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A Study on the Impact of Top Management Team Political Connection on Diversification

Ting Liang
Taking listed companies in Hubei Province as an example, this paper empirically studies the influence of political connection of top management team on diversification of listed companies. The results show that the political connection of top management team has significant influence on the diversification...

Efficiency and Elasticity of Labor Use on Economic Sectors in Indonesia

Tongam Sihol Nababan
The research objectives are: (1) to analyze the level of efficiency and elasticity of the use of labor in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) based on economic sectors in Indonesia in the period of 2010-2016, (2) to find out the changes/ transformations in the use of labor among the economic sectors in Indonesia...

An innovative research on the construction mode of "situation and policy" curriculum from the perspective of intersubjectivity

Lei Yang
Situation and policy courses in colleges and universities shoulder the historical task of ideological and political education, which is the main position to spread the world situation, national conditions and party situation to college students. The quality and degree of its construction are of great...

Optimizing teaching conditions for efficient development of translation skills within postgraduate study programs

Aleksei Alipichev, Olga Takanova, Aleksei Zaitsev, Nina Lozhkina
The paper outlines didactic conditions of organizing foreign language training courses within postgraduate programs of non-linguistic training fields. Based on theoretical and empirical research, the authors offer methodological recommendations for developing translation skills within the structure of...
Proceedings Article

Research on Shared Bicycle Parking Point based on Robust Optimization Model

Cuiping Ren, Yinli Dong
With the widespread use of shared bicycles, when sharing bicycles brings us convenience it also brings many disadvantages to urban management. This paper studies the location of shared bicycle parking spots in shared bicycle management problems. Firstly, a robust optimization method is introduced for...

Developed Students Character at Elementary School through Wordless Picture Book

Nina Nurhasanah, Nadiroh, Maratun Nafiah
This research aim toobtain data on the effectiveness of wordless picture book in developing the character of grade 2 elementary school student. Wordless Picture Book as book of enrichmentwhich can be used by teacher to developed student character.Thisbook contains few part of story whichloadcharactervalue...

Needs Analysis for Tutor Teacher of Extracurricular Programs

Hanif Alkadri, Nellitawati Nellitawati, Yuskal Kusman, Ayu Tia Ningrum
The purpose of this article is to analyze the needs of students, teachers, and parents towards tutor teachers of extracurricular programs. The method uses a mix method between qualitative research and quantitative research. The results are (1) for extracurricular programs, the students need tutor teachers...

Use of Social Media In The Development of Halal Tourism In Madura

Farida Arief, Zulaikha, R. Hartopo Eko Putro
The people of Madurese are well aware of the rituals of prayers offered on the tombs of leaders, both religious leaders and personalities considered as elders of the community. The pilgrimage to the tomb then became a familiar activity conducted by the community. Not only are certain days considered...

Problems of Huge Goodwill in Merger and Acquisition: Analysis and Solution

Chaoyao Ni, Chenhong Mo, Jiayu Wu
This paper studies the problems and risks that may exist in the process of high-goodwill mergers and acquisitions. Specifically, taking the event of TONZE ELECTRIC CO.,LTD’s cross-industry M&A of Xintai material in 2016 as an example, the reasons for declined financial performance of the acquired party...
Proceedings Article

Assessment of Relative Water Resources Carrying Capacity and Sustainable Development in Chengdu,China

Zhigang Li, Yangjie Tian
Water shortage has become an important factor restricting the sustainable development of cities. This paper adopts the research ideas and methods of relative resource carrying capacity, and uses China's national and Chongqing as reference areas to evaluate the relative water resources carrying capacity,...

Issues and Solutions Concerning Social Insurance in Shenzhen for Hong Kong and Macao Residents-from the Perspective of Talent Flow in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area

Bing Hu, Dan Yao
Whether Hong Kong and Macao residents employed in the Greater Bay Area can participate in social insurance and enjoy the social insurance treatment is a problem worthy of attention. However, previous studies on this topic remain largely outdated, fragmented, and theoretical. This study, taking Hong Kong...
Proceedings Article

On Family Tree of Transition Elements

Zhifu Wu, Liyun Hu, Qinglin Han
With the extensive applying of long periodic table, the definition of historical transition elements has become styles nowadays from narrow to wide .How ever there are three methods to define transition elements and several sorts of classifying items .It is very important to unify its definition and...
Proceedings Article

Financial Feasibility Analysis of Trigona Honey Bee Business in Banten Province

Dr Elpawati
This research aimed to study the financial feasibility in the Trigona sp honey bee business in Banten Province, by calculating the Net Present Value (NPV), the Net Benefit Cost Ratio (Net B/C), the Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and the Payback Period (PP) from the Trigona sp honey beekeepers in Banten...
Proceedings Article

Analysis on effect and relevant factors of ultrasound-guided lauromacrogol sclerotherapy to benign thyroid cyst

Dan Fei, Yang Li, Guoqing Sui
Purpose: lauromacrogol sclerotherapy was implemented through ultrasound-guided puncture of thyroid cyst for discussing the therapeutic effect to lauromacrogol hardening thyroid cyst. Method: 50 patients accepting thyroid cyst puncture sclerotherapy in ultrasonography department of our hospital were selected,...

E-Musrenbang As A Means In Increasing Community Participation In Development Planning In Indonesia: Its Challenges And Obstacles

Teguh Kurniawan
The advancement of information and communication technology through the internet has offered a new form of participation and interaction between government and society so that in the end it can push the higher level of understanding and acceptance of society to government action. The condition achieved...
Proceedings Article

Parameter Calibration of CT System

Yurui Peng
In this paper, we use the known template to calibrate the parameters of the two-dimensional CT system. The calibration of CT system includes three aspects: the location of the center of the system in the square pallet, the distance between the detector units, and the 180 directions of the X-ray used...
Proceedings Article

3D Scene Modeling and Rendering Algorithm Based on Road Extraction of Simple Attribute Remote Sensing Image

Zhiguang Wang, Haiying Zhang, Qiang Lu, Yuanfeng Lian
In order to solve the problem of modeling and rendering of large data scene, this paper presents a fast method for modeling and rendering multi-level, multi-resolution road based on the road information extraction of simple attribute remote sensing image. Firstly, Fuzzy C-means Clustering (FCM), Bwareaopen,...

Concept of Faith: Its Ontological and Gnoseological Aspects

Sergei Nizhnikov
The concept of faith is defined as a universal path to the spiritual knowledge born in the "Axial Age" (K. Jaspers) as a way of understanding the transcendent origins underlying all the world religions and associated philosophies. The author of the article asserts the significance of faith from the philosophical,...
Proceedings Article

Short-Term Wind Power Forecasting Based on Spatiotemporal Correlations

Jinli Dou, Chun Liu, Bo Wang
Wind power forecasting is of great significance for promoting the new energy resources accommodation and the economic efficiency, security and stability of power grid operation. The traditional wind power forecasting model has monotonous elements for input and demonstrates a lack of spatiotemporal correlation...

Spread Development of Short Video App Analyzed by Fast Hand

Xing Hua, Ke Li, Zongyuan Tan, Jian Zhou
With the rapid development of social media, people began to be dissatisfied with the way of transmission of text pictures. The short video app came into being and opened a new way for users to socialize. As the short video app with advanced users, the fast hand has experienced the development of stage...

Is the integration of pop art an important factor in giving birth to the art market?

Yao Wang
Pop art is a new style of art. Its characteristics are popular, popular and mass production, and the characteristics of the art market are to serve the masses and retail a large amount of cheap daily necessities produced in mass production. Pop art is closely related to the supermarket. Andy Warhol is...
Journal: eFood
Review Article

Body Fluid pH Balance in Metabolic Health and Possible Benefits of Dietary Alkaline Foods

Wataru Aoi, Xiaobo Zou, Jian Bo Xiao, Yoshinori Marunaka
Pages: 12 - 23
Living cells have several mechanisms to avoid acidic conditions created by excess protons. The protons are extruded to the extracellular space via the plasma membrane by various types of transporters such as the Na+/H+ exchanger and monocarboxylate transporters, which hereby contribute to the exclusion...
Proceedings Article

Characteristics of Asphalt Concrete Mixed Using Aggregates Coated by Low Density Polyethilene (LDPE) Plastic Waste

Ni Luh Setyarini, Anissa Tajudin
Road is one of the important infrastructures in facilitating the mobility of goods and services in order to improve the national economy, but most of the roads are damaged by the effects of weather. The rain water interusion into the pavement layer make accelerates erosion process. The asphalt erosion...

Analysis on Semantic Relations of English Nominal Anaphora

Yuqing Xu
Anaphora plays an indispensable role in discourse cohesion since it tells us how discourse is constructed and arranged. The present paper aims to analyze anaphora from a semantic angle. In this paper, definition and types of anaphora are presented firstly, and then moves to focus on nominal anaphora....

Costing Information System Design for a Clinic Registered as a First-Degree Healthcare Provider (Case Study: Ismal Medika Health Clinic)

Gamal Batara, Machmudin Eka Prasetya
This study aims to analyze and design a costing information system for Ismail Medika Health Clinic, registered as a first-degree health clinic in Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial or BPJS (the Indonesian Social Insurance Administration Organization). The Indonesian Ministry of Health suggests that healthcare...

Exploration on the Teaching Practice of Entrepreneurship Management Course in Business Universities

Yonghui Dai, Nianwen Du, Qianfeng Zhu, Peng Zuo
Innovative entrepreneurship education has attracted the attention of colleges and universities as a national strategy. The work explores the curriculum teaching practice of 320 entrepreneurial management students of Shanghai University of International Business and Economics. And the results show that...

Enhancing Students' Engagement in TBLT: The Implementation of Mind Mapping

Raka Sitawati, Dyah Hudiananingsih, Rai Jaya Widanta, Dana Ardika, Ketut Suciani, Paulus Subiyanto
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been found effective to improve students' comprehension on language and communication skill. This study aimed at investigating whether (or not) mind mapping, as a part of learning technics, was potential to increase students' engagement in learning English in English...

Novels by Gaito Gazdanov and Mental Changes in Literary Consciousness of Russian First-Wave Émigré Writers of the 20th Century

Nikolay Nikolaev, Svetlana Dulova
The first wave of Russian émigré writers of the 20th century has attracted attention as an internally heterogeneous phenomenon for quite a long time. There are two generations of this wave traditionally distinguished by the researchers: the older (I. Bunin, I. Shmelev, and others) and the younger (V....

An Argument against Registration of Religions

Jeremy Patrick
The paper examines how is the perspective of freedom of religion and human rights, the official registration and recognition of religious groups is inevitably problematic in democratic societies. Several arguments against the practice follow, but many share a common theme: scepticism of government power....

Village Government Leadership Towards Optimizing Society Participation in Development Planning

Adam Latif, Irwan, Ahmad Mustanir, Jamaludin Ahmad, Geminastiti Sakkir
This research is to find out the leadership of the village government and to find out society participation in development planning in Pattondon Salu Village, Maiwa District, Enrekang Regency. The hypothesis of this study is that village government leadership has a significant effect on optimizing society...
Proceedings Article

Common battery storage for an area with residential houses

Eberhard Waffenschmidt, Till Paulzen, Alexander Stankiewicz
In this publication the technical benefits of a mutual battery storage compared to a solution with three individual battery storages is investigated. This has been done in the context of the EU funded project “GrowSmarter” in collaboration with Rheinenergie in the living area Stegerwaldsiedlung in Cologne....
Proceedings Article

The Complience of Hypertensive Patients in Health Center Pengasih I Kulon Progo

Andriana Sari, Muhammad Adjie Cakrawardana
Hypertension is a condition where blood vessels have persistent high blood pressure. Compliance is a behavior to adhere to doctor's advice about using medicine. The purpose of this study is to determine the compliance, the use of antihypertensive and the relationship between characteristics of patients...

Peace Guidance and Counseling Based on Indonesian Local Wisdom

Agus Supriyanto, Wahyu Saputra, Budi Astuti
Conflict and violence arise in the behavior of aggression. Aggression behavior in the industrial era 4.0, such as hitting teachers, insulting teachers, uncontrolled emotions, hatred, intolerance, and spreading negative information. The most significant impact is the negative perception of students about...
Research Article

Associations between smoking and alcohol use and arterial elasticity in patients with newly diagnosed essential hypertension: A cross-sectional study

Noor-Ahmed Jatoi, Waleed-Ibrahim Al-Baker, Afnan Al-Muhanna, Fahad Al-Muhanna, Stella-Maria Kyvelou, Faisal Sharif
Pages: 12 - 18
Objective: To assess the relationship between smoking and alcohol use (separately and combined) on arterial stiffness in patients with essential hypertension. Materials and Methods: We assessed never-treated newly diagnosed patients with essential hypertension (n = 446) aged 18–80 years (52% males)....
Research Article

Left atrial appendage dysfunction in acute embolic stroke young patients with sinus rhythm: Correlation with Tissue Doppler mitral annular systolic velocity

Rania Gaber, Mai Salama
Pages: 12 - 18
Background: Trans-esophageal echocardiogram (TEE) is a gold standard test for diagnosis of left atrial (LA) appendage function. Aim: To evaluate left atrial appendage (LAA) dysfunction using mitral annular systolic velocity measured by tissue Doppler imaging “Sm” in acute embolic stroke young patients...
Research Article

Adiponectin negatively correlated with carotid arterial structure in the leptin-resistant Zucker diabetic fatty rat

Emmanuel Cosson, Paul Valensi, André Bado, Hubert Dabiré
Pages: 12 - 20
Background: Despite adipocytokines are implicated in arterial hemodynamic and stiffness, their effects on arterial histomorphometry remain poorly explored. The aim of the present study was to evaluate, in Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rats, a model of type 2 diabetes with leptin resistance, carotid arterial...

Categories of Space and Time of the Concept “Reindeer Breeding” (in Even and Evenki)

Ekaterina Krivoshapkina, Svetlana Prokopieva
In the context of development of cognitive linguistics, the concept “reindeer breeding” must be regarded more extensive, namely, as a basic category of being for most indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and Russian Far East. Using the cognitive approach, its conceptual content must be addressed....

Optimizing the Value-at-Risk Measure in European Countries to Better Quantify Market Risk in Banking Industry in Sweden

F. Akhmedov, Mhd Shaker Zeitoun
Market conditions can change rapidly. Empirical evidences from Europe markets show that there can be several years between risk being taken, revenues being generated, and losses flowing through. This is the lesson that the recent financial crisis of 2008 taught us. Stress market conditions in Europe...

Problems and Countermeasures of rural water ecological civilization construction under river system

Min Xiang, Yan-wen Shi, Wei-liang Li, Yi-ming Zhou, Zheng-jia GU
Rural water environment is an integral part of the construction of rural water ecological civilization and an important part of the construction of "beautiful countryside”. But in recent years, rural water ecological environment is deteriorating.This paper analyzes the present situation and causes of...

Entering Children’s Literacy Through Whole Language Approach

Ari Susanti, Mustaji Mustaji, Umi Anugerah Izzati
The aim of this research was to determine the influence of the whole language for kindergarten students, especially in early literacy. The researcher chose a whole language approach to help children age 4-5 years understanding early literacy because it integrated 4 language capabilities: reading, writing,...

Independent Assessment of the Quality of Education in Russia: Results and Development Directions

Yulia Fedorchuk, Sergey Neustroyev, Anna Arinushkina
The article considers certain elements of the world and national system of independent assessment of the education quality. The structure of the system at the federal, regional, and local levels, the regulatory framework, and the results are considered. The paper also analyzes the normative changes in...

The Effects of Health Educational Lessons using Learning Activities that Make Students Apply The Knowledge

Hideaki Tanimoto
The Japanese Education Ministry guidelines were revised in 2008 with an emphasis to elevate the thinking levels, judgment capacity and an expressive faculty. This will be passed down by the next guidelines revised in 2017. As in any health education, handling the Content of the Education Ministry guidelines...

The Application of Multiple Intelligences Theory in Mathematics Teaching

Nan Wang
The construction of high-end technical and skilled personnel training project in Beijing is not only the need of social development, but also the need of school education development. Through the application of multiple intelligences theory in mathematics class, teachers can correctly treat the diversity...

Putative Dehalogenase uptake gene from Rhizobium sp. RC1

Adam Izzuddin Nasir, Aliyu Adamu, Yilmaz Kaya, Mohamed Faraj Edbeib, Fahrul Huyop
Halogenated compounds that are polluting the environment is becoming a huge concern that demands an efficient solution. The rising priority in the use of microorganisms that have the potential to be the most environmental-friendly way to degrade and dispose of halogenated compounds is crucial in solving...

Arguments in Critical Thinking Ability

Nonik Indrawatiningsih
The ability to think critically is an essential skill and becomes one of the primary goals in college. A person who can think critically will be able to use appropriate criteria to evaluate an argument. There must be clear evidence and accompanied by a plausible explanation. This study aims to investigate...

Research on Financial Support Game New Urbanization Process in China

Xiaohong Dong
Theoretical and game analysis of the new urbanization of financial support. Propose solutions to the problem of rural financial conflicts financing needs of both supply and demand, improve rural financial market stage presence financial suppression. Game analysis of the process of urbanization problems...

The Transformation of the MPAcc Talent Cultivation Model in Colleges Based on the Financial Shared Environment

Jun Dai, Mengting Yu
The MPAcc education reform needs to be based on the developing trend of the accounting industry. Exerting the advantages of standardization, process and intelligence, nowadays the financial shared service is leading the revolution of the accounting industry by the modem information technology. This paper...

The Effect of Using English Videos on Vocabulary Achievement at the Fifth Grade of Elementary School 10 Poasia

Ni Nyoman Ayu Novayanti, Meilan Nirmala Shinta, Mr Mursalim, Amir Jaya
Vocabulary is often regarded as the foundation of four main skills of English; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It is important to look for the ways how teaching vocabulary can be effective and integrated into those skills. This study aims at finding out the effect of using English videos on...

The Construction of University's Smart Library

Haibo Zhang, Peifa Lin, Xiaoyan Li
Due to the limitation of objective conditions, some university libraries can hardly change their “physical conditions” such as library buildings. In order to improve service quality, it is an effective method to use information technology to build “virtual conditions” of libraries. As an important content...

A Comparison Study of The Registration System of Trademarks in Indonesia and Australia

Agung Sujatmiko, Ria Setyawati
Trade Mark as a part of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has very important function in goods trade, especially for products with famous trade mark. The famous trade mark has high economic value if it is compares to others products. On the other side, it is also fragile to falsification which done...