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The personal computer industry (PC industry) is a global industry that sells PC products to consumers. Since World War II, according to people's needs, the personal computer industry has developed in different stages. With the intensification of market innovation and competition, data analytics...

Dengue is the most important arthropod-borne disease of human in the world. It is circulating in tropical and sub-tropical countries in Asia, Africa and the Americans. Taiwan has been also the affected area, and hundreds of people are infected over the past years mostly due to the transmission from imported...

Game enhanced learning (GEL) or computer aids education (CAE) presupposes that game-like applications and computer-based tools enable to improve learners’ cognitive and social skills. However, there is a limited amount of relevant literature and empirical studies available to provide a better understanding...

The Internet of things (IOT), real-time positioning, body sensor monitoring, and human decision support systems have become hot topics over the last two years. Commodity delivery truck drivers face these heavy tasks directly and have also become a key to success of the new IOT trend. A commodity delivery...

Under the leadership of Professor Eric Yeh of Columbia University, the authors use nine carry models including No arbitrage pricing model, Iron condor model, Spot holding model, Cost of carry model, Premium selling model, Classic FX carry model, Convenience yield model, Collar trade model and FX transaction...

The present study aims to determine the prevalence of self-reported sleep duration and sleep habits and their associated factors in patients with type 2 diabetes in Trinidad. This was a cross-sectional multicenter study. There were 291 patients with type 2 diabetes studied. Sleep habits were assessed...

The meaning of a speech is not always identical with the structure of the speech form and it cannot only be traced based on types also its constituent of internal elements. It is because the meaning of speech has a correlation between speech and the actions that the speaker is doing. The external element...

Customers’ requirements for tea drinks increase as time goes on. Coupled with the emergence of novel-tea drinks, which are deeply loved by young people, the audience and market size of tea drinks have gradually expanded, and various brands have emerged one after another. However, many problems in tea...

In the era of globalization, human beings are in the "cultural supermarket", from which people select the global culture concentrating there. The strategy of "going out" of Chinese culture is to place Chinese culture in this "cultural supermarket", reflecting the new development opportunities for Chinese...

The automatic detection of rock fractures is critical for maintaining the stability of rock structures and preventing geological disasters. Currently, three primary techniques are employed: manual inspection, ultrasonic detection, and computer vision technology. Manual inspection is inefficient, subjective,...

In “General Provisions of Civil Law” of the People’s Republic of China, there are some important new terms such as “gongxuliangsu” (公序良俗, public policy and ethics), “bingchichengshi, keshouchengnuo” (秉持诚实，恪守承诺, uphold honesty and honor commitment) and “shanyixiangduiren” (善意相对人, the good-faith third...

The feature selection process can be considered a problem of global combinatorial optimization in machine learning, which reduces the number of features, removes irrelevant, noisy and redundant data, and results in an acceptable classification accuracy. Therefore, a good feature selection method based...

The complex nature of the realistic decision-making process requires the use of Pythagorean fuzzy (PF) sets which have been shown to be a highly promising tool capable of solving highly vague and imprecise problems. Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods within the PF environment are very...

Heart disease is a major cause of death globally, with patients succumbing to death a few years of being diagnosed. This paper proposed a novel hybrid approach of Cuckoo Search Optimization – Extreme Learning Machine (CSO - ELM) to solve a classification problem. The approach was compared with established...

Education has very good role to make a good civilian. Current global issues such as climate change, energy crisis, and environmental sustainability highlight the need to energy education. Without a basic understanding of energy, people cannot make informed decisions on topics ranging from energy use...

Mao Zedong’s “Speech at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art” in 1942 and Xi Jinping’s “Speech at the Forum on Literature and Art” (hereinafter referred to as the two “Speeches”) in 2014 are two glorious Marxist literature and art theoretical guidance documents. Under the illumination of the spirit...

The difference in gender is often affected by the politics and the environment. A number of recent researches try to explore the impact of gender difference. As the internet becomes popularized, the way people learn is changed; many now learn through the internet. The present study unveiled the different...

PC/ABS blend has widely used in vehicle industry. In this dissertation, fracture toughness of PC/ABS blend was studied. The specimens were prepared under various injections molding conditions, such as filling time, melting temperature and mold temperature. The fracture mechanisms were examined with a...

In this paper, we propose a generalized form of Sichel distribution which is obtained by mixing the Poisson distribution with the extended generalized inverse Gaussian distribution. This distribution models over dispersed, zero-inflated and heavy-tailed count data sets. These characteristics are examined...

Health care workers worldwide are faced with unprecedented challenges brought upon by Covid 19 pandemic. High workloads, anxiety, stress and occupational burnout are severely affecting health care workers’ psychological wellbeing. There is a pressing need for comprehensive steps to safeguard the wellbeing...

This paper examines the source and deduction process of the time of “Minor New Year” through poetry literature. According to the Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore Materials (《中国地方志民俗资料汇编》) [1], this paper summarizes the time of “Minor New Year” in various regions of China and the regions...

Due to the high complication of collaboration system, this thesis proposes a conceptual framework for collaboration system as a reference architecture for the collaboration systems. In the mean time, this thesis illustrates the functionalities of a collaboration system, the problems it resolved, and...

In both Chinese and Western contexts, “translation” has the connotation of “interpretation”. James Legge’s “translation” of Taoist classics is accompanied by “interpretation” in his “translation event” from beginning to end. Ancient Chinese commentators hold that what “Ching”(经) renders is “Tao”(道)....

As one of the most influential dictionaries in ancient China, Shuowen Jiezi, contains a large number of “女(female)” characters related to women, which not only carry the evolution of character shapes and meanings, but also reflect women’s identities, statuses, and cultural functions in ancient Chinese...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the stress, strain and deformation distribution of the geometrical shape of the low profile load cell and the stress and strain of the curved beams under the rated load and overload conditions and to evaluate the influence of the stress and strain on the design...

We elaborate the firm theory on market structures (with consideration of behavioural doctrine, industry- and firm-specific features) into a General Theory of Market Competition (or M Theory for easy referring) to explore and construct a clearer and more complete theory on essence of the market competition,...

While “xiaonian (the Chinese minor new year)” is one of the important Chinese traditional festivals, its date is not nationally unified. This essay therefore summarized “xiaonian” time and the regions where the “xiaonian” time has evolved recorded in Compilation of Chinese Local Chronicles and Folklore...

Nowadays, the vacuum cleaner is a quite convenient cleaning tool which is cable or cordless, industrial or household, and even equipped with a microprocessor that automatically clean the floor at home. Because the cordless vacuum cleaner is not limited to the cord and more convenient to clean around...

The western part of Karangasem Regency is an area that has sufficient water resources to be used as irrigation water and clean water, while the eastern part is experiencing problems due to a lack of existing water sources. The development of clean water services in this regency is experiencing problems...

In today’s business world, with an increasingly competitive and dynamic context, the achievement of an organization will not only represent its capability to survive but also its ability to cope with challenging environments constantly. Nevertheless, the organization relies on resilient employees as...

Bigdata (suggested as a brief form for big data in the paper) and artificial intelligence (AI) integrated together is unprecedentedly fast making business intelligence (BI) ever powerful. The paper uses Bigdata-AI or Bigdata AI or BAI to mean a system of bigdata integrated AI; and BAIM to mean a Bigdata-AI...

With economic growth and social development, Taiwan has gradually emerged as an ageing social problem, thus causing a structural imbalance in the population and aggravating the level of competition in the talent market. On the other hand, the new generation of workers who grew up under the influence...

This study checks and analyses the design of a disk braking caliper bench testing machine, to testify its moving characteristics. The analysed objects include rotating axes and four weighting disks. The first procedure is to use the design software SolidWorks to build axis and weighting disks models....

Burnout was finally interpreted, coined as well as defined by Freudenberger in 1961, this concept had and still is being restudied and redefined at every potential moment by various authors and psychologists. However, as there are many journal articles that indicate research about employee burnout, other...

Tourism industry has been growing in recent years, thus becoming a highly competitive market. Government improves its tourism competitiveness to attract a large amount of foreign tourists, increase tourist revenue, and create local employment opportunities. Studies of tourism competitiveness abroad began...

The Covid-19 epidemic has compelled higher education institutions to adapt to numerous quick advances in order to replace conventional face-to-face sessions. Various worries have been expressed by educational institutions all around the world, particularly about the influence of academics in surviving...

Director Jia Zhangke’s films have always paid close attention to social changes, and he is good at using symbolic expression in films, which is also an important feature of his films. The use of symbols in the film “Ash Is Purest White” (also known as “People of Jianghu”) runs through the entire film,...

In Russia, China’s initiatives for the implementation of the “One Belt, One Road” (一带一路) project are met with great interest, the resumption of discussions was facilitated by a joint statement on cooperation on the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union and The Silk Road Economic Belt (丝绸之路经济带),...

This study investigates three factors of the acceleration equation, i.e., acceleration constants c1 and c2 and inertia weight w, which are then used as events in particle swarm optimization for parameter optimization in the para-tank model (PTM) during rainfall–runoff simulation. The values of 0.2, 0.5,...

Analyzing process logic differences between company’s process and best practice process can assist project team in discovering process improvement opportunities. Process logic comparison has been mentioned in some literature, but research in this area still lacks effectively and efficiently analytical...

In this paper, a machine-leaning-based adaptive approach is proposed to restore image from Gaussian corruption. The well-known Random-Optimization (RO) learning method is used for training of the adaptive filter. With the merit of model-free computation of RO, the derivative information is not required....

Foreign words or in Japanese called Gairaigo (外来語) is words that taken from foreign languages, and adapted to Japanese word formation. The purpose of this research is to get to know about the formation of Gairaigo in Japanese commercial advertisements that appeared in the period 2016 to 2020, the types...

Changes in the hydrological cycle affect the equilibrium of water entry and exit in reservoirs. As reservoirs age, sediment buildup reduces their functionality. Telaga Tunjung Dam was built to support irrigation, clean water supply, flood control, and tourism. Telaga Tunjung Dam is located in Timpag...

In many rapidly urbanizing countries, deep excavations often cause damage to nearby utilities, such as roads, manholes, and buried pipelines. Earthquakes can also devastate underground lifelines, as seen in the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan and the 2011 Tohoku earthquake in Japan. These issues have...

Japanese manga has been known for its representation of Japanese daily life through its genre of slice of live. However, while not too related to depiction of everyday life, the manga stories based on imaginative and fantasy worlds have managed to relate to the condition of contemporary Japan. Attack...

In the Internet age, every computer user is likely to inadvertently encounter highly contagious viruses. Over the past several years, a new type of web attack has spread across the web, that is, when a client connects to a malicious remote server, the server responds to the request while simultaneously...

The formation of Islam in the 7th century marked the beginning of a rising era for the Arabic-speaking communities. Among the unique cultural values that significantly contributed to shaping Arab identity is The Perfumed Garden (الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر) by Sheikh Nefzawi. Whereas the Kama Sutra of...

Interests continue to grow in recent years for the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in many different areas including transportation and supply chain management. Those RFID-included objects can be targeted more efficiently by real-time tracking and instant management. However, because...

Due to Covid-19 pandemic, the adoption rate of E-wallet increased drastically. Nevertheless, moving to the next phase of endemic, what motivates the Generation Y to continue using E-wallet remains questionable? In order to ensure the sustainable business in the post Covid-19 pandemic era, this study...

The optimal management of hemodynamic disorders among critically ill patients requires an accurate assessment of hemodynamic status. Global End Diastolic Index (GEDI) is taken for a more reliable indicator of preload in critically ill patients than central venous pressure and doctors tend to arrange...