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8.2 (SHEAR) STRAIN IMAGING OF THE COMMON CAROTID ARTERY

T. Idzenga, H.H.G. Hansen, R.G.P. Lopata, C.L. De Korte
Pages: 151 - 151
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P1.02 ACTIVE PREVENTION STUDY: ATHEROSCLEROSIS CAROTID-CORONARY INVESTIGATION BY ECHOGRAPHY

C.F. Cesana, S.F. Soriano, C.P. Campadello, C.P. Canova, F.R. Facchetti, F.I. Faggiano, M.G.F. Mureddu, G.N. Gaibazzi, C.S. Carerj, M.M.L. Muiesan, R.F. Rigo, M.A. Moreo, C.G. Giannattasio
Pages: 151 - 151
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P5.28 THE EFFECT OF INSULIN RESISTANCE ON VENTRICULAR-ARTERIAL COUPLING; INSIGHTS FROM SEPARATED WAVE ANALYSIS IN YOUNG WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT PCOS

E. Rees, F. Rakebrandt, J.P. Halcox, D.A. Rees, A.G. Fraser
Pages: 151 - 151
Objective: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is characterised by obesity and a high prevalence of insulin resistance (IR) but this may not translate into increased cardiovascular events. The energy and timing of waves in large arteries may be quantified by separated wave analysis from wave intensity (WI)...
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1.1 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IS RELATED TO RENAL FUNCTION IN THE GENERAL POPULATION

L.A. Tomlinson, Y. Yasmin, K. Maki-Petaja, S.S. Hickson, B.J. McDonnell, C.M. McEniery, J.R. Cockcroft, I.B. Wilkinson
Pages: 151 - 151
Introduction: Aortic stiffness is related to renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease and may contribute to the high cardiovascular mortality in this group. However, the relationship between renal function and arterial haemodynamics in the general population has not previously been reported. Methods:...
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8.1 BLOOD PRESSURE INCREASE AND DEVELOPMENT OF TARGET ORGAN DAMAGE IN SUBJECTS WITH HIGH NORMAL BLOOD PRESSURE IN A GENERAL POPULATION SAMPLE. A 9 YEARS FOLLOW-UP

A. Paini, M.L. Muiesan, M. Salvetti, C. Agabiti Rosei, C. Aggiusti, D. Stassaldi, F. Bertacchini, F. Beschi, M. Castellano, E. Agabiti Rosei
Pages: 151 - 151
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P1.01 ASSOCIATION OF CAROTID STRAIN AND PRIOR RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE - RESULTS FROM THE SWISS AIR POLLUTION AND LUNG AND HEART DISEASE IN ADULTS COHORT STUDY (SAPALDIA3)

S. Caviezel, J. Dratva, E. Schaffner, C. Schindler, N. Probst-Hensch, N. Künzli, J.M. Gaspoz, T. Rochat, A. Schmidt-Trucksäss
Pages: 151 - 151
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P5.27 INDAPAMIDE SR EFFECTS ON AMBULATORY BRACHIAL AND AORTIC PRESSURE IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS

Y. Kotovskaya, O. Kravtsova, Z. Kobalava
Pages: 151 - 151
Aim: Ambulatory monitoring of central blood pressure (BP) is a new technique for evaluation of antihypertensive drugs efficacy. The aim of the study was to assess changes in ambulatory brachial and central BP after indapamide SR adjunction to treatment regimen in hypertensive patients. Methods: Indapamide...

Differences in the Amount of Karst Groundwater Use Based on Education Level and Availability of Other Water Sources as Well as Seasonal Factors

Eko Budiyanto, Nugroho Hari Purnomo, Muzayanah, Aida Kurniawati, Millenia Rahma Jayanti, Sabrina Aulia Rizki
Karst underground water is the foundation for meeting water needs for most people in the karst region. Therefore, its sustainability needs to be maintained properly through good management. Management of underground karst water really needs to pay attention to the characteristics of the user and environmental...

Bayesian Prediction in Clipped GLG Random Field Using Slice Sampling

Majid Jafari Khaledi, Hamidreza Zareifard, Firoozeh Rivaz
Pages: 151 - 161
By assuming that an underlying Gaussian-Log Gaussian (GLG) random field clipped to yield binary spatial data, we propose a new model which provides flexibility in capturing the effects of heavy tail in latent variables. For our analysis, we adopt a Bayesian framework and develop a Markov chain Monte...

A Gamer’s Nightmare: An Analysis of the Sony PlayStation Hacking Crisis

Bolanle A. Olaniran, Andrew Potter, Katy A. Ross, Brad Johnson
Pages: 151 - 159
The Sony PlayStation hacking crisis presents all too common personal data theft in the digital information age. The hacking necessitates the need for how such a crisis could be prevented in an attempt to safeguard customers’ personal information and ensure trust between client and vendor relationship....

Study on the Relationship between Financial Development and Poverty Alleviation in Guizhou Province Based on Kuznets Curve

Jianchun Yang, Chaochao Liang
Pages: 151 - 156
Based on the construction of the nonlinear effect model of financial poverty alleviation, the paper used Granger causality test and regression analysis to analyze the relationship between financial development and poverty alleviation in Guizhou province. The results present that the relationship between...

Quantization of the planar affinely-rigid body

Agnieszka Martens
Pages: 151 - 156
This paper is a continuation of [1] where the classical model was analyzed. Discussed are some quantization problems of two-dimensional affinely rigid body with the double dynamical isotropy. Considered are highly symmetric models for which the variables can be separated. Some explicit solutions are...

A Variational Approach to the Stability of Periodic Peakons

Jonatan Lenells
Pages: 151 - 163
The peakons are peaked traveling wave solutions of an integrable shallow water eqution. We present a variational proof of their stability.

Commutator representations of nonlinear evolution equations: Harry-Dym and Kaup-Newell cases

Zhijun Qiao
Pages: 151 - 157
A general structure of commutator representations for the hierarchy of nonlinear evolution equations (NLEEs) is proposed. As two concrete examples, the Harry-Dym and Kaup-Newell cases are discused.

Research on Ideological and Political Teaching Use Cases and Teaching Strategies of Database System Principle Course

Yangqing Zhu
The course is the basis of teaching construction in the universities. Strengthening course construction is an important guarantee for effectively implementing teaching plans and improving teaching level and quality of personnel. To explore the ways of imparting knowledge, cultivating ability and guiding...

Construction of College English Ecological Classroom Under the Background of Big Data

Xiaojuan Liu, Xiaochong Sun
The construction of college English ecological classroom is related to the stimulation of students’ interest in learning, the establishment of harmonious relationship between students and teachers, the exertion of students’ initiative, and the entertainment included in teaching, which is the mainstream...

Creative Planning in Place Identity, Local Distinctiveness, and Social Media Users

Cultural Tourism Destination of Setu Babakan, Jakarta

Wiwik Dwi Pratiwi, Bramanti, Samsirina
This article aims to elucidate the creative planning of place identity and local distinctiveness in Setu Babakan cultural area, which is moderately influenced by the socio-culture context of Betawinese culture. Setu Babakan is one of the designated areas for Betawi Cultural Center (BCC), which has been...
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A Novel MPLS Traffic Load Algorithm for Efficient Traffic Management

Khadidja Sakhri, Ahmed Korichi, Azzaoui Nadjet
The ever-increasing network user use places enormous strain on the existing network infrastructure, causing congestion and lowering network performance. Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) is becoming the standard transport technology for core networks due to its potential to create procedures and...

Liu Chenweng’s Inheritance and Innovation of Xin Qiji’s Lyrics and View

Zhang Linyuan
Liu Chenweng was a literary scholar and literary critic of the Song and Yuan dynasties, and is known as the “backbone of the Xin Genre”. 354 of his lyrics have survived, and their ideological content has a distinctive brand of the times, which is known as the “history of lyrics”. Liu Chenweng’s lyricism...

Research on the Classification and Artistic Value of the Guan Ge Style Tablets in Hancheng Museum

Jiaming Peng, Jingwen Wang, Qunjiaming Zhang
Guan Ge Style represents a broad and complicated concept which originated from the Imperial Examination System in the feudal times and peaked at Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1912). This paper analyzes the characteristics of Guan Ge Style writing on Chinese curved name tablets and look into its artistic...

Fund Valuation Analysis of Regional Industrial Economies

Empirical Analysis Based on 3660 Samples From 15 Funds

Linhao Li, Xin Wei, Ziteng Xu, Ying Xia, Jingjie Zhang
With the development of China’s economy, a regional pattern has gradually formed in which the eastern region takes the lead, the western region actively promotes, and the central region speeds up its development. However, there is still a great imbalance in regional development and the regional economic...

Discussion on Teaching Model of English Translation in Universities under Functional Translation Theory

Li Shao
As a symbol, language plays the role of medium in the process of communication. On connotation and value of language, it carries regional and national thinking habit and values. After translation theory changes from text to function, it pays attention to function application of language after translation....
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Improvement Harmony Search Algorithm and Its Application

Hongtao Yu, Shangzhen Zhu, Yanhua Lei, Xinli Chi
To solve the problem that harmony search (HS) algorithm is easily trapped into local optimal, a novel improved harmony search (IHS) algorithm is proposed. Search strategy are redefined in IHS. In order to increase the diversity of harmony in harmony memory and enhance exploration, the concept of entropy...
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Research on Optimize the Test Cycle of SIMU

Jianchun Chen, Zhanchang Zhen, Junhui Xu, Yanfeng Gao
The use performance of SIMU is constrained by its stability. In view of a short stability period, frequent test-ing and the problem of low efficiency of the test about SIMU in present, A optimization method is proposed to choose test cycle, Using least square method combined with the stability index,...

The Content Study of Chinese College Sports Quality Education

Liane Duan
Quality education has become the dominant idea of all kinds of education at all levels. How to full implementation of quality education in physical education teaching, become the primary task of the physical education teaching in colleges and universities as they are the basic qualities of modern talent...

The Value Assessment and Enlightenment about the Reform of Civil Service Recruitment System in Britain and America in the New Era

Jun Dai
This paper sets up the analysis framework from the fundamental value of civil service recruitment system of efficiency, social equity, political responsiveness and individual value, then gives value assessment of civil service recruitment system in Britain and America in the new era, explores the value...

Empirical Study of Knowledge Management Influence on SMEs Dynamic Capabilities Promotion

Qicheng Lu, Yongjie Wu
Knowledge management is an important angle for understanding and revealing the formation and improvement mechanism of dynamic capabilities. Based on absorptive capability theory and organizational learning theory, this paper investigated 177 enterprises to empirically analyze the influence of knowledge...
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The effect in the crystal phase and luminescence property of Zn3V2O8 with calcinations temperature

Jiaolian Luo, Weifu Cen, Xiaoming Zhang, Zhiyong Xu
In this experiment, ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3) and zinc nitrate Zn (NO3) 2 as raw materials, combustion Zn3V2O8 yellow phosphor prepared by using X-ray diffraction pattern (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and emission spectrum Study on the crystal structure of the test Zn3V2O8 phosphor morphology...

Exploration of the College Teaching Reform with Students as the Main Body

Shuyan Yi, Lina Liu
It is imperative to reform course in institution of Colleges and universities. This will not only help alleviate the current severe employment pressure, but also help improve the overall quality of students. Students are the main body of education, and the teaching reform of colleges should always focus...
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Developing States Challenge ICSID

Jia Liu
ICSID (International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes) plays important role in resolving international investment disputes and enhancing international investment. But this mechanism also faces a lot of criticize from developing countries. Because the core international investment theory of...
Proceedings Article

A Hybrid Model Based on Agile Development

Zheng Liu, Shardrom Johnson, Gang Wang, Xubin Liu, Yang Song
One key factor of successful software project is to control software development cycle, reduce labor cost, improve software quality. Agile software development method was widely used in practice, the efficiency of software development was also increased in fact. However, for the bad control on development...
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How to Improve the Quality of Student Cadres in the Management by Grades Mode

Ying Liu, Xiuzhong Hu, Qianfeng Wang, Xiaohong Yang
With the increasing expansion of higher education scale in recent years, the construction and management by grades is a hot topic. Under the new times background, the situation puts forward higher requirement for the students management staff. This article was written from the management by grades point...
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An Optimized Controller for Bi-level Positive Airway Pressure Ventilator

Yucong Xu, Lala Li, Jia Yan, Yuxi Luo
This paper presents an optimized controller to achieve better synchrony in human-ventilator interactions. An experimental platform was built by using data acquisition, a set of signal collectors, and a blower wired with driver circuit. The related signals were all acquired and processed by a program...
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Research on Distributed Data Stream Mining in Internet of Things

Liancheng Xu, Jiao Xun
For mining useful data from mass data generated by Internet of things, analyses shortages of the traditional Apriori algorithm which has a lower mining efficiency and occupies the larger memory space. So, MapReduce model of cloud computing is introduced. In the mechanism of MapReduce, combine the architecture...
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Efficient multimodal fusion for person authentication combining three biometric modalities

Wang Fenghua, Zheng Qiumei, Meng Wenjie
Fusion of multiple biometric modalities for person authentication can compensate for the limitations in performance of each individual biometric system. This paper proposed an efficient person authentication method based on multimodal biometric fusion at the matching score level. For score level fusion,...

Research on Development Strategy of Professional Courses of Vocational Software Technology based on Working Process

Guo-Cai Zuo, Lei Wang
The working process based on curriculum development is the direction of curriculum reform of occupation education software technology professional. The relevance of the occupation education curriculum based on working process is not strong that caused the courses loosing. Combined with the actual situation...

Extracurricular Practice Base Construction and Management of Aviation Service Specialty

Liao Zhengfei, Yao Honghua
The practice arrangement of aviation service specialty has greater limitation due to its special industry and enterprise, and extracurricular practice base construction has difficulty. Aviation service major of Chengdu Aeronautic Vocational and Technical College, through gradual exploration and many...

The Establishment of Musical Aesthetics That "Natural Voice" Is the Most Beautiful Sound

Shalin Han, Tao Yu
From the concept perspective of The Establishment of Musical Aesthetics That "Natural Voice" Is the Most Beautiful Sound, this paper systematically and detailedly argues that the aesthetic habits and aesthetic psychological structure of the music from the Chinese people are reflected in the natural aesthetic...

Modernity Problems of Sandu Shui Nationality Needlework

Wenting Liu
By taking Shui nationality needlework as the study case, this thesis observes the modernity problems of Shui nationality needlework from the perspective of the formation reasons of needlework modernity and the modernity features of needlework. It points out the necessity of the formation of Shui nationality...

Research on the Humanistic Communication in "One Belt One Road"

Qiaoling Chen, Shiwen Liu
In the era of profound changes in the global situation, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council put forward the major strategic decisions on the construction of the "Silk Road Economic Zone" and the "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" in the face of the overall demands of the overall situation...
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Application of Optical Fiber Sensing Technology in Oil Tank Level Measurement

Chongyong Su, Shuren Yang
Fiber optic sensing is a high-tech technology that has been developed since the late 1970s when fiber was successfully used in communications. Once it comes out, to the intrinsically safe explosion-proof, high precision, long-distance transmission, not afraid of corrosion, anti-electromagnetic interference...
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Overview of Initial Alignment Method for Strap down Inertial Navigation System

Hailiang Wang, Guozhang Li, Zhiyong Shi
Initial alignment is one of the key technologies of Strap down Inertial Navigation System (SINS). The accuracy of initial alignment directly affect the accuracy of the work of SINS and the time of initial alignment are important tactical targets reflecting the rapid reaction capability of weapons systems....
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YA-JOP:Yet Another Java Object Profiler On Art Virtual Machine

Fei Wang, Xiaohua Shi, Chao Li
In this paper, we design and implement an efficient and low overhead Java object profiler called YA-JOP on Android 6.0 and its ART virtual machine, which uses an AOT(ahead-of-time) compiler. YA-JOP records the allocation site, the class information, the object size, the birth time and death time, the...
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Methodological Research on Design for Testability of Mixed-signal IC

Shuirong Ju, Jinfei Wang, Tianshe Wang, Dong Qin
The concept and classification of design for testability about IC are introduced. As an example, several testability methods for mixed-signal IC sx1701 are given, which include precise module division, effective control signal building and testing structure adding. By using these methods, the testability...

On the Present Situation and Countermeasures of Teaching Archives Management in Colleges and Universities

Ying-xin Rao
With the development of higher education in our country and the acceleration of the construction of informationization of the colleges, the requirements for the management of teaching archives in colleges are also increasing. This paper analyzes the characteristics and existing problems of the current...
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Research on Design and Implementation of Condition Monitoring System of Wind Turbine Gearbox

Yu Bu
The condition monitoring of wind power gearbox has important practical value for reducing maintenance cost and improving operation level. In this paper, a set of monitoring system for a wind turbine gearbox is designed. The condition monitoring system can monitor the vibration acceleration, speed and...
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A Study on Customer Relationship Quality and Customer Citizenship Behavior — Evidence from Online Shopping Behavior of College Students

Xiangyu Meng, Guicheng Shi, Meng Xianyong, Zhengbo Wang
Abstract—The authors propose a conceptual model that links online vendors’ attributes, online relationship quality, and customer citizenship behavior. They estimate this model on data from 288 consumers across 15 sites, using structural equation analysis. The results show that order fulfillment is the...
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Thoughts on Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education into the Whole Process of Talent Training

Qingjun Wang, Jingtai Wu
The employment prospects of graduates in China instill little optimism so far, and the employment pressure increases year by year, which undoubtedly brings a lot of pressure to the country, universities and individual students. In such a situation, in order to find a way out, it is necessary to fuse...