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Journal: Artery Research
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4.1 NORMAL VALUES AND DETERMINANTS OF FEMORAL ARTERY STIFFNESS
J. Bossuyt, L. Engelen, I. Ferreira, C. Stehouwer, P. Boutouyrie, S. Laurent, P. Segers, K. Reesink, L. Van Bortel
Pages: 126 - 126
Journal: Artery Research
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P160 ASSESSMENT OF CAROTID PULSE WAVE VELOCITY (CARPWV) IN PATIENTS WITH ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS
Guillermo Alanis-Sánchez, Carlos Ramos-Becerra, David Cardona-Müller, Patricia Quezada-Fernández, Sara Pascoe-González, César Murguia-Soto, Ernesto Cardona-Muñoz
Pages: 126 - 127
Introduction: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory rheumatic disease associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.
Objectives: To assess the local arterial stiffness in carotid artery in subjects with AS compared with controls evaluated by...
Journal: Artery Research
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P2.27 A ROBUST METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS OF DIAMETER, DISTENSION AND IMT IN HUMANS AND SMALL ANIMALS
S. Segstedt, T. Nilsson, Å.R. Ahlgren, D. Ley, M. Cinthio
Pages: 126 - 127
ARTIC is a new segmentation-based tracking algorithm used to automatically measure diameter, distension and intima media thickness (IMT) in arteries using B-mode ultrasound. ARTIC is initiated with a mark in the center of lumen and can then perform automatic measurements in about 1000 frames/second....
Journal: Artery Research
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3.6 GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS IDENTIFY GENES ASSOCIATED WITH ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AND CAROTID DIAMETER IN THE TWINS UK COHORT
M. Cecelja, B. Jiang, K. McNeill, T. Spector, P. Chowienczyk
Pages: 126 - 126
Journal: Artery Research
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P159 CORRELATION BETWEEN INFLAMMATORY STATE AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS
Daniele Brustolim, Lucelia Magalhaes, Diorlene Silva, Rodrigo Sant’Ana de Lima, Vinicius Louzada Castro, Daniel Malta Ribeiro, Caroline Rodrigues Fidelman, Natalia Damasceno, Larissa Vasconcelos, Caroline Ventura, Vascor Group
Pages: 126 - 126
Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is gold standard for assessing arterial stiffness. Studies have shown that people with metabolic syndrome have insulin resistance and that after the onset of diabetes, cardiovascular risk is intensely increased, high-sensitive C-reactive protein (hsCRP) (1). Relate influence...
Journal: Artery Research
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P2.26 ASSESSING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CARDIO-ANKLE VASCULAR INDEX (CAVI) AND ITS PWV FOR ARTERIAL FUNCTION – ARM-LEG DIFFERENCES AND REPEATABILITY
V. Govoni, M.L. Casagrande, F. Iqbal, K.J. Cruickshank
Pages: 126 - 126
Background: Vasera is a machine developed to evaluate arterial stiffness by measuring pulse wave velocity (PWV) and cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI), apparently independent of blood pressure (BP). The 4-cuff device measures right (R) and left (L) brachial and ankle BP, deriving the CAVI value and cardiac-ankle...
Journal: Artery Research
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3.5 EFFECTS OF BETA-BLOCKERS WITH OR WITHOUT VASODILATING PROPERTIES ON CENTRAL BLOOD PRESSURE: A META-ANALYSIS OF RANDOMIZED TRIALS IN HYPERTENSION
G. Pucci, M. Ranalli, F. Battista, F. Anastasio, M. Crapa, G. Schillaci
Pages: 126 - 126
Journal: Artery Research
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P158 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN THE VERY OLD: THE AGA@4LIFE RESEARCH PROJECT
Telmo Pereira
Pages: 126 - 126
Objective: To study the determinants of Arterial Stiffness (AS) in the elderly.
Design and method: Cross-sectional, observational study of elderly participants. Blood Pressure (BP) and arterial function parameters were measured with a validated device. Clinical and demographic information was gathered,...
Journal: Artery Research
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P2.25 ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC VALIDATION OF A NOVEL METHOD FOR NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION OF CARDIAC OUTPUT BASED ON PULSE CONTOUR ANALYSIS
T.G. Papaioannou, D. Soulis, O. Vardoulis, A.D. Protogerou, P. Sfikakis, N. Stergiopulos, C. Stefanadis
Pages: 126 - 126
Surgical or critically ill patients often require continuous assessment of cardiac output (CO) for diagnostic purposes or guiding therapeutic interventions. A new method of non-invasive estimation of CO, based on pressure wave analysis, has been recently developed, but its validity has been examined...
Research Article
Commercial Territory Design for a Distribution Firm with New Constructive and Destructive Heuristics
Jaime Cano-Belmán, Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado, M. Angélica Salazar-Aguilar
Pages: 126 - 147
A commercial territory design problem with compactness maximization criterion subject to territory balancing and connectivity is addressed. Four new heuristics based on Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures within a location-allocation scheme for this NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem...
Research Article
Mixed Perturbative Expansion: the Validity of a Model for the Cascading
Hervé Leblond
Pages: 126 - 143
A new type of perturbative expansion is built in order to give a rigorous derivation and to clarify the range of validity of some commonly used model equations. This model describes the evolution of the modulation of two short and localized pulses, fundamental and second harmonic, propagating together...
Research Article
First Integrals Generated by Pseudosymmetries in Nambu-Poisson Mechanics
Mircea Crâşmăreanu
Pages: 126 - 135
Some types of first integrals for Hamiltonian Nambu-Poisson vector fields are obtained by using the notions of pseudosymmetries. In this theory, the homogeneous Hamiltnian vector fields play a special role and we point out this fact. The differential system which describe the SU(2)-monopoles is given...
Research Article
Bilinearization of Coupled Nonlinear Schrödinger Type Equations: Integrabilty and Solitons
K. Porsezian
Pages: 126 - 131
Considering the coupled envelope equations in nonlinear couplers, the question of integrability is attempted. It is explicitly shown that Hirota's bilinear method is one of the simple and alternative techniques to Painlevé analysis to obtain the integrability conditions of the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger...
Research Article
Dynamics of Urban Fire Correlations with Detrended Fluctuation Analysis
Jinghong Wang
Pages: 126 - 132
To explore and understand the intrinsic dynamic mechanisms of urban fire system is an important prerequisite for the fire risk analysis and management. By analyzing the time series of urban fire system, it is helpful to achieve this goal. In this paper, the detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) is applied...
Proceedings Article
A Review on the Potential Applications of Cocoa Shell in Food Industry
Glynnis Netania, Tabligh Permana, Juli Effendy, Filiana Santoso, Edrick Alvaro Oslo
Cocoa shell is one of the main by-products of cocoa beans. It is separated from the nibs and are disposed of, as it could affect the final quality of cocoa products. As a result, a high amount of waste can be produced during mass production of cocoa beans. Indonesia is one of the largest producers of...
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Innovation for Biomotor Training and Football Techniques
Fauzi Fauzi, Siswantoyo Siswantoyo, Danang wicaksono, Nawan Primasoni
This study aims to develop individual biomotor training tools and soccer techniques in the sport of football by integrating with technology. Research and development was used in this study. The development of this individual training tool is carried out in several stages, namely: (1) preliminary study,...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Study of Coal Sawdust Co-Firing with Slagging Fouling Prediction and Observation of Probe from Drop Tube Furnace Combustion Test
Adi Prismantoko, Hariana, Hanafi Prida Putra, Suyatno, Minako Kawai
The use of biomass in co-firing in coal-fired power plants is one step to achieve the renewable energy mix target in Indonesia. Several aspects need considering to implement co-firing, including the slagging fouling aspect. It has the potential to interfere with process performance, reliability, and...
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Hotel and Restaurant Taxes Role to the Local Original Revenue of Regency/City in South Sumatera
Sovi Julianda Wahya, Sukmini Hartati, Eka Jumarni Fithri, Rita Martini
This study aims to analyze the effect of the hotel tax and restaurant tax income to the local origianal revenue regency/city of in south sumatera fiscal year 2016 – 2020. The sample of this research includes 14 regions in South Sumatera. This sample was selected based on the purposive sampling method....
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The Analysis of Workplace Adaptation Factors for Women in the Construction Industry
Ummu Salamah, Lilis Widaningsih
Construction is a dynamic industry and continues to grow rapidly, thus requiring an increase in the workforce regardless of gender. However, women in the construction industry face barriers such as: discrimination, sexual harassment, wage disparities; and challenges such as: work pressure, working hours,...
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A Study on the Publicity Translation in the Context of Global Epidemic from the Perspective of Thick Translation
Jingwei Guan, Qiqi Cui, Hongling Que
Thick translation is a concept related to cultural communication. It was first proposed by American translation theorist Anthony Appiah in 1993. [1] Nowadays, thick translation is an effective way to realize Chinese culture going out and carrying out publicity translation. At present, the Covid-19 epidemic...
Proceedings Article
Students Assessment in Kindergarten
Xiaojuan Ye
Assessment system is an important part of kindergarten education. Over the past decade, the development of kindergarten education has led to its assessment system reform. Children academic performance, as a central issue concerned by parents and kindergartens in nowadays society, has widen current students...
Proceedings Article
Corpus Based Analysis of Literary Works of A Thousand Splendid Suns
Zhijun Wan
In recent years, many scholars at home and abroad have applied corpus research methods to the field of literature and used corpus retrieval software to analyze literary texts. This paper aims to explore the application of corpus retrieval software WordSmith Tool 8.0 and AntConc in literary discourse...
Proceedings Article
Virtual Learning from Sketching Community
Stefy Prasasti Anggraini
Virtual learning has become a reliable learning alternative during the Covid-19 Pandemic. One of them is learning to draw sketchers in the sketch community. The sketch community that usually uses public space to gather is now switching to using virtual public space. This paper aims to explain the pattern...
Proceedings Article
Economic Efficiency of Rice in South Lampung Regency
Aryan Ari Sepri YH, Masyhuri, Lestari Rahayu Waluyati
This study aims to determine the factors that affect rice production and determine the level of economic efficiency of rice farming. The research was conducted in Taman Agung Village, Kalianda Sub-District and Sidorejo Village, Sidomulyo Sub-District, South Lampung Regency with 85 farmers as respondents....
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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The Ecological Analysis of White Noise by Don DeLillo
Yuxin Zhao
In the post-industrial era, American society has undergone unprecedented development. With industrial civilization, human ability of conquering and transforming the nature is increasing while living environment is deteriorating; people's material life is more prosperous, and so is the consumer culture....
Proceedings Article
Life Cycle Assessment of a Smartphone
Mine Ercan, Jens Malmodin, Pernilla Bergmark, Emma Kimfalk, Ellinor Nilsson
It is of interest to understand the life cycle contribution from the use of smartphones including their network usage, as well as to gain knowledge regarding the impact of the smartphone as a device to provide input for network studies. This cradle-to- grave study is based on life cycle assessment (LCA)...
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A Theoretical Study of Synaesthesiaby Music Sense Organs and Creative Thinking
Wen-Si Ou-Yang
Music appreciation has always been a popular topic as a complex-yet-unique psychological experience and approach, which can improve personal music aesthetics, provoke diverse perceptions, develop intuition and imagination, and help achieve cultural accomplishment. In order to enhance creative thinking...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Social Technologies for Management: Opportunities for Coal-mining Enterprises
Olga Zonova, Evgeniya Nekhoda, Ekaterina Slesarenko
The ways of improving the social management technologies, including those for the coal-mining enterprises, in particular the development of the corporate social responsibility, especially in the labor relations system, are proposed in the article. Ignoring the challenges of the contemporary reality,...
Proceedings Article
Board Heterogeneity, Diversification Strategy and Firm Value
Bei Ye
Taking nonfinancial companies listed on Shanghai or Shenzhen stock exchange as the sample, the paper studies the relationship between board heterogeneity, diversification strategy and firm value. Empirical research shows that board occupational heterogeneity is positively related to corporate diversification...
Proceedings Article
Responsibilities of Manager and Leader in Relation to the Reduction of Workplace Stress
Qian Li
Pressure is part and parcel of all work and helps to keep employees motivated. But excessive pressure can lead to workplace stress which undermines performance; it is costly to employers and can make people ill. To reduce the stress the leaders and managers should undertake different responsibilities...
Proceedings Article
Multi-criteria Optimization of Electromechanical Modules: Part 1- PROMETHEE method
Ina D. Nikolova, Dimitrinka S. Dahterova, Vanio D. Ivanov, Hirpa G. Lemu
The paper presents a study conducted to make multi-criteria optimization of electromechanical modules with a goal of providing easier tools for decision-making involving complex decision parameters. The work is motivated upon understanding that the task of both designing electromechanical modules and...
Proceedings Article
Considerations on The Post Education Course Examine Mechanism Innovation
Xin Wang, Xue Wang, Xianggang Meng
Course assessment is an important part of professional education, concerning the overall situation of professional education. As for the deepening of education reform, the traditional curriculum evaluation has been unable to meet the needs of professional education, reflects the strong hysteresis and...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Effects of Chicken Manure Compost on the Production of Dissolved Organic Carbon and the Degradation of p, p'-DDT in Loam Soil
Xiao Deng, Chunyuan Wu, Yi Li, Jingkun Liu, Qinfen Li
Using pot experiment to study the effects of chicken manure compost (CM) on the production of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and the degradation of p, p'-DDT in loam soil under three different water conditions. The objective of this study was providing theoretical basis for the remediation of pesticide...
Proceedings Article
The influence of OFDI on economic growth: A quantitative assessment for China and EU
Xianfeng Chen, Yan Li
Based on the panel data of Chinese outward foreign direct investment(OFDI) to 26 EU contires from 2003 to 2010,Using Cointegration, error correction model, impulse response function and the GLS method,this paper analyzes the effect of OFDI reverse technology spillovers(RTS) from the European Union on...
Proceedings Article
Strategic Research on Staff Sports in Hebei Province and the Powerful Province in Sports as Well as Development of National Fitness-North China Pharmaceutical Group is Taken as an Example for The Large State-Owned Pharmaceutical Corporation
Yan Li, Rong He
Through the documentation method, interview method and questionnaire survey, the staff-sport current situation of North China Pharmaceutical Group is investigated; the management system, current situation and the existing shortcomings can be found; according to the current situation and the existing...
Proceedings Article
Research on Internet-based Teaching of English Newspaper Reading
Xueai Zhao, Yingcong Zhao
In order to develop Chinese student’s ability in reading English newspaper, the authors innovatively designed an internet-based teaching model for English newspaper reading course based on constructivism. Through a comparative study, the authors concluded that the new teaching pattern of English newspaper...
Proceedings Article
Study on a New Technique to Prevent the Shrinkage defects of Alloy Ductile Iron Crankshaft
Zhaoming Liu, Xiaoyan Liu
Self-developed shrinking eliminating agent for alloy crankshaft was used to crankshaft specimen with dispersed shrinkage , changing the package materials, the composition and the amount of addition of the shrinking eliminating agent, macroscopical and microcosmic analyses of the section were performed...
Proceedings Article
A Low Cost Design of the Rural Intelligent Meter Reading System
Huishan Yu, Chuankao Yao
Analysis of the current use of rural electricity meters, and according to the situation of economic development in rural areas of China, to the greatest extent to reduce costs as the goal, intelligent remote meter reading system is presented which is applicable to China's rural areas. The system is composed...
Proceedings Article
Research on Internet of Things-based Virtual Logistics Enterprises Performance Evaluation
Zhang Hong-Xia
Virtual Logistics Enterprise is a dynamic alliance in the logistics industry. Virtual Logistics Enterprise transaction process is virtualized. The members of Virtual Logistics Enterprise dispersed in different regions. And during the project period, they do not belong to any organization. This makes...
Proceedings Article
Logistics Process Optimization and Cost Control
Zhen Xiao
With the advent of the global economic integration, inter-enterprise transactions gradually broken the geographical constraints, companies began to expand their own business to various regions of the core strengths of manufacturing enterprises not only in its unique product design and good user experience....
Proceedings Article
Multi-agent system with information fusion for intelligent lighting control
Wang Liangzhou, Yu Weihong, Hock Jony
Intelligent lighting system is the core component of the smart home. In order to achieve user-centric intelligent control, improve indoor visual comfort level and saving energy at the same time, we have designed a multi-agent intelligent lighting system based on multi-source information fusion. Multi-agent...
Proceedings Article
Stereo Vision System & 3D TV Program Production
Zhenlong Zhang, Taozheng Zhang, Jianping Chai
Stereo vision is a strong-crossed subject, and it has been one of the most hot topics in the study of computer. In more than 40 years of development, it has formed its own method and theory. This paper systematically reviews the present situation of stereo vision research, briefly introduces stereo vision...
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Challenges & Opportunities of MOOCS in Japanese Educatio
Kun Xu
Since 2012, the growth of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) has stirred excitement and controversy in higher education. Vast start-up capital for MOOC providers like Coursera, edX, and Udacity has led to speculation that MOOCs may drastically alter higher education. However, Whether Udacity and edX...
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Acoustic Emission Source Localization Using Embedded Sensors in Concrete
Lei Qin, Jiapeng Li, Xi Liu, Shidong Sun, Xiaojun Zhu
This paper described a study on acoustic emission (AE) in the specimens of cement-based materials, especially concrete specimens. 1-3 cement-based piezoelectric composites that have good compatibility and broadband frequency, and they have been developed for health monitoring of concrete structures....
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Analysis on the Difference of the Economic Development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei based on DMSP_OLS Night Light Data
Jian Li, Chenguang Fan
Based on the data of stable nighttime data, this paper uses the relative development rate and location entropy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cities to quantitatively analyze the difference of urban economic development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region from 2002 to 2015.According to the existing economic differences...
Series: Advances in Engineering Research
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Research on the mix design of the hot in-place recycling technology and its application
Yuxin Zheng, Wei Mao, Feng Zhang
From the concept of asphalt pavement recycling technology, The condition of old road is investigated and evaluated, In view of the problems of Urumq, pointed out that the applicable conditions and the advantages and disadvantages of the problems by the materials of Regenerant regeneration performance,...
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Present Progressive and Present Simple Tense. Two ways to express the direct experience of the observer
Ekaterina Zhulina
Present Progressive and Simple Tense are examined in the holistic approach to language as a cognitive activity of a person orienting to the adaptation. Reduced Present Progressive and Present Simple express the direct experience of the observer.
Proceedings Article
Being a Role Model to Motivate Students
Mega Wati
How can non-English students in a noncredited English program, who are thus usually reluctant, be encouraged to apply the university value of Striving for Excelllence? In this paper the result is shared. This classroom research initially aims at identifying the successful motivational strategy from the...
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Research on the Influence of Inclusive Leadership on Employees' Innovative Behavior
Chao Zhang, Lu Ma
Complex and quick change of the social environment so that today's enterprises are faced with unprecedented survival and development pressures, continuous innovation is the only way to win the enterprise. In order to accelerate innovation, ease the pressure of survival, many companies began to focus...
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Study on Spatio-temporal Coupling Fuzzy Control for Temperature Field in Travelling Grate
Ou Xie, Boquan Li
In this paper, the grate bed temperature field distribution state was simulated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method. Then, a spatio-temporal coupling fuzzy control method for grate bed temperature field control was proposed. Finally, experiments were conducted on a 150 million tons pellet production...