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Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P.030 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IS PREDICTOR CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS IN MEN WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
I. Orlova, F. Ageev, E. Nuraliev
Pages: 59 - 60
Journal: Artery Research
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P.029 MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CAROTID ARTERY WALLS IN RELATION WITH PREVALENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
I.M. Graf, F. Schreuder, W. Mess, A.P.G. Hoeks
Pages: 59 - 59
Journal: Artery Research
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5.4 EFFECT OF ACUTE RESISTANCE EXERCISE ON ARTERIAL HEMODYNAMICS AND CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW DYNAMICS: DOES SEX MATTER?
Alexander Rosenberg, Tommy Wee, Elizabeth Schroeder, Kanokwan Bunsawat, Georgios Grigoriadis, Garett Griffith, Bo Fernhall, Tracy Baynard
Pages: 59 - 60
High-intensity resistance exercise (RE) acutely increases arterial stiffness and blood pressure (BP), coupled with reduced cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFv) and greater flow pulsatility in the cerebral circulation, which may be detrimental to cerebral microvasculature. Because females have different...
Journal: Artery Research
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6.3 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOW-DENSITY NON-CALCIFIED CORONARY PLAQUES IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES AND HEALTHY CONTROLS
Kristian L. Funck, Esben Laugesen, Kristian Oevrehus, Jesper M. Jensen, Bjarne L. Noergaard, Damini Dey, Troels K. Hansen, Per L. Poulsen
Pages: 59 - 60
Background: Arterial stiffness may provide non-invasive information about cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes. We investigated the association between arterial stiffness and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in patients with type 2 diabetes and healthy controls.
Methods: Patients...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.028 EPIGENETIC INTERACTION BETWEEN α-ADDUCIN AND RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN-SYSTEM GENES IN RELATION TO THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF THE FEMORAL ARTERY
J.S. Seidlerova, J.A.S. Staessen, T.N. Nawrot, HAS.-B. Struijker-Boudier, T.K. Kuznetsova, G.B. Bianchi, E.B. Brand, SMB.-H. Brand-Hermann, R.F. Fagard, J.F. Filipovsky
Pages: 59 - 59
Journal: Artery Research
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5.3 HIGH FIT OLDER ADULTS MAINTAIN A SIMILAR ENDOTHELIAL RESPONSE TO ACUTE INFLAMMATION AS YOUNGER ADULTS
Elizabeth Schroeder, Abbi Lane-Cordova, Sushant Ranadive, Tracy Baynard, Bo Fernhall
Pages: 59 - 59
Inflammation is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events and reduced endothelial function. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower risk of cardiovascular events and improved vascular function. Whether fitness plays a role during acute inflammation is unknown.
Purpose:...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
6.2 IMPACT OF DIABETES ON ARTERIAL STIFFNESS
Rogerio Toshiro Passos Okawa, Jorge Juarez Vieira Teixeira, Alex Cardoso Perez, Eigi Wilton de Souza, Giovanna Chiqueto Duarte, Guilherme Norio Hayakawa, Lorena Lima Gargaro, Marina Franciscon Gomes da Cruz, Michel Lima Moro Alves, Milene Cripa Pizatto de Araujo, Patrick Sadao Nishikawa, Rafaela Pelisson Regla, Rafael Campos do Nascimento
Pages: 59 - 59
Objectives/Background: The purpose of our study was to examine the impact of diabetes on arterial stiffness.
A systematic review, published by Cecelja and Chowienczyk (1), describes that pulse wave velocity (PWV), is highly predictive of cardiovascular events, and PWV is associated with age and blood-pressure,...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.027 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN RELATION TO URINARY ALDOSTERONE EXCRETION AND COLLAGEN METABOLISM IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION
K. Stolarz-Skrzypek, W. Lubaszewski, A. Olszanecka, W. Wojciechowska, M. Cwynar, M. Loster, T. Grodzicki, K. Kawecka-Jaszcz
Pages: 59 - 59
Journal: Artery Research
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5.2 REDUCED SUBLINGUAL ENDOTHELIAL GLYCOCALYX IN TYPE 1 DIABETICS WITH DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY
Signe Abitz Winther
Pages: 59 - 59
Background: Glycocalyx is a glycoprotein layer protecting the capillary endothelium. An impaired glycocalyx may precede the development of microvascular complications in diabetes. Capillaroscopy is a new method to estimate the dimensions of the glycocalyx by measuring the perfused boundary region (PBR)....
Journal: Artery Research
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6.1 PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE AND CENTRAL HEMODYNAMIC MODIFICATION
Mariella Catalano, Gabriel Dimitrov, Giovanni Scandale, Marzio Minola, Martino Recchia, Francesca Galli, Maria Carotta, Gianni Carzaniga
Pages: 59 - 59
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) affects the hemodynamics of the lower limbs1 and is associated with increased cardiovascular risk and mortality2. The aim of this study was to evaluate central hemodynamics and to test the relationships between lower ankle-pressure index (ABI) and Augmentation index...
Commentary
The Crisis of Undercoordination
Lotfi A. Zadeh
Pages: 59 - 60
Technological progress—especially in the realms of information processing, communication, transportation, commerce and distribution of energy—is leading to an accelerated growth in interdependence on all levels of modern society. A well-known result in systems analysis is that highly interdependent large-scale...
Review Article
Digital Transformation, Business Model Innovation and Efficiency in Content Industries: A Review
Rojers P. Joseph
Pages: 59 - 70
Owing to the symbolic, highly digitizable nature of the goods the content industry produces, they are highly amenable to digital transformation with radical consequences for businesses selling information products. Digitization and digital networks can save several costs that are inherent in the brick...
Research Article
Some Special Integrable Surfaces
M. Gürses
Pages: 59 - 66
We consider surfaces arising from integrable partial differential equations and from their deformations. Symmetries of the equation, gauge transformation of the corrsponding Lax pair and spectral parameter transformations are the deformations which lead infinitely many integrable surfaces. We also study...
Research Article
Superanalogs of the Calogero Operators and Jack Polynomials
A. Sergeev
Pages: 59 - 64
A depending on a complex parameter k superanalog SL of Calogero operator is costructed; it is related with the root system of the Lie superalgebra gl(n|m). For m = 0 we obtain the usual Calogero operator; for m = 1 we obtain, up to a change of indterminates and parameter k the operator constructed by...
Research Article
The Risk Assessment of the Fog Disaster
Haibo Hu, Jinjun Pan
Pages: 59 - 64
The fog probability in urban area is determined by the observatory data. Taking the regular grid to be the assessed unit, the Fragility Exponential (FE) is computed upon the gird cell, in which the density of the road-net is stood for, and the FE can be modified according to the important facility distributed...
Research Article
The Spatial Symmetry Axis of Earthquake Hazard in China
Junping Yan, Shuangshuang Li, Jing Bai, Xinyan Liu
Pages: 59 - 64
Natural disaster risk assessment is one of the hot fields of the study of natural disaster. It is of theoretical and practical significance to accurately identify the trend of natural disasters. Not all the natural disaster has the quality of spatial symmetry, only some disasters during some certain...
Research Article
Facial Peculiarity Retrieval via Deep Neural Networks Fusion
Peiqin Li, Jianbin Xie, Zhen Li, Tong Liu, Wei Yan
Pages: 58 - 65
Face retrieval is becoming increasingly useful and important for security maintenance operations. In actual applications, face retrieval is usually influenced by some changeable site conditions, such as various postures, expressions, camera angles, illuminations, and so on. In this paper, facial peculiar...
Journal: Clinical Hematology International
Research Article
Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for FLT3-Mutated Acute Myeloid Leukemia: In vivo T-Cell Depletion and Posttransplant Sorafenib Maintenance Improve Survival. A Retrospective Acute Leukemia Working Party-European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplant Study
Ali Bazarbachi, Myriam Labopin, Giorgia Battipaglia, Azedine Djabali, Edouard Forcade, William Arcese, Gerard Socié, Didier Blaise, Joerg Halter, Sabine Gerull, Jan J. Cornelissen, Patrice Chevallier, Johan Maertens, Nicolaas Schaap, Jean El-Cheikh, Jordi Esteve, Arnon Nagler, Mohamad Mohty
Pages: 58 - 74
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with FLT3-mutation carries a poor prognosis, and allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is recommended at first complete remission (CR1). We assessed 462 adults (median age 50 years) with FLT3-mutated AML allografted between 2010 and 2015 from a matched related (40%),...
Journal: Artery Research
Review Article
The clinical importance of exercise blood pressure
Martin G. Schultz
Pages: 58 - 62
Clinical exercise stress testing is a common medical test performed in cardiology and exercise physiology clinics the world over. Measurement of blood pressure (BP) during testing is mandated. Whilst systolic BP should normally rise with incremental exercise, and diastolic BP remains relatively stable,...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Assessment of peripheral vascular function with photoplethysmographic pulse amplitude
Tatiana Kuznetsova, Gregory Szczesny, Lutgarde Thijs, Dominique Jozeau, Jan D’hooge, Jan A. Staessen
Pages: 58 - 64
Background: Vasodilation of the peripheral arteries after reactive hyperaemia depends in part on the release of nitric oxide from endothelial cells. Previous studies mainly employed a fingertip tonometric device to derive pulse wave amplitude (PWA) and, therefore, measure PWA hyperaemic changes. Another...
Review Article
Retinopathy of Prematurity—A Brief Review
Saba Al Rashaed
Pages: 58 - 64
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a proliferative retinal vascular disease affecting the retina of premature infants and is considered the major cause of blindness in children and the most common cause of retinal vasculopathy in premature and in low-birth-weight infants. The clinical spectrum of ROP...
Research Article
Multimedia Analysis and Fusion via Wasserstein Barycenter
Cong Jin, Junhao Wang, Jin Wei, Lifeng Tan, Shouxun Liu, Wei Zhao, Shan Liu, Xin Lv
Pages: 58 - 66
Optimal transport distance, otherwise known as Wasserstein distance, recently has attracted attention in music signal processing and machine learning as powerful discrepancy measures for probability distributions. In this paper, we propose an ensemble approach with Wasserstein distance to integrate various...
Research Article
A Hardware-Oriented Echo State Network and its FPGA Implementation
Kentaro Honda, Hakaru Tamukoh
Pages: 58 - 62
This paper proposes implementation of an Echo State Network (ESN) to Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The proposed method is able to reduce hardware resources by using fixed-point operation, quantization of weights, which includes accumulate operations and efficient dataflow modules. The performance...
Research Article
Exploring the Students’ Attitudes toward Internet Usage for Academic Excellence
Habibur Rahman
Pages: 58 - 63
The Internet is being widely used as an educational tool with numerous potentials. The students who use the Internet for academic purposes especially they can gain more knowledge and enhance cumulative grade point average. The aim of the study is to explore the students’ attitudes toward Internet usage...
Journal: Intensive Care Research
Commentary
Why you should have a Perfusionist as Workforce in the Intensive Care Unit
Gabriele Melegari, Maria Chiara Franchini, Francesca Sola, Emanuela Testa, Alberto Barbieri
Pages: 58 - 59
Journal: Materials Highlights
Review Article
Recent Advances in Nanofabrication of the Morphology-Controlled Hypercrosslinked Polymers
Wenliang Song, Mingxin Zhang, Mingjie Liu, Yinning Huang, Dengguang Yu
Pages: 58 - 67
Hypercrosslinked Polymers (HCPs) have received considerable attention in the field of catalysis, adsorption, separation, biomedical engineering, and energy storage/conversion, because of their permanent microporous structures and high surface areas. Up to now, various “bottom-up” and “top-down” methods...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P.026 CLINICAL AND VASCULAR EFFECTS OF SWITCHING PATIENTS WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE TO NEBIVOLOL
F. Ageev, I. Orlova, A. Sankova, E. Nuraliev, B. Kulev
Pages: 58 - 59
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P.025 INCREASED ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AMONGST HEALTHY SOUTH ASIANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE ABSENCE OF RAISED BLOOD PRESSURE
A. Gunarathne, J.V. Patel, R. Potluri, R. Butt, B. Gammon, C. Boos, N. Panja, E.A. Hughes, G.Y.H. Lip
Pages: 58 - 58
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
5.1 EFFECTS OF THE SGLT-2 INHIBITOR EMPAGLIFLOZIN ON VASCULAR FUNCTION AND CENTRAL HEMODYNAMICS IN PATIENTS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES
Christian Ott, Kristina Striepe, Agnes Jumar, Marina Karg, Markus Schneider, Dennis Kannenkeril, Roland Schmieder
Pages: 58 - 58
Background: The selective sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitor empagliflozin leads to improved cardiovascular, renal and heart failure outcome in secondary prevention. To better understand these effects, we examined vascular function and central hemodynamics.
Methods: In this prospective,...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P.024 CARDIAC FUNCTION, LARGE ARTERIES PROPERTIES AND MORTALITY IN OLDER PATIENTS WITH ATHEROSCLEROSIS
L. Handl, J. Filipovsky, P. Mudra, O. Mayer, P. Roucka
Pages: 58 - 58
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
4.8 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE
Gabriel Dimitrov, Giovanni Scandale, Martino Recchia, Edoardo Perilli, Marzio Minola, Gianni Carzaniga, Maria Carotta, Mariella Catalano
Pages: 58 - 58
Background and aim: Several studies (1,2) suggest that patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) show an increase in arterial stiffness, nevertheless the impact on mortality is less documented. (3)
Methods: 228 PAD patients mean age (68 ± 9 years) were followed-up for 4,8 ± 2 years. Anthropometric...
Journal: Artery Research
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P.023 INCREASED CARDIOVASCULAR RISK IN FIRST-DEGREE RELATIVES (WITHOUT ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM, AAA) TO AAA PATIENTS?
R. De Basso, A. Fagerlind, T. Sandgren, Å. Rydén Ahlgren, T. Länne
Pages: 58 - 58
Journal: Artery Research
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4.7 PARAMETERS OF THE RESERVOIR-WAVE APPROACH AND MORTALITY IN DIALYSIS POPULATION
Mohsen Agharazii, Catherine Fortier, Marie-Pier Desjardins, Martin Schultz, James Sharman
Pages: 58 - 58
Background: A new model has been proposed to explain hemodynamic consequences of arterial stiffness, which integrates both wave propagation and aortic reservoir function. The aim of this study was to assess the association between parameters of reservoir-wave analysis and all-cause mortality in a population...
Journal: Artery Research
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5.6 CARDIOVASCULAR CONSEQUENCES OF EXTREME PREMATURITY: A FOLLOW-UP FROM THE EPICURE STUDY
Carmel McEniery, Joanne Beckman, Ian Wilkinson, Neil Marlow, John Cockcroft
Pages: 58 - 58
Background: Long-term outcomes following extremely preterm (EP) birth are becoming increasingly relevant, given improved survival rates. We previously reported altered arterial haemodynamics in 11 year olds who were <25 weeks gestation. The same individuals have now been re-evaluated in young adulthood.
Methods:...
Research Article
Retired Australian’s use of Information Technology: A Preliminary Study
Joanne Phythian, Julie Tucker, Tim Comber, Bruce Armstrong, Simon Pervan
Pages: 58 - 67
In July 2010, Coffs Harbour, Australia was announced as one of fourteen National Broadband Network (NBN) second release sites and in February 2013, a number of households and businesses in Coffs Harbour had infrastructure installed to enable them to access the NBN (www.minister.dbcde.gov.au). High speed...
Research Article
A Multistage Heuristic Tuning Algorithm for an Analog Silicon Neuron Circuit
Ethan Green, Takashi Kohno
Pages: 58 - 61
This research looks at an ultra-low power subthreshold-operated silicon neuron circuit designed with qualitative neuronal modeling. One technical challenge to future implementation of such circuits is parameter tuning — a problem stemming from temperature sensitivity of subthreshold-operated MOSFETs...
Research Article
Workload balancing in identical parallel machine scheduling using a mathematical programming method
Yassine Ouazene, Farouk Yalaoui, Hicham Chehade, Alice Yalaoui
Pages: 58 - 67
This paper addresses the workload balancing problem in identical parallel machines context. The problem consists of assigning different jobs to identical parallel machines in order to minimize the workload imbalance among the different machines. This problem is formulated as a linear mixed integer program...
Research Article
Soliton Asymptotics of Rear Part of Non-Localized Solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation
Anne Boutet de Monvel, Eugene Khruslov
Pages: 58 - 76
We construct non-localized, real global solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-I eqution which vanish for x - and study their large time asymptotic behavior. We prove that such solutions eject (for t ) a train of curved asymptotic solitons which move behind the basic wave packet.
Research Article
Algebraic Linearization of Hyperbolic RuijsenaarsSchneider Systems
R. Caseiro, J.P. Françoise
Pages: 58 - 61
In this article, we present an explicit linearization of dynamical systems of RuijsenaarSchneider (RS) type and of the perturbations introduced by F Calogero [2] of these systems with all orbits periodic of the same period. The existence of this linearization and its algebraic nature relies on the dynamical...
Research Article
On the Non-Dimensionalisation, Scaling and Resulting Interpretation of the Classical Governing Equations for Water Waves
Adrian Constantin, Robin Stanley Johnson
Pages: 58 - 73
In this note we describe the underlying principles — and pitfalls — of the process of non-dimensionalising and scaling the equations that model the classical problem in water waves. In particular, we introduce the two fundamental parameters (associated with amplitude and with wave length) and show how...
Research Article
Dispersion Relations for Steady Periodic Water Waves of Fixed Mean-Depth with an Isolated Bottom Vorticity Layer
David Henry
Pages: 58 - 71
In this paper we obtain the dispersion relations for small-amplitude steady periodic water waves, which propagate over a flat bed with a specified mean depth, and which exhibit discontinuous vorticity. We take as a model an isolated layer of constant nonzero vorticity adjacent to the flat bed, with irrotational...
Research Article
A Novel Mechanism for Efficient the Search Optimization of Genetic Algorithm
Chen-Fang Tsai, Shin-Li Lu
Pages: 57 - 64
This paper proposes a Social Genetic Algorithm (SGA) that includes a transformation function that has ability to improve search efficiency. The SGA is different from the Traditional Genetic Algorithm (TGA) approaches, as it allows refinement of the TGA parameters for the selections of operators in each...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
Modelling the economic impact of the tripartite free trade area: Its implications for the economic geography of Southern, Eastern and Northern Africa☆
Andrew Mold, Rodgers Mukwaya
Pages: 57 - 84
This study evaluates the economic impact of the proposed COMESA-SADC-EAC Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) on 26 African countries. It uses the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and database to measure the static effects of the establishment of the TFTA on...
Research Article
Patterns of antituberculous drug resistance in Eastern Saudi Arabia: A 7-year surveillance study from 1/2003 to 6/2010
Liaqat Ali Chaudhry, Nagamani Rambhala, Ali Saad Al-Shammri, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq
Pages: 57 - 60
Objective: To examine the patterns of antituberculous drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients with pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis in the Eastern province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Methods: This is a retrospective study of antibiotic susceptibility of 1681 non-repetitive...
Research Article
The association between disability and cognitive impairment in an elderly Tanzanian population
Catherine L. Dotchin, Stella-Maria Paddick, William K. Gray, Aloyce Kisoli, Golda Orega, Anna R. Longdon, Paul Chaote, Felicity Dewhurst, Matthew Dewhurst, Richard W. Walker
Pages: 57 - 64
Cognitive impairment is thought to be a major cause of disability worldwide, though data from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are sparse. This study aimed to investigate the association between cognitive impairment and disability in a cohort of community-dwelling older adults living in Tanzania. The study cohort...
Journal: Artery Research
Review Article
Remote telemonitoring of cardiovascular patients: Benefits, barriers, new suggestions
Ashkan Hashemi, Sormeh Nourbakhsh, Pedram Tehrani, Alireza Karimi
Pages: 57 - 63
Remote telemonitoring systems have been designed as a response to the new needs of home care for patients with chronic diseases. It also has the potential to ensure appropriate monitoring and treatment of patients as well as reducing the healthcare costs. Telemonitoring has been shown to be able to significantly...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Effects of a Personalized Physical Exercise Program in the Arterial Stiffness in Older Adults
Telmo Pereira, Fabiana Santos, Inês Cipriano
Pages: 57 - 64
Introduction: This study was aimed at evaluating the effect of a tailored exercise intervention programme in the Arterial Stiffness (AS) of old adults.
Methods: Non-randomized intervention study, enrolling 32 community dwelling old adults, aged over 65 years (mean age: 83.28 ± 8.29 years), with no prior...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Quantification of arterial wall inhomogeneity size, distribution, and modulus contrast using FSI numerical pulse wave propagation
Danial Shahmirzadi, Elisa E. Konofagou
Pages: 57 - 65
Changes in aortic wall material properties, such as stiffness, have been shown to accompany onset and progression of various cardiovascular pathologies. Pulse Wave velocity (PWV) and propagation along the aortic wall have been shown to depend on the wall stiffness (i.e. stiffer the wall, higher the PWV),...
Research Article
The Response of South Western Railway to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ross Liddell
Pages: 57 - 66
Pandemic crisis management is not something that South Western Railway (SWR) has had to contend with previously. As a result of the introduction of a crisis management approach to the COVID-19 pandemic, the business has been able to continue operating and to continue safely serving the needs of its customers....