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High-Efficiency Multihomed Multimedia Transmission in Wireless Sensors
For real-time video transmission in multimedia sensor networks, efficient and reliable communication is very important. However, under actual conditions, when the sensor transmits data to the sink node, the link between the...
Published by: IGI Global
Water Resources Assessment and Management for Nuclear Power Plants in China
To deal with global warming and energy shortage, nuclear power plants are constructed or planning to be constructed in China presently. The operation of a nuclear power plant consumes a great amount of water and discharges a lot...
The Research of Social Network Analysis on College Students' Interactive Relations
Nowadays the number of college students' suicides are increasing for the insufficient social support or poor interpersonal relations. Furthermore, not much attention has been concerned to students' interpersonal relations when...
Published by: IGI Global
A New Resource Recovery Process for Refining Sludge Generated by a Paper Manufacturing Company
A new sludge processing method was developed by the Beta Company, a paper manufacturing company. The new method will shorten the time for transforming sludge into organic fertilizers, which will improve the process of handling...
Published by: IGI Global
Are the relationships between mental health issues and being left-behind gendered in China
BACKGROUND: While most existing studies reveal left-behind children (LBC) are prone to suffering from mental health issues, some other literature fails to develop a statistical significance between being left-behind and facing...
Application of CSK Encryption Algorithm in Video Synergic Command Systems
Video command and dispatch systems have become essential communication safeguard measures in circumstances of emergency rescue, epidemic prevention, and control command as, data security has become especially important. After...
Published by: IGI Global
The Relationship Between Bitcoin and Stock Market
This article analyzes the relationship between Bitcoin and the stock market by using a vector autoregressive model. To enhance the impulse response signal, the Sliding Window technique is applied. Study results show the...
Published by: IGI Global
Developmental Trajectory of the American Yacht Clubs
The yacht industry is one of the leading industries used to guide residents’ increase in consumption. This study analyzes the evolving spatial pattern of yacht clubs in the United States from 1900-2017, aiming to explore the...
Published by: IGI Global
Object Tracking Based on Global Context Attention
Previous research has shown that tracking algorithms cannot capture long-distance information and lead to the loss of the object when the object was deformed, the illumination changed, and the background was disturbed by similar...
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The Effect of Media Richness on the Stability of Physician-Patient Relationships on E-Consultation Platforms
Incorporating media richness theory, social presence theory, and apparatgeist theory, the authors used multiple linear regression to explore the effect of media richness on the stability of physician-patient relationships and...
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Who Contributes to the Sunk Costs of Motor Vehicle Carbon Emissions and Human Capital?
Most carbon emission reduction studies in transportation focus on the natural use of motor vehicles. However, little attention has been paid to fatal driving violations that lead to the sunk costs of human resources investment...
Published by: IGI Global
A Systems Dynamics Simulation Study of Network Public Opinion Evolution Mechanism
The factors that affect formation and dissemination of public opinion have been studied for a long time. However, the findings are disparate and fragmented, given the characteristics of netizens and new media in the Big Data...
Published by: IGI Global
Intelligent Multiparameter Fiber-Optic Sensing for Ocean Observation
With the increasing needs for the protection of marine and fresh water environment, there is surging demand for effective technologies to monitor different environmental parameters. Among different new technologies, fiber-optic...
Factors Affecting the Adoption of Self-Service Technology (SST) in the Public Sector
In the Netherlands, housing corporations are increasingly adopting self-service technologies (SSTs) to support affairs their tenants need to arrange. The purpose of the study is to examine the customers' motivations of using...
Published by: IGI Global
A Model of Semantic-Based Image Retrieval Using C-Tree and Neighbor Graph
The problems of image mining and semantic image retrieval play an important role in many areas of life. In this paper, a semantic-based image retrieval system is proposed that relies on the combination of C-Tree, which was built...
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Canals, Consent and Coercion
Francis James Dawson
Sep 11, 2018
Ever since Chinese telecommunications magnate, Wang Jing announced in 2013 that construction would be going ahead for an interoceanic canal in Nicaragua, the proposed megaproject has garnered considerable attention and...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Westernization and Music in China during and after the Qing Dynasty
Anna Chen
Jan 30, 2014
Before the Revolution of 1911, China was a mighty empire dominated by various Chinese ethnic groups in different time periods. In particular, the Han people of the Tang1 and Ming Dynasty and the Man people of the Qing Dynasty2...
Published by: Faculty of Education
An Empirical Study on the Network Model and the Online Knowledge Production Structure
Mass production has attracted much attention as a new approach to knowledge production. The R software system is a typical product of mass production. For its unique architecture, the R software system accurately recorded the...
Published by: IGI Global
Application of Microbial Degradation Technology in Oil Pollution Control
Oil pollution is still a problem that is very difficult to control. To this end, this study investigates the application effect of microbial degradation technology in oil pollution control. First, the degradation microbial...
Published by: IGI Global
The High-Quality Development of China's Publication Printing Industry From an Environmental Perspective
In this article, we measure the change in the green total factor productivity of the publication printing industry in 31 provinces in China between 2013 and 2019. An additive Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen total factor productivity...
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Which Kinds of Legitimacy is Important?
Although legitimacy has been identified as a vital issue for firms, existing literatures of legitimacy for firms mainly focus on one stage in their life cycle. To this end, this article applies the theory of cooperate life cycle...
Published by: IGI Global
Identity Authentication Security Management in Mobile Payment Systems
Mobile payment is a new payment method offering users mobility, reachability, compatibility, and convenience. But mobile payment involves great uncertainty and risk given its electronic and wireless nature. Therefore, biometric...
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A Hybrid Learning Particle Swarm Optimization With Fuzzy Logic for Sentiment Classification Problems
Methods based on deep learning have great utility in the current field of sentiment classification. To better optimize the setting of hyper-parameters in deep learning, a hybrid learning particle swarm optimization with fuzzy...
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Cantonese Children's Songs in Hong Kong
Lily Chen-Hafteck
Nov 19, 2013
A century of British colonial rule over a population of Chinese majority has resulted in a special culture of Hong Kong. While the local people have maintained a considerable amount of the traditional Chinese culture, a very...
Published by: Faculty of Education
An Improved Cuckoo Search Algorithm With Stud Crossover for Chinese TSP Problem
The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is an NP-hard problem in combinatorial optimization. It has assumed significance in operations research and theoretical computer science. The problem was first formulated in 1930 and since...
Published by: IGI Global
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