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Mean ambulatory pulse pressure (PP) is a potent predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Objectives. Investigating prognostic significance of elastic and non-elastic PP components Methods. Using a generalized nonlinear pressure–volume relationship in arteries (Fig. 1), PP can be split into...

Atherosclerosis is a pathological process affecting arterial elasticity. The rabbit is one of the most widely used animal models for atherosclerosis research. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a method for the automatic assessment of local vascular stiffness in rabbits. An off-line...

Objective. We have shown that regression of brachial stiffness is inversely related to aortic stiffness in dialysis patients. In this study, we sequentially examine the impact of aortic stiffness, brachial stiffness and aortic-brachial stiffness mismatch on mortality in dialysis patients. Design and...

Compare the WSN with other conventional network system, the changing or charging the existing battery of sensor node within WSN is a tough job. Therefore, since last decade the effort has been made to design and introduce a large number of communication protocol for WSN with given concern on the performance...

In the Propp-based story generation mechanisms and the integrated narrative generation system which we have been developing, the former functions is a module in the latter. These systems have used respective event generation mechanisms to generated events which are the most important units in a narrative...

The Singular Manifold Method (SMM) is applied to an equation in 2 + 1 dimensions [13] that can be considered as a generalization of the sine-Gordon equation. SMM is useful to prove that the equation has two Painlevé branches and, therefore, it can be considered as the modified version of an equation...

We introduce the notion of a ghost characteristic for nonlocal differential equations. Ghosts are essential for maintaining the validity of the Jacobi identity for the charateristics of nonlocal vector fields.

The paper presents a survey of some new results concerning the approach to construction of explicit solutions for nonlinear evolution equations du/dt = F[u], proposed in [1, 2].

Effects of geometric constraints on a steady flow potential are described by an elliptic- hyperbolic generalization of the harmonic map equations. Sufficient conditions are given for global triviality.

The aim of this paper is to investigate intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute decision making problems with preference information on alternatives, in which the information on attribute weights is completely unknown and the attribute values and preference information on alternatives take the form of...

Purpose: The paper explores the mediating role of results-oriented culture in the relationship between transformational leadership and the performance of results-oriented culture in Vietnamese public service organizations. Research motivation: Although there have been studies referring to aspects of...

This study aims to explore the strategy of Islamic hotels to maintain financial performance in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The object of research is the Namira Islamic hotel in Yogyakarta. The preliminary data analysis results showed an increase in losses at the beginning of the pandemic, and...

With the development of Internet society, more and more celebrities begin to use their traffic to turn to the actual revenue. Many companies are also interested in the influence and the traffic of celebrities and invite them to endorse their products to stimulate their product sales. Many multimedia...

Controlling data value is becoming more challenging for businesses. Data redundancy is the most common cause of problems. Master Data Management (MDM) may help avert various issues by providing a “single version of the truth” throughout the organization. One of the fundamental causes for MDM implementation...

In order to improve the current situation of weak regional competitiveness and lack of characteristic tourism model in Hangzhou Qiaoxi historical and cultural district, for the optimization of the cultural tourism industry in the district methods and countermeasures, research to understand the current...

Many English-based loanwords undergo the phonotactic nativization in mandarin phonology. This paper reviews phonological deletion and phonological preservation as two common patterns of achieving phonological adaptation in mandarin Chinese. Notably, the discussion mainly focuses on English-based loanwords...

The state is responsible for implementing every international agreement it ratifies up to the regional level. The international agreement on Climate Change, especially the LULUCF sector, requires Indonesia to carry out land use, land-use change, and forestry obligations that support climate change mitigation....

Solving the housing problem of low- and middle-income groups is the basic responsibility of the government and an important indicator of whether a country’s housing supply system is complete. In the past ten years, China’s housing security has achieved great results. However, at present, there are still...

She-economics, known as women’s economics or womenomics, rise due to the improvement of women’s socioeconomic status, the increasing number of the female labor force, and the rising level of education. The female economy includes many aspects, such as female labor, women’s financial management, and women’s...

Art and design development of modern society is in the development of socialist modernization, and human civilization has been further development. It makes environmental art design began to receive attention and concern, and its increasingly prominent in the development of the arts has unique design...

In practice, one can get luminous flux parameter of LED by off-line measurement method and make prediction of the LED module's service life time. But the prediction results only focus on LED luminous flux, meanwhile colorimetric and thermal characteristics are not involved. Towards to the disadvantage...

This study aims to explore the current situation of using Listening Comprehension Strategies (LCS) in IELTS, compare the difference in using LCS between the efficient listeners and less efficient listeners, find out efficient learners' specific methods of applying LCS, and provide some feasible suggestions...

In 1920, Sichuan authorities reorganized Industrial Exposition in Qingyang Temple, which was the first time to hold this Industrial Exposition since the Revolution of 1911 nearly a decade of stagnation. The reasons included mainly: authorities had changed attitude toward the temple and advocated to develop...

In order to reveal the related law between strata behavior and rock burst of fully mechanized caving face, this paper discussed the relationship between the distribution of abutment pressure and energy in front of the coal wall of fully mechanized caving mining face from the point of view of energy....

First we construct the index system of foreign trade competitiveness evaluation, research the competitiveness of foreign trade in South-East and South Asia under the background of "the Belt and Road Initiative" by principal component analysis. Then we calculate the scores of foreign trade competitiveness...

As typical memory elements, memristor and memcapacitor have attracted much attention. In this work, we investigate the characteristics of the voltage controlled memcapacitor. Furthermore, the memristive circuit which is based on LC contour and consists of memcapacitor and memristor is also researched...

We propose an image dehazing method based on scene segmentation. We divide the hazy image into different parts depending on the scene depth. Then we dehaze the scenes in the same depth .Experimental results show that our method can achieve high color fidelity results. What's more, our results take advantage...

With the vigorous development of China's higher education and the deepening of the reform of higher education, the teaching management is bound to enter the era of information. Through the analysis of the problems currently existing in the management of university information teaching, this paper puts...

Based on the research of related literatures on internationalization of higher education in the era of knowledge-based economy, this article divides internationalization of higher education into eight types of indicators: international philosophy and strategic planning, international organization setting,...

Chou En-lai explored the Chinese democracy construction, asserting that democracy was the essence of socialism. He summarized principles and approaches of expanding democracy and advocated consultative democracy and democracy within the Party, setting a base stone for people's democracy and guiding the...

GARCH model can be used to describe the characteristics of returns fluctuation, which can forecast the returns and risk of financial assets. This paper makes use of GARCH model and its hybrid models, such as GARCH-M model, E-GARCH model, T-GARCH model and I-GARCH model, to the empirical research on the...

With the development of information technology, GIS information has become an important part of the obtained data. The GIS data has characteristics of multi-source heterogeneous, multi-scale, large differences in format and huge data etc. It is difficult to achieve relatively joint query. So in this...

In order to realize digital image sequence processing for multi-channel vision in real-time simultaneously, a hardware system with FPGA&DSP is designed. In the system, two ZBT SRAM chips are used as the input and output cache for high data transferring. A FPGA chip is responsible for the core logic controlling...

Learning to meet practical needs is not only an important purpose of study, but also a great method of study, which is also suitable for a better learning of Calculus .As we all know, many students don’t have enough interest and motivation to study Calculus, because of their lacking cognition of its...

Feature weighting algorithm has a great effect on the accuracy of text categorization. The classical Term Frequency and Inverse Documentation Frequency algorithm (TFIDF) ignores the semantic relationships between terms in the document set, thus to influence the accuracy of term weight calculation. To...

Aesthetics course of colleges is an important educational method in college students’ growth, where all aspects like morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics supplement one another. Colleges should apply different art education forms to develop aesthetic education for students to make them learn...

Signal and System is a course with a lot of abstracting theories and mathematical derivations, and it is often needed to display the complex waveforms of some signals and simulate the signal processing process in order to better understand the relevant knowledge in the course teaching. To this end, Matlab...

Power trading information release system is the State Grid Company’s internal and external business information integration, establish a convenient service channels between the government, regulators, power generation companies and large users of electricity. This paper first analyzes Grid Company information...

A meme is an information pattern, held in an individual's memory, which is capable of being copied to another individual's memory. Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life. Memetics is the theoretical and...

According to the appropriate dimensions offered by World Health Organization (WHO) and American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), this paper make the transforming need dimensions for old communities in Dalian, China. And we carry out a survey in 50 communities in Dalian, covering four districts...

The shock tower, serving as a critical component of the front car body, plays an important role in the stability and ride comfort of the vehicle. In this study, a lightweight optimal design was obtained based on the original steel structure. Stiffness requirements for optimization process were extracted...

The parametric analysis is carried out by using numerical simulation methods for the flow around a single cylinder. The influence of the three-dimensional effect, grid form, time step, turbulence model and sub-grid scale models on the calculation results are discussed, respectively. The analysis results...

In this paper, information and communication assets in the power grid are modeled as graph data. A graph database, Neo4j, is chosen to capturing the connections that could help to analyze fault ranges. Based on breadth-first search, recursion terminations are designed to obtain the fault range from the...

Correlation and convolution are two mathematical operations commonly used in image filtering. This article aims to provide real case analysis to clear the confusions associated with what correlation and convolution essentially are, how to process the boundary points in image processing using correlation...