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Vascular calcification and hemodynamical abnormalities lead to reduced arterial elasticity in end stage renal disease. Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23) predicts cardiovascular mortality in advance stages of renal failure possibly indicating more advanced vascular calcification. The relation of FGF23...

Background: Bezafibrate and Eicosapentanoic acid (EPA) were known to decrease serum triglyceride. And, EPA administration for 5 years was reported to improve cardiovascular events by JLIT study. Cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) was a new index reflecting arterial stiffness from the origin of the aorta...

Background: Dietary inorganic nitrate is reduced to (nitric oxide) NO in the body. Beetroot is a rich source of dietary inorganic nitrate and has been shown to lower brachial blood pressure (BP) by this mechanism. The effect on aortic (central) BP, which may be a better predictor of cardiovascular disease,...

Carbon monoxide (CO) gas in the cabin of a vehicle affects the health of passengers and can even cause death. This is caused by poor ventilation so that the exhaust that leaks into the car and is slowly inhaled by the person in the car. Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless, tasteless and non-irritating...

Objectives: To measure the extent of correction of vitamin D deficiency and hyperparathyroidism after treatment with calcifediol as well as their relationship to blood pressure and arterial stiffness in hypertensive patients with stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD). Methods: Longitudinal study that...

This study aims at finding out empirically the relationship between interpersonal communication, job satisfaction, and work motivation of the Indonesian National Police (Polri) members on the performance of polri members. This topic was chosen because there was something interesting in the communication...

The paper presents the results of a forecasting model associated with the affluence of users of the metro line-B of Mexico City's metro system. It also presents in a way a retrospective analysis of the metro incident that occurred on September, 2011, in the same metro line; the incident affected seven...

In this paper we modify nonparametric regression-based mean estimators in ranked set sampling using a covariate. We will show that our modified mean estimators perform well in comparison with their leading competitors.

Nonlinear estimation strategies are important for accurate and reliable control of robotic manipulators. This brief paper studies the application of estimation theory to a simple robotic manipulator. Two estimation techniques are considered: the classic extended Kalman filter (EKF), and the robust smooth...

The present research investigates the effects of Malaysian cultural dimensions on promotional activities and advertisement styles of international organizations in Malaysia. Website Content analysis has been conducted to discover what initiatives international organizations use in their marketing activities...

The purpose of this paper is to report a review of literature that dealt with the factors affecting m-commerce adoption, and comparing the reported differences in outcomes between developed and developing countries. 42 empirical research papers reporting on these key factors were examined, and categorized...

This paper discusses the function of loan risk compensation in the collateral credit rationing model. According to the derivation of my model, we find when the bank have some requirements on interest and collateral, at the same time, we add the loan risk subsidy variable into the above model, loan risk...

Data driven rank ordering refers to the rank ordering of new data items based on the ordering inherent in existing data items. This is a challenging problem, which has received increasing attention in recent years in the machine learning community. Its applications include product recommendation, information...

An index system for evaluating the risks of venture capital projects is established on the basis of analyzing the factors affecting the risks of venture capital projects. A model for evaluating the risk degree of single venture capital project is presented by applying the uncertain type analysis of hierarchy...

This article explores the internal and external motivations of company’s repurchase decision. In terms of methods, the author uses a combination of theory and empirical research methods and logically uses an analysis process from general rules to special cases to make the conclusions more accurate and...

Previous research suggested that mood can have an impact on cognitive flexibility. This study investigated how mood affects the cognitive flexibility of 14 healthy participants with an age range of 14-49 in categorisation tasks, in which one half was induced a positive mood and the other half negative....

From the blank making to the porcelain which is made through mixing of clay and water, the texture beauty formed on the surface of porcelain is a miracle that can only be found by accident. The texture beauty of Jun Porcelain is an abstract form formed in the process of furnace transmutation. It is the...

Documentary subtitle translation is a relatively new research field, and more and more attention has been paid to it at home and abroad. In this thesis, the researcher aims to study and interpret documentary subtitle translation from the view of communicative translation theory. By analyzing the characteristics...

According to the characteristics of computer courses in colleges and universities, aiming at the problems existing in the teaching of database principles and application courses, through the current situation of our school, this paper focuses on the analysis of teaching and student-centered, integrated...

This article discusses the portrayal of women in the early works of the famous female writer Lucy Chen. The agrestic complex of intelligentsia is taken as the main entry point. The author analyzes the writings of women in Lucy Chens novels during this period through deep reading of the text. What can...

Cilengkrang is one of the sub-districts in Bandung Regency, where the residents, even though they live in a peaceful atmosphere of rural nature with a quite religious topography on mountain slopes, but some of the residents work in the city of Bandung. Da’wah continues but does not encourage residents...

Introducing the traditional arts of West Java in many forms, including through education, both formal at school and non-formal, in this case the studio as one of the roles in it. Kandaga Sunda Dance Studio is one of the studios that take part in the preservation and development of Sundanese dance in...

The present study analyses and evaluates the operation strategy and current development status of Deliveroo by using Porter’s Five Forces, Industrial Life Circle, SWOT Model, Value Chain, quantitative comparison, marketing and financial analysis to get the risks and future prospects. Although Deliveroo’s...

Based on the theory of architectural in situ, this paper summarizes the in situ characteristics of the township architecture in southeast of Hubei province with Yangloudong village as an example. On the basis of literature and field research, we summarize and analyze the natural ventilation technology...

Interest rate policy is the core policy of the Federal Reserve for macroeconomic adjustment. The Federal Reserve’s adjustment of interest rates often fully reflects the stock market as an economic barometer. Through the interest rate transmission mechanism, stock prices have risen rapidly during the...

Ultraviolet (UV) is a form of physical stress that forces living organisms to respond to the challenge of DNA alteration. UV light causes oxidative stress by causing the creation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Antioxidants are substances that can interfere with the production of reactive oxygen species...

This paper deeply studies the fault models of digital circuits and proposes a combined implementation of BIST test mode, on the basis of which a new implementation of PODEM is proposed. In addition, this paper also studies the generation of test vector algorithm and a fault diagnosis system for special...

This technical report address two cases study the organizational capability maturity based on the principles of ISO 9004:2009. The object is relating two universities of the Taiwan straits respectively located between Taiwan and Fujian. It used the qualitative approach of self-assessment the actual facts....

Based on the investigation of poor college students in cultivating and practicing the socialist core values, this paper proposes to build cycle paths of cultivating and practicing the socialist core values which mean from consciousness internalizing to behavior externalizing, and then to enhance idea...

Learner's motivation is a focus and discussed by many researchers from various perspectives in language learning and teaching. College students' English learning motivation is one of these research subjects. It has great impact on the frequency of using learning strategies, the acceptance of second language...

Purpose Analyze the effect of the use of chiropractic massage technique in health care for children. Method Take 90 cases of neonates born in our hospital as the research object, which are divided into A and B groups with 45 cases in each group. Touching group B, and carrying on chiropractic massage...

Wuhan Metro, also known as Wuhan Rail Transit, is the urban rail transportation system of Wuhan City. From the subsequences of other cities' metro construction and operating conditions, it is obvious that the project investment is huge and the construction is costly; the project is burning a huge sum...

At present, the international market demand is still insufficient. Therefore, it is important that we reasonably avoid the risk of foreign trade, so as to effectively promote foreign trade. Insurance is a means of economic compensation, It plays an important role in international trade. In order to support...

This paper is, basically, a reflection on modeling, starting by asking what happens when the meaning of a predicate P is interpreted by the membership function of a fuzzy set that, labeled P, is designed with the information available to the designer on the use of the predicate in the corresponding universe...

The recall of defective products becomes more and more common in Chinese markets. To make the recall activities more efficient, it is applausible to try new methods of controlling the cost of reverse logistics. Introducing cross docking strategies in the recall reverse logistics has great theoretically...

In this work we present a new hybrid approach for solv-ing the clustering problem for geographic data, which is known to be NP-hard. Two metaheuristics that have prov-en efficiency in combinatory optimization problems have been chosen for the comparison: Simulated Annealing (SA) and Variable Neighborhood...

Basketball game is one of the most popular world sports in which the largest number of people participate, especially NBA has spread all over the world. The people enjoy the results of the basketball competition process, but they will pay more attention to the competition results. Therefore, it is extremely...

with the proposed of quantum computers, the knapsack public-key cryptosystem (PKC) becomes very popular. At present the most significant challenge towards knapsack PKC is lattice attack, and density is one of the most important factors to measure the security of it. In this paper, we introduce a probabilistic...

We develop and test a theoretical model to investigate the relationship among learning psychology process, learning behavior and learning outcome. Structural Equation Model was used to estimate the relationship. Results by analyzing self-cognitive data of undergraduates’ from one university in China...

Organizational learning, as a continuous process of generating and applying new knowledge, has been an important topic for the field and for the business leaders. It is able to overcome individual’s inertia of using past successful experience and knowledge to handle the confronting problem without consideration...

During the process of the internationalization of Australian literature, there arise many famous writers in Australian literary world, who have accelerated this process. Kate Jennings is one of them. Born in New South Wales, Australia, she was firstly famous for an incendiary speech given before a Vietnam...