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Background: Pulse Wave Velocity (PWV) is a measure of arterial stiffness and vascular aging and an important parameter for cardiovascular risk stratification. A previous study showed high prevalence rates of early vascular aging in an adult population from the North of Portugal. The aim of this study...

Background: Turbulent flow downstream of atherosclerotic plaques produces low amplitude shear waves which travel through the chest and can be measured by skin sensors. This acoustic signature may provide a cheap non-invasive way to diagnose arterial disease. We report measurements of shearing oscillations...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Aortic stiffness and hemodynamics are established biomarkers for cardiovascular events. Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) remains the first choice of treatment in most patients with aortic stenosis. We investigated the effect of SAVR on aortic stiffness and the role...

Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is considered a surrogate marker of arterial stiffness and could be useful for characterizing cardiovascular disease progression even in mouse models. Aim of this study was to develop an image process algorithm for assessing arterial PWV in mice using ultrasound (US) images...

By using the social exchange theory of Hobbes, Blau and others, taking the love view of contemporary college students as the theme, and using the data analysis method of qualitative research, this paper obtains the preliminary conclusion of this study: the mutual gift between lovers is an essential link...

In order to develop the geometric parameters measurement technology of wheel tread, it is important to ensure the positioning precision firstly before measurement. In this paper, a new method with no-contact measurement based on line structured light is given to solve this problem. Here the traditional...

A P-adic Exact Scientific Computational Library (ESCL) for rational matrix operations has been developed over the past few years. The effort has been focusing on converting all rational number operations to integer calculation, and fully taking advantage of the fast integer multiplication of modern computer...

This paper presents classification methods for electroencephalography (EEG) signals in imagination of direction measured by a portable EEG headset. In the authors’ previous studies, principal component analysis extracted significant features from EEG signals to construct neural network classifiers. To...

The advances of Graphic Processing Units (GPU) technology and the introduction of CUDA programming model facilitates developing new solutions for sparse and dense linear algebra solvers. Matrix Transpose is an important linear algebra procedure that has deep impact in various computational science and...

It is shown how in the early days of soliton theory 1976-the early 1980's Francesco Calogero maintained a considerable influence on the field and on the work of the athor Robin Bullough in particular. A vehicle to this end was the essentially annual sequence of international conferences Francesco organised...

Classes of the nonlinear Schrödinger-type equations compatible with the Galilei relativity principle are described. Solutions of these equations satisfy the continuity equation.

Using geometric methods for linearizing systems of second order cubically non-linear in the first derivatives ordinary differential equations, we extend to the third order by differentiating the second order equation. This yields criteria for conditional linearizability via point transformation with...

We study four different approximations for finding the profile of discrete solitons in the one- dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) Equation. Three of them are discrete approximations (namely, a variational approach, an approximation to homoclinic orbits and a Green-function approach),...

A new learning algorithm for advanced robot locomotion is presented in this paper. This method involves both Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) technology and an evolutionary process based on genetic algorithm (GA) for a learning process. Learning is formulated as an optimization problem. CNN Templates are...

At present, the study on meteorological disasters risk is mostly for single hazard-affected body. With the economic and social development in recent years, meteorological disaster risk is appearing with more "system" characteristics. Meteorological disasters not only impact on direct hazard-affected...

The characteristics of blockchain technology, such as decentralization, distributed storage, openness and transparency, can effectively solve the main problems in the supply chain of ecological agricultural products in southern Jiangxi province of China. With the “Internet of Things +”, “big data +”...

The orderly implementation of land administration in the management of land rights certificates through the PTSL system, complete systematic land registration, which includes the first objective of the research is to find out and analyze what the legal bases must be when implementing land administration....

The modern business talent standards, teaching concepts, teaching models, curriculum systems, and talent training models formed in the industrial economy era can no longer meet the needs of social and economic development. The construction of business in the new era is an important way to conform to...

Energy consumption and environmental pollutants have to become present issues. So, the reduced of energy fossil in the community is to overcome the highly prices of oil and gas. Therefore, an alternative energy innovation from biomass is needed. Gasification is to energy produces from solid material...

This research is a descriptive study with mixed methods that describe students’ self-regulated learning through blended learning based on the PMRI approach. In this study, a pretest and posttest were conducted in the form questionnaire to know the category of student self-regulated learning. The research...

Researchers analyzed directive speech acts in electronic media commercial advertisements. This research was conducted to obtain in-depth data analysis of directive speech acts in electronic media commercial advertisements, investigate the form and purpose of commercial advertisement of electronic media....

On October 16, 2014, Brazil filed a lawsuit through the WTO on the basis that Indonesia had violated the principle of free trade (Free Trade Agreement). Brazil believes that there are provisions and procedures for imports that have prevented its product, namely chicken meat, from entering the Indonesian...

As the only driving source of pure electric car, the motor system is the top priority of research and development, so the efficiency of the motor directly affects the energy consumption of the whole vehicle. Among all types of motors, permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) has attracted more and more...

European history during the Age of Exploration (15th -18th century) is known primarily for a period of expansion and discovery, constituting for much of the socio-economic and political developments that significantly impacts its historical trajectory. Trade, being one of the major aspects which facilitated...

Bank profitability can be determined by factors that can be controlled by management and factors beyond the control of company management. The factors that can be controlled by management are factors that describe the policies and decisions of the bank’s management itself, such as fundraising, capital...

Balinese folklore is an attractive English learning medium for children. During distance learning, in several kindergartens in Singaraja, the teachers provided illustrated storybooks to children, in the form of Balinese folklore as reading material at home for the introduction of English as a foreign...

An important sector that can contribute sources of animal protein is ruminant livestock. Growth performance and meat quality were reported to be improved with high-fiber feeds. Pineapple waste as a feed ingredient has the potential to reduce dependence on grains and fodder crops during the dry season....

Silsilah Ta’lim Al-Lughah Al-Arabiyah is one of the Arabic language learning package books published by Imam Muhammad bin Saud University in Riyad, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This book includes Arabic language textbooks with the latest methods. This book was chosen as Arabic language teaching material...

Research on financial and digital literacy and its influence on students’ entrepreneurial intentions is needed. The purpose of this study is to understand students’ financial literacy and digital literacy, to understand students’ entrepreneurial intentions, and also to analyze the relationship between...

Social justice is a person of fairness subjective judgment, with the continuous development and progress of society, people's demands for a fair society continues to strengthen. To study the sense of fairness and social factors In this paper, China General Social Survey (CGSS) data. Firstly, a clear...

This paper presents the results of creep behavior experimental testing of FRP beam-strengthened concrete (RC) beams subjected to two different sustained loads. The specimen had dimensions of 400 mm(W) × 600 mm(D) × 6,000 mm(L) were used with or without externally strengthened FRP beam. Test results showed...

With the deepening of economic globalization, foreign direct investment has gradually become the mainstream. In recently years, with a large number of China's investment in Thailand, the question of human resource integration in the transnational corporation has been highlighted. The cultural differences...

Enterprise culture plays an important role in the process of the corporate development. Enterprises are beginning to pay more attention on information technology application in culture constructions. In this paper, the current situation and problems of computer application is analyzed, especially network...

For complex, high-order processes with time-delay, this paper proposes a model reduction method based on a numerical optimization algorithm, and design combined integrating controller based on the reduced model, the controller is applied to the original model can get a good control effect. Model reduction...

Application technical university is to cultivate applied talents of undergraduate level, to promote direct combination of professional skills and knowledge, and to serve to local economic development and the industry. University of applied technology should have scientific orientation fitting the actual...

The high cemented gangue backfill (HCGB) is prepared from coal gangue, fly ash, cement and water. The effects of curing period, slurry concentration, fly ash content and cement content on the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of HCGB were studied by single factor and multi-level test method. The results...

Under the background of growing number of foreign students in China and relative shortage of Chinese teacher for foreigners, improving the autonomous learning ability of foreign students in China is very important. This paper starts out here from the analysis of meaning of foreign students in China's...

Physical education evaluation mechanism is an important component of physical education and teaching in independent colleges. By applying literatures, expert interviews and other methods, the author conducted an analytical research on the physical education evaluation mechanism in independent colleges,...

From 1970s, there are always financial crisis over the world, brings a lot of uncertainties to the economy development of every country, especially the increases risks of commercial banks. These unstable economy situations result in the weakness of financial structure, so that commercial banks no matter...

In consideration of simple workflow security model, there are some defects such as simple authentication, inflexible authorization and absent of audit, etc. However, based on the intensive research of security needs of WfMS, and by involving PKI/PMI technology, an enhanced workflow security model can...

Anxiety is one of the emotions that affect language learning. Knowing the causes of anxiety can help the teacher understand and analyze the problems caused by anxiety among students so as to take effective strategies to help students complete their assignments successfully and improve their learning...

This survey aims to find the problems of task design in graduate English textbooks. 630 directions of tasks are collected from two textbooks. The analysis shows that the main problems are as follows: first, design concept are based on language knowledge to ignore language application ability; second,...

This paper, based on modern logistics management curriculum features and the training objectives of high-quality logistics personnel, by integrating new concepts of logistics teaching reform, puts forward a number of recommendations on innovative teaching according to the following aspects: transforming...

In this paper, an algebraic method for solving indefinite integrals of a class of functions is proposed. The essence of the method is to construct a linear space spanned by the class of functions; thus, the derivative operator is a linear transformation of the linear space. By calculating the value of...

Ideological and political work in colleges and universities is intended to make college students set up correct world outlook, the outlook on life, and the values, and become talents of Marxism ideological theory accomplishment. From the point of view of the current situation, there are some issues that...

Demand response (DR) is one of the best applications to practice the idea of coordinated interaction between smart grid and the electrical loads. In order to support the development of DR in the smart grid, this paper presents and designs a DR analysis control architecture based on Multi-Agent (MA) technology...

Starting from the basic auction theory in china power market, this paper analyses the influence of electricity cost constitution to bidding strategies, auction theory based on price prediction, auction theory based on the analysis of bidding strategy of opponents, auction theory based on game theory...

The nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) method is introduced in order to make the test of crosslink density of composite solid propellant easier than traditional methods. The research status of mechanical properties of nuclear magnetic resonance and solid propellant is briefly introduced, so is the basic...

In order to improve energy efficiency and protect the environment, new energy vehicles have been developing vigorously. As one kind of the vehicles, CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) Automobiles and CNG & Electric hybrid cars have been accelerating promotion. However, the current CNG vehicles are reducing...