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Proceedings Article

Negotiations of Services Trade and Free Trade Agreement

Yixin Zhou
In the global service market, service industry has surpassed global GDP by two-thirds. The status of service trade in international trade is increasingly important. Due to the complexity and time-consuming of WTO multilateral negotiations, all countries have moved from bilateral to multilateral and bilateral....

The Integration of Teaching and Learning in English Courses for International Students: a Case Study of Shanghai Polytechnic University

Sun Yan
In the rapid development of society, economy and Internet technology environment, how to improve the quality of foreign students’ English courses has received wide attention in universities. Taking Shanghai Polytechnic University as an example, this paper discusses the importance of English teaching...

Anxiety and Attachment Styles: A Systematic Review

Lingjie Guo, Jude Ash
Attachment theory argues that the interaction between individuals and their special others (especially infants to their mothers) in childhood affects how the individuals behave in the face of pressure, threat, and separation, which in turn is related to the individual’s mental health. Intimate relationship...

Impact of Global Trends and the Coronavirus Challenge on Consumer Behavior

Lenka Švecová, Galina Ostapenko, Jaromír Veber
The study examines the global trends that have emerged over the last twenty years, such as digitization reflected in e-commerce, sustainable production and consumption, and the latest global challenge - coronavirus pandemic to understand their impact on customers’ behavior. The study employs qualitative...
Research Article

Lifestyle modification and arterial stiffness and wave reflections: A more natural way to prolong arterial health

Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Nikolaos Alexopoulos, Christodoulos Stefanadis
Pages: S15 - S22
This review deals with the effect of several components of the broad term “lifestyle” on arterial stiffness and wave reflections. Caffeine and coffee have an unfavourable effect on aortic stiffness and wave reflections both on an acute and on a chronic basis. Acute consumption of tea, which contains...
Proceedings Article

The Shear Bearing Capacity Mechanism Analysis of Steel Pipe Steel Reinforced Concrete Composite Column

Bing Wang, Xiao Liu, Tian-Cheng Xu
In this paper, the ABAQUS finite element model is established. using the stress distribution of the components during the calculation analysis, we analyzed the working mechanism of steel pipe steel reinforced concrete composite column shear components, it is concluded that P - U curve of the shear component...

How Early Children Understand Diversity in Social Interaction

Maulida Nur, Ira Anggraeni
Schools are often places that are not culturally sensitive, so unpleasant things can happen to the minority. Discrimination against children from other areas of different ethnicity can be seen in the observations made by the author in the Kindergarten area of Bandung Regency, which is dominated by the...

Consumption Oriented Idol Worship in China

Xinyu Chen
Consumption Oriented Idol Worship in China introduces how “consumption-oriented idol worship” affects society in China. It defines consumption-oriented idol worship and describes how it is used in media and products to “throw them into ecstasy” and create a desire for possession. Along with these two...

The Website Analysis of Nutrition Study Programme

Satwika Arya Pratama, Amalia Ruhana, Rita Ismawati
The aim of website in university are to provide information about profiles, academic programs, facilities and facilities, activities and achievements. The website is the first media interaction and engage interaction to prospective students and public users. To find out how far the Nutrition Program...
Proceedings Article

Image Retrieval Based on HSV Feature and Edge Direction Feature

Yanxue Dong
With the development of multimedia and Internet technology, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems have been widely used. However, how to automatically detect and target images in an image database still remains challenging. Since the HSV color space is more benefiting with human visual perception...
Proceedings Article

Algorithm Is the Soul of Programming

Chang Liu
In this paper, the basic concept of the algorithm is introduced first. Then four basic design strategies commonly used in algorithm design are discussed. The divide-and-conquer strategy is the most commonly used strategy for designing effective algorithms. The dynamic programming algorithm is a method...

Risk Management in the Local Government of Indonesia: Drivers, Conditions, and Strategies

Oktaviani Ari Wardhaningrum, Kartika
Risk management is an emerging issue in the Indonesia government. This study seeks to reveal why and how risk management applied in local government. A case study conducted at the Banyuwangi Regency Government, which was one of the initiators of risk management in Indonesia. In-depth interviews conducted...

The Impact of Gender Stereotypes in Education on Female Students’ Psychological Development

Wanru Zhao
This paper uses psychological insight to review the research about gender stereotypes in the secondary school environment. By analyzing research done previously, the researcher seeks to find out the impact of gender stereotypes on adolescent woman’s gender development. There are gender stereotypes from...

Research on the Creative Path of Digital Education Resource Services in the Context of Double-Reduction

Qianqing Meng, Pengfei He
This study presents a set of measures in the context of Double-Reduction, based on an explanation of how digital education resources might facilitate the implementation of Double-Reduction. For example, developing a personalized learning recommendation system based on an online learning space, integrating...

Institutional Permeability and Selective Migration: Dual Mechanisms of Wage Premium Formation in China’s Urbanization Process

Siyan Liu
The economic dividends of population agglomeration in China increasingly depend on the coordination of institutional environments. This paper explores how agglomeration effects and institutional environments shape the economic benefits of population agglomeration, based on case studies of Beijing, Chengdu,...
Proceedings Article

Research on the Design and Application of Earthen Sites Information Modeling Under the Background of GIS Practical Course in Shanxi

Ruihua Shang, Yibin Lei, Meijun Jin, Zhiguo Li
To enrich the practical content of the course of GIS, this paper introduces the design and application of earthen sites information modeling from the perspectives of information collection, database designing, information input and processing, information analysis, information display, etc. in Shanxi....
Proceedings Article

The Optimal Design of Bus Lines

Lin Zhang
With the rapid development of urban transportation in China, public transportation has also become an important way for people to travel. Having a good travel condition has been more and more necessary for the public .How to optimize public transport has become an important issue that we now need to...

The Analysis of the Relationship between the User’s Preference and the Smartphone Design

Jinnan Chen, Yunqi Shen, Wenxi Yin, Zixuan Li
In contemporary society, there is a growing complexity to the consumer purchase paths of mobile electronics as the market of smartphones becomes increasingly saturated. When customers face various smartphone brands, many factors are considered. Thus, this research aims to explore the relationship between...

Economic Empowerment and Character Development through Social Entrepreneurship

Barkah Juliansyah, Hilmy Nurfaizan Abdul Matin, Jamilah Jamilah, Ade Suherman, Odang Hermanto, Pat Kurnia
This study explores the role of Social Entrepreneurship in fostering character-based economic empowerment within communities. The rapid advancements of Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 demand enhanced competencies, expanded networks, and digital technology adoption. To address these changes, collaboration...

How Marketing Strategy Empowers Brand Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Xiaomi Mobile Phones and Huawei Mobile Phones

Shengnan Zhang
Under the background of the vigorous development of mobile communication technology and the strong demand of the business in China's smartphone market, the brand power of domestic mobile phone brands is also increasing, and a large number of excellent domestic mobile phone brands such as Huawei,...

The Influence of Information Technology Development on Implementation of Employment Relations

Masidin Masidin, Mustakim Mustakim, Cucuk Endratno, Anisa Puspasari
The current rapid advancement of information technology has exerted a significant impact on several aspects of society, particularly in the realm of employment, specifically pertaining to the execution of labor relations. Law Number 13 of 2003, along with its subsequent amendments, serves as the regulatory...
Proceedings Article

Study on Landscape Reconstruction of Traditional Rural Bazaar in the Process of Urbanization in China

Yan-hui Sui
Due to the quick urbanization in China, the modern commercial streets have gradually replaced the traditional business forms. Chinese traditional culture of rural bazaar is in danger and continues to disappear, which has resulted in immeasurable loss for the diversity of Chinese traditional culture....
Proceedings Article

The Research and Design of Project Based Language Assessment System

Mojun Du
In recent years, many linguists have carried on a lot of researches and analysis on Project-Based Learning (PBL) from different perspectives. However, the research of Project based language assessment (PBLA) is comparatively scarce. This paper introduces how to conduct the research and design on Project...

The Effect of Logistics Capabilities on Online Purchase Attitude and Purchase Intention in the Millennials of Tokopedia Users

Elvira Rosa Noor, Adi P. Tedjakusuma, Veny Megawati, Jun Kumamoto
This study aims to determine the effect of logistics capabilities on online purchase attitudes and purchase intentions in the millennial group aged 20 to 39 years of Tokopedia e-commerce users. This study reveals the effect of carriers’ reputation in moderating the relationship between trust and purchase...

Integrated Machine Learning Approaches for E-commerce Customer Behavior Prediction

Yuran Dong, Junyi Tang, Zhixi Zhang
How to predict the customers’ behavior is always a crucial problem for enterprises in E-commerce. In this paper, a data set containing the behavior data for 2019 October and November from a large multi-category online store has been used as well as diverse Machine Learning algorithms are used in Python...

Constructing Novel Operational Laws and Information Measures for Proportional Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic Term Sets with Extension to PHFL-VIKOR for Group Decision Making

Qiang Yang, Yan-Lai Li, Kwai-Sang Chin
Pages: 998 - 1018
To obtain reliable results in a qualitative multi-attribute group decision-making (MAGDM) problem, how to retain the evaluation information as much as possible and how to determine the reasonable weights of experts and attributes are two important issues. Proportional hesitant fuzzy linguistic term set...

Analysis on the Innovation of Teaching Methods and Its Implementation in Colleges and Universities

Li Li, Dongqing Bai, Xiuting Qiao, Hailong Xu
Colleges and universities are not only the important base for the cultivation of innovative talents, but also the important parts of the national innovation system, besides, they play an irreplaceable important role in building an innovative country. Based on the experience of study and practice from...

Health Landscape Approaches for Community in Westport, Baltimore

Keren Zhang
This study investigates how to improve neighborhood existing conditions, such as vacant lots and streets, to have a favorable impact on inhabitants’ physical, mental, and social health outcomes in light of the increasing focus that people have placed on health in recent years. It also looks at how to...

Peer Signals and “Judgement-Free” Messaging: Reframing Norms and Control in Young Adults’ Smoking Cessation

Ruoheng Yang
Young adults’ nicotine use increasingly spans both cigarettes and e-cigarettes, complicating cessation and reshaping how social cues and platform logics influence health decisions. While the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) highlights attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control as...

The Effect of Subconscious on Life and Ethical Behavior

Luxiang Zhang, Jialing Yuan
Knowing the concept of consciousness, many people may not realize that subconscious also affects us inevitably. Therefore, in this work, the researchers mainly introduce and clarify the basic function of consciousness and subconsciousness, then discussing the role subconscious plays in daily life and...

Adaptation and Selection: A Study on the Eco-translational Writing of Michael Berry’s English Translation of the Novel To Live

Siye Chen
This paper takes Michael Berry’s English translation of the novel To Live as the research object, based on the core proposition of Eco-translatology that “translation is the translator’s adaptive selection to the translational eco-environment.” It conducts a systematic analysis on how the translator...
Proceedings Article

Practice and Research of Reforming Teaching Principle of Accounting to Non-Financial Majors-Questionnaire Investigation Report Based on Non-financial Management Majors at School of Economics & Management, Xiangnan University

Yuan Xiao, Xia Ouyang, Hongtao Lu
XiangNan University, as one of the first batch of Pilot Universities in Hunan Province, one of the University of applied technology. How to cultivate applied talents is the key point of teaching reform and improving the quality of teaching. Newly built local colleges should focus on how to improve the...

Feasibility and Implementation Approach on Introduction of Recessive Education in Children's Sports Activities

Fei Wang, Ying Zhang
Along with social attentions to the children's physical education is more and more high, one-sided teaching and one-way infusion in the past, the children who are regarded simply as passive recipients, the education concept of ignoring children's subjective feelings, which has been unable to meet the...

Tax Treatment of Employee Benefits

Yinhua Pu, Chunyan Liu, Xiao Chen, Yan Cheng, Jiasheng Wang
In present society, employee development has been the foundation of business development. The company has the obligation and responsibility to provide employees with basic benefits. Meanwhile, employees also have the obligation and responsibility to provide services for the enterprise. Thus, how to deal...

The Influence of Talent Management Practices, Knowledge Sharing on Employee Performance Mediated by Competency Development of Bank Nagari Employees

Yose Rizal, Sulastri Sulastri
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of talent management strategies and knowledge sharing, particularly through skill enhancement, on the performance of employees at Bank Nagari’s Padang headquarters. The research methodology employed for this purpose was a survey, specifically focusing...

Consumer Behavior of Chinese Female on Boys’ Love Fiction: A Sociological Perspective

Hong Li
As one of the popular consumption objects of young females in China currently, Boys’ Love Fiction (BL) is a text independently created by young women and it is a cultural consumption form that describes the emotional relationship and sexual relationship between men and men. This paper explores the internal...
Proceedings Article

Research on Communication Management in Organizational Change

Yang Lin
With the continuous change of internal and external environment, if still keep a kind of inertia and rigid to cope with the market and the challenges of its own, it is difficult to adapt to the fierce competition environment, therefore, according to changes in the environment, choose the suitable transformation...

Applications Discovery Method to Develop Students’ Awareness of Innovation

Hualiang Wu, Zhendong Mu
Innovation is a source of national development, innovation and training students awareness is fundamental to improve the country's competitiveness, the paper discusses how to use the "discovery method" to raise awareness of innovation university students through curriculum design, teaching methods courses...

The Impact of Working Mothers for Additional Household Income toward Criminality on Children

Isra Yeni, Ali Anis, Yollit Permata Sari
This study aims to find out how the impact of working mothers on crime in children, as well as the factors that influence it. The analysis was carried out using cross section data in 2016. The National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas) data is used in this study and as a sample is the household that has...

Representation of the Plastic Waste Crisis in the Documentary Film “A Plastic Ocean”: A Semiotic Analysis Study by Rolland Bartes

Putri Erika, Alem Febri Sonni, Alfrisa Renuat
The global plastic waste crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing maritime challenges of the 21st century, threatening marine biodiversity, food security, and the livelihoods of coastal communities. The media, particularly documentary films, play an important role in shaping public understanding...

The Construction of Female Self-Identity in Subcultures under Post-subcultural View: A Study of Social Media-Based K-pop Fandoms

Jiayu Liang
This study employs a post-subcultural lens (Bennett, 1999 [2]; Thornton, 2018 [14]) to investigate how female K-pop fans on social media negotiate fluid identities through emotional engagement, transnational fandom practices, and resistance to gendered norms. By integrating. Jenkins’ (2008)...
Conference Abstract

YI 1.5 Ten Years of Ageing in the Middle-Aged Does not Increase Input Impedance or Wave Reflection–Insights from the Asklepios Study

Daimé Campos Arias, Marc L. De Buyzere, Julio A. Chirinos, Ernst R. Rietzschel, Patrick Segers
Pages: S5 - S6
Background: The changes experienced by the arterial system due to ageing are still incompletely understood. The aim of this study is to analyze the 10-year longitudinal evolution of input impedance parameters and wave reflection indices in a middle-aged population, and how these effective changes compare...

An Analysis of Conflict and Cooperation in Rare Earth Policy in China: From the Perspective of Liberalism

Mengxuan Bao, Yening Zhong
The essay is to explore conflicts and cooperation in terms of China’s rare earth policy. This phenomenon has been observed in the long-term, and recently, QUAD has established a league of rare earth, which influences this area. The essay uses the case study method. Through the case study of China, the...

Discovering the Self in Music: A Music Psychology Review on Self-Identity Formation in Adolescents Experiencing Psychological Distress

Ziyi Wu
Adolescence, as a critical stage of human development, is characterized by significantly increased vulnerability to mental health issues (such as depression, social anxiety, and behavioral problems) and faces key challenges in forming a stable sense of self-identity. Approximately 10–20% of adolescents...

The Effects of Documentaries about Wild Life on the Awareness of Environmental Protection of Chinese Primary School Students

Tianyuan Shi
As far as is known, there are already countless studies around the world about how to help improve the willingness of citizens to protect the environment. However, the research focusing on whether the documentaries of wild life can enhance the individuals’ awareness of environmental protection is still...

Construction on Course System for Undergraduate Specialty of Social Sports Guidance and Management

Guoquan Zhang
Course system refers to different courses in the same specialty are arranged according to the order of the categories, determines students how to acquire the knowledge structure through the study. This paper studied the existing problems of the course system construction for undergraduate specialty of...

Design of a Reactor Tube on a Non-Isothermal Pyrolysis Reactor Prototype for High-Density Polyethylene Plastic Waste as a Practicum Learning Module

Dyah Arum Wulandari, Ahmad Bagus Baharruddin, Wardoyo Wardoyo, Syamsuir Syamsuir
The design of the pyrolysis reactor tube was carried out as part of the initial process of making the practicum module. This tool is used to carry out the pyrolysis process of plastic waste, especially High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) plastic waste. In the process carried out to design a pyrolysis reactor...

The Effect of Dumbbell Exercises on Smash Ability in Table Tennis Sports in Men's Students Class VII SMP Negeri 3 Duhiada’a

Risna Podungge, Muhammad Faisal Lutfi Amri, Taufik Bumulo
Risna Podungge M.Pd., Muhammad Faisal Lutfi Amri, M.Pd., Taufik Bumulo. The Effect of Dumbbell Exercises on Smash Ability in Table Tennis Sports in Men's Students Class VII SMP Negeri 3 Duhiadaa. Undergraduate Study Program of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, Department of Sports Education,...

An Introduction to the Zen Aesthetics of Apple's Mobile Phone Design

Chengjun Zhou, Chunxing Hao
Apple mobile phones are unique in the mobile phone industry, and their perfect combination of design and technology products has become a model in the field of mobile phone design. This not only reflects the unity of functional value and aesthetic value, but also reflects consumers’ recognition of the...