Search all articles

+ Advanced search
Search articles within:
185344 articles

Professional Preparation Environment of Translator Training of China

Li Gao, Hai-Tang Ren, Xin Zhang, Na Xu
MTI (Master of Translation and Interpreting) program of China started in 2007 to prepare more professional translators and interpreters. The number of MTI institutions has increased rapidly in recent years. This makes it a must to examine the status quo of the programs. The present study borrowed the...
Proceedings Article

Preparation and Photocatalytic Activities of Fe/BiVO4 by Low-Temperature Solid State Method

Jingling Hu, Haifeng Chen
Fe/BiVO4 photocatalyst was synthesized via a low-temperature solid state method by using the Bi(NO3)3•5H2O, NH4VO3 and Fe(NO3)3•9H2O as starting materials. And X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and Ultraviolet-visible diffuse reflectance spectra...

Development of Physics Learning Device Based on Modified Free Inquiry as a Supporting Curriculum 2013 at Senior High School

Ms. Nurhayati, Mutahharah Hasyim, A. Yani
The research aims to obtain related information: (1) the characteristics of teaching aids of physics learning based Modified Free Inquiry (MFI); (2) feasibility of teaching aids of physics learning based MFI; and (3) the level of achievement activities physics of learning-based MFI. This research is...

Flock Guiding of Hybrid Agents via Root Block

Yunzhong Song, Ziyi Fu, Fuzhong Wang
Pages: 245 - 248
The convergent equilibrium of flocking agents is vital importance for their collective behavior, where flock guiding of hybrid agents, which are composed by both first and second order agents, can only be boiled down to the root node agents, is touched upon here. Both the theoretical analysis and the...

Depression, quality of life and primary care: A cross-sectional study

Panos Andriopoulos, Maria Lotti-Lykousa, Evelina Pappa, Angelos A. Papadopoulos, Dimitris Niakas
Pages: 245 - 252
Objective: To estimate the presence of depression and impairment of quality of life in primary care and identify correlations with demographics and chronic diseases. Materials and methods: 500 people (220 men) that visited the Gytheio Health Center, Greece, participated in the study answering a study...
Short Communication

Objective cardiac markers and cerebrovascular lesions in Indian seniors

Stephanie H. Charles, Amanda C. Tow, Joe Verghese
Pages: 245 - 247
Cardiovascular risk factors are implicated in cerebrovascular disease, resulting in cognitive impairment. This study investigated the relationship between objective cardiac markers and cerebral changes in older Indian adults with and without dementia. Dementia patients with major electrocardiographic...

Empirical Research on the Effectiveness of Enterprise Performance Evaluation from EVA Perspective ——A Case Study of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Liu Fenfang
The EVA evaluation system has been widely used abroad as an efficient approach for evaluating the enterprise performance. It can provide more concise and precise performance evaluation criteria, enabling managers to make more precise decisions, thus EVA has received more and more attention. This paper...

Dispute Settlements of Oil Spills in the Sea Towards Sea Environment Pollution

Elly Kristiani Purwendah, Dewa Gede Sudika Mangku, Aniek Periani
Environmental pollution often occurs not only in parts of the environment that are on land, but environmental pollution often also occurs in the sea. The sea is a part of the environment that has enormous benefits and roles for human life. In history, the sea has proven to have various functions, including...

Clinical Nursing of Indwelling Catheter for Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Complicated with Acute Urinary Retention

Fanping Meng, Lina Zhou, Yuanyuan Zhao, Min Zhang
Objective To study the clinical nursing of indwelling catheter for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia complicated with acute urinary retention. Methods 40 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia complicated with acute urinary retention who were admitted to our hospital from February 2017 to...

Senior High School Teachers’ Responses Towards the Use of PowerPoint in Developing Teaching Materials in Indonesian Context

Dini Kurnia Irmawati, Novita Rosyida, Tri Mega Asri, Dian Novita Dewi, Debri Haryndia Putri
This study aims to investigate senior high school teachers’ responses towards the use of PowerPoint in preparing teaching materials in their classroom context. This study involved 40 participants coming from several senior high schools in Malang Regency. The data were collected by using questionnaire...

Effectiveness of the Application of Mind Maps in Learning Illustration in Elementary Schools

Girindraswari Bambang, Bambang Prihadi, Nawung Asmoro Girindraswari, Trie Hartiti Retnowati, Wrin Probo Tyas
One of the problems in giving drawing lesson to children is how to help them develop ideas, because each child drawing is a personal expression. Teachers, therefore, should help him generate ideas for himself. The purpose of this research is to examine the effectiveness of mind mapping as a method included...

The Emotional Maturity of Jesse Aaron in Bridge to Therabithia by Katherine Paterson

Lu’luin Nihaayah, Ianatul Khoiriyah, Adam Anshori
The existence of children literature cannot be separated with character education. One way to promote children’s character is by using literature. Bridge to Terabithia is an appropriate children literature that may provide good character education. This study is an attempt to discuss the personality...

Diversity of Cultural Elements at The Reliefs of Pura Desa Lan Puseh in Sudaji Village, Northern Bali

I Dewa Putra, Serena Abdullah
Northern Bali as a coastal region is the path of global trade traffic from the beginning of the Christian Calendar so that the relations of Balinese people with the outside world are so intense and have an impact on the socio-cultural changes of the society, especially the of ornament art. Ornaments...

Business English Majors’ Employment of Reading Strategies in Terms of Reading Anxiety

Jun Chen, Channarong Intaraprasert
This study was to investigate the reading strategies employed by the Business English majors in relation to their levels of reading anxiety. The participants were 926 Business English majors from 6 universities in southwest China. The Business English reading strategy questionnaire, the reading anxiety...

The Organizational Commitment of Teachers at SMP Negeri in Sawan District, Buleleng Regency, Bali Province

Anak Agung, Gede Agung, Putu Yulia Angga Dewi, Kadek Rihendra Dantes
This study aimed at finding out the contribution of the school management values-based local wisdom (Tri Hita Karana), servant leadership, spiritual quotient, job satisfaction to teacher organizational commitment. This ex-post facto study used path analysis. The population consisted of 163 persons and...

The Enlightenment of the Theory of Human's All-round Development to College Students' Innovation

Fang Deng
Contemporary college students are the new force for mass entrepreneurship and innovation. Do they have a strong sense of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial quality? The comprehensive implementation of the five development concepts of “innovation, coordination, green, openness, and...

Teacher Training for Applicating Values and Increasing Inclusive Attitudes in Digital Age

Anna Rozana Syamsoul Rizal, Stephani Raihana Hamdan, Dewi Sartika, Temi Damayanti
The change in curriculum of elementary education in 2013 were forcing teachers develop and strengthening character education in students. Other than shift in curriculum, in Bandung every school must accept students with any condition. This matter caused regular school to have inclusive system. Generally,...

Study on the Development of Chinese Piano Music Culture

Bo Tu
After a hundred years of development, Chinese piano music culture has been organically combined with Chinese native music culture, which has reached a considerable size. Chinese piano education has also cultivated numerous pianists who are active on the world stage. Predicting the future development...

Cyberpragmatic Analysis of Indonesian Opposition Politicians’ Tweets

Vidi Sukmayadi, Karim Suryadi, M. Fasha Rouf
The study attempts to describe how opposition politicians construct their transmission of meaning by utilizing cyber-based communication features, particularly in a social media platform. A corpus of 30 Twitter postings (tweets) is qualitatively analyzed within a cyber-pragmatic framework. In analyzing...
Proceedings Article

Design of Intelligent Inspection Car based on STM32

Zhi Li
in the field of security monitoring of warehouse and workshop in family life and large enterprises, the traditional custody and maintenance mode is obviously out of line with the development of The Times, which not only consumes manpower and material resources, but also increases the security risk. Therefore,...
Proceedings Article

Finite Element Formulation for Modelling a Frictional Sliding Cable Element

Qing-bin Zhang, Guo-bin Zhang, Zhi-wei Feng, Qing-quan Chen
A novel sliding cable element that takes friction into account is presented to solve the analysis problem, such as the slider reefing parachute systems, the suspended cable systems and the space net systems. According to the force analysis of the slider point, a formulation is obtained, which aims to...

The Historical Experience and Current Challenges of the Development of Urban Population in Megacities——Based on Shanghai after being opened in mid-19th century

Fangzheng Zhou
Taking Shanghai as an example since its opening-up in the mid-19th century, and comparing the solutions to similar issues carried out by megacities in other parts of the world, this paper makes a systematic and comprehensive analysis on the historical experience and current challenges of the population...

Implementation of Awig-Awig Towards Protected Forest Management Based on Local Wisdom in Selat Pandan Banten Village, Buleleng Regency

Ratna Artha Windari
The purpose of this study was to know the implementation of Awig-awig as a rule of law towards protected forest management based on local wisdom in Selat Pandan Banten Village, Buleleng Regency. The method applied in this study was descriptive qualitative method, using data from villagers who live around...

Research on Green Development of County Agriculture from Perspective of Ecological Remediation based on the Analysis of Forestry in Jinzhai County, Lu'an City

Yalin Hu, Mei Zhou, Ming Zhong
At present, green development has become the essential way to realize ecological remediation in China. Based on the analysis of forestry in Jinzhai county, Lu 'an city, this paper puts forward relevant countermeasures for county agriculture to implement the concept of green development, accelerate green...
Proceedings Article

Algorithm for the Formation Production Rules from Cognitive Models

Dmitrii Pesterev
The article is devoted to the issue of using cognitive modeling to study energy security problems. Such concepts as cognitive modeling, cognitive model, cognitive map are introduced. The task of automating the analysis of a cognitive map with the use of technology of production expert system. To automate...

Legal Risk and Regulation of Peer to Peer Lending Industry in China

Xiangyu Chen
The peer to peer lending has developed rapidly with its advantages of convenience, high efficiency and low transaction costs since its rise in China in 2007. However, many lending platforms have closed down actively, have difficulty in withdrawing deposit, and escape without connection due to the imperfection...

Modeling of Functional Dependence Emergent Qualities of Economic Systems

Larysa Lazebnyk, Nataliya Nykytchenko, Viktoriya Hurochkina, Liudmyla Kravchenko
Multilateral issues of ensuring prosperity country's economic system are the achievement of efficiency and success industrial enterprises in field behavioral aspect's entrepreneurship in emerging economy. Such a direction of research, which is leaked from experimental economy, places emphasis on strategic...
Proceedings Article

Casting Aluminum Fatigue Assessment Correction Method Based on Crack Propagation Prediction

Guodong Li, Xingyu Wang, Jing Zeng
The fatigue requirement of casting aluminum alloy is varied for different industry, however, it is hard to avoid porosity, shrinkage, or slag during the casting process, leading to uneven quality of casting. the fatigue strength will be influenced by casting porosity, DAS length or stress level. This...
Proceedings Article

Recommended Algorithm of Latent Factor Model Fused with User Clustering

Junwei Ge, Chun Yang, Yiqiu Fang
To solve the problems of partial implicit feature information loss and long-time model training caused by matrix factorization on recommended algorithm of latent factor model (LFM), a recommended algorithm of user clustering fused with latent factor model is put forward. Firstly, the users’ preference...
Proceedings Article

Facial Profile Analysis by Photometry on W. R. Supratman 1 & 2 Chinese High School Students in Medan

Wilson Hartanto, Hilda Fitria Lubis
Analysis of the facial profile is required for diagnosis and treatment planning in orthodontics. The Mongoloid Chinese race tends to have a flat facial profile and a more prominent zygomatic arch. The aim of this study was to identify the facial profile of Chinese high school students at W.R. Supratman...

Bringing Local Knowledge Into Program Implementation Process (Case Study Of PIJAR Program)

Fatin Nuha Astini, Anang Dwi Santoso, Oscar Radyan Danar
Currently, local knowledge is an important consideration for practitioners and public policy academics. Some parties argued that the failure of program implementation was caused by the fact that policy did not pay attention to the reality of society and tended to make the community as a passive target...

Reciprocal Teaching with Buddy to Improve Metacognitive Strategies of a High School Student with Reading Comprehension Difficulties

Rizki Mustika, Lucia R. M. Royanto
Reading is a complicated activity that involves cognitive and metacognitive strategies. To understand a text, metacognitive strategies can be used. Metacognitive strategies can help individuals to regulate their knowledge, manipulate information, and reflect understanding, in order to capture the meaning...

Research on the Transformation and Upgrading Development Mode of SMEs in Jilin Province under New Normal

Huili Li
With economic development entering “new normal”, the management and operation costs of SMEs in Jilin Province are constantly increasing. The lack of funds and weak product development capabilities have seriously hinder the improvement of production efficiency and product competitiveness, and caused vicious...
Proceedings Article

Research on the Energy Saving and Emission Reduction Path of Transporting Ships

Hongbin Wei
As an important means of water transportation, ships bear domestic and international trade and transportation, and consume a large amount of fuel every year. It is imperative to improve ship energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. Describes the international situation of ship energy save and...

Study on Digital Assembly System of Technology and Management for Prefabricated Concrete Buildings

Ning XU, Guang-Bin WANG
Based on the comparative analysis of digital assembly between high-end machinery manufacture and construction industry, a system framework of digital assembly of technology and management for prefabricated concrete (PC) buildings was established, and an implementation process of digital assembly of technology...

Countermeasures Research on "Double-qualified Teachers" Team Construction for Higher Vocational Colleges

Qinghua Yu, Lin Tian
The construction of "Double-qualified teachers" is an important part of the reform of higher vocational education. The construction of "Double-qualified teachers" lags behind the development of higher vocational education and becomes a "bottleneck" that restricts the quality of vocational education....
Proceedings Article

Research on Basic Theory of Aircraft Carrier Formation

Changpeng Pan, Liang Ma
This paper discusses three basic theoretical problems of carrier formation, combat command and operation. It is believed that we should focus on the anti-submarine, air defense and early warning capabilities of the formation of our team, and gradually determine the configuration of each ship in the formation...
Proceedings Article

Optimal Sensitivity Control of Piezoelectric Smart Truss Based on POS Algorithm

Xiangjie Chen
The optimal sizing design of truss structures is studied using the recently proposed particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSOA), in which the social behavior of birds is mimicked. Individual birds in a flock exchange information about their position, velocity and fitness, and the behavior of the flock...

Research on the Effect of Chorus Teaching and Activity on Students' Overall Cultivation

Han Mei
Choral singing is a compulsory course and an important art practice activity in the music curriculum of primary and middle schools. In the process of teaching and practice, chorus activities play an important role in cultivating students' collective consciousness, breaking through individual limited...

A Study on the Construction of Foreign Language Proficiency Assessment System in Higher Vocational Colleges

Hongxia Zhao
As soon as the concept of National Foreign Language Proficiency Assessment System is put forward, it has brought about a new direction of reform for all levels of foreign language teaching in China. Based on this concept and China’s Standards of English Language Abilities implemented on June 1, 2018,...
Proceedings Article

The Effect of Exercise Therapy on the Quality of Life of Pregnant Women with Dorsopathies

Y.A. Vaganova, G.A. Suslova, S.N. Gaidukov, S.A Salekhov, K.M. Kerimaly
70 pregnant patients were examined with a diagnosis of dorsopathy, which were divided into 2 groups: group 1 performed the course of therapeutic gymnastics procedures (n = 35), group 2 was control (n = 35). If dorsopathy was diagnosed before pregnancy, patients gave Rg-, CT- or MRI-conclusion to their...

Strategies of Mono-, Bi- and Multiculturalism in Textbooks of Russian as a Foreign Language

Svetlana Eremina, Еlena Dzyuba
The article deals with presentation strategies for the target language country image, with foreign textbooks of Russian as material for analysis. Methods used in cognitive linguistics and cultural linguistics (concept and context analysis) have been used to reveal mono-, bi- and multiculturalism strategies...
Proceedings Article

Effect Ratio of Milkfish Payus with Tapioca Flour and Proportion of Water to Organoleptic, Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Fish Crackers

Issa Utami, Iwan Santosa, Rulli Annisa, Endah Retnaningsih, Ika Anna
SMEs producing fish crackers in Socah, Bangkalan do not have a composition standard for Milkfish Payus and the water proportion. Thus product quality cannot be maintained. Oftentimes, the fish crackers have darker color and harder texture. This research aims to determine the effect of ratio of Milkfish...
Proceedings Article

Prerequisites for the effective implementation of the system of professional applied physical training in military training centers at federal state institutions of higher education

Rashit Shaikhetdinov, Evgeniy Cherepov
The paper discusses the conditions for the effective implementation of the professional applied physical training (PAPP) system at the university by students who have chosen to study at a military training center (MTC). The authors showed that the current "Physical Education and Sports" program does...

The Application of Chinese Folklore Intangible Cultural Heritage Elements in Contemporary Commercial Illustration Design

Haihan Zhou
In the past decade, China has carried out extensive protection and publicity on intangible cultural heritage, making it a unique and highly regarded cultural symbol. Commercial illustration design is a very important part of the current design. Under the market demand, all kinds of publicity design,...
Proceedings Article

Isolation and Selection of Propionic Acid Bacteria Promising for Biotechnological Production

Oksana Khaeva, Boris Tsugkiev, Larisa Ikoeva
Bacteria of the genus Propionibacteruim are the microorganisms with great biotechnological potential. The article deals with studies of biological properties of new propionic acid bacteria strains isolated from raw milk in different regions of Republic of North Ossetia-Alania. According to morphological...

Adaptation of the foreign students on the Russian labor market (on the example of Moscow)

Elena Pismennaya, Sergey Ryazantsev, Tamara Rostovskaya, Igor Bogdanov, Natalia Belgarokova, Kirill Filimonov
The subject of the research is the peculiarities of adaptation of educational migrants in the labor market of the city of Moscow. The main method of the author's sociological research “Your Life and Work in Moscow” is a formalized interview of foreign students studying at the Financial University under...

Comparative Study on Characteristics and Models of Regional Innovation Resource Allocation

Chao Zeng, Yi Zhou, Yunqin Zou
Under the background of the deep adjustment of the world economy and the new normal of the domestic economy, under the new proposition of supply-side structural reform, it is particularly important to improve China's innovative resource allocation model. Innovative resources, like other general resources,...

Study on the Influencing Factors of Urban Residents' Income in China

Guoran Zhang
With the rapid development of China's economy, influencing factors of residents’ income have become one of the research hotspots. This paper selects several factors that affect residents’ income and uses the income data of urban and rural residents in China to conduct empirical analysis. It is found...

Development of Classroom Teaching Management System Based on WeChat Public Platform

Jingxian Xu, Ni Lin, Junhao Zheng
The rapid development of "Internet +" information technology, such as WeChat, has promoted innovation and reform in the field of education, providing abundant resources and greater development platform for micro-lesson and mobile learning. Therefore, introducing Wechat into university classroom as an...