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Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the aviation industry was revealed highly vulnerable to such a crisis, and the stock prices of worldwide airline companies all faced significant declines. The airline companies would have to adapt themselves to a world with lasting impacts from the pandemic to recover...

To observe the improvement of Schisandra and Epimedium extract (WY) on the memory ability in mice. Methods: ICR male mice were randomly divided into control group, low-, medium- and high-dose WY groups. The mice were intragastrically given the same volume of distilled water, 300 mg/kg WY, 600 mg/kg WY,...

Customer satisfaction is a key metric for determining the success of a company’s or organization’s product or service, including training providers. Assessing the participants’ satisfaction with the program is critical to improving program quality. This study aims to determine training participants’...

It is an indisputable fact that COVID-19 has hit offline traditional industries, and whether it will bring opportunities or challenges to online industries has not been evaluated in detail. Taking HUYA as the research object, this paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on game live streaming. By comparing...

Cancer remains one of the leading causes of death globally, with radiotherapy playing a pivotal role in cancer treatment. However, radiotherapy services demand substantial investments, particularly in the procurement and maintenance of Linear Accelerator (LINAC) equipment. This study evaluates the economic...

As more foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to pollution intensive industries in China, policy makers become concerned with the environmental problems causing by FDI. Because of environmental regulation in different regions can be formulated with different strength, whether or not environmental regulations...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Hypertension (HAS) represents 9.4 million deaths from all the cases of cardiovascular disease worldwide [1]. The pulse wave velocity (PWV) and some hemodynamic parameters have been associated with this outcome [2,3]. Losartan, as well as amlodipine, have shown benefits...

This research aims to conduct a comparative study on copyright as collateral in fiduciary law under Islamic law and civil law. Copyright as a form of intellectual property holds significant economic value, especially in the rapidly evolving creative industries. In Indonesia, copyright is governed by...

Automatic segmentation of retinal blood vessels from fundus images is of great importance in assessing the condition of vascular network in human eyes. The task is primary challenging due to the low contrast of images, the variety of vessels and potential pathology. Previous studies have proposed shallow...

Nine combinations of illite (0,5,10g•L-1) and cadmium (0,2.5,5mg•L-1) were set, and the hydroponics was adopted in this experiment to explore the effect of illite on the rice growth characteristics under Cd stress, including chlorophyll content, net photosynthetic rate, plant biomass, and the antioxidant...

This paper architectures the system that recognizes and controls the P to P flow on the platform that is based on the existing network software platform. It introduces a two-layer P to P flow recognition means, and it also designs and realizes the basic control of the P to P flow on the Net filter structure...

‘Peak Carbon Dioxide Emission’ and ‘Carbon Neutrality’ are the carbon emission reduction targets set by China to deal with major climate problems caused by the rise of global greenhouse gases. This paper takes carbon finance markets as the research object and selects the daily data of carbon trading...

Purpose/Background: Sarcopenia (decrease of muscle mass and function) has been linked with atherosclerosis [1]. The EWGSOP2 updated consensus, uses low muscle strength as the primary indicator of sarcopenia [2]. It is acknowledged that strength is better than mass for predicting adverse outcomes [2]....

This study aims to examine the impact of financial resources, i.e., assets, revenue, and profit on executive (board of directors and commissioner) remuneration. The data were collected from a listed company on Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2016–2020. The listed companies as research samples are those...

This research aims to study: first, the effectiveness of Indonesian Copyright Law or “UUHC” in force in relation to the growing concern of copyright piracy carried out offline and online; second, the form of protection of economic rights of creators or copyright holders. A research on the effectiveness...

Background: Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) is becoming the preferred treatment option to repair the proximal descending aorta after rupture following blunt traumatic injury. However, hemodynamic and mechanic implications of this intervention are poorly understood. Exploiting the possibilities...

Rationale and Aim: This study is aimed at identifying possible patterns of vascular wall disarray and remodeling in radial arteries of patients with fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), by means of ultrahigh frequency ultrasound (UHFUS). Methods: UHFUS scans of the radial arteries and of 30 FMD patients and...

In order to explore the information flow, we contract and analyze the Dynamic Complex-Net-Based Info-Transmission Model. Simulate the realistic information transmission network utilizing the model. Considering the characters of information transmission, we employ the SIR-Based Info-Transmission Model...

By means of analyzing the Controller of CMM and its information model in the net, this article obtains the flimsiness and requirement to defend attack of the system. This article researches the interface of communication and communication protocols in the application layer of the main Controller of CMM....

Make concrete with the granite powder-based adglutinate to take place cement. Discuss the effect of substitution amount on concrete performance. With the increase of the substitution amount to cement, the compressive strength of concrete continues to decline; When it completely replaces cement and the...

Sprue is a disease that is often found in daily activities due to infection with the fungus Candida albicans. The community uses betel leaves to treat sprue by chewing the betel leaf until it is crushed, leaving it in the mouth for a while, especially on the affected area. The chemical content of betel...

With the support of national policies, China's software industry is developing at a sustained and high speed. An accurate grasp of investment opportunities in the software industry requires the state to have a correct understanding of the intrinsic value of listed companies. In this paper, literature...

We begin the paper studying the axioms that the inclusion measure of an element in another element of a lattice and the similarity measure between two elements should satisfy. Next, we present a series of expressions of inclusion measures, ¯rst for intuitionistic values and then for intuitionistic fuzzy...

The spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in 2019 has led to a social crisis in the world. The virus’s restriction on social offline activities, as well as the virus’s psychological panic, changed human consumption behavior on products, negatively impacting the operations of businesses in a variety...

In the era of the digital economy, technology-driven innovation has become the core engine of the business model innovation for enterprises. This article uses JD.com as a case study to systematically analyze the mechanisms through which technology-driven business model innovation affects enterprise performance....

The purpose of this study to analyze he causal relationship of triple deficit hypotheis between budget deficit, current account deficit, and saving-investment gap in Indonesia. Budget deficit is a deficit that occurs when state revenue is smaller than the country's larger expenditure. Whereas the current...

The net present value of your project is the present value of the cash flows at the required rate of return compared to your initial investment. In practice, it is a method of calculating the return on investment for a project or expenditure. This paper introduces some major methods to evaluate investment...

It has been demonstrated that arterial stiffness is linked to arterial fibrosis manifested by increased collagen and other extracellular matrix synthesis in smooth muscle cells (SMC). Transmembrane receptors integrins mediating cell-cell and cell-matrix signalling pathways are involved in tissue fibrosis....

Estimation of solar radiation (SR) is important for energy plan, architectural design and solar energy systems. In China, it is necessary to explore estimating methods of SR because of the limited radiation measurement data. Based on meteorological data at 46 stations, temporal and spatial variations...

Background/Objectives: Myeloid cells are crucial for the development of vascular inflammation. Low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 8 (LRP8) or Apolipoprotein E receptor 2 (ApoER2), is expressed by macrophages, endothelial cells and platelets and has been implicated in the development of...

Background: Studies in endothelial cell cultures show that oscillating flow pattern leads to endothelial dysfunction [1]. The only factor known to contribute towards oscillatory flows is peripheral arterial conductance [2]. However, contribution of alterations in central arterial properties to oscillatory...

Geographic Information System (GIS) is a comprehensive spatial data processing technique, of which fundamental meaning, function, background and developing process are introduced in the paper. It is reviewed and emphasized that GIS has been applied to forestry industry fully and systematically in recent...

Background: Arterial stiffness (e.g., as measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV)) changes acutely with blood pressure (BP). High cfPWV at high BP could be due to structural arterial changes or acute BP effects. Various parameters have been proposed as BP-independent parameters of arterial...

Environment: It has been described that muscular arteries behaviour is different from aorta, and regional parameters like IMT, atherosclerotic plaques burden, PWV-c and endothelial function are related with age and risk factors and are powerful prognostic markers but it is not the case of local parameters...

Aiming at knowledge reasoning ability of fuzzy petri net depending on the parameter and the parameters usually obtained by specialist, an algorism based on artificial immune algorism for obtaining the optimum parameters was proposed. Firstly, the fuzzy petri net and generating rules were defined and...

Objectives: Identification of factors associated with premature vascular aging in patients with arterial hypertension (AH). Methods: The study included 61 patients (29 men, 32 women) with 1–2 grade AH without cardiovascular complications, aged 40 to 60 years, of which 28 (45.9%) had type 2 diabetes....

The manufacturers’ quick response to their market demand largely depends on whether their production logistics system is in a balance and coordination status. A simulation experiment of production logistics balance is conducted for a manufacturing enterprise in the process of processing production, using...

Purpose/Background: We previously demonstrated in both longitudinal study and meta-analysis (pooled relative-risk RR, 2.45)[1,2] that all-cause and cardiovascular mortality is significantly higher in people with diabetes foot ulceration (DFU) than with those without a foot ulcer. In this prospective...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized attendance management systems, automating processes for efficiency. However, existing face recognition attendance systems are limited to determining presence or absence, leaving a research gap in providing real-time absence notifications...

As a family of heat pipe, oscillating heat pipe (OHP) has many additional unique operating parameters. This paper examined the characteristic of temperature evolution from start-up until dry-out stage of an OHP with extra-long dimension using methanol as the working fluid. The temperature evolutions...

Through the firewall can define one of the key points to prevent invasive; monitoring network security and give the alarm in case of abnormalities, especially for the great amount of information through the removal of inspection, but also should make log register; provides network address conversion...

Background: The range of central blood pressure (BP) found in individuals with high-normal brachial BP overlaps the one found in hypertension (HTN) and normotension. As central BP is possibly a better predictor of cardiovascular (CV) disease, the aim of this study was to determine the risk associated...

The authors consider secondary socialization as a process of gradual change of ideas about the surrounding reality in the individual’s mind under the influence of some social institutions. As the state of the modern world could be characterized with the terms of information age or information society...

The widespread use and introduction of distance education have led to a large number of novel theoretical and empirical studies. The potential impact of distance learning on student motivation and academic performance is very important, especially these days due to the pandemic. Most studies have investigated...

Due to its concise, simple and unambiguous qualities, the Petri net method has become a reliable and accurate way of analyzing protocol. However, with one model conducting one point, the required models of the key points of protocol analysis, namely, the protocol performance evaluation and the protocol...

Background: The time at which reflected waves arrive at central arteries has an important influence on ventricular afterload. Current methods of estimating reflection time (RT), including zero-crossover [1], inflection-point [2], and foot methods [3], use only a single point on the pressure waveforms,...

In this paper, mechanical properties of tensile, shear and bending of 28 different kinds of spun silk fabrics for shirt were tested by using KES. Classification of those fabrics was carried out by using methods of three-group discriminance and system cluster analysis. And the differences on mechanical...

Based on the sectional data of 28 provinces in China in 2016, this paper analyzes the dynamic relationship between individual venture capital and regional technological innovation by using non-spatial linear regression model and relevant spatial model. The research shows that there is a significant positive...

In order to improve these energy problems and environmental issues, many researchers have turned their attention to renewable and clean energy sources such as solar, wind, nuclear, and so on. Due to the relatively low cost of solar energy, solar photovoltaic power generation technology has been developed...

With the continuous development of world music and music educational undertakings, orchestra has gradually appeared in various forms of musical performances; the kind of orchestral instruments also became more and more, so the design and implementation of an orchestral instruments sales management system...