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Objectives: Several studies have observed that altered endothelial function is involved in the development of stress-induced hypertension. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of chronic social stress (crowding) on endothelium-dependent relaxation (EDR) of the superior mesenteric artery...

Objectives: Endothelial dysfunction (ED) plays an important role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. In this work, we studied sex differences in the endothelium-dependent relaxation (EDR) of the femoral artery (FA) and its nitric oxide (NO)-dependent and NO-independent components in peri-pubertal (7-week-old)...

Background: Poor sleep quality has been related to poor vascular function and higher risk of cardiovascular disease in the general population. Persons with multiple sclerosis (MS) exhibit a high cardiovascular risk, and report poor sleep quality. To date, the association between sleep quality and vascular...

Background: Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) is a measure of arterial stiffness which predicts cardiovascular risk independently of blood pressure. Local PWV can be measured non-invasively in the ascending aorta of adults by means of Ultrasound (US), using successive recordings of Diameter (D) and the velocity...

Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience autonomic dysfunction, with reduced sympathetic and parasympathetic control. This results in alterations in resting heart rate and blood pressure and attenuated responses to sympathoexcitatory stimuli. It is unknown to what extent this impacts...

Background: Hypertensive humans exhibit reduced nitric oxide bioavailability and increased salt sensitivity, both of which are related to central artery stiffening. We studied the effect of 5 week NO restriction via L-NAME treatment in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and 5% salted diet in salt-sensitive...

Background: Aging is associated with increased arterial stiffness and wave reflection, which is predictive of all-cause cardiovascular (CV) mortality (1–3). Firefighters have the highest cardiovascular mortality of any occupational group (4). High levels of heat stress, physical exertion, and elevated...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the antecedent variables that affect business performance in the handicraft sector SMEs in Central Java. The population of this study are all owners of handicraft SMEs in Central Java. Samples were taken using purposive sampling method. Data were collected through...

Nowadays, the phenomenon of online video theft is emerging one after another. Many high-value videos created by video creators are obtained from the network and transmitted again, which makes the video creators suffer losses. The problem of video protection is becoming more and more urgent. Aiming at...

We scaled up a bio-inspired control architecture for the motor control and motor learning of a real modular robot. In our approach, the Locally Weighted Projection Regression algorithm (LWPR) and a cerebellar microcircuit coexist, in the form of a Unit Learning Machine. The LWPR algorithm optimizes the...

Encoding plays a key role in determining the optimization efficiency of a genetic algorithm. In the optimization of a continuous function, binary encodings are normally used due to their low coding-alphabet cardinalities. Nevertheless, from the viewpoint of building-block supply, it is remarked that...

In the current Internet system, there are many problems using anonymity of the network communication such as personal information leaks and crimes using the Internet system. This is why TCP/IP protocol used in Internet system does not have the user identification information on the communication data,...

The derivative nonlinear Schrödinger equation is shown to be locally well-posed in a class of functions analytic on a strip around the real axis. The main feature of the result is that the width of the strip does not shrink in time. To overcome the derivative loss, Kato-type smoothing results and space-time...

We exhibit a class of Dirac operators that possess Huygens' property, i.e., the support of their fundamental solutions is precisely the light cone. This class is obtained by considering the rational solutions of the modified Korteweg-de Vries hierarchy.

Information systems can be a tool for humans to store, process, and organize data. The sophistication of the information system will speed up the data processing process so that the time required by the user will be reduced compared to the manual method. The problem in this study is how to optimize research...

Teacher education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has both similarities and differences. The cooperation of teacher education in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao has gone through three stages: “one-way output” stage, “multi-directional interaction” stage and “win-win integration” stage. Throughout the...

The low level of paddy farm income is serious problem in the development of paddy farming in East Kalimantan. The results of some previous studies showed experience has ability to influence farmer income, however, limited studies discussed about geographical regions. The objectives of this study were...

In the new media era, media reports can highly influence public attitudes, and events involving celebrities usually draw great attention from the public. Besides, celebrities usually enjoy a high level of public recognition and endorse products, which is known as celebrity endorsement. Also, fandom economy,...

Social media is the right solution for the promotion of various fields in the midst of a pandemic. The same goes for marketing at universities. Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) as one of the most popular university in social media among the best private universities in Indonesia, uses the @uiiyogyakarta...

Supercapacitor offers high energy density, stability and can be build using environment-friendly material. To deepen understanding on how supercapacitor material effect its properties, this work study the effect of treatment on every component of supercapacitor. The capacitor is composed by electrodes,...

This paper examines the impact of liquidity, profitability, firm size, asset structure and capital structure on business value. From 2015 to 2018, the study’s population included numerous industries listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. Purposive sampling was used to gather the research sample—multiple...

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignant tumour of nasopharyngeal epithelium that has a unique distribution pattern. Nasopharyngeal carcinoma is not only geographically specific but also ethnically. Some ethnic groups tend to suffer NPC. Multifactorial interactions are presumed to be the cause of...

In Indonesia, Vocational Training Center consists of government institutions under the Ministry of Manpower (MoM) and private training institutions as the training providers. However, only a few Vocational Training Centers have tried pilot projects involving people with disabilities in inclusive vocational...

In China, the co-existence of various kinds of regional dialects is relatively noticeable. Since the promotion policy of Mandarin declared by the Chinese government, the amount of the speaker of Mandarin has been experiencing a tremendous increase. Therefore, the contact between Mandarin and different...

Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) technology has been gaining popularity all around the world for the last few decades. It is gradually becoming an indispensable part of people’s lives. This paper will evaluate IPT technology from two general aspects: current development statement and future development...

Cui Daorong ( - 907), born in Jingzhou in Tang Dynasty, was an influential member of Cui' family in Boling. He gave himself an alternative name "Dong-Ou Sanren" (a leisure man fond of wining). He was friendly with Si-Kong Tu, Fang Gan, and Huang Tao etc. He excelled at composing poems of four lines....

The demands for the scalable and efficient network at data centers are becoming more and more intense recently. However, there are three problems needed to be solved, i.e., the ever-increasing number of actual or virtual machines demands, effectively managing these different machines and maintaining...

The basic task of excellent engineers education mode is to cultivate the practice-oriented advanced professional personnel with innovative spirit and practical ability. The practical education is the most effective way to cultivate students' creativity. In order to enable students to have the ability...

Research on Huang Daopo is mainly focused on three main problems: hers native place, where did on earth she learn the advanced technology on cotton textile and how to implement hers pick-weaving and brocading technology. Academic circles have a lot of answers of these three questions, but they are not...

Capital account liberalization promotes the free flow of capital in the global scope, so the resources can be effectively configured. However, the frequent movement of the short-term international capital brought by this kind of opening, also led to the outbreak of financial crisis. Therefore, the thesis...

In this paper, a method of hierarchical clustering and a selection of fuzzy classification algorithms are applied successively to the data set that contains measured characteristics of folk verses collected from 104 historical parishes of Estonia. The aim of the study is to detect the groups of parishes...

This research is to discuss the effect of contextual interference and augmented feedback applied in improving golf putter skills by using literature materials, experimental research method, comparative research method and mathematical statistic, etc. It adopts the practice methods and feedback ways adapted...

in high-traffic Internet today, it is often desirable to have multiple servers that represent a single logical destination server to share the load. A typical configuration comprises multiple servers behind a load balancer that would determine which server would serve the request of a client. Such equipment...

Entrepreneurial performance is an important indicator of the success of individual entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurial behavior is an important force to promote rural economic. So researches have been focus on the entrepreneurship for a long time. On the basis of survey data we have obtained...

The text investigates the situation of Chinese middle school students in the Physical Education. According to the survey results students in 12 middle schools in China, analysize the factors which affect the teaching status of the Physical Education, and put forward a series of reasonable recommendations.

The evaluation of teaching quality is an important work for the universities. Based on the questionnaire survey about teaching quality, we adopt the factor analysis method to synthetically analyze the teaching quality evaluation indexes data, and get every factor scores and the comprehensive evaluation...

To deal with the speculation in Chinese house market which leads to the sustained and rapid rising of house price and the accumulation of bubbles, and leads to the inefficiency of resource allocation, this paper designed a robust regulator for Chinese house market through the discussion of the reason...

Based on brief introduction of the functions of three text mining software named as SAS Text Miner, VisualText, and TRS CKM, this paper comparatively analyses the three text mining software from three aspects of features embedded in data preparation, data analysis and result reporting. It is found that...

This paper presents a level based clustering routing scheme to solve these problems. There are many routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Network in the literature, while this paper studies the Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol, which is a well referred protocol for WSN, and put...

The pre tightening pressure of the length measuring wheel was optimized by response surface methodology in the self-developed NC length measure of bar system, the pre tightening pressure and external load are set as the input parameter variable, the stress of the length measuring wheel is set as an output...

UML, an important tool of OOA, is a standard modeling language which has been widely used by public. It not only can provide a graphic modeling language way to design software, but also be used in the whole system developing lifecycle. Via UML modeling promises higher software development efficiency,...

This research aimed to produce learning trajectory by using the swimming context in helping students to understand the concept of fractions and addition of fractions. The approach used was Realistic Mathematics Education, Indonesian version (PMRI). The study involved 6 fourth grade students with heterogeneous...

The article concerns the principles of translating philosophical texts which have a number of particular features. Above all, that is the use of certain specific terminological means. The chief object and the main difficulty we deal with is looking for and revealing a correct translation for the philosophical...

A delay differential equation model of paddy ecosystem was put forward to reveal the interaction among rice, weeds and inorganic fertilizer on the system. The results show that, the system exists a rice and weed extinction equilibrium, and it also exists a rice extinction or weed extinction equilibrium....

In contrast to class is Gothic novels where a suffering female protagonist plays an important role, ghost stories continuing the Gothic tradition in late 19 and early 20 c) represent men's world: female characters are either absent or mostly ambivalent. E. F. Benson's stories reviving traditional images...

Physolator is Java based physics simulation framework. Physolator supports an object oriented style for building physical models. This article describes Physolators core architecture and it explains how the framework architecture contributes to building physical simulations in a modular, object oriented...

Digital factory is based on the data of product life cycle, and according to the principle of virtual manufacturing and lean production, taking the advantage of computer simulation technology, virtual reality technology and network technology, to carry out three-dimensional simulation, analysis and optimization...