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A Research on the Influential Factors to Organizational Commitment in IT Industry
Xing-Yuan Huang, Qian Wang
How to deal with the relationship between the organization and employees is the core of Human Resource Management in today's society. In recent years employee dismission rate in IT industry in China is very high, one of the causes of which is their low organizational commitment. Therefore, it is of great...
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The Cusp Catastrophe Model of Major Accidents Based on Ideas of Black Swan and Its Application in Port Road Projects
Yanfeng Bai, Ling Zhang, Xuejun Wen
The normal accident prediction models can’t predict the occurrence of major accidents very well, so the cusp catastrophe model of major accidents is set up on the base of ideas of black swan and catastrophe theory. In the model, the main factors of major accidents are regarded as the controls parameters...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Leakage Causes Analysis on a Boiler Enclosure Wall Superheater
Weiyong Li, Yaofang He, Xin Guan, Yanjun Meng
The leakage reasons for a boiler enclosure wall superheater were discussed based on experimental results of macro fracture observation, chemical composition analysis, metallurgical microstructure examination, SEM and EDS analysis. It was presumed that weld flaw firstly formed due to large weld process...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Investigation on Drilling of Banana Fibre Reinforced Composites
Kundan Patel, Vijaykumar Chaudhary, Piyush P. Gohil, Keval Patel
India offered a biggest source of natural fiber like banana, rice husk, coconut and jute fiber etc. All the natural fiber has its unique advantages as well as mechanical properties which are very useful in the development of potential composites for various applications like transportation, automotive...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on Packer Material Stress Analysis
Jianning Wang, Xinde Han, Juan Wang, Li Wang, Lixin Sui, Jianjie Ning, Yao Wang, Yan Jiang, Xiongyi Hu, Tao Sun
Stress conditions of downhole packer are more complicated. Based on the packer structure and the environment the metal material exposes, this paper establishes proper numerical simulation model. And ANSYS software is utilized to carry out finite element analysis of built-up model to obtain stress distribution...
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The Development of Manual Skills of Pupils with Mild Intellectual Disability
Pavel Zikl
This paper presents the results of research aimed at comparing the levels of manual skills of pupils with a mild intellectual disability (MID) with those of intact children. More importantly, it aims at the changes which should occur during attendance of the first grade of primary school. A simple disassembly...
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Location Optimization Problem with Multi Refineries and Multi Stations
Na Wang, Xinshe Qi, Jianhang Zhang, Qingzheng Xu
In this paper, the contest problem C of 2010 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling is extended to location optimization problem with multi refineries and multi stations, and the solution procedure is divided into two main phases. In the first stage, the objective function of construction...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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RC Beam Pure Bending Plastic Hinge Parameter Calculation Considering Size Effect and Experimental Research
Hongyu Zhou, Chunxiao Zhao, Yaran Zhang, Congkun Yang
In order to study the influence of different loadsand cross section size on RC beam plastic hinge, a total of 13 reinforced concrete beamswith 5 section sizeswere tested under monotonic loading, and the calculation of pure bending plastic hinge parameters considering size effect isstudied based on experimental...
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Public Education Spending and GDP in China: Granger Causality Tests Using Toda-Yamamoto Technique
Gao-lu Zou
The quantity of national fiscal budget expenditure on education in China has expanded over the past decade. The paper aims to investigate whether GDP may be a significant cause of public education spending. Three series covered the period from 1991-2011. The paper utilized an unconventional Granger causality...
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On the Present Situation of College English Translation Teaching in China and its Countermeasures
Xuming Shang
This paper analyzes the present situation existing in college English translation teaching. After analysis, the paper discusses the problems in the translation teaching and then put forward some countermeasures to change this situation.
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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A Preprocessing Method for Field Strength of Electromagnetism Spectrum Monitor Signal Based on EMD
Xiaopeng Gu, Shuguo Xie, Chao Wang
In the mobile field strength test including road testing and so on, because of the complexity of the city electromagnetic environment, the received field strength value is easy to be affected by Fading and therefore the result is not accurate. In this paper, A Preprocessing Method for field strength...
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A SVM-based Software Homology Detection Method
Bang Sun, Xiaoming Liu, Dian Lei, Qi Li
With the development of software technology, software is becoming increasingly essential in our daily lives. However, there are more and more sorts of pirated software. Therefore, we need to figure out an effective method to prevent plagiarism, protect intellectual property and so on. Software homology...
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Study on Development of Aviation Logistics Industry in China
Hui Wang
With the constant development and reform of Chinese logistics and trade policies, China has started to develop aviation logistics rapidly. The rapid development of aviation logistics has produced great influence on and brought great challenges to relevant logistics enterprises in China, incurred the...
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Optimization of Rainfall Sensor Network Layout Based on the Correlation Coefficient Method
Hongling Zhao, Haibo Yang, Zongmin Wang
The unreasonable layout of rain sensor networks results in various problems, such as the redundancy of observation nodes, large daily maintenance overhead, and the difficulty of solving faults in real time. A sensor network optimization algorithm based on the correlation coefficient method is proposed...
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A Model of Second Order Hammerstein Series for Nonlinear System
Guodong Jin, Libin Lu
In this paper, modeling a weakly nonlinear system whose nonlinearity is up to the second order is studied. During this task a second order Hammerstein series model is used because it can lead to a trade-off between computational cost and generalization ability. To extract such model form measured input-output...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Effect of Straw Addition on Properties of Slag Cement
Liguang Xiao, Jingyao Li
This paper mainly studied the influence of the amount of straw on the initial setting time and final setting time of the polymer cement, as well as the influence on the mechanical properties and thermal conductivity. Learning from the experiment, we could find that the porosity increased with the increase...
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Professional Ethics in Accounting: Case Studies in Lifewide Lifelong Learning Programmes
Anna Karmańska
The article focuses on professional ethics in accounting in the Lifewide Lifelong Learning (LLL) educational programmes. It is aimed at the presentation of the experience in introducing case studies on ethical dilemmas to professional accounting training. It presents the own experience of the author,...
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Study on customer relationship management of commercial banks in the background of big data
Jinhua Wang
In view of current banking competition and lower customer satisfaction, this paper analyzed the characteristics of big data and discussed the commercial banks under the era of big data. Customer relationship management (CRM) face challenges, such as data scattered and leaked. This paper proposed such...
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Overall Equipment Effectiveness Improvement with Total Productive Maintenance Method
Claudia Febianny Susilo, Aditya Andika
This paper discusses the results of a research conducted on the production process of a pharmaceutical product. The product is made by an Indonesian Pharmaceutical company. At the production process, there is a process that is considered not optimal and requires improvement. The process is the packaging...
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The Role of Madrasah Supervisor in Sustaining Management of Quality Madrasah Aliyah
Mulyawan Safwandy Nugraha, Ai Rohayani
The management and sustaining of Madrasah Aliyah (Formal Islamic Senior High School) in Indonesia sometimes the Madrasah Supervisors find it not easy to carry out their responsibility accurately and diligently as prescribed by the process of achieving the
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Improvement Possibilities of Rural Tourism in Kampung Nelayan Marunda North Jakarta
Rachmat Hidayat, Mellia Jeneetica
Tourism in rural areas now is not only a reality, needs and desires of tourists, but also the holder of an instrument of rural development. Rural tourism combines different forms of tourism and therefore represents an opportunity for the involvement of different segments of the local community to participate...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flow Over Staggered Tubes Using Multi-Relaxation Time Lattice Boltzmann Method
J. Park
A multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method (MRT-LBM) fluid flow analysis code is developed based on a two-dimensional D2Q9 lattice model and sub-grid eddy viscosity model of Smagorinsky. Benchmarking of the MRT-LBM is performed for a turbulent flow over staggered tube bundles at Reynolds number...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Numerical investigation of thermomagnetic convection of electrically conducting fluids under an inclined magnetic field using lattice Boltzmann method
Nan Xie, Changwei Jiang, Yihai He, Ming Yao
In the present work, natural convection in a square cavity filled with an electrically conducting fluid has been numerically investigated in the presence of an inclined magnetic field using lattice Boltzmann method. The vertical walls of this two-dimensional cavity are heated differentially while the...
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The Effect of Strain Rate on Abnormal Grain Growth of P/M Nickel-base Superalloy
Fang Shuang, Dong Yunpeng, Wang Shuyun
The samples with a length of 50mm and cross section area of 20mm2 were machined from extruded P/M Nickel-base superalloy billet and the isothermal deformation tests were carried out at constant strain rate in a vacuum environment using the Thermecmastor. All the samples were deformed to a true strain...
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Congestion Pricing Design based on Gini Coefficient under the Combined Travel
Chaohui Luo, Dalong Mo
Considering three travel modes of taking a bus, self-driving and park-and-ride, it studies the congestion pricing under the combined travel. While designing the congestion pricing, it considers the fairness, takes road resources occupied by each mode as the fairness indicator, transforms the traditional...
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Restatement And Accrual Basis Issue In Government Accounting
Erlynda Yuniarti Kasim
Beginning of the year 2015, Indonesian Government start to implement Accrual-based accounting. The government need to prepare the restatement of financial statement. This paper discuss what and how to prepare the restatement and also some issues in implementing the accrual-based accounting in government...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Urease Mediated Synthesis of Crystalline Porous Tin Oxide at Room-temperature and Applications in Lithium-ion Batteries and Gas Sensors
Ge Chen, Qiang Zhang
In the absence of urea, urease is demonstrated to catalyze the hydrolysis and polycondensation of the SnCl2 aqueous system to form crystalline mesoporous SnO2 at room temperature. The resulting SnO2 has a high specific surface area of 231~248 m2 g-1 with uniform pore size at 3.3nm, and the porous structure...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Technology Method Research Of Scrap Ammunition Destruction
Haibo Liu, Yidong Wang, Hongjuan Zhu
The processing of scrap ammunition is an activity that reduces scrap ammunition dangerous properties and solves the problem of ammunition security retirement by the use of various technology methods and means. The foreign ammunition destruction situation and ammunition destruction at various stages are...
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The Effectiveness of Means-Ends Analysis (MEA) Learning Model Application on Improving Mathematical Learning Result of Elementary School Students in Parepare City
St. Maryam, Zaid Zainal
This research investigates the enhancement of mathematics learning of fifth-grade students of public elementary educational institutions in Parepare city. Means-Ends Analysis (MEA) is used for this study as a learning model. The method used is a quantitative approach with a type of queasy experiment....
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Description of Early Literacy Skills in Children with Special Needs in Kindergarten
Istanti Tri Wulandari, Suparno Suparno
Initial literacy ability is one of the abilities that become the obligation to begin to teach to early childhood. This program is very important as a trigger in predicting children's abilities in the future. Even recently, there are many children who do not have an interest in early literacy, besides...
Short Communication
Terrorism-related trauma in Africa, an increasing problem
Maryam Alfa-Wali, Kaji Sritharan, Mira Mehes, Fizan Abdullah, Shahnawaz Rasheed
Pages: 201 - 203
Global terrorist activities have increased significantly over the past decade. The impact of terrorism-related trauma on the health of individuals in low- and middle-income countries is under-reported. Trauma management in African countries in particular is uncoordinated, with little or no infrastructure...
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Cluster Approach in Assessing the Level of Socio-Economic Development of the Municipal Districts (Voronezh Region)
N.V. Yakovenko, I.V. Komov, R.V. Ten
The article presents the ranking of the main socio-economic municipal subsystems with their subsequent clustering to identify specific areas for further development on a similar socio-economic status. The scientific relevance of the research is substantiated. The object of research is the old-developed...
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Practical Analysis of Sports Dance Teaching in Colleges and Universities
Pan Yang
Sports dance is one of sports events, with the characteristics of competition, communication and interaction. The establishment of sports dance in colleges and universities must be highly valued by teachers. It is very important to accumulate experience and sump up lessons in practice and to find ways...
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Predicting Small-Medium-Enterprise Digital Success Using Polytomous Analysis: A Pilot Study
Gadang Ramantoko
The objective of the pilot study is to examine the predictability of digital transformation among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - using the same previous data collected – employing two step polytomous latent variable analysis technique. The dataset contains 415 observations and 13 variables. The...
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Model of Employee Empowerment and Organizational Performance at National Strategic Manufacturing Companies in West Java
Djoko Pitoyo, Tjutju Yuniarsih, Eeng Ahman, Suparno Suparno
The role of national manufacturing companies is very strategic because of its great contribution to GDP. However, these developments and growth are very volatile towards a drastic decline in 2016. The purpose of this study is to know and analyze the influence of employee empowerment on organizational...
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The Agent-Based Modeling Method For The Study Of Unique Mechanical Systems
Olga Nikolaychuk, Alexander Pavlov, Alexander Stolbov
The article discusses the MDD related agent-based modeling method that provides a four-level representation of the model elements throughout the design process. In the proposed method it is suggested to separate the description of the agent-based simulation model (ABSM) structure and behavior into domain...
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Exploration of Scientific Approaches to Civil Servants’ Performance Management
Ying Sun
The performance of civil servants determines the performance of the government. To implement the performance management system of the government, it is necessary to establish and improve the evaluation system of civil servants. The civil servant appraisal system should gradually transit to the performance...
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Structural features of the mucous membrane of the pelvic part of the urogenital canal of fur animals of the canine family
Vladimir Telenkov, Gennady Khonin, Sergey Meleshkov
The prostate gland and the mucous membrane of the prostatic pelvic part of the urogenital canal were studied in a silver-black fox and a blue fox, the representatives of the predatory order belonging to the family of canine. The research method used was morphometry. The correlation analysis of the data...
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Professional health and viability of EMERCOM employees
Lyudmila Stanovova, Olga Zakharova
The article discusses with the professional health and vitality of rescuers of the Ministry of emergency situations. To this end, the study of professional health and vitality of rescuers of the Ministry of emergency situations through the study of their coping behavior, neuropsychological stability...
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Individual Design and Rapid 3D Printing of an Intelligent Fingerprint Identification Drawer
Weizhen Li, Qiyuan Fan
With the development of biometric identification technology, fingerprint identification technology was used widely in the fields of attendance, entrance guard and mobile payment due to its advantages of security and reliability. Now Fingerprint locking technology has also been developed rapidly in intelligent...
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Research on New Rural Planning and Design based on Urban Design Techniques
Tian Ma
urban and rural areas jointly build the living place of our people, as a very important form of population aggregation, in the process of promoting China's urbanization process, the feasibility of rural planning and design has become an important factor affecting the urbanization process. In this paper,...
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Research on the Cognition and Inheritance of Chinese Traditional Culture by College Students and Teachers
Xin Zhang
Chinese traditional culture has a long history of thousands of years. Chinese universities are the places for obtaining and spreading knowledge, college students and teachers are of great significance to the spreading of Chinese traditional culture. By using the questionnaire method, both teachers’ and...
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Community Responses toward Implementation of Government-Sponsored Community Based Programs in 2017: A Case in Aceh Jaya District
Bukhari Bukhari, Ubaidullah Ubaidullah, Irmanita Irmanita
This study aims to find out the community perceptions, attitudes, and participation in the implementation of the government-sponsored community-based program including health insurance for poor, scholarship, electricity bill and social fund for elderly — the study focus on the programs sponsored by the...
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Progress in Mechanism of E.coli K1 Crossing the Blood-brain Barrier
Xiao Yang, Huiwen Tian, Shaoyi Lin, Jie Li, Shenghe Huang, Hong Cao
Meningitis is a serious central nervous system disease, E. coli K1 is the main pathogen that causes it. E.coli K1 triggers meningitis only if it crosses the blood-brain barrier(BBB), but the detail mechanism of how E. coli K1 cross the blood-brain barrier is still unclear. This article is based on current...
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Schiffrin’s English Discourse Markers Functions in The Students’ Hortatory Exposition Text
Andris Susanto Dias, Linggar Bharati Dwi Anggani, Sutopo Djoko
Research on EDMs has abounded since the 1980s when Schifrin (1987) proposed her work on it. This research was conducted to analyze the EDMs functions found in the hortatory exposition text written by the students of University of PGRI Semarang. EDMs is needed to make a writing production be coherence...
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Ontological Foundations of Imagination and Image-Communication
Yuriy Romanenko, Alexander Shadow
The article is devoted to the study of spontaneous imagination role in the process of image-communication. The modern cultural situation is characterized by the increasing role of figurative elements in the processes of transmission and information exchange. This is particularly evident in Internet human...
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The Development of Creative Problem Solving Skills Assessment on Photoelectric Effect
Agus Setiawan, Sutarno Sutarno, Ida Kaniawati, Andi Suhandi
In order to face disruption phenomena in the era of industry 4.0, creative problem solving (CPS) skills are important to be developed and assessed through learning process. However, there is no existing instrument that can be used to assess students' CPS skills in the physics domain. This study aims...
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Phenomenology Research of Self-Concept on Married UMM Students: Studies on Students that are Attending Classes and are Married
Inastasya, Ulya Rahmatullatifa Umami
Education is still considered as an important thing in society. Beside the increasing interest to of takeing higher level education, the phenomenon of getting married at a young age while taking attending college also arise. The purpose of this study was to find out the self-concept of married student...
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Clustering of User Query in Search Engine on Indonesian E-Commerce by used AD-OPTICS Algorithms
Ranita Windriani, Ibnu Asror, Dana Sulistyo Kusumo
The development of e-commerce in Indonesia is increasing, now make e-commerce as the land of very large data. The data is also used not only as a content in e-commerce, but with the existence of Web Mining, the data is processed in such a way that will generate new information to be utilized in system...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Methods of Computer and Mathematical Modeling in Estimating Impact of Leninsky Prospekt Highway
Roman Mamadzhanov, Aleksandr Khaustov, Margarita Redina, Yulia Nigmatzyanova, Mukhadi Umarov
The article deals with methods of computer and mathematical modeling for estimating the impact of the Leninsky Prospekt highway on the phytocoenoses in the campus of RUDN. The computer model of the spread of pollutants from the Leninsky Prospekt highway has been constructed. Margalef, Menhinick and McIntosh...