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Multi-Objective Boundary Tracking Method in Grayscale Image

Shengyuan YANG, Shanshan XU, Xiaoyun ZENG, Yuanyuan PAN
As for complex grayscale image, a kind of adaptive boundary tracking method for multi-objective is proposed in this paper. First of all, the grayscale image with noise is processed by Gaussian filter. Secondly, the image gradient after filtering is calculated. According to the geometric characteristics...
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Activity Test and Inhibitory Mechanism of Essential Oil of Lime Leaf (Citrus Aurantifolia, Swingle) Against Some of Bacterial Pathogens

Muhammad Yanis Musdja, Arys Medta Pariwidjayanti, Andria Agusta
Lime fruit (Citrus aurantifolia Swingle) is traditionally known to be useful for the treatment of various infectious diseases like fever, cough, toothache, sore throat, diphtheria, body odor, ringworm etc as folk medicine. Objectives: This study aims to determine the activity and mechanism of inhibition...

How to Integrate the New Creative Concept into Art Teaching

Abulaiti Mahesuti Reziwanguli
The creative concept in art teaching mainly contains the basic train of thought and basic thoughts in the art teaching, which includes not only the innovation of basic art teaching ideas but also the innovation and change of teaching modes. For art teaching, it involves deep professionalism and a wide...

Tax incentives for small business as a factor of sustainable development of the region in Russia

Karen Tumanyants, Evgenia Gulyaeva
The article considers possibility of ensuring positive dynamics of territorial development through arrangement of favorable tax conditions for business activities. The authors give a quantitative estimate of reaction of the Russian small enterprises to reduction of a tax rate. By the aid of the ordinary...
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Study on Mathematical Model of Compression Performance of Bamboo Culm Integrated Bamboo Bundles Glulam Beam

Zhangrong Zhao, Xiaomei Sui, Xingyu Liu, Weihua Sun, Xiangling Gong
This paper proposes a new type of the bamboo culm integrated bamboo bundles glulam using bamboo culm as skeleton, which solves the problem of the irregular size of the original bamboo and the hollow structures. A three dimension finite element model of bamboo culm integrated bamboo bundles glulam was...
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Computational Methods for Calculating Metallographic Geometric Parameters of Melted Marks Caused by Short-circuits in Electrical Fires

Mei Chai, Shanjun Mo
The primary short-circuited melted marks(PSMs) are caused by short circuits before the fire occurs, usually PSMs are direct evidences that relate to the causes of electrical fire. The metallographic methods are the most common scientific methods to analyze and identify PSMs. Presently metallographic...

A Study of Current Situation of Negotiated Teaching in Chinese Foreign Language Classroom

Li-hua Tang
Negotiated teaching is the adjustment between teachers and students in foreign language learning, so as to ensure the progress of classroom interaction, and ultimately achieve the purpose of promoting the development of students' language ability. In this study, the literature research method was used...

Strategies to Improve Professional Qualities of College and University Counselors

Lan Wen, Shibang Long, Shaogang Yang
As the backbone of ideological and political education, college counselors play an indispensable role in personnel training. On the basis of the literature analysis and previous studies, the paper puts forward strategies for improving the professional quality of college counselors. The author proposes...

Comparison of Far Infrared Radiation and Warm Water Immersion on Recovery After Submaximal Physical Activity

Endang Sri Wahjuni, Arifah Kaharina, Afifan Yulfadinata, Idzam Kholid Akbar
Recovery is an attempt to make the body recover after physical training. Passive recovery includes Far Infrared Radiation (FIR) and Warm Water Immersion (WWI), but the two recoveries are not well known. The aims of this study were to test the the efficacy of FIR, WWI, and Passive (PAS) modalities in...
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Optimization of Drug Provision for Children with Diseases of Autonomic Nervous System under Inpatient Treatment

Irina Spichak, Olga Vladimirova, Irina Zhirova
The article presents the results of the optimization of the drug supply for children with disorders of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) under inpatient treatment at the regional level; a socio-demographic portrait of a child affected with autonomic dysfunction syndrome has been developed; a pharmacoeconomic...

Digital financial assets application for enterprise economic resilience provision

A.O. Nedosekin, A.N. Kozlovsky, Z.I. Abdoulaeva
Objective. The report describes options for improving the economic resilience of industrial enterprises by organizing the issuance and circulation of digital financial assets (DFA). Economic resilience is understood as the ability of an enterprise to achieve its strategic goals in a timely manner under...
Research Article

Sleep restriction and its influence on blood pressure

Arbind Kumar Choudhary, Anup Kumar Dadarao Dhanvijay, Tanwir Alam, Sadawarte Sahebrao Kishanrao
Pages: 42 - 48
Sleep is a major modulator of cardiovascular function. Since it’s more difficult to maintain adequate sleep duration among night watchmen during their working schedule, so in this study, we hypothesized that, the short sleep duration (<3 h) for 7 days in their night shift schedule, may possibly influence...
Short Communication

Aggressive renal sympathetic denervation approach to treating resistant hypertension: A fresh start?

Márcio Galindo Kiuchi, Luis Marcelo Rodrigues Paz, Shaojie Chen
Pages: 42 - 44
A multivariable analysis identified predictors of systolic blood pressure change in SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial. Additional analyses examined the influence of medication changes, results in selected subgroups and procedural factors. Greater reductions in office and ambulatory systolic blood pressure, and...
Research Article

Gender difference in age-related carotid stiffness: A prospective study in Chinese diabetic patients

Bo Zhao, Yan-Ping Liu, Yifei Zhang, Yuhong Chen, Zhifang Yang, Ying Zhu, Weiwei Zhan
Pages: 42 - 47
Background: The reason for the particularly increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in diabetic women remains unclear. The purpose of our study was to prospectively investigate sex difference in carotid stiffness in elder Chinese patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: 109 T2DM...
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Chemistry for Beginners: What Makes Good and Bad Impression

Inas Sausan, Sulistyo Saputro, Nurma Yunita Indriyanti
Most secondary high school students think that chemistry was a difficult subject. Bad perception can influence the students’ interest in chemistry. We aimed was to explore the students’ perception toward chemistry in junior high school and its influences on students’ interest to learn chemistry in secondary...

A brief analysis of the influencing mechanism of Internet financial behavior: based on congruity perspective

Ruitao Jing
Driven by financial market and information technology, the research on Internet financial management has become a hot topic in this field. Existing research shows that the interaction between consumers and brands facilitates the consumption behavior. By collating the relevant literature in the fields...

Implementation of Recommendation Model for Determining the Marketing Area Location of Creative Industry Products

Rahma Wahdiniwaty, Eko Budi Setiawan, Deden A Wahab
Marketing of products from the creative industry needs to be done by the business actors by looking at several aspects, including the selection of locations or places to market their products. This research was conducted to provide a model that can be used by business actors in determining the most appropriate...
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Power quality optimization through D-STATCOM in Aizawl, Mizoram, India

Lalhungliana, Nimesh Kumar Singh, Sanjeev Pareek
The power quality concerns are augmenting day by day due to the growth of loading requirements. In this paper, we address these concerns while trying to provide the solutions. With the advancement of technology, the power quality concerns can be handled efficiently by flexible alternating current transmission...

Research on the Key Technology of Augmented Reality Technology in the Application and Development of Children's Plant Science Popularization Education

Yuyi Ding, Jinghua Han, Qi Cao
In recent years, the development and application of augmented reality technology has become a newly emerging and popular research field. The multi-dimensional display, virtual-actual combination, real-time interaction and other characteristic of the technology meet the demands of science popularization...

Multimodal communication and learning in on-line instruction videos

Andrew Jocuns
This study analyzes the multimodal communication patterns within on-line instruction videos on such social media platforms as Youtube and Instagram raising such questions as: what does it mean to learn on-line and how can multimodal communication and analysis be used as a tool for learning? First, the...

Why Does Seeking Feedback Not Always Lead to High Performance? - Explanation Based on Seeking Motivation

Zhenxing Gong, Fengkai Wang, Xia Song
In the past, the research of employee feedback seeking starts from a proactive perspective, and simply considers performance feedback or other positive effect. However, feedback seeking does not necessarily lead to high performance. As a result, by reviewing the relevant theories and literature, it is...
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Study on the Effect of Load Imbalance on the Actual Operation of Ground Coupled Heat Pump

Yi MAN, Tian-Tian DU, Ze-Jiang WANG, Guo-Xin JIANG, Sheng-Yu SHI, Liang WANG
In the practical application of the ground coupled heat pump project, when the heat extracted from the soil does not match the heat released to the soil, it will cause the load imbalance and the change of soil temperature, which will lead to the gradual decrease of the operating efficiency of the heat...

Implementation of Participation Theory in Legal Transmission Determining the Fault of Corruption Criminals

M. Musa
Participation theory in criminal law is a theory used to determine the classification of perpetrators' acts and faults involved in criminal acts. Legal reasoning to determine the actions and faults of participating in corruption is implemented the judge in the process of proof in court. Participation...

Science Learning in Elementary School with Project Based Learning Model

Esti Untari, Sukamti Sukamti
Science learning in elementary schools requires inspiring activities and emphasizes that students are active in the classroom. The project-based learning model is a student-centered model to conduct an in-depth investigation of a topic. Project-based learning has characteristics that differ from other...

The Principal’s Leadership Strategy in Improving Quality: A Study at Aron State Elementary School Pidie Aceh Indonesia

Nurhayati Nurhayati, Cut Zahri Harun, Bahrun Bahrun
The purpose of this research was to determine the leadership style, motivation, school organizational culture and obstacles faced by the principal in improving the quality of Aron State Elementary School in Pidie Regency. This research used a descriptive method with a qualitative approach. The research...

On Status Quo and Choices of Development Paths of County-level Community Banks

Liang-xin Li, Lu Wang
Through investigate on different financial development at home and abroad, it is found that a sound and complete financial system is a common practice which includes large commercial banks, small and medium-sized banks, and various types of bank financial institutions. Only in this way can the entire...

Indonesian English Teachers’ Language Attitude towards the English Language

Jepri Ali Saiful, Pratomo Widodo
Language attitude study has proved vital to unveil the acceptance of indigenous people towards foreign language (FL). Unfortunately, empirical grounds exist to show that limited attentions scrutinize the FL attitude of Indonesian English teachers towards the English language. Ergo there has been a lack...

A SLA-Based Assessment of ELT Textbooks in FL Settings

Xiaofei Tang
This study evaluates four primary-school ELT textbook series used across mainland China from the perspective of psycholinguistics-based SLA. The textbook evaluation aims to determine whether the sequence of grammatical structures introduced as teaching objectives in the series is compatible with the...
Proceedings Article

Simulation on Denoising Method for Fiber Optic Gyroscope Signal

Ping Sun, Zhi-Lu Zhang, Xiang-Jin Wang, Zhe Li
Fiber Optics Gyroscopes (FOGs) are widely used due to their low cost. This paper proposes a simulation on denoising method for FOG signal. Hybrid Kalman filter algorithm are applied to denoise the FOG signal in both static and dynamic conditions. Single axis and three axis FOG signals with different...
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A simultaneous closed loop current calculation method for multiple distribution lines

Fang-Di Hou, Bo Que, Lei Chen, Wei-Yan Zhen, Jun-Qiang Fu
In practical use, closed loop operation on distribution lines may generate large steady current and impact current. For multiple distribution lines, closed loop operations in turn with low load transfer efficiency are easy to lead black-out in large area. In order to increase efficiency without reducing...

The Effect of Project-Based Learning on L2 Spoken Performance of Undergraduate Students in English for Business Class

Achmad Yudi Wahyudin
Project-based Learning (PBL) has become the central part in ESP practice in higher education. The present study tried to confirm the questions whether the students' foreign language (L2) oral performance in English for Business (EFB) Class is affected significantly after PBL is tailored. The study conducted...
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The Management of Innovation Projects' Implementation in Production-and-Economic Systems: The Use of Prognostic Models for the Risk Metrics of Obtained Decisions

Leonid Mylnikov
The article describes a criteria-based approach to calculate the total risk obtained by the use of forecasts in prognostic models in order to solve tasks in production-and-economic systems; this chapter also outlines the difficulty of recording risks received by the use of prognostic functions and values...

The transformation and innovation development of biopharmaceutical industry under the background of aging

Jiao Feng, Yan Zhu, Jie Zhang
With the acceleration of population aging process, the elderly industry has been paid more attention. It will effectively promote transformation and innovation development of the third industry, especially the biopharmaceutical industry. From now to 2030, the aging will develop rapidly. The change of...
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Study on Multi-pulse Laser Detection of Moving Target under Low SNR

Junling Sun, Dongdong Pang, Guangmin Sun, Pengge Ma
This paper presents a multi-pulse laser radar system and target detection algorithm for motion target detection. In this paper, the system of multi pulse lidar is introduced firstly, and the detection performance of the target range is analyzed by combining the lidar equation. Then, aiming at the detection...

The role of intrinsic goal orientation on medical and allied health student' deep learning approach

Flemmings Fishani Ngwira, Alemayehu Belay Emagnaw, Patmawaty Taibe, Hanna Yeshinegus Adamseged
Medical institutions have an exceptional responsibility to train health providers to become versatile in their own fields, trying to foster and stimulate life-long skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. Research on academic self-regulation suggests that students' intrinsic goal orientation...

Economic Social Factors And The Effect of Criminality In North Sumatera

Raina Linda Sari, Inggrita Gusti Sari Nasution, Wahyu Sugeng Imam Soeparno
Economic development is inseparated from the increasing needs of society in every aspects such as consumption and other needs. This condition triggered by various problems such as economic problems, social conflict, and legal awareness. Therefore, this study conducted for analyzing social economic factors...
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Expression Of Human Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin (Ngal) On Serum And Urine Sample Of Pre Dialysis Kidney Failure Patients

Retty Ratnawati, Tinny Endang Hernowati, Nurina Titisari, Ahmad Fauzi
Biomarkers for the early prediction of human acute kidney injury (AKI) are clinically important. Recently, neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) has found to be a sensitive biomarker for the prediction of human AKI at a very early stage and the development of AKI after surgery. NGAL is an...
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Healthcare recommender system based on Smart–health Routes

M Sandeep Kumar, J Prabhu
Recommender systems have proved more significant area of research and outstanding to the technology progress in mobile devices like smartphone and tables. Mobile technology is grown quickly due to social networking. The concept of a recommender system to provide item feedback to the user in which it...

The Mathematical Literacy of The Student Teachers to Solve The PISA'S Problem Based on The Level of The Creativity

Soffil Widadah, Siti Nuriyatin
The purpose of this research was to analyze the mathematical literacy of the student teachers to solve the PISA'S on 4th, 5th, and 6th levels based on the level of the creativity. This research is a descriptive research. The results of research will be described both kuantitatif and qualitative. The...
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Clustering Blog Information

Mayank Prakash Jaiswal, H. Chris Tseng
Blogs form an important source of information in today’s internet world. Most of the blog websites have the blogs arranged in chronological order rather than its con-tents. Such arrangement of blogs makes it difficult for the user searching information about a particular topic from the blog. To resolve...
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Spatial Structural Characteristics of Chinese Railway Passenger Network Based on Complex Network Theory

Xuejing Gu, Dewei Li, Lu Qin
The railway network provides transport services for clients, it is very important for railway managers to analyzing the spatial structure of the network. This article analyzes the spatial structure of Chinese railway network with indicators of degree distribution, the clustering coefficient, the average...
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Status and Design of Digital Oilfield

Xiaohong Xu, Hu Tian, Jilin Fu, Zhihua Sun, Xin Xu
At present, the global petroleum exploration and production enterprises are all faced with dual huge pressures which are to lower operating costs and improve labor productivity, but the appearance of digital oilfield let these companies find a silver lining. This paper expounds the difficulties that...
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Emotion estimation of physiological signals by using low power embedded system

Tanu Sharma, Bhanu Kapoor
Emotions are an essential and productive aspect of human thought or action and human thought is inherently emotional. Emotions are factors which vary as mood varies. When person experience different emotions then there is also change in physiological signals in human body and with this variation comes...
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Water demand forecasting based on adaptive extreme learning machine

Jinming Jia, Shengyue Hao
Predicting water consumption is of key importance for water supply management, which is also relevant in processes for reviewing prices.In this study, a hybrid method based on extreme learning machine model with the adaptive metrics of inputs is proposed for improving forecasting accuracy. The adaptive...

Study on the Professional Quality of Pre-Outstanding Chemistry Teachers from the Perspective of Key Competence

Yiyan Su, Xiaohui Yang, Hongjiang Ren, Chengyin Yang
Current wave of key competence and core literacy brought the age of education reform which put forward new requirements to the professional qualification, and the pre service outstanding chemistry teachers is the backbone for the future to create outstanding middle school chemistry teachers. To improve...

Induction Model with Self Reflection Based Mentoring Module for Beginning School Principals

Ahmad Yusuf Sobri, Ibrahim Bafadal, Ahmad Nurabadi, Juharyanto
Principals must have personal, social, and professional competencies as learning leaders. Preparing of primary school principals is not easy, moreover lately the selection of novice principals is used as “political commodity”. so that a set of effective induction programs is needed for beginning principals...

Public Privat Partnership Opportunities in Developing Bank Desa

Denok Kurniasih, Paulus Israwan Setyoko, Shadu Satwika Wijaya
The biggest efforts to develop the community's economy is through the establishment of Bank Desa. The concept of Bank Desa, becomes the choice of the village government in providing village funds that have been given by the government to the village. The establishment of a bank desa is expected to provide...

Second-line Drug Resistance Characterization in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Genotype MTBDRsl Assay

Sunil Sethi, Priyanka Agarwal, Rajiv Khaneja, Naresh Kumar, Nitin Kumar, Jagesh Chandna, Ashutosh Nath Aggarwal, Rakesh Yadav
Pages: 42 - 45
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a main hurdle for national programs due to increase in drug resistance to antitubercular drugs. World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed Line Probe Assay, Genotype MTBDRsl Ver 2.0, gives opportunity for rapid diagnosis and molecular characterization of different mutations in...

Methodology for Determining the Filtration Parameters of Drainage Bedding During Engineering Surveying

Irina Ushakova, Yulia Korchevskaya, Irina A. Trotsenko, Tatyana Kondrateva
In recent years we have encountered a big issue - underflooding in large cities and settlements, railroads’ and highways’ locations. In order to prevent and liquidate the consequences of underflooding during the design of engineering structures, it is necessary to carry out engineering surveying, which...

Defining Stakeholders for the BSC System Development: University’s Faculty Case

Patrick Harte, Elena V. Kolganova
This article is concerned with one of the initial parts of the research of BSC for educational organizations in general and Universities in particular – strategic goal-setting, and more specifically with the role of stakeholders in this process. It was assumed that the different stakeholders define different...