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Objective: Our aim was to evaluate the influence of mild impairment in kidney function on hemodynamics and cardiac autonomic tone. Methods: We studied 561 (50% male) normotensive and hypertensive subjects without kidney or other cardiovascular diseases or antihypertensive treatment. Supine and upright...

Objectives: It is noted that not only arterial stiffness but also abnormal pressure wave reflection are risks for the development of hypertension. However, the association between arterial stiffness and pressure wave reflection in the development of hypertension has not been fully clarified. The present...

Background – Objectives: The pulmonary arterial system can be characterized by: 1.A constant product of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance (PVR) and Total Arterial Compliance (TAC) with Tau=PVRxTAC≈0.7 seconds (1). 2.A proportional relation exits between systolic and diastolic pulmonary artery pressure,...

Background: Premenopausal women are relatively protected against hypertension compared to males. Estrogen levels have been identified as a potential underlying cause, but the pathophysiological mechanisms remain incompletely understood. We hypothesised that sex-dependent effects of perivascular adipose...

Background: Men and women differ in the risk of cardiovascular disease, but the underlying mechanisms are not completely understood. We examined possible sex-related differences in supine and upright cardiovascular regulation. Methods: Hemodynamics were recorded from 167 men and 167 women of matching...

Background: In Italy, the prevalence of seropositivity for Trypanosoma cruzi in immigrants from endemic countries is about 11.3% (30.7% for Bolivian immigrants). The disease acute phase is usually asymptomatic, often leading to chronic infection that may remain silent for life (chronic indeterminate...

Background: Measurement of arterial stiffness (AS) is still considered difficult. We developed a non-invasive technique to assess AS from a connected bathroom scale, based on ballistocardiography (BCG) and impedance plethysmography (IPG). Methods: We included 198 subjects and patients, 111 for calibration...

This paper discusses proportional odds model and similarity on the construction of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) chronic gastritis syndrome model. The syndromes explain the true relationships among a set of symptoms, which can be characterized by marginal probabilities and conditional probabilities....

Loan guarantees between parent and subsidiary is the main related transaction in business group, its correct estimation is the foundation of controlling group’s credit risk. Applying option theory, this paper researches the vulnerable option characters of loan guarantees, gives the valuation model under...

Several studies state that the development of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in rural areas can reduce poverty. The existence of MSME development can provide access to the poor in rural areas so that they can be involved in productive business activities and promote entrepreneurship, especially...

Presence of Covid-19 vaccine does not actually imply public consent and obedience to the government’s rule for vaccine injections. There are still citizens who do not follow this vaccination rule, especially in Indonesia there are many concerns about effectiveness of it’s vaccine. Disobedience of citizens...

To conduct an assessment of the basic forehand and backhand groundstroke skills of student learning outcomes in the field tennis sport course, an accurate/precise assessment instrument is needed. So far, the authentic assessment instrument to assess the learning outcomes of basic forehand and backhand...

School settings had been full of stressors that negatively influence students’ mental health and academic performance. For solving students’ academic performance issues, mindfulness mediation had been used to improve their academic outcomes. This study had applied the information process theory to demonstrate...

Reformation that happened in Indonesia brought many changes in government system, which one is changes from centralized systems to decentralized systems. The decentralization systems constrain every local government to manage their own household affairs include budgeting process. Indonesia adopts performance...

The development of internet enables people have opt to do something rather than just conventional ways. In the marketing, for example, the marketers may use the apps or platforms to offer products via online, they also may create the digital branding. In this pandemic era, the marketers must be able...

Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the activities of appreciating and collecting ancient seals have spurred a wave of compiling collections of ancient seals in the middle and late Ming dynasties to a large extent. Seal cutting masters developed a strong interest in learning ancient seals, and proposed...

This study aims to analyze the problem of food sufficiency in urban areas of South Sulawesi Province using secondary data from the Central Statistics Agency of South Sulawesi Province in 2015-2019. The method used is quantitative descriptive analysis to determine the food adequacy of cities in South...

In the process of study, the author doubts about whether the experience of Concubine Xu (Fei), the concubine of the Lord in the late Shu, Mengchang, is real or not. Therefore, on the basis of previous studies and combined with historical materials, this paper combs the development process of the legendary...

This study aims to analyze the influence of planning, implementation, and accountability on the performance of village-owned enterprises. This study uses a survey method with a questionnaire as a data collection tool. Village-owned enterprises in Mepanga District are the locus of this research. Employees...

University stage is a critical period for individuals to explore and make their self-identity. Based on the observation from years of educational practice, male university students are found to be “inactive”. So this research investigates features and mechanisms of self-identity meaning-making in withdrawn...

This article (https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.011) This article has been retracted because of accidental simultaneous submission. The author agrees with this retraction.

With economic development and progress of science and technology, information technology is fully penetrated in various fields, the study field of educational technology and practice of expanding territory, from the past little education (schooling) towards the big education (information technology education...

A socket is used as a handling tool after matching with a ratchet wrench. Its main function is to handle all kinds of screws and nuts and other fastening parts, but sockets are often lost after falling down on the ground or rolling over before and after their use. This research employs TRIZ to improve...

The article is dedicated to the consideration of necessities of the scholar's approach towards the musical communications management. The author underlines the role of the qualitative planning method of social cultural life. The examination of musical activity in spheres of Russian culture is presented...

Aimed at the fact of practical ability was not strong enough around the engineering students, the improved professional practice curriculums for electronic information engineering students were proposed. The professional practice content and method, the comprehensive evaluation of practice result, the...

With the advent of the era of Big Data, dramatic change took place in the field of information resources. This paper describes the information needs of enterprise technology innovation at first, and then analyzes the Big Data technology used for technological innovation information service's core values,...

This paper presents a methodology to study the interdriver heterogeneity by using vehicle trajectory data. Different from the existing studies subjectively dividing the drivers into two or three types, this paper explores a K-means clustering methodology to classify the drivers based on real traffic...

Today, global warming has become necessary to human survival and development issues, in the face of worsening global warming, reduce carbon emissions substances, the development of low-carbon economy, has become the general trend of economic development of countries. For its part, the international situation...

With the tourism industry transition from resource-oriented to image-oriented, tourism image design is paid more and more attention. Close analysis on tourism image slogans of parts of cities in China shows the problems of similarity and formalization. As there is coherence between the name of region...

The Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer formulation is selected based on surfactant solubility tests, phase behavior experiments, IFT measurements, polymer viscosity measurements and alkali/surfactant/polymer compatibility tests. Ultralow IFT (

The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) technology leads the third wave of development of information industry around the world. The development of IoT technology integrates into the campus which arouses a discussion of the wisdom of the campus. Firstly, the article introduces the concept and...

The use of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in language teaching at the higher education level has the potential to encourage learners to acquire language in an immersion-style setting. This paper presents a pedagogical intervention whereby 150 Business English (BE) students in their third...

The rational size distribution of the granular materials is proved in this paper on the basis of the theoretical studies of their optimal structure based on the particle-particle packing probability theory, the laboratory studies in the dependencies of bulk density and static modulus of elasticity of...

This paper is devoted to concepts, approaches and some examples of the fourth industrial revolution. The basis of this revolution also well known as Industry 4.0 build so called cyber-physical systems. They contain the integrated smart software systems including the internet address to enable the communication...

This study explored the rehabilitative effects of motion sensing game("rehabilitative training game system V1.0") on training mentally retarded children. 112 children were chosen as participants in the experimental group from 187 mentally retarded children while the other children in the control group....

The development of IT technology and the internet is important for the development of education technology. Virtual classroom is prevailing now. I analyzed carefully the differences between virtual classroom and the traditional classroom. The result is that traditional classroom is more suitable for...

Heartbeat information and motion parameters have a close relationship with human’s health and emotion. The feasibility of acquisition heartbeat information associated with emotional states based on body sensor network is a hot research topic. In this paper, we investigate four kinds of method to collect...

An efficient spectrum defragmentation algorithm is proposed in elastic optical networks by properly rerouting existing connections after traffic terminated dynamically to improve spectrum efficiency, and shown to be resource efficient.

In wireless sensor networks, one of the fundamental issues is the coverage problem. This is, whether a given region can be sufficiently covered by sensing disks of sensors? In this paper, we discuss the coverage-hole problem by using a sensing topology. From the sensing topology, we figure out the relation...

The aim of this paper is to prove the rationality of two new fuzzy solutions to cooperative n-person games. They are the Fuzzy Negotiation Solution by Knowledge Engineering and Compensatory Negotiation Solution by Knowledge Engineering, which are based on bargaining over statements coming from experts....

It is controversial that whether capital regulation can really reduce the risk of banks. This paper studied the assets allocation behaviors of banks under supervision and explores the effectiveness of capital regulation based on bank asset allocation strategies. We built a linear programming model to...

In order to preserve the image edge feature while removing the noise, an adaptive joint denoising model has been proposed which jointed the second-order and fourth-order partial differential equations (PDE) model. Firstly, improving the traditional fourth-order PDE, separating its diffusion along two...

An intelligent guidance device based on ultrasonic sensor array is researched and developed according to the blind demand for facilitate walking. Six pairs of ultrasonic sensors are divided into the upper and the lower groups to detect obstacles. Multi-source information fusion and multi-sensor information...

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) data were used to interpret hydrocarbon-induced clay and carbonate minerals in northwestern Songliao Basin, northeast China. Principal component analysis (PCA), band ratioing, and density slicing were adopted to distinguish the goal...

As the rapid development of computer, the quondam software development methods may not meet the requirements, people need constructing new software development methods. In order to construct new software development method, it is necessary to research the "constructing routes of new software development...

With the development of modern science and technology, target localization technology has been widely used in many areas such as the bridge monitoring, warehouse monitoring, environmental testing and other fields. In this paper, we propose the Newton iterated localization algorithm based on the least...