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The routine assessment and monitoring of hypertension may benefit from the evaluation of arterial pulse pressure (PP) at more central locations (e.g. the aorta) rather solely at the brachial artery. Pulse Wave Ultrasound Manometry (PWUM) was previously developed by our group to provide direct, noninvasive...

Purpose: With the advances in the new image techniques and 3D modeling, angiography computed tomography (A-CT) has became a very useful image for studying vessels. Renal artery (RA) variations are common, and have a clinical relevance in pre-operative planning. There are several descriptive studies made...

Increased arterial stiffness, as measured by pulse wave velocity, is increasingly recognised as an important predictor of future cardiovascular events. At present, the mechanisms leading to stiffening of large arteries and the processes underlying the association between arterial stiffness and cardiovascular...

Generally, a teacher training is still ineffective and has many weaknesses in its implementation. The main objective of a teacher training is to improve teachers’ abilities and skills in teaching, so as to prepare students for competition in the millennial century. In chemistry learning teachers must...

This article aims to examine and describe the settlement of law concerning regional cooperation in the management of biological natural resources within the scope of the Exclusive Economic Zone. This research is a type of normative legal research conducted by following statute approach and conceptual...

In the context of overall changes in education and the search for new ways of working, there are also changes in the area of evaluation. It is manifested in the tendency for a comprehensive evaluation of a pupil, the tendency to draw a pupil into evaluation processes, the tendency to abolish the classification...

In the article, information analytics is considered as an independent scientific and practical sphere of activity, located at the intersection of informatics, mathematics and the actual analytics that has been formed in the conditions of the information society. The history of formation and development...

A fundamental understanding of human and natural relations occurs in Rembang, Central Java, Indonesia. This is related to environmental conditions and local communities, especially women who live on the slopes of the North Kendeng Mountains, Rembang. This study aims to explain how to distinguish women's...

Under the influence of big data environment, the sports marketing method becomes more personalized and precise. Sports precision marketing is based on the characteristics of consumer behavior of sports target market. It is the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis methods for targeted...

This article aims to elaborate and explain the seven methods in creating contemporary paintings based on Yeh Pulu relief explorations. The methods used were carried out through the three stages of process based on the concept of Sullivan's ‘Art Practice as Research’ (2005): medium experimentation, visual...

Nowadays, along with the rapid growth of the times, gadget becomes an inseparable tool from human life. The relationship between gadget and internet is like a unity which cannot be separated. It is easy to use because it can be accessed freely by anyone, including young children. However, the internet...

The matrix factorization (MF) algorithm plays an important role in collaborative filtering (CF). The traditional MF algorithms usually assume that the correlated data is distributed on a linear hyperplane, which is not always the case. Therefore, it is a hot topic to combine the kernel algorithm with...

The learning of writing for elementary school students is still dominated by the use of conventional learning media. This results in less attractive learning for students. Consequently, student’s learning activities and their learning outcomes are low. These conditions occur in fifth-grade students of...

This study aims to analyze the creativity and problem-solving skills of students who are applied with the problem-based learning model and direct learning. This research is a quasi-experimental research with two group pre-test-posttest design. The sample of this research is taken by cluster random sampling...

College students can be taken as the main force of social development, and they get the hope of motherland’s future. Colleges and universities have the responsibility to cultivate students as complex innovative talents of social development needs. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to strengthen...

As an important part of the region, the county economy is particularly important for economic transformation and upgrading. The transformation and upgrading of county economy in Jiangxi Province has made a qualitative leap, but the low competition level, poor innovation ability, serious homogenization,...

The paper is about rice landraces among the Day-ak in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. We found that today they still maintain the knowledge and keeping the existence of local variety of rice. While in Java, where the capital city is located and the development is centralized, these va-rieties have been...

This article aimed to describe (1) the problem the students encounter in storytelling learning, (2) the teachers’ way of motivating students in storytelling. This study was a descriptive study. Data of research was collected through interview and distributing questionnaire to teachers and students in...

Based on the Chinese traditional martial arts, this paper makes an analysis of the formation of the people's fitness habit and finds out the good habits of Chinese traditional martial arts. Mainly uses the literature material method and logic analysis of martial arts fitness habits construction are studied...

Multimodal communication can simply be defined as communication through modes such as pictures, gestures, sign languages, and such. Photographs are relevant to literary studies because they too can narrate. Photographs can perform as unreliable narrators, drawing fuzzy borders between reality and imagination...

The article includes a survey of scenography in Eastern Siberia, and of Krasnoyarsk and Irkutsk theatres in particular. It analyzes historic and modern aspects. The aesthetic particularity is determined on examples of domination of visual and literary bases in different cities of the region. There are...

The phenomenon that occurred in PT. Telkom, the knowledge management effort as intellectual capital for competitive advantage, becomes the basis for further research on the influence of motivation factors commitment, enjoy in helping others, reputations and rewards to the intention of knowledge sharing...

In order to correct the middle value of VHF propagation loss, plan tactical wireless communication network well and guarantee quality of communication, this article firstly contrasts applicability of deterministic models and statistical models in background of tactical wireless communication. Then, for...

This research aims to examine factors comprising students’ motivation to participate in shadow education in West Sumatera. In particular, this research focuses on the participation of secondary school students in shadow education. Data for this research were collected by using a survey questionnaire...

Unlicensed mining (PETI) can be defined as a mining business on all types of excavated materials with the implementation of its activities without based on the rules / rules of mining law authorized by the Central or Regional Government. Natural resource management is the right of the state to manage...

High performance concrete is widely used in research and Engineering, the research progress of high performance concrete admixture is very rapid. The straw ash base contains a large amount of silica, It has certain pozzolanic activity, It is an excellent material to replace some cement and reduce the...

The great transformation from industrial to sustainable society is one of the most important challenges today. ‘Sustainability’ is a key concept to constitute the society of the 21st century. The modern legal system, which has operated as an infrastructure of industrial society, must adapt itself to...

The phenomenon of absent voters has emerged since the New Order era and has continued to shade the Election Commission during the national and local elections’ processes. This study aims to explain the factors behind the phenomenon of absent voters in Sragen regency during the election. The research...

As the present growth environment has been largely improved, the “post-95s” freshmen show different characteristics in psychology and behaviors; According to the characteristics of the “post-95s” freshmen, this article has briefly discussed the professional cognitive education of city agricultural colleges...

To observe the effects of total flavonoids of Rosa chinensis on focal cerebral ischemia reperfusion model in mice, Method: Nimodipine group, cerebral collaterals group, large, medium and small doses group of the Rosa chinensis total flavonoids were administered with corresponding drugs; Sham operation...

Environmental characteristics and phytoplankton size structure were investigated during spring and summer cruises in 2015 in Xiamen Bay of China. The distribution of total Chlorophyll a (Chla) showed a seasonal and spatial variation. In surface water, total Chla concentration increased from west to east...

Core flood experiment is commonly used to study the fluid seepage law in porous media for enhanced oil recovery, but the characteristics of fluid flow are hard to be visually described. In this paper, an advanced visual displacement system was developed and optimized to observe the shapes of flow front...

With the deepening of China's electric power system reform, the environment of power grid planning will be more complex. In this paper, the risk factors that may affect the power grid planning are identified by the Delphi method from three aspects: the generation side, the transmission and distribution...

Ocean energy is a kind of clean and renewable energy source. In recent years, the development of ocean energy has become more and more important. With the development of ocean energy, our country has formulated some ocean energy policies. Similar to other areas of development, the ocean energy policy...

The nano silver powder was prepared by liquid phase reduction of silver nitrate solution with ascorbic acid (C6H8O6) as the reducing agent and polyethylene glycol 200 as the dispersant. Through a L9(34) orthogonal project, the optimum process conditions were determined as follows: the concentration of...

Using strategy is beneficial to make reading easier, more effective, and more comprehensible. Dealing with the notion that students must be independent in reading brings up the inquiry of what strategy helps to develop reading comprehension skill. Through a quasi-experimental study involving test before...

This paper had designed a 3D measuring system with low cost and high-precision. The 2D laser displacement sensor is the core component, and the Labview graphical programming software is the main software platform. PLC and stepping motor drives high-precision guides rail movement. Combining software and...

At present, Characters Collection in Chu Area (called CWZB in later content) is not only just an important ancient writing dictionary, but also a high-level academic bookmaking because of its appropriate stylistic rules and layout,abundant contents and easiness to use. However, any academic achievements...

Complexity of software project management has been increasing rapidly in recent years. Project management strategies are evolving in order to address the complexity problems. A persistent struggle is to find an adequate balance between conflicting factors such as providing freedom and flexibility to...

A correlative rule expresses a relationship between two correlative events happening one after another. These rules are potentially useful for analyzing correlative data, ranging from purchase histories, web logs and program execution traces. In this work, we investigate and propose a syntactic characterization...

Shore-to-ship power supply system has become core technology dealing with shipping environmental pollution. However, the lack of systemic technical standards of it has brought great challenges. This paper proposes standards system for shore-to-ship power supply system, which based on analyzing the trend...

This study was based on a self-evaluation of Visual Communication Design Study Program in the State University of Malang in whichlately the students prefer to take working thesis (skripsi kekaryaan) rather than assessment thesis. Most of the students who took the working thesis usually only made a product,...

The achievement of a low inflation target is a big agenda that is currently being carried by Bank Indonesia. This target is certainly not apart from the Central Bank's monetary policy strategy that implements Inflation Targeting (IT). This research aims to analyze the effect of the money supply, BI Rate,...

China has entered a new era of socialism with various risks. Among them, the moral risk of Chinese civil servants is particularly prominent. It has seriously affected the image of our government, and even shaken the people's trust in our party and government. Therefore, in the way of building a well-off...

Severe Early Childhood Caries (SECC) is progressive tooth decay with multifactorial etiology, which one of them is saliva. Salivary flow, pH, salivary buffer capacity are critical factors for developmental regulation and regression of the caries process. It is mandatory to comprehend the salivary characteristics...

With Internet platform and information communication technology having poured into traditional logistics industry, it is becoming more and more important to train logistics management talents to adapt to transformation and upgrading of logistics enterprises. This paper presents Training mode of logistics...

This study aimed to determine feasibility of computer-based learning with metacognitive strategy, learning implementation, learning outcomes, and students' responses. Method used was development of 4-D model with intact-group comparison research design on students in Vocational High School in Surabaya,...

Conventional learning makes students tend to be passive in the classroom. On the other hand, the Malay society culture which is the identity and the characteristics of Kepulauan Riau Province is necessary to be integrated into teaching chemistry to achieve the aspired character education leading towards...

With the teaching concept upgrading and teaching technologies development, the quality and quantity of Japanese teaching have been remarkably improved in in recent years in colleges and universities. The voice visualization software can make up for the deficiency of traditional pronunciation teaching...

In the risky society, social contradictions and conflicts have been showing up endlessly. "Trust" as an important social capital is facing with huge damage. The contemporary social cross boundary risk characteristics ask for more governance and make access to a relationship of cooperation. This paper...