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A Monte Carlo Simulation Scheme for Basket Options with Barriers

Ni Cao, Hui Mai, Shuining Zhang
In this paper we introduce simulation pricing of a sample barrier call option on a basket of stocks under the multivariate Black-Scholes-Merton scheme. Ten S&P 500 stocks from different industries were chosen to compose the basket, with the weights assigned to be the optimizer of the basket’s Sharpe...
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An Approach of Advanced Optimistic Protocol Based on Time Dams

Zhongjie ZHANG, Jian HUANG, Zhijia WANG
Time Synchronization is a key technique which synchronizes the LPs (Logic processes) of PDES (Parallel and Discrete Event Simulation). After having described shortcomings of the existing algorithms for Time Synchronization, this thesis mainly proposes a new approach based on time dams. It introduces...

Long Trend of PM2.5 Mass Concentration Variations and Its Related Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases in Ten Countries

Shunuan Xie
Numerous epidemiology studies indicated that exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) could cause chronic human health effects. However, long-term trends in PM2.5-related health effects across countries remain unclear. Hence, we aimed to explore the differences in long trend variations for PM2.5 mass...

An Empirical Model for the Chinese Cosmetic Industry

Kangnaixin Yang, Hanchao Jiang, Tianyi Tang
The Chinese cosmetic market is developing rapidly in recent years and has become one major aspect of Chinese consumption. This paper uses a multiple regression model to analyze the factors affecting the cosmetics industry in China. The paper would firstly look at related research in this field and present...

Exploring the Impact of Suffering from Sexual Assault on Women Victims

Jiajunqi Zhang
Women have a lot of unresolved psychological issues after being sexually assaulted. These issues are often the easiest to be ignored. These problems also hurt their soul and dignity. In Our country, this issue has also aroused the attention of the country and all walks of life in this field. This paper...

Research on the Influential Factors for Hedge Fund Performance in Liquor Industry

Yiwen Hu
China has a very rich wine culture, and there is even a large amount of famous wine inherited for hundreds of years. Social intercourse at the dinner table is also inevitable in Chinese culture, which means that liquor is an essential consumer goods in daily life. And the general consumer goods will...

What Changes Parents’ Value in Their Children’s Quality?

An Association between Parents’ Demographic Background and Their Valued Qualities in Children

Xuezheng Wang
What is valued by parents for their children’s qualities worth investigating. Additionally, possible demographic characteristics of parents may change their perception of valued qualities. This investigation interested in how age, income level and highest educational level attained influence parents’...

Strategic Direction for the Development of SMEs - Based on the Successful Experience of POP MART

Ruiyuan Qi
At present, the lifestyle toy industry has shown great development potential in both domestic and international markets. With the introduction of blind box products into China, the market of blind box products in China has rapidly grown to a ten million market. Since its establishment 11 years ago, POP...

Identification of Optimal Risky Portfolios for Hedge Fund

Runsheng Rong, Yongwei Yang, Mengru He, Dingyin Hu, Zhenting Gu
The hedge fund market, stock market and bond market all have high risks. The purpose of our project is to build the optimal risky portfolio consisting of ten different strategies (which includes Arbitrage, CTA/Managed Futures etc.) to diversify risk and gain a high return, and we also conducted a 5-fold...

Students’ Perceptions of Using Quizizz Educational Game in Indonesian Language Learning at SMK Muhammadiyah 2 Karanganyar

Adistya Yossi Hilda Agustine, Gallant Karunia Assidik
This study aims to determine students’ perceptions of using Quizizz educational games in Indonesian learning. This quantitative research used a survey approach and a questionnaire to collect data. Twenty-five respondents were selected through purposive sampling, and questionnaires were administered via...

The Morality Impact of Price War and Low Salary on the Chinese Delivery Industry’s Workers

Shenhong Li, Ziyi Wang, Linkun Han, Junyu Shi, Junyu Yang, Runqi Zhang
As is known to all, the delivery industry is one of the world’s largest industries nowadays. Moreover, China’s delivery is thriving these days, and it has already developed over 30 years with the total number of delivery works achieved more than seven million. Sadly, there are several moral problems...

A Review of Body Image Disturbance in Binge Eating Disorder

Yonghui He, Ruihang Liu, Zhuo’er Mu, Jingyan Nie
This paper mainly reviews the related research of body image disorder and binge eating disorder in recent ten years, examines the effect of body image disturbance (BID) in binge eating disorder (BED). BED is characterized by binge-eating repeatedly occurs and last a week for three months, at the same...
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Design and Implementation of an Intelligent System for Seafarers’ “Cargo stowage and securing” Assessment

Qingwu Wang, Weifeng Li, Jian Zhao
Cargo operation is of great importance as far as the Chief Officer’s duties are concerned. “Cargo stowage and securing” is therefore one of the most important assessment courses for seafarers. The traditional assessment is however based on the subjective judgment by the assessors, which makes unfair...

Geographical Mechanisms of Regional Differentiation and Evolution of Pronunciation and Singing Tune Under the New Mobility Paradigm——A Case Study of Ten Local Operas in China

Qin Liu, Kai Xu, Xiaojun Yang
Opera is a traditional culture integrating mobility and immobility. Based on the perspective of new flow paradigm, this paper adopts the spatial analysis method to analyse the regional distribution characteristics and formation mechanism of ten operas. The research shows that: (1) Based on the Qinling...

Literature Analysis and Research Prospects of Computational Thinking Education in Primary and Secondary Schools in China from the Perspective of STEAM

Mingyang Sun, Yingxin Liu
STEAM education is widely valued as a model of interdisciplinary learning mode, and computational thinking is selected as one of the top ten technologies that will have a profound impact on education in the next three to five years. This paper follows the research hotspots, categorizes the literature...

Learning from the Past Ten-Year Effects of Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA)

Kemo Chen, Linfeng Jiang, Haohong Liang, Weixi Su, Yuyuan Wang
This paper aims to study the impact of ECFA on the import and export of goods between the mainland in China and Taiwan, which is of great significance to explore its improvement measures and future development trend. To figure out the problem, this paper focused on the two stages of the development of...

Selecting Audio and Visual Stimuli: What Do We Prefer If They Happened Simultaneously?

Yutong Ding, Yandi Wu, Taojun Zhang
Visual and audio stimuli become increasingly important in human lives as technology advances. To consider how humans receive, process, and react to stimuli, we investigate attention, specifically selective attention. Selective attention describes how humans focus on a particular stimulus in the environment...

Elements of Cohesion and Coherence in Chinese Narrative Discourse Texts in Newspapers 国际日报 Guoji Ribao

Cicik Arista, Muhammad F. Masrur, Hans Y. T. Dasion, Subandi Subandi, Yogi B. Adimas, Rendy Aditya
Cohesion and coherence are essential elements that have a role in forming structural coherence and coherence of the meaning of discourse texts. The formation of a coherent structure and semantic relationship cannot be separated from using the correct elements of cohesion and coherence, which are marked...
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Mechanically Twisting of Multi-Membrane Carbon Nanotube Yarn and The Enhancement of Its Mechanical Properties

Jingdong Zhu
The direct CVD-spun multi-membrane carbon nanotube yarn is mechanically twisted to engineer its structures and to enhance its mechanical properties. Homogenously twisted CNT yarns with a dense cross-section are achieved with different degrees of twisting. The mechanical twisting remarkably increases...
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Brief Analysis on the Current Situation and Problems of Brand Advertisement in China 's Internet Financial Industry

En Deng, Yuanji Huang
In recent years, Internet thinking is like a Renaissance of contemporary Chinese financial industry. It is profoundly changing the pattern and development of traditional financial industry. In the traditional industry, the formation and dissemination of a brand sometimes need dozens or even hundreds...

Exploring the Basic Experience of Chinese Moral Education in the Past 40 Years (1978-2018)

Ailin Xie, Yulian Xu, Lihui Wang
In the past 40 years, China's moral education and China's development path have made exploration in many important ways, such as from political service to great virtue, from public norms to requirements of social morality, from individual cultivation to practice of personal virtue, which have gradually...
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Tourist route optimization design and algorithm

Yong-lin Xu, Sheng-zhi Zhang, Jin Yang
Take ten tourist attractions in Lanzhou as the example to design one-day trip at Lanzhou plan model. Through Dijskra algorithm to find the shortest path and the path which spent the shortest time, and analys the result to get the way which is the best solution, use the target node in the first time as...

Research on the Current Situation of Consumption Demand of Rural Residents in China

Benyao Sun
This paper selects the income and consumption data of rural residents in China from 2008 to 2017, comparing the income and consumption of rural residents and urban residents in a horizontal comparison and vertically comparing the consumption of rural residents in the past ten years. This paper analyzes...

Study of Portfolio Performance Under Certain Restraint Comparison: Markowitz Model and Single Index Model on S&P 500

Zi’ang Zhang
The purpose of this study is to figure out what percentage of each stock should be in the optimal portfolio and minimal risk portfolio created by Markowitz Model and Sharpe’s Single Index Model and to make a comparison of the portfolio model, as well as the return and risk differences between Markowitz...

Deixis in Chinese Written Discourse Text in Daily Newspaper 国际日报 Guoji Ribao

Yogi B. Adimas, Muhammad F. Masrur, Subandi Subandi, Hans Y. T. Dasion, Cicik Arista, Rendy Aditya
Reference is deixis following the context of the language so that it always changes and appears in various situations and language events, resulting in the meaning of the reference in one lingual unit being different. This study examines the form of person and time deixis and their forms of reference...

Responding to the Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Etiology, Challenges, and Treatment

Mutian Pi, Yu Zuo
Personality disorder: the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish an individual from other people. Based on the DSM-5, ten different personality disorders are grouped into three clusters based on common features——cluster A, cluster B, and cluster C. The paper focuses on cluster...

Explanations to the Failure of Nokia Phone

Songhe Wang
Nowadays, with the application and popularization of 5G technology, the efficiency and convenience of mobile phones have made people live with the indispensable part of their lives. While the mobile phone market is experiencing rapid development, we should also continue to reflect, so as not to repeat...
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Verification of a hypothesis about unification and simplification for position updating formulas in particle swarm optimization

Jian Hu
Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been a popular research area in artificial intelligence technology, where the two issues of theoretical analysis and premature convergence have been the focus of attention. However, due to complex dynamics in particle swarm, the former has been conducted only in...
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Study on the relation between ground motion parameters and simulated earthquake damage of simplified masonry structures

Dongwang Tao, Yinliang Cai
Choosing proper earthquake ground motion parameters is important to establish a relation between strong ground motion and the earthquake damage. In this paper the statistical relationship between ten ground motion parameters and simulated mean earthquake damage indices of simplified masonry structures...

Contrastive Study in Users’ Selective Exposure Between Search Engines and Short Videos

Take Baidu and Douyin as Examples

Zeyu Gao
Ten years ago, search engines were the most popular application in China. Recently, however, videos (especially short videos) are favored by more and more Chinese people. Taking Baidu and Douyin as examples, this paper explores the difference of users’ selective exposure between these two applications...
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Study on the Relationship between the Industrial Structure of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebe and the Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction

Wei Chen, Jiao Ma
As the core of the Bohai economic circle, the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebe region's economic development occupies an important position, but the industrial structure condition of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebe region is not optimistic. Based on the statistical data from 2005 to 2012, this article analyzes the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebe...
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Effect of Ionic Strength on Adsorption of Corncob Xylitol Residue on Cr(VI)

Jingwen Xue, Fandeng Meng, Yantao Liu, Huagai Xia
The adsorption of xylitol residue in 200mg/L of Cr(VI) solution at different ionic strength was studied. Results show 97-99% of Cr(VI) can be effectively adsorbed when Ca and Na ion concentration was ten time of Cr, and the adsorbing ratio decreases with the increasing of Ca and Na concentration, indicating...
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Study on the Grindability Ranking of Granite Using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process and TOPSIS Approaches

Zhengmei Zhang, Baoliang Xing, Shaohua Li, Huiying Cao, Shuqin Zhang
The ranking system of granite grindability is very important for high-efficiency grinding key technology. A new method by the combination of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method with TOPSIS methods is developed to establish the dependence function and fuzzy relationship. The grindability of...

A preliminary study on several Lily cross-breeding experiment

Yang Yu, Haijiao Yu
Test materials of ten different varieties, depending on the color and cold resistance to breeding new varieties. Use conventional crossing between Asia lily hybrids. Using and comparison analysis three different crossing methods between the Asian and Oriental Lily. The results showed that the hybrid...

Servant Leadership among Higher Education Academic Leaders: The Role of Personality Traits

Bonar Hutapea
Despite the power of its influence, there have been few studies on servant leadership in the academic setting, particularly in the segment of the higher-education institution. This quantitative study aimed at investigating the relationship of traits-personality and servant leadership among academic leaders...

Dynamic Impacts of RMB Exchange Rate on Chinese Real Estate Sector Index

Haoze Zhu, Hongge Yu, Ruixi Yang, Ruize Yuan, Yun Yu
As China’s international influence increases, the influence of the renminbi in the international currency market is increasing. Some scholars have confirmed that to a certain extent there is a linkage between exchange rates and stock prices, but the relationship between exchange rates and the real estate...

The Use of Mobile Phones as a Digital Literacy Medium Among Religious School Students

Farid Pribadi, Diyah Utami, F. X. Sri Sadewo, Kholida Ulfi Mubaroka
During the long school holiday marking the transition to a new academic year, some students or religious boarding school students spend their time playing with smartphones. They take advantage of the school break by engaging in social media and online gaming. The average duration of smartphone usage...

How to Deal with the Damaged Kariba Dam

Shiwei Li
The Kariba dam, which is constructed to provide power to Zambia and Zimbabwe, has been damaged seriously over the years so that it is urgent to solve this problem. This paper provides three main methods to address the situation. I illustrate the feasibility of each option by considering its potential...

Analysis of the Economy System in Games

Yutong Wang
In the past, people thought that games were only played by children, but now in more than ten years of operation, from computer stand-alone games to mobile multiplayer games, more and more people with consumption power have entered the game market, which has brought a lot of benefits to the game. And...

Mapping of Supplier Segmentation: A Case Study in Furniture Industry

Juliasari Prasetya, Niki Etruly, Peni Shoffiyati
Furniture companies are classified as manufacturing firms. On average, manufacturing companies allocate over 50% of their expenditures to the purchase of raw materials, which are supplied by various suppliers. Supplier segmentation involves grouping suppliers based on similarities among them. This segmentation...

On Implementation Scheme of Agriculture Industrialization APP Based on Industrial 4.0

Yanfei Sun, Pen Wu
the Intelligence based on the information physics system will enable humans to enter the fourth industrial revolution led by intelligent manufacturing in the next ten years, that is the industrial 4 era. Product of the whole life cycle and manufacturing process of digital and based on information communication...

Teaching English Through Games

Mr Sukirmiyadi
There are many kinds of teaching techniques and methods to apply. However, the teaching of foreign language is not such an easy thing to do. It is the fact that many of the Indonesian learners are not capable of speaking English very well although they have been learning it for more than 10 (ten) years....

Research on Cross-Cultural Communication Marketing of International Brands – Take Pepsi’s “Bring the Fun Home” Microfilm Commercial Series as an Example

Zhihao Liu, Mingxuan Du, Wenrui Liang, Shihua Lai
The communication strategies developed by an international brand in different cultural contexts determine its survival and development in a foreign cultural environment. Among them, advertising, as one of the ways of communication between brands and consumers, largely influences the acceptance and reputation...
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Study on Environmental Pollution and Control Countermeasures of Agricultural and Rural Areas in Jiangsu Province

Juan Chen, Guosheng Ma
Based on the combination of typical research and literature, this paper analyzes the current situation of agricultural and rural environmental pollution in Jiangsu Province in the past decade and the causes of environmental pollution in agricultural and rural areas of this province. Then it puts forward...

Smart Growth, Better Life

Yun Li
This paper describes an index-system to measure the success of smart growth of a city. Smart Growth Theory has the three-E's goal of Economic prosperity, social Equity and Environmental sustainability and ten principles concerning sustainable development. Firstly, I refered to a large number of reference...

Evaluation of a Country's Sustainable Development

Zhanxi Zhang
We build the GA-BP Neural Network Model to evaluate the sustainability of the country. First we select nine indexes from natural resources, economic strength, human resources and social living environment in total, establish the index system for sustainable development and validate its completeness and...
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Ultrasonic Vibration Reaming Processing Technology Research on 45 Steel

Xiao-Feng Xu, Chao-Xun Zhou
This paper adopts the ultrasonic vibration reaming, whereas reamer dry type implements the separation of the pulse function type vibration cutting and eliminates the ordinary cutting process of elastic vibration extrusion a regular pulse intermittent cutting process was achieved by which the cutting...
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Research on British and American Culture Introduction in College English Teaching

Yi Fan
Language is a part of culture, which acts as carrier of culture. It not only reflects culture, but also is influenced by culture. Human culture is diversified and varied, which is the same as human language. If learners learn a language only without comprehension on culture as basis of its survival,...

Thailand’s Strategic Choice to Participate in Regional Cooperation of ASEAN Community

Zhiyuan Ren, Shanshan Bao
This paper makes a comprehensive analysis of the expectation of regional integration construction in the first ten years of ASEAN community. In this stage, Thailand’s strategic choice of participating in ASEAN community’s regional cooperation in politics, security, economy, society and culture presents...
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Research on Health Related Physical Fitness of Chinese Li Nationality Students

Jijin Sun, Yan Sheng
To study the health related physical fitness of Chinese Li nationality students of 7-18 years old, the work began with literature, survey, measurement and statistics, at last by independent samples T-test to compare the health related physical fitness of Chinese Li nationality students, there were three...