Abstract: This study examines the impact of interracial interactions on student's social self-concept across racial/ethnic groups four years after they enter college. Our study finds significant changes in the social self-concepts of White, Native American, African American, Latino/a, and Asian American ...     Read More

Abstract: This paper hypothesizes that positive attitude towards education can be nurtured and developed during the childhood period. Hence, the research employs longitudinal data to examine the impact of high school teacher characteristics on the postgraduate educational aspirations of their former students ...     Read More

Abstract: Aging population has become a world-wide challenge for not only social services, but also the built environment of neighborhood. Community facility is a key element of built environment that has significant impact on elderly's daily lives. However, current planning and design guidelines mainly ...     Read More

Abstract: This study employed a Cobb-Douglas stochastic production frontier function to estimate the level of technical efficiency. The results of the analysis showed that cropping season of mango growers have been round year. The result of study contributed to tropical fruits efficiency of three seasons inst...     Read More

Abstract: Introduction: The purpose of this study is to provide insights into emerging deployment of digital technology practices and sharing economy platform in the hospitality and tourism industry. As the digital technology displaces the traditional customer services and experience economy employee's work, ...     Read More

Abstract: A vibro-impact system driven by an DC electric motor is analyzed. The vibro-impact system is consisting of a crank-slider mechanism and one oscillator attached to it. Oscillator can impact in a fixed wall. The impact model has been assumed as inelastic, causing the change of velocity in sign and int...     Read More

Abstract: This paper aims to investigate the relevance of job competency and Job performance with demographic factors for tourism managers in Mongolia.This quantitative study has constructed 61 questions from 331 respondents that challengethe current understanding of role and relevance tourism manager's Job c...     Read More

Abstract: Painting is a popular form of art. Style transfer is the technique of recomposing images in the style of other images. In the past, it takes lots of time for a well-trained artist to redraw an image in a particular style. Recently, inspired by the power of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Gaty...     Read More

Abstract: With the recent boom in big data analytics, many application areas require optimization algorithms that work at massive scale. TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources that lets resea...     Read More

Abstract: In 1997, the term critical chain was coined as an expansion of the critical path in project management and gained much popularity. The critical path has been a major breakthrough in modern management as it facilitates project management, thereby enabling effective and efficient management of giganti...     Read More