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Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Transesterification of Waste Cooking Oil to Biodiesel over Calcined Hydroxy Sodalite (HS) Catalyst: A preliminary investigation
Chabisha P. Makgaba, Michael O. Daramola
In this article, preliminary investigation on the use of hydroxy sodalite (HS) as a solid catalyst for the transesterification of waste cooking oil (WCO) to biodiesel is presented. Hydroxy sodalite was synthesized in our laboratory via the conventional hydrothermal synthesis technique and the crystals...
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Simulated-firm-based Business Correspondence Teaching
Xiao Yan
In recent years, simulated firm, increasingly accepted and recommended by educational practioners at home and abroad, has offered a new mode for improving teaching effect. With the aim of teaching business correspondence in a more effective way and creating more chances for majors of economy and trade...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Approach to Automatic Detection of the Content of the Smart Electricity Meter LCD Cycle Display
Wen-jia Cai, Zhi-yao Zheng, Fan Li, Yuan Wang
This paper is a study of the approach to automatic detection of the content of the smart electricity meter LCD cycle display and signal lights. By this approach, in the LCD liquid crystal display detection unit of the smart electricity meter detection line, the electricity meter can be switched to a...
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Design of Safety FPGA Optimization Internet of things and Its Reliability Analysis
Lan Luan
Aiming at demands based on abnormal condition detection and warning in welding machine monitoring system of IOT, put forward a burst detection algorithm for multi-population firefly, achieve optimization selection and configuration of sliding window size and improve the processing speed and detection...
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Utilization Strategy Research Of Goafs Based On Correspondence Analysis
Shiyao Xiang, Mingdong Zhao, Dongjing Xu, Yijin Chen
According to the energy development policy and energy structure adjustment in China, this paper puts forward the utilization strategy of goafs based on correspondence analysis. Firstly, the correspondence analysis was used to discriminate the goafs with hidden collapse risk and research the collapse...
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Exploring Potential Visitor and Visitor Perception of Destination Image of Palabuhan Ratu through Personal Values
Mohammad Subandi
Purpose - The main purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of personal values on potential visitor and visitor perception of Palabuhan Ratu destination image Methodology - An extensive literature review was carried out to identify factors that influence destination image and to identify...
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The Absurd Silence——The Analysis on the Faith and Silence in written by Shusaku Endo
Xiaofei Gai
Shusaku Endo tells about the process that the priest named Sebastio Rodrigues from Jesus of Portugal comes to Japan with the faith that looking for his teacher called Ferreira and spreading the Catholic to the Japanese people, and then be arrested; in order to save the people being punished, Sebastio...
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Metaphor and Education - Analyzing the Role of Cultural Empathy in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Shuqing He
Cultural stereotype is a double-edged sword, it can enable students to understand foreign culture in a short time and form a thought of first impression and then generate a negative influence such as rejection and bias against a culture. During the teaching of international Chinese, in order to avoid...
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Needs Analysis of English for Economic Management at Riau Kepulauan University
Dewi YANA
Needs analysis is a way of gathering information related to the beliefs, attitude, and opinion of the learner or the teacher. It can be used to minimize the gap among teacher, learners, and teaching materials. Needs analysis responds the learners' actual needs, and helps in making change and innovation...
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Comparison of the Mechanical Properties of a New Capacity-expanding and Energy-saving Conductor and Traditional Conductors
Yuchen He, Bin Song, Min Gao
The mechanical properties of a traditional steel-cored aluminum strand conductor and a new capacity-expanding and energy-saving conductor for a typical 500 kV transmission line are compared to provide a reference for the conductor lectotype of transmission lines. The study objects are a traditional steel-cored...
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On Leadership Education of University Students: A Case Study
Jia-Jie Wang
This article focuses on the five salient problems faced by university leadership education. Taking Shanghai University of Engineering Science as an example, this study (1) designs creative plans for leadership education of university students with the characteristics of integration of resources, advocate...
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Construction of the Comprehensive Training Mode of Clinical Talents
Na Wang, Jinguo Wang
On the base of the demand for modern medicine, the education idea, the curriculum reform and the way of quality control, teaching reform and teaching innovation, the construction of community medical practice base and so on to measure clinical medical talent training mode in an all-round way. Clinical...
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Gender Perspective in Bugis Makassar
Musdalia Mustadjar, Gufran Darma Dirawan
The purpose of this study was to determine the gender understanding and application in Bugis Makassar family. In addition, this study also revealed guidelines Bugis Makassar family life. The research method used Qualitative in a case study. Sampling technique used purpossive with predetermined criteria....
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Assessment of Factor Influencing Attraction of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Economies
Konstantin Igorevich Kozhevnikov, Stanislav Victorovich Pridvizhkin, Oleg Victorovich Bazhenov, Margarita Karpovna Kozhevnikova, Yelizaveta Aleksandrovna Zasukhina
Modern trends in economic development are characterized by intensification of competition, globalization of markets and concentration of capital. Attracting foreign direct investment plays a significant role in the growth of developing economies. Assessment of influence that the foreign capital exerts...
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Good Corporate Governance On The Earnings Management Using Iso9001 As A Moderating Variable In Banking Industry In Indonesia
Heurestica Asparagina Paradisea Carina
Earnings management is one of the consequences of information asymmetry in agency theory, this is because the manager (agent) knowing more information about the company managed. Earnings management actions produced financial statements that didn’t accordance with the actual situation. Good Corporate...
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Family Food Security with the Nutritional Status of Toddlers after the Eruption of Mount Bromo
Ani Sutriningsih, Lasri Lasri
During Mount Bromo issued volcanic ash in December 2015 - February 2016, Tumpang and Poncokusumo areas feel the impact of volcanic ash. This reduces food availability, food access, and food consumption, thus disrupting food security over long periods of time. The purpose of this study was to determine...
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Evaluation of Learning Implementation using CIPP Model in SMK
Amidatus Sholihat Jamil, Amat Mukhadis
This study aims to evaluate the implementation of productive learning of multimedia competence in SMK, in terms of context, input, process, and product. This research was conducted at SMKN 1 Grati, Pasuruan. The research design used is qualitative research with the subject of research done by purposive...
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The Impact of Basic Literacy Program to Create a Learning Society
Heryanto Susilo
Basic literacy is a program that focused on reading, writing and counting skill as an effort of adult low literacy skill improvement or illiteracy age 15-59. This research aim to determine the implementation, analyses result, and the effect of learning society creation, supporting and inhibiting factors...
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The Effectiveness of A Health Promotion Model on The Father's Self Efficacy in Stimulating The Growth And Development of Toddler
Ririn Probowati, Monika Sawitri Prihatini, Heri Wibowo, Praba Diyan Rachmawati
The growth and development of toddler is not only influenced the mother, but also the father. Lack of belief in the father's ability in providing stimulation of growth and development will have an impact on the achievement of the optimal toddlers' growth and development. The purpose of this study was...
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Exploration of effective instructional design in PAD classroom
Ma Jing
In the classroom teaching method, the simple teaching leads to the interaction between teachers and students with little interaction, students are often passive acceptance, lack of substantive participation, initiative is not strong, it is difficult to cultivate thinking ability and exploration spirit....
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Volatility of Treasury bond futures Price: evidence from Tick-by-Tick data
Xuanhua Peng, Yongkui Li, Zhiying Chen, Xiaole Guo
In order to find the causes of price volatility in bond futures market, we consider the potential impact of trading properties and construct a multivariate linear model between realized volatility and Behavioral variables included the strategies of Open, Close, Long, Short and turnover. Then through...
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Ownership Structure and Company's Risk Taking Behaviour
Sekar Langit, Desi Adhariani
This study aims to determine the effect of ownership structure on risk-taking behaviour among the companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the period 2013 to 2015 with a total of 390 firm observations. Companies' risk-taking is measured through income volatility over five years. There are...
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Research on Domestic and Foreign Inclusive Growth
Chongmei Wang
The cooperation and synergetic development is of great strategic significance for expanding the economic hinterland of Shandong and revitalizing the economy in Liaoning, which also opens up the idea for the two provinces to implement the Belt and Road construction. Based on the inclusiveness, the idea...
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Research on Strip Filling Surface Subsidence Rule
Yongkui Shi, Minhua Qi, Jingyu Zhang, Jian Hao
For recycling the remaining coal pillars resources in strip mining, a repeated mining method of using the strip filling replacement of strip coal pillar is proposed, a technical principle of strip filling controlling surface subsidence is illustrated, and the main filling factors which influence the...
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Research on Online Assessment of Switch Resistance Based on Real-time Current Measurement
Jiankun Liu, Jing Bu, Qian Zhou, Chenggen Wang, Yang Hou, Minghui Yin
The evaluation of switch resistance has aroused widespread concern.To assess the resistance of switchgear in switching substations which use 3/2 wiring, online assessment method based on real-time current measurements is proposed in this paper. The method use Kirchhoff’s law to establish the mathematical...
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To Build Career Education without borders: from the perspective of the convergence of high school and university
Wang Ning
Career Education should be a systematic education process around a person's life career development. Secondary education is called "the crossroads of life and career," the university level is a critical moment for most people change from school to professional people, career education in these two important...
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analysis of impacting factors on runoff and sediment transport of flood event in gushanchuan watershed
Shuangyan Jin, Xinhui Jiang, Zhiheng Zhang
The turning point of water and sand of natural period and human activity impacting period in Gushanchuanbasin is the year 1979, which analyzed by method of orderly clustering and MWP test. The model is established using the data before 1979, and the impacting factors on runoff and sediment transport...
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The Application of Minimum Spanning Tree Algorithm in the Water Supply Network
Fengxia Cong, Ying Zhao
The system of urban water supply network is the important lifeline project of the city. With the continuous development of social economy, people are no longer satisfied withwater supply requirements, but to put forward higher requirements for the safety, reliability and economy of the water supply....
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Design and Realization of Jingdezhen Tourism E-commerce Website
Jingfang Hu, Busheng Li
With the development of electronic commerce mode, the use of e-commerce of tourism has become a hot spot, this paper studies and analyzes the Jingdezhen tourism environment and tourism electronic commerce present situation, proposed the Jingdezhen tourism electronic commerce operation mode, key technology...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Exploration on Thermal Shock Mechanical Properties of Ceramic Materials
Yanxia Wang, Tiantian Sun, Qinghui Shang, Yongli Bao, Xiaomin Ma
Fatigue failure is very common phenomenon in engineering field, and fatigue problem is more and more prominent with the development of modern social production to high speed, high temperature, high strength load. In process of college undergraduate course graduation design and innovative experiments,...
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Research on the Analysis of the Cost of Logistics Enterprises——Analysis Based on the Financial Statements of 15 Logisitics Listing Enterprises
Yongming Pan, Ziwei Li
With the development of domestic economy and the change of consumption patterns, especially the boom in online shopping, the logistics industry has a dramatic development in our country. Nevertheless, the logistics enterprises are still facing some issues such as high service cost, lack of competition,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Discussion on Effect of High Strength Concrete on Prestressed Concrete Girder Bridge
Ren Guojie
High strength concrete materials have been widely used in bridge engineering. Combined with a high strength concrete girder bridge in Texas of U.S, this paper analyzes the impacts of high strength concrete materials in bridge design. Based on analyzing the economic benefit, it clearly shows the high...
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Analysis on Risk Management of the Small and Medium-sized Travel Agencies
Wu Mingqi
Tourism industry is a fragile industry, any element that may influence the social life can have a direct impact on tourism industry. The impact can make tourism receive a great loss. The tourism enterprises must set up risk management system, strengthen responsibility consciousness in the management...
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Design of spectrometer based on the Internet of things
Longyang Zheng, Jie Sun, Haiqiang Wu
The features, architecture, hardware connection, application software and the transfer protocol about the spectrometer based on the internet of things are presented in this paper. Applying the technology of the internet of things, it can enhance the real-time and remote control ability of spectrometer,...
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Optimization of Process Parameters in Plastic Injection Mold Simulation for Auto Lock-Parts using Taguchi-Grey Method Based on Multi-Objective
Weitai Huang, Derho Wu, Ziyun Tasi, Chialun Tsai
Locks may be inserted during the production of certain auto lock-parts. Warpage of auto lock-parts during injection molding is the most critical problem facing product quality. This warpage is mostly affected by the processing parameters and design of the injection mold. In this paper, the influences...
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The Analysis of the Cause and Countermeasures of the County Financial Difficulties A Case Study Based on the Research on Hanzhuang Town, Weishan County in Shandong Province
Tiantian Sun
With the rapid development of our economy, the revenue is growing continually. But due to the current situation of the local economic development, local tax system and finance system in our country and many other reasons, the financial difficulty of county and township government has become a common...
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Teaching reform on course "signals and systems"
Gui Feng
Form the requirements and teaching process of course "Signals and Systems" to explore the course contents selection and course arrangement of “Signals and Systems ". From the characteristics of the 90 students and the status of teaching to analysis problems in “Signals and Systems" course teaching, and...
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Strategies of Translating Chinese Address Terms into English in Teaching
Bin Chen, Shiyu Peng, Wenyan Mao
Due to cultural differences, Chinese address terms are more complicated than English address terms, and the number of Chinese address terms are much more than English address terms. It is hard to find equivalent English address terms for some Chinese address terms with unique Chinese culture in translation....
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Experimental Research on Wastewater Reuse Technology of Industrial Circulating Cooling Water System
Li-Hui Zhang, Zhen-Fa Liu, Ru-Hui Guo
By means of decrease of hardness, neutralization and desalination union technology, the drained wastewater of industrial circulating cooling water system can be treated. The purified water quality (total hardness and calcium ion components) is greatly better than fresh water, and completely can be reused...
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Study on the Reform of Mechanical Professional Practice Teaching under the Background of Engineering Certification
Dongya Yang, Tao Shen, Runlan Guo, Xiaozheng Xie, Zhaohui Li
Before the engineering certification, in the link of mechanical professional practice teaching, especially in professional basic course design and graduation design, the teaching method was still remained in the passive learning mode that the teacher assigned task and the students follow specified steps,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Detection of Chlorophyll Content of Rice Leaves by Chlorophyll Fluorescence Spectrum Based on PCA-ANN
Lina Zhou, Shuchao Cheng, Haiye Yu
In order to achieve the fast, nondestructive and accurate testing of rice leaves chlorophyll content, the model of detecting rice leaves' chlorophyll content was established by laser-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (LICF)spectroscopy technology and principal components analysis(PCA)combined with artificial...
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Adaptive Model of Data Exchange for Cross-System Interaction
Tatiana Penkova, Anna Korobko, Artem Belorusov
The article approaches the problem of adaptive data exchange model making for cross-system data interaction. The authors demonstrated the need in development of system integration methods that would facilitate the standardised data exchange across heterogeneous sources with an opportunity to adapt flexibly...
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The Analysis of the Difference of Land-use Landscape Patterns between the Jinsha River Dry-hot Valley and the Redbed of Middle Yunnan Province-Based on the Typical Basins of the Redbed of Middle Yunan Province
Xian Dai, Linpei Huang, Yunchuan Dai
The landscape patterns of the current land-use on the redbed of middle Yunnan province Was studied in this paper. Based on the landscape pattern index and the spatial analysis technics ArcGIS 10.0, the landscape patterns of the land-use on the redbed of middle Yunnan province was analyzed, and the difference...
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Multi-pretraining Deep Neural Network by DBN and SDA
Zhen Hu, Zhu-Yin Xue, Tong Cui, Shi-Qiang Zong, Cheng-Long He
Pretraining is widely used in deep neutral network and one of the most famous pretraining models is Deep Belief Network (DBN) which is composed by stacking Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM). The optimization formulas are different during the pretraining process for different pretraining models. In this...
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The Optimization of Task Assignments on Hadoop Platform for Large-Number Image Processing
G.R. Zhang, Q.X. Wu, L.P. Huang, B.S. Chen
This paper proposes a large-number images processing model based on Hadoop platform. According to this model, the task allocation strategies are investigated for large-number image processing on the isomorphic Hadoop clusters and heterogeneous Hadoop clusters. Firstly, a series of different experiments...
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Access of Distributed Generation and its Energy Management System Development
B. Zeng, X.Y. Kong, Q.A. Hu, S.Y. Zhang, Q. Yang, S.Y. Ge
The access of distributed generation is one of the important functions for future energy management system. In this paper, technologies with information interaction of devices and energy management system for distributed generation “plug and play” access was analyzed. A “plug and play” control model...
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Language Anxiety and Foreign Language Teaching
Xie Zhang, Huanqi Ji
language anxiety is a significant emotional factor that affects foreign language learners in the classroom and has been increasingly drawing attention in the academic field. Through the introduction of FLCAS in the experimental study on language anxiety, this paper analyzes foreign language learner’s...
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Research on Reconstruction Method for Illumination Field based on CMAC Neural Network
Qiansheng Fang, Jun Huang, Zhenya Zhang
In intelligent building applications, the awareness of built environment illumination filed representatively applies in intelligent lighting systems for providing decision and support. In fact, the dynamic analysis of the built environment can assist in the illumination field of security systems at the...
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Career Guidance Model using Experimental Learning Approach to Improve Students’ Soft Skills
Farida Aryani, Abdul Saman, Muhammad Ilham Bakhtiar
This study aims to find out: firstly, the needs to develop the career guidance model using the experiential learning strategies for students and secondly the experiential learning approach that has been validated by experts to improve students’ soft skills. The research was conducted in SMK Negeri 3...
Research Article
The Study of Estimation on Maize Irrigation Water Requirement in the northwest of Liaoning Province
Xiaojing Liu, Donglai Ma, Jiquan Zhang, Peng Chen
Pages: 52 - 59
This paper took the northwest of Liaoning Province as a study area and maize as the research object. Effective rainfall, crop water requirement and soil available water content at 6 growth stages of maize were calculated by using Penman-Montes equation, effective coefficient method and Cropland Soil...