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Science, technology, and engineering have obviously made substantial strides in the last century, but the culture in which those accomplishments take place may not have changed much at all as a result of ingrained gender stereotypes that stem from the earliest days of when "scientist" became a profession. That's the argument made in Julie Des Jardins' book, The Madame Curie Complex: The...
The primary objective of the project titled “A Retrospective Oral History of Computer Simulation” is to document the emergence of computer simulation since World War II. We seek to capture the early history of the field through digital videos of interviews with the pioneers whose seminal contributions have had long-lasting impacts on simulation practice and theory. This project involves the following...
An ability to apply philosophical inquiry to both create and critique arguments about the current and future state of engineering education is a critical capability for future engineering educators to develop. However, there are few, if any, examples of how to do this. In this paper we describe a course that we have been offering for four years at Purdue University, History and Philosophy of Engineering...
We have previously proposed the ReceiptLog service platform, which stores user's purchase histories from daily receipts for value-added consumer services. As a practical application of the ReceiptLog, we design and implement a shopping support service, called "Sma-Sho", in this paper. Sma-Sho is designed to cope with two typical problems in daily shopping: duplicate purchase and forgotten...
We study a game-theoretic model of how individuals learn by observing others' acting, and how (causal) knowledge grows in communities as result. We devise a cooperative solution in this game, which motivates a new recommendation system where causality (not correlation) is the central concept. We use the system in low-income communities, where individuals make judgments about the efficiency of educational...
This article presents the origin and development of Arabic numbers, the effect and the culture differences in graphic spread. We analyze the Arabic numeral symbols in graphic originality, and draw out the development space of the Arabic numeral symbols in shape and meaning of poster design. As a kind of mathematical symbols without national boundary, the Arabic numeral symbols have a large space in...
Since reform and opening up, ocean economy in China keeps a growth speed higher than that of national economy in the corresponding period. Zhejiang Province is much richer in ocean resources than inland regions. However, due to the short history, ocean economy of Zhejiang Province is still in less developed conditions. Currently, the development gaps of Zhejiang ocean economy are mainly ocean science...
The studies of ethnobotany in Inner Mongolia mainly focused on the traditional Mongolian plant use. Based on ethnobotany theory and methods, through visiting, investigation and refering to related literature, we studied primarily the Daur's plant use knowledge in Melidawa Daur autonomous Banner of Hulunbeier city, especially in the aspect of edible plants, medicine plants, and the plants used in architecture,...
The Great Wall of Jin dynasty is a tight military defense system, relying on the integrity and systematic. It is more mature than the former. The structure of the Jin Great Wall is special designed for defending against nomadic cavalry, and some features inherited by the Great Wall of Ming dynasty.
China is usually called as the etiquette nation, which has a long historical cultural tradition. Etiquette is an indispensable component of traditional culture, which played a huge role in the maintenance of social order, agglomerating the nation and the human hearts, adjusting interpersonal relationships. This paper summarized the basic characteristics of Chinese traditional etiquette and custom...
Urban excellent modern architectures are outstanding historical and cultural heritages, the research of protecting them includes two important contents, which are identifying standards and protection management strategies. From these two aspects this paper analyzes the protection research backgrounds, objects, and status quos of the urban excellent modern architectures and establishes the research...
The Great Wall of China demarcates the agricultural civilization and the nomadic civilization in the Chinese history, and also protects the agricultural nationalities as a defense in the north. The course of the Great Wall is determined by a variety of factors, including the climate change, one of the external causes. The analysis of global climate change indicates that meteorological fluctuation...
This paper introduces the basic theory, principles and study scope of construction bionics, discusses the significance of construction bionics on preserving the ecological environment and completing the scientific system, etc. Based on the developing history of construction bionics, carried out the classification for bionic design and analyzed the status of bionic design, and summed up the impact...
The necessity and inevitability of saving and intensive land use is decided by the conditions of more people and less land in China. China is a mining country and there are large numbers of abandoned land caused by mining. Therefore, the saving and intensive reuse of abandoned mine land should be an important component of saving and intensive land use. Based on the analysis of present status of China's...
The site of Unit 731 is a historical evidence of Japanese Imperial Army cruelly kill China during World War II. It belongs to one of latter-day sites in Harbin. However, with the historical variance, the integral and original sites had destroyed, which leads to difficulties for preservation. A new design theory of “Recall history and Expect peace” that overlapping and splicing of the current landscape...
Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a kind of hard problem in the mathematic field. It is very hard to solve using deterministic algorithms. So it often resorts to heuristic stochastic search algorithms. In this paper, a Heuristic Simulated Annealing Genetic Algorithm (HSAGA) is presented to solve TSP problem, in which Genetic Algorithm (GA) functions as global search strategy while the designed Heuristic...
This paper analyzes Chinese government's new thoughts and requirements of the development of university journals with the perspective of newspaper and journal reform in China and proposes some strategies for the development of Chinese university journals.
Higher educational system is a key issue which influences the overall situation of higher education. By dividing the higher educational system into three sub-systems of administrative system of higher education, educational system and internal management system of institutions of higher learning, this essay illustrates the major issues concerning the governmental management model and the classified...
Since the introduction of reform and opening up policy, education in patriotism in colleges and universities, which was attached great importance by Party and State, adapted to the trend of our era and continually made improvement and innovation, making gratifying results and accumulating precious experiences. It has experienced three periods: recovering and exploring period (1978–1988), gradually...
Because of the complex cultural context of the heritage, there had been few design case studies of the social interfaces for cultural heritage exhibitions. This study extends from the recent studies of social interaction, social media and social immersive media. It aims to design and validate prototypes of social interface based on a design case study of the digital shadow play exhibited in museums,...
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