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Pressure measured with a cuff and sphygmomanometer in the brachial artery is accepted as an important predictor of future cardiovascular (CV) events. However, recent clinical evidence suggests that central aortic pressure (CAP) provides additional information for assessing CV risk than brachial blood...

So far there is no study to measure the Poisson’s ratio of the human coronary arteries in order to verify their incompressibility regardless of being healthy or atherosclerosis. It has been reported that atherosclerosis alters the elastin content of the arterial wall which is responsible for the elastic...

Background: Water pipe (WP) tobacco smoking is gaining wide popularity among young and middle aged males and females. Aim of the work: The aim of this study was to evaluate the immediate effect of 1st pipe water smoking on brachial Flow mediated dilatation% (FMD%) and Nitrate mediated dilatation% (NMD%)...

Ageing and cardiovascular risk factors, particularly uncontrolled hypertension, adversely impact arterial stiffness and wave reflection leading to increased central systolic blood pressure. Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity is the “gold standard” method for the assessment of aortic stiffness. Increased...

This study explores the use of scanning acoustic microscopy (SAM) as a potential tool for characterisation of arterial stiffness using aortic biopsies. SAM data is presented for human tissue collected during aortic bypass graft surgery for multi-vessel coronary artery disease. Acoustic wave speed as...

This study aims to see the extent of high school teacher digital literacy skills in managing learning. The method used is descriptive qualitative with instruments in the form of questionnaires and interviews. The results showed that the teacher has the ability of digital literacy at the conventional...

Speaking is one of skills that difficult to master by students in Indonesia, little research has been done to investigate students’ perceptions and challenges in improving speaking ability: the analysis study between English Education Department students. Using a qualitative descriptive approach, this...

Learning Al Islam and Kemuhammadiyahan (AIK) is one of the compulsory learning in all levels of Muhammadiyah education which has the general goal of forming human learners who are pious, noble, advanced and superior in science and technology as the embodiment of tajdid amar makruf nahi mungkar. In order...

The Belt and Road Initiative today is one of the biggest integrational projects in the world. It connects Asia, Africa and Europe, so it is no surprise that the European countries tend to assess their benefits and losses from taking part in it. The Southern European economies are willing to participate...

Background: Incretine hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) causes dose-dependent relaxation of the thoracic aorta of rats and other arteries via nitric oxide (NO), cAMP and ATP-sensitive potassium channels, however, through a mechanism not thoroughly described. Hereby we aimed to determine the mediators...

The arterial circulation acts as a network to deliver nutrients and oxygen to cells. The design of the cardiovascular system is subject to a variety of constraints and costs. It has been postulated that the design of the arterial network might be understood in terms of the need to minimize competing...

The original purpose for recording brachial blood pressure (BP) more than 100 years ago was to estimate central (aortic) BP. While high brachial BP is an important cardiovascular risk factor, it is clear that major differences in central systolic BP (SBP; e.g. >30 mmHg) can occur among people with...

Accurate measurement of the material properties of arterial tissue is important for better characterisation of diseases and the development of reliable computational models. There are a number of in vitro techniques that are applied to study the biomechanical properties of arterial tissue. This review...

Background: Characterization of normal ventricular–vascular interactions by non-invasive assessment in healthy adolescents may provide new mechanistic insights into altered physiological states in congenital and acquired heart disease in this age group. Methods: Ventricular and vascular measures were...

Arterial input impedance, as complete description of the arterial system, is explained by waves and wave reflection. Without wave reflections input impedance would equal aortic characteristic impedance and pressure and flow wave shapes would be similar. Waves reflect at many locations, causing input...

Modern economy digitalization conditions require new tools of countries/regions investment appraisal. The link between informatization and innovation of the digital society, the opportunity to invest in it can hardly be overestimated. Despite the fact that there is a global innovation index, a doing...

The inquiry-based learning model is the model suggested for learning in the 21st century. This learning process will succeed if supported by teaching material that prepares students for real-life situations. This research aimed to design and develop valid teaching material that is oriented towards inquiry-based...

Reputation, as an intangible asset, has brought many benefits to the social subject. However, with the development of social science and technology, there are more and more acts of infringing on the right of reputation. At the same time, the act of infringing upon the right of reputation of citizens...

In this study we investigate information processing in deep neural network models. We demonstrate that unsupervised training of autoencoder models of certain class can result in emergence of compact and structured internal representation of the input data space that can be correlated with higher level...

The return of labor force is the first form of labor flow and then flows into it, which is a manifestation of labor mobility. This paper taking industry as an example, chooses the industrial data of 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions from 2005 to 2016 to measure the industrial labor...

The 21st century has fully transited to the computer information age, in order to meet the needs of various professions, to adapt to the pace of information society development, universities have generally opened computer public courses. Firstly, this paper analyzes the current situation of computer...

The minority areas of Southeast Chongqing are primarily located at Wuling Mountain Chain and part of the Wujiang river basin. It is the settlement of various minority groups mainly consisting of Tujia and Miao minority groups while it remains as the National Poverty Regions. However, The Wulong District,...

This paper is inspired by circumstances where the level of corruption is increasing both in quantity and quality. Corruption is increasingly massive and widespread not only by executive, legislative but also law enforcement officials. Criminal sanctions imposed on corruptors are not optimal and are not...

Based on the practical demand of developing outstanding talents, this article proposes a new mode of cultivating outstanding talents by using the modern university academy system as a platform, namely, the Outstanding Academy System. The implementation of this system will collect excellent students,...

Using the measurement method to study the fluctuation of RMB exchange rate will have a series of profound effects on stock index futures. This paper will take the Shanghai and Shenzhen 300 stock index futures as the example. In this paper, the author will establish a three-variable VAR model: US dollar,...

One of the forms of socio-cultural pluralism of Indonesia is the existence of indigenous peoples with their customary law system. Indonesia as an archipelagic country, the number of indigenous peoples is estimated at around 40-50 million, out of more than 10,000 ethnic and sub-ethnic groups spreading...

This article examines how the practice of film adaptation, primarily the adaptation of novels into film, has been discussed in Indonesian media discourse since the first occurrences of the practice. As such, it applies a library research approach to review a range of literature related to adaptation...

Exhibition industry is an important way to promote urban industrial structure adjustment. Based on the statistical data from 1978 to 2012 of Guangzhou, the paper selects three variables: exhibition industry, the second industry production value proportion and the third industry production value proportion....

Against the background of informationization, the management mode of personnel archives tends to change from the traditional manual one to the informationization. This paper, starting from the significance of university personnel archive informatization, studies the main problems with it and, combining...

The article deals with the problem of reforming Russian education. By analogy with the post-non-classical paradigm of science, it is proposed to build an educational strategy on the principles of complexity, openness, non-linearity, human dimension. The importance of holistic thinking in the implementation...

This research aims to compare the differences in attitude towards students with disabilities between boys and girls in primary inclusive school in Jakarta. This study employed a quantitative approach study and cross-sectional design. A total of 266 regular students (147 boys and 149 girls), aged 9 -13...

The purpose of this study was to enrich the theoretical study of international relations from a non-mainstream perspective. The study used qualitative research methods with data collection techniques through literature studies. The results showed that studies on international relations and religion can...

In the discipline of fine arts, design development can be considered to be quite fast and even so flexible, that it is often difficult to establish its limitations. One of the results of this phenomenon is the variety of understanding and interpretations that is not much different from the reality of...

The research focused on the development of early childhood through the use of game which based on cultural values. The selection of games based on local culture of Sundanese is based on the facts that many games that are not appropriate for early childhood today, which not only makes the decline in awareness...

Aceh tsunami disaster in 2004 caused damage to agricultural land in Aceh Besar Regency. Meanwhile the post-disaster development has caused migration of people to the regency, causing a greater pressure on agricultural land. The study aimed to evaluate the land carrying capacity in tsunami-affected areas...

At present, the algorithm for solving the problem of resource sharing in D2D communication and cellular communication in cellular networks is mostly optimized for a single target. This paper proposes a general resource allocation algorithm based on multi-objective optimization, which optimizes system...

An important milestone in network development is ISO's (International Standardization Organization) definition of the OSI (Open System Interconnection) seven-layer network model. The OSI reference model is a logical definition, that is specification, it logically divides the network into seven layers....

The authors surveyed students enrolled in broad categories to evaluate college general enrollment performance (professional commitment, professional involvement) and study its determinants (professional diversion fairness, professional satisfaction). Data analysis results revealed that information fairness,...

Character education values can be integrated not only when learning in class, but also in school culture. Some teachers do not integrate these character education values in school culture. The purpose of this study was to find out about the transformation of school cultural values in character education...

The Author investigates the problem of mutual influence and dependences between estimates of quality of “economic” institutions, indicators of monetary stability, and growth rates in representative group of different economies - developed, developing and transitional (Selected Economies) at 2002-2013,...

Environmental protection equipment engineering is a new undergraduate major set up by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China in 2010. “Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry” is one of the discipline basic courses for the major. According to the professional talent training objectives,...

This study aimed to explain the process of developing teaching materials based on Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL). As the basis of development, this study used 7 types of texts that should be learned in class VII SMP items, namely descriptive texts, fantasy texts, procedural texts, report texts,...

Most new undergraduate colleges are upgraded from higher vocational colleges, having aspirations that the upgrading is the solution to the predicament of their development, and the fact is that the upgrading does not completely solve the problem, but it gives rise to some new problems. There are two...

The article is devoted to the study of the birth process in the Russian artistic culture of 1700-1720, the phenomenon of a secular public holiday. The reformation of all spheres of social and cultural life of society, which occurred during the reign of Peter I, was aimed at the formation in Russia of...

Based on long-term stationary and field experiments (1977-2017), the optimal parameters of soil fertility (gray forest, dark gray forest, leached chernozem) were established. The highest economically and ecologically justified productivity of agrocenoses is obtained when the density of addition for cereals...

Psychological class is considered a means of development of students’ needs to cognize psychological phenomena, self-cognize and self-improvement. This goal can be achieved only when the learning process is not formal, but has intrinsic personal significance for students. The article substantiates new...

The millennium era which is marked by the rapid progress and development of technology should be utilized as well as possible so that it will have a positive impact on various aspects of human life, especially in the field of education. E-Learning is a website-based learning media technology providing...

One of the fundamental requirements for everybody is security. Museums and galleries in Surabaya is viewed as less secure, as prove by the uncontrolled wrongdoing that happened like vandalism to the burglary of exhibition hall objects. The museums ought to be a place that can show us about the past and...

This paper is a concept of training program in entrepreneurship for the students of economic department in University Of Asahan. It is expected that they knows the importance of the role of entrepreneurship in improving the area development. The method that will be used is experiential learning method...

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between the Body Mass Index, leg power, speed, and cardiorespiratory fitness among adolescents living in Bangka Belitung Islands. 105 adolescents with an average age of 18 years were randomly selected from senior high school graduates. These adolescents...