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Image resizing is a common technique used in image editing and processing to reduce or increase the image’s dimensions. The naive approaches, such as cropping or scaling, may result in image distortion or data loss. A more sophisticated method is content-aware image resizing, which employs algorithms...

Traditional statistical control charts are rarely used as a tool to monitor the stock trading and portfolio analysis due to its capability of proving a buying, selling, or holding signal to the investor. Besides that, the normality assumption for a control chart is always violated due to the share prices...

This study aims to: 1) analyze the differences in student learning outcomes using the blended learning method and students who do not use it and 2) analyze the differences in student learning outcomes before and after implementation of the blended learning method. The type of research was quasi-experimental....

Healthcare-associated infection is one of the main risks to patients’ safety. Worldwide, the most prevalent hospital acquired illness is catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). These healthcare facilities frequently use catheters, and many patients are catheterized for extended periods of...

Speech is a common form of communication as it expresses the feelings, thoughts, and intentions between human beings either verbally or non-verbally. Our research focuses on verbal communication as India is a language diverse country with more than 19500 spoken languages, considered as mother tongue....

The purpose of this study is to describe, analyze and interpret the multicultural content of Islamic Religious Education; multicultural content implementation strategy of Islamic Religious Education; strategy of acculturation of multicultural content of Islamic Religious Education; and the implications...

Unen-unen is a traditional Javanese expression in the form of a series of words and phrases that contain special meanings. Unen-unen contains valuable messages derived from the educational values of the life of the ancestors. Along with the era of information technology, unen-unen is now often found...

In the 1950s, the expert delegation of the former Soviet Union assisted China’s Central Academy of Drama in establishing the performance teaching system. In the following decades, the Stanislavsky system was used as a means of performance teaching in almost all Chinese art colleges and universities,...

Hospital buildings have a more complex electrical energy structure than other ordinary buildings. The most extensive use of electrical energy in hospitals is the inpatient room, which operates throughout the day. This study aimed to determine the community behavior in the use of electrical energy such...

KSP Artha Mulia is a savings and loan cooperative with many members scattered from all regions in Kediri. This study aimed to determine employee performance indicators at KSP Artha Mulia Kediri with multiple linear regression methods. The method used is quantitative. This population includes all 70 employees...

In order to effectively meet the needs of teaching effect evaluation, reduce the error of effect evaluation results and improve the accuracy of evaluation results, an effect evaluation method of Ideological and Political Curriculum Reform in Colleges and Universities based on fine-grained learning is...

Today, with the COVID-19 pandemic, the sustainable development agenda has come into focus from a new angle. Issues of inequalities as well as themes of transparency, of effective engagement of different stakeholders to overcome common global challenges, on the other hand, have become increasingly relevant....

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a newly discovered disease in 2019 which has a transmittable trait. People who are infected with this virus will experience respiratory disease from mild to moderate category and be able to recover without special treatment. Government policies for handling Covid19 in Indonesia...

Teenagers are at risk of engaging in dangerous behavior and accessing information from cyberspace. At the same time, extreme violent groups carry out propaganda on the internet. This study aims to examine the relationship between online religious learning and a person’s tendency to violent extremism....

In this paper, a new four parameter continuous distribution, called the Kumaraswamy Rayleigh (KW-ER) distribution is proposed and studied. Some mathematical properties are presented and discussed, these properties involve expansions for the cumulative and density functions, skewness and kurtosis based...

Generalized self-duality equations for the supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a scalar multiplet are presented in terms of component fields and superfields as well.

The teaching of painting creation is an important and difficult point in art teaching in Colleges and universities. At present, the curriculum of art teaching in Colleges and universities focuses on the training of basic painting skills, and the teaching link of painting creation is generally weak. This...

With the advent of the digital age, traditional media have gradually been replaced by digital media based on various mobile terminals, directly changing people’s living habits and lifestyles. In the field of visual communication design, the information conveyed by traditional static logos is weakened,...

This article is a study of the relevance of Alcott’s work novels and female consciousness. The ideology of “separate spheres” [1] prevailing in American society in the 19th century confined women to the family most of the time, but both in reality and in the literary imagination, women were constantly...

With the advent of the information society, the new technological revolution represented by the development and application of modern information technology is bound to accelerate the process of enterprise informatization in our country. As the basic work of enterprise management, financial archives...

The jade pendant is not a mere form of decoration, but has an important function of expressing identity, emotion, manners and communication, and is even inextricably linked to the socio-political, cultural and educational aspects of our society, as well as to the lifestyles, values and ethical and moral...

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia has been escalating since the Ukraine crisis in 2014. In 2020, the tension between these two states reached its culmination. This conflict not only refers to Russia, Ukraine and the Western power, it also poses a threat to international security. This paper tends...

At the start of 2020, the COVID-19 suddenly broke out in Wuhan, China. With the rapid spread of the epidemic, it has comprehensively affecting and changing people’s lives. The pandemic has posed impacts on all industries, especially the automobile industry with high industrial correlation. Under the...

Background: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has resulted in occupational exposure among Healthcare Workers (HCWs) and a high risk of nosocomial transmission. Asymptomatic infection and transmission of infection before the development of symptoms are well-recognized...

Wang Zhixin's national vocal music works mainly are used in the vocal music teaching in universities and colleges in China. There are only a few researches on the singing of Wang Zhixin's national vocal music works at home and abroad. Most of the researches are brief comments on very few song writings...

On the basis of analyzing the distributed VOD system architecture, this paper introduces the cache management strategies and cache replacement algorithm. And it explains the cache replacement algorithm of the distributed VOD system based on P2PVOD framework. On this basis, it further discusses various...

Objective: This study aims to compare the cytotoxicity and adhesion of submicron calcium oxalate monohydrate (COM) and dehydrate (COD) crystals toward African green monkey renal epithelial cells (Vero) to reveal the mechanism of kidney stone formation at cellular level. Methods: The injury effect of...

This paper proposes a new type of circuit breaker mechanical characteristic test method, which breaks through the former "contact" sensing technology. It adopts the technique of multi-data fusion, combines with electrical, sound and vibration, and studies the circuit breaker mechanical characteristics...

The optimal stations distribution for a single source target is proposed to improve performance of four stations passive location system based on time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. Geometrical dilution of precision (GDOP) is obtained by deriving Cramér-Rao Lower Bound (CRLB) firstly. Then...

With more and more various systems in nature and society are proved to be modeled as complex networks, community detection in complex networks as a fundamental problem becomes a hot research topic in a large scale of subjects. Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm (ABC) has high efficiency and does not require...

Construction of practice teaching base on campus is significant for the training of application-oriented talents. However, the current method for the construction shows the lack of sustainable development performance with the restriction of place, finance, and staff. This paper presents an idea that...

From Adam•Smith to Samuelson, the economic theory is adapted to the industrial economy. While the era of knowledge economy comes, the traditional economic theory has no longer met the requirements of the knowledge economy. As in known to us, in the traditional economics, the classical function of production...

Text recognition is one of the key technologies in an intelligent system. By means of highly effective extraction of the 7 typical features of characters, we dramatically shorten the time spent on feature extraction in this research. Then we built a membership function based on multidimensional normal...

Educational robotics has been mostly practiced as an extracurricular activity. There are few studies evaluating the ef-fect of robotics education on students’ improvement. For such studies an instru-ment for evaluating study effect in the context of robotics is needed. We devel-oped and tested such an...

We considered the modeling of the evaluation of projects for industrializing the artisanal production of mescal. A Decision Support system is modeled for determining the priorities of the tasks. The ability for evaluating projects is considered. Data provided from a large research developed in Guerrero...

Aim at the path planning problem of a mobile vehicle in an unknown environment, a new hybrid learning method is proposed, which is based on the fuzzy inference system and assisted by the combination of supervised learning and bionic automata, the bionic learning endows the robot the capabilities of self-learning...

With the development of web economy, brand competition is very serious. Branding on the Web will be built through experience. Competition is not about product or service, but about customer relationship. More and more organizations realize that brand loyalty is a valuable variable, and the efficient...

As a new learning application form of self-regulated learning, informal learning and mobile learning, microlecture appears special content carrier in online educational ecological system, which becomes as focus topic on account of its characteristics-adapting to many applications and suited for different...

The purpose is to study an improved cuckoo search algorithms in target assignment via the analysis of the characteristics of air defense interception and the demand for weapon target assignment (WTA). As for the threat of multi-batches and saturating targets, the random coding method based on the minimum...

The present study was designed to study the risks of online P2P lending platforms. The aim of this study was to analysis the problem of online P2P lending platforms in theory, and then to propose some suggestion for the development of lending platforms. We provided a new perspective and context to study...

It is proposed a new approach of three dimensional optical instrument using spreadsheet excell by which ray trajectories or anisotropic mechanical harmonic oscillator form Lissajous curves. An important property of this curve is that a three-dimensional region of space can be portrayed stigmatically...

In this paper, the daily data of SSE 50 stock index futures and SSE 50 index in the past two years from April 16, 2015 to March 16, 2017 are selected as the research object to study the lead relationship between SSE 50 stock index futures and corresponding stock spot price with the methods of co-integration...

This paper proposed an efficiency evaluation model for cooling system of the split type transformer using ADC (availability dependability capacity) method. This proposal is presented based on the principles and the sophisticated characteristics of the split type cooling transformer. Data acquisitions...

Luminance ratio or contrast is a key indicator for accessible signs' color design. Existing researches had different results due to inadequate consideration of influencing factors. This project designed a subjective evaluation experiment within normal illumination environment, the minimum luminance ratio...

With the development of new energy vehicles in technology and industry, as well as the government's financial incentives and related policies' support, the new energy vehicles are constantly popularization and development, especially electric vehicles. More and more people choose electric vehicles as...

The orderly charging and discharging management and dispatching system of electric vehicle is researched and designed based on internet in order to achieve orderly dispatching and management of electric vehicle in peak load regulation. Researching and analyzing the function of main components (power...

Reliability sensitivity analysis quantifies the effect of input random variables on model outputs. An efficient reliability sensitivity analysis method is developed herein by combining the stochastic perturbation technique and a third-moment saddlepoint approximation. The presented method requires only...

The production of steel industry is closely related to integration and promotion of supply chain. Reducing cost and reusing wastes of the supply chain are one of the most significant challenges the steel enterprises need to overcome. Nowadays, green supply chain for the steel industry appears to be a...

A previous study showed a developed mathematical model could describe the transport of perchloroethylene (PCE) in the simulating column. This study tried to use the model to predict the transport of pollutant in low organic carbon content aquifer. The results told that the concentration variation characteristics...

Now human beings are facing three major issues: resources, environment and population. Environmental problems are closely related to resources and issues of resources are the main reason of environmental problems. With the deterioration of environmental problem, people attach more importance to the study...