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Objective: Exaggerated exercise blood pressure (BP) is associated with higher left-ventricular mass index (LVMI). Paradoxically, exercise BP and LVMI may be higher with greater fitness, but underlying factors are poorly understood. This study aimed to determine the influence of fitness on exercise BP...

Background: We anticipate that in vascular outpatients followed over time, measured changes in arterial stiffness will be the multifactorial result of pressure-dependence, ageing- related degeneration, wall stress homeostasis, and medical treatment. Carotid ultrasound enables assessment of carotid pulse...

Background: Automated office blood pressure (AutoBP) involving repeated, unobserved blood pressure (BP) readings during one clinic visit provides a practical alternative to daytime ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). However, the number of reading taken and measurement duration have varied across previously...

Background: Wave intensity analysis (WIA) in the aorta offers important clinical and mechanistic insights but is difficult non-invasively. We performed WIA by combining high temporal resolution cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) flow velocity and non-invasive central blood pressure (BP) waveform...

Objective: Rupture of atherosclerotic plaques is ultimately a biomechanical event. We aim to develop and validate a novel method using ultrasound radiofrequency (RF) measurements to determine intraplaque inhomogeneities in the strain distribution with a high axial resolution which may identify rupture-prone...

Background: Increased Left Ventricular Mass Index (LVMI) is a well known risk factor for cardiac morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, it is widely recognized that clinical evolution and progression of established CV diseases are related to a range of psychological characteristics, which may partially...

Background: The study of medium and small-size arteries might be useful in the characterization of vascular adaptation, remodeling and wall ultrastructure modifications occurring with aging and in the presence of cardiovascular risk factors. However, to date, these districts have not been extensively...

Bajakah is one of the plants which is potentially developed as traditional medicine. Bajakah is such a species of plant which is assumed to have the ability to cure breast cancer, heart disease, diarrhea, increase immunity, and others. The use of antibacterial is essential for the management of various...

Humans become inseparable from communication technology, transferring and disseminating information via the internet and social media. Entrepreneurs are competing to create marketing communication strategies to attract the attention of potential consumers to product purchasing decisions. To increase...

We propose the concept of a game system that includes an automatic story-generation function based on a table-top role playing game (TRPG). In this idea, stories are generated or transformed based on communication between a “game master (GM),” who controls the story generation, and “players (PLs),” who...

Disasters, mostly uncontrollable in nature, outbreak with devastating impacts throughout the world every year. Disasters might happen in any part of the world at any time. Though the aftermath of disasters negatively impacts all walks of life it usually creates casualties and affects the socio-economically...

Evaluating the performance of recoverable end-of-life products with respect to a set of specific criteria is challenging. This is due to multi-dimensional nature of the decision making process, multiple evaluation criteria, and subjective and imprecise assessments. To effectively deal with this issue,...

Information technology (IT) holds potential for transforming business practices in important ways. For example, it can assist in setting up an infrastructure which supports complex, multiparty trading and transactions among pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, hospitals, pharmacies, medical supply...

In regard to the existing COVID-19 pandemic, adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) is required, one of which is a hazmat suit. This study aimed to produce a validated hazmat suit for medical personnel. This research and development (R&D) used Thiagarajan’s theory consisting of four stages...

Social work specialty belongs to the practical, operational and applied social science. In professional teaching practice, it is required to pay attention to the combination of social work and practice. As an auxiliary means of social work teaching, the film and television works can effectively serve...

Indonesia has a variety of local wisdom that lives and develops in the community. Local wisdom that lives and develops in the community is formed through a long and crystallized process in the form of customary law, belief and culture. Therefore, local wisdom can be interpreted as a norm that is practiced...

Aristotle and Alexander the Great, two outstanding characters in history bearing idiosyncratic personalities and outlooks, are not only teacher and student, but also destined friends and rivals. They were born in the era when Greek civilization faced a portent from rotating greatly declining, and when...

This study aims to analyze the effect of the gross domestic product (GDP), inflation, interest rates, BI rate, and the exchange rate on third party funds of Islamic banking in Indonesia in period 2009-2020. This study uses regression analysis. The data type used in this study is time series data, with...

Traditional association rule mining algorithm only generates a set of rules from frequent itemset, the rules obtained cannot generate rules from high-utility itemset. This is because the framework that’s being used to obtain rules from traditional association rule is support-confidence while getting...

I discuss the connection of the three different questions: The existence of the Gibbs steady state distributions for the stochastic differential equations, the notion and the existence of the conservation laws for such equations, and the convergence of the smooth random perturbations of dynamical systems...

Let G = (V, E) be a graph that consist of a vertex set V and an edge set E. The local antimagic labeling f of a graph G with edge-set E is a bijection map from E to {1, 2, …, |E|} such that w(u) ≠ w(v), where w(u) = ∑e ∈ E(u) f(e) and E(u) is the set of edges incident to u. In this labeling, every vertex...

This study is aiming to analyze the simultaneous and partial effect of labor, technology, farming experience, training and labor interaction and training on the productivity of rubber farmers in Banyuasin regency. Using primary data, the population is all rubber farmers. The number of samples as many...

In Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty’s “Listening to the Qin”, the player is dressed in Taoist clothes, reflecting a style of clothing of the Northern Song Dynasty literati and officialdom class. Fan Zhongyan in the Northern Song Dynasty recorded the fashion of Taoist literati and officialdoms wearing...

Music is one of the sciences related to the concept of sound, either in the form of objects or sounds that arise from human intensity such as singing. Singing can be done independently or in groups, which are commonly called as choir. In today’s era, the appreciation of the choir is quite good. One of...

Most Chinese college students have an experience of learning English as second language for more than ten years. To explore whether the ability of reading Chinese script and English script was related to a universal working memory capacity, and whether the working memory capacity can predict a change...

In the process of urbanization, the rapid economic development inevitably brings environmental pressure, and the current problems of environmental destruction and ecological deterioration are becoming more and more prominent. “Smart City” relies on modern information technology, integrates resource advantages,...

In order to find out the application conditions of Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) in practice, based on previous studies, the paper summarized the advantages and disadvantages of the two methods and explores the specific application conditions in corporate finance. The results...

In order to analyze the 170SD30-SY motorized spindle bearing cooling effect of the oil-gas lubrication system, a fluid - solid coupling heat transfer model established in finite element software. It is realized by way of numerical simulations on the ground of theoretical analysis. By changing the compressed...

Using ICP-MS to detect Pb in the multi-phase mediumin the artificial reef .The results showed that: Pb of sediment is varied from0.138~0.470mg/Kg, mean0.273±0.106mg/Kg,The sediment distribution of Pb decreased in the order: lower> middle> upper layer in each station. Risk evaluation showed that potential...

Apparently, management of portfolio is focused on developing optimal and superior investment plan for investor. Furthermore, managing the fund allocation of investor on different alternatives facilitates minimising the risk in comparison to fund investment within a single investment fund. Concerning...

Combined with the practice and construction of Agricultural Electrical Engineering and Automation Experimental Center in Tianjin Agricultural University, this paper elaborates on the position, concept and construction target of the experimental teaching center. A. Policy support, instrument &instrument,...

Divine Fortuneteller Ma Yi, the physiognomy book in ancient China, is abundant with vivid records of morphological description and sketches of ancient Chinese. The chosen content about anthropometry from the book is illustrated and interpreted, along with the analyses of the landmarks of measurement,...

Considering the monitoring information of the operation process of the machine tools, a maintenance decision model is established in this paper. Firstly, the monitoring information of the key parts of the machine tools is obtained by using data acquisition system. Based on the kurtosis value which are...

The important problem of the research on the technology of fertilization is how to improve the utilization rate of fertilizer, and the variable rate fertilizer applicator will be the future development direction. This paper studies how to use SD card to store the data of variable rate fertilization applicator...

In order to improve the performance of fall detection system for the elderly based on triaxial acceleration sensor, and accurately to judge the fall direction of human body, a method was put forward based on self-organizing map neural network (SOM) and the information of triaxial acceleration sensor...

Now the tourism market has developed rapidly,and tourism city image creation is also an important content of urban development. In modern society, the image of tourist city important internal relation between shape and media, both are inseparable. Tourist city should take positive and effective media...

To optimize the coalbed methane (CBM) horizontal well types in the southern Qinshui Basin, the optimization system of horizontal well types accompanied with corresponding engineering technology modes was established basing on the well type geology adaptability and key factors influencing the horizontal...

With the application of GIS, the mobile positioning and wireless communications technology, the location-based services (LBS) are increasingly widespread. Location-based services are a kind of value-added services. Mainly through GPS and WIFI mobile location technology, it can get the user's current...

In recent years, numerous studies confirm that platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB) is involved in the development of atherosclerosis and the regulation of human aorta VSMC (HA-VSMC) proliferation. Myocardin is an essential transcription factor that can activate the tran-scription of some smooth...

University library takes an important role in education and research to drive higher education development and promote to accomplish its missions. We analyzed some common problems in the utilization of university library resources, including information supply, knowledge popularization and characteristic...

The knowledge of aerosol properties on a regional scale is important in understanding of the global climate change and radiation forcing. In order to understand aerosol radiative properties in East Asia, 8-year measurements were conducted during 2001-2008. In this study, the aerosol radiative properties...

This paper analyzed the challenges and opportunities faced by Chinese golf clubs in their current management and development, presenting countermeasures to take challenges, seize opportunities and seek development. After being researched by literature, analogical reasoning, expert interview and field...

In this paper, we develop a fast numerical scheme for computing the European option pricing problems governed by the Black-Scholes equation. We prove that the proposed scheme has second order accuracy in both time and space. Under some restrictions, the stability of the proposed method in the sense of...

Having a significance vulnerability clas-sification is important in developing a strong confidence in choosing the damag-ing cases associated with testing prob-lems. The accurate classification helps to explain the belonging of vulnerability. The current research failed to empirically describe these...

This paper is based on strengths and weakness of Sports tourism resources in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; it mainly analyzed the following problems such as under-development of sport. Tourism resources in Xinjiang, lack of professional talents, backward of hardware facilities, lack of financial...

In recent years, China's emphasis on community construction increased significantly, Tianjin is also actively promoting the work about community building like health community services, convenient business services and environmental community services. To improve the recycling efficiency of waste household...

In the recent past, ICT has been incorporated in several educational institutions globally as an effective tool used in facilitating high quality teaching. It is unfortunate that developing countries such as Saudi Arabia have not yet been able to enjoy the various advantages of the usage of ICT in teaching....

Cooperative working mode is among the important ways to improve the efficiency and quality of ship design. This paper conducts a research on the real-time cooperative working mode for ship design, which is developed by means of compound sharing mode and in which the application of such two modes of transmission...

By taking real domestic CRH high-speed trains as research object, using the Computational Fluid Dynamics software Starccm+ to carry out numerical simulation calculations when the train runs in different vehicle speeds and cross-wind speeds, We get aerodynamic loads in diverse working conditions. Furthermore,...