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The accelerated growth of the past 30 years has advanced the entrepreneurial sector in China. The surge in private wealth management services (PWM) has resulted in enhancing this segment’s pro-file globally. The ensuing tension between demand and lagging development may force change to markets and regulations....

Electrolytic codeposition technique was adopted in the deposition of NiFe-SiC coating on the stainless substrate, using nickel alloyed with iron as the binder phase with SiC as dispersed particles. The results indicated that the deposit with SiC nanoparticles was level and compact; the crystal-planes...

Background: Completion of ≥150 minutes/week of physical activity (PA) is recommended for cardiovascular health, but this is achieved only by ~50% of Australian adults. Assessing self-reported PA via quick single-item question is desirable for large-scale cardiovascular research and health screening....

The banking industry; as an economic sector grow rapidly among the development of communication and information technology. With the convenience obtained by customers; competition between banks is getting tighter and more competitive. Therefore; banks are required to provide maximum service quality...

One of the essential elements for Indonesian university quality assurance is the availability of educational facilities. The infrastructure and amenities provided in the learning environments affect the efficacy of the educational process. Based on existing data, only 30% of universities in Indonesia...

Introduction: Cardiovascular events are the leading cause of death among firefighters, with the greatest risk occurring during or shortly after fire suppression activity. Increased cardiovascular risk potentially manifests from detrimental changes in ventricular function, vascular load, and their interaction...

Vocabulary learning strategies as a part of language learning strategies has been gaining increased attention after 1990s. There have been a number of researches on this field. In China, the present circumstances in vocabulary teaching and learning are not so optimistic, and most learners experience...

Based on the current situation and sorts of plights faced by one-children under the newly revised “family planning” policy, this paper reads, analyzes, and compares the past studies on “the problem of one-child parents’ old-age care” in The Paper (澎湃新闻in Chinese)and Xinhua News Agency (abbr. Xinhua in...

Copper oxide contains of bivalent copper and monovalent copper, which is widely distributed in earth resources. In this article, the copper oxide films were deposited on transparent conducting glasses (FTO) by magnetron reactive sputtering under different sputtering conditions of power and oxygen flow....

Aimed at the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system, an electronic control unit (DCU) was developed under V-type procedure. Development of DCU software and hardware were carried out simultaneously, shortening largely the development cycle. The self-developed DCU, integrated with Bosch SCR system,...

Wetland is the richest ecosystem with diversified creatures and also is one of the most important living environments. As the irrational utilization and damage of wetland resource in recent years, wetland resource is experiencing a degenerative process. As a unique ecosystem that is different from lands...

Propelled by algorithms, 3-5-minute plot-recap short videos can rack up tens of millions of views, yet they repeatedly skirt the red line of copyright infringement. Chinese legislation follows the Berne Convention’s three-step test, yet in practice some courts often collapse it into a single inquiry—whether...

Background: Daily assessment of vascular health may predict cardiovascular incidence. Vascular aging index (VAI) calculated from second derivative of photoplethysmogram (SDPTG) is a simple, non-invasive measure possibly reflecting vascular stiffness. However, the effects of daily life events such as...

Distance-based indexing is a widely used technique for general purpose search. Pivot selection is the most crucial step of bulkloading a metric-space indexing tree. Current pivot selection methods are mainly based on linear methods. A non-linear method based on Locally Linear Embedding is proposed. Empirical...

Objectives: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) approximates aortic stiffness and is a predictor of cardiovascular events. Despite the literature highlighting the clinical relevance of cfPWV, there is minimal integration of this parameter in clinical assessments. An underlying reason may stem...

The Object-oriented programming is a professional foundation courses which is generally set up in the university, and it is the first lesson of a lot of follow-up courses. It runs through the other subjects of the teaching system. It is particularly important to learn this language for learning other...

Background: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a manifestation of atherosclerosis. Adipose tissue (AT) and skeletal muscle (SM) are endocrine organs with vascular effects. The objective is to compare the quantity and function of AT and SM between two groups: intermittent claudication (IC) and critical...

Objectives: To determine how orthostatic changes in body position alter BP and estimation of pulse wave velocity (PWV) and Augmentation Index (AIx), when changing from supine to the sitting position [1]. Also, to analyze the effect of a short physical exercise and of physical training status on PWV/AIx...

Countless previous studies have manifested the negative consequences of physician burnout and its relating causes. However, the recent occurring pandemic, COVID-19, might change the whole picture for the problem. While hypothesizing that physician burnout changes before and after the pandemic and gender...

Background/Objectives: Myeloid cells are crucial for the development of vascular inflammation. Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 8 (LRP8) or Apolipoprotein E receptor 2 (ApoER2), is expressed by macrophages, endothelial cells and platelets and has been implicated in the development of...

The quality of reconstructed images is an important and direct criterion to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of reconstruction algorithms in electrical tomography (ET). Unfortunately, there lacks of effective and efficient approach to assessing the quality of ET images in literature and practices....

Knowledge related to healthy snacks was still inadequate in school- age children. The unhealthy, unsafe and non-nutritious snacks was still occurred in elementary schools. Changes in the behavior of choosing snacks is one of the challenges among school students. The implementation of Information, Education,...

Rural-to-urban migrant women of childbearing-age with one child are the important research objects for studying China’s two-child policy, the second child’s willingness to give birth directly affects the supply and allocation of public health and family planning services in the inflow area. While the...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by NADPH-oxidase (NOX) participate in vascular tone control, but their effects in the arteries of respiratory muscles is poorly understood. Possible targets of vasoregulatory ROS influence are NO-pathway in the endothelium and Rho-kinase pathway in smooth muscle...

This study elaborates on the issues of the teacher certification program in Indonesia by integrating the Freirean perspectives to consider how power linkages arise within, and affect the assessment standard system, and how people who participate in this system are affected by the normalization of the...

Introduction: Chronic increases in aldosterone (Aldo) levels (hyperaldosteronism) increases blood pressure and induces hypertension. In the cardiovascular system, Aldo stimulates reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. ROS contribute to vascular dysfunction by increasing vascular smooth muscle contractile...

The primary objective of this research was the development of a scale to measure perceived risk among Go-Jek service (Go-Ride and Go-Car) customers. Non-probability sampling (convenience sampling) was used to select 145 participants (30 men, 115 women) from the population. All participants were Go-Jek...

GHRM (Green human Resource Management) is a strategic initiative that integrates environmental considerations into human resource practices. This approach embeds environmental sustainability into various human resources (HR) activities, including eco-friendly recruitment, environmental training programs,...

With the development of the society, the progress of The Times, constantly improve the people's standard of living, people in the pursuit of quality of life also had a higher. But is also due to the development of the society, people's living environment and living space has been a great deal of pollution,...

Large particle size limestone (CaCO3) is an important raw material used in many branches of industry. For lacking of reaction parameters of large particle size limestone, numerical analysis method is used to study the decomposition reaction kinetics of limestone to understand the thermal decomposition...

The rapid spread of the application of renewable energy has created an acute need to create intelligent systems that will be able to optimize energy distribution, storage and use in real time. Traditional energy manage-ment systems tend to be inflexible, lack predictive capability and do not possess...

An investigation on the energy band structures, density of states, elastic coefficients and Debye temperature of monoclinic ZrO2 and monoclinic Bi2O3 at ambient pressure was investigated via first-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT). The calculation results from the energy...

In recent years, with the increasing influence of the Internet and social media, fan nationalism, as a new form of nationalism, has been widely discussed by scholars. This paper reviews related literature of fan nationalism from three aspects: psychological drive, fan organization, and media development....

In the process of exploiting low carbon economy, carbon storage plays an important role in counteracting greenhouse gases. Even though various researches have been done on carbon storage of forests and soil, the study of urban gardening is only 1.27%. But the proportion is increasing in recent years....

At present, there are many researches on the competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry, but there are few researches on the competitiveness of China's beverage industry, especially the inter-provincial competitiveness. Based on researches into domestic and foreign competitiveness theories, this...

Objectives: We aimed to investigate the association between isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) and central blood pressure (BP) in a nationally representative population. Methods: A total of 2029 adults without anti-hypertensive medicine, aged ≥19 years old participated in the 2013–2016 National Nutrition...

To solve the problem of current communication network for smart distribution automation, key technologies of heterogeneous networks were analyzed and researched, including network resource management, dynamic network selection and intelligent switching strategy as well as channel protection algorithm...

The purpose of this study is to describe the socio economic status of fishermen in West Sumatra Province. To analyze the socioeconomic status of fishermen households is used the data of the agricultural census survey "Fishing Survey of Household Businesses" from Bureau center of statistics in West Sumatra....

Considering the critical role of health workers in handling COVID-19 cases, the Ministry of Health of The Republic of Indonesia provides monetary rewards in COVID-19 incentives for health service providers, including nurses who interact directly with COVID-19 patients. The incentives are expected to...

Objective: Pulse pressure amplification (PPA) is described as the amplification of pulse pressure from central arteries to the periphery [1] and individuals with a decreased PPA have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease [2]. Adverse changes in PPA are evident in diabetic populations [3]; however,...

Bibliometrics studies the distribution structure, quantitative relationship, and change the rule of information of different disciplines, and then obtains the development status and research level of the research field. Based on a total of 1959 pieces of bibliometrics literature in China National Knowledge...

In this paper, we establish the existence of solutions of a class of evolution inclusions with a multivalued perturbation under linear integral boundary value conditions. By applying the Leray -Schauder's theorem we can investigate the existence of solutions for the nonconvex cases and convex cases on...

The sea state bias (SSB) is one of the most prominent errors in satellite altimetry. The empirical model was mostly used in practical estimation of SSB, which includes the parametric model and nonparametric model. The estimation of SSB for the global area will result to large deviation with a single...

Annular space has been applied widely in industrial processes. However, the complexity of thermal process and the variety of influential factors lead to the difficulties. In addition, the sensor installation as well as the weak detection signal due to the barrier increases the detection issues. In order...

As the world’s largest source of tourists and one of the world’s most prestigious tourist destinations, China has huge potential and countless tourism resources. Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Internet began to emerge, and the travel E-Commerce platform came into being. After more than two decades...

The effect of Y and B content tailoring on the crystallization behavior and corrosion resistance of Fe76-2xY4+xB20+x(x=0 and 2) glassy alloys have been investigated. The tailoring of yttrium and born content enhances the thermal stability of x=2 alloy, alters the crystalline mode from a two-stage of...

In the last century, the trade friction between the United States and Japan lasted for 30 years. Germany, which is also in the stage of rapid economic development, is more fortunate than Japan. The dispersion effect, the reciprocal effect and regional effect of German foreign trade make Germany avoid...

Translation teaching becomes more important in college translation teaching classroom. Peer feedbacks and teacher feedbacks have been widely accepted in the second language writing classroom, while their influence on translation teaching is yet in exploration. In this paper, 30 college students from...

Metric-space indexing is a general method for similarity queries of complex data. The quality of the index tree is a critical factor of the query performance. Bulkloading a metricspace indexing tree can be represented by two recursive steps, pivot selection and data partition, while pivot selection dominants...

Abstract: A theoretical description of the wavelength-modulation spectrometry Lorentzian lineshape function in terms of a normalized detuning and a normalized modulation amplitude is given based on Fourier analysis. Simplified Lorentzian function lineshape expressions for the even harmonics of the Fourier...