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Conference Abstract
P6.18 CAROTID-FEMORAL PULSE WAVE VELOCITY ESTIMATED BY AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM
M. Collette, C. Morizzo, M. Kozakova, C. Palombo, G. Leftheriotis
Pages: 159 - 159
To date, regional aortic stiffness can be evaluated by the reference tonometric technique via the pulse wave velocity (PWV) measured in two points: the carotid and the femoral arteries. Based on a similar intersecting tangent algorithm, we have developed a new method for the determination of carotid-femoral...
Research Article
Distributed and High Performance Big-File Cloud Storage Based On Key-Value Store
Thanh Trung Nguyen, Minh Hieu Nguyen
Pages: 159 - 172
This research proposes a new Big File Cloud (BFC) with its architecture and algorithms to solve difficult problems of cloud-based storage using the advantages of key-value stores. There are many problems when designing an efficient storage engine for cloud-based storage systems with strict requirements...
Research Article
Device driver development of an external human interaction device for the Android
Naoto Ogawa, Shuichi Oikawa
Pages: 159 - 166
Recently, many people have used Smartphones. The feature of Smartphones is that they are equipped with a mobile operating system (OS) for the control of sensors and modules. In this situation, we can connect external human interaction devices with the Smartphone. Our objective is to know how the external...
Research Article
Secure in-vehicle Systems using Authentication
Masaya Yoshikawa, Kyota Sugioka, Yusuke Nozaki, Kensaku Asahi
Pages: 159 - 166
Recently, driving support technologies have been practically used. However, a problem has been pointed out that when a vehicle is connected with an external network, the safety of the vehicle is threatened. Ensuring the security of in-vehicle systems becomes an important priority. The present study proposes...
Short Communication
What is the Velocity of the Electromagnetic Field?
Wilhelm Fushchych
Pages: 159 - 161
A new definition for the electromagnetic field velocity is proposed. The velocity depends on the physical fields. The question posed by the title of this paper is, surprisingly, not yet answered uniquely today; not even by way of definition. According to modern assumptions the light is the electromagnetic...
Review Article
Clinical Decision Support Systems: a Review of Knowledge Representation and Inference under Uncertainties
Guilan Kong, Dong-Ling Xu, Jian-Bo Yang
Pages: 159 - 167
This paper provides a literature review in clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) with a focus on the way knowledge bases are constructed, and how inference mechanisms and group decision making methods are used in CDSSs. Particular attention is paid to the uncertainty handling capability of the commonly...
Research Article
A Note on the Integrability of a Class of Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations
Sibusiso Moyo, P. G. L. Leach
Pages: 159 - 164
We study the integrability properties of the hierarchy of a class of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and point out some of the properties of these equations and their connection to the Ermakov-Pinney equation.
Proceedings Article
Research and Demonstration of Bid Selection Decision Model on Construction Engineering
Haixia Li, Qinmi Zhang, Daxin Ren, Ying Song
The Principal Component Analysis method (PCA) is introduced into the bid selection decision-making of construction enterprises, the influencing factor index system of bid selection decision-making of construction enterprises is established, the dimensionality of the determined index system is reduced...
Proceedings Article
Grammatical Errors on BIPA Students (Indonesian Language for Foreign Speakers) in Writing Practice for Beginner Level
Hespi Septiana, Warsita N. Ardiyanti, Sɫawomir Dudek
Writing skill is one of the active language skills that is important in expressing ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Writing is also a difficult thing for BIPA students, especially for beginners with academic goals. The Indonesian language has the standard Indonesian grammar that BIPA students should understand...
Proceedings Article
Effect of Baking Temperature and Duration Towards Proximate, Crude Fiber Content and Antioxidant of Sweet Potato Snackbar Coated with Soursop Yoghurt
Maghfirotin Marta Banin, Uzair Nur Aziz, Maulida Rachmawati, Marwati Marwati, Aswita Emmawati
Snack bars are defined as snack products in the form of stems and are a mixture of various ingredients such as cereals, fruits, nuts, which are bound to each other with the help of a binder agent. Utilization of purple sweet potato and soursop fruit to diversify food and improve its quality and nutritional...
Proceedings Article
A Review of Structural Abnormality in Schizophrenia
Keran Xuan
Over the past 20 years, the understanding of schizophrenia has deepened. As a brain disease, schizophrenia has profoundly affected generations. It is a chronic brain disorder that is characterized by significant alterations in perception, thoughts, mood, and behavior. Schizophrenia usually occurs in...
Proceedings Article
Efforts to Protect Adat’s Communities in the Settlement of Environmental Criminal Cases in Indonesia
Muhammad Luthfi, Yaris Adhial Fajrin, Dwi Ratna Indri Hapsari, Kukuh Dwi Kurniawan
Indonesia as a country that has a strategic geographical location, not only has a charming natural beauty but also abundant natural resources. The abundance of Indonesia’s natural resources is aimed as much as possible for the prosperity of the people, including indigenous peoples as part of the people...
Proceedings Article
Students’ Learning Interest in the Implementation of Distance Learning in Vocational High Schools
Yolavika Marsintyabela, Erna Krisnanto, Trias Megayanti
Productive subjects in vocational high schools require hands-on practice and guidance. The existence of distance learning applied to Software Application and Building Interior Design (SAABI) subjects as one of the productive subjects due to the covid 19 pandemic caused students’ understanding and interest...
Proceedings Article
Analysis of China’s A-shares Based on Industry Rotation Strategy
ZhanTuo Xing
Industry rotation is a common phenomenon in the stock market. Through the idea of momentum and reversal trading, this paper uses the CSI 300 industry index to empirically test the industry rotation phenomenon of China’s A-share market. The results of the trading test reflect that the industry momentum...
Proceedings Article
Digital Computation on Architectural Design Process in Universitas Multimedia Nusantara
Rizki Tridamayanti Siregar, Irma Desiyana
In the digital era, BIM (Building Information Modelling) has enriched and transformed Architectural pedagogy, particularly in the architectural design studio. It has challenged students during design activity, either it helps or limits their design. We review students’ achievements that employ BIM as...
Proceedings Article
High-Rise Building Preservation – A Comprehensive Method with Material Innovation
Yang Shen
The treatment for high-rise buildings is significant, while the number of skyscrapers is increasing at a higher rate year by year. A comprehensive method is put forward in the paper to discuss its feasibility in order to develop customized strategies for high-rise building preservations worldwide. Digital...
Proceedings Article
The Effect of Tourism Service Marketing Mix, Destination Image and Tourist Motivation on Tourist Satisfaction Tourism in Bukit Khayangan Tourism Object Sungai Penuh City, Jambi Province
Relifra Relifra, Yunia Wardi
Tourism in Indonesia has a big potential and resources that doesn’t fully developed yet by government and commercial sector. Development in tourism is expected to give a benefit for society, because tourism is one of development indicator in the Indonesian economics. Tourism that expected to give a quite...
Proceedings Article
Research on Development and Thinking of Environmental Art Design Teaching
Zhifeng Zhang
With the development of our country's economy, the subject of environmental art design has sprout up and developed quickly. It provided many talents for the cause of the environmental art design in China. However, at present, there are many problems in the teaching of environmental art design, including...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Optimization and improvement of tread pattern pitch arrangement
Xia Chen, Lanxiang Deng
Tire noise is one of the main sources of car noise. In order to research on the tire noise, analysis method based on wavelet transform was proposed. Compared with traditional analysis methods, wavelet transform can ef-fectively and intuitively find the effect of tire pattern arrangement on measurement...
Proceedings Article
On Development and Application Prospect of Mobile E-commerce
Huili Wang
In the development of wireless mobile technology, the mobile e-commerce begins to get favour from people, which better broadens the running space of our e-commerce industry, allowing for a wider range of e-commerce. Combination of mobile e-commerce and enterprise e-commerce platforms, and connection...
Proceedings Article
Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making Method Applied to Evaluation of Service Quality for Five-Star Hotels
Yu-Lung Wu, Ju-Jun Ting
this study uses Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) theory combined with the Expert Opinion method to provide appropriate evaluation criteria weights and fuzzy numbers, and uses Fuzzy Ranking methods for ranking based on an integrated assessment to serve as the basis and reference for the...
Proceedings Article
Multi-criteria Optimization of Electromechanical Modules: Part 2 - RAZOR method
Ina D. Nikolova, Dimitrinka S. Dahterova, Vanio D. Ivanov, Hirpa G. Lemu
The paper presents the second part a study conducted on multi-criteria optimization of electromechanical modules. This part focuses on the use of RAZOR method, which is a multi-criteria optimization outranking method, based on the so-called Z-score in statistics. The conducted study is motivated by understanding...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Research on access control model based on user action in cloud computing
Huanbin Wang, Ma Tao, Xiaobin Hui
This paper firstly analyzes the current situation of the security of cloud computing, and analyzes several problems about the security of the cloud, and studies the existing access control model. Combining the characteristics of cloud computing security and the development trend of access control, the...
Proceedings Article
A Study on College Students' Achievement Attribution in English Learning
Bingyan Zhu, Shixiang Liu
Students' attribution directly influence their degree of effort, which affect their progress in academic achievement. Based on Weiner's attribution theory, it researches on college students' characteristics of attribution by questionnaires. The findings indicate that vocational college students mainly...
Proceedings Article
Mediating Effects of Value Congruence on Relationships between Motivation and Organizational Commitment in Nonprofit Sport Organizations
Wu Xiaojun, Zhu Zhiquan, Wu Hongyv
The purpose of this paper is to measure the mediating role of Value Congruence in the relationship between motivation and organizational commitment in non-profit sport organizations. An e-mail sur-vey was conducted with a sample of 223 volunteers in 12 non-profit sport organi-zations in a Jiangxi Province...
Proceedings Article
New Emergence Mechanism Caused by Human Fuzzy Rationality
Ihor Lubashevsky, Arkady Zgonnikov, Dmitry Parfenov
A new emergence mechanism related to the bounded capacity of human cognition is considered. It assumes that individuals (operators) governing the dynamics of a certain system try to follow an optimal strategy in controlling its motion but fail to do this perfectly because similar strategies are indistinguishable...
Proceedings Article
Parallel Algorithms for Solving Large Sparse Linear Equations
Jingzhu Li, Peng Zou, Qingbo Wu
To optimize the Block Widemann and Block Lancos algorithm is every important in solving large sparse systems in many engineering computing topic, so the parallel method of these two algorithms is built. This paper designs two different types of data parallel based on the original parallelism level and...
Proceedings Article
Communication and Strategy: the Inner Conflict of Teacher's Discourse
Tao Jiang
Teachers' discourse includes two parts: student-centered discourse and teacher-centered discourse. Both of them have communicative and strategic dimensions which cause the inner conflict of teachers' discourse. This conflict originates from the different natures of education, teleological nature and...
Proceedings Article
Construction of Online Course based on FCM Concept
Zhongmei Zhang
In 2007, flipped class model was firstly employed in class by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, chemical teachers of Woodland Park High School, Colorado. Along with the popularity and development of internet, flipped class model of Khan Academy has drawn wide attention from global educators.Since Khan...
Proceedings Article
Time Series Analysis in the Task of Oil Equipment Malfunctions Forecasting
Iakov S. Korovin, Maxim V. Khisamutdinov
The task of oilfield equipment malfunctions’ early prevention is considered in the paper. Input data for the analysis are the indications of sensors, established in the well and represented as time series set. Due to the forecasting analysis (predictive analytics) of the given set it is possible to discover...
Proceedings Article
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SEMs) Supply Chain Coordinative Innovation Motivations
Wen Ping-Chuan, Shi Chen-Min
Small and medium-sized enterprises should take innovation activities if they will get development well, at the same time, making collaboration with other firms is the key for their innovation. This paper discusses several different motivations for SEMs supply chain to make innovative collaboration: (1)...
Proceedings Article
A New Hybrid Model for Video Shot Saliency Extraction
Tao Fang
Video screen shots of images are special, and they are motive compare to other images. To extract saliency maps from video images quickly and accurately is a hard task. This paper is inspired by some excellent works, employing the combination of several ideas to propose a hybrid model for extracting...
Proceedings Article
Research on the Urbanization Quality of Xiangyang City
Jie Li, Yan-Yang Zhu, Xiao-Zhou Sun
As a sub-central city in Hubei province, currently the urbanization of Xiangyang is in the accelerated development stage, and the improvement of urbanization development quality (UDQ) is critical in this process. Using the analytic hierarchy process, this work constructed an evaluation system of comprehensive...
Proceedings Article
Treatment of Material Discontinuity in the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin Method
Xufei Yuan, Gendai Gu, Meiling Zhao
Meshless local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method is presented to treat parabolic partial differential equations with discontinuous material coefficients. In this paper, we use MLPG method to solve fractional constant coefficient discontinuous media mixed boundary problem. The trial and test functions for...
Proceedings Article
Design of Association Rules Data Mining System Based on Improved Ant Colony Algorithm
Xiaoying Sun
Data Mining is from large, incomplete, noisy, fuzzy and random Data, extract implicit in it, people don't know in advance, but it is potentially useful information and knowledge of the process. The Ant Colony algorithm is actually positive feedback principle, and it is an algorithm combining the heuristic...
Proceedings Article
A Woman in James Joyce's and Henry Miller's Texts: Game and Myth
Andrey Astvatsaturov
The paper offers a comparative analysis of the construction of the image of women that is carried out by two great writers of the XX century: J. Joyce in his "Ulysses" and Henry Miller in his "Parisian Trilogy". Joyce in his novel synthesizes all the existing myths and images of women. Miller following...
Proceedings Article
National Belonging Needs and Natural Historical Cultural Analysis of Chinese Manchu
Hui-Qi Wen
National belonging needs are the logical starting point of exploring the natural history and culture of Manchu in China. It is also the third stage of Maslow's hierarchy of needs--social needs, in other words, the belonging to the stable social organization. It formed steady-state social organiazations...
Proceedings Article
Commitment , Motivation, and Performance of Posyandu Cadres
Utik Bidayati
Posyandu cadres are part of the health workers that role in establishing a healthy community through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) achievement. Posyandu cadres have a role in empowering the community as motivators, educators, and health cares. The cadres' excellence in coordinating with the...
Proceedings Article
Barriers to Women's Career Advancement in Indonesian Academia: A Qualitative Empirical Study
Nur Kholis
Why is the representation of women fewer than men in the top academic positions in Indonesia? To answer this question, the researcher did an empirical study using qualitative method to explore any possible barriers that have been encountered or faced by women. Twenty-five participants consisted of 19...
Proceedings Article
The design of structure and simulation analysis of thermal effect on small fiber optic gyroscope in inclinometer while drilling
Fan Xu, Jianhui Zhao, Fan Li, He Xu
A new quasi-elliptical cylindrical (QEC) fiber optic gyroscope (FOG) for petroleum logging is proposed for the special condition of the borehole diameter limitation in inclinometer while drilling (IWD). Due to the thermally induced nonreciprocal phase shift in fiber coil, the three-dimensional (3-D)...
Proceedings Article
Research On Intelligent Test Paper Generating Strategy Based On Genetic Algorithm And BP Neural Network
Chao Liu, Yan Hu
The prevalence of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), while providing us with a new efficient way of learning, demands an evolved online test system for certificating attended students properly. As examination of each course still being the simple and powerful way to check out, generating test paper as...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Effect of Femtosecond Irradiation Laser on the Optical Properties of GaAs Solar Cell
Ruifang Chen, Zhiguo Shi, Yunxia Ye, Xue Qing, Yinqun Hua
The results of damage on the GaAs solar cells surface irradiated by femtosecond laser show that: the anti-reflective layer irradiated by laser is damaged when the laser energy is more than 1 uJ; and when the energy is increased to 5uJ, the anti-reflective layer is completely damaged. The comparison between...
Proceedings Article
Active Equalization for Lithium Batteries Combined Cell Voltage with State of Charge
Qinghe Liu, Tao Yang, Qingyang Xu, Lijun Zhao
Abstract—The equalization strategy simply based on cell voltage or state of charge is used in pure electric racing car. However, there is deviation in estimating state of charge or detecting cell voltage, which causes switches to open and close frequently or improperly, lowing equalization efficiency....
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
RA-GSMC Design for a SISO Servo-system with Nonlinear Uncertainty
Xiu Juan Sun, Chuan Jiang Wang
Considering the parameter uncertainties, model inaccuracies and external disturbances in the servo-system, it is difficult to achieve an ideal performance of the conventional sliding mode controller (SMC), so we designed a robust adaptive global sliding mode controller (RA-GSMC) by constructing a global...
Proceedings Article
Empirical Analysis on the impact of working capital management
Ming Hong, Chensha Liu
the article selects 2013 Annual Report data, and analyzes seven indicators of 24 listed companies about road transport industry by using SPSS19.0, and then the study get the newly acquired four comprehensive factors and make multivariate regression analysis. Through analysis for factors affecting business...
Proceedings Article
Hydrogen Transport through Dense and Porous Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications
N. C Nwogu, A. Alkali, E. Gobina
In this work the design of a nano structured ceramic membrane is carried out for fuel cell applications. However the innovation is that a membrane porous network is modified through its immersion in silica based solution and in a palladium solution to form composite membrane. Subsequently, the development...
Proceedings Article
Problem oriented Research-style teaching methods for engineering education
Wei Xiong, Anming Li, Shiwei Su
In view of the engineering course the characteristics of content abstract, theoretical depth, strong practicality. Study how to combine knowledge of problem solving process one by one to set up the teaching link. From knowledge review, new knowledge introduction, knowledge formed on cohesion and summarizes...
Proceedings Article
The Improvement of Professional Competences of Culture-Based Vocational Education Teacher
Yadi Mulyadi
the improvement of professional vocational education teachers in the context of lifelong education is a series of comprehensive systems that are continuously performed, both formally and informally. Life experience is the structure of teachers built on the perfect combination of cultural process of verbal...
Proceedings Article
Bandung Electronic Center : Consumer Attitude toward Smartphone and Tablet PC
Husni Amani, Harry Lutfi, Dini Turipanam Alamanda, Grisna Anggadwita
An increase in complexity of current communication needs makes humans require more sophisticated communication tools than before. Through a high need for gadgets, many electronics centers emerge in many major cities in Indonesia. The purpose of this research is to identify the profile of consumers in...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
Proceedings Article
Composite Adaptive Digital Predistortion with Improved Variable Step Size LMS Algorithm
Linhai Gu, Lu Gu, Jian Mao, Lijia Ge
This paper presents a composite learning (CL) architecture. The CL can make use of the advantages of both direct and indirect learning. By an appropriate threshold, the indirect learning can be switched into direct learning. In order to further improve the performance of direct learning, an improved...