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Nasal and paranasal sinus (sinonasal) malignancies are rare cases, accounting for only 1% of all malignancies of the body and 3% of malignancies of the head and neck. Patients with sinonasal tumors usually present with an advanced stage and generally have extended to the surrounding tissue. Surgery with...

Objective: Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) is considered a marker of cardiovascular (CV) risk prognosis. The objective was to evaluate the association of PWV, other features and CV events in a sample of hypertensive patients. Design and method: We studied 314 hypertensive patients without previous CV events...

Background: Main pulmonary artery (MPA) dilation is a radiological sign of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and is an independent risk factor of sudden death (Żyłkowska et al, Chest 2012). Extreme MPA dilation is a rare consequence of PH. We hypothesize that the main pulmonary artery compliance is larger...

Background: The effect of upright posture on the level of augmentation index (AIx) remains controversial [1–3]. Phenotypic differences in AIx responses to upright posture are unknown. Methods: Altogether 323 women and 315 men without cardiovascular disease and medications with direct cardiovascular...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Aortic stiffness and hemodynamics are independent predictors of adverse cardiovascular events. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is growingly used in elderly patients with aortic stenosis. We sought to investigate the effect of TAVI upon aortic vascular function...

The inductance simulator and the nonlinear resistor, which are constructed by operational amplifiers and resistors, are applied to complete the analog circuit implementation of Chua’s circuit as well as improve the accuracy of circuit parameters. The state variable z, which represents the product of...

The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) idealistically assumes the independence of the criteria which are often interrelated, conflicting or can be traded-off. It is, therefore, proposed that AHP could be extended by applying fuzzy logic to adequately incorporate the different relationships that may exist...

With respect to multiple attribute group decision making (MAGDM) problems in which both the attribute weights and the expert weights take the form of real numbers, attribute values take the form of fuzzy number intuitionistic fuzzy numbers, a new group decision making analysis method is developed. Firstly,...

Artisan talents are the backbone force to promote China’s economic development into the era of quality. Vocational education is the main channel and important position to cultivate craftsman talents, and it shoulders the historical mission of cultivating new craftsman talents. Based on the revision to...

The results of human intellectual work do not only occur in the present (modern) but also past intellectual works that last a long time and are passed down from generation to generation. Creations in the past were produced in groups in a community environment which were usually directly related to nature...

The introduction summarizes the background of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and also shows the great impact The Avengers: Endgame had on it. It also narrates and summarizes the birth of the Avengers films and the composition of the Avengers. Its main entry point is as one of the original Avengers heroes,...

The existence of many different languages in the world is a barrier to communication among different peoples. In ancient times, different ethnic groups had more language barriers compared with modern people. As with adjacent groups, with regular contact, some people with language talent were able to...

A power ratio of Savonius as a vertical wind type has been predicted using an artificial neural network (ANN) with a backpropagation algorithm. The ANN is a method for processing information that is adapted from a biological neuron. This method is developed from the principle of a human being’s brain...

Social forestry is regulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number 9 of 2021 concerning Management of Social Forestry which was previously regulated in the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry Number 83/MENLHK/SETJEN/KUM.1/10/2016 concerning Social Forestry....

Throughout the dynasties, China has implemented state monopolies in high-profit industries to protect the country’s political stability, military spending, and basic people’s livelihood. From a historical perspective and the current development of China, the state-owned economy will exist in China for...

Jane Eyre is an outstanding masterpiece in the field of literature, but I think its main artistic charm results from its splendid writing skills. In this essay I mainly talk about its excellent writing skills from four aspects: Gothic Novel style, complicated plots, the first person and the use of imagination....

With the development of urbanization progress and industrial structure, Gansu province has experienced a rapid and unprecedented process of rural–urban migration. Based on the time series data 1978-2011 in Gansu province, this paper attempts to present the VAR model of rural-urban migration and industrial...

Spread spectrum technology is an information transmission technology, which channel bandwidth occupied by the information that far exceed the minimum bandwidth necessary for transmission; the spectrum is ex-panded by a separate code sequence is complete, the coding and modulation method to achieve regardless...

In this paper of computer network information security, network strategy were reviewed in this article, on the basis of all kinds of network safety measures, and the technology to carry on the analysis to Banding mechanical electronic technical computer network as an example, introduces the computer...

Business firms are meant for profitability, growth and wealth maximization. In order to improve and investigate the factors which are influencing a firm performance are extensively studied by many researchers. Banking being the major source of financing to such firms is being targeted by researcher in...

The paper is in purpose of clarifying the feasibility and capability of investment in ASEAN's agricultural industry by using SWOT analysis and meanwhile figure out the investment guidance of ASEAN's agricultural industry basing on the perspective of 'One Belt, One Road' initiative.

As basic production and living materials, water resources is essential for social-economic development, and is increasingly becoming the limiting factor of regional economic sustainable development. Naiman County is located in the south edge of Horqin sandy land, which faces great challenge of water...

In recent years, owing to the international balance of payments surplus, direct investment and net capital inflows, the scale of China's foreign exchange reserves is becoming larger and larger. In this paper, based on the analysis of the structure of the source of foreign exchange reserves in China and...

In order to achieve the stable control for a double inverted pendulum system, linear quadratic Gauss optimal control was applied. Based on separation principle of LQG, firstly, the control law was proposed by the optimal control, and then a state feedback was obtained; whereas, the states of a system...

At present, shortages of network laboratory equipment and funds are the problems of construction in network lab. The sniffer tools, virtual machine, and network simulation software are adopted to build a network experimental environment, thus saving the investment in network laboratory equipment, reducing...

The snoring is a typical inspiratory sound appearing during sleep. It is an important characters of upper airway obstruction. The severe snoring sound leads to the Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome during persistent ventilatory movements and it can result in cessation of breathing. This paper presents...

In April 2020, Atlantis Press was alerted to fake proceedings articles hosted on our platform. These articles, mostly in computer science and engineering, were generated by the SCIgen computer program and were all published between 2006-2018. Immediately after receiving the alert, Atlantis Press initiated...

Based on the existing assessment theory and model, a newt campus security model is structured. Then use this model to evaluate campus security of four universities in Hebei province. The results showed that the model, based on grey cluster, not only could confirm the quality degree of every evaluation...

With the social standard value has become more apparent in the contemporary civil law, the individual private interest in special civil relations of marriage and family is impossible to implement an absolute protection, it needs state intervention, that is public power intervention. This paper studies...

Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) can provide multipath communication end to end. It improve the utilization of network resources and network transmission reliability. In this paper, the receive buffer blocking problem[1],which is the basic problem in the MPTCP,is presented.A data scheduling...

This paper has established a Logistics Information demand model based on information technology network externalities to explain that information technology network externalities has made the logistics firms join the momentum of the information network. And based on the panel data from 1995to 2006 across...

The purpose of this article is to cognize the characteristics of household portfolio, acknowledge the factors that affect the Chinese household investments, and analyze the household investment structure of different populations. Past research in China has appropriately discuss the present situation...

As the mother river of Zhejing Province in the east of China, Qiantang River catch dozens of people’s lives every year because of the strong tidal wave. In order to prevent the tidal disaster of Qiantang River, a real-time tidal bore detection and warning system must be built up. In this paper, an improved...

The vocational education has roughly experienced four historical periods since it appeared—the period of apprentice-system in the vocational education before world war ii, the school-based period of the vocational education after world war ii till 1960, school—enterprise cooperation period of the vocational...

Mine roof collapse is always the top issue of mine security, and apparently traditional detection methods don't have a very good performance. In this thesis, the authors present the detection performance of BOTDR technology to mine roof. The authors bring up corresponding wiring technology and methods...

In recent years, local government in Chinese minority areas make great effort to improve the quality of public service , despite many achievements have been scored, there is still a wide gap between the eastern coastal regions. With in-depth development of regional integration of administrative work...

Traditional teaching method does not work well for teaching SE. Without hands-on experience, the methods and concepts are difficult for students to apply in industrial-scale software development. This paper proposes four approaches, i.e., case-based teaching, project-based training, integrated practice,...

The mineral resource is the basis for society development and helps human make progress. But the safety accidents happen frequently which causes the economic loss to the companies and damage to mining employees' work and life. So mine investors should assess the safety risk and make necessary security...

Based on analysis of the development of rural tourism in Jilin Province, it can be found that there are some strengthens and weakness in the process of rural tourism development, and there are both opportunities and challenges to its development in external environment. We should foster strengths and...

Glaciers are sensitive indicators of climate change. Spatial-temporal variations of glaciers have been analyzed in the Geiqu basin through employ the technique of geographic information based on two glacier inventory data. Some conclusions can be drawn as follows. (1) Currently, glaciers of Geiqu basin...

The use and abuse of digital technology in teaching and learning become a necessity in digital era. The digital era challenges future teacher to use information technology in teaching and learning at school with creative and innovative ways. PGSD (Elementary School Teacher of Education) students should...

In this passage, we set up a mathematical model to solve the problem of moving a group of people to Mars and analyzed its fitness in different condition. First we set three basic priority factors: income, education and equality. To construct a successful society, we have to fulfill high income, high...

The airbag buffer landing device is an important part of the existing buffer device in China. Its low cost, flexible and lightweight, safe and reliable excellent features play an important role in the field of airdrop and aerospace. This paper summarizes the classification and research methods of the...

Based on the investigation of the distribution of strata in the downtown area of Guangzhou City, simulating the stress path of excavating foundation, the triaxial pressure tests on isotropic consolidation and K0 consolidation conditions, the lateral unloading tests and the axial unloading tests on mucky...

Due to the measurement noise, the accuracy of the double observers' cross-location method is low. Based on the Fisher information matrix of the double observers, the Cram,r-Rao low bound (CRLB) of the double-observers bearings-only tracking is figured out, the proposed optimal fit matrix decomposition...

The polycarboxylic slump-retaining admixture was synthesized by methyl allyl polyoxyethylene ether (TPEG) and unsaturated carboxylic acid in redox system. The factors influencing on performance of polycarboxylic slump-retaining admixture such as temperature, reaction time, acid alcohol ratio, the amount...

Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B) is a satellite-based system that makes an aircraft equipped with it periodically generates ADS-B broadcasts including the aircraft’s identifier, position, velocity, etc. Since the broadcasts can enhance navigation capability remarkably, it has replaced...