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Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Urban Forest Cover: Change and Response to Climate
Bayartulga Altankhuyag, Delgerjargal Dugarjav
Since 1990, due to Mongolia’s transition to a free market economy, the migration of the population to cities, especially to the capital, has rapidly increased. As a result, urban lands are expanding, forest use around the cities is becoming more chaotic, and the impact of urbanization on forests is increasing....
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The Toxicity Evaluation of Novel Carbon-Based Nanoparticle Medicine and How to Choose the Suitable Animal Toxicity Test Models for It
Chenchang Zhu
Carbon nanoparticles have massive potential in different biology and medical applications areas. In order to use the novel carbon nanomaterials medicine for human treatment, safety issues are necessary to be considered, and it is essential to determine the best animal test models to evaluate the toxicity...
Research Article
Examining the Effectiveness of Relationship Marketing Strategies on Medical Tourism
Hung-Chih Lai, Ping-Liang Chen, Chad Lin
Pages: 14 - 24
Medical tourism is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world as many patients are looking to access healthcare services that are not available to them in their home countries. Many hospitals and healthcare centers are now offering numerous products and services in order to fully reap the benefits...
Research Article
Design of a Data-Oriented Kansei Feedback Control System
Takuya Kinoshita, Toru Yamamoto
Pages: 14 - 17
In the development of the aging society, it is important for patients with hemiplegia to introduce adaptive welfare equipment. However, it is difficult to determine the suitable reference signal for each person. In this study, the design of a data-oriented cascade control system based on Kansei is proposed....
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A generalization of the Perona-Malik anisotropic diffusion method using restricted dissimilarity functions
C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets, J. Cerron, M. Galar, H. Bustince
Pages: 14 - 28
There exists a large number of techniques for content-aware smoothing. Despite its simplicity, the Perona-Malik Anisotropic Diffusion method is among the most employed ones. In this work we study this method in detail and propose a generalization of its diffusion scheme using restricted dissimilarity...
Research Article
Extended hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets and their aggregation in group decision making
Hai Wang
Pages: 14 - 33
Group decision making problems which organize a group of experts to evaluate a set of alternatives with respect to several criteria are commonly discussed recently. Hesitant fuzzy linguistic term sets, characterized by a set of consecutive linguistic terms, act as a new model for qualitative settings...
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The Design of a Drought Weather Index Insurance System for Summer Maize in Anhui Province, China
Ying Xu, Chao Gao, Xuewen Li, Taiming Yang, Xibo Sun, Congcong Wang, De Li
Pages: 14 - 23
We analyzed precipitation anomalies of summer maize in order to establish a drought weather index model that is based on tassel appearance and maturity stage as well as drought yield reduction rate. We utilized daily precipitation data encompassing the period between 1971 and 2010 from 15 agricultural...
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A Truncation for Obtaining all the First Degree Birational Transformations of the Painlevé Transcendents
Robert Conte, Micheline Musette
Pages: 14 - 28
A birational transformation is one which leaves invariant an ordinary differential eqution, only changing its parameters. We first recall the consistent truncation which has allowed us to obtain the first degree birational transformation of Okamoto for the mater Painlevé equation P6. Then we improve...
Research Article
Links Between Different Analytic Descriptions of Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces
E.V. Ferapontov, A.M. Grundland
Pages: 14 - 21
Transformations between different analytic descriptions of constant mean curvature (CMC) surfaces are established. In particular, it is demonstrated that the system
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Enculturation of Kethoprak Babad Tulungagung Through Educational Strategy in Facing Cultural Globalization
Arief Sudrajat, Zulfana D. Ariska, Ayu Febriani, Fakhrial E. Widodo
Kethoprak Babad Tulungagung is a regional art owned by Tulungagung Regency. However, the onslaught of cultural globalization has made the arts degraded. The decline in the existence of the Kethoprak Babad Tulungagung in the younger generation impacts their ignorance of the moral values contained. A qualitative...
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Research on the Influence Mechanism of Psychological Safety on Leaders’ Ambidexterity Based on Experimental Analysis
ChaoLong Wu, HongJiang Lv, Lufeng He, Tianxiao Cheng
The rapid development of information technology and the Internet makes it easier for leaders and employees to have more connections. Therefore, it is very important for organizations and leaders to study the impact of the leadership situation on the leaders’ behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to...
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The Development Mode of the World-class Scientific and Technical Journals—A Case Study of Nature and Science
Feiyang Liu, Jingxue Lai, Hong Shui, Li Zhang, Li Zhang
Based on the analysis of the basic situation and development of the world-class scientific and technical journals, Nature and Science, this paper used bibliometrics to explore the development model and construction path of Nature and Science from 3 aspects, including the journal data, journal column...
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Imposition of Sanction to Support Plastic Waste Restriction Policy
Fenty Puluhulawa, Mohammad Rusdiyanto Puluhulawa
The advancements in technology have brought major changes to daily activities of all people. Disposable plastic is becoming more popular for daily use due to its practicality and hygiene. Such a situation, in turn, raises an alarming concern on the environmental side effect, as now plastic waste begins...
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In Vivo Cytotoxic Activity and Acute Toxicity Test of Ethanol Extract from Voacanga foetida (Blume) Rolfe Leaves
Adriani Susanty, Emrizal, Emma Susanti, Alfionita BR Saragih, Husni Muchtar, Dachriyanus
In vivo cytotoxic activity and acute toxicity test of ethanolic extract Voacanga foetida leave against male white mice was done. The in vivo cytotoxic activity used Micronucleus Assay Method while the acute toxicity used LD50 Test and Delay Toxicity Method. The micronucleus assay of V. foetida ethanol...
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Revealing the Horror of Capitalism Through Monstrous Narratives in Jordan Peele’s Us (2019)
Amira Jati Sari, Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan
Contemporary horror films often incorporate monstrous and chaotic narratives that reflect wider cultural and political conditions. This article examines how elements of monstrosity in the film Us (2019) resonates with working-class anxieties persisting under a capitalistic society. The theory of Marxism...
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The Types of Speaking Exercises and Their Compliance with CEFR
An analytical descriptive study of the German textbook Netzwerk A1
Adiat Halim, Irma Permatawati, Pepen Permana
For most people who are learning German, mastering speaking skill is the primary goal of learning the language. It requires exercises to develop the learner’s speaking ability in order to have adequate skills that can be used in formal and informal interactions. Even though there are exercises to practice...
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Study on the Absurd Beauty of Marc Chagall’s “Lovers Under the Eiffel Tower”
Lei Zhou
The artistic creation of modern painting artist Marc Chagall is full of absurdity and his strong artistic emotion is displayed in his works with unique aesthetic characteristics. On the basis of a comprehensive understanding of Chagall’s art, this article takes his representative work “Lovers Under the...
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The Impact of Labor resources on the Economic Development of the Regions of the Volga Federal District
Nadezhda Ananyeva, Maria Rybkina
There are various strategies developed by scientists to form criteria that contribute to stabilising the Russian economy and its growth. A strategy aimed at socio-economic transformation is used to increase the economy’s growth rate. Despite this, there is a differentiation of the industrial sector and...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Critical Review of Wireless Electromagnetic Power Transmission Methods
Ekaterina Frolova, Nikita Dobroskok, Anton Morozov
The paper presents a comparative analysis of energy transmission methods based on electromagnetism: non-radiative alternating electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields. The examples of practical realization of the presented technologies are considered. The multi-criteria approach for analyzing the...
Proceedings Article
Implementation of Learning Management System (LMS) in the Self-Development of Productive Teachers of Vocational Schools
Setia Aji, Yadi Mulyadi, Iwan Kustiawan
The development of information technology and computers has an impact on the development of e-learning. Learning Management System (LMS) as one of the software used to manage e-learning in the last decade has been widely used in schools. The implementation of LMS in vocational schools has consequences...
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Physiological Metaphor as a Means of the Metaphorical Modeling of Brexit in Russian Media Texts
Linda Krajcovicova
This article deals with the analysis of the physiological metaphor as a means of the metaphorical modeling of the discourse event Brexit in the Russian media discourse and political discourse. A special emphasis is put on its potential conflictogenic effects and the intentions of its use. The analysis...
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Exploration and Practice of Situational Experience in Urban Environment Teaching
Zhihui Tian
Based on the needs of education in the new era, this paper takes the course of urban environmental science as an example, introduces the situational experiential teaching model, reforms the previous teaching mode which was passively accepted by teachers as the leading students, and explores the application...
Proceedings Article
Rules Versus Discretion
Lessons from Earthquake and Liquefaction in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Kasman Lassa, Syamsul Bachri, Farida Patittingi, Marwati Riza
Natural disasters are situations beyond human control. An earthquake hit Donggala County, Central Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, on 28 September 2018, triggering a tsunami and liquefaction in Palu City, Sigi, and Donggala. Geologically, liquefaction occurs when the soil loses shear strength due to increased...
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Functions of Spontaneous Yawning: A Review
Duruo Jin
Yawning is an important prehistorical physiological mechanism that exist in animals across a variety of species. In the past 50 years, investigation of spontaneous yawning and contagious yawning has been ongoing. Several hypotheses were introduced to this field, such as the circadian hypothesis, brain-cooling...
Proceedings Article
Development and Application of Quantum Communication Technology from Economic Perspective
Rundian Zhang
From the earliest research and study of quantum communication to application and achievement. In recent years, with the continuous development of quantum communication, quantum secure direct communication became an important branch of quantum communication. Quantum secure direct communication uses distinct...
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Coronateaching in a Palestinian University: Changes, Challenges, and New Conceptions
Hidayat Abu Elhawa
This longitudinal qualitative case study comprised an investigation of the experiences, perceptions, and beliefs of five ELT teachers at a Palestinian University where government-mandated COVID-19 emergency closure forced an institution-wide implementation of emergency remote teaching. It is among the...
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The Existence of Marriage Agreement and the Status of Illegitimate Children Among Moslem Community
Sumriyah, Dewi Muti’ah
Marriage agreement is one of the preparations in building a household before marriage. This kind of agreement usually arranges everything about marital property, either jointly acquired property or personally owned by one of the spouses. By doing marriage agreement, they can get legal certainty to use...
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Improving Students’ Motivation and English Language Skills via NEO Learning Management System
Liann Camille Perez, Anita Triastuti
This paper aims to answer the questions of whether NEO learning management system passes the international quality standards for management systems through comparing it with Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Standards. Moreover, whether if it is capable of enhancing students’ motivation and English...
Proceedings Article
Phenomenon of Christian Art Through the Prism of Ancient Russian Art
Marina Moiseenko
The article deals with the specifics of the Christian art, which is based on the spiritual and moral values, through the prism of the features of the ancient art, the object of the national pride of the modern Russia. The author addresses the question of differences of the Christian art in general from...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Realization of Serial Communication Between Kingview 6.55 and MCU Based on Modbus-RTU Protocol
Haolin Peng, Yong Zheng, Guanda Lu, Long Luo
This paper introduces Modbus-RTU Communication Protocol. Then, based on the analysis of the principle of communication and combining with an instance, the paper gives out a specific method to realize the serial port communication between computer and MCU C8051F020 in Kingview 6.55.
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Research on safety management system of university laboratory
Wenbi Zhu, Haixue Liu, Tao Jin, Liang Huang, Jia Liu, Xi Sun
Laboratory is an important part in colleges and universities teaching and scientific research. It`s necessary to strengthen management to smooth the experimental teaching activities, and ensure the safety of teachers and students. This article discussed the respects of laboratory safety management responsibility...
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Quality Assurance Matrix as the advanced generation of quality control
Belu Nadia, Misztal Agnieszka, Ionescu Laurentiu Mihai
Presently, in the automotive industry, continuous improvement of product and process quality is always challenging and creative task. Many quality techniques were adopted in this field and advantages were also gained. The intention of this paper is to present the possibilities that offers the use of...
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Discussion on Clothing Marketing Mode in Network Environment
Jinling Guo
With the arrival of information age, networks are playing an important role in people's lives. As the relation between network and economy is growing closer and closer, marketing is facing a new era called internet marketing. Clothing internet marketing as an important part of internet marketing, is...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on the Power Line Three-stage Over-current Protection Simulation
Yujie Yang, Liancheng Zhu, Fuyun Li, Zhitao Wu, Changyou Cai
Power line over-current relay protection is an important part of power system, it is an important technical measure to assure the safety and reliable operation of electric power system and electric power line. In this paper, on the basis of the features of the relay protection in the power line, thorough...
Proceedings Article
An Efficient Engine for Orthogonal SE
Gongtao Wang, Karimi Ali, Jianming Xu
Orthogonal transformation has been used for State Estimation, since it is hard to solve by normal WLS method when weights of some measurements differ much from others. Though the numerical stability of orthogonal transformation has been generally accepted, it is reported that the efficiency might be...
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Challenges to performance testing of the cloud application developing
Yue Zhou, Wenchuang Qin, Nafei Zhu
When we perform a Cloud Application performance testing, traditional performance testing tool and method is limited by many characteristics which are different between Cloud Computing and traditional application. This article descripts the limitation and weak point of traditional tool and method for...
Proceedings Article
The Sport Quality Indicator Weight Research of Taekwondo Athletes Based On Principal Component Analysis
Zhiming Qin, Yuhong Cui, Huahei Jiang
This paper filters out the sport quality evaluation indicators of taekwondo athletes’ special physical stamina through the questionnaire and mathematical statistics method and finally determines the specific evaluation indicator to measure Taekwondo special physical stamina through the process of mathematical...
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Research on Features of Return in Chinese Stock Market Based on GARCH Model
Xinyi Dang, Qiang Zhang
The main purpose of the research is to test some features in Chinese market with GARCH family. GARCH can capture volatility clustering in stock market. GARCH-M is applied here to verify that stocks with high risk tend to pay high return. TGARCH and EGARCH illustrate the existence of asymmetries. These...
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Study on new gray transformation of infrared image based on visual property
Dai Shaosheng, Li Xingfu, Du Zhihui, Zhang Bin, Huang Xinlin
Since the infrared image has disadvantages such as narrow gray distribution, low contrast and blurred vision effects, a new method of gray transformation of infrared image based on human visual property is proposed. The method aims to transform the gray distribution of infrared object to the sensitive...
Proceedings Article
Finite Element Analysis of Tsunami Propagation
Hashentuya, Masaji Watanabe, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
A tsunami generated in the North Pacific is simulated numerically. A system of partial differential equations derived from equations of a fluid dynamics were solved numerically by a finite element method. Depth data originally given in terms of longitude and latitude are transformed to projected coordinates...
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An Autonomous Aesthetics-driven Photographing Instructor with Personality Prediction
Chin-Shyurng Fahn, Meng-Luen Wu
In this paper, an autonomous aesthetics-driven photographing instructor system is proposed, which gives instructions to help camera users to take good images. There are two kinds of instructions: image composition and personality feature enhancement. As for composition, a salient region is used to match...
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Research on E&P Efficiency Metrics to support SKMIGAS Mission utilizing CRISP-DM Methodology
Bobby Suryajaya, Frieda Putri Aryani, Uma Bala Devarakonda, Alva Erwin
SKK Migas has mission to supervise and control activities of upstream Oil & Gas. It is believed that by knowing efficiency level of each PSC Contractor, improvement programs can be more effective and directly hit the objective. This paper discusses research proposal on efficiency metrics using data mining...
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Research on Force-directed Algorithm Optimization Methods
Lingling Wang, Xianshui Wang, Qiuquan Wang, Mei Xu
In view of the fundamental Forces-directed iteration the shortcoming of the slow speed, In this paper, using the method of Hyper node and Multilayer method to improve the algorithm and applied to the large-scale graphics drawing automatically, Hyper node Method is the distance of the vertex as a Hyper...
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The Education Status and Countermeasures Study of the Culture Quality Education in Higher Vocational Colleges
Zhaogang Xie, Junqing Hui
It is widely accepted that the higher vocational colleges should carry out the cultural quality education. How to improve the students’ cultural quality, which helps the students become fully developed interdisciplinary talents, is becoming an important subject concerning the education reform in higher...
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Spiral QAM Modulated CO-OFDM System with Increased Tolerance toward Laser Phase Noise
Li Chong, Chen Lin
To mitigate the phase noise, we propose Spiral QAM in CO-OFDM. Simulation results, based on 40-GS/s CO-OFDM systems, show that 16 Spiral QAM can increase the phase noise tolerance, as compared to square 16 QAM.
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Thoughts on the Teaching Mode Reform of Prepress Processing Principle and Technology
Bo Gao
The prepress processing principle and technology is the core course of printing engineering. In recent years, the objects of the prepress processing get more fields, and it turns from the traditional book binding to a broader field of packaging development, also the processing quality requirements gets...
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The research on Chinese college curriculum reform based on post-modern curriculum theories
Taifu Lv
With the development of economy and society, the Chinese university education becomes increasingly popular and also faces many difficulties in which the curriculum reform is the core for modern university reform. The post-modern curriculum theories by Dole affect the university curriculum reform greatly....
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A Comparative Research in Medical Image Visual Searching of Novice, Proficient and Expert Radiologists: Evidence from Eye Movement
Meixiang Chen, Shaoyin Duan, Xuejun Bai
This article is to discuss the radiologist' fixation characteristics and processing strategies in medical image searching, and to find out the expert advantages and characteristics, in order to provide theoretical basis for improving the ability of novice and proficient radiologist. SMI250 eye tracker...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on High Temperature Stress- Strain Behavior of Power Transmission and Transformation Copper Conductor by Gleeble Thermal Simulation
Haoyang Du, Dongyun Shi, Shuangnan Zhang, Xin Wang, Linghui Zhuang, Shu Tian
Gleeble thermal-mechanical simulation can accurately control the parameters such as thermal, force and displacement of certain working conditions, which has been widely applied in the HAZ simulation and other metallurgy behaviors. In this paper, Gleeble thermal simulation technique has been used to study...
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Research on the Application of MOOC in University
Yong Luo, Jianping Li, Zheng Xie, Guochang Zhou
MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) is a large-scale online course platform. The global learners are able to learn college courses in it. At the same time, the universities are trying to apply it to make a great significance for the level of university education. This paper researches on the application...