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A New Approach to Understand the Fundamental Cause of Gravity, and Time Dilation in Special and General Relativity

Ajit Patki

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Keywords: Gravity, Root force, the ‘space’, Super-vacuum

In present article, the ‘space’ is considered as a physical entity, and the gravity is discussed as a consequence of equal and opposite interaction between ‘mass’ and the ‘space’ around ev...

Effect of Dilute Solutions of Nicosulfuron Along With Surfactants on Weeds Control Efficiency in Corn (Zea Mays var. Popcorn) Field

Benjamin Park, Daniel Rodriguez, Matthew Garcia, Elizabeth Moore

College of Agricultural Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Keywords: Herbicide concentration, Seed production, Suboptimum application, Surfactant.

Determining which adjuvant is the most effective is important in order to optimize herbicide efficacy. To study effect of Nicosulfuron along with surfactant on efficiency of weeds control in popcorn f...

Adversarial Learning Using Non-Linear Functions

Catherine Miller, Rebecca Clark, Victoria Lopez, Samantha Hill

Department of Computer Science, University of Oslo, Norway

Keywords: Stackelberg game, Adversarial learning, Nonlinear functions, Cut-point analysis, Evolutionary strategy, Spam detection

A Comparative Study of Ordinary and Fastidious Customers’ Priorities in Service Quality Dimensions – The Case of Four-Star Hotels

Thomas Nguyen, Andrew Patel, Nicholas Santos

College of Business Administration, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Keywords: Service Quality Dimensions (SQDs), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), TOPSIS, Shannon Entropy, Hotel, Prioritization, Customer Satisfaction

Current study aims to prioritize SQDs for hotels through a two-step procedure: firstly, forming congruent groups of customers based on their level of expectations as well as perceptions of service; an...

Search for a Randomly Moving Target

Hamdy M. Abou-Gabal

Department of Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt

Keywords: Brownian motion, Expected value, Linear search, Optimal search plan.

This paper formulates a search model that gives the optimal search plan for the problem of finding a lost target. The lost target moves according to a Brownian motion on the real line. Two searchers s...

A Snake-Like Robot with Music Perception and Entertainment via an Automatic Computer Music Generator

P.C. Wang, P.S. Pa, J.M. Syu

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Keywords: Engineering Education, Computer Application, Music Robot, Digital Music, Snake-like Robot

A snake-like robot with music perception and entertainment via a computer music generator is discussed in the current study. The students will study the related branches of computer science and engine...

BARRIERS IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING COMPUTER SCIENCE AND THEIR RELATION TO THE SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT OF PUPILS

Dragana Glušac, Ljiljana Krneta

Faculty of Computer Science, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Keywords: the teaching of Computer Science, barriers, school achievement, correlations

Computer education plays a very important role in achieving certain general, social and civilization goals-such as educated and creative individuals, people ready for the challenges brought upon them ...

The effect of household income on higher education in Lesotho

Puruweti Siyakiya, Lungile Ntsalaze

University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg Business School, South Africa

Keywords: autoregressive distributed lag-error correction model (ARDL-ECM), expenditure, gross enrolment rate, income, Lesotho.

Given the small sample size and the mixed order of integration among the variables, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Error Correction (ARDL-ECM) model is used to examine both short-run and long-ru...