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Environmental Assessment of E-media Solutions: Challenges Experienced in Case Studies of Alma Media Newspapers

Yevgeniya Arushanyan, Åsa Moberg, Minna Nors, Catharina Hohenthal, Hanna Pihkola
The rapid and continuous development of information and communication technology (ICT) in society today is providing new means for various societal activities. To facilitate that new ICT solutions reduce environmental impacts and bring social improvements the potential impacts of those new solutions...
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A Study on Students’ Integrative Motivation for College English Learning in Chinese Universities

Dongmei Wang
In foreign language learning and teaching, learner's motivation is a focus and discussed by many researchers from various perspectives. College students' English learning motivation is one of those many research subjects. It has great influence on the frequency of using learning strategies, the acceptance...
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Test Method for command and control modes for the attack of time-sensitive targets Based on Agent

Zhuyun Duanmu, Jianyu Song
For the test problem of command and control mode for the attack of time-sensitive targets, this paper proposed a test method for command and control modes for the attack of time-sensitive targets based on Agent, then in the attack of time-sensitive targets as the background, established decider, sensor...
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Effect of long-term fertilization on element contamination (Pb, Cd, Cu, Zn, Ni and Cr) and environment risk assessment in the Meadow Black Soil in China

Xingmin Zhao, Xinxin Guo, Mingtang Li, Sui Biao
To identify the effect of fertilization on the heavy metal concentration and assess the soil environmental quality, Meadow Black Soil (MBS) samples were collected from Long-term location fertilization base located in the Changchun City, Jilin Province of China. Subsequently, MBS samples were analyzed...
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Extracellular Expression and Catalytic Bioactivity of Optimized Human Aromatase (CYP19) in Pichia Pastoris

Yan-ying HU, Yong-hui ZHONG, Jing ZHEN, Hui-tu ZHANG, Shi-ru JIA, Fu-ping LU, Yu-jie DAI, Xiu-li ZHANG
The fragment encoding aromatase (CYP19) with 45 N-terminal amino acids cut-off was cloned into pPIC9K vector and transformed to the yeast Pichia pastoris. The multi-copy recombinant strain was selected for the production of recombinant aromatase. The catalytic bioactivity of secreted enzyme was further...

The Effect Of Transformational Leadership, Work Culture, Self Learning And Work Commitment Towards Teacher's Performance

Lisa Gracia Kailola
Teacher's performance plays a crucial role in achieving quality of education and good character of students. Low teacher's performance will decrease quality of graduates itself. Based on data in Depok City, West Java, teacher's performance is in the priority programs of government, and still need to...
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The Application of Distributed Raptor Codes in Cooperative Transmission  System

Chao Wang, Xiaojie Qian
In order to reduce computational complexity and transmission delay in the cooperative transmission system based on digital fountain codes, the paper proposes the cooperative communication scheme based on a distributed Raptor codes . The throughput is treated as the parametric analysis of the system complexity...

Exploration of Teaching Concept Formation of Double-position Teachers

Junxia Chen
At present, China is accelerating application-oriented university construction. “double-position” teachers become important teaching resources. This paper describes daily teaching behavior of a “double-position” teacher from the perspective of educational narrative, explores the formation reasons and...
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A comparative Study of the Liability of the Income Statement and the Liability of the Balance Sheet

Wang Jianbing, Wang Jun
On February 15, 2006, the ministry of finance issued new enterprise accounting standards system, including the accounting standards for enterprises - income tax ,which has clearly shown that we should apply the international balance sheet debt method to tax accounting. The view of assets and liability,...
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The Use of Mapping Knowledge Domains in Analyzing Subject's Research Overview and Hot Spots*

Yan Liu, Yingjuan Tang
This paper uses scientometrics method of knowledge mapping domains, on the basis of CAJD database, summarizes and analyses the discipline structure of "Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL)". It introduces the method of knowledge mapping analysis to the research area of Teaching Chinese as a Second...
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Face Joint Alignment Using Local Method

Gang Zhang, Tang Sikan, Lian Qiang Niu
It is an under-determined problem that local methods are used for face alignment of an image, although good results can be obtained by using an auxiliary model or a priori information. In comparison, joint alignment using multiple face images of the same person has more advantages. In this paper, the...

Identity, Language and Social Cohesion: Car Plate Number Preference Among Indonesian Diaspora

Ahmad Bukhori Muslim
Social identification and cohesion are deemed important, particularly among group-oriented ethnic minorities like Indonesians overseas. This identification can be, in some other ways, expressed by car license numbers, to show their social belonging and affiliation. This qualitative study explores how...

Analysis on the test results and the effect of autonomous learning in College English Network Course

Hongji Li
The establishment of any system has its principles, and the establishment of the training system of College Students' English autonomous learning ability must have the principle of the design. In the process of establishment of College Students' English autonomous learning ability cultivation system,...
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Design of Embedded Industrial robot based on PLC servo control

Yuhan Jie
In order to improve the automation degree of robot, design size of the robot is reduced, a new industrial robot has been designed using PLC, servo motor drive and servo motor as the core component, through the PLC programming and the Modbus communication. IPC and Delta PLC of this kind of robot uses...
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Reliability of Surface Electromagnetic Prospecting (SEP) system-A case study in Dongguashan copper mine

Da Lei, Xiaodong Luan, Wenwei Zhang, Yangtao Ou, Junjie Wu, Xinchun Wang, Yongbo Li
The Surface Electromagnetic Prospecting system developed by Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences was introduced through a CSAMT case study in Dongguashan copper mine in east of Tonglin, Anhui province. Strong electromagnetic noise generated by mineral industries and nearby...
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Effect of Moderate Altitude Exposure on Human Thermal Physiological Parameters and Heat Losses in different activities

Haiying Wang, Songtao Hu
The effect of moderate altitude on human thermal regulation and heat loss may influence human thermal sensation and comfort. This paper aims to clarify this effect and its impact on thermal sensation. Experiments were conducted in a decompression chamber where the air parameters were controllable. Barometric...

Research review on definition and support of small and medium-sized enterprises

Dongping Yu, Xiangxue Lu, Lifeng Wang, Guifeng Song
In the background of "One Belt and One Road" and "the setting up of the investment bank "will largely promote the development of small and medium-size enterprises in these areas. Small and medium-size enterprises support is a hot topic in the research field in recent years. Based on analysis of existing...
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Porous polydopamine and para-aminobenzoic acid complex membrane formed by electrochemical codeposition/degradation

Hongfei Shao, Huaixiang Li, Wei He
Electropolymerization is a useful method to modify electrode for improving selectivity, sensitivity and strong adherence to electrode surface. In this paper, we prepared polydopamine (PDA), poly-para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) and PDA/PABA composite membrane on a glassy carbon electrode (GCE) using cyclic...
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Research on Smart Development in Urban Central Axis Area Based on Morphological Typology Method and Environmental Synergy Concept -- A Case Study of TIT Creative Park in Guangzhou

Minzhi Li, Lu Wang
This research is mainly built upon the work of 2014 Watersheds PhD Winter School, which is organized by South China University of Technology in collaboration with Politecnico di Torino. The Winter School focuses on the professional and practical issues of urban design, specifically, the urban transformation...

Creating a Trusted Public Organization -- Organizational Trust Analysis in Implementation Network of the Education Quality Assurance Policy in Indonesia

Prof. Alwi, Mashuri H. Tahili
The main purpose of this research is to analyze the perspective of organizational trust in the implementation network of education quality assurance policy in Indonesia. The results showed that organizational trust has not been a key driver to achieve the effectiveness of the implementation of education...
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EEG Recognition of Motor Imagery Based on EWT in Driving Assistance

Wei Shan, Yuwen Wang, Qun He, Ping Xie
Electroencephalogram (EEG) feature extraction is one of the key techniques for Brain Computer Interface (BCI) in driving assistance. In this paper, empirical wavelet transform (EWT) is introduced for EEG feature extraction, and then a new EEG recognition method based on EWT is proposed. In the proposed...
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Study on Construction of Embedded Bolt Sleeve’s Precision in Massive Concrete

Chongge Wang, Jiachuan Liu
In recent years, with the coal mine construction expanded, the hoisting ability has had corresponding increase and the requirement for the quality of equipment foundation has become increasingly high; especially the requirement for embedded casing’s positional accuracy in the massive concrete is demanding,...

Problems and Countermeasures of Rural Micro-credit

Deng-lu He
Micro-credit pushed by the rural financial institutions play a significant role in supporting the economic development and solving the three issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers. Pointing at the outstanding issues current micro-credit confront such as the inability to meet the strong...

Analysis of Business English Professional with the Combination of Training Mode

Li Xuejing, Liu Yunman
The Business English majors are starting to exist as an independent discipline, it develops business English training model to meet the requirements of social development that is very important. Based on the needs, the analysis of business English talent Xingtai research and training objectives for the...

A Synchronization Concept of Vocational Education in Indonesia

Agung Premono, Tuti Iriani, Riyadi Riyadi, Daryanto Daryanto
Vocational education in Indonesia has been implemented in three different levels of education: higher education, secondary education, and non-formal education. However, vocational education implementation of these levels seems not related to each other. This study is carried out to create a synchronization...
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Wireless Transmission Based on GPRS Used in Cable On-line Monitoring System

Li Zhou, Yunlong Sun, Jie Chen, Huan Zheng
With the Cross Linked Polyethylene (XLPE) power cables increasingly widely used in urban power transmission and distribution network, the reliable operation of XLPE insulated power cable line is becoming more and more important for economic and social development. [1] And there is a need to ensure the...
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Research of the Relationship Between Content and Ratio of Nitrogenous, Phosphate, Potash Fertilizer in Flue Cured Tobacco and Incidence of Tobacco Vein Spot Disease

YingXia Guang
With time developing, tobacco vein spot disease is a very common and serious infectious disease in tobacco plants, and is one of the most serious diseases of tobacco in the world. Tobacco vein spot disease is becoming more and more epidemic outbreak around the world and has already attracted extensive...

Transformation from Academic Majors to the Application-Oriented Ones in Key Universities

Dongchuan Lin, Jing Gao, Yongbing Li, Shanxiang Liang
In recent years the government has made efforts to reform education and issued a series of policy documents about the transformation of colleges and universities. In the process of educational reform, a key university should take the initiative to play the comprehensive advantages of disciplines and...
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Speed Identification Based on Surveillance Video in Traffic Accidents

Shuquan Xu, Shengwen Yang, Chaozhou Chen, Guofang Wu
Traditional analytical methods on the velocity in traffic accident are summarized, and the use of reference object in vehicle-mounted surveillance video data identifying the velocity in traffic accidents was introduced. A collision between a bus and an electric bicycle which caused injuries was taken...

The significance of network literature in China and its value bearing

BinYing Wu, JingHui Wu
With the development of the times, the development of the society is obviously accelerated. Network literature has also been influenced, which is more unique, showing a more innovative development trend. At the same time, the network literature also presents some development problems, this paper makes...
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3D-Numerical simulation of a mine using cohesion-softening, friction-softening and hardening behavior

P.K. Rajmeny, PK Jain, Vakili Abouzar
Numerical modeling is a potent tool to evaluate stability and to assist in long term planning of a mine along with predictive modeling of planned mining situations. However, selection of proper input properties regarding the rock mass still intrigues the Rock Mechanics community. A well-documented case...
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Research on moving target tracking technology based on complex background

Xintao Huang, Jun Yang, Mengjiao Wu, Can Zhao
With the needs of social development, video tracking based on the algorithm has gradually been in a hot research in the software.CamShift algorithm is a real-time tracking algorithm, using color histogram model get each image frame color projection, and according to previous frame tracking results to...

The Content Classification via Bayesian Model in Meteorological Teaching

Guanlei Xu, Limin Shao, Yonglu Liu, Fengwang Lang
In meteorological teaching, in order to improve the teaching efficiency, the content classification is of much signification. After content classification, the teachers can give the detailed and better teaching plans to the students. On the other hand, these classified content can be employed for the...
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Study on joint formation evolution in laser microwelding of Pt-10%Ir and 316 LVM SS crossed wiresCrossed wire, Laser microwelding, Simulation, Joint formation

Jinrong Mao, Yongde Huang, Peng He
In order to identify the evolution of joint formation about crossed wires of Pt-10% Ir to 316 LVM SS in laser microwelding, the experimental and computational study was carried out. The results showed that, with the increase of peak power of laser microwelding, the laser joint evolution of the crossed-wires...
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Thermodynamic performance analysis of a CCHPsystem fueled by coke oven gas

H.B. Zhao, T. Jiang, W. Yang, Q. Yang
Inspiring from the idea of distributed energy utilization, using coke oven gas fed a combined cooling heating and power integrated system and aided by FORTRAN software to programand calculate the research system. The article concludes the influence of pressure and temperature ratios as well as the contents...
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High Accuracy Tracking with an Active Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera

W. Fu, L. Gao
Traditional PTZ tracking system focus on tracking algorithm, but PTZ camera control is not taken seriously and the control method has the large deviations. The algorithm for PTZ camera control is defined according to the target position which is achieved by the tracking algorithm in the image, calculates...
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A tour on big data classification: Selected Computational Intelligence approaches

Francisco Herrera
In this age, big data applications are increasingly becoming the main focus of attention because of the enormous increment of data generation and storage that has taken place in the last years, in science, business, . . . This situation becomes a challenge when huge amounts of data are processed to extract...
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Uncertain Program Based Unit Commitment Model for Power Grid Including Wind Farms

Siqing Sheng, Li Zhang
Taking the multiple uncertainties commonly existing in electrical power networks including wind farms into consideration, this paper introduces the uncertain programming theory to convert the uncertainties of wind power and load to those of their forecast errors. Making utilization of fuzzy variable...

Feminism Analysis on Dewi Ria Utari’s “Topeng Nalar” Short Story

Andhika Dyah Puspitasari, Else Liliani
This research aims to describe the text dimension, discourse practice, and sociocultural practice in Dewi Ria Utari’s short story “Topeng Nalar”. Feminism theory is applied along with qualitative descriptive method with Fairclough’s model. The results show that: (1) text dimension, the short story “Topeng...

Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm with the Fuzzy Machine Selection for Solving the Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem

Ajchara Phu-ang
Pages: 11 - 19
The objective of the research is to solve the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). In this paper, the new algorithm is proposed mainly based on discrete concepts of the differential evolution (DE) algorithm with the new idea called the fuzzy machine selection approach. In the first step, the...

Indonesian Hajj Cohorts and Mortality in Saudi Arabia from 2004 to 2011

Masdalina Pane, Fiona Yin Mei Kong, Tri Bayu Purnama, Kathryn Glass, Sholah Imari, Gina Samaan, Hitoshi Oshitani
Pages: 11 - 18
The Hajj is an annual pilgrimage that 1–2 million Muslims undertake in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), which is the largest mass gathering event in the world, as the world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia holds the largest visa quota for the Hajj. All Hajj pilgrims under the quota system are...

Study on the Changes of Industrial Structure in Sichuan Province before and after the “5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake”

Dongdong Zhu, Xianhua Wu, Peipei Xue
Pages: 11 - 19
On the 10th anniversary of the “5.12 Wenchuan Earthquake” disaster, what changes have occurred in the industrial structure of Sichuan Province? It is an important topic for government, industry and the public. This paper analyzed the impact of Wenchuan earthquake on various industries in Sichuan Province...

HIV-infected presumptive tuberculosis patients without tuberculosis: How many are eligible for antiretroviral therapy in Karnataka, India?

Ajay M.V. Kumar, Anil Singarajipura, Balaji Naik, Deepak K. Guddemane, Yogesh Patel, Suresh Shastri, Sunil Kumar, Rajesh Deshmukh, B.B. Rewari, Anthony David Harries
Pages: 11 - 19
For certain subgroups within people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) [active tuberculosis (TB), pregnant women, children <5 years old, and serodiscordant couples], the World Health Organization recommends antiretroviral therapy (ART) irrespective of CD4 count. Another subgroup which...

Gastrointestinal pathogen distribution in symptomatic children in Sydney, Australia

Stephanie Fletcher, Sebastian Van Hal, David Andresen, Mary-Louise McLaws, Damien Stark, John Harkness, John Ellis
Pages: 11 - 21
There is limited information on the causes of paediatric diarrhoea in Sydney. This cross-sectional study used clinical and microbiological data to describe the clinical features and pathogens associated with gastrointestinal illnesses for children presenting to two major public hospitals in Sydney with...

Trends of reported human cases of brucellosis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2004–2012

Abdulaziz D. Aloufi, Ziad A. Memish, Abdullah M. Assiri, Scott J.N. McNabb
Pages: 11 - 18
Human brucellosis is an important zoonotic disease and is especially concerning in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), where livestock importation is significant. We analyzed reported human brucellosis disease trends in KSA over time to help policymakers understand the magnitude of the disease and guide...

The Econometric Model of the Social and Economic Regional Development Impact on Demographic Processes

E.D. Emtseva, E.V. Krasova, L.S. Mazelis
The article proposes the econometric model of a social and economic regional development impact on demographic processes that largely determine the level of the regional human capital, which in turn is one of the most important factors for sustainable regional development. Using the created database...

Ethical Knowledge, Ethical Decision: A Gap Of Ethical Behavior Development

Eka Fauzihardani, Eddy R. Rasyid, Efa Yonedi, Hefrizal Handra
The central standing-point of accounting professional in most ethical violation scandals of corporate collapse has led public to question about standard of ethical behavior in this profession. Although accountant has been introduced ethical standard –code of conduct - along their study in university,...

Students’ Response on Collaborative Translation Model

Rudi Hartono
Translation is a complicated activity for students to do individually. They face many linguistic and cultural problems alone, so their products of translation are poor grammatically, lexically, and mechanically. Through this research I surveyed their response and described how their opinions on the application...

Ornament Art on Traditional Boat: Creative Expression of Fishermen Community in Jepara Coast

Triyanto Triyanto, Mujiyono Mujiyono, Eko Sugiarto, Ratih Ayu Pratiwinindya
Human as the part of culture has the desire to decorate equipment that they possess to look prettier and aesthetic. The desire to realize pretty look is human natural desire including the fisherman in Jepara coast. The fishermen need to express visual form that is comfortable and harmonic to be seen....

Traditions: Radical or Peace-Building

Dian Eka Indriani, M. Sahid, Bachtiar Syaiful Bachri, Umi Anugrah Izzati
Indonesia is a nationality and multicultural state surrounded by different ethnic, linguistic, religious and ideological backgrounds and geographical areas among its regions as it is separated by tens of thousands of islands. The risk of conflict among communities is considerable. A number of these each...