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The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has announced the intention to launch the digital yuan, officially called the Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP), for the public use. The inception of the DCEP raises some important questions. How would the DCEP impact China’s existing economic model? How would...

HIV infection is a globally recognized health issue, characterized by the invasion of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, leading to the development of AIDS. People Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) encounter multifaceted challenges encompassing bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions. The pivotal role of self-acceptance...

This study describes the perception of stakeholders about the importance of accounting professional ethics education. This study aimed to see the differences in stakeholders’ perceptions, namely lecturers, alumni and students. In contrast to previous studies, which only looked at the conceptual differences...

The reduced costs associated with deploying and utilizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have spurred their widespread adoption across various industries, including aerial photography, information gathering, and search and rescue operations. However, this rapid uptake has also raised concerns regarding...

This research adopts marketing 4C theory to explore customer’s purchase intention on green packaging beverage products between two groups of female college students in Vietnam and Taiwan. The study conducts a qualitative method by moderating two focused groups to understand different buying perspectives...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Obesity is associated with increased risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Leptin-deficient mice (ob/ob) are widely employed to investigate obesity. This study is aimed at providing a micro-ultrasound (mUS) longitudinal evaluation of the ob/ob mouse in terms of...

Background: Peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis (HD) are treatment options for end stage renal disease (ESRD). However, few are known on the cardiovascular impose of those therapeutic modalities. Our aim is to uncover endothelial damage and subclinical atheromatous process in male patients on chronic...

Background: Hypertension has adverse effects on microvascular function but there are limited methods that permit non-invasive assessment of the microcirculation in man in vivo. We used Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) to assess microvascular reactive hyperaemia in skeletal muscle following a short period...

Background: Middle age represents a life period where incidence of cardiovascular events typically augments. Our aim is to investigate any association between peripheral vascular rheology and distribution of coronary artery disease (CAD) in middle aged erectile dysfunction (ED) population. Methods:...

Purpose: The prognostic significance of carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) remains to be determined in patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D). We investigated the predictive value of cfPWV for various endpoints in T1D. Methods: At baseline, cfPWV was measured using the SphygmoCor device in 652...

Arterial stiffness may influence the contour of the peripheral pulse, suggesting that contour analysis of the digital volume pulse (DVP) might be used to estimate peripheral blood pressure and a stiffness index (SI). The objective is to establish a transfer function that estimates the peripheral blood...

Background: Women with a history of pre-eclampsia (PE) are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease later in life. We evaluated the cardiovascular health of women who had PE in comparison with women who had normotensive pregnancies. Methods: We assessed heart rate-adjusted augmentation index (AIx SphygmoCor),...

Background: Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is independent predictor of cardiovascular outcomes. Antihypertensive treatment reduces PWV, but it is unknown whether this results from an unloading of stiffer elements in the arterial wall or a structural change in the wall. Methods: To distinguish between these...

Background: Ischemic stroke from carotid plaque embolism remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). However, the effect of T2DM on early carotid plaque burden and composition is sparsely elucidated. We assessed carotid plaque composition by carotid magnetic...

Background: The systemic arterial load imposed to the left ventricle (LV) is a major determinant of normal/abnormal cardiovascular function. The LV mean ejection pressure (LVMEP) is the best estimate of load faced by the LV throughout ejection. The contribution of the steady and pulsatile blood pressure...

This paper introduces a study of spoken dialogue agent systems using emotional expressions as affective human computer interaction. The paper describes an experiment investigating the effect that the expression and words of the agent have on people, introduces a spoken agent for customer services using...

With significant impact on the personalized product configuration, Interactive Genetic Algorithm is introduced to respond to customer requirement. For the user could conveniently design their favorite product and interact with the system by a graphical interface, the car console conceptual design system...

A numerical model has been formatted including ocean, rain drainage, urban channels, and pumps by the software MIKE FLOOD which coupling MIKE URBAN, MIKE 11 and MIKE 21. The different scenarios have been simulated. The flooding warning water level of the urban channel is low to the spring tide height,...

We give a new derivation and characterisation of the generalised elliptic genus of Krichever-Höhn by means of a functional equation.

This paper concerns linear standing gravity water waves on finite depth. We obtain qualitative and quantitative understanding of the particle paths within the wave.

Multi-objective optimization focuses on simultaneous optimization of multiple targets. Evolutionary game theory transforms the optimization problem into game strategic problem and using adaptable dynamic game evolution process intelligently obtains the optimized strategy. The problem of multiple frequency...

Nutmeg (Myristica fragrans) is an evergreen tree indigenous to Banda Island of Indonesia. In 2018 nutmeg production in Indonesia was 36,242 tons from 202,325 ha land, whereas the biggest production from the center production i.e. North Maluku Province. The aim of the study was to determine the performance...

Wood has shrinkage properties, so it affects the availability of the maximum dimensions of wood available in the market. To meet the need for dimensions that are larger than the maximum dimensions available in the market, laminated boards and beams are made. The dimensions such as thickness, height and...

Bugis house changes due to adaptations made by residents to meet current needs, slowly the original pattern of Bugis house gradually changed from the past until now. This research will trace the shape of Bugis house changes in three areas in the Soppeng Regency. Data on the phenomenon in the field, namely...

Drying is the final step of the film processing cycle which aims to remove the water present in the emulsion layer. The result of the film processing is an undamaged emulsion, free from dust particles, crystal deposits, stains, and artifacts. This research aims to make radiography film dryer with a timer....

The critical period hypothesis (CPH) proves a limited and specific period of language acquisition. Penfield and Roberts first supported CPH in 1959. Later, Lenneberg also supported it in late 1967 [1]. Based on the necessity of finding out the relationship between language learners’ starting age and...

Education is a deliberate and well-thought-out effort to create a learning environment and learning process in which students actively develop their potential for religious spiritual strength, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skills required by themselves, their community,...

The iron-steel industry is a resource and energy intensive industry and results to abundant GHG emissions because of a mass of fossil fuel consumption. In recent years, air quality in North China becomes worse and worse. In order to analyze the GHG emissions of the iron-steel industry, we made the survey...

To solve the problem of low security in cloud storage system under the background of rapid prevailing cloud technology, this paper studies the design and implementation of User Autonomous Encryption Cloud Storage System based on Dokan. With the help of Dokan's file development model, a specific file...

Nowadays, the teaching quality of teachers is mainly measured by teaching quality evaluation. Therefore, teachers' teaching quality evaluation has become priority among priorities in teaching management of colleges. This article mainly discusses relevant contents of teaching evaluation in colleges from...

Electricity Cost Remote Control in Marketing Business has been playing an important role in the business management of electricity information collection. Through analysis on the information about electricity cost remote control, it can study the cost control data and provide the real-time estimation...

Under the background of the development of the Internet plus sports, this paper uses the method of literature review, field survey, theory combining with practice to analyze the current development situation of our country's sports venues. It researches management and operation strategy of stadiums,...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of spraying melatonin (MT) on photosynthesis of Chinese cabbage seedlings under NaCl stress. The result showed that net photosynthetic rate (Pn), stomatal conductance (Gs), water use efficiency (WUE), light use efficiency (LUE) and transpiration rate...

The decision to finance part of the firm's assets with borrowed funds has important managerial implications. If the firm finds it increasingly difficult to service its debt (paying interest and repaying the borrowed funds) because of excessive borrowing, its management will be under pressure to make...

With the rapid economic and industrial development, China speeds up development of nuclear power (NP) to face the energy and the environment changes, and plans to increase in nuclear capacity to at least 58 GWe by 2020. Nowadays 16 provinces, regions and municipalities in China are petitioning for the...

All the countries of the world need a good environment to develop their economy, it is sad to see the recession of the financial crisis in recession. This paper aims to comprehensively study the Russian financial crisis in 2014 and find the reason of the phenomenon. And we hope warning those investors...

Rubber products are widely used, and some of them have no obvious plastic deformation on surface, there exists huge risk, so the prediction of the fatigue life of rubber materials is very important. In this paper, the fatigue life of rubber materials is accurately analyzed by using advanced computer...

It is supposed to maneuver orbit if the tourist orbit is used to make detailed investigation of multiple targets on GEO. The problem is how to minimize the energy dissipations of the orbit maneuver. In this paper, the optimization strategy is offered: 1. The difference of individual orbit inclination...

The realistic fire pattern requires fire officers in actual combat to have high professional ability, in addition more to embody rich humanistic quality in the occupation. Based on the reality of humanism deficiency and situation urgency in the process of modern command officer training, it is necessary...

A control system of polar coordinates seeker has been modeled, utilizing an angle instruction solution based on full-map plane and nonlinear PID (NLPID) controller based on tracking differentiator (TD) and extended state observer (ESO). The jump of instruction is solved by rolling the full-map coordinate...

In recent years, domestic folk sports research has became the one of the hottest topics in our country. Folk sports, just as the name implies, which is created by the masses, inherited by the people, apparently it’s a traditional sports cultural movement in People's Daily life. On the one hand, it is...

To solve the problem that VMM cannot monitor and control Guest OS system call instructions due to their non-trapping property, this paper propose an idea that make these instructions trap into VMM through breaking their normal execution conditions so as to cause exception. As to the three different system...

Different from previous tree modeling approaches, our method is based on the idea of making tree reconstruction as quick as possible and simplifying the representation of final results while keeping the tree model visually acceptable. Each tree is represented by Billboard model. We first get the shape...

A wireless sensor network monitor system is designed based on CC2520 to solve the problem of confusion existing in managment of library books. This method innovativly combines RFID radio frequency technology with ZigBee technology with the goal of tracking and positioning the books wirelessly.The designing...

P2P streaming system effectively fixed the overload and weak scalability shortcomings of C/S structures. It’s working principle is divided into tree multicast and mesh multicast. Compared to tree multicast method, mesh multicast method based on Gossip protocol has the characteristics of high fault tolerance...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) separates the control plane from the data plane within the network, allowing the intelligence and state of the network to be managed centrally while abstracting the complexity of the underlying physical network. Among the three layers architecture of SDN, the southbound...