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Introduction Although pulse wave velocity (PWV), a proxy of arterial stiffness, is a strong predictor of cardiovascular complications, it is confounded by blood pressure (BP) and heart rate at the time of examination. Furthermore, establishing whether an artery is stiffened or not does not inform a...

In 4,759 participants from the Whitehall II study, we examined the impact of glycaemic history on aortic stiffening. Assessment of aortic stiffness by carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) was performed twice with a 4 year interval (2007–2009 and 2012–2013). At the first aortic stiffness assessment...

Folklore is one of the cultural products of the Indonesian people which is believed to be able to provide positive values to strengthen local wisdom. The purpose of this study is to describe and explain the story of the adventures of Ajisaka and Naga Linglung, the characters, and their relationship as...

The interaction between the heart and large arteries represent a not fully understood process, which results from the integration of pressure wave generation, flow ejection, wave travel and reflection, and geometric mismatch between structures. Left ventricular (LV) mass and geometry, two independent...

Objectives: Diastolic-systolic rise time characteristics of the distension waveform distribution, i.e., mean and inhomogeneity, might be modified by wave reflections from distal plaques. The aim of this study is to investigate the association between rise time characteristics for the common carotid artery...

Clinical exercise stress testing is a common medical test performed in cardiology and exercise physiology clinics the world over. Measurement of blood pressure (BP) during testing is mandated. Whilst systolic BP should normally rise with incremental exercise, and diastolic BP remains relatively stable,...

Background: In hypertension changes in small arterial structure are characterized by an increased wall-to-lumen ratio (WLR). These adaptive processes are modulated by the renin angiotensin system. It is unclear whether direct renin inhibitors exert protective effects on small arteries in hypertensive...

The article gives the psychological assessment of corporate culture concept being perspective to ensure occupational safety and reduce the occupational risk in the construction companies. It is shown that the components of the corporate culture for Russian small and medium construction companies concern...

Chinese internet social media plays a significant role in understanding modern diffusing and teaching theories, which lead to behavior identification and conceptualization of the LGBTQ group in contemporary Chinese society. With the development of popular social media platforms, the minority of sex groups...

Material flow cost accounting (MFCA), an environmental management accounting method, is adopted to reduce the amount of wastes that result from manufacturing activities. In this paper, MFCA is introduced to study the environmental impacts of production lot-size determination by structuring simulation...

During normal operation, doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) can generate certain range of reactive power according to the requirements of the power grid. According to the active power order from power dispatching center, a kind of wind turbines scheduling solution which also suits the actual operation...

The graphical description of morphisms in rigid monoidal categories, in particular in ribbon categories, is summarized. It is illustrated with various examples of algebraic structures in such categories, like algebras, (weak) bi-algebras, Frobenius algebras, and modules and bimodules. Nakayama automorphisms...

Nonlinear systems of differential equations for E and H which are compatible with the Galilei relativity principle are proposed. It is proved that the Schrödinger equation together with the nonlinear equation of hydrodynamic type for E and H are invariant with respect to the Galilei algebra. New Poincare-invariant...

In this paper, by using q-Volkenborn integral[10], the first author[25] constructed new generating functions of the new twisted (h, q)-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers. We define higher-order twisted (h, q)-Bernoulli polynomials and numbers. Using these numbers and polynomials, we obtain new approach...

Many methods of deriving Lie point symmetries for Itˆo stochastic ordinary differential equations (SODEs) have surfaced. In the Itˆo calculus context both the formal and intuitive understanding of how to construct these symmetries has led to seemingly disparate results. The impact of Lie point symmetries...

As facial expression is an essential way to convey human's feelings, in this paper, a dynamic selection ensemble learning method is proposed to analyze their emotion automatically. A feature selection algorithm is proposed at first based on rough set and the domain oriented data driven data mining theory,...

In recent years, there has been an increased frequency and severity of natural disasters, such as typhoons, landslides, earthquakes, etc., now killing and injuring millions of people every year and causing mounting economic losses. The greater tragedy is that many of the losses due to disasters could...

Today, people mainly consider credit risks from view of powerful players. The role of the Internet in the credit risk management is not fully. In this paper, we have a comprehensive look at the credit risks, so that, suggest two concepts: binary credit risk and triad credit risk. The Internet of intelligences...

This major uses the concept of “quality first and characteristic development”, based on the national innovation driven strategy and the “double first-class” construction, deeply implements the spirit of the national education conference, adheres to the “people-oriented”, promotes the “four returns”,...

Yardlong bean is one of the important vegetable crops in Indonesia. Immature pod of yardlong bean has various colour such as green, whitish green, red and purple. Artificial cross was done between purple and whitish green pod to get F1. First filial (F1) were advanced to F5 segregating generations for...

Sexual assault cases occur frequently, and the number of victims of sexual assault continues to rise. This paper investigates the acceptability in marriage and love relationship of “non-virgins” such as women who have premarital sex and victims of sexual assault through questionnaires and analyzing relevant...

This study had two objectives. The first objective was to identify the profile of Elementary Physical Education teachers including age, teaching experience, teaching certification, formal education, training or courses that have been attended, and ownership of reference books about mini volleyball games....

The rational allocation of educational resources is an essential link in education security. Based on the data of 2013-2014 academic year of China Education tracking survey, this paper uses the data envelopment analysis method to analyze the input-output efficiency of 70 schools in the sample from the...

One of the topics in graph labeling is L(2,1) labeling which is an extension of graph labeling. Definition of L(2,1) labeling is a function that maps the set of vertices in the graph to non-negative integers such that every two vertices u, v that have a distance one must have a label with a difference...

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected human activities from various sectors, one of which is the education sector. In the face of this pandemic, educational institutions are instructed to conduct distance or limited learning. Distance learning can be done online by utilizing information...

The evolution of Chinese word meaning is an extremely complex process and scholars are unable to decide what is right in terms of its evolution patterns and details. Therefore, as a foreign Chinese teacher, in the teaching of Chinese vocabulary to foreign learners, one should pay special attention to...

With the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers and rural revitalization, China’s agriculture has experienced a rapid development stage. The development of Internet is also changing the marketing methods of agricultural products and promoting the development of rural e-commerce. As one of...

The Winter Olympic Games, held in extensive regions around the world, are the world’s largest comprehensive winter games, held every four years. Since 1994 it has been held in conjunction with the Summer Olympic Games. Since 1924, the first Winter Olympic Games have been held every four years until 2022,...

Based on the case analysis of recent accounting scandal of Luckin Coffee, the paper studies whether and how the blockchain technology would help to prevent and detect accounting fraud, using the fraud triangle model. I find that the three characteristics of the blockchain technology would help to break...

On July 24, the General Offices of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and The State Council issued a guideline on further reducing the burden of homework and off-campus training for students in compulsory education. It points out that strict regulations will be made on the approval of institutions’...

Based on the sample data of 37 European countries from 2006 to 2018, this paper conducted an empirical study on the impact of environmental regulations of host countries on China’s OFDI from the perspective of differentiated investment motivation. The findings were as follows: firstly, regarding the...

The quality of the minority personnel training is closely related to the teaching ability of college teachers. This paper firstly analyzes the restricting factors of university teachers' teaching ability. On this basis, the paper puts forward four strategies to improve the teaching ability of university...

In the Bayes method, the unknown parameters are given proper prior distribution, and the data are obtained. According to the Bayes theorem, the posterior distribution of the parameters is updated according to the data. In this paper we use Bayesian analysis and get the help of a priori information so...

Since huge power consumption of large data centers has become a crucial problem recently, power models, especially precise models, turn out to be important for service providers to learn about the application status in order to make wise decisions. In this paper, we focus on the power modeling of typical...

Breeding contaminant is one of the important pollution sources of the rural ecological environment. It is an effective way to control environmental pollution that the solid waste and wastewater generated in captive breeding is used as resource. Propose a circulation agriculture model with "planting-breeding-biogas-fertilizer"...

West Liaohe River Basin, which is known as a typical ecological vulnerable district of Northeast China, is taken as a case study in this paper. By collecting 3 period Landsat TM image of 1992,2002 and 2012, the landscape pattern figure is interpreted. Landscape sensitivity index and landscape adaptability...

Basic Japanese is an important foundation course for junior students in Japanese major. Especially Basic Japanese for freshman of Japanese affects their Japanese professional ability throughout the university period. In the process of Japanese teaching for the Japanese students, I noticed the problems...

The objective of this case study is to explore the situations of supervision practices between members of school management teams and teachers in public secondary schools in He Fei, China. The conceptual framework developed on the “Model of Supervisory Practice” by Pajak (1990); meanwhile, combined with...

This paper presents a design of softdog based on FPGA and describes hardware and software design. PC applies the CP2103 to transfers data via the USB to the FPGA device without modifying the application. The SPARTAN XC2S200 FPGA is the core of the softdog. It completes acquiring, processing and sending...

As the Internet is more and more widely used, the use of animation technology is increasingly popular. Microsoft GUI is an extension of the VB GUI, It provides a large number of writing classes and support codes and can deal with many standard Windows rogramming tasks,using VB GUI can simplify the programming...

Calcium with low charge density doped TiO2 (Ca-TiO2) mesoporous nanomaterials with high specific surface areas were successfully synthesized via a simple and effective solid-state reaction route. The properties of these nanomaterials were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), small angle X-ray scattering...

This paper firstly discusses the data storage and management of trusted platform module (TPM) system on a trusted PC, mainly including certificates and keys, platform configuration registers (PCR), and firmware program. In order to overcome the limitations of TPM defined by Trusted Computing Group (TCG)...

Nostalgia is recognized as an emotional experience that enables the integration of the past with the present. In this study, 396 undergraduate students were assigned randomly to either a nostalgia instruction group or a control group (in which they recall ordinary things). The life satisfaction and subjective...

The speed loop of the AC servo system used to apply PI control method, it makes the system vulnerable to the volatile motor parameters and load disturbances. Sliding mode control(SMC) has successfully overcome the above-mentioned defects of PI control method and is expected to be widely used in high-performance...

Graduate employability has become a growing concern for many countries. Curricula are playing a critical role in fostering graduate employability. This paper explores the student perceptions of their programs and its relevance wtih their employability skills. 1809 senior students of ten higher education...

This paper focuses on the aspect of performing acoustic analysis for the purpose of electric motors diagnostics. The measurements are performed in noisy industrial environment with the use of a dedicated acoustic camera build by ABB. The acoustic camera comprises a set of microphones arranged in a pre-defined,...

Market characteristics such as "many, small, scattered, chaotic" and others are very obvious with China's pharmaceutical enterprises. In order to change the status quo, pharmaceutical enterprises have to be with the entrepreneurial orientation and to insist on organizational learning. Based on the pharmaceutical...

With the explosion in the use of mobile technologies, more people can get m-government services. It is related to the interests of many people, so it is necessary to evaluate user satisfaction of the services. Some proposed models fail to evaluate the m-government from the public’s perspective. The purpose...

Universities and colleges are the base cultivating high-quality talents, and national finance makes significant investment. If the investment of funds and resources of stakeholders of universities is really worthy and is good for the development of universities makes the performance evaluation of universities...

With the rapid development of social economy, the audit risk arising from carrying out the audit work is gradually being paid attention by the audit agency and auditors. In this paper, trough the arising main reason analysis of the audit risk, the management system of audit agency and the audit teaching...