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Background: Masked hypertension (MH) has been drawing attention recently because this condition is often seen in untreated and treated individuals and is associated with target organ damage and a poor cardiovascular prognosis. Arterial stiffness is associated with organ damage in patients with primary...

Background: Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) is a surrogate marker of cardiovascular disease (CVD). CIMT values ≥75th percentile of normal subjects are considered high and indicative of increased CVD risk. It is a rare data about normal CIMT values in Asian subjects without conventional CVD risk...

Background: Individuals with a systolic BP of 120 to 139 mmHg or a diastolic BP of 80 to 89 mmHg should be considered as pre-hypertensive. however limited evidence exists on whether the early drug intervention is needed according to identification of other cardiovascular risk factors except diabetes....

Due to the unclear posthumous edict of Li Yuan, the specification of Li Yuan’s mausoleum was controversial during the regime of Li Shimin, prompting Taizong to select Jiuzong Mountain as the mausoleum site during his lifetime. Nominally, the way of using the mountains as mausoleum followed the Emperor...

Parigi Moutong Regency is one of the districts in Central Sulawesi with nine cocoa consumer companies in Parigi City and five companies that could not compete and eventually closed. This study wanted to see the various elements and effectiveness of interpersonal communication between the owners of UD...

By error analysis and contrastive analysis, this study critically explores the obstacles preventing Chinese EFL learners from mastering English subjunctive mood. Based on the data of a questionnaire about Chinese students’ acquisition of English subjunctive mood, the study firstly reconfirms the previous...

Hydrocarbons, aldehydes, sulfides, heavy metals, and other contaminants from petroleum treatment processes have been discovered in the oil and gas industry liquid discharge. Hydrocarbons primarily cause the pollution shared by all units. The purpose of this study is to assess the performance of the coagulation-flocculation...

In recent years, the national automotive industry has shown an attractive development. This is part of the positive impact of the growth in the number of Indonesia’s middle class over the past decade. Given the enormous potential of the creative industry and the potential to continue to increase its...

Due to its special requirements for the environment and unique material properties, ice and snow sculpture is quite different from urban public sculpture and easel sculpture in terms of the creation process and artistic effects. Based on practice teaching and application of the course of the “Ice and...

This study aims to find out the difference in anxiety levels of parents accompanying children to learn from home based on educational status and level of individual development. The type of research used in this study is quantitative descriptive research by testing statistical data of different tests...

This paper briefly elaborates the histories and current situations of calligraphy education in our domestic rural primary and middle schools, elaborates various problems existing in calligraphy education of rural middle and primary schools of Huanggang City from five aspects of calligraphy teaching materials,...

The pore shape of spunbonded nonwovens and its influence on the filtering quality were investigated in this study. An index named the filtration index (FI) was first proposed to characterize the performance of the higher filtration efficiency against the lower pressure drop of spunbonded nonwovens. A...

In this paper, we present the pairing computation on Jacobi quadric curves using weight projective coordinates. In our algorithm, the cost of addition step reduced to 1M+(k+9)m+3s+1mt, and the cost of doubling step is 1M+1S+(k+3)m+8s+2ma+1md.

With the continuing reform of higher education system and further refinement, the construction and optimization of complete credit system has become a hot spot in higher education theory and practice, teaching team building is one of the focus points of the complete credit system construction. The various...

Brand management is the important content of enterprises marketing management, also an important part of enterprise culture, the soul of enterprises' operation development, strengthening enterprises brand management is an important way to improve enterprise competitiveness. This paper studies the brand...

In the context of market-oriented reform of financial interest rate, the nominal interest rate and real interest rate of bond differentiates constantly, playing a certain guiding role in bond investment behavior. To calculate and measure bond investment correctly is the key for the accounting of bond...

Carrying on numerical calculation for oxy-fuel furnace gas movement under different speeds spout by using FDS direct numerical simulation software module. And analyzing the influence of different nozzle gas velocity on the velocity field and vorticity field distribution in the furnace under the condition...

In recent years, with China's aquaculture industry develops rapidly, aquaculture water quality management information collection, transmission, storage as well as regulation, has got newer and higher requirements. The computer network technology and remote control technology continues to mature, which...

Aiming at the bottleneck of assistant decision-making system caused by traditional expression method of the operational plan, this paper introduced the ontology technology in the information system field, and analyzed the advantages of the operational plan ontology model. On the basis of the determination...

In our study we focus on Xiahe dialect which is one of the most representative Ando dialect in Tibetan, and research the compound consonants of [nd], [ndz], [ ] and [ ]by dynamic electropalatograph, whose propositional nasal is [n]. In this paper, the frame of each compound consonant is analyzed, which...

TOUGHVISUAL is a full Windows-based graphical user interface for the TOUGHREACT program. TOUGHREACT is a general multiphase multicomponent reactive transport simulator, developed by introducing geochemistry into the multiphase fluid and heat flow code TOUGH2. TOUGHREACT has been widely used internationally...

To explore students’ learning initiative and self-learning ability, the seminar teaching approach is necessary. The seminar teaching approach can also train students' verbal ability and enhance their sense of participation. The activities can develop students to get the comprehensive ability of exploring...

China’s economic growth since 1978 is a miracle. We argue that gradual and persistent institutional changes and policy reforms that have reduced distortions and improved incentives are the main reasons for the miracle. Specifically, liberalization, marketization, and privatization have intertwined to...

With China Eastern joined Sky Team Alliance in 2011, the three biggest state-owned airlines in China have all joined aviation alliance. After joining aviation alliance, both the domestic and international markets of China's civil aviation company will change. This paper studies the domestic and international...

The characteristics of DCS level two are complex function and large amounts of data. They seriously affect system’s performance. Using a fully open configuration software to simulate the ADACS system configuration is a challenge. How to design and choose the configuration scheme to meet the requirements...

Dividing the networks into several unequal sizes of clusters and the nodes with similar readings and neighboring geographical location are in the same cluster is an effective way to prolong the WSN lifetime. Most applications in WSNs can tolerate certain accuracy loss of the sensor readings and we can...

Sincefamily planning programsis decentralized, the condition of family in Banyumas District was still characterized by a considerable number of children, number of cases of domestic violence as well as the increasing number of divorce. So that, this research was analyse how far the institution of family...

This study examined the washack of the TOEIC on English teaching and learning in Taiwan. Three hundred and twenty- six college students and fifty teachers from a university of technology participated in the study. A survey was used to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. The findings indicated...

The high-purity aluminum with a purity of 5N5 was cold-rolled with a cumulative deformation of 70%, and the deformed high-purity aluminum was annealed at different temperatures and time. The microstructure and mechanical properties of deformed high purity aluminum and heat treatment were studied by means...

The transmutation of social context and media ecology has injected an uncertainty into the public crisis opinion, which leads flexible management to be a better way. As a stretcher and more flexible managing thought, flexible management prevails particularly in the west, whose essence roots in the same...

With the continuous improvement of the economy, the tourism industry has gradually become a trend, rich attractions, service diversification has been loved by the majority of tourists. However, with the rapid development of tourism, it is also faced with many difficulties. It is very important to carry...

The paper introduces basic ideas and methods of teaching reform of the applied undergraduate colleges' theoretical course, The Rolled Steel Quality Inspection, taking advantage of the organic combination of theoretical teaching and practical teaching and effective ways to improve students' initiative...

By adopting the single chip computer ATmega16 as the control unit, a frequency counter is designed based on the input capture function of the single chip computer assisted with the appropriate software and hardware resources. This frequency counter can realize real time, high-precision frequency measurement....

Based on the analysis of the inter - interval intuitionistic fuzzy sets and the interval - valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets, the multi - attribute group decision - making is used to reconstruct the model and apply it to the trust degree calculation of the trust mechanism. By comparing the multiple attributes...

Since Internet web pages have diverse contents and complex structure, it is of great significance to use a uniform algorithm to tackle them. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm called P value algorithm to extract the main text of one webpage. By calculating the P value of each tag in an HTML page,...

The article deals with the cases of contextual subjectification of the meaning of the Middle English verb "may/mighte" in "The Canterbury Tales" by G.Chaucer. The purpose of the research is to define the pragmatic factors of its grammaticalization as a marker of the speech acts of permission and assertion.

Improving the hands-on ability of students is always an important issue of engineering curriculum. This study introduces an experimental teaching system to improve the teaching quality of mechanical design course for foreign students and develop international competitiveness with strong hands-on ability....

Nobody can accurately predict amount of sales revenue expected. There is need for accuracy to eliminate risk of revenue loss. Surveys have shown that accuracy is the most important criterion in selecting a forecasting strategy. Which criterion then provides the most accurate forecast? Human judgment...

The comprehensive, designing and creative experiments can facilitate students' creative thinking and develop their practical operation. This paper introduces the application of the experimental mode of the virtual simulation interacting with the practice in the comprehensive, designing and creative experiments....

EIQ analysis is based on the order data for logistics planning and has a guiding significance to the selection of order strategy. This article describes the steps and methods of EIQ analysis, combined ABC classification of book enterprise orders to carry on the EQ, EN, IQ and IK analysis. According to...

As one the greatest poets in the 20th century literature, W. H. Auden's early poems are simple but original, which is hard to imitate by other poets. This paper aims to introduce one of W.H. Auden's early poems in which the image of full moon intends to express the author's emotions about love and loss....

As one of the most important tasks in data mining, outlier detection may get unexpected knowledge discovery. Regression diagnosis plays an important role in detecting outliers. This paper mainly introduces the basic theory of residual analysis and impact analysis in regression diagnosis, then makes regression...

As a major that connects theories and practice closely, financial management major of higher education is supposed to take practical teaching as its main task. In this paper, the "SPM" mode proposed by American educational psychologist Jerome.S.Bruner,is applied to practical teaching of financial management...

Nowadays, deceptive speech detection has raised more and more interests. The corpus is the foundation of researches in deceptive speech detection. While there are several corpora about English deception detection, few efforts have been put on Chinese which is quite different due to the culture divergence....

Compared with the past decades, the methodologies of bus priority at traffic signals is being researched more and more extensively because of the strong development of public transport. Several methods have been used to attract people to use public transport. These methods may be divided into two categories:...

A new unsymmetrical photochromic diarylethene 1- [2-methyl-5- trimethylsilacetenyl-3-thienyl]-2-[2-Cyanophenyl] perfluorocyclopentene (1o) were synthesized. Under alternating irradiation with UV and visible light, the compounds showed favorable photochromism in hexane. The product changing from colorless...

The purpose of this article was to identify students learning behavior in parent perspective who claimed authoritatively, and how was school continued what students got from home and implemented it in school climate. This study based on Civic Education (CE) and Intervention Education influence on the...

In this paper, we conduct research on the practice education in colleges and the universities under the background of the Internet plus. The modern teaching method system is a system and its primary characteristic is systemically. In system composed of a variety of teaching methods, they all around a...

In order to ensure the normal operation of the ship propulsion system and ship navigation, this paper analyzes the deformation of a bulk carrier with workbench by means of finite element analysis. The relative displacement of the bearings under different working conditions is calculated, and the relationship...

A model for network vulnerability evaluation based on cumulative prospect theory is proposed for more accurate evaluation of the effects of travelers’ behavioral responses on road network vulnerability caused by link closure. In the proposed model, the effects of both demand variations and travelers’...