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Objective: To assess the associations with hypertensive target organ damage (TOD) of sleep SBP assessed by self-measured home blood pressure monitoring (HBPM) and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM). Methods: Data of 1008 participants in the J-HOP study who measured sleep BP using both HBPM,...

Background: Nitric oxide (NO) and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) regulate arterial wall viscosity (AWV) in young subjects (1). During hypertension, characterised by a decrease in endothelium-derived NO and an early disappearance of EETs, AWV is not modified (2,3). We compared the role of NO and EETs...

Background: COPD is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. Systemic low-grade inflammation is a common finding in COPD. Soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) indicates an inflammatory state and it has an association with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD)....

Rational: Cardiovascular diseases represent the main cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world (1). Arterial stiffness has shown to be an important predictor of cardiovascular events, and pulse wave velocity (PWV) is a marker of subclinical organ damage which can be measured by different...

Our previous study in young spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) confirmed a participation of nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulphide (H2S) in probably inherent adaptive strategy of conduit arteries in condition of sustained hypertension. The aim of study was to confirm or refuse the compensatory mechanisms...

Background: Patients with psoriatic arthritis are at high cardiovascular risk. Marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) may reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of marine n-3 PUFA on cardiac autonomic function and vascular function in...

This research aims to determine whether perceived authentic leadership affects work-family balance for female employees while working from home. This study was a quantitative research with an online survey method. A total of 89 married women participants filled out the Authentic Leadership Questionnaire...

The article is devoted to the issues of assisting children with speech disorders in current conditions, considering the emerging social and epidemiological risks. The authors consider the problem of organising and improving the effectiveness of comprehensive support for children of this category. The...

The analogies between the risks carried by entities and the physical loads affecting building and engineering structures can be applied in the studies of risks forming groups arranged according to specified definitions. Four classes of relations among risks belonging to a particular hazard are to be...

We consider the markdown optimization problem faced by the leading apparel retail chain. Because of substitution among products the markdown policy of one product affects the sales of other products. Therefore, markdown policies for product groups having a significant crossprice elasticity among each...

This paper presents a robot swarm model to enclose a target. The robots use information of the target and each of their neighbors. Every robot has its own, standard torch-like signal emitter and they can observe the sum of the intensity of their torches. In this paper, the robots identify their nearest...

Indigenous peoples are being marginalised globally from a socioeconomic perspective and are often excluded from mainstream communities for social and/or geographic reasons. Historically, they tend to have lower living standards, including poor health conditions as compared to the rest of the population....

In this paper we give a brief review of the recent results obtained by the author and his co-authors for description of three-dimensional vortical incompressible flows in the hydrodynamic type systems. For such flows we introduce a new mixed LagrangiaEulerian description - the so called vortex line representation...

Integrable dispersionless Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) hierarchy of B type is consiered. Addition formula for the -function and conformally invariant equations for the dispersionless BKP (dBKP) hierarchy are derived. Symmetry constraints for the dBKP hierarchy are studied.

Econometrics is considered as an essential core course for economics majors at local art colleges and universities. More systematic design and characteristic construction are required in the “gene integration” of curriculum ideological and political construction. Professional knowledge, industrial development,...

Batik Sidomulyo Batu City is one of the hand-crafted batik Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that uses synthetic dyes. The use of dyeing technology in batik making process generates a large amount of wastewater, which can lead a harmful effect to the environment. To date, Batik Sidomulyo SME uses two...

Hanfu, also called “Han clothing” in Chinese, is the traditional clothing for Han Chinese people. As short videos media, Douyin and Tik Tok provide platforms for Hanfu enthusiasts. Hanfu on these applications illustrates different communication of Hanfu culture as for different audiences in China and...

This study aims to determine the effect of cooperative culture, discipline culture, and classroom management skills on the achievement of strengthening 21st-century literacy in Senior High School (SMA/K) PE learning in Southeast Sulawesi Province. This research is a type of correlational research with...

The article is devoted to the first brick building of the civil architecture which is a part of a complex of buildings located along the eastern wall on the territory of the Bishops’ Court. The research is based on the study of archival and bibliographic studies and on-site inspections of the building.

The transformation of social media has identified the modern self in the age of New media. With the accumulation of users’ numbers and merged functions of social media platforms, it is worthy to be re-examined that whether traditional semiotics and sociological explanations are still valid for the new...

China Russian trade relations have a long history. China and Russia share a long common border, and the trade volume between China and Russia plays an important role in the trade volume of their respective neighboring countries. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the China Russia comprehensive...

Mathematical communication skills of SMP Negeri 3 Tolitoli students on set operations material in terms of mathematical ability. This type of research is qualitative research. The subjects of this study were selected based on their mathematical abilities. The subject was given a written test with set...

(EN) Water has a function that cannot be ignored and can be obtained from various sources, one of which is the presence of springs. The presence of springs in an area can be influenced by several factors, namely geological objects, rainfall, topography, and hydrological properties. The spring which is...

In the context of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area becoming a national strategy, it is of significance to study the economic synergistic development of the east and west coasts of the Pearl River Estuary in order to promote the synergistic and integrated development of the Greater Bay Area....

The argumentation of navigation safety influences of water-involved projects is aimed to remove hidden navigation safety dangers in the form of management in advance, thus being an effective way of managing navigation safety. Since implementation of the system, it has played an active role in reducing...

For fully taking the advantage of independently controllable of torque of Four-wheel Independent Drive Electric Vehicle to enhance its stability, a 2-DOF vehicle reference model is set up based on Vehicle Dynam-ics foundation. On this basis, a variable universe fuzzy control strategy witch chose yaw...

The overall planning for urban and rural residents' medical insurance system is the basic way to meet the needs of urban and rural residents' survival and development, also an important guarantee for "the overall planning for urban and rural development". Now the overall planning for urban and rural...

[Objective] To describe the psychological well-being and analyze relevant factors among the left-behind elderly in ethnic Miao villages. [Methods] A cross sectional survey was conducted with a structured questionnaire among the 192 left-behind elderly at the age of 60 or older in July 2011 in three Miao...

Prionace glauca has high efficiency and long-distance cruising mode, its pectoral fins play an important role in keeping balance and stability. Selecting the pectoral fins as a breakthrough to conduct related research has an important value for the optimization design of autonomous underwater vehicle...

Many studies have identified several factors that influence the choice of an entry mode for the Southeast Asian market. In this paper, a conceptual model of factors is proposed, research propositions are developed, and misty mathematics knowledge is used. We proposed a generalized model based on fuzzy...

Accelerating software development schedules is a paramount activity in the continuously evolving digital scenario of industry 4.0. Software companies are competing to bring more efficient processes to improve quality and productivity in the pipeline. In order to accomplish this, the entire segment have...

To prevent the numerical instabilities about checkerboards, mesh-dependency and localized eigenmodes in structural topology optimization with frequency constraints , an improved ICM method based on the new sine-type filter-polish function is presented. Moreover, sensitivity filter of difference of the...

In order to prove the contents that Shanhai Jing recorded is real credibility, Guopu widely used the methods of cited the ancient books. Inÿtheÿcourse ofÿShanhai Jing's research, the scholars mainly focused on the following three aspects: first, the scholars counted the total number of the ancient books...

This paper first investigates the theoretical foundation of business English discipline construction in our country and then discusses the necessity of business English discipline construction. Then, the paper presents a few issues to be noted in the process of business English discipline construction....

Smart Computing provides ease of use in term of mobility in the low power computing devices such as smartphone, tablet and experimental board (e.g. RaspberryPi). Low power constraint and low computation capability require a lightweight security system and networking protocol. This paper presents an analysis...

In wireless sensor networks, the wireless sensor networks node’s energy is limited, so how to make the node’s energy used with high effective has become the research focus of the routing algorithm. The paper proposes LEACH-EB algorithm that is belongs to clustering algorithm. In the selecting cluster...

Credit risk is the most important function of derivatives market, and is also the basic reason of the developing of stock market. As one of the most important species of financial derivatives, derivatives option pricing is important to avoid the systemic risk of stock markets. As the main method of risk...

The paper describes how to apply multisets for software design. Developed system for automation of the initial stages of multi-component software design is based on the semantic analysis of text. Automation lead to increasing in the quality of software development. The paper considers an approach to...

Electronic mail play an important role in the enterprise marketing, at present, due to low success rate of send and uncontrollable and so on many kinds of reasons, lead to far cannot satisfy the requirements of user's application. Using method of object-oriented design, integrated multithreading technology,...

Since the 20th century, the global container transportation is developing very quickly. Unfortunately, although many container terminals have adopted modern management, the character recognition of containers still need the operation of manual read and manual record, which will not only cause the operation...

Hiding encrypted text in an image file can possibly be a feasible solution to small-office-home-office (SOHO) and personal use for data and file transmission across digital networks. In this paper, the au-thors propose a simple, low-cost, but effi-cient algorithm to (a) convert a text (short or lengthy)...

The Confucian culture communication is a process of culture reproduction. The process is the re-encoding on Chinese Culture resources, aimed to strengthen the culture identity in different countries. Different cultural contexts affect culture decoding; culture identity is the result of interaction between...

This paper presents a novel implementation for real-time depth estimation which can support full HD resolution for 3D video stream. We propose a package of solution to address the major difficulties in depth estimation, such as expensive computation, depth accuracy, real-time implementation and high...

With the growing popularity of smart devices, people have increasingly requirements for network’s quality of service (QoS). There is a growing tendency in opportunistic networks to establish stable paths by using long path lifetimes, low routing overhead and high packet delivery ratio. According to recent...

Cross-border migration in border areas of Yunnan has already been the emphasis and difficulty of social governance. On the one hand, it promotes the prosperous development of border trade, but on the other it causes a series of social problems. At present, there are three different forms of cross-border...

To build saving and pro-environment’s campus, the current situation of energy consumption and the main problems affecting the energy consumption in colleges and universities were analyzed according to the survey results. The primary problems include inefficient way to propagandize energy saving, lack...

The TMT industry is an emerging industry which links the telecommunication industry, the high-tech industry and the media industry on the basis of internet technology. In this paper, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) method is introduced to establish M&A performance evaluation model for Chinese A-share...

The increasing use of internet in people's daily life and its continuous development lead to the inevitable use of web-based applications because of their easy access in any place at any time. In this study, a new Web-based teaching environment is developed and presented for the engineering education...