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This paper examines how the existence of Tjong Yong Hian family business. Tjong Yong Hian is a colonial Chinese businessman who has achieved great success and success at a young age. His business developed not only in the field of the plantation but also the field of banking, real estate, and railways....

School carnival is one of the most important activities for the school anniversary celebration. A good allocation of booths may determine success or failure of this activity. In dealing with the allocation of booths in the school carnival, drawing lots is among the most popular ways to determination...

The financial sector has been going through a rapid phase of IT transformation, where the huge focus was directed towards the adoption behavior of the consumer of the Fintech products that ignore the post-adoption behavior of continuance intentions. This systematic literature review covers 22 studies,...

Aiming at the problems of long life cycle and high cost of mechanical component wear life test, this paper proposes a virtual prototyping simulation technology to the study of wear failure Reliability Enhancement Testing (RET). Based on the analysis of wear failure, the Enhancement testing mechanism...

This paper designed the Pin-axis Resistance sensor based on the principle of Magnetostriction. The mathematic model of the sensor was established and simulated in Matlab / Simulink. In this paper , load experiment results of resistance sensor showed that resistance sensor's linearity decision coefficient...

Grinding is a critical process in the production of electromagnetic functional structures. To improve the grinding quality of these structures and enhance the working environment, an automated grinding process for electromagnetic functional structures was studied based on an automated grinding unit....

The present study transferred the raw data of DEA to five performance criteria and utilized the VlseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje (VIKOR) methodology to produce Sj, Rj, and Qj , where Sj and Rj represent the utility measure and the regret measure, respectively and Qj represents the...

With the continuous development of China's social economy and people's quality of life requirements continue to improve,the growth of urban population has brought the problem of traffic congestion,in order to better solve this problem,the construction of various subways and tunnels has become the main...

Polymer modified binder (PMB) is used in Singapore and the surrounding region for purpose of enhancing the durability and strength in asphalt pavements, particularly with high traffic volumes and heavy traffic loads. The selection of an appropriate PMB is crucial, as its properties significantly depend...

Spatial and temporal study was conducted in flooding the watershed of Cisadane, Province Banten. This study aims to: (1) to study the spatial distribution of the target area flooding potential and actual, and (2) to study the distribution pattern of flooding in the watershed Cisadane, Province Banten....

Personal Identification Numbers (PINs) are the structure blocks of contemporary security systems, but conventional means of inputting them—typing on physical or virtual keypads—leave users exposed to serious threats. Systems such as shoulder surfing (in which attackers visually monitor PIN input) and...

A kind of distributed array structure micro channel heat sink is studied in this paper. The fluid height and the ratio between fluid and channel are optimized by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) thermal-mechanical coupling method. The typical heat sink is fabricated by UV-LIGA and non-silicon MEMS...

Hydraulic cylinder is the core of construction machinery remanufacturing. Remanufacturing enterprises in China are eager for finding out feasible remanufacturing process for the used hydraulic cylinder, which main failure mode is scratch on the surface of hydraulic cylinder bore. Causes of failure mode...

Objective: to discuss the clinical value of digital X-radiography (DR), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in diagnosing bone tumors; Methods: 45 bone tumor patients accepted from November 2010 to February 2013 were retrospectively analyzed. All 45 patients underwent DR examination,...

In view of the safety problem of construction temporary electricity use, it is expounded that the distribution network has low voltage level, but the types of electrical equipment are complex, the users are uneven, and there is a great risk of electric shock. Aiming at the problem of leakage in distribution...

Arduino Uno is a minimum system board that use atmega 328p as a microcontroller IC (Integrated Circuit). Arduino Uno has 20 output pins. The running out of the pins owned by the Arduino Uno makes it cannot control many LCD, such as 3 LCDs that require 21 pins. With the lack of the Arduino Uno, this study...

A socket is used as a handling tool after matching with a ratchet wrench. Its main function is to handle all kinds of screws and nuts and other fastening parts, but sockets are often lost after falling down on the ground or rolling over before and after their use. This research employs TRIZ to improve...

Radar signal sorting is a key part of radar countermeasure nowadays, a blind separation algorithm based on Time-Frequency (TF) analysis of short time Fourier transformation is proposed in this paper, and the problems of underdetermined radar signal sorting can be solved effectively. The proposed method...

This paper focuses on the aspect of performing acoustic analysis for the purpose of electric motors diagnostics. The measurements are performed in noisy industrial environment with the use of a dedicated acoustic camera build by ABB. The acoustic camera comprises a set of microphones arranged in a pre-defined,...

Teeth matching conditions for planetary mechanism of single pin, dual pin and multiple pin planetary mechanisms are studied in details in this thesis. Single planetary mechanism teeth matching conditions include: concentric condition, homogeneity distribution condition, neighbor condition and gear ratio...

Although hydrogel has some outstanding performance, traditional hydrogel still has some drawbacks in the application of drug delivery field. Herein, we introduced a simple and effective way to improve the performance of tradition hydrogel for drug delivery. ß-cyclodextrin (ß-CD) functionized hydrogel...

The optimal management of hemodynamic disorders among critically ill patients requires an accurate assessment of hemodynamic status. Global End Diastolic Index (GEDI) is taken for a more reliable indicator of preload in critically ill patients than central venous pressure and doctors tend to arrange...

This paper explain the wear behaviour of composites phenolic resin with basalt powder reinforced on brake lining pads. Composite brake has been manufactured use compaction and sintering steps. The research aims to investigate wear characteristic of composite that tested using the Pin-on-disk according...

Background: Interleukin-6 (IL-6) was considered to be with the severity and mortality in COVID-19 patients, which implies a potential therapeutic target for treatment. We aimed to evaluate the safety and initial efficacy of Tocilizumab treatment for COVID-19 patients. Methods: In the retrospective study,...

In this paper, we proposed a new pipelined ISR-ANT ME design to further shorten the critical path of the ISR-ANT ME circuit [1], which can make it operate in a lower operating voltage. The proposed design is very simple, which only needs to insert the pipelined register to cut the critical path of ISR-ANT...

In this paper, a fast pin assignment optimization method is proposed for improving signal integrity performance of VLSI package. This performance is evaluated by two cost function. Some other methods based on heuristic algorithm can find a good solution for pin assignment problem. Since the solution...

Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU. Methods:...

The availability of water is difficult to measure accurately, causing delays in water supply for the community, so a monitoring tool is needed that can provide accurate and real-time information to measure water availability so that clean water can be distributed to areas that need it on time. The digital...

The present work is focused on examining the effect of reinforcement of Silicon carbide, Titanium diboride, or Silicon carbide+1wt% of Graphite in Aluminum-6061 alloy on mechanical, tribological, and surface morphology. The stir casting method was used to fabricate different composite specimens needed...

The Programmed Cell Death 1 (PD-1)/Programmed Death Ligand 1 (PD-L1) Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs), have become a hot spot in the field of cancer research and treatment, and bring new hope to patients with advanced tumors. But, in addition to enhancing the anti-tumor effect of T cells, PD-1/PD-L1...

This paper investigated procurement contracts in a two-level supply chain system which includes a supplier and a manufacturer who sells the supplier's product to the final market, and the market demand function was given by linear demand function in quality and price. We designed three supply chain contract...

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is an environment friendly solid-state joining technology that uses a rotating tool to generate frictional heat and plastic deformation with mixing of the soft material by the pin along the welding line. The advantages are low distortion, lack of traditional defects commonly...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a deregulated host response to infection, and is the most common cause of death in the intensive care unit. Although the pathogenesis of sepsis has made substantial progress, the current clinical treatment of sepsis is basically symptomatic treatment,...

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 the trading operation of dynamic portfolio insurance, TIPP (Time Invariant Portfolio Protection), when adjusting active assets, only considers the scale of asset of that time regardless of how market trend proceeds. In other words, TIPP is clumsy in evading loss and pursuing profits. This study makes...

A type of soldering machine based on PIC-controlling is introduced in this paper, the high speed micro-controller unit (MCU) with kernel of 16F84A is adopted in PIC. The data is send to lower computer to control three axis motions by computer serial port, the process of automatic soldering is realized....

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...

This study attempts to find the possibility of making relatively higher profit with lower risk when trading futures commodities. The system applies XCS classifiers to explore the rules of spread trading of these commodities. Our simulation holds a trading strategy that in every transaction, the proposed...

The purpose of this empirical study is intended to investigate XCS (Extended Classifier System) based model with knowledge rules for dynamic TIPP (Time Invariant Portfolio Protection) policy. There are two XCS-based agents in the proposed model (MA-TIPP).One agent dynamically optimizes Multiple and Tolerance...