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Aims. We compared associations between common carotid intima-media thickness(IMT)) and coronary artery calcification(CAC)) and measures of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in 3 ethnic groups. Methods. A community-based sample of 1331 men and women (47%White European (WE), 36% South Asian (SA) and 16% African...

Background: Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) measured by B-mode ultrasound is a sensitive and non-invasive method for detection of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) and is often used as primary outcome measure in clinical trials as a surrogate marker of CVD. The purpose of the present study...

Objectives. Retinal vessel diameters are a valid tissue biomarker for cardiovascular risk assessment. We aimed to assess the acute effects of different exercise intensities on retinal vessel diameters, and whether these effects differ between seniors and young adults. Methods. In this cross-over study,...

Central blood pressure may be a better predictor of cardiovascular risk than peripheral blood pressure. The central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) can be estimated from the late systolic shoulder of the radial pulse waveform (pSBP2). We compared pSBP2 with cSBP derived by a generalized transfer function...

Objectives. Myocardial fibrosis occurs early in hypertension and plays a major role in CV disease. Our goal was to assess the mutual influence of blood pressure (BP) and cardiovascular (CV) risk factors on diffuse myocardial fibrosis, as assessed non-invasively from Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance...

Arterial stiffness, measured as aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV), and wave reflection, measured as augmentation index (AIx) are independent predictors, for total and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to compare a new device, based on oscillometric pressure curves (Arteriograph)...

Objectives. Inhomogeneities of wall characteristics may relate to plaques in a nearby vessel. The aim of the present study is to investigate the association between spatial inhomogeneities of intima-media thickness (IMT) of the common carotid artery (CCA) and plaques in the internal carotid artery. Methods....

This study aims to examine the effect of organizational culture, competence toward job satisfaction through self-efficacy. Organizational culture determines teacher comfortability at school. Perceived teacher competency specifies the level of self-efficacy. Previous studies slightly elaborate on the...

In this paper we derive some general recurrence relations between moments of progressively Type-II right censored order statistics from a general class of doubly truncated distributions, thus unifying the earlier results in this direction due to several authors.

The increasing demand for mobile learning is visibly driving educators to rethink their pedagogical theory in today’s Internet-enhanced society. This research reported and analyzed the survey results of 450 college students in Taiwan who used mobile English learning (MEL) with regards to usage frequency,...

Iris recognition is the highly trusted identification recognition technology among methods of biological recognition. In this paper, we use the back propagation algorithm to train the neural network, so as to establish the iris recognition system model. The experiment demonstrates that it has a high...

In this paper we are interested in developments of the elliptic functions of Jacobi. In particular a trigonometric expansion of the classical theta functions introduced by the author (Algebraic methods and q-special functions, C.R.M. Proceedings and Lectures Notes, A.M.S., vol 22, Providence, 1999, 53-57)...

Heisenberg motion equations in Quantum mechanics can be put into the Hamilton form. The difference between the commutator and its principal part, the Poisson bracket, can be accounted for exactly. Canonical transformations in Quantum mechanics are not, or at least not what they appear to be; their properties...

A two component vector generalization of the Sch ?afer-Wayne short pulse equation is derived. It describes propagation of ultra-short pulses in optical fibers with Kerr nonlinearity beyond the slowly varying envelope approximation and takes into account the effects of anisotropy and polarization. We...

In the present paper, a two-sided test in a family of multivariate distribution according to the Mahalanobis distance with mean vector and positive definite matrix is considered. First, a family of multivariate distribution is introduced, then using the likelihood ratio method a test statistic is computed....

A single-phase ac permanent magnet generator has been constructed by modifying a squirrel cage single-phase ac induction motor by embedding permanent magnet poles in the rotor and rewinding the armature stator windings. This single-phase ac permanent magnet generator is then used to generate electricity...

The article describes the peculiarities of assessing a special type of risks inherent in strategic oil and gas projects, namely risks, whose source is the opportunistic intentions and capabilities of stakeholders. The paper notes the role of the domestic oil and gas complex in the structure of the Russian...

The article attempts to look into the distinctive features of chamber music as a performing art in Siberia through the example of the activity of musical bands in Novosibirsk Philharmonic. The author is the first to analyse the current information about the chamber music groups in Novosibirsk Philharmonic...

The era of big data to the community more than just data becomes large, increased resources, more is to change the mindset and the consequent data mining technology continue to make breakthroughs, the rapid development of the ability to use the data. In this context, all the valuable data will soon be...

Ideological and political education of college students is influenced by "New Normal" such as diversification of social ideological trend, new media application, and integration of ideological and political education system of college students, university education and management reform as well as enhancement...

To improve the overall efficiency of modern building elevator, an active regenerative braking converter using a bidirectional Buck-Boost converter is implemented. The converter is connected in parallel to the inverter DC-bus. Energy is stored in a set of super capacitors during regeneration and it is...

Consumption capitalization theory market applications are collectively referred to as consumption value-added model, the number of merchant uses consumption value-added model application gradually increase, attracting more and more consumer attention, this paper uses SWOT analysis method, analyzing advantages...

In this study, By analyzing the existing secondary vocational education teaching mode, we find quite a few inadaptable points according to the vocational education characteristics of engineering majors. For this reason, we focus on the target of training the engineering skilled talents better, to develop...

Quotation strategy of power generation company is a new problem with the emergence of electric power market. The amount of a single transaction at least 1 million, more than 100 million in electricity market. The advantages and disadvantages of electricity generation quotation will decide enterprise's...

This paper summarizes the interpretation, characteristics and development of functional training in China and discusses its application in badminton by using the methods of literature study, logical analysis and experimentation. American athletic trainer from Attack Athletics designs dozens of training...

Reassembling of shredded paper from a collection of randomly mixed fragments is a common application of computer vision technique. It plays an irreplaceable role in several applied disciplines, such as classical forensics, archaeology, and military intelligence. In this paper we address the reassembly...

To meet the complexity of digital image processing algorithms and the development trend of the modular process, proposed multi-DSP and FPGA based digital image processing platform. Four TI's DSP of C6455 family as platform cores, and FPGA of Virtex-4 family as a system coordinated controller, achieve...

The paper mainly analyzes the status quo of idioms in Chinese and English Language Acquisition. And a comparative study is made. It then points out that in China, English idioms are not paid enough attention to by English learners in their learning process, which results in the misunderstanding of English...

The “Internet-of-things” (IOT) Engineering is an interdiscipline it involves so many courses and puts us in chaos when course choice is needed. Based on its layer architecture, this paper analyzes the curriculum policy for IOT Engineering and its correlations with other professional courses, and finally...

This paper describes a method to the problem of reconstructing regular shredded documents by similarity measure. Regular shredded document can be quantized as gray-level matrix or two-value matrix. So we can match the gray value of the edge of the shredded document, which is indicated as similarity value....

We use the number of posts of sample stocks in CSI 300 Index dated from 2009 to 2013 in the Oriental Fortune Forum to measure investor attention in Chinese stock markets and analyze the interaction between this attention and stock prices. We find that (1) stocks are held by optimistic investors in Chinese...

In this paper, the electromagnetic field, temperature field and stress field distribution of gold coated gratings were calculated to analyze the damage mechanism under ps-pulsed laser irradiation. The finite element method in time domain was used in calculation. The Maxwell's equations were used to calculate...

The recognition to element N2 is the fundamental basis determining the stability and the practicability of the mVEP-BCI systems. The feature extraction to EEG signals is the key for the accuracy on recognition of element N2. Different from the traditional down sampling feature extraction method, the...

Electronic component is an important part of electronic system or electronic circuit. Once it fails, it may lead to the system or circuit failure, and then affect the reliability of electronic equipment. This article analyses the problems of reliability selection and application control of electronic...

Black fungus is a common dish, rich in a variety of nutrients such as protein, polysaccharide, fat, amino acids, dietary fiber, in addition to a variety of mineral elements such as calcium, iron, and phosphorus and so on. In this paper, the nutrient composition of black fungus was evaluated by wild and...