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Background: Carotid femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is directly associated with arterial stiffness in major elastic arteries and predicts future cardiovascular events (1). Little is known of cfPWV as a marker of vascular health in children. Semi-automated cuff-based devices for assessing cfPWV are...

Background: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular events and its measurement is recommended by current hypertension guidelines. Few data are available on the progression of PWV over time. The aim of the present study was to assess the progression of...

Purpose: Aortic stiffness is predictive of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, the gold standard method for assessing aortic stiffness, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, is time-consuming and requires a trained operator. An alternative approach could be to derive an arterial stiffness...

Objectives: Increased carotid-femoral Pulse Wave Velocity (PWVc-f) identify hypertensive patients at high CV risk, independently of systematic coronary risk evaluation (SCORE). Testosterone is associated with aortic stiffness, however whether this association is different in hypertensive patients with...

In the contemporary society, we receive mountains of information moment by moment, Including television advertising and mobile phone advertising. What big data is doing is to find valuable information By the mass information. Users’ privacy has met an unprecedented challenge. As a lot of new technologies...

This paper studies the problem of sensor selection for maneuvering target tracking in the cluttered environment. By modeling the target dynamics as jump Markov linear systems, a decentralized tracking algorithm is developed by applying the extended Kalman filter and the probabilistic data association...

In RFID system a tag is attached to an object which might own by a number of owners during its life time. This requires the RFID system to transfer ownership of the tag to its new owner. The ownership transfer has to protect privacy of current and new owner. Many ownership tag ownership transfer exists...

Protection of the environment is currently a high profile concern and this is resulting in more effective recycling and reuse of materials. This paper outlines a research project for developing and using a ‘Technology Hub’ framework combining Computational Intelligence – Rule-based...

We extend a previous result, namely we show that the solution of the Whitham equtions is asymptotically self-similar for generic monotone polynomial initial data with smooth perturbation.

It was first suggested by Englander et al to model the nonlinear dynamics of DNA relevant to the transcription process in terms of a chain of coupled pendulums. In a related paper [4] we argued for the advantages of an extension of this approach based on considering a chain of double pendulums with certain...

In recent years, the phenomenon of trouping investors, both individual and institutional, has become more frequent and common in China and the U.S., especially under the circumstance of COVID 19, which has wreaked havoc in all sectors including the financial market. The market has witnessed increased...

Fermetodege is an innovation of fermented feed with a mixture of water hyacinth, corn cobs, and rice bran which was developed in the manufacture of ruminant feed by utilizing the role of microbes. Fungal communities in the feed fermentation process have a role as microbes that can degrade materials containing...

Based on the dual objectives of government accounting reform, the reform of government comprehensive financial reporting system is closely related to the needs of government asset management, government debt management and government performance evaluation. This paper focuses on the selection of information...

This article discusses the characteristics of the tradition of the mythological Javanese stories on Prince Panji, going back to the 12th/13th century, which are manifest in a broad variety of expressions in art and literature. The legacy of the rich Panji tradition represents an outstanding example of...

The research on employment discrimination problems faced by ex-offenders in China is scarce. Due to this situation, this article explores the necessity of solving the stigma faced by ex-offender employment by using subjective evaluation questionnaire. The questionnaire collects ex-offenders’ needs for...

Prozac, also known as fluoxetine, is a new class of serotonin reuptake blocker (SSRI) oral antidepressant that works by inhibiting serotonin reuptake by the central nervous system. This drug has the advantages of wide application (depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia, etc.) and...

This study aims to predict student investment intentions in agriculture. The questions in this study are whether students’ perceptions of return affect student investment intentions in agriculture, whether students’ perceptions of risk affect student investment intentions in agriculture and whether students’...

The upholding of the constitution in a country basically depends on the commitment of every citizen to the rules of the state rule (rechtsstaat) that have been compiled and determined, as well as public awareness to comply with them. Theoretically, the existence of legal structures (legal institutions),...

This research aims to describe the results on the role of the Ubrug theater as a defense media for the local language of Banten. This research uses a qualitative paradigm with descriptive analysis method. The approach used is multidisciplinary, including history, linguistics, and sociology. Participants...

In order to prevent fire from spreading in the inner space of buildings that can be divided into different fire compartments in line with specifications. A fire resisting shutter is a rolled up in the rotary axle box at ordinary times installed in the building fire protection compartments. The fire separator...

A new three Degree Of Freedom (3-DOF) parallel manipulator has been proposed in this study. Because the parallel manipulator has three Degree Of Freedom (DOF), one translation degree of freedom and two rotational degrees of freedom. The model is established by using UG 8.0 and The inverse kinematic analysis...

The article fully analyzes characteristics, structure and form of New HSK and emphasizes teachers and students shall pay high attention to New HSK Outline. Under this premise, it discusses strategies to tutor grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading and writing respectively.

Under the background of "OBOR" area development strategy, more and more internationalized application-oriented professionals is required in multinational corporations and most countries along the route. As a new way of personnel training, the personnel training mode of mechanical engineering students...

Internet plus has brought new opportunities and has posed challenges to college English teaching. This paper analyzes the influence of Internet on college English, and introduces new modes of college English teaching and learning in Internet plus era.

Behavioral finance theory put psychology especially behavior science theory into the finance in order to use its pioneering view reexamine investment behavior in financial markets. And it will put forward unprecedented challenges to the traditional finance theory. Behavioral finance explain the motivations,...

Description of probability distribution characteristics of wind power ramp events is always a challenge in grid-connected wind power operation analysis. In this paper, a moving ratio based approach of wind power ramp events is introduced and an probability model is described for the wind ramp events....

The Vocational School teaching methods is directly related to the students' vocational ability. However, the traditional teaching model is very insufficient. Based on the investigation about students, we actively change the teaching idea and update the teaching methods and pay more attention to the initiative...

According to the research on the employment and carving out situation for students in specialities for producer services sector of some higher vocational colleges in Foshan, Guangzhou, discuss under the status quo in the environment of economic development mode transformation and the Pearl River Delta...

Using field surveyed data of 144 hog producers in Sichuan province 2013, this paper aims to examine factors affecting evolution of farmers’ hog production scale,.Regression results suggest that the farmers with capital advantages prefer larger scale than others. The capital include generations in the...

the democracy at the grassroots level is a important composition of Chinese characteristic socialism democratic politics. Democracy at the grassroots level in our country after reform and opening up has been rapidly developed, which can ensure the effective performance of people's political rights and...

This study investigated 680 freshmen in Wuhan to analyze the characteristics of their social adaptation with the Scale of College Students’ Social Adaptation. The result indicated that, the freshmen from urban areas scored higher significantly on interpersonal adaptation and role adaptation than those...

Vector quantization is one of model training and pattern matching technologies with good performance which is applied to speech recognition at present. The traditional Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) algorithm is easy to get the local optimal result in the process of codebook design. According to capability of...

The source of innovation is the technological talent .This paper established the indicator system of evaluation of enterprise's technological innovation talent team . It used ANP to determine the weight of indicators and grey related analysis to determine the rank ordering of enterprises. It provides...

With the accelerated pace of college English teaching reform, the traditional English teaching mode is being phased out and will be replaced by a new one named task-based language teaching (TBLT). As a new mode, TBLT is being introduced into the English classroom. With this mode, teachers should associate...

The search direction by making use of the matrix LU decomposition gradient projection algorithm for nonlinear programming is given, the stability of sparse and thealgorithm of this method can maintain effective constraintmatrix, the algorithm can be applied to large sparsenonlinear optimization problem...

In recent years, the social risk problems caused by the process of expropriation farmers' land as government action, due to the land expropriation compensation, resettlement cost problems cannot be solved effectively, have caused widespread concern of government and society. Strengthening the social...

In the information society, online consumption has been a popular way of consumption among college students. This paper starts from the angle of ideological and political education to analyze the characteristics of college students' online consumption behaviors, and seeks feasible countermeasures of...

This research was carried out to investigate the effect of three factors related with cold-pressing technology including pressing temperature, moisture content and shell content on the acid value, moisture and volatile matter content and yield of peanut oil with method of orthogonal experiment of 3 factors...

Using literature research method, empirical approach, and numerical comparison approach, situations of college sports venue usage and management were surveyed and analyzed. Taking Nanjing Institute of Railway Technology as a case, a management system based on the concept of internet plus and Browser/Server...

Environmental damages and physical damages to workers in the low-cost production searching process during capital globalization are challenges that all mankind are facing with. The whole international society have carried out extensive and deep researches on occupational diseases. Although different...

The construction of the framework of the characteristic collection database of Qilu art and culture is put forward, the platform selection and construction procedure of the database construction are introduced and the emerging problems and solutions in the process of the characteristic database construction...

When a picture is taken in the haze, the picture is abstract and much information is hidden by the haze. In this paper, on the basis of the dark channel prior algorithm, dehazing of hazy images is carried out. At the same time, given defects of the dark channel prior algorithm, namely halo, color lumps...

To reveal the current situation of Tourism English teaching and professional skills training in the application-oriented universities, the research on educational reform of Tourism English is presented, which explores a new education model in aspect of professional skills training. In addition, based...

The academic process of the graduate program in Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha (Undiksha) generally consists of lectures, proposal seminar, pre-thesis and thesis examination. Management process which monitors academic progress is required because every academic process requires conditions to be fulfilled...

With the rapid development of Jiangxi economy, private enterprises have become one of the important forces to promote their economic development. Facing the situation that the development trend of private enterprises is becoming worse and worse, the root cause of human capital investment is the problem...

The solvent extraction of iron ( ) from acidic chloride solutions by decanol in kerosene has been investigated. The solvent extraction results demonstrated that the dissolved iron was present as HFeCl4.2Decanol. Extraction of iron ( ) increased with increased hydrochloric acid concentration in the aqueous...

This paper outlines the optimization of the L1-L2 and L2-L1 missions using electric propulsion. The optimization criterion is the total flight time. The optimal control laws are obtained using the Fedorenko method to estimate the derivatives, the gradient method to optimize the control laws and the Runge-Kutta...