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Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
Trade Reforms and Integration of Cocoa Farmers into World Markets: Evidence from African and non-African Countries
Komi Tsowou, Samuel K. Gayi
Pages: 16 - 29
The paper analyses cocoa farmers’ integration into global markets taking into account trade reforms in five cocoa producing countries. The analysis investigates price transmission mechanisms from world to domestic cocoa markets in the context of trade liberalizing policy reforms. The empirical analysis...
Research Article
Intra-industry’ Effects from Mergers on Financial Statements, in and out of Technology-intensive Industries: Evidence from Greece
Michail Pazarskis, George Drogalas, Andreas Koutoupis, Grigorios Lazos
Pages: 16 - 21
The study examines the impact of mergers on accounting performance of Greek listed firms involved in mergers. More specifically, we studied a sample of thirty-two absorbed listed firms in four sectors (primary sector, technology-intensive industrial sector, commercial and services sector, construction...
Research Article
Toward Affordable and Practical Home Context Recognition: –Framework and Implementation with Image-based Cognitive API–
Sinan Chen, Sachio Saiki, Masahide Nakamura
Pages: 16 - 24
To provide affordable context recognition for general households, this paper presents a novel technique that integrate image-based cognitive Application Program Interface (API) and light-weight machine learning. Our key idea is to regard every image as a document by exploiting “tags” derived by the API....
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Peripheral blood flow regulation in response to sympathetic stimulation in individuals with down syndrome
Thessa I.M. Hilgenkamp, Sang Ouk Wee, Elizabeth C. Schroeder, Tracy Baynard, Bo Fernhall
Pages: 16 - 21
Background: Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) experience autonomic dysfunction, with reduced sympathetic and parasympathetic control. This results in alterations in resting heart rate and blood pressure and attenuated responses to sympathoexcitatory stimuli. It is unknown to what extent this impacts...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Acute effect of coffee consumption on arterial stiffness, evaluated using an oscillometric method
Darío Echeverri, Alejandro Pizano, Félix R. Montes, Pedro Forcada
Pages: 16 - 32
Introduction: Previous studies show contradictory results related to the vascular effects of coffee; they suggest that caffeine increases arterial stiffness and negatively impacts vascular health, the aim of this study is to evaluate the acute coffee effects on the vascular stiffness.
Methods and materials:...
Review Article
Double Burden of Malnutrition in the Asia-Pacific Region—A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Wen Peng, Yuhan Mu, Yang Hu, Bin Li, Jayanthi Raman, Zhixian Sui
Pages: 16 - 27
Background: Double Burden of Malnutrition (DBM)—the coexistence of undernutrition along with overnutrition—is a significant public health issue in the Asia-Pacific region. The scope of the DBM in this region is largely unknown. This review aims to determine the prevalence of under- and overnutrition...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Longitudinal follow-up of ascending versus abdominal aortic aneurysm formation in angiotensin II-infused ApoE−/− mice
Bram Trachet, M. Renard, C. Van der Donckt, S. Deleye, J. Bols, G.R.Y. De Meyer, S. Staelens, B.L. Loeys, P. Segers
Pages: 16 - 23
Purpose: To explore new imaging techniques to elucidate some of the differences between both abdominal and ascending aortic aneurysms in the angiotensin II mouse model.
Procedures: Angiotensin II-infusing pumps were implanted in male ApoE−/− mice (n = 10). In vivo micro-CT, ultrasound and Positron emission...
Research Article
Evaluation of the Relationships between Saliency Maps and Keypoints
Ryuugo Mochizuki, Kazuo Ishii
Pages: 16 - 21
The saliency map is proposed by Itti et al., to represent the conspicuity or saliency in the visual field and to guide the selection of attended locations based on the spatial distribution of saliency, which works as the trigger of bottom-up attention. If a certain location in the visual field is sufficiently...
Case Report
Tuberculous Meningitis in an Immunocompetent Host: A Diagnostic Challenge
Hussein Algahtani, Bader Shirah, Nawal Abdelghaffar, Abdulrahman J. Alqahtani, Mohammad Alshehri
Pages: 16 - 20
Tuberculosis is a major global public health problem, which poses significant diagnostic and treatment challenges. Tuberculous meningitis is the most severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which approximately affects 1% of all patients with active tuberculosis. It is considered a medical emergency...
Journal: Intensive Care Research
Research Article
The Incidence and Prognosis of ICU Delirium: A Retrospective Study from a Single Center
Qing Feng, Yuhang Ai, Meilin Ai, Li Huang, Qianyi Peng, Lina Zhang
Pages: 16 - 23
Purpose: Delirium is a frequent occurrence amongst Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients, but studies on its causes are sparse and its risk factors vary from disease to disease. Here, in this study, an attempt was made to investigate the factors associated with the prognosis of delirium in the ICU.
Methods:...
Research Article
Analysis of Long-term Care Insurance Demand of Megalopolis in China under the Background of Aging of Population—Take Shanghai as an Example†
Guo Jing, Xiaojun Pan, Chengyi Pu
Pages: 16 - 25
The development of Long-term Care Insurance (LTCI), which matches that people get old before becoming rich lag behind. The mega-urban agglomeration formed in the metropolitan area under the process of urbanization intensifies the demand for insurance driven by long-term care needs. This paper constructs...
Research Article
A Direct procedure on the Integrability of Nonisospectral and Variable-Coefficient MKdV Equation
Xiaorui Hu, Yong Chen
Pages: 16 - 26
An elementary and systematic method based on binary Bell polynomials is applied to nonisospectral and variable-coefficient MKdV (vcMKdV) equation. The bilinear representation, bilinear Bäcklund transformation, Lax pair and infinite local conservation laws are obtained step by step, without too much clever...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P4.6 GREATER CAROTID CIRCUMFERENTIAL WALL STRESS IS ASSOCIATED WITH INCIDENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN INDIVIDUALS WITH TYPE 2 DIABETES – THE HOORN STUDY
Veronica Onete*, Ronald Henry, Miranda Schram, Jacqueline Dekker, Giel Nijpels, Coen Stehouwer
Pages: 16 - 17
Introduction: Arterial remodeling is an adaptive phenomenon aimed at maintaining circumferential wall stress (CWS) within operating limits. It is characterized by widening of the inter-adventitial diameter (IAD) and increases in intima-media thickness (IMT). This process is maladaptive when CWS increases...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P4.5 VASCULAR HEALTH ASSESSMENT OF THE HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS (VASOTENS) REGISTRY: RATIONALE, DESIGN AND METHODS OF AN INTERNATIONAL REGISTRY FOR AMBULATORY BLOOD PRESSURE AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS TELEMONITORING
Stefano Omboni*, Igor N. Posokhov, Gianfranco Parati, Anatoli Rogoza, Alberto Avolio, Ernesto Cardona Muñoz, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Vladimir Gorbunov, Elena Grigoricheva, Alexandra Konradi, Viktoria Korneva, Yulia Kotovskaya, Natalya Kulikova, Maria Lorenza Muiesan, Giuseppe Mulè, Iana Orlova, Carmine Savoia, Giuseppe Schillaci, Parounak Zelveian, Elena Zheleznyak
Pages: 16 - 16
Background: Ambulatory (A) blood pressure (BP), central BP and pulse wave velocity (PWV) are parameters recommended by hypertension guidelines for estimating BP control and vascular impairment. Recent advances in technology made available devices allowing combined non-invasive estimation of these parameters...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P4.4 INHIBITION OF ARTERIAL CALCIFICATION BY MATRIX GLA PROTEIN AS DETERMINANT OF RENAL FUNCTION IN THE GENERAL POPULATION
Fangfei Wei*, Nadja E.A. Drummen, Lutgarde Thijs, Lotte Jacobs, Marjo H.J. Knapen, Thibaut Petit, Wenyi Yang, Zhenyu Zhang, Yumei Gu, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Peter Verhamme, Pieter Evenepoel, Cees Vermeer, Jan A. Staessen
Pages: 16 - 16
Background: Carboxylation of matrix Gla protein (MGP), a vitamin K dependent process, activates the protein to a powerful inhibitor of arterial calcification. Circulating dephosphorylated and uncarboxylated MGP (dp-ucMGP) and total uncarboxylated MGP (t-ucMGP) are associated with macrovascular disease....
Research Article
Banking Balance Sheet Channel of Systemic Risk
Vincent B.Y. Gan
Pages: 16 - 30
The role of the banking balance sheet as the source and transmitter of systemic risk is explored. We find that the key balance sheet channels of systemic risk are; (i) bank capital structure choice, (ii) interconnectedness and interdependencies among firms, (iii) correlations of asset composition and...
Research Article
Gray Scale Edge Detection using Interval-Valued Fuzzy Relations
Agustina Bouchet, Pelayo Quirós, Pedro Alonso, Virginia Ballarin, Irene Díaz, Susana Montes
Pages: 16 - 27
Gray scale edge detection can be modeled using Fuzzy Sets and, in particular, Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets. This work is focused on studying the performance of several Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets construction methods for detecting edges in a gray scale image. These construction methods are based on considering...
Review Article
A Heat Transfer with a Source: the Complete Set of Invariant Difference Schemes
Vladimir Dorodnitsyn, Roman Kozlov
Pages: 16 - 50
In this letter we present the set of invariant difference equations and meshes which preserve the Lie group symmetries of the equation ut = (K(u)ux)x +Q(u). All special cases of K(u) and Q(u) that extend the symmetry group admitted by the differential equation are considered. This paper completes the...
Review Article
Knowledge management in twenty-first century: literature review and future research directions
Jun Xu, Gita Sankaran, Shankar Sankaran, Di Clarke
Pages: 16 - 24
By reviewing 80 knowledge management papers from seven selected journals in the disciplines of information systems, business, management and operations research, we identified the current status, activities and directions of knowledge management research.
Research Article
A Multiple Attribute Decision Making Approach Based on New Similarity Measures of Interval-valued Hesitant Fuzzy Sets
Yi Liu, Jun Liu, Zhiyong Hong
Pages: 15 - 32
Hesitant fuzzy sets, as an extension of fuzzy sets to deal with uncertainty, have attracted much attention since its introduction, in both theory and application aspects. The present work is focused on the interval-valued hesitant fuzzy sets (IVHFSs) to manage additional uncertainty. Now that distance...
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
The African Economic Partnership Agreements with the EU: Reflections inspired by the case of the East African Community☆
Jaime de Melo, Julie Regolo
Pages: 15 - 24
This paper appraises the likely effects of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the East African Community (EAC) and the European Union (EU). Customs data are used to estimate the revenue and welfare effects of an EPA with and without an exception list. Revenue and welfare effects are rather...
Research Article
The fog of war: Why the environmental crusade for anadromous fish species in California could disarm the State’s local vector control districts in their war against mosquitoes
Stephen M. Siptroth, Richard P. Shanahan
Pages: 15 - 19
In California, local mosquito and vector control districts have successfully controlled mosquito and vector-borne diseases by improving drainage patterns and applying pesticides. The Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, which is a proposed habitat conservation plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay-Delta estuary,...
Research Article
The social context of tobacco products use among adolescents in Lebanon (MedSPAD-Lebanon)
Naim Bejjani, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Salim M. Adib
Pages: 15 - 22
Background: Current data from the Middle East suggest a rapid increase in the incidence of smoking water-pipes (narguileh in Lebanon) in parallel with cigarettes. The social context in which these two behaviors are initiated and associated has not been studied.
Methods: Data from a standardized questionnaire...
Research Article
The Malay version of the brief questionnaire on smoking urge: Translation and psychometric properties of the questionnaire
Ali Qais Blebil, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Juman Abdulelah Dujaili, Alfian Mohamed Zin
Pages: 15 - 22
This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of Malay translated version of the brief questionnaire of smoking urges (QSU-Brief). The translation procedure was done following the standard guidelines. The reliability and validity of the Malaysian version scale were evaluated based on the data...
Research Article
Results on Cumulative Measure of Inaccuracy in Record Values
Saeid Tahmasebi, Ahmad Nezakati, Safeih Daneshi
Pages: 15 - 28
In this paper, we propose cumulative measure of inaccuracy in lower record values and study characterization results in case of dynamic cumulative inaccuracy. We also discuss some properties of the proposed measures. Finally, we study a problem of estimating the cumulative measure of inaccuracy by means...
Research Article
A Comparative Study on the Delisting Ratings of Firms from the UN Global Compact in the International Management Environment
Kanako Negishi
Pages: 15 - 18
This study clarifies unique characteristics of Japanese manufacturing firms in the international business management environment using the United Nations Global Compact delisting ratio through a comparative study on Japan, China, Spain, and the US. Analyzing the number of countries and delisting ratios...
Journal: Artery Research
Review Article
Vascular adaptation to extreme conditions: The role of hypoxia
Rosa Maria Bruno, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Lorenza Pratali
Pages: 15 - 21
The study of vascular adaptation to extreme conditions, and in particular to hypoxia, represents a unique opportunity in cardiovascular physiology, with relevant translational implications. First, it has crucial clinical consequences for about 140 million people worldwide living at high altitude and...
Journal: Artery Research
Mini Review
Structural proteins and arterial ageing
Michael J. Sherratt
Pages: 15 - 21
In common with most dynamic tissues, the mechanical properties of arteries are determined by the relative composition and architecture of key structural extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins including fibrillar collagens and elastic fibre components. Although it is apparent that age-related loss of ECM...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Racial differences in relation between carotid and radial augmentation index☆
Jun Sugawara, Hidehiko Komine, Mutsuko Yoshiwaza, Takashi Tarumi, Seiji Maeda, Hirofumi Tanaka
Pages: 15 - 18
Background: Augmented central artery wave reflection is a cardiovascular disease risk factor. Augmentation index (AI) obtained from peripheral artery waveforms provides qualitatively similar information to AI from central artery waveforms. Little information is available, however, regarding the influence...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Non-invasive assessment of allometric scaling laws in the human coronary tree
Damian Craiem, Mariano E. Casciaro, Sebastian Graf, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, Ricardo L. Armentano
Pages: 15 - 23
Assessing the geometry of the coronary arteries in a patient can help to better explain coronary artery disease (CAD) development. Allometric scaling functions were successfully applied to describe how essential materials are transported through recursive networks, also observed in the coronary tree....
Review Article
Pride and Prejudice during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Misfortune of Inappropriate Clinical Trial Design
Shahrukh K. Hashmi, Edward De Vol, Fazal Hussain
Pages: 15 - 19
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a rapidly evolving global pandemic for which more than a thousand clinical trials have been registered to secure therapeutic effectiveness, expeditiously. Most of these are single-center non-randomized studies rather than multi-center, randomized controlled trials....
Journal: Journal of African Trade
Research Article
Agricultural Imports, Agriculture Productivity and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Esther N. Mwangi, Fuzhong Chen, Daniel M. Njoroge
Pages: 15 - 28
This study investigates the causal links among agricultural imports, agriculture productivity, and economic growth in 40 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990–2015. Granger causality tests are applied to infer direction of causality, and the generalized two-stage least squares instrumental...
Research Article
Research on Construction of Knowledge Graph of Intestinal Cells
Fengfeng He, Ling Zhang, Wei Qu, Chong Teng, Dan Xie
Pages: 15 - 22
Intestinal cells play a significant role in human physiological metabolism, immune protection, and development and control of nervous system diseases. With the flourishing development of artificial intelligence technology and arrival of intestinal cellular research enthusiasm, how to obtain knowledge...
Research Article
Improving Functional Safety of Automotive Video Data Transmission and Processing Systems
Mirko Conrad, Frank Langner, Benjamin Axmann, Karlheinz Blankenbach, Jan Bauer, Matthäus Vogelmann, Manfred Wittmeir, Sascha Xu
Pages: 15 - 26
As of today, automotive video data transmission and processing systems are already being developed according to ISO 26262, but safety mechanisms and safety architectures for such systems are individually derived on a case-by-case basis. This approach, i.e., reinventing the wheel, over and over again,...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P4.3 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN OLDER ADULTS: RESULTS OF THE SAPALDIA 3 COHORT STUDY
Simon Endes*, Emmanuel Schaffner, Seraina Caviezel, Julia Dratva, Christine S. Autenrieth, Miriam Wanner, Brian Martin, Daiana Stolz, Marco Pons, Alexander Turk, Robert Bettschart, Christian Schindler, Nino Künzli, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Arno Schmidt-Trucksäss
Pages: 15 - 16
We examined cross-sectional associations of self-reported PA intensities with arterial stiffness in elderly Caucasians of the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Diseases in Adults (SAPALDIA). Mixed central and peripheral arterial stiffness was measured oscillometrically by the cardio-ankle...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P4.2 CORONARY RISK IN RELATION TO GENETIC VARIATION IN MEOX2 AND TCF15 IN A FLEMISH POPULATION
Wen-Yi Yang, Thibault Petit, Lutgard Thijs, Zhen-Yu Zhang, Lotte Jacobs, Azusa Hara, Fang-Fei Wei, Erika Salvi, Lorena Citterio, Yu-Mei Gu, Judita Knez, Nicholas Cauwenberghs, Matteo Barcella, Cristina Barlassina, Paolo Manuta, Tatiana Kuznetsova*, Daniele Cusi, Peter Verhamme, Aernout Luttun, Jan Staessen
Pages: 15 - 15
Aims: In mice, MEOX2/TCF15 heterodimers are highly expressed in heart endothelial cells and are involved in the transcriptional regulation of lipid transport. We investigated whether coronary heart disease (CHD) in humans is associated with variation in these genes.
Methods and results: In 2027 participants...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P4.1 ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW
Luca Zanoli*, Stefania Rastelli, Jean-Philippe Empana, Pierre Boutouyrie, Stephane Laurent, Pietro Castellino
Pages: 15 - 15
Background: Arterial stiffness is increased with chronic inflammatory disorders. The reduction of inflammation by immunomodulatory therapy is associated with a restoration of arterial function.
Objectives: To determine whether carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cf-PWV) is increased in subjects with...
Journal: Artery Research
Conference Abstract
P3.21 ASSOCIATIONS OF INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR AND ITS BINDING PROTEIN-2 AND 3 WITH BLOOD PRESSURE AND ARTERIAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN HYPERTENSIVE PERIMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
Agnieszka Olszanecka*, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Danuta Czarnecka
Pages: 15 - 15
IGFs and their binding proteins are increasingly recognized as important in understanding the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. During the transition from premenopause to postmenopause, many women experience weight gain, hence we hypothesized that circulating growth hormones can play a role in...
Research Article
Research on the performance evaluation of government venture capital fund based on factor analysis and DEA model
Hong-Mei Zhang, Ya-Zhong Chen, Zhe Wang
Pages: 15 - 20
According to the existing domestic and foreign research results as well as the characteristics of the guide fund, this paper constructs the index system of guide fund performance evaluation, selects the data of the part of the enterprises shared by the government guide venture capital fund and uses the...
Research Article
A simulation study of outpatient scheduling with multiple providers and a single device
Xiao-Dan Wu, Mohammad T. Khasawneh, Dian-Min Yue, Ya-Nan Chu, Zhan-Ting Gao
Pages: 15 - 25
Effective outpatient appointment scheduling aims at reducing patient waiting time and operational costs, and improving resource utilization, especially given the stochastic nature of patient arrivals. Unlike many western developed countries, China faces challenges due to imperfect appointment systems...
Research Article
Forecasting Direction of Trend of a Group of Analogous Time Series Using F-Transform and Fuzzy Natural Logic
Vilém Novák, Irina Perfilieva
Pages: 15 - 28
We present an idea to group time series according to similarity of their local trends and to predict future direction of the trend of all of them on the basis of forecast of only one representative. First, we assign to each time series an adjoint one, which consists of a sequence of the F1-transform...
Research Article
A novel approach to the theory of Padé approximants
Christopher Athorne
Pages: 15 - 27
By associating polynomials and power series expansions with sln(C) modules we dscribe the theory of Padé approximants in terms of tensor products of representations and interpret their recurrence relations algebraically. The treatment links with the theory of Hirota derivatives and discrete integrable...
Research Article
Generalised Symmetries and the Ermakov-Lewis Invariant
R. Goodall, P.G.L. Leach
Pages: 15 - 26
Generalised symmetries and point symmetries coincide for systems of first-order odinary differential equations and are infinite in number. Systems of linear first-order ordinary differential equations possess a generalised rescaling symmetry. For the sytem of first-order ordinary differential equations...
Research Article
q-Euler numbers and polynomials associated with p-adic q-integrals
Taekyun Kim
Pages: 15 - 27
The main purpose of this paper is to present a systemic study of some families of multiple q-Euler numbers and polynomials. In particular, by using the q-Volkenborn integration on Zp, we construct p-adic q-Euler numbers and polynomials of higher order. We also define new generating functions of multiple...
Research Article
Solutions of Burgers, Reynolds, and Navier–Stokes Equations via Stochastic Perturbations of Inviscid Flows
Yuri E. Gliklikh
Pages: 15 - 29
We show that a certain stochastic perturbation of the flow of perfect incompressible fluid under some special external force on the flat n-dimensional torus yields a solution of Navier–Stokes equation without external force in the tangent space at unit of volume preserving diffeomorphism group. If that...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Could BMP-2 and BMP-7 be biomarkers of coronary artery disease? A pilot clinical study
Saeed Nazemi, Atefeh Rezapour, Seyed Mohammad Hasan Moallem, Mohammad Afshar, Sepideh Elyasi, Elham Hashemi, Sheyda Golmohammadzadeh, Azadeh Zaerzadeh, Vahid Jomezadeh, Amir Hooshang Mohammadpour
Pages: 14 - 19
Background: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is utilized as an important tool for the global risk assessment of cardiovascular events in individuals with intermediate risk. BMP-2 is a powerful inducer of bone formation and exposure to BMP-2 in the arteries leads to the loss of vascular smooth muscle...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Viscoelastic mechanical measurement of the healthy and atherosclerotic human coronary arteries using DIC technique
Alireza Karimi, Ahmad Shojaei, Reza Razaghi
Pages: 14 - 21
Purpose: Atherosclerotic is a specific form of vascular disease showed to be in charge of the 30% of mortalities in the United States alone. Many studies so far have been reported on the linear and nonlinear mechanical properties of the human and animal coronary arteries. However, the Quasilinear Viscoelastic...
Journal: Artery Research
Review Article
Vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation and the extracellular matrix
Maryam Heidari, Craig A. Mandato, Stephanie Lehoux
Pages: 14 - 18
Intervascular stents provide clinical benefits in preventing occlusive coronary artery disease after angioplasty, but intimal hyperplasia and restenosis after stent implantation remains an unresolved problem. Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), the main component of medial layer of arteries, play an...
Journal: Materials Highlights
Research Article
Dual-stage Release of Ketoprofen from Electrosprayed Core–Shell Hybrid Polyvinyl Pyrrolidone/Ethyl Cellulose Nanoparticles
Pu Wang, Meng-long Wang, Xi Wan, Honglei Zhou, Heng Zhang, Deng-Guang Yu
Pages: 14 - 21
Dual-stage release, consisting of a first fast release for eliminating the uncomfortable symptoms and a later sustained release for a long time period for reducing the administration times, is highly welcomed by the patients. In the present investigation, a new type of core-shell Electrosprayed Nanoparticles...
Journal: Artery Research
Research Article
Sleep Quality is associated with Central Arterial Stiffness in Postmenopausal Women: A Cross-sectional Pilot Study
Youngju Choi, Nobuhiko Akazawa, Asako Zempo-Miyaki, Song-Gyu Ra, Seiji Maeda
Pages: 14 - 19
This study aimed to investigate the associations between sleep quality and arterial stiffness in healthy postmenopausal women. A total of 31 healthy postmenopausal women aged between 50 and 74 years participated in this study. Objectively and subjectively measured sleep quantity and quality were concomitantly...