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Baidu: The Long March Towards Success

Guanru Li
Baidu.com is currently the top Chinese search engine in the world. Going through three series of funding and IPO, Baidu has faced difficulties and challenges, but also revenues and progress. At its inception, Baidu faced capital shortages and pressure, yet it managed to survive with careful planning...

The Amelioration of Sharing Economy on Income Inequality in Developing Country

Sirui Feng, Zimo Tu, Honglin Yuan
In recent years, sharing economy has been developing rapidly all over the world. As a new business model, it provides a way to utilize goods or resources without ownership. People can use resources without purchasing them, which reduces people’s use cost and improves the utilization rate of social resources....

The Logical Rationale and Practical Path of the Protection and Utilisation of Ploughing and Reading Cultural Resources in the New Era

Shuyang Zhi
The protection and utilisation of cultural resources of farming and reading in the new era is crucial for cultural inheritance and social development. These resources are vital for the development of farming and reading education, the continuation of Chinese culture, rural revitalisation, and the cultivation...

The Alleviating Effect of the Pension Insurance System on the Health of the Elderly When the Spouse Suffers from Major Chronic Diseases

Saiwai Yu
China has entered a deeply aging society, and the high incidence of chronic diseases poses a serious challenge to the health of the elderly group, especially through the burden of care within the family and economic pressure. Based on the data of the China Health and Pension Tracking Survey (CHARLS)...

An Empirical Analysis of the Influencing Factors of Commercial Banks’ Non-Performing Loan Ratios

Rui Wang, Shishuo Chen, Chengyu Wang
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the factors associated with the non-performing loan ratio of commercial banks. Using relevant data and an OLS regression model with clustered standard errors, it examines the relationships among variables and their interaction effects, and verifies model adequacy...

A Study on the Efficiency and Influencing Factors of Scientific Research in Regional Universities Under “Double First-Class” Project—Based on Super-Efficiency DEA-Tobit Model

Lifeng Wang, Jin Zhang, Shukun Chen
With the construction of “Double First-Class” as the background, it is of great significance to study the efficiency of scientific research in regional universities from the perspective of improving the output of scientific research achievements, promoting the transfer of scientific research results,...

The Effect of Creative and Educative Games on Project-Based Learning on Students' Learning Spirit in the Pandemic Period

Eka Kurniasih, Ulfi Ukhrowati, Novi Utami, Tazkiyah Himmatul Ulya, Mohammad Givi Efgivia
Indonesia is one of the countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and this condition has a significant impact on the world of education, including from basic education to higher education. The next face-to-face learning is dominated by distance learning (PJJ) which is better known as online learning....
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Evaluating the Impact of Self-Attention in Pix2Pix for Image-to-Image Translation

Zheng Liao
In this work, a self-attention module is incorporated into the generator of the Pix2Pix model and its effects on image-to-image translation with Facades dataset is assessed. The proposed architecture adds self-attention at the bottleneck of the U-Net generator to capture global context while retaining...

A Study on the Scheduling Problem of Car Sharing with User Participation Under Dynamic Incentives

Jie Wang, Meijie Jia, Yunpeng Xie
Car sharing is growing rapidly worldwide, and the development of car sharing is constrained by factors such as unbalanced user travel demand and high enterprise operating costs. This paper considers the influence of multiple factors on user travel behavior, uses a multinomial logit model to encourage...
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Synthesis and Properties of an EPEG Slump Retaining Polycarboxylic Acid Superplasticizer

Qian Zhao, Xiang-Jie Meng
In order to meet the special requirements for long-term slump retention of concrete under extreme conditions such as long distance transportation and super high-rise pumping construction, an EPEG slump retaining polycarboxylic acid superplasticizer (LT-PCE) was prepared by free radical aqueous solution...

Effects of Uncertainty Tolerance on Personal Pension Participation Willingness: Analysis Based on SEM

Siyi Wei, Yuanhui Li, Changqi Huang
This study constructed a structural equation model grounded in prospect theory to investigate the multidimensional mechanisms through which uncertainty tolerance (UT) affected personal pension participation willingness (PW). By analyzing 326 valid questionnaires collected through online surveys from...
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IoT Based Energy Monitoring and Controlling System with Electric Billing Using LabVIEW

Kalathiripi Rambabu, Avula Krishna Chaitanya, Chityala Hanija, Gaddam Ramya
Rapid technical developments have occurred in the field of E-Metering (Electronic Metering), and there is a rise in the need for an Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) system that is dependable and effective. In order to automate invoicing and manage the obtained data internationally, this article outlines...

Navigating Academia: Decoding the Nexus Between Self-Regulated Learning and Procrastination in Student Achievement

Oktaviani Orsy, Dwi Nastiti, Eko Hardiansyah, Mehriniso Rakhmatova
Academic procrastination is a problem that often occurs in students and an initial survey that has been conducted by researchers on 25 students of Muhammadiyah University of Sidoarjo, shows that there are still students who deliberately delay starting and completing assignments, so that tasks cannot...
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Enhancing the Accuracy of Apple Stock Rise and Fall Prediction Based on News Sentiment Analysis and Multi-Factor Model

Mingliang Zhong
As one of the leading tech companies, Apple Inc. Gets worldwide attention, and any news related to it may cause market volatility. Based on the stock price data of Apple Inc. From 2006 to 2016 and the sentiment score of financial news, this study constructs a multi-dimensional feature system that integrates...

Crazy Thursday: The Phenomenon of Value Co Creation in Brand Marketing

Jiarui Yuan
At the moment when the digital wave is sweeping the world, the digital era has arrived. The deep integration between brand marketing and Internet culture has given birth to the new concept of value co creation. Take KFC’s “Crazy Thursday” activity as an example. At first, it was just a regular promotional...
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Unearthing the Lonar Crater Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Validating Through Non-destructive Approach

Ranjana Gore, Abhilasha Mishra, Ratnadeep Deshmukh, Dipa Dharmadhikari
Remote Sensing is a prominent technology, applied at all fields of earth science. It is useful in the identification and mapping of minerals, vegetation, different materials and backgrounds by capturing the electromagnetic energy reflected from them. The analysis of remote places or structures is possible...

Implicit Functions in Digital Comic Strip Discourse and Its Implications in Learning Anecdotal Texts of Indonesian Subjects in High School

Fathia Gurnita Damayanti, Laili Etika Rahmawati, Harun Joko Prayitno, Yunus Sulistyono
This study aims to describe the function of implicature in the digital comic strip discourse and the implications of digital comic strips in learning anecdotal texts of Indonesian subjects. This research used the qualitative descriptive method. Data in the form of conversations in digital comic strip...

The Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility on Dividend Policy

Yesi Gusfita Yenti, Dina Patrisia
This study aims to analyze the effect of corporate social responsibility on dividend policy as measured by DPR and DPS. The population of this study was manufacturing companies listed in the stock exchange for 160 companies with a number of 800 financial data observations. Using the purposive sampling...

Leveraging Deep Learning-Based Artificial Intelligence to Improve Basic Literacy Competence of Elementary School Teachers

Widya Karmila Sari Achmad, Unga Utami, Nur Abidah Idrus
This study aimed to explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology based on Deep Learning approaches to enhance elementary school teachers’ mastery of foundational literacies. The foundational literacies in question included reading literacy, numeracy literacy, and digital literacy—essential...

Building Sustainable Employee Retention Through Employee Well-Being, Compensation Fairness, Career Develompent Motivation, and Organizational Commitment- A Conceptual Framework

Darmanto Darmanto, Didik Subiyanto
This study explores the integration of compensation fairness, career development motivation, and employee well-being as strategies for enhancing sustainable employee retention. The ultimate goal would be to know how they all interact and contribute to company loyalty vs. attrition. A conceptual framework...
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Investigation of Micro Defect on the Shear Crack Growth Properties Using FRANC2D

V. Sarfarazi, Hadi Haeri
In this article the non-linear finite element method is used to analyze the effect of presence of micro pore near a crack tip on both of the characteristics of crack tip plastic zone (its shape and size) and crack growth properties (such as crack growth length and crack initiation angle) under pure shear...
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Comparative Analysis of Manufacturing and Logistics Linkage Development and Logistics Outsourcing

Yongsheng Liu, Yindi Cheng
Manufacturing and logistics linkage development has caused widespread concern and active practice in the industry. Whether in theory or in practice, however, a lot of people simply understand manufacturing and logistics linkage as logistics outsourcing, which will restrict the linkage development of...
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Study on Extraction Methods of Ocean Surface Oil Spill using HJ-CCD Data

Gai Yingying, Zhou Bin, Sun Yuanfang, Zhou Yan, Li Wenwen
Oil spill is one of the most common ocean environmental disasters. Rapid and accurate access to the oil spill information has great significances to dynamic monitoring, conservation and sustainable use of the ocean. HJ-1 is a new satellite platform designed for environmental disasters. However, multi-spectral...
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Analysis of stationary processes using fuzzy transform

Michal Holcapek, Vilem Novak, Irina Perfilieva
In this paper, we show that fuzzy transform originally introduced for a transformation of complex spaces of functions to simpler ones can be used in the analysis of real stationary random processes. We will show that under certain assumptions the fuzzy transform may be used for an approximation of this...
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The Proceeding of the Research on Human Exoskeleton

Hanxing Xie, Xiaoyan Li, Weilin Li, Xiaoxiao Li
Human exoskeleton robot, also named as wearable robot, is a man-machine automatic electromechanical device, which can enhance the wearer 's athletic ability and assist the wearer doing some work with the aspects such as high strength and high-speed without feeling tired. This paper presents an overview...
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Research on Characteristics Analysis and Classification of Microblog Users

Xin Jiang, Wenmin Li
Microblog has become an important part of social media, a large number of users send and thus spread information on this platform. Nowadays, the network environment of microblog is impacted by the presence of anomalies in users seriously. So the research on identifying the types of microblog users is...
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Model for analyzing the relationship between cost of energy-saving and construction

Jianmei Feng, Man Luo
In the analysis of the relationship between the cost of energy-saving and construction, since the traditional analysis method is too simple, a comprehensive and detailed analysis for the rationality of the relationship between the cost of energy-saving and construction cannot be conducted, lead to high...
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Analysis of the Situation Semantics Solution to Paradoxes

Li Dai, Ji-hua Zhang
As the important model in the research of semantic paradoxes in recent years of the West, the situation semantics solution to paradoxes develops a school of its own among many programs for semantic paradoxes resolution. This paper attempts to clarify and summarize systematically the basic ideas and spiritual...

Analysis on the Interactive Mode in Network Media Environment

Yuming Sun, Xiaoling Fan
With the rapid development, Internet creates a digital network age, and establishes the digital survival mode. The transmission of information and the interaction within people are the basic motive force of social development, both of them are subject to the impact and influence from the Internet. Internet...
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Paper-like Characteristics of Degreased Pure Cotton Spunlace

Mo Hao, Xiangjin You
Characteristics of a new type of Degreased pure Cotton Spunlace (DCS) were first investigated, compared with performances of Viscose Spunlace (VS) and the pure Natural Cotton Spunlace (NCS) before degreased. Bulk density of the VS is the greatest and that of NCS the smallest within the above three kinds...
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Research on inversion technique of equivalent excitations of flexible panel structures

Xuetao Weng, Rui Huo, Weike Wang, Zhidong Wang
Detection of sonar platform excitations has been a formidable obstacle towards the estimation and evaluation of mechanical self-noise in the sonar cavity. In view of the complexity of transmission of excitations from mechanical vibration equipments to sonar platform, an inversion technique, i.e., indirectly...
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Numerical Prediction on the Mechanical Behaviour of Laser Peened Bulk Metallic Glass

J. Fu, H.G Shi, C. Zheng, Z. Ji
Laser peening is an innovative surface treatment technique similar to shot peening, but it can introduce deeper compressive residual stress layers to materials for improving their fatigue life and plasticity. In this paper, a three dimensional finite element model has been developed to numerically simulate...
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Finite Element Analysis Simulation of Side Automobile Safety Airbag Unfolding Process

Hanwu Liu, Haimei Feng, Xiaobin Wang, Yonghui Gao
With the development of transportation industry, there’re more and more traffic accidents caused by the vehicle driving, bring great potential safety hazard and economic risks to the drivers and their families. Therefore, it’s of great importance to take a study on airbag application especially on computer...
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Characteristic Analysis of a Difference-Based Cascade Thermocouple Measurement System in Steady Flow

Zhaoxin Yang, Wen Gai, Jie Han
The dynamic characteristics evaluation of thermocouples presents a challenging problem for temperature measurement. The authors have recently proposed a novel difference-based cascade thermocouple measurement system that consists of three thermocouples with different time constants. The combination of...
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Pedestrian Recognition based on Human Semantics and PCA-HOG

Enyuan Yang, Rong Xie
In real monitoring scenarios, pedestrian semantics, such as gender and clothing type, is very important for pedestrian retrieval and pedestrian recognition. Traditional pedestrian semantics attribute recognition algorithm adopts manual feature extraction and cannot express the association between pedestrian...

Student Perception in Entrepreneurship Education In the Tourism Sector at Tourism Department, Politeknik Negeri Padang

Ranti Komala Dewi, Afifah Afifah, Yosi Suryani
Entrepreneurship education at university is needed to prepare graduates who have sense of entrepreneurship. It also becomes a challenge for the university as well as support for government programs in alleviating poverty. Entrepreneurial education can be given to all students from various disciplines,...
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E-Blood Bank Application For Organizing and Ordering The Blood Donation

Lilik Sumaryanti, Suwarjono Suwarjono, Lusia Lamalewa
Blood Transfusion Unit (BTU) is a blood bank of Indonesian Red Cross (IRC) which duties are to give service, collect blood donation, store and distribute blood according to the request of people in need. Administration process of BTU Merauke is in trouble due to conventional blood donation data management....
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Multi-Agent Rendezvous Problem Based on State Backtracking

Jiahe Tian
This paper studies a new distributed multi-agent rendezvous problem based on state backtracking. It uses the historical state information of the agent as a reference for the current time to achieve the purpose of preserving topology connectivity and accelerating the rendezvous speed. The agent uses different...

An Exploration into Chinese EFL Students’ Critical Thinking

Suyun Xu
When English educators appeal for more efforts to develop college students’ critical thinking in English classes, gaining a full understanding how much their critical thinking ability has achieved seems to be an indispensable task. This study applies Critical Thinking Disposition Survey (CTDS) and Critical...

Research on Product Design Strategy Based on “Divergence-Convergence”

Peng Lu, Shih-Wen Hsiao
Innovation is the core driving force of design. The purpose of this study is to propose a creative design strategy based on "divergence-convergence", which aims to optimize the design behavior of designers or design teams in the product development phase. The proposed design strategy integrates the objectives...

A Study on the Construction of Multi-modal Campus Culture Targeting ASEAN Students In Perspective of Guangxi Normal University

Lili Li
In the process of promoting the educational internationalization, the education and campus culture construction of Guangxi Normal University targeting ASEAN students has become an icon in the cultural and educational exchange of Guangxi and ASEAN, having attracted close attention from home and abroad....
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Decision Tree Construction Algorithm Based on Association Rules

Yong Peng, Yanming Ye, Jianwei Yin
With the rapid development of Internet, there are more and more products information exist on the Internet. In order to facilitate the retrieval, how to classify these information automatically is becoming much more essential. So far there are many text-based classification models such as Decision Tree...
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PSO algorithm based on GSO and application in the Constrained optimization

Hongxia Liu, Feng Zhou
In particle swarm algorithm, the introduction of glowworm algorithm, according to domain to determine a perception range, within the scope of perception of all the particles find an extreme value point sequence, which apply roulette method, choose a particle instead of global extreme value.So as to scattered...

The Real Thinking and Countermeasures of College Physical Education Reform Under the Concept of “Full Person Education” in the New Period

Yang Liuqing
In order to implement the requirements of the National Medium- and Long-Term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020) for the reform of college physical education, through the literature and data method, we have found out that the current college physical education still exists. Students have...

Khalwatiyah Samman: Strategies for Strengthening Modality in the Patte’ne Maros Community of Sulawesi Selatan

Nurlela, Jumadi, Abdul Rahman
This study aims to map the influence of modality (economic, social, cultural, and symbolic) and analyze modalities strengthening strategies (biological investment strategy; successive; educational; invasion / economic capital; and symbolic investment) in the community adhering to the Khalwatiyah Samman...

A Review of Authenticity Analysis of the Recovered Memories

Bonan Chen
This paper adopts the literature research method to aim to discuss the authenticity of recovered memories by summarizing the causes of formation of truly recovered memories and false recovered memories, which covers the concept of repression, amnesia and dissociation in positive, as well suggestibility...

Family Experience in Implementing Family Task with Tuberculosis Multi Drugs Resistant (MDR-TB) in Bandung

R. Nurjanah, Y. Hidayat, P. Yualita
Background: Tuberculosis Multi Drug Resistant (MDR-TB) is a Tuberculosis disease caused by non-compliance with taking anti-tuberculosis (OAT) drugs. Treatment interrupted or not in accordance with the standard Directly Observed Treatment Short-Course (DOTS) can also result in the emergence of multiple...

The Influence of Service Quality, Member Knowledge on Cooperatives and Participation of Members Towards Remaining Business Outcomes for Members of Civil Service Cooperative in Regency of Tanah Datar

Melisa Safitri, Syamwil, Yulhendri
This study aims to determine the effect of service quality, member knowledge on cooperatives, and participation of members toward remaining business outcomes (SHU) for members of the Civil Service Cooperative (KPN) Regency of Tanah Datar. This type of research is descriptive and associative. The study...

Challenges in Developing Literacy Learning Models for Teachers to Develop Cognitive Strategies for Elementary School Students

Sri Tiatri, Jap Tji Beng, Claudia Fiscarina, Hartinah Dinata
Based on the awareness of the importance of literacy learning and the use of cognitive strategies, various countries have sought to develop various learning methods that are suitable for elementary school students. One of them is reciprocal teaching, which has been shown to improve students’ thinking...

Application of Arbuscular Mycorrhizae and Compost on Growth and Yield of Soybean

St. Subaedah, Andi Ralle
National soybean demand continues to increase in line with the increase in population, while soybean production is still very low. The low production is caused by several factors and one of them is because the development is faced with lands with low soil fertility. Therefore, it is necessary to improve...