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Due to significant impact of energy consumption of air conditioning system on driving range of electric vehicles, study on air conditioning system of electric vehicles is of great importance. However, the research existing is not comprehensive enough, which is limited to the performance and experimental...

Parenting goals can be seen as representatives of value in a society, since family are one of the important unit of socialization for children. What is perceived as important or unimportant to a society will be socialized in the family. Since value, belief and culture can differ from society to society,...

This ethnographic study attempts to explore andÿidentifyÿthe elements or cultural phenomena that can be integrated in physics learning and introduce students to the cultural values of daily life thatÿare alignedÿwith physics concepts. Culture based approach of contextual learning activities allows students...

In this paper, we present a behavior approach to detect Instant Messaging (IM) worm attacks. We extract characteristics of IM worm behaviors by analyzing the mechanism of IM worm propagation and define the corresponding characteristic functions the values of which can distinguish IM worm behaviors from...

Traditional methods, when applied to change detection in remote sensing images of damage areas with complex terrain, often result in inaccuracy. And it is difficult to select an appropriate threshold, which however can be solved by support vector machines (SVM) method. Conventionally spectral information...

In this paper a weaker kind of transitive property for interval-valued fuzzy relations (IVFRs) is introduced. It is called ’only comparable’ T-transitivity because it relaxes the need that all intervals must be comparable, by just the need of having T-transitive cycles only for comparable intervals....

The article dwells upon the aims of art criticism in the mental life of society.

The problems caused by the unbalanced and fragmented development has become more and more obvious. In order to help these government and organizations to make a better decision to give support to the country’s most in need, we need to develop a model to assess the sustainability of a country. On the...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the effects of gefitinib as a new stent coating material on proliferation of smooth muscle cells and the expression and phosphorylation of EGFR/Akt protein. Rat smooth muscle cells were cultured in medium with gefitinib (10-2 mol/L-10 mol/L) for 24h-72h....

In order to improve the performance of the CK1440 type and TND360 type numerically-controlled machine tools, based on the CK1440 type numerically-controlled machine tool, the CK1440A type numerically-controlled machine tool was designed. In order to extend the range of the application of the CK1440A...

In order to improve the dispersive and lipophilic properties of Nano-Al2O3 in composite coatings, surface modification of Nano-Al2O3 by titanate coupling agent TC-114 was researched. The modification effect on Nano-Al2O3 was measured with the activation index and the lipophilic degree. The influences...

The article proves the necessity of using the methods of scenario modeling of the development of agricultural production in the design of an effective development strategy of rural territory in the region. It is shown that it is necessary to use a scenario approach that allows to substantiate alternative...

Actuality of the article is determined by the necessity to describe language norm of Venezuelan national variant on the background of Pyrenean one. Understanding of norm, in its turn, is closely connected with one of the most topical issues of modern Spanish American studies, i.e. revealing of linguoculturological...

This study aimed at analyzing the quality of learning process affected by the teachers’ pedagogic competence level and the school’s learning facilities. The method used was survey, with questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The results showed that the teachers’ pedagogic competence and...

As one of daily management practices, promotion is an important tool that motivates employees in a company, and the fairness promotion justice of employees perceived significantly influences their organizational behavior. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of promotion justice on employees’...

A review of modern software systems which solve different medical problems shows that there is a need for unified software-information environment which could provide access: for physicians to intelligent systems of decision support; for experts to knowledge bases and databases for their refinement and...

VS Naipaul, the Nobel Prize Winner on Literature, in 2009, appears to present his Caribbean’s voice. However, his status also stimulates a conflict with his ancestry people, especially about the concept of postcolonial home. This phenomenon seems applicable to almost all VS Naipaul’s works, since those...

This research aims to provide the answer about how the dynamics of the Presidential Threshold pros cons in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to examine more deeply the dynamics of Presidential Threshold ratification in Indonesia. The research method used in this research is library research method....

Based on the theory of constructivism and the process theory of composition, the paper discusses a teaching model of Real-Time and Multi-member Interaction (RTMI) based on Pigai system and an empirical study on the new model was conducted in a vocational college in Southern China. A year’s study shows...

The article touches upon the issue of the concepts of ethnos and nation in theoretical studies. An analysis of available sources has shown that there is no uniform understanding of such categories as ethnos and nation in the academic community, some researchers differentiate them, and others identify...

Based on the observations that researchers do on students of class VIII SMP Negeri 1 Salo when they practice basketball. The problem is that not all students are eager to follow the lesson and also not all students master the basic technique of basketball. The purpose of this study is to determine the...

With the global new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation ready, scientific and technological innovation in response to the common challenges of mankind, to achieve sustainable development plays an increasingly impotent role. High-tech industry is a highly concentrated technology...

Few studies have identified the factors of principal leadership that affects teacher self-efficacy. But for Indonesia context, through the Ministry of Education and Culture’s (MoEC) programs, principals could exercise their leadership to improve teacher self-efficacy was not clearly stated in previous...

The world has seen dramatic changes in the business environment recently. The level of competition between each other is also getting tighter. This competition leads to two factors, which are Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). One of the key components...

This paper is dedicated to analysis of the association area of "Сабр" [Sabr] (patience) in Tajik linguistic consciousness as exemplified in the results of a survey of students. A free association experiment was conducted in the Tajik National University with the aim of identifying the characteristic...

This study investigates the readiness of companies in Indonesia in conducting sustainability reporting. Variables used in this study are economic performance disclosure, environmental performance and social performance as well as variable of intellectual capital. Economic performance disclosure, environmental...

Commercial advertisements aim at raising consumers’ purchasing desire and promoting the sales of products. It is believed that commercial advertisement translation can affect the sales of foreign products and profits of foreign enterprises. Advertisements are very crucial when a company is going to enter...

Based on the text typology theory, this paper takes the English version of The Facts and China’s Position on China-US Trade Friction as an example to analyze the translation strategies of the government white paper to give some inspirations to the translation of government’s external communication material.

This paper titled “A comparative discourse on the status of women in the Quran and Manusmriti: Empowerment of women through education in the modern times in India”, aims at analysing the status of women portrayed in Hinduism and Islam based on Manusmriti and the Quran. No religion in their core, teaches...

With fierce competition, the proportion of executive of listed companies change is rising recently, which has attracted the attention of many scholars. According to researches of corporate governance, corporate performance is a significant indicator to evaluate the operation and management. The thesis...

The paper introduces the design of the Auto-path-tracking Car. The software and hardware design method which realizes the autonomous tracing using the infrared reflective photoelectric sensors as the path recognition module is researched. The system employs Freescale HCS series 16 bit single-chip microcomputer...

Nowadays, Hadoop distributed file system as a distributed storage system, has a good effect on the storage of large files. However, there is a natural flaw in the storage of small files: storing a large number of small files will produce excessive metadata, resulting in namenode memory bottlenecks; frequent...

The objective of this study is to evaluate the surface roughness of a nanofiller composite resin after immersion in black tea for 1, 2, 3, and 4 h. A total of 24 disk-shaped samples were fabricated from a nanofiller composite resin (Filtek Z350XT, 3M ESPE, USA) and divided into the following four test...

This paper is exploratory in nature, and has the objective of examining the determinants of educational effectiveness as a pathway to identifying how countries should allocate public spending on education. The paper is based on a review of extant literature and analysis of statistics on education attainment,...

There are many kinds of beauty in Chinese traditional landscape painting. The lonely and quiet beauty is a feature in the ancient literati landscape painting. "Look for the heart tranquility and achieve lasting success by leading a quiet life," the core of the quiet beauty formed in these kinds of art...

The existence of agreements throughout the world to end all forms of discrimination and to achieve gender equity encourages the implementation of gender responsive planning and budgeting (GRPB). This study aims to provide an overview of the GRPB implementation in the Ministry of Finance (MOF), Indonesia....

The batting point of badminton plays a very important role in the whole badminton match. At the same time, the accuracy of the batting point is also the core content of the badminton course in colleges and universities. Based on the single closed loop badminton serve control method, the batting point...

Based on the basic principle of the direct torque control of three phase asynchronous motor, this paper analyzes its mathematical model by using the method of space vector, and establishes the basic structure of the direct torque control of asynchronous motor. The direct torque control system is realized...

This paper states the common stealing electricity types, it is remote control stealing electricity, resistance is strung into watt-hour meter, there is space of stealing electricity, obvious short current coil, interference of high power electric signal and using electricity bypass the metering device...

We study the problems of the main types of risks that may be faced by the Russian economy in the transition to the digital format, the likely activities that will help to smooth the negative responses of the risks of the digital economy. State was advised accurately to anticipate and react to rapidly...

This study covers various types; Self-education, Education by the environment, and Education by others. The method of Islamic education views the teacher as a center of teaching and learning that has several functions. Firstly, Mu'allim focused on a teacher as a conveyor of knowledge. Mu'addib means...

The aim of this study was to investigate the interplay between meta-cognitive strategies and reading speed in Chinese EFL learners. This paper employed the method of empirical research, and randomly selected 87 Chinese students from a university in Jilin province as the survey objects. 87 Chinese EFL...

Curriculum development is a continues process in improving and adjusting the quality and goals of studying and teaching. One challenging process is, however, to prepare a transformed curriculum for different students. This study aims at illustrating curriculum development process of general religious...

Personal selling has long been recognized as the oldest and perhaps the most crucial component of the promotion mix. Personal selling can be defined as an oral presentation in a conversation with one or more potential buyer to ensure sales. Persuading customers to buy goods or services personally as...

Based on the "gentleman"(jun zi) in the Analects of Confucius "gentleman personality" identity and citizenship status discrimination as object identity of citizen education as the foundation, connotation will be "no" and the integration of value orientation of contemporary Chinese citizens as civil education...

With the separation of the management of the hajj funds of the Ministry of Religion to the BPKH, it still leaves some differences in view, related to the amount of the initial deposit charged by Jemaah who are members of the waiting list with a vulnerable period of 5 - 25 years. In addition, there is...

Business processes Management (BPM) is one that supports an organization having a competitive advantage. Effectively managing the business processes is more workable than developing a new information system. This research explored the application of Goals Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) on BPM...

Age-specific changes define the difference in thresholds of sensitivity to the effect of poison and drug substances. The disclosure of features of mechanisms forming the basis of an observed phenomenon will allow increasing the efficiency of health risks management under the negative influence of chemical...

The aim of this research was to evaluate two kinds of SAQ training for elementary school children on physical fitness and cognitive function. One hundred and twenty children were allocated equally to three groups: a control group (C), the SAQ of hand (SAQ-H), and the SAQ of leg (SAQ-L) groups. All participants...

In the current study of two-dimensional aerostatic motion platform, there are problems such as poor uniaxial motion straightness, poor two axis verticality accuracy and small bearing capacity. In this study, a two-dimensional aerostatic motion platform with precision box plate as its structural reference...