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This paper analyzes the performance of a compression-absorption heat pump (CAHP) system driven by low-temperature geothermal water. Two models, respectively, for the generator and whole system using ammonia-water as the working fluid are proposed. The results show that there is an optimum concentration...

In the era of big data, the study of IT governance has new trends and new developments. IT governance capability and corporate governance ability constitute the most important two player game in the enterprise, and the game between the two plays a significant role in the risk management of the enterprise....

This paper discusses the different ideologies embodied in two newspapers through critical discourse analysis. By comparing the differences in lexical classification, transitivity and modality, this paper concludes that the New York Times hold certain bias towards the Chinese government.

The evaluation of undergraduates’ academic achievement is of great importance in college education appraisal. At present it stays in a traditional way. That is to evaluate student’s academic performance only by the final score for a certain subject. Obviously, it has two weak points. One is that it’s...

In the field of data mining and pattern recognition, classification is a very important core technology. This paper present two kinds of improved classification algorithm. Using the improved Naive Bayes (NB) and KNN algorithm structure classifier to filter normal mail and spam. Improved NB algorithm...

Education activity of children's art is an important means for children to know themselves and the world, and a bridge connecting children with the outside world. Education activity of children's art and children's physical and mental development benefit and promote each other in the two-way construction....

We determined the mutual intelligibility between Shanghainese and Cantonese by isolated word tests (Subjective measure) with the recording of two native speakers in the age range of 31-50. In addition, we assessed the linguistic background of the listeners with questionnaires who are also the test takers....

Case retrieval constitutes an interesting area of research which contributes to the evolution of several domains. The similarity measure module is a fundamental step in the retrieval process which affects remarkably on a retrieval system. In this context, we suggest in this paper a similarity measure...

Any field could be severely impacted by occasional stern crises. Therefore, having appropriate strategies to not only survive from the predicaments but also achieve subsequent long-term prosperity will be crucial. In this paper, Delta will be exemplified to show its successful tactics for disentangling...

As more people are learning a second language nowadays, it seems that having an accent would influence people’s second language acquisition. Different from the standard native way of speaking, an accent is oftentimes considered negatively by people due to the implication of the lack of knowledge and...

In the specialist higher-level vocational and technical education, the professional teaching method is important. The teaching method, which is based on “two diagrams and a equipment”, including the functional block diagram, electrical circuit diagram and actual equipment, is divided into three steps...

Handheld oscilloscope because of its portability, wide application range and other characteristics, has drawn more and more attention in the engineering practice. Anolog-to-digital conversion circuit plays an important role in the design of digital oscilloscope. It directly determines the maximum frequency...

Based on the corpus of linguistics and applied linguistics, this paper compares the common vocabulary of modern Chinese (draft), and uses the two methods of word frequency statistics and word frequency order difference for a preliminary analysis of the composition and characteristics of academic Chinese...

Nowadays, advertisement has undoubtedly been pervasive in our daily life. With the development of modern advertising, metonymy is heavily used in advertising creativity. As a rhetorical device, metonymy makes the advertisement more vivid through words. The theory of metonymy has been exited for years.The...

This article is entitled English training for students with Problem-Based learning model. The participants involved in this study were 20 students from two study programs; Hospitality and Tourism Business Management. The training was divided into two different subjects; English for Restaurant Operaton...

The effects of mutual grafting on the photosynthesis of two ecotypes of post generation Solanum photeinocarpum under cadmium (Cd) stress were studied by the pot experiment, and the photosynthetic pigment contents, photosynthetic characteristics and soluble sugar contents in post generations of S. photeinocarpum...

Color is a basic element of image content and is one of the main sensing features for recognizing images. Color histogram is widely used to retrieve images and the processing mostly concerns the choice and quantization of color space, the definition of color histogram and the distance of two images in...

Particles aggregation technology is a kind of effective method to strengthen the collection and removal of ultrafine particles. The flow field of the turbulence coalescence device was simulated by FLUENT, and the results showed that diaphragms in the turbulence coalescence device could produce vortices,...

In this paper we present a technique of unsupervised extrinsic parameters calibration for a multi-beam LIDAR scanner. The proposed method decomposes extrinsic parameter calibration procedure into two parts: computing rotation matrix caused by pitch angle and roll angle through ground plane estimation;...

This paper selects Li Ning and Anta as research cases to find out how these two companies succeed in internationalization. Through the analysis we concluded a successful path of the brand internationalization process of Chinese apparel companies, and also provide a reference for other Chinese apparel...

Objective: We aimed to study Endothelial dysfunction and Arterial Stiffness in Diabetes mellitus. Methods: 29 women with type 2 diabetes and 8 non-diabetic controls were included. Vascular function was studied with pOpmetre® (Axelife SAS-France) to assess the foot to toe Pulse Wave Velocity; and EndoPAT2000®...

In this paper, the static and dynamic equations of the blade are derived, the comparison between analytical method and finite element analysis results. Finding the error of the two methods is less than 1%. The influence of the distribution characteristics of the blade crack on the static and dynamic...

This article considers the set of methods of forecasting the socio-economic development of the region. The article also outlines two approaches of forecasting: research and targeted, and also discerns the link between these approaches in the models building of the regional development. The problems affecting...

Saussure’s view on linguistic signs emphasizes the one-to-one correspondence of the signifier and the signified and their arbitrary combination. According to this view, the meaning of linguistic signs comes from the difference between the signs. Lacan revises Saussure’s view on linguistic signs by introducing...

Two-level power disposition of universities and colleges is the core problem of the management system reform inside the universities. At present, the theoretical direction and practice approach of the management system reform inside the universities mainly concentrate on the static allocation of political...

Inspired by the Chinese game “Weiqi”, this paper proposes a Quasi-Human stochastic Growth Algorithm (QHGA) for the Simple Cubic Hydrophobic Polar (SC-HP) lattice model of the protein folding problem. Two concepts from the “Weiqi”, the actual gain and the external potential, are used to evaluate different...

The long-term effects of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) apheresis (LA) on the progression and regression of atherosclerosis were evaluated by carotid ultrasonography in two severe heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemic patients with carotid artery stenosis. Furthermore, the lipid-lowering efficacy...

A high linearity up-conversion mixer operating at 700~900MHz with 1V supply using 0.18 m CMOS technology is proposed in this paper. This up-conversion mixer is composed with two double-balanced mixers and is based on the Gilbert mixer. The quadrature differential signals are put to the mixer, and the...

Underwater sensor network(USN) has a battery replacement, positioning difficult hard, great depth of nodes is poor, traditional routing algorithm of the two-dimensional plane land web is difficult to apply, routing algorithm based on the geographical position, there is also a difficult position and so...

The core industries have similar product form and value orientation, sports industry and cultural industry are mutually dependent and complement each other. This shows a convergence mechanism for the two. It proposes the strategies for the convergence that each give full play to his strong point as well...

Our basic model has two parts: to study effects of physical factors on the temperature and water consumption of water in bathtub, and to explore the influence of human action on water temperature distribution. Finally, we give the best strategy to maintain initial water temperature without wasting too...

Based on the concept of incompatible factor, this paper introduces further the principle of minimal incompatibility, and use this principle to improve the triple I method. In addition, by the principles of maximal support and minimal incompatibility the solvings of the problems of Fuzzy Modus Ponens...

Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) and Islamic finance are both categories of investment concepts which largely un-known, they have many things in com-mon: they rely on extra-financial criteria, and considered as attractive areas for de-velopment. This paper provides some clues on the complementarity...

Based on the research of multimodal discourse theory and scaffolding theory, this thesis summarizes and analyzes the modes of combining two theories in the second language acquisition process, and summarizes the application method design of multimodal auxiliary scaffolding theory. This thesis will break...

Advances in media technology have accelerated the development of social media, and also assist the evolution of idol industry. This paper delves into the para-social interaction in the virtual application – Lysn Bubble through the methodology of participatory observation and text analysis. From these...

Facing the burden of social insurance costs and innovation challenges faced by firms during China's economic transformation, this paper focuses on the Comprehensive Program for Reducing Social Insurance Premium Rates, which will be implemented in 2019, and examines its potential impact on firms’...

Much research was done on the role of experience in shaping cognitive abilities, especially learning. However, it is unclear whether if experience also determines our method of learning, which is considered as ‘learning style’. Therefore, in this study, an experiment was conducted on 33 adolescents (20...

The problem of high-dimensional feature vector in vector space model (VSM) is an important problem in text classification. After preprocessing the initial number of feature items is generally huge, and many of them for text categorization are useless. This will not only increase the running time of the...

This paper mainly discusses the relationship among language, culture and intercultural communication, expounds the significance of the cultivation of English learners’ cross-cultural awareness and feasible strategies to help learners to develop their cross-cultural communication. With the the global...

The establishment of nature reserves is one of important ways and measures to protect biodiversity, which plays an important role in maintaining balance of regional ecology, and promoting scientific research. To analysis the using and covering of land in the studied area and the variety of landscape...

Corpus Translation Studies has become an important branch of Translation Studies. Over the past twenty years, translation theory has gone through two turns, one is the translation studies have jumped out of the limitations of the faithful and focused on the translation of the text, with particular attention...

Competence in the STEM field is increasingly needed in the face of the Industry 4.0 revolution. One inevitable learning tool is an IoT-based one. This study aims to examine the IoT-based STEM learning model for primary school students. The study was carried out using a qualitative inquiry method in a...

Background: Arterial stiffness is the characteristic of early vascular damage that can be measured by several methods. Sphygmocor determines the carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV). Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) also measures PWV between heart and ankle, independently of blood pressure. According...

The Indonesian education system regulates only two credits systems for English class in tertiary education level. Yarsi University manages the two credits to equip students with basic-English, academic skills, and job-hunting skills into extra-curricular classes. The biggest concern is to train students...

The growing depth of a machine learning model and scale of data volume necessitate to use distributed training system instead of the capacity of single machine. Herein, this paper presents a thorough treatment of two key architectural paradigms – the parameter server and decentralized architectures –...

This article took the type of 6900 passenger car as an object reference, referred protection of the occupants in the event of a frontal collision (ECE R94) and protection of the occupants of the cab of commercial vehicles (ECE R29). Through the analysis of the initial energy when the bus was collision...

Relying on the thermosenstors scattering in the skin, people are capable of detecting the thermal stimuli to protect themselves from the damage of hazardous environmental factors. Temperature sensitive sensors can be divided into two classes: innocuous thermosensors (warm or cool) and noxious thermonociceptors...

Sound quality evaluation may be conducted with multiple different objective evaluation models, but reliability of evaluation results is different. Noise samples of two ears of the driver were gathered when the car operated at the speed of 60km/h and different music was played in the car. After equal...

Effects of oil absorption of mineral and masterbatch flowability on the processability of filled-polymer were studied. Two kinds of cheap minerals (bentonite and calcium phosphate) were chosen as the experimental materials. The results showed that the oil absorption of bentonite was higher than that...

[Purpose] Constructing a scientific and reasonable performance evaluation index system for the public hospital and providing a representative, objective, operable evaluation tool, which is helpful to guide them return to the position of the public welfare and sociality. [Methods] Using the expert contrast...