the large scale development of the power grid, the refined asset management has become very important in the power grid enterprises. The traditional asset management mode is extensive which can not meet the requirements and needs from the power grid enterprises. In this paper, an improved management...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Study on the Synthetic Ammonia with Methanol Purge Gas of Huangling
Zongyi Yang, Meili Du, Chen Chen, Xin Yi, Doudou Wang
Methanol purge gas produced in the side reaction in the methanol productionwere the inert gas including H2, CO, H2O, CH4 and others, which was used to produce synthetic ammonia as an important part in circular economy industrial chain of Huangling coal chemical industry. In this paper, the process and...
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Analysis on Application of Football Game in Football Class Teaching in College
Feng Ju
As an important means of football teaching activities, football game plays a very important role in improving the efficiency of football teaching. Because football game is an interactive and interesting activity, it is warmly welcomed by college students. Meanwhile, it also makes up for the problems...
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Thin Capitalization: Financial Innovation Versus Tax Rules
Ivan Darushin, Natalia S. Voronova
The needs of companies in capital cheapening lead to the emergence of new financing patterns. One of such patterns based on the substitution of equity capital by the debt capital is hidden or thin capitalization. When used within a framework of a group of companies the cheapening of financing takes place...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Spatial Pattern and Forecast Analysis of Urbanization Growth Rates in Henan: 2011-2015
Kaiguang Zhang, Mingting Ba, Hongling Meng
Urbanization growth rate is the conversion speed of agricultural population to non-agricultural population along with the regional population structure transformation process caused by productivity development, modern scientific and technological application and industrial structure adjustment. In the...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Structure Checking Computations of Sound Barrier Design
Yan Li
With the development of road construction, traffic noise pollution becomes more and more serious. Sound barrier, an effective and comparatively inexpensive measure of controlling noise, will be developed to some degree. The sound barrier durability is a very complicated problem. It is influenced by structure...
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Analysis on the Talent Training Program and Educational Administration by Fujian and Taiwan Cooperation Projects
Baoxiu Li
Fujian and Taiwan joint training project gives full play to the advantages of professional teachers and majors of universities in Fujian and Taiwan, which is of great significance in promoting the reform and development of higher education in Fujian province. However, the cross-straits different political,...
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Analysing the Influence of Subsurface Impurity on Laser-induced Damage Threshold of KDP Crystal
Chunyuan Jing, Xiaohong Guo, Tao Zhang, Lizi Chen
The laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of KDP crystal affect directly the increase of laser power. In order to research the influence of metal impurities in the subsurface of KDP crystal on LIDT, analyzed the impurities composition and relative content of two kinds of KDP crystal samples by fluorescence...
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The Profile of Critical Consciousness of Indonesia University of Education Students'on Educational Phenomenon (A Phenomenological Study of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy)
Babang Robandi, Dharma Kesuma, Arie Rakhmat Riyadi, Teguh Ibrahim
This paper aims to discuss the phenomenon of Critical Consciousness of Indonesia University of Education Students' on Educational Phenomenon. Critical consciousness is characterized by a critical understanding on issues of education, reasoning causality in the cause of education, transformative power...
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New Education Pattern of Professional Finance Master Program
Hui Xiaofeng, Li Meng, Hu Yiyuan
With the new developing trend of specialization and segmentation in finance, the professional master with career backgrounds becomes a source of the core competitiveness of the financial industry. Based on the demand background of elites in specialization, internationalization and innovation, this paper...
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Teachers' Training Strategy of Local Colleges and Universities
HongLang Li, Xiao Li
China's higher education is in an unprecedented period of development. Country attaches great importance to the development of local institutions of higher education, because it is local economic development, transport a large number of businesses in urgent need of talent. Priority is to strengthen the...
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Teacher’s Innovation Improvement through the Development of Organizational Climate and Emotional Intelligence Using Correlation Statistical Analysis and Sitorem Method
Sri Setyaningsih, Dinni Sukanti, Soewarto Hardhienata
Teacher’s innovation is an important element related to the achievement of educational goals, namely to produce good quality human resources, both in terms of science, knowledge, skills and personality. From the initial survey, it was shown that the teacher's innovation was still not as expected. Therefore,...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
On the accuracy of trade and GDP statistics in Africa: Errors of commission and omission
Morten Jerven
Pages: 45 - 52
African trade statistics suffer from errors of commission and omission. A quarter-century ago, Alexander Yeats (1990) compared receipts of importers and exporters and concluded that the data could not be used to determine the magnitude, direction, or composition of trade. The only fact to be safely deduced...
Research Article
Measuring a hidden population: A novel technique to estimate the population size of women with sexual violence-related pregnancies in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo
Lisa G. Johnston, Katherine R. McLaughlin, Shada A. Rouhani, Susan A. Bartels
Pages: 45 - 53
Successive sampling (SS)–population size estimation (PSE) is a technique used to estimate the sizes of hidden populations using data collected in respondent-driven sampling (RDS) surveys. We assess past estimations and use new data from an RDS survey to calculate a new PSE. In 2012, 852 adult women in...