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Research on Microstructure and Properties of Bimetal Composite Layer Between LAS and HCCI

Wenbing Zhang, Shumei Chen, Hui Gao, Yongchang Zhu
Based on the casting technique analysis on the temperature field and the velocity field for the low alloy steel, low alloy steel(LAS)/ high chromium white cast iron(HCCI) bimetal wear steel plate was prepared by two liquid bimetal composite casting process. The microstructure of interface layer of wear-resisting...

Internalization of Local Wisdom Values through Music Art as Stimulation of Strengthening Character Education in Early Childhood Education; A Hermeneutic Analysis and Ethnography Studies

Desyandri Desyandri
This article aims to describe the role of teachers of Early Childhood Education in the process of understanding and internalizing the values of local Minangkabau wisdom contained in the song "Kampuang nan Jauah di Mato" as stimulation in early childhood to strengthen the nation's character education....

SUSTAINABLE AND COMMUNITY-BASED TOURISM MODELS FOR ALLEVIATING POVERTY IN CITARUM BASIN

Kartasasmita Pius Suratman, Janelle Falconer
Empirical evidence signifies that poverty is one of the critical public issues within Citarum River Basin Communities (CRBC). Rates exceeding national averages demonstrate poverty levels greater than 25% in 8 of its 11 districts. This paper aims to explore the extent to which Sustainable Tourism Models...
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The Improved PASTd and ESPRIT in Power System Harmonic Estimation Application

Feng Liu, Ligong Sun, Zhihao Cheng
The paper analyzes the current power system harmonic estimation algorithms which have a considerable number of shortages. In order to improve detection precision and reduce the computational complexity, we can combine the ESPRIT algorithm with improved PASTd algorithm, consequently, achieve the rapid...

The Effects of Time Dimension and Interview Period Research on Sample Loss in SIPP

Rao Xiong
The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), is widely used in many fields of the most effective methods to analyze the data. From the history of the development of SIPP, the panel was redesigned in 1996, in order to improve the quality of information, improves the sample size and the length...

Enzootic Bovine Leukosis: how to prevent the disease and control the spread of BLV infection.

Takeshi Haga
Threat of animal infectious diseases, as well as that of vector-bone disease is increased in the globalized world under global warming. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (EBL) is caused by the infection of Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV) which belong to the family of Retiroviridae. Only a few percentages of BLV infected...

Historical Study of the Outside Planting Substitution Policy of Communist Party of China in the Last Twenty Years-Taking Planting Substitution Assistance to Myanmar and Laos by Agricultural Bureau of Xishuang Banna as an Example

Zhimin Lei
Building a peaceful, cooperative and prosperous community of human destiny is the ideal pursuit of the Communist Party of china. Since the reform and opening, the Communist Party of Chinese has followed the path of peaceful development, innovated the poverty aid system of the surrounding backward countries...

Tax Evasion: Is It Ethical or Unethical? (from Samarinda Taxpayers Perception)

Nurhapizah Majid, Cornelius Rantelangi, Mr Iskandar
The tax evasion is a taxpayers active undertaking in the event of reducing, abolishing, illegally manipulating of the tax payable or not to pay tax payable as appropriate. It's believed that this action is influenced by two factors namely, Tax Fairness and Compliance Cost. If the tax fairness has been...

The Development of Contextual Teaching and Learn-ing-Based Comic as a Learning Media for Elementary School Students

Ais Rosyida, Mr. Mustaji, Waspodo Subroto
The research aimed at developing and testing the validity, practi-cality, as well as the effectiveness of learning a learning media in the form of comic based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) on Social studies. Observation model and development model (R&D) of Borg and Gall used were the research....
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Accelerated Simulation of Cell Biological Systems Using Heterogeneous Parallel Processing Platforms- A Survey

K. Abhishek, N. Sreenivasa, S Balaji
Simulation is a handy toolkit of scientists and engineers of all disciplines. Modeling and simulation helps in overall reduction of cost, increases the quality of products and systems, and documents and archives lessons learnt. This paper reviews modeling and simulation of cell biological systems in...

Culture in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Lidia Kostikova, Varvara Prishvina, Anna Ilyushina, Oksana Fedotova, Anatoliy Belogurov
This paper examines the use of cultural approach to teaching English as a foreign language to university students who are actively involved in intercultural communication in their professional development. To improve the quality of English teaching, care should be taken in the fostering of multifaceted...
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A Measure Method for Indiscernibility in Imperfect Information System

Jiye Liang, Jifang Pang
Traditionally, the information system is assumed to be perfect, i.e. attribute values are not missing and supposed to be precise. In fact, imperfect information system is always existent. In this paper, based on imperfect information system (include missing data and imprecise data), the concepts of indiscernibility...
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Singularity Analysis for Three Materials Junctions

Tian Shuai, Xu Yazhou, Wu Zhixue
The eigenvalue is an important parameter to represent the stress singularity on the singular point of dissimilar linear elastic material wedges. An Airy stress function method has been used to calculate eigenvalues of the bi-material and trimaterial junctions by varying an interface angle 1 from 0-180°...
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An Improved Personalized Recommendation System Research

Xingyuan Li, Qingshui Li
In order to find information of interest and found valuable information resources in enrich Internet data. This paper describes a personalized recommendation system, personalized recommendation system is an intelligent recommendation system to help e-commerce site for customers to provide complete personalized...
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Resource-sharing Construction of Area E-government Information Based on Cloud-computing

Linna Huang, Baoguo Gu
Cloud computing, with superior computing power, low-cost and high-security, will be applied to the resource-sharing area of E-government information with great significance and value. From the point of theory, technology and practice, it is scientifically feasible to build a cloud-based E-government...
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Wind Power Forecasting Based on the BP Neural Network

Jiandong Mao, Xiaojing Zhang, Juan Li
Accurate short-term wind power forecasting has important significance to safety, stability and economy of power system dispatching and also it is a difficult problem in practical engineering application. In this paper, by use of the data of numerical weather forecast, such as wind speed, wind direction,...
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The Empirical Research on Public Service Motivation of Civil Servants in the Basic Level Government: Taking the Sub-district Offices in Kunming as a Case

Xiujuan Zheng
Adopting the Perry’s public service motivation scale and Coursey ? Pandys’ classification method of three-dimensions, the paper investigates the public service motivation of civil servants in the basic level government in Kunming city, Yunnan province. In a word, the paper drew the following conclusion:...
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Applications of Orthogonal Matching Pursuit in Compressed Sensing

Jingfan Long, Xiujie Wei, Peixin Ye
In this paper, we study the efficiency of compressed sensing by using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP). We show that if a Matrix ? has coherence less than 1 /20K0:8 and satisfies the Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) of order [CK1:2] with constant ? = cK ??0:2, then a K-sparse signal x can be recovered...
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RESTful Digital Web Services for Market Price Forecasting with RAn Application on Equity Markets Using Garch Models

Mihai Calciu, Christiana Tudor
Web services (WS) are originally and typically SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) based. SOAP based web services offer a powerful architecture and communication protocol that allows model based marketing decisions support (MMDS) to be integrated, served and get discovered over the Internet. Lately...

Analysis of the Integration of Chinese Traditional Patterns in Modern Brand Image Design

Qiji Wang
In order to highlight the personality of modern brand image design and enrich its connotation, in this research, the Chinese traditional pattern is fully integrated into brand design. On the basis of traditional pattern theoretical knowledge and spiritual connotation, the traditional Chinese pattern...

Innovative Ideological Education Operation Mechanism of Political Education of Higher Vocational Students

Qixin Gao
Ideological and political education is the key point and difficult point in work of higher vocational school. The practice education operation mechanism has great and long-term significance for the ideological and political education in higher vocational school. On the basis of the analysis of the domestic...
Review Article

Reducing arterial stiffness and wave reflection – Quest for the Holy Grail?

Azra Mahmud
Pages: 13 - 19
Arterial stiffness and wave reflection are fast emerging as therapeutic targets in their own right. While thiazide diuretics have little or no effect on either arterial stiffness or wave reflection, vasodilators including nitrates and phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors e.g., sildenafil, reduce wave...

The Role and Function of Teachers in Improving Effective Learning in Classes

Quma Irah Larasati, Anggraeni Cahyaningtyas, Asfi Mangzila, Anjar Agus Firawati, Siti Munirotul Yuanita, Indra Lesmana
This study aims to describe the role and function of teachers in enhancing effective learning, inhibiting factors and solutions to teacher barriers in carrying out the roles and functions of teachers at the Elementary School of Santa Maria 2 Malang (SDK Santa Maria 2 Malang). This study used a descriptive...

Standards of Competency of Head of School Beginners as Leaders in Learning Innovation

Ibrahim Ibrahim Bafadal, Ibrahim Bafadal, Ahmad Yusuf Sobri, Ahmad Nurabadi, Imam Gunawan
This study aims to describe the personal, social, and professional competencies that a novice must possess in order to effectively begin his performance as an innovative learning leader. This research was conducted with a quantitative. The targets of this study were 10 principals in metropolitan cities,...

The Application of “Course Depreciation” in Credit Bank for Credit Accumulation and Exchange

Yang Zhao*
There are some obstacles in the credit bank construction, such as contradictions among registration validity, learning outcomes exchange and educational equality. According to the function of credit bank, the author originally proposes the conception of “course depreciation” for solving the contradictions...

Literature Review: The Importance of Adding Sharia Economic Material to Economic Subjects in Senior High Schools

Hakim Luqman, Anwar Moch. Khoirul, Pahlevi Triesninda, Pratiwi Vivi, Kurniawan Riza Y
This study aims to analyze the importance of adding sharia economic material to economic subjects in Senior High Schools, especially in Science Department. The type of this research is literature review research by examining various journals and previous theories. The results showed that the sharia economic...

Exploring Online Shopping Behavior among Indonesian Students: Digital Marketing Communication Perspective

Melly Maulin Purwaningwulan
The increasing of internet usage in Indonesia has encouraged the phenomenon of online shopping into needs or hobbies for social network users, especially students. This research aims to analyze and discover the uniqueness of online shopping behavior among Indonesian students, which consists the stage...

Evaluation of Curriculum 2013 Implementation in Elementary Schools

Sukarman
This research aims to contribute several ideas towards the implementation of the 2013 curriculum for elementary school teachers in Palembang. This descriptive qualitative research used interviews and questionnaires as data collection techniques. The results of the 2013 Curriculum implementation evaluation...

Carbonyl Derivatives of Proteins–as Markers of Free Radical Processes in Dairy Products

Valeriy Vysokogorskiy, Galina Kryshkina, Oksana Lazareva, Natalya Strelchik
Improving methods for assessing the biological properties of milk is a currently important task. The level of carbonyl derivatives of proteins during iron-induced oxidative degradation of pasteurized milk proteins was used as a marker of the intensity of free radical processes. During incubation of milk...

Analysis of the Effect of Information Asymmetry on Dividends

L. Ernestin, W.R. Murhadi, B.S. Sutejo
This study aims to examine the effect of information asymmetry on the dividend policy of non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Basically, there is information asymmetry between managers and investors in which investors only know company information through dividend information,...
Proceedings Article

Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Kaempferia galanga L. Rhizome Extract in Carrageenan-Induced Female Rats

Galih Samodra, Dina Febrina
Kencur (Kaempferiae galanga L.) is a plant that is traditionally used for the treatment of various diseases including inflammation. This study aimed to know the comparison of the effectiveness of kencur extracts with diclofenac sodium as an antiinflammatory agent. Fifteen female rats aged 2-3 months...

Production and Distribution Analysis of Dairy Farming

Ignatius Prasetya Aji Wibowo, Lukertina Lukertina
The purpose of this study is to analyze the production and distribution system from dairy farms in Mojosongo, with purposive sampling from existing cattle rancher group. Based on the research data, the output product of dairy farming is milk, meat, cow dung, breeding, fertilizer and also biogas. Each...

Brief Discussion of the Ideological and Political Education Function of Literary Works

Miaomiao Hu
Chinese traditional culture has a long history, and literature is an important manifestation of the traditional culture. In the thousands of years of development course of China, literature has influenced generations of Chinese students based on its extensive knowledge and profound thoughts. Literary...
Proceedings Article

Analytic Hierarchy Process for Priority Policy on Road Access to Tourist Areas of Berau Regency, East Kalimantan

Rosa Agustaniah, Achmad Wicaksono
Development of favorite tourist destinations in Derawan Island and other places in the southern coastal region of Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, must be supported by the provision of good transportation infrastructure and services to encourage connectivity so that it can increase tourist visits annually....

The Community Economic Empowerment Based on Zakat Funds: A Case Study in BAZNAS West Java

Sri Fadilah, Mey Maemunah, Nopi Hernawati
The background of the research is that West Java Province that has a large population and has 27 cities / regencies with all its diversity and culture as well as the regional advantages of being the wealthy area of West Java. However, West Java also has economic and social problems, namely unemployment...

Village Laws Dilemma: What Can the Village of Indonesia Do?

Fitria Esfandiari, Sholahuddin Al-Fatih
The enactment of Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages (Village Law) has a significant impact on changing the position of the village from just the administrative area under the district to the entity that has the right to regulate and manage self-government affairs. Based on the initiative of the...

E-Happiness Tool (Web Application), Measuring of Poor Family Happiness

Ari Hendarno, Bagus Sumargo, Agus Setiawan
Is your family happy? Many factors can affect family happiness. e-Happiness Tool can assess whether your family is happy or not based on factors that are valid and reliable from previous studies. These factors are life satisfaction, affect, and meaning of life. The e-Happiness Tool also presents a percentage...

Employee Burnout vs Employee Engagement and Its Impact on Turnover Intention

Agi Syarif Hidayat, Agustina Agustina
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of burnout and employee engagement on turnover intention. The research method used is quantitative research methods. The population in this study were employees of PT. Arteria Daya Mulia (ARIDA) with 841 people. The technique of measuring the number...

Calvino’s Literature Values in Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Tao Zhang
In his work Six Memos for the Next millennium, Calvino explains the essence of literature from five aspects closely related to his aesthetic qualities, that is, “Lightness”, “Quickness”, “Exactitude”, “Visibility” and “Multiplicity”, which can be understood as follows: “Lightness” is the premise and...
Research Article

Aortic Stiffness in HIV Infection with and without Antiretroviral Therapy. A Meta-analysis of Observational Studies

Giovanni Mulè, Giuseppe Mulè, Valeria Tranchida, Pietro Colletti, Giovanni Mazzola, Marcello Trizzino, Claudia Colomba, Antonio Cascio
Pages: 13 - 20
Background: The risk of Cardiovascular (CV) events is higher in HIV-infected patients (HIV+) compared to HIV-uninfected persons (HIV−). Large artery stiffness, a well-documented predictor of adverse CV prognosis, may mediate this enhanced risk. It is usually assessed by measuring aortic Pulse Wave Velocity...
Proceedings Article

Lymphatic Filariasis Situation After Mass Drug Administration in Kamundu and Tanah Miring Village in Merauke Regency, Papua, in 2017

Semuel Sandy, Anorital, Raflizar
Background: The mass drug administration program (MDA) has been implemented since 2007 and the evaluation of the assessment survey (TAS) was carried out in elementary school children in 2014 and 2016 with negative results. The activity was to assess whether there was any transmission of lymphatic filariasis...
Proceedings Article

Response of SS Multipurpose Liquid Fertilizer to Growth and Production of Petsai Plants (Brassica chinensis L.)

Sofyan Samad, Shubzan A. Mahmud, Hasbullah, Farida Maricar
Chinese cabbage plants were ones of the horticultural plants that have high economic value and support for national food security. The public demand for Chinese cabbage was increasing to meet market needs; this research needs to be done. The aim was to determine the effect of multi-use of SS organic...

Exploration and Practice of the Systematic Educational Model of “Three Microelements in One” in Ideological and Political Courses in Colleges and Universities

Fei Sun
The practice teaching system of “three micro-one” and “three all-round education” should be constructed, emphasizing the organic combination of micro-classroom education, Micro-Platform practice education and micro-environment education. With the coming of the new era, it is necessary to rely on the...

Building a Governance System for Tourist Destination Based on Desa Adat (Study on Pandawa Beach Tourist Destination in the Village of Kutuh, South Kuta, Bali)

Anak Agung Putu Agung, I Made Tamba, Ida Bagus Brata
Development ot Tourist Destination newly become the alternative which important progressively and insit on to give the new atmosphere with the fress and warm image and also avoid impression monoton. To realize the mentioned, hence research of system of management of tourist destination very urgen done...

Forms, Functions and Values of Mbata Singing in Penti Ceremony at Tana Rata Village, Kota Komba District, East Manggarai Regency

Bergita Itu, Susilo Pradoko
Mbata song as the one of cultural that heritage at East Manggarai which is rich with the values and teachings for the human life. Mbata song is the ancestral heritage of the people in East Manggarai, which is always performed at traditional ceremonies at the Sa’o or one of the ceremonies who held by...

Social Emotional Development of Early Childhood Through Traditional Games in PAUD Terpadu Hauriyah Halum City of Padang

Nina Ramayenda
This study was background by there are still parents who provide media for children’s games using gadgets and other modern games. The factors that influence it are social emotional changes that are unstable and temperamental, and social status. The purpose of this study is to: (1) analyze the factors...

Effect of Psychological Intervention on Anxiety of College Students With Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Hai-yan LI, Feng-ju QIN
In this paper, firstly, to understand the psychological state of university students with tuberculosis and explore the effect of psychological intervention on the psychological anxiety of college students. Secondly, fifty-two pulmonary tuberculosis patients from a university in Jinan were randomly divided...

The Influence of Culture Capital and Work Ethics on Productive Behavior of New Business Candidates

Arfian, Anissa Lestari Kadiyono, Marina Sulastiana, Diana Harding
Indonesia will enter the demographic bonus in 2045, where entrepreneurial skills are needed to deal with the issue of demographic bonus. On the other side, the business competition is quite tight, so it is demanded to provide superior human resources in the business field. One effort is to increase the...

A Case Study on Student-Run Official WeChat Account in Chinese Colleges and Universities

Ruilan Cao, Xinrui Yan
Emerging media, as a new and highly operational vehicle of information dissemination, has sprouted around the world in recent years, greatly undermining the power of traditional media. WeChat, as an emerging social platform, dominates Chinese new media market. In Chinese colleges and universities, WeChat...

Study on Characteristics of Exercise Load of Football Referees on the Spot

Xuanwu Zhang
In this study, by collecting the data of running distance, heart rate index and rating of perceived exertion (RPE) index of China’s national and first-level chief referees in different competitions, the load difference of chief referees in officiating competitions was scientifically quantified. The chief...