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In recent years, great attention has been placed on local carotid elasticity. Carotid pulse wave velocity (cPWV) can be considered a surrogate marker for carotid stiffness evaluation. Aim of this study was to compare four different techniques for carotid stiffness assessment. Ten young healthy subjects...

Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a measure of the stiffness of the large arteries, and is often used as indicator of clinical cardiovascular risk. Yet, methodological issues still exist on how PWV should best be measured. We have used a 1D arterial network computer model of the systemic circulation...

Background: Central (aortic) blood pressure (BP) indices independently predict cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality, but the physiological mechanisms underlying aortic BP waveform morphology are subject to debate. The ‘aortic reservoir’ and ‘excess pressure’ are proposed as determinants of aortic...

Self-efficacy is very important to improve because it is related to student academic achievement. Self-efficacy is the ability to understand self-confidence to overcome situations that are controlled in the process of thinking, acting, feeling and motivating. This study aims to increase self-efficacy...

Macaca fascicularisis one of the nonhuman primates that live in groups with many males and females (multi male multi female group) so that interactions between individuals often occur. Despite having a wide distribution, M. fascicularis continues to decline in population. One of the efforts to protect...

Rationale: Bronchiectasis is characterised by inflammation and airways injury, which lead to loss of airways function, factors which are associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in various populations. Central arterial stiffness (AS) a predictor of CVD risk has not been studied...

To date, regional aortic stiffness can be evaluated by the reference tonometric technique via the pulse wave velocity (PWV) measured in two points: the carotid and the femoral arteries. Based on a similar intersecting tangent algorithm, we have developed a new method for the determination of carotid-femoral...

This research proposes a new Big File Cloud (BFC) with its architecture and algorithms to solve difficult problems of cloud-based storage using the advantages of key-value stores. There are many problems when designing an efficient storage engine for cloud-based storage systems with strict requirements...

Recently, many people have used Smartphones. The feature of Smartphones is that they are equipped with a mobile operating system (OS) for the control of sensors and modules. In this situation, we can connect external human interaction devices with the Smartphone. Our objective is to know how the external...

Recently, driving support technologies have been practically used. However, a problem has been pointed out that when a vehicle is connected with an external network, the safety of the vehicle is threatened. Ensuring the security of in-vehicle systems becomes an important priority. The present study proposes...

A new definition for the electromagnetic field velocity is proposed. The velocity depends on the physical fields. The question posed by the title of this paper is, surprisingly, not yet answered uniquely today; not even by way of definition. According to modern assumptions the light is the electromagnetic...

This paper provides a literature review in clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) with a focus on the way knowledge bases are constructed, and how inference mechanisms and group decision making methods are used in CDSSs. Particular attention is paid to the uncertainty handling capability of the commonly...

We study the integrability properties of the hierarchy of a class of nonlinear ordinary differential equations and point out some of the properties of these equations and their connection to the Ermakov-Pinney equation.

The Principal Component Analysis method (PCA) is introduced into the bid selection decision-making of construction enterprises, the influencing factor index system of bid selection decision-making of construction enterprises is established, the dimensionality of the determined index system is reduced...

Writing skill is one of the active language skills that is important in expressing ideas, thoughts, and feelings. Writing is also a difficult thing for BIPA students, especially for beginners with academic goals. The Indonesian language has the standard Indonesian grammar that BIPA students should understand...

Snack bars are defined as snack products in the form of stems and are a mixture of various ingredients such as cereals, fruits, nuts, which are bound to each other with the help of a binder agent. Utilization of purple sweet potato and soursop fruit to diversify food and improve its quality and nutritional...

Over the past 20 years, the understanding of schizophrenia has deepened. As a brain disease, schizophrenia has profoundly affected generations. It is a chronic brain disorder that is characterized by significant alterations in perception, thoughts, mood, and behavior. Schizophrenia usually occurs in...

Indonesia as a country that has a strategic geographical location, not only has a charming natural beauty but also abundant natural resources. The abundance of Indonesia’s natural resources is aimed as much as possible for the prosperity of the people, including indigenous peoples as part of the people...

Productive subjects in vocational high schools require hands-on practice and guidance. The existence of distance learning applied to Software Application and Building Interior Design (SAABI) subjects as one of the productive subjects due to the covid 19 pandemic caused students’ understanding and interest...

Industry rotation is a common phenomenon in the stock market. Through the idea of momentum and reversal trading, this paper uses the CSI 300 industry index to empirically test the industry rotation phenomenon of China’s A-share market. The results of the trading test reflect that the industry momentum...

In the digital era, BIM (Building Information Modelling) has enriched and transformed Architectural pedagogy, particularly in the architectural design studio. It has challenged students during design activity, either it helps or limits their design. We review students’ achievements that employ BIM as...

The treatment for high-rise buildings is significant, while the number of skyscrapers is increasing at a higher rate year by year. A comprehensive method is put forward in the paper to discuss its feasibility in order to develop customized strategies for high-rise building preservations worldwide. Digital...

Tourism in Indonesia has a big potential and resources that doesn’t fully developed yet by government and commercial sector. Development in tourism is expected to give a benefit for society, because tourism is one of development indicator in the Indonesian economics. Tourism that expected to give a quite...

With the development of our country's economy, the subject of environmental art design has sprout up and developed quickly. It provided many talents for the cause of the environmental art design in China. However, at present, there are many problems in the teaching of environmental art design, including...

Tire noise is one of the main sources of car noise. In order to research on the tire noise, analysis method based on wavelet transform was proposed. Compared with traditional analysis methods, wavelet transform can ef-fectively and intuitively find the effect of tire pattern arrangement on measurement...

In the development of wireless mobile technology, the mobile e-commerce begins to get favour from people, which better broadens the running space of our e-commerce industry, allowing for a wider range of e-commerce. Combination of mobile e-commerce and enterprise e-commerce platforms, and connection...

this study uses Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) theory combined with the Expert Opinion method to provide appropriate evaluation criteria weights and fuzzy numbers, and uses Fuzzy Ranking methods for ranking based on an integrated assessment to serve as the basis and reference for the...

The paper presents the second part a study conducted on multi-criteria optimization of electromechanical modules. This part focuses on the use of RAZOR method, which is a multi-criteria optimization outranking method, based on the so-called Z-score in statistics. The conducted study is motivated by understanding...

This paper firstly analyzes the current situation of the security of cloud computing, and analyzes several problems about the security of the cloud, and studies the existing access control model. Combining the characteristics of cloud computing security and the development trend of access control, the...

Students' attribution directly influence their degree of effort, which affect their progress in academic achievement. Based on Weiner's attribution theory, it researches on college students' characteristics of attribution by questionnaires. The findings indicate that vocational college students mainly...

The purpose of this paper is to measure the mediating role of Value Congruence in the relationship between motivation and organizational commitment in non-profit sport organizations. An e-mail sur-vey was conducted with a sample of 223 volunteers in 12 non-profit sport organi-zations in a Jiangxi Province...

A new emergence mechanism related to the bounded capacity of human cognition is considered. It assumes that individuals (operators) governing the dynamics of a certain system try to follow an optimal strategy in controlling its motion but fail to do this perfectly because similar strategies are indistinguishable...

To optimize the Block Widemann and Block Lancos algorithm is every important in solving large sparse systems in many engineering computing topic, so the parallel method of these two algorithms is built. This paper designs two different types of data parallel based on the original parallelism level and...

Teachers' discourse includes two parts: student-centered discourse and teacher-centered discourse. Both of them have communicative and strategic dimensions which cause the inner conflict of teachers' discourse. This conflict originates from the different natures of education, teleological nature and...

In 2007, flipped class model was firstly employed in class by Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams, chemical teachers of Woodland Park High School, Colorado. Along with the popularity and development of internet, flipped class model of Khan Academy has drawn wide attention from global educators.Since Khan...

The task of oilfield equipment malfunctions’ early prevention is considered in the paper. Input data for the analysis are the indications of sensors, established in the well and represented as time series set. Due to the forecasting analysis (predictive analytics) of the given set it is possible to discover...

Small and medium-sized enterprises should take innovation activities if they will get development well, at the same time, making collaboration with other firms is the key for their innovation. This paper discusses several different motivations for SEMs supply chain to make innovative collaboration: (1)...

Video screen shots of images are special, and they are motive compare to other images. To extract saliency maps from video images quickly and accurately is a hard task. This paper is inspired by some excellent works, employing the combination of several ideas to propose a hybrid model for extracting...

As a sub-central city in Hubei province, currently the urbanization of Xiangyang is in the accelerated development stage, and the improvement of urbanization development quality (UDQ) is critical in this process. Using the analytic hierarchy process, this work constructed an evaluation system of comprehensive...