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Introduction: The ventricles accelerate and decelerate blood; the resulting disturbances propagate through the arterial system as waves. These waves contain clinically useful information: e.g. their magnitude and timing varies with cardiac performance and their speed depends on arterial stiffness. These...

An empirical research was conducted on 822 teachers from 10 vocational colleges in Jiangsu Province investigated through self-designed and revised questionnaires. Teachers have the highest professional identity in professional behavior and the lowest in professional reputation. There is a significant...

Power-tapping from ground wire is an ideal method to power on-line monitoring devices of HV overhead transmission line. And the way with bus-like power-tapping coil plays an important role for its simple engineering and excellent lightning protection performance. The key to the PTC way is whether enough...

Quantitative investment has a 50-year-history in the world and a much shorter history in China, which is about 10 years. In 1991, the securities market was established in China. Compared with traditional investment strategy, which is based on investors’ active decisions, quantitative investment is passive....

The detection of wheel sinkage has great significance for rover mobility optimization control and prevention of wheel sinking. A new wheel sinkage detection method is proposed based on planetary rovers’ wheel-soil boundary. The model of wheel sinkage calculation is built. The machine vision method is...

Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli are mainly two commensal and pathogenic human bacteria that cause skin infections in tropical regions. Flavonoids found in Soursop leaf’s have been shown to have antibacterial effects. The aim of this research was to assess the antibacterial effectiveness of...

Background and Objective: Infrared Thermal Imaging (ITI) is a noninvasive method to measure skin temperature (ST). The latter is determined by the microcirculatory blood flow and ambient temperature. Photobiostimulation has been shown to increase blood flow. The objective was to characterize the spatial...

Face detection has been well studied for many years. However, the problem of face detection in complex environments is still being studied. In complex environments, faces is often blocked and blurred. This article proposes applying YOLOv3 to face detection problems in complex environments. First, we...

This study summarized international common used indicators to measure food security, and compared two indicators, calorie intake and Food Consumption Score (FCS) based on the evidence of filed survey in 6 rural counties of west China. The results showed that the proportion of food secure households is...

Background: Calibration of carotid artery tonometry waveforms needs to account for pulse pressure augmentation [1]. Due to its location nearer to the heart, carotid pulse pressure (carPP) is about 10 mmHg lower than brachial (brachPP) [1]. In practice, perfect applanation is hard to achieve with tonometry...

Transmission pipelines carrying natural gas across long distances often work at high pressures (up to 10 MPa). The high-pressure natural gas is regulated though a throttling device, which results in much waste of pressure energy. Meanwhile, more pressure reducing stations exist the problem of no electric...

This paper uses the citespace software developed by Li Jie and Chen ChaoMei to download all the literatures from 2010 to 2021 in the web of science database with the theme of "strategic human resource management". The keywords of this topic are analyzed visually and the keyword co-occurrence...

Automotive manufacturers are facing greater demands to improve the fuel efficiency and performance of their vehicles while also reducing the overall weight. In order to meet these challenges, manufacturers are turning to alternative materials such as stainless steel and aluminium for their vehicle structures....

Background: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) reflects arterial stiffness and is an independent predictor of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. It is important to determine the effect dual therapy has on both BP and PWV. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was performed in patients with grade 1 and 2 primary...

Objective: White coat hypertension/effect (WCH/E) describes an elevated clinic blood pressure (BP) with normal daytime ambulatory BP (ABPM) values. It is not clear whether WCH/E is associated with adverse vascular risk. This study aimed to determine the relationship between WCH/E and arterial stiffness...

The aims of this research was to understand comprehensively the influence of extra feeding activities toward independence children (Experiment in student class I at SDN Pejaten Barat, South Jakarta, 2013).The method used in this study is the experimental method with Children independence as the main...

The present study is a systematic literature review research of psychological antecedents of consumer trust in consumer to consumer (C2C) e-commerce. After conducting a literature search in 5 electronic databases (ScienceDirect, ResearchGate, GoogleScholar, Garuda and Psycnet), authors found 10 articles...

Objective: International guidelines advocate conservative management of post-stroke white coat hypertension. The aims of this study were to investigate; i) does WCH/E result in increased stroke risk? and ii) is WCH/E associated with surrogate markers of cardiovascular risk? Methods: The Arterial Stiffness...

In order to solve the problem of fairness, time and effort in large-scale on-site scoring of physical and chemical experiment operation test in junior high school, this paper proposes a method based on frame adjustment and particle swarm optimization clustering, and makes a comparative application in...

This study aims to determine the differences in social skills in accelerated students before and after being given the cooperative learning method. The hypothesis this study is that there are differences in social skills in accelerated students before and after being given the cooperative learning method...

Glaucoma is a degenerative eye illness that, if left untreated, may result in permanent vision loss and blindness. If you have glaucoma, see your eye doctor often. Because early identification and treatment are essential in maintaining one’s eyesight, research into more accurate and effective detection...

This study aims to describe the character values in Javanese children’s story based on local wisdom of Magetan Regency. Character is an important aspect in education in Indonesia today. Digitalization and the flow of foreign cultures flowing like a flood have eroded the sense of patriotism, including...

Since the identification of the first batch of “specialized and special new” enterprises in 2019, China has continuously increased the cultivation of “specialized and special new” enterprises and achieved positive results. By 2022, a total of 4 batches of “specialized and special new” enterprises have...

Background: Endothelial dysfunction (ED) represents an initial step of “vascular failure” [1]; several factors affect the functionality of the endothelium. Obesity [2] and estrogen deficiency [3] are independently associated with this. The early detection of ED is essential to intervene and prevent its...

This paper takes Nezha: The Demon Child’s Sea Chaos, China's first animated film to break the 10 billion box office, as the research object, aiming to further reveal the impact of market events of leading film and television IPs on the stock price fluctuations of related listed companies. By constructing...

Introduction: Açaí-juçara is a fruit with a antioxidant content that can modify the vascular environment and attenuate the effects of obesity. Objective: To evaluate the effect of açaí-juçara on pulse pressure parameters in overweight or obese individuals. Methods: Randomized clinical trial with 23...

Taking Chinese mandarin voiceless fricatives as its research objects, this paper has collected the airflow signals from 20 speakers (10 males and 10 females) with PAS6600 to collect the speech, airflow and air-pressure signals, studying on the Peak Air Pressure (PAP), Peak Expiratory Airflow(PEA), Expiratory...

Consuming water according to your body’s daily needs is important and should be taken as a healthy lifestyle. Although it is known that consuming water has many benefits, many people still ignore this healthy lifestyle and choose to consume sugary drinks, sweet foods instead of drinking enough water....

Wellness and healthiness depend on physiology if no illness exists in the body. As a treatment either in healthy or sick state, we suggest that sauna exposure could be good for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, especially heart and brains arteries. We measured by our photoplethysmographic (PPG)...

Research the pyrolysis kinetics of eucalyptus and the absorption band and characteristic peaks of volatile pruducts under the heating rate 10?•min-1, 30?•min-1, 60?•min-1respectively. The experimental results show that eucalyptus pyrolysis process can be divided into 3 stages: moisture volatilizes stage,...

Based on information of 1000 samples provided by single nucleotide polymorphisms, analyzing the existing SNP data, using the optimized linear mixed model for data screening of correlation analysis, the coding mode of each given locus bases (A, T, C, G) are encoded into numerical encoding, with correlation...

Background: The MOMENTUM3 trial1 has revealed superiority of the novel HeartMate3 (HM3) left ventricular assist device (LVAD) compared with the HM2, with a significantly reduced occurrence of cerebrovascular accidents. Thus, cerebral autoregulation may be improved in HM3 compared with HM II patients,...

Since the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, race has become an increasingly important issue, with more people playing video games to pass the time during home quarantine. “The Last of Us 2” is a game that is popular but also very controversial in 2020. In different countries and communities worldwide, “The...

Personal qualities of college students crucially depend on the learning conditions of themselves. As an important tool for learning of college students, taking notes in classroom is one learning strategy frequently adopted by college students during their learning in class. With the rapid development...

In this work, a series of ternary rare earth complexes were synthesized with salicylidene glycine schiff base (Sal-GlyK) as anion ligand and 2,2'-bipyridine (bipy), l, 10-phenanthroline (phen) as neutral ligand. The antibacterial activities and interactions between calf thymus DNA (ct-DNA) in Tris-HCl...

Although the UK is acceptable for transgender groups. But the transgender community still faces many challenges. This paper's research question is to explore the dilemmas of transgender groups in the UK. Today, transgender groups still face a lot of discrimination and unfair treatment. This paper's...

In wealthy nations, miscarriage affects 10–25% of clinically recognized pregnancies, making it a common problem for expectant mothers. This may result in trauma, melancholy, grief, and depression, which may cause involuntary childlessness. The psychological effects of miscarriage and childlessness have...

Blood pressure is most important parameter reflecting hemodynamic factors, however it is continuously variable in 24 hours. Here, we made a non-invasive and continuous BP measurement device using a three-axis tactile force sensor. All the data was collected every 2 min for the short-term experiment,...

Background: In patients with Vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS), an abnormally low carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) may increase the risk of arterial dissection and rupture. Thus its accurate assessment by ultra–high frequency ultrasound (UHFUS), thanks to its higher spatial resolution, may...

The aim of this article was to describe the educational value contained in Tere Liye’s Selena novel, to determine the character of the characters in Tere Liye’s Selena novel, and to determine the implications of educational value and character of Tere Liye’s Selena’s novel on literary learning in High...

Introduction: Systolic blood pressure (SBP) does not always amplify from central to peripheral arteries. Individuals without SBP amplification (SBPamp) have higher aortic blood pressure (BP) despite similar brachial cuff SBP. To circumvent this discrepancy, the aim of this study was to determine if aortic...

Acute inflammation increases the risk of cardiac and cerebrovascular events, potentially associated with altered hemodynamic load. Wave reflection at the aorta and carotid artery can contribute to central hemodynamic load and provide insight into downstream changes in vascular tone. Acute inflammation...

Introduction: Arterial properties are linked to the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). Coronary blood flow is strongly and inversely related to arterial stiffness. Thus, the aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the prognostic value of PWV in high-risk patients with suspected...

After a destructive earthquake, it is of great significance for the country to effectively carry out emergency rescue, post-disaster reconstruction, and investment planning for earthquake prevention and disaster reduction with quickly, accurately, and comprehensively grasping the loss of the earthquake-stricken...

Utilizing the mechanism of HOCl-mediated cyclization of rhodamine 101 thiosemicarbazide (non-fluorescent) to rhodamine 101 oxadiazoles (fluorescent), we successfully developed a novel off-on far-red fluorescent probe (1) toward HOCl with high selectivity, great functionality at physiological pH and good...

Using Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS in short), the PM and gaseous pollutants emission in China light-duty diesel vehicle before and after installing DOC+POC under cold and hot start conditions are studied respectively. Meanwhile, the POC filtration efficiency and size distribution of both...

This study aimed to identifiy the problems faced by schools, principals, teachers in Inclusive Vocational High School, to determine the needs of inclusive Vocational High School in Yogyakarta. This research employed a descriptive method to identify teacher problems in the real context. The data gathered...

One of the key problems in risk management planning in Russian business is the widely practiced opportunism in contractual relations. Within the last 10-15 years the opportunistic contract has become one of the stable business patterns in the Russian economy. The article dedicated to the study of the...

Nine kinds of environmental estrogens including -estradiol, estrone, mestranol, ethisterone, ethinyloestradiol, diethylstilbestrol, cortisone, estriol and hydrocortisone were determined using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The determination conditions were optimized that ProntSIL 120-5-C18-ace-EPS...

Under processing condition that were the average power of 20 W, repetition frequency of 2 kHz, pulse width of 80 ns, spot diameter less than 20 m, cutting speed of 10 mm/s, we succeeded in making 300 m thick gold interconnectors for solar cell panels, by utilizing an optical fiber laser with high power...