Toll roads are an effective means of transportation to shorten the distance between regions. With a short distance, cost accommodation goods will decrease and increase accessibility, thereby encouraging economic improvement community development. One toll currently under construction in West Sumatra is Padang-Pekanbaru road. The Padang-Sicincin section part large project with length 30.4 km. Si...

This paper proposes an intelligent approach for dynamic identification of the vehicles. The proposed approach is based on the data-driven identification and uses a high-performance local model network (LMN) for estimation of the vehicle’s longitudinal velocity, lateral acceleration and yaw rate. The proposed LMN requires no pre-defined standard vehicle model and uses measurement data to identif...

Learning of complex material, such as concepts encountered in science classrooms, can occur under at least three different conditions of prior knowledge. First, a student may have no prior knowledge of the to-be-learned concepts, although they may have some related knowledge. In this case, prior knowledge is missing, and learning consists of adding new knowledge. Second, a student may have some...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an outstanding medical imaging modality but the quality often suffers from noise pollution during image acquisition and transmission. The purpose of this study is to enhance image quality using feature-preserving denoising method. In current literature, most existing MRI denoising methods did not simultaneously take the global image prior and local image feat...

The low performance of Chile in the TIMSS 1998/99 international study of mathematics and science achievement was a great disappointment for that country. To investigate the likely causes for low performance in mathematics, this study 1) compared Chile to three countries and one large school system that had similar economic conditions but superior mathematics performance, and 2) examined how imp...

Most studies on dialect acquisition have focused on the acquisition of lexical items and segmental phonology, while details of parental influence have been left on the backburner as a settled issue. Stanford (2008) showed that children acquire the local paternal dialect rather than the maternal dialect through the categorization of identity groups based on culture, but his study failed to inclu...

Although there are different alternatives to provide energy, still remote regions with no nearby possibilities of having an electricity supply that meets their basic needs. Colombia, like many countries, does not have uniform environmental conditions; therefore, applying models for the dimensioning energy systems based on renewable can be inefficient and expensive, making it difficult access in...