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This paper presents the application of the artificial neural network to predict long-term water level in Virginia Key, south Florida. Model input is based on the NOAA observed data at a remote station, Cedar Key station located at about 584 km away. Results indicate that, even though the long distance...

In recent time, RBAC has gained and kept a dominant stage of AC(access control) in the research area and industry, respectively. Over the time, needs for risk awareness in AC has paid special attention. Even though, role based access control conquers risk via inner features, a quantified method of risk...

Although faster image decoding method is more important and useful, in some special applications, the controllable decoding process may be required. In the case of making fixed point unchanged, the paper made the fixed parameters of compression mapping into variable parameters, adjusted these parameters...

Waterborne diseases, such as hepatitis A and E, are a major public health concern in most developing countries, indicating the need for proper outbreak prevention, surveillance, and timely management. This study presents data regarding the prevalence and epidemiological characteristics of hepatitis A...

Little is known about the occurrence of chikungunya fever in the Eastern Mediterranean Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). In January 2011, the Ministry of Public Health and Population (MoPH&P) of Yemen reported to WHO an increasing number of “dengue-like” acute febrile illnesses of unknown...

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) algorithm is a classical algorithm in the field of face recognition. It can capture local detail features, but its robustness and recognition rate are easily affected by external environmental changes.In this paper, an improved LBP algorithm which combines Euclidean distance...

This paper uses macro-statistical data such as China Statistical Yearbook and China Education Statistical Yearbook to analyze basic education resources allocation from the perspective of educational investment and outcomes. The outcomes show that the narrowing of the gap between urban and rural students...

The regional government has an important duty because it will determine the sustainability of the area. The problems can disrupt the stability of the region, such as natural disasters, poverty, social conflict, environmental damage, reduced value of local wisdom, intolerance, conflicts between tribes...

Objectives: Increasing evidence demonstrates the benefits of forest environment on human health. However, the effect of tree-species-specific forest environment on human health was rarely studied. As one of the medical plants, cinnamomum camphora (C. camphora) have been found to possess anti-inflammatory...

Repeat tourism has drawn increased interest among researchers recently. Various aspects of repeat tourism have been studied addressing key issues such as definition, methodology and underlying mechanism. The current article aims to highlight the discrepancies found in the research via a review of existing...

The advance of new media technology in last few decades had brought the users into the era of big data. Data had become important material in producing social and economy values. It was proven that much business start-up or government organization used big data periodically as the basis of market analysis....

The aim of this research is to investigate the validity and reliability of English proficiency test items as a measure of students’ English achievement for requirement to have final examination and to explain conservation context of test items as manifestation of UNNES vision. This research applied research...

This paper firstly constructs an analysis framework for the allocation of regional financial resources with fairness and efficiency. Firstly, the extended Markov chain model is used to compare the “Matthew effect” of regional financial resource allocation fairness and efficiency. Subsequently, based...

Proxemic Studies are usually defined as interpersonal range of humans in a space. At each activity, people can determine the distance of interaction with others according to their privacy needs start from intimate range to public range. As one of the public spaces, bank is a place to raise public funds...

Discussion of ethnic Chinese often is related to differences and stereotype. However, in some areas in Indonesia, the relations between ethnic Chinese and other ethnic seems in harmony. This harmonious relationship is actually supported by the presence of local wisdom values that maintain tolerance between...

The article substantiates the investment processes in Russia within the period 2015-2017, the analysis of investment structure and the evaluation of investment performance. The paper focuses on the amount of financial resources invested in the speculative financial market; a significant regional differentiation;...

Learning in Early Childhood Education (ECE) should be oriented to the needs of children. Children need stimulation to help their physical growth and psychological development optimally. Scientific Learning provides an opportunity for children to be able to think logically, provide opportunities for children...

In cold snowy regions, buildings are usually exposed to deicing salts. The corrosion of reinforcement steel is accelerated under the environment, and results in deterioration of concrete, especially under freeze-thaw condition. Polypropylene fibers (PPF) are used to reduce concrete cracking, and it can...

The research objective is to find out, analyze, and discuss the CSR model implemented in the three mining companies. Research uses qualitative methods with a case study approach. The results showed that the three mining companies studied generally had similarities in implementing the framework of CSR,...

Fables are stories that tell the lives of animals behaving like humans and having moral message. Fable is a media in learning mathematics about plane figure. The purpose of the study was to improve students’ concept understanding and learning motivation in plane figure topic. The types of the research...

The modern level of socio-economic development requires improvement of the efficiency of public administration. The well-being of the population depends on the efficiency of public administration. Public administration is an important scientific concept which reveals and explains characteristic features...

The paper deals with some categories of Gerhard Oberhammer’s Religious Hermeneutics like "Begegnung". The author tries to trace the history of this notion in the history of the European philosophy (particularly, the possible influence of Heidegger’s “Sein und Zeit”) and define the scopes of a new meaning,...

Different annealing process and the same quenching tempering process were used to execute the heat treatment for Q235Ni0.1Zr0.1Y0.1 new low alloy steel structure, and the microstructure of the steel structure was observed and the mechanical properties and damping performance were analyzed. The results...

The competition between enterprises has changed from the competition of original physical assets to intangible assets recently. In order to achieve long-term development in the fierce market competition, enterprises must strengthen the use of intangible assets management. The Balanced Scorecard is a...

Digital marketing communications through social media make a new breakthrough in the corporate marketing world, like Facebook . Many companies see the rapid development of social media as an opportunity to market their products to a wider range of people. One company that uses social media Facebook for...

Reading teaching is an important part of English teaching. Traditional College English teaching has always been based on teaching students’ words, grammar, sentence patterns as the main content, and the teaching effect is not ideal, so we must actively carry out the reform and innovation of teaching...

Abstract: This study aims to provide empirical evidence of the influence of human capital on the monitoring and the advising role of the board of commissioners. The monitoring of management behavior is needed because of the separation of authority between the shareholder and manager. One of the roles...

Physical education should be a tool to achieve educational goals. However, in the learning process, there is often no teaching process. Teaching is very ineffective, sometimes the learning is meaningless and does not convey educational messages. This is certainly not independent of the role of the teacher...

This paper analyzes the situation and impact of participation of leisure activities on social integration of migrant workers from group heterogeneity perspective. The study indicates that participation of leisure activities can promote social integration of migrant workers significantly. Moreover, Social-type...

With the rapid development of network technology, self-service travel has already became more and more. Booking hotels with online reviews has become the choice of people. The paper takes the hotel's online review as the research object. From the research status of online reviews, according to the problem...

Since twenty-first Century, the public sector and the private sector to change unpredictably domestic and international environment, strategic change management is particularly important. This paper analyzes the main factors that affect the management of strategic change in the private sector and the...

In 2002, through his investigation and study of Nantong, Wu Liangyong put forward the proposition of "the first city of modern China" in Nantong. This has given the society a new understanding of the cause of building the city in Nantong in the modern times led by Zhang Jian. After a brilliant development...

At present it is difficult for the tradition metric equipment to adapt the modernization mass production, a new trace sample device, implements trace liquid automatic adjustment, real-time monitoring and accurate adjustment, using PLC technology and touch screen technology, servo motor technology as...

The training model of innovation and entrepreneurship in colleges and universities is to train innovative and entrepreneurial talents as the goal. Through reforming the teaching contents and teaching methods of the two subjects of the theoretical teaching system and the practical curriculum system，driven...

The present study has employed WordSmith Tools v3.9 as the retrieval program for the analysis and comparison of the complexity in English existential structures. CLEC and Brown are the corpus involved in the study with more than million words respectively, representing Chinese and native speakers' use...

Based on the characteristics of power users, this paper puts forward the user portrait technology based on big data and discusses the construction of power user portrait. this paper first introduces the concept of user's portrait and large data, principle and function of a picture of the user, and then...

Kung-fu films are among the most heatedly discussed film products originated from China and appraised by the rest of the world. This article intends to go beyond a traditional paradigm of film analysis which is central on characters, plots and the like, so as to render a cognitive exploration of how...

This paper tries to re-examine both positive and negative effects of trade and China’s outward foreign direct investment (FDI) to Africa. We focus on the achievement of China’s outward FDI to Africa and whether the trade impacts of China on Africa are positive by making regression equations of panel...

Most of the pregnant women had sleep disorders during pregnancy. The factors that can cause sleep disorder are physical and physiological adaptation. This study aimed to identify sleep quality experienced by pregnant women and factors associated with it. A cross-sectional study was designed to collect...

The article substantiates the relevance of considering the problems of peripheral development of border areas. The development of the industrial and entrepreneurial potential of the twelve border regions of Russia and Kazakhstan has been studied. Using comparative, informational, statistical analysis,...

Professional teachers are expected to be able to participate in national development. Teachers as learners must always carry out self-development activities. It means that self-development is done not for the government, not for principals, and also not for the education office but practically every...

This study was carried out to produce and implement an alternative model of Entrepreneurship Education as an effort to develop an entrepreneurial culture in college. Entrepreneurship education system with the facilities available support for a set of activities based on the premise that increasing behavioural...

In this paper, BP neural network is used to evaluate the experimental teaching. This method is different from traditional evaluation. It merges together many features of students’ performance in experiments. It can evaluate students all-aroundly. This paper describes how to establish the BP neural network....

Deaf children experience obstacles in language development and speech because there is no sound imitation process. They need speech and language coaching in accordance with the level of hearing loss. Lack of understanding both oral and written language often causes deaf children to misinterpret something...

The study attempts to identify the implementation of work-based incentive, called Insentif Berbasis Kinerja (IBK), at Law Firm and Secretary division in one of University in Indonesia. To increase the productivity of an organisation, pay-for-performance (PFP) is usually implemented in an institution....

Whilst 21st century education is increasingly driven by technology, a holistic learning experience is still largely reliant on traditional pedagogies. This study focused on experiential learning that inspired design thinking among Taylor’s University students where creative cities were visited to heighten...

Urban air pollution is one of the most urgent problems to be solved in the process of China’s economic development and urbanization. Aiming at the spatial-temporal evolution problem of air quality in Henan province, this paper, based on the daily average data of urban air quality index of Henan province...

The multichamber device belongs to pulsed methods of forming and is mainly intended for use in small-scale production. The process of forming is carried out under pressure of an elastic disk due to kinetic energy of the piston accumulated throughout the working cycle. The piston is accelerated under...

Resource and environmental issues have become an important factor limiting social production efficiency and human sustainable development. The environmental regulation of manufacturing enterprises has become the focus of attention. Based on the Stakeholder Theory and Porter's Hypothesis, this paper divided...

Self-presentation in social media has become a phenomenon in the digital era today, especially in the student as adolescents. This study aims to examine the influence of teen privacy on self-presentation in social media. Total Subjects in this study as many as 189 students of high school students, with...