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Proceedings Article
UTM Arab Students’ Usage for English Vocabulary Mobile Applications
Mohammed Z M Qaddoura, F.Y. Mustaffa
This study was conducted to highlight the Arab students at UTM and their preferences for English vocabulary mobile apps (EVMA) and to identify the reasons for choosing the selected app as the best preferences of Arab students in the university. Among hundreds of EVMA in Google Play store, a list of the...
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Value Implication, Core Content and Practical Strategy of Strengthening Excellent Traditional Chinese Culture Education in Colleges and Universities in the New Era
Dan Wang
As the main part of college education learning, college students undertake the important responsibility of inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The research mainly includes: First, the value implication of strengthening Chinese excellent traditional culture education in...
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Suggestions on the Fiscal and Taxation Policies of Ecological Agriculture in Heilongjiang Province under Green Poverty Alleviation
Lingling Qin, Yushuai Zuo
With economic development, China's crucial task of tackling poverty and building a well-off society in an all-round way has entered the deciding period. The injection of the concept of green development into the practice of precision poverty reduction is of great significance to the sustainable development...
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The Relationship between Structural Transformation of Manufacturing Industry and Economic Growth in Liaoning Province
Tianshuai Xu, Shuomin Zhao, Shuai Zhu, Wanhong Li
The main purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry and economic growth in the process of economic development. In modern economy, the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry is an important factor affecting economic...
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Border Security in Intelligence Perspective: A Bibliometric Analysis (1985-2022)
Budi Gunawan, Poppy Setiawati Nurisnaeny, Hendra Kaprisma, Barito Mulyo Ratmono
Borders are strategic areas for a country and are synonymous with defense. The border is the entrance to a country. Therefore, border security is an essential aspect of a country. This paper reviews and analyses various articles on border security with a bibliometric approach using the keywords border,...
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Benchmarking From the World’s Top Universities: Necessitating Mindfulness Programs at Mongolian Universities
Anar Purvee, Dashdemberel Chinges
The purpose of this paper is to provide realistic and reasonable arguments for why it is fundamental for Mongolian universities to offer mindfulness training programs/courses and what to learn from the world’s leading universities in this process. This study employed a qualitative research design, document...
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Problems and Research Emphases of Higher Education Informatization in Chinese Universities
Bo Shi, Jingjing Shi, Ping Lu
The higher education informatization is the trend of education development, the whole information system is a complex and open dynamic structure. in which the components are co-developed collaboratively in a constantly changing environment. After 20 years of development, the results of development have...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Defense Mechanisms for Internal Dos Attack in a Cloud
Nina Shu, Huaixi Wang, Tingting Li, Chen Wang, Fang Fang
In CSA report entitled "The Notorious Nine: Cloud Computing Top Threats in 2013", DoS attack is ranked fifth. In the practical cloud computing environment, DoS attack is always the most effective and destructive threat, bringing a great impact on the cloud. We focus on VMware vSphere which is one of...
Proceedings Article
Wrong Way, Wrong Decision Making, How Come?
Dini Turipanam Alamanda, Husni Amani, Cut Irna Setiawati, Lazuardi Miftahul
Indonesian-Deutschland Car Community (IDCC) is a community formed and membered by the owners and fans of the German manufactured cars, particularly BMW brand. The community is based in Bandung. The 2015 IDCC National Conference was an essential activity and became the top priority since any decisions...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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A Study of Reflectance of Sandblasted Tile with Different Colors
Yan Bin-Feng, Lee Soen-Han, Lin Yu-Hsin
This study discussed the reflectance of outdoor compressed concrete paving units. The research samples were basic square ground tiles, including sandblasted tiles with secondary treatment of surface, iridescent crystal sandblasted tiles mixed with waste glass, and rustic tiles. The ASTM E1918A method...
Proceedings Article
Cultural Transfer in Political Publicity Interpreting
Lei Dai
Chinese Premier’s Press Conference (CPPC), as an epitome of China’s publicity interpreting practice, deserves probes into its cultural transfers using descriptive corpus-based methods. Based on an English-Chinese parallel corpus for the 2018 CPPC, such typical cultural forms as idioms, proverbs, colloquial,...
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Identification of Compensation System in Culinary Business: The Case of Bogor City, West Java Province, Indonesia
Lindawati Kartika, Dikky Indrawan
The objective of this research is to identify the Compensation System for Small Medium Enterprise (SME) in the culinary business at Bogor City, West Java Province. The subjects of this study were 24 SME in the culinary business. Data collection used primary and secondary data through questionnaires,...
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Application of Intelligent Traceability Management System in the Production of Yongbei Golden Pear
Chun Qiu, Hongmei Gao, Lingyue Li
In recent years, frequent food issues have made more and more people pay attention to the quality and safety of food. The application of traceability system provides consumers with a quality assurance. The introduction of two-dimensional bar code technology enables consumers to understand the production...
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Analysis and Suggestions on the Current Situation of Innovation and Entrepreneurship of College Students
A Case Study of Guangdong Ocean University Undergraduates
Zuo Li Hua, Yang Zhen, Pan Sihua, Sun Gaoang
Innovation is the driving force for development, and innovation is very important for individuals and even the whole nation. Training the innovative and entrepreneurial ability of university students plays a key role in cultivating talents for the country and improving the development ability of the...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on the Implementation Path of Digital Transformation in Highway Survey and Design
Zhongzhi Chen, Yu Bai, Peng Guo
The survey and design phase, as the source of highway engineering models and data, plays a crucial role in the digital transformation process throughout the entire lifecycle. Addressing the deficiencies in digital standards and construction, digital surveying and design, and BIM-based digital applications,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Ground Shaking Characteristics of River Valleys and Seismic Response of Dams Considering Scattered Fields
Xinyu Yang, Zhiqiang Song
For a river valley site with non-flat topography, the scattering effect will significantly change the distribution of the seismic field, and the role of the site scattering effect on ground shaking under oblique incidence of seismic waves is not clear for the time being. The scattering effect will change...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Application of Steel Pipe Pile Composite Soil Nailing Supporting Combined Foundation Underpinning Technology
Guangbiao Shao
Power tower is danger when it is located on the top of slope of foundation pit. Composite soil nail technique had been used broadly in pit supporting in different situation except for building and structures nearby. Using foundation underpinning technology, the additional loads of structures can be transferred...
Proceedings Article
Influence of Female Executives on the ESG Rating Performance of Enterprises
Ziwei Zhang
With the increasing attention paid to female executives, the individual characteristics of women and the diversity of an enterprise’s senior executive team play a crucial role in the performance of the enterprise. As an important indicator to measure the performance of corporate social responsibility...
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Assessment of Pasir Salak Historical and Cultural Preservation for Sustainable Heritage Tourism
-A Rural Community Economic Development Perspective
Rugayah Hashim, Zaidi Mohd Aminuddin, Janiffa Saidon, Heizal Hezry Omar, Ayu Rohaidah Ghazali
This study examines how Malaysia’s Pasir Salak Historical Complex, a rural heritage site of anti-colonial significance, can drive sustainable socioeconomic development through culturally authentic tourism. It aims to (1) assess how cultural preservation intersects with equitable economic outcomes for...
Journal: Intensive Care Research
Research Article
Preliminary Efficacy of Tocilizumab Treatment in the Patients with COVID-19
Yu Chen, Xijing Zhang
Pages: 24 - 30
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,...
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Comparison of the Financing Methods of Real Estate Enterprises in China: Vanke and China Overseas
Xun Wang
Real estate drives China’s economic growth and is a pillar industry in China. In the past 20 years, real estate has made a high direct contribution to China’s economic development. Its chain is long and drives the development of many industries. However, real estate requires a large amount of capital,...
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City Study Helps City Cultural Brand Construction - Take Xinyang ‘Two Better’ City Study as an Example
Wei Zhang, Mastika B. Lamat
As an integral part of the city’s public cultural construction, city study is increasingly becoming a spatial carrier of city culture and plays an important role in promoting the city’s cultural branding. The concept of China’s city study was first proposed in 2014 in the city of Wenzhou, which is a...
Proceedings Article
About Competitive Strategy in Companies
D. S vescu
Paper presents some aspects regarding the strategy made by companies, the effort of the top management to be profitable. Beginning with some definitions, in the other hand it is presented from a synergetic point of view, a study case for company performance, in the way to be competitive, durable, with...
Proceedings Article
Incorporating Critical Thinking in Cross-cultural Comparisons A Case Study of Teaching the Course a Guide to English-speaking Countries
Xiangyu Jiang, Xin Wang, Jiaxin Zou
Cultivating critical thinking (CT) and intercultural communication competence (ICC) currently has been put on the top agenda in English teaching and education. Effective and successful communication across cultures is established on the premise of CT and ICC as well since these two skills overlap to...
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Conceptual Fundamentals of the Labor Market Development in Ukraine in Terms of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dmitriy Babych, Svitlana Babych, Iryna Ternova
The article deals with the current trends in the labor market in Ukraine caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a decline in demand for non-essential goods and products and limited mobility of human resources, which has slowed the pace of the manufacturing sector development. The structural...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on User Adoption Behavior of Internet Financing Products: Empirical Analysis Based on Structural Equation Model
Zong-na Xiao
From the perspective of empirical research, this paper studies the influencing factors of family investors’ adoption of Internet financial products. On the basis of Technology Acceptance Model and Planned Behavior Theory, this study introduces family lifecycle as a moderating variable, and proposes a...
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Research on the Evaluation of China’s Major Scientific and Technological Infrastructures
Chengchao Wang, Gang Li, Liming Cao
The construction of major scientific and technological infrastructures is the basis for original innovation and scientific and technological breakthroughs and it promotes the transformation and upgrading of industrial structures. However, there are lack of top-level design, R&D support and many problems....
Proceedings Article
Impacts Of Female Leadership On Business Outcomes: Evidence From South Asia And Middle East And North Africa
Trang Nguyen, Hang Nguyen, My Nguyen
Research purpose:
This paper aims to explore the impacts of female top managers on various business outcomes, including firm performance, financial investment decisions, access to finance, bribery practices, and technology adoption across South Asia and Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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Proceedings Article
Quantifying the Unquantifiable: AI-Enabled Human-Capital Valuation as the Missing Link in HR’s Journey to the CEO Suite
G. G. T. Y. Gunathilake
Human Resource (HR) professionals remain under-represented as Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), particularly in South Asia, despite HR’s expanding strategic mandate. Research increasingly attributes this discrepancy to HR's failure to capture its value in quantifiable, investor-relevant terms. This...
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An Analysis of the Reasons for the Rise of the Xinjiang Speed Skating Team after being Trained and Arranged by Korean Coach Li Zaizhi
Yong Fu, Juerui Wang
In 2012, 6 members of Xinjiang speed skating team participated in the Twelfth National Winter Games, and the iceman Gekhanbay won the ninth in the men's 5000-m race that was their best result. In 2016, Xinjiang hosted the thirteenth winter games, and the Xinjiang speed skating team won the gold medal...
Proceedings Article
Research on a Parallel Robot for Tea Flushes Plucking
Jun Chen, Yong Chen, Xiaojun Jin, Jun Che, Feng Gao, Nan Li
Recent developed tea plucking machines mainly bases on the shearing principle which cut the top of the tea trees with no selectivity. Automatic tea flushes plucking machinery is essential to tea harvest for high-quality tea manufacture, as labor cost increases rapidly in recent years. This paper focuses...
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The Influence of Human Capital on Organization Value
Empirical Evidence from High Level NBA Athletes Changing Team
Dangfei Ma, Peng Ning
As an intangible asset, human capital is becoming more and more important in enterprises. However, its variability and effectiveness make it difficult to measure it properly. Players’ transitions often take place in NBA teams, but coaches, game systems, and the physical environment like the stadium are...
Proceedings Article
School Profiling in Indonesia Based on Scholastic Ability Using Cluster Analysis
Rebecca Ester M. Sihotang, Leonardus Reinaldy Christianto, Aditya Wisnugraha Sugiyarto
Evaluation of Education is an essential part of improving the quality of Education. This aims to classify the top 1000 schools participating in the 2021 UTBK in the Scholastic Potential Test. Using K-Means cluster analysis, this study involves four parameters to classify these schools into six main clusters....
Proceedings Article
Energy-efficient MAC in Wireless Body Area Networks
Jingjing Yuan, Changle Li, Wu Zhu
Recently wireless body area network (WBAN) draws more and more attentions because of its benefits especially in health monitoring. As the sensor nodes in WBAN are battery-powered, energy efficiency is the top concern in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. Therefore, in this paper, we propose...
Proceedings Article
The Influence of the Changing of Top Rich People in the 20th Century
Zhirui Fan
Gilded Age is the key stage of the development of the United States. It can be said that it is the time to establish the position of the United States as a powerful country. This paper studies the ideological transformation of the top rich in the early 20th century and its influence. Through investigation,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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A Comparison of Two Different Tuning Methods of PID Controller for Evaluation of the Dynamics Performance Deodorizing Column of the Crude Palm Oil
Renanto Handogo, Kevin, Juwari Purwo Sutikno, Vincentius Lukas Aria, Annasit Mualim
Deodorizer column is one of the most important units of operation in the palm oil refining process. The column itself consists of tray column at bottom half and packed column at top half. To get an optimum composition of the bottom product and FFA recovery, a good controlling system needs to be installed....
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The Implementation of School Policies Learning from Home During Covid 19 Pandemic at Preschool and Primary School in Duri Indonesia
Elise Muryanti, Indra Jaya, Mona Eka Wati, Maria Magdalena Zagoto, Gumpanat Boriboon
This research investigated the implementations of school policies in providing excellent services to students during the hardship pandemic of Corona Virus at The Islamic Kindergarten and Primary school in Duri Indonesia. This research is a case study that investigated both Preschool and the primary school...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Characterizing Dynamic Pressure in Cycling with Muscle Activation
Shunhua Luo, Jianping Wang, Hui Shi, Yang Yang
Abstract. Dynamic pressure plays an important role in the cyclists’ performance and comfort. To qualitatively analyze dynamic pressure of male lower limb with compression cycling shorts in continuous cycling motion, a novel approach was developed to characterize dynamic pressure. Four pressure measurement...
Proceedings Article
The influence of remittances on macroeconomical figures in Ukraine
Oleksandr Chernyak, Yevgen Chernyak, Yurii Horobets
During last ten years an increase of amount of the remittances, as well as its importance among the sources of foreign capital in the list of developing countries, is mentioned. The share of remittances in GDP of some countries grew so dramatically, that it caused the economical dependence from their...
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Cultivation Practice of Financial Top-notch Innovative Talents in Local University - Taking the "Financial Innovation Class" as an example of Hubei University of Economics
Yi Li, Shuanghu Zou, Zhengwang Li
At the end of 2010, the Financial Innovation Class of Hubei University of Economics was selected as the experimental program of top-notch innovative talent cultivation in ordinary colleges and universities in Hubei province. After nearly eight years of training practice, Financial Innovation Class adheres...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on Optimum Design of perforation scheme for horizontal well
XueBin Han
In the extra high water cut stage, the remaining oil mainly exists in the channel sand body, and the low and non watered thickness of the reservoirs with poor utilization is mainly distributed in the top of the thick oil layer and the variation zone in the layer. The horizontal well is drilled, the horizontal...
Research Article
A Standard Driven Software Architecture for Fully Autonomous Vehicles
Alex Serban, Erik Poll, Joost Visser
Pages: 20 - 33
The development of self-driving vehicles is often regarded as adding a layer of intelligence on top of classic vehicle platforms. However, the amount of software needed to reach autonomy will exceed the software deployed for operation of normal vehicles. As complexity increases, the demand for proper...
Proceedings Article
Architecture for Living:
Do We Design Architecture for Humans?
Diah Asih Purwaningrum, Amalinda Savirani
Since Bruce Archer and Nigel Cross proposed a new culture of ‘Design with a capital D’ in the 1980s to stand alongside the previously established cultures of science and the humanities, the development of design has been profound. However, the recent rapid expansion of construction and technology has...
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Study on Energy-Saving Transformation Technologies for Green Buildings
Yupeng Yang
Buildings were large energy consumption in the whole society. At present, building energy consumption of our country accounted for 20.7% in consumption terminals of the whole society, and 95% existing buildings were high energy consumption buildings. Therefore, the existing buildings energy saving reconstruction...
Proceedings Article
Antecedents Of Copability And Its Effect On Learning Organization (An Empirical Study At a Life Insurance Company)
Lily Sudhartio, Anton Wachidin Widjaja, Sun Yi
This research is focused on the role of copability (cope-ability), namely the ability to cope with internal problems, on the development or the transformation of organizations into learning organizations. Building learning organizations, researchers usually link organizational adaptability and the dynamic...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Dampness, Mold, and Health Conditions of Residents in Kampongs: A Case Study of Bandung, Indonesia
Kresna Bhayu Adinugraha, Tetsu Kubota, Junpei Sumi, Usep Surahman, Cristiana de Almeida Parisi
The ultimate purpose of this study is to develop a new Kampong Improvement Program (KIP) in collaboration with the residents to improve their indoor environmental conditions, focusing especially on their indoor air quality (IAQ) and health of occupants. According to the WHO’s report in 2013, acute respiratory...
Proceedings Article
Two-Stage DEA Analysis for Measuring the Performance Efficiency of Creative Industry in East Java
Syarifa Hanoum, Anandita Ade Putri, Arina Nurlaily Syafitri
Creative industry plays a big role in terms of creating Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP) in East Java that measures the size of a region’s economy. In 2016, creative industry in East Java still dominated by these top three leading subsectors - culinary, art and fashion. Performance efficiency assessment...
Proceedings Article
Power-to-Process-Heat in Industrial Combined Heat and Power Plants – Integration of a Large-Scale Thermochemical Energy Storage
Gesa Backofen, Manuel Würth, Annelies Vandersickel, Stephan Gleis, Hartmut Spliethoff
With an increasing share of electricity from renewable energy sources in the German energy market, storage systems are needed to close the gap between production and demand. The thermochemical storage system based on the reversible reaction of CaO and Ca(OH)2 is one of the most promising approaches for...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Evaluation of Cavity Exploration Technology to deal with Ground Subsidence in Urban Area
Dong-Min Kim, Dae-Young Lee, Yong Baek, Woo-Seok Kim
Ground subsidence in downtown is attributable to various factors such as the impact by excavation, soft ground settlement, deteriorated sewer and poor compaction. Road sinking resulting from deteriorated sewer is mostly by the soil penetrated into the damaged sewer. Thus to prevent ground settlement...
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The Synthesis of an Aqueous Film Forming Foam Concentration and the Drainage Characteristic of the Foam
Wu Xiujuan, Li Changhai, Zhao Chuanwen, Sheng Youjie, Lu Shouxiang
Aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) is a very effective agent for firefighting hydrocarbon fuel fires. A study was conducted to develop a small-scale test for quantifying the drainage behavior of a synthesized AFFF formulation in accordance with the requirements of MIL-24385-F. The rate of drainage was...