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The pyramid construction was formed by different K3PO4 concentrations and texturing time. The pyramid microstructure evolution on monocrystalline silicon surface has been studied. Researchers found that the pyramid is approximately 1.3 m in mean size and almost covered the silicon surface with 6wt% K3PO4...

Moore's interval arithmetic always provides the same results of arithmetic operations, e.g. [1, 3]+ [5, 9]= [6, 12]. But in real life problems, the operation result can be different, e.g. equal to [4, 7]. Therefore, real problems require more advanced arithmetic. The paper presents (on example of the...

Differences in physiological, physical, and technical demands of the college basketball training related to the number of players, court size, and work-to-rest ratios are not well characterized. A controlled trial was conducted to compare the influence of number of players (2v2/4v4), court size (half/full...

Background: Arterial stiffness as measured by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) has been shown to predict cardiovascular events [1]. However, PWV is blood pressure (BP) dependent [2,3] leading to the development of cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) as a more blood pressure-independent index...

The information management of education is inseparable from the scientific and universal education evaluation index system. On the basis of analyzing the decisive influence of teachers and students on teaching quality and teaching effect of higher vocational colleges, this study constructs a teaching...

The implementation of green hospitality business practices also pays attention to the balance of environmental; economic; and social life. So; maintaining environmentally friendly cultural tourism is important for hotel management. The research objective is to analyze the implementation of green hospitality...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is a disease characterized by macro and microvascular complications, particularly, coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and nephropathy [1–4]. The green tea extract has shown an anti-inflammatory effect (2), so this nutraceutical...

This study aims to determine the quality of life and the level of physical activity of sports education students at Surabaya State University during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is a quantitative descriptive study with a survey method. The population is all sports education students in sports...

The maintenance of facilities still faces many obstacles, one of which is because complaints about damaged or missing main and supporting facilities are not immediately responded to and replaced. It can reduce or even interfere with work productivity. This research aims to produce an effective and efficient...

In order to realize the utilization of kinetic energy of micro natural energy, a kind of rotary booster is proposed. Through adjusting the length ratio at both ends of the lever, the force value is magnified by times and the rectilinear direction of force is transformed to the rotary direction with lever-type...

The needs of lecturers and educational staff need to be analyzed and should be stated in the strategic plan (Renstra) of Vocational human resources every 5 years. Currently, Vocational does not have a Strategic Plan for the next 5 years. This research is expected to be the basis for the preparation of...

Introduction: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have autonomic dysfunction, which impacts heart rate and blood pressure regulation. Initial evidence also suggests an impaired ability to peripherally vasoconstrict during lower body negative pressure (LBNP). Given the relationship between vessel caliber...

Although in situ denitrification has been well documented in landfills, few studies have paid attention on the denitrifier in landfills who dominates this process. In this study, a strain P-1-5 was isolated from landfill by Pseudomonas selecting medium and identified as Pseudomonas stutzeri by 16S rRNA...

The handwritten number recognition algorithm based on BP-bagging generates the basic classification by BP network and generates multiple classifiers by bagging. The algorithm treats a handwritten character as an image. By scanning the images, 25 dimension features are extracted, and then compresses the...

Introduction: Pressure waveshape derived parameters such as the augmentation index are related to unfavourable cardiovascular events [1]. Wave reflections determine wave shape [2], however, several findings seem to contradict the current views. Current view. The arterial system can be modelled by a tube...

The 3/2 unidirectional glass fiber metal laminates were developed using LY12-M aluminum alloy and HS2 high strength glass fiber prepreg by the hot pressing and curing progress. The fatigue crack propagation tests of LY12-M aluminum alloy plates and unidirectional glass fiber reinforced aluminum laminates...

Background: Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) has long been considered a measure of arterial stiffness independent of short-term changes in blood pressure (BP) [1]. Recently and theoretically, CAVI was found to be partially affected by actual BP, thus, a novel BP-corrected index, CAVI0, was proposed...

Purpose: To provide a comprehensive assessment of aortic stiffness, through both local and regional distensibility and pulse wave velocity (PWV), in patients with either a tricuspid (TAV) or bicuspid (BAV) aortic valve and/or aortic dilation using MRI. Methods: We included 18 patients with TAV and dilated...

We apply the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method into evaluating college coaches’ competitive performance standards. Then focusing on men’s hockey, we give the top 5 college hockey coaches through the model.

This study aims to determine the cooperative formation service system that is applied in the Makassar City Cooperatives and UKM Office. To achieve this goal the researcher determined 5 (five) informants. This type of research and the approach used is qualitative descriptive by using data collection techniques...

Background: External compression using pneumatic cuff inflation is a well-established model used to induce incremental changes in proximal retrograde flow and shear [1]. The mechanisms behind distal cuff compression leading to proximal increase in retrograde shear are not clear. We hypothesized that...

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...

The Ying Shan formation carbonate systems is identified 11 kinds of sequence boundary characteristics ,generalized 3 genetic types of sequence boundary and divided into 5 third-order sequence(Sq1-Sq5) to establish sequence stratigraphic framework in Ying Shan formation , Tarim Basin by the integrated...

This study aims to increase the effectiveness of using interactive multimedia based on universal learning design to improve traditional dance skills in deaf students. This research design uses a quantitative research approach. The research design used a one-group pre-test-post-test design. The population...

Background: Several so-called loop-based methods, have been proposed to estimate local pulse wave velocity (PWV). However, previous studies have demonstrated inaccuracies in local PWV-estimates due to presence of reflections, which led to the proposition of a frequency-domain correction method [1]. The...

China’s real estate has always been a very important driving force of China’s economy. The proportion of real estate investment in GDP increased from 5% in 1995 to more than 13% in 2019, of which more than 70% was used for residential construction. Real estate not only accounts for 23% of household consumption...

The leadership of travel agents needs to respond to the crisis of the impact of Covid-19 in maintaining the travel business. This requires the professional ability of the company’s leadership to maintain the business. Some travel agents who can survive are also trying to find strategies to create positive...

In 2011, the Ministry of Education approved 5 private colleges and universities including Beijing City College to set up master's program, which is a substantial breakthrough in the development of higher education. After over 30 years of construction and development, a number of famous schools with a...

Purpose: Referral to surgery in thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAA) is based on maximal diameter (Dmax) measured from imaging, which is known to have a high diagnosis failure rate. In addition to geometry, 4D flow MRI provides a comprehensive time-resolved flow imaging. Thus, our aim was to evaluate the...

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...

In the previous papers, we introduced a general principle for an introduction of new intermediate quantifiers and proved that generalized square of opposition works with them accordingly. This paper is devoted to interpretation of an intermediate quantifier “Many” and to analysis of generalized 5-square...

The purpose of this research is to describe the ethics of teacher’s speech acts of locution, illocution, and perlocution for Indonesian language subject at eighth grade students of SMP Negeri 2 Palopo. The research subjects are the eighth grade students and Indonesian language teacher of SMP Negeri 2...

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...

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...

Based on the metaphor of specialization and cooperation in hierarchical social organization, a new particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, hierarchical subpopulation PSO (HS-PSO), was proposed. In HS-PSO, the entire population is divided into several subpopulations which are arranged in a hierarchy....

Background: Accurate measurement of cuff systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) is contingent on the assumption of oscillometric MAP being accurate. If MAP is inaccurate this is likely to impact the accuracy of cuff SBP and DBP, but this has never been determined and was the aim of the study. Methods:...

This research aims to find the impact of the pandemic on language development. This research was conducted at SDS Muhammadiyah Pomalaa, Kolaka. The subjects of this study were 5th grade students, where 15 students were used for the diagnostic test instrument and after that the researcher selected 5 students...

Measurement of “unattended” blood pressure (BP) may reduce or eliminate the “white coat effect”. Despite the possible advantages of this approach for BP measurement, only few studies analysed the relationship between unattended BP and cardiovascular events or with hypertension mediated organ damage (HMOD)....

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...

Diuridine P2, P3- (dihalo) methylenetetraphosphates (Up2CF2p2U and Up2CBr2p2U) were synthesized via the activation of P (V) –N bond. The key uridine 5 -phosphoropiperidate intermediate was obtained via a redox condensation method.

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,...

Gene mutations play an important role in the occurrence and development of tumors. The research on tumors at the gene level is more and more in-depth, especially in the mechanism of tumorigenesis and antitumor therapy. Common oncogenes are essential for the survival of all cells (not only tumor cells)....

This evaluation study aims to determine the profile of the implementation of learning programs in PNB in terms of components: 1) context, 2) input, 3) process, 4) products, and 5) linkages of learning program products with context, input and process components. The study was conducted at the Bali State...

The low trust of the majority of the community towards the independent institutions of the General Election of the Regional Head threatens the growth of democratic governance. This study aims to describe and analyze the performance accountability of the Election Supervisory Committee of 2015 in Gorontalo...

The article was to determine the effect of principal leadership and teacher work motivation on teacher work performance at MTS Negeri 1 Musi Banyuasin. This research was quantitative. The researcher used random sampling technique of 43 teachers as sample research at MTS Negeri 1 Musi Banyuasin. Data...

During a pandemic, mobility constraints policies, limiting children’s physical activity, physical games, and educational activities to the digital space. They prefer to play using the gadget of the play together with a friend - a friend environment neighborhood. Children who spend their time with gadgets...

Aim: Patients with HIV have increased cardiovascular risk and pulmonary defects. We investigated the association between impaired pulmonary function (IPF) and arterial stiffening measured by the cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) in Ghanaian HIV patients. Method: Spirometry was used to measure pulmonary...

There are several psychological problems that arise during Learning From Home (LFH), where students experience anxiety and academic stress related to online lectures. The research objective was to develop an online counselling website to provide psychological assistance during the Learning From Home...