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Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular risk. However, PWV is usually determined between the carotid and femoral sites, ignoring the proximal ascending aorta which may stiffen most with age. We tested this hypothesis by assessing regional PWV and aortic diameter...

Background: Despite the introduction of arterial stiffness measurements in the recommendation of the European Societies for Hypertension and Cardiology, pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (Aix) are still not used routinely in clinical practice. Possibly, current techniques, although non-invasive,...

Objective. Physical activity (PA) has been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, improvements in conventional risk factors do not explain the full benefit of PA on CVD risk. Therefore, we examined the association between PA and central haemodynamics to provide new insight into...

Patients with enlarged thyroid gland (goiter) that cause paralysis of recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) or hoarseness usually have associated with thyroid malignancy. Malignancy can be directly or indirectly related to RLN. Cases of vocal cord paralysis associated with benign thyroid disease or goitre...

Introduction: The non-invasive analysis of plaque echolucency (ECL) with Adobe Photoshop® has proven to reduce the subjectivity of ultrasonic evaluation of atherosclerosis. However, ECL provides information concerning only one of the aspects that contribute to vulnerability (plaque echodensity). Hemodyn...

Introduction. Assessing arterial properties and hemodynamics in response to a physiological perturbation might provide additional information on an individual’s “vascular health”. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of measuring changes in carotid stiffness and hemodynamics in response...

Moral rights usually refer to the legitimate rights granted by the moral system and guaranteed by the corresponding obligations. Sorting out the generation and origin of the concept of rights and moral rights, then, by reviewing three news reports about the encroachment on the rights and interests of...

Data mining in a social network can yield interesting perspectives to understanding human behavior or detecting topics or communities. However, it is difficult to gather the data related to a specific topic due to the main characteristics of social media data: large, noisy, and dynamic. To collect the...

Recently, the research of Hybrid ReRAM/MLC NAND SSD is rapidly expanding into the storage areas. Most existing researches of Hybrid SSD are based on a single storage, while the management of multiple nodes like HDFS is still immature. In this paper a new efficient cold data eviction scheme is proposed...

This article summarizes a new, direct approach to the determination of the expansion into spherical harmonics of the exponential ei(x|y) with x, y Rd . It is elementary in the sense that it is based on direct computations with the canonical decomposition of homogeneous polynomials into harmonic components...

A variety of different technologies are used to intervene in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) increasingly every year as more and more children are diagnosed with ASD. One of the technologies used is the use of images, multimedia, and animation with the help of computer technology to provide...

Red Palm Olein (RPOn) is the result of refining and fraction of Crude Palm Oil (CPO). In the conventional refining of CPO, carotene which is a pro-Vitamin A is intentionally removed to get a clear colored oil. This research is comparing between two methods are Method I and Method II. Method I is started...

The internationalization of accounting puts forward new requirements for the training of accounting talents. This paper tries to solve the problem of how to cultivate international compound accounting talents in accounting major in Colleges and universities. Focusing on the domestic international undergraduate...

The aims of this study is to determine whether or not there is code switching and code mixing that were done by the teachers in elementary school in Garut, while they are teaching or communicating with their students, describing the forms of code switching and code mixing, and the factors that cause...

In the present article the authors for the first time reveal the main circle of buildings of the post-avant-garde period that use the giant order. Through comparative analysis, the authors have determined the modifications of the giant order and revealed the specific features of the Leningrad architectural...

This research is part of data mining, a sub-section of information retrieval and text mining. This research focuses on finding an approach to getting relevant documents online news documents with a specific threshold value and improving computing performance to get relevant documents with large documents....

This study aims to determine the readiness to implement teaching factory learning in the Modeling Design and Building Information Vocational Program at SMK Negeri 2 Ciamis Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive research method with a quantitative approach. The level of readiness is seen from four aspects:...

The English translation quality of publicity-targeted tourism texts plays an important role in the development of China’s inbound tourism. Good publicity-targeted tourism texts can effectively attract foreign tourists and promote the development of China’s tourism industry. From the current situation,...

Someone who has physical differences, abilities, and attitudes that are different from other people or people with disabilities often face discrimination, one of which occurs at school. Thus, in responding to this, building a tolerance attitude is needed through inclusive education implemented by schools....

More than just introducing products, advertising can also play a role in socializing gender roles which forms certain stereotypes. The research on the Attack Easy advertisement version of “Mother is Beautiful when Washing” and “Soklin Lantai”, which carries the theme of family, aims to learn signs that...

When wars emerge, the price of all goods and services would increase normally, especially for raw materials like oil. The study aims to analyze the relationship between several important wars and oil prices, including the factors which influence the fluctuation of oil price, and the similarities and...

Pathologic sampling is the initial stage of the pathological research and forensic identification, if the thickness of samplings can not meet the requirements, observation results will be affected, resulting in a higher rate of misdiagnosis. This paper aims at studying the biomechanical properties of...

With the development of economy and technology, computer network plays in people's lives more and more important position, while security problems caused by the network more and more attention has been paid each year because of network security issues, such as hacking, virus infection economic losses...

In order to meet the machine tool could intelligent machining for the new worm wheel gear, a parametric zero programming CNC system is developed based on the modern embedded control technology. The ARM + DSP + FPGA as CNC module hardware platform, and using VS2005 VC + + module development CNC worm wheel...

Multi-scale bistable array (MSBA), which combines normalized scale transform, stochastic resonance effect driven by colored noise and parallel array, can be applied to weak signal detection under heavy noise. The experimental application in incipient fault feature detection of rolling element bearing...

Critical thinking (CT) is the essential goal of learning and central to higher education. Integrated English Course (IEC) provides a good platform to equip students with CT ability. This paper constructs CT skills cultivation mode in Integrated English Course from four steps: constructing interaction...

With the rapid development of the railway industry, the speed and load of the railway vehicle has been significantly increasing but operation environment of the railway vehicle becomes worse. All these will cause problems for the wheel-rail wear. And all the problems will cause potential risk to the...

Based on the structure of traditional evaporative condenser, by analyzing the number of entropy generation units and the principle of heat transfer and mass transfer, through three ways to optimize and improve the evaporative condenser: nozzle spray upward, arrangement of double layer inorganic filler...

The paper deals with an extension of aggregation operators from the set of real numbers (or interval [0, 1]) to the set of fuzzy truth values (fuzzy sets in [0, 1]). We define so-called type-2 aggregation operator and show that an extension of ordinary aggregation operator by convolution is a type-2...

Legislation values provide ethic foundations for environmental legislation, and then affect the value orientation of environmental legal system. This paper reviewed the generation and the development of environmental law, and the evolution of ethic foundations. The impacts of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism...

We should recognize the government’s role in the initial establishment of risk investment system, however we wouldn’t neglect it’s the intervention of administrative power and system that resulted in “administrative” and “planned” capital market. Now what we should do are to counteract the administrative...

SYN Flood attack is still one of the major distributed denial of service attacks. Any network device or computer system with connection state table may have the possibility of suffering from this attack. Moreover, under asymmetric routing environment, unidirectional traffic problem makes it more difficult...

The popularity of Android makes it the prime target of the latest surge in mobile malware. Protecting privacy and integrity of information is helpful for Android users. Currently, malicious software often achieve the purpose of privacy theft and malicious chargeback by sending short messages, making...

Seven factors which influence China’s agricultural output are selected to analyze the relationship between agricultural output and the factors. Parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis are applied to build up the model. Multiple linear regression and principal component regression...

Abstract - The paper is based on the current educational policies of English major reforms and their cultivating models in colleges with similar college bases to CUPL. This provides suitable theoretical and practical references to the target renovation in the English department in our university. We...

This paper focuses on misunderstanding and negative effects on multimedia education as well as its usage. Also, the paper provides a degree which should be used in multimedia education, such as encourage teachers’ guidance, pay attention to students’ feedback, establish teaching-accumulations, as well...

Combining the constructs of organization with knowledge transfer process, we analyze the influential factors of knowledge transfer within scientific research and innovation teams in universities from five aspects: the knowledge source and the knowledge recipients the knowledge transferred, the context...

The credit risk analysis is important in finance and credit management and has the characteristics of profound theories and lots of model, so that it is difficult in understanding to students. By using Situational Method and the powerful data analysis functions of Excel, the abstracted theoretical knowledge...