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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...
Proceedings Article

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,...
Proceedings Article

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...
Conference Abstract

P6.5 EFFECTIVENESS OF FACEBOOK FOR PARTICIPANT RECRUITMENT INTO A BLOOD PRESSURE RANDOMISED CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

Erin Nash*, James Sharman
Pages: 26 - 26
Background: The cost of conventional advertising to recruit participants for clinical trials is expensive and can be ineffective. Social media may be a useful tool to improve participant recruitment. This study evaluated the use of Facebook advertising to recruit participants into a clinical trial. Methods:...
Proceedings Article

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...

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...

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...

Self-concept of Victims of Cybersexual Harassment on Instagram

Alfrisa Renuat, Ratri Kusumaningtyas
Cybersexual harassment is a form of harassment in online media due to the technology, internet, and social media advancement. The global use of social media and networks has risen the forms of harassment on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Some forms of harassment that often occur...
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,...

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,...
Proceedings Article

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...

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...

The Effect of Social Media Destination Branding: The Use of Facebook and Instagram

Abdul Basit, Adie Dwiyanto Nurlukman, Achmad Kosasih
The growth of social media in terms of features and number of users makes its use broader, including in destination branding. The conventional destination branding model is transformed by utilizing social media, which tends to have a positive impact. This study attempted to find out about the effects...

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...
Proceedings Article

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...
Proceedings Article

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....

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). ...
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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...
Proceedings Article

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....

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...
Proceedings Article

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...

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...

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...
Proceedings Article

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...

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

Vaccine Rejection Identity on Facebook in the Context of a Conflict

The Risk and Coping Strategies of Vaccine Refusal Group

Fathia Islamiyatul Syahida, Dinda Dania Nadine Asy Syifa, Indira Kirani Putri, M. Fathan Haidar Januar, Tito Edy Priandono
The success of the vaccination program is influenced by the presence of social media. Facebook gives vaccine repellents access to share content, express opinions about vaccines, communicate and interact. In revealing their identity, vaccine repellents are inseparable from risk and conflict. The main...

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...

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...

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...
Proceedings Article

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...

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...
Proceedings Article

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...
Proceedings Article

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...

Social Media Usage Among Government Public Relations Practitioners of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia

Amalia Nugraha, Ummi Salamah
This paper presents the results of base-line research that aimed to analyze the usage of social media among 55 Government Public Relations (GPR) practitioners in the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia. Social networks represent the potential for increased interaction between public administration,...

Indonesia’s Next Top Model: The Reproduction of Docile Bodies

Lynda Susana Widya Ayu Fatmawaty
This research is aimed to investigate the reproduction of docile bodies in Indonesia’s Next Top Model (INTM) and it uses content analysis methods to reveal the practice of body politic particularly in fashion models. The data are collected by investigating Indonesia’s Next Top Model cycle 3 in 2022....

Thoughts and Countermeasures of Realizing Refined Office Administrative Management

Xiaoli Sheng, Ping Wang
With the constant improvement of China’s social economy, the development scale of enterprises is expanding. There are some problems in enterprise operation, mainly because the operation management mode of some enterprises currently cannot keep pace with the development of the times, which requires some...

Exploring the Optimization Path of Pinduoduo Social E-commerce Marketing Strategy in Shanghai, China

Qu Sheng, Cui Xiaowen, Shen Yuhan, Zhu Kaiyue, Zhu Man, Ma Zeyun, Zhou Yunxi
Since the formation of China’s e-commerce platform, has undergone two decades of prosperous development, the current e-commerce industry in China has taken shape. In this context, China Shanghai Pinduoduo, an emerging e-commerce brand, has also stood out among many e-commerce platforms, ranking among...

Empirical Study on the Differences and Influencing Factors of E-commerce Cognitive Behavior of New Type Agricultural Managers

Xian Zhang
The main body of the new type of agriculture is the core force of the development of China's agricultural products e-commerce and the reform of the agricultural supply side. Providing effective policy support and encouragement to different types of new agricultural operators is a top priority for pushing...

The Reforestation through Oil Palm Plantation in Sumatra Island

Jan Horas Veryady Purba
The Sumatra Island is one of the important islands that has the largest contribution in the development of plantations in Indonesia. Some of the world's important commodities are produced on the Sumatra Island and deliver Indonesia into an important producing country in the world. The purpose of this...
Research Article

The Incidence and Prognosis of ICU Delirium: A Retrospective Study from a Single Center

Qing Feng, Yuhang Ai, Meilin Ai, Li Huang, Qianyi Peng, Lina Zhang
Pages: 16 - 23
Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU. Methods:...
Proceedings Article

Examination of Salmonella Typhi Bacteria in Thai Tea Beverages Sold in Poasia and Baruga District, Kendari City

Asnia Zainuddin, Irma Irma, Jafriati Jafriati, Yasnani Yasnani
Nowadays, the public consumes a lot of Thai tea drinks, which are among the most well-liked drink varieties. Alcohol serves as both a suitable substrate for the development of microorganisms and a good mediator in the spread of illness. The application of sanita-tion hygiene that does not meet the requirements...

Smart Water Tanks as a Drought Early Warning System

Adhy Kurniawan, Galih Setyawan, Pratama Tirza Surya Sembada, Tegar Abieza
The availability of water is difficult to measure accurately, causing delays in water supply for the community, so a monitoring tool is needed that can provide accurate and real-time information to measure water availability so that clean water can be distributed to areas that need it on time. The digital...