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Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED): Implications and Challenges

Hesham Allam, Juan Dempere, Vish Akre, Pedro Flores
Artificial intelligence (AI) is having an impact on every aspect of contemporary life. Artificial intelligence (AI) is being increasingly widely used in an effort to imitate human cognitive abilities via applications that make people's lives simpler and more efficient. Artificial intelligence is...

Improving Student Mathematics Achievement Through a Realistic Mathematics Approach

Ismawati, Awi Dassa, Hisyam Ihsan
This research aims to improve mathematics learning on the topic of plane geometry through a realistic mathematics approach of the 5th-grade students of SD Inpres Japing, Gowa Regency. This study is classroom action research proposed by Kemmis and Mc. Taggart consists of 2 cycles. The research subjects...
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4.2 GENETIC VARIATIONS ON CHROMOSOME 14 INFLUENCE BCL11B GENE EXPRESSION LEVELS AND AORTIC STIFFNESS

R. Al Maskari, S. Cleary, Y. Li, A. Khir, G. Mitchell, I. Wilkinson, K. O’Shaughnessy, Yasmin
Pages: 126 - 127

Responsibility of the Board of Directors for Violations of Good Corporate Governance Principles

Thelisia Kristin, Amad Sudiro
Taking into account the provisions of the Articles of the Limited Liability Company Law, it can be stated that there are no provisions governing the application of the GCG principles, because it only stipulates that the company is obliged to comply with all good things in a corporation, but it is not...
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4.1 NORMAL VALUES AND DETERMINANTS OF FEMORAL ARTERY STIFFNESS

J. Bossuyt, L. Engelen, I. Ferreira, C. Stehouwer, P. Boutouyrie, S. Laurent, P. Segers, K. Reesink, L. Van Bortel
Pages: 126 - 126
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P160 ASSESSMENT OF CAROTID PULSE WAVE VELOCITY (CARPWV) IN PATIENTS WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS

Guillermo Alanis-Sánchez, Carlos Ramos-Becerra, David Cardona-Müller, Patricia Quezada-Fernández, Sara Pascoe-González, César Murguia-Soto, Ernesto Cardona-Muñoz
Pages: 126 - 127
Introduction: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory rheumatic disease associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Objectives: To assess the local arterial stiffness in carotid artery in subjects with AS compared with controls evaluated by...
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P2.27 A ROBUST METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS OF DIAMETER, DISTENSION AND IMT IN HUMANS AND SMALL ANIMALS

S. Segstedt, T. Nilsson, Å.R. Ahlgren, D. Ley, M. Cinthio
Pages: 126 - 127
ARTIC is a new segmentation-based tracking algorithm used to automatically measure diameter, distension and intima media thickness (IMT) in arteries using B-mode ultrasound. ARTIC is initiated with a mark in the center of lumen and can then perform automatic measurements in about 1000 frames/second....
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P159 CORRELATION BETWEEN INFLAMMATORY STATE AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS

Daniele Brustolim, Lucelia Magalhaes, Diorlene Silva, Rodrigo Sant’Ana de Lima, Vinicius Louzada Castro, Daniel Malta Ribeiro, Caroline Rodrigues Fidelman, Natalia Damasceno, Larissa Vasconcelos, Caroline Ventura, Vascor Group
Pages: 126 - 126
Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is gold standard for assessing arterial stiffness. Studies have shown that people with metabolic syndrome have insulin resistance and that after the onset of diabetes, cardiovascular risk is intensely increased, high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) (1). Relate influence...
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P2.26 ASSESSING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CARDIO-ANKLE VASCULAR INDEX (CAVI) AND ITS PWV FOR ARTERIAL FUNCTION – ARM-LEG DIFFERENCES AND REPEATABILITY

V. Govoni, M.L. Casagrande, F. Iqbal, K.J. Cruickshank
Pages: 126 - 126
Background: Vasera is a machine developed to evaluate arterial stiffness by measuring pulse wave velocity (PWV) and cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), apparently independent of blood pressure (BP). The 4-cuff device measures right (R) and left (L) brachial and ankle BP, deriving the CAVI value and cardiac-ankle...
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P158 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN THE VERY OLD: THE AGA@4LIFE RESEARCH PROJECT

Telmo Pereira
Pages: 126 - 126
Objective: To study the determinants of Arterial Stiffness (AS) in the elderly. Design and method: Cross-sectional, observational study of elderly participants. Blood Pressure (BP) and arterial function parameters were measured with a validated device. Clinical and demographic information was gathered,...
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P2.25 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC VALIDATION OF A NOVEL METHOD FOR NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION OF CARDIAC OUTPUT BASED ON PULSE CONTOUR ANALYSIS

T.G. Papaioannou, D. Soulis, O. Vardoulis, A.D. Protogerou, P. Sfikakis, N. Stergiopulos, C. Stefanadis
Pages: 126 - 126
Surgical or critically ill patients often require continuous assessment of cardiac output (CO) for diagnostic purposes or guiding therapeutic interventions. A new method of non-invasive estimation of CO, based on pressure wave analysis, has been recently developed, but its validity has been examined...

Commercial Territory Design for a Distribution Firm with New Constructive and Destructive Heuristics

Jaime Cano-Belmán, Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado, M. Angélica Salazar-Aguilar
Pages: 126 - 147
A commercial territory design problem with compactness maximization criterion subject to territory balancing and connectivity is addressed. Four new heuristics based on Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures within a location-allocation scheme for this NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem...

Mixed Perturbative Expansion: the Validity of a Model for the Cascading

Hervé Leblond
Pages: 126 - 143
A new type of perturbative expansion is built in order to give a rigorous derivation and to clarify the range of validity of some commonly used model equations. This model describes the evolution of the modulation of two short and localized pulses, fundamental and second harmonic, propagating together...

First Integrals Generated by Pseudosymmetries in Nambu-Poisson Mechanics

Mircea Crâşmăreanu
Pages: 126 - 135
Some types of first integrals for Hamiltonian Nambu-Poisson vector fields are obtained by using the notions of pseudosymmetries. In this theory, the homogeneous Hamiltnian vector fields play a special role and we point out this fact. The differential system which describe the SU(2)-monopoles is given...

Bilinearization of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Type Equations: Integrabilty and Solitons

K. Porsezian
Pages: 126 - 131
Considering the coupled envelope equations in nonlinear couplers, the question of integrability is attempted. It is explicitly shown that Hirota's bilinear method is one of the simple and alternative techniques to Painlevé analysis to obtain the integrability conditions of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger...

Dynamics of Urban Fire Correlations with Detrended Fluctuation Analysis

Jinghong Wang
Pages: 126 - 132
To explore and understand the intrinsic dynamic mechanisms of urban fire system is an important prerequisite for the fire risk analysis and management. By analyzing the time series of urban fire system, it is helpful to achieve this goal. In this paper, the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is applied...
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A Review on the Potential Applications of Cocoa Shell in Food Industry

Glynnis Netania, Tabligh Permana, Juli Effendy, Filiana Santoso, Edrick Alvaro Oslo
Cocoa shell is one of the main by-products of cocoa beans. It is separated from the nibs and are disposed of, as it could affect the final quality of cocoa products. As a result, a high amount of waste can be produced during mass production of cocoa beans. Indonesia is one of the largest producers of...
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Innovation for Biomotor Training and Football Techniques

Fauzi Fauzi, Siswantoyo Siswantoyo, Danang wicaksono, Nawan Primasoni
This study aims to develop individual biomotor training tools and soccer techniques in the sport of football by integrating with technology. Research and development was used in this study. The development of this individual training tool is carried out in several stages, namely: (1) preliminary study,...
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Study of Coal Sawdust Co-Firing with Slagging Fouling Prediction and Observation of Probe from Drop Tube Furnace Combustion Test

Adi Prismantoko, Hariana, Hanafi Prida Putra, Suyatno, Minako Kawai
The use of biomass in co-firing in coal-fired power plants is one step to achieve the renewable energy mix target in Indonesia. Several aspects need considering to implement co-firing, including the slagging fouling aspect. It has the potential to interfere with process performance, reliability, and...

Hotel and Restaurant Taxes Role to the Local Original Revenue of Regency/City in South Sumatera

Sovi Julianda Wahya, Sukmini Hartati, Eka Jumarni Fithri, Rita Martini
This study aims to analyze the effect of the hotel tax and restaurant tax income to the local origianal revenue regency/city of in south sumatera fiscal year 2016 – 2020. The sample of this research includes 14 regions in South Sumatera. This sample was selected based on the purposive sampling method....

The Analysis of Workplace Adaptation Factors for Women in the Construction Industry

Ummu Salamah, Lilis Widaningsih
Construction is a dynamic industry and continues to grow rapidly, thus requiring an increase in the workforce regardless of gender. However, women in the construction industry face barriers such as: discrimination, sexual harassment, wage disparities; and challenges such as: work pressure, working hours,...

A Study on the Publicity Translation in the Context of Global Epidemic from the Perspective of Thick Translation

Jingwei Guan, Qiqi Cui, Hongling Que
Thick translation is a concept related to cultural communication. It was first proposed by American translation theorist Anthony Appiah in 1993. [1] Nowadays, thick translation is an effective way to realize Chinese culture going out and carrying out publicity translation. At present, the Covid-19 epidemic...

Students Assessment in Kindergarten

Xiaojuan Ye
Assessment system is an important part of kindergarten education. Over the past decade, the development of kindergarten education has led to its assessment system reform. Children academic performance, as a central issue concerned by parents and kindergartens in nowadays society, has widen current students...

Corpus Based Analysis of Literary Works of A Thousand Splendid Suns

Zhijun Wan
In recent years, many scholars at home and abroad have applied corpus research methods to the field of literature and used corpus retrieval software to analyze literary texts. This paper aims to explore the application of corpus retrieval software WordSmith Tool 8.0 and AntConc in literary discourse...

Virtual Learning from Sketching Community

Stefy Prasasti Anggraini
Virtual learning has become a reliable learning alternative during the Covid-19 Pandemic. One of them is learning to draw sketchers in the sketch community. The sketch community that usually uses public space to gather is now switching to using virtual public space. This paper aims to explain the pattern...

Economic Efficiency of Rice in South Lampung Regency

Aryan Ari Sepri YH, Masyhuri, Lestari Rahayu Waluyati
This study aims to determine the factors that affect rice production and determine the level of economic efficiency of rice farming. The research was conducted in Taman Agung Village, Kalianda Sub-District and Sidorejo Village, Sidomulyo Sub-District, South Lampung Regency with 85 farmers as respondents....
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The Ecological Analysis of White Noise by Don DeLillo

Yuxin Zhao
In the post-industrial era, American society has undergone unprecedented development. With industrial civilization, human ability of conquering and transforming the nature is increasing while living environment is deteriorating; people's material life is more prosperous, and so is the consumer culture....
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Life Cycle Assessment of a Smartphone

Mine Ercan, Jens Malmodin, Pernilla Bergmark, Emma Kimfalk, Ellinor Nilsson
It is of interest to understand the life cycle contribution from the use of smartphones including their network usage, as well as to gain knowledge regarding the impact of the smartphone as a device to provide input for network studies. This cradle-to- grave study is based on life cycle assessment (LCA)...

A Theoretical Study of Synaesthesiaby Music Sense Organs and Creative Thinking

Wen-Si Ou-Yang
Music appreciation has always been a popular topic as a complex-yet-unique psychological experience and approach, which can improve personal music aesthetics, provoke diverse perceptions, develop intuition and imagination, and help achieve cultural accomplishment. In order to enhance creative thinking...
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Social Technologies for Management: Opportunities for Coal-mining Enterprises

Olga Zonova, Evgeniya Nekhoda, Ekaterina Slesarenko
The ways of improving the social management technologies, including those for the coal-mining enterprises, in particular the development of the corporate social responsibility, especially in the labor relations system, are proposed in the article. Ignoring the challenges of the contemporary reality,...

Board Heterogeneity, Diversification Strategy and Firm Value

Bei Ye
Taking nonfinancial companies listed on Shanghai or Shenzhen stock exchange as the sample, the paper studies the relationship between board heterogeneity, diversification strategy and firm value. Empirical research shows that board occupational heterogeneity is positively related to corporate diversification...

Responsibilities of Manager and Leader in Relation to the Reduction of Workplace Stress

Qian Li
Pressure is part and parcel of all work and helps to keep employees motivated. But excessive pressure can lead to workplace stress which undermines performance; it is costly to employers and can make people ill. To reduce the stress the leaders and managers should undertake different responsibilities...

Multi-criteria Optimization of Electromechanical Modules: Part 1- PROMETHEE method

Ina D. Nikolova, Dimitrinka S. Dahterova, Vanio D. Ivanov, Hirpa G. Lemu
The paper presents a study conducted to make multi-criteria optimization of electromechanical modules with a goal of providing easier tools for decision-making involving complex decision parameters. The work is motivated upon understanding that the task of both designing electromechanical modules and...

Considerations on The Post Education Course Examine Mechanism Innovation

Xin Wang, Xue Wang, Xianggang Meng
Course assessment is an important part of professional education, concerning the overall situation of professional education. As for the deepening of education reform, the traditional curriculum evaluation has been unable to meet the needs of professional education, reflects the strong hysteresis and...
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Effects of Chicken Manure Compost on the Production of Dissolved Organic Carbon and the Degradation of p, p'-DDT in Loam Soil

Xiao Deng, Chunyuan Wu, Yi Li, Jingkun Liu, Qinfen Li
Using pot experiment to study the effects of chicken manure compost (CM) on the production of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the degradation of p, p'-DDT in loam soil under three different water conditions. The objective of this study was providing theoretical basis for the remediation of pesticide...
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The influence of OFDI on economic growth: A quantitative assessment for China and EU

Xianfeng Chen, Yan Li
Based on the panel data of Chinese outward foreign direct investment(OFDI) to 26 EU contires from 2003 to 2010,Using Cointegration, error correction model, impulse response function and the GLS method,this paper analyzes the effect of OFDI reverse technology spillovers(RTS) from the European Union on...
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Strategic Research on Staff Sports in Hebei Province and the Powerful Province in Sports as Well as Development of National Fitness-North China Pharmaceutical Group is Taken as an Example for The Large State-Owned Pharmaceutical Corporation

Yan Li, Rong He
Through the documentation method, interview method and questionnaire survey, the staff-sport current situation of North China Pharmaceutical Group is investigated; the management system, current situation and the existing shortcomings can be found; according to the current situation and the existing...
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Research on Internet-based Teaching of English Newspaper Reading

Xueai Zhao, Yingcong Zhao
In order to develop Chinese student’s ability in reading English newspaper, the authors innovatively designed an internet-based teaching model for English newspaper reading course based on constructivism. Through a comparative study, the authors concluded that the new teaching pattern of English newspaper...
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Study on a New Technique to Prevent the Shrinkage defects of Alloy Ductile Iron Crankshaft

Zhaoming Liu, Xiaoyan Liu
Self-developed shrinking eliminating agent for alloy crankshaft was used to crankshaft specimen with dispersed shrinkage , changing the package materials, the composition and the amount of addition of the shrinking eliminating agent, macroscopical and microcosmic analyses of the section were performed...
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A Low Cost Design of the Rural Intelligent Meter Reading System

Huishan Yu, Chuankao Yao
Analysis of the current use of rural electricity meters, and according to the situation of economic development in rural areas of China, to the greatest extent to reduce costs as the goal, intelligent remote meter reading system is presented which is applicable to China's rural areas. The system is composed...
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Research on Internet of Things-based Virtual Logistics Enterprises Performance Evaluation

Zhang Hong-Xia
Virtual Logistics Enterprise is a dynamic alliance in the logistics industry. Virtual Logistics Enterprise transaction process is virtualized. The members of Virtual Logistics Enterprise dispersed in different regions. And during the project period, they do not belong to any organization. This makes...
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Logistics Process Optimization and Cost Control

Zhen Xiao
With the advent of the global economic integration, inter-enterprise transactions gradually broken the geographical constraints, companies began to expand their own business to various regions of the core strengths of manufacturing enterprises not only in its unique product design and good user experience....

Multi-agent system with information fusion for intelligent lighting control

Wang Liangzhou, Yu Weihong, Hock Jony
Intelligent lighting system is the core component of the smart home. In order to achieve user-centric intelligent control, improve indoor visual comfort level and saving energy at the same time, we have designed a multi-agent intelligent lighting system based on multi-source information fusion. Multi-agent...
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Stereo Vision System & 3D TV Program Production

Zhenlong Zhang, Taozheng Zhang, Jianping Chai
Stereo vision is a strong-crossed subject, and it has been one of the most hot topics in the study of computer. In more than 40 years of development, it has formed its own method and theory. This paper systematically reviews the present situation of stereo vision research, briefly introduces stereo vision...
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Challenges & Opportunities of MOOCS in Japanese Educatio

Kun Xu
Since 2012, the growth of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has stirred excitement and controversy in higher education. Vast start-up capital for MOOC providers like Coursera, edX, and Udacity has led to speculation that MOOCs may drastically alter higher education. However, Whether Udacity and edX...
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Acoustic Emission Source Localization Using Embedded Sensors in Concrete

Lei Qin, Jiapeng Li, Xi Liu, Shidong Sun, Xiaojun Zhu
This paper described a study on acoustic emission (AE) in the specimens of cement-based materials, especially concrete specimens. 1-3 cement-based piezoelectric composites that have good compatibility and broadband frequency, and they have been developed for health monitoring of concrete structures....

Analysis on the Difference of the Economic Development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei based on DMSP_OLS Night Light Data

Jian Li, Chenguang Fan
Based on the data of stable nighttime data, this paper uses the relative development rate and location entropy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cities to quantitatively analyze the difference of urban economic development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2002 to 2015.According to the existing economic differences...
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Research on the mix design of the hot in-place recycling technology and its application

Yuxin Zheng, Wei Mao, Feng Zhang
From the concept of asphalt pavement recycling technology, The condition of old road is investigated and evaluated, In view of the problems of Urumq, pointed out that the applicable conditions and the advantages and disadvantages of the problems by the materials of Regenerant regeneration performance,...