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During the concrete pouring process, the long downtime would weaken the bonding strength between old and new concrete layers. The bonding parts would like to form horizontal cracks, especially winter intermittent surface in the severe cold region, of which cracks would easily propagates from surface...

Based on the acquisition of a distance education website user access behavior data, the paper analyzed two diversion indicators, PV and UV, and several sticky indicators that reflect video on demand and live streaming browsing. By the data analysis, the paper found the change regulation of the PV, the...

To consolidate the state power, the basic role of grass-roots public security bureaus should be given full play to fight against crimes and maintain social stability and serve the people. At the basic work stage of modernized public security, we should more give full play to the job level, comprehensively...

Introduction: Isolated systolic hypertension (ISH) is the most common form of hypertension in older people. However, accurate identification of ISH may be hindered because cuff blood pressure (BP) underestimates systolic BP (SBP) and overestimates diastolic BP (DBP). This study aimed to determine the...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have rapidly developed in instructional reform in higher education, even though, compared with some developed nations, studies on open education started later in China. The findings of the related research may contribute to Chinese instructional reform in higher education....

Measurement of “unattended” blood pressure (BP) may reduce or eliminate the “white coat effect”. Despite the possible advantages of this approach for BP measurement, only few studies analysed the relationship between unattended BP and cardiovascular events or with hypertension mediated organ damage (HMOD)....

Glaucoma is a degenerative eye illness that, if left untreated, may result in permanent vision loss and blindness. If you have glaucoma, see your eye doctor often. Because early identification and treatment are essential in maintaining one’s eyesight, research into more accurate and effective detection...

By using the Floquet transform method and based on the periodic structure’s theory, a theoretical model has been developed to determine the dynamic response of the periodic viaduct accounted for the non-uniform seismic excitations at different piers of the viaduct in this study. Numerical results show...

Background: Cuff blood pressure (BP) is intended to approximate central aortic BP and accuracy is paramount. Sex differences in BP physiology could influence the accuracy of cuff BP as an estimate of invasive aortic BP, but this has not been explored in-depth and was the aim of this study. Methods:...

Background: Sympathetic stimulation in central arteries, such as the carotid artery, lead to vasodilation in healthy subjects and vasoconstriction in those with cardiovascular disease. Moreover, this response has independent prognostic value for future events. Whether the aorta demonstrates similar responsiveness...

The so-called music Reception Theory, to be precise, refers to the relationship and development between musical works and recipients. Due to the non-semantic nature of music, different recipients will have very different understandings of the same work. Audience reception is subjective. Moreover, due...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an advanced technology, which can be applied to automatic data identification, acquisition and distribution. When utilized in power grid logistics management, this technology will assist to improve the logistics management efficiency. However, RFID hasn’t been...

The forecasting method of future values of a time series from current and past values is of considerable practical interest and in important areas of application. In addition to calculating the best forecasts, it is also necessary to specify their accuracy, so that the risks associated with decisions...

Since its debut as a new medium for creativity and invention, video games have been a motivating element in creating several technologies. Since its inception forty years ago, the video game industry has gone from obscurity to a multi-billion dollar powerhouse. Games are being played at a quicker rate...

A novel reliability analysis technique based on Bayesian network and T-S FTA is proposed in this paper. In the proposed technique, the nodes in Bayesian network can be expressed in terms of fuzzy possibilities and the magnitudes of the failure in the system are expressed in term of fuzzy variables. The...

One of the most important features of medium-and-low speed maglev train is the ability to turn the small curve. When the train is in the small curve, as each levitation electromagnet module is a rigid structure, which cannot bend and deform, the electromagnet module and the F-shaped rail dislocate from...

Objective: Small vessel disease, measured by brain white matter hyperintensity (WMH), is associated with increased stroke risk and cognitive impairment. This study aimed to explore the relationship between WMH on computerised tomography (CT) and white coat hypertension (WCH) in patients with recent transient...

The paper aims to discuss the pragmatic presupposition and its function in advertisements. In order to illustrate this, 9 pieces of print advertisements of Lancôme are selected for analysis. The main findings are: first, the employment of presupposition may make the advertisements more persuasive and...

Many people in the US take dietary supplements regularly. Therefore, it is important to know if these products have any adverse effects. Additionally, due to the lack of strict regulation of supplements from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there is no evidence proving that some supplements have...

For many years company towns, or monotowns (i.e. their Russian designation), have been crucial issues for federal and local governments from the point of view of monotowns’ economies diversification, and social and enterprise restructuring. One of the most significant changes may come from industry-university...

Background: The MOMENTUM3 trial1 has revealed superiority of the novel HeartMate3 (HM3) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) compared with the HM2, with a significantly reduced occurrence of cerebrovascular accidents. Thus, cerebral autoregulation may be improved in HM3 compared with HM II patients,...

Being equal in education is always a significant problem for China. Since the establishment of the new China, the Chinese government has published many policies to balance the different education situations between people, like the expansion of higher education and the compulsory education system. The...

According to the basic situation of the present art teaching in architecture and the characteristics and requirements of this major, the paper puts forward that the training in architecture should be multi-perspective, which involves the ability to coordinate eyes, hands and brain, the ability to think...

In this paper, a kind of noise reduction algorithm is proposed based on wavelet shrinkage technique to acquire heart sound signal while no distortion. Firstly, Haar, Daubechies, Symlets and Coiflets orthogonal wavelets were studied and according to the statistical results, Coif5 wavelet was chosen for...

Background/Objectives: Large artery stiffening is a novel risk factor for cognitive impairment including Alzheimer’s disease. Loss of impedance mismatch between central and cerebral arteries promotes cerebrovascular dysfunction via chronic transmission of excessive pulsatile pressure and flow to the...

Construction and building waste have stimulated an environmental movement; from reuse and recycle activities to the development of biodegradable materials, these features have stimulated an instant trend in the global world. Conventional building material contributes to more pollution and warmer environment,...

It is taken for granted that traditional instruction method in EFL classroom is useful, such as grammar translation method, induction method and deduction method, etc. However, there is an argument against this approach, especially for non-English major junior college students. For the non-English major...

Stroke is a blood vessels disease, there is a process of sudden stoppage of blood from damaged blood vessels. Traditionally stroke is classified into two types, namely hemorrhagic rupture of blood vessels and ischemic Causes of strokes include blockages in blood vessels. This research aims to develop...

Introduction: Adult obesity is associated with greater arterial stiffness however in youth the relationship is unclear. We investigated associations between arterial stiffness and adiposity and explored the contribution of blood pressure from adolescence to emerging adulthood (17–24 yrs). Methods: 3885...

Objective: A number of traditional Uyghur medicines have been recognized as potent antitumor agents and have been developed and analyzed in vivo. In the present study, the toxic, therapeutic and cytotoxic properties of the Uyghur medicine Abnormal Savda Munziq (ASMq) were investigated. In the presence...

Navigation accuracy is one of the crucial performances for autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), and is an important indicator of evaluating AUV performance. Typically, it is achieving AUV underwater navigation that adopting Doppler velocity log (DVL) integrated Strap down inertia Navigation System (SINS)....

Affected by influence factors such as physical lighting environment or joining structures of the workpieces, etc., the positioning of workpieces by image processing may have huge deviation and are even not the location of the final target workpiece. This article realizes objective workpieces positioning...

This paper aims to find out the impact of COVID-19 on various financial-related businesses, investigate the mechanism of its influence, and offer recommendations for regaining financial stability following the outbreak. It was found that the financial-related industries and commerce in China were immensely...

Introduction: Central pressure (CP) has been shown to be more reliable in cardiovascular mortality than peripheral. Previous studies correlate the relationship between CP increase and urinary potassium excretion. Methods: A population-based cross-sectional study representative of a neighborhood of Salvador-Ba,...

In the past, waterway regulation generally proposed optimized project schemes and the corresponding regulation measures according to the waterway dimension of the design requirements, upon the requirements of satisfaction of the standard waterway dimension. However, the issue of the dimension falling...

Introduction: Central pressure (CP) has shown to be more reliable than cardiovascular mortality; salt intake in the diet is directly related to the increase in CP. Methods: A population-based cross-sectional study representative of a neighborhood of Salvador-BA, Brazil, distributed in 12 census tracts...

Synthetic biology can be defined as a combinatorial approach where the basic elements, governing the operational functionality of a living cell, are placed together to generate life forms with novel characteristics and properties. One of the most exciting aspects of synthetic biology is the diversity...

Coalition formation is an important manner of communication among agents in MAS. Some previous works only pay attention to forming a coalition for each task respectively, and the gross income of MAS may be not maximal. Thus, combination task called task-group is originally taken into account. In this...

This article focuses on the academic emotion of college students in Blended Learning, and explores the influence mechanism of academic emotion on learning effect. The Blended learning situations are divided into student-content interaction, student-student interaction and student-teacher interaction....

In wealthy nations, miscarriage affects 10–25% of clinically recognized pregnancies, making it a common problem for expectant mothers. This may result in trauma, melancholy, grief, and depression, which may cause involuntary childlessness. The psychological effects of miscarriage and childlessness have...

Local wisdom is a community tradition that can produce its own experience and may not be experienced by other communities. One form of Jambi Malay local wisdom is the marriage custom, namely Seloko, which is an old literary form known as an oral tradition that is produced, disseminated and passed down...

Introduction: Left ventricular mass (LVM) predicts cardiovascular risk. In early life, LVM is conventionally indexed to height 2.7 [1], although this may not account for sex differences in growth. We investigated allometric scaling of LVM to height, lean mass (LM) and body surface area (BSA) in a UK...

The advantage of videos in food engineering education has been well-recognized. An interactive video system was developed to guide students’ automatic learning, covering the subjects of food engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, biological engineering, automation engineering, and...

The development and widespread use of real-time constrained multi-media application in MANET has resulted in the need to optimize or update current routing mechanisms. This paper proposed a QoS routing mechanism for multi-media transmission under real-time constraint in MANET, named ad-hoc on-demand...

Background: A hypertensive response to submaximal exercise is associated with cardiovascular disease but may be influenced by functional capacity. Spironolactone may improve functional capacity, which could mask treatment effects on exercise blood pressure (BP). This study sought to examine this hypothesis. Methods:...

With continuing to increase in construction waste produced from urban and rural construction, how to effectively treat construction waste has become one of the important problems to be resolved in China’s city. This paper is to discuss the present situation and existing problems of construction waste...

The current research elaborates on how to assess and make language use more effective for communication on climate change in Indonesia. Indonesia makes up only 1.3% of the total global carbon emissions. The country is seriously threatened by climate change, which results from increasing sea levels, floods,...

Background: In patients with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS), an abnormally low carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) may increase the risk of arterial dissection and rupture. Thus its accurate assessment by ultra–high frequency ultrasound (UHFUS), thanks to its higher spatial resolution, may...

After COVID-19, the Hong Kong real estate market faces numerous challenges and opportunities. This study examines the impact of the adjustments of Hong Kong’s property stamp duty on the real estate market, focusing on the effects of policy changes on housebuyer costs, market transaction volume, and property...

Rough waves may be incurred by strong wind over ocean, and the wind field behind the wave fluctuates violently, which can induce extraordinary impacts on bridges, offshore structures and vessels. The severely interfered performances of wind flows near sea surface by two patterns of rough waves are studied...