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This paper argues that there is likely confinement of most of us in academia in dominant understandings associated with teaching, learning and language to the extent that the practices, beliefs, and values that underpin those practices, privileged in these discourses become ‘normalised’ and ‘naturalised’....

Forecasting stock prices in capital markets holds great significance for the economic development and social stability of a country, necessitating a robust predictive model. This study presents a comprehensive comparison between Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Transformer neural network architectures...

The technological disruption that permeates all parts of human life now forces people to rethink culture and civilization. Artificial intelligence-based technology has accelerated the revolution of civilization on a massive scale that was previously only present in plans and shadows. Many people think...

As there are massive initiatives on smart cities all over the world, smart tourism as part of urban and rural development emerges as destination’s panacea to gain competitiveness. Smart tourism is widely understood as the utilization of digital technology to co create experience with all stakeholders...

Background: We have developed a new proprietary method (DCBP® Direct Central Blood Pressure) to estimate central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) directly from peripheral pressure. In a previous meta-analysis of published high-fidelity pressure studies with simultaneous aortic and brachial pressure recordings,...

Background: Central haemodynamic parameters derived from reservoir pressure analysis (RPA-parameters) exhibit prognostic utility. Alterations in reservoir function could have an unfavourable influence on target organs, such as the kidneys. We determined in older adults whether these RPA-parameters would...

The increasing carbon footprints are forcing international regulators to reform fossil fuels into alternative fuels. Maritime transportation contributes 2.89% of carbon to the earth. One of the solutions to push this emission (decarbonization) is creating alternative fossil-free energy. The most possible...

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a famous widespread solution in business organization which is used and verified the integration and automation of the processes, performance improvements, and cost reduction. However, new innovations in technology trends that forced ERP designers to go...

In this contribution, we describe the simplest, classical problem in water waves, and use this as a vehicle to outline the techniques that we adopt to analyse this particular approach to the derivation of soliton-type equations. The surprise, perhaps, is that such an apparently transparent set of equations...

We study the inverse problem for the so-called operators with energy depending potentials. In particular, we study spectral operators with quadratic dependence on the spectral parameter. The corresponding hierarchy of integrable equations includes the Kaup–Boussinesq equation. We formulate the inverse...

With the development of big data and cloud computing, social governance is now moving in the direction of using new generation information technology to improve social governance and build “smart cities”. The construction mode of smart city is gradually entering the public eye as an innovative way of...

The development of Internet has changed people's life, science and technology promote the economic development. In modern building network cabling system, whole buildings or buildings at first were mainly reflected the comprehensive cabling. Integrated cabling system is mainly used for building in network...

We investigate properties of an identification type of recursive functions, called co-learning. The inductive process refutes all possible programs but one, and, by definition, this program is demanded to be correct. This type of identification was introduced in [6]. M. Kummer in the paper [9] showed...

Let S(Gs ) be the skew-adjacency matrix of the oriented graph Gs of order n and l1;l2; ¢ ¢ ¢ ;ln be all eigenvalues of S(Gs ). The skew-spectral radius rs(Gs ) of Gs is defined as maxfjl1j; jl2j; ¢ ¢ ¢ ; jlnjg. In this paper, we investigate oriented bicyclic graphs whose skew-spectral radius does not...

Motion history image (MHI) and motion energy image(MEI) can recognize simple actions effectively, but they can’t represent the velocity information of the actions. Sometimes in the behavior recognition, we must take the speed into account. For example, touching a person, fierce and friendly touches are...

With the widely application and development of the mechanical system and optical microcavity, the strong coupling between mirror and cavityfield in the system of cavity optomechanics that make the optomechanical system become an important platform which is used to inspect macroscopic quantum phenomena...

In order to improve the students' ability of English reading, this paper proposes a new teaching mode of English reading based on the theme propulsion theory, which analyzes the theme theory of English expression, and summarize the promoting effect of the theme theory on English reading. Through the...

In this paper, we conduct research on the Ningxia economic development model from the general perspective of the industry cluster. The enthusiasm of developing industrial cluster in China in recent years, governments at all levels to include cultivating industrial cluster in the area or industry development...

In order to improve the teaching quality of automobile customer service course, new teaching strategy and explore new teaching strategies, this paper proposes a reform strategy based on project teaching, and proposes the customer service satisfaction evaluation teaching strategies of weighted evaluation...

This article from the inner door panel size, shape and structure stamping requirements detailed analyzes its main features, and on this basis, for example within the H17 car door panels, we elaborate its treatment process and commissioning, through production practice it has proved that this set of drawing...

For the emerging domestic Information Security Specialty (ISS), we can draw of little successful experience directly on professional practice in this field, not to mention referring directly. In order to improve the professional practice quality of ISS students, measures are carried out as follows. First,...

Rational optimization of the energy storage system can be configured to stabilize power fluctuations of wind and solar power generation systems. The use of batteries and complementary nature of ultra-capacitors, combined with real-time scheduling grid we proposed a method to improve the overall economics...

The CPU-centric traditional network protocol processing limits the utilization of network bandwidth, even with the high speed network (100Gbps); and the situation is more obvious in big data systems. The high performance network technology-Remote Direct Memory Access(RDMA), has the benefit of directly...

In this paper, we use the data of CSI 800 constituent stocks from January 15, 2007 to June 29, 2012 to test the effectiveness of the method of dividend yield. At the same time, compare with the traditional method of dividing stock by equal amount, Different models are used to test the momentum and reversal...

In this study, we propose and test a mediation model to explore the effect of team identification, team negative affectivity and team cohesion on abusive supervision climate and team task performance. Using a sample of 48 dyads of employees and their immediate supervisors from nineteen companies and...

The annual Hajj (pilgrimage) to the Islamic holy shrines at the city of Makkah in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the largest yearly recurring mass gatherings worldwide. We aim to evaluate the outcome of outside and inside the hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation to resuscitate cardiopulmonary...

Naimaze in kabuki has been known as a narrative creation method, or a group of techniques that combines components in existing kabuki works or in the narratives from other genres for making a new work. Various elements, such as stories, plots, characters, and places, can be used as components in naimaze....

This research focuses on a silicon neuron circuit designed utilizing a qualitative neuronal modeling approach. In this circuit, temperature, fabrication mismatch, and secondary effects of transistors cause the difference between the intended characteristics and those in the implemented circuits. Therefore,...

Disparity and poverty is one important problem in most countries in the world. Taxation aims at meeting public needs and may be spent by government to overcome the economic problems. However, there is a dilemma about the level of tax that government’s stated. A mathematical model could give some understanding...

During the slowdown in the growth of China’s movie market, word of mouth (WOM) seems to exert more influence on the trend of box office performance. The objective of this paper is to measure the impact of WOM (valence and volume) on the trend of movie box office performance, differing from previous studies...

In this paper, we first introduce the development of learning to rank and discuss the problems existing in this field especially the ignorance of total ordering ranking. For dealing with the total ordering ranking problem, we assume a method ¡°feature ranking¡±. Based the assumption, we design two algorithms:...

Smart grid has become one hot topic at home and abroad in recent years. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has applied to lots of fields of smart grid, such as monitoring and controlling. We should ensure that there are enough active sensors to satisfy the service request. But, the sensor nodes have limited...

Background: Resistant hypertension is presumed to be common in patients with type-II-diabetes mellitus (type-II-DM) and arterial stiffness has been proposed to play a major role in the development hereof. Our objective with this study was to examine differences in vascular characteristics in patients...

In 2015, China’s economy entered a new normal. Under the circumstances that stimulating demand was difficult to achieve results and the contradiction between supply and demand appeared intensified, the government turned to reform from the supply side. To explore whether the supply-side reform has reversed...

The big health industry is an emerging industry with great potential, which will lead the development of China’s society and economy. This paper used SWOT model to analyze the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of the development of Jiangxi province’s big health industry, and we put...

Yeasts are considered as potential lipid producer because they are easy to cultivate, able to grow in high cell densities and can produce high concentrations of lipids. Previously we had isolated a promising lipid producing yeast, Zygosaccharomyces siamensis AP1, from wild honey of Central Sulawesi,...

According to the social model of disability, perceptions towards disabilities are socially and culturally constructed. In a preliminary study, we explored the perceptions towards disabilities among 92 primary-school teachers in Lao People Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) in order to gain insights into the...

In Mongolia, the system to connect market chains among livestock products- national producers-global market, has been poorly developed in terms of accessibility and equity. To address this issue fully, it is critical to assess compliance of herder cooperatives and livestock productions with social and...

We take current and former employees as research objects, and analyze the textual and numerical data according to 41,000 anonymous reviews of employees from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Google employees, which is collected from a workplace community, the Glassdoor website, that provides company reviews....

The issue of water quality in the Seine River during the Paris Olympics has again drawn significant attention to the importance of bathing water quality. As bathing water is a critical concern for the health and safety of residents and tourists across the EU, it is essential to understand the factors...

This study presents the first systematic investigation into the recovery of antioxidant lignins from pharmaceutical residues of seven Guangxi medicinal-food plants (Cinnamomum cassia, Star anise, Curcuma zedoaria, Millettia pavonica, Abutilon theophrasti, Zanthoxylum nitidum, and Amomum villosum) using...

The verification of grid and time step independence is crucial for ensuring computational accuracy in CFD simulations. This study investigates vortex-induced vibration (VIV) phenomena in a streamlined box girder bridge, systematically examining the effects of temporal resolution and mesh refinement on...

This article constructs a new model for cultivating innovative and entrepreneurial talents--positive emotion-motivation intensity framework, which is based on broaden-and build theory, the central executive network, default mode network and salience network of brain nerves, and the mechanism of motivation...

To improve water use efficiency and cotton yield in the field cotton planting of Changji, Xinjiang, this paper proposes an intelligent irrigation decision-making scheme based on genetic algorithms and reinforcement learning. The 2023 cotton planting data were used to validate the accuracy of the CROPGRO-Cotton...

This mixed-methods study investigated the psychological mechanisms underlying university students’ temporary social media disengagement behaviors. Through semi-structured interviews with 10 participants (ages 20-25) and quantitative analysis of survey data from 431 university students, we examined three...

This study aims to analyze the role of the Bandung City Government through the Social Service Office in dealing with homelessness and beggars as part of efforts to improve social welfare. The method used is qualitative descriptive by utilizing secondary data and relevant literature reviews. The results...

This comprehensive study investigates the implementation of a 5S-based hydraulic hose storage system to address significant time inefficiencies in the 789C truck build process at PT. XYZ. Through meticulous analysis of current warehouse practices, we identified that disorganized hose storage contributed...

Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for simulating realistic patient interactions, yet constructing believable AI roleplay partners for counselor practice presents significant challenges due to privacy limitations, domain specificity, and the ambiguity of human behavior. We introduce...

Introduction: Increased adiposity is associated with poorer left ventricular (LV) function but the mediating role of blood pressure (BP) and other cardiovascular measures is unknown. We investigated the roles of potential mediators in adolescents in a UK birth cohort, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents...

Background: We anticipate that in vascular outpatients followed over time, measured changes in arterial stiffness will be the multifactorial result of pressure-dependence, ageing- related degeneration, wall stress homeostasis, and medical treatment. Carotid ultrasound enables assessment of carotid pulse...