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Equipment for Diluting Air Pollution
Alex Nemes, Helga Kovács, Arpad B. Palotas
The quality of air we breathe determines our general health and comfort. Even though this fact is well known, people get used to the effects of the urbanized lifestyle with all its toxic implications. Air pollution includes all contaminants found in the atmosphere, which comes from – amongst others –...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Heat Setting of Silk/Poly(Lactic Acid) Blend Fabric
Kaiqiang Liu, Jinping Guan, Rencheng Tang
Silk/poly(lactic acid) (PLA) blend fabric as a new textile material must be subjected to heat setting treatment. Heat setting can increase the dimensional stability of the fabric, remove the wrinkle marks of the fabric formed in earlier processing, and fix the fabric width, but it also can cause the...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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A New Algorithm of Automatic Image Segmentation Based on PCNN
Fan Bin-wen, Wu Wei
Pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) has a difficult problem to determine the parameters, mainly based on artificial experience. We propose an automatic image segmentation method based on PCNN, which is combining with dynamic threshold and global threshold, reducing manual intervention, realizes the adaptive...
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Study on the Cultivation of English Majors' Ability of Innovation and Entrepreneurship under the School-enterprise Cooperation Model
Linlin Yang
English major students must adapt to social development and market demand. They should deal with the difficult situation of employment, change employment awareness, and cultivate innovation and entrepreneurship. This article discusses and studies the combination of school-enterprise cooperation and teaching...
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Agricultural Carbon Sink and Agricultural Economic Development Investment: System Coupling Coordination Degree and Entropy Method Analysis—A Case Study of Shanxi Province
Shuhan Cao
Agricultural carbon sink is an important initiative to promote China’s “dual-carbon” plan in agricultural sector, based on studies that farmers in Shanxi province are seriously insufficient in the recognition of agricultural carbon sink, and a significant gap exists between regions in recognition and...
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Implementation of Leadership in Education According to Al-Mawardi’s Perspective
Firman Dwi Alamsyah, Muh. Nurrochim Maksum, Mohammad Zakki Azani
Leadership is the ability and skill of an individual who occupies a position as a leader in a work setting to influence the behavior of others, especially subordinates, to think and act in such a way that through positive behavior, they contribute significantly to achieving the organization’s goals....
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Research on the Interaction of Public Art in Campus Culture
Chao Gao, Yan Wang
The setting of campus public art plays an important role in shaping the humanity and art atmosphere and establishing the acceptance on teacher and student culture and also manifests the special school culture. Because the public art is an emerging artistic concept and we lack the deepen understanding...
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ANN with the Error Contracting Gradually Algorithm and Its Application in Generator Fault Diagnosis
Shuting Wan
Based on analysis of conventional back-propagation (BP) network, the causes of error curve oscillation and excessive learning are first proposed. Next, a new BP with the error contracting gradually algorithm is put forward, through setting up neuron error threshold function, only when neuron’s error...
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Combining Content and Language Study in Islamic Higher Education
Veni Roza
The study aims at describing the implementation of CLIL approach in the classroom setting of Islamic Economics major. It is the most promising and beneficial approach which integrates the teaching of content from a curriculum subject with the teaching of a non-native language (Coyle, Hood, Marsh, 2010)....
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Effect of Nursing Satisfaction Level on Service Quality at Inpatient Installation in X Hospital
Nur Fadilah Dewi, Radityo Kusumo Santoso
A hospital’s success is determined not only by its profitability but also by patient and provider satisfaction. Provider satisfaction affects the quality of patient services. In a hospital setting, nurses have the most hours of contact with the patient as nurses are on call 24 hours a day. For this reason,...
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Emoji in WhatsApp Group Conversation:
Study on Barthes Theory of Semiotics
Rahma Yulia Syahfitri, Sumarsih, Muhammad Natsir
This research aims to investigate the use of emoji in WhatsApp group conversation to reveal the types and meaning of emojis used in the setting where members from groups communicate online. The participants were 21 students of English Applied Linguistics year 2019. The data were collected from since...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Culture-Based Motor Vehicle Exhaust Cover Modification Using Reverse Engineering Methods Combined with Rapid Prototyping
Rahmat Riza, Hendy Junyansyah, Paryana Puspaputra
The use of motorbikes is increasing daily, making these products common on the streets. This is for some people to be boredom. It prompted some riders to modify their motorbikes to make it look different. The exhaust cover is one of the most visible parts of the motorbike. This can provide significant...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Parameter Setting Method of Fractional Order PI D Controller Based on Bode's Ideal Transfer Function and its Application in Buck Converter
Yiwen He, Zhen Li
The Bode's ideal transfer function is applied to the parameter setting of fractional order PI D controller in this paper. The closed loop system composed of Bode's ideal transfer is used to be a reference model in this optimized system, where the controller parameters are searched by genetic algorithm...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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An Algorithm for Dynamic Routing and Wavelength Assignment in WDM Network
Yun Wu, Songming Xu
In WDM network, it is still a core issue to research routing. According to the characteristics of multi wavelength optical network and the setting of the wavelength converter, we change multi wavelength network to single wavelength dynamic network through the conversion function of wavelength converter,...
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Research on the Integration and Development of College Physical Education and College Students’ Core Quality
Xiang Jinxing
With the continuous reform of education, schools and parents pay more attention to the all-round development of students’ moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor. In this context, more schools and parents pay attention to physical education, especially teaching in physical education classroom....
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OPERATIONAL RISK ANALYSIS FOR BARCODING PROJECT IN PT. XYZ WITH ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT METHOD
Amanda Putri Kusumawardhani, Endang Chumaidiyah, Rita Zulbetti
PT. XYZ is running the Bacoding Project to facilitate the process of recording raw material data in the production process. This Barcoding Project certainly has operational risks that may occur, therefore by using the Enterprise Risk Management approach (ERM) that is a process, effected by an entity’s...
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Life-oriented Moral Education and Its Practice
Mingzhi Sun
As the educational concept "life-oriented" becomes more and more popular, life-oriented moral education is also increasingly sought after by educators. The author firstly expounds the connotation of life-oriented moral education and its four characteristics: sociality, practicality, authenticity and...
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Thoughts on College Sports Theory Teaching Based on the Perspective of Leisure Sports
Zhangcheng Liu
This paper describes understanding of leisure sports, analyzes reasons of introducing leisure sports to college sports teaching, points out the important role of college sports teaching, and then based on the perspective of leisure sports, and conducts discussion from aspects of strengthening talent...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The development of Mechanical property and Hydration Characteristics of concrete at negative temperature environment
Yunbi Zhang, Hui Li, Yu Xiong, Guangying Miao, Yubing Hu, Honggen Qin
The development of the concrete mechanical properties and the characterization of hydration degree of the high performance concrete under negative temperature curing condition in plateau environment were studied. The results indicate that the concrete casted at the temperature below -10 must be mixed...
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Minimum Legal Age of Marriage and Maslahah Mursalah in the Marriage Law in Indonesia
Nurnazli, Erina Pane
Chapter 7, verse (1) of the Marriage Law (UUP) in Indonesia formulates that the minimum age for marriage is 19 years for men and women. The basic consideration of the legislators forming the UUP is that the minimum limit is for the benefit (maslahat) of children. Nash (text) of the Qur’an and Hadith...
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Language Ideology and Attitudes Toward English Among Multilingual Families in Indonesia
Ira Maria Fran Lumbanbatu, Evynurul Laily Zen, Sri Rachmajanti, Elvira Rosyida MR
Focusing on the complex multilingual setting of Indonesia, the present study investigates the representation of Spolsky’s (2004) three aspects of language: ideology, management, and practice. Specifically, we look thoroughly at parental language ideology and attitude and how they are reflected in actual...
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Robust Range Assignment Strategy for Wireless Sensor Networks
Xue jian Zhao, Xiao jun Wang, Bin Xu
The RA (Range Assignment) strategy is an art of setting nodes’ transmitting ranges to generate a network with desired properties and at the same time reducing node energy consumption and/or increasing network capacity. In this paper, a distributed RA strategy RRAS (Robust Range Assignment Strategy) is...
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Research on the Innovation and Applications on Sports Equipment
Ning Li
Sports equipment is the indispensable material conditions engaged in sports activities. Practices with sports equipment can enhance students' muscle strength and improve the flexibility and coordination of the body. And it can also train students’ brave and indomitable will and help them overcome mental...
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Informatization and New Agricultural Cold Chain Logistics Mode
Jun Wang
In recent years, the development of agricultural cold chain logistics has made landmark progress. Before the advent of information technology, there were a large number of information islands in each link of agricultural cold chain logistics, which caused a large number of loss of fresh agricultural...
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Sustainable leadership and the development of “green” economy in the European Union
Maria Gureva
Sustainable development set by the world’s leaders and powers as the only way for the future growth of the world economy under the conditions of global warming and climate change requires certain prerequisites. One of them is the deployment of “green” economy that involves steps like shifting to low-carbon...
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The design of innovative and entrepreneurial courses of mechanical majors against the background of new engineering
Chu Diao Huang, Jian-Wen Guo, Li Xie, Xiao Chang Cao
Against the background of new engineering, setting up innovative and entrepreneurial courses in mechanical majors is to foster students an ability to design and develop innovative products and to start up business preliminarily by taking advantage of their relevant engineering and technical knowledge....
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The Development of Short Film Entitled “Kursi Kosong”: Media to Prevent Bullying
Tri Ratni, Antonius Ian Bayu Setiawan, Budi Astuti
Bullying is a severe issue in the educational setting. Bullying is one of three primary educational challenges that must be abolished. According to UNICEF data from 2021, 21% of kids aged 13–17 years had been bullied, and however, this percentage does not entirely characterize bullying behavior at school....
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Grammar Teaching in the Communicative Classroom Based on Focus on Form Theory
Xueyun Zang, Baiwen Li
Grammar teaching is debated a lot related to its being taught or not in the field of second language teaching. ‘Focus on form’, suggesting that attention to form should be encouraged in communicative language classrooms, has aroused an increasing interest in the field of second language teaching methods....
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The Process to Determine Quality Standards to Ensure the Quality of Graduates
Sutomo Sutomo
The aim of the research is to describe the process of internal quality assurance conducted by the higher education, especially in determining quality standards to ensure the quality of graduates. This study used a qualitative approach, using case study design. Data were collected by deep interview, observation,...
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A Sense of Place: An Investigation of Modern Urban Space through Printmaking
Jianhan Zhou, Mohd Fauzi Sedon
This research project investigates the aesthetics of space and place through modern urban environment and cultural identity. With the continuous development of modernization, urban space has undergone significant changes, and many cities have lost their uniqueness and symbolism due to identical buildings....
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Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Local Engineering University
Liangtao Yang
The innovative and entrepreneurial ability is an important manifestation of the comprehensive quality of college students. Shanghai Second Polytechnic University as a local engineering university, according to creating a good innovation and entrepreneurship atmosphere, setting up practice platform for...
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Media Treatment on Religion Issues
Lutfi Basit
The contestation of the 2017 regional head election of DKI Jakarta is over, but its impact on social life and religious primordial issue is still felt across Indonesia. This situation could not be separated from the way that television (media) treats primordial issues such as religion as their media...
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Religious Example of Character Nyi Ageng Serang in 2013 Curriculum
Wahyu Ida Permatasari, Aman
This article is motivated by the many problems that occur among the younger generation. One factor is the lack of character education provided both in schools and in the surrounding environment. Plus, there are no examples of examples that can make this 4.0 generation emulate or imitate their idols in...
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How to Implement Supervision Programs at School
Raita Gina Aprilina, Nugraha
The qualitative research method that was used in this research aimed to reveal supervision programs that has been implemented in Special Needs Schools. The method used in this research is interviewing school principals in Cluster 38 Bandung that consist of five Special Needs School. To gain best supervision...
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Mobile Money Agent Network: Key Towards Digital Financial Inclusion
Yi Xuan Goh, Sze Hwei Mah, Yinn Yinn Yunne Chay
As the world advances towards digital empowerment, unbanked and underbanked individuals still exist. Therefore, this study is conducted to investigate the key digital-focused determinants that aid in boosting Digital Financial Inclusion (DFI) among emerging countries. By zooming into 45 Emerging Market...
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The Enlightenment of Western Unemployment Theory on the Hard Employment of College Graduates
Xiaoqin Wu
The major unemployment theories in the West include the voluntary unemployment theory of the classical school, the involuntary unemployment theory of the Keynesian school, and the unemployment theory of the neoclassical synthesis school. At present, our college students are hard to find jobs, mainly...
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Chemical Course System Construction and Practice of Food Science and Engineering Major
Ning Ma, Hui Shang
Based on the analysis of the talent demand situation in food science and engineering major as well as the position and function of the basic chemistry course system in talent training of the major, in view of the chemical course system construction and practice in the course system of food science and...
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Exploring Tenor Configuration in Legislative Members’ Discourse
Humaizi, Siti Hazzah Nur R, Muhammad Yusuf
This study aims at discovering the employment of tenor-configuration, how it is realized in linguistic features, and why it is realized as they are in an interaction involving legislative members. This study utilized qualitative content analysis. The data were taken from the interaction among the legislative...
Research Article
Fall-related injuries in a low-income setting: Results from a pilot injury surveillance system in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Junaid A. Bhatti, Umar Farooq, Mudassir Majeed, Jahangir S. Khan, Junaid A. Razzak, Muhammad M. Khan
Pages: 283 - 290
This study assessed the characteristics and emergency care outcomes of fall-related injuries in Pakistan. This study included all fall-related injury cases presenting to emergency departments (EDs) of the three teaching hospitals in Rawalpindi city from July 2007 to June 2008. Out of 62,530 injury cases,...
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Research on the Training Model of English Majors in Colleges and Universities Based on the Needs of Society for "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" Ability
Panpan Li
With the rapid development of science and technology and economy, the demand for talents in society is not only in explicit professional skills, but also in the invisible ability and quality. However, the English major still has the sameness in the process of personnel training. There are still theoretical...
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Discussion of the Application of Pragmatic Adaptation Theory in College English Translation Education
Xia Yang
In China, pragmatic adaptation theory, which plays an important role in college English translation education, is the key factor of students to establish situational context. As the college English teaching constantly goes deeper, pragmatics has been widely used in translation teaching gradually and...
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The Dynamics of Bricolage and Social Entrepreneurship - A Case Analysis of Art and Craft Bricoleurs
Antony Davis, K. Lakshmypriya
A constructivist strategy for development in developing and underdeveloped economies includes bricolage and social entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurs are not typically perceived as behaving in a linear manner that flows from inputs to results. Social entrepreneurship is an effort to create social value,...
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Study on the Survival of Higher Vocational Colleges in the Fierce Competition
Xuewen Ye
The competition for higher vocational colleges to survive is fierce increasingly. Higher vocational colleges should research five factors and make SWOT analysis for their own competitive advantages, then identify the main direction. Reform of specialties setting, teachers &faculty improvement, combination...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Comparative Study on Method for Determining the Benchmark of Office Building Energy Consumption in Xi’an
Yuan Jia, Zengfeng Yan
The methods of multiple regression analysis and simplified calculation were used to predict the benchmark of office building energy consumption, the features and the applicabilities of the two methods were discussed based on the comparation of predicted results, and the benchmark of office building energy...
Proceedings Article
Grammar Teaching in Communicative Classroom -- Based on Focus on Form Theory
Xueyun Zang
Grammar teaching is debated a lot related with its being taught or not in the field of second Language Teaching. ‘Focus on form’, suggesting that attention to form should be encouraged in communicative language classrooms, has aroused an increasing interest in the field of second language teaching methods....
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A Deferred Meaning of Home in Claude McKay’s Novel Home to Harlem
Mike Wijaya Saragih
Taking a title of his first novel Home to Harlem (1928), Claude McKay as the implied author seems to bring the perception of his readers to a standpoint saying that Harlem was a final destination for blacks in the early 20th century, the time setting of the novel. Paradoxically, the novel gives a twisted...
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Analysis of Promoting the New Urbanization of Hubei Province Based on PPP Mode
Li Xiuping
New urbanization construction in Hubei province is suffering multiple barriers due to traditional way such as government borrowing and financial land. Social capital and government cooperation, namely, the PPP model is the best way to solve the present difficulties. In terms of the use of the PPP model...
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Breaking, Establishing, and Practicing: Exploring the National Flavor in Wu Guanzhong’s Art Through Where Does the Soul Reside
Kexin Sun
At the end of the 20th century, the field of Chinese art faced a dual dilemma: the rigidity of traditional ink painting conventions and the failure of Western oil painting’s localization. The criteria for defining artistic nationality and its realization paths became core academic issues. In his work...
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The Dilemma of Fitness of Higher Vocational Education Specialty Settings and Regional Industrial Structure and the Path of Governance: An Empirical Study Based on Beijing Municipality
Dan Sun, Haijian Zhang
The precision of alignment between vocational education output and industrial needs is an important driver of regional economic development and a benchmark for modernized governance. In this paper we apply computational social science methods using big data analytics, machine learning and agent-based...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Development of a Free Open-Source Hybrid Segmentation Plug-In to Extract Agricultural Field Boundaries in a Heterogeneous Land System
Sravani Duvvuri, B. V. N. P. Kambhammettu, S. S. S. V. Gopala Raju
Accurate representation of agricultural field boundaries is a prerequisite to perform crop classification, evaluating sustainable strategies, and implementing agricultural policies. However, this is an elusive task in the Indian agro-economic setting due to land fragmentation, and small and irregular...