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Objectives: Increased cardiovascular risk in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis, not explained by exposure to traditional factors alone, have prompted investigation into the role of chronic inflammation. This study aimed to determine early cardiovascular risk profiles...

Objectives: PWV can be measured by velocity-encoded phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MR) in a single location. One method utilises the change in flow (ΔQ) divided by the change in area (ΔA) at the beginning of systole, when it is assumed that only forward running waves are present. However,...

Purpose: to investigate 1) the extent to which young adults who started smoking during adolescence and persisted doing so during young adulthood (‘persistent smokers’–PS), and those who started smoking in young adulthood only (‘starters’–SS) had greater aorto-iliac PWV than never smokers (NS); and 2)...

Aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a sensitive marker of arterial stiffness in children. In our previous study we have presented reference tables for PWV normal values in children. A recent consensus document provides arguments for the use of 80% of the direct carotid femoral distance as the most accurate...

Rapid technological development is the mark of the 21st century, competent young people are needed to face changing times. The 4C’s (Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, Creativity) are skills young people need to be able to face the rapid development of this era. So far there are no 4C’s...

Transformation of the mechanism for increasing the investment potential of the territories of Russia in the context of the COVID-2019 pandemic repeatedly strengthens the importance of an active policy in the field of forming the concept of promoting territories in general and in particular in the interregional...

Purpose: To investigate, longitudinally, whether increases in markers of inflammation (CRP, sICAM-1) and endothelial dysfunction (sICAM-1, sVCAM-1) are associated with and precede the increase in pulse pressure (PP) in individuals with type-1 diabetes (DM1). Methods: Inception cohort of 277 DM1 patients...

Background: Wave intensity analysis (WIA) is a mathematical tool used to study wave reflections in the arteries. Reflections are believed to contribute to BP augmentation and are also independent predictors of cardiovascular risk. Until now, the use of this technique has been largely confined to the...

This paper analyzes conditions in which a robotic swarm with a simplest communication device can succeed to enclose a target. The robots have to know directions to their each nearest neighbors. Each robot has a same signal emitter like a torch and they can observe the sum of the intensity of their torches....

To research the risk assessment method of coal-worker's pneumoconiosis caused by coal dust exposure, predict the incidence of coal-worker's pneumoconiosis, and provide technical basis for occupational risk management. Coal-workers of a coal transportation workshop of a heat power station were chosen...

The classical and quantum mechanics of systems on Lie groups and their homogeneous spaces are described. The special stress is laid on the dynamics of deformable bodies and the mutual coupling between rotations and deformations. Deformative modes are discretized, i.e., it is assumed that the relevant...

Various solutions are displayed and analyzed (both analytically and numerically) of a recently-introduced many-body problem in the plane which includes both integrable and nonintegrable cases (depending on the values of the coupling constants); in paticular the origin of certain periodic behaviors is...

In this paper we continue studies of the functional representation of the Ablowitz­ Ladik hierarchy (ALH). Using formal series solutions of the zero-curvature condition we rederive the functional equations for the tau-functions of the ALH and obtain some new equations which provide more straightforward...

We discuss some special classes of canonical transformations of the extended phase space, which relate integrable systems with a common Lagrangian submanifold. Vrious parametric forms of trajectories are associated with different integrals of motion, Lax equations, separated variables and action-angles...

In the framework of the theory of approximate transformation groups proposed by Baikov, Gaziziv and Ibragimov [1], the first-order approximate symmetry operator is calculated for the Navier-Stokes equations. The symmetries of the coupled system obtained by expanding the dependent variables of the Navier-Stokes...

We introduce a differential geometry description of the path lines, stream lines and particles contours in hydrodynamics. We present a generalized form of a Korteweg-de Vries type of equation for the exterior of a circle. Nonlinearities from the boundary conditions, surface tension and the Euler equations...

The aim of this paper is to explore, empirically, the channels of crisis transmission with regard to the Global financial crisis. EMP-based crisis proxy is used for eight countries, which include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico and Russia. The period considered for estimation...

Eating healthy food is a routine that everyone must do to avoid the Covid-19 virus. Antioxidants are substances that can prevent cell damage from free radicals. One food ingredient that has a high antioxidant content in Moringa leaves. Moringa leaves are a local food source that has been widely used...

How can universities for nationalities educate students for the country? This is a realistic problem that every university for nationalities pays attention to. The problems that need to be considered and solved are as the follows. First, it is required to solve the problem of cultivating the consciousness...

This article applies ethic identity theory to the existence of racial discrimination towards African American in social media platform. With theory applied, the article highlights the development of ethnic identity during structural suppression history and contemporary epoch of new media in the first...

This study aims to produce a product in the form of modified brain jogging training with an online system. So that it can facilitate the learning process for Physical Education in the era of the covid-19 pandemic. This research is a 4-D development research (Four D) developed. In this study, researchers...

SFL/genre knowledge is considered as an effective tool for teacher candidates or pre-service teachers to prepare to give instruction in their teaching activities. It can also be used as conceptual tools for teacher candidates or pre-service teachers to develop their linguistic knowledge. This study investigated...

Taking the case of the local communities on the slopes of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia, this study examines the social construction of risks within the disaster-prone societies in the time of the pandemic. The empirical basis of this study comes from longitudinal qualitative research with the local communities...

Hierarchies of evolution partial differential equations have become well-established in the literature over the last thirty years. More recently sequences of ordinary differential equations have been introduced. Of these perhaps the most notable is the Riccati Sequence which has beautiful singularity,...

The real vector space of non-oriented graphs is known to carry a differential graded Lie algebra structure. Cocycles in the Kontsevich graph complex, expressed using formal sums of graphs on n vertices and 2n − 2 edges, induce – under the orientation mapping – infinitesimal symmetries of classical Poisson...

Identification of the diversity of students is often an important point that teachers rarely consider before the learning is carried out. In fact, by understanding this diversity, teachers can undoubtedly carry out adaptive learning and assessments that are suitable for the conditions of students. This...

From the perspective of cognitive metaphorical studies, this paper examines exhaustively the metaphorical coding through the rhetorical expressions in modern Chinese fictions, and finds out the cognitive reasons, psychological patterns and mechanisms with the systematic features in the literary metaphorical...

Consumers’ concerns for their health have developed dramatically over the last few years due to the global pandemic. The previous publication showed their increasing interest in natural products. This article’s chief purpose was to examine the marketing mix elements of organic lipstick in America on...

The mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni Jacq.) tree is a sort of medicinal plant. The phytochemical analysis by previous research has proved that the mahogany bark methanol extract is contained i.e alkaloid, tannin, saponin, phenol hydroquinone, and flavonoid. Some medicinal plant that has mutualism symbiotic...

Since ancient times, accumulated rich ceramic culture with porcelain industry in Jingdezhen, known as the capital of porcelain. The Millennium kiln fire, like a Phoenix, the birth of a Jingdezhen Ceramic Culture Management is brilliant. Jingdezhen Ceramic Culture Management has a diversity of characteristics:...

Mental health education of college students is the important task of strengthening and improving college students' ideological and political education, and an important measure to cultivate qualified talents. Freshmen form a special group, who has experienced a nine-year compulsory education and basic...

This paper mainly introduces the model matching method in fault determination of an application, first before applying the model matching method for characteristics of principal components analysis, reducing their dimensions to improve the performance.

Based on typical scale-free network models, we set up the partial differential equation satisfied more general dynamic systems, and then we not only find another important topological property of scale-free networks, but also discuss the real background meaning of every function in the dynamical systems....

DENG Xiaoping's anti-corruption and integrity upholding theories are used to analyze the intense "anti-corruption storm" after the 18th CPC National Congress and anti-corruption measures for the future are put forward: "dogs catching mouse" is advisable, but the key is "cats catching mouse".

"Doctoral Innovation Ability" and "Innovation Performance Evaluation" are two concepts which are closely related but completely different. The research on the nature of the innovation ability and the innovation performance shall be born in mind to establish their evaluation model respectively. The evaluation...

University mathematics plays an important role in improving undergraduates' mathematical quality, comprehensive quality and innovative awareness and ability. The cramming education phenomenon prevails in university mathematics teaching and educational thought lags; the teaching methods is outmoded, short...