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Background: Limited data exists on arterial stiffness in sub-Sahara Africa where diabetes and cardiovascular diseases are increasing rapidly. We aimed to compare the indices of arterial stiffness among type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and non-diabetes subjects (NDM), without hypertension, in Ghana. Method: Thirty...

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a biophotonic technique which measures blood volume variations in vascular bed and it is well known for its utilization in pulse oximetry for the estimation of arterial blood oxygen saturation. Moving particles within the tissue bed generate rapidly changing absorption caused...

Background: In adults central blood pressure has stronger associations with cardiovascular outcomes than peripheral blood pressure, with some evidence that this difference is greater in mid- than older-aged adults. The relationship of central blood pressure to cardiovascular structure and function in...

In 2020, about 12% of bridges in Indonesia were assessed to be damaged. CFRP is a material that is widely used for repair reinforced concrete bridges. The behavior of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with externally bonded CFRP sheets was investigated experimentally. The research was to investigate...

Introduction: Arterial stiffness is known to be associated with atherosclerosis, cardiac remodelling and cardiovascular diseases. In recent studies, common carotid artery rigidity was seen to better predict cardiac morphology and function if compared to aortic parameters. The aim of the study was to...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) duration is related to early vascular aging and diabetic complications. Aortic stiffness is considered an integrated marker of the combined effect of cardiovascular risk factors, and could represent one of the links between diabetes and cardiovascular disease. To our knowledge,...

This paper proposes the rehabilitation of a stroke patient by using dataglove called GloveMAP. GloveMAP is a low cost hand glove developed by using the flexible bending sensor and an accelerometer attached at the position of the fingers and wrist, respectively. In the studies, 22 fundamental movements...

Described are classical and quantized systems on linear and affine groups. Unlike the traditional models applied in astrophysics, nuclear physics, molecular vibrations and elasticity, our models are not only kinematically ruled by the affine group, but also their kinetic energies are affinely invariant....

The method of one parameter, point symmetric, approximate Lie group invariants is applied to the problem of determining solutions of systems of pure one-dimensional, diffusion equations. The equations are taken to be non-linear in the dependent variables but otherwise homogeneous. Moreover, the matrix...

This study aims to analyze the implementation of practical assignments in online learning by students. This research method is a survey through an instrument in the form of a questionnaire with 30 questions developed based on theory. Respondents in this study were 550 students of the Early Childhood...

Malaysia as one of leading country in halal industry shows tremendous achievement in global market by providing Sharia compliance products and services. Therefore, with almost 90% populated by Malay Muslim, Perlis provide vast market value to product and service related to halal in term of food and beverage,...

At present, the status of middle managers in enterprises is getting higher and higher, and enterprises have higher and higher requirements for middle managers. As a result, middle managers are under more pressure and the problem of job burnout ensues. In recent years, “job burnout of middle managers”...

Citrus species are among the plants that generate essential oils, which include a variety of chemical components with antibacterial properties. Citrus x aurantiifolia is one of the citrus types developed by a cross between lime (Citrus aurantifolia) and lemon (Citrus hystrix). The purpose of this study...

This study explores the relationship on impulsive buying and the overconsumption tendency of Z Generations on how their intentions to use the BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) services provide by FinTech, e-commerce or an OTA (Online Travel Agents). The emergence of e-wallet and e-money becomes a significant...

Based on a pilot survey of Russian and foreign experts - researchers and pedagogues of architectural schools – the author examines the social and environmental component of professional education. The study shows, which disciplines of the curriculum have social and environmental contents, which names...

Indonesia has an energy mix target of 23% until 2025 in coal-fired power generation, a mixture of coal with biomass. The compound needs to be analyzed first to determine the combustion characteristics. This paper describes the characteristics of combustion of coal and sawdust (90%: 10%). In the TGA and...

Isomonodromic deformation of linear differential equations on ℙ1 with regular and irregular singular points is considered from the view point of twistor theory. We give explicit form of isomonodromic deformation using the maximal abelian subgroup H of G = GLN+1(ℂ) which appeared in the theory of general...

The use of coal as primary energy in Indonesia will continue to be carried out, although slowly it will experience a significant decline until 2050 by the mandate of the National Energy Policy and the General National Energy Plan; this is more or less due to the potential of national coal reserves of...

Dadiah is a traditional food of West Sumatra made from buffalo milk fermented in a bamboo tube container. Dadiah is a functional food because it is made through a spontaneous fermentation by lactic acid bacteria in the buffalo milk and bamboo tubes of the “Aua” type. This study aims to examine the effect...

The quality parameters were investigated in strawberry fruit using soilless cultivation under the tropical greenhouse production. The soilless strawberry production using substrate and NFT system was compared with soil cultivation and they were cultivated using standard nutrient solution with an electrical...

The Corona Virus Disease 19 (Covid-19) pandemic has become a global problem. The best way to deal with covid-19 at this time is to take precautions and implement health protocols as proclaimed by WHO. But until now there are still many people, especially students who do not understand the dangers of...

Parents are examples and role models for children. Children are excellent imitators and they will imitate what their parents do. The role of a father is very important in raising and taking care of children. If there is no balance between the roles of mother and father, it is feared that the child will...

Under the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s economy has been impacted to a certain extent. With the promulgation of the shutdown policy, domestic consumption and production have stagnated, and the stock index fell to a great extent in the first and second quarters. This study evaluated the...

This study investigates the relationship between resource boom, industrial structure and economic growth of China. Compared with these developed countries with a mature industrial structure, China is still in the process of the industrialization. We first examine the effect of a resource boom in China...

The thesis mainly discusses the various sacrifice complexes in the heroine Dorothea Brooke's personality in Middlemarch written by George Eliot. This paper, using Jung's complex theory to focus on the psychological analysis of the heroine Dorothea, to unfold the formation of sacrifice complex in her...

In order to fulfil the lifecycle data management for the spindle bearings of CNC machine tool, this paper firstly presented a bearings-lifecycle-oriented data management model, in which the bearings' code re-factoring methods and a ontology-based entity relationship (E-R) model are discussed in detail....

The vehicle positioning accuracy directly related to the dynamic model. For a single dynamic model, it is difficult to describe the state change of the vehicle movement precisely, so this paper proposes a composite model of GPS dynamic positioning system, and this paper designs a vehicle location and...

The difference is analysed detailedly between research management and production management from three aspects in the paper. It constructs new management mode of scientific research projects based on PDCA, and expounds the mode's workflow in the process of projects implementation.

Little information could be found about formulas and coefficients for calculating the head loss of tube settler, which makes it difficult for the designers to get the values. Herein, using computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT as the platform, the hydraulic characteristics involving in water flow...

"The Belt and Road" strategy is our country's opening up to achieve a strategic change, China's government lead and strongly promote the medium and long-term national strategy, in order to let more and more enterprises to go out, the Commercial Banks of cross-border financial service in the area along...

The relationship between rotation velocity and displacements of cylinder is researched. Based on the heat-structure coupling method of AWE software, the cylinder is simulated. The original temperature field under certain velocities is obtained, and the correction depends on experiments is made. In accordance...

According to the difference between platform's and play loads' put-in voltage, a design of power transmission and management system for SPS is proposed, in which high and low voltages hybrid power supply technology is applied. The electrical power from SPS to the earth can be transmitted efficiently,...

The seepage process of Xinxiang Town landslide under typical rainfall condition was calculated and analyzed in this paper. The calculation results show that the rainfall can significantly raise the saturation line of landslide and form the saturated seepage zone with relatively large hydraulic gradient...

The paper introduces the construction of the network interconnect device course, which is a school-enterprise cooperation course, in Anhui vocational college of defense technology. In the construction of the course, combining the reality of the computer network technology specialty, the course development...

Recent years have witnessed a high-speed development of modern competitive sports. But there are many problems, especially current vocational state and career prospect of retired athletes, which seriously plague the development of national sports undertakings. Why did the problem appear in China After...

In terms of approximation of labeled transition systems, it is inefficient to simplify system actions. This paper proposed approximation of homogeneous linear algebraic transition systems. In order to extend the system actions, homogeneous linear algebraic programs are applied to describe system actions....

A comprehensive equipment management system based on web service is introduced, and design idea is described from the perspective of function scope, main functions and system integration. The key technologies of foreground model and background services are described. The system is integrated in web service...

People are becoming more and more dependent on mobile devices in their work or life, and the security management issue of mobile devices is becoming much more serious than ever. ISO 27001 provides a practical framework for information security management which is based on risk assessment. However, it...

Xiao Guo clay sculpture in the city of Cang shan is the outstanding representative in the Chinese folk sculpture art. Meantime it can also be known by foreigners as the most folk artistic handwork full of the oriental color. This article is mainly illustrated from three aspects, which is the unique style...

With the development of economy, logistics industry has been rapid development in our country, logistics enterprise's service and management level also had the very big enhancement, enterprises gradually realized that the modern logistics has become "the third profit source", is the enterprise to reduce...

JST080 is a capacitive touch-sensitive chip based on the principle of relaxation, which can design and implement touch key system with MCU. The system is qualified with simple hardware circuit, reliable performance and convenient usage. To improve the reliability of capacitive touch key system, in terms...

The take-off and landing stage in UAV, due to the complex terrain of landing and flight attitude control is difficult, the ground operators need to rocker landing on the ground controller to control the artificial take-off and landing aircraft. In order to make the aircraft landing task and high precision,...

The present article aims to make a critical view of the current and prospective situation of mass transport systems in the Caribbean region based on technologies. One of the important and sensitive aspects of analysis is the impact that these systems are generating in the economic, social and environmental...

At present, information system has been widely applied to various fields, but different kinds of database leaks and other security incidents continue to appear, leading to endless security risks for users. Database as the core of information system, the research on which seem to be very important. In...

I develop a model to determine an optimal model to improve the traffic capacity of the toll plaza. My model contains four parts: In the first part, I consider the principles of designing the toll plaza. Then I set out to reach to an optimal model on the basis of the principle above. In the meantime,...

Students' understanding on human reproduction concept at Pharmacy Major of ISFI Vocational Middle School Banjarmasin was low because of too many words and scientific terms in Greek. In addition, the process was too complicated and abstract. Based on this condition, it was necessary to implement an appealing...

Starting from the development of domestic and foreign research, this paper finds out the common problems in the design and construction of the Chinese B&B. By analyzing the typical cases of the excellent B&B projects, it puts forward the rational and distinctive policy and explores sustainable development...

The article analyzes some of the current trends of Russian stable comparisons use in sports discourse. The author pays attention to the replenishment of this strata of phraseology, expand the combinability of units, formation of new meanings, changing the connotations of the comparisons in the sports...