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Objective: Accumulating evidence suggests that low birth weight is associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular risk and increased systolic blood pressure. However the relationship between birth weight and arterial stiffness is controversial. We examined this relationship in the ENIGMA study,...

Background: Exercise influences pulse wave morphology, but the mechanisms are unknown. Methods: We measured radial arterial pulse wave contour (SphygmoCorR) in 1005 adults from a cohort follow-up examination in 2004/5 and compared individuals who, by self report, were sedentary (NPE, of less than one...

Society stigmatizes adolescents from broken homes as environment destroyers, uncontrollable, and immoral, hindering their development and achievement. Hamur Inspiration Community uses social media to fight the stigma associated with adolescents who have encountered a broken home. The study’s objectives...

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by the development of renal cysts related to polycystin mutations in the tubular wall leading to renal failure. Moreover, patients with ADPKD also display early cardiovascular complications including hypertension and aneurysms before...

Demand Response (DR) has been extensively studied as one of the important features of smart grid. The DR strategies can be grouped into two categories, one is incentive-based DR and the other is pricing-based DR. Our work focuses on DR involving both pricing factor and incentive factor using scoring...

By focusing on resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capability view (DCV), a target firm can be assessed for its complementarity and compatibility by the alliance-initiating firm to form a strategic technology alliance. This is because complementarity and compatibility among the partner firms affect...

We developed a method for classification of Japanese documents and ranking of representative documents by using the characteristic of the frequencies of nouns. A representative document is defined as a document whose feature vector is the closest to the center of gravity of the class in the feature vector...

Control algorithms development for humanoid locomotion is difficult due to humanoid’s high number of Degrees of Freedom and system nonlinearity. Moreover, a humanoid may lose balance as its walking speed changes. We present AR-601M humanoid locomotion modelling with virtual height inverted pendulum and...

A simple method for calculating finite-gap elliptic potentials and corresponding spectra of the one-dimensional Schrödinger operator which is based on a general representation of the potentials in a form of rational functions of the Weierstrass function and trace formulae is proposed. It is shown that...

The common perceive about Somalia is usually that the poorest country around the world, and no economic activity can take place here. However, its situation provides a nice prerequisite for personal credit institution. This paper analyzes the potentials and underlying challenges of this idea, like high...

Pain is a sense of discomfort and accompanied by pain due to cell damage to the body. Pain can be overcome with the use of modern medicine and folk remedies. One of the plants that are suspected to be analgesics is the sisik naga leaf (Drymoglossum sp.). This test aims to find out the analgesic effect...

Tele-Counseling service for clients during the COVID-19 pandemic period becomes a very efficient and effective service model. The limitations of the COVID-19 pandemic situation encourage counselors to find the most reliable alternative in conducting guidance and counseling activities to continue to be...

Gandrung Dance is one of the leading cultural tourism destinations in the Banyuwangi Regency, East Java. Now the dance is getting very broad attention from the government and from the Banyuwangi community. Held on Boom Beach which was joined by thousands of dancers with very charming clothes and movements....

According to statistics, there has been a big increment in death in consequence of failures worldwide. Electrocardiogram was chosen as a possible implement for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, it is a test that records the electrical activity given by the heart muscle and how it contracts. In this...

Induction motors are the most widely used motors currently, because they have a simple construction, are relatively inexpensive, lighter and have high efficiency with an easy to maintain compared to DC Motors. However, in terms of setting the speed and torque of an induction motor it is not an easy problem...

The automotive sector accounts for 22 % of the National Industrial Product in Brazil. In terms of the internal market size in 2019, Brazil was the sixth largest market globally. Such important productive activity is now facing a challenge that is technological and has several implications that range...

From the perspectives of sociolinguistics and social semiotics, on the basis of Luke Rowland’s theory of glocalization and Kress’s theory of multimodal semiotics, using a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis methods, this study focuses on analyzing the commercial linguistic landscape...

Online public opinion events will have an impact on the company’s sales and the stock price of listed companies, and the analysis of the impact can provide decision-making reference for enterprises to deal with public opinion. Taking “Xinjiang cotton” event which got higher attention from netizens as...

Archives and digitalization arts are process of archiving arts data using a certain system. The arts digital archive is a reflection as well as an effort to save phenomenal memories which are unique and hardly repeated. An art is dynamic and it can change in reference to time movement. Arts is also a...

Evaluation of the implementation of the Teacher Professional Education Program during the Covid-19 pandemic is very interesting to study further. This study examines the readiness of Teacher Professional Education students for the implementation of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. The method...

The enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of lactate to pyruvate is called lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), essential in producing energy present in cells for various tissues, including the liver, heart, and skeletal muscle. Although the increased LDH activity is due to vascular thrombosis, bleeding, and...

This researche examines flexural behavior of I-shaped pillars in noise barriers made of prestressed concrete and prestressed steel fiber reinforced concrete under loading corresponding to their actual loading - effect of wind on the panels. Three specimens of I-pillars were tested in laboratory and calculated...

As the world's first completely decentralized digital payment system, the emergence of bitcoin represents a revolutionary phenomenon in financial markets. This paper mainly studies the fluctuations of bitcoin price and discusses weather digital currencies represented by bitcoin have the potential to...

This paper explores the blended learning mode of college English with the "Internet+" environment as background. Blended Learning reduces the cost of learning, which is convenient for the interaction and communication between teachers and students. In this paper, we discuss the technology and strategy...

In recent years, the proportion of image information has raise to 90% in information transmission. With the rapid development, the network digital image also faced a series of problems. Network digital image forgery has become one of the most serious problems in the process of transmission. Image forgery...

Faced with the rapid development of current economic globalization and internationalization, the application of English language attract more and more attention. English is not simply used in daily communication now, more is applied to business negotiations and deep-level communication and cooperation,...

This paper analyzes the importance and the elements of Spiritual Dimension in industrial design culture. And summed up four forms of culture. Combining with the specific historical background and cultural soil, we can find out there are some methods to deepen the culture. Through this series of methods,...

Quality function deployment (QFD) using the House of quality to convert customer needs into product design and manufacturing requirements. This theory based on the QFD method, JK company manufactures drilling rigs, for example, categorizing customers, through the establishment of "House of quality" model...

Currently there is a large volume of data stored in informational bases of digital repositories and the problem of finding useful data in information retrieval systems has intensified, making the processes of recovery increasingly sophisticated. This study aims to make use of data mining techniques to...

Syphilis has drawn and is drawing more and more attentions globally because of its dangers and spreading speed, especially in China. Thanks to the development of search engine, a quicker and more accurate prediction of syphilis can be conducted. We collect the queries series on Baidu, a company providing...

VB6.0 is an object-oriented programming language. Scope is a part of the important concepts in programming. Treating variables declared in the universal declaration section of the form with different programming angle is the key is to elaborate the knowledge of variable scope in VB6.0. Better learning...

To participate in the public service in a way of franchising by project financing and intervention of the public affairs is a special operation idea and ability to resist risks, providing a way for the marketization of public utilities in our intervention. Through franchising way of introducing foreign...

Nowadays, with the development of science and technology and the improvement of people's living standard, Internet cloud computing develops the smart city. A smart city cloud was constructed. Based on the cloud computing, a novel information system was designed with Web. The traditional information system...

A frequency-advantage to layer-stacked rule was proposed to design the wide band absorbing materials. The two stacked layer was constructed by the silicone rubber composites added the FeSi alloys and the carbonyl iron particles (CIPs). The layer permittivity and permeability were measured using a vector...

The main objective of this research is to analyze the levels of reaction, teaching and learning, behavior, and results of the participants of character education training program from Teachers' Learning Community of Civics Education in Tapin Disctrict. This research used a qualitative approach based...

Evaluation is an on-going and evolutionary process in the development of a curriculum in which it may encompass different people in the different periods like audience, participants or observers. Strictly speaking evaluation cannot only be thought as tests and it is broader than tests, assessment or...

We analyze the space of 9 ž 9 optical flow high-contrast patches by computational topological tools. The fact that there are subspaces of 9 ž 9 optical flow high-contrast patches with topology of a circle is experimentally shown. Subspaces of 9 ž 9 optical flow patches with homology of the Klein bottle...

As a system which can realize multifunction, integrated electronic information system, in the current framework of information war, puts up enriching and important neural support against other system. This article studies in detail corresponding key technologies in the development process of integrated...

Semi Volatile Organic Compounds (SVOCs) contamination in soil was a widespread problem in China due to industrial pollutants leak and discharge. A pilot study of SVE and related combination techniques was demonstrated for soil contaminated with SVOCs. A miniaturization SVE system was applied in research...

A new vibration feature extraction method based on improved local mean decomposition (LMD) is presented in this paper. Local mean decomposition is a novel adaptive time-frequency analysis method, which is widely used in rotating machinery fault diagnosis. However, traditional LMD decomposition results...