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Study on the Methods of Ultrasonic Testing for the Cracks in Concrete

Dong Xiang, Lixia Zhou, Ye qing Ma
The cracks existing in the concrete components have a strong impact on the safety of their structures. Ultrasonic testing is an effective non-destructive testing method for fast excluding surface and internal defects of concrete in construction engineering. The concrete specimens were tested by the calculation...
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Chinese Text Classification Based on Ant Colony Optimization

Xin Luo
It's significance for us to study Chinese Text Classification, when we face so much dynamic information. The development of Text Classification has a close connection with Pattern Recognition. However, some peculiarity of Chinese Text Classification, such as it has many classes, much noise, and excessive...
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Efficiency and Stability of Capacitance of the PV System

Guozhong Zhou, Yan Cui
The output of the PV array capacitance change influence the output efficiency of photovoltaic power generation system. The study of the circuit is a stand-alone photovoltaic power generation system, theoretical analysis and simulation results can be well combined with the PV array output suggests adding...
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Numerical Simulation of Residual Stresses in Thermal Barrier Coating Due to Thermal Mismatch

Yumei Bai
A plane strain geometrical model of thermal barrier coating (TBC) is established in order to investigate the distributed characters of maximal stresses in ceramic and interfacial ones. The effects of temperature and ceramic thickness on stresses are also studied. The results show that the stress in ceramic...

Research and Discussion on the Management System of Teaching Quality in Local Universities

Feng Gao, Qinghong Qu
The teaching quality management is an important guarantee to improve the teaching quality of local colleges and universities. It is the focus of the current study how to improve the level of the teaching quality management as well as the key to the teaching reform of local colleges and universities....
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A Scheme of Multi-path Adaptive Load Balancing in MANETs

Yang Tao, Guochi Lin
The majority of multi-path routing schemes in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) does not consider the traffic distribution and load balancing routing performance, increasing network overhead, excessive energy consumption and other issues. We propose a scheme to achieve load balancing when the topology changes...

A Simple Analysis of the "Departmental benefits" Problem with Administrative System Reform in China

Chenyuan Weng
In the process of accelerating management system reform, the existence of the "departmental benefits" problem severely impedes the process of reform and provides soil for the survival of corruption behaviors, which not only hinders the construction of public administration system, but also brings resistance...

Reorientation and Renewal of Indonesia Economy Education Curriculum Paradigm based on Creative Economy, Character Education and Local Cultural Values

Moch Noviadi Nugroho
The shift of development paradigm, which initially rests on the power of natural resources based, then changed to rely on the strength of human resources based or commonly also called knowledge-based economy. Creative economy is an economic era that intensifies information and creativity by relying on...
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A Probability PPV Model for Social Network Influence Maximization Problem

Yunjia Ge, Dong Wang
For Influence Maximization(IM) problem based on social network, effective and personalized probability learning method was still not theoretical guaranteed. In this paper, we proposed a PPV probability model based on IM problem, which effectively learnt influence probabilities and personal-ized influence...
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Research on the Development Law of Carbonate Reservoir Cracks in Niuxintuo west Oilfield

Shu-xia Wang
For the geological characteristics of carbonate reservoirs in West Niuxintuo Oilfield, using core description, well logging fracture identification,3DMOVE fracture prediction and other new technology, the inside story of carbonate reservoir is found out under the guidance of geology, well logging, petrology...

The Effects of Marketing Mix to Buying Interest and Their Implication toward the Decision of Choosing Private Higher Education

Oyon Saryono, Nana Darna, Mujaddid Faruk
the upcoming implementation of ASEAN Economic Community is predicted to generate new trend of competition among educational institutions in Indonesia. The growth of private higher education has significantly increased since the issuance of UU No. 22 of 19

Dried Spice Technology Improves Effeciency in the Hospitality Industry

Yuviani Kusumawardhani, Sjukriana Juke, Aryanti Ratri
National food industry has big contribute to the economic growth in Indonesia. In the first quarter of 2015, the growth of the national food industry reached 8.16%. Indonesian traditional food which is famous in the international are rendang, gado-gado, skewers, meatballs, Soto Betawi, and many more....

Propertology as An Educational Discipline: Is It in Demand by Modern Universities

Andrey Orekhov, Aleksey Neugodnikov
Actual research in the social sciences requires the establishment of the new interdisciplinary areas which may also include propertology—interdisciplinary research dedicated to property. The sections of propertology are a philosophy of property, an economy of property, sociology of property, a right...
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The Research on Present Status of Straw Ash as High Performance Concrete Admixture

Zhengjun WANG, Qinghui LAI, Kang HAO
With wide application of the high performance concrete in Engineering, the research and application of high performance concrete admixture are attaching more and more attention by researchers. Although researches are more mature on the aspects of fly ash, slag, silica fume and other non-biological materials,...
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A Novel Hand Gesture Tracking Algorithm Fusing Camshift and Particle Filter

M.H. Yao, Q.L. Gu, X.B. Wang, W.X. He, Q. Shen
This paper proposes an algorithm fusing the Particle Filter and Camshift for improving tracking performance. The algorithm creates a dynamic model which integrates the information of color and motion, uses Camshift to optimize the state of particles and embeds Camshift into Particle Filter. The experimental...
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The Vacancy-hardening Properties in Water-quenched Fe-Al Alloys

Z.C. Zhou, J. Du, Y.K. Zhang, Y.P. Zhang, S.Y. Gu
Fe-Al alloys with different Al contents were prepared with commercially pure Fe and Al in a vacuum induction furnace. The hardness of the Fe-Al alloys with different Al content and heat treatments was measured using a Vickers-hardness tester of HVS-5, applying a load of 9.8 N and keeping for 8 s. In...

The Research on Soldier’s Personalized Learning Based on improved Ant Colony Algorithm

Dong Li, Huqiang Wang
Confronting the situation of uneven educational background, knowledge comprehension and master speed of soldiers, stereotype education system of soldier’s occupational skill no longer adapts the demand of network era development and informational military construction. The paper puts forward to the tactic...
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Technical Research of Crane Reliability Control Based on Neural Network

Yu Janli, Zhou Ruifang, Wu Zhifei
This paper study control problems of tower crane operational reliablity. Observational variables of crane running status are employed as input vectors, status codes of reliablity are employed as output vectors, on-line neural network model is set to monitor tower reliablity of crane running status. Cross...

Exploration and Practice of Introductory Curriculum on Mechanical Engineering

Xiao-Gui Zhang, Jun-Jie Xiao
The introductory of mechanical engineering is a new opened elective course mechanical in the engineering major. It plays a positive role in guiding students to understand the major itself, the development of it and the future employment prospects, improving the students' interest in learning, cultivating...
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Exploring the effect of ICT solutions on GHG emissions in 2030

Jens Malmodin, Pernilla Bergmark
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are expected to have a great potential to reduce the GHG emissions across society, however limited data on actual reductions have been published so far. Based on available data on real GHG emission reductions realized by different ICT solutions, this paper...

Floor Heating Customer Prediction Model Based on Random Forest

Zhihuan Yao, Xian Xu, Huiqun Yu
Pages: 37 - 42
Nowadays floor heating service is increasingly attracting both residents in cold areas and gas companies for market profits. With the aggravation of market-oriented competition, the gas companies are actively seeking service transformation. It is of great significance to gas companies to be able to forecast...
Research Article

Attracting international private finance for African infrastructure☆

Paul Collier
Pages: 37 - 44
Africa’s trade is impeded by poor infrastructure. Inadequate transport infrastructure raises costs analogous to trade barriers, while inadequate power discourages investment. Yet Africa’s infrastructure needs greatly exceed its capacity to finance them. There is therefore a need, and an opportunity,...
Research Article

Aid for trade and Africa’s trade performance: Evidence from bilateral trade flows with China and OECD countries☆

Adugna Lemi
Pages: 37 - 60
The optimism surrounding aid for trade (AfT) led scholars and practitioners to probe its link with trade performance of aid-recipient countries in Africa. In the absence of formal evaluation guidelines, most previous studies, using aggregate data, have looked into the impacts of AfT on exports and imports...

The prevalence of allergic rhinitis and atopic markers in obstructive sleep apnea

Ghadah Gadi, Siraj Wali, Emad Koshak, Mohammad Albar, Abdulkareem Fida, Muntasir Abdelaziz, Khaled Alnoury, Nabil Alama
Pages: 37 - 44
Allergic rhinitis (AR) related inflammation might worsen the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), however, the relationship between the two disorders remains controversial. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of AR and atopic markers in OSA. This cross-sectional study recruited participants...

Evaluation of tuberculosis public health surveillance, Al-Madinah province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2012

Mohammed J. Alkhalawi, Scott J.N. McNabb, Abdullah M. Assiri, Ziad A. Memish
Pages: 37 - 44
The objective of the study is to evaluate the quality of the data, the sensitivity of the surveillance, and the completeness of identification and investigation of tuberculosis (TB) patient’s contacts. The study covered the TB surveillance program in Al-Madinah province in 2011. First, we reviewed all...

The Role Of Teachers In The Millennium Era On The Development Of Student Creativities In Village Border Areas

Mrs. Zulfitria, Happy Indira Dewi, R. Andi Ahmad Gunadi
Education as a strong social institution empowers all citizens of Indonesia to develop into a good quality of human being so that they are able and to proactively to answer the challenges in the Millennium 4.0 era. In the development of the education system in Indonesia, so far the role of teachers is...

E-Business Readiness in Indonesian Small Medium Size Travel Agencies

Any Noor, Marceilla Suryana, Amalia Sholihati
The development of world tourism, especially in the tour and travel business is influenced by Information Communication Technology (ICT). The effective use of ICT added values to products and services that continue to develop business electronically (e-business). By doing e-business, companies tend to...

The integration of prophetic values in developing the teachers’ personality competency assessment instrument

Atim Rinawati, Kumaidi, Harun
This study aimed to identify the prophetic values of Islam to find indicators that can be used as a reference in the development of the assessment instrument of teacher's personality competence. This study was written using the method of inductive content analysis.From the results of this study it was...

Challenges and Opportunities in Using Local Online Materials for Education 3.0 Localized EFL Practices

Kamaludin Yusra
This paper explores online local cultural materials written in English that local teachers and students can use for Education 3.0 EFL learning. This paper firstly discusses the internet sources that local English teachers can use as resources for English learning materials. These materials can be in...

The Relationship between Organizational Emotional Capability and Employee Innovation Behavior of S&T Enterprise

Shuwen Li
The primary aim in this study was to investigate the effects of emotional capability on employee innovation behavior. In this study, hierarchical Regression was used to research among multiple source questionnaires of 304 S&T enterprises. The results shows: organizational emotional capability has significantly...

English Teaching Material Based on the Environmental Caring Character

Suwandi, Senowarsito, Sophia B Th. Cicik
This research aims at developing an English teaching material based on the environmental caring character. It is assumed that learning English using the teaching material integrated with environmental caring character concepts and activities will enable the students to subconsciously develop their awareness...

Social Investment: Measuring the Effect on the Popula-tion Welfare of the Russian Far East

S.N. Naiden, A.V. Belousova, M.A. Gritsko
The article studies expenses of budgets on education, healthcare, social policies, housing and public utilities, as social investments that contribute to the population welfare. Using model constructs built on the base of dynamic and panel data, the authors received the estimates of effect of social...

The Influence of Team Assisted Individualization (TAI) Approach on Students’ Mathematical Problem Solving Ability

Sri Wahyu Neka, Hendra Syariffudin, Syahniar Syahniar
This study compared the ability in solving mathematic problem between students taught by using cooperative learning, especially TAI type, and students taught by using conventional approach, which was also seen across students’ learning motivation. This study was quasi experimental research. Furthermore,...

Language Acculturation: A Study of Al-Ta’rib and Al-Mu’arrab in Advertisement Language in Nasr City Cairo

Zamzam Nurhuda
This study aims to show that there is language acculturation process in Nasr City Cairo advertisement. This acculturation occurs in the form of foreign language entering and adapting to Arabic language (borrowing words). In this case, English words are adapted to Arabic language (al-ta’rib) and these...

Probe into the Problems and Standardization Countermeasure of Express Collection Industry at Present

Linfeng Wu
China's economy has shifted to the stage of high-quality development. Improving the efficiency and customer satisfaction of express delivery industry is the inevitable requirement of social development. This paper analyses the problems existing in the current express delivery and collection industry,...

Career Interest as an Accountant Lecturer with Compensation as a Moderating Variable

Erna Lovita
The purpose of this study was to analyze career interest as an accountant lecturer. The independent variable that is in use is the perception and motivation, with compensation as an intervening variable. The sample used in this study are students at some universities in East Jakarta, that have been the...
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Motion Activity through Games toward Students’ Creative Thinking Skill

Mr. Basuki, Mr. Nurhasan, Mr. Suroto
This study aims to determine the effect of motion activity through games on students' creative thinking skills. Conceptually, the goals of the Sports and Health Physical Education subjects (PJOK) is not only to develop physical abilities, but also to develop intellectual, mental, social and emotional...

Solvency Analysis of Chinese Railway Construction Listed Companies

Zhi-hua Chang
Railway is not only related to transportation and business but also a basis of public’s living quality, getting government focused and policy supported. With the economy growing, railway construction business is focused by investors. Many firms have difficulties such as high asset-liability ratio, the...
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Study of Mode Preferences of Personal Transport Based on Distance Traveled and Length of Trip

Fatmawaty Rachim, Nur Khaerat Nur, Sri Gusty, Andi Ibrahim Yunus, Andi Muh. Nurpadli, Erdawati
One of the factors causing congestion is the number of vehicles which are not proportional to the increase of the volume of the road. At the present time, people generally prefer to use private vehicles compared to public transportation due to various reasons such as convenience, travel time, faster...

The Effects Analysis Of Functional Benefit And Symbolic Benefit With Self Concept Connection On Emotional Attachmen And Brand Loyalty For Executive Brand Fashion In East Kalimantan

Muhammad Nawawi, Gunadi, M. Kiswanto, Hanifah Ekawati, Dewi Ambarsari
This study aims is to analyze the Functional Benefit and Symbolic Benefit with Self Concept Connection influences on Emotional Attachments and Brand Loyalty for the users of The Executive fashion brand products in East Kalimantan. This study uses a quantitative approach using path analysis which is processed...

Computer Based Management Information System towards Employee Performance in Indonesian National Police Educational Headquarters Bandung

Ridwan Nur Arifin, GW Wulandari Sianipar, Aan Komariah
This research is entitled "The Contribution of Computer Based Management Information System to Employee Performance at the Indonesian National Police Educational Headquarters". The problem discussed on how much the influence the computer-based management information system has on employee performance....

Exploration on Development Path for Application-oriented Universities

Jing Wu, Xinlin He, Miao Shang, Wenming Ma
Application-oriented universities are an important part of the higher education system. Application-oriented universities are the core force supporting and core strength for leading the national innovation-driven development strategy. The application-oriented universities are introduced in this paper....
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Self-Adaptive Cybersecurity System

Aradea Aradea, Iping Supriana, Kridanto Surendro, Husni Mubarok, Irfan Darmawan
Complexity of cyberspace environment nowadays, arouse security vulnerabilities for all owned assets. Appropriate way out or solution for every obstacle in a case like this is a must for ICT role. However, user trust for ICT usage raises concerns. Cyberspace environment is caused by rapid increase in...

Assessing the Contribution of In-service Teacher Professional Training to Teachers’ Readiness to Implement the 2013 Curriculum (An analysis of the developmental progress of English teachers teaching skills in Sumbawa Regency)

Untung Waluyo, Henny Soepriyanti, Sudirman Wilian, Rizki Kurniawan
To complement with the implementation of the 2013 Curriculum, the Government of Indonesia has provided In-service Teacher Professional Training Program (TPETP a.k.a. PLPG) for English teachers in order that they can comply with the demands of the new curriculum. The current research attempts to reveal...

A Hybrid Ant Colony Algorithm for Fresh Delivery Route Optimization Considering Quality Loss

Xuan Zhao, Qing-Lie Wu
At present, the penetration rate of cold chain facilities and equipment in China is still relatively low. The purpose of this paper is to develop an optimal fresh food logistics distribution method on the premise that cold chain distribution cannot be meet. Considering the perishability and time dependence...

Democratization at the Regency and City Level in Indonesia in the Era of Regional Autonomy

Bambang Suprijadi
The purpose of this study is to analyze and describe democracy in the level of regency and city in Indonesia in the era of regional autonomy. The research method is explanatory case study using qualitative approach. The results of the study suggest that: 1). Democratization in the form of institutionalization...

The Impact of Think Pair Share (TPS) Learning Models on Stoichiometry Lessons in Paket C Program

Tri Joko Raharjo, Harianingsih
Stoichiometry is one of the lessons given to paket C students. Chemical education, especially stoichiometry, is often considered a difficult and tedious lesson. For this reason, it is necessary to have an innovative learning model that can increase learning motivation and absorption capacity of C paket...

Fuzzy applications in selected aircraft on-board system

Norbert Grzesik, Janusz Ćwiklak, Mariusz Zieja, Grzegorz Kozłowski
Authors in this publication present the new approach to aircraft systems efficiency evaluation. The research station consists of two units: efficiency evaluation unit and flight simulation unit. The efficiency is evaluated with use of fuzzy inference systems designed in Matlab/Simulink Software. Simulations...
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Generator Digital Regulators Distributed Generation Plants

Yuri Bulatov, Andrey Kryukov, Nguyen Van Huan
The article provides results of power supply systems modes' computer-based research conducted with distributed generation (DG) plants equipped with digital automatic voltage regulator (AVR) and automatic speed governor (ASG). Look-ahead algorithms were used to enhance control quality. Analysis of digital...
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Improving the Quality of Adaptive Health Education Services for Disabled Students (Influence of media in the use of volleyball games on courage and the results of down passing learning of deaf students)

Beltasar Tarigan, Hendya Alif Junanda, Amung Ma’mun
The aim the present study is to investigate the use of media in volleyball match on deaf students’ courage and learning output in underarm pass in Sekolah Luar Biasa Citeureup Cimahi. The method used is experimental research. The present study involved 12 students consisting 6 students in the experimental...