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The 1999 education reform: An analysis of the Reform implementation and impact on Arts Education in Poland

Renata Ochoa daderska
The aim of this paper is to present the process and impact of the education reform of 1999 in the curricula and ways of implementation of this reform at pre-school institutions, primary schools, lower secondary schools (gimnazja) and upper secondary schools (post-gymnasium schools) taking into account...
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Fine-grained Service Side Access Control Model for Web Application

Zhijun Liang, Hua Zhang, Zhonghua Zhao
In the paper of SCUTA, to the more and more complicated network environment and the w3c’s Same-Origin Policy’s vulnerability, the author designs a new web access control model. It eases the difficulty of web policy’s configuration and reduces the potential vulnerabilities. However, because of the inflexible...
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A new Bayesian classification algorithm based on attribute reduction

Hongmei Nie, Jiaqing Zhou
Naive Bayesian classifier is a simple and efficient classification method. However, the assumption of the independence of its attributes is difficult to be satisfied, which influences the classification performance. In this paper, a new classification algorithm is proposed, which is based on the attribute...
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Clinical Practicability of Extending the Length of Gastrointestinal Decompression Cathetering

Lei Sun, Xin-Quan Gu, An-Na Wang, Fan-Ping Meng
Objective: We intended to investigate the appropriate length of the stomach tube in the treatment of gastrointestinal decompression. Material and Methods: The patients in treatment of gastrointestinal decompression cured by our department from January 2013 to May 2015 whom were divided into 2 groups...

Comparing Circular Histograms by Using Modulo Similarity and Maximum Pair-Assignment Compatibility Measure

Pasi Luukka, Mikael Collan
Pages: 1 - 12
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,...
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Contour Segment Feature Weighting in Infrared Automatic Target Recognition

ShiWei Chen, ShengXiu Zhang, XiaoGang Yang, NaiXin Qi
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...
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Key Research of Pre-processing on Mongolian-Chinese Neural Machine Translation

Jian Du, Hongxu Hou, Jing Wu, Zhipeng Shen, Jinting Li, Hongbin Wang
Neural machine translation has recently achieved promising results with the big scale corpus. But there is little research on the small scale corpus, such as Mongolian. Mongolian belongs to the agglutinative language while Chinese is a pictograph. It is necessary to do some pre-processing for both Mongolian...
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Stochastic Non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra Mutualism systems with Impulse Jump and Markov Switching

Fangxia Lu, Zuomao Yan
In this paper, we investigate a stochastic non-autonomous Lotka-Volterra mutualism with impulse jump and Markov switching, and two sufficient conditions for stochastic persistence are established.
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A Feedback based Probability Selection for Frame forwarding in AVB switched Ethernet

Ang Gao, Yansu Hu, Lixin Li, Xu Li
In order to support real-time quality of service in time-sensitive and time-tolerant coexisting network in Ethernet, a set of IEEE standards for transporting and forwarding real-time content over Ethernet are proposed that known as Audio Video Bridging (AVB). By bandwidth reservation and priority isolation,...
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Learning the Quality Filter Method of Sequence by Quality Cut-off Value and Base Percent

Henghua Shi, Xin Xu
For the next bioinformatics analysis of sequence reads, the initial sequence reads with next-generation sequencing technology should be clean with the quality filter method. The basic quality filter method can filter the initial sequence reads by quality cut-off value and base percent. We select some...

An Empiric Study in the Effectiveness of Student Training Based on Organizational and Pedagogical Conditions of Mobile Learning

Aleksandr Volodin, Natalia Bondarenko, Andrei Volodin
The paper reports on the contents of the empirical research on the evaluation of the effectiveness of the student training based on organizational and pedagogical conditions of the mobile learning. We specify the stages and the content of the experiment as well as its conditions and sampling. The sample...
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The Single-vector and Multi-vector Mixed Compressed Storage of Tangent Matrix

Wenjiao Da, Xiuli Wang, Jing Wen, Han Zhang
Matrix is a mathematical object, commonly used in scientific computing and engineering calculation. We are not interested in data itself in the data structure, but interested in how to store the elements in the matrix, and make the various operations can run effectively. The main purpose of the compressed...
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Implementation of a Network-wide Time Synchronization Strategy for WirelessHART

Sheng Zhang, Zhongsheng Xiang, Jie Chen
WirelessHART is an international wireless communication standard proposed by HART Communication Foundation. As a crucial technique for wireless networks, time synchronization plays an important role especially in WirelessHART networks. For constant and reliable communication, it is necessary to provide...
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Forecasting the Environment Changes with the ARMA Model for Application to an Oil Tank Fire Hazard

Ni Yuanzhi, Zhang Jie, Lyu Ming, Bo Yuming
In oil tank farm, the fire hazard causes a great loss to both people and property. Once there is a fire, to avoid more loss, a reliable, secure and practical method for putting out a fire is needed. And under this circumstance, the accurate forecasting of the changes of the environment, such as temperature...

Optimal Resource Allocation of the Press

Xue Yang
The paper studies the optimal resource allocation of the press. Four decisive factors are market share, satisfaction, sales and the number of ISBN assigned. We are made to increase the profits of the press and reduce the gap between expected sales and actual sales at the same time. We set the numbers...

Study on Financing Mode Innovation in New Urbanization Construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Qiong Wu
From the perspective of new urbanization construction of the Yangtze River economic belt, in this paper we firstly analyze the financing demand of it, and then describe the disadvantages of the traditional mode of financing, and finally explore how to construct diversified and sustainable urbanization...
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Implementation of a Mobile Application for Field Data Collection

Gang Qin, Can Chen, Haijing Fu
With the development of information technology, the working style and live style of people change a lot. Intelligent mobile terminals running Android system become popular in recent years. They are portable and powerful. Field data collection is an important job for researchers and personnel of nature...
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Research on Spread Spectrum Communication Technique based on Binary Offset Subcarrier Frequency Sweep and Related Methods

Wenzhun Huang, Yuting Zhang, Xinxin Xie, Shanwen Zhang
In this paper, we conduct theoretical research on spread spectrum communication technique based on binary offset subcarrier frequency sweep and related methods. At present, most of the spread spectrum signal generation did not give the effect of channel filter, and a large number of related studies have...
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A framework for sustainability assessment of ICT futures. Scenarios and sustainability impacts of future ICT- societies

Yevgeniya Arushanyan, Elisabeth Ekener-Petersen, Åsa Moberg, Vlad C. Coroama
The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) has an influence on all societal sectors and can have both positive and negative consequences. To support ICT for sustainability (ICT4S), we need to learn when and how ICT can enable sustainable development. It is important to take...
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Video moving target binary image processing method based on OTSU

Xiaowei Han, Yuan Gao, Yong Cao, Zheng Lu, Dun Niu
Because of some pixels of foreground image which is binarized by fixed threshold, the Gaussian mixture model can not get accurate result. So we introduce OTSU to look for the threshold which satisfy maximum-between-clusters-variance,and it will get best divisional effect.It achieve adaptive threshold...
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Counting of Visible Foreign Particles in Liquid Injection Based on Trajectory Modelling

Wang Sirui, Zhuo Qing, Xia Ji’an
In order to meet the requirements of counting of visible foreign particles in liquid injection, an automatic visible foreign particles counting system based on trajectory modelling is developed. The mechanical part drives containers to spin and stop abruptly and afterwards the liquid continues to spin....
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The impact of HIV/AIDS on foreign direct investment: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Asiedu, Yi Jin, Isaac K. Kanyama
Pages: 1 - 17
We construct a theoretical model that examines the relationship between HIV/AIDS and foreign direct investment and employ panel data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to test the implications of the model. We find that HIV/AIDS has a negative but diminishing effect on FDI. Furthermore, the...
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Export market destination and performance: Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa☆

Ousmanou Njikam
Pages: 1 - 19
This paper uses a novel manufacturing firm-level survey data in 19 sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to explore the linkages among a number of export-market destinations (e.g., China, India, other Asia, EU, US, MENA, SSA excluding South Africa, and South Africa) and performance. The paper also examines...

Research on the Relationship between College English Flipping Classroom and Mental Health Education in Lacan’s Mirror Stage Theory

Xiteng Wang
The traditional model of college English teaching has a lot of problems such as the pressure of classroom management, the enthusiasm of students' participation in class and the difficulty of continuous learning after class. Based on Lacan's mirror stage theory, this paper explores the application of...

What Are Discourse Markers?

Jiahuang Chen
Discourse markers, for a very long time, had been regarded as the detritus of a discourse, useless, meaningless and unworthy of academic attention. In tandem with discourse analysis and pragmatics in the last five decades, discourse markers have been attracting more and more attentions from scholars....

An Analysis on Commercial Film Techniques and Effects Using Positive Factors of Evaluation Database System

Yoji Kawamura
Pages: 1 - 6
This study aims to systematically shed light on what kind of effects are brought about by the film techniques in individual commercial messages. Based on audiovisual experiments, with positive factors as the evaluation index, we considered what could be analyzed from film techniques and their effects....

Refined Execution of Courts based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Jiejing Yao
By promoting the change of big data execution thinking, it will accelerate the integration of traditional execution and digitalized execution, and use digitalized execution to promote autonomous execution. According to the address data of taxi-hailing apps, Taobao receiving, navigation software and the...

Teacher’s Professional Development

Tan Oon Seng
Globalization, rapid technological developments, and transformation of social environments call for many facets of education to keep pace with changes and play a catalytic role to equip students with global competencies. Innovations in curriculum and pedagogy, changing trend and profile of learners,...

Relationship Research between Chinese-character Continuation and Language Difficulty Level in Chinese Text

Zezhi Zheng, Dongjie Zhou
Text grading is beneficial to compile, recommend and evaluate the textbook, etc. Therefore, the measure of difficulty level of texts has received considerable attentions from researchers. In this paper, the static difficulty of units of language and knowledge, like Chinese-characters and words or phrases,...

The Analysis of Apology Speech in Big Bang Theory from the Perspective of Politeness Principle

Yanbo Sun
The principle of politeness plays an indispensable role in interpersonal communication, enabling people to communicate normally through dialogue. However, in some film and television works, in order to achieve a particular artistic effect, the principle of politeness is often ruthlessly "trampling"....

Analysis of the Stereotype Formation Mechanism of Square Dance Damas in the We Media Era

Xun ZHAN, Yuan-Yi MA, Li-Ping LIU
In the era of We Media, Square Dance Damas have been always constantly recognized as a negative image in many media reports. How is this negative stereotype Square Dance Damas constructed? This study, taking Square Dance Damas violently occupying the basketball court news as an example, combined with...
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Parameter Identification for the Impulse Response Signal of Transmission Tower Containing Double Frequencies

Qingshui Gao, Yi Yang, Chu Zhang
Tuned mass damperis designed on transmission towers to reduce vibration. Two new frequencies appear nearby the original natural frequency if the tuned mass damperis installed. The impulse response signal containing double frequencies is complex. It is difficult to identify signal characteristics parameters....

Research on the Training Mode of Aerospace Talents in Colleges and Universities

Shang Lin, Yang Qiong
The aviation industry is a symbol of a country's strength in science, technology, economy and national defense as well as its industrialization level, and it is a strategic industry of the country. At present, students trained in China cannot meet or match the needs of enterprises, in terms of both the...
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Analysis on Trade Patterns in Electronic and Electrical Products: An Empirical Study of the U.S from 2008 to 2017

Fei Wang, Yang Yu, Hui-long Li
The development and protection of electronic and electrical industries are essential parts to America’s national strategy. Using data from UNCOMTRADE database, This paper analyzed trade patterns in electronic and electrical products (HT1 category in Rev.2 classification) in the US from 2008 to 2017....

Innovative personality at the borderline of the global and the local

Olga Abadzhi, Evgeniya Kogay, Anastasia Khoroshilova
The article analyzes processes of globalization and glocalization. It is the regional response to global processes that actualizes localization and innovation. In these conditions the personality of a particular mentality and activity — the innovative personality - becomes much-needed. Key qualities...

A Study on Improving Ideological and Political Education in Private Colleges and Universities

Hong Hu
This paper analyses the affinity and pertinence of Ideological and political education in Colleges and universities from two aspects, including the content of affinity and pertinence, the measures of affinity and pertinence. It is hoped that through the analysis and discussion of this paper, we can promote...

Calling and Membership in Intrinsic Motivation-based Leadership for Increasing Organizational Commitment and Productivity

M. Nadjib Usman, Romi Ilham, Agus Samekto
This research aims to contribute about the impacts of calling and membership for lecturers as professional through spiritual leadership. The proposed research model was tested using partial least square and 327 valid questionnaires were collected. According to the literature review and analytical technique,...
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Study of Relative Exposure to Natural Disaster Risk

Chongfu Huang
In view of the need of relative exposure, as background data, in the geospatial information diffusion model, this paper defines “exposure to natural disaster risk” and “relative exposure”. Dividing “the product of the disaster and the parameter affecting the disaster with respect to a risk bearing body...

Risk Evaluation of Terrorist Attacks against Important Chemical Industries in Urban Areas

Jiahao Yang
While terrorism is getting increasingly rampant all over the world, it is significant to identify risk and clarify possible damage mechanism for chemical industries. Aside from the national evaluation method of major danger source, we also consider judging the content of threatening against terrorists...
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Pedestrian Action Recognition Using Motion Sensor and k-NN Classifier

Ningping Sun, Toru Tsuruoka
We focused on the recognition of pedestrian action using motion sensor and machine learning. In this paper, we present our method how to define feature of actions from acquired data, and how to use k nearest neighborhood classifier to data learning and evaluation.
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Levenberg-Marquardt Method Based Iterative Square Root Cubature Kalman Filter and its Applications to Maneuvering Re-entry Target Tracking

Mu Jing, Wang Changyuan
Levenberg-Marquardt (abbr.L-M) method based iterative square root cubature Kalman filter (abbr. ISRCKFLM) inherits the numerical stability of square root Cubature Kalman filter and effectively suppresses the influence of the larger initial estimation error and the nonlinearity of the measurement equation...

Implication of E-Tourism on Culture Value of Community Based Tourism in Indonesia

Bernadette Dian Nugraheni, Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni
Based on initial data from the digital Yearbook in 2017, the internet users in Indonesia have reached 51%, and 40% of social media users. An indication of this, the Central Government did a digital tourism policy (E-tourism) was considered appropriate for Indonesia's tourism development, so that it could...
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Patterned Photonic Nitrocellulose Membrane for Bio-detection Based on Coffee-Ring Effect

Litianyi Tang, Hong Liu
In this work, we report a method for the fabrication of nitrocellulose (NC) membrane with photonic crystal (PC) pattern for bio-detection. The membrane is prepared by imprinting the corresponding PC pattern into it through thermal Nano-imprint method. Aptamer beacon marked with fluorescein is used for...

Trade Potential Analysis between China and Europe under “the Belt and Road” Initiative

Pei-Zhi WANG, Yu-Han ZHENG, Li-Ping SUN
Recently, the European market has become an indispensable part of Chinese foreign trade. In 2013, China put forward “the Belt and Road” initiative in order to communicate the Eurasian Continent. There has been 24 European countries joining in “the Belt and Road” initiative while most developed countries...

A Study of Customs Tax Risk Management

Jing-Hui DUAN, Yu-Le PAN
This paper studied customs tax risk management. Our research contents are summarized as follows: First, we build Customs Tax Risk Management System (CTRMS). This system includes risk management goal programming, risk analysis and identification, risk quantification and ranking, risk disposal, risk monitoring...

The Impasse of Ancient Tragical Weltanschauung and Two Positive Ways out

Andrei Paribok
The paper deals with the reconstructed logic of the historical conceptual change of ideal worldview types in the early history of Indian and Western civilizations. The primordial naturalistic outlook characterized by pre-reflexivity and a total neglect of human subjectivity was first superseded by elitist...

The Study on the Development of Private Higher Education based on the view of Non-contiguous Orbital Maneuver

Jianwei Shi, Maohua Li
The theory of “S-shaped curve” is of important guiding and practical significance for the transformation of the new and old higher education modes in China. On the one hand, the traditional momentum that supported the growth of higher education in China in the past has moved to the top of the “S-shaped...
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Mechanical Analysis of Environmentally Friendly Concrete Rubber

M. Rizki, Sri Sumarni, Ernawati
Tire production Indonesia has been increased by numbers from year to year along with a great amount causes the availability of abundant rubber tire waste, this waste has not been widely used and has unravel able properties leading into environmental pollution. In this research, we developed an environmentally...

Research on the Application of Panel Teaching Model in College Liberal Arts Classroom

Dequan Chen, Zihan Jin
The traditional interactive classroom teaching method has gradually revealed its disadvantages in practice. To find another way to build real communication between teachers and students is important. Panel teaching mode is an innovative teaching mode, which can truly reflect the students' subject status....