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Arterial Hypertension is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Measurement of peripheral brachial blood pressure using cuff sphygmomanometry belongs to the clinical routine assessment from childhood on. Based on age and length related reference values, it is widely accepted as...

Background: Accumulation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) is one of pathophysiological processes, responsible for progressive stiffening of vessel wall. In contrast, soluble isoform of receptor for AGEs (sRAGE) act as “decoy” and physiological defense against circulating AGEs. We hypothesized...

Background: A recent study has shown that the central pressure waveform could be determined by a very small set of parameters accounting for the physical properties of the heart and the arteries [1]. Particularly, main pressure features like first systolic shoulder (P1) and systolic (P2) pressures were...

Increased arterial stiffness, a biomarker of vascular aging, is a recognized subclinical organ damage, and may thus serve as predictor of cardiovascular disease. The predictive value of arterial stiffness is higher in patients with higher baseline cardiovascular risk, such as in patients with hypertension....

The RhoA signaling pathway is a master regulator of mechanostransduction and plasticity of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) that controls arterial stiffening. The RhoA exchange factor Arhgef1 is causally involved in the development of angiotensin II-dependent hypertension. Our aim was to determine...

We are planning a prospective study in 200 patients with an abdominal artery aneurysm (AAA). Non-invasive measurements will be performed including tonometry-based pulse wave analysis (PWA) and pulse wave velocity (PWV), echocardiography, and 24-hour blood pressure measurements. This study will provide...

We introduce a five-parameter continuous model, called the McDonald log-logistic distribution, to extend the two-parameter log-logistic distribution. Some structural properties of this new distribution such as reliability measures and entropies are obtained. The model parameters are estimated by the...

Robot is designed for achieving specific task. However, robot is able to do much more things than it is expected by its own hardware. In this paper, concept of conquest oriented robot is proposed to know its availability systemati-cally and autonomously. Algorithm of conquest oriented robot and its experimental...

Verification is critical to the design of large and complex systems. SPIN is a well-known and extensively used verification tool. In this paper, we consider two tool chains, one existing, WSAT, and one introduced here, that support using SPIN to model check systems specified as Simulink Stateflow models....

Inspired by the phenomenon of bio-parasitic behavior in natural ecosystem, this paper presents a novel particle swarm optimizer named PSOPB, in which particles are composed of the host and the parasite population. In the presented algorithm, the two populations mimic facultative bio-parasitic behaviour...

Triangular intuitionistic fuzzy numbers (TIFNs) are a special kind of intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs) on a real number set. TIFNs are useful to deal with ill-known quantities in decision data and decision making problems themselves. The purpose of this paper is on developing a new ranking method of...

This paper introduces the four parameter transmuted generalized Gompertz distribution which includes the transmuted Gompertz, transmuted generalized exponential, transmuted exponential, Gompertz, generalized exponential and exponential distributions as special cases and studies its statistical properties....

In this work, we explain in what sense the generic level set of the constants of motion for the periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equation is an infinite dimensional torus on which each generalized nonlinear Schrödinger flow is reduced to straight line almost periodic motion, and describe how neighboring...

A special asymptotic solution of the Painlevé-2 equation with small parameter is stdied. This solution has a critical point t corresponding to a bifurcation phenomenon. When t t the solution oscillates very fast. We investigate the transitional layer in detail and obtain a smooth asymptotic solution,...

By use of nonlinearization method about spectral problem, a classical completely integrable system associated with the Harry-Dym (HD) hierarchy is obtained. Furthermore, the involutive solution of each equation in the HD hierarchy is presented, in particular, the involutive solution of the well-known...

In this paper, we give a proof of the existence of stationary dark soliton solutions of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with periodic inhomogeneous nonlinearity, together with an analytical example of a dark soliton.

The amount of combustible material is the primary factor which influences the occurrence and developing of fire. From analyzing the field survey data during the six months of the whole seasons of withered grass in Xilinguole, we obtained the different types grassland dynamic changing rates, which include...

In Indonesia, English becomes a compulsory subject to be taught in junior and senior high school; whereas, it is regulated by the government that English is positioned as local content in primary schools. However, several primary schools in Indonesia, particularly in South Kalimantan, still hold English...

For the reason that phones and internet have become pervasive recently, online ordering and food delivery service have become more popular. In 1994, the online ordering service for pizzas showed up, and in the 2000s, major pizza chains have mature online ordering service. This study aims to explore...

Instructing is a key factor in the quality of postgraduate education, and there are many different instruction styles. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between instruction styles and the quality of postgraduate education through an empirical investigation, so as to explore...

There needs to be public awareness in applying the rules of Islamic Shari’a that the rules are made for themselves and the surrounding community. Awareness is not only a cognitive thing but is related to the reality of behavior in the surrounding environment. Violations of Islamic Shari’a are still common...

The need to tap from the global education space has attracted the attention of stakeholders in recent times. This study, therefore, investigated the integration of the Nigerian Education System into the Global Education Space. Three research questions and one hypothesis guided the study. The study used...

Sidaguri plant is a wild and potential plant that is promoted as a good challenging medicinal plant in the future. However, information related to the diversity of these plants in Indonesia has not been widely exposed, and there are several species of this sidaguri found in Indonesia that are still unknown...

The purpose of this study is to map Padang local tax by using Klassen typology. This research is a quantitative descriptive study. The data used was obtained from Padang Regional Revenue Office for year 2015-2019. The population was all local taxes based on Law Number 28 Year 2009. The sample was selected...

Let G = (V, E) be a graph with vertex set V and edge set E. A bijection map f : E → {1,2, …, |E|} is called a local antimagic labeling if, for any two adjacent vertices u and v, they have different vertex sums, i.e. w(u) ≠ w(v), where the vertex sum w(u) = Σe ∈ E(u) f(e), and E(u) is the set of edges...

The structure of the solar power plant is given. The issues of optimization and location of objects on the ground are considered. An assessment of electricity losses on internal lines was estimated.

In the studies of TV, there are numerous researches on the tendency of visual media, but there are few studies on the variations in the TV industries between different countries. This could be a good viewpoint of observation. The UK and China are relatively representative countries in the West and the...

The transformation of technological achievements is an important task for the national economy. It transforms technological achievements into actual productivity. In this paper, the entropy method is used to take the technological achievements of Dalian, Liaoning as the research object, and the local...

The Indonesian constitution states that the state recognizes and respects indigenous peoples in Indonesia. However, various existing laws and regulations have not been able to realize this. In addition, many regulations that have not been synchronized, and overlapping provisions are also a challenge...

The covid-19 pandemic has led to different changes in the market due to changes in consumer behavior. The changes in consumer consumption behavior bring changes in business marketing strategies. The study was to examine how the current situation of the epidemic has affected the marketing sector of the...

A real-time photo printing system is an innovative "Internet Plus" project, which is different from the traditional photo film industry. Users only need to speed a short period of time to complete the photo printing. At the same time, with the help of electronic payment, such as WeChat payment, Beijing...

This paper aims to explore the features of capital structure and related financial strategy of circular economy corporates as well as their inter-relationships. The methodology adopted is obvious of some inventively combined methods, since previous researches have seldom studied this field and few conclusions...

Referring to the findings of domestic and foreign studies in customer value gap theories, this paper probes the "gap model" on the basis of the dual perspectives of enterprises and customers. This is achieved through discussing the five perception gaps of customer value between the company and its customers....

In this paper, Effect of different contents of Ce on ZK20 magnesium alloy by conventional metallographic, X-ray, SEM, XRD, analysis of Ce element exists in the form of ZK20 magnesium alloy and microstructure of action the results show that: in the experimental range (0% ~ 0.68%Ce (mass fraction)), with...

Recent years, with increasing urban population, urban traffic's pressure is increasing. Urban mass transition is in the period of rapid development. The new generation of train control system-CBTC(Communication Based Train Control)is applied to the constructions of urban mass transition. In CBTC system,...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous melatonin (MT) on photosynthetic characteristics of radish under aluminum (Al) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment: seeds were soaked with 0 (CK), 50, 100, 150 and 200 mol-L-1 concentrations of melatonin solution. The results...

With the rapid development in digital and network as the representative of modern information technology, the Internet has become a distribution center, the public opinion of the amplifier and the comprehensive national strength ideological and cultural information in the Competition. Development of...

The performance of contemporary weapon systems has been enhanced by the development of military high-tech, which makes the maneuverable warhead as a new challenge of ballistic midcourse tracking. Aiming to solve the maneuvering warhead tracking, nonlinear filter algorithm, which is specially designed...

There exist issues of fast environmental degradation, poor intelligence, and low management efficiency with the improvement of breeding rabbit scale. This paper presents the standardization breeding system of rabbit based on internet of things (IOT). This project realizes automatic precise feeding, growth...

A new training and managing model "Training-Scrum", which is based on Scrum agile principle and constructivism education theory, is introduced in this paper for college capstone courses and students' innovative projects in Electrical & Electronics. One of these projects, named "Design of Smart Car for...

Due to the continuous development of 3D scanning technology, the point cloud data is becoming more and more redundant. Storing or handling these data will consume a lot of time and computer resources. In this paper, a method for cloud data reduction based on 3D Grids is proposed. It includes searching...

Four year overseas studies and Chinese background made me be aware of the presence of many misconceptions in the understanding of Chinese business, tradi-tional culture and education. Certain the-ories related to politics or military like “thick face, black heart” and “Sun Tzu on the art of war” are...

(FNSKE) and Compensatory Negotiation Solution by Knowledge Engineering (CNSKE) are two new solution concepts to n-person cooperative games. They involve a quantitative index, called Good Deal Index (GDI), which is the matrix solution of a recurrent equation. The existence and uniqueness of the GDI entail...

Business English teaching is same with the teaching of other languages, and they both have the view of language teaching methods, at the same time it has influence on the choice and application of the method and model of business English teaching. This paper was based on the combination of theory and...

A new stereo matching approach based on first order invariant moment is proposed. First order invariant moment is utilized in our algorithm to transform the left and right images from the input space to the feature space, and the improved a simple tree structure dynamic programming ba-sed on adaptive...

A character recognition technology based on CMAC (Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller) neural network was proposed, considering the neural network with the characteristics of stability and high distinctiveness. The handwriting recognition system interface was designed and developed, which provide...

Despite its importance to tax collection and management efficiency,Grassroots tax collection is an understudied topic. This is partly attributable to the “tax collection and management predicament,” which arises because costs of tax collection and management are easier to measure than its benefits. In...

With the education informationization putting into effect in Qujing City, the contradiction between energy supply and demand of education resource sharing has become increasingly prominent. After explaining the characteristics of cloud computing, this paper analyzes the current situation and the existing...