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Drilling and blasting has been a preferred method of rock excavation world-wide. Blasting inevitably causes damage to the peripheral rock mass, which culminates in the form of overbreak and damaged zone. Damage or overbreak not only endangers the safety of structure and cost escalation but also delayed...

China is playing a more and more important role in the international division of labor as a dual role of host and investment country. This research identified the mechanism of FDI on Chinese industrial upgrading and analyzed the panel data of China's IFDI and OFDI from 2004 to 2014 with regression method...

With the expansion of the social needs of graphic design professionals, more and more Vocational Colleges set the profession of graphic design, and graphic design curriculum is very important. However, currently there are some problems in graphic design base curriculum such as old ideas, old teaching...

A mathematical model of sequencing problem which takes the minimum overload time as the optimization objective is estab-lished to solve mixed model assembly line sequencing problem in semi-closed station. A new penalty strategy that can eliminate the influence of the viscous effect which caused by the...

Currently, numerous specific methods directed to the improvement of the building materials are developed. Many of such methods are intrinsically the implementations of the nanotechnology; the random reinforcement by nanoscale fibers is a well known way for the enhancement of operational properties. The...

Planning and budgeting are routine activities in a university to achieve its vision and mission made by the leaders as annual programs and five yearly activities. Rector of the University Tanjungpura (UNTAN), during the Occupation 2011-2015 has a vision "

The catastrophic/benign flutter boundary character evaluation and its control are carried out for 2-DOF lifting surfaces. Catastrophic/benign implies that the Limit Cycle Oscillation (LCO) is either unstable or stable. Within this work: (1) Quasi-Steady (QS) theory and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)...

Mobile traffic modeling and forecasting are the key techniques in terms of network optimization and management because better network management can be achieved through improving the forecasting accuracy. While mobile traffic has been studied extensively and proved to be effectively modeled with ARIMA...

This paper studies the relationship between M&A and relieving financial constraint. This paper hypothesizes that M&A transactions can relieve the financial constraint of firm. It models the relation between investment expenditure and internal cash flow. The extent to relieved financial constraint is...

This article discusses conflict resolution Travel Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) cave tubing Pindul in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Cave Tubing Pindul as a natural tourist destinations in governance by the people who gave birth to 4 Pokdarwis. Conflict occurs among this group that have an impact on youth. In...

Fruit images segmentation is one of the important issues for fruit recognition. Inspired by the retina structure, a colour perception neural network is proposed to extract multiple colour features, and is applied to tomato fruits segmentation under natural complex background. The network is composed...

Most of routing algorithms for On-chip communication are neither application-aware nor routing packets using multiple paths. In addition, they hardly consider link bandwidth variation resulting from widely applied global asynchronous local synchronous (GALS) mechanism. In this paper, we propose a bandwidth-based...

In bistatic acoustic scattering wave testing, there will be strong direct blast interference , An algorithm based on vector sensor adaptive signal processing that rejecting of direct blast interference in bistatic sonar has been studied, through computer simulation the effectiveness of this algorithm...

Taking the phosphorus monitoring data of two sites MS1 and MS2 in the period 1986-2003 in Chaohe River lying Beijing Miyun reservoir stream watershed as a case, time domain analysis method, Fourier and Wavelet analysis were adopted to explore and compare the periodic patterns and temporal pattern characteristics...

In order to study the tensile strength of reactive powder concrete (RPC) with different volume fraction of steel fiber (Vf =0%, 1%, 2%), the axial tensile tests were completed using self-designed equipment. The splitting tensile test and flexural tensile test were developed at the same time. The results...

the cost control is an important problem that the logistics enterprises are faced with. This study attempts to redevise the cost and build a cost performance evaluation system within the enterprise from the cost control factors and according to activity-based costing.

Rare earth (RE) is extensively applied in China, especially in agriculture. This experiment investigated the effects of seed soaking with lanthanum nitrate [La-0(CK), La-50(50mg·L-1), La-100(100 mg·L-1) and La-150(150 mg·L-1)] on reactive oxygen species, anti-oxidative substrates, anti-oxidative enzymes...

It describes the difference and relationship between product life cycle management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, analyzes the interaction of two system data, and obtains the integration content. It discusses the technology and solutions on the integration of ERP and PLM based cloud...

Due to the advantages of semiconductor laser such as small body, light weight, long life span, high efficiency, it has been used widely in the medical fields. This paper firstly introduces the function mechanism of semiconductor laser, and then analyzes the special applications in ophthalmology department,...

Parenting self-efficacy is one of the predictors of increasing resilience. Parents with good self-efficacy care show a high level of resilience. Hence, it can respond to and face any challenges or pressures they experience and are able to adapt to various situations. This study looked at the efficacy-drift...

This study aimed to predict seasonal influenza activity and detection of influenza outbreaks. Data of all registered cases (n = 53,526) of influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) from sentinel sites of healthcare centers in Iran were obtained from the FluNet web-based tool, World Health Organization (WHO), from...

In this work, we extended the original Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) to cover not only the case of multiple vehicles but also to constrain the minimum and maximum numbers of cities each vehicle can visit. Our algorithm is a modified Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm which has the ability to...

In Asia, which has a rapidly aging population, dementia is the most prominent disease. This article presents an application of Latent Growth Mixture Model (LGMM) to identify classes of individual Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other dementias Years Lived with Disability (YLD) rates for Asian and North...

Background Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is an emerging virus respiratory infection. It has a high mortality rate and a wide spectrum of clinical features. This study describes the clinical characteristics and outcome of MERS infected patients. Methods A retrospective study...

In Brazil, a scoring system was adopted to diagnose tuberculosis in childhood. This study determined the accuracy in diagnosing tuberculosis in children with either a negative smear or with no smear or culture conducted in a reference center in João Pessoa Paraíba – Brazil. It is a phase III validation...

Diabetes mellitus substantially increases cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Among Saudi Arabian citizens with diabetes, little is known about the prevalence and control of other CVD risk factors. We extracted data from medical records of a random selection of 422 patients seen between 2008 and 2012...

Formation of a new economy is directly linked to the creation and use of scientific knowledge. Such knowledge represents an inexhaustible economic resource, a driver of economic growth, and the foundation of the economy of knowledge. Scientific knowledge is first of all generated by the research institutes...

As an important form of education, remedial education has developed rapidly in recent years, and its social influence has been expanding. However, its development process is accompanied by many problems, which restricts the healthy development of remedial education to a certain extent. Based on the analysis...

This paper makes in-depth study of mass customization design and production methods, analyzes materials and technology in the application of a large number of customized design and production, then analyzes the world famous shoe enterprises for a large number of customized production cases, introduces...

This paper examines the influence of business and personal qualities of a manager on social tensions in the workplace. Our findings ascertain of mobbing in the workplace which provides for instances of activities against some employees, degrading the honor and dignity of the person, the issue. It becomes...

Under the background of rural-urban integration, innovation and development of rural energy system, ensuring the provision of universal service, improving electricity service level, responding to the development needs of remote areas, and make good use of remote units in the operation of Large-scale...

Batik is one of Indonesias original cultures that has been recognized worldwide. UNESCO recognizes batik as an Indonesian intagible culture. Indonesian batik is recognized worldwide because of its beautiful composition of motifs and colors in a piece of batik. Batik crafters generally use synthetic dyes...

This research aims to know the implementation of cyber school model learning through CIPP (context, input, process and product) evaluation. The methods of data collecting are using observation and interview. The subjects are the manager, educator, and students. The data analyzing is conducted by collecting...

The article is concerned with the study of the economic problems of the military-industrial complex, due to the specifics of the activities and the framework of operation, initially set by the requirements and interests of the state. An assessment of the current situation in the defense industry shows...

The authors review trends of economic development of the Russian Far East during 2010-2017, study the response of the national and regional economies to the crisis of 2014, and analyze the conditions and problems that exist in the main sectors of the region’s economy. We demonstrate that there were no...

In an effort to build democracy in Indonesia, it was carried out through General Elections. In Indonesia Regional elections (Pilkada) are held simultaneously followed by some of the existing Regencies / Cities and Provinces. One of them is the election of the Governor of North Java Province. Ahead of...

The world of children's games has now been served by gadgets and internet information waves. Separation of children from the playing environment and peers makes children more likely to like being alone, introverts and behaving aggressively. Creative teachers should rethink the traditional games of West...

This research is descriptive research with quantitative approach. This study was conducted on the Department of Culinary Engineering, Clothing Engineering and Hospitality Engineering. The research instrument used is a preparatory observation sheet. The results showed; factors that influence the preparation...

This study aims to explore how changes cardio workout to aerobic endurance. The research method used is experimental method. Participants were 6 undergraduate students who have time to training and are able to follow the training from beginning to end. The aerobic endurance test instrument were the harvard...

The aim of this research was to discover about management of vocational schools based on regional potential in Ciamis City is one of several cities in West Java Province, Indonesia. The research used qualitative approach with descriptive analysis. The primary data is interview with the teachers at Vocational...

This article touches upon the issue of the importance of information technology in human resource management. The results of the implementation of a software solution for human resources management support are described. The criteria for choosing a software solution in the development of technical specifications...

Mechanism of ideal law straightening in solving political conflict between Parpol supporter in principle consider integrity of POLRI role and orientation of law straightening which with Restorative Justice. Police include people into just cell, not less important Police able to shut-out people into cell...

The optimal allocation of railway logistics resources is the current key issue confronted by China’s railway industry. Under this background, this paper researches this issue along the route of motivation → mechanism → model → evaluation. Based on the research of internal development needs of railway...

Based on the memories of the Great Patriotic War`s contemporaries an article shows the possibilities of using the oral history method to discover new data on the largest historical event of the 20th century. It describes digital technologies of recording, processing, saving the received data, such as...

This study analyzes a phenomenon occurring in the Indonesian State College of Accountancy (PKN–STAN) regarding the school’s readiness for implementing the Indonesian National Qualification Framework (KKNI), the Higher Education National Standards (SN–Dikti), and International Education Standard (IES)...

The article studies superposition of corrosive effects occurring at agricultural enterprises. When developing a durable building composite, it is necessary to take into account each type of corrosion to prolong resistance of the environment. The influence of long-term exposure of cement stone samples...

Water conservancy sci-tech (scientific and technological) popularization achievements is an important part of water conservancy sci-tech for government and the key to the transformation of sci-tech achievements into real productive forces. Otherwise, it is an important link in promoting the combination...

Academic burnout involves the negative emotions of exhaustion and evasion caused by excessive academic load, low sense of accomplishment, and cynicism for studies. It has gradually become a psychological crisis for many contemporary students. Purpose: This paper attempts to summarize the research results...

Based on the data of China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2016, this paper uses the quantile regression and decomposition method to examine the consumption disparity between the urban and rural migrants. The empirical evidence finds that the consumption gap between the urban and rural migrants exists at...

Visual metaphor is an indirect method of persuasion in print advertising. It mainly uses metaphors implicitly to imply advertising appeals, which is very common in advertising marketing activities. So, is metaphorical advertising more effective than non-metaphorical advertising? The answer to this question...