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This study examines the application of machine learning guided hedging strategies in index exchange-traded fund (ETF) investing, focusing on Indian retail investors. Using NIFTYBEES, the country’s first and most liquid ETF tracking the NIFTY 50 and volatility signals from India VIX, we evaluate whether...

Aim: Mechanisms through which SGLT-2 inhibitors achieve cardiovascular and renal protection are still unknown. We investigated whether dapagliflozin modulates Na and water balance and systemic and renal vascular parameters like endothelial function, arterial stiffness and renal vasodilating capacity. Methods:...

Purpose/Background/Objective: Arterial stiffness and aortic hemodynamics are independent predictors of adverse cardiovascular events. Indications for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) are increasing in number and Aortic Valve Calcifications (AVC) are an important prognostic factor of TAVI....

Background: Individualized weighing of the risk-benefit of anticoagulation is recommended in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) that have low established risk scores or, conversely, are at increased risk for bleeding1. Parameters of arterial stiffness and wave reflection could improve risk stratification,...

Background: Pulse waveforms are modified as they propagate along the arterial tree. Small differences in the arterial pathways from the heart to the left and right brachial artery may impact pulse waveform analysis (PWA) for the purpose of hemodynamic assessment. The VaSera VS-1500AU (Fukuda Denshi)...

Introduction: Higher aortic stiffness and central blood pressure (BP) are associated with reduced cognitive performance in older adults. Cognitive performance tends to be higher in older women compared with older men, unexplained by differences in years of formal education and/or presence of atherosclerotic...

We investigate the parametric maximum likelihood estimator for truncated data when the truncation value is different according to the observed individual or item. We extend Lehmann’s proof (1983) of the asymptotic properties of the parametric maximum likelihood estimator in the case of independent nonidentically...

Exorbitant computation cost hinders the practical application of recommendation algorithm, especially in time-critical application scenario. Although experiments show that recommendation algorithm based on an integrated diffusion on user-item-tag tripartite graphs can significantly improve accuracy,...

Mukerjee (1979) introduced structure (k) property of a factorial design. In this article, we introduce structure (k1), structure (k2) and structure (k1k2) properties of a factorial design. We establish properties of each of these structure designs in terms of the incidence and characteristic matrices...

The Einstein field equations for several cosmological models reduce to polynomial systems of ordinary differential equations. In this paper we shall concentrate our attention to the spatially homogeneous diagonal G2 cosmologies. By using Darboux's theory in order to study ordinary differential equations...

Hypertension is associated with endothelial dysfunction and increased cardiovascular risk. Caveolin-1 regulates nitric oxide(NO) signaling by modulating endothelial nitric oxide synthase(eNOS). The purpose of this study was to examine whether HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor improves impaired endothelial...

Background: The measurement of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is useful to predict storke and cardiovascular events in hypetensive patients as our previous cohort study Non-invasive Atheroslerotic evaluation in Hypertension (NOAH) sutdy. As the cfPWV is useful, but not easy to measure, it...

Background: Arterial stiffness has been known as an independent contributory factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is widely accepted as a simple non-invasive measure of arterial stiffness. The aim of our study was to test whether abnormal PWV could identify patients with...

Background: Many reports have shown that brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV) has an effect on evaluation of atherosclerotic change and would be one of the prognostic factors for hypertension (HT). It has been reported that chronic kidney disease (CKD) would influence the prognosis of HT or diabetes...

The first purpose of architecture is to create a habitat that fulfills society or individuals’ needs for places to work and live. It is a manifestation and expression of the cultural values of the society with which it interacts. Architectural design and perception have changed dramatically over the...

The integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries has become an innovative path for China to promote rural revitalization. This paper focuses on the main problems of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries in China, including imperfect government governance, insufficient...

In Ad Hoc network, AODV routing protocol is an on-demand routing protocol of relative maturity and extensive application. Due to the fact that AODV routing protocol doesn’t consider the residual energy and the load situation of the nodes when choosing routes, its efficiency declines sharply in the case...

In this paper, an ADaptive Immune Algorithm (ADIA) based on the artificial immune system (AIS) is proposed for the dependent task scheduling on Network on Chip (NoC). We increase the diversity of population of AIS in two ways, and improve the output result of scheduling. On one hand, new calculation...

The reinforcement learning (RL) model has been very successful in behavioural sciences, artificial intelligence and neuro- science. Despite its fruitfulness in many simple situations, the RL model does not always cope well with real life situations involving a large space of possible world states or...

Recently, various types of aircraft are flying in the sky. Especially, Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle(UAV) called drones can operate with from aerial photography to unmanned delivery thus, utilization is very high. Drones are classified as Quad, Hexa and Octa copter depending on the number of rotor. However...

Collision detection is a fundamental problem in mechanical, robotic, structural, and geotechnical engineering. A new algorithm base on Contact Theory to solve accurate contact problem is proposed in this paper. In this method, two polygons (A and B) and a reference point are defined, where the reference...

The aging of population has become a common and urgent issue that needs to be solved by the human beings. The world has reached a consensus that we should help the elderly people adapt to the social transformation and integrate into the society, strengthen their self-esteem, and develop their potentials...

We investigate the possible nonlinear causality relationships between crude oil price and RMB exchange rate which usually ignored by previous researches which are mainly focused on the traditional linear side. As shown in many researches recently, the nonlinear structure of energy price has been widely...

Closed frequent itemset is a perfect representation of frequent itemset. This paper tries to find an efficient solution to mine the closed frequent itemsets over databases by sampling technique. We employ the SCFI tree to record the data synopsis of the frequent itemsets, and propose an efficient algorithm...

Propelling with the reform of applied undergraduate teaching in non-military colleges and universities, innovation for traditional artistic design projects and teaching system is vital. Combined with carrying out the reform of applied undergraduate teaching mode, we analyzed the teaching status of design...

The law of demand is the most important basic theory in economics. But lots of scholars have different opinions on this theory, and the controversy of the law of demand that some scholars believe that there is a positive correlation between demand and price, but other scholars insist that demand and...

With the fast and bursting development of finance science and computer technology and in the era of big data and the Internet, Internet companies have adequate advantages of data to step into the financial industry. Data analysis and mining techniques have helped us build more robust and feasible systems...

In traditional erasure codes, all the redundant data are created and uploaded to the different storage nodes by a unique source node. However, such a source node may have limited communication and computation capabilities, which constrain the storage process throughput. In-network redundancy generation...

Nowadays, learning English becomes a necessity to support the progress of a nation. Finding the best learning strategy becomes a challenge that needs to be answered by English researchers and teachers. Investigating English language teaching and learning in regular schools is very common. This study...

SQL injection attacks have been a major security threat to web applications for many years. Detection of SQL injection attacks has been a great challenge to researchers due to its diversity and complexity. In this paper, we present a novel approach to detect SQL injection attacks based on text analysis....

The purpose of this study is to find out how accountants and non-accountants interpret earnings, and what the reality behind the interpretation. A reality in the accounting profession and students of SMK Akuntansi establish a perception that profit is matching between income and expense (syntactic)....

This paper focuses on the issue of leaders and financial risks in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Business leaders who are often the managers or owners of small enterprises are the first to face the risk and to suffer most severely from their outcomes. Thence, they need to be aware of all possible...

Peace and different challenges we are currently facing in Europe, the need for a coordinated political European effort for promoting public policies and allocating appropriate resources in supporting a refreshed culture of peace inside and outside Europe represent the essence of this article. War and...

Objective: Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is an oncofetal antigen during hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) development which could lead to weak reproducible antitumor immunity, and may act as a target for cancer therapy. Therefore, it is imperative to enhance its immunogenicity and develop therapeutic vaccines...

In this paper we propose a diagnosis system which is based on the knowledge on the systems under diagnoses and the past diagnosis experiences. With the using of uncertain reasoning in the diagnosis system, it can give the most possible solution for the diagnosis system problems which can not be provided...

This paper regarded the quality management level of regional pillar industries as the average level of regional quality, and selected the quality level of representative seven provinces of China as samples. By drawing scatter diagram and doing the fitting analysis, we ultimately find out the relation...

Central Pulse Pressure (CPP) and Aortic Pulse Wave Velocity (aPWV) share a positive relationship with cerebral pulsatility and are associated with cerebrovascular disorders including stroke. Our aim was to examine the influence of Augmentation Index (AIx) upon this relationship, first by using a cross...

Today, higher education institutions in Russia need teaching staff who are competent in matters of scientific training and counselling students and young scientists. The necessity of changes in the system of professional training of teachers, researchers, consultants, and experts is one of the important...

The word “civilization” comes from the Latin word “civilis” and literally means “civil”, “state”. But most often this concept is used in a broader sense and means a historical stage in the evolution of society, when it reaches a certain level of development. One of the criteria of civilization is writing,...

As the number of online financial transactions increases, the problem of credit card fraud detection has become quite urgent. Machine learning methods, including supervised and unsupervised approaches, have been proven to be effective to detect fraudulent activities. In our previous work presented at...

Nowadays, new technology is growing fast. Shopping and ordering food via the Internet becomes popular in daily life. Especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, the food delivery market was growing bigger and bigger. This paper aims to study the possibility of the food delivery industry becoming monopolized....

Background: Fall injuries are common causes of dangerous inpatient conditions and should be prevented in neurosurgery inpatient wards. An adequate survey and evaluation of risk factors for falls is therefore crucial for the development of prevention and intervention strategies in inpatient care. Purpose:...

We study the discrete Painlevé equations associated to the E7(1) affine Weyl group which can be obtained by the implementation of a special limits of E8(1)-associated equations. This study is motivated by the existence of two E7(1)-associated discrete both having a double ternary dependence in their...

Social skills are still a serious problem for children with ADHD in dealing with others. Recently, we found some reports showing that school-based interventions were successful in overcoming social skills problems in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. In this study, we develop a school-based social...

Tourism villages and tourism are two things that cannot be separated. Tourism itself has made a significant contribution to the Indonesian economy. This potential is substantial, considering that developing Indonesian tourism trends are directed at developing tourist villages. Villages in Indonesia have...

Complex systems generally refer to intelligent and adaptive systems, whose internal relations are complex and undetectable, and can only be analyzed through signals of certain dimensions. The economic system is such a complex system, and the global economy is a complex system containing many sub-systems...

Drawing on the governmental policies, lack of health facilities and infrastructure, the threat of economic crisis, increasing poverty rate, high inflation, and several issues in Indonesia, we investigate the role of women-headed families during the pandemic of Covid-19. Since Covid-19 entered Indonesia...

This study delves into the role of educational psychologists in Mongolia, with a specific focus on their experiences in schools during the academic year 2022-2023. UNESCO’s definition of quality education underscores the importance of holistic student development, including their emotional and psychological...

With the development of society, the functions of shoes are becoming increasingly diverse, and there is also various professional differentiation. Due to the high performance requirements for shoes, special sports shoes have emerged with the progress of time. Basketball shoes are one type of sports shoe...

Composite materials are essential in the automotive and aerospace industries due to their abiity to reduce weight and offer cost competitiveness. Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) nanocomposites are particularly well-suited for these applications. In this study, we explore the potential of pandanus tectorius,...