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Ships are characterized by complex structure and poor operation environment. It is very important to monitor the health state of the ship structure. In the paper, one-way and three-way optical fiber sensors in ship structure monitoring are designed and produced. Related values are simulated. Related...

It is one of China's important national strategies to build a cultural power and to introduce its traditional culture to the world. To strengthen the external propaganda will enhance China's cultural soft power and greatly contribute to the national strategic objective. China's external propaganda has...

This paper discusses the wind pressure distributions on high-rice buildings with partial openings by means of wind tunnel tests and numerical simulations. The wind tunnel tests were carried out in the boundary layer wind tunnel over an urban terrain with a geometric scale. The numerical simulations used...

This study aims to determine the hyperelastic parameters of skin (ovine). Firstly, experimental procedures involving mechanical tensile tests on ovine skin are conducted according to ASTM International Standard. Then, experimental data and hyperelastic model for biomaterials are integrated. Finally,...

This paper presents a low-power, single-stage, and variable-gain controlled double-balanced type RF receiver front-end, called DB-LMV cell, by merging low-noise amplifier (LNA), mixer, and voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) exploiting a series LC (SLC) network. The low intermediate frequency (IF) or...

HEC-RAS is a very powerful and practical software which was developed by the Hydrologic Engineering Center. In this paper, this software is introduced to calculate the backwater height which is caused by a floating bridge on the yellow river. We can easily obtain the backwater height through using this...

Harmony search algorithm is an intelligent optimization algorithm. The function converges to its optimal solution with increased iterations and completes the optimization by adjusting the solution variables repeatedly in harmony memory. The original steps and processes of harmony search algorithm are...

With the development of computer technology, multimedia technology, communication technology in our country, there has been a new educational model of educational technology, where multimedia network teaching is a very prominent part. In this paper, on the basis background of the theory and development...

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of compensation, education and training, and the work environment on employee performance. This research is survey research. The population is all employees of the Muko-muko Ministry of Religion, with a sample size of 97 chosen randomly. The instruments...

Literacy is a vital competency in solving daily life problems. Early, child needs stimulation of problem-solving competencies, one of the competencies is literacy. Environment highly affects educational success of preschool children. Family is the smallest environment widely playing a role in literacy...

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer afflicting Puerto Rican women and accounts for more cancer-related deaths in this population than any other cancer. Methods: Demographic, anthropometric, family history, and lifestyle data, as well as DNA repair capacity (DRC), were compared in...

Bolivian sex workers were more likely than other employed women to report tuberculosis screening only if they reported HIV screening. Of all women with household tuberculosis exposure, <40% reported screening for themselves or their children. Coupling tuberculosis screening with sex workers’ mandatory...

Case study has been a mainstream research approach widely used in various social research areas. The paper focused on the assessment of the quality of case study in social search. The paper discussed the definition and the research areas that case study is appropriate for. The criteria for assessing...

From the theoretical perspective of UPPSALA model, this paper divides the internationalization of enterprises into three stages. By analyzing the internationalization process of Geely, Midea Group and Shuanghui, this paper explores the main obstacles and breakthrough paths faced by enterprises at different...

The electric field operating and rapping parameters of 1# Electrostatic Precipitators (ESP) had been monitored and analysed in a thermal power company. There were five electric fields in the ESP. The rapping time of 1# ESP was 150 seconds. The time interval when the rapping was stopped increased sequentially...

The paper examines the models of information search in the texts presented in the multidimensional vector space. Describes approaches to semantic representation of a text document. The concept of information conductivity of the document which can be used for the information search task is discussed....

The dependence of the net photosynthetic rate of Pinus nigra subsp. pallasiana on environmental factors, leaf temperature, transpiration and their change during the growing season were investigated under the conditions of the Southern Coast of the Crimea. The mapping of the response function of photosynthesis...

The technologies of spacecraft Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) are researched from the architecture and communication protocol. Firstly the spacecraft PHM system is proposed to build with the mode of orbit-ground coordination three-level closed loop. Then, the communication protocol of PHM for...

With the development of information technology, many colleges and universities have established student information management system. The long-term operation of the student information management system will generate big data for colleges and universities. Moreover, there exists valuable information...

Leadership is the art of influencing human behavior toward organizational goals. Leadership is an art, but, like all art, it has its underpinnings in science. Especially, in Police Institution must require leadership art to strengthening the community's security system. This study aims to investigate...

In order to quantitatively reflect the influence degree of various random factors on the reliability of the reducer system, the gear reducer is taken as the object of research in this paper. Firstly, the gear contact fatigue is taken as the main failure mode, and then the tooth contact stress response...

Bali is becoming world wellness tourism destination. To strengthen its image, it is necessary to investigate the quality and typology of wellness tourism in Bali. The objectives of this research were to identify the tourists’ preferences toward wellness tourism products, tourists’ perception towards...

Common point of view in digital games are first person and third person point of view (POV). However, in 2014 a fourth person puzzle game entitled Pavilion is published. This paper aimed to overview the role of 4th person POV in game Pavilion by analyzing the POV, the character, the gameplay and the...

Nations’ leaders throughout history have left a record of that leadership in the form of architecture. That record can be a monument, building, or any other grand or not so grand gesture. This activity was designed to show the authority and power of an entire nation at a given moment in time. Indonesia...

A diver suffering from anxiety symptoms will definitely have an impact. Physical and psychological factors that will give negative effects on performance, and advanced exposure can cause loss of control of the body, cardiorespiratory system increases and cause panic. Anxiety is a psychological symptoms...

The purposes of this paper are to study the behavior of enterprises’ internet banking (EIB) and their influencing factors by using literature analysis and questionnaire survey. The results show that EIB average frequency of Chinese interviewees is 4.0 times per month and their monthly amount of EIB is...

Meaningful work has become alluring topic as an object of research because of their enormous positive impact not only for the worker itself but also for their environment, especially through culture approach. The Research had been conducted in order to understand how meaningful work worked on two different...

Authentic assessment is current assessment used in educational system of 2013 curriculum. It aims to evaluatestudents’process and product of the learning. A guidance book of authentic assessment for writingskill at junior high school has been developed by the experts from UniversitasNegeri Padang. The...

With the expansion of the scale of higher education, higher education has changed from elitism to popularization. Cultivating applied talents is not only the trend of education development in China, but also the requirement of social and economic development. How to cultivate applied talents is the most...

The operational test of weapon and equipment involves many factors and has complex interrelationships, so it can be regarded as a complex system and be studied by complexity theory and method. First of all, the complexity of operational test is analyzed on the basis of the concept of operational test....

The article focuses on the peculiarities of lexical cohesion realization in two types of official documents: written by professionals that work in official organizations and by ordinary native speakers. Lexical type of cohesion, which comprises the relations of inclusion, exclusion and identity, is one...

This study aims to determine the students’ perspective regarding the Information, Communication, and Techologies (ICT) usage in learning activity at Vocational Education and Training (VET). This research is quantitative descriptive research using survey techniques and group interviews. The population...

The purpose of the present work is to use the concepts of reachability and obsrvability maps to provide a solution of a well-known characterization of fuzzy regular languages. In between, we associate two deterministic fuzzy automata with a given deterministic fuzzy automaton and show that the reachability...

A Study on the Effectiveness of Blended Learning Mode in College English Xie Linlin With the arrival of the era of big data, information technology has greatly promoted the development of education, accelerated the transformation and innovation of educational mode. blended learning, which combines traditional...

We investigated the impact of renal impairment (RI) on the outcome in multiple myeloma (MM) patients following induction and autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). Among 349 patients who received a first ASCT for MM, 86 (24.6%) had RI at diagnosis, defined as estimation of glomerular filtration...

With the gradually strengthening of globalization of the world, a number of nations have also had more and more transnational commercial disputes. Domestic arbitration and litigation in the traditional sense can no longer meet the needs of the good settlement of such disputes, as a result, there comes...

The paper considers the problem of conceptual modeling (CM) of the domains, in which a large number of changes takes place, possesses a number of specific features connected to the nature of the ongoing changes or large quantity of independently acting agents possibly produce changes in various parts...

The competition of financial expenditure is the game choice between local governments for resources. Analysis of the optimal strategic solution of participants by the game model is to guide the behavior choice of the behavior subject. Using the Stacklderg Game model as the strategic analysis framework....

The prediction of excess nutrient solution volume was an essential part of re-used of nutrient solution system, and it was determined by volume of irrigation, substract, crop development stage and water content of substract. In order to found simulation model of excess nutrient solution volume, experiments...

The curve of Spee is an important characteristic in the mandibular arch. An opti-mal occlusion must have a curve of Spee ranging from flat to mild. Therefore, an understanding of the curve of Spee is essential for both diagnosis and treatment planning in orthodontics. The aim of this study was to examine...

In this paper we analyze the specific features of regional migration. For such analysis we chose Buryat Republic. Our empirical research is based on gravity model. To perform econometric estimation we employ panel data estimation techniques. We provide random effect estimation techniques. This procedure...

This paper applied the International Standard Maturity Criterion to self-assess the maturity of the quality of robots science popular education and compared its differences cross-strait. The research method used was experts’ and scholars’ questionnaire survey. Five assessment dimensions of ISO9004 guideline...

The site of the new high speed rail station should be based on driving the city’s economic development and facilitating the travel of residents as a precondition. The designers should also take such factors as he size of the city, the economic level, the long-term planning of the city, the existing transport...

In the construction of new socialist countryside, the development of rural ecological background, through empirical analysis of Jiangxi rural cooperative revolutionary national fitness sports resources, find out the revolutionary groups and administrative villages in the health sports resources demand...

Swimming is one of the materials in physical education taught to elementary school students. However, many elementary school students are not brave when having to learn swimming for various reasons. Therefore, this study was conducted with the aim to produce a model of swimming learning for elementary...

In today's society, the project is a strategic carrier to realize enterprise development, and project management is a strategic measure for enterprise development. Corresponding author is optional. This paper discusses the three-coordinate management system of project management through the description...

This paper analyzes Shanghai-style ceramics by taking Shanghai-style ceramic culture and work as the research object, and from the basic symbolic creative elements and carriers, the creative styles and environment under cultural background, plot extended product functions and experience and so on, narrative...

This paper discusses the reasons behind auditor or accounting firm switching and studies initial audit procedures. Auditors need to analyze the real reason behind auditor switching in order to make an appropriate decision during the client acceptance stage (an auditee's willingness to share the real...

Communication pattern is important to succeed in the teaching-learning process in English class. There are three main concerns related to the communication pattern in teaching English. Namely to convey the message to the students, to negotiate meaning with students and to handle with the student error....

As part of the Indonesian banking sector, regional development banks (RDB, known as BPD in Indonesian) have played an important ongoing role in Indonesian economy. This role is channeled through its strong existence in almost each provincial level of Indonesia. This paper aims to investigate the soundness...