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1.4 PULSE WAVE VELOCITY AND INCIDENT HEART FAILURE IN CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE

R.R. Townsend, A. Sheridan, J. Strelsin, M.J. Duckworth, J.A. Chirinos, V. Teal, A. Khan, J. Kusek, M. Schreiber, N. Bansal, A. Ojo, J.P. Lash, M.M. Joffe, C.R.I.C. Investigators
Pages: 139 - 139
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P4.13 VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION IMPROVES ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION IN TYPE 2 DIABETES – A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

K. Angel, H.L. Gulseth, C. Wium, E.F. Eriksen, D. Atar, K. Birkeland
Pages: 139 - 139
Background: Cardiovascular disease is prevalent in type 2 diabetes, and both endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness may contribute in the pathogenesis. Low levels of vitamin D are associated with both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Aim: To evaluate the effect of vitamin D supplementation...

Beyond Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation Approximation for an Anharmonic Chain with Harmonic Long Range Interactions

D. Grecu, Anca Visinescu, A.S. Cârstea
Pages: 139 - 144
Multi-scales method is used to analyze a nonlinear differential-difference equation. In the order 3 the NLS eq. is found to determine the space-time evolution of the leading amplitude. In the next order this has to satisfy a complex mKdV eq. (the next in the NLS hierarchy) in order to eliminate secular...

Symmetry, Singularities and Integrability in Complex Dynamics III: Approximate Symmetries and Invariants

P.G.L. Leach, S. Moyo, S. Cotsakis, R.L. Lemmer
Pages: 139 - 156
The different natures of approximate symmetries and their corresponding first intgrals/invariants are delineated in the contexts of both Lie symmetries of ordinary differential equations and Noether symmetries of the Action Integral. Particular note is taken of the effect of taking higher orders of the...

Psi-Series Solutions of the Cubic Hénon-Heiles System and Their Convergence

S. Melkonian
Pages: 139 - 160
The cubic Hénon-Heiles system contains parameters, for most values of which, the system is not integrable. In such parameter regimes, the general solution is expressible in formal expansions about arbitrary movable branch points, the so-called psi-series expansions. In this paper, the convergence of...

The Nature Event's Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants with Improvements

Yan Chen, Chunming Zhang, Jianshe Chai
Pages: 139 - 145
Probabilistic risk assessment is the systematic and comprehensive methodology to evaluate the risk of nuclear power plants. Currently some aspects, which are the hazard analysis and fragility evaluation in the probabilistic risk assessment of natural events in nuclear power plants need to be improved....
Proceedings Article

Adaption of Technological Implementation Towards SMEs’ Perlis Performance in Halal Industry

Nainatul Farzuha binti Nor, Hasrul bin Hashom, Nor Izham bin Subri, Muhammad Anas Zakwan bin Sabri
Adaption of Information Communication Technology (ICT) among SME’s is becoming more important in enhancing the holistic competitiveness in halal market challenging. Today, Halal food industry is rapidly growing and has contributed to the Malaysia’s economic development. Small Medium Enterprise (SME)...

Performance Analysis of Blockchain-based Access Control Model for Personal Health Record System with Architectural Modelling and Simulation

Thein Than Thwin, Sangsuree Vasupongayya
Pages: 139 - 151
The Personal Health Record (PHR) could be seen as a preventive care solution to the incoming aging society. The blockchain-based PHR system has been proposed recently to enhance the security and privacy for the PHR data. Consequently, the performance becomes a concern for blockchain-PHR integration because...
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Darrieus Helical Turbine for Open Channel with Different Blade Angle and Flow Velocity to Improve Turbine Efficiency

Yusuf Dewantoro Herlambang, Totok Prasetyo, Bono, Gatot Suwoto
Darrieus helical turbine is a type of CFWT (Cross Flow Water Turbine) turbine which is the development of the Darrieus Turbine for wind with the advantage of having a stable torque at various current speeds and can rotate at low current speeds. The objectives of this final project are (1) To make 5 models...

The Investigation on Redundancy Errors in Writing of Chinese English Learners with Different Proficiency

Yujing Yang
This research paper aims to figure out the main categories of redundancy errors in English writing tasks for Chinese undergraduates as well as the relations between different kinds of redundant constituents and learners’ English proficiency. Taking error analysis as the theoretical framework, this research...

School-based Bullying Prevention Program in Australia: Safe Schools Program

A Critical Review of Program Outcomes, Stakeholders, and Further Recommendations

Shiyang Zhu, Haorui Zhang
Bullying among students at school has already become a rampant phenomenon and a wicked issue that haunts worldwide educational leaders. This article thoroughly analyzes the development of a bullying prevention program and its stakeholders involved in Australian education system. This program, initiated...

A Study on the Social Performance of Cultural Heritage

Taking the Xi’an Daming Palace National Heritage Park as an Example

Yiheng Cheng
Cultural heritage is a historical relic of human natural and social activities. It is also the treasure of all of human civilisation and a reflection of the historical, social and cultural background. At the same time, cultural heritage also reflects the social economy and culture. As the official palace...

Return: Memorial Significance of a New Ancestral Temple Taking Duan's Ancestral Hall, Yingshan, Hubei as an Example

Shengde Fang
The memorial significance of newly-built ancestral temples is mainly reflected in such aspects as the site, scale, shape and structure, decoration, and couplets of these buildings. With the rising phenomena of recompiling genealogical trees and building ancestral temples, the scale of ancestral temples,...
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Anti-fatigue Effects of the Genistein Supplementation in Mice Subjected to Forced Swimming Test

Qiongli Hu
The present study was designed to evaluate the anti-fatigue effects of genistein in mice subjected to the forced swimming test. Mice were divided into four groups, i.e., one control group and three genistein treated groups. The treated groups were received doses of genistein (7, 15 and 30 mg/kg) dissolved...
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Improved Contrast Infrared Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on Local Edge Extraction

Shuai Wang, Zaiping Lin, Hongwei Cheng
An algorithm of small and dim infrared target detection base on LCM (Local Contrast Method) combing with edge detection to solve the problem of high false alarm in small and dim infrared target detection under complex background. This algorithm firstly uses the LCM (Local Contrast Method) to extract...

Analyzing of Chinese Character Form Database (CCFD) and the Study of CCFD

Jian-Yu Liu
After the combination of the study of Chinese character and the computer information science, Chinese Character Form Database (CCFD) has been a new thing, which can meet the objective requirement of the current collecting and research work for Chinese character. CCFD is an important foundation of modernization...
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Harmonic Suppression and Reactive Power Compensation Based on PWM Rectifier and SVC

Chunlai Li, Yan Shi, Yindong Liu
Electrolysis is an important branch of metal smelting. But due to the introduction of rectification device will produce a large number of harmonic, this undoubtedly greatly increased electric cost and the maintenance cost. This article used harmonic data in power supply system as the simulation parameters,...
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Protective Effects of Polysaccharides from Radix Astragali Against Alloxan-induced Oxidative Stress in Diabetic Mice

Ming Wu, Liquan Guo
Oxidative stress has been proposed as an important pathogenic factor in diabetic wound complications. This study investigated the effect of polysaccharides from Radix Astragali (RAP) on alloxan-induced oxidative stress in diabetic mice. Diabetic mice were randomly divided into five groups: diabetic control,...
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Improvement of Bonding-box Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

Yedong Xu, Caixia Liu, Xumin Sun
The localization is an important technology for the sensor network. In this paper, we improved the large error of the Bonding-box algorithm in the case of the two anchor nodes and the disadvantages of the indistinguishable localization of coordinates. The algorithm is combined with the ranging technology...
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CT Imaging Anatomy and Application in the Head and Neck

Shaoyin Duan, Simin Lin, Feng Ye
By comparing the R-VR, This paper will evaluate the SFOF-VR imaging applied in the head and neck. Based on the original scanning data, SFOF-VR and R-VR were performed on 35 subjects (including the normal, with variations and/or lesions) from the head-neck CTA examination. Comparisons were made between...
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Situation and promotion of Young teachers scientific research of Independent college

Xuemei Wang, Xiaofeng Li
Young teachers in independent colleges occupy larger proportion. The high ability of scientific research is crucial for the improvement of teaching quality and sustainable development of the college. The questions of independent college scientific research faced are less scientific research funds, unreasonable...
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The Construction of Talents Cultivating Plan Based on Hotel Management Major of Systematic Working Process

Quan-Jun Zheng, You-Rong Xiao
The development of curriculum system based on systematic working process follows the process of “Post (group) investigation analysis and research(including processional growth phase nanlysis ) work task decomposition action in induction learning areas conversion learning situation design”. This thesis...
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The Infrared Multispectral Image Simulation Research Based on 3D Scene

Bo Li, Huai-ci Zhao, Mei Du, Jinfeng Lv
A method of generating infrared multispectral simulation images by 3D scene is presented. The infrared images at any observation angle of the scene and a data cube of simulation images of specific waveband could be generated by the method. Some experiments have been done in waveband 3~5 m to generate...
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The Application of the Task-Based Teaching Method in Business Japanese Teaching

Jiadong Wang
The teaching of business Japanese has gone through decades of development. The development is dramatic both in major construction and enrolment scale. In the meantime, there have been a lot of problems that need to be resolved. In order to improve the teaching of business Japanese, this article studies...
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Research on Talents Training Mode of Applied Logistics Management

Fanlei Meng
With the rapid development of modern logistics industry, the requirements of logistics companies for applied logistics management talents become higher and higher. Colleges and universities as a talent training institutions, they must adapt to the objective requirements of modern logistics development,...
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Organizational Ethical Climate Review

Bing Liu, Yuqing Yuan
Organizational ethical climate is members’ consistent cognition on the ethical environment characteristics. As an important factor in the organizational environment, it draws more and more domestic and foreign scholars’ attention. On the basis of the literature, this paper makes integrated analysis on...
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Study on Farmers' Demand for Rural Land Management Right Mortgage Loan--Based on the investigation of Faku County

Lihong Yu, Jinli Chen
To study the willingness and characteristics of farmers' demand for rural land management right mortgage loan, this paper made a statistical analysis on the farmers' demand by the survey data of 398 peasant households Faku County, Liaoning province in China. The results show that farmers’ awareness to...

The Exploration of training mode of applied IT talents based on Team-Based Learning model

Yanxin Xie, Yongjiang Wang
With the development of computer talents in the increasingly fierce market competition,new industrial core competitiveness and modern service industry rising in recent years,high-tech modern agriculture base constantly emerging,therefore IT talents who have rich practical experience [1],occupation ability...

The System Innovation of Regional Public Management: Dilemmas and Breakthroughs

Yang Yanhong
With the rapid development of global economic integration and the process of modernization of China, the regional public administration issues are constantly highlighted. The regional public administration has become the inevitable trend for adapting to the developing times. This essay is based on the...
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An Empirical Study into the Impact of Entrepreneurial Failures on Subsequent Entrepreneurial Intention

Yingwen Li, Hong Du
As entrepreneurial activities are becoming more and more popular in China these years, considering the relative low success rate of entrepreneurship, it is of great importance that we study the influence of entrepreneurial failure on entrepreneurs’ future entrepreneurial intentions and decisions. This...

Students' Creative Thinking Ability Profile in Problem Solving of Animals Ecology

Akhmad Naparin, Agus Setiawan Riyadi, Mr Dharmono
In the era of a global economy based on knowledge and technology, lead free competition occurs with the trend of open systems. Therefore, Indonesian nation must improve the quality of human resources. The quality of human resources is marked by rapid development patterns of thinking in the form of creative...
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The Application of Electronic Information Technology in Electric Power Automation System

Ruidong Li
With the development of Chinese economy and the large-scale transformation of power systems, power system automation is getting higher and higher. Power system automation mainly covers three areas, namely, scheduling automation, substation automation and distribution network automation. The development...

Construction of Environmental Quality Evaluation Index System from the Perspective of Sustainable Development

Qi Wang
This paper analyzes the relationship between human development and environment from the perspective of "sustainable development". Based on literature review and following the general principles and methods of sustainable development, we establish a series of environmental indicators system, which is...

Research on the Application of STC Operator Method in TRIZ Innovation Theory

Yuyan Li, Kai Guo, Xiangmin Zhang
Smart phones in the design level of innovative space is getting smaller and smaller, and TRIZ innovation theory can quickly solve the problem of invention and technical innovation. This paper using the STC operator method, from the three dimensions of the smart phone size, standby time and cost, do the...
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Research of Ship's Stealth Methods in Static Electric Field

Peng Yu, Jinfang Cheng, Runxiang Jiang
In order to decrease the ship's static electric field as much as possible, the ship potential and static electric field are compared under different conditions, natural corrosion, sacrificial anodes protection, normal and advanced impressed-current cathodic protection and impressed-current compensation...

Self-Management as a Predictor of Student Performance

Elena Petanova, Radostina Stoyanova
This article reviews the study of predictors in fist-year students' academic performance with its index being calculated on the basis of their interim academic success assessments on two fields of study. The self-management capacity was determined by the methods of N. Peisakhov, and the sampling included...
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Video Description Using Learning Multiple Features

Xin Xu, Chunping Liu, Haibin Liu, Yi Ji, Zhaohui Wang
Generating descriptions for open-domain videos is a major challenge for computer vision due to the complex dynamics. In this paper, we propose a video description model based on multiple features. In the process of encoding, we exploit two complementary features. The spatial one is extracted from the...
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Realtime Mobile Video Conference Design Based On Reactive Architecture

Haidong Lv, Yongkang Deng, Yuexing Zhong, Rui Xiao, Wenbo Li
Due to the traditional software architecture can not meet the performance requirements of large concurrent real-time applications, using the SocketCluster real-time transmission frame of the new non blocking asynchronous mode of Node.js platform and on the basis of the realization of the function of...

The Historical Influence of Christianity in Cultural Communication between China and the West

Yongxia Bai
Christianity plays a significant role in cultural communication between China and the west in modern and contemporary Chinese history. With powerful and aggressive color, in the long history, Christianity was taking positive effects on Chinese science and technology development, and was imposing negative...

On Strategies of Promoting International Employment for Chinese College Graduates

Yaozhong L, Haixia Zhao
As higher education in China has leapfrogged into the stage of prevalence, the number of college graduates is increasing. The situation of employment is more and more serious. Making full use of the current resources to promote the employment for graduate, Chinese colleges are supposed to set up the...

The Local Wisdoms in Bahasa Indonesia Text Books in a Primary Class: Ethnopedagogy Study

I Wayan Rasna, Dewa Komang Tantra
This study aimed at producing an integrated thematic book in terms of Indonesian Language and Literature for grades I and II with local Balinese wisdoms. Therefore, in year 1, exploration of themes / subthemes of the materials were conducted. In year 2, the draft plan was developed into a draft of the...
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Analysis on the Function Evaluation of One Stage Anterior Internal Fixation for the Treatment of the Cervical Vertebra and Neck Segmental Spinal

Beilei Zhan, Dong Chen, Zhou Ye, Yunzhong Zhan, Jun Qian
Abstract. Objective: To observation and analysis one stage anterior internal fixation treatment of cervical vertebra and neck thoracic segment spine and its clinical efficacy. Methods: We select 10 patients with cervical and thoracic segments neck spine line issue of anterior cervical lesions cleared...
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Synthesis of dimethyl carbonate from oxidative carbonylation of methanol catalyzed by [Cu(phen)(OAc)2]2( -H2O)

Zhikang Sun, Xingxing Hu, Liming Huang, Peng Dong, Wuqiang Wen, Zhiping Du
[Cu(phen)(OAc)2]2( -H2O) (phen =1,10-phenanthroline) was characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer and Thermogravimetric analysis, and its catalytic performances were investigated in the oxidative carbonylation of methanol to dimethyl carbonate. The results showed that [Cu(phen)(OAc)2]2(...
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Assembly Path Planning based on Virtools

Yonggang Bai, Fayuan Wei
On the basis of an established product assembly sequence, Assembly path planning is used to find a track for the part moving from the storage position to the assembly location. On one hand , Path planning can meet the needs of operation and avoid the obstacles, at the same time regarding security as...
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Fall Detection Algorithm for the Elderly Based on Trial Acceleration and Heart Rate

Weibin Meng, Chenchao Wang, Haoyang Li, Meichen Ji
The paper introduces a method of judging the gesture according to triaxial acceleration data and heart rate data. The acceleration transducer is used to collect the triaxial acceleration data, and some experimental data is selected as training data. The collected data is classified according to KNN algorithm,...

Innovative Apprenticeship in Qingyuan Polytechnic

Pengfei Zhao, Gan Wei
With the practice in Qingyuan Polytechnic as an example, the paper analyzes the innovative apprenticeship home and abroad, and explains the detail information of its characteristics. Respectively they are enterprise dual education, interactive training, on-the-job training, apprentice dual identity,...
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Cloning and Differential Expression Analysis of a new rbcS Gene from Lemna gibba

Youru Wang
A novel Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (Rubisco) small subunit gene (named ssu4d) was cloned from Lemna gibba by a novel chromosome walking technology, genomic DNA (gDNA) region of ssu4d with the size of 1, 346 bp, was isolated. The full-length of ssu4d cDNA (named ssu4dc), contained...
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The Bone Conduction Microphone Parameter Measurement Architecture and Its Speech Recognization Performance Analysis

Hang-hong Kuo, Ying-yu Yu, Jun-juh Yan
Bone conduction microphone (BCM) can robustly resist noisy background. In this paper, an industrial parameter measurement architecture has been proposed to measure the main parameters of BCM. For comparing the robustness of BCM, a synchronized record platform has been developed. To observe the speech...