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This paper presents a new approach to user identity currently being explored within the SuperIdentity project and outlines the specific role that biometric measurements can contribute towards a modelling process. The SuperIdentity project aims to define a novel holistic model wherein the proven strengths of relationships between facets of identity are mapped. These facets are drawn from both real...
Educational resource center is a digital content management and service system with all kinds of educational information resources collected. By analyzing the current development of educational resource center, this paper proposes that ecological development is the strategic goal of educational resource center, and presents a use efficiency model of educational resource center. The use efficiency...
The application of information and communication technology is conceived as a chance to amplify the capacity of the citizens to act, strengthen cross-border contacts and relations, and develop an open society with cultural diversity. This seminar systematically reviews and presents the use of web-based services for government, administration, the public, and politics. A process-oriented layer model...
This paper focuses on providing a secure, authentic and user-friendly mechanism for both the customer's of the bank holding a locker and the branch head's involvement in all the operations pertaining to the safety lockers. The primary aim of this paper is to provide a solution towards a complete biométrie based authentication mechanism for operating the safety lockers. This system rests on improving...
How to deal with errors in estimating return and trading costs is a critical issue in portfolio management. In this paper, we investigate the over-time rebalancing benefits of the portfolio models that consider mean, variance, skewness, allowing short-sale, and transaction costs by incorporating fuzzy decision making. We apply multiple criterion method to deal with the complexity of various objectives...
Food Sovereignty (food freedom) is about empoweing people to develop their own local food system. Food Sovereignty challenges designers to enable people to innovate the local food system, rather than having a food system which is dictated by corporate interests and failed business ethics [1]. Communities are realising the potential for design to assist in the innovation process, and add strategic...
This paper introduces a new method for analyzing Mass Violence Events, and then we make use of Intelligent Artificial and Agent-Based System to deal with them. In the meanwhile, we describe and defy three kinds of agents (cops, activists and civilians), what comes next is that we apply these theories to model and simulate such events. The simulation results show that the behaviors of activists can...
It is the case that a growing number of trust models exist, each seemingly tailored to specific tasks and needs. In a great many cases, the trust models are intended to help people make decisions in uncertain circumstances or with a limited amount of knowledge. In almost all cases, this 'help' is in the form of an already made decision based on various calculations that may or may not be opaque to...
Take Changzhutan urban agglomeration as a sample to analysis the planning method of coordinating the land use of the cities based on the ecological footprint analysis. In this thesis, the comprehensive measure of ecological carrying capacity of cities and the ecological environment's overall development in urban area are the two significant aspects to the eco-planning of urban agglomeration. And then...
Fitting an accurate distribution to stock return has drawn great attention for a long period. Many researches are done on the original stock return, while transformation idea is introduced into the proposed method in this paper. A new random variable is devised based on aggregate transformation which is performed by using separation in a series of time windows in stock return. The statistical characteristic...
The paper chooses panel data from 200 college students, establishes econometric models, applies binary logistic regression model to analyzing the factor, which affect whether college students participate in medical insurance system or not. According this result, some advice is as follows: Give full play to national policy guidance and management supervision functions, and improve college students...
Tourism ecological footprint (TEF) model is an important method assessing the sustainable development of regional tourism in certain areas. In order to avoid some shortages of traditional TEF model, this paper proposes an modified model by adopting energy theory, which is named as tourism energy ecological footprint (TEEF) model. From the perspective of solar energy, the new model focuses on renewable...
Closing of an open-end fund to new investors in mutual fund market is more and more popular. The reason fund families give for the closing of a fund is reasonable: by preventing the size of the fund from growing too large to be managed effectively, the previous superior fund can maintain its good performance, so the interest of investors can be protected. However, by comparing the performances of...
This paper empirically studies the impacts of various corporate governance mechanisms on earnings management of listed Chinese firms from 2006 to 2008. We use eight variables to quantify various corporate governance mechanisms including ownership structure and executive compensation for 3468 listed firms sample. They include the concentration of shareholding among the ten largest shareholders, whether...
This paper is based on a preliminary investigation of the current logistical and supply chain issues of China's E-business-transformed agribusiness. It aims to find solutions through practical applications of the Value Trust Network (VTN) model. The literature on this topic is extensive, with E-business being a huge topic of interest. Previous studies have made inclusion of such a study regarding...
As the most valuable resource, information has become a key factor in deciding the levels of national productivity and economic growth. But there are lots of risks in the implementation. Risk assessment is an effective approach to evaluate security state of information system. In this paper a model of information system risk assessment based on its characters of incompleteness and ambiguity is presented...
The prioritization of projects in higher education institutions is a complex decision-making problem. In this paper we deal with a problem of making a decision on whether to start a new project application, and if so, which project to choose in a situation where project teams have several project ideas and limited resources. The purpose of the paper is to show how to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process...
This research investigated whether perceived usefulness, perceived easy use, security and privacy, perceived behavior control can influence customer attitude, which in turn, leads to adopt intention for mobile commerce in China. Based on the data collected from 268 college students who are mobile users, we found that perceived usefulness, perceived easy use, security and privacy, perceived behavior...
Vocational institutions and schools are undertaking a range of considerable teaching approaches to adopt new technologies for meeting society demands. Game-based learning (GBL) is a style particularly well-suited for vocational schools because it satisfies the basic requirements of professional skills learning environment and can provide engaging learning experiences for students. Experiential learning...
The NOSB is a nationally recognized and highly acclaimed academic competition for high school students designed to generate interest and excitement about the marine sciences. Its mission is to enrich science teaching and learning across the United States through a national competition that increases student knowledge, enhances public understanding, and promotes stewardship of the ocean. NOSB is highlighting...
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