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We studied an impact of the technological processes, used for forming С/Сu composite coated surface of medical implants, on the mechanical characteristics and biocompatibility of resulting coatings. These implants, designed for temporary functioning, were made from X12CrNiTi18-9 stainless steel by ion-beam...

The Education system consists of three dimensions such as policy formation, managerial, and implementation. The purpose of education is to teach and train the young ones to grow in wisdom and knowledge because they are the hope of the nation. Unfortunately, the standard of education in Myanmar has declined...

This paper examines whether drinking frequency is related to residents’ income. Based on National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) data, we find an inverted U-shaped relationship between them. Then, residents’ drinking frequency in 1989 is utilized as an instrumental variable to modify the endogeneity,...

As the Chinese economy shifts from a rapid growth phase to a stage of high-quality development, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) concepts have increasingly become critical indicators for assessing the sustainable development of enterprises, directly influencing the efficacy of investment decisions....

Underwater image segmentation is a method that could help with underwater exploration because it is useful and impactful in the understanding and study of the marine environment. However, it is a difficult and challenging task compared to regular image segmentation due to the nature of the images themselves,...

Family Enterprises are commonly existing worldwide, no matter where the country or the region is. Furthermore, the family’s efficiency has substantial implications on society, so it is a vital branch of business management research. However, existing studies have produced frequently inconsistent results....

Are rigid constraints are necessary to meet carbon reduction targets? The study used data from 275 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2016 to establish a two-way fixed-effect DID model that passed the parallel trend test, heterogeneity analysis, and robustness test to investigate the impact...

This study explores the inverted U-shaped relationship between the level of aging and the level of technological innovation, and further validates this relationship through grouping studies based on different levels of openness. The research data covers Chinese provincial panel data from 2006 to 2022....

Based on a new ray mapping method in (u, v) coordinate system, we have designed a polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA) lens for indoor uniform illumination. The lighting area is 18m ×18m and has a distance of 8m to the light source. We have calculated the surface curves and lofted them into surface, then the...

This study aimed at uncovering reflexes of the Proto-Austronesian (PAN) in Maya language, spoken in Raja Ampat, West Papua province, and verifying the concepts that define South Halmahera-West Papua group proposed by Adriani and Kruyt (1914), Blust (1993), Ross (1994), and Kamholz (2014). To achieve...

In recent years, identifying changes in multitemporal images in terms of land use and land cover is significant in a variety of applications including urban planning. CNN architectures are one of the most extensively utilised methods for change detection. The aim of this research is to investigate two...

Innovation includes two sides, namely process and result. As a process, innovation is the creation of new forms or meanings due to the changes in the original form or meaning, whether it refers to the original word itself or the emergence of new words. The purpose of this research is to observe lexical...

With the aim to measure the credit risk of real estate companies, this study took the default probability of companies as a criterion and developed the evaluation model of credit risk. The sample included forty real estate companies listed in China’s stock exchanges whose data has been accessible from...

Coffee pulp waste contains 25.9–33.0% hemicellulose. Hemicellulolytic bacteria possess the ability to depolymerize hemicellulose by producing hemicellulase enzymes. The objective of the research is to isolate and identify the hemicellulolytic bacteria from Indonesian coffee pulp waste. Hemicellulolytic...

The Fe doped TiO2 (FET) gels were synthesized by different ferric salts and analyzed by thermal gravimetric analyzer and X-ray diffraction. The TG curves show that the valence states of Fe had a great influence on the preparation of FET gels, Fe3+ was easy to replace titanium atoms to form lattice and...

In computational fluid dynamics programming, meshing quality determines the reliability of the results of numerical calculation. For numerical programming in heat and mass transfer of U-type ground heat exchangers (GHE) in ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems, considering the limitation of the structured...

Representations of the q-deformed Euclidean algebra Uq(iso3), which at q 1 gives the universal enveloping algebra U(iso3) of the Lie algebra iso3 of the Euclidean Lie group ISO(3), are studied. Explicit formulas for operators of irreducible -representations defined by two parameters R and s 1 2 Z are...

On Sept 16th, 1994, at the national football work closing meeting, it was decided that every provincial first-class football club must have second-tier and third-tier teams; otherwise China Football Association will not allow registration. That is to say, no reserves, no participating in the national...

Complex of cell-THPC-thiourea-ADP with lanthanide metal ions Gd3+ has been prepared. The thermal stability and smoke suspension of the samples are determined by TG, DTA and cone calorimetry. Experimental data show that for the complexes of cell-THPC-thiourea-ADP with the metal ions, thermal decomposition...

This paper presents application layer multicast system of the context-aware dynamic role, which need to real time tinker up the permissions owned by consumer based on the context information. We analyse key problems of layer multicast system in application layer multicast communication. In order to solve...

Cellulase can be produced by a microorganism, such as fungi. The cellulolytic microorganism used in this study was Paecilomyces lilacinus ICP1. P. lilacinus ICP1 is one of the indigenous fungi from coffee pulp that has been known to produce cellulose. Coffee pulp is expected to be able to replace the...

In this paper, vowels of Mandarin Chinese are selected as pronunciation materials. According to the data of pronunciation time, average airflow velocity and airflow collected, the pronunciation time, average airflow velocity and airflow of [y] [u] are relatively large. It can also be seen that the pronunciation...

This article publishes the results of one of the series of multidimensional research of correlation of mental well-being of a subject of professional activity with individual features of his or hers economical self-determination. Social urgency of the research is connected with the necessity of improving...

In this paper, we qualitatively study radial solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation Δu+un = 0 with u(0) = 1 and u′(0) = 0 on the positive real line, called the Emden–Fowler or Lane–Emden equation. This equation is of great importance in Newtonian astrophysics and the constant n is called the polytropic...

Environmental degradation and obesity are becoming severe since the beginning of the 21st century. Meanwhile, some of the researchers mentioned there should be relationships between economic growth and these two problems respectively. The evaluation of validation of Environment Kuznets curve and Obesity...

The volcanic rocksdistributed in Pingzhuang-Machang basin of Jianping countryshould belongs to YixianFormation,thevolcanism may be divided into two subcycles.The volcanic rocks mainly consists of rhyolites,trachyte and trachyandesites. The geochemical characteristicsindicate that the volcanic rocks belong...

Potassium perfluorobutane sulfonate (PPFBS) was used to impart flame retardancy to polycarbonate (PC). The thermal properties of of the PC/PPFBS composites were studied by limiting oxygen index (LOI), vertical burning test (UL-94), TG, and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed that PC/1wt.%...

The article determines the practical utility of applying Pearson correlation coefficient to the series of indicators of the National investment climate index and statistic indicators of the social and economic development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The article is dedicated...

Sign for EveryJUAN is an Android application for Filipinos who want to learn alphabet, numbers, WH questions, greetings, phrases, days, family members, adjectives, and verbs in Filipino Sign Language. The application will display images and play videos of signs in Filipino Sign Language which includes...

Based on the contingency theory, this study takes 380 listed companies in high-tech industry as the research object and explores the impact of internal pay gap on corporate performance. At the same time, this paper also studies the effect of the nature of corporate property rights on the relationship...

This paper investigates the critical applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the back-end design of digital integrated circuits, with a specific focus on logic synthesis, placement and routing, and clock tree synthesis (CTS). As the integration density of digital circuits increases and process...

Coffee pulp is an agro-industrial waste that is produced in huge amounts in Indonesia. The coffee pulp contains hemicellulose, with 63% of the total cellulose. In our previous study, the cellulase activity of Penicillium sp VT11 from coffee pulp waste was assayed under the solid-state fermentation (SSF)...

The class of discrete uninorms U such that their underlying t-norm T and t-conorm S are smooth is studied. The different cases combining when T is the minimum or the Lukasiewicz t-norm and S is the maximum or the Lukasiewicz t-conorm, are characterized and the number of discrete uninorms with these underlying...

TG/DTG was applied to study the overall kinetics for the reduction of pyrolusite by the mixture of cellulose and lignin, two major components of biomass. The respective reduction processes can be described by a new empirical equation based on the JMA equation, and the apparent activation energy is 38.66...

We consider the direct/inverse spectral problem for the periodic Camassa-Holm eqution. In fact, we survey the direct/inverse spectral problem for the periodic weighted operator Ly = m-1 (-y +1 4 y) acting in the space L2 (R, m(x)dx), where m = uxx-u > 0 is a 1-periodic positive function and u is the...

The main work of this thesis is to study and discuss flame retardant properties of the flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF) added with borax as flame retardant. The flammability parameters, including limiting oxygen index(LOI), rate of heat release (RHR), total heat release (THR), total mass loss (TML)...

We investigated 18XH3MA-SH steel, hardened by electrolytic-plasma treatment. Scanned surface transient analysis showed that during the electrolytic-plasma chemical modification of the surface heating occurs together with details of the release.

Policies are not solely dominated by government interests. This research produces and transforms information about values, facts, and actions on policy and decision-making in the community in accordance with Government Regulation no. 39 of 1992 CHAPTER III Article 4 and Decree of the Minister of National...

The Hadat Banggae Kings Tomb Complex contains 480 ancient tombs. These ancient tombs have been mixed with new tombs, most recently in 1985 the addition of new tombs was stopped. In general, the technique of making graves that is recognized is the technique of connecting in layers and having supporting...

Logistics industry is an important part of the national economy, but also is of the large industries for energy consumption. This study analyzes the relationship between economic output and logistics’ energy consumption in Shanghai during the period 1998 to 2012. The results show that the regression...

Distribution system (DS) delivers electrical power to the end users and is the first interface of the utility with the consumers. Due to deregulation and competition amongst distributors, distribution utilities are under pressure to minimize the losses and to improve reliability to enhance the overall...

Hydrolytic Pectinase is an important enzyme and is widely used in several industries. In the previous investigation, this enzyme could be produced by Aspergillus sp. VTM5 under solid-state fermentation and the coffee pulp waste substrates were used. The specific activity of about 0.4 U/ml of pectinase...

Montmorillonite as flame retardant was used to flexible poly (vinyl chloride) (PVC), and the flame retardant and smoke suppressant properties of PVC were investigated by the limiting oxygen index, smoke density rating, and cone calorimeter tests (CONE), the thermal degradation behaviors of PVC were studied...

This study investigates consumer perceptions towards sustainable omnichannel operations and evaluates their effects on consumer decision-making. This study helps to find differences and commonalities in consumer preferences (i.e., difficulties customers face while ordering goods or services) that assist...

Traditional teaching modes are being changed by information technology. Ubiquitous learning (U-Learning) provides a better platform where education and information technology can be combined deeply. Based on the in-depth research on U-Learning and CDIO teaching mode, this article is written to explore...

How to improve employee work efficiency within the scope of moderate pressure is an important problem that enterprises need to solve to maximize their benefits. In this paper, it introduces the concept of burnout on the basis of comprehensive related research to explore the relationship between work...

We study solutions of the KdV equation governed by a stationary equation for symmetries from the non-commutative subalgebra, namely, for a linear combination of the master-symmetry and the scaling symmetry. The constraint under study is equivalent to a sixth order nonautonomous ODE possessing two first...

Pectinase is a heterogeneous enzyme that hydrolyzes pectin, which is currently in high demand in the industry, so a strategy is needed to produce it economically. Aspergillus VTM4 is a mold that can grow on pomelo pulp and produce pectinase. Under solid-state fermentation, the crude pectinase was produced...

Embedding of paths have attracted much attention in the parallel processing. Many-to-many communication is one of the most central issues in various interconnection networks. A graph $G$ is globally two-equal-disjoint path coverable if for any two distinct pairs of vertices $(u, v)$ and $(w, x)$ of $G$,...

Students face a variety of task demands, both academic and non-academic. For that students must have high psychological strength in order to complete the task optimally and on time. This study aims to explain the effectiveness of the application of behavioral contracting counseling to improve the psychological...