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Background: Aortic reservoir pressure (RP) and excess pressure (XSP) predict cardiovascular events independent of clinic blood pressure (BP). It is unknown whether RP and XSP change in magnitude from the central to peripheral large arteries where conventional BP is measured. This information has implications...

An e-wallet is a type of payment system that transfers physical wallet functions to a virtual setting to carry out electronic transactions using a range of payment options, including bank accounts, debit cards, credit cards, loyalty cards, and mobile phones. This study aims to examine Generation Z’s...

Medical image segmentation is critical in advancing healthcare systems, notably disease finding and medication scheduling. Because of its simplicity and efficacy, fuzzy c-means-based clustering emerged as an efficient algorithm for lesion extraction. The downsides of FCM include its sensitivity to beginning...

The emergence of e-wallet is gaining momentum around the world. People are switching to e-wallet to pay for their purchases. The Malaysian gov- ernment is also promoting the usage of e-wallet through several initiatives. Nev- ertheless, the e-wallet usage is considered still low. Therefore, the current...

Nutrient intake is a direct factor influencing the nutritional status of toddlers. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020, about 45.4 million children worldwide experienced wasting (low weight-for-height) and 38.9 million children were overweight. This study aimed to investigate the...

Background: There is interest in measuring central blood pressure (BP) from non-invasive upper-arm cuff devices, the accuracy of which may be influenced by different calibration modes. The aim of this study was to determine the validity of an upper-arm cuff oscillometric device to estimate central BP...

Objective: Methodological issues are major reasons preventing the use of endothelial function testing in clinical practice This study aimed to address the relationship between two non-invasive techniques, brachial artery flow-mediated dilation (FMD) and as reactive hyperemia index (RHI), comparing also...

Communication on social media is classified as Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) since the interaction does not occur directly. Tiktok is one of the social media that is widely used for many purposes. By utilizing video share feature, users can post everything they want. The purpose of this study...

Background: COPD is independently associated with increased cardiovascular events. Arterial stiffening and systemic inflammation are postulated aetiological factors. We hypothesised that vascular inflammation links systemic inflammation with vascular stiffening and sought to test this in a cohort of...

MAG (an Italian acronym which stands for Musical Genetic Algorithms) is an electronic art piece in which a multifaceted software attempts to “translate” musical expression into a corresponding static or animated graphical expressions. The mechanism at the base of such “translation” consists in a quite...

We developed a new training system UR-System 2 for restoring motor function of the upper limb after stroke in patients with hemiplegia. And then, we conducted clinical evaluation of the therapeutic effect of training with the UR-System 2 in six patients. The UR-System uses Proprioceptive Neuromuscular...

The goal of this paper is to implement e-governance in a flexible and cost effective manner to suit with current ICT infrastructure in Bangladesh to provide better information and service delivery of the government to the public; and hence promote democratic practices through public participation and...

Cryptocurrencies have become increasingly popular in recent years. As cryptocurrency prices have soared a lot since 2008, plenty of investors choose to invest in cryptocurrencies driven by speculative motives. With the development of cryptocurrencies, the feasibility to act as a medium of exchange them...

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted the world’s life, drastically changing humanity’s economies, health, education, and futures. The pandemic united private and public organizations and individuals to work as one in the spirit of ‘Bayanihan.’ Bayanihan is the Filipino indigenous governance involving volunteerism...

This study was carried out using an empirical juridical approach. Juridically, this study was conducted by identifying societal norms, legal rules, or policies related to child protection in private and public life. On the other hand, empirically, this study was conducted by observing social phenomena...

Xun Zi was a Confucian philosopher who lived during the Warring States Period and contributed to the Hundred Schools of Thought. The famous classical “Xunzi” book was traditionally attributed to Xun Zi. This book consists of thirty two chapters philosophical essays on specific topics ranging from economic...

This study investigates the impact of foreign and domestic investors on the stock return volatility during the Covid-19 pandemic in the Indonesian capital market. Using a panel data regression method, we find that foreign institutional and individual investors cannot be proven to affect stock return...

COVID-19 pandemic has severed the rate of economic growth almost in every country around the globe. The magnitude has been different due to the precondition of economic activities and severity for the speed of communicable disease spread. The developed, developing, and under developing countries by regulation...

Lefebvre’s view on space is explained as three modes of existence: Spatial Practices, Representation of Space, and Representational Space. These modes leave the question about how we can observe these different space modes when conducting empirical studies? Drawing from works of John Law on material...

In this paper we make a full analysis of the symmetry reductions of a beam equation by using the classical Lie method of infinitesimals and the nonclassical method. We consider travelling wave reductions depending on the form of an arbitrary function. We have found several new classes of solutions that...

LPKA Class 1 Palembang was included in the Top 45 2019 Public Service Innovations in the Public Service Innovation Competition organized by the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform. LPKA Class 1 Palembang continues to strive to improve its performance, especially in the field of...

The work is devoted to the electric power system of a hybrid ATV. Currently, electric cars are popular, however, they have a small power reserve compared to cars powered by an internal combustion engine. Consideration of the electric power system of a hybrid vehicle is an urgent task to this day. The...

The emergence of various problems occurs with the new virus that is infecting the world today, namely Corona viruses (Covid-19). The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia stated that the Covid-19 pandemic was first detected in Wuhan, China on December 13, 2019. COVID-19 is considered a deadly...

With the continuous improvement of information technology level, China gradually enters the era of big data. In the background of the era of big data, the use of information means to establish a class management platform can improve the information level of class management. Through the information class...

The use of the ticket system to collect parking fees in accordance with the mandate of the Padang City Regional Regulation number 12/2011 has proven to be unable to optimize the parking retribution receipts in the city of Padang. This is proven based on the average number of parking efficiency and effectiveness...

Affected by COVID-19, the land business has been incredibly loose to advance the improvement of the land business, which has prompted another financial issue in South Korea. The objective of the current government is to control the development pace of family credits beneath the financial development...

In recent years, the securities market has become more and more active, and the number of false statements in the securities market has increased. In addition, investors’ awareness of rights protection has risen, resulting in a growing number of civil compensation cases, and the compensation risks that...

The thermoelastic materials and functional composites are used in some intelligent equipment in some special fields. The two-scale asymptotic expansion for partial differential equations of thermoelstic problem in periodic structure with boundary layer is constructed, and the two-scale asymptotic error...

In order to meet the demands of talents cultivation and adapted to the industrial development under the background of robot substitutions, the teaching reform of practical training for agricultural mechanization and automation engineering based on the theory of CDIO is proposed, according to the requirements...

In the cognitive radio network, when the primary user doesn't use its licensed spectrum, the secondary user can access the spectrum hole opportunistically to share the spectrum. However, if the secondary user's behaviors cause collisions with the primary user in spectrum band, which may lead to a decline...

For construction of structured knowledge and systematized knowledge, this paper proposes the application of framework expression in knowledge Engineering Education Technique. Concept, key ideas, Inspiration and practice of framework expression in Knowledge engineering technique are discussed in this...

According to multi-branch structure of high voltage power network in coal mine, a new method based on singular value decomposition (SVD) was proposed. The characteristics of reflection and refraction of the traveling wave generated by the fault point were studied and the values measured by devices at...

The paper starts from the microcosmic angle of signature of business contract, analyzes the strategy adopted in signature of contract to prevent leakage of business secret with the basic principle of game theory. It puts forward 3 strategies including bilateral effectiveness, unilateral effectiveness...

The service life of the LED was much shorter than expected in theory. Its reliability needs to be improved. In this paper, the reliability of the blue GaN-based LED was studied by the current aging method. The light output of LED with different aging time was tested. The results showed that the light...

Fuel cell based vehicles, when compared to conventional vehicles, are relatively more efficient in terms of energy conversion and do not pose any threat to climate due to no emissions of hazardous gases. An implementation of speed control of electric vehicle is proposed in this paper.

The calcium aluminosilicate slag cement clinker was prepared from bauxite-coal composite pellets by high temperature reduction and smelting process. The hydration results show that, after hydration for 28 days, the hydration products of calcium aluminosilicate slag are mainly composed of killalaite (Ca3.2(H0.6Si2O7)(OH)),...

Extremely rich traditional tie-dye process with its unique glamour of art has a long history, manual tie-dye tie way of diversity, design of of primitive simplicity is elegant in style, is another popular element. Regarded in the fashion clothing at home and abroad, and the integration of silk, more...

The index weight of the reasonable is the basis of objective and quantitative assessment of the risk. Taking a sample of the Northeast Passage Vilkitsky Strait, using the combination of subjectively and objectively, realize the complementary advantages of two ways, to establish the northeast passage...

Campus culture in colleges is the "soft power" in the development of universities. This paper started from the analysis of the essence of campus culture, namely the connotation, content and structure of campus culture, and analyzed the important status and role of University Library in the construction...

For the purpose of improving the efficiency of traffic signal control with cycle perturbation for single intersections, a robust multi-objective optimization and decision method (RMODM) is proposed. Firstly, this paper presents a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II based on the degree of robustness...

In this paper, we have discussed and analyzed the impact on the university library service image using questionnaire data of the college students in Zhejiang Area based on the Structural Equation Model (SEM). The determinants include the service time, the service consciousness, the service space and...

Specialty construction is an important foundation of talent training in colleges and universities and is also an important content of university construction; besides, its construction level determines the quality and standard of talent training and reflects schooling capability and schooling level....

This paper aims at analyzing the contact between tongue and hard palate during production of Mandarin Chinese consonants by means of Electropalatograph (EPG). Their tongue characteristics of onset are obtained: plosives have tongue-palate contact mainly in anterior, and completely block involve more...

In this paper a new model for malware detection on end hosts based on providing antivirus as an in-cloud network service. This model enables identi cation of malicious and unwanted software by multiple, heterogeneous detection engines in parallel, a technique we term ‘N-version protection’. This approach...

The aim of this article is to discuss about the life of Al-Maqrizi (d.1442) and Abd Al-Basit (d.1514) and their accounts on the economy of Egypt. In order to elaborate these matters, a sketch of their biographies will be given, and this is then followed by a discussion of the economic data conveyed by...

Object modeling is a multifaceted and active area of research in image analysis, manufacturing, and computational geometry. In image analysis, the focus of this paper, objects may be described in terms of their shape and appearance. Geometric features that are invariant to scale, rotation and translation...

This paper reviews the paths through which school heads’ transformational leadership influence students’ outcomes in public secondary schools in Kuwait. The standard of academic achievement in Kuwait’s public schools has been declining over the years, which merits consideration of private sector’s business...

For a mission critical operation involving TCP communication, lag free and accu-rate data transmission is critical. Past re-search conducted by this author has solved the problem for wireless TCP communication between an Android de-vice and a Windows PC. To expand upon the findings of that research,...

Many diabetic patients eventually develop foot ulcers are at risk for further infection and subsequent amputation if they are not treated promptly. Hence, this study is focused on identifying wild type strain bacteria and standard ATCC bacte-ria using e-nose which are PEN3 and Cyranose320. Data collected...

For the students of Normal University, college English is the process of language learning, as well as the implementation of quality-oriented education. This paper elaborated the importance and the necessity to cultivate the quality of Normal University students and explored the way and strategy to improve...