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Proceedings Article
Good Governance: A Norm for the Administration or a Citizen’s, Right?
Henk Addink
The central issue of our article is: can principles of good governance be regarded as norms for the administration or is it a citizen’s, right? The underlying issue is the mutual relation between both types of requirements regarding good governance and whether we will be able to express our preference...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Using Automated Fare Collection System Data to Determine Transport Demand
A. Fadeev, S. Alhusseini
Transport demand (a set of data about trips and passengers mobility patterns in the network) is a golden key for solving a wide range of issues of transportation and town planning problems. These are development of the road network, development and optimization of public transport routes, etc. To determine...
Research Article
Performance Evaluation of Data Migration Policies for a Distributed Storage System with Dynamic Tiering
Atsushi Nunome, Hiroaki Hirata
Pages: 1 - 8
We have proposed a distributed storage system which autonomously migrates data blocks into a suitable storage node by considering their access frequency and read/write ratio. In this paper, we show that revised data migration policies can rapidly distribute input/output (I/O) hot spot over the storage...
Proceedings Article
Earning Management or Tax Avoidance? Company Decision on Accounting and Tax Reporting Cost
Elisa Tjondro, Agnes Ayu Permata
The significant differences between the company tax rate and the loan interest rate create incentives for companies in Indonesia to conduct trade-offs between accounting and tax reporting costs. Management always wants to give a good signal for investors regarding company financial performance. On the...
Proceedings Article
New trends in financial inclusion policies: role of digital technologies and digital inclusion
Victor Dostov, Pavel Shust, Anna Khorkova
By comparing the situation with financial inclusion in developing and developed countries we look at the notion of ‘new financially excluded’. There seems to be a growing evidence that the implementation of new technologies that was seen as a universal cure for financial exclusion backfires for some...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Brachial flow-mediated dilatation response to acute different upper body training postures in lean inactive vs. lean active men
Witid Mitranun, Prasit Peepathum
Pages: 1 - 7
Background: Resistance training postures trigger different results on endothelial function: however, the acute effect of resistance training on upper body muscle in active and inactive persons is inconclusive. The present study aimed to investigate the acute effects of 2 different types of upper body...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Effect of angulation and Reynolds number on recirculation at the abdominal aorta-renal artery junction
Mohammed Ameenuddin, Mohan Anand
Pages: 1 - 8
We investigate the effect of renal artery angle variation and Reynolds number on the probability of formation of atherosclerosis-prone regions at the abdominal aorta-renal artery junction. The rheologically accurate shear-thinning Yeleswarapu model for blood is used to simulate flow in a 3-Dimensional...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Retinal vascular calibers in contemporary patients with chronic systemic inflammatory diseases: The Greek REtinal Microcirculation (GREM) study
Evaggelia K. Aissopou, Athanase D. Protogerou, Theodore G. Papaioannou, Maria Tektonidou, Nikolaos Tentolouris, Panagiotis G. Theodossiadis, Coen D.A. Stehouwer, George D. Kitas, Petros P. Sfikakis
Pages: 1 - 6
Background: Chronic systemic inflammatory diseases (CSID) are associated with increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Widening of retinal venular calibers has been independently associated with systemic inflammation and cardiovascular risk in the general population. We aimed to test the hypothesis...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Complex vasoactivity of liraglutide. Contribution of three gasotransmitters
Eszter Sélley, Gergő A. Molnár, Szilárd Kun, István András Szijártó, Boglárka Laczy, Tibor Kovács, Ferenc Fülöp, István Wittmann
Pages: 1 - 9
Background: Incretine hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) causes dose-dependent relaxation of the thoracic aorta of rats and other arteries via nitric oxide (NO), cAMP and ATP-sensitive potassium channels, however, through a mechanism not thoroughly described. Hereby we aimed to determine the mediators...
Research Article
Spontaneous Concept Learning with Deep Autoencoder
Serge Dolgikh
Pages: 1 - 12
In this study we investigate information processing in deep neural network models. We demonstrate that unsupervised training of autoencoder models of certain class can result in emergence of compact and structured internal representation of the input data space that can be correlated with higher level...
Proceedings Article
Impoverishment Against Corruptors
I Nyoman Sujana, I Nyoman Gede Sugiartha
This paper is inspired by circumstances where the level of corruption is increasing both in quantity and quality. Corruption is increasingly massive and widespread not only by executive, legislative but also law enforcement officials. Criminal sanctions imposed on corruptors are not optimal and are not...
Proceedings Article
Business Strategy, Culture Control and Organizational Performance
Edward Fazri, Hanifah Imam, Tri Lestari
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship business strategy, culture control and organizational performance. The data is processed by using a Partial Least Square (PLS). The population consists of middle manager of multinational manufacturing company in Banten, Sample of this research...
Proceedings Article
Putative non-stereo specific dehalogenase from Antarctic of Psychotropic Bacillus sp IH01
Ismail Haruna, Hassana Abubakar, Roswanira Ab Wahab, Fahrul Huyop
The main aim of the study was to isolate and identify any organism that can degrade 2,2-dichloropropionic acids (2,2DCP) from Antarctica soil and water environment. ntarctica is well known of its extreme cold temperature. In this study we successfully isolated at least six colonies (AA1, AA2, AB1, AB2,...
Proceedings Article
The Application of Multi-Class Support Vector Machines on Intrusion Detection System with the Feature Selection using Information Gain
Jihan Maharani, Zuherman Rustam
Nowadays, the intrusions often occur in a network system. One of ways that Intrusions can be prevented or detected is by using Intrusion Detection System. Therefore, IDS (Intrusion Detection System) is indispensable to detect intrusions in a network. In this paper, we will discuss the classification...
Proceedings Article
The Srivaisnava Way of Life: The Value of Initiation (Pancasamskara) in the Art of Liberation
Natalia Safina
Indian culture is inseparably linked with philosophy and religion. The art of ritual, no matter how complex and symbolic it may be, is based on the religious and philosophical tradition and strictly consistent with its main goal. In this article we consider the features of initiation of the pancasamskara...
Proceedings Article
Research on Internet Education Poverty Alleviation in the Era of Big Data
Wanbing Shi, Xiaoyue Zhang
Education promotes people's success through employment (entrepreneurship) after entering the workplace by promoting people's knowledge and skills. For the poor people, effective poverty alleviation through education can effectively cut off intergenerational transmission of poverty. Among the various...
Proceedings Article
Research on Collaborative Innovation and English Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges
Danlu Liao, Fongpeng Chew
In the case of English education in higher vocational colleges, collaborative innovation is the trend of development. The students who are trained by traditional higher vocational English teaching have been unable to meet the needs of the employers in today's society. Therefore, it is necessary to promote...
Proceedings Article
Information Diffusion on Geographical Space and its Application in Risk Analysis
Chongfu Huang
Reviewing the information diffusion in the probabilistic space, in this paper, we proposed the information diffusion on the geospatial space. With the help of background data as the medium, we can use the suggested method to supplement incomplete data to make it complete. The information diffusion in...
Proceedings Article
The heterogeneity of village cadres and poverty reduction
Dungang Zang, Yuke Luo
By using the data of 7 provinces, 757 administrative villages and 31615 famers in the minority regions of the Midwest, this paper investigates the relationships between Village cadres heterogeneity and poverty reduction. And we find that the age of the village cadres, ethnic identity, investment promotion,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Organic Polymer Monolith: Synthesis and Applications For bioanalytical
Ahmad Sabarudin
High-speed separation, enrichment, digestion, as well as high-throughput analysis of biomolecules are very important in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, biosciences, etc. for thesepurposes, currently a single piece of porous material so-called "monolith", Has been rapidly developed for Several...
Proceedings Article
The Application of Thermodynamic Parameter Model Based on RGSA-RBFNN in Vacuum Resurgence Control Process
Xinye Li, Yekuan Luo, Jiajing Wang, Yushan Hao
In traditional vacuum resurgence control process, there are some problems such as insufficient moisture regain, unsatisfactory moisture content absorption and large steam loss. In order to solve these problems, we put forward the vacuum pre-conditioner’s thermodynamic parameter model to control the vacuum...
Proceedings Article
Constructing Experimental & Practical Curriculum for Talent Training of E-Commerce
Yan Peng, Jie Wang, Yihong Rong
In this work, we study the system of experimental and practical curriculum, including teaching plans and teaching mode for practical training program in the “E-commerce” major, under the environment of big data. We implement a progressive full-period of “practical teaching + discipline competition innovation...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Research and Design of Online Education Platform Based on Named Data Network
Linglin Li, Dening Jiang, Di Miao, Kaixin Li
This paper proposes a new method for data transmission using the Named Data Network (NDN) architecture, and introduces the new NDN network into online education innovatively. Based on the information center network (ICN), the special advantages of the NDN network are utilized to improve the real-time...
Proceedings Article
The Political Culture of Debutant Voters (Analysis Study of Political Culture of Students as Debutan Voters in North Sumatera University)
Adil Arifin
Based on the fact that the debutant voters is one of the potential voters in every election and it have a big number of vote in this present democratic era. So the debutant voters is one of the main targets in any kind of political campaigneither for political party or the candidates leaders in the election,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Method of Locating End Points of Insulator Strings Based on Minimum Enclosing Rectangle
Jiawei Hu
In the algorithm of extracting end points of insulator strings by image technology, we propose a method to find the Minimum Enclosing Rectangle (MER)of the target by using the the principal axis method based on the combination of the vertex chain code and the discrete Green theorem.Then the binary image...
Proceedings Article
Turmeric Can Prevent Cochlear Damage Due To Ototoxic Drugs
Tengku S.H. Haryuna, Sari Anggraini
The high use of ototoxic drugs, especially antibiotics such as aminoglycosides and anticancer drugs such as cisplatin still can not be avoided as a therapeutic option. The use of ototoxic drugs can cause damage to the cochlea, vestibule, and semicircular canals leading to hearing loss and balance disorders....
Proceedings Article
Several Notations of Gronwall Inequality of Vector Functions
D. Luo, Y. Liu, C. Wang
In this paper, we first consider tow inequalities of vector functions,then combine the vector function inequality with Gronwell' inequality to obtain another two vector function's inequalities. At last, using them to prove the maximum principle for one kind of optimal control problem.
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Human Action Recognition Based on Global Silhouette and Local Optical Flow
Ning Zhang, Zeyuan Hu, Sukhwan Lee, Eungjoo Lee
Currently, Human Activity Recognition is a research hotspot in the field of machine vision, it involves knowledge of image processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and many other disciplines. Video-based Human Activity Recognition including human area detection, movement and gesture segmentation,...
Proceedings Article
Review of the Management Theory and Method of Loan Limitation
Mu Zhang, Meng Wang
Reasonably determining and using the loan limitation granted by commercial banks to their corporate clients, it has important theory meaning and realistic meaning for commercial banks to strengthen risk prevention and for lenders and borrowers to improve operational performance. In this paper, we summarized...
Proceedings Article
Indonesia: The Dangers of Democratic Regression
Edward Aspinall, Eve Warburton
For the last decade, comparativists and country experts have praised Indonesia's democratic stability. Free, fair and highly competitive elections are held regularly throughout the country. Indonesia boasts a vibrant civil society and its press is amongst the freest in the region. However, praise for...
Proceedings Article
The Research on the Ecological Environment Construction and Poverty Alleviation Development in "Three Rivers Parallel Flow Area" of Yunnan Province
Yongqian Li, Yerong Li
In the process of the regional ecological environment construction in "Three Rivers Parallel Flow Area", the regional resources, the relationship between economy and environment should be taken into consideration. Based on market-oriented and serious comparison between opportunity and cost, we should...
Proceedings Article
Serum Leptin Levels in Patients with Hepatitis B: A Meta-analysis
Qiong-Yuan Zhang, Xuan Xu, Mei Luo, Jian-Jiang Xue, Ying-Li Li
Background and Aims: Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a widespread disease affecting people worldwide. With more and more research on the deepening of the leptin, which suggested a close relationship between serum leptin levels and HBV. In this study, we explored the correlation between serum leptin...
Proceedings Article
Studies on Culture and Creative economics in Belgium (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia)
Elisabetta Lazzaro
In recent decades, new forces, such as China, Russia and Brazil, have emerged in the international contemporary art market as part of the creative economy. At the same time the art market is becoming more visible globally, with the same art galleries and the same artists can be exhibited in different...
Proceedings Article
A New Method for Sorting Radar Signal Based on Entropy Features
Jun Han, Xiaofei Lu, Minghao He, Xiaojie Tang
In order to figure out shortcomings of the existing method, such as the accuracy is not high and the method is sensitive to noise, we firstly Obtain the Wigner distribution space and bispectrum space for the received radar signal, then divide the space into subspace. Under the subspace distribution probability,...
Proceedings Article
Acceptance Double Sampling Plan with Fuzzy Parameter
Ezzatallah Baloui Jamkhaneh, Bahram Sadeghpour-Gildeh, Gholamhossein Yari
In the present paper we have proposed a method for designing acceptance double sampling plans with fuzzy quality characteristic. we have argued the acceptance double sampling plan when the fraction of defective items is a fuzzy number. These plans are well defined since if the fraction of defective items...
Proceedings Article
Combining Analytical and Evolutionary Inductive Programming
Neil Crossley, Emanuel Kitzelmann, Martin Hofmann, Ute Schmid
Analytical inductive programming and evolutionary in- ductive programming are two opposing strategies for learning recursive programs from incomplete specifica- tions such as input/output examples. Analytical induc- tive programming is data-driven, namely, the minimal recursive generalization over the...
Proceedings Article
Parameter Estimation of LFM Signal in the Presence of non-Gaussian Noise
Sajjad Malekee, Mahmoud Mayiami, Seyed Reza Haydarinik, Seyed Mohammad Alavi
In this paper, a method is proposed for chirp rate and initial frequency estimation in the presence of non-Gaussian noise. In this approach, the noise is considered a component of signal phase. After extracting the phase of received signal, we estimate the parameters of interest by using the linear estimators....
Proceedings Article
Study on User Behavior and Social Tagging
Yaping Wan, Xiaohua Yang, Zhiming Liu, Jiayu Ma, Xiaoyun Li, Chunping Ouyang, Ying Yu, Hui Jiang
We studied the electronic communication of knowledge users collaborating on a community and found that their work and interactions were mediated by the use of tag. Drawing on these, we found social tagging is the process by which many users add metadata in the form of keywords, to annotate and categorize...
Proceedings Article
A Neural Network Enhanced Stereo Vision Obstacle Detection and Avoidance System for Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Fanjun Liu, Binggang Cao
This paper presents a neural network enhanced stereo vision obstacle detection and avoidance system for unmanned ground vehicle. In this paper, we build a neural network to learn the mapping for the left image to the right image under the assumption of a flat road. Using the trained neural network we...
Proceedings Article
Land Comprehensive Value Evaluation Model
Ti Xiang
Lack of consideration for the cost of environmental degradation,the land value has always been assessed mistakenly. Considering both the economic gains and the environmental degradation cost, our team propose the Land Comprehensive Value Index (LCVI). Then we establish the Land Comprehensive Value Evaluation...
Proceedings Article
Knowledge Discovery in Evolution of the Structure and Form of Scientific Model: J-System Theory
Qi Qian, Qianhui Zhao, Yu Chen, Zhaohua Jiang
First we establish the definition of J-System, and by some actual case according to this definition to illustrate that many scientific knowledge system are J-System which is consist of three concept sets by some cognitive pattern. This paper discusses that the J system is composed of the paradigm set...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
The Effects of Trade Facilitation on Trade Performance in Africa
Daniel Sakyi, Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor
Pages: 1 - 15
Institutional trade barriers constitute substantial constraints for a number of exporters and importers. These barriers are multidimensional and they impede trade flows and trade performance of many developing countries, including African countries. In particular, the International Trade Centre through...
Proceedings Article
An Approach to Improve Diffusion Coefficient of Geospatial Information Model
Chongfu Huang
This paper proposes an approach to improve the diffusion coefficient of the geospatial information diffusion model. The diffusion coefficient calculated by the average distance formula is appropriately amplified to become the initial diffusion coefficient. Employing a search method, we take two test...
Proceedings Article
Identifying the Strength of Emotions in Relation with the Topic of Text Using Word Space
Anatoly Beltiukov, Mohsin Manshad Abbasi
Emotion analysis from text is a topic of growing interest over recent years. It is because of the growth and availability of internet. The emotion analysis from text and the strength of the emotions in text plays an important role in understanding and predicting the future events. In this paper, we are...
Proceedings Article
Risk Mapping of Risk Factors Associated with Human Rabies Cases in Bali Province, Indonesia
Yuni Yupiana, Chaerul Basri, Ernawati, S Sihombing, Farida Zenal, Caitlin Pfeifer, Mark Stevenson, Luuk Schoonman, James McGrane, Fajar Tjaturrasa
Since the emergence of rabies cases in human in 2008, there have been 174 humans affected by the disease in Bali. Eradication program implementing dog vaccination has seemed to decrease the incidence of rabies cases in human, however the human cases were still found. A lot of resources from local and...
Proceedings Article
Digital Workplace Implementation To Promote Gender Equality
Nita Yalina
The focus of this research is to provide an explanation of how the digital workplace can help to promote gender equality in the organization. We conduct interviews with 4 managers and 8 selected woman on different organization regarding expected condition at the workplace. In the Organization perspective,...
Proceedings Article
Imitating Success of Japanese Entrepreneurs and Benefits in Entrepreneurial Activities
Eddy Soeryanto Soegoto, Nadya Vian Anisa
This study aims to explain how Japanese entrepreneurs achieve success and replicable benefits in entrepreneurial activities. Data for this study was gathered through observations on articles and books. This study used a qualitative method. As a nation that experienced a war defeat, Japan has similarities...
Proceedings Article
Assessment of the Impact of Technology-Related Factors of Urban Environment on Population and Long-Term Environmental Tasks for Business
Nikolay Borisov, Oleg Klepikov
The aim of this study was to assess the impact of technology-related factors of the urban environment on population and to establish long-time tasks for business in order to improve the ecological situation. We used the materials from the Federal Budgetary Health Institution “Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology...
Journal: Artery Research
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Pharmacological Management of Hypertension Guided by Central or Peripheral Blood Pressure Measurement: Comparison of Two Strategies on the Incidence of Intermediate Outcome
Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso, Sayuri Inuzuka, Gilberto Campos Guimarães, Robson Pierre Pacífico, Victoria Alves Melo, Luiz Fernando Oliveira, Eduarda Silva, Gustavo Ribeiro Mesquita, Deborah Silva Cintra Valle, Priscila Valverde Vitorino, Ana Luiza Lima Sousa, Paulo César Brandão Veiga Jardim, Antonio Coca
Pages: 1 - 4
Background: Central blood pressure values and arterial stiffness have demonstrated to be a useful tool to stratify cardiovascular risk and also as a biomarker. A question that is still unanswered is if hypertension treatment guided by central blood pressure parameters will be even better to promote cardiovascular...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Developing Procedures to Assess Contractors at Various Stages of Cooperation
Turgaeva Aksana Albekovna, Azizova Esenia Anatolevna
State customer activities inevitably imply signing governmental contracts with companies of various types. Government contract making may result in certain risks and economic security threats for the state customer and it is of primary importance because its successful execution influences the budget...