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Research Article
Residual as Linear Sum of Matrix Determinants in Multiway Contingency Tables
Shusaku Tsumoto, Shoji Hirano
Pages: 1080 - 1089
A Pearson residual is defined as a residual between an observed value and expected one of each cell in a contingency table, which measures the degree of statistical dependence of two attribute-value pairs corresponding to the cell. This paper shows that this residual is decomposed into a linear sum of...
Journal: Artery Research
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P40 Arteriovenous Fistula, Blood Pressure and Arterial Reservoir-wave Analysis: Lessons From End-stage Renal Disease
Mathilde Paré, Rémi Goupil, Catherine Fortier, Fabrice Mac-Way, Karine Marquis, Bernhard Hametner, Siegfried Wassertheurer, Martin Schultz, James E. Sharman, Mohsen Agharazii
Pages: S80 - S80
Purpose/Background/Objectives: According to reservoir-wave theory, excess pressure (XSP) is analogous to flow and related to excess cardiac workload. In end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients, we have shown that XSPI is associated with increased mortality and is higher in patients with arteriovenous...
Journal: Artery Research
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P38 Association of Daytime Augmentation Index with Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor in Untreated Hypertensive Patients
János Nemcsik, Dóra Batta, Beáta Kőrösi, Zsófia Nemcsik-Bencze, Andrea László, Lilla Lénárt, Andrea Fekete
Pages: S79 - S79
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is a neurotrophic molecule with impact on microvasculature and also with complex psychosomatic connections. The aim of our study was to evaluate its associations with 24-hour brachial and central hemodynamic parameters and arterial stiffness in untreated patients...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.57 Acetylsalicylic Acid Reduces Passive Aortic Wall Stiffness and Cardiac Remodelling in a Mouse Model of Advanced Atherosclerosis
Lynn Roth, Wim Martinet, Guido R.Y. De Meyer
Pages: S79 - S80
Background: Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is used in secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) because of its antithrombotic effects. We investigated whether ASA has additional therapeutic value by preventing the progression of inflammation and cardiovascular remodelling in mice with stable atherosclerosis...
Research Article
Layout of Urban Distribution Center Using Possibilistic Programming
Nurgul Demirtas, Umut R. Tuzkaya, Mehmet Tanyaş
Pages: 1068 - 1081
Distribution centers, link supply chain to the customers. Layout of the distribution centers is very important in terms of product conservation at the required service level and delivering of products with minimum cost to the customer from distribution centers. Therefore, the layout design of distribution...
Journal: Artery Research
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P37 Increased Pressure Dependency of Pulse Wave Velocity with Age
Andrii Boguslavskyi, Haotian Gu, Lingyun Fang, Ana Rita Cabrito Cobaco, Philip Chowienczyk
Pages: S78 - S78
Background: Arterial stiffness, as measured by pulse wave velocity (PWV) is dependent on arterial blood pressure but whether this dependence varies with age is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine to what degree pressure-dependence varies with age.
Methods: 83 heathy (43 females) normotensive...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.56 Differences in Vascular Effects Between One Session of Moderate-Intensity Continuous Physical Exercise and High-Intensity Interval Physical Exercise in Individuals with High Blood Pressure
Sara Rodrigues, Renata G S Verardino, Marcel J A Costa, Ana Luíse Duenhas-Berger, Valéria Costa-Hong, Luiz A Bortolotto
Pages: S78 - S78
Purpose: To compare augmentation index (AIx) between one Moderate-intensity continuous physical exercise (MICPE) and one High-intensity interval physical exercise (HIIPE) session in normal/high normal blood pressure (BP) (120–140 for systolic and 80–90 mmHg for diastolic). Additionally, to compare two...
Research Article
Solving A Multi-objective Mission Planning Problem for UAV Swarms with An Improved NSGA-III Algorithm
Jiajie Liu, Weiping Wang, Xiaobo Li, Tao Wang*, Senyang Bai, Yanfeng WANG
Pages: 1067 - 1081
Restricted communication in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms means that configuration needs to vary dynamically with changing tasks. We propose a mission planning model that uses a motif, a grouping of related functions, as the basic task unit. The planning model automatically generates a mission...
Journal: Artery Research
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P36 Leukocyte Telomere Length is Inversely Associated with Wave Reflection in 566 Normotensive and Never-treated Hypertensive Subjects
Ilkka Pörsti, Milja Honkonen, Kati Vääräniemi, Outi Saijonmaa, Antti Tikkakoski, Jenni Koskela, Arttu Eräranta, Mika Kähönen, Jukka Mustonen, Frej Fyhrquist
Pages: S77 - S77
Background: Telomeres are short segments in chromosome ends, the length of which is reduced during cell life-cycles. We examined the association of leukocyte telomere length and short telomere proportion with hemodynamic variables.
Methods: Altogether 566 subjects (279 women and 287 men) without cardiovascular...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.55 Dietary Nitrate Prevents Progression of Carotid Subclinical Atherosclerosis Through BP-Independent Mechanisms in Patients with or at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Results from the Double-Blind, Randomized-Controlled, Factorial Vasera Trial
Franca Morselli, Luca Faconti, Charlotte E Mills, Steve Morant, Philip J Chowienczyk, J Kennedy Cruickshank, Andrew J Webb, Alessandro Cavarape
Pages: S77 - S77
Background: Epidemiological and animal studies suggest the potential of dietary nitrate (NO 3−) to inhibit atherogenesis. Spironolactone may improve arterial stiffness. We tested if 6 months’ intervention with dietary nitrate and spironolactone could affect carotid subclinical atherosclerosis and stiffness...
Research Article
Multi-stage method to identify structural damage using multiple damage location assurance criterion and an improved differential evolution algorithm
Chunli Wu, Hanbing Liu, Xuxi Qin, Guojin Tan, Zhengwei Gu
Pages: 1066 - 1081
For the damage identification technique of civil structures, the reduction of the computational cost for methods based on the optimization algorithms is the most crucial step. In this study, a fast multi-stage method is developed that uses the multiple damage location assurance criterion and an improved...
Research Article
Modified 2-Way Wavefront (M2W) Algorithm for Efficient Path Planning
Ayesha Maqbool, Alina Mirza, Farkhanda Afzal
Pages: 1066 - 1077
In this paper modified 2-way wavefront algorithm(M2W) is introduced for the discretized path planning problem. The proposed scheme uses the Glasius model, wavefront navigational function, and adaptation of Artificial Potential Fields (APF) for effective obstacle avoidance. Unlike the APF, it does not...
Research Article
Context-Based Method Using Bayesian Network in Multimodal Fission System
Atef Zaguia, Chakib Tadj, Amar Ramdane-Cherif
Pages: 1076 - 1090
The current technological advancement has created the need to produce machines more powerful, easy to use and to meet the needs of users. To achieve this goal, multimodal systems have been developed to combine multiple modalities depending on the task, preferences and communicative intentions of the...
Journal: Artery Research
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P35 Education Level may Modify the Association Between Cardiac Index and Cognitive Function Among Elders with Normal Ejection Function
Cheng Hao-Min, Chuang Shao-Yuan, Ko Yu-Ting, Liao Chao-Feng, Pan Wen-Harn, Liu Wen-Ling, Hung Chen-Ying, Chen Chen-Huan
Pages: S76 - S76
Background: Lower cardiac index (CI) in elders without clinical heart disease has been associated with impaired cognitive function and incident dementia. In the present study, we investigated the modulating effects of education level and arterial stiffness on the association between CI and cognitive...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.54 Biomarkers and Haemodynamic Predictors of Left Atrial Strain in Early Hypertension
Maryam Bukhamseen, Nada Al-Saileek, Ahmed Al-Saileek, Mohammad Ghormalla Ghamdi, Tahlil Wasame, Ahmed Omran, Azra Mahmud
Pages: S76 - S76
Background: In the early stages of atrial remodeling, increased aortic stiffness might indicate atrial fibrosis.
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the association between left atrial (LA) mechanical function, assessed by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography and aortic stiffness...
Journal: Artery Research
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P34 24-Hour Ambulatory Brachial Versus Aortic Systolic Blood Pressure: Relationship with Left Ventricular Mass Significantly Differs. Pooled Results from the International 24 Hour Aortic Blood Pressure Consortium (i24ABC)
Siegfried Wassertheurer, Athanase Protogerou, James Sharman, Enrique Rodilla Sala, Piotr Jankowski, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Cristina Giannattasio, Bernhard Hametner, Jose Maria Pascual, Robert Zweiker, Antonio Argyris, Anna Paini, Ian Wilkinson, Danuta Czarnecka, Massimo Salvetti, Alessandro Maloberti, Carmel McEniery, Yan Li, Janos Nemcsik, Giacomo Pucci, Cornelia Ablasser, Jacques Blacher, Alexandre Valleé, Alejandro de la Sierra, Yi Zhang, Hongwei Ji, Barry McDonnell, Marco Mota, Annelise Paiva, Andrea Brandao, Thomas Weber
Pages: S75 - S75
Background: There is evidence of a closer relation between 24 hour aortic systolic blood pressure (aSBP) and left ventricular mass (LVM) compared with 24 hour brachial SBP. However, sample sizes are relatively small and there is some inconsistency in findings. We sought to address this by pooling data...
Research Article
Two dimensional particle swarm optimization algorithm for load flow analysis
Shabana Mehfuz, Sumit Kumar
Pages: 1074 - 1082
Methods generally used for load flow analysis have been found to be time consuming and complex. This paper presents an optimization algorithm for load flow analysis inspired from swarm optimization techniques. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a type of swarm intelligence that is based on social-psychological...
Journal: Artery Research
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P32 Nationwide Comprehensive Health Protection Screening Program in Hungary 2010-2020-2030
István Barna, Ede Kékes, Gergely Dankovics, Tennó Daiki
Pages: S74 - S74
From 2010 a new, complex screening program started in Hungary, it works with the support of 76 professional-scientific societies and companies. Within the framework of the Program in the largest mobile diagnostics center in Hungary 37 comprehensive surveys in free form. This enormous special screening...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.53 Ascending Aorta Diameter and Pulse Wave Velocity are Increased and Local Hemodynamic is Disrupted in Patients with Blunt Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injury Treated by TEVAR
Andrea Guala, Daniel Gil Sala, Aroa Ruiz-Muñoz, Marvin Garcia-Reyes, Lydia Dux-Santoy, Gisela Teixido-Tura, Cristina Tello, Filipa Valente, Angela Lopez-Sainz, Laura Galian, Laura Gutierrez, Kevin Johnson, Oliver Wieben, Ignacio Ferreira, Arturo Evangelista, Sergi Bellmunt-Montoya, Jose Rodriguez-Palomares
Pages: S74 - S75
Background: Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) is becoming the preferred treatment option to repair the proximal descending aorta after rupture following blunt traumatic injury. However, hemodynamic and mechanic implications of this intervention are poorly understood. Exploiting the possibilities...
Letter to Editor
Central coordination of humanitarian aid in Nepal
Maryam Alfa-Wali, Kaji Sritharan
Pages: S73 - S74
Journal: Artery Research
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P31 Aldosterone and Cardiovascular Function in a Young Cohort: The African-PREDICT Study
Johannes Van Rooyen, Lebo Gafane-Matemane, Hugo Huisman, Carina Mels, Alta Schutte
Pages: S73 - S73
Objectives: High levels of aldosterone may contribute to early development of hypertension. The aim was to evaluate the influence of high serum aldosterone on cardiovascular function in healthy black and white South Africans.
Methods: This study was embedded in the African-PREDICT study, included 233...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.50 Radial Artery Phenotyping in Fibromuscular Dysplasia Through Ultra-High Frequency Ultrasound: A Radiomic Approach
Federica Poli, Rosa Maria Bruno, Francesco Faita, Hakim Khettab, Michel Azizi, Saverio Vitali, Mirco Cosottini, Davide Caramella, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Stefano Taddei, Pierre Boutouyrie, Alexandre Persu, Xavier Jeunemaitre, Aurélien Lorthioir
Pages: S73 - S73
Rationale and Aim: This study is aimed at identifying possible patterns of vascular wall disarray and remodeling in radial arteries of patients with fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD), by means of ultrahigh frequency ultrasound (UHFUS).
Methods: UHFUS scans of the radial arteries and of 30 FMD patients and...
Research Article
Soft Sensor Modeling Method by Maximizing Output-Related Variable Characteristics Based on a Stacked Autoencoder and Maximal Information Coefficients
Yanzhen Wang, Xuefeng Yan
Pages: 1062 - 1074
The key factors required to establish a precise soft sensor model for industrial processes include selection of variables affecting vital indicators from a large number of online measurement variables and elimination of the effects of unrelated disturbance variables. How to compress redundant information...
Research Article
Benthic Habitat Mapping from Seabed Images using Ensemble of Color, Texture, and Edge Features
Ashfaqur Rahman
Pages: 1072 - 1081
In this paper we present a novel approach to produce benthic habitat maps from sea floor images in Derwent estuary. We have developed a step–by–step segmentation method to separate sea–grass, sand, and rock from the sea floor image. The sea–grass was separated first using color...
Journal: Artery Research
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P30 Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Factors Determining Carotid and Femoral Intima-media Thickness and Plaques
Adam Domonkos Tarnoki, Rebeka Debreceni, Greta Janositz, Kata Gyulay, Jokkel Zsofia, Viktor Berczi, Helga Szabo, Anita Hernyes, David Laszlo Tarnoki
Pages: S72 - S72
Introduction: Intima-media thickness (IMT) of carotid and femoral artery and plaque formation are both markers of subclinical cardiovascular risk, despite these two process are not simultaneous. Our aim was to investigate their genetic and environmental background.
Methods: 54 monozygotic (MZ) and 32...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.49 Aortic Root Longitudinal Strain by Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography: Comparison with Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Predictive Value in Marfan Syndrome Patients
Andrea Guala, Maria Isabel Pons, Aroa Ruiz-Muñoz, Lydia Dux-Santoy, Laura Madrenas, Minerva Gandara, Filipa Valente, Angela Lopez-Sainz, Laura Galian, Laura Gutierrez, Augusto Sao-Aviles, Teresa Gonzalez-Alujas, Ignacio Ferreira, Arturo Evangelista, Jose Rodriguez-Palomares, Gisela Teixido-Tura
Pages: S72 - S72
Background: Low longitudinal strain of the ascending aorta (AAo) by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) predicts dilation and aortic events in Marfan syndrome (MFS) [1], possibly reflecting aortic stiffness [2]. Speckle-tracking is established for cardiac deformation, but proximal aorta applications are...
Journal: Artery Research
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P28 A Commonly Used Single-item Physical Activity Question Fails to Discriminate Expected Blood Pressure-related Cardiovascular Risk in a General Community Sample
Martin Schultz, Dean Picone, Ricardo Fonseca, James Sharman
Pages: S71 - S71
Background: Completion of ≥150 minutes/week of physical activity (PA) is recommended for cardiovascular health, but this is achieved only by ~50% of Australian adults. Assessing self-reported PA via quick single-item question is desirable for large-scale cardiovascular research and health screening....
Journal: Artery Research
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P.48 Ultrasound-Based Velocity and Acceleration of the Carotid Atheromatous Plaque in Asymptomatic Patients with Moderate and Severe Stenosis
Kalliopi Dalakleidi, Spyretta Golemati, Aimilia Gastounioti, Christos Liapis, Konstantina Nikita
Pages: S71 - S71
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in ultrasound-based velocities and accelerations of the carotid atheromatous plaque between asymptomatic patients with moderate and severe stenosis, based on the assumption that plaque motion features are sensitive to cardiovascular health...
Research Article
Spatio-temporal Similarity Measure for Network Constrained Trajectory Data
Ying Xia, Guo-Yin Wang, Xu Zhang, Gyoung-Bae Kim, Hae-Young Bae
Pages: 1070 - 1079
Trajectory similarity measure is an important issue for analyzing the behavior of moving objects. In this paper, a similarity measure method for network constrained trajectories is proposed. It considers spatial and temporal features simultaneously in calculating spatio-temporal distance. The crossing...
Journal: Artery Research
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P27 Non-validated Blood Pressure Devices Dominate the Online Marketplace: An Initiative of the Lancet Commission on Hypertension Group
Dean Picone, Rewati Deshpande, Martin Schultz, Ricardo Fonseca, Norm Campbell, Christian Delles, Michael Hecht-Olsen, Aletta Schutte, George Stergiou, Sonia Angell, Raj Padwal, James Sharman
Pages: S70 - S70
Introduction: Home BP monitoring is recommended to guide clinical decisions on hypertension and is used worldwide. People make their own decisions when purchasing BP measurement devices, which are often made online. One potential barrier to accurate home BP monitoring is that patients may purchase an...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.47 Feasibility Evaluation of Imaging-Free Ultrasound Technology to Measure Diameters of Brachial and Radial Arteries for Assessment of Endothelial Function
Dinu Chandran, Jayaraj Joseph, Sakshi Sen, Kiran Raj, P.M. Nabeel, Kishore Kumar Deepak
Pages: S70 - S70
Background: Ultrasonographic imaging to record changes in peripheral arterial diameter associated with Flow mediated dilatation or Low flow mediated constriction is routinely used to assess various facets of vascular endothelial function. Imaging poses many challenges including requirement of costly...
Research Article
Comparison of Recent Metaheuristic Algorithms for Shape Detection in Images
Erik Cuevas, Angel Trujillo, Mario A. Navarro, Primitivo Diaz
Pages: 1059 - 1071
Shape recognition in images represents one of the complex and hard-solving problems in computer vision due to its nonlinear, stochastic and incomplete nature. Classical image processing techniques have been normally used to solve this problem. Alternatively, shape recognition has also been conducted...
Journal: Artery Research
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P26 Ascending Aorta Longitudinal Strain is not Altered in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Patients
Andrea Guala, Lydia Dux-Santoy, Gisela Teixido-Tura, Aroa Ruiz-Muñoz, Laura Madrenas, Minerva Gandara, Augusto Sao-Aviles, Filipa Valente, Laura Galian-Gay, Laura Gutierrez, Teresa Gonzalez-Alujas, Ignacio Ferreira, Arturo Evangelista, Jose Rodriguez-Palomares
Pages: S69 - S69
Background: Impaired ascending aorta (AAo) longitudinal strain, a marker of AAo deformation due to aorto-ventricular mechanical interaction, is related to progressive dilation and aortic events in Marfan syndrome [1]. Whether the high prevalence of dilation in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is due to intrinsically-altered...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.46 Assessment of Intraplaque Hemorrhage by Photoacoustics Imaging (PAI): First in-vivo Human Validation Study
Rosa Maria Bruno, Yuki Imaizumi, Hasan Obeid, Michael Jaeger, Pierre Julia, Patrick Bruneval, David Calvet
Pages: S69 - S69
Aim: To validate a photoacoustic imaging (PAI) system, for the identification of intraplaque hemorrhage, comparing it with MRI and histology (gold standard).
Methods: 25 patients with carotid stenosis >70% and clinical indication to tromboendoarterectomy were recruited. Angio-MRI for intraplaque...
Research Article
A Relational Model for the Possibilistic Valid-time Approach
Jose Enrique Pons, Nicolás Marín, Olga Pons, Christophe Billiet, Guy de Tré
Pages: 1068 - 1088
In real world, it is very common that some objects or concepts have properties with a time-variant or timerelated nature. Modelling this kind of objects or concepts in a (relational) database schema is possible, but time-variant and time-related attributes have an impact on the consistency of the entire...
Journal: Artery Research
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P25 Effect of Live-firefighting on Ventricular-vascular Coupling
Brooks Hibner, Elizabeth Schroeder, Wesley Lefferts, Thessa Hilgenkamp, Huimin Yan, Gavin Horn, Denise Smith, Bo Fernhall
Pages: S68 - S68
Introduction: Cardiovascular events are the leading cause of death among firefighters, with the greatest risk occurring during or shortly after fire suppression activity. Increased cardiovascular risk potentially manifests from detrimental changes in ventricular function, vascular load, and their interaction...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.45 Characterization of the Microcirculatory Response to Gravity-Induced Changes using Thermal Imaging
Noam Moyal, Noa Darchi, Oshrit Hoffer, Neta Rabin, Benjamin Gavish, Moshe Halak, Zehava Ovadia-Blechman
Pages: S68 - S68
Objective: The goal of this study was to characterize the changes in the palm’s blood distribution in response to a decrease in blood pressure due to gravity-induced changes, using thermal imaging.
Methods: Thermal hands images were taken from ten healthy volunteers, without any known vascular pathologies,...
Research Article
Achieving high seroprevalence against polioviruses in Sri Lanka-Results from a serological survey, 2014
Deepa Gamage, Paba Palihawadana, Ondrej Mach, William C. Weldon, Steven M. Oberste, Roland W. Sutter
Pages: S67 - S71
The immunization program in Sri Lanka consistently reaches >90% coverage with oral poliovirus vaccines (OPV), and no polio supplementary vaccination campaigns have been conducted since 2003. We evaluated serological protection against polioviruses in children. A cross-sectional community-based survey...
Journal: Artery Research
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P24 Restored Physiological Local Carotid Pulse Wave Velocity After Bariatric Surgery in Obese Subjects
Alessandro Giudici, Carmela Morizzo, Michaela Kozakova, Lorenzo Losso, Carlo Palombo, Kennedy J. Cruickshank, Ashraf Khir
Pages: S67 - S67
Obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular events and is associated with increased arterial stiffness [1,2]. However, the effect of drastic changes in Body Mass Index (BMI) on arterial mechanics has not been fully investigated. Our study aimed at evaluating changes in local carotid PWV (cPWV) in obese...
Research Article
Intelligent Centroid Localization Based on Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithm
Taner Tuncer
Pages: 1056 - 1065
For many of the applications in which wireless sensor networks are used, it is important to know from which nodes or what location useful information is acquired. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is conventionally used to determine location. However, GPS systems are not ideal for many applications...
Research Article
Tire Defects Classification Using Convolution Architecture for Fast Feature Embedding
Yan Zhang, Xuehong Cui, Yun Liu, Bin Yu
Pages: 1056 - 1066
Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has become an increasingly important research field in machine learning and computer vision. Deep image features can be learned and subsequently used for detection, classification and retrieval tasks in an end-to-end model. In this paper, a supervised feature embedded...
Journal: Artery Research
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P23 Tadalafil improves hemodynamic parameters and arterial stiffness in patients with grade I-II obesity without comorbidities
Mariana Larios-Cardenas, Fernando Grover-Páez, David Cardona-Muller, Ernesto Cardona, Oscar I. Gonzalez-Radillo, Jonathan Trujillo-Quiros, Marycruz Barocio-Pantoja, Patricia Quezada-Fernandez, Carlos G. Ramos-Becerra
Pages: S66 - S66
Background: Obesity is a global health problem, it is associated with diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases [1] and negative hemodynamic effects have been observed [2]. Tadalafil has shown an improvement in endothelial function [3] the aim of the present investigation was to evaluate its...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.44 Application of an Algorithm Developed for Measuring Gastrointestinal Motility to the Assessment of Arterial Mechanical Properties
Andrew Bard, Stephen Greenwald, Sandip Sarkar
Pages: S66 - S67
Background: GIQuant (Motilent, London) is an algorithm for analysing cine-MRI, using the displacement fields generated by registration of indivisdual ciné frames. It produces a summary of how much movement occurs (“motility”) for anatomical locations within a reference image [1]. Although it is used...
Research Article
Proactive Control for Oversaturation Mitigation on Evacuation Network: a Multi-Agent Simulation Approach
Zhengfeng Huang, Pengjun Zheng, Yanqiang Ma*, Guiyan Jiang, Gang Ren
Pages: 1055 - 1067
Using a multi-agent simulation approach composing of evacuee, cell, and signal, this study aims to proactively curb the oversaturation spread in evacuation and improve the evacuation efficiency. The specific innovation lies in the en-route path choice model and oversaturation control model. A logit model...
Journal: Artery Research
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P22 Central and Peripheral Contributions to Submaximal Exercise Performance in Older Adults in the SouthAll and Brent REvisited (SABRE) Study
Siana Jones, Martin Schultz, Therese Tillin, Suzanne Williams, Nishi Chaturvedi, Alun Hughes
Pages: S65 - S65
Background: Functional capacity declines with age leading to disability and increased cost of health and social care. In older adults, factors that influence the ability to sustain sub-maximal exercise (a marker of functional capacity) are not well defined. We aimed to determine the contribution of cardiac...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.43 The Association Between Early Vascular Aging and Cyclothymic Affective Temperament
Milan Vecsey-Nagy, Bálint Szilveszter, Márton Kolossváry, Xénia Gonda, Zoltán Rihmer, Béla Merkely, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, János Nemcsik
Pages: S65 - S65
Objectives: Affective temperaments (depressive, anxious, irritable, hyperthymic, cyclothymic) are regarded as the biologically stable core of personality, and accumulating data implies their relationship with cardiovascular diseases. There are currently limited data on the association of affective temperaments...
Research Article
On (,)- (implicative) filters in -algebras
Jianming Zhan, Yang Xu, Young Bae Jun
Pages: 1064 - 1073
Molodtsov's soft set theory provides a general mathematical framework for dealing with uncertainty. This paper aims to put forward a new soft set–(,)-soft intersection set, which is a generalization of soft intersection sets. We introduce (, )- (implicative) filters of -algebras. Some characterizations...
Journal: Artery Research
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P21 The Association of Vitamin K Antagonists with Aortic Arch Calcification in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
Konstantia-Paraskevi Gkini, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Aggeliki Rigatou, Vasiliki Gardikioti, Evangelia Sigala, Dimitrios Tousoulis
Pages: S64 - S64
Purpose /Background /Objectives: Vitamin K antagonists (VKA) aggravate vascular calcifications burden, especially in haemodialysis patients potentially compounding their cardiovascular risk. We sought to investigate the relationship between VKA intake and aortic arch calcification (AAC) in patients with...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.42 The Effects of Chemotherapy on Arterial Stiffness in Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma
Constantinos Anagnostopoulos, Stavroula Giannouli, Nikolaos Ioakimidis, Paulos Kafouris, Iosif Koutagiar, Anastasia Sioni, Eirini Solomou, Dimitrios Terentes-Printzios, Dimitrios Tousoulis, Charalampos Vlachopoulos
Pages: S64 - S64
Introduction: Malignancies and cardiovascular disease are the two leading causes of mortality worldwide [1]. While there is extensive literature describing the cardiotoxic effects of chemotherapy on left ventricular systolic function [2,3], there is only little evidence regarding chemotherapy effects...
Research Article
Rumor Detection by Propagation Embedding Based on Graph Convolutional Network
Dang Thinh Vu, Jason J. Jung
Pages: 1053 - 1065
Detecting rumors is an important task in preventing the dissemination of false knowledge within social networks. When a post is propagated in a social network, it typically contains four types of information: i) social interactions, ii) time of publishing, iii) content, and iv) propagation structure....