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Objectives: Increased arterial stiffness is associated with the progression of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH); however, the endocardial layer (End) contracts more than the epicardial layer (Epi), and it is unclear whether increased arterial stiffness affects regional wall deformation in both the...

Language is the soul of ethnic culture, and words are the carrier of language. Unwritten Language culture is a wonderful cultural heritage, but it may be a mournful or unsustainable phenomenon of civilization. The Gejia people fit exactly into this characteristic, and the research on the language and...

The people of Jakarta welcomed the RPTRA program organized by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government. The RPTRA development program is a form of service provided by the DKI Jakarta provincial government through the provision of public spaces that can be used by the community to exercise, play, and socialize....

As counter-cycle tools, macroprudential policies have been utilized extensively in Asia to limit credit growth and tame housing price inflation. Utilizing a new policy action dataset and macroeconomic data of Hong Kong SAR, this paper analyzes the effects of macroprudential policies on stabilizing the...

The historical impact of newer technologies in agriculture has been to increase the supply of food and fiber by increasing output per unit of input. Increases in market supply of food and fiber, net of demand changes, result in lower prices. Generally, this has been good for society in terms of meeting...

The purpose of this study is to examine how leisure crafting influences employees’ service performance and occupational health by the mediating effect of human capitals (i.e. intellectual capital, social capital and psychological capital). It proposes that: (1) Leisure crafting has a significant positive...

The study of Protein Protein Interaction (PPI) network and particularly the group of proteins (protein complexes) is gaining wide importance. This is due to the inherent ability of protein complexes to regulate the different cellular and metabolic processes in the living body. Literature is flooded with...

This study clearly explains the common barriers that often arise in pronouncing the Arabic alphabet or hijaiyah letters in Central Java. In addition to pronunciation, the author has conducted several experiments to overcome this issue and obtain seven alternative approaches that can be used to improve...

Introduction: Calcium intake, recommended for osteoporosis prevention, has been associated with cardiovascular (CV) outcomes. We examined the association of dietary calcium intake (dCa) with surrogate CV markers, including carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT), arterial stiffness and hemodynamics in...

Background: Previously regarded as a measure of pressure wave reflection, central augmentation pressure (AP) may be influenced by the pattern of early ventricular ejection. We examined the relationship of AP to first-phase ejection fraction (EF1), a measure of ventricular ejection up to the time of the...

Background: Perioperative acute kidney injury has been found to occur in 12% of patients undergoing lower limb revascularisation (Arora et al., 2013). The aim of the current double-blinded, randomised and sham-controlled pilot study was to determine the effect of remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC)...

Objectives: The purpose was to investigate the ability of a new software, developed by our group, to provide continuous measures of arterial diameter from recorded ultrasound video. Methods: Software (MAUI) was developed to assess arterial diameter using active contours to accurately detect the vessel...

Background: Central systolic blood pressure (central-SBP) can be estimated noninvasively and antihypertensive drugs may exert different effects on central-SBP. We investigated the usefulness of carotid systolic blood pressure (carotid-SBP) estimated by form PWV/ABI in blood pressure lowering therapy. Methods:...

Background: Estimated central blood pressure (BP) predicts cardiovascular mortality independent of brachial BP, but whether central BP may be useful in clinical practice is unknown. This study aimed to test the value of central BP as a management tool for physicians treating patients with essential hypertension. Methods:...

Abstract—A quantum structure model of judgment in battlespace is presented and used to compute the probability of target identification and its evolution with incoming new evidence deprived from the refreshed reconnaissance image. On the one hand, human behavioral factors are hard to model using the...

The purpose is to know the influence of examples non examples method toward students writing competence. The research method is quantitative by using simple regression as data analyze and testing hypothesis of research. This research conducted at SMAN 1 Kabila, Kabila district, Bone Bolango regency,...

With the development of education in college, universities pay more attention to the physical health of students. In fact, under the pressure of study and emotion, various college students have demonstrated some problems in psychological health, such as anxiety, nervousness, loneliness and so on. This...

The study aimed to analyze the reflection of the indigenous wisdom concept of Tri Hita Karana on the community of Balinese Hinduism community in Central Sulawesi in the developmental process of Eco Art education. The method was a qualitative type with an ethnographic approach that attempted to describe...

English teaching materials compilation have been developed rapidly at present China, yet the evaluation of teaching materials lags far behind. In combining rational aspects of theories and practices about teaching materials evaluation both at home and abroad with the features of English Audio-visual...

Students’ Critical Thinking Skills can be nurtured by implementing a teaching model in which students are provided with the opportunity to inquiry work, Inquiry-Student Team Achievement Divisions (INSTAD) teaching models may work effectively. This research aims to investigate: (1) the influence of INSTAD...

The role of media in reporting something could decide how people may act regarding the news. The Presidential election of Indonesia may be considered as one national event that draws huge attention of the people of Indonesia or even other countries. The election has been done on April 17th, 2019 and...

Self-efficacy is the student’s belief in the ability to perform necessary tasks or actions to achieve a particular outcome. Self-efficacy can influence students’ feelings, ways of thinking, motivations, academic achievements, and social behaviors. The higher self-efficacy that students have, the higher...

Caries in children under 6 years old (Early Childhood Caries) is still a major oral health problems in many countries. The high prevalence of ECC should be prevented immediately based on the cause of caries. Saliva is one of the factors that play role in dental caries process, also play a role as caries...

Feedback cycles are proposed as the general unit of in- tellect and intelligence. This enables the importation of space-time concepts from physics. The action-lens, a processing structure based on these measurable ob- jects, is defined. Larger assemblies of this structure may support the Lowen model...

A Hospital as an individual health service agencies that have many services. The multi professions in the hospital which is in each unit that suitable with their field of work, this may causes the background and character of each human resource to be different. The hospital provides comprehensive services...

Retrospective studies suggest that chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy may lead to cardiac injury, but this has not been assessed systematically or prospectively. In this prospective study of 40 patients who received CAR T, we systematically measured high-sensitivity troponin T (hsTropT)...

The aim of implementation Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in hospitals is to get and retain customers and even work with consumers to achieve maximum results for the organization and consumers. However, it is necessary to pay attention to other factors that may affect the implementation of the...

The construction of the innovation ecosystem plays an important role in the technology research and development activities of innovation-oriented enterprises. How to effectively promote the perfection of enterprise innovation ecology determines the quality of engineering technology activities of innovation-oriented...

Based on the results of observations that have been made, it has been found that in SD Negri Kuta there is still a lack of understanding related to the basic material of the second power root in mathematics learning. This study used quantitative research methods with pre-experimental design research...

Tiktok’s Liability for Copyright Infringement of Tiktok Content Owners Whose Work is Re-Uploaded for Promotion in Review of Copyright Law Number 28 of 2014 is referenced in the User-Generated Content portion of Tiktok’s terms of service, explaining that user content created and shared via the Tiktok...

The games that have existed since the dawn of mankind have been proven to have a significant effect on the development of students. A teaching resource that makes learning more permanent and retainable is educational games that are used as part of the academic process. Educational games are a fun way...

Melanin is a major pigment of human skin that protects the skin from harmful ultraviolet radiation, DNA damage and oxidative stress. However, the excess accumulation of melanin may lead to various hyperpigmentation-related diseases. Tyrosinase is a copper containing enzyme that regulates the rate-limiting...

This work proposes design development of a new Computer Numeric Control (CNC) milling-cum-3D printing hybrid model. The successful prototyping of the machine with CNC Milling and 3D Printing ability may be accessed as a workstation and is viable for limited production. Initially the layout of the machine...

This chapter presents the AI-Driven Real-Time detection of Gait anomalies utilizing LiDAR Technology for Advanced Healthcare Monitoring. This innovative approach leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence and sophisticated Light Detection and Ranging technology to track and analyze individuals’ gait...

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is defined as tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains resistant to at least isoniazid (INH) and rifampicin (RMP), confirmed through drug sensitivity testing or rapid molecular diagnostics (e.g., GeneXpert). Due to this resistance to first-line...

The capture of small pelagic fish larvae, practiced for several decades using the light fishing gear Siru-siru, primarily targets individuals from the flexion to post-flexion stages. The fishery has received little scientific attention and remains largely unmanaged. This study examines the fishing activities...

Home is a place where you may get a sense of comfort, where it can be achieved from various aspects. For instance, the quality produced by a lighting system will determine the comfort level of the room user. If the lighting quality is poor, it will be disturbing the activities held in that area. Moreover,...

Aim: Mechanisms through which SGLT-2 inhibitors achieve cardiovascular and renal protection are still unknown. We investigated whether dapagliflozin modulates Na and water balance and systemic and renal vascular parameters like endothelial function, arterial stiffness and renal vasodilating capacity. Methods:...

Background: Pulse waveforms are modified as they propagate along the arterial tree. Small differences in the arterial pathways from the heart to the left and right brachial artery may impact pulse waveform analysis (PWA) for the purpose of hemodynamic assessment. The VaSera VS-1500AU (Fukuda Denshi)...

In order for students to improve literacy and numeracy, practicing answering questions may not be sufficient. The regular learning process of all subjects at school should be integrated with reading literacy and numeracy. A WISE (Wondering-Investigating-Synthesizing-Expressing) oriented instructional...

Background: The measurement of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is useful to predict storke and cardiovascular events in hypetensive patients as our previous cohort study Non-invasive Atheroslerotic evaluation in Hypertension (NOAH) sutdy. As the cfPWV is useful, but not easy to measure, it...

Background: Arterial stiffness has been known as an independent contributory factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is widely accepted as a simple non-invasive measure of arterial stiffness. The aim of our study was to test whether abnormal PWV could identify patients with...

Study on the zonal wind-driven ocean current is an important subject in the field of physical oceanography. At present, Stommel model and Munk model are being widely used to model this current in a flat-bottomed ocean domain. However, these models are highly idealized and lack the comprehensive consideration...

Cloud Computing is often regarded as form of "green computing". However, the growth of cloud computing also goes hand in hand with an increasing demand for energy, caused by a continuously growing demand for content, data-intensive applications and bandwidth. The debates on the energy implications of...

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the produced insulin. Morinda citrifolia has been widely used as herbal medicine to prevent and to treat diabetes as well as health supplements. It contains flavonoids...

In traditional erasure codes, all the redundant data are created and uploaded to the different storage nodes by a unique source node. However, such a source node may have limited communication and computation capabilities, which constrain the storage process throughput. In-network redundancy generation...

People’s believes that forms the aqidah relating to work may affects the optimal performance of individuals in the organization. Previous researches state that well-implemented Islamic work ethics has a direct and positive influence on various dimension of attitudes in organizational change and individual...

Mobile indicators have been established (productive indicators, biological indicators and natural resistance) that show a high degree of susceptibility to influence of various external factors, including feeding ones. A large influence quantity of the feeding factors onto poultry productivity was established,...

Objective: Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is an oncofetal antigen during hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development which could lead to weak reproducible antitumor immunity, and may act as a target for cancer therapy. Therefore, it is imperative to enhance its immunogenicity and develop therapeutic vaccines...

Crisis intervention is a method used to handle people in crisis. It offers immediate, short-term help toindividuals who experience distressful or traumatic event. Crisis may cause psychological breakdowns andopportunity depends on how it been intervene. Thus, counsellors must practise effective crisis...