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Materiality is the most powerful tool in the hands of a designer. It most often determines the abstract concept of the design outcome as well as the tangible presence of what is created by a designer for the purpose of people. The paper below aims to put the spot light on a material, Stainless...

The increasing number of migrant workers from developing regions to developed countries, which encourages economic improvement in both countries of origin and destination countries, has dominated migration studies by economic and development approaches. The impact of the transnational migration of migrant...

Background: The heart ejects in the central elastic arteries. No previous study addressed the question whether ECG voltages are more closely associated with central than with peripheral blood pressure (BP). Methods: Using the oscillometric Mobil-O-Graph 24 h PWA monitor, we measured brachial, central...

Purpose: Erectile dysfunction (ED) confers an independent risk for cardiovascular events and total mortality. Central pressures and wave reflection indices independently predict cardiovascular events. Aim of this study is to investigate whether central haemodynamics predict major adverse cardiovascular...

Background: Recent studies showing an inverse association between estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a microvascular trait, and inactive desphospho-uncarboxylated matrix Gla protein (dp-ucMGP) support the hypothesis that after vitamin K dependent activation MGP is renoprotective, but were limited...

Central obesity is an important cause of cardiovascular disease. It’s well-known that aortic pulse wave velocity (aoPWV) is a strong predictor of cardiovascular events. However the potential correlation between fat accumulation and increased arterial stiffness is poorly investigated. The aim of this...

One of the actors managing national quality infrastructure in Indonesia is accredited calibration laboratory that regulates the strategic role of facilitating trade activities. Metrological traceability of accredited calibration laboratory is an inherent entity, which determines the validity of calibration...

Background: The urinary proteomic classifier CKD273 has been found to predict diabetic nephropathy development in advance of microalbuminuria. Whether it is also a determinant of mortality and cardiovascular disease in patients with established albuminuria is unknown. Methods: We studied 155 subjects...

Background: Relative (represented by pulsatility) as well as absolute (pulse pressure) changes of central blood pressure (BP) were shown to predict cardiovascular (CV) complications in coronary patients. However, the influence of diabetes (a major CV risk factor) on the values of BP-derived indices is...

Flood is a perennial problem in the state of Bihar, India with devastating impact on the livelihood of people. In spite of the government’s measures of flood mitigation, households continue to live with sufferings on account of severe damage to their material and non-material assets. In this background,...

In this paper, a method for multi-attribute decision making under uncertainty is proposed, the uncertainty is represented by certitude structure. In fact, there are both quantitative and qualitative attributes with different representation in multi-attribute decision making under uncertainty, so the...

We introduce a (2+1)-dimensional extension of the 1-dimensional Toda lattice hierar- chy. The hierarchy is given by two different formulations. For the first formulation, we obtain the bilinear identity for the ? -functions and construct explicit solutions ex- pressed by Wronski determinants. For the...

The traditional actuarial model of catastrophe insurance is too theoretical. In many cases, it is of no avail. In this paper, we suggest a discrete model of catastrophe insurance to calculate the expected losses. We successfully applied it to calculate the premium rate of the typhoon in Fujian Province,...

Tradable credit as a new type of toll has the advantages of optimizing the transportation system, changing travel time and relieving congestion pressure, and has received much attention in recent years for research. The economic cost is defined as a fixed percentage of the transaction ratio, and under...

These days, an increasing number of Chinese online novels are being translated and disseminated, gradually entering the Western world, such as Douluo Continent, which thanks to the commonality between Chinese and Western literature, whereas the process also contains certain areas that still need to be...

In 1990, Mongolia experienced a volatile change in the social, political, and economic aspects of its society. In particular, inequality, poverty, and unemployment increased exponentially and the differences in development between urban and rural areas increased sharply. During this period population...

Purchasing halal food products is not necessarily related to the trust and loyalty of consumers of social media users in Indonesia. However, the increase in public awareness in selecting halal products will certainly influence consumers to purchase halal products. Few studies examine the relationship...

In recent years, Wang Anyi’s desire narratives and the private writing of the 1990s have attracted the attention of many scholars in the field of feminism. This paper summarizes the relevant research results in the current academic field in terms of the background, causes and evaluation. At the same...

Social media has been part of a human’s daily life that usually becomes one of the communication tools in this social environment. Social media has changed the traditional architectural design process; people will know, hear, and learn from online technology. Nowadays, a design project cannot just focus...

A non-isospectral linear problem for an integrable 2+1 generalization of the non linear Schrödinger equation, which includes dispersive terms of third and fourth order, is presented. The classical symmetries of the Lax pair and the related reductions are carefully studied. We obtain several reductions...

In this paper we consider a semi-classical variation of the weight related to the q-Laguerre polynomials and study their recurrence coefficients. In particular, we obtain a second degree second order discrete equation which in particular cases can be reduced to either the qPV or the qPIII equation.

Nanocomposites films of (PANI-CSA)/(Co3O4 NPs) with (1, 3, 6, and 12 wt.%) of Co3O4 NPs were deposited on ITO-glass substrates using the electrochemical polymerization method. The optical properties and parameters of the nanocomposites films were investigated and determined through experimental UV-Vis...

Consider G = (V, E) as a finite, simple, connected graph with vertex set V and edge set E. G is said to be a decomposable graph if there exists a collection of subgraphs of G, say ℋ = {Hi|1 ≤ i ≤n} such that for every i ≠ j, Hi is isomorphic to Hj, ∪ i=1n Hi = G and should satisfy that E(Hi) ∩ E(Hj)...

Esperanto is a relatively ideal artificial language compared to others, for the reason that it fuses the characteristics of languages from different countries, and is easy to learn. It has developed for more than a century. As a result, it has formed a rigorous grammatical and lexical system. However,...

Kamasan craft is one of Indonesia’s cultural treasures. Various crafts from various regional backgrounds give birth to a community with its own specifications and qualities. The focus of this research is to explain the process of reconstructing kamasan craft based on creative industries. Reconstruction...

The article first introduces the development history of the dual-clutch automatic transmission (DCT), then analyzes the structure and working principle of the DCT, compares and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of the DCT and other automatic transmissions, and discusses the key technologies in...

The features such as nonlinearity, instability and uncertainty etc. of chaos theory show a great relevance to the study of intercultural communication. Therefore, analyzing intercultural communication under the guidance of chaos theory not only shed light on communication barriers, language change, cultural...

Veteran Doctors of TCM are the outstanding delegates of contemporary Chinese medicine clinical and technological level conclude and refine lively and practical experience which is not only scientific but also practical to enrich and develop TCM academic and improve the level of clinical. Overall objectives...

The seismic signal is non-stationary signal, which needs to be introduced into the time frequency conversion method. EPAH is provided in this paper, which uses HHT to deal with the non-stationary seismic signal. The advantage of HHT using in processing non-stationary seismic signal is utilized in EPAH....

According to the analysis of runway excursions incident data of China and world runway excursions prevention experience, this article present the importance of runway excursions prevention work in today's civil aviation safety management. Base on the analysis of domestic runway excursions incident data,...

This paper is focused on how principles from Industry 4.0 in manufacturing can be used in operation and maintenance of subsea production systems. The primary purpose and goal of the paper is to investigate the application of Smart Maintenance to achieve high level of safety, availability and profit in...

In this letter, we proposes and experimentally demonstrates an optical layer modulation format conversion technique from quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) to 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based flexible optical wavelength division multiplex...

Environmental pollution, climate change, energy tension is now the global prominent question, the development and utilization of renewable energy to become one of the key measures to solve these problems. Wind power acts as a kind of safety, environmental protection, clean, abundant renewable energy...

The year 2015 has witnessed the booming of NEEQ (National Equities Exchange and Quotations). The advantages of listing in the NEEQ, such as the policy support and the improvement of stock liquidity have stimulated the enthusiasm of enterprises in a large extent. Driven by different parties, the NEEQ...

The objective of this case study is to explore the situations of supervision practices between members of school management teams and teachers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conceptual framework developed on the “Model of Supervisory Practice” by Pajak (1990), then, the questionnaires were set up with...

Training is designed to improve the staff’s operational skills and overall quality. It can enhance the efficiency and the overall capacity of enterprises. The risks and benefits of training are co-existent. As the main risk bearers, enterprises should correctly understand the training, and actively deal...

It’s well known, biased estimation can effectively reduce the steady-state mean-square error (MSE), as for system identification with a low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR).A new biased normalized least-mean-squares (NLMS) algorithm is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm the optimal solution...

In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in applying orthogonal frequency division maltiplexing (OFDM) in wireless systems because of its various advantages in lessening the severe effects of frequency selective fading. This paper firstly introduces the basic principle of OFDM, then analyses...

As the WEB information inquiry system application is getting wider and its requirements are getting more complicated this paper proposes a design framework for reusable WEB information inquiry system. It adopts the advanced and mature design methods and technologies sufficiently, such as XML, XSLT, Web...

Face recognition is an ever changing and evolving domain for research. However, the application of face recognition is still new and not commonly used in this country as opposed to other biometric identifications. This paper seeks to find out the effectiveness and weaknesses of face recognition approach...

this paper has studied electromagnetic waves in planar dielectric waveguide containing left-handed medium propagate characteristics,the mode of transmission with left-hand materials is analyzed theoretically.Through the analysis of TE and TM wave in the transmission characteristics of planar dielectric...

China have implanted much beneficial policies towards small businesses in the past five years. However, there is never convincing empirical data presented about their effectiveness. In viewing the subject, this paper adopted a panel data from 2011 covering 31 provinces of China. The data used in this...

The Chinese house price was raised rapid and sustain, some scholars thought that the reason is the non-elasticity demand, it is said that the action of collusion of the firms is the maximum of profit. To test if the reason of collusion of housing firms in China was they faced to a non-elasticity demand,...

The Hardware and software system of fault injection based on the hardware in the loop simulation was designed, and it was used to testability verification of aircraft fuel control system; Based on the hardware in the loop simulation and testability analysis technology, the system design of fault injection...

The Frontier of the Low Volga region has a special history that differs it from similar Frontier in Russia or for example in USA. The conquest of the Astrakhan Khanate by Muscovy changed geopolitical situation in the region but brought no changes to interethnic and gender relations. Constant migration...

In this study, tensile, inter-granular corrosion, and impacting tests were carried out to investigate the mechanical property characteristics of X65MO-316Lclad hot rolled coil trial produced by 2250mm hot continuous rolling line, which is applied for the manufacture of offshore line pipe. SEM (Scanning...

Instruments development of medical diagnosis and treatment is a medico engineering cooperation subject. To help the student major in medico engineering cooperation such as biomedical engineering understand and dispose mechanics questions, This paper use medical projects as training program in the engineering...

In this paper, researchers establish and verify a method on the determination of B2O3 in boron nitride through volumetric titration. Three criteria including proportionable system error, extra system error and statistics error are investigated in detail. The results show that, this method meets the requirements...

Subcritical 1, 1, 1, 2-tetrafluoroethane (R134a) extraction is a modern extraction technology in natural product perpartion. The optimized process of extracting astaxanthin from Antarctic kill (Euphausia superba) through subcritical R134a was systematically investigated in this work with respect to the...