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The Integration of Critical Thinking Skills into College Students’ Spoken English Classes
Bei Zhang
Solving problems and making worthwhile decisions is valued in our rapidly changing environment today. Nowadays we see students as too often being passive receptors of information and knowledge. Surely students need a guide to weed through the information and not just passively accept it. Students need...
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Construction and Research of Innovative and Entrepreneurial Practice Platform for Students of Industrial Design
Qiulei Du, Liai Pan
In the paper, the construction and measures of innovative and entrepreneurial practice platform for the major of industrial design have been studied, and it have been introduced comprehensively and detailedly how to how to develop their innovative and entrepreneurial abilities. According to the teaching...
Proceedings Article
Cultural Innovation: Localization and Internationalization of China’s Higher Education
Dengchao Zhou
The chief aim of the paper is to study the major function of higher education in cultural innovation through an analysis of how China’s higher education nationalizes and internationalizes and draws challenges for cultural innovation. The starting points are an original contribution to the understanding...
Proceedings Article
Data Mining in Cloud Computing
Xia Geng, Zhi Yang
Mining is a process of extracting potentially useful information from raw Data, so as to improve the quality of the information service. With the rapid development of the Internet, the size of the data has increased from KB level to TB even PB level; The object of data mining is also more and more complicated,...
Proceedings Article
A QoS-based service composition optimization method
Wang Xiaolong, Zou Peng, He Jun, Wang Peng, Chen Liang
With the development of web services technology, service composition gradually call people's attention, and how to improve the efficiency of Web service composition is the focus of research. In this paper, in order to improve the QoS (i.e., Quality of Service) of composition service, first of all using...
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The Research on Core Competence of Furniture Company
Liwen Liu
Chinese furniture industry has beco- me the world's furniture manufacturing center after a rapid period of development in the past 25 years. China also has become the world's largest furniture pr- oduction and export country. However, most of the furniture enterprise haven’t strong competitiveness. How...
Proceedings Article
Development of the Vocational Colleges in the Construction of Service Education System
Weiping Zhou, Guocan Ren, Sufang Yuan
From the orientation and participation of the vocational colleges in the construction of the service education system, the author analyzes how the colleges should participate in the service of the local economic development, points out the bottleneck which blocks the way of vocational colleges participation...
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A Study on Visual Representation of Medical Family Tree Using Genograms
Siti Fatimah Bokhare, Wan Mohd Nazmee Wan Zainon, Abdullah Zawawi Talib
A genogram is a graphical representation of medical conditions including informa-tion on age and cause of death of family members that can be used especially to access disease risk. The main purpose of this paper is to present the outcome of a preliminary study done regarding access-ing the current use...
Proceedings Article
Access and Expansion of Educational Opportunity in India With Reference to Higher Education
Abhai Maurya
Access, or rather non-access to higher education in India has been prevailing in many forms. The Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) to HE in India has not even reached 15% of the population by 2010. The University Grants Commission of India, which is responsible for the growth or non-growth of Higher education...
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Optimizing the Passenger Throughput at an Airport Security Checkpoint
Youyou Xie
The tension between desires to maximize security while minimizing inconvenience to passengers at the airport security checkpoint has increased during few year time. The purpose of this paper is to construct a model to detect the bottlenecks hidden in the current system hence ease the tension by improving...
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Management and Prevention of Enterprise Tax Risk
Zhang Maoliang
With the continuous improvement and perfection of China's market economic system and tax system, enterprises pay more and more attention to management and prevention of tax risk. If the enterprise can not be dealt with tax risk timely, it is likely to affect the normal operation of enterprises and then...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
The Bloggers' Personality Traits Categorizing Algorithm Based on Text Features Analysis
Guohua Ou, Jingkai Li, Junjia Guo, Zhaoquan Cai, Mengping Lu
Nowadays, researches of blogs mining mainly concentrate on opinion mining, community mining, blogs recommendation system and so on, with little concentration on personalities mining. How to mine bloggers' personality accurately and effectively from the tremendous non-structural blog texts becomes a difficulty...
Proceedings Article
Inter-Religion Harmony
Aceng Kosasih
A lot of media, these days, broadcast some unrests and even conflicts between religious groups. The latest conflict between Muslims and Christians occurred in Tolikara, Papua on the day of Eid in 2015. The conflict caused a lot of injured, some even died. Several kiosks and worship places were burned....
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How to Build Guanxi Quality: An Empirical Investigation in China
Jia Shen, Xueling Lee
China is a guanxi-oriented nation. Compared to the Western relational marketing concept, Guanxi incorporates the notion of ganqing and renqing. Based on its unique cultural and institutional backgrounds, Chinese guanxi is a mixture of the affect and instrumentality. This article posits and examines a...
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The application research of the performance appraisal model of the teacher in independent college based on the detailed management
Yu Liao
With the gradual popularization of china's higher education , In recent years, The competition between various colleges and universities is becoming more and more fierce, the quality and brand become a magic weapon to win. there is a widespread quantification fuzzy problem in independent college in China...
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Condition and Shaping of Student Personality in Educational Process Through Transpersonal Psychology Perspective
Alfaiz Alfaiz, Ryan Hidayat Rafiola, Rezki Hariko, Zulfikar Zulfikar
This article was the latest research in 2015 that collaborative with my colleague about student personality in educational process using perspective of psychoanalysis consist of id, ego and super ego and will discuss with my research in 2016 selftranspersonal psychology perspective. This research was...
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A Study on the Influence of Curriculum Setting on Employment in Career Technical College
Xiaodong Zhu, Caiyao Cao
Vocational skills courses have a significant impact on the employment rate and income of graduates. By comparison, it can be found that vocational skills courses can make graduates get higher returns than academic ones. Students should be able to get a better job when they graduate, they should receive...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research and Implementation of Data Synchronization for Wireless Data Acquisition System
Tao Huang
A wireless data acquisition system will continue to carry out data collection, which will face the problem of data redundancy. Therefore, how to manage the database is particularly important. This paper mainly studies and designs the database synchronization module of the wireless data acquisition system....
Proceedings Article
Polymorphism of Angiotensin-converting Enzyme Gene of Insertion/Deletion on Cardiovascular Endurance Performance of Athletes
Dr. Arimbi, Arifuddin Usman, Ms. Muriyati
The practical difference of the body metabolism plays a very substantial role in determining the kind of sport suitable for an athlete. One of the gene variations considered to control the po-tentials of an athlete is the gene variation of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) symbolised as I and D. The...
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The Influence Of Transformational Leadership Style On Employee's Performance PT PLN Cabang Pekanbaru Rayon Panam
Astadi Pangarso, Syarifuddin Syarifuddin, Mahir Pradana, Nandya Moeliono, Benny M.Fazrido
This study aimed to determine how much influence of transformational leadership style in influencing employee performance at PT PLN branch Pekanbaru Rayon Panam, Indonesia; in order to make improvements and innovations continuously to develop the organization. The method used in this research is quantitative...
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Research and Practice on the Model and Method of Funds Management in Colleges
Yuanyuan Tian
With the large-scaled extension of education and opening of market economy, the development of college and university is restricted by capital flow. How to strengthen the financial management and simplify the process of expense account, how to speed up the capital turnover rate and service efficiency,...
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Democracy and Political Consciousness Investigating Difabel Toward Political Participation in the 2014 Presidential Election in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Agus Andika Putra, Rifki Sanahdi, David Efendi, Husni Amriyanto
Every citizen has right to choose and to participate in general election, and the state must protect that basic right of politic. The high percentage of people with different abilities' ('difabel') participated in the 2014 presidential election in Yogyakarta (66,5%) indicated the remarkable work of inclusive...
Proceedings Article
How Do Public Officials Perceive Themselves as Taxpayers? A Study of Effect of Modernized Tax Administration System, Tax Sanction, Tax Service, and Tax Morale on Tax Compliance of Public Officials in Indonesia
Abdul Rahman
Low tax compliance in Indonesia constitutes an anomaly conditions if it is referred to the considerable GDP per capita growth and the tax reforms conducted more than three decades. It means that Indonesia still faces with problematic tax compliance influenced by the behavior of public officials. Therefore,...
Series: Advances in Physics Research
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How Physics can help in understanding Cardiac Rhythms Predicting & Control of complex oscillatory behavior
Shiuan Ni Liang, Le Duy Manh, Wei Yin Chiang, Pik Yin Lai, C. K. Chan
We discuss our recent theoretical and experimental work in cardiac systems. The first is about the rhythmic variation as the cardiac myocyte cell culture synchronized, and how it can be explained in terms of the frequency enhancement phenomenon in coupled excitable systems. Another work concerns the...
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Problems and Countermeasures in the Construction of Teaching Staff in Private Colleges-A case study of private colleges in Northwest China
Jingfeng He
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...
Proceedings Article
Unit Cost Analysis in Higher Education
Asep Kurniawan, Tjutju Yuniarsih, Sumarto Sumarto
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
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Finite element analysis of the pre-stressed concrete box-girder bridge with corrugated steel webs
Shuqin Li
This template explains and demonstrates how to prepare your camera-ready manuscript for publisher. The best is to read these instructions and follow the outline of this text. Please make the page settings of your word processor to A4 format (21 x 29,7 cm or 8 x 11 inches); with the margins: bottom 1.5...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Single-vector and Multi-vector Mixed Compressed Storage of Tangent Matrix
Wenjiao Da, Xiuli Wang, Jing Wen, Han Zhang
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...
Proceedings Article
How I would like to foresee the future of theoretic fuzzy logic
Enric Trillas
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,...
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Study on Financing Mode Innovation in New Urbanization Construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt
Qiong Wu
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...
Proceedings Article
A framework for sustainability assessment of ICT futures. Scenarios and sustainability impacts of future ICT- societies
Yevgeniya Arushanyan, Elisabeth Ekener-Petersen, Åsa Moberg, Vlad C. Coroama
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...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
The consequences of Brexit for Africa: The case of the East African Community☆
Andrew Mold
Pages: 1 - 17
How will Brexit impact on Africa? This paper looks at the available empirical evidence and carries out a Computable General Equilibrium simulation, focusing particularly on the prospects for the East African Community (EAC). The paper makes three main points. First, while the direct impacts through investment,...
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Social, economic, and academic leadership: an opening
Wadim Strielkowski
Leadership is a topic that has been relevant for researchers since the beginning of human history. The concept of leadership can be found in psychology, history, economics, physics, mathematics, computer sciences, and virtually any other field of science one can think of. The more one starts digging...
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Teacher’s Professional Development
Tan Oon Seng
Globalization, rapid technological developments, and transformation of social environments call for many facets of education to keep pace with changes and play a catalytic role to equip students with global competencies. Innovations in curriculum and pedagogy, changing trend and profile of learners,...
Proceedings Article
Teaching and Learning Music through the Lens of Computational Thinking
Eddy K.M. Chong
In recent years, many countries around the world have intensified their efforts to introduce computational thinking in schools. This paper supports this educational move not by proposing the teaching of computational thinking as a subject per se but by taking inspiration from the nature of such systematic...
Proceedings Article
Gurda Motif in the Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic Period in Java
Aan Sudarwanto, Sri W., Dharsono
The article that discusses Garuda bird on Hindu-Buddhist era and Islamic times aims to reveal more depth about how Garuda's position and role in Javanese cultural perspective. In addition, to know the forms of Garuda and its application from the Hindu-Buddhist era and its transition into the Islamic...
Proceedings Article
The Dynamic of Gambyong Pangkur Dance Moves
Indriyanto Indriyanto, Wahyu Lestari
The Gambyong Pangkur dance shows its performance dunamic through its moves and music. This research aims to discover how this dynamic of Gambyong Pangkur dance performance through dance moves is. The obtained data are the qualitative ones in the form of Gambyong Pangkur dance move description. To figure...
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How Islam is Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA
Anggi Rizky Firdhani, Lia Maulia Indrayani, Ypsi Soeria Soemantri
This research is entitled “How Islam in Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA”. The objects of this research are the adjectives that collocate with the word ‘Islam’ taken from newspapers in the United States obtained from COCA. The objectives of this research are to analyze what...
Proceedings Article
How Personal Grooming Influenced The Entrepreneurship
Lulup Endah Tripalupi, Made Ary Meitriana, Kadek Rai Suwena
This study aims to determine the effect of Personal Grooming on Entrepreneurial Behavior of Micro of Small and medium Enterprises Actors. This study is limited only to find the influence between Personality, and Attitude towards Entrepreneurial Behavior of Micro of Small and Medium Enterprises Actors....
Proceedings Article
Analysis of the Stereotype Formation Mechanism of Square Dance Damas in the We Media Era
Xun ZHAN, Yuan-Yi MA, Li-Ping LIU
In the era of We Media, Square Dance Damas have been always constantly recognized as a negative image in many media reports. How is this negative stereotype Square Dance Damas constructed? This study, taking Square Dance Damas violently occupying the basketball court news as an example, combined with...
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Discussion on Strengthening the Construction of Practical Training base in Vocational Colleges and Promoting the Training of Skilled Personnel
Kun Lin, Zhaoyan Xie
China has always been attaching great importance to education. Especially since the reform and opening-up, Chinese economy has experienced great increasing and more excellent talents have been demanded by the market. So, our nation has put forward lots of related preferential policies to cultivate more...
Proceedings Article
Readiness and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy Actors of SMEs Snake-Fruit Processed Products in the Conduct of e-Business
Noviaty Kresna Darmasetiawan
SMEs are the backbone of the Indonesian economy, but SMEs access to technology and training is still very limited [1], whereas technology, readiness, and entrepreneurial self efficacy of SMEs actors are a supporting factor in facing increasingly intense competition in this globalization era. The purposes...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Ergonomic Seating Design On Machine Combine Harvester
Ahmad Hanafie, Andi Haslindah, M. Saripuddin, Awaluddin Yunus
Ergonomics is usable in work with the human function of balancing the body dimension with a talking device or machine. Its efforts and others are used for exhausting, regulating temperature, light, and humidity to suit the needs of the human body. The design of the seats on the combine harverter machine...
Proceedings Article
Persuasive Da’wah Activities and the Socio-Demographic Factor
Bambang S. Ma’arif, Parihat Parihat, Umar Yusuf, Suliadi Suliadi
Da’wah (Islamic communication, preaching) nowadays tend to its verbalistic activities (Da’wah billisan), but it is rare to conduct Da’wah bil-Hal (by doing). The aims of the research is to understand how the Profile of Persuasive Da’wah base on citizens’ demographic factor. The method of the study is...
Proceedings Article
Do Binary Choices Create More Choice Regret
Zi-Fei Song
Knowing how to apply the relationship between choice making under different assortment sizes and choice regret is very significant, to both customers and marketers. Choice overload has been studied widely after Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper’s seminal research on the assortment size with choice overload...
Proceedings Article
Action Research: Eliminating bullying by applying conflict resolution’skills
Rohayani Ida, AR. Endang Danial, Malihah Elly, Sundawa Dadang
Almost every child has bullying treats to other whether consciously or unconsciously. He adopted through intercourse or imitating from people close to him. Similarly seen in teenagers in high school age, such as discriminatory attitudes and cannot accept the advantages of others. This study describes...
Proceedings Article
Why Should Course Review Horay?
Faninda Rahmawati, Zuhdan Prasetyo
Developing countries are beginning to spur themselves to advance education according to 21st century skills need. The needs of 21st century skills change the paradigm of thinking from high-order thinking skill cannot be taught become the importance of teaching higher-order thinking skills early on elementary...
Proceedings Article
Collaborative Learning: How Teachers Use Thinking in Educational Practice
Besarion Meskhi, Svetlana Ponomareva, Alla Belousova
This article presents the results of comparative analysis research devoted to the empirical study`s organization peculiarities of the collaborative teachers` thinking activity in the educational process. The research is based on the understanding of the collaborative teachers` thinking activity, which...
Proceedings Article
E-Commerce System for an Electronic Product (Case Study of an E-Commerce Company)
Allandreyanto Allandreyanto, Fitri Ismiyanti
The present study intends to aid e-commerce companies in making decisions concerning their midterm planning for new product expansion related to existing watch products or other products that might be easily distributed by packing well and being dispatched by an expedition company. This study helps a...
Proceedings Article
Discourse Analysis on Reading Communism Via Independent Documentary Soundtracks
Mohd. Nor Shahizan Ali
Regarding the issue of independent documentary, the key question to be considered is whether the message conveyed to target groups or intended audiences is fully achieved. The usage of soundtracks to convey the message of an independent documentary is seen as an added value for audiences to digest the...