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Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Preparation and Activities of Visible-Light-Driven BiVO4 doped Mn2+ via Solid State Method
Haifeng Chen, Zili Xiong
Using the Bi(NO3)3•5H2O, NH4VO3 and 50% Mn(NO3)2 solution as raw materials, the novel Mn2+-doped BiVO4 photocatalysts was successfully prepared by a low-temperature grinding synthesis. And characterized by X-ray diffraction(XRD) and scanning electron microscope(SEM). The Methyl Orange (MO) was simulated...
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The Effectiveness of Reciprocal Learning Strategy in Reading Short Story on VII Grade Students SMP Negeri 1 Kasihan Bantul
Nadia Ayu Puspita, Kastam Syamsi
This study aims (1) to find out whether there is a significant difference in short story text reading ability between students who take part in learning using reciprocal strategies and students who take lessons without using reciprocal strategies on VII grade students of SMP Negeri 1 Kasihan; and (2)...
Research Article
Implementation of Arduino Simulator ADVIS Visualizing the Value of Voltage on the Circuit
Tetsuro Katayama, Tatsumi Nishida, Yoshihiro Kita, Hisaaki Yamaba, Kentaro Aburada, Naonobu Okazaki
Pages: 249 - 252
Embedded technologies are used everywhere. One of the educational materials to learn the embedded technologies is Arduino. When a beginner designs circuit, it is possible to design the circuit that damages Arduino itself or the modules on it. Therefore, this research implements an Arduino simulator that...
Research Article
Establishing a cohort in a developing country: Experiences of the diabetes-tuberculosis treatment outcome cohort study
Fatima Mukhtar, Zahid A. Butt
Pages: 249 - 254
Background: Prospective cohort studies are instrumental in generating valid scientific evidence based on identifying temporal associations between cause and effect. Researchers in a developing country like Pakistan seldom undertake cohort studies hence little is known about the challenges encountered...
Research Article
Investigation of an outbreak of bloody diarrhea complicated with hemolytic uremic syndrome
Otar Chokoshvili, Khatuna Lomashvili, Naile Malakmadze, Marika Geleishvil, Jonas Brant, Paata Imnadze, Nazibrola Chitadze, Lia Tevzadze, Gvantsa Chanturia, Tea Tevdoradze, Tengiz Tsertsvadze, Deborah Talkington, Rajal K Mody, Nancy Strockbine, Russell A Gerber, Edmond Maes, Thomas Rush
Pages: 249 - 259
In July–August 2009, eight patients with bloody diarrhea complicated by hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) were admitted to hospitals in Tbilisi, Georgia. We started active surveillance in two regions for bloody diarrhea and post-diarrheal HUS. Of 25 case-patients who developed HUS, including the initial...
Research Article
Smoking motivators are different among cigarette and waterpipe smokers: The results of ITUPP
Hamidreza Roohafza, Kamal Heidari, Tahereh Alinia, Razieh Omidi, Masoumeh Sadeghi, Elham Andalib, Ali Ajami, Nizal Sarrafzadegan
Pages: 249 - 258
The present study explores different drivers of cigarette and water pipe smoking among middle and high school students in Isfahan province. A questionnaire-based cross-sectional study was conducted. Trained staff collected questionnaires and saliva samples for response accuracy evaluation. Prevalence...
Research Article
Institutional Research Evaluation Model (IREM): A framework for measuring organizational research trends and impact and its application in medical academia in Saudi Arabia
Mazen Hassanain, Shirin Anil, Ayman Abdo
Pages: 249 - 256
Increased financial and human resource constraints for research and development (R&D) imply rigorous research evaluation to guide the research policy for wise allocation of resources. In this study, we developed a conceptual framework called the “Institutional Research Evaluation Model” (IREM) to...
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Forecasting the Ionospheric f0F2 Parameter One Hour in Advance Using Recurrent Neural Network
Zhe Lv, Changjun Yu, Aijun Liu
It is difficult to forecast the state of ionosphere because the time-varying characteristics. Using recurrent neural network(RNN) one hour ahead prediction of the critical parameter of ionospheric F2 layer(f0F2) is realized. The prediction model is developed based on 11 years (from 2005 to 2016) of data...
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The Effect of Leadership, Communication, and Motivation on Employee Performance : A Literature Review
Sri Rizki Safitri, Dina Patrisia
This paper is a literature study to analyze the effect of leadership, communication, and motivation on employee performance.This type of research is explanatory research, looking at the relationship of free variables is leadership, communication, and motivation on employee performance. This study aim...
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Juridical Review of Islamic Law: Surrogacy Phenomenon in Southeast Asia Countries
Syariful Alam, Nur Hidayah
Rent womb or commonly called surrogacy arises because of the modernization process, the process of modernization here is the development of science and technology in the field of medicine, namely genetic engineering. The purpose of rent womb is to help a married couple who are unable to have offspring...
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Clinical Teaching Experience of Emergency Nursing Students
Fanping Meng, Lina Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhao, Min Zhang
Nursing is a comprehensive applied science with strong practicality. Its teaching process is mainly composed of classroom teaching and clinical practice. Clinical practice will enable nursing students to combine theoretical knowledge and skills learned in classroom with practice. Clinical teaching should...
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The Effect of Online Peer Review Activities on Students’ Academic Writing Performance
Emilia Ninik Aydawati, Dwi Rukmini, Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati, Sri Wuli Fitriati
Peer review activities have been conducted in writing classes and have shown good impacts on the students’ writing skills. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of online peer review activities on students’ academic writing performance. The participants were 50 students of academic writing...
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Clinical Observation on the Efficacy of Electric Acupuncture Points with Moxibustion in Mild Cognitive Impairment
Yue Liu, Weiwei Du
The purpose of this paper is to understand the efficacy of electric acupuncture points with moxibustion in Sishencong to Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). 20 cases were considered. The cases came from The Affiliated Hospital of Changchun University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. At the same time, the...
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A Needs Analysis Approach to the Design of College English Elective Courses: A Descriptive Account of Chinese College Students’ Needs
Wenmin Huang
This descriptive NA research with 455 participants studies the Chinese independently-run college learners’ needs, to help teachers design College English elective courses. It finds that the learners’ target needs include to pass English exams for future career and academic study, and to talk fluently...
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Implementation of Transformational Leadership of Study Program Chairperson and its Impact on Lecturers Achievement Motivation
Hamidi Dendi Zainuddin, Permadi Indra, Setiawan Iwan Rizal
This study aims to analyze the implementation of Transformational leadership of the Study Program Chair and its impact on lecturer achievement motivation. The long-term goals and specific objectives of this study are the application of Transformationaonal leadership style that can encourage lecturers...
Proceedings Article
Research on Construction of Learning Ecosystem of Network University
Guang-Ling GAO, Xiang-Hua PAN, Jie ZHAN, Gui-Hua LIN, Zhi-Ming ZHANG, Shi-Chen JIN
Enterprise network university is a knowledge service institution that can enhance the competitive advantage of enterprises. In the era of knowledge economy, the important task that enterprise universities face is how to realize the transfer, sharing, evolution and proliferation of knowledge, so as to...
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Rural Education Investment Ratio and Regional Economic Growth ——Based on the Panel Data of China from 1993 to 2014
Shu Wen
From the perspective of human capital accumulation, this paper analyzes the impact of urban and rural education investment on regional economic growth. Based on the multiple linear regression model and using the provincial panel data from 1993 to 2014. The paper thinks that in order to promote the balanced...
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A 2-DoF Robot Arm Simulation for Kinematics Learning
Arif Widodo, Ahsan Muzakki, Farid Baskoro
Most of the robotics research papers are focused on robot competition and only a few papers discuss on robot education and robot teaching. This research is focused on robot education with the help of simulation to give students more freedom to determine the robot movement so that the trial and error...
Proceedings Article
Revival of US 301 and China's Management Strategy
Hang Zheng
On March 23, 2018, the United States made a unilateral sanction decision on the basis of the "301 Investigation" launched by the US on China on August 15th last year. China responded positively later, along with the outbreak of the trade war between China and the United States and aroused worldwide concern....
Proceedings Article
The Reception Audience of the Woman’s Beauty in Korean Drama
Endri Listiani, Deddy Mulyana, Edwin Rizal, Ahmad Mulyana
Standardization is conveyed through the media, which is often able to manipulate someone as a form that must be followed by the audience. Therefore, this research aims to explore the concepts of beauty in the minds of the Korean drama viewers. This study uses a qualitative method, with an audience reception...
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Research on Social Stability Risk Assessment Method
Yongliang Xiao, Xiangbao Li, Wenbin Liu, Canwei He
The social stability risk assessment system of major decisions projects will directly affect the evaluation results. Therefore, the design of evaluation model is a problem to be considered comprehensively, and a scientific and reasonable evaluation index system is the premise of objective and accurate...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Control Strategy Research on Drugs Input in Intelligent Pharmacy Express Dispensing System
Da-zhi Zhang, Jun-feng Cui
In order to improve the working efficiency of drugs input in intelligent pharmacy express dispensing system, the route planning based on the improved genetic algorithms is proposed for express dispensing system with complicated boxed drugs and numerous storage space. This paper establishes a TSP problem...
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Argumentation model based on the ontology of persuasion recipient
Aleksej Gubanov, Galina Gubanova, Ekaterina Kozhemyakova, Evgenija Grigoreva, Irina Bakina
The article examines the cognitive structure of knowledge representation in the argumentation context, where the corresponding concept as a cognitive category is understood as a special kind of reasoning, as a rationalistic justification procedure, the basis of which is the mental representation of the...
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Research on the Educational Reform of Economic Mathematics for the Professional Application and Quality Training of Students Majoring in Finance and Economics in Higher Vocational Colleges
Heqiong Zhang
According to the current situation and development trend of mathematics teaching reform in higher vocational and technical education, our college takes the existing higher vocational students as the research object and takes the improvement of students' core literacy as the "dissolving agent" of discipline...
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Research on Effective Management of the Internship Process in Colleges and Universities Under the Background of "Internet +"
Guangyong Ji, Dan Ye, Rui Zhang
Under the background of "Internet +", we explore the use of information technology and "Internet +" thinking to effectively monitor all aspects of the internship process, so as to solve the problems of unprepared information, poor guidance, supervision of practice, and lack of quality control. The article...
Proceedings Article
Analysis of privacy profiles applying fuzzy clustering techniques
Aigul Kaskina, Oleksii Tyshchenko
Unsolved roots of ``privacy paradox'' motivate researchers to extricate the underlying reasons of such phenomenon. In the field of privacy research, the majority of empirical studies lack the availability of the real data collected from the actual platform instead of data received from the experimental...
Proceedings Article
The Night Market as A Contra Hegemony of Seller Against The Power of Capitalism and The Government
Cosmas Gatot Haryono
In the midst of the "onslaught" of online store developments, there are still many Indonesians who still rely on traditional markets to meet their daily needs, one of which is the night market. Although it is always connoted as a public market and entertainment market, the economic transactions that...
Proceedings Article
Political Semiotics Analysis of Joko Widodo through Social Media in Forming Image Building
Jeanie Annissa, Ricky Widyananda Putra, Benny Muhdaliha
The use of social media today is a necessity for millennial actors. Social media is used as a communication medium that provides transmission of value and extensive information flows. This is a necessity in the era of globalization which emphasizes the implementation of information, communication, and...
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Innovation of Community Health Quality Improvement through Partnership between Puskesmas and Schools in Independent Health Maintenance Program (JPKM): Study on Puskesmas Dinoyo and schools in Malang city
Trisnawati Trisnawati
The creation of good governance based on the principle of Good Governance is very much needed in an effort to create a pattern of interaction and collaboration between the government and the private sector and the community which is more commonly referred to as partnership. Partnerships in the health...
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Research on Configuration Optimization of AC/DC Charging Equipment under Large Scale Access of Electric Vehicles Considering Disordered Charging
Lingyi Li, Tie Chen
In order to meet the demand of large-scale charging of electric vehicles effectively, it is urgent to carry out research on configuration optimization of AC/DC charging equipment. For this reason, the charging law is modeled on the basis of the charging characteristic data of a small-scale electric vehicle...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Fecundity of Freshwater Prawn(Macrobrachiumrosenbergii) in Menduk River, Bangka, Bangka Belitung
Eva Utami, Okto Supratman
Freshwater prawn (Macrobrachiumrosenbergii) in Bangka,is one of the important economic prawn.The sustainability of freshwater prawn is threatened by degradation of natural habitat. Information of reproductive aspect is needed for further management. The objective of this study was to examine fecundity...
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Application of Multilayer Networks to Detect Critical Energy Facilities
Elena Nosyreva, Ludmila Massel
One of the main components of national security is energy security. To ensure the protection of energy facilities, it is necessary to single out the most important facilities, the disruption of the functioning of which can cause irreparable consequences. The methods currently existing in Russia for identifying...
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Hyperspectral Image Classification Based on Novel Binary Particle Swarm with Mutation Mechanism for Band Selection
Lishuan Hu, Qun Wang, Tingyan Xing
Hyperspectral remote sensing sensors can capture hundreds of narrow contiguous bands and provide plenty of valuable information. Duo to the high-dimension characteristics of hyperspectral data, band selection plays an important role in the field of Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification. In this paper,...
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Design of Project Teaching System for Information Management and Information System under the Perspective of OBE
Yanxia Lu, Jingshu Wang, Di Wu
Based on the goal of training innovative and applied talents, this paper introduces the concept of OBE education in engineering education. Through a comprehensive survey of stakeholders, the objectives of professional training and graduation requirements are clarified based on the goal of training information...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Strategy Option of Inspection and Certification Industry in China
Luogao Wang, Qiang Lu, Zhaoying Zuo, Caili Zhang, Hongjuan Yang, Yan Wang, Kai Li
Inspection and certification industry is the national quality foundation and an important part of modern service industry in China . The industry has been regarded by the State Council as one of the eight high technology service industries and eleven largest producer services. The paper is one of the...
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Cultivation of Practical Competence of Students in Dispute Advertising Design
Jun Ma, De-Yu Chen
The practical teaching of advertisement major provides a good platform. Higher vocational graduates 'knowledge level ability is not high, comprehensive ability and competition consciousness are weak, there is no reasonable business consciousness, resulting in design work not in line with the actual market...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on Evaluation Method of Rail Transit Train Operation Scheme Based on DEA Method
Liang Xu, Haidong Liu
In this paper, we established an evaluation index system and then calculated different efficiencies of the two kinds of efficient decision-making units and the non-effective ones to evaluate and rank them synthetically. At the same time, the inherent requirements and characteristics of the Data Envelopment...
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Research on the Correlation Between Intelligence Level and Psychological Indicators of College Students
Jianlong Qian
In this paper, 32 college students from the physical and non physical education major of Jianghan University are studied. The research methods of literature, questionnaire, experiment and psychological measurement are used to study the correlation of mental indicators of College Students' intelligence...
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Accurately Grasp The Main Characteristics of The Cultivation of Socialist Core Values in Colleges and Universities in The Internet Era
Yu Chen, Jiajia Wang
The cultivation of core values in the Internet plus age requires an accurate grasp of its main characteristics to ensure effectiveness: the complexity of the process and the flexibility of its advance, the consistency of direction and the diversity of advances, the totality of planning and the synergy...
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Study on Current Situation, Problems and Paths of FBO Social Service Specialization in China
Xianhong Wu, Jianguo Gao, Qin Li
In response to the recent call for research on the participation in social welfare of faith-based organizations in China, this article focuses on barriers to specialization inside and outside the organization. Adopting the a general inductive approach, the author studies the system foundation and service...
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Stigma of Mental Illness and Attitudes towards Seeking Mental Health Services among Undergraduates in a Public University in Malaysia
Hong Sing Yee
Many people with mental illnesses have faced, or are facing the burdened impact the stigma has acted on them. Needless to say, mental health stigma held by society is playing its role as a barrier that prevents many people from actively seeking professional mental help (Corrigan, 2004). Researcher then...
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Research on Students’ Diversion during the Transformation Process in Local Undergraduate Universities-Taking the joint training stage of Hebei University of Science and Technology as an Example
Ying Qu, Na Yang, Shugui Cao
The application transformation of local undergraduate institutions is the trend to adapt to the development of higher education in the new era, the transformation means the transformation of training objectives from theoretical academic research to employment-oriented practical talents. This paper takes...
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Creating the approach for the evaluation level of the efficiency of the organizational culture of the sea port
Maryna Makarenko, Roman Ustynov, Olenaa Sienko, Marina Babachenko
It has been proved that efficiency of the management of the modern enterprise of the marine industry is defined by the obtained level of its organizational culture, therefore, there is a necessity to deal with the issues of creating corresponding conditions for developing organizational culture. Components...
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The Effect of Service Quality and Product Innovation toward Competitive Advantage and Implications on Interest in Reference Customers "BRI" Bank in Bengkulu Province: Case Study in "BRI" Bank Bandar Bintuhan Branch
Panji Tri Wahyu, Murwanto Sigit
As one of the banking institutions in Indonesia which is one of the largest state-owned banks in Indonesia, BRI Bank has various service strategies that are intended for benefit of its customers. Especially the BRI Bank Bandar Bintuhan Branch in Bengkulu Province which is located at Jln. Merdeka Bintuhan...
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Why Should SMEs in Indonesia Have To Apply "Green Practices"?
Yuliani, Budi Eko Soetjipto
SMEs are known as the most dominant business sector in every country including Indonesia. SMEs do not only contribute to the GDB, but are also able to reduce unemployment through the employment opportunities created. However, SMEs poses various problems for the environment. This paper aims to explore...
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Cupping and Health
Hangling Wang, Yuxin Hu
Cupping is a precious heritage of traditional Chinese medicine?TCM), which originated in ancient China. After a long clinical application, Cupping obtained an excellent therapeutic effect. With the development of TCM, Cupping can be used to treat many diseases. In addition?the modern science and technology...
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Selection criteria for service sports based on the indicators of cadets of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs
Daria Shibkova, Maxim Kislitsyn, Victor Maltsev
The development of service sports that are significant for the professional growth of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs necessitates the selection of cadets with essential qualities. The purpose of this article is to find the model characteristics of cadets that determine the effectiveness...
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The Role of ASEAN in Sipadan and Ligitan Case: An Analysis from Law and Diplomacy
Rodiyah, Muhamad Adji Rahardian Utama, Muhamad Reza Maulana
Southeast Asian countries, as well as Association for Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN) was become an important regional organizations not only in regional but also for international. Some benefits come up from the ASEAN cooperation among its ASEAN countries or other countries out of ASEAN. However,...
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Exploring Contemporary Fashion Design from the Perspective of Design Ethics
Chanjuan Ren
From the perspective of design ethics, this paper discusses the contemporary fashion design and the embodiment of design ethics in contemporary fashion design. As a result, it is found that the design idea of contemporary fashion design is gradually changed to a deep thinking of the society and life...
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The Life Spirit of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Aesthetics
Wenwen Wan
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Aesthetics are unified to a life learning on “living” of Chinese traditional culture. Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Aesthetics both pay their attention to a whole “body-mind” Human. TCM is not a science on “Body” or “Utensil” while Chinese Aesthetics...