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Rationale: Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic modulation plays an important role in arterial stiffening associated with ageing. Serum response factor (SRF) is a major transcription factor regulating smooth muscle (SM) genes involved in maintenance of the contractile state of VSMCs. Objective:...

Objectives: The metabolic syndrome (MetS), a cluster of risk factor including abdominal fat, hypertension, dyslipidemia and raised fasting plasma glucose, is associated with modifications in the arterial wall, endothelial dysfunction and atherothrombosis. To explore the course of events we characterized...

Network-based crime has been increasing in both extent and severity and network-based forensics encapsulates an essential part of legal surveillance. A key network forensics tool is traceback that can be used to identify true sources of suspects. Both accuracy and secrecy are essential attributes of...

The objective of our work is to investigate the optimal combination of durations of both stages of incremental Genetic Programming (IncGP) on the simulated Snake-like robots (Snakebots). The obtained results suggest that the number of generations cannot be used as criteria for separating the two stages...

Image algorithms used herein are Tracking-Learning-Detection (TLD) and Speed UP Robust Features (SURF). TLD is used for target tracking and SURF is used for identifying targets. We use zoning identification, with the use of statistical probability to strengthen the efficiency of TLD and SURF. With such...

Sustainability or sustainable development is possible only if health issues of mother and their child and the employment or involvement of women can be ensured in society by promoting social business using the easiest technological system like mobile technology. In this paper, we demonstrate how Grameen...

In [18] Jacobi introduced a third-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation which links two different moduli of an elliptic integral. In the present paper Lie group analysis is applied to that equation named Jacobi's modular differential equation. A six-dimensional Lie symmetry algebra is obtained...

We study dynamics of the shearless stratified turbulent flows. Using the method of differential constraints we find a class of explicit solutions to the problem under consideration and establish that the differential constraint obtained coincides with the well-known Zeman­Lumley model for stratified...

The purpose of this report is to show the influence of imperfections on creation and evolution of a kink network. Our main finding is a mechanism for reduction of the kinetic energy of kinks which works in both the overdamped and underdamped regimes. This mechanism reduces mobility of kinks and therefore...

This short note is devoted to introduce the discussion carried out along this special issue on the concept of Soft Computing by key researchers in the field. We shall stress some aspects of the conception and origins of Soft Computing, supported by the scientific relevance of its participants. The contributors...

Cassava var. Gajah (Manihot esculenta C) is a typical crop of East Kalimantan which has potential to be developed into a carbohydrate-based agricultural industry commodity. However, the cassava var. Gajah has not been used optimally, and limited research has been done. We conducted this research to utilize...

The primary purpose of this study was to compare the explosive power ability and muscle flexibility in junior gymnasts of aerobic gymnastics based on different sexes. The data of this study were taken from 52 junior gymnasts of aerobic gymnastics from two groups consisted 26 boys and 26 girls aged 7-8...

The process of episiotomy surgery during childbirth results in injury and pain in the perineum. This study aims to evaluate the effect of the topical combination of cinnamon oil and red betel extract on the healing process of episiotomy incision model in Swiss mice. The research subjects were divided...

Billboards are one of the media chosen by the industry to promote their products. The location of the billboard greatly influences the effectiveness of the promotion, the more strategic the location of the billboard the higher the sale value or the rent value of the billboard. A strategic position is...

This study aims to find out the influence of the internal control system on the quality of financial statements on the Regional Secretary of Palembang City. Primary data was collected from 60 (sixty) questionnaires, all of which were returned. Respondents included staff in 12 (twelve) sections of the...

The agricultural sector is required to provide food products for human needs. To increase agricultural yields, precision agriculture approaches are required by the utilization of information and technology to maximize agricultural productivity. Precision agriculture systems cannot be separated from monitoring...

The regional power system of the Sverdlovsk region with an annual electricity consumption of over 40 billion kWh per year is one of the largest in Russia. There are powerful mining, metallurgical and machine-building enterprises on the territory of the region which require large volumes of cheap thermal...

China is unquestionably among the main beneficiaries of globalization. Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China’s series of economic, political and ideological changes have achieved remarkable results, with China’s economy growing at an average rate of nearly 8% per annum, greatly improving the...

With the vigorous development of economic globalization, cultural and creative industry has gradually become the pillar industry of a country or region. In recent years, China has developed rapidly in the field of cultural and creative industries. However, there are also many problems such as late start...

At present, China is not just a textile and clothing exporting country, with the development of china's domestic economy, urbanization reforms are intensifying which has led to an improvement in the people's living standards, China's textile and apparel domestic market has also undergone great changes,...

High strength Bombyx mori silk fibroin (SF) and hydroxyapatite (HA) composite scaffold was obtained by using co-precipitation and salt fractionation method. SEM and mechanical test were used to investigate the structure and properties of the composite scaffolds. The results showed that when the content...

Engine compartment forms often a geometrical complex and is filled with a variety of combustible materials. In this paper, two groups of half scale fire experiments were conducted to investigate the fire behavior in the engine compartment of a motorcoach under different conditions. In the first experiment...

The energy of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) as a pollution-free and efficient conversion device has broad application prospects in the new energy vehicles and other aspects. Improving PEMFC operating temperature is the main research directions. Proton exchange membrane, one of the key...

The development of management theories is in close relationship with development of humanity hypothesis and man's self-cognition greatly impacts development of management theories. "Learning man hypothesis" has a strong adaptability at Internet age, which makes it become a predominant one at this age....

In order to decrease the vibration of aircraft hydraulic pipeline, the vibration control techniques are studied from two aspects, i.e. suppression of the vibrating source and installation of dynamic vibration absorber. In this paper, the methods of increasing the length of the tubular joint and reduce...

Big data, Internet of Things and cloud computing technology develop like a raging fire. Each industry is looking for the strategy to apply big data in industrial development. Traditional tourism industry also pays attention to application of big data technology in the process of intelligent tourism transformation....

Polyacrylamide (PAM), a biodegradable polymer, has been used in irrigating ditch to reduce soil loss for a long time. It can also be used as an aggregate agent to keep the balance of soil and water. The performance of PAM as a soil aggregate agent of silty clay loams was conducted by the wet-sieving...

The piezoelectric micro-jet is a multi-physics coupling device which contains electro-mechanical coupling, fluid-structure coupling and gas-liquid two phase flow coupling. The fluid-structure coupling is mainly referring to the coupling effect between the piezoelectric vibrator and the fluid. Generally,...

The development of wireless communication technology, sensor technology and so on, the spatial-temporal data record objects' movement that provide massive information about the activity regularity, due to the close relation between the mobile terminal and human. In this paper, we present a model of predicting...

With the rapid development of society and economy in China, the demand for water resource is increasing with industry and agriculture activities. Due to the excessive exploitation of groundwater resource, and global climate change, the seawater intrusion had arisen at some coastal areas in China. In...

“MCU and PLC” is an important innovative professional basic courses set by automation professional of my school, the course covers a wide range of subject, strong in comprehensive and practicality, teaching difficult. In order to improve the teaching quality of the course, culture the independent thinking...

An algorithm of foggy image classification is presented in this paper. First, the RGB images are converted to HSI images and next we analysis the distribution of the histograms of H, S, I plane separately, from which we extract the variance of each plane under different foggy conditions as the HSI model...

For enhancing the effectiveness of teach-ing and learning, e-learning is one of ways to achieve the goal. In past e-learning platforms, when more and more teaching materials are provided from characters (teachers, students, independent software vendors (ISV) and content service vendors (CSV)), or more...

Physical education (PE for short) is a basic organization form of school sports, and one of the important ways to realize the teaching goal of school sports. Therefore, the establishment of the teaching goal of school sports restricts directly the success or failure of PE, and also influences the realization...

With the rapid development of the market, coal enterprises predict sales by subjective experience, which is far from accurate. In order to minimize decision-making errors, to avoid warehouse inventory shortages or backlog and to increase prediction accuracy of coal sales forecast, the study of forecast...

In this paper, a special subclass of binary generalized quasi-cyclic self-orthogonal codes and quantum codes constructed by Steane construction are discussed. Firstly, eight 16-dimensional even length generalized quasi-cyclic self-orthogonal codes with dual distance five are built based on circulant...

Along with the increasing prominence of network security problem, VPN (Virtual Private Network, VPN) technology provides a solution of economic remote access for the enterprise. As the IPSec protocol is able to provide the highest level of security, using IPSec VPN to build security Intranet has become...

Online examination is one of the crucial parts for online education. It is efficient and fast enough and reduces the large amount of material resource. An examination system is designed and developed based on web. This paper describes the principle of the system, presents the main functions of the system,...

To solve the problems of little sample, multi-collinearity and bad robust ability of normal model remaining in measured dam data in process of analysis, This paper analyzed the monitoring data of measured dam crest crown cantilever and both sides of 1/4 arch of a gravity dam in 2013 using circannual...

Based on the data of 113 key national environmental protection cities in 2014, this paper evaluates the economic and environmental development level of Baoding in comparison with other 112 cities First, it established the economic and ecological environment evaluation index system. And then the weight...

Warung wedangan can be categorized as an informal business, which exists specifically in Solo city. The development of wedangan or HIK (Hidangan Istimewa Kampung or Special Village Culinary) is progressing day to day. Initially, HIK is invoked as the icons of the lower level society, but now it is attracting...

Moral behavior is one essential factors in the development and creation of an advanced and fair society. It is the ideal concept should be acquired and developed. However, at this time, especially teenagers' moral behavior has changed. The changes tend to be on the negative behavior. This article describes...