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Serosurvey for Health-Care Workers Provides Supportive Evidence for the Effectiveness of Hydroxychloroquine Prophylaxis against SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Reetika Malik Yadav, Archana Pate, Aruna Shankarkumar, Shreyasi Athalye, Shweta Shinde, Umair Ahmed Bargir, Mangesh Pate, Makarand Ganpule, Meena Pruthi, Hemant Patil, Manisha Rajan Madkaikar
Pages: 283 - 288
Background: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has resulted in occupational exposure among Healthcare Workers (HCWs) and a high risk of nosocomial transmission. Asymptomatic infection and transmission of infection before the development of symptoms are well-recognized...
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Community Detection in Complex Networks Using Improved Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Ziyang Wang, Xiaolin Zhao, Peiyuan Wen, Jingfeng Xue, Changzhen Hu
With more and more various systems in nature and society are proved to be modeled as complex networks, community detection in complex networks as a fundamental problem becomes a hot research topic in a large scale of subjects. Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) has high efficiency and does not require...
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Character Recognition Based On Maximum Membership Principle

Yu Liao
Text recognition is one of the key technologies in an intelligent system. By means of highly effective extraction of the 7 typical features of characters, we dramatically shorten the time spent on feature extraction in this research. Then we built a membership function based on multidimensional normal...
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An instrument for evaluating problem solving, inquiry and programming skills in the context of robotics education

Heilo Altin, Margus Pedaste
Educational robotics has been mostly practiced as an extracurricular activity. There are few studies evaluating the ef-fect of robotics education on students’ improvement. For such studies an instru-ment for evaluating study effect in the context of robotics is needed. We devel-oped and tested such an...
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Study of the industrialization-ability of the production of mescal in Guerrero-Mexico

Sira Allende, Carlos Bouza, Dante Covarrubias, Housila Sharkar
We considered the modeling of the evaluation of projects for industrializing the artisanal production of mescal. A Decision Support system is modeled for determining the priorities of the tasks. The ability for evaluating projects is considered. Data provided from a large research developed in Guerrero...

A Study on Risk Prevention for Online P2P Lending Platforms in China

Yaqiong Pan, Jun Gao
The present study was designed to study the risks of online P2P lending platforms. The aim of this study was to analysis the problem of online P2P lending platforms in theory, and then to propose some suggestion for the development of lending platforms. We provided a new perspective and context to study...
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Influence of rotation angle error on motion platform poses error for Simulator in 6-RSPS Platform without Z-axis Rotation Washout

Chunjie Yang, Jianjun Li, Niandong Yin, Shaojiang Lin
This paper proposes a new 6-RSPS structure of vehicle simulation that can successive rotation, and studies the affect relationship and regularity for rotation angle error effect on motion platform pose error. We built an error model according to independent function principle of error and differential...

The Analysis of the Curriculum Assessment’s Characteristics in American Colleges and Its Inspiration

Yuan Gong, Dan Mei, Yaoxuan Tao, Xiaojie Tong
Contrasting to the current situation of curriculum assessment in the domestic colleges, this study analyzes the characteristics of the course in the American colleges and reforms "a test set for life" examination model, and establishes the curriculum assessment system of ‘General assessment + Innovative...

New Connotation and Denotation of Global managers under the Belt & Road Initiative ?A Perspective of Individual Cross-Cultural Adaption

Xialing Wei, Ying Zhang
The Belt & Road economic development initiative brings out new definition, connotation, and denotation of global managers, the role of whom are particularly important in transnational management environment during the cross-border transition. This paper analyzes the adaptation of global managers in transnational...

Research on Shanxi's CO2 Emissions Peak Based on STIRPAT Model

Jianhui Cong, Limei Qin, Xiaopei Wang, Wenmei Kang, Yixuan Zhang, Qingyan Liu
The global greenhouse gas emissions peak has become a sensitive issue in the area of international climate governance. It is of great significance to study Shanxi's CO2 emissions peak which affects China's CO2 emissions peak target achieve by 2030 or earlier. Based on the brief analysis of the status...

Minority Top Talent Training Demand Analysis for Common University ——Take Guizhou University of Finance and Economics as an Example

Bowen Zhang, Shihua Xu, Chunhong Duan
Accelerating minority top talent’s training is the urgent request of accelerating minority region’s economic and social development and achieving goal of fully constructing well-off society. For common university, it is necessary to expand the function of minority higher education, in order to train...
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Reconstruction of high-resolution Depth Map using Sparse Linear Model

Hanqi Fan, Dexing Kong, Jinhong Li
In this paper, we propose a method that constructs a high-resolution depth image with high quality from a low-resolution depth image that is noisy and contains holes. We believe that the high-resolution depth map is generated by sparse linear combination of atoms from an over-complete dictionary, and...

Using Importance Ranks to Derive Suitable Timing of Visual Sensing in Manipulation Task Containing Error Recovery

Akira Nakamura, Kazuyuki Nagata, Kensuke Harada, Yukiyasu Domae
Pages: 283 - 288
In general, a manipulation task can be composed of many skill primitives. Therefore, it is desirable to carry out plural visual sensing in most skill primitives; however, performing sensing all the time is difficult. In this paper, we propose the addition of importance ranks to the attribute of skill...

The Failure of Islamic Populism: The Case of Indonesia’s 2019 Election

Abubakar Eby Hara, Agus Trihartono
This paper attempts to discuss the failure of Islamic populism in Indonesia. In the 2019 general election, populist jargons departing from Islamic teachings was used in the campaign to win the election. Islamic populist jargons are generally interpreted as an effort to voice the pure voice of the people,...

Representaion of Islamic Culture on Indonesian Language Textbooks in Madrasah

Nuryani Nuryani
The aim of this study is to describe representation of Islamic Culture on Indonesian language textbooks in madrasah for the past two years. Islamic education should be able to realize the elements of Islam in every component of teaching, one of them in the preparation and use of textbooks for each subject....

Research on Project Teaching of Statistics Course Based on Data Visualization

Bin Zhang
With the wide applications of big data, in order to improve the systematization and practicability of statistics courses, and to better cultivate applied and comprehensive talents, this paper discusses the harmonious and unified relationship between project teaching and data visualization. Taking mathematical...
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Research on path optimization of ant colony algorithm Improved Particle Swarm Optimization and Reverse Learning

Shaobo Li, Kangqi Mu, Weimin Lin, Dong Sun
Aiming at the difficulty of determining the key parameters when applying ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) to traveling salesman problem, we propose an improved particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm for adaptive parameter acquisition. Because repeated calls to ACO will increase the cost of...

Improvement of system of touristic-recreational complex management at regional level

Leysan Ismagilovna Galimova, Shamil' Shagitovich Galimov, Vladlen Il'gizovich Gainetdinov
Ensuring the stable development of socio-economic subsystems of the national economic system in the conditions of stagnation involves the formation of mechanisms for effective management of industries and complexes primarily at the regional level, because the implementation of management actions at the...

Suggestions on Perfecting the Legality Review System of Administrative Act

Longyu Wang, Hanke Li, Tianchong Yao
As an important system of China’s administrative law, the review system of administrative legality plays an important role in the development of the rule of law in China. The aim of this study is to explore the deficiencies and improvements of the legality review system. This study uses the method of...
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Discussion on Hot Update Mechanism of Mobile Application

Wei Liu
With the rapid development of smart phone devices, the update and iteration of APP is getting faster and faster, every time users update, they need to go to the app store to download the application and reinstall it, this consumes time and flow, and the user experience is not good, so hot update mechanism...

Risk Measurement of Large Group Emergency Decision-making of Major Floods Disaster Based on Social Network

Xuanhua Xu, Qianhui Zhang, Linlin Wang, Shanglong Liu, Xin Yang
Considering the relationship between the experts and the decision risk caused by the fuzziness of the expert preference information under the social network, a research method for the risk measurement of the large flood disaster emergency decision in the social network is proposed. First, we use large...
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A New Efficient Leakage-Free Certificateless Signature

Zhuo Gao, Liang Hu, Hongtu Li
Digital signature, a cryptographic algorithm, provides integrity, authentication and non repudiation messages.In the literature, several certificateless signature schemes have been designed. However, most of them are vulnerable to the ephemeral secret leakage (ESL) attack.We propose a new secure certificateless...
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Application of 3D Ray Tracer in WiMAX

Wang Chao
WiMAX is a promising technology for a higher spectral efficiency and reliable transmission. This paper compares the downlink throughput experienced by mobile users in a macro-cell in an interference limited scenario with a frequency reuse of one. Bit accurate link level simulations are performed for...
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WS-SIM: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Service Composition

Fan Zhang
Web service has been rapidly developed in recent years. Web service selection is an important issue in web service composition and lots of service selection algorithms have been presented. As lots of them select an atomic service during runtime, it is not an easy task to evaluate the quality of the composited...

The impact of Busy Directors on Firm Performance in Manufacturing Companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange

Nabilah Yasmin, Cynthia A. Utama
Board of directors and commissioners are elected to conduct the management and supervision of the company. The most problematic issue in corporate governance around the world is the number of directors and commissioner positions allowed in a company. This paper examines how busy directors can influence...

A Study on the Innovative Mode of Actual Combat Integrated Teaching and Training for the Future

Li Li, Zhao Hongqiang, Sun Weiqi, Zhou Wei, Shi Yumin, Zhang Suqin, Wang Xiaoyan
It is the premise of integrated teaching and training to set up the idea of actual combat. We must give full play to the advantages of college education and military training, and actively carry out integrated teaching and training. The integrated teaching and training should be closely linked to the...
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Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach to Urban Web Service Databases Evaluation Based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process

Andrey Zemtsov, Tran Dung Khanh
The article presents a comparison of modern database management systems for the implementation of urban web services. The work describes a technique that allows selecting the optimal database management system according to a set of criteria, including the implementation of priority projects for the creation...

Invariant Linearization Criteria for Systems of Cubically Nonlinear Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations

F. M. Mahomed, Asghar Qadir
Pages: 283 - 298
Invariant linearization criteria for square systems of second-order quadratically nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that can be represented as geodesic equations are extended to square systems of ODEs cubically nonlinear in the first derivatives. It is shown that there are two branches...

Comparative Histories of Tiffany&Co.’s Evolution and the Jewelry Industry

Yiyu Chen, Ailifeiya Aili, Yuewei Si
In conjunction with the end of the pandemic, the LVMH Group acquired the venerable luxury brand Tiffany. This article is based on analysis conducted by McKinsey. We conducted a comprehensive analysis of Tiffany Brands’ brand marketing, brand planning, and brand history. By comparing multiple luxury brands,...

Turkey’s Diplomatic Performance and Tendency in the Context of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Dijingwen Yang
After Erdoğan came to power, Turkey’s foreign policy has been presented with a more active and independent character with its balancing strategy well applied, all of which is reflected in its diplomatic performance in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. By analyzing Turkey’s diplomatic performance during the...

Forecasting Financial Performance: A Comparative Study of Machine Learning Models in Accounting

Ze Tang
This paper explores the application of different machine learning models in financial performance prediction and makes a comparative study. Machine learning models play an important role in financial performance prediction, and the commonly used models include linear regression, decision tree, random...
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Protecting Androids from Malware Menace Using Machine Learning And Deep Learning

C. Siva Kumar, S. Mohan Krishna, V. Ebinazer, N. Narasimha Naidu, P. Pawan Kalyan
Mobile devices have become integral to our lives. Among operating systems, Android holds the largest market share, making it a prime target for attackers. While various solutions exist for Android malware detection, there remains a need for effective attribute selection methods. In this work, we introduce...
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Comparative Study on Prediction of Diabetes Disease Using Various Machine Learning Models

Vaishnavi Vaishnavi, Ritesh Jha, Siba Mitra
This analysis aims to generate a sample that forecasts the possibility of diabetes in patients with the most elevated accuracy. In the end, four machine learning classification algorithms, applied logistic regression, DT, SVM, and KNN, are utilized in this investigation to catch diabetes in theearliest...
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Application of Machine Learning Methods in Liver Cirrhosis Prediction

Rehana Parvin, Mst. Rashida Pervin, Mohammed Motaher Hossain, Raffat Arman Islam
Liver cirrhosis is typically described as the end stage of chronic hepatic disease, in which progressive and irreversible deposition of fibrotic tissue leads to the progressive hepatic dysfunction. Early diagnosis of cirrhosis at an early stage gives a significant benefit, as it allows timely therapeutic...

Effective rocking motion for inducing sleep in adults - Verification of effect of mother’s embrace and rocking motion

Keishi Ashida, Yoshifumi Morita, Ryojun Ikeura, Kiyoko Yokoyama, Ming Ding, Yuki Mori
Pages: 285 - 290
We investigated the most effective rocking motion for inducing sleep in adults. We prepared ten types of rocking motions, including two types of mother’s rocking motions. The sleep-inducing effect of all the rocking motions was evaluated using Thurstone’s paired comparison method (Case V). From statistical...
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A Campus Big-Data Platform Architecture for Data Mining and Business Intelligence in Education Institutes

Ningcheng Zhang
Although the commercial business area has witnessed successful applications of BI technologies, in the noncommercial education institute, BI is still in its early adoption phase, partly due to the budget constraint. In addition, the introduction of new Internet-of-Things technologies in campuses brings...
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Using Multi-temporal RS Image and Landscape Metrics to Map Urbanization Process

Yetao Yang, Yingying Wang
Multi-temporal remote sensing imagery is widely used to map the urbanization-caused landuse temporal dynamics, which mainly appears as built-up growth. Remote sensing integrated with landscape metrics is also used to quantitatively describe the landscape pattern of the urban area in recent literatures....
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A Proposed Theoretical Model for Mobile Commerce Acceptance

Hongen Ji
as the intelligent mobile device terminals, such as smartphone and tablet, more and more pervasive and affordable, mobile commerce has become the hottest issue around the world. User acceptance is one of the key fundamentals for development and success of mobile commerce. Build on the Unified Theory...

RETRACTION: The Relationship Between Agents and Simulated Annealing Using BottsTrica

Qi Wang, Jun Li, Zhenglong Wu, Yu Zhang
In April 2020, Atlantis Press was alerted to fake proceedings articles hosted on our platform. These articles, mostly in computer science and engineering, were generated by the SCIgen computer program and were all published between 2006-2018. Immediately after receiving the alert, Atlantis Press initiated...
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The Non-Line-of-Sight Channel Modelling and Analysis for Airport Surface

Fengxun Gong, Yemeng Che, Yanqiu Ma
A channel model has been established by analyzing the characteristics of the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environment in a domestic airport surface and referencing mobile communication and air channel research. Through deducing the analytical formula of Doppler spectrum that incident angle in Gaussian distribution,...
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Analysis on the Sensitivity of Factors Influencing Natural Gas Power Generation in China

Gaojun Liu, Long Jiang, Lei Du, Yue Guo, Qing Li
It is to guide the natural gas power generation capacity reaching 110 million kw in 2020 according to "Natural gas development "thirteen five" plan", and the natural gas power generation installed ratio from 4.33% in 2015 rises to 5.5% in 2020. Benefiting from the gas and electricity reform policy, the...
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The linear Programming Model of Vegetables Transport Scheme Design

Tian’e Wang, Baocheng Wan, Cong Xiao, Yicheng Feng
Due to many factors, vegetable transportation scheme decision is more complicated, thus we put forward a reasonable and practical meaningful vegetables transport model that has considerable practical significance. Based on the rationality and feasibility of transportation scheme, and the limitation of...

Research on the High-Strength Coating Preparation Methodology based on Acid Catalytic and Sol-Gel Method

Yao Songyuan
In this paper, we conduct research on the high-strength coating preparation methodology based on acid catalytic and Sol-Gel method. This method has been widely used in the preparation of various functional thin film, film and protective film structure, etc. As a result of sol gel process continuously...
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The Evaluation Research of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Port Production Efficiency based on Super Efficiency DEA

Kerong Jian
The production efficiency of the Beibu Gulf port of Guangxi is studied. We select the input output index system, including the input parameters of the terminal length, the number of berths, berth cargo capacity, the annual capacity of the berth container, and the output indicators include cargo throughput,...
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An Improved Algorithm of Image Retrieval Based on Combined BTC Color Moments and DT-CWT

Huajie Cai, Yaxin Zhao, Guangyi Xie
Feature extraction is the key technology in the process of image retrieval based on content. This paper puts forward an improved algorithm of image retrieval based on combined BTC color moments and DT-CWT. We firstly select the YIQ color space as the feature extracted space due to the strong correlation...

Research on Aristotelian Virtue Education

Zhilin Yang, Honghe Liu
Aristotle attaches importance to the cultivation of virtue. The method of Aristotle's thought of virtue education is mainly the method of biological teleology. As the efficient cause of Aristotle's political theory, virtue education plays an important role to maintain the good social order and stability....
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Electrical Field Analysis and Optimizing of High Voltage Bushing Based on Maxwell

Linsuo Zeng, Lei Zhao
In this paper, it was mainly discussed the electrical field analysis of the high voltage outlet in the insulation structure, which was a part of the transformers manufacture. Firstly, the electrical field of 500kV transformers-outlet devices inside the enclosure was modeled in Maxwell electrostatics...
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How to Improve the Athletes' Physical Fitness

Bin Xu
Sports training includes physical, skill, tactics, psychology and intelligence ability training. The physical training is an important part of sport training among them. Physical condition has direct influence on the athletes' performance level. We should carry on the analysis on the physical training...
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Research on the Fuel Saving Effect of Idle Parking car Based on NEDC System Analysis

Jiapeng Lu, Youde Li, Xiangsheng Dai
Objective: To study the technology of auxiliary motor starting and stopping of the direct injection gasoline engine, and analyze the effect of the idle start stop system and oil saving energy. Method: the fuel saving effect analysis of the fuel saving effect of the system is analyzed by the multiple...
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An Improved K - Mode Algorithm for Facial Expression Image Clustering

Xibin Jia, Jianming Yuan, Yujie Xiao
When recognizing facial expression sequences by discrete Hidden Markov Model, it is necessary to cluster the image frames into several observation states. Considering the complexity of face images in emotion expressing, we partition the whole face into several sub-regions to do clustering separately....