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The study aims to explore sustainable and renewable energy application via a case study from green buildings to green sustainability. Therefore, first of all, the study reviews definitions of sustainable energy, renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency, smart-grid technology, green energy and...

Construction of hydro power projects in the Himalayan region poses various problems which can have direct implication on the cost and time schedule of the projects. Varying geological conditions necessitate use of modern methodologies for ensuring stability and overall time bound completion of the project...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) sector is the shaft revival of the national economy, but SME sector still has problems. One of the problems faced and also become a weakness of SMEs is the implementation of accounting in accordance with SAK ETAP which has an important role in providing information...

Histograms are an intuitively understandable tool for graphically presenting frequency data that is available for and useful in modern data-analysis, this also makes comparing histograms an interesting field of research. The concept of similarity and similarity measures have been gaining in importance,...

This paper illustrates firstly the importance of the study of rewriting studies, and then respectively takes a closer look at the basic content of Lefevere's rewriting thoughts and Goldblatt's rewriting thoughts and then comparing their different views on rewriting thoughts. In the end, the paper gives...

The Government of Indonesia has been conducting various corruption eradication efforts; however, these have not been able to effectively prevent corruption in Indonesia. Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has managed to unravel corruption cases through a thorough detection and investigation....

We study automatic target recognition (ATR) in infrared (IR) imagery by applying two recent computer vision techniques, Hierarchical description of contour and Bag-of-Words (BoW). We propose the idea of contour segment (CS) features which are extracted from the outer contour of IR target image and we...

The practical applications of bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces are often restricted by poor mechanical wear-resistance. CeO2 nano particles toughened polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)/polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) composite coating with water contact angle (WCA) of 152° and sliding angle (SA) of 5°...

Neural machine translation has recently achieved promising results with the big scale corpus. But there is little research on the small scale corpus, such as Mongolian. Mongolian belongs to the agglutinative language while Chinese is a pictograph. It is necessary to do some pre-processing for both Mongolian...

In this paper, we investigate a stochastic non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra mutualism with impulse jump and Markov switching, and two sufficient conditions for stochastic persistence are established.

From a purely theoretical standpoint, the paper aims to see if there is a relationship between entrepreneurial motivations and risk decision making and at the same time explore the role of cognitive traits, including risk perception and self-efficacy, in the relationship. Based on established theories...

This study analyses a disk braking caliper bench testing machine under braking conditions, to testify its structure characteristics. The analyzed objects include rotating axes and six counterweights. The first step is to use the design software SolidWorks to build axis and counterweights models. Next,...

In order to support real-time quality of service in time-sensitive and time-tolerant coexisting network in Ethernet, a set of IEEE standards for transporting and forwarding real-time content over Ethernet are proposed that known as Audio Video Bridging (AVB). By bandwidth reservation and priority isolation,...

Superplasticity is the ability of polycrystalline materials to deform plastically to exhibit very large strains. Using this property in manufacturing process makes many of aerospace components lighter and stiffer, with efficient energy and cost saving. Since in most sheet metal forming operation biaxial...

Microbial fuel cell (MFC) coupled with constructed wetland (CW) is an innovative technology for wastewater treatment. Based on the current studies, the article reviewed the configuration and evaluation indicators of CW-MFC, and discussed the influence factors of MFC-CW performance, including pH, electron...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss how to establish a contingent of teachers in private colleges. Taking Xijing University as an example, this paper analyzes the main problems existing in the construction of the contingent of teachers in private colleges, and puts forward some reasonable suggestions...

This study analyzed the calculation of unit costs in higher education. The focus of this research is on how the needs analysis process in college, and how the calculation of unit costs in higher education. The method used was a case study with a qualitati

Background: Musa basjoo Sieb. et Zucc. is widely distributed around the world, used to treat a variety of diseases. Volatile oils as an important component of the Musa basjoo, but it received less attention. In this study, Volatile constituents in both fresh and dry rhizome, pseudostem and leaf of Musa...

For the next bioinformatics analysis of sequence reads, the initial sequence reads with next-generation sequencing technology should be clean with the quality filter method. The basic quality filter method can filter the initial sequence reads by quality cut-off value and base percent. We select some...

In order to provide accurate prediction of the development stages of cut lily, which is crucial for decision-making of the market schedule, a simulation model based on photo-thermal index (PTI) was developed to estimate the phenophase days during greenhouse production. Three experiments of Lilium Oriental...

In Cloud environments, the relationship between resources and users is more ad hoc and dynamic. The role-based access control (RBAC) model is an appropriate access control model for Cloud environments. When using the RBAC model in Cloud environments, some new elements should be considered. This paper...

To build towards expertise, one has to accept to modify his way of practicing, including: 1) A need to reflect on and about the action and near the action in 'in situ' laboratory, 2) A continuous concern about our competence to practice, (presently medical education is in fact discontinuous with periods...

This study will specialize discussion in hotel business sector, particularly the 3-star hotels in Jakarta. 3-star hotels getting tough competition from budget hotels that continue to emerge in Jakarta and surrounding areas. Increased competition in the service industry for causing a company to be very...

This study aims to obtain data on the teacher's perception of the implementation program of character development through the Teaching Pyramid Model based on 2013 curriculum (TPM-Kurtilas). The data required as an input for improvement because the program is still a pilot study project. The data was...

Matrix is a mathematical object, commonly used in scientific computing and engineering calculation. We are not interested in data itself in the data structure, but interested in how to store the elements in the matrix, and make the various operations can run effectively. The main purpose of the compressed...

A research and development study was conducted to develop an scientific literacy instrument test in the global warming theme for middle school students. Random sampling method was used to involve 112 fifteen-year students who attend the natural science course at three middle schools in Bandung. The test...

Recently, teachers have various problems when implementing the learning in the classroom. Learning problems are caused because the teachers do not understand the characteristics of learners with learning content. Multimedia as a new product of modern technology seeks to involve all the senses, including...

WirelessHART is an international wireless communication standard proposed by HART Communication Foundation. As a crucial technique for wireless networks, time synchronization plays an important role especially in WirelessHART networks. For constant and reliable communication, it is necessary to provide...

This paper presents a new greedy algorithm for joint sparse recovery, called adaptive threshold simultaneous orthogonal matching pursuit (AT-SOMP). In this algorithm, an adaptive threshold is designed based on subspace decomposition to stop the iterative process, during which the support of target signal...

A new type of  WPVC(Wind PhotoVoltaic Complementary) power generation system is researched & developed, the system performance-cost ratio is high, the"D/D/D"(Direct-current/Direct-current/Duty-ratio)-"D/D/ D"(Direct-current /Direct-current/ Duty-ratio) MPPT (Maximm Power Poin Tracking) intelligent control...

In oil tank farm, the fire hazard causes a great loss to both people and property. Once there is a fire, to avoid more loss, a reliable, secure and practical method for putting out a fire is needed. And under this circumstance, the accurate forecasting of the changes of the environment, such as temperature...

The tensile strength of a 2D woven C/SiC composite laminates notched with central hole was analyzed and calculated by finite element method. By considering the nonuniformity, material of open-hole specimen was divided into several parts with different density. Tensile properties of 2D woven C/SiC composites...

Departing from how the speaker became involved, and by what he did work with fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic, an (obviously subjective) look at their future will be discussed. Namely, by arguing on some aspects such research could follow to not only being a theoretic ground for Zadeh’s Computing with Words,...

The article is dedicated to the consideration of the communicative music means, their kinds in the context of historical aspect of the ways of music reproduction. The author follows the chronology of the development of communication means – from the non-writing to the electronic and mechanical. In the...

From the perspective of new urbanization construction of the Yangtze River economic belt, in this paper we firstly analyze the financing demand of it, and then describe the disadvantages of the traditional mode of financing, and finally explore how to construct diversified and sustainable urbanization...

Chinese handwriting signature is a useful biological feature for identity verification. This paper presents a hybrid signature identification method. Applying wavelet transform to each stroke of signature, reliable signature characteristic is extracted. Subsequently, a desirable classifier is introduced...

The essence of the construction of smart grid demonstration project is an integration process of various types of technology, system and device. With the integration of various kinds of adjustable resources including distributed power supply, reactive power compensation devices, and energy storage devices...

With the development of information technology, the working style and live style of people change a lot. Intelligent mobile terminals running Android system become popular in recent years. They are portable and powerful. Field data collection is an important job for researchers and personnel of nature...

In this paper, we conduct theoretical research on spread spectrum communication technique based on binary offset subcarrier frequency sweep and related methods. At present, most of the spread spectrum signal generation did not give the effect of channel filter, and a large number of related studies have...

In order to keep the safety of the large structures, it is necessary to take effective remote monitoring for it. The design method of a remote structural monitoring system based on Labview and Linux is proposed in this paper, and the constitution modulus and function realization of the system are presented...

A numerical methods are presented in this paper to solve the nonzero-sum N-player Nash differential game. Variation methods are used to convert the original game into a regular optimal control problem which consists of one objective function, the state equations of all the players with initial conditions...

Great importance is attached to the college students’ entrepreneurial ability, which has become a promote college talent training quality and education level demands of the Times and development connotation. College students' entrepreneurial ability training ways have been proposed which consist of the...

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) has an influence on all societal sectors and can have both positive and negative consequences. To support ICT for sustainability (ICT4S), we need to learn when and how ICT can enable sustainable development. It is important to take...

Zinc nitrate hexahydrate, ethylene glycol, thiourea and triethanolamine were purchased to be starting materials. Nano zinc sulfide solution has been successfully prepared by Chemical bath deposition method, and then the prepared zinc sulfide modified polyhydroxybutyrate valerate (PHBV) to form the thin...

Two novel rare earth complexes with Schiff base from Lysine-Salicylaldehyde were synthesized by using the drop by drop reaction. On the basis of molar conductance and elemental analysis, a formula of the target complex was given. Moreover, the target complexes were also characterized by IR and UV-visible....

Teaching evaluation system is the most important link of vocational college teaching quality assurance, which plays important role in collage teaching management and the collage development. Teaching evaluation system is a systemic engineering with rich connotation and denotation. From the teaching evaluation...

Higher education aims at developing high-quality person who is fully developed, including the all-round development of psychological qualities. However, many researches show that the psychological condition of college students is hardly optimistic. On the basis of the research of psychological health...

In order to meet the requirements of counting of visible foreign particles in liquid injection, an automatic visible foreign particles counting system based on trajectory modelling is developed. The mechanical part drives containers to spin and stop abruptly and afterwards the liquid continues to spin....

In the WHO’s Reports (2010) explained that in Southeast Asia the causes of infant mortality are 28% caused by neonatal infection, 26% caused by LBW, 20% caused by asphyxia, 4% caused by congenital anomaly, 3% caused by diarrhea, 1% caused by tetanus and the rest by other causes. That numbers was giving...

This study used a survey method to see the influence between variables. The data analysis technique used path analysis to test the direct and indirect effects of speed, agility, coordination, and motivation on the skills of playing soccer of the students of the Faculty of Sports Sciences, Universitas...