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This article examines the involvement of coffee cooperatives in the Gayo highlands in price stabilization in the era of the covid-19 pandemic. In fact, in the last two years coffee cooperatives have played a central role in bringing together supply and demand for Gayo coffee needs at a global level when...

The impact and trauma of global financial crisis overshadowed the post-crisis economic recovery in the last two decades. Monetary and macroprudential policies are the two most popular and general policies to maintain macroeconomic stability. Covid-19 has become a storm in the economy, paralyzing the...

Potato chips small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Batu City were formed into 2 clusters (micro and small scale) based on production capacity, sales turnover, number of labor, and length of production operation. SMEs “Agronas Gizi Food” and “Gajah” are representatives from these clusters which have...

This research aims to describe the implementation of quality management system (QMS), conflict management of QMS in school, and evolution management of QMS in school. This study also provides two models used like SWOT analysis, standard and quality assurance (SQA) for implementing QMS in school. Using...

In this paper, we have investigated the efficiency of two valuation models, discounted cashflow method and residual income method respectively. To prove the reliability and accuracy of the result shown in this essay, we will take Australia and New Zealand Banking Group as an example. Through these two...

Batik is an Indonesian heritage which is recognized as an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO. As a cultural product that must be read to reveal the deconstruction of functions conceived in accordance with the space and time of the subject, as a logic of deconstruction in understanding the reality...

In recent years, the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have threatened supply chain management. Blockchain technology has emerged as the resource that is used to mitigate the challenges caused by the COVID -19 pandemic. This study aims to figure out the effects of the performance expectancy...

This article discusses the views of women related to marriage and household from two different nations, namely Indonesia and Britain. Tuti is an Indonesian woman in the novel Layar Terkembang by Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana and Elizabeth Bennet is a typical British woman in the novel Pride and Prejudice...

The 24-hour brachial ambulatory blood pressure measurement (ABPM) has the unique ability to provide information on 24-hour averaged blood pressure (BP), on nocturnal BP and day–night BP changes, as well as on 24-hour BP variability, which all provide independent prognostic information over that provided...

Interior design is the essence of the interior space design, including physical space design and psychological space design two levels. Interior design style is an important issue for interior designers and owners. Through analysis and Research on the relationships between design and interior design...

A growing body of literature (the "energy litera-ture"), from academic as well as industrial sources, is contrib-uting to knowledge about the growth of the Internet's energy consumption. Despite a general consensus on trends, there exist significant differences in the values published as well as in the...

In China, the relationship between government and social organizations has been promoting the emergence and development of social organizations directly, and studying the historical evolution of the relationship between them has much significance for the future development of social organizations. Since...

This essay's main body divides into two parts. After a brief background of the historical development of the law of negligence, the first part is to demonstrate the principles of Duty of Care and the Standard of Care, including duty of care for negligent acts and the guidelines of breaching the standard...

In this paper, the efficiency of regional listed agricultural companies of economic nature in China is analyzed based on financial data of 39 regional agricultural companies of economic nature listed at Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Markets (A-share) in 2015 in combination with both constant returns to...

A new method of target detection based on region segmentation was proposed for the problem of reciprocating pumps and other disturbances for segmenting moving foreground. In this method, the background region is segmented by means of mean and variance, and divided into static background area and dynamic...

As an automotive diagnostic technology, the UDS (unified diagnostic services) protocol has been more and more widely applied. In this paper, a diagnosis system based on UDS is developed and tested. According to the UDS protocol, the software is designed and groups of diagnostic services are implemented....

In the survey stage of nuclear power plant site, it is necessary to consider the impact on nuclear power station brought by the aircraft. The most serious consequence is the fuel leak. The fuel combustion process is divided into two stages of deflagration and pool fire. This paper is mainly focus on...

The current financial crisis has triggered research interests on financial networks, since the linkages created by liabilities among banks and other financial institutions play a crucial role, but they are poorly understood. Understanding the structures of financial networks holds the key to understanding...

We research a bi-level distribution network system consisted by a manufacturer, and several distribution centers and distribution points of the distribution system, taking into account transportation costs, and the cost of goods, inventory costs, optimize the distribution network, has established a relatively...

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...