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Background: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a congenital heart disease associated with aortic wall abnormalities and co-existing with other congenital defects (e.g. aortic coarctation). This study aimed to explore aortic shape features in a BAV population, identifying sub-groups with different aortic...

Purpose/Background/Objectives: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a higher arterial stiffness than their age-matched healthy counterparts and an increased inflammatory burden that might be associated with their increased cardiovascular risk. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF)-antagonists have...

The Indonesian government is confronted with several issues concerning tourist sites, both local and foreign. This study serves as a support facility for the Borobudur Highlands sector of the Nglinggo-Sedayu Gate. A combined technique is used during the research stage to collect primary data, such as...

Purpose: Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is a cardiac congenital disease associated with ascending aorta (AAo) dilation. The study of the impact of aortic biomechanics in this population has been limited by technical difficulties. Contrasting results have been reported for distensibility while studies including...

Background: High blood pressure (BP) is a major risk factor for elevated LV mass (LVM) in adults. Evidence suggests that BP tracks from childhood into adolescence and adulthood, however findings on the association between childhood BP and LVM are inconsistent and the temporal relationship between BP...

The first author has developed TANABE therapy for severe hemiplegic stroke patients. In this paper we developed a training system (UR-System-PARKO) on the basis of TANABE therapy. The clinical test of the therapeutic effect of the UR-System-PARKO was performed in severe plegic hand. The results show...

In large public infrastructure projects, political risks due to the power imbalance between central and delivery agencies are often overlooked or underestimated. The primary motive of the delivery agency in distorting information for political gains should be deemed a risk that creates uncertainty for...

An image segmentation approach by improved watershed partition and DCT energy compaction has been proposed in this paper. The proposed energy compaction, which expresses the local texture of an image area, is derived by exploiting the discrete cosine transform. The algorithm is a hybrid segmentation...

Linguistic terms are often used to represent the truth degree or credibility degree to manage the uncertainty or imprecision as one of popular ways of knowledge representation in the perception-based decision making problem. This present work represents the credibility of uncertain knowledge using linguistic...

From practical point of view, in a two-level hierarchical model, the variance of second-level usually has a tendency to change through sub-populations. The existence of this kind of local (or intrinsic ) heteroscedasticity is a major concern in the application of statistical modeling. The main purpose...

This paper presents a linear transformation for low order nonlinear autonomous diferential equations. The procedure consists of a trajectory-based local linearization, which approximates the nonlinear system in the neighborhood of its equilibria. The approximation is possible even in the non-hyperbolic...

A reduction process to construct hidden hierarchies corresponding to the Gelfand­ Dickey ones is outlined in a specific example, not yet treated in the literature.

In this paper we describe the Hamiltonian dynamics, in some invariant manifolds of the mo- tion of a gyrostat in Newtonian interaction with a spherical rigid body. Considering a first integrable approximation of this roto-translatory problem, by means of Liouville-Arnold the- orem and some specifics...

Multi-core processors are becoming widely deployed. However, more cores consume more power. A power saving technique for multi-core systems based on the observation of critical sections is proposed. Since only one thread works in a critical section, other threads on other cores that access the same resource...

Climate migration, or climate-induced migration and displacement, is an emerging concept to describe migration caused by climate-related impacts and events, such as the long-term rising of sea level and the instant extreme weather disasters. Although the academic circles and the international community...

The 21st century is one of the most rapid technological developments. With the term industrial revolution 4.0, it has driven various technological advances in various fields of life. The advancement of educational technology is one of the impacts of technological developments that occurred in the 21st...

The competence to consciously control and utilize a better understanding of language organization helps the language users produce grammatically correct sentences and comprehend a syntactic aspect in a formal language structure, which helps the student learn, use, and understand the language fluently....

Japanese animated films have a history of more than 100 years since 1917. From 1973, Belladonna was shortlisted in the main competition unit of the Berlin Film Festival to 2002, the Ghibli animation Spirited Away won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival. Japanese animated films have entered...

This paper aims to gather empirical evidence regarding the effect of trust, benevolence, and self-efficacy for knowledge sharing on knowledge sharing. Additionally, the study seeks empirical evidence regarding the influence of knowledge sharing on students’ academic achievement. The research population...

Let G be a simple graph of order n. A coprime labeling of a graph G is a vertex labeling of G with distinct positive integers from the set {1, 2, …, k} for some k ≥ n such that any adjacent labels are relatively prime. The minimum value of k for which G has a coprime labelling, denoted as 𝔭𝔯(G), is...

The word “Dada” has several parts of speech. It’s often used as a kinship appellation noun in Chinese dialect. The semantic generalization of “Dada” in the construction of “X Dada” is the common result of the externalization of metaphorical thinking and the generalization of emotional principles. The...

One of the most common oral diseases is Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis (RAS) and the most common form is Minor RAS. Gotu kola leaves (Centella asiatica (L.) Urban) contain active components that can help the healing process that widely used as traditional medicine. The aim of this study was to determine...

The turn-back interval is a key indicator that affects the operational performance of urban rail transit. In actual operation projects, most of them are optimized and adjusted for the train running interval, and less attention is paid to the analysis of the turn-back process and the optimization of the...

Technological developments in screen technologies pitches the thinner, brighter and energy-stingy OLED screen as a possible replacement for today's television, computer and smartphone LCD screens. An OLED screen does not consume any energy at all when it displays the color black, but the potentially...

In order to find out the relationship between career growth and turnover intention, 359 new employed university graduates were surveyed. The result shows that career growth can predict new employed university graduates' turnover intention after controlling demographic variables, that is, expected career...

A pot experiment was conducted to study the effects of exogenous indoleacetic acid (IAA) on photosynthetic characteristics of Chinese cabbage under aluminum (Al) stress. Five treatments were used in the experiment: leaves were sprayed with 0 (CK), 50, 100, 150 and 200 mol-L-1 concentrations of indoleacetic...

This paper firstly studies the transmission path of rural bank's credit risk, and analyzes the credit risk transmission effects, which include Domino effect, coupling effect and broken window effect, then depicts their behavior and characteristics. Based on game theory, the paper explores the mechanisms...

In order to study the negative shear lag effect of simply supported curved box girder, spatial shell finite element models under different web width, box girder height and curvature radius are founded based on finite element principle, and parametric sensitivity analysis is carried out so as to reveal...

We establish the SIR model, in which we define three groups i.e. the Susceptive, the Infective and the Remove. The sum of the proportion of the three groups is 1. The three groups' rate of change can be obtained. We can get the phase path, with the initial rate of the Susceptive—S(t) and the rate of...

In this paper, expansive soil is mixed with CKD in different proportions, and unconfined compressive strength test was conducted on the specimens with a certain initial water content and dry density. Unconfined compressive strength test were also conducted for specimens maintained for different curing...

Methods of historical, investigation and literature were used in this paper. Four periods were marked off in the China’s golf development process then followed by positive summary and reflection. It not only enriches the research content of the development history of golf in China, but also has a positive...

The main purpose of this paper is to solve the current problem of urban construction fund shortage in small and medium-sized cities of China, namely the government's investment and financing platform construction problems. The main process of this study is: it firstly analyzes the status of the financing...

With the development of the new curriculum reform in recent years, college English teachers have given more and more attention to the development of students' oral communication competence, but how to evaluate students' oral English competence has always been a headache for teachers. Based on the status...

The adjustment of color to achieve an acceptable match between the displayed and digital printed document is an important task in prepress. In order to achieve such match color management systems are used, these systems implement standards established by the International Color Consortium (ICC). A key...

Nowadays, it is urgently imperative to call for more teachers’ active commitment to their self-directed professional development. Based on inductive-inferential approach and narrative-analytic approach, this paper is designed to observe and analyze a one-year programmer for self-directed professional...

When there are inherent disturbances or noise in the system inputs that are impossible or impractical to remove, various forms of feedback and feedforward adjustment have been used in the Statistic Process Control (SPC). This article presents a general feedforward control framework to analysis and compensate...

China is a large agricultural country, the logistics of agricultural products in the national economy play a decisive role in the development of China, the development of the logistics industry, Among many fresh agricultural products, as the fruit and vegetable production and consumption power of Chinese...

The purpose of this paper is to publish the findings of research that has spawned an academic concept of public service that is able to increase public satisfaction with local government services. The research uses quantitative methods and statistical analysis. Data were collected through questionnaires...

Taking a sewage treatment project of Dalian for example, this paper studied the feasibility and characteristics of two sewage treatment technologies, analyzed the process, operation management and energy consumption, and determined the hydrolytic sedimentation tank - biological filter - V-Filter technology...

From the aspect of how teacher should cultivate children's creativity with the teaching of public art, the paper discusses the detailed methods and measures of cultivating children's creativity, including creating suitable environment for cultivating children's creativity, holding activities that can...

This paper puts forward that combined with the teaching method of project cooperation take the place of traditional teaching mode, which is applied to the teaching of MATLAB, putting forward the concrete implementation plan of the teaching and the phases of the concrete implementation measures, which...

With the development of the society and the improvement of economic level in China, people have proposed higher demands on spiritual life while they get satisfaction in material life. In this context, the relationship between art and the public is getting closer and closer. Public art design aims at...

Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) suggested new various criteria for accrediting engineering programs at the university level in 2016. According to ABET's suggestions, this paper discusses the Multi-dimensional principles of curriculum organization and employs A.D Hall three-dimension...

EV battery charging is growing in importance as it has a direct influence on the EV performance. Multistage Constant Current (MCC) charging strategy is an effective rapid charging method. This paper proposes an ECM-PSO algorithm to search for the optimal current pattern of the MCC charging strategy....

The rapid development of the manufacturing industry today, for the thread machining production increasingly requires high precision, and the accuracy of thread processing is influenced by many factors. For external thread processing in large quantities, in order to improve the efficiency and accuracy...

Abstract. Objective: To observe and evaluate the impact of the cognitive therapy on the recovery of the affective disorder. Methods: We choose the recovery of 96 cases patients with affective disorder from September 2013 to November 2014 selection in our hospital, and they were given the routine drug...

Service-oriented manufacturing is a new manufacture form which combines manufacture with service to cater to customers’ diverse needs with the globalization of economy and the development of technology. This paper will make a case study of the service-oriented manufacturing in Dong-Feng Citroen Peugeot...

With the constant acceleration of Chinese reform process, China has increasingly frequent association with various countries in the world in economy, politics and culture and social demands for interpretation talents increase year by year. To improve interpretation ability of college students, colleges...