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We live in the age of Big Data, yet many areas of environmental management are still suffering from a lack of relevant data, information and knowledge that impedes sound decision making. A highly relevant phenomenon is therefore the so-called citizen observatories whereby the observations of ordinary...

In this study, the therapeutic effect of a novel human parathyroid hormone analogs nasal drops on ovariectomized rats was evaluated. Thirty-two of 40 3-month-old female Sprague-Dawley rats were ovariectomized and 8 received sham operation. Thirteen weeks later, ovariectomized rats were randomly and averagely...

The pore pressure test is designed in a dynamic compaction engineering, and the data on dissipation and increase of the pore pressure are gotten. The function of pore water pressure is fitted by regression analysis. The design parameters of time interval between two dynamic compaction can be determined...

The paper proposes a high-accuracy, large-scale robotic visual inspecting system which consists of an industrial robot and an optical scanning sensor fixed on the robot hand. Traditionally, calibration of a robotic visual inspecting system is separated into three parts: Hand-eye calibration, robot calibration...

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...

This study aims to describe (1) parent and school partnership model, and (2) strategy to build partnership with parents. This research uses qualitative research type with phenomenology approach. Research design using case study. Data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews, observations,...

This study was performed to improve the computer identify of the human body posture more accurately during human-computer interaction. In order to get a better algorithm, the author applies Kinect for Xbox device, Hausdorff Distance theory and Joint Angle measurement method to identify the human body...

In this paper, on the basis of deeply analyzing the basic search algorithm, the features of complex network structure, and the complexity of the search process, multi-agent system (MAS) and complex network as two method of complex system modeling are systematically studied to draw on their features,...

Abstract—Dijkstra algorithm can be adopted to distinguish different parts of boundaries in medical image segmentation problem, which can be a reference for further segmentation operation. However, classical Dijkstra algorithm can hardly adapt to real time image segmentation problem owing to its exponentially...

The denitrifying phosphorus removal bacteria (DPB) were enrichment using SBR reactor and two stages of training method under the low carbon source with nitrate as electron acceptor. The system was operated under the condition of anaerobic-aerobic-precipitation-discharge for 10 cycles in the first stage,...

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...

Optical phase locked loops (OPLLs) plays a vital role in coherent detection of optical communication systems. To simplify the analysis of OPLLs with complex structure, two different. Simulink models are presented to have a vivid observation of nonlinear BPSK OPLLs. Simulation results show that both balanced...

Lunar exploration data of Chang'e-3 is collected using two measurement & control stations 60 kilometers apart. The data is synthesized by Sumple algorithm and simulation experiments are carried out using Matlab. The synthetic efficiency is higher than 90%, which verifies the applicability of the composition...

The massive adoption of the electric vehicles in the near future with the rapid development of the smart grid shall significantly affair the resident transportation worldwide, while the modeling and simulation are the key approaches in analyzing the effect of the electrification of the vehicles. This...

An essential aspect of stock trading is the accurate forecast of stock price. This enables buy and sell points to be determined, which facilities profitability whilst reducing potential loses. This paper proposes a "Two-stage pattern Strategy (TSPS)" as an effective and intuitive mechanism to identify...

On the breast wall of a vertical breakwater, the measured wave forces have large deviations from the calculated values according to the current standard as a result of overtopping. In order to explore the reason of this deviation, the wave forces on vertical breast wall with overtopping have been measured...

From a macro point of view, the application type undergraduate programme of mechanical engineering is divided into two kinds, which belongs to the professional field of technology, mainly including the research on the theory of knowledge, the development of new products, mechanical design and manufacture,...

Democratisation wave is a global phenomenon that cuts across countries within the international system. Democracy has become an acceptable system of government which is believed to be the hope of the people. Nevertheless, the relevance of political parties in any democratic arrangement cannot be over-emphasised....

Feature selection (FS) is a crucial data pre-processing process in classification problems. It aims to reduce the dimensionality of the problem by eliminating irrelevant or redundant features while achieve similar or even higher classification accuracy than using all the features. As a variant of particle...

The research aims to test the relationship between the degree of corruption and the performance of listed companies. Based on listed companies' data before and after the implementation of the "eight bans" in 2005 and 2011, we will use the method of empirical research to analyze the impact of regional...

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...

Globalization and 'One Belt One Road' initiative both stimulate the cooperation of education between China and different countries. The sino-foreign cooperative education is a product. This paper aims to analyze the development about sino-foreign cooperative education between China and Russian Federation....

This paper mainly analyzes the value of contact of Chinese-Vietnamese national folk sports events: the sports events enhance the communication between nationalities at border, ensure harmonious and stable border; promote active spiritual culture and weaken passive culture; make for trade contacts between...

In the supply chain of fresh agricultural foods and food safety, participants for each activity are making their efforts to obtain the maximize benefits, and every interests owners are playing the maximizing benefit Game. As the main parts in the supply chain, suppliers provide their Optimal order quantity...

In this paper, the optimum thermo-acoustic stack position was investigated. Two types of parallel-plate stacks made of celluloid negative film and ABS materials were selected and investigation was carried out over three working frequencies. The ABS stack revealed that the farther of the stack position...

The number theory is an important branch of mathematics. The paper introduced some methods of solving linear indefinite equation in convergent and the so-called extended Euclid's algorithm, and got two results about linear indefinite equation. And it is very important for our understanding and using...

For the information security issues of cloud computing, this paper studys the security management methods of cloud computing authorized user, analyzes the vulnerabilities of OTP and proposed security authentication scheme based on OTP authentication.This authentication enables two-way authentication...

Metacognition has been developing into a key word of the English as Foreign Language (EFL) study in the previous two decades. The present paper probed into the relationship between students’ metacognitive awareness and their performance in the EFL achievement test. By the employment of the Matecognitive...

Histograms are an intuitively understandable tool for graphically presenting frequency data that is available for and useful in modern data-analysis, this also makes comparing histograms an interesting field of research. The concept of similarity and similarity measures have been gaining in importance,...

The Government of Indonesia has been conducting various corruption eradication efforts; however, these have not been able to effectively prevent corruption in Indonesia. Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has managed to unravel corruption cases through a thorough detection and investigation....

We study automatic target recognition (ATR) in infrared (IR) imagery by applying two recent computer vision techniques, Hierarchical description of contour and Bag-of-Words (BoW). We propose the idea of contour segment (CS) features which are extracted from the outer contour of IR target image and we...

In this paper, we investigate a stochastic non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra mutualism with impulse jump and Markov switching, and two sufficient conditions for stochastic persistence are established.

Three-dimensional topological relation is the basis of spatial analysis, spatial reasoning, and other applications in 3D GIS. Based on 9-intersection model, the proposed 3D 9-intersection uses 5 values {0, 1, 2, 3, 4} to replace two values {0, 1} of original model, which not only can distinguish whether...

Human brains integrate various kinds of information from different modalities to perceive our complex environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of attention on the processing of audiovisual temporal information. Fourteen subjects participated in our experiment. Visual, auditory...

This study aims to obtain data on the teacher's perception of the implementation program of character development through the Teaching Pyramid Model based on 2013 curriculum (TPM-Kurtilas). The data required as an input for improvement because the program is still a pilot study project. The data was...

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...

Objective to explore the characteristics of height growth, bone metabolism biochemical indexes and the regulation of hormone of Tibetan puberty Children in different elevation plateau environment and provide basic data for clinical use.Select 1580 people of 12~18 years Tibetan children in Tibet Lhasa...

Two novel rare earth complexes with Schiff base from Lysine-Salicylaldehyde were synthesized by using the drop by drop reaction. On the basis of molar conductance and elemental analysis, a formula of the target complex was given. Moreover, the target complexes were also characterized by IR and UV-visible....

In order to meet the requirements of counting of visible foreign particles in liquid injection, an automatic visible foreign particles counting system based on trajectory modelling is developed. The mechanical part drives containers to spin and stop abruptly and afterwards the liquid continues to spin....

Every language has its own addressing system, including Javanese and Indonesian language. The media play an important role in showing the differences in these language systems. One of the medias exhibiting this language phenomenon is a movie which uses two languages: source language (utterances) and...

This paper uses new measures of value added in exports in two sectors (textiles and clothing, and agriculture) to examine the linkages between trade facilitation and infrastructure on the one hand, and value chain participation on the other. It applies network analysis methods to derive a summary measure...

This paper presents two new simple statistic respectively to detect the long memory time series of the changes from smooth to non-stationary and persistence in smooth change from non-stationary variation point, two statistics under the null hypothesis is given the limits of the distribution, and proves...

Discourse markers, for a very long time, had been regarded as the detritus of a discourse, useless, meaningless and unworthy of academic attention. In tandem with discourse analysis and pragmatics in the last five decades, discourse markers have been attracting more and more attentions from scholars....

This research aims to analyze the factors that are considered by consumer when using online travel agent and to analyze the position of the two online travel agents discussed in this research, which are Traveloka and Pegipegi.com. The data were collected by distributing questionnaires to two hundred...

This research focused on research and development of learning devices using Macromedia Flash media assisted by Snake Ladder Banner. This study produced a product in the form of Interactive learning media Macromedia Flash assisted by Snake Ladder Banner on acid-base material in class XI which is expected...

Translation has been a part of applied linguistics which commonly focuses on verbal rendering. Language elements are explored to produce a number of concepts about equivalence, non-equivalence, and untranslatability. The text turns out not only in the form of verbal language but also non-verbal images...

Text grading is beneficial to compile, recommend and evaluate the textbook, etc. Therefore, the measure of difficulty level of texts has received considerable attentions from researchers. In this paper, the static difficulty of units of language and knowledge, like Chinese-characters and words or phrases,...

The principle of politeness plays an indispensable role in interpersonal communication, enabling people to communicate normally through dialogue. However, in some film and television works, in order to achieve a particular artistic effect, the principle of politeness is often ruthlessly "trampling"....

Building designs that are being prioritized today are sustainable architecture and green architecture. The designs can reduce the energy consumption that has a positive impact on climate. Actually, the design of such buildings has started since the Dutch colonial era. Buildings from that era are very...

The purpose of this quantitative research is to investigate the significant influence of the principal’s transformational leadership towards teachers’ collective efficacy. Data from 86 teachers were collected from two secondary schools located in the rural area of Kanowit, Sarawak, Malaysia. Multiple...