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The excellent progress of Bali’s tourism has a good impact on the economic development of Bali Province, but the imbalance in tourism development between North Bali and South Bali produces several negative impacts, one of those impacts is Income Inequality. This study is intending to explore the relationship...

This study aims to analyze influencers’ credibility, including attractiveness, trustworthiness, and expertise and their impact on purchase intention on the Shopee marketplace during the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this study identifies influencers’ credibility that impact customers’ purchase intention...

In general, every woman exposed legs as a form of a symbol (sign) to be appreciated, adored, and center of attention of men. Surah an-Naml [27]: 44 also mentions the story of bared legs of a woman. Does An-Naml verse 44 have the same sign as the circumstances in general? This paper discusses the meaning...

Serious games which are designed for purposes rather than pure entertainment have become one of the popular topics these days as they have the potential to be effective and efficient teaching tools which are interactive, attractive and immersive. This study conducts a systematic literature review on...

Checkpoint/restart has been an effective mechanism to achieve fault tolerance for many long-running scientific applications. The common approach is to save computation states in memory and secondary storage for execution resumption. However, as the GPU plays a much bigger role in high performance computing,...

We show that the Fisher information matrix of the Birnbaum–Saunders distribution can present numerical problems for some values of the shape parameter. To overcome this problem, we provide a simple analytical approximation which works very well.

In this paper, the maximum likelihood estimates (MLE's) of the parameters of a finite mixture of modified Weibull (MW (alpha, beta, gamma)) distributions are obtained based on type-I and type-II censored samples using the EM algorithm. A simulation study is carried out to study the behavior of the mean...

An invariant of three-dimensional orientable manifolds is built on the base of a slution of pentagon equation expressed in terms of metric characteristics of Euclidean tetrahedra.

The transition from Eulerian to Lagrangian coordinates is a nonlocal transformation. In general, isomorphism should not take place between basic Lie groups of studied equations. Besides, in the case of plane and rotational symmetric motion hydrodynamic equations in Lagrangian coordinates are partially...

A type of Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) Proportional-Integral (PI) fuzzy controllers is studied. The T-S PI fuzzy controller is formed by a T-S Proportional-Derivative (PD) fuzzy controller connected with an integrator. In this particular structure, the T-S PD fuzzy controller is a weighted sum of some linear...

George Floyd’s death by Minneapolis officer as depicted in both digital media (huffpost.com and cnn.com) during May,25- June,9,2020 has triggered public opinion among U.S Presidential Nominee between Donald Trump and John Biden during U.S Presidential Election in 2020. Media, with its power has put Gorge...

China aerospace and defense sector performed well in recent years, attracting many investors’ attention. This is the first paper that conducts defense stocks portfolio design under Markowitz mean-variance framework. This paper uses the daily return during three years around the 2017 China-Indian border...

The aim of this study was to determine cases subclinical mastitis in dairy cattle, microbiological quality and residues of antibiotic cow’s milk from dairy farm in Tanggamus District. This research was conducted in January 2020 in Tanggamus District, Lampung Province. The milk samples used in this study...

The 2020 COVID-19 epidemic has significantly affected China’s domestic education field, including secondary vocational education. At the same time, in secondary vocational schools, the culinary major is both traditional and long-term developmental. In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, the conduct...

This paper studies the development of thematics modules of children’s literature in character-based prose learning in elementary school. This study was motivated from several empirical facts where in recent years, the degradation of national identity and moral value becomes evident. From those concerns,...

This paper focuses on the business and artistic values of Andy Warhol’s three artworks, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, Campbell’s Soup Cans, and Brillo Box. The three art pieces could be considered typical examples of the cohabitation of art and business, the two seemingly conflicting concepts. The business...

One of the main problems in Papua Province is poverty, because the Poverty Depth Index (P1) in Papua Province is greater than other province, which was 7.17 in 2019. This value is bigger than the Poverty Depth Index in Indonesia which was only 1.55. This study will analyse the factors that affect the...

The visual art presentation of modern poster design is impacted and influenced by various cultures, extending more and more visual expression styles, and each style performs its own unique artistic charm. Among them, transparent, reflective, light and shadow and other highly visual and novel poster styles...

Graphic design, computer technology and Internet technology are updated and developed at the same time. In modern design, graphic design is not limited to two-dimensional state. Three dimensional space is more and more widely used in leading cities such as architecture, advertising, interior design and...

Zakat plays an important role in alleviating poverty, and contributes to the economy, but in reality zakat funds raising has not been optimally organized. To achieve this goal, zakat institutions require effective risk management. Risk management is an important thing in zakat institutions, starting...

According to EECCHI 2012, the building sector absorbs 40% of total energy worldwide. Even in Indonesia, the building sector is responsible for 50% of total energy expense and more than 70% of total electricity. These issues make the energy efficiency are significantly important to reduce the energy consumption...

In consideration of the disadvantages of the traditional contact-type measure methods for deformation measurement in large section roadway, the in-situ measure method and tool is developed with the theory of laser-based distance measuring. The novel multi degree of bracket set makes a stable connection...

A novel fungus which produced lipase extracellularly was isolated from soil. The strain was named after Candida tropicalis SD7 based on morphological features and ITS1-5.8S–ITS4 region sequences of ribosomal RNA. The fermentation conditions were optimized in order to improve lipase production of the...

The food system is burdened by many and severe negative environmental and social impacts. Two of the reasons for the impacts are the increasing scale and globalisation of the food system. ICT has been put forward as a means to enhance sustainability in society, yet the potential for food systems is underexplored....

This study intends to use the National Health Insurance Research Database to collect "Cohort Dataset". NHI enrollees from 2013 to 2014 before random sampling for analysis in accordance with code 430 to 437 of the International Classification of Diseases, the 9th Revision. By constructing hierarchical...

A minimum cover set coverage algorithm (MCSCA) for pursuing low energy is presented in this paper to prolong the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. The proposed algorithm improves energy efficiency in three aspects. First, when generating cover sets, the selection strategy of the algorithm considers...

Innovative talents training plays an important role in economic development and social progress. In order to cope with the challenges of the times, higher education must pay attention to the cultivation of students' innovative ability. And as a direct impact on the cultivation of innovative talents,...

Based on the data of FY-2E infrared cloud image, radar, micaps3.1, island observation station, large buoy, and numerical weather forecasting products, effects of tropical storm Damrey in 2012 on Tangshan were analyzed, forecast and disaster cause of tropical storm Damrey were also analyzed. The results...

Energy heterogeneity is ubiquitous in wireless sensor networks. Because of nodes’ initial energy of multi-level energy heterogeneity in wireless sensor networks distributing within a certain scope randomly, this paper proposed an Energy-efficient clustering routing algorithm which is suit to the heterogeneous...

In this paper, Chuzhou area in Anhui province was taken as the study area, and deciduous broad-leaved forest as the study object. The NDVI was obtained based on HJ-CCD remote sensing images acquired on April 1,2012 and May 4,2012 when broad-leaved forest was respectively in leaf expansion and flowering....

This paper mainly researches and simulates the adaptive background updating algorithm based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in video vehicle detection, and it researches on some methods to extract the foreground. Frame difference method uses the brightness difference of two consecutive frames to analy-sis...

The objective of the proposed system is to construct a highly profitable aqua-farming system, capable of processing the jobs of monitoring, intelligent control of the Internet of thing (IoT), abnormality awareness, and carbon emission reduction as well as energy conservation. While the aqua-farming environments...

The competition of one college is determined by the overall quality of the teachers. Therefore one fair and scientific evaluation system designed by the human resource department will influence the long-term development of the college. Because of the fussiness of the factors in this evaluation system,...

Shape plays an important role for human to recognize an object. Shape can be recognized easily by human regardless of size, rotation or translation. In this paper a shape recognition system is presented. In this research, authors investigate late improves in shape analysis and shape recognition issues...

Along with the development of information technology, the impact of information on global economic and social has become more and more profound. Mobile communication (4G) industry has brought huge spillovers to the economic and social benefits. This paper combines theoretical analysis and empirical research...

In American early history, the great men such as Thomas Jefferson had attitudes of “fear of the city”, that is the bias of “anti-city”. Since 1860s which was a period of “Rapid Urbanization”, the attitudes of “fear of the city” began to increasingly transfer. In the late of the 19th century, American...

The real meaning of empowerment of rural communities can be understood as a process of increasing the capacity utilization of the autonomy of every individuals for utilizing local resources in a productive and creative way in the rural community. Every community development efforts based on local resources...

Foreign capital utilization and exportation have always been China’s two core pillars of China’s development of export-oriented economy since 1978, which have together facilitated China’s great economic achievement. In the meantime, however, China is now among those countries with most unequal distribution...

With the development of computer technology, network technology and communication technology, "Internet plus" has penetrated into all aspects of our work, study and life, especially in the field of education. "Flipped classroom" is a kind of humanized teaching methods, its teacher and student interactive...

Based on the environmental sustainable development, combining the concept of green environmental protection and the development of social civilization, the design principle and material application of environmental protection packaging are analyzed. The research shows: the use of environmentally friendly...

Coffee is the commodities which plays an important role in the Indonesian economy. In recent years, Indonesia began ogled by the world related Luwak coffee that are produced and judged to have great business potential in Indonesia. According to the Association of Indonesian Coffee Exports (AICE) said...

Space-Ground Integrated Networks (SGIN) are systems that extend from terrestrial network to space network, to build a network covering ground and space. This paper firstly introduces the development of SGIN, and analyzes three architectures of SGIN based on existing systems. Afterwards, we focus on space...