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Energy matters in buildings: Individual and collective issues

Marie Denward, Annelise De Jong, Rebekah Olsen
The CELSIUS project is an EU funded demonstrator project that aims to facilitate the distribution, deployment and operation of smart district heating and cooling solutions across Europe, while at the same time supporting cities in the development of trustworthy, affordable and low carbon heat supply...

EFL Students’ Learning Styles on English Academic Writing at University Level in Indonesia

Syayid Sandi Sukandi, Yulmiati Yulmiati
This research reports descriptive statistical data on the circumstance in the form of a survey study through questionnaire about EFL students’ preference on learning styles – alone or group. Respondents were students who enrolled in 2017/2018 academic year at Research subject in three class sections:...

On Some Aspects of Strong Risk Class and Associated Ordering

Mervat Mahdy
Pages: 172 - 192
The paper opens up a new aging class and a new stochastic orders which is depend on risk class, that plays vital role in the reliability theory, finance topics, stochastic orders, and the economic theory. The article presents some new interesting implications and characterizations concerning this class....
Proceedings Article

Theoretical Investigation of the Superiority of Dropwise over Film Condensation

Wenyan Zhu, Xiaofang Cheng, Xueliang Fan, Yuanlong Qin
In this paper, we want to research on the superiority of dropwise condensation. First, the concept of interlayer convection was presented. Then, a mathematical model about the transition from film condensation to dropwise condensation was established. It is confirmed in theory that heat transfer coefficients...

Modern Features of Strategic Planning for Highly-Technological Enterprises

Elena Lobova, Vitalii Semkov, Anastasiia Semkova
In modern conditions of the economy existence, the competitiveness of high-tech enterprises largely depends on the level of development of the Total Quality Management system. Planning the implementation processes for an enterprise, Total Quality Management requires not only a clear understanding of...

Case Studies of Research Data Repositories in Humanities and Social Sciences

Wenying Liu, Zheng Li, Jing Lin
In order to explore research data management services in the field of humanities and social sciences by analyzing research data repositories we select three typical study examples: ICPSR Data Archive, UK Data Services and European Union Open Data Portal. This paper compare these three data repositories...
Proceedings Article

Simulation Research on Hydraulic Support Based Virtual Prototyping

Yuekan Zhang, Jingzhen Cao, Lanyue Jiang, Peikun Liu, Xiahui Gui, Junru Yang
To overcome limitations of current designs of hydraulic supports based on conventional physical prototype, we propose a virtual prototyping based design mode for hydraulic supports. In this study, a 3D numerical model of hydraulic support was established by numerical simulations and stress distributions...

Mathematical Modeling of Teacher-Student Relationship

Baosen Xiao, Kai Kang
Teacher-student relationship is an important part of teaching activities. College education is not a simple process of teaching and learning. It requires more communication between teachers and students. There are many negative factors which are affecting the teacher-student relationship in real life....
Proceedings Article

Auxiliary Principle and Iterative Algorithm for a System of Generalized Nonlinear Mixed Quasi-variational-like Inequalities

Yali Zhao, Yuanyuan Sun, Qian Ji
In this paper, the auxiliary principle technique is extended to study a system of generalized nonlinear mixed quasi-variational-like inequalities in Hilbert spaces. First, we establish the existence of solutions of the corresponding system of auxiliary generalized nonlinear mixed qusi-variational-like...

Research on the relationship between disposable income and real consumption expenditure

Xueqin Wang, Yuyao He, Meng Yang
Based on data from 1979 to 2013 in China, we calculate disposable income (Dinc) and actual consumption spending (ACS). Then, we build Dinc and ACS counteraction theory and error correction model by time series analysis. After further testing, we conclude disposable income is the Granger cause of actual...

Effects of Different Running Modes on Facial Cartilage Of Knee Joint

Caifeng Hu, Xiaotao Wang, Jiajun Xiang
In order to understand the effect of different exercise modes on articular cartilage, to provide theoretical basis for the treatment of articular cartilage injury by exercise therapy, and to provide a reference for the selection of exercise mode in the daily exercise of the general population. In this...

Principles of Nature-Likeness in the Creation of Technically Organized Territories

Alexey Taranov, Natalya Politikova, Darya Kusleeva
This article describes theoretical and methodological basis of the use of methods and principles of nonlinear dynamics in the development of projects for the organization of territories in the terms of nature-likeness. Based on the conclusions made, we can recommend using of the self-organization property...

Analysis of Penalized Semiparametric Regression Model on Bi-Response Longitudinal Data

Kosmaryati, Mujiati Dwi Kartikasari
Semiparametric regression is a combination of parametric regression and nonparametric regression. Parametric regression analysis is used if a regression curve or function is known, whereas nonparametric regression analysis is used if the curve form or the regression function is unknown. One of the short...

The Research on the Comprehensive Ability Evaluation Model of RF Electronic Technology Experiment Course

Guosheng Ma, Jiang Wang, Rui Dong
In view of the wide range of majors involved in the electronics courses and the fact that there are many students in our college, the relevant practical training links have lacked a scientific and reasonable comprehensive ability assessment and evaluation model. This article applies the cloud model theory...

The Effect of Online Problem Based Learning Model With Google Classroom on Motorcycle Electrical System Maintenance Knowledge of Vocational High School Students

Imam Mahir, Syamsuir, Brenden Federik Immanuel
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of online problem-based learning (PBL) model with google classroom on Motorcycle Electrical System Maintenance (MESM) Knowledge of Vocational High School (VHS) students. This research used the Participatory Action Research approach of Kemmis and...

Analysis Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Product Delivery System at PT Multiglass Safety Glass Division

Angga Dewi Anggraeni
Information technology is the main thing that is used as a support for work activities so that it can produce fast, precise and accurate information. To achieve this, other supporting resources are needed such as reliable software and human resources who must master the capabilities of information technology...
Proceedings Article

Data-driven Individual Influence Analysis: A Case Study of Chinese Film Industry

Wenxuan Li, Yinghong Ma, Lixin Zhao
With the development of China's economy and the prosperity of cultural industry, the development of film, as one of the representative products of cultural industry, has also shows an unstoppable trend. The box office of a film is a key indicator to measure the influence of a film. Therefore, a...
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Combining SATI and SPSS analysis to study the status of the cultivation of critical thinking in English teaching in China

Fang Yue, Hamidah Mohd Ismail, Huichun Ning, Wenxuan Ren, Jingjing Shi
With the liberalization of information release and the accelerated speed of dissemination, information overload and its inauthenticity have become a problem that plagues people’s effective use of information. Critical thinking can support the development of information literacy. By using critical thinking,...

Analysis of the Potential Image Development on Sara’a Island in Talaud District

Flavina Maria Olivia Lasut, Rahmat Ingkadijaya
Indonesia has a lot of tourism potential, and one of the leading tourism potentials is marine tourism in Sara’a island, North Sulawesi. This research aims to analyze 1) the potential and tourism management systems in Sara’a Island; 2) Internal and external factors affecting the development of Sara’a...
Proceedings Article

Study of p-n CaFe2O4/LaAlO3 Heterojunctions for Hydrogen Production by Photocatalytic Water Splitting Process under Visible Light

H. Medjadji, A. Boulahouache, N. Salhi, M. Trari
The construction of heterojunctions is widely regarded as one of the most effective strategies for suppressing charge recombination, extending the light absorption range of a single photocatalyst, and significantly enhancing hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting. Herein, we explore...
Proceedings Article

Anonymous Questionnaire and Cotinine Test as Smoking Prevalence Screening

Tatyana I. Nikiforova, Maria V. Khandy
The article presents the prevalence of tobacco smoking based on the results of the anonymous questionnaire and cotinine test. Tobacco use is a major risk factor for a range of chronic diseases, including cancer, lung disease and cardiovascular disease. It has been proven that the respiratory system (larynx,...

Barriers and Role of Higher Educational Institutes in Students’ Mental Well-being: A Critical Analysis

Shruti Agrawal, Nidhi Sharma
The concept of mental well-being includes all other perspectives like social, emotional, and psychological mental well-being. Rational mental well-being means the process that can think, feel, and react in various circumstances as per one’s decision. Many mental disorders manifest themselves in the age...
Proceedings Article

Potential of Purple Corn Anthocyanin Extract as A Hypolipidemic Agent: An In-Silico Analysis

Isnatin Miladiyah, Satyo Nuryadi
Hyperlipidemia remains an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, including myocardial infarction and stroke. Some standard hypolipidemic drugs available in the market still do not meet expectations in lowering lipid levels. Investigation of alternative hypolipidemic agents continues to be...

Exploring into Environmental Protection in Citizenship Education Perspective

Endah Puspa Rini, Rahmat
The purpose of writing this article is to exploring into environmental protection in citizenship education perspective. If we track the government’s actual efforts in environmental protection efforts have been expressed in the Indonesian Constitution, namely article 28H paragraph 1 and article 33 paragraph...

Commercial Bank Apps Can Be Better

Users’ Experience Research

Zizhe Zhang
The mobile payment products most commonly used by Chinese users are wechat payment, Alipay and UnionPay cloud flash payment. Internet companies have obvious advantages in third-party payment platforms. In terms of Microfinance: commercial banks only work on poverty alleviation loans supported by the...

Can Digital Transformation Promote High-Quality Development in Enterprises?

Yuyao Cao, Xin Guan
Digital transformation strongly drives enterprises’ high-quality development. This study takes 2017–2023 Chinese A-share listed firms on Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges as samples, using a fixed-effects model to empirically test how digital transformation affects such development. Results confirm digital...
Proceedings Article

On (ad)-hyperedge Antimagic Labeling of Certain Classes of Hypergraphs: A New Notion

Dafik, Excelsa Suli Wildhatul Jannah, Ika Hesti Agustin, Swaminathan Venkatraman, Indah Lutfiyatul Mursyidah, Ridho Alfarisi, Rafiantika Megahnia Prihandini
By a hypergraph G , we mean a generalization of a graph G in which an edge can join any number of vertices. In an ordinary graph, an edge connects exactly two vertices, but in hypergraph, an edge or hyperedge may connect more than two vertices. Let ...

The Contribution of Collaboration and Problem-Solving Skills on Cognitive Learning Outcome through Remap-TPS

Muhammad Ilham A’raafi, Hidayati Maghfiroh, Siti Zubaidah, Munzil Munzil
Collaboration and problem-solving skills can be critical to support students in achieving cognitive learning outcomes because much of the complex work is performed by collaboration. However, there is a dearth of research on the correlation between collaboration, problem-solving skills, on cognitive learning...

Predicting Students’ Performance Using Support Vector Machine Variants

Najoua Aafar, Bouchaib Ferrahi
Machine learning has been applied across multiple disciplines, for instance, education. Many schools have been using machine learning to improve the educational experience from different perspectives, notably Predicting Student Performance has gained a lot of attention by researchers as it directly influences...

New Vihara Design Generating Process: Study Case Vihara Dharma Cintamani, Kintamani, Bali

Greysia Susilo, Audrey Abigail
This is preliminary paper regarding the process of designing a new Chinese religious building of Tridharma concept in Kintamani village, Bangli Regency, Bali, 80652. A small Chinese community in that area came up with the idea long time ago, but the actual planning started around 2023. As a self-sustain...
Proceedings Article

Effect of Cation/Anion Structure on Phase Transition Behavior of Thermoresponsive Poly(IL) Gels for Solar Driven Water Purification

Takumi Takahashi, Masaki Tanaka, Takahiro Ichikawa, Nobuhumi Nakamura
The increasing global population has led to a growing demand for clean water, accelerating the development of innovative, electricity-free purification systems for remote areas. A promising solution is a solar-driven water purification system that utilizes thermoresponsive hydrogels to adsorb and desorb...
Conference Abstract

P5.01 THE EFFECT OF PULMONARY REHABILITATION ON ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)

N.S. Gale, J.M. Duckers, D. Proud, T. Lines, S. Enright, J.R. Cockcroft, D.J. Shale, C.E. Bolton
Pages: 173 - 174
Background: We have previously shown increased arterial stiffness using aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) in patients with COPD. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) (exercise, education and nutritional advice) has respiratory and functional benefits, though effects on cardiovascular (CV) risk have not been...
Conference Abstract

P4.13 REDUCTION OF ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AND CENTRAL BP IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA ON CPAP- THERAPY

Z.N. Sukmarova, A.Yu. Litvin, A.N. Rogoza, I.E. Chazova
Pages: 173 - 173
Arterial stiffness (AS) and central BP (CBP) are new «target-objects» for Antihypertensive Therapy (AT), but the possibility to correction these parameters on nonmedicament treatment is discussed. Aim: To research the possibilities of correction of AS and CBP by AT and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure...
Conference Abstract

P4.12 EGRESS OF FUNCTIONALLY COMPETENT PROGENITOR CELLS OVER-EXPRESSING CXCR4 FROM THE BONE MARROW FOLLOWING CARDIAC SURGERY WITH THE USE OF CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS

O. Dotsenko, Q. Xiao, Q. Xu, M. Jahangiri
Pages: 173 - 173
Background: The mechanisms of endogenous progenitor cell trafficking in response to tissue injury in humans are poorly understood. Methods: We based our study on a model of transient myocardial injury, provoked by the use of cardiopulmonary bypass during cardiac surgery in 39 patients. Bone marrow (BM)...
Conference Abstract

P4.11 LOWER LIMB VASOMOTOR AND FIBRINOLYTIC EFFECTS OF KININ RECEPTOR AGONISTS IN MAN

N.L. Cruden, N.N. Lang, T.J. MacGillivray, N.G. Uren, K.A. Fox, D.E. Newby
Pages: 173 - 173
Background: Vascular B1 kinin receptor expression is upregulated in human atheroma and the presence of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition (ACEi), but its role in man remains unclear. We examined vasomotor and fibrinolytic responses to selective kinin receptor agonism in the human femoral circulation...

Paralleled Fast Search and Find of Density Peaks Clustering Algorithm on GPUs with CUDA

Mi Li, Jie Huang, Jingpeng Wang
Pages: 173 - 181
Fast Search and Find of Density Peaks (FSFDP) is a newly proposed clustering algorithm that has already been successfully applied in many applications. However, this algorithm shows a dissatisfactory performance on large dataset due to the time-consuming calculation of the distance matrix and potentials....

A LINGUISTIC TRUTH-VALUE TEMPORAL REASONING (LTR) SYSTEM AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE DESIGN OF AN INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT

Zhirui Lu, Juan Augusto, Jun Liu, Hui Wang
Pages: 173 - 196
This paper focuses on a linguistic-valued temporal logic based reasoning formalism for dynamically modelling and merging information under uncertainty in some real world systems where the state of a system evolves over time and the transition through states depends on uncertain conditions. We provide...

Integrable Systems and Metrics of Constant Curvature

Maxim Pavlov
Pages: 173 - 191
In this article we present a Lagrangian representation for evolutionary systems with a Hamiltonian structure determined by a differential-geometric Poisson bracket of the first order associated with metrics of constant curvature. Kaup-Boussinesq system has three local Hamiltonian structures and one nonlocal...
Short Communication

Mathematical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Relaxing Media

V.M. Bulavatsky, I.I. Yuryk
Pages: 173 - 174
We find a numerically-analytical solution of a boundary problem for the third-order partial differential equation, which describes the mass and heat transfer in active media.
Proceedings Article

Statistical Downscaling Technique Using Response Based Unit Segmentation-Partial Least Square (REBUS-PLS) for Monthly Rainfall Forecasting

Izdihar Salsabila, Alfian Futuhul Hadi, I Made Tirta, Yuliani Setia Dewi, Firdaus Ubaidillah, Dian Anggraeni
One of the newest forecasting techniques today is the Statistical Downscaling (SDs) technique. The SDs technique is a procedure for inferring high-resolution information from low-resolution variables. Forecasting rainfall using the SDs technique is to build a function that can predict the value of a...
Proceedings Article

A Study on Government Emergency Disposal System of Network Emergencies

Song Mei, Quanliang Mei
The formation of digital society provides an easy and efficient information channel for social management. In essence, the management of mediated society is information management based on big data. Monitoring and analysis of network public opinion centered on the information from the "we media" can...
Proceedings Article

Wireless Remote Data Transmission Technology be Used in the Grating Demodulation Instrument

Xian wei Meng, Zhuo jing Yang, Qing Zhang, Yan xin Shi, Xiao fei Zhang
According to the property of GPRS network transmission, wireless remote data transmission technology is applied to the monitoring data of fiber Bragg grating, through the GPRS network to transmit the FBG monitoring data to data monitoring center, in the numerical control center can understand the monitoring...
Proceedings Article

About t-norms on type-2 fuzzy sets

Pablo Hernández, Susana Cubillo, Carmen Torres
Walker et al. ([19], [20]) defined two families of binary operations on M (set of functions of [0,1] in [0,1]), and they determined that, under certain conditions, those operations are t-norms (triangular norm) or t-conorms on L (all the normal and convex functions of M). We define binary operations...
Proceedings Article

Analysis and Prediction about Yields Rate of Security Investment Based on R Software

Lu Wang, Yingying Zhang
With the fantastic spurt of science and modern technology throughout the world, employing statistical techniques as the guidance of investment has become a new trend in finance field. R software is providing us a scientific platform for effective investment. Using R software as a basic tool, this paper...
Proceedings Article

Research on the knowledge-based comprehensive decision support system for human resource management in SaaS mode

Dai Liangtie, Zhou Qiongyu
This research puts forward the structure model of knowledge-based decision support system (DSS), which includes knowledge base, reasoning machine, model base, method base and database. With the six-layer structure of data management process, the knowledge-based DSS adopts distributed resource organization...
Proceedings Article

Application of Contest Driven Didactics in Major Courses of Package Engineering Specialty

Yingzhe Xiao, Dejian Zhao, Yong Xie
It is difficult to meet the requirement of practical ability training goal in package engineering specialty with only traditional didactics focused on theoretic lectures. Thus, we introduced "contest driven" didactics in practical teaching sections such as projects of packaging system design course and...
Proceedings Article

Hysteresis Characteristics of Interacting Fe/Fe3O4 Core/Shell Nanoparticles

Sergei Anisimov, Leonid Afremov, Iliac Iliushin
In this work, we show our results of the theoretical study of the hysteresis characteristics of a system of interacting Fe/Fe3O4 core/shell nanoparticles. We show that increase of the volumetric concentration of nanoparticles lead to decrease of the coercive field and remanent saturation magnetization....

Research on the Automatic Pattern Abstraction and Recognition Methodology for Large-scale Database System based on Natural Language Processing

Wang Rong, Jiao Cuizhen, Dai Wenhua
In this research paper, we research on the automatic pattern abstraction and recognition method for large-scale database system based on natural language processing. In distributed database, through the network connection between nodes, data across different nodes and even regional distribution are well...
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Study of Organic Rankine Cycles with Zeotropic Mixture Working Fluids Applied on the Waste Heat Recovery System

Shengya Hou, Wenping Zhang, Jiachen Ji, Ziwei Zeng
Taking good advantage of the diesel-exhaust with the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) System contributes to raising the thermal efficiency, saving fuel consumption and reducing the cost, since there is much energy carried by the diesel-exhaust. There come some problems on the match for the temperature of...

Study on the Role Change of English Teacher  in the Context of Reforms in English Teaching

Xingying He
The aim of this paper is to investigate the possible effects of reforms in College Entrance Examination and college-level English education on teachers’ position and development. We examine the history of English teaching reforms in recent 36 years in major cities and regions, its driving forces and...