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Proceedings Article
Introducing Collaborative Teaching into Elective Courses Across an Engineering University: Effect of Teacher's Characteristics on Student Evaluations of Teaching
Rongjun Pan, XiaoJin Feng, Xuewen Feng, Huiqin Wu
Collaborative teaching can benefit the students with diverse learning characteristics a lot to access and achieve high academic performances. Student evaluations of teaching is widely used as a metric to estimate instructor effectiveness. To estimate the effects of different teachers' characteristics...
Research Article
Entropy Measures of Probabilistic Linguistic Term Sets
Hongbin Liu, Le Jiang, Zeshui Xu
Pages: 45 - 57
The probabilistic linguistic term sets (PLTSs) are powerful to deal with the hesitant linguistic situation in which each provided linguistic term has a probability. The PLTSs contain uncertainties caused by the linguistic terms and their probability information. In order to measure such uncertainties,...
Proceedings Article
Research on Risk Assessment Technique of Financial Investment And its Applied Research
Fuqin Yue
As the constantly development of the financial market, the risk assessment technique of financial investment, which is an important way and a key technique, is concerned by more and more people. The ability of risk assessment technique is excellent or not is significant to the investor in fact. The key...
Proceedings Article
Relationship of Voters' Ideology, Disbelief of Political Parties and Disappointment in Government With Voter Disappearance In 2014 Presidential Election in Riau Province
Rodi Wahyudi, Mr Nurhamin
The high number of absentee voters in the presidential and vice presidential elections can lead to a lack of authority in the eyes of the people. This study aims to determine the relationship of voter ideology, mistrust of political parties and the disappointment of the government with the absence of...
Proceedings Article
Analysis of Business Information Services Innovation in Bantaeng, South Sulawesi
Badu Ahmad
This article aims to explain how public service innovation forms in business licenses in local government in Indonesia. For this purpose the study was conducted in Bantaeng district, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The research was conducted using qualitative so that data collection techniques include...
Proceedings Article
A Study on the Application of UI Design in Shaping Product Image
Xin Meng, Chong Feng, YuChuan Ji
In the information age, digital products are increasing, and UI design has received extensive attention and promoted the establishment of enterprise product image, becoming an important part of the implementation of enterprise design strategy. UI design in shaping product image is mainly reflected in...
Proceedings Article
Image Mosaic Algorithm of Sequential Images Based on Voronoi
Zhicheng Wang, Qian Xu, Zhiheng Wang, Xiaopeng Guo, Yaxing Yang
The image sequence of Vehicle panorama camera platform has the characteristics of serious distortion, large parallax and large amount of data, which can lead to invalid montage for the image sequence by adopting the common image mosaicking method based on features. In this paper, Voronoi algorithm is...
Proceedings Article
A Research on Curriculum of BTI from the Analysis of Students' Needs
Biyun Zhang
This research, in consideration of the status quo of translation education and its research in China, strives to study BTI curriculum in Yan'an University from the perspective of needs analysis, which is an efficient and indispensable step in curriculum design. To provide a greater insight into BTI curriculum...
Proceedings Article
Problems of Development of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) in Russia and Methods of Solving Them
Olga Chemodanova, Gleb Grib
The problems of the SME sector development in our country are really topical at present. The role of SMEs in the Russian economy has significantly increased in the conditions of the 2014-2015 economic crises and the difficult geopolitical situation of our country in the world arena. Small and medium-sized...
Proceedings Article
The Influence of the Philosophical Concept of Yin and Yang on the Modeling of Folk Patterns
Hong Nie, Sibo Yang
Throughout history, the Chinese concept of Yin and Yang has a long history and is deeply rooted. The philosophy of Yin and Yang includes the idea of Yin-Yang and eight diagrams, the concept of "Yin and Yang interact and generate all things" which centers on the reproduction worship, and the philosophical...
Proceedings Article
The Differences in Online Advertising Acceptance in China and Slovakia
Radovan Madlenak, Lucia Madlenakova
Advertising, marketing and commercial activities on the Internet are the most recent trends of the last years. In most countries of the world, the Internet is operated on a fully commercial basis. More than a half of its users need it for commercial purposes. Marketing experts in businesses are the main...
Proceedings Article
Acetylation of Asiatic Acid and Its Hepatotoxicity Prediction
Ida Musfiroh, Ita Puspitasari, Ahmad Muhtadi, Rahmana E. Kartasasmita, Slamet I. Surantaatmadja
Asiatic acid (AA) is one of the triterpenoids isolated from pegagan (Centella asiatica (L.) Urb.), which has the antiinflammatory activity. The present studies were aimed to synthesize triacetyl asiatic acid (2,3,23-triacetooxy-12-ene asiatic acid) and to predict its hepatotoxicity properties. Acetylation...
Proceedings Article
An Adaptive Algorithm for Music Beat Tracking
Zhanchun Gao, Yuting Liu, Yanjun Jiang
On the basis of Time Domain Analysis, this paper proposes a method for music beat tracking. Through this method, music beats are detected and tracked by timestamp and intensity value. Generally, the beat-areas of music signal converge more energy than other areas, therefore, the spots of beat can be...
Proceedings Article
An Image Encryption Scheme Based on Permutation-subsitution Architecture at Half Pixel Level
Ruisong Ye, Junqin Zhao
An image encryption scheme using permutation-substitution mechanism at half pixel level is proposed. One round of permutation and one round of substitution achieve desirable results. In the permutation process, the image sized is expanded to one sized . The generalized Arnold map is applied to generate...
Proceedings Article
Business English Correspondence Characters and Role in foreign trade
Zhang Bin
With the accelerating process of globalization, foreign trade has become an important criterion to judge whether a country can integrate with the world successfully, and it is a fast-track for a country to reach out to the world.In foreign trade, we need to do business communication with different countries...
Proceedings Article
Teaching Reform and Innovation of Engineering Training
Haijun Mo, Hua Jiang
Engineering training is a very important practicum in the universities of technology, which aim at cultivating students innovation thinking and practice ability. However, the engineering training is facing kinds of difficulties, such as how to make a scientific and optimized arrangement for the engineering...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Asset Management and Method of Power Grid Projects based on the Life Cycle Theory
Jiang Zhu, Hang Yin, Chaochen Xu, Yang Wei, Guanqing Wang
With the large scale development of the power grid, the refined asset management has become very important in the power grid enterprises. The traditional asset management mode is extensive which can not meet the requirements and needs from the power grid enterprises. In this paper, an improved management...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Study on the Synthetic Ammonia with Methanol Purge Gas of Huangling
Zongyi Yang, Meili Du, Chen Chen, Xin Yi, Doudou Wang
Methanol purge gas produced in the side reaction in the methanol productionwere the inert gas including H2, CO, H2O, CH4 and others, which was used to produce synthetic ammonia as an important part in circular economy industrial chain of Huangling coal chemical industry. In this paper, the process and...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Effects of Maozhaocao polysaccharide on the thymus and spleen of Immunosuppressive Model Mice
Mingsan Miao, Wang Tan, Yan Li, Zekai Hu, Jingyi Qiao, Huili Liu
The objective of this experiment is to investigate the effect of Maozhaocao polysaccharide on the thymus and spleen of Immunosuppressive Model Mice. Study the Immunosuppressive model of mice by using cyclophosphamide, for the large, medium and small dose of Maozhaocao polysaccharide, Mushrooms polysaccharide,...
Proceedings Article
Analysis on Application of Football Game in Football Class Teaching in College
Feng Ju
As an important means of football teaching activities, football game plays a very important role in improving the efficiency of football teaching. Because football game is an interactive and interesting activity, it is warmly welcomed by college students. Meanwhile, it also makes up for the problems...
Proceedings Article
How to improve the college students learning ability
Yingying Yu, Peng He
This article through to the changchun city college students learning motivation, learning attitude, learning methods and teaching methods of questionnaire survey, it seriously analyzed the relevant factors that affect college students' learning ability, finally proposes countermeasures and Suggestions...
Proceedings Article
Thin Capitalization: Financial Innovation Versus Tax Rules
Ivan Darushin, Natalia S. Voronova
The needs of companies in capital cheapening lead to the emergence of new financing patterns. One of such patterns based on the substitution of equity capital by the debt capital is hidden or thin capitalization. When used within a framework of a group of companies the cheapening of financing takes place...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Spatial Pattern and Forecast Analysis of Urbanization Growth Rates in Henan: 2011-2015
Kaiguang Zhang, Mingting Ba, Hongling Meng
Urbanization growth rate is the conversion speed of agricultural population to non-agricultural population along with the regional population structure transformation process caused by productivity development, modern scientific and technological application and industrial structure adjustment. In the...
Proceedings Article
The Analysis of Block-type Business Office Park Landscape Design -- Taking Hefei Financial Village Phase One as Example
Yanan Zhang
Hefei Financial Village is the masterpiece from the leading domestic industrial real estate block operator -- Optics Valley Union in 2016. Its planning concept of block-type business office is consistent with the trends of promoting residential block system in China. The block-type business office park...
Proceedings Article
Study on worn topography of bullet surface based on multi-fractal theory
Bingcheng Wang, Chang Jing, Litian Li
The surface worn date of the bullets shot from three type guns were collected by applying collection instrument, and the worn topography of bullet surface was studied by application of fractal theory, its surface worn show the fractal characteristics. The fractal dimensions about the profile curve of...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Investigations of continuous casting extrusion on the microstructures and properties of Zn-Al and Zn-Al-Ti alloys
Y L Li, L Z He
The microstructures and mechanical properties of Zn-Al and Zn-Al-Ti alloys wires prepared by continuous casting and extrusion (CASTEX) were studied in detail. The Al3Ti intermetallics in Zn-Al-Ti alloy distribute homogeneously at matrix of Zn-Al eutectics/eutectoid phase, and can effectively refine microstructure...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Structure Checking Computations of Sound Barrier Design
Yan Li
With the development of road construction, traffic noise pollution becomes more and more serious. Sound barrier, an effective and comparatively inexpensive measure of controlling noise, will be developed to some degree. The sound barrier durability is a very complicated problem. It is influenced by structure...
Proceedings Article
Analysis on the Talent Training Program and Educational Administration by Fujian and Taiwan Cooperation Projects
Baoxiu Li
Fujian and Taiwan joint training project gives full play to the advantages of professional teachers and majors of universities in Fujian and Taiwan, which is of great significance in promoting the reform and development of higher education in Fujian province. However, the cross-straits different political,...
Proceedings Article
Developing Character Education Management Model for The Empowerment of Ethos Transformation based Multiple-Intelligence of Junior High School Student's
Abdul Kadim Masaong, Asrin Asrin, Ikhfan Haris, Sutrisno D.J. Yunus
This research is aimed at developing character education management model to empower ethos transformation based multiple-intelligence of junior high school students that covers: Guidelines on its basic concepts, program, implementation, and monitoring and
Proceedings Article
Analysing the Influence of Subsurface Impurity on Laser-induced Damage Threshold of KDP Crystal
Chunyuan Jing, Xiaohong Guo, Tao Zhang, Lizi Chen
The laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of KDP crystal affect directly the increase of laser power. In order to research the influence of metal impurities in the subsurface of KDP crystal on LIDT, analyzed the impurities composition and relative content of two kinds of KDP crystal samples by fluorescence...
Proceedings Article
Illustrations' Functions in Typical English Dictionaries of English Idioms
Xiaoguang Zeng
The illustration (illustrative examples) is an important part of an English dictionary of English Idioms. It has very important functions, which are discussed in detail in this paper with illustrations from some typical classical English dictionaries of English idioms.
Proceedings Article
The Profile of Critical Consciousness of Indonesia University of Education Students'on Educational Phenomenon (A Phenomenological Study of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy)
Babang Robandi, Dharma Kesuma, Arie Rakhmat Riyadi, Teguh Ibrahim
This paper aims to discuss the phenomenon of Critical Consciousness of Indonesia University of Education Students' on Educational Phenomenon. Critical consciousness is characterized by a critical understanding on issues of education, reasoning causality in the cause of education, transformative power...
Proceedings Article
Auto-Marking Image Segmentation Based Manifold Ranking
X.H. Zeng, R.H. Yi, S.W. Zhu, S.S. He
Interactive image segmentation requires adjusting label information manually which will lead to tedious marking process. We propose an auto-marking image segmentation method. It can obtain the object prior and background prior automatically. We segment an image into superpixels (regions) and get the...
Proceedings Article
Research on the construction of college Students' online entrepreneurship platform
Yi Jiang
Along with the transformation of China's economic structure and the popularization of mass education, the employment situation of university students is becoming grimmer. As an ideal way for university students to take up an occupation, the entrepreneurship has become the focus of attention to the government,...
Proceedings Article
New Education Pattern of Professional Finance Master Program
Hui Xiaofeng, Li Meng, Hu Yiyuan
With the new developing trend of specialization and segmentation in finance, the professional master with career backgrounds becomes a source of the core competitiveness of the financial industry. Based on the demand background of elites in specialization, internationalization and innovation, this paper...
Proceedings Article
Teachers' Training Strategy of Local Colleges and Universities
HongLang Li, Xiao Li
China's higher education is in an unprecedented period of development. Country attaches great importance to the development of local institutions of higher education, because it is local economic development, transport a large number of businesses in urgent need of talent. Priority is to strengthen the...
Proceedings Article
Teacher’s Innovation Improvement through the Development of Organizational Climate and Emotional Intelligence Using Correlation Statistical Analysis and Sitorem Method
Sri Setyaningsih, Dinni Sukanti, Soewarto Hardhienata
Teacher’s innovation is an important element related to the achievement of educational goals, namely to produce good quality human resources, both in terms of science, knowledge, skills and personality. From the initial survey, it was shown that the teacher's innovation was still not as expected. Therefore,...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
On the accuracy of trade and GDP statistics in Africa: Errors of commission and omission
Morten Jerven
Pages: 45 - 52
African trade statistics suffer from errors of commission and omission. A quarter-century ago, Alexander Yeats (1990) compared receipts of importers and exporters and concluded that the data could not be used to determine the magnitude, direction, or composition of trade. The only fact to be safely deduced...
Research Article
Measuring a hidden population: A novel technique to estimate the population size of women with sexual violence-related pregnancies in South Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo
Lisa G. Johnston, Katherine R. McLaughlin, Shada A. Rouhani, Susan A. Bartels
Pages: 45 - 53
Successive sampling (SS)–population size estimation (PSE) is a technique used to estimate the sizes of hidden populations using data collected in respondent-driven sampling (RDS) surveys. We assess past estimations and use new data from an RDS survey to calculate a new PSE. In 2012, 852 adult women in...
Journal: Clinical Hematology International
Review Article
Endothelial Dysfunction in Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Marta Palomo, Maribel Diaz-Ricart, Enric Carreras
Pages: 45 - 51
The goal of this review is to look at the role of endothelial damage and dysfunction in the initiation and development of early complications that appear after hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). These early complications share overlapping clinical manifestations and the suspicion of underlying...
Research Article
Comparison of Tuberculin Skin Test result and interferon gamma response to human PPD in BCG scar positive and negative children
Shirin Sayyahfar, Abdollah Karimi, Alireza Fahimzad, Ahmad Reza Shamshiri
Pages: 45 - 50
Background: The aim of this study is to compare Tuberculin Skin Test (TST) result and interferon gamma response to human PPD (purified protein derivative), in scar positive and scar negative BCG-vaccinated children.
Methods: Between August 2007 and May 2008 a total of 236 children aged 1–168 months...
Editorial
Antimicrobial resistance and the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis
Madhukar Pai, Ziad A. Memish
Pages: 45 - 47
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Research on the Production Mode of Improving Production Efficiency of Spacecraft Multi-layer Insulation
Zhe Wang, Hao Fu, Ziqi Fan
The production of multi-layer insulation for spacecraft has formed a specialized unit production mode, which has made great progress in terms of production technology and methods.But because there are many types of products and low repetition rates, the production belongs to the production of single-piece...
Proceedings Article
Study and Practice of Formative Assessment Based on Metacognitive Strategy
Qiaomei Zhao
Chinese students have long been under the pressure of exam-oriented education. Although summative assessment are highly reliable, it can’t help students become self-monitoring, self-motivated and self-improving autonomous learners. At the same time, summative assessment suppresses students’ initiative...
Proceedings Article
Correlational study between learning style and reading comprehension at university level students
Muhammad Rujani
Each learner in the classroom receives and processes information in a unique way which makes the students distinct from one to the others, some learners may have a combination of learning styles. So for a teacher it is really important to identify the learning style of his/her students so that the teacher...
Proceedings Article
The Architectural History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: the Question of the Periodization of Melchior De Vogüé
Elena Lavrentyeva
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem has been actively studied since the middle of the 19th century. At the same time, the opinion was formed that the building passed through four construction stages. This periodization was developed and first proposed by Melchior De Vogüé in 1859. Later, it...
Proceedings Article
Comparison and Analysis for the Training of Health Service and Management Professionals on Both Sides of the Taiwan Straits
Yu-Feng Shi, Gui-Ping Pu, Feng Wang
The training mode of health services and management personnel in Taiwan and the mainland is carried on the comparative analysis. The authors point out the difference in professional training level, training target, curriculum, occupation qualification certificate examination, hoping to find the good...
Proceedings Article
Teaching Research on Exploratory Experiments in Science and Engineering Courses in Universities
Li-Xiu Li, Ji-Hai Liao, Ri-Fu Yang
Higher education is an important part of education and plays a key role in cultivating students’ innovative ability. Both with strong theoretical basis and practical ability for college graduates has been put forward in the modern society, and experiment can train these abilities in the university education...
Proceedings Article
The Examination of Tax Evasion Behavior of Tax Payers from The Perspective of Planned Behavior Theory
Made Arie Wahyuni, I Putu Julianto, Ni Wayan Yulianita Dewi
This study aims to examine: (1) the impact of attitudes of non-compliance with tax evasion practices with non-compliant behavioral intentions as intervening variables, (2) the effect of low subjective norm on behavioral practices of tax evasion with the intention as an intervening variable, (3) the effect...
Proceedings Article
Learning Group Functional Literacy Education Using Reflection Method (Case Study at Community Learning Centre (PKBM) Tenggang Raso and Siti Nurbaya Padang City)
Irmawita
This research is motivated by the ability of learners who consist of adults who currently learn to read, write and count, to do basic education and skills about various experiences and life, and learn to speak Indonesian. The objective of study was to explore, describe and analyse specific programs which...