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The purpose of this study is to determine the interest of employees to be whistle-blowers to prevent and detect fraud actions. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study at Bank XYZ. Collecting data using interview method with selected informants. The study results indicate that employees...

Background: Central blood pressure (CBP) is a better predictor of cardiovascular burden than peripheral blood pressure (BP). While studies have suggested a reduction in peripheral BP with statins, it remains uncertain to what extent statins reduce CBP and whether this reduction is mediated through a...

In the preclinical setting, Angiotensin-II infusion has been the most popular model for mouse aneurysm research in the last 15 years. Nonetheless, little is known about the ascending aortic aneurysm pathobiology of this model and several lingering questions regarding the abdominal aortic aneurysm pathology...

In this paper we develop a new family of Weibull-gamma model which is obtained by compounding a q-Weibull density with a two parameter gamma density. This class can be considered as a natural extension of the Weibull gamma model which accommodates various other useful statistical models. Properties of...

This paper proposes a novel hybrid algorithm based on quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm and Nelder-Mead (NM) simplex search method for continuous optimization problems, abbreviated as QPSO-NM. This hybrid algorithm is very easy to be implemented since it does not require continuity...

The Control of Genetic Algorithms parameters allows to optimize the search process and improves the performance of the algorithm. Moreover it releases the user to dive into a game process of trial and failure to find the optimal parameters.

Today, comprehending consumer behavior is becoming dynamically challenging with the emergence of social commerce. Business organizations are now striving to convince consumers by exploiting the advantage of social support empowered by online social networks. Importantly, social ties in such online social...

We present a version of the conditional symmetry method in order to obtain multiple wave solutions expressed in terms of Riemann invariants. We construct an abelian distribution of vector fields which are symmetries of the original system of PDEs subjected to certain first order differential constraints....

We review a new method for studying boundary value problems for evolution PDEs. This method yields explicit results for a large class of evolution equations which iclude: (a) Linear equations with constant coefficients, (b) certain classes of linear equations with variable coefficients, and (c) integrable...

In this work we derive potential symmetries for ordinary differential equations. By using these potential symmetries we find that the order of the ODE can be reduced even if this equation does not admit point symmetries. Moreover, in the case for which the ODE admits a group of point symmetries, we find...

In the context of COVID-19 epidemic, the employment assistance of higher vocational colleges is mainly concentrated in employment recommendation, job-searching skills training, employment tracking and services, etc., and less attention is paid to the psychological dilemma of employment of higher vocational...

This study aims to identify the similarities and differences of politeness strategies in directive speech acts in Japanese and Minangkabau languages. The data are gathered from dialogues in a Japanese movie entitled Kuchibiru ni Uta o (2015) and one Indonesian movie using Minangkabau language as language...

One of the implementation of a human face recognition system is an attendance system application. Attendance system is used to detect and recognize a person’s identity and stored as a face database. The face-based presence system developed in this study is a facial presence system using a hybrid feature...

The Department of Agriculture and Food Security of Palembang City is located in the Gandus sub-district, assisting in the form of ducks breeders to reduce poverty and improve community welfare. Methods of data collection using questionnaires and interviews with duck farmers. The number of samples as...

The robot brings automation to every sector of human life, including agriculture. Automation in agriculture might be the solution to get a higher quality harvest and less dependency on human farming. The most suitable type of robot for harvesting is an arm robot manipulator. The harvesting robot needs...

This paper measures the green total factor productivity of manufacturing in China’s provinces from 2003 to 2017 and its decomposition indicators, empirically analyzes the impact of artificial intelligence on the green total factor productivity of manufacturing, and draws the following conclusion: Artificial...

Sharia banking is the progressing indicators of the Islamic economy in Indonesia. One of problems faced by Sharia Banking in Indonesia is the interest to Sharia Bank. It is caused by the lack of information and public knowledge of Sharia Banking. There have been many studies on customer preferences for...

Marxism is the guiding ideology of our Party and after decades of struggle, the people across the country in the form of legislation, to confirm that it is our country's guiding ideology. And Marxism is not a source for China since the late Qing Dynasty Chinese people understand and learn Marxism, mainly...

Audiences are exposed to more and more TV commercials of luxury goods, including perfumes. This paper analyzes TV commercials of female perfumes and fragrances from four luxury brands, namely Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, Lanc"me and EstŽe Lauder. By using content analysis method, This study discusses...

Financial management plays an important role in enterprise content management, and financial management activities should not be limited to internal corporate finance departments, and financial management should be thinking penetrated into all aspects of everyday business management activities. The market...

IoT (Internet of things) is an important part of new generation information technology. Facing the huge market, the enterprises shall respond to the national IoT development strategy demands, in order to develop further and enhance their competitiveness. Organizational capabilities theory in IoT technology...

The paper chose the seven dimensions of psychic distance ,that is language distance, religion distance, culture distance, industrialization distance, political distance, education distance and geographic distance as independent variables, and the paper analyzed the conduction mechanism to OFDI from the...

Taking an abandoned quarry located in Chengang town of Zhoushan city as an example and on the basis of investigating into vegetation and soil condition, the physicochemical properties of soil and plant community characteristics are analyzed. The results indicate: the physicochemical properties of the...

This paper is focus on discuss the importance of marketing research to sports marketers. Explain the fundamental process for conducting sports marketing research. Identify the various research design types. Describe the process for questionnaire development. Understand how to prepare an effective research...

Distributed control systems with high nonlinearity and with uncertain characteristics, make the control development a very complex task. In the last period several control methods were developed, presenting different performances but there is still room for improvement. In order to overthrow the complexity...

As language and culture are interrelated, language cannot go without culture. So, it is necessary to introduce culture to English teaching. This paper mainly analyses the major reasons for introducing culture to English teaching and how culture teaching can be conducted into English classroom and teacher’s...

The forest product trade is a very important part in the foreign trade.Under the current situation of increasingly fierce world trade competition and worse trade barriers, the promotion of the scientific development of foreign trade of forest products is an objective requirement of practising the scientific...

This article analysis the running conditions and existing problems of air conditioning system for existing public buildings in the cold and serious cold regions in winter,and compares analysis of the solution of the anti freezing measures for the fresh air unit,introduces the recovery exhaust energy...

This paper proposes a procedure to extract the kinetic model from the geometric model of a fixture to reduce the modeling time and effort. Since most of the fixtures in industry follow the same kinetic mechanism, the so-called a slider-crank mechanism; this is a four-axis system of three revolute and...

The ability of land uses providing multiple services is defined as Land Use Functions (LUFs). We divided multifunction of land use into 10 LUFs among the three dimensions of sustainability-social, economic and environmental and assessed the sustainability of land use in Northeast China based on Spatial...

Modular multiplication is a basic operation in public key cryptosystems, like RSA and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). There are many algorithms to speed up its calculation. Among them, Montgomery algorithm is the most efficient method for avoiding expensive divisions. Recently, due to the increasing...

Vocational competence is the foundation of work and future vocation development for students in higher technical and vocational colleges. This paper discusses the vocational competence formation mechanism of management majors in higher technical and vocational colleges. Through empirical study, it is...

The spread spectrum communication, as one of the most important techniques in the 21st century, receives a universal attention to the research on its key techniques. To study the performances of the chebyshev chaotic sequence in digital communication, mathematical analysis is made on the autocorrelation...

Petroleum university undergraduate teaching faced major oil companies demand, according to the development of the industry to provide new teaching mode, a comprehensive quality management of petroleum university undergraduate teaching is the main trend of petroleum university teaching reform. In this...

This paper describes a method of texture reproduction of realistic metal surfaces with age deterioration for applying in computer graphics. We propose a new simulation method for the peeling of preservative coatings of surfaces; the method considers the object geometry and surrounding environment. We...

The evaluation standard of product design is different for people, region, environment, which affected by many factors, especially the coordination between aesthetics and Ergonomics. Only by coordinating their relationship rationally can highlight its advantage in market competition. This article mainly...

Reducing energy consumption and maximizing resource efficiency have become two important issues without violating service level agreements(SLAs) on Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS) clouds. For the important issues, using the method of resource classification, this study proposes a resource provisioning...

Chinese feminine literature has really realized “de-sexualized writing”, and formed independent writing way and writing style from the 1980s or the 1990s. With the constantly profound reform and opening-up policy in China and deep transformation of social culture, female ideology has been constantly...

Shifting from bureaucracy model to entrepreneurial model as the main characteristic of New Public Management (NPM) has been taking place at local governments in Indonesia since the implementation of Law No. 32 of 2004 on Local Government. Performance appraisal, local financial management accountability,...

Wind energy is clean and renewable, with the progress of the wind power technology, the accumulation of operation and maintenance experience, reduced generation cost, large capacity of wind farms connected to grid have been built. It is urgent to study the reactive power optimization control of the wind...

Objective: After earthquake occurring in pastoral areas, due to the reasons such as many animals are dead, drinking water is polluted, the condition of food hygiene is poor, the weather is hot and the other factors, it is extremely easy to occur anthropozoonosis. The purpose of this study is to prevent...

The urgent and important task of (in) China MLIS education is to enhance education quality. To address this question, we analyzed current status of the external quality assurance of MLIS and studied the external evaluation characteristic. Then, we proposed that the reformation program for MLIS education...

In order to meet high precision and high reliability required for the permanent magnet linear motor servo system, a method that combined sliding tracking mode controller and the H disturbance compensator is proposed. The weighted integral gain sliding mode controller effectively solves the problem of...

Highway is an important transportation infrastructure,so it is meaningful to study it. Consider a toll highway having L lanes of travel in each direction and a barrier toll containing B tollbooths (B > L) in each direction.We establish the M/M/N system model based on the queuing theory, and get the basic...

Nonlinear model simplification is an important part of many applications, such as flow control, optimization and statistical analysis. In this article, we summarize the POD-DEIM method to solve the nonlinear system of the truss frame .And use an example of a clamped beam to illustrate the DEIM specific...

Mineral processing which plays a key role in steel industry, is giving more and more attention and mineral processing engineering education has been given high priority in China. Lack of mineral resource and pollution has baffled the economy development of China. Taking the personnel training of metallurgy...

This paper discusses how the epic genre is effective as a means for using structure to create meaning, as in the Mordovian epic Mastorava by A. M. Sharonov, where the author shows possible alternatives of government in the epic history of the Erzya and Moksha people.

Our first purpose is to develop a general conceptualization of employees' cognitive and emotional trust in supervisor, which is systematic and detailed enough to predict how they causally relate to other constructs differently. Drawing on previous study, we proposed two central ideas based on which the...