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Purpose/Background/Objectives: Hypertension is associated with higher cardiovascular risk as well as several markers of subclinical target organ damage (TOD). Albumin to creatinine ratio (ACR) in urine has been recognised as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular events. We hypothesised that there...

Background: Autonomic dysfunction, with increased sympathetic activity at rest has been reported in obese individuals. Indices of blood pressure variability (BPV) and baroreceptor sensitivity (BRS) can provide insight into aspects of autonomic function, particularly following an aerobic exercise bout. Purpose:...

This study discusses the relation between text and picture elements and analyzes the semiotic signs that appears in anti-exploitation of wild animals in the circus advertisements. The methodology used in this study is a descriptive analysis methodology with a corpus of three poster adverts of Keine Wildtiere...

Immunotherapy acts by a system of immune modulation to destruct cells of cancer. Squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC), this modality can be administered alone or combined with other therapies. Currently, immunotherapy with chemotherapy has shown better effectiveness as first-line systemic...

Purpose: Central Blood Pressure (CBP) is a better cardiovascular risk indicator than brachial pressure [1]. However, gold standard CBP measurements require an invasive catheter. We propose an approach to estimate CBP non-invasively from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data coupled with a non-invasive...

Introduction: Arterial stiffness is a principal pathogenetic mechanism of aortic systolic blood pressure (SBP) augmentation, left ventricular hypertrophy and sudden cardiac death. The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between parameters of pulse wave and 44-hour ambulatory blood pressure...

Objectives: Increased carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity is indicative of vascular stiffening of the central arterial tree. Aortic stiffness is a key risk factor for the development of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Following acute (24-hour) sleep deprivation, healthy adults exhibit an increase...

Currently, the Government of Indonesia is developing an international standard port in the Patimban area, Subang and it is hoped that this port can reduce export-import density at the Tanjung Priok Port. This final project aims to determine the customer switching behavior in the hinterland area if the...

Background: Carotid flow peak velocity is increased in carotid artery stenosis. Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) have been associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke. We performed this study to evaluate the relationship between carotid flow velocity and carotid IMT in ischemic stroke without...

Objective: PWV measurement devices are technically demanding, expensive and prone to artefacts, thus limiting the measurement of arterial stiffness in primary care. The CARDIS consortium developed a non-contact device based on the detection of skin movements induced by arterial pulses through a laser...

Objective: Valve calcification (VC) is common in patients on hemodialysis and increases the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The aim if the study was to evaluate the association between VC and 44-hour ambulatory blood pressure (ABP) variables. Materials and methods: In 68 patients with...

Objectives: Sex differences in cardiovascular disease risk and progression are well established. Estrogen loss following menopause leads to vascular dysfunction, potentially due to elevations in oxidative stress and subsequent decrements in nitric oxide. It is possible a reduction in oxidative stress...

Various uncertainties are inevitable in complex engineered systems and must be carefully treated in design activities. Reliability-Based Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (RBMDO) has been receiving increasing attention in the past decades to facilitate designing fully coupled systems but also achieving...

This paper establishes a GIS-based system of vulnerability assessment to landslide hazard for Lushan earthquake-stricken areas. By taking these areas as the study area and ArcGIS 9.3 Software as the platform; with GIS Grid Technology and adopting Contributing Weight Overlay Model, we extract 6 vulnerability...

Under the background that the demand for air emergency rescue is increasingly urgent, the ground support for helicopters’ taking off and landing safely in disaster area is studied. By defining the connotation and identifying the influencing factors, the evaluation index system is established, including...

This paper aims to assess and evaluate the factors affecting mobile applications used to access and control security cameras at home and office. Survey data from 397 mobile applications users from Orange County and San Bernardino County in Southern California, USA were collected to test the proposed...

In UWB-IR signal detection, the threshold of signal to noise ratio(SNR) limit the performance of FHN model detection method, from this point, wavelet packet is introduced into FHN model, a novel UWB-IR signal detection method based on wavelet packet and FHN model is proposed, in addition, the disadvantages...

It is proved that among the finite groups of order less than 32 only the tetrahedral group and the binary tetrahedral group are not determined by their endomorphism semigroups in the class of all groups.

It is proven that the essential spectrum of any self-adjoint operator associated with the matrix differential expression

A method of quantization of classical soliton cellular automata (QSCA) is put forward that provides a description of their time evolution operator by means of quantum cicuits that involve quantum gates from which the associated Hamiltonian describing a quantum chain model is constructed. The intrinsic...

At this time the role of technology is very important as a supporter of activities in various fields, one of which is in the industrial sector, especially in buying and selling activities. MochIcecream is a home-based business that requires advanced technology at this time. Therefore, MochIcecream utilizes...

Goat farming produced environmental pollution from livestock waste. On the other hand, the waste has economic value after being processed into compost. The farmers should not only be able to grow the goat but also process the waste into compost. The study aimed to analyze the influence of duration being...

Adopting the literature research methodology and field survey method, this thesis takes the new era of school soccer as the background, and the combination of value leadership of principals and school soccer development as the problem-oriented point. The value leadership of principals in campus soccer...

Background: Cilostazol is a potent antiplatelet agent that selectively inhibits phosphodiesterase III, and also it has beneficial effect to peripheral arterial disease, like intermittent claudication, by direct vasodilative action. But the effect of cilostazol on arterial stiffness is unclear. We investigated...

Background: Korean Panax Red Ginseng (KPRG) is known to enhance endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation by activating eNOS. Activation of Rho-associated kinase (ROCK) is implicated in endothelial dysfunction in part through destabilization of eNOS mRNA. This study, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled,...

This research aims to know and describe the flow and value of ethnopedagogy contained in the Story of Pantun Budak Mandjor. This study used descriptive methods of analysis. The results of this study describe the structure and value of ethnopedagogy Poem Story of Budak Mandjor. The structure of Pantun...

This study is aims to analysis the effect of exchange rate rate, Inflation, Economic growth, Minimum wage, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic investment on educated unemployment in Indonesia. This study uses time series data from 1990 to 2020. By using OLS (Standard Least Square) method, it found...

We derive solution-formulae for the Krichever–Novikov equation by a systematic multipotentialisation of the equation. The formulae are achieved due to the connections of the Krichever–Novikov equations to certain symmetry-integrable 3rd-order evolution equations which admit autopotentialisations.

Dehua kiln in Fujian Province is a producing area of white porcelain with a long history in China, and Dehua porcelain sculpture, as a representative of Dehua kiln, is well-known in China and foreign countries during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is also an excellent traditional national culture of...

This study aimed to determine the correlation between ratio of purine derivative:creatinine concentrations by spot sampling method with total urinary excretion of purine derivative (PD) in Garut rams and ewes, as well as knowing the right sampling time to predict microbial protein synthesis in Garut...

In order to enable the government to intervene as early as possible before the harmful results are occurred, the amendment of the Criminal Law (IX) substantially modifies and adds provisions related to terrorism to control the risk of related crimes prepositionally and systematically. With a view to...

This paper takes Yining historic district as an example. First, we briefly analyze and introduce its historical background and current situation. Then on the basis of protecting the status quo, the landscape environment of the block is improved, and the problems encountered in the landscape environment...

The habits of people who are used to attending art exhibitions are hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, curators, artists and academics are also affected. A different situation requires an appropriate art exhibition management adaptation strategy. The aim of the research is to describe the...

The increasing use of rail transportation in Indonesia encourages an increase in the services that must be provided by stations, including Pasar Senen Station in Jakarta. Based on data from research that has been found, there are several important points of public service at Pasar Senen Station that...

This article investigates the economic environment of the pet market in recent years, analyzes the impact of national policies, social development, and the economic environment on the electronic pet industry, focuses on the domestic and foreign development of China’s electronic pet industry, and analyzes...

Microwave drying is a dehydration process that is often used to preserve a food or material. In this study, sea bass leathers were dried by microwave technique. In order to improve the productivity, the microwave energy was applied to decrease the drying time. The sea bass leathers were dried to the...

On December 2, 2015, Korea together with Vietnam, Cambodia and Philippine successfully applied to UNESCO for making the tug-of-war as the human intangible cultural heritage, which soon attracted the concern and discussion of China's media and other social people from all walks of life .Tug-of-war originated...

In the oceanic environments, oceanic wireless communication networks suffer low link quality and intermittent connectivity, which in turn disable the stability of end-to-end communication path, which makes the oceanic wireless communication network a de facto Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network (DTN)....

In the field of measurement and control, spacecraft trajectories are known, in most cases you can use the spacecraft trajectories of spacecraft in terms of the motion brought by the Doppler effect. In the Doppler search range smaller conditions, based on cycle-related pseudo-code parallel acquisition...

Coupling of small tip clearance and circumferential grooves of axial-flow compressors significantly improves the stability margin, as well as pressure ratio and efficiency. Different groove depth under coupling of small tip clearance and circumferential grooves has been designed for the isolate subsonic...

Green supply chain management has been focused by both academicians and practitioners in recent years due to the increased public awareness on environmental problems and sustainable development. In this paper, a decision aided model for green supply chain network design and optimization is proposed to...

The principle of linear frequency modulated continuous wave and the characteristic of a special zigzag linear frequency modulated continuous wave are described in this paper, as well as ranging with linear frequency modulated continuous wave in radar application. Two algorithms of improving ranging accuracy...

The analysis and prediction of arch dam temperature is very meaningful to engineering maintenance and disaster prevention. Taking the arch dam temperature monitoring data as the research object, the ARIMA-RTA combination forecasting model is improved by using the ARIMA model's higher fitting capacity...

Aim. This article reports on a case study that inquired into how coaches’ beliefs about and dispositions toward coaching that structure their practice were developed through long-term experience. Method. Focused on three coaches working at high performance levels in Victoria, Australia data was generated...

Global synchronization analysis for complex networks with coupling delay is investigated in this paper. The delay considered in this paper is constant. Sufficient conditions depending on the time delay are given based on Lyapunov functional, linear matrix inequality and Kronecker product technique. The...

Communication engineering specialty is an engineering practical and very strong applied specialty. Practice teaching plays an important role of cultivating students' scientific thinking methods, scientific research ability and innovation ability. Through integrated specialty reform, we improve the practice...

Based on the value-chain framework, the innovation system was divided into two interactive sub-phases: upstream research and development process and downstream technological commercialization process. By introducing network DEA model, we computed the R&D, the technological commercialization and overall...

At present, there are many kinds of prediction methods, how to play the advantages of different prediction methods and take advantage of useful information contained in the data have become the focus of research. This paper starts from the studies of combination prediction method. First, it described...