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Background: Arterial calcification may lead to regional variation in distension imposing stresses on the arterial wall that predispose to plaque rupture. The objective of this study was to use a novel speckle tracking method to investigate regional motion of the carotid wall and to determine whether...

With the development of space technology and the civil economy, society is placing higher demands on flexible substrates. In this paper, from the perspective of material ethics in engineering design, the idea of engineering ethics is implemented in material preferences and green material practices are...

In this paper, a new distribution called the exponentiated Kumaraswamy inverse Weibull is proposed. This dis- tribution includes as special cases the inverse exponential, inverseWeibull, inverse Rayleigh and exponentiated inverse Weibull distributions. We study the main properties of this distribution,...

In this paper we study homogenization of quasi-linear partial differential equations of the form -div (a (x, x/h, Duh)) = fh on with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here the sequence (h) tends to 0 as h and the map a (x, y, ) is periodic in y, monotone in and satisfies suitable continuity conditions....

We apply the Lie-group formalism and the nonclassical method due to Bluman and Cole to deduce symmetries of the generalized Boussinesq equation, which has the classical Boussinesq equation as an special case. We study the class of functions f(u) for which this equation admit either the classical or the...

The purpose of this paper is to consider q-Euler numbers and polynomials which are q-extensions of ordinary Euler numbers and polynomials by the computations of the p-adic q-integrals due to T. Kim, cf. [1, 3, 6, 12], and to derive the "complete sums for q-Euler polynomials" which are evaluated by using...

In this paper we present a software tool designed as a decision aid system for all actors being involved when buying or selling real state, client and realtor, where a main objective for the commercial is to concentrate the client preferences into few alternatives. Since the required previous analysis...

Teaching English speaking skills is a challenge for teachers in non-native English speaking countries. In reality, language learners often neglect to join English-speaking activities. Moreover, they tend to focus on grammar, not meaning. To deal with this problem, English teachers can take advantage...

The course taken by Ukraine for European integration, NATO membership and cooperation with employees of the world security institutions in today’s environment requires the language competence development in officers of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the process of distance learning....

Searching for Sylvie Lee written by Jean Kwok portrayed a life of Chinese immigrants in America. Sylvie Lee as the main character has the role to experience cultural identity and cultural dislocation since she moved from the Netherlands to the United States of America when she was young without knowing...

The use of social media or mobile communication application for learning has attracted many researchers across the globe as they are inevitable in digital era. However, the use of Telegram seems to be overlooked in the hustle and bustle of research. Therefore, the aims of present study was to investigate...

This paper aims to determine the strategy for managing online radio after the COVID-19 pandemic. As a stand-alone online radio, not a collaboration streaming radio with conventional media, Move online radio has a broadcast format similar to radio on FM channels. Broadcasts news programs, talk shows,...

In this article, we deal with the problem of native language interference in the process of teaching Russian as a foreign language. In the theoretical part, we define the concept of the interlingual interference with an emphasis on various areas of language in which it occurs. In the analytical-interpretative...

Based on the advantages and characteristics of the power industry, targeted poverty alleviation works of power companies are very important for China to win the battle against poverty, and, in the meanwhile, it also can effectively connect poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. In this article,...

The empathy and seriousness of the teachers in Junior High Schools in developing the creativity of Dance Education in particular is felt to be lacking. In general, teachers tend to have difficulties in developing innovative learning concepts. Traditional learning becomes a dominating habit. As a result,...

On the basis of summarizing the previous research directions and results of management accounting, and referring to some literature, this paper designs an index system for the application research of management accounting in enterprise strategy, which includes the first-level evaluation indexes, including...

This study aims to: (1) describe the implementation of probing-prompting learning with product assessment; and (2) testing the effectiveness of probing-prompting learning with product assessments to improve student learning outcomes. Subjects in the study amounted to 35 students. This research uses an...

This study aims to determine the digital innovations developed by the hospital for ease of service to outpatients at the general hospital in the Majalengka area of Indonesia, by using the RSM Mobile application of the Majalengka Regional Hospital available on Android and iOS. The researchers use the...

One of the key features of the current transition of the electric power industry to the smart grid technological platform is a large-scale application of distributed generation (DG) plants. The efficient operation of such plants is not possible without the development of new approaches to the control...

The pandemic of COVID-19 has changed many aspects of life across the globe including in Indonesia. In order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 the president of Indonesia announced national distancing rule and encouraged citizen to work and study at home. Universities have changed the learning system into...

The purpose of this research is to produce teaching materials based on Contextual Teaching and learning (CTL) to train students’ representational skills that are valid, practical, effective and to train students’ representation skills at SMA Negeri 3 Martapura. The subjects of this study were students...

General assignment problems include n tasks that must be assigned to m workers where each worker has different competencies in completing each task. This research discusses the problem of solving minimization case assignments using a new method, namely the One-to-One Fixed Method. Completion of the One-to-One...

The Banjar government system in Bali is believed to preserve the tradition and culture of the Balinese people. The Banjar has existed since the 10th-11th centuries. Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic, Bali’s economy in quarter 1 of 2020 experienced negative growth of -1.14%. Transactions that occur to...

Sustainable development is the common goal of mankind. The World Expo brings together the world’s most cutting-edge science and technology and ideas. This article aims to introduce the ongoing sustainable development design strategy of the Dubai Expo site and pavilions for the current architectural design...

This paper gives a detailed analysis of the existing city shortest path algorithm[1], aiming at the high time complexity and can not represent the real situation of the problem of the existing city shortest path selection algorithm, and bases on the idea of Dijkstra algorithm, puts forwarda fast algorithm...

When AMSS (Affine Morphological Scale Space) operator is applied in image filtering, the scale parameter has great impact on the filtering results. In order to determine the parameters more precisely, this paper analyzed affine invariance properties and classical invariance properties of AMSS operator...

The article discusses the ethical and moral education of students in modern Russian high schools. The necessity of strengthening the educational component of the higher education system is noted. To solve the problem, we propose a more active incorporation of the ethical component into training which...

With the public interest and demand has been more and more diversified the traditional model of maintaining social stability has got into great troubles. Social stability risk assessment can reduce the occurrence of group events and maintain social harmony and stability. However, there are many problems...

This paper deals with a design problem of robust internal model control (IMC) for multivariate descriptor linear systems with more inputs than outputs, which establishes a possible way to design and analyze descriptor systems. The main idea of the method is that the given system is first decomposed into...

In the contemporary strategy of cold chain logistics, cold storage plays an important role to keep the inventory under the extreme environmental conditions. As the demand of cold storage services is growing rapidly nowadays, attention paid on occupational safety of warehouse workers is increasing under...

Virtual learning community, as a new model of network education, is widely used in the process of learning. But this kind of way is not gradually satisfying people's needs for more intelligent and personalized. Teaching strategy in virtual learning community is an important research direction of intelligent...

We studied the Diophantine equation x2+4n=y9. By using the elementary method and algebaic number theroy, we obtain the following concusions: (i) Let X be an odd number, one necessary condition which the equation has integer solutions is that 28n-1/3 contains some square factors. (ii) Let X be an even...

This paper is to examine the relationship between locative inversion and temporal aspect markers –guo in Mandarin. Guo cannot be ignored or easily be considered the same as the perfective marker –le without thinking its experiential features, and such feature can prove the syntactic function of preposed...

To have an intertextual perspective of Chinese Dream and American Dream, the paper employs Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality and probes into their corresponding historical backgrounds for the consideration of their cultural roots and unique developments. Obviously, the two dreams are deeply...

Whether we like it or not, digital gaming and social networking are already wide-spread activities in our culture. More and more homes are now equipped with video-game consoles, computers, tablets or smart phones. The main purpose of this paper is to present an outcome of a preliminary studies done in...

This paper deals with Gross Error Detection using a signal-based approach and proposes an algorithm to be applied in industrial processes. The developed algorithm is used in some industrial software platforms to detect sensor outliers. A validation of this algorithm through computer simulations is shown....

Disabled people can also have their distinctive lives. In spite of their disabilities, many of them are firm in spirit and alway hold the hope for life. Art, as an life-saving straw, stirred up their hope for love. In Russia, the art rehabilitation of disabled people has been on the rise, thus provoked...

The employment issues in resource-exhausted cities are social issues faced by various countries in the world in the process of industrialization, and improving the level of employment service is the key for solving the unemployment problem in resource-exhausted cities. This paper adopts the comparative...

Different social backgrounds and developmental stages in tourism industry resulted in disparities in multi-goals of farm hotel operators between China and Australia. The multi-goals of farm hotel operators were analyzed from such aspects as start-up goals, formal business goals and family-related goals....

The paper introduces a new method which can load TOPO elements more quickly. After analyzing the problem of the old TOPO component, this paper gives the solution containing method of data loading management and display control. The realization is presented at the end of the paper.

China’s government controlled firms face two conflict tasks: For one thing, government should credibly delegate efficiency to firms to make them competitive. For the other, the government also needs to control the firms to achieve their political goals. We suggest one way in which the China’s government...

This research aims to develop the mathematics instruction using color chips at elementary school based on Lesson Study. This research was conducted at fifth grade of State Elementary School 23, Padang Timur. The development is adapted from Plomp's model. There are three phases of the development: preliminary...

For effectively measuring logistics standardization effect to promote the logistics standardization, it was proposed that logistics standards system and two kinds of "push" and "pull" logistics standardization modes based on supply logistics system architecture of automobile parts. Based on defining...

The cooperatives governance structure has always been the research priorities in the field of cooperative economics, but so far the issue is still considered as "gray box" or even as "black box". Most of the recent researches focused on the internal governance structure of cooperatives, or take the governance...

This study aims to explore the implementation of school-based management in the Junior Secondary schools in the city of Padang. More specifically, this study aims to compare: 1) autonomy, 2) collaboration, 3) stakeholder participation, 4) transparency, and 5) accountability of SBM in the Junior Secondary...

The purpose of this paper is to study the different skills of photography composition by comparing the sino-western aesthetics. On the basis of sino-western culture, sino- western classical painting is taken as the comparative object to study the differences between all kinds of aesthetics. The method...

In this paper the influence of beforehand condition and sinter degree to capability of sintered dolomite has been investigated by means of measure actived degree and capability of high temperature sintered and property of resist hydrate of different material granularity after different beforehand sinter...

In this paper, we conduct research on the novel weighted fuzzy clustering algorithm based on fuzzy sets and rough set theory. Due to the large scale of data, in order to improve the efficiency of the clustering, we can use the attribute selection and data sampling to reduce the data size. We combine...

The article explains effective teaching of higher education from source, purpose, significance, implementation approach. The goal of effective teaching of higher education is to facilitate college student with independent construction.

The angular traffic flows of the bidirectional marshalling station would greatly increase the task for its characteristic of repeated unmarshalling with subsequently affecting the productive efficiency. Therefore, how to decrease the amount of trains of angular remains an urgent problem needed to be...