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Objectives: We sought to investigate whether reverse dipping status is associated with self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL). Methods: BP was evaluated non-invasively under 24-hour ABPM with a brachial cuff-based automatic oscillometric device (Mobilo-O-Graph, IEM); all subjects maintained...

The reality of women in political leadership is constructed by the mass media, which is then conveyed to the public. Often, the media places women as sexual objects that focus on body shape. On the other hand, the media has the power to influence public opinion, which raises the question of how the media...

Introduction: Intra-aortic balloon pumping is widely used to augment diastolic coronary perfusion. However, far less is known about its effects on other large arteries. In this study we assessed the effects of intra-arterial balloon pump pressure support on pressure and flow in the proximal aorta, carotid,...

Objects: Waon-Therapy was invented for the therapy of heart failure by Dr. Tei. The purpose of this study was to confirm the efficacy of Waon therapy and to clarify the role of Waon-therapy in the arterial stiffness monitoring with cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI). Subjects and methods: Study 1 Subjects...

Background: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Objective: To explore whether early markers of RA inflammatory disease activity could predict later cardiovascular disease and arterial stiffness, and to describe the impact of later use of disease-modifying...

Introduction: The increased risk of stroke following a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) is well established. Central aortic pressure, a marker of arterial stiffness, is emerging as a predictor of cardiovascular events including stroke. Additionally brachial Blood Pressure (BP) measurements may not accurately...

Low fertility rate is a major demographic problem facing Chinese society. If it is not paid attention to, it may lead to systemic risks in the social and economic fields in the medium and long term. This paper argues that status consumption is also the leading factor leading to the decline of fertility...

The kernel approach has been applied using the adaptive kernel density estimation, to inference on the generalized gamma distribution parameters, based on the generalized order statistics (GOS). For measuring the performance of this approach comparing to the Asymptotic Maximum likelihood estimation,...

Web services bring more conveniences for users and developers. However, it makes user face the problem of service information explosion. The personalized service recommendation solves the problem. This paper proposes a mechanism to evaluate Web service composition’s reliability which bases on user context...

Emergency management agencies will organize people to evacuee when disasters are forecasted. However, contradictions between individual behavior and group objective appear frequently during large-scale evacuations, the problem is obviously in the process of fisher boats evacuation. So, this paper set...

A model for simulating the output signals of Hall sensors installed with misalignment in a brushless DC (BLDC) motor is proposed in this paper. In the past, Hall sensors have been very widely adopted to evaluate the commutation timing and rotation speed of a BLDC motor. However, no simulation model is...

It is known that many integrable systems can be reduced from self-dual Yang-Mills equations. The formal solution space to the self-dual Yang-Mills equations is given by the so called ADHM construction, in which the solution space are graded by vector spaces with dimensionality concerning topological...

The problem of studying the maximal Lie symmetry of some nonlinear generalization of the vector subsystem of the Maxwell equations is completely solved.

The singular manifold expansion of Weiss, Tabor and Carnevale [1] has been successfully applied to integrable ordinary and partial differential equations. They yield information such as Lax pairs, Bäcklund transformations, symmetries, recursion operators, pole dynamics, and special solutions. On the...

We classify the Noether point symmetries of a generalized Lane-Emden equation. We obtain first integrals of the various cases which admit Noether point symmetry and find reduction to quadratures for these cases. Three new cases are found for the function f (y). One of them is f (y) = ?y r, where r

With the continuous development of the times, the development of financial intermediary makes human society step into a state of efficient integration and matching between real economy and virtual economy. In order to improve the understanding of the function and performance of financial intermediary...

Tetraprenyltoluquinone is a compound that was successfully isolated from the hexane fraction of stem bark Garcinia cowa, Roxb. In previous studies, tetraprenyltoluquinone is known to have anticancer and anti-inflammatory activity. The aim of the study is to investigate the impact of tetraprenyltoluquinone...

Research have been conducted to test the performance and techno-economic analysis of liquid smoke pyrolisator with LPG fuel. Liquid smoke beginning to develop by researchers, to get the higher quality in order to become safe for consumption by the public and not contains carcinogenic substance. Raw material...

Preeclampsia (PE) often described as new-onset hypertension and proteinuria during the third trimester of pregnancy. PE, is one of the most feared complications of pregnancy because it can progress rapidly to serious complications, including death of both mother and fetus. It is important to get a better...

The article analyses the main trends in the development of higher education exports in Russia and Poland. For this purpose, data from the official statistics of both countries, OECD, have been collected and analysed. A list of countries from which the flow of students to both countries is increasing...

The objectives to be achieved in this study were to determine the effectiveness of group counseling through modeling techniques to improve the learning discipline of VIII grade students of MTs Negeri 9 Sleman. The type of research in this study is experimental research. The research design used in this...

This article aims to find out the law regarding the protection of indigenous peoples in the law related to the environment in Indonesia. In the pre-reformation era, especially at the beginning of legislating on environment, there is no law regarding indigenous peoples. After the amendment, the existence...

Buah Batu District is the sub-district with the second-highest Covid-19 incidence rate in Bandung City on December 2020. Many factors affects the high incidence of Covid-19. Medical Faculty Community Service in collaboration with the Indonesian Youth National hold activities to help overcome the problems....

An effective campaign in introducing an image so that it can build the electability of governor candidates according to regulations is to use social media, because social media has no distance and time limits, then costs are relatively cheap and access can be reached by all levels of society. This study...

Accurate poverty alleviation is an innovative means of poverty alleviation, and provides a new way for the work of poverty alleviation. Production of agricultural products for the life of the peasants provide material guarantee, the need to take active measures to give support, allowing farmers to increase...

The effects of abscisic acid (ABA) on the growth of Malachium aquaticum under salt stress were investigated through a pot experiment. The results showed that ABA increased the biomass of M. aquaticum. With the increase of ABA concentrations, the root, stem, leaf and shoot biomasses of M. aquaticum increased...

This paper measures China's market integration by the price difference among regions of eight categories of goods and service. We select tradable goods price data of China's 36 cities in twelve years. We calculate the overall and classified Gini coefficients to analyze integration level of China's market...

This design adopting 80C51 microcontroller and a few external circuit to control lights, using silicon controlled dimming technology, by means of single chip control bidirectional thyristor turn-on to achieve incandescent lamps (resistive load) brightness adjustment, thus achieving the photometric light...

By deeply analyzing discrete frequency theory, this thesis put forward rational theory basis about choosing discrete frequency spectrum and phase position. On the basis of traditional discrete frequency soft starter, this thesis utilize control strategy based on equivalent sine wave principle to promote...

This paper deals with a method for pursuer to track a moving target in the three-dimensional space. The method is based on the use of the geometrical rules combined with the kinematics equations of the pursuer and the target. The maneuvers of the target are not a priori known to the pursuer. In this...

The high-performance and low cost NAND Flash and PRAM (Phase-changed RAM) hybrid storage designs have been proposed for embedded systems. However, the system is still suffering from serious performance degradation for continuous write/read operations in the same logical address frequently due to physical...

This text begins with the social employment demand on graduates major in civil engineering, elaborates the connotation of cultivation mode of practical talents, and discusses the construction of practical talents training mode system from the perspectives of training objective and training standard,...

An analog and digital modulation recognition method based on support vector machine (SVM) is proposed. A multi-class classifier is designed through the reasonable use of SVM multi-class classification method. A comparison for the performances of one-against-all (OAA), one-against-one (OAO) and binary...

Through the research and summary on ecological water resources in the production, living and ecological tourism and other aspects in Xiangzhigou of Wudang District Xinbao village,according to the climate characteristics and regional pattern of Guiyang xiangzhigou, this paper set the simple quantitative...

To make multi-agent collaboration to better collaborate on tasks proposed tactical concept of multi-agent collaboration, a number of tactics to each set of tasks, these tasks set for this tactical purposes, the task set, through with the completion of collaboration between individuals, at time level,...

A new M-ary spread spectrum(SS) hybrid communication system is proposed. The system adopts two orthogonal branches to transport information. In each branch, double M-ary biorthogonal spread spectrum modulation is adopted at first, then every SS code is treated as original code to adopt CPSK modulation,...

This paper studied the feasibility of treating the acid mine drainage (AMD) by using a process of permeable reactive barrier (PRB), in which coal fly ash(CFA) was used as the reaction medium. The adjustment of pH and the removal of COD, sulfate and three kinds of heavy metal ions (Cd2 +, Cu2 +, Zn2 +)...

Some questions exist in the development of Chinese engineering interdisciplinary postgraduate education, such as little attention to the guidelines on engineering education, lack of practice-oriented engineering training, loose cooperation between school and enterprise, little attention to the cultivation...

Eco-translatology not only improves the interpreting theories and practice but also acts as the guideline to the interpreting teaching. Therefore, this paper attempts to put forwards the implications for the improvement of interpreting teaching from the perspective of Eco-translatology, and explore the...

Model checking is one of the formal methods for verification of hardware and software systems. A model checker verifies queries described in temporal logic formulas about a model defined as a state transition diagram. Since the model checkers make an exhaustive search of the state space, the key point...