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Since the four Industrial Revolutions brought people mechanisation, electrification, digital manufacturing technology, and smart production, more attention has been paid to technology. Moreover, developing technology has become the top priority in the modern world. The appearance of Microsoft Corporation...

This study aims to develop a smart home monitoring and control system using the ESP32-WROVER CAM module. Homeowners are able to control the system from their phone's Telegram app, and it can provide instant notifications if unauthorized entry, gas leakage, or fire is detected. The experimental method...

this research seeks to examine the impact of circular economy disclosure on sustainability performance With the CSR committee serving as a moderating variable in ASEAN manufacturing organizations. This study employs a quantitative descriptive approach. Six hundred seventy-five observations of ASEAN public...

Courier workers face high occupational demands that may impact their health, including gastrointestinal disorders. This study aimed to analyze the association between workload, work fatigue, and the incidence of gastric acid disease among package delivery couriers. An observational analytical study with...

Objective: To check of relation between blood pressure (BP) and arterial stiffness parameters and measures of left atrial volume to verify whether it is the arterial stiffness-related BP parameters or mean arterial pressure (MAP)that could be responsible for increase in risk of atrial fibrillation. Methods:...

Differences in the cultural potential and tourist attraction of tourist Kampung in the Tunjungan District are one of the causes of the imbalance in the number of tourists. This is exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic which has reduced tourism activity in the area. The proximity and differentiation of...

The emergence of science and technology has brought changes to humanity. In the academe, the era of ‘sage on stage’ has been pragmatically replaced by ‘AI on the side.’ Technology, especially AI, which simulates and sometimes works even faster and more accurately than a human brain, has contributed to...

Fire accidents present considerable risks on a global scale, leading to considerable losses in life, property, and the environment. Traditional sensing technologies face challenges in effectively detecting fires, particularly in large areas. Deep learning approaches have been explored for fire detection...

Clitoria ternatea L. commonly known as butterfly pea contain a great variety of bioactive compounds and its flower petals containing anthocyanins thus it has a potential to be a natural food colorant. Butterfly pea flower is still rarely used in food products because the anthocyanins and the other bioactive...

This research aimed to clarify the way social entrepreneurial orientation drives pro-social behavior as well as social entrepreneurial intention. This research was a cross-sectional survey with a questionnaire as a research instrument. Using purposive sampling, data was collected from 135 master program...

The Game of Life gained widespread interest due to its properties and its implications on fields such as biology, mathematics, and computer science. Hyperbolic geometry, on the other hand, is a type of geometry in which tilings are less restrictive than its Euclidean counterpart. Using the hyperbolic...

In the real world, data is perceived in three dimensions (3D). Automatically analysing 3D visual features is essential in several real-time applications notably autonomous robots, autonomous vehicles, and augmented reality. It is apparent that 3D data are represented in a variety of ways, such as a polygonal...

Lean Six Sigma (LSS) combines the two approaches to increase production, customer satisfaction and cost-effectiveness. LSS increasingly being used by multinational corporations (MNCs) around the world to increase performance and optimize value-added time. The implementation of LSS presents challenges,...

Sustained urban growth in Greater Accra demands permitting systems that guarantee safety, orderly land use, and environmental stewardship. The study investigates the building permit acquisition process and challenges within the Greater Accra Region. A quantitative survey was conducted with 106 respondents,...

Background: Although arterial stiffness is of clinical interest, data on the elastic modulus of the human aortic wall are scarce. The aim of this work is to directly measure the elastic modulus of human aorta ex vivo. Methods: Using a standard tensiometer, we measured the elastic modulus (E) of human...

Growing evidence shows that patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have up to twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared to those without RA. Generally, these RA patients have higher levels of inflammation in their bodies, and this inflammation is thought to be the link between...

Nurses play a significant role among all health workers in the hospital because they directly interact with patients; thus, their organizational commitment is essential for ensuring their professionality in delivering service. This study aimed to examine the contribution of work-life balance of nurses’...

Background: The study of wave reflections in the carotid artery may reveal the vasoactive response of the cerebral circulation to exercise, which is not yet fully characterised. Therefore, we aim to examine the effect of exercise on wave intensity parameters measured in the carotid artery of healthy...

Modern challenges and increasing requirements for the effectiveness of higher education organisations actualise the search for new solutions. The authors see such a solution in developing the key competence of specialists of the innovative network self-learning university. The research aims at theoretical...

We developed a method for analyzing the facial expressions of a person having a conversation on a videophone. This was implemented on a wireless local area network, consisting of two personal computers and a router; the subject and the operator are placed in front of each computer. The module contains...

Personal carbon trading systems (PCTS) have been hypothesized as one of the measures needing to be considered to combat global warming and reduce carbon emissions (references here). The research described in this paper examines baseline data collected as part of the Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation...

This paper presents a new chaos-based image cipher using a plaintext-related permutation. The cat map and Lorenz system are employed to shuffle the positions of image pixels and generate the diffusion keystream, respectively. The control parameters of the cat map, i.e. the permutation key, are determined...

Industries are now moving towards PC-based control from PLC (Programmable Logic Control) based control as the PC (personal computer) is easily available and capable of implementing various control strategies to improve productivity. Advances in both hardware and software technology are expediting this...

In order to optimize the ventilation effect of ammonia leakage in the refrigeration machinery room, a food processing enterprise is selected as the subject investigated. The velocity and concentration field distribution during the process of ammonia leakage are discussed through simulation of refrigeration...

Canonical formalism for plane rotations is developed. This group can be seen as a toy model of the Hamilton-Dirac mechanics with constraints. The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian are explicitly constructed and their physical interpretation are given. The Euler-Lagrange and Hamiltonian canonical equations coincide...

We consider a special fine grading of sl(3, C), where the grading subspaces are geerated by 3 × 3 generalized Pauli matrices. This fine grading decomposes sl(3, C) into eight one­dimensional subspaces. Our aim is to find all contractions of sl(3, C) which preserve this grading. We have found that the...

Streaming applications over Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANET) require a smooth transmission rate. The Internet is unable to provide this service during traffic congestion in the network. Designing congestion control for these applications is challenging, because the standard TCP congestion control mechanism...

It is necessary to know the behavior of children’s physical activity during the pandemic, because school activities are carried out online at home so that it can cause a decrease in children’s physical activity. The purpose of this study was to determine the behavior of children’s physical activity....

The complex impact of Covid-19 has put many companies in a crisis situation. Companies are forced to issue policies that are detrimental to their employees, customers and the general public. Several previous studies have shown that a narrative strategy through a Chief of Executive Officer (CEO) letters...

Director Zhong Menghong abandoned the grand narrative of family and country and focused on the family life of the common people. Show the family emotions and mental state of ordinary people with a “cold, deep and even dark” film style.《A Sun》continues the theme of “family”, mainly telling the story of...

In this research, we estimate the coefficient in the class of Bazilevic functions ℬ1(α) related to the Lemniscate Bernoulli on the unit disk 𝔻={z:|z| < 1}, satisfying subordination condition [f′(z)(f(z)z)α−1]≺1+z, for z ∈ 𝔻. The upper bound of the modulus of a2 and a3 are determined.

This article studies how virtual influencers’ endorsements affect consumer brand engagement on social media. Existing studies have found that consumers’ participation in social media brand activities has both internal and external motivation, that is, the internal needs of the audience and social network...

Considering the lack of undergraduate education with the tutorial system, the new teaching mode of undergraduate education with compatibility mode of the guidance and giving lecture is proposed. In this teaching method, the advantages of tutorial system and giving lecture are absorbed. Besides, some...

In this paper, the idea of an integrated large scalable big data platform for the energy industry as a contribution to EMIS will be described. For this, use cases are identified that could bring forward a sustainable energy consumption and that faces the challenges of a fluctuating energy production....

Gas disaster is the serious threat to coal mine safety, the accurate prediction of coal mine methane (CMM) is one effective method avoiding the hazard occurrence. This paper first confirmed the chaotic characteristic of CMM sequence and calculated the delay time and embedding dimension. Combined chaotic...

With the new development of electricity reform, many problems that involving the release of retail side need to be solved, which makes the compliance risk management very crucial. Compliance risk management is a kind of management theory that can proactively identify and manage the compliance risks that...

With the current situation of high demand of sustainable manufacturing, different stakeholders have clear expectations for more environmental manufacturing and at the same time minimizing the operational costs. The role of maintenance plays a key role in the path towards sustainable manufacturing. For...

In the face of increasingly fierce competition and challenge, more and more corporations realize that what if the decisions could not be rapidly and accurately made or the potential business problems could not be promptly found, that would mean a great failure; Seizing the benefit is to find potential...

Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a high efficient multi-carrier modulation technique for broadband communication applications with high peak to average power ratio (PAPR). In order to reduce the adverse effects of high PAPR on communication, a novel time shifted non-orthogonal frequency...

Young university teachers are the fresh troops in the team of university teachers and they grow up during the era of reform and opening up and thus have distinctive stamps and characteristics of the times in morality cultivation, however, certain problems exist. In this thesis, the methods for the teachers’...

In order to clear the primary and secondary impact factors of high-skilled talents’ professional accomplishment (HTPA) and facilitate the quantitative analysis, the paper indicates that the HTPA mainly displays in the dominant employment literacy and recessive enjoyment literacy. By using Grey Correlation...

We propose a novel goal-oriented method to model AUP software development process. Our method is based on Goal-Net modeling theory, which can be used to model complex process with phase goals and hierarchy goals. Our educational practices of Goal Oriented AUP (GOAUP) for Master of Software Engineering...

This paper aims at drawing and analyzing the Articulation Places during production of Mandarin Chinese consonants by means of Electropalatography (EPG). Their tongue characteristics of onset are obtained: the articulation places of plosives are latter than the same manner of place of affricates, and...

Contemporary cloud software stack is large and complex, where security vulnerabilities are routinely discovered. Hence, it is hard or even impossible to place trust on such a fragile platform to process some security-critical data. In this paper, we propose an architectural solution that extends processors...

When the product homogeneity is increasingly serious and consumer spending habits have been changing constantly today, the brand has become the main source of enterprise competitive advantage, and integrated marketing communications based on the brand value will bring more lasting development for the...

It was proposed that the method of nodes selection for analog circuits soft fault diagnosis, which is using sensitivity vector as the fault signature. The problem of fault diagnosis was formulated into the one of finding the solution for the smallest 2-norm of the diagnosis equations. Considering that...

Dormitory cultural construction has been the focus and difficulty of campus cultural construction for colleges. The research group, based on the analysis of the status of dormitory cultural construction of the representative 10 vocational colleges in Sichuan province, investigates the connotation and...

Wiener index proposed by Harold Wiener in 1947 is a very important topological index which is widely applied in chemical research. Gutman et al. extended the Wiener index to variable Wiener index. M. H. Liu et al. obtained the maximum variable Wiener index of trees with given maximum degree . n/2 In...

There have been a number of state-of-art spatial image steganography algorithms which could hide data with a high degree of undetectability against steganalysts by embedding information adaptively into noisy regions. However, there is still a gap from real application when selecting a suitable cover...

Focusing on the disturbance of moving cast shadow, a Bagging moving cast shadow removal method is proposed. Collecting shadow discrimination features from multiple shadow discrimination models, a shadow detector is trained by employing Bagging ensemble based learning framework. The shadow detector can...