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Introduction: Hypertension and renal dysfunction are associated with increased arterial stiffness. Arterial stiffness is a marker of cardiovascular disease and predictor of cardiovascular risk. We assessed the relationship between renal function and arterial stiffness in never-treated hypertensives. Methods:...

This study aims to determine the Action Bible Game Board media’s effectiveness in introducing Old Testament Bible characters to children aged 9 – 12 years old at the Pentecostal Church in Indonesia (GPdI) Ungaran and Indonesian Bethel Church (GBI) Kana Ungaran. The author uses experimental quantitative...

The use of electricity has become a major need for all people. The amount of electrical energy consumption by each consumer is measured using an electrical device, namely a kWh meter. Manually recording the meter by PLN officers to the customer’s house is certainly not efficient because it requires more...

Recent follow-up studies showed no change or even short-term improvement of arterial stiffness after kidney transplantation. Data from general population and end-stage renal disease patients suggest, that PWV increases with age of 0,07–0,08m/s for each year of life. It was shown recently that reduced...

We have already proposed an obstacles detection method using a video taken by a vehicle-mounted monocular camera. In this method, correct obstacles detection depends on whether we can accurately detect and match feature points. In order to improve the accuracy of obstacles detection, in this paper, we...

Nowadays, effective management of water withdraw, water consumption and wastewater discharge is desired for nuclear power plants in inland China. In this paper, the inland nuclear power industry and its policies in China were reviewed, a two-step water-management (TSWM) approach for the plants was proposed....

The Marshall-Olkin extended uniform distribution is introduced and studied by Jose and Krishna (2011). In this paper some moments properties of generalized order statistics (gos) for this distribution are investigated and results are deduced for order statistics and record values. In the last section,...

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We discuss a method of solving nth order scalar ordinary differential equations by extending the ideas based on the Prelle-Singer (PS) procedure for second order ordnary differential equations. We also introduce a novel way of generating additional integrals of motion from a single integral. We illustrate...

Reductions for systems of ODEs integrable via the standard factorization method (the Adler-Kostant-Symes scheme) or the generalized factorization method, developed by the authors earlier, are considered. Relationships between such reductions, operator Yang-Baxter equations, and some kinds of non-associative...

Underwater sensor deployment for military surveillance is a significant challenge due to the inherent difficulties posed by the underwater channel in terms of sensing and communications between sensors, as well as the exorbitant cost of the sensors. As a result, these sensors must be deployed as efficiently...

In the knowledge economy, a key source of sustainable competitive advantage relies on the way to create, share, and utilize knowledge. Knowledge Management (KM) tools assumed an important role in supporting KM activities. The objective of this paper is to aid decision makers to identify the most appropriate...

Tomatoes, which have a limited shelf life must be processed further, one of which will be used as a jelly drink. In Indonesia, tomatoes are relatively inexpensive, but beverage products made from tomatoes are still limited. Jelly drinks are common among the general public, and they also serve as a hunger...

The purpose of this research found out how to determine the threshold for president candidate and vice president candidate in Indonesia as an effort to realize sovereign voters. This research was juridical normative with a statutory approach. From the results of the research, it was found that there...

Gunung Kidul is an area in Yogyakarta which has become the object of many CSR programs for companies. The hilly area with 13 geoparks is fairly dry, and many of its poor people certainly need more attention from companies through this CSR program, to develop the potential of their villages. Since 2014,...

This study uses the MDA (Multiple Discriminant Analysis) Altman Z-Score to predict the status of financial distress in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2019. MDA Stepwise model is used to prove that the variables used in the MDA Altman Z-Score method are the best variables...

Laryngeal cancer is a malignancy on larynx that may occur in glottis, supraglottic and subglottic. This malignancy is a second most carcinoma in head and neck area Clinical manifestation such as dysphonia, breathing obstruction, dysphagia, odynophagia, and hemoptysis. Reported a laryngeal cancer with...

Sex addiction is a very serious phenomenon and problem in our daily life. Not just adults, but minors as well. Sex addiction refers to compulsive thoughts or urges and compulsive behaviors related to sex. Sometimes, compulsive sexual behavior urges and thoughts can lead to problems in People’s Daily...

The goal of this research is to see how social influence, hedonic motivation, and habit affect e-money behaviour. This study also examines whether perceived risk influences the link between habit and behavioral intention. The current and future behavioral intention to use electronic money is described...

In 2019, Gree Electric Appliances, Inc. of Zhuhai (Gree Inc.) carried out a new round of mixed-ownership reform. The main purposes of this reform are to introduce new strategic investors into the company and, at the same time, provide the management of Gree Inc with unprecedented power. And this paper...

The rice farmers have been facing various troubles in their efforts to boost their production. Some causes of their problem are pests, such as rats, bugs, and birds. These pests, which exist amongst the rice plant, are part of the food chain within the farm. Their emergence is the result of population...

A number of research survey shows there are more and more Christian in Chinese rural areas. The main purpose of this paper is to find out dose the rural Christian believers' faith has impact on their behavior in the political participation, so we establish a system to measure whether the Christian faith...

PageRank algorithm is improved by MapReduce programming model thought based on research and study of PageRank algorithm. MapReduce-based PageRank algorithm run distributed parallel in Hadoop cloud compu-ting platform environments, thereby improving the efficiency of PageRank. The experimental results...

In terms of domestic, road surface is divided into cement concrete and pavement of asphalt concrete. Asphalt concrete pavement has the characteristics of fast repair, low noise. So is a good use of asphalt pavement quality of road, but if you want to play to the performance of the asphalt surface, should...

This paper analyzed the formation of Tibetan traditional auspicious patterns and the reasons, and introduces its developing process, and then focuses on the use of Tibetan auspicious patterns and the innovation points, optimizing the cultural inheritance in the field of fashion design in China has certain...

For solving the shortages of the existing methods of data exchange among the various enterprise information systems, in this paper, the XML documents were used as the carrier of structured data to design and implement a new type of data interface based on Donimo application system. By using FTP service...

Based on the staged continuous tabu search (SCTS) algorithm, a modified staged continuous tabu search (MSCTS) algorithm is proposed in this paper to improve the convergence, speed and robustness of tabu search (TS) algorithm. The improvements focus on the selection method of the neighborhoods in MSCTS...

Teaching Quality Evaluation is an important part of teaching management. In this paper, the conventional evaluation method for qualitative analysis, with a certain degree of subjectivity and one-sidedness, not comprehensive and accurate, proposed a fuzzy comprehensive method to the scientific quantitative...

Taking the year 1979, 2008 and 2010 as the representative reference periods, the vulnerabilities and loss risks of hazard-affected bodies from Wenchuan Earthquake-induced geohazard-chain and its temporal-spatial changes in Qingping country have been analyzed mainly through GIS, high-resolution remote...

Based on the combination of 2D mobile platforms and CCD, an automatic control procedure is developed in the programming environment of VC+ + 6.0 system, which can accurately control the location of the collection each time, realizing two modes of functions of saving the image of light intensity distribution...

Under current retirement policy, a large number of Yong Retirees' HRD do not continue to be developed and human resources are idle or waste. In the view of this, firstly,this article analyzes the retirement policy and the present situation of young retiree human resources development and the conclusion...

There have been instance of prejudice and discrimination against non-native teachers. This research is designed to test whether prejudice towards non-native English-speaking teachers still exist now. If so, which elements influence the students’ attitude towards the non-native English-speaking teachers...

In recent years, deep neural networks achieve significant improvements in automatic speech recognition. In this paper, we propose a deep structure used for robust ASR. The model has several partially connected layers which can suppress noise in different frequency bands. In order to recognize the speech...

Spectral slicing of a supercontinuum source has a good prospect in the applications of the wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM)- radio-over-fiber(RoF) systems. A comb filter based on superstructure fiber Bragg grating (SSFBG) to slice the supercontinuum spectrum generated in the photonic crystal fiber...

There are some existing problems of Chinese environmental criminal law in the fields of legislative idea, justification, accuracy of specific crime and efficacy of deterrent effect of punishment, and the key reason that leads to these problems is the old-fashioned legislative idea and purpose. Lawmaker...

This paper presents Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) communication model based on SoC design methodology. Such model can be used to support the modelling of the complex wireless communication systems; therefore the use of such communication model is an important technique in the construction of high...

this paper first introduces the teaching characteristics for vocational colleges at home and abroad. And then features of the elective system are analyzed in vocational colleges. The method and implementation for elective system is presented.

With the soaring property prices, research on the residential housing-price tolerability is of great practical significance to manage national economy order and control the national macro-economy policies. A prediction model of residential housing-price tolerability based on fuzzy matrix analysis theory...

Physical capital, financial capital, human capital and social capital of a country together constitute the national capital, which determines a country's overall strength and competitiveness. Through the study of elements and formation of the national social capital and the analysis of its nature and...

The medium and small enterprise plays an irreplaceable role in China's national economy, but harsh financing environment seriously restricts and even endangers the survival and development of medium and small enterprises. First, this article introduces the status and characteristics of SME financing....

Young teachers in colleges are the dominant forces of the teachers in our country, they generally have higher educational background with passion and vitality, are the fresh blood of education industry. The local colleges usually take high-quality practical talents cultivation as the orientation, to...

3D printing technology is a rapid prototyping technology, which can construct objects by the means of cutting and printing layer by layer based on the digital model files created by 3D modeling software. Starting from the literature research, this paper introduces the research background, teaching advantages...

For the sake of providing scientific the theoretical basis for keeping the water temperature in the bathtub .we established the time-varying model of water temperature in the bathtub..By using finite difference method, the solution of the gained difference equations was given and simulated by computer....

Heilongjiang, as a traditional agricultural province, the grain output accounts for one-tenth of the country and the grain production status is very important. Farmers' income structure in Heilongjiang has distinct characteristics, whether it has a certain impact on farmers' income growth or not, which...