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Graph-Based Hybrid Recommendation Using Random Walk and Topic Modeling
In this paper, we propose a graph-based method for hybrid recommendation. Unlike a simple linear combination of several factors, our method integrates user-based, item-based and content-based techniques more f...
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PDMA: A Probabilistic Framework for Diversifying Recommendation Lists
In this paper, we derive a probabilistic ranking framework for diversifying the recommendations of baseline methods. Unlike conventional approaches to balance relevance and diversity, we produce the diversifie...
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Soft Power: A Critical Factor for the Effectiveness and Development of a School
This research aims to explore the contents of a school’s soft power, including culture, strategy, leadership, learning, marketing and innovation. Managing soft power not only is critical for a school’s develop...
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The Design of the Underlying Network Communication Module Based on IOCP
The I/O completion port(IOCP) mechanism is adopted in the design, on the basis of it, many optimization technology of the system performance are integrated, such as multithreaded, object pool and the ring buff...
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Improved Trusted Storage Key Authorization Management Scheme Based on Timestamp
One of the important functionalities in trusted computing platform is secure storage. Although the technologies about secure storage in trusted computing platform become more sophisticated, and the application...
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The Effects of Governmental Subsidy on the Quality of Education in Taiwan’s Private Universities and Colleges
The government arranges subsidies for private colleges annually with excellent academic performance. In order to justify if government subsidies can enhance the quality of education, this paper will investigat...
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Simulation of a Signalized Intersection Delay Model
Signalized intersection delay is an important evaluation index of the signalized intersection capacity and level of service. This paper presents a signalized intersection delay model for signalized intersectio...
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A High Performance 50% Clock Duty Cycle Regulator
A low-jitter clock duty cycle corrector circuit applied in high performance ADC is presented in the paper, such circuits can change low accuracy input signals with different frequencies into 50% pulse width cl...
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Kinematic Analysis of Remote Target Pointing Hand Movements in a 3D Environment
The study investigates kinematics of target pointing hand movements in a free-hand, touchless, 3D environment. Consistent with Fitts’ original information processing model, target pointing hand movement time i...
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A Real-Time Self-adaptive Enhancement Method of Infrared System
A real-time self-adaptive image enhancement method is proposed, which based on information of the histogram for Infrared Focal Plane Array (IRFPA) system. By analyzing information on the image histogram and ca...
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Can I Help You?: Towards the Improvement of Occupational Experience for Convenience Store Employees in Taiwan
This article explores the occupational experiences of convenience store frontline service employees in Taiwan. We find that in addition to physical labor, employees must incorporate job crafting to effectively...
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Exploiting Spatial Locality for Objects Layout in Virtual Environments
On-disk sequentiality of requested data, or their spatial locality, is critical to disk performance. Unfornately, spatial locality of cached data is largely ignored, and only temporal locality is considered in...
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A New Side Information Generation Scheme for Distributed Video Coding
In this paper, a new side information generation scheme for distributed video coding (DVC) is proposed. The proposed scheme uses classification-based motion estimation and multiple block motion interpolation t...
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Using Agent Technology to Study Human Action and Perception Through a Virtual Street Simulator
Human activities are the foundation of the social processes that drive the urban system. The emergence of information technology provides opportunities to extend the transformation of the physical city into th...
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User-Oriented Design (UOD) Patterns for Innovation Design at Digital Products
Innovation design is the trend of products in the future. User-oriented design (UOD) is a design process which focuses on the needs of the user and develops product concepts for them. The objective of this res...
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Cryptanalysis of Tso et al.’s ID-Based Tripartite Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol
A tripartite authenticated key agreement protocol is generally designed to accommodate the need of three specific entities in communicating over an open network with a shared secret key, which is used to prese...
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Practical Error Analysis of Cross-Ratio-Based Planar Localization
Recently, more and more computer vision researchers are paying attention to error analysis so as to fulfill various accuracy requirements arising from different applications. As a geometric invariant under pro...
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An Open Service Platform at Network Edge
The last few years, users want various services that fit their needs and preferences. Many services are provided at network edges and are increasing in number. The open framework is needed for efficient servic...
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Key Agreement Protocols Based on the Center Weighted Jacket Matrix as a Symmetric Co-cyclic Matrix
In [1], a key agreement protocol between two users, based on the co-cyclic Jacket matrix, was proposed. We propose an improved version of that, based on the same center weighted Jacket matrix but at the point ...
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Bandwidth Management for Smooth Playback of Video Streaming Services
In this work we propose an analytic framework for managing the optimal bandwidth required for a smooth playback of a stored video streaming service. First, we argue that the mean buffering delay in the node is...