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This study sought to ascertain the efficacy of epoxy repair materials in enhancing structural integrity when applied to concrete specimens that had been purposefully cracked. Flexural strength and ultrasonic pulse velocity tests were utilised to assess the success of repair both quantitatively and qualitatively....

Flocks of foreign nationals as top-level managers, high-skilled workers, and investors are encouraged to work at multinational companies and invest a great amount of money in some national strategic projects during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Indonesian government has responded to these situations, particularly...

Building and economic growth depend on cement production, which must adapt to changing customer tastes and improve the environment, socially, and economically. This study examines how Customer Relationship Management (CRM) helps India cement companies succeed long-term. This study will examine current...

Investment is the investment of resources or capital that is expected to generate profits in the future. Sophisticated sharia fintech, easy to use, and in accordance with Islamic sharia is the right choice for Muslim investors. This study is intended to analyze the effect of attitudes, subjective norms,...

The problem of remote teaching of technical university students of conventional specialities a foreign language is considered. Confident proficiency in a foreign language is one of the conditions for obtaining a promising job in the future. The article compares the productivity of remote learning technologies...

The active growth of the world’s population has led to the emergence and aggravation of the issues of human-nature interaction. Resulting from more than thirty year long discussions at different levels, the term sustainable development had been introduced by the international scientific community, and...

In the post-pandemic era, whether the global economy will recover in a U-shape, a V-shape, a K-shaped, or a L-shaped is still undecided. The economy of people livelihood has the most direct impact on the people and fitness industry has related to the mental and physical health of them. If it can attract...

Objective: The Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) enzyme is involved in degrading extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, including collagen and elastin. Increased MMP-9 levels are associated with increased vascular remodelling and arterial stiffness. Exercise improves age-related vascular stiffening. It...

Hypertension is a contributing factor to pathophysiology of vascular damage and accelerated arterial stiffening. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors are widely used for treatment of persistent hypertension. Along with conventional antihypertensive therapy, nutritional intervention...

Objective: Aortic stiffness evaluation is recommended in standard care as hypertension target organ damage. The main determinants of aortic stiffness are age and blood pressure. We aimed to evaluate the impact of short-term extracellular volume changes induced by dietetic and pharmacological interventions...

Objectives: Arterial elasticity is determined by passive mechanical properties of wall components modulated by neurogenic effects on smooth muscle. We assessed denervation effects on viscoelastic properties of the aorta of Lewis Polycystic Kidney (LPK) disease rats, compared to controls (Lewis). Methods:...

Mobile infrastructure technological development in the last decade leads to novel mobile commerce based advertisement addressing the businesses and end-consumers. Although location-based services developed rapidly in recent years, the reasons why we proposed a new system were lack of an intelligent location-based...

In our research, we develop the robot to combine with the consciousness and behavior which is the conscious and behavior robot (CONBE). In this paper we present the basis system in the CONBE robot that consist of the two main sections as the face recognition and robot gaze tracking. This system uses...

Nowadays less and less people are willing to do hard works. Which makes that the controller based on human skill is needed. Cerebellar model articulation controller (CMAC) is a kind of neural networks (NNs) that can easily solve problems of nonlinear system. Compared with other NNs the advantage of CMAC...

An automated wood species recognition system is designed to perform wood inspection at custom checkpoints in order to avoid illegal logging. The system that includes image acquisition, feature extraction and classification is able to classify the 52 wood species. There are 100 images taken from the each...

Orthogonal separability of finite-dimensional Hamiltonians is characterized by using various geometrical concepts, including Killing tensors, moving frames, the Nijehuis tensor, bi-Hamiltonian and quasi-bi-Hamiltonian representations. In addition, a complete classification of separable metrics defined...

In this paper we give a method to obtain Darboux transformations (DTs) of integrable equations. As an example we give a DT of the dispersive water wave equation. Using the Miura map, we also obtain the DT of the Jaulent-Miodek equation.

We present a geometric version of the Lie algebra 2-cocycle connected to quasi- geostrophic motion in the beta-plane approximation. We write down an Euler equation for the fluid velocity, corresponding to the evolution equation for the stream function in quasigeostrophic motion.

We study the dynamics of a network consisting of N diffusively coupled, stable-limit-cycle oscillators on which individual frequencies are parametrized by ωk , k = 1, . . . , N. We introduce a learning rule which influences the ωk by driving the system towards a consensual oscillatory state in which...

This paper studies the features and trends of evolution of College English curricula based on Cooper’s accounting scheme. By examining the formulation processes and implementation effects of altogether six College English curricula from historical and comparative perspectives, it is found that the actors...

Metamodernism defines the structure of the feeling of the contemporary epoch characterized by an appeal to all past cultures in order to find the sources of the new. The phenomenon of memory has become again relevant and in demand in architecture discipline. The desire for constant innovation in modernism...

With the development of culture and technology, digital media platforms have a strikingly effect on journalism. This article analyses the achievements of journalism and communication in digital world ranging from the horizontal application of digital technology in economic development to social stability...

Creative industries are a national strategic commodity to support international marketing. For this reason, modeling creative industry objects are essential for resulting in various shapes and features of the goods. This paper presents to develop learning content in modeling creative goods supported...

Public service advertising makes people aware and organizes their positions to dissolve problems. Conventional implicature is a literal definition, for example, expressed by structural elements of a sentence. Implicature of conversation is pragmatic implications taken through the principle of conversation....

This study describes the making of flute learning multimedia in Vocational of Education. Because during this Covid-19 period, students are required to study remotely (at home). Therefore, so that practicum learning materials can still be conveyed and reached by students, educators create flute applications...

The amount of product support determines the availability and readiness of heavy equipment. Product support as after-sales service is essential for customers to ensure that the heavy equipment purchased is always ready to use and generates optimal output. Leadtime and mechanic speed in resolving equipment...

One of the efforts to increase rice production is using marginal land, such as saline soil. The advantages of Inpari Unsoed 79 Agritan seeds are tolerance of saline soil, leafhoppers, and high productivity. This study aims to: Analyze the comparative advantage of Inpari Unsoed 79 Agritan on saline soil,...

In this work, the distilled biodiesel of waste cooking acids methyl esters (WCME) was blended with petroleum diesel as testing fuels (D100/DB2/DB5/DB20/DB100). The tribological performance of the biodiesel was evaluated using a reciprocating cylinder-on-flat wear test rig (Cameron-Plint TE-77) at various...

Nowadays, with the improvement of people's living standard and the development of social science and technology, a considerable number of households equipped with a bathtub apparatus. Bathtub can clean and relax the body simultaneously. It is also a good way to makebloodcirculationmore smoothly, promotetheelimination...

This paper proposed a system elements model that can be used in LEIS system analysis phase before system development. The system elements model is constructed based on the EBD methodology. Recursive object model and question asking have been used to conduct a comprehensive environment analysis. LEIS...

Guizhou is an underdeveloped district of China, and there natural disasters are very serious, which make Guizhou suffer huge economic loss every year. The natural disasters such as drought and flood, ice and snow seriously restrict the development of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers". Through the...

as internet application develops rapidly, application requirements of internet web becomes increasingly strict. As uses' demand improves, the standard and technology of web browser are changing continuously. HTML5 standard proposed by World Wide Web Consortium (WWWC) offers a new opportunity for internet...

The subject matter of this research is the processes of clustering in the regional economics. Currently, clustering is the most efficient form of conducting the innovative activity. For industrial regions, such as the Kemerovo region, the benefits of clustering comprise the creation of an efficient production...

This paper applies the theory of organizational behavior to a practical case to solve the retention problem of a Non-Governmental Organization. According to the further investigation of the organization, we identified the root causes of the low staff retention and the findings imply some managerial recommendations...

In the recent years, the additive (layer) manufacturing technology, which emerged about three decades back, to assist design conceptualization and visualization through rapid prototyping, has created application interests beyond rapid prototyping. This transition beyond prototyping, i.e. transition to...

Anti-roll bar is mounted enhance the stiffness of rolling stock. According to the standard of flexibility coefficient, this paper introduces a method to design the Anti-roll bar of 100% low-floor light rail vehicles. After finishing the designed model, use the finite element analysis to analyze the strength...

We proposed three shortest path-attack strategies and investigated the vulnerability of three complex model networks under these path-attack strategies. The experimental results indicate that the robustness of random network is the weakest, but small-world network is the strongest under the shortest...

With high-tech industry of Jiangsu Province as the research object, this research established an index system from the perspective of development index of high-tech industry and input index and output index of patent resources and carried out a grey relation analysis of the relevance between development...

This paper introduced the competency mode of public security fire commanders, and analyzed the problems existed in the current public security fire commander abilities. Then it proposed the training mode of public security fire commanders based on competency mode. What's more, it also introduced specific...

The purpose of this study is to recycle the heat of waste gas in printing plant. Several heat recovery equipments are presented and analyzed. After comparing, the heat-pipe heat recovery equipment is found as the most effective equipment for the organic exhaust gas on the basis of its temperature. The...

This article mainly aims at the problems facing the teaching situation of professional English of Computer Science and Technology of civilian-run Applied University, proposed the "three ones" professional English teaching method, and detailed its implementation process and feasibility.

The shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path between two vertices on a graph such that sum of the weights of its constituent edges is minimized.Simulations to compare the efficiencies for Dijkstra's algorithm, SPFA algorithm and improved Bellman-Ford were taken. The result shows that Dijkstra's...

With the advancement of China's school education reform, the teaching quality has once again become a hot topic of modern teaching. As part of the lifelong education system of school physical education is to promote students' physical constitution also enhance and improve the further reform. Physical...