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Supply Chain Sustainability Assessment: the Case of the Automotive Industry

Miguel M. Barros, Susana G. Azevedo
The objective of this paper is to propose a framework to assess and monitor the level of sustainability at the automotive supply chain, followed by its validation with a case study considering several companies from United Kingdom (UK).
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A geometric representation method using independent coordinates of the same control points

Zhenwei Wang, Fang Fan, Shuangyin Liu
B‚zier curve is one of typical nonlinear splines, which is of importance for geometric representation, such as edge, contour. Generally, all control points are dealt with based on the same blending functions, regardless of the effect of every independent coordinates on geometric shape. Therefore, current...
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Parameter properties of granite moonstone under unloading condition

Yinghui Lv, Yao Xu
In order to get parameter properties of rock mass, a series of representative unloading tests are carried on hard granite moonstone for that it is indispensable to get mechanical parameters and strength parameters for numerical simulation. In the unloading tests, the stress path of decreasing confining...
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The Evaluation Model and its Application to University Laboratory Safety Based on BP Neural Network

Yu Chen, Xiao-guo Liu
The evaluation model of university laboratory safety based on BP neural network is presented. By reference of the domestic research for laboratory safety evaluation and combining with of laboratory characteristics of Jinlin University, the safety evaluation index system of university laboratory is selected....
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Study on the Influencing Factors of Hotel Customer Satisfaction

Mingming Weng
The purpose of this study is to find out the most critical factors that affect the satisfaction degree of customers in Xi'an Hotel. This paper put forward the view that customer satisfaction was mainly influenced by the factors of service quality, price, product quality, brand and prestige. Then a survey...

On the Theory and Practice of CYL’s Innovative Construction

Mingxiao Sui
The thesis, by taking Communist Youth League (referred in the text as CYL) construction in university student associations as research object, analyses its main problems and then proposes targeted solutions in term of theory, organizing and innovative administrations accordingly so as to further promote...

Research on Archives Management Modernization Based on the "Internet Plus" Concept

Ming Nie
In 2015, the "Internet plus" was designated as a national strategy. In this environment, the archives management should follow the era of development in accordance with their own conditions. The problems of how to deal with the challenges and seize the opportunity has became the considerable thing that...
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A Survey of Emotional Response for Affective Writing Measurment

Shen Yu Cheng 
Educators are familiar with the three domains of learning: (1) cognitive, (2) affective, and (3) psychomotor. The instructional and assessment strategies are typically focused on the cognitive domain of learning because of the difficulty in measuring gains in the affective domain during the teaching...

Developing Competence, Conscience, and Compassion through Reflective Pedagogy

Fransisca KRISTANTI
This paper outlines how Reflective Pedagogy contributes to the development of students' holistic learning by developing their competence, conscience, and compassion in Speaking class. The application of Reflective Pedagogy, which sets out a learning cycle from context understanding to evaluation, and...

Research on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of Inventory Management of Xin Zhongkang Pharmaceutical Company

Chun-Li Liu
With the continuous development of social economy, the pharmaceutical industry has gradually become an important part of social development, is an important project related to the development of the national economy and the people's livelihood. Economic progress to promote innovation in the pharmaceutical...

A Study of Recreation in the Renewal of Historical Blocks

Mingchun Ma, Qiang Liu
The purpose of this essay is to reshape urban vitality and to study three kinds of material space of historical blocks, mainly including residential buildings, street space and open node renewal under the guidance of national policies of "city double repair". On the basis of research and analysis of...

The Historic Orientation of the Development of Media Technology of Social Development of Mankind in Modern Times

Yan-Ran Ding
Variegated world under traditional polygon prism, it is the driving force of Social Development of Mankind in Modern Times, which is also the historic footprint it carries through, media is spurring the future of globalization with its digitalization. It conceals the original meaning of life and man's...

Efficiency Evaluation of Urbanization in Western China Based on DEA Model

Bing Yang, Chenggang Li, Min Li
Studying on the efficiency of urbanization in the western region is conducive to the promotion of urbanization construction in the western region. Taking twelve provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in the western region as an example, from the input-output perspective, this paper constructs...

Implementation of RME Approach with a Focus on Social Justice in Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Low Socioeconomic Background School

Nurwati Djam'an, Suradi Tahmir, Bill Atweh
Focusing on social justice issues through Realistic Mathematics Education (RME) in this study has been developed. This study aims at investigating the application of the RME approach with a focus on social justice issues in teaching and learning mathematics. Action research method with the grounded theory...

Mathematical modeling of state support of investment process

R.R. Chernyatieva
In this article, the mathematical model of the state support of investments is analyzed. The target function represents the maximal tax budgetary payments; the system of restrictions consists of linear and nonlinear functions, which corresponds to normative data. The maximal tax efficiency portfolio...

Research on the Situation and Countermeasure of the Inventory of Real Estate in Xi'an City

Furong Feng
The current national real estate market presents a "total excess, lack of start, lack of demand," the overall characteristics, and in the process of inventory to form a "differentiation intensified, highlight the risk" and other industry characteristics. This paper analyzes the process of real estate...

Design of Interactive Whiteboard to Support E-Learning

Didik Dwi Prasetya, Muhammad Ashar
Electronic learning offers an effective solution that enables the creation of virtual classes. Unfortunately, the limitations of learning media features cause visual communication to be difficult, so that the explanation of the material is less easy to understand, especially in relation to illustrations,...

The Theory and Application of Blended Learning

Ning Li, Zhidong Gao, Xiaomei Qin
Blended learning as a combination of traditional and on line learning has aroused educators' great attention, but its definition, the theoretical foundation, the concrete application need to be studied further. This paper aims to make teachers and students have a better understanding about blended learning,...

The Formation of the Bipolar Structure of International Finance after World War II

Angang Li
The devastating blow brought by the Second World War not only changed the international political and economic situation, but also prompted the international community to reflect on the meaning of war, which laid the foundation for peace and development after the war and made postwar reconstruction become...

The Integration of Urban and Rural Development Policy Research

Guangying Yi
The idea of integrating urban and rural development is an important component of agricultural economic theory of socialism of Marx's theory of innovation China and the Chinese characteristic, this theory has a profound domestic and international background. The integration of urban and rural development...
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Effects and Analysis of Floating raft vibration isolator parameters on the performance of vibration isolation

Yunpeng Ma, Kang Lin, Yongqiang Yang, Peng Lou
Floating raft vibration isolator (FRVI) is widely used in ship system. This study investigated effects of FRVI parameters on the overall performance of vibration isolation. Mechanical model of FRVI was established. Using the theory of admittance transmission power flow was deduced. The influence of FRVI...

Students’ Creative e-Portfolios: Using Android Cell Phone Cameras for Inventive Beauty Photography

Setya Chendra Wibawa, Beth Clark-Gareca
In the 21st century, knowledge society, creativity and innovation in the educational context are becoming increasingly important, especially for the ASEAN Vocational Education and Training (VET) community. Creative portfolio is one way in which this creativity can be captured. Creative portfolios often...
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Neural Network Blind Equalization Algorithm Based on Feed Forward Neural Network

Huiqing Zhao
Existing neural network algorithms have the problems of slow convergence and low accuracy. In response to this phenomenon, this paper presents a neural network blind equalization algorithm based on feed-forward neural network. And we proposed feed-forward neural network blind equalization algorithm by...
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A Calibration Method of Channel Error of Digital Measurement System Based on the One Element Linear Regression

Ji Xu
Systematic error of digital measurement system (DSM) mainly exists in the analog measurement channels. The cause of systematic errors is circuit status and parameters of OPA, DAC and reference circuit which drift with changes in temperature and time deviate from the standard values. In this paper, firstly...
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Effect of the Addition of Dried Opuntia Cactus Fibers-Setting Times and Mechanical Resistance in Portland Cement Mortar Base

M. Arreola Sanchez, W. Martinez Molina, E. M. Alonso Guzman, H. L. Chavez Garcia, A. A. Torres Acosta, C. Bernabe Reyes, S. C. Arguello Hernandez, C. Lara Gomez, F. M. Gonzalez Valdez, J. A. Velazquez Perez, R. Ruiz Ruiz
For this investigation cement–sand mortar and cement–water pastes were made with partial substitutions, relative to the weight of cement, of organic fibres for the purpose of restoring hydraulic concrete structures, damaged by diseases derived strength design. Five different proportions of dewatered...
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Optimization of Enzymatic Extraction Barley Polysaccharides Orthogonal Test Method

Yongguang Bi, Yumin Li
In order to optimize Enzymatic Extraction barley polysaccharides parameters, the use of orthogonal test to optimize their processes, affecting the cellulase barley polysaccharide extracted five factors, the maximum temperature hydrolysis, the solid-liquid ratio on minimum. The impact of the extraction...
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Mechatronic Design for A new Incremental Launching System and Its Application of Launching Variable Cross-section Girder in Urban

Hong Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Mengyuan Zhang
This paper mainly introduced the machatronic design of the 70Mpa 1600 tonne Incremental Launching system. Firstly, the 6 Degrees of Freedom adaptive mechanical launching device and its hydaulic system were described. Then, in order to properly statisfy the requirments of the launching function during...
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Analysis on Tourism Demand of Elderly Tourists in Beijing

Qiao Chen
Based on 300 questionnaires to Senior Tourists in Beijing, this paper analyzes their based travel demand and the characteristics. And found that there a new form of tourism demand and preferences to elderly tourists , Elderly tourists have clear objectives, hope tour operators to know their ideas, and...
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Influence of Modulation Rate on Energy Efficiency for Relay-aided Transmission: Decode-and-forward Protocol

Rui Sun, Tao Wang, Fangfang Chen, QingHua Huang
In this paper, we investigate the effect of modulation rate on the energy efficiency of a two-hop communication system with the assistance of a half-duplex decode-and-forward (DF) relay, considering the given bit error rate (BER) and using the M-QAM modulation. First, we formulate the optimum model of...

The Application of Mobile Phone App In the University Students' Management

Jing Song
In the new media era, the development of smart phones accelerated the rapid use of mobile media, with the birth of the mobile phone app and coverage, WeChat, weibo and other popular apps have become the main communication tools of contemporary college students, the traditional teaching management mode...
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Dependencies between Pre-existing and Newly Obtained Knowledge

Sylvia Encheva
Computation skills in mathematics play an essential role in developing students’ abilities to handle procedurally oriented tasks. Reasoning on the other hand, being a higher-order cognitive ability, supports recognition of patterns and relationships. Finding correlations between students’ performance...
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Research of computer network security evaluation based on RBF neural network

Yan-ling Zhang, Jian-liang Xiong
Nowadays, computer network is widely used in many areas of daily life. Since the affectation of vulnerabilities and viruses, there will be a variety of security issues in the application process of computer network. In order to provide effective protection for computer network security, computer network...

Project-Based Communication System Design Course

Hongfeng Gao, Wei Liu, Suli Xu, Baofeng Ji
This paper presents the implementation of communication system design course using projected-based learning method. In the project, students designed and simulated communication system in active learning ways. Communication system is interdisciplinary, which is related to knowledge from several courses...
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Enterprise Financial Early Warning Model Based on Comprehensive Risk Monitoring

Yansong Cai, Siming Chen
According to the shortcoming of current financial early warning model, a early warning model considering the overall risk in the production and operation of enterprises was built. By comprehensive risk analysis, this early warning model can mining the fundamental problems existing in the company. According...
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The Application of Hot Water Flow Method for Checking the Water Circuit Within the Winding of Turbo Generator

Ming Li, Andong Wang, Zhiwei Cao, Fuchun Sun, Shanhua Sun, Guangke Xu, Weiwei Zhang, Changling Wang
The hot water flow method, which has been gradually applied, is very useful for Checking the Water Circuit within the Winding of Turbo Generator. Simulation tests are first shown in this paper at the beginning and the factors concerned with the tests are studied such as flow and temperature difference....
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Study on Hot Forming Parameters of Torsion Beam Based on Regression Analysis

Fei Xiong, Guiyong Yang, Tao Jiang, Kai Yu
It is found the hot forming quality has close related to the initial temperature of the pressing die, the blank, pressing speed, cooling rate and the friction between the part and tools. Through the design of orthogonal test and multiple regression analysis, the regression model of thinning rate and...
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Simulation and Analysis on Signal Acquisition of BDS Receiver with The Aid of INS

Shulei Chen, Xiaqing Tang, Xuwei Cheng, Junqiang Gao, Zepeng Sun
Improving the dynamic performances of BDS receiver with INS-aided is the hotspot of the current navigation research, and the key problem is how to improve the performance of signal acquisition. This paper has some research and analyses about the theory and mathematic model of signal acquisition. Though...

Career Guidance at Kindergarten, Is It Neccessary?

Dede Rahmat Hidayat, Wahyu Ningrum
Career basically is an achievement to adulthood , because it will be related to work activities For achieve the right career should be prepared in early, starting from early education until higher education . Kindergarten to be starting point for childs early start to learn, and should be early prepapare...

Empirical Research on Evaluation of Internal Control Effectiveness of Administrative Institutions Taking "S" Water Resources Bureau as an Example

Jingui Zhang, Qing Wang
As a carrier of the government's public administration and social services, an administrative institution has its management capacity level directly related to the quality of the government's public services, wherein the internal control which directly decides the level of the institution's management...

College English Teaching Mode in MOOC Era

Ying Wei
With the process of China's higher education development and large-scale network online resources in the world, MOOC courses have become the beneficial supplement of higher education resource, not only bringing changes for the teaching organization form and teaching methods, but also students have become...
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Trade-off Evaluation for Process Configuration Scheme

Lin Wang, Yongjian Zhang, Xuyun Fu, Shisheng Zhong
In order to optimize the process configuration design scheme, the trade-off evaluation for process configuration scheme based on reusability and validity was proposed. By comparative analysis between the configuration process technology and traditional process and referring to the method of product configuration...

HMGA2 Gene Silencing Suppression SW480 Colon Cancer Cell Invasion and Expression of Survivin

Ping Wang, Shou xun Wang, Jun hong Dong
Objective To investigate the effects of high mobility group protein A2 (HMGA2) gene interference SW480 cell invasion, and to explore its interference with the expression of Survivin gene and its mechanism.Method: To construct the recombinant HMGA2 small hairpin interfering RNA expression vector pGenesil-1.1-...
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FOMs of Consciousness Measurement

W.S. Li, Y.T. Li
Through engineering eyeglass, the consciousness is on object-oriented knowing and controlling mostly embedded in human brain. If an outstanding expert can invent key tool in single index termed figure of merit (FOM) for representing different levels of consciousness tested, then her/his God’s image should...
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Impact of LMX on Coal Mine Safety Culture in China

Ma Shuming, Zhang Jiangshi
Safety culture and the leader interaction with member are the keys to accident prevention. An equation of structure model (ESM) involved Leader-member exchange (LMX) and each element of safety culture is constructed based on literature review. And it is verified by this empirical study in China. 625...
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An Evaporative Coolant Used to ECR Ion Source

Lin Ruan, Shun-Zhou Yu, Bin Xiong
As a kind of high efficient cooling mode, the evaporative cooling technology has been successfully applied to a lot of engineering fields. This paper introduces a kind of evaporative coolant, for the first time, used to the ECR ion source. Firstly, we compared the basic physical and chemical characteristics...

Comparative Study on “Images” in Chinese and Western Culture and Art With Rudolf·Arnheim and Zhu Guangqian Centered

Shuai Yuan
This paper compared the art thoughts of two aesthetics masters--Rudolf · Arnheim and Zhu Guangqian, analyzed the connotation of “image” and the change of “image” in Chinese and Western, and drew the conclusion that there were both similarities and differences in grasping and understanding the connotation...
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High Performance Approximate Sort Algorithm Using GPUs

Jun Xiao, Hao Chen, Jianhua Sun
Sorting is a fundamental problem in computer science, and the strict sorting usually means a strict order with ascending or descending. However, some applications in reality don’t require the strict ascending or descending order and the approximate ascending or descending order just meets the requirement....

Strategic Management Banking Technology Readiness Analysis in Facing Challenges and Opportunities

Kamaludin Kamaludin, John Tampil Purba
Opportunities and challenges are the culture of the people in business arena. Those also happen in the Banking Industry over the world, transforming from the traditional systems into high end technology. Strategic Management is needed in preparing technology readiness (TR) of banks in customer-focused...
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Consensus Problems on Small-world Networks with time delay

Jinjin Shi, Lei Gu
In this paper, we study the consensus problem on small-world network with time delay. In particular, we give the sufficient condition of the consensus problem reaching consensus base on a rigorous spectral analysis for the Laplacian matrix of small-world networks. Closed-form upper bound for the spectral...
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Table Recognition and Recovery in the Camera-Captured Image with Complex Background

Guiyang Xie, Yirong Mao, Zifan Nan, Shizhe Wang, Yue Li, Wei Wang
With the development of OCR techniques, people start to use image processing methods to analyze and process the image-type documents (typically scanned images) for obtaining the information of characters and the layout. On the other hand, table, draw relatively less attention in OCR even it is an important...