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Development of Simple Multiple-Choice Diagnostic Test of Acid-Base Concepts to Identify Students’ Alternative Conceptions
Muntholib, Jian Mayangsari, Yunilia N. Pratiwi, Muchson, Ridwan Joharmawan, Yahmin, Sri Rahayu
Alternative conception is students' conception of scientific concepts that are inconsistent with the conception of scientists. Various studies show that alternative conceptions of chemical concepts occur in students, including acid-base concepts. Various identification of alternative conception methods...
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The "Inverted U-shaped" Hypothesis of Urban-Rural Income Gap in the Process of Urbanization: Empirical Testing and Policy Implications
Yeying Hong
How urbanization affects the regional economic development. And it has been praised by educational world attention, especially the current unbalanced development. This is not fully the most outstanding performance as the gap between urban and rural areas, and the main performance in the income gap between...
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An Analysis of the Academic Status of Students and Its Key Controlling Factors in a Newly-Built Local Medical College
Jun Li, Shiying Liao
To investigate the academic status of students and to analyze the trend of students' academic achievement in a new local college of medicine and probes into the key control factors that affect the students' academic failure. Academic cleaning, questionnaire investigation and interview were used to analyze...
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Analysis on the Professional Title Reform of Chinese Local Universities in New Era
Liwen Zeng, Hua Yin
China's social development has entered a new era. The main idea of "Some opinions on deepening to streamline government functions and administration, delegate powers while improving regulation for higher education " is consistent with the spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress in China. Guided by...
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The Role of Recitation in the Process of English Learning for College Art Students
Zhipeng Liu
Recitation--the traditional teaching method should be taken seriously again in English teaching. This is a survey report on the role of recitation in college art students' English learning. The research questions are: (1) Do you think recitation is useful for improving English? (2) Which recitation materials...
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Synthesis of 4-chloro-6-methoxy-2-methyl-3-nitroquinoline
Lei Zhao, Fei Lei, Yuping Guo
4-Chloro-6-methoxy-2-methyl-3-nitroquinoline (1) was synthesized from 4-methoxyaniline through three steps including Cyclization, Nitrification and Chlorination. The structure of the target product (1) was confirmed by 1H NMR and MS. This method started with cheap raw materials was of simple experimental...
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Synthesis of 2 - ((4-Substituted Phenyl) Amino) Benzaldehyde
Yongli Duan, Zhimin Li, Qidong Tang, Rui Li, Shan Xu
2-((4-substituted phenyl) amino) benzaldehyde, is an important intermediate for the synthesis of many biologically active intermediates of anticancer drugs. In this work, a rapid and high efficiency synthetic method for compound 1a-1b was established. Compound 1a-1b was synthesized from 2-chloronicotinic...
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Synthesis of N-methylthieno [2, 3-d] Pyrimidin-4-amine Thienopyrimidine
Huajun Lei, Min Wang, Jiaqian Han, Zhou Lan
Thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidine is a key intermediate in many biologically active compounds such as GDC-0941 and BKM 120. In this work, a rapid synthetic method for compound (4) was established. The compound (4) was synthesized from the commercially available methyl 2-aminothiophene-3-carboxylate and formimidamide...
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Synthesis of 4- (Thieno [3, 2-d] pyrimidin-4-yl) Morpholine
Huajun Lei, Linxiao Wang, Yingjia Xiong, Zhou Lan
4-(Thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)morpholine derivatives is an important intermediate which inhibited tumor necrosis factor alpha and nitric oxide. In this work, a rapid and green synthetic method for compound (5) was established. The compound (5) was synthesized from the commercially available methyl 3-aminothiophene-2-carboxylate...
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Synthesis of 1-(2-(piperidin-1-yl)ethyl)-1H-pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde
Caolin Wang, Yuanbiao Tu, Jiaqian Han, Yuping Guo
1-(2-(piperidin-1-yl)ethyl)-1H-pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde 4a-b is a new aqueous solubility aldehyde as an important intermediates of small molecule anticancer drugs. In this work, a rapid synthetic method for target compounds 4a-b was established. The compound 4a-b was synthesized from the commercially available...
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Synthesis of 3-phenyl-1H-pyrazole Derivatives
Xiaobo Liu, Shan Xu, Yinhua Xiong
3-phenyl-1H-pyrazole (1) is an important intermediate for the synthesis of many biologically active compounds. It was synthesized from acetophenone (2) and hydrazine through two steps including Knoevenagel condensation, Cyclization reaction reaction. In this paper, three novel 3-phenyl-1H-pyrazole derivatives...
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Synthesis of 2-Chloronicotinic Acid Derivatives
Bingbing Zhao, Zhou Lan, Shan Xu, Yinghua Xiong
2-Chloronicotinic acid and its derivatives are important intermediates for the synthesis of medical antibiotics, anti-cardiovascular drugs, insecticides and herbicides, and they used in the synthesis pranoprofen and diflufenican. In this work, a rapid synthetic method for 2-morpholinonicotinic acid was...
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Expression of Beta-Adrenergic Receptor in Glioma LN229 Cells and Its Effect on Cell Proliferation
Junhong Dong, Ping Wang, Qingluan Xu, Kunpeng Lv, Yu Wang
Objective To investigate the expression of beta-adrenergic receptor( -AR) in glioma cells and the effect of blocking -adrenergic receptors on glioma cell proliferation. Methods: The expression of beta-adrenergic receptor in glioma LN229 and U251 cells were detected by real time PCR and Western Blotting....
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Research on Real Estate Industry Cost Stickiness and Its Influencing Factors
Yuemei Wang
The research on cost stickiness behavior is mainly about sales & administrative cost and manufacturing industry, lacking studies on particular niche business. Therefore, the real estate industry paid highly attention was chosen as the research object and an empirical analysis of cost stickiness behavior...
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Does Environmental Information Disclosure Increase the Firm Value and Investors' Confidence
Tangmei Yuan
Use all A-share listed companies of main board market in 2012 as samples, this paper investigate the influence of environmental information disclosure behavior on the firm future market value and investors` confidence in capital market. The research conclusion indicate that: (1)The listed companies`...
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Research on the Quantitative Behavior Assessment of Undergraduate Students: A Case Study of Bohai University
Xiaoshu Wang, Le Wang
Undergraduate students should have good moral character and behavior habits, Bohai University had design a quantitative behavior assessment system for undergraduate students. The assessment purpose is to make the undergraduate students to learn to behave, learn to work, learn to cooperate, and learn...
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A Compact Bias T Used for Front-end of Millimeter Imaging System
Baohua Yang, Huajie Zou, Jungang Miao
As millimeter wave (MMW) electronic technologies have matured, MMW receiver research is also in the rapid development which includes front-end and frequency synthesizer. They all needed isolation between RF and DC bias. The good design bias T which can realize high isolation between DC bias source port...
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The Influence of Investor Psychology on Disposition Effect
Shu Chun Hsiao, Sun Pi-Chuan
In 1980s, many empirical researches’ findings (i.e., Shiller(1984), Thaler (1985) et al. ) did not support efficient market hypothesis (EMH). Previous studies (e.g., Bernartzi and Thaler, 1995) related to behavioral model suggest that certain market anomalies are consistent with the presence of irrational...
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The Sequential Compound Option Pricing with Random Interest Rate and Application to Project Valuation
Meng-Yu Lee, Fang-Bo Yeh, An-Pin Chen
This paper proposes the pricing formula of sequential compound options (SCOs) with random interest rate and the applications call Milestone Project Valuation (MPV). Most compound options in literatures are 2-fold with constant parameters through time. The multi-fold compound options are just sequential...
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An Interactive Intelligent Search Engine Model Research Based on User Information Preference
Dan Meng, Xu Huang
Web service is very important for both e-commerce and e-government. However, web service process based on syntax level can’t deal with some user query very effectively. In order to make user get more information on the internet, semantic web is presented and a lot of related research results have been...
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Applying Grey Relation Analysis to Establish the Financial Distress Prediction Model for Electronic Companies in Taiwan
Meng-Fen Hsieh, Rong-Tsu Wang, I-Chuan Lu
Most researches have focused on the use of document feedback or factor analysis as metrics for financial distress prediction. The theoretical basis for the former is relatively weak, while the latter is severely limited by data requirements. As such, this paper will instead use grey relation analysis...
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Applications of Genetic Algorithm to Portfolio Optimization with Practical Transaction Constraints
Chieh-Yow ChiangLin
The portfolio optimization model, initially proposed by Markowitz in 1952 and known as mean-variance model (MV model), is applied to find the optimized allocation among assets to get higher investment return and lower investment risk. However, the MV model did not consider some practical limitations...
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High-Speed Fuzzy Inference Processor Using Active Rules Identification
Shih-Hsu Huang, Shi-Zhi Liu, Yi-Rung Chen, Jian-Yuan Lai
Once the input values are given, the active rules in a fuzzy inference execution have been determined. Based on the observation, our approach is to identify the active rules before fuzzy inference execution. To achieve this goal, our architecture provides the following two mechanisms: (1) a mechanism...
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Image Up-Sampling Using Discrete Wavelet Transform
Ping-Sing Tsai, Tinku Acharya
Image up-sampling is found to be a very effective technique useful in today’s digital image processing applications or rendering devices. In image up-sampling, an image is enhanced from a lower resolution to a higher resolution with the degree of enhancement depending upon application requirements. It...
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Adaptive License Plate Detection
Pramod U. Chavan, Parag Kulkarni, Amit Khandebharad, Dattatray Khope
License plate detection process can be divided in two parts 1] plate extraction, 2] character segmentation. License plate detection relies on illumination conditions, background and mainly on camera resolution. There is absence of any common standard to compare various algorithms for a LPD system, because...