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Identifying the Issues of Digital Literacy Skills of Undergraduate Students in Universitas Negeri Padang in Applying Internet as Online Learning Resource

Dedi Supendra, Septriyan Anugrah, Fitri Maiziani
Engaging with online learning materials and resources have been common activities undertaken by undergraduate students in discovering knowledge and in particular situation, assisting them doing their assignments. However, there are some problems emerged during this process so that it cannot reach the...
Research Article

Adiponectin negatively correlated with carotid arterial structure in the leptin-resistant Zucker diabetic fatty rat

Emmanuel Cosson, Paul Valensi, André Bado, Hubert Dabiré
Pages: 12 - 20
Background: Despite adipocytokines are implicated in arterial hemodynamic and stiffness, their effects on arterial histomorphometry remain poorly explored. The aim of the present study was to evaluate, in Zucker Diabetic Fatty (ZDF) rats, a model of type 2 diabetes with leptin resistance, carotid arterial...

Categories of Space and Time of the Concept “Reindeer Breeding” (in Even and Evenki)

Ekaterina Krivoshapkina, Svetlana Prokopieva
In the context of development of cognitive linguistics, the concept “reindeer breeding” must be regarded more extensive, namely, as a basic category of being for most indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia, and Russian Far East. Using the cognitive approach, its conceptual content must be addressed....

Optimizing the Value-at-Risk Measure in European Countries to Better Quantify Market Risk in Banking Industry in Sweden

F. Akhmedov, Mhd Shaker Zeitoun
Market conditions can change rapidly. Empirical evidences from Europe markets show that there can be several years between risk being taken, revenues being generated, and losses flowing through. This is the lesson that the recent financial crisis of 2008 taught us. Stress market conditions in Europe...

Problems and Countermeasures of rural water ecological civilization construction under river system

Min Xiang, Yan-wen Shi, Wei-liang Li, Yi-ming Zhou, Zheng-jia GU
Rural water environment is an integral part of the construction of rural water ecological civilization and an important part of the construction of "beautiful countryside”. But in recent years, rural water ecological environment is deteriorating.This paper analyzes the present situation and causes of...

Entering Children’s Literacy Through Whole Language Approach

Ari Susanti, Mustaji Mustaji, Umi Anugerah Izzati
The aim of this research was to determine the influence of the whole language for kindergarten students, especially in early literacy. The researcher chose a whole language approach to help children age 4-5 years understanding early literacy because it integrated 4 language capabilities: reading, writing,...

Independent Assessment of the Quality of Education in Russia: Results and Development Directions

Yulia Fedorchuk, Sergey Neustroyev, Anna Arinushkina
The article considers certain elements of the world and national system of independent assessment of the education quality. The structure of the system at the federal, regional, and local levels, the regulatory framework, and the results are considered. The paper also analyzes the normative changes in...

The Effects of Health Educational Lessons using Learning Activities that Make Students Apply The Knowledge

Hideaki Tanimoto
The Japanese Education Ministry guidelines were revised in 2008 with an emphasis to elevate the thinking levels, judgment capacity and an expressive faculty. This will be passed down by the next guidelines revised in 2017. As in any health education, handling the Content of the Education Ministry guidelines...

The Application of Multiple Intelligences Theory in Mathematics Teaching

Nan Wang
The construction of high-end technical and skilled personnel training project in Beijing is not only the need of social development, but also the need of school education development. Through the application of multiple intelligences theory in mathematics class, teachers can correctly treat the diversity...

Putative Dehalogenase uptake gene from Rhizobium sp. RC1

Adam Izzuddin Nasir, Aliyu Adamu, Yilmaz Kaya, Mohamed Faraj Edbeib, Fahrul Huyop
Halogenated compounds that are polluting the environment is becoming a huge concern that demands an efficient solution. The rising priority in the use of microorganisms that have the potential to be the most environmental-friendly way to degrade and dispose of halogenated compounds is crucial in solving...

Arguments in Critical Thinking Ability

Nonik Indrawatiningsih
The ability to think critically is an essential skill and becomes one of the primary goals in college. A person who can think critically will be able to use appropriate criteria to evaluate an argument. There must be clear evidence and accompanied by a plausible explanation. This study aims to investigate...

Research on Financial Support Game New Urbanization Process in China

Xiaohong Dong
Theoretical and game analysis of the new urbanization of financial support. Propose solutions to the problem of rural financial conflicts financing needs of both supply and demand, improve rural financial market stage presence financial suppression. Game analysis of the process of urbanization problems...

The Transformation of the MPAcc Talent Cultivation Model in Colleges Based on the Financial Shared Environment

Jun Dai, Mengting Yu
The MPAcc education reform needs to be based on the developing trend of the accounting industry. Exerting the advantages of standardization, process and intelligence, nowadays the financial shared service is leading the revolution of the accounting industry by the modem information technology. This paper...

The Effect of Using English Videos on Vocabulary Achievement at the Fifth Grade of Elementary School 10 Poasia

Ni Nyoman Ayu Novayanti, Meilan Nirmala Shinta, Mr Mursalim, Amir Jaya
Vocabulary is often regarded as the foundation of four main skills of English; listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It is important to look for the ways how teaching vocabulary can be effective and integrated into those skills. This study aims at finding out the effect of using English videos on...

The Construction of University's Smart Library

Haibo Zhang, Peifa Lin, Xiaoyan Li
Due to the limitation of objective conditions, some university libraries can hardly change their “physical conditions” such as library buildings. In order to improve service quality, it is an effective method to use information technology to build “virtual conditions” of libraries. As an important content...

A Comparison Study of The Registration System of Trademarks in Indonesia and Australia

Agung Sujatmiko, Ria Setyawati
Trade Mark as a part of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) has very important function in goods trade, especially for products with famous trade mark. The famous trade mark has high economic value if it is compares to others products. On the other side, it is also fragile to falsification which done...

Implications of Regional Autonomy for National and Local Coal Mining Development Companies: Case Study of The closure of PT. BA-UPO in Sawah Lunto, West Sumatra

Ade Saptomo
This paper aims to analyze the relationship between the implementation of regional autonomy policy with the National Coal Mining Company and the emergence of the Local Coal Mining Company in Indonesia with a particular case study on the case of coal for mentioned Coal located in Sawah Lunto, West Sumatra....

Monetary policy transmission mechanism: A survey

Wang Zuyi
The transmission problem of monetary policy plays an important role in the theory of monetary policy. Its conduction effect determines the performance of macroeconomic regulation and control, which influences the current and future policy decisions of the monetary authorities. The effective transmission...

Professional Legal Ethic in Australia

Reid Mortensen
This paper is a short account of the deep moral structures of Australian legal professions. In attempting to understand how the ethics of any legal profession compare with those of other countries’ professions, the social, political and historical foundations of the profession help to explain the moral...

Learning Style Preferences of College Student

Arda Purnama Putra, Sutansi Sutansi, Achmad Badawi
Research on preferential learning styles has long been carried out since 1981. Several studies reveal that learning styles can affect one's learning outcomes. However, there are several studies which reveal that learning styles do not affect one's learning outcomes. This difference is interesting to...

Descriptive Study of Efforts Integrates Character Values to Students

Sultoni Sultoni, Imam Gunawan, Sari Oktavia Ningsih
The purpose of this research is to describe the level of internalization of student character values. The approach used in this research is to use a quantitative approach. The sample was 46 students. Sampling technique in this research is quota random sampling. Closed questionnaire is a research instrument...

3. Filtering and Fact-checking as the Antidote to ‘Fake News’

Eric Loo
In this modern era, journalist also plays an important role as the one who will decide how an information will be delivered to public. Especially with the development of technology recently, people tend to use the easiest online news platform (whether it is reliable one or not) as their sources and unreliable...

Time Delay Compensation for a Class of Dual Loop Networked Control System with Different Sampling Rate

Hong Zhao, Ke Che, Shenglan Zhang
This paper investigates a class of dual loop networked control system with different sampling rate. Smith predictor is used to eliminate the influence of time delay. However, uncertain time-varying delay and different sampling rate in the actual production process make the system with conventional Smith...
Proceedings Article

The Mechanical Behaviour during Multiple Injections and its Influence on Fracture Network

Li-Feng Yang, Yu-Zhang Liu, Yun-Hong Ding, Yong-Hui Wang, Xiao-Sen Shang
Many cases show that multiple injections fracturing serves as an effective method to increase the probability of creating complex fracture network for shale gas reservoirs. However, its mechanism is unclear. This paper, therefore, intends to use numerical simulation and theoretical models to explore...
Proceedings Article

Analyzing on Filtering Effect and Energy Saving Mechanism of Dynamic Harmonic Filter

Yifei Wang, Youxin Yuan, Jinming Mao, Yongming Jiang
The harmonic suppression must be applied to the power equipment in distribution system in order to improve the power quality and saving energy. So the author developed the dynamic harmonic filter, and it was successfully applied. Based on the previous research, Firstly, the paper analyzed quantitatively...

Word-list-based EAP Vocabulary Teaching to Science Students in China

Yu-Yan Du, Zong-Rong Wang, Pi-Yi Du
Since EAP (English for Academic Purposes) teaching is being paid greater attention to in China, a trend appears that EAP courses are becoming the mainstream university EFL (English as a Foreign Language) courses. This paper looks into science-specific college students in China in the pedagogical EAP...
Proceedings Article

Optimization of the Bay Resources in Substations Based on Hierarchical Model

Wen-Fei Liu, Jun He, Cheng-Gang Shi, Hai-Tao Pan, Tao Chen, Chong Pan, Yi Jiang, Yun-Ting Song, Yin-Shun Wang
The increasing access requirements of distribution network in urban centers and the limited bay resources in power grid have formed a great contradiction. Ac-cordingly, the bay resource optimization method based on hierarchical model is proposed in this paper. Outer planning selects attributive substations...

TBI in ESP class: the Advantages and Limitations

Ivonne Susan
English for general purposes (EGP) could not suit in all work field, community realize that English for specific purposes (ESP) is needed. As we know that ESP course is aimed to prepare the learners to execute specific task or set of tasks. Unfortunately, a research revealed that there was some problems...

On the importance of stage performance in vocal music performance

Lei Ning
Vocal music cannot be separated from the performance of the stage, and the stage performing arts must be accompanied by national vocal music. The two promote each other and influence each other. The charm of the stage show is that it can make the theme of unwritten music art more vivid, so that the vocal...
Proceedings Article

Determination of titanium content in pyrotechnics used for fireworks and firecrackers based on Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry (EDXRF)

Jun-yi Wu, Huan-xin Xiao
Methods used for the determination of titanium content in pyrotechnics are mostly based on traditional chemical method, which is lengthy and cumbersome. If inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry or atomic absorption spectrometry are used to determine the titanium with high content,the sample...

From Need Analysis to ELT Study Program Learning Outcome Development: Meeting the Standards of the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA)

Refnaldi REFNALDI, Fitrawati FITRAWATI, Aryuliva ADNAN
Learning outcome, within the context of higher education, is the most important element in the curriculum of a study program because all courses, learning activities, and assessment methods should be alligned with the learning outcomes. This study reports a research on mapping the program learning outcomes...

Vlog: the Mean to Improve Students' Speaking Ability

Izzah Maulidah
Technology and social media are great combination for English learning process since they provide a chance to improve students' ability in English. A lot of media can be used to facilitate it and one of them is vlog. It is the mean to increase students' speaking ability. This paper is aimed at exploring...

The Relationship Between Ranau Krui and Retta

Darsita Suparno
This research examines the historical relationship between Ranau, Krui and Retta languages. As they are all members of the Austronesian language family, those languages have similarities and differences in their lexical or phonological features. The aims of this study are: (1) to describe synchronically...

Effectiveness of Harmony in Differences: increasing in universal difference orientation, sensitivity intercultural, thinking flexibility and prejudice.

Meutia Nauly, Ridhoi Meilona Purba, Rahma Fauzia
This research has been started by testing the values of important batak culture and supporting variables of cultural learning process such as opennes, and cognitive flexibility towards increasing intercultural sensitivity among Batak students (Batak Toba, Batak Mandailing, Batak Karo, and Batak Simalungun...
Proceedings Article

Research on Recovery Strategy and Motion Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Yushan Sun, Lifeng Wang, Xiangrui Ran, Guocheng Zhang
During the recovery of AUV, the hydrodynamic power of the hull becomes intricate due to the presence of the submarine. It's unable to accurately obtain the forces and moments in all degrees of freedom. In this paper, we put forward the plan of traversing, depth control and path planning for complex hydrodynamic...

Research on Service Network Governance Structure

Guihong Xu, Jingfeng Zhao, Haizhen Wu
The article analyzed the attitude and role of stakeholders in the service industry, straighten out the logic relationship, construct both bottom-up and top-down sandwich type vertical structure, but also horizontally through the multi-agent coordination management to realize the subject interests and...

An Empirical Research on the Development Level of the Agricultural Products Logistics in the Region of Sichuan Province

Haoxiong Hong,, Chong Wang
Sichuan province is a big province of agricultural products logistics in China. Different population, economy and culture in different cities and states have the own characteristics, forming different agricultural logistics development capabilities. Combined with the principal component analysis, this...
Proceedings Article

AGI Preschool: A Framework for Evaluating Early-Stage Human-like AGIs

Vladimir Bugaj, Ben Goertzel
A class of environments for teaching and evaluating AGI systems is described, modeled loosely on preschools used for teaching human children and intended specifically for early-stage systems aimed at approaching human-level, human-inspired AGI through a process resembling human developmental psychology....
Proceedings Article

Modeling and Simulation of Fresh Air System with LHTS and Solar Energy

Lili Wang, Tao Zhang
State of the research about the technology of solar energy with LHTS Latent Heat Thermal Storage at home and abroad was firstly introduced, and a fresh air system with solar energy and LHTS was then introduced. After that the fuzzy control system of fresh air temperature was studied. Firstly, a mathematical...
Proceedings Article

Second Language Reading Strategies in Multimedia Environment for Zhuang Ethnic College Students in China

Shanshan Wu, Baoguo Shan
Since 1960s, the importance of environmental protection has come into world’s vision. The application of environmental regulation in international trade has got more and more along of the deepening of globalization. The prevailing view suggests that when some country carry out more stringent environmental...
Research Article

The African Continental Free Trade Area: A Historical Moment for Development in Africa

Vera Songwe, Jamie Alexander Macleod, Stephen Karingi
Pages: 12 - 23
This policy piece surveys the potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a historical framework for setting Africa on the path toward structural transformation and sustainable development. After evaluating the part that the landmark continental trade integration reform will play...
Proceedings Article

Courses Arrangement Based on Optimization Model under New College Entrance Examination Reform

Yuhan Zheng, Weihua Li, Lvting Fang
The new reform of college entrance examination has given students the right to choose subjects freely, but it puts forward higher requirements for school resources. This paper establishes the course scheduling optimization model to give the optimal courses arrangement which can help schools use their...
Proceedings Article

Simulation of the Structure of Bond Issuer’s Obligations Fulfillment: A Case of Sub-Federal Bonds

Yulia V. Semernina, Alla V. Yakunina, Elena A. Ermakova, Sergey V. Yakunin, Elena V. Zhegalova, Eugene A. Korobov
Depreciable bonds issues can significantly expand the issuers’ abilities to manage public debt. The purpose of the study is to suggest possible options for a model for fulfilling obligations by issuers of depreciable sub-federal bonds. The study was conducted using a discrete grouping constructed according...

Recruitment of Tenant Entrepreneurship Development Program in Politeknik Negeri Batam

Shinta Wahyu Hati, Rahmat Hidayat, Ely Kartikaningdyah, Hendra Gunawan
The Entrepreneurship Development Program at the Batam State Polytechnic is a national competition grant from the Ministry of Research and Technology. The implementation of the entrepreneurship development program is the second year. Tenans in the entrepreneurship development program are students and...

Development of Scientific Learning Model Based on Multiliteracies in 2013 Basic School Curriculum

Lilik Bintartik, Esti Untari, Yuniawatika
This study aims to develop a multiliteracies based scientific learning model by designing learning and testing syntax draft model. Research used development methods by Borg and Gall but was modified because of time constraints includes major steps: (1) do a needs analysis; (2) develop initial products;...
Proceedings Article

Research on Coupling and Coordinating Development of Big Data Industry and Ecological Civilization in Guizhou

Xia Feng, Mu Zhang
In order to promote the coordinated development of Guizhou's big data industry and the construction of ecological civilization, this paper combines qualitative analysis with quantitative analysis. First, it creatively introduces the search engine data-Baidu index into the evaluation system, and establishes...

The Effectiveness of Modern Hair Bun Styling Handout to Improve the Learning Outcome of Students in Hair Beauty Department of a Vocational High School

Marwiyah, Trisnani Widowati, Delta Apriyani, Nadia Ika Maharani
The handout gives students guidance on how to learn something. However, SMK Negeri 1 Salatiga, particularly from the Department of Beauty, does not provide the handout for the students. The researchers arranged the handout for modern hair bun styling to ease the students for independent learning. This...
Proceedings Article

Research About Data Access Control Based on Data Sensitivity for Cloud-Fog Cooperative

Ruixia Li, Zhenwei Chen, Wei Peng
Cloud computing provides flexible services for users because of its sharing and openness, so traditional access control model cannot achieve flexible and dynamic access control in cloud computing environment. In this paper, a cloud-fog collaboration model is introduced. By adding a fog server, not only...

Economic Efficiency Estimation of Region Industrial Complex Functioning in the Context of Subject Economic Interests’ Harmonization of Regional Industrial Policy

Dmitry E. Morkovkin
In this article is developed by the author of the method and algorithm of evaluation of efficiency of functioning of industrial complex of the region, tested on the official statistics data on the organizational-economic situation of the industrial complex of the Russian Federation. Proposed modified...

Evolutionary Feature Optimization for Plant Leaf Disease Detection by Deep Neural Networks

Jalal Sadoon Hameed Al-bayati, Burak Berk Üstündağ
Pages: 12 - 23
Apple leaf disease is the foremost factor that restricts apple yield and quality. Usually, much time is taken for disease detection with the existing diagnostic techniques; therefore, farmers frequently miss the best time for preventing and treating diseases. The detection of apple leaf diseases is a...