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Developing Integrated Curriculum with Environmental Education at Vocational High School

Warju Warju, Sudirman Ariyanto, Lutfi Muzaki
The issue of the environment is an important topic that needs serious attention. Global warming and environmental pollution is one proof that human activity has a direct impact on environmental preservation. The purpose of this study was to determine how the ideal concept of curriculum development of...

Will Domestic Economic Growth be affected by Postponed Retirement? -- From the perspective of labor capital

Ming Zhou, Jiangchao Jing
With economic growth model as a tool, the paper sets to analyze the effect of postponed retirement on domestic economic growth by taking into account the effect of such labor force-affected factors as adoption of two-child policy and increased fiscal input on education and fixed investment with alleviated...

Adaptive Control of Servo Motor in “SOTM”

Xiaofeng Xue, Jian Zheng, Ding Yuan
The traditional brushless DC motor PID Control of double closed loop has a long adjusting time, large overshoot and especially when the motor model parameters have changed , the motor’s control system is unstable. To solve these problems, we propose a speed regulation method based on self-tuning PID...
Proceedings Article

Finite Element Analysis Based on Yarn Squeezing Model for the Strength Prediction of Three-dimensional Braided Composites

Long Hu, Guoquan Tao, Yibo Wang
A new model considering the yarn squeezing effect in the braided structure of the three-dimensional full five directional (3DF5D) braided composites is established. Repeated unit-cell (RUC) model was used in this model to describe the microstructure of the braided composites. Spatial path and cross-section...
Proceedings Article

Numerical Investigation on Effect of Wrinkle on Stiffness in Isotropic Metal Sheets

Supriya Patil, C. Ramdas, Rahul Harshe, Sham Gurav
A numerical study was conducted to find the effect of wrinkle in a metal sheet on its stiffness under tensile, compressive and flexural loading conditions. To define wrinkle of different sizes in model 'wrinkle factor' - ratio of thickness of specimen at wrinkle location to thickness of the specimen...

A Study on the Higher Vocational English Teaching Reform under the Background of "Internet +"

Pei Zhou
Education informatization has become a new trend in the "Internet +" era, however, a lot of English Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges in our country still follows the traditional teaching mode. Based on the author's teaching experience, this paper first analyzed the characteristics of English Teaching...
Proceedings Article

Comparative Analysis of the Effects of Financial Development on Industry Agglomeration in the Different Regions of China with Panel Data Model

Xiaowei Yang, Jianjun Xu
This paper constructs the cross-provinces panel data model to analyze the effects of financial development on industrial agglomeration from the financial scale, financial structure and financial efficiency respectively. The results show that the effects of financial development on industrial agglomeration...
Proceedings Article

Study on the Performance of Reactive Powder Concrete for Building Exterior Wall

Xin'E Yan
Reactive powder concrete (RPC) is a cement-based material with excellent flexural strength. This study focuses on the flexural strength and maximum fluidity of RPC mixed with superplasticizer and steel fiber. In order to explore an optimized mix proportions of RPC, we make a research on the influences...

Research on the Comprehensible Output of Peer Interaction in College English Class

Yufeng Wang
This paper firstly presents the function of classroom interaction in college English class from the aspects of theoretical basis and practical research. Secondly, it's the direct relationship between students. So, it's necessary and important for teachers to imply the peer interaction into classroom...
Proceedings Article

A Protection Algorithm Based on Transient Current Spectrum Characteristic for MMC-HVDC Line

Xingguo Wang
When a fault occurs on a transmission line, fault generated high frequency transient components are a series of natural frequencies in frequency domain. This paper proposes a protection algorithm for MMC-HVDC transmission line based on spectrum characteristic of natural frequency. Spectrum correlation...
Proceedings Article

Effect of Asset - Liability Structure on Bank Performance

Keqi Zhang
The banking sector is the core of modern financial system, and it plays an important role in national economy. The general performance of banking sector is low, therefore it is important for us to research asset-liability structure and bank performance. This paper examines the relationship between asset-liability...

Research on Rural Left-behind Children's Evaluation of Social Organization Services--Based on IPA Analysis Model

Bing Lu
Based on 644 questionnaires, this paper adopts the IPA model (Important-Performance Analysis), understands the current conditions of rural left-behind children's degree of satisfaction on various kinds of services provided by social organizations as well as the degree of recognition analyzes the reasons...

Using Video Recording to Improve Students' Speaking Ability

Agung Wicaksono
Improving learners' ability in speaking is one of the major problems faced by educators now days. Learners' speaking ability in my class is low including their pronunciation, fluency and their accuracy. Furthermore, most of learners are shy and afraid of making mistakes so there is no effort to try to...

Characteristics of Student Critical Thinking in Solving Microbiology Problems

Aminuddin PP, Baitun Nikmah
Critical thinking is an intellectual process that actively and conceptually conceptualizes, implements, analyzes, synthesizes, and evaluates information gathered or generated from observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, to guide beliefs and actions. The purpose of this study...

Improving Early Childhood Teacher's Dance Ability in Traditional Dance through Sport Approach and Tutorial Video

Diah Andika Sari
The role of teacher in introducing and teaching traditional dance to early childhood is enormous. This study aimed to improve the early childhood teacher's dance ability in traditional dance through sport approach and tutorial video. This research used Classroom Action Research method. From the results,...
Proceedings Article

Principle of 0.2V0 in frame-tube structures under expected rare earthquake

X.M. Chen, J. Duan, Y.G. Li
Shear walls could present much more lateral stiffness than frames in frame-tube structures, so the load carried by frames may increased because of the redistribution of plastic internal force induced by the damage of walls under expected rare earthquakes. To ensure structures with double fortification...

Some Thinking about Cultivating Innovation Ability of Students in Process Equipment and Control Engineering

Yongbin Lai, Xiu Chen, Zhang Xin, Guang Wu, Xuebin Li, Yijun Zhou, Long Wang
Training and improving innovation ability of university students is the need of the times and social development. It is the need of higher education development and College Students' development. The innovation ability of university Students determines the innovation ability and competitiveness of the...

The Roles of Grand-parenting in Mothers' Labor Participation in Indonesia

Umar Riyadi, Omas Bulan Samosir
This study is aimed to investigate the effects of grand-parenting on mother's work participation. The data used came from SUPAS 2015 and were analyzed using a multinomial logistic regression. The unit of analyses is women aged 15-54 years who are in union, live with their husbands or spouses and have...

Factors Affecting Individual Resilience

Amien Wahyudi, Siti Partini
Resilience is a skill ability, knowledge, or insight that acts as an individual effort to overcome difficulties and to face future challenges. This study seeks to explain several factors that affect individual resilience. The method used in this study is literature study. Data were analyzed using descriptive...
Proceedings Article

An Air Bearing Facility for Antenna Pointing Mechanism

Guoyong Yang, Hongguang Wang, Lie Ling, Feng Gao
An air bearing facility is built to test the antenna pointing mechanism of track and data relay satellite. A hierarchical and simultaneous gravity unloading method is proposed to unload the gravity on the ground. The air bearing facility is a two layers structure. Planar air bearings and air spindle...

The Increasing Interest in Mathematic Learning Through Model Application Experiential Learning

Hastuty Musa, Mr. Amaluddin
This research is a class action (classroom action research), which aims to increase students' interest in learning mathematic through learning model of Experiential Learning.The subjects of the research are the students of IX class at SMP Negeri 13 Parepare of 17 students, it consists of 9 male students...
Proceedings Article

image approximation by preserving color features

Wu-Ja Lin, Wei-Yu Han, Kuang-Shyr Wu, Yen-Po Lee
In this paper, an image approximation method is proposed. The method approximates the given image by preserving image's average color and color contrast. The experimental results show that the proposed method usually yields satisfactory results.
Proceedings Article

What we might look for in an AGI benchmark

Brandon Rohrer
A benchmark in the ¯eld of Arti¯cial General Intelligence (AGI) would allow evaluation and comparison of the many computational intelligence algorithms that have been developed. In this paper I propose that an ideal benchmark would possess seven key characteristics: ¯tness, breadth, specificity, low...
Proceedings Article

On another view of aggregation of fuzzy relations

Olga Grigorenko, Julija Lebedinska
The paper is devoted to a concept of aggregation of binary fuzzy relations. Consider two n-ary vectors, when we know the degrees to which corresponding components are in relation we can measure the degree to which vectors are in relation. Tasks with such background justify the necessity of aggregation...
Proceedings Article

Numerical Simulation and Experimental Study on Noise Prediction for Engine

Xiong Yong-gang, Li Shun, Xia Tian-jun
A motorcycle engine shell is taken as the research object in the paper in order to reduce the noise radiation of motorcycle engine. The noise radiation of the engine shell is analyzed by the finite element method and boundary element method ( FEM / BEM ), and the frequency range of the noise radiation...
Proceedings Article

Community evolution in dynamic social networks

Gang Wang, Yuli Lei, Chongjun Wang, Shaojie Qiao
This paper proposed a framework and an algorithm for identifying communities in dynamic social networks. In order to handle the drawbacks of traditional approaches for social network analysis, we utilize the community similarities and infrequent change of community members combined with community structure...
Proceedings Article

The stability analysis of asset price system with delay by impulsive control

Xunxia Xu, Liuxiao Guo
The stability analysis of asset price system with delay is discussed in this paper. By adding impulsive control, dynamical properties of the system are changed, i.e., eliminating the influence of some factors such as time delay on the instability of asset price. Based on the impulsive theory and Lyapunov...
Proceedings Article

Energy-efficient MAC in Wireless Body Area Networks

Jingjing Yuan, Changle Li, Wu Zhu
Recently wireless body area network (WBAN) draws more and more attentions because of its benefits especially in health monitoring. As the sensor nodes in WBAN are battery-powered, energy efficiency is the top concern in the medium access control (MAC) protocol design. Therefore, in this paper, we propose...

Hate Speech and Blasphemy on Social Media in Indonesia: Forensic Linguistic Studies

Agus Syahid, Dadang Sudana, Andika Dutha Bachari
The development of technology and information as well as the very rapid use of social media today makes it easy for someone to write a status or comment about what he thinks. Not infrequently, someone’s status or speech on social media which is considered to contain elements of language crime can have...
Proceedings Article

The Intestinal Microbiome of Viliuisk Encephalomyelitis Patients and Its Role in the Pathogenesis of the Disease

Tatyana Mikhailovna Sivtseva, Galina Grigorievna Karganova, Vladimir Leonidovich Osakovskiy
Viliuisk encephalomyelitis (VE) is a unique endemic disease of the central nervous system, in which neurodegenerative processes are initiated by chronic aseptic subclinical inflammation of the brain. Recent research suggests that the gut microbiome play an important role in immune activation and inflammation...
Proceedings Article

Density Functional Theory Simulation of PVDF Transition in Electric Field Polarization

Yan Li, Xu Ma, Yanhong Ding, Xudong Li, Zisheng Li
The molecular model of PVDF is established by the calculation method of density functional theory(DFT). A process of applying an electric field of different magnitude to PVDF to cause a phase transition was simulated. The transformation of the molecular chain of PVDF molecules under the electric field...

Study of the Experimental Course Scheduling System Based on MIP Model

Rui Huang, Jingcheng Huang, Xiaoshan Wang, Yong Luo, Jie Yu
In order to solve the complicated problem of the course scheduling, the experimental course scheduling system based on the mixed integer programming (MIP) model was designed. This paper introduces the implementation process of the system in detail from four aspects: system function, system overall design,...
Review Article

Identifying the vulnerable plaque: A review of invasive and non-invasive imaging modalities

Jan G. Kips, Patrick Segers, Luc M. Van Bortel
Pages: 21 - 34
Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is the current leading cause of death in industrialized countries. The vast majority of acute cardiovascular events (50–70%) are ascribed to thrombosis following rupture of a vulnerable plaque. Therefore there is an urgent need to discern vulnerable, unstable plaques...

Human Resource Management of Contract-Based Teachers and Education Staff to Ensure Quality Education of Senior High Schools in North Sumatera Province

Zahraini, Benyamin Situmorang
The purpose of this study was to describe the human resource management system used in the senior high schools to improve the quality of teaching and learning process. It was a qualitative approach with the data obtained from observation, interviews, field studies, and documents. The subjects were principals...
Proceedings Article

Research of Improved Microblogs Crawling Strategy Based on Time Feature

Hongyan Zhao, Jifeng Tian, Xin Ye, Peiyu Liu
For the problem of real-time about the existing Microblogs page crawling strategy on getting the latest news, this paper proposes an improved Microblogs crawler crawling strategy based on time behavior. For Microblogs page having fast update speed, this strategy adds the time feature tag to the fetching...
Proceedings Article

The Study of Self-Cleaning Properties of TiO2 Coated on Cotton Fabrics

Dina Maharani, D K Maharani, M M S Basukiwardoyo, S T Alawiyah, Rusmini Rusmini
This research study about self cleaning activity of TiO2 coated on cotton fabric. TiO2 nanoparticles is known as good semiconductor which have photocatalytic properties. Cotton fabric was coated by TiO2 to produce self cleaning textiles. Coating of TiO2 nanoparticles on cotton fabrics was carried using...

Marketing Strategy for Educational Services

M. Nur Rohim
In marketing education services and increasing customer loyalty is the school able to plan the right strategy to review the market and customer needs of educational services. Marketing strategy is a plan of an organization made to do marketing by introducing its organization to the public. Educational...

Tourist Satisfaction towards Management of Home Stay in Lumajang District

Dewa Ketut Sujatha, Ni Desak Made Santi Diwyarthi
This study aims to identify data relating to Tourist Satisfaction towards Management of Home Stay inLumajang District.Guests who come to stay at the hotel hope to get the best quality of service. Hotel management strives to provide services to suit guests' expectations. Homestay management offers personal...

Small Business Risks — Entrepreneurs’ Assessments

Yuri. I. Treschevsky, Elena V. Nikishkina, Nikita A Klimov, Pavel D Nikulnikov
The article is devoted to the study of small enterprises’ risks in Russia. The surveyed enterprises incorporated at Voronezh region. However, the territorial scope of their activities is diversified; they have business relations with a wide range of domestic enterprises. This allows us to consider the...

Implementation of the Regulatory Mechanism for Developing the Educational Potential of Senior Citizens in Russia and Abroad

Tatiana Rezer, Lyudmila I. Voronina, Irina Turgel
The article analyses the experience of implementing the regulatory and legal mechanism for the development of the educational potential of senior citizens in Russia and abroad; it substantiates the need for its application in social practice. The purpose of the study is to determine directions, features...

Basis of Financial and Management Accounting Formation Within a Concession Company

T.O. Grafova, I.A. Tishchenko, O.A. Mishchenko
The article presents the main types of concessions and their Russian application. The article covers the principal statements on financial and management accounting maintenance within a concession company. The importance of the accounting division into the financial and management ones is defined in...
Research Article

Real-world Accuracy of Transthoracic Echocardiography in Diagnosing Bicuspid Aortic Valve Morphology: A Single Center UK Experience

Oliver James Harrison, Abdul Badran, Amer Harky, Daniel Muller, Benoy N. Shah, Sunil K. Ohri
Pages: 21 - 26
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic accuracy of Transthoracic Echocardiography (TTE) in assessing Bicuspid Aortic Valve (BAV) morphology. Methods: Case notes of 408 patients (>18 years old) undergoing elective Aortic Valve (AV) surgery over a 2-year period were retrospectively...

Literature Review: The Family Therapy and Non-Family Therapy in Schizophrenia Patients

Quwwatun Azimah Mustajab
Family therapy is a type of therapy used to treat schizophrenia patients and proven to help many patients. Family therapy can ease the burden of families who have family members with mental disorders. The mental health world requires more therapeutic methods to deal with individuals with mental disorders....

Functional and Technological Properties of Composite Mixtures Based on Bean Protein-Carbohydrate Matrix (BPCM)

Inna Simakova, Maxim Maradudin, Anna Veber, Victoria Strizhevskaya
The work was completed in 2017-2018 on the base of Federal State Budget Educational Institution of Higher Education “Saratov State Agrarian University named after N.I. Vavilov”(a study of the chemical composition of bean samples) and the Federal State Budget Scientific Institution for Research and Development...

Marketing Communication and Its Impact on Purchase Willingness and Unwillingness: A Case of a Boycotted Bread Brand

U. Suhud
The Muslim consumers in Indonesia who involved in several political street protests, boycotted a bread brand as the producer of this bread refused to be associated with their activities. This study aims to examine the impact of animosity on boycott participation, boycott motivation, attitude towards...

Diversification and Unification Thoughts on the Development of Dialects

Quanhong Jiang, Haoyuan Zhang, Mei Sun
Dialect is a differentiated language produced in the development of human society. It has diversified pronunciation patterns and carries the cultural memory of residents in a region. In the era of globalization, with the increasingly frequent communication between human in different regions, the voice...
Proceedings Article

The Athlete Sleep Quality in the Training Center

Ni Nyoman Mestri Agustini, Ketut Budaya Astra
The training centre condition will change the athlete’s training intensity, duration, and responsibility. Hormonal imbalances can cause a bad sleep quality. Sleep quality is very important to keep the fit condition of the athletes, so that their performance will be maximum in the match, especially during...

Model of Applying Criminal Sanctions in Overcoming Corruption Through Criminal Sanction by Substitute Money

Ade Mahmud, Dian Alan Setiawan, Eka Juarsa, Dey Ravena, Taufiq Rahman, Iman Sudirman
The implementation of criminal sanctions against corruption has been a problem related to the deterrent effect for convicted people and their contribution to recover state losses. This study (1) determining the influence of criminal sanctions of substitute money in returning state financial losses due...

Some Applications of Near-Order Statistics in Two-Parameter Exponential Distribution

Masoumeh Akbari, Mahboubeh Akbari
Pages: 21 - 27
In this paper, some characterization results for exponential distribution are established. The results are concluded in terms of number of observations near of order statistics. It is shown that its probability mass function and its first moment can characterize the exponential distribution. Also, an...

Mediation of Land Disputes in South Sumatera Province

Ellyza Octaleny, Sri Suwitri, Endang Larasati, Kismartini
Land is a natural resource that is very valuable for human life. Limited land availability creates separate disputes for humans. The cases of land disputes in South Sumatra Province, according to the Head of the Regional Office of the National Land Agency, were 27 cases, 18 cases have been completed...