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Background: Incretine hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) causes dose-dependent relaxation of the thoracic aorta of rats and other arteries via nitric oxide (NO), cAMP and ATP-sensitive potassium channels, however, through a mechanism not thoroughly described. Hereby we aimed to determine the mediators...

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...

Background: Characterization of normal ventricular–vascular interactions by non-invasive assessment in healthy adolescents may provide new mechanistic insights into altered physiological states in congenital and acquired heart disease in this age group. Methods: Ventricular and vascular measures were...

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...

The return of labor force is the first form of labor flow and then flows into it, which is a manifestation of labor mobility. This paper taking industry as an example, chooses the industrial data of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions from 2005 to 2016 to measure the industrial labor...

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,...

This paper is inspired by circumstances where the level of corruption is increasing both in quantity and quality. Corruption is increasingly massive and widespread not only by executive, legislative but also law enforcement officials. Criminal sanctions imposed on corruptors are not optimal and are not...

One of the forms of socio-cultural pluralism of Indonesia is the existence of indigenous peoples with their customary law system. Indonesia as an archipelagic country, the number of indigenous peoples is estimated at around 40-50 million, out of more than 10,000 ethnic and sub-ethnic groups spreading...

This article examines how the practice of film adaptation, primarily the adaptation of novels into film, has been discussed in Indonesian media discourse since the first occurrences of the practice. As such, it applies a library research approach to review a range of literature related to adaptation...

Against the background of informationization, the management mode of personnel archives tends to change from the traditional manual one to the informationization. This paper, starting from the significance of university personnel archive informatization, studies the main problems with it and, combining...

The article deals with the problem of reforming Russian education. By analogy with the post-non-classical paradigm of science, it is proposed to build an educational strategy on the principles of complexity, openness, non-linearity, human dimension. The importance of holistic thinking in the implementation...

This research aims to compare the differences in attitude towards students with disabilities between boys and girls in primary inclusive school in Jakarta. This study employed a quantitative approach study and cross-sectional design. A total of 266 regular students (147 boys and 149 girls), aged 9 -13...

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...

An important milestone in network development is ISO's (International Standardization Organization) definition of the OSI (Open System Interconnection) seven-layer network model. The OSI reference model is a logical definition, that is specification, it logically divides the network into seven layers....

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,...

Most new undergraduate colleges are upgraded from higher vocational colleges, having aspirations that the upgrading is the solution to the predicament of their development, and the fact is that the upgrading does not completely solve the problem, but it gives rise to some new problems. There are two...

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 article presents the results of a study on the content of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in water, soil and in plant products that are directly used by humans for nutrition. During four years of observation, water analysis demonstrates high arsenic concentrations. The arsenic content ranges from...

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 paper analyzes the approaches to solving tasks on managerial knowledge and skills formation. It justifies the necessity for students to acquire the systematic knowledge of social processes management as it meets the requirements of the emerging and developing information society. It summarizes the...

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...

Quality measurement of rice is an important and necessary activity before it is sold to market. By distinguishing its quality, pricing will also be suitable by the physical characteristics of rice delivered by farmers. This paper proposed a prototype of DSS application to assist intermediaries in determining...

Indian culture is inseparably linked with philosophy and religion. The art of ritual, no matter how complex and symbolic it may be, is based on the religious and philosophical tradition and strictly consistent with its main goal. In this article we consider the features of initiation of the pancasamskara...

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...

China has always adhered to the policy of opening to the outside world, and sought to work with other countries to push the economic globalization. On one hand, it should intensify the efforts of “bringing in”. On the other hand, it should pick up the pace of “going out”. When the “going out” enterprises...

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....

Research conducted in the oil field development facilitate formation of a system of fundamental knowledge that allows future specialist to scientifically analyze problems in their professional field, apply in practice the knowledge, independently (with modern research methods) master the new information...

In the case of English education in higher vocational colleges, collaborative innovation is the trend of development. The students who are trained by traditional higher vocational English teaching have been unable to meet the needs of the employers in today's society. Therefore, it is necessary to promote...

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...

By using the data of 7 provinces, 757 administrative villages and 31615 famers in the minority regions of the Midwest, this paper investigates the relationships between Village cadres heterogeneity and poverty reduction. And we find that the age of the village cadres, ethnic identity, investment promotion,...

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...

Vocational education is one solution to improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia. The challenge as well as the advantages for Indonesia is a large demographic area, so that the standardization of vocational education is needed. In this study, it is discussed how the perceptions of standard...

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....

Our rapidly changing and deteriorating modern world is marked by globalization and digitalization that are making it both smaller and more far apart. In addition, it is marked by the growing inclinations to sustainable economic growth that arises in the face of such threats as global warming and global...

In traditional vacuum resurgence control process, there are some problems such as insufficient moisture regain, unsatisfactory moisture content absorption and large steam loss. In order to solve these problems, we put forward the vacuum pre-conditioner’s thermodynamic parameter model to control the vacuum...

The objective of this research was to examine the needs of learners and one-day trekking for the elective course (Trekking and Adventure Tours). This mixed method research comprised both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Group discussion, participatory observation of trekking, a questionnaire...

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...