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This paper presents numerical modeling of lab-scale packed bed thermal energy storage (TES) system. In the packed-bed with 0.30 m diameter and 0.90 m height, monotype storage particles developed from demolition wastes are used. Synthetic thermal oil is be used as fluid phase between 80 – 180°C. Schumann...

Damage to mangrove forests and abrasion is a coastal problem in Bengkalis Regency which continues to worsen even more. Preservation of mangroves and community-based ecotourism development can be the best solutions to this problem. This paper aims to explain environmental communication planning in the...

Prosthetic is an artificial limb that helps an individual with amputation to restore the lost part of the body and neuroskeletomotor function. The existence of prosthetic makes it possible for individual with amputation to perform their daily task and remove the barrier of social participation. An ideal...

This research aims to analyze the effectiveness of Guided-Inquiry model to train science process skills. This research design in this study was One-group Pre-test and Post-test which applied to 15 students of senior high school. The data were analyzed using Anova, N-gain and the paired t-test. The result...

In the association rule mining field many different quality measures have been proposed over time with the aim of quantifying the interestingness of each discovered rule. In evolutionary computation, many of these metrics have been used as functions to be optimized, but the selection of a set of suitable...

The core issues presented in this research stem from the actual Civic Education learning process which emphasizes more on the process of knowledge transfer than the process of strengthening and character building particularly students’ civic disposition. The purpose of this research is to elaborate the...

Scientific problems and phenomena in nature can be developed in learning. Creating scientific products that have moral in the educational dimension were solved through problem-solving, including the problem of wetlands. Material of wetlands in biology learning is carried out through teaching moral values...

This article gives an overview of the existing methods and software products designed to analyze anomalies that may indicate the occurrence of cyber-threats. On their basis, we propose our own original software tool that allows automatic detection of anomalies and subsequent detailed analysis of network...

This paper aims to make a comprehensive study on the “antecedents and consequences” of the Chinese contemporary art film creation with the film “Mr. No Problem” as a reference text, and to explore its implications on Chinese film style in the commercial context. Taking the film “Mr. No Problem” as an...

The purpose of this study is to identify concept mastery and scientific literacy skills for senior high school students. This study used quantitative-qualitative mix method. The subjects of this study are 12th grade student in Boyolali Regency. The instruments of this study are concept-based and scientific...

Mechanics technology training course, it can comprehensively use mechanics technology and other related theories and practical knowledge of completed courses. It can carry out systematic design and training for students. It can further consolidate, deepen and expand these knowledge. In practical training,...

Informed consent is one element of ethics in medical field that is always interesting to explore. Currently, the development of informed consent is more emphasized on disclosure of information, in other words, in it can be equated with transparency. The thesis entitled TRANSPARENCY PRINCIPLES IN INFORMED...

The implementation of juridical death penalty has been regulated in law no. 2 year 1964; about the procedures of criminal implementation dropped by courts within the General and Military courts. In reality the implementation of law on the implementation of death penalty is still disputed. The debate...

For the cultivation of innovative talents, this paper takes accounting major as an example, compares the training mode of innovative talents in Europe and the United States, and then proposes a new mode of talent cultivation based on the existing problems in China called “theory + practice + theory”....

Allergic asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease characterized by the infiltration of eosinophils in the lungs and the production of various kinds of stimulating factors, incidence rate showed an upward trend. In this paper, the research status and future development trend of the signal pathway...

With the great development of computer science technology and electronic information, all enterprises have established their own information systems. The database as the core and foundation of information system, it has also been more and more widely used. So the performance of the database has been...

Mechatronics is an immerging branch in the present era which deals with mechanical systems, instrumentations and electronic systems. Hydraulic and Pneumatic systems are the vital elements of Mechatronics system. The actuation of hydraulic and pneumatic system can be done using a PLC or a microcontroller....

It is of critical importance for convergence and diversity of final solutions that finding out a feasible global best guide for each particle of the current swarm in multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO). An improved approach for determining the best local guide in MOPSO is proposed, where...

Methods used for the determination of potassium content in pyrochnics 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 potassium with high content,the sample...

The adaptive contour extraction of low-temperature sausage image is achieved by the predictive edge detection algorithm according to the human eye's visual characteristics, and the fitting compensation skeleton extraction algorithm is used to extract the skeleton information, and the accurate length...

Rehabilitation process is a challenging stage for any drug addicts hoping to free themselves from the chain of drug abuse problem. Support from family members are critical at this stage by providing them the necessary motivationthus ensuring a successful recovery. The purpose of this case study is to...

Under the framework of systemic-functional linguistics, the present study makes much effort to demonstrate the specific functions of nominalization in scientific news discourse. Through the analysis of the data, the discovered functions of nominalization are conciseness, objectivity, formality, thematic...

With the development of socialist modernization, more and more people realize the importance of social justice. As the chief architect of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, Deng Xiaoping made a lot of brilliant and in-depth discussions on social justice thought. Therefore, in the current...

Since 1998, China has implemented a large-scale rural power grid construction and transformation. In 2006, the transformation project of the first stage and the second stage have been basically completed. With the rapid development of power industry, rural power grid construction and transformation has...

After entering the big data era, there is an increasing demand on data analysis. It is natural for the modern actuary to question tech buzzwords like "machine learning" and "data analytics." In reality, many machine-learning models have a basis in the very concepts, which actuaries have used to assess...

A disaster is an event caused by several factors such as natural and/or non-natural factors and human factors. Disaster not only threatens and disrupts people's lives but also will cause human casualties, environmental damage, property loss, and psychological impact. One of the challenges in disaster...

The reason of super plastic forming of sheet is concluded. Using simulated annealing genetic algorithm does a kind of nonlinear optimization to reason of super plastic forming of sheet control. The diagnosis knowledge warehouse and controlling parameter of super plastic forming of sheet is built. It...

Selecting an appropriate text is one of the important steps in teaching children literature. Thus, it is needed a scientific consideration especially based on the concept of educational psychology. As an applied psychology, educational psychology concerns on understanding of learning and teaching process...

This study focuses on the use of the internet of Islamic online media in Indonesia to offer ideology against the state ideology. It was represented by voa-islam.com and panjimas.com, the most intensive sites on offering ideology against the state ideology of the state and also the popular sites with...

This research aims to find out how far self-efficacy influences work engagement in nurses in Makassar. Participants in the study were 280 nurses working in six hospitals. The sampling technique used in this research is stratified random sampling. The data analysis performed was the univariate and bivariate...

Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are two important Muslim countries which have taken strategic role in managing regional leadership in Southeast Asia and the Middle East respectively. They are leading regional diplomacy in maintaining stability, security and peace. Indonesia and Saudi Arabia are two of three...

Geographical condition of Indonesia that is dominated by sea led Indonesia to desperate need of the sea transportation management to meet its operational needs. PT. Pelindo I is a company that has the authority to manage the port in North Sumatra and its surrounding areas. Belawan's current access channel...

Down syndrome often causes several dental anomalies, such as hypodontia, taurodontia and microdontia. This research aims to determine the prevalence of some dental anomalies in Down syndrome individuals using panoramic radiographs of students in Pembina disable school Medan. As many as 12 subjects with...

Researches in developed countries, especially in western countries, explained the dynamics of women labor supply during life cycle indicated by exit and re-entry in the workforce. The participation rate of female labor force to return to employment is lower when women are in the early years of childbirth...

Environmental elements, especially sunny weather, can easily interfere with the operation of a pulsed laser fuze. The solar radiation entering the detection system causes the fuze to produce a "false alarm." Consequently, the bomb may not work accurately. On the basis of the traditional theory of spectral...

Reducing vehicle quality to reduce fuel consumption and reduce emission pollution is the core problem in the development of automobile industry. Lightweight design and improvement are urgently needed for new energy and traditional automobile. In this paper, the research status and development trend of...

Professional training is an important way for primary and secondary school teachers' professional growth and development. From the perspective of supply-side, the current primary and secondary school teachers training focuses on the tools function of external supply. Primary and secondary school teachers...

In this paper a method to extend discrete uninorms and nullnorms on the finite chain L = {0, . . . , n}, to uninorms and nullnorms defined on the set of discrete fuzzy numbers whose support is a set of consecutive natural numbers contained in L is presented. Some basic properties of discrete uninorms...

Mining enterprise investment is characteristic of long period, big size and fixed area. Resource, polity, law, economy environment and social culture of the host country should be taken into account when choosing place for offshore fund.

With the rise of the cloud computing, saving energy consumed by cloud systems has become a tricky issue nowadays. How to place data efficiently and schedule the nodes effectively in a cloud platform are very important issues from the view of the energy-saving. However, the state-of-the-art node-scheduling...

According to the recognition of fuzzy fingerprint and the ones with strong noise, proposed a new method which combining the ICA (Independent Component Algorithm) and BP (Back Propagation) neural network. First, using the FastICA method to extract fingerprint characteristics, then classify and recognize...

In view of the novel’s complexity of the texts, this paper focuses on the new historical analysis of A. S. Byatt’s Possession. Through studying two epigraphs of the novel, the poem—“The Lady of Shalott” and Gode’s tale, the author scrutinizes the novel from “the historicity of texts” perspectives, and...

On the basis of systematic research on financial early-warning research at home and abroad, this paper selects Chinese big data listed companies as research samples, constructs financial early-warning model of electronic information listed companies with Logistic regression method comprehensively, and...

Background: Rupture of carotid plaques is an important cause of cerebrovascular events. Several factors, including wall shear stress (WSS), plaque morphology and peak cap stress, have been associated with plaque vulnerability. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between these factors...

Using linear regression model on the combination of behavioral decision theory to analyse the data of second-hand housing in 2505 Beijing districts and 2343 Chengdu districts, explore the amount of second-hand housing online attention, the distance from the subway and build the length of time for consumers...

Taking ABB robot as the research object, the simulation workstation of paper roll packaging was established by SolidWorks three-dimensional modeling and Robot Studio simulation software. According to the technological process of paper roll packaging, the overall spatial layout of the robot paper roll...

Systemic inflammatory conditions are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). How exactly inflammation leads to this is not fully understood, but it has been suggested that arterial stiffening, could provide potential mechanisms to explain it. Chronic, systemic inflammatory...

The number of diabetes mellitus patients keeps increasing from year to year. The condition of hyperglycemia in DM patients causes an increase in angiotensin II hormone which leads to the hypertension. The prevalence of cardiovascular disease complication in DM patients is 29%. The purpose of this study...

Family education is the starting point and foundation of education. It has profound and lasting influence on children’s life. But in rural China, due to the fact that many parents go to work outside, most parents’ education background is low, their knowledge is poor or their attention to the education...

This study was conducted in order to find the effect of community socioeconomic conditions on farmers’ Willingness To Pay (WTP) and farmers’ willingness to move to lands that were not critical or to better land areas (Willingness To Leave / WTL). The research method used to calculate the farmers’ willingness...