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Background: Accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) is one of pathophysiological processes, responsible for progressive stiffening of vessel wall. In contrast, soluble isoform of receptor for AGEs (sRAGE) act as “decoy” and physiological defense against circulating AGEs. We hypothesized...

Increased arterial stiffness, a biomarker of vascular aging, is a recognized subclinical organ damage, and may thus serve as predictor of cardiovascular disease. The predictive value of arterial stiffness is higher in patients with higher baseline cardiovascular risk, such as in patients with hypertension....

The RhoA signaling pathway is a master regulator of mechanostransduction and plasticity of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) that controls arterial stiffening. The RhoA exchange factor Arhgef1 is causally involved in the development of angiotensin II-dependent hypertension. Our aim was to determine...

We are planning a prospective study in 200 patients with an abdominal artery aneurysm (AAA). Non-invasive measurements will be performed including tonometry-based pulse wave analysis (PWA) and pulse wave velocity (PWV), echocardiography, and 24-hour blood pressure measurements. This study will provide...

A new stereo matching approach based on first order invariant moment is proposed. First order invariant moment is utilized in our algorithm to transform the left and right images from the input space to the feature space, and the improved a simple tree structure dynamic programming ba-sed on adaptive...

Despite its importance to tax collection and management efficiency,Grassroots tax collection is an understudied topic. This is partly attributable to the “tax collection and management predicament,” which arises because costs of tax collection and management are easier to measure than its benefits. In...

Due to our traditional concepts of education and the rapid development of automotive technology, we need to improve and perfect the innovative practice teaching system for vehicle major students. This paper analyzed and concluded the current situation and existing problem of practice training, and according...

In this paper, we proposed an improved saliency computing method based on BING method.We observedthat the undetected objects of BING method have something in common-that is, most of them are occluded or truncated. Therefore, we improved BING method by:Firstly, make a new training set with undetected...

The younger generation is the main force in Chinese state construction and development. Our country can be strong only if our youth are prosperous and powerful. College students of ethnic minorities as part of the younger generation are not only essential component of the younger generation, but also...

The development of medical Internet is fast, so the related laws and regulations fail to keep up with the pace of its development. If a doctor practices online, there is no clear regulation and rules. At the same time, domestic clients haven’t the habit to pay for the medical service from the Internet....

In this paper, the water-supply model is established to analyze the ability of a region to provide clean water to meet the needs of its population, the dynamic nature of the factors that affect both supply and demand must be taken into account, the water supply ability in different regions, and predict...

Cloud computing is a new computing technology with great potential value. It utilizes large-scale hardware and virtual resources to provide users with dynamic application services. In order to maximize the use of cloud resources, give full play to the maximum potential of cloud computing, mining efficient...

Chinese reform and opening up has achieved remarkable achievements and our country has undergone tremendous changes. Profound economic and social changes objectively require the further enrichment and development of the country's mainstream ideology. Mainstream ideology is the guide for social action....

Many critics and questions frequently asks in comics (or any popular cultures') events about where does Indonesian legends, myths and other local geniuses go in this modern era's generations. There also a strong tendency from some critics, who blamed foreign popular cultures characters popularity for...

This article is part of Pedagogical Innovation Centers (PIC) pre-operationalization within Moroccan universities. Designed to be structured to support pedagogical development and innovation, the PIC aims to enhance, enrich and diversify the pedagogical practices of teacher-researchers individually or...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a physiological anomaly perturbing a consequential percentage of women of conceiving age. This condition can have symptoms such as abnormal menstrual cycles and ovarian cysts, which can even cause long-term health issues like diabetes, heart diseases and infertility....

This study introduces an AI-powered system using a customized ResNet50 model to enhance lung disease diagnostics through image analysis. Our model accurately classifies lung conditions, including adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and benign tissue, achieving 93.25% accuracy compared to the standard...

The formation of Islam in the 7th century marked the beginning of a rising era for the Arabic-speaking communities. Among the unique cultural values that significantly contributed to shaping Arab identity is The Perfumed Garden (الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر) by Sheikh Nefzawi. Whereas the Kama Sutra of...

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the performance of multiple related prediction tasks by leveraging useful information from them. Due to their flexibility and ability to reduce unknown coefficients substantially, the task-clustering-based MTL approaches have attracted considerable attention....

It is a fortunate paradox that research motivated simply by a wish to better understand the natural world can later result in the most powerful applications imaginable. By definition, the outcome of any research is unknown until the research is finished. The outcomes are even less predictable at the...

Our previous study in young spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) confirmed a participation of nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in probably inherent adaptive strategy of conduit arteries in condition of sustained hypertension. The aim of study was to confirm or refuse the compensatory mechanisms...

The overall planning for urban and rural residents' medical insurance system is the basic way to meet the needs of urban and rural residents' survival and development, also an important guarantee for "the overall planning for urban and rural development". Now the overall planning for urban and rural...

This paper first investigates the theoretical foundation of business English discipline construction in our country and then discusses the necessity of business English discipline construction. Then, the paper presents a few issues to be noted in the process of business English discipline construction....

Abstract. To observe and analyze the application of the high-fidelity integrated simulation persons in the emergency nursing teaching effect. Methods: We select our hospital nursing 200 students that are divided into experimental group (100 students) and the control group (100 students). The experimental...

Since the 1990s, cultivating the students' comprehensive ability has drawn attention from the society widely. On May 15, 1999, comrade Jiang Zemin made a speech on the third national education workshop in which he emphasized that, “We must comprehensively implement the educational policy of the party,...

In this paper, We develop a model to show how The Keep-Right-Except-To-Pass Rule will do. According to the classic three parameters relationship of the traffic flow, speed and density. After that, we weighed the proportion among the three parameters in different situations to better prove the correctness...

This paper is the result of a study investigating the role of integrated bilingual classes in reducing interference in acquisition of German as the second foreign language. Focus groups were students of the Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk. The students studied English as a first foreign...

Introduction: Although pulse wave velocity (PWV), a proxy of arterial stiffness, is a strong predictor of cardiovascular complications, it is confounded by blood pressure (BP) and heart rate at the time of examination. Furthermore, establishing whether an artery behaves stiffer or less stiff does not...

It is an important and hot topic for researchers to develop an efficient and robust feature selection method from gene expression profile data with thousands of genes and small sample size. At present, most of feature selection methods are constructed models to use all samples of gene expression data,...

As the main influence factors on price fluctuations of corn futures is more complex, so analyzing these factors that is very difficult. In this paper, China's consumer confidence index and consumer price index are selected as variables of the rational expectations so that the econometric model is created...

In the context of ongoing globalization of the world economy and the increasing internationalization of public life, a progressively important place in the regional development is occupied by international labour migration. A natural consequence of these processes is an increase in the interstate migration...

Universities around the world are concerned with the student dropout phenomenon, which is particularly prevalent in the early years. Research indicates that the main reason for early dropout is the wrong choice of academic study domain. In this work, we have tried to provide decision-making support to...

Background: Arterial stiffness and large artery function are independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease.(1) Individuals with Down Syndrome (DS) have autonomic dysfunction and known to have lower incidence of cardiovascular disease.(2) Limited literatures showed no difference in arterial stiffness...

In recent years, the question of innovation talent has become a major proposition of sustainable development in the world. As the main base of training innovation talents universities have still insufficient in evaluating innovation talents. This article refers to existing research results to build the...

In order to study the impact that land reclamation had on coastline of Fujian Province, three phases of Landsat TM/ETM+ image, spanning 15 years, were used to monitor the coastline change. The entire coastline was extracted from preprocessed Landsat TM/ETM+ images based on edge detection operator-Canny....

Establishing the modern university system in accordance with national condition is the core of our current higher education reform. On the basis of analyzing the meaning of modern university system, this paper briefly analyzes the problems existing in the process of establishing modern university system...

In these years, some of the cities' continued urban sprawl and the loss of farmland which is surrounding urban centers causes their development out of balance. It does great harm to a country as well as people's happiness. Smart growth is a theory which comprehensively gives the solution to this problem....

LBS (Location Based Service) has been more and more integrated into the various industries, simultaneously, the development of the industry further promote the intensive research and widespread application of LBS. In this paper, we present an excellent resolution for indoor location estimation based...

The Dayak Kanayatn’s byword, “Adil ka’ Talino, Bacuramin ka’ Saruga, Basengat ka’ Jubata”, is becoming more and more popular nowadays, thanks to its massive use in local Borneo formal and informal meetings. Deep structural analysis shows apparent traits of universality in each of its element and concept...

This paper attempts to sort out and summarizes the development model of innovation and entrepreneurship education in colleges and universities, and explores the development path of innovation and entrepreneurship education that are in line with our national conditions. From the perspective of original...

Smart driving and eco driving now become an important issue which they integrate environment, comfort, and safety riding. To achieve this condition, it is needed measurements or evaluations on our riding behaviour. One of parameters that describes our riding behaviour is driving cycle. The variable that...

The researches give results on the ecology and phenology of the most basic and common types of blood-sucking midges of the Simuliidae family. This article shows dynamics of the species composition and average seasonal number of blood-sucking subfamily Simuliinae midges in water reservoirs of the Volgograd...

The purpose of this study is to develop a deep learning–based method that can automatically generate segmentations on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) for head and neck online adaptive radiation therapy (ART), where expert-drawn contours in planning CT (pCT) images serve as prior knowledge. Because...

Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is heart valve(s) damage as a long-term complication of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF). The ARF is preventable and the global mortality of RHD has significantly decreased due to the treatment advances. However, with the increase of patients’ survival rate, it causes more children...

A Mongolian proverb says, “Losing livestock is not a big deal, but the loss of the policy is a disaster.” One of the major challenges in the education sector is the implementation of the traditional reform policies. In particular, modern education policy must take into account the specifics of the nomadic...

Multilingual language models such as mBERT and XLM-R have revolutionized natural language processing by extending coverage across hundreds of languages. Yet for typologically distinct, low-resource languages like Khasi, these models often fail to capture even basic morphosyntactic structure. In this...

Culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) emerges as a crucial model for meeting the varied needs of higher education students, particularly in our interconnected world. This method prioritizes integrating students’ cultural identities into teaching, thereby cultivating an inclusive learning environment that...

Since doctors’ decisions are primarily based on laboratory results, accurate test results are essential to the healthcare system. Maintaining accurate laboratory results requires regular performance evaluations. The most recent iteration of total quality management is called Six Sigma. The study’s main...

We scaled up a bio-inspired control architecture for the motor control and motor learning of a real modular robot. In our approach, the Locally Weighted Projection Regression algorithm (LWPR) and a cerebellar microcircuit coexist, in the form of a Unit Learning Machine. The LWPR algorithm optimizes the...

The demands for the scalable and efficient network at data centers are becoming more and more intense recently. However, there are three problems needed to be solved, i.e., the ever-increasing number of actual or virtual machines demands, effectively managing these different machines and maintaining...