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This paper reports on a study on the impact of using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on the livelihoods of microenterprises. The study used a qualitative approach and focused on the case of South Africa. Microenterprises play an important role in socio-economic development and in bridging the gap in the segments of the economy of South Africa. The study findings confirm that ICT use...
Prosthetic limbs are commonly used by people with limb loss (acquired amputation) and limb absence (congenital deficiency) to restore or imbue some of the function and/or cosmesis of an anatomical limb. Prosthesis is part of the field of biomechatronics, the science of using mechanical devices with human muscle, skeleton, and nervous systems to assist or enhance motor control lost by trauma, disease,...
Despite a growing interest in design patterns by the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community, an interaction pattern collection that is universally accepted is yet to be found. Such a collection would aid the design of pervasive computing systems, in which interactions occur in both the material and logical worlds. This paper first seeks to define interaction patterns by adopting a model that captures...
Aimed at tackling the disadvantages of conventional manhole a new manhole cleaning robot system is designed for performing cleaning work instead of manual cleaning that is characteristic of low safety, low efficiency, long time and environmental pollution problems. cleaning operations The robot system consists of robot, suction pump, hydraulic pump station, remote control center, windlass and so on,...
This paper presents a payment model in which the mobile businessman is seen as trusted third party. Then we propose a new symmetric key-based mobile payment protocol and introduce both according key agreement protocol and payment protocol. In key agreement protocol, we introduce a Hash function with key based on RPC to guarantee payment authorization security. The payment protocol achieves security...
This study aims to determine the antioxidant activities of traditional plants from the Lauraceae family in Sarawak. Twenty selected plants from the Lauraceae family were collected from various mixed dipterocarp forests located in the Kuching and Samarahan Districts of Sarawak. Their antioxidant activities were evaluated on the methanolic extracts using the DPPH (2,2-Diphenyl-l-picrylhydrazyl ) assay...
This paper describes our work in computer vision to track food materials in the food preparation process. Tracking such food materials is difficult, because they are often hidden when moved by hand. Furthermore, their appearance may change in hand when they are cut or peeled. For tracking these objects in such situations, we propose a novel method that matches an object on a cooking table to one grasped...
Presbyopia and cataract are increasing concerns in the aging society. Both age-related ailments go along with a loss of ability to accommodate. A new approach to restoring the patients' ability to accommodate is the Artificial Accommodation System which will be implanted into the capsular bag to replace the human crystalline lens. Depending on the actual need for accommodation, the Artificial Accommodation...
This paper constructs an economic growth theory in which economic growth is driven by knowledge accumulation and endogenously determined by the evolutionary dynamics of division of labor between scientific research and material production. Distinguished from the existing growth models based on representative individual's intertemporal choice, this paper formulates economy as an evolutionary process...
In modern conditions high quality of a life can be provided only under condition of natural systems preservation and quality of environmentmaintenance. Maintenance of harmonious economic social-natural interaction is offered by the sustainable development concept. A basis of transition to a new trajectory of development is change of public institutes. One of such institutes of functioning of a society...
Based on the background of building resource-saving-oriented society today, which acts as one of main bodies of resource-saving, the construction of conservation-oriented government is increasingly becoming the focus of current academic research. Most of researches mainly focus on the content of conservation-oriented government and paths to build it, while researches done on the practical and specific...
The financial crisis caused almost every country's economy in a depression, on contrast to economic recession, the financial crisis, however, gave an opportunity to the electronic entertainment with cultural elements. The authors analyzed the relationship between culture and economy, found that Economy serves as foundation for culture, and Culture is an important force for economic development. The...
The paper aims at designing for Xu Xianxiu tomb fresco of North Qi Dynasty and also protecting it, which is located in Wangjiafeng village of Taiyuan, Shanxi, according to the characteristics of the traditional local architecture--quadrangle. Modern constructional materials are employed to build the main space, while beam-like truss structure and steel structure are combined to demonstrate modern...
The study between tourism souvenir development and culture in China most focus on one certain culture or one certain region, all belonging to phenomenon analysis, now there is a lack of further theoretical studies through local or specific phenomenon. The purpose of this paper is to decompose tourism souvenir core value from cultural perspective with economic theory, and then do some inference of...
Human-based Management is an inevitable development trend in modern enterprises management; it is the requirement of complete human-being development on enterprise management. Human-based management, i.e. the commonly called "human oriented", means regarding human being as the core of management activities, highlighting the management thought of promoting the completion of organization goals...
Accident is originated by hidden danger. Discovering and removing hidden dangers is one main approach to prevent and control accidents. This paper collected and analyzed the information of hidden dangers from multiple coal mines. On that basis, we put forward concepts of hidden danger information and standard database of hidden danger information, introduced the structure and build flow chart of standard...
In the design of disastrous memorial building, obtaining theme is the soul of creation, which can record disaster (or calamity) culture. By comprehensively using expression techniques of "straight", "symbolization" and "metaphor", three creation thinking of "Cheng (Presenting)", "Zhuan (Changing)" and "Qi (enlightening)" can earn the emotional...
Sustainable construction is to maximize the efficient use of our building, to minimize and eventually eliminate the building on human health and the negative impact of the environment. This passage describes the development present situation of the sustainable architecture design projects at domestic and abroad, introduce several typical projects. We propose strategy for sustainable building design,...
Problem solving is a daily affair in manufacturing. Today engineers face numerous challenges in tackling issues in the factories, ranging from technical complexities, cost reductions and speed for fixes. This paper will describe the systematic innovation methodology used which is called Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). Various TRIZ tools were deployed at the initial stage, example Engineering...
The area of integration is extremely broad, from the biosphere to human society, from local to global, from micro to macro, from object to subject where we all can find integrated phenomena or activities. For social integration, the integrating activities has subject. Broadly speaking, all the factors that consciously promote integration or put influence on the integration are integration subjects...
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