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The purpose of this study is to examine whether recommendation quality can predict customer loyalty, a) recommendation quality; b) perceived serendipity can predict decision satisfaction, decision satisfaction can predict customer loyalty, and decision satisfaction can mediate the prediction of a) recommendation...

Objectives: Sex differences for parameters of arterial wave reflection and arterial stiffness were reported from single office measurements, but circadian patterns were not extensively investigated up to now. The aim of this study was to determine sex differences between day and night values of ambulatory...

Objective: This study examines effects of high salt diet on arterial blood pressure and aortic function in rats. Methods: Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either high salt content chow or normal chow from weaning. Weight, tail-cuff systolic blood pressure (SBP), water and food intake, and urine output were...

Introduction: The PORT-VASPh Cohort was designed to contribute to a better understanding of vascular function in children and adolescents, mostly focusing PWV and other complementary aspects of arterial hemodynamics. Methods: The PORT-VASPh cohort is a prospective and observational study, with 953 children...

Background/Objectives: Tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) is a cofactor for nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Oxidative stress, reported in black populations (1), may lead to the oxidation of BH4, the uncoupling of eNOS, decreased NO and increased superoxide levels (2,3). We compared BH4 and markers of oxidative stress...

Background: SNPs on chromosome 9p21.3 risk locus have been associated with cardiovascular diseases. We have established a direct mechanistic link between 9p21 noncoding risk interval and susceptibility to aneurysm in a mouse model with a targeted deletion of the 9p21 noncoding cardiovascular disease...

Background: Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a non-atherosclerotic, non-inflammatory vascular disease involving medium-sized muscular arteries, whose pathophysiology is still unknown. Objectives: We aimed at identifying systemic vascular alterations in usually non-affected arteries of patients with...

Background: Hyperuricemia is common in patients with hypertension, diabetes and obesity. Whether it is an independent cardiovascular risk factor (CVRF) or not remains controversial. Purpose: To determine the prognostic value of uricemia in the setting of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods: Retrospective...

Background: We tested the association between birthweight and arterial stiffness measured by aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) and cardio-ankle vascular index (CAVI) in a birth cohort of 30 year old Jamaicans. Methods: Participants were from the 1986 Jamaica Birth Cohort. Arterial stiffness was measured...

Obesity is associated with diabetes and an increased cardiovascular risk. Leptin-deficient mice (ob/ob) are used as model of metabolic disease: they are characterized by obesity and insulin-resistance. Aim of this work is to identify early cardiovascular alterations in young ob/ob mice using micro-ultrasound...

The blended learning method is used in the intermediate accounting subject in the Diploma program, Andalas University. The lecturer provides five videos and a PowerPoint to increase the student’s understanding of the subject. The teaching method used is Teaching Center Learning (TCL) and Student Center...

Background: Aortic root dilation and type A aortic dissection are the most common cardiovascular complications of Marfan syndrome (MFS). Current clinical management of MFS patients relies on a close follow-up of aortic root diameter and preventive aortic root surgery in case of severe or fast-progressing...

Background and objectives: It is widely accepted that regular physical exercise reduces the BP, particularly in hypertensive individuals. It is recommended in the prevention of hypertension to assist in BP control. The BP lowering mechanisms of exercise remain largely elusive, we therefore evaluated...

Background: Vascular stiffening is part of the ageing process. However, it is not clear which vascular stiffness parameters are closely associated with chronological age. Methods: Fifty-eight participants (38 men), age 69.57 ± 10.46 (mean ± SD, range = 47–90 years) who have had transient ischaemic attack...

We developed a playful biofeedback system using a wearable device and modular interactive tiles. In this approach we suppose that patients could regulate exercise intensity on their own through biofeedback. We propose biofeedback play system called “bioToys” based on exercise with the modular interactive...

Biorepositories collect biospecimens like blood and tissue from the patients along with associated clinical and pathological data. Medical research tends to require sharing of biospecimens and associated data at a large scale across multiple biorepositories. The objective of this review is to identify...

We study maintenance of a complex dynamic system consisting of ageing and unobservable components under a predetermined threshold reliability level. Our aim is to construct an optimum replacement policy for the components of the system by minimizing total number of replacements or total replacement cost....

We investigate Lie symmetries of Einstein's vacuum equations in N dimensions, with a cosmological term. For this purpose, we first write down the second prolongation of the symmetry generating vector fields, and compute its action on Einstein's equations. Instead of setting to zero the coefficients of...

This research aims to describe how modelling was implemented in learning writing poetry for international students. The teacher took several steps to increase students’ creativity in writing poetry, namely; 1) Prewriting/ modeling 2) Arrangement/ Brainstorming 3) Drafting/ Creating Poetry, and 4) Revising....

With the development of globalization, the need of communication in English is increasing rapidly. One of the major concerns about whether English should be taught as a Lingua Franca (ELF) has been widely discussed. While researchers suggest that English should be better taught as a foreign language...

This study illustrates how instructors in secondary school training programs prepare courses for English as an Additional Language (EAL) pupils from refugee backgrounds, the major planning problems that instructors encounter, as well as methods used to deal with them. It shows that there is a significant...

Turnover refers to employees who intend to leave their jobs due to decreased employee numbers and the associated costs of recruiting and recruiting new employees. Job stress, compensation, and job satisfaction are all factors that can contribute to an employee quitting his or her job. This study enrolled...

In this study, we outline papers connecting firms’ capital structure to CEO dominance and CEO power. Most papers examining how the choice of capital structure is influenced by one or several specific variables related to the CEO. Whether the impact on changes in leverage on firm performance depends on...

Diseases, which are the dark side of life, are all the time taken as the metaphors of death, human weakness and fragility per se. Each citizen has double identities as health and disease. In addition, how these diseases are metaphorized step by step transferring to a standard of morals and political...

The crisis of confidence has become increasingly rigorous, especially in recommendation domain. Deception and malicious attacks are found among the traditional collaborative filtering recommendation systems. Taking into account the credibility, the behaviour-based trust relationship, and the social circle-based...

Recent studies have confirmed that people produce mental simulation when processing sentences including literal motion, abstract motion or fictive motion. However, the doubt is whether EFL learners mentally simulate fictive motion during language comprehension as native English speaker did. The paper...

There are problems concern the current recommendation model such as the information recommended is not inaccurate enough. This paper presents a collaborative filtering algorithm based on K-means algorithm. Firstly, we analyzed the similarity calculation method of collaborative filtering recommendation...

An 8051 microcontroller course is a core professional course in engineering major in many universities. The traditional teaching (face to face teaching) method cannot achieve satisfactory teaching effect. So other teaching method should be applied to improve teaching effect. E-learning is a relatively...

The ship directional stability is an important index in studying ship maneuverability, but there has not been good method to detect the direction stability of ship. This paper attempts to obtain the side force and yawing moment of fixed symmetrical ship model by using RANS method at steady speed. The...

Financial statement analysis of the data summary, comparison, analysis, the disclosure of the consolidated financial statements, and can objectively evaluate the financial situation of enterprises to understand the company's operating results. Mao-tai Group 2009-2013 financial report as the basis, combined...

Wu Hsing, five elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth), was held by the ancients to compose the physical universe and later used in traditional Chinese medicine to explain various. Marketing refers to the sum of activities involved in directing the flow of goods and service from producers to consumers....

Redundancy design scheme and control strategy of the energy management system for a stratospheric airship are proposed, which use the coordination control between the photovoltaic cell and lithium battery to maintain the DC bus voltage constant, so as to guarantee the stability of the motor load. The...

Matched-guise experiment has been proved as a powerful attitudinal research tool. This paper is about the language attitudes that Uyghur university students in Xinjiang have towards Uyghur (their mother tongue), Chinese (their second language), and English (their foreign and third language). The language...

The paper reviews the main problems existed in the process of business English teaching in our country. First, Many students cannot understand the original materials concisely during the process of business English translation, and they don’t attach much importance to cultural differences. Second, a...

A categorical approach to probability allows to put basic notions of probability into a broader mathematical perspective, to evaluate their roles, and mutual relationships. Classical probability theory and fuzzy probability theory lead to two particular categories and their relationship (in categorical...

Wireless sensor network is a type of communication which gives a steadfast communication at the minimal expense. This paper highlights one of the fundamental concern namely node localization by using the combined effect of randomly generated tokens at anchor nodes and vector iterative process (RGT_VIP)....

From the perspective of sustainable development and considering energy and environmental, this article applies Data Envelopment Analysis based on variable returns to scale to analyze the efficiency of China's economic growth from 1981 to 2011. From analysis we can know that (technical) efficiency of...

The paper describes a methodology, models and automated system for an identification of human emotions based on analysis of body movements, a recognition of characteristic gestures and poses. In the model of person emotions, the typical body movements are formalized with linguistic variables and fuzzy...

With the development of network technology, computer networks are becoming increasingly popular in people's daily life. Computer brings us not only convenience but also potential problems caused by computer viruses. Most viruses are Win32 PE viruses. This paper firstly analyzes the Win32 PE file structure,...

The author conducted field research on the religious practices and spiritual worlds of Hakka Catholics in Chenwu Village of Heping County, city of Heyuan. The findings show that these Chinese Catholics have localized their religion as influenced by their rural village context. These Catholics follow...

Over recent years, while studies about computer-supported collaborative learning increased gradually, more and more researchers recognized the importance of social interactions in the CSCL environments. Social interactions can be divided into on-task and non-task interactions. Non-task interactions embraces...

To meet the diversification of the demand and terminal of web user’s resource service, the paper brought a MSAM Model, which belongs to the multi-source heterogeneous web resources. First, it analyzed the current situation of web resource aggregation. Then, it raised a MSAM Model which is suitable for...

Since the 1970 s, financial innovation become a phenomenon which is of particular concern in the field of economics finance. Financial innovation not only have a booming developed in the country's financial markets, and play an important role in the international financial market. Not only in terms of...

An Improvement of Extend TOPSIS (IE-TOPSIS) method is presented for Armament System of Systems (ASoS) selection. In this paper, ASoS selection problem is a multiple criteria decision-making problem. Because determining the specific value of the attribute for each ASoS is difficult, the criteria score...