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Objectives: To study whether inhibition of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system has effects on arterial stiffness beyond blood pressure (BP) reduction alone. Methods: Hypertensive patients (age 54±12 years, 34% women) were randomized double-blind to ramipril (10 mg od, n=32) or doxazosin (8 mg od,...

Closing the awrah is the obligation of Muslim women contained in QS. An-Nur verses 31 and QS. Al-Ahzab verse 59, although there are still many who have not fulfilled the rules of Shari’ah. Muslim women’s awareness in closing awrah increased very rapidly in various places. It cannot be denied that some...

Background: Mathematical modelling of pressure and flow waveforms in blood vessels using pulse wave propagation (PWP) models could support clinical decision-making. For a personalised model outcome, measurements of all modelled vessel radii and wall thicknesses are required. In clinical practice, however,...

Introduction: Sarcopenia, the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that occurs with advancing age [1] is correlated with functional decline and disability but little is known about its relationship with cardiovascular risk. Bioimpedence analysis (BIA) is a validated technique for measuring muscle...

Objective: The study aims to investigate the role of cardiorespiratory fitness as a mediator of the relationship between arterial stiffness and cognitive function in apparently healthy seniors. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study comprising 155 participants (75.5 ± 6.5 years; 69.7% female). Arterial...

Objective: To analyze the reliability and validity of Pulse Wave Analysis determined with the new wrist-worn tonometry. Methods: Cross sectional study including 254 subjects. Aged 51.9±13.4, being women 53%. Main measurements: Peripheral AIx (PAIx) and Central AIx (CAIx) by wrist-worn tonometry and...

Objective: To evaluate ventricular-arterial coupling (VAC), left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), diastolic function and arterial stiffness in young and middle-aged men with uncomplicated arterial hypertension Methods: 97 young men aged 18–27 years (21,2±1,9 years, BP 156,5±14,0/98,5±9,1 mmHg) and 68...

The implementation of UAVs in Indonesia on road infrastructure projects still widely used at the planning stage of new road routes and the supervision stage to determine the progress of the work. Meanwhile, at the post-work monitoring stage, the UAV is only used to identify and inventory the pavement...

Background and Aims: The increase in arterial stiffness and pressure pulsatility with age is identified as a key contributor to cognitive impairment; nevertheless, the underlying hemodynamic mechanisms remain unclear. A hypothesis, proposed by (1), suggests that the preferential stiffening of the central...

Introduction: Reservoir pressure (RP) and excess pressure (XSP) independently predict cardiovascular events in adults, but have never been investigated as markers of cardiovascular risk among children. This study aimed to determine the association of RP and XSP with end-organ makers of cardiovascular...

Aim: To evaluate cardiovascular adaptation to increased afterload during handgrip isometric exercise (HIE) in untreated hypertensive patients. Methods: 75 untreated hypertensive patients (age 54±7years, 44 males, BP 153/93 mmHg) underwent simultaneous EchoCG and blood pressure (BP) acquisition at rest...

In this paper, a suspension gravity compensation system (SGCS) is modeled and the corresponding controller is designed. The system is a servo platform consisting of three sub-systems by which a micro-gravity environment can be established. Especially, a novel zero stiffness suspension sub-system and...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an emerging wireless object identification technology with many potential applications such as supply chain management, personnel tracking and healthcare. However, security vulnerabilities of the RFID system have been a serious concern for its wide adoption in...

This paper proposes a method of determining the optimal number of clusters dividing the multiple transformations for the purpose of the efficient processing of query against the results of applying the transformations to time series. In this paper, the moving average is used as a transformation for simplicity....

Inspired by the transmission of beans in nature, a novel evolutionary algorithm-Bean Optimization Algorithm (BOA) is proposed in this paper. BOA is mainly based on the normal distribution which is an important continuous probability distribution of quantitative phenomena. Through simulating the self-adaptive...

Using our previously developed system, we investigated the influence of training data on the facial expression accuracy using the training data of “taro” for the intentional facial expressions of “angry,” “sad,” and “surprised,” and the training data of respective pronunciation for the intentional facial...

We consider a sequence of independent random variables X1,X2,…,Xm,…,Xnn≥3 exhibiting a change in the probability distribution of the data generating mechanism. We suppose that the distribution changes at some point, called a change point, to a second distribution for the remaining observations. We propose...

In order to define management and marketing strategies, farmers need adequate knowledge about future yield with the greatest possible accuracy and anticipation. In citrus orchards, greater variability and non-normality of yield distributions complicate the early estimation of fruit production. This study...

We consider the following question: Suppose part of the boundary of a cavity contaiing a gas is set into oscillation, the damping in the boundary being small. What is the nature of the oscillations in the gas? We treat the low-frequency limit (wavelength much greater than dimensions of the cavity). Experiment...

Learning media is an integral part of the lecture (learning) process. If it is inappropriate and ineffective, it will disturb other learning components, and lecture competencies will be hampered. The learning media developed in this research is Videoscribe in the Morphology course. The goals is to describe...

Sugar palm is one of the plantation crop commodities that has a high potential economic value. Almost all parts of the palm plant can be used, starting from the roots, leaves, stems, fruit, and palm fiber. The purpose of this study was to analyze the income and added values of the palm processing business...

This study aims to examine the effect of corporate social responsibility and ZAKAT on the profitability of Islamic Commercial Banks as a proxy to understand how barakah works. Continuing the previous studies on the meaning of barakah qualitatively, this study aims to look at the works of barakah quantitatively....

This study focuses on inclusive university management with technology basis. A case study of visual impairment students at Information Technology study in University of Pamulang (UNPAM). They’ve equal opportunity to study at higher education. No one of them graduated from IT study program in Indonesia....

The following article concerns the very important aspect of the early medieval art of Armenia, namely the decoration motives of the monuments of the Early Medieval architecture, and their relations with the early Christian and early Byzantine monuments. The centuries-old political and cultural ties with...

The total population of Indonesia is 265 million people, 131.9 million are women, and 30% of these live on the coast. Women on the coast of Indonesia have both strengths and weaknesses. Food security of coastal fishers’ families in Indonesia is an essential issue because Indonesian coastal life in the...

This paper investigates the vowels of interrogative “which” in more than 20 dialects in contemporary Tai, and analyses the geographical distribution patterns. The related phonological variation chains of Kam-Tai languages and other languages families provide some clues that the vowels of “which” in Northern...

The physical characteristics of the surface soil are the crucial soil characteristics related to landslides. They can cause landslides and change due to landslides. The physical characteristics of the surface soil in agricultural land play an important role in providing nutrients and as a medium for...

The core words play very important role in the study of the vocabulary of a language. This article discusses for the first time the word ‘bird’ in Qutadğu Bilig (Wisdom of Royal Glory) from the perspective of the core word. An exhaustive search of relevant classic literature and inscriptions was conducted...

Due to the particularity of distribution network, its engineering construction management is very important. According to the content and characteristics of distribution network project cost management, this paper first establishes the effectiveness evaluation index system of distribution network project...

One-Web development based on building performance optimization was needed as a tool to help architects work accurately. At the same time, the web interface design for the web-based on building performance optimization should be designed according to the architects’ needs and their character as users....

At present, artificial intelligence is a hot topic in the field of finance. With the continuous development of domestic quantitative investment technology, it is increasingly difficult to obtain excess returns from traditional quantitative investment methods. Artificial intelligence, as a new data analysis...

In the digital age, teachers in engineering disciplines must pay more attention to the preparation of teaching materials than before. However, their work efficiency is limited by words processing because of the complexity of teaching materials that consist of text, equations, figures, etc. A method based...

Objective: To investigate the nursing method and effect of herbal fumigation treatment of psoriasis. Method: choose 100 cases of psoriasis patients in our hospital from January 2012 to December 2015, as the object of the study, take computer random selection method to divide these 100 patients into control...

Low Density Parity Check(LDPC) code itself has a good performance and the application of LDPC in the communication field is extensive. LDPC codes have the characteristics of low bit error rate, easy adjustment, low decoding complexity and excellent decoding performance. LDPC is considered to be the "best...

It is inevitable to make social risk assessment because the land acquisition project is as important matters. This paper is the analysis of social stability risk formation mechanism for land expropriation according to the related theory. It is built that social stability risk assessment index system...

Collision accidents of Monorail vehicles often result fatal injuries to the drivers, which become important subjects. Research on the safety of vehicle collision has become main study topic in the area of urban rail transit. With the development of explicit finite element technology, it is a very good...

Informationizationon is the trend of world development. It is an important force to promote economic and social change. The level of informationization has become a measure of a country's comprehensive national strength and competitiveness of the important indicators. The Government has put education...

To evaluate the development effects systematically, the coalbed methane (CBM) production performance of 58 horizontal wells in the Fanzhuang block of the Qinshui Basin was tracked and correlations between the gas rate per 100 m and the influencing factors were discussed by single and multiple factor...

This paper selects 30 college students as subjects, concludes of characteristics agricultural product web page layout and goods list line density, selects 3 domestic agricultural e-commerce website interfaces which is structured from top to bottom, left corner of the right type, and 3 domestic agricultural...

In the present research, phytoremediation mechanism of sediment contaminated with pentachlorophenol (PCP) was investigated. Seven species of common aquatic macrophytes were used for remediating PCP contaminated sediment and those plants could significantly accelerate the degradation of PCP in sediments....

Practice teaching is not only an important part of teaching work in university, but also an important way for cultivating students' innovative thinking and ability. Aiming at optimizing the practice teaching system, deepening the university-industry cooperation, implementation of open teaching and close...

Vehicle-borne LiDAR is a new technical means to quickly obtain high precision three-dimensional data for the city modeling and digital city construction. But the data are discrete and no topological relations. So this research is focused on the vehicular laser-scanning system to obtain the feature lines...

Pay attention to the development of high education, high titles of intellectuals into the party is the Party Construction in the new century and the new task, it is to carry out the spirit of the 17th Party Congress, implement the scientific outlook on development needs. Play double personnel advantages,...

With the development of society, individuation of modern middle school student tends to obvious, the contact between student personality difference and personality development should be paid attention, especially in process of physical education. This paper was mainly aimed at the present situation of...

The image data hiding technique can embed the secret message into the digital image. For military or medical applications the reversible data hiding technique is preferred because it offers the advantage to recover the original image after the message extraction, yet it still maintains the reversibility....

In order to study the relation between service trade development and FDI, in this paper we study the generating ways for them, then point out that service industry mainly through the form of commercial presence and cross border supply promote the development of service trade directly, besides, the technical...

This paper proposes a significant license plate locating method based on Lab space. First of all, preprocess image, delete fog and uneven illumination areas. Then utilize a lookup table to accomplish the transformation from RGB to Lab, and use the characteristic of b component to extract the license...

A contactless way to prolong the life-time of lighting applications by PWM (pulse width modulation) device power system is developed in this article. The system can match most sustainable energy, such as solar energy or wind power generator. It can automatically switch with the best way to control sustainable...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with numerous spatially distributed sensors can accurately monitor a remote environment, such as humidity, pressure, distance, etc. and cooperatively send the data, combing from the individual nodes, to base station (BS). Energy saving is a great challenge for WSNs which...