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Ageing and cardiovascular risk factors, particularly uncontrolled hypertension, adversely impact arterial stiffness and wave reflection leading to increased central systolic blood pressure. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity is the “gold standard” method for the assessment of aortic stiffness. Increased...

The arterial circulation acts as a network to deliver nutrients and oxygen to cells. The design of the cardiovascular system is subject to a variety of constraints and costs. It has been postulated that the design of the arterial network might be understood in terms of the need to minimize competing...

The original purpose for recording brachial blood pressure (BP) more than 100 years ago was to estimate central (aortic) BP. While high brachial BP is an important cardiovascular risk factor, it is clear that major differences in central systolic BP (SBP; e.g. >30 mmHg) can occur among people with...

Modern economy digitalization conditions require new tools of countries/regions investment appraisal. The link between informatization and innovation of the digital society, the opportunity to invest in it can hardly be overestimated. Despite the fact that there is a global innovation index, a doing...

Reputation, as an intangible asset, has brought many benefits to the social subject. However, with the development of social science and technology, there are more and more acts of infringing on the right of reputation. At the same time, the act of infringing upon the right of reputation of citizens...

In this study we investigate information processing in deep neural network models. We demonstrate that unsupervised training of autoencoder models of certain class can result in emergence of compact and structured internal representation of the input data space that can be correlated with higher level...

The minority areas of Southeast Chongqing are primarily located at Wuling Mountain Chain and part of the Wujiang river basin. It is the settlement of various minority groups mainly consisting of Tujia and Miao minority groups while it remains as the National Poverty Regions. However, The Wulong District,...

Exhibition industry is an important way to promote urban industrial structure adjustment. Based on the statistical data from 1978 to 2012 of Guangzhou, the paper selects three variables: exhibition industry, the second industry production value proportion and the third industry production value proportion....

The purpose of this study was to enrich the theoretical study of international relations from a non-mainstream perspective. The study used qualitative research methods with data collection techniques through literature studies. The results showed that studies on international relations and religion can...

In the discipline of fine arts, design development can be considered to be quite fast and even so flexible, that it is often difficult to establish its limitations. One of the results of this phenomenon is the variety of understanding and interpretations that is not much different from the reality of...

Aceh tsunami disaster in 2004 caused damage to agricultural land in Aceh Besar Regency. Meanwhile the post-disaster development has caused migration of people to the regency, causing a greater pressure on agricultural land. The study aimed to evaluate the land carrying capacity in tsunami-affected areas...

At present, the algorithm for solving the problem of resource sharing in D2D communication and cellular communication in cellular networks is mostly optimized for a single target. This paper proposes a general resource allocation algorithm based on multi-objective optimization, which optimizes system...

Character education values can be integrated not only when learning in class, but also in school culture. Some teachers do not integrate these character education values in school culture. The purpose of this study was to find out about the transformation of school cultural values in character education...

This study aimed to explain the process of developing teaching materials based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL). As the basis of development, this study used 7 types of texts that should be learned in class VII SMP items, namely descriptive texts, fantasy texts, procedural texts, report texts,...

Psychological class is considered a means of development of students’ needs to cognize psychological phenomena, self-cognize and self-improvement. This goal can be achieved only when the learning process is not formal, but has intrinsic personal significance for students. The article substantiates new...

The millennium era which is marked by the rapid progress and development of technology should be utilized as well as possible so that it will have a positive impact on various aspects of human life, especially in the field of education. E-Learning is a website-based learning media technology providing...

One of the fundamental requirements for everybody is security. Museums and galleries in Surabaya is viewed as less secure, as prove by the uncontrolled wrongdoing that happened like vandalism to the burglary of exhibition hall objects. The museums ought to be a place that can show us about the past and...

This paper is a concept of training program in entrepreneurship for the students of economic department in University Of Asahan. It is expected that they knows the importance of the role of entrepreneurship in improving the area development. The method that will be used is experiential learning method...

Creative-critical thinking skills are two things that are inseparable. Critical-creative thinking skill is a skill demanded in the 21st century to survive in facing the world change. Creative-critical thinking skill is very important for pre service teachers. This will affect the ability to think of...

The development of optical microscopes led to the discovery of cells as the fundamental units of life. It made us aware that microbes dominate the living world. However, optical microscopes have limitation as to the size of cell and cell organelles they can focus. This size limit is referred to as the...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship business strategy, culture control and organizational performance. The data is processed by using a Partial Least Square (PLS). The population consists of middle manager of multinational manufacturing company in Banten, Sample of this research...

The main aim of the study was to isolate and identify any organism that can degrade 2,2-dichloropropionic acids (2,2DCP) from Antarctica soil and water environment. ntarctica is well known of its extreme cold temperature. In this study we successfully isolated at least six colonies (AA1, AA2, AB1, AB2,...

Human motion capture is widely applied in engineering bionics, ergonomics, aerospace, military defense, biomedical, sports competition and other fields. However, the human motion capture equipments are less developed in China. This paper presents a human motion capture system based on computer vision...

Nowadays, the intrusions often occur in a network system. One of ways that Intrusions can be prevented or detected is by using Intrusion Detection System. Therefore, IDS (Intrusion Detection System) is indispensable to detect intrusions in a network. In this paper, we will discuss the classification...

Education promotes people's success through employment (entrepreneurship) after entering the workplace by promoting people's knowledge and skills. For the poor people, effective poverty alleviation through education can effectively cut off intergenerational transmission of poverty. Among the various...

One of the challenges of future education is the continuity of value education. In order for the noble values that become the reference in behavior, can be transformed from generation to generation, especially in order to dismiss the negative impacts of social change, continuous efforts must be made...

Learningis crucial and contributes tothe quality of education. The quality of learning process implicates the quality of education. The quality of teaching process in schools is played by a teacher. Excellent teachersare the ones having the emotional and spiritual intelligencewhen teaching in class....

The failure law is not clear in operation of complex electronic system. The failure data can not be effectively used. And it is difficult to assess the current state of the system. This paper proposed a fitting method of failure data based on triple Weibull distribution model for complex repairable long-life-cycle...

The positive impact of globalization, the increasing progress of science and technology, such as biological science and information technology. The advancement of science and technology will give birth to creative people who can produce innovative products, such as in the field of bioinformatics so they...

The development of information technology in Indonesia is inevitable, people are increasingly easy to get information, especially with the presence of internet that able to complete the mass media Indonesia. Internet has the ability to form a very wide public space, as a result of the earth seems to...

Reviewing the information diffusion in the probabilistic space, in this paper, we proposed the information diffusion on the geospatial space. With the help of background data as the medium, we can use the suggested method to supplement incomplete data to make it complete. The information diffusion in...

Law No. 4 of 2009 on Minerals and Coal constitutes the legal basis of mining business activities in Indonesia, in which case foreign companies shall be subject to the provisions of Law Number 13 Year 2016 regarding Patents in the context of holders of mining patents. The provisions of Article 20 paragraph...

Based on the three-dimensional physical model of shell and tube heat exchanger, by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software, the RANS k-Epsilon turbulent model and the Mixture model were adopted to simulate the flow properties and heat transfer in the shell side. And the reliability of the...

Scaffolding involves a more targeted approach to teaching. Teachers tend to have challenges on arrange the instruction so that the needs of differentiated learners are addressed. The challenges of scaffolding learning is compounded by the fact that most curricular materials are designed to support teaching...

Wajak sub-district has been ranked first in the case of early marriage in Malang Regency Indonesia in the period 2017. Early marriage more negative impact for adolescent couple. It is reviewed in terms of health, psychological, economic, and social. This program aims to provide education and information...

Democracy is experiencing it is worst setback since the mid-20th Century. The US magazine Foreign Affairs even posed the question in an article entitled “Is Democracy Dying?” Published on April 2018 issue, assessing the impact that exogenous factors have on liberal democracy. The exogenous factors is...

In the beginning of the framework technology, it was used to solve or deal with the complex problems of the application system. The traditional software testing process has always been basically a manual execution of test cases, and the same common test cases are needed in the entire software life cycle....

This journal aims to find out Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities in ANTV, including in which category of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of ANTV, and what factors can improve ANTV image. The research method used is qualitative approach and descriptive explorative method...

Aiming at the burglary, fire and the safety and health of the elderly in current living quarters, a kind of alarm system based on speech recognition is developed. The video monitoring device can be triggered by the voice alarm signal which is sent to the mobile client at the same time. Monitor people...

At present, there are few studies on the treatment of primary dysmenorrhea of cold coagulation type primary dysmenorrhea with traditional Chinese and western medicine at home and abroad. The study of blood deficiency and cold coagulation type of primary dysmenorrhea are alpine stagnation with qi and...

The traditional Sparse Chirp Stepped-frequency ISAR imaging method has the problem of low imaging quality and large computational complexity. In view of the above problems, this paper studies a sparse Chirp Stepped-frequency ISAR imaging method based on two-dimensional fast iterative shrinkage threshold...

To manufacture quality products at lowest cost in industries, optimization is an effective technique which can be applied to find out the best manufacturing conditions. The objective of this research work is to examine the effect of control factors and to choose the correct settings of these factors...

This paper introduces a matching network composed of lumped elements and transmission lines, which is more accurate and compact compared to the traditional one. Meanwhile, the added microstrip lines is used for bonding pads and connection lines on printed circuit board (PCB), and the dimensions of these...

Based on the fact that the debutant voters is one of the potential voters in every election and it have a big number of vote in this present democratic era. So the debutant voters is one of the main targets in any kind of political campaigneither for political party or the candidates leaders in the election,...

On the basis of single factor experiment, orthogonal test method for 2-α hydroxy for optimizing the extraction technology of ursolic acid, choose L9 (34) orthogonal experiment was carried out to 2-α hydroxy yield of ursolic acid as index, at room temperature (25 øC) under ultra-high pressure, holding...

research aims to explore if there is fraud in a financial statement, use the Act stated that Benford's distribution number the first digit until the fifth will follow the trend of lower number. Research methods-in this case study authors use the first digit until fifth of the analysis of the numbers....

The extended equal area criterion (EEAC) is one of the most important methods to identification the stability of Multi-generator Power System, and the key of this method is to correctly identify the critical unit. However, critical units of the existing recognition methods exist some problems, such as...

For determining the reasonable ratio of spacing to diameter of double tunnels, the criterion is often only for the excavation, and does not take into account the earthquake situation. In order to ensure the stability of surrounding rock masses, safety and economic rationality during construction and...

Methods used for the determination of copper content in copper oxide are mostly based on traditional chemical method, which is lengthy and cumbersome. If inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry or atomic absorption spectrometry are used to determine the copper with high content, the sample solution...

In order to improve the effectiveness of fault feature extraction and achieve the accurate classification of fault patterns in analog circuit, the paper proposed a new analog circuit fault diagnosis method based on preferred wavelet packet and extreme learning machine (ELM). The concept of feature departure...