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The overall goal of this study is to investigate the most important determinants of bank selection criteria among higher education students and their implications for the Islamic banking industry in Oman. To achieve this objective, this study used a quantitative research method in which questionnaires...

The development of science and technology affects all sectors of life, one of them is technological progress in the aviation world. The wing is the most important part of an aircraft because the wing produces an elevator When moving against the airflow because of its airfoil shape. The airfoils found...

In the currently predominant online teaching environment, teachers use materials that are available on the Internet for their classes, be they paid content or otherwise. YouTube, as the most popular free video-sharing site, has been one of the sources of instructional material in the form of online videos....

This study explores the potential of the Moku-Zogan technique in cross-cultural design, focusing on its applicability to Malaysian furniture design. By enhancing comprehension of cross-cultural potential of Moku-Zogan, the study contributes to understanding how the techniques can be adapted into Malaysian...

This study aims to analyze the influence of socioeconomic, environmental, and life outlook factors on the career interests of National University Tourism Study Program students in the tourism industry. This study used quantitative methods using Likert measuring devices with primary data obtained from...

Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a non-atherosclerotic non-inflammatory arterial disease of unknown origin. We previously showed the presence of triple signal (TS) at ultrasound within common carotid artery (CCA) wall. We aimed at coupling TS presence with microconstituents of the vessel wall. We included...

Background: Wave reflection (caused by a stiffness increase from large to small arteries) has been considered to protect against high microvasculature Pulse Pressures (mPP) (1). However, according to transmission line theory, Transmission (T) and Reflection (R) coefficients are proportional (T = 1+R),...

Objective: Prior studies have suggested that the principal determinants of arterial stiffening are age, BP and others CV risk factors such as dyslipidemia and diabetes. However, scanty data are available on the role of psychological factors on arterial stiffness. The aim of the current cross-sectional...

Background: Flow-mediated slowing (FMS) assesses the slowing of pulse wave velocity (PWV) in response to reactive hyperaemia, to provide a measure of endothelial function. We assessed the reproducibility of FMS and whether the technique is sensitive to the influence of age. FMS was compared to the commonly...

Background: Association of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) with mortality depends on cardiac function in hemodialysis patients. Evidence for the predictive power of central Systolic Pressure (cSBP) is inconclusive. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the additional information of ambulatory...

Aim: Established essential hypertension (EH) is associated with increased arterial stiffness and peripheral resistance, but the extent of vascular changes in persons genetically predisposed for EH is uncertain. Methods: Participants from the Danish Hypertension Prevention Project (DHyPP) (having two...

Background: Endurance training improves vascular function and skeletal muscle perfusion. NIRS can measure changes in oxygenated haemoglobin (oxy-Hb) in the skeletal muscle microvascular bed. Therefore, combined with arterial occlusion, NIRS has the potential to assess microvascular function within skeletal...

Background: Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for baroreflex sensitivity (BRS), but it is unclear whether the type of PA has similar effects on the neural (nBRS) or vascular (carotid stiffness) components of BRS. We sought to determine this in healthy adults from a community- based study via assessment...

Background: Cognitive impairment and elevated arterial stiffness are described in arterial hypertension (AH), but its correlations are not well studied. Objectives: To study the cognitive function at different domains and arterial properties in patients with AH stage 1 to 3 compared to normotensives...

Purpose: In MRI, thoracic aorta pulse wave velocity (TAPWV) is usually estimated by 2D phase contrast (PC) with either in plane or through plane velocity acquisition. Thanks to technological improvement, 4D PC with full coverage of the TA and 3 dimension velocity encoding thought time can be now achievable...

A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless communication network, which does not rely on any centralized management or a pre-existing infrastructure. Various certificate authorities (CAs) distributed over the network, each with a periodically updated share of the secrete key, is usually adopted. Elliptic...

This paper addresses the problem of generating multi-step-ahead bandwidth prediction. Variation of bandwidth is modeled as a Nu-Support Vector Regression (Nu-SVR) procedure. A parallel procedure is proposed to hybridize constant and binary Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) together for optimizing feature...

As one of the subjects of environmental civil public interest litigation, social organizations play an important role in the environmental civil public interest litigation system.As the representative organ of China’s environmental public interests or other departments responsible for the supervision...

Speed, agility and endurance are central aspects for an athlete in a sport, including football athletes. The main problem in this research is the lack of ability of UNY academy football athletes in terms of speed, agility and endurance. This study aims to determine the ability of soccer athletes belonging...

We extend the notion of deformation to inverse operations of restrictions of completely integrable systems to regular or singular locus, and call the extended notion prolongation. We show that a prolongability determines uniquely a Fuchsian ordinary differential equation of rank three with three regular...

As a response to the geographical environment, agricultural land suitability is one of the determining factors for the distinctive quality of agricultural geographical indication products, including coffee sector. The sustainability toward its land suitability is required, considering that the status...

Using CiteSpace as the bibliometric analysis method, this paper analyzes the documents of three WOS databases (SSCI, CPCI-SSH and A&HCI) to systematically present the chronological development of the international language testing research during the past two decades. The visualized analyses display...

Image is the intermediary between language and emotion. Image is a very important poetic category in both Chinese and Western literary theories. The categories of “aspirations and emotion”, “imagery” and “artistic conception” in Chinese literary theory and the Impressionism and Imagism in Western literary...

Introduction: The prevalence of pregnant women with Chronic Energy Deficiency (CED) is 14.8%, which is still above the threshold for public health problems for pregnant women at risk of CED. CED is a nutritional problem caused by lack of food intake for a long time, a matter of years. Nutritional intake...

With the rapid growth of the Chinese modern cultural and creative industry, the intangible cultural heritage seems to have a renaissance to its height of fame. Financial support and companies provide the public with a promising future of traditional cultures. The evidence of modern social media and popular...

The growing popularity of coworking space has been embraced by creative sector actors and the younger generation in urban environments as a place to work and collaborate in the contemporary creative economy current. This perception at the same time limits, that the coworking space typology only applies...

In recent years, 3D printing technology has been developing rapidly, which not only helps the development of science and technology industry, but also promotes the progress of cultural and creative undertakings in China. Cultural and creative products are widely loved by people because of their unique...

With prosperity and development of social economy and education, the exchanges between nationalities and countries are more and more frequent. Cultural industry swarms into our country in succession. Music of different elements gathers and produces new sparks of art. It makes traditional, single and...

As economic development level improves continually, calling center gains rapid development and progress. As technology becomes mature and the industry improves continuously, calling center operates more smoothly. Performance management is a very important content and also the emphasis of performance...

In the last few years, the energy consumption of data centers increased substantially. Currently, energy costs are the main expenditure in data center ownership. This creates the need for more precise quantitative metrics and measurements for energy management in the data center industry. However, despite...

The individual income tax is one of the important taxes in China's tax system, and compared to western developed countries, current individual income tax system in China has a short history and an incomplete design. By absorbing advanced overseas experiences and referring to individual income tax law,...

Have a collaborative mechanism analysis between financial innovation and industrial restructuring, and select time series data from 1993 to 2015 to build financial innovation, industrial structure adjustment comprehensive evaluation system and calculate by using principal component analysis, then build...

The study of CET4 and CET6 is the important part of English learning, and it is helpful for the comprehensive application of English and the work after graduation, so the learning methods of CET4 and CET6 have got more and more attention of teachers and students. This paper was based on double weighted...

This paper provides a hybrid cloud architecture for Computer Grade Test for Universities in Xinjiang based on China Research Education Network (CERNET), gives the resolving scheme for security, load balancing and disaster backup and develops the prototype system. The hybrid cloud architecture for Xinjiang...

It is critically important to define the correct requirements in order to get the success when developing an intensive software system. Win approach is a good negotiation model which effectively enables the interdependent stakeholders to work out a set of satisfactory requirements. The current available...

To build a high-efficient cloud platform for virtual resources, we deployed a virtual resource pool based on Hyper-V Virtualization to meet people’s requirements. In this way, users can get a free VM from the pool in less time compared with creating a new one. A VM usually includes an operating system,...

Monaural speech segregation has been a very challenging problem for speech signal processing. The implication of the ideal binary masks to an auditory mixture has been shown to yield substantial improvements in signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and intelligibility. In this paper, we use the time-frequency...

Comprehensive research method has been applied in this study to discuss the divine purpose of service-based education in university library and analyze the characteristics of service-based education. Compared with teaching education and management education, service-based education has been with the...

The removal of four pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), i.e. anti-inflammatory painkiller diclofenac (DFC), lipid regulating agent clofibric acid (CFA), epilepsy drugs carbamazepine (CBM), and broad-spectrum antibacterial agent triclosan (TCS), present in sewage sludge was investigated using anaerobic...

This article discusses the early warning model of financial crisis, considering our business practice. According to financial distress prediction model of existing listed companies, it applies the Fisher discriminant method in multivariate statistical, analyzes and forecasts the financial crisis of 31...

As a promising social medium, Sina microblog has been adopted to enlarge their social networks and to prompt their products by more and more enterprises. This paper gives an empirical analysis about information spread of enterprises microblog, discovers the reason why users forward information, describes...

So far, exam form in universities in China have been unilateral, exam is mainly to check students’ knowledge and memory. It is not conducive to innovative talent training. Exam forms consist in many problems, whereby engendering education side-effect. Exam form must be reformed in a bid to fit in with...

In view of the current university students towards the physical activity has positive and negative attitude toward behavior, heart is like the body very repugnant phenomenon, reasons for such phenomenon from the aspects of analysis, and through the full understanding of the value of PE, correlation analysis...

At present, China’s social structure has being changed, which had people’s productive model, living style, social relations and cultural values changed extremely. In the transformation from traditional farming society to modern industry society, the differentiation of rural villagers is the most significant...

"Tiny times" is a commercial movie released in Chinese mainland in 2013. Although the film has some shortcomings, it got a huge success at the box office. The biggest reason for the success of the movie is audience strategy. From the packaging to the content to the plot, the film are struggling to meet...

With the continuous development of science and technology, people to the security requirement is more and more prominent in mechanical production. There are some problems in the traditional lathe machining operations. Main show is safe with facilities not perfect, the operation personnel check does not...