Search all articles

+ Advanced search
Search articles within:
187669 articles
Conference Abstract

P7 TELOMERE LENGTH AND AORTIC VALVE CALCIFICATION

Ilona Saraieva, Simon Toupance, Magnus Back, Benetos Athanase
Pages: 81 - 82
Background: Short telomere length (TL) is associated with atherosclerosis development. Aortic valve stenosis, an age-related disease characterized by narrowing of the aortic opening, is mainly caused by aortic valve calcification. Development of aortic calcifications shares many similarities with atherogenesis,...
Conference Abstract

13.8 VENTRICULO-VASCULAR INTERACTIONS AND THE ARTERIAL WINDKESSEL: NEW INSIGHTS FROM CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING BEFORE AND AFTER RENAL DENERVATION

Giovanni Biglino, Amy Burchell, Jonathan Rodrigues, Robert D.M. Gray, Emma C. Hart, Julian F.R. Paton, Nathan E. Manghat, Andreas Baumbach, Angus K. Nightingale
Pages: 81 - 82

Holistic Therapeutic Platform for the Cure of Mental Illness According to Heidegger’s Philosophy

Fiolincia Fiolincia, Rudy Trisno
The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the economy and mental health of the people. Since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of sufferers of stress and depression has increased significantly. They start to feel bored because they cannot socialize with other people and experience excessive...

The Compliance Framework of Anti- Bribery for Multinational Corporations in China

Ma Jiao, Chee Ying Kuek, Azwina Wati Binti Abdull Manaf
In the wave of globalisation, multinational corporations have become a significant driver of economic development. However, one of the problems they face is bribery, which seriously disrupts the international market economy and harms the interest and vested benefits of countries. In China, particularly,...

Delphi: Exploring Online Teaching Key Essential Skills for 21st Century Teachers

Ellydza Yutima, Erwin Sulaeman, Muchlas Suseno, Agus Dudung
The rapid digital development has transformed education resulting in new teaching methods and styles to adapt to this change. Online teaching has been continuously emerging in this 21st-century era. There have been several studies explaining the skills required for a teacher to be successful in online...
Conference Abstract

P6 ARTERIAL STRUCTURE AND COAGULATION IN AGEING NAKED MOLE RATS

Takouhie Mgrditchian-Griffo
Pages: 81 - 81
Vascular stiffening and a prothrombotic state consistently increase with age. Naked mole rats (NMRs) among rodent species have a maximum lifespan exceeding 30 years. Arterial stiffness assessed by pulse wave velocity and arterial pressure have been shown not to increase with age in NMRs (Grimes et al....
Conference Abstract

13.7 RENAL DENERVATION IN TREATMENT RESISTANT HYPERTENSION: EFFECTS ON CORONARY FLOW RESERVE AND FOREARM DILATION CAPACITY. A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLINDED, SHAM-CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL

Morten Engholm, Jannik B. Bertelsen, Ole N. Mathiassen, Henrik Vase, Jesper N. Bech, Anne P. Schroeder, Ole Lederballe, Hans Rickers, Christian D. Peters, Ulla Kampmannf, Per L. Poulsen, Sten Langfeldt, Gratien Andersen, Klavs W. Hansen, Erling B. Pedersen, Jens F. Lassen, Hans E. Boetker, Niels H. Buus, Anne Kaltoft, Kent L. Christensen
Pages: 81 - 81
Conference Abstract

P5 REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN THE MICROMECHANICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THE OVINE AORTA

Phakakorn Panpho, Riaz Akhtar, Jill Madine, Mark Field
Pages: 81 - 81
Background: It is important to understand regional variations in the mechanical and biochemical properties of the aorta to better predict and treat diseases. Although previous studies have been explored regional differences in the structure and biomechanical properties of the aorta, little is known about...
Conference Abstract

P129 SHORT-TERM REPEATABILITY OF NON-INVASIVE AORTIC PULSE WAVE VELOCITY MEASURES

Andrea Grillo, Paolo Salvi, Sandrine Millasseau, Matteo Rovina, Corrado Baldi, Francesco Moretti, Lucia Salvi, Andrea Faini, Renzo Carretta, Filippo Scalise, Gianfranco Parati
Pages: 81 - 82
Objective: To compare the short-term repeatability of aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) measures obtained with non-invasive devices. Methods: In 102 patients planned to undertake a cardiac catheterization (65±13 years, 70.6% males) duplicate non-invasive measures of PWV, 15-minutes apart, were obtained...
Conference Abstract

P128 COMPARISON OF AUGMENTATION INDEX OBTAINED FROM HEM-9000AI AND MOBIL-O-GRAPH IN JAPANESE NORMOTENSIVE INDIVIDUALS

Masakazu Obayashi, Michihiro Kohno, Shigeki Kobayashi, Michiaki Kohno, Masafumi Yano
Pages: 81 - 81
Background: HEM-9000AI (HEM) is an established device for measurement of radial augmentation index (rAIx) used by applanation tonometry in Japan. Mobil-O-Graph (MOG) is a cuff-based oscillometric device for assessment of central aortic AIx (cAIx) and the usefulness to Europeans has been reported. We...

Establishment of Student Entrepreneur Characters in Elementary School During the Covid-19

Badawi, Agung Prihatmojo, Sigit Suharjono
This study aims to determine the integration of entrepreneurship education in the formation of entrepreneurial character during the Covid-19 pandemic. The methodology used in this study is a qualitative method. The technique of determining the subject with certain criteria (purposive sampling) is 5 teachers...
Proceedings Article

Loss of Friction Force Due to High Temperature Effect on A325 Bolts with Proof Load on Steel Bridge

Noval Hasan, Riawan Gunadi, Moeljono, Fisca Igustiany
Steel construction joints are critical parts and determine the overall strength of the structure, one of which is when subjected to high temperatures. The performance of bolt connections on steel bridges is very important to be considered in bridge design. The research results on the performance of the...

Fragility in Network Systems: An Empirical Investigation

Tsutomu Ito, Katsuhiko Takahashi, Katsumi Morikawa, Takao Ito, Rajiv Mehta, Seigo Matsuno, Makoto Sakamoto
Pages: 81 - 86
A survey of the relevant literature reveals that a plethora of network analytic facets, such as degree, eigenvalue, density, block, cluster, have been developed and employed to further our understanding of network structures. To extend our understanding of network systems, additional dimensions need...

An Overview on Fuzzy Modelling of Complex Linguistic Preferences in Decision Making

Rosa M. Rodríguez, Álvaro Labella, Luis Martínez
Pages: 81 - 94
Decision makers involved in complex decision making problems usually provide information about their preferences by eliciting their knowledge with different assessments. Usually, the complexity of these decision problems implies uncertainty that in many occasions has been successfully modelled by means...

The My Health Record (MyHR) Adoption in General Practices: Literature Review and Future Research Direction

Urooj Raza Khan, Tanveer A Zia, Chris Pearce, Kaushalya Perera
Pages: 81 - 92
Digital health has significant potential in health and healthcare system improvement. My Health Record (MyHR), one of digital health solutions, has been one of the focus in Australia for past few years. Aiming to initiate a study of MyHR adoption in general practices, this paper brings up results of...

A study of methods for estimating in the exponentiated Gumbel distribution

K. Fathi, S.F. Bagheri, M. Alizadeh, M. Alizadeh
Pages: 81 - 95
The exponentiated Gumbel model has been shown to be useful in climate modeling including global warming problem, flood frequency analysis, offshore modeling, rainfall modeling and wind speed modeling. Here, we consider estimation of the PDF and the CDF of the exponentiated Gumbel distribution. The following...

The Generalized Version of Dressing Method with Applications to AKNS Equations

Junyi Zhu, Xianguo Geng
Pages: 81 - 89
The generalized dressing method is extended to variable-coefficient AKNS equations, including a variable-coefficient coupled nonlinear Schr¨odinger equation and a variablcoefficient coupled mKdV equation. A general variable-coefficient KP equation is proposed and decomposed into the two 1+1 dimensional...

Symmetry Analysis and Solutions for a Generalization of a Family of BBM Equations

M.S. Bruzon, M. L. Gandarias, J. C. Camacho
Pages: 81 - 90
In this paper, the family of BBM equation with strong nonlinear dispersive B(m,n) is considered. We apply the classical Lie method of infinitesimals. The symmetry reductions are derived from the optimal system of subalgebras and lead to systems of ordinary differential equations. We obtain for special...

Explanation of Risk and Uncertainty in News Coverage of an Anthrax Attack

Kristen Alley Swain
Pages: 81 - 95
A content analysis of U.S. news coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks examined explanations of risk and uncertainty. The sample consisted of 833 stories drawn from 272 newspapers, Associated Press, National Public Radio, and four television networks (CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC). Dominant uncertainty factors included...

Corporate Culture’s Role on Digital Transformation, Lesson Learnt for Vietnam Businesses

Phan Y LAN
Digital transformation is a concept born in the internet booming era, which is gaining popularity in recent years, describing the application of digital technology to all aspects of businesses. If effective, this activity will completely change the way a business operates, increase cooperation efficiency,...

A Study on the Professional Standards of Pre-service Teachers in Middle and Western Primary Schools in the Horizon of Competency

Guang Li
The research on the professional standards of pre-service teachers in elementary schools is helpful to provide references for the improvement of talent training programs in colleges and universities, and to provide specific guidance for the self-development and self-improvement of pre-service teachers....
Proceedings Article

Conceptual Design of Service-Based Geospatial Information System

Amarsaikhan Damdinsuren, Odontuya Gendaram, Enkhjargal Damdinsuren, Bolor Gendaram, Tsogzol Gurjav, Bat-Erdene Tsedev
At the present time, geospatial information systems are widely used for diverse spatial related decision-making processes. The power of these systems comes from the ability to relate different information in a spatial context, placing the information at a given reference system, and reaching conclusions...
Proceedings Article

Anti-inflammatory Activities of Gel Extract Marine Sponges (Axinella Carteri) to White Mice Male

Delladari Mayefis, Nur Kamilah Idzan, Yunisa Friscia Yusri
Indonesia, especially the Kepulauan Riau, has very wide marine waters, and is rich in natural resources and marine biota diversity. One of the marine biota that has the potential to be developed is the marine sponge as an anti-inflammatory because it contains the flavonoid compound which is able to inhibit...

The Importance of Technology Education for Children with Special Needs in Inclusive Schools

Haikal Andrean, Rizqi Fajar Pradipta, Frimha Purnamawati
Inclusive schools are schools that allocate all children without exception in one The room does not pay attention to differences in physical, intellectual, social, emotional and emotional conditions other. This includes children with disabilities/disability, children who are lazy to learn, children who...

The Legendary Alexander: Behind All the Success

Xinrui Li
one of the legendary figures in ancient Greek and Roman history is Alexander. In this paper, the researcher analyzes his life, myths, define the factors of his success.

Study of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) Concept in Music Learning

Dhany Yufisa Wibowo, Juju Masunah, Tri Karyono, Rita Milyartini
The purpose of this study is to review the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) concept in music learning. In this study, the concepts of TPACK are reviewed from the previous researches and theories that support the use of technology in music learning and implementation (practice/application)....

The Effect of ROA, DAR and NPM on Profit Growth of Companies in Basic and Chemical Industry Sector Listed on IDX

Slamet Maryoso, Dian Indah Sari
The motive of this have a look at is to decide the impact of ROA, DAR and NPM at the boom of sales companies in basic and chemical industry sector at the Indonesia Stock Exchange throughout 2016–2019. Quantitative studies used of this research, specifically secondary statistics. Study Literature is used...

Analysis of the Users’ Reactions to Taikoo Li Sanlitun and Their Experience of the Effects of Covid-19 on Customers in Choosing a Market

Taking B City of Yunnan Province as an Example

Chenguang Liu
When experiencing the epidemic period, people prefer different markets compared with before. The traditional markets are losing their dominant status while some open-air markets are becoming the first choice of most customers. Writing this article to figure out what factors foster people making this...

How Can Public Opinion Affect Education and Its Needs

Haiyue Yang
Faced with ever-increasing rivalry, today’s society engages in involuntary competition in every sphere, including education, which deviates from initial demand and increases the difficulty of filtering elite. Part of the reason is that people are affected by surroundings which reflect anxiety of current...

Constructional Methods and Management Strategy of the Cognition Practice Course in the Mechanical Major

Yang Gao, Fuwei Wang, Shaohu Ding, Maoqiang Li, Shuo Lv
As the process of the cognition practice in our college of mechatronic engineering has the disadvantages of unclear goal, short time, bad cognitive effects and other problems, this paper clears the teaching target of professional cognition practice, puts forward the cognitive practice curriculum construction...
Proceedings Article

CPT-Based Assessment of Wave Induced Non-uniformity Liquefaction in Yellow River Delta

Kexian Li, Zhongnian Yang, Dayong Zhou
Liquefaction has caused significant failures and represents a significant problem for the community and geotechnical engineering designers. The survey in the Chengdao sea of Yellow River Delta showed the presence of a large number of pits, geological disasters gullies, landslides, residual body and buried...

Vocal Ensemble Aesthetics, History, Practice

Vitaly Kalitzky, Olesya Grinko
This article considers the most essential aesthetic problems of vocal ensemble's performance. Musical ensemble is presented not only as the quintessence and expression of aesthetic, culture-philosophical and social shifts of an epoch, but it also is a concept for more efficient investigations of solutions...
Proceedings Article

Study on the Design of Greenhouse Monitoring System based on Zigbee Wireless Communication Technology

Jie Huang
With intelligent greenhouse computer, network, electronic, automatic control, and other high-tech means to achieve automatic detection and control of plant growth small environment temperature, humidity, light, soil moisture, ventilation and other environmental parameters, breaking the traditional agricultural...
Proceedings Article

Research on Intelligent Detecting Technology Based on Extension Fuzzy Method

Minghui Wang, Yongquan Yu, Ge Wei, Xiang Ren, Dan Liu, Yujing Wei
This paper studies a new kind of intelligent detecting technology which includes key detectable matter-elements distilling, adaptive degree analyzes, focusing and reasoning mechanism construction, focusing processing. This paper researches on the focusing and reasoning mechanism construction, which is...

Museums: Advocator of Urban Cultural Image

Mei Xie, Li-Hua Huang
Urban museums witness the venation of urban cultural development what is the carrier of urban cultural memory, which massive cultural connotation and unique appearance appear personality and characteristic of urban characteristic. Collection of museum is the root of culture; exhibition activity of museum...

China's Government Choice against Technical Trade Barriers

Rui Zhang
With the development of international trade, technical trade barriers has become the important factor of market access, which will gradually replace tariff barriers and become a kind of new technical measures to trade. Since China's accession to the WTO, export trade have suffered serious obstacles by...
Proceedings Article

Dynamic models of deformation of crustal blocks in the area of development of coal deposits - the basis of the information security of their development

Aleksandr Solovitskiy
It is found that transition to new, safe and environmentally harmless technologies of the development of coal deposits in Kuzbass is not possible without the development of new models of dynamic deformation of crustal blocks. For their implementation the registration kinematics theory of crustal blocks...
Proceedings Article

The Enterprise Human Resources Management Based On Knowledge Management and Collaboration

Ying Cai
The enterprise should break the situation that the technological collaboration and market collaboration are separated from each other, which should set up the technological collaboration and market collaboration management from the angle of total collaboration management; it is a very urgent issue under...
Proceedings Article

The Impact Analysis of High Speed Railway on City Accessibility in Henan Province

Kaiguang Zhang, Mingting Ba, Hongling Meng
Accessibility level is an important indicator to measure the perfect degree of traffic network, *-shaped high-speed railway network in Henan province, forming in the next 10 years, will have significant impacts on the accessibility spatial distribution pattern. In the paper, those impact and the evolution...
Proceedings Article

A Method in Smoothing Fluctuation of Wind Power with Wavelet Threshold Filtering and Mean-value Intervals by HESS

Bingying Sun, Zongqi Liu, Shuili Yang, Boyue Zhang
Due to the inherent fluctuation nature of wind power, voltage control and frequency regulation in China's power grid become more intricate as the wind power penetration level increasing. Provided with traits of comprehensive response and bidirectional output, wide concern has been arisen by the hybrid...
Proceedings Article

A Discussion on the Teaching of Basis of Computer Engineering in PE Major in Colleges and Universities

Xiaobo Tan
With the wide application of the computer, it has been integrated into the professional fields of all kinds of industry, which also means that requirements for the education of Basis of Computer Engineering in colleges and universities have become higher and higher. This thesis makes an analysis of problems...
Proceedings Article

Large-scale Manufacturing Enterprises in Technological Innovation Team Building

Bin Zheng, Chengbo Hu
Large-scale manufacturing enterprises in technological innovation team is the main new technologies and new products technological innovation activities, production process innovation activities and product development activities of enterprises are inseparable from the role of large-scale manufacturing...
Proceedings Article

Triangular norms which are join-morphisms in 3-dimensional fuzzy set theory

Glad Deschrijver
The n-dimensional fuzzy sets have been introduced as a generalization of interval-valued fuzzy sets, Atanassov's intuitionistic and interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets. In this paper we investigate t-norms on 3-dimensional sets which are join-morphisms. Under some additional conditions we show...
Proceedings Article

The Bibliometric Analysis of Autonomous Learning Studies in China

Lina Wang
This study retrievals papers on autono-mous learning published in 14 key foreign linguistics journals from 1998 to 2012 in CNKI. By using bibliometric method, it conducted a statistical analysis of papers on autonomous learning in three aspects: research contents, research methods and subjects. The analysis...
Proceedings Article

Fast Rendering Method of Lots of Dynamic Trees Based on OSG

Qingxuan Jia, Zuxin Wang, Jingzhou Song
In virtual reality, the fast rendering of trees is always a difficult part of scene rendering, so it is a challenge to render a large scale of trees with rich geometric details. We present a new method to get fast and real rendering. The LOD technique and Billboard technique are both combined in applying...
Proceedings Article

An Initial Study on Proficiency Scales for Business English for Chinese Users

Cong Wang
In spite of the over 100 years of English education as a second language in China and the introduction of modern business English into the said country, standards for the proficiency of the language have never been set up. A possible solution, being explored by researchers at home and abroad, may be...
Proceedings Article

Mesoporous Iron Adsorbent: A novel technique for arsenic removal from contaminated water

Chanchal Majumder
In this work mesoporous silica (MS) material was synthesized using block-co-polymer and used as an adsorbent support for arsenic removal. To meet this requirement, mesoporous silica (MS) with a large surface area (262.13 m 2/g) and uniform pore size (about 42Å) was prepared. This study showed that MS...
Proceedings Article

Gaussian process regression prediction-based dynamic risk negotiation strategy

Hu Jun, Zou Li
In this paper, we use Gaussian process regression to predict the opponent concessions, and introduce the dynamic risk mechanism in Agent negotiation. We can change the risk factor by the utility of opponents and set a threshold in this dynamic risk mechanism. Dynamic risk strategies associated with opponent...