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Objective: Traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors do not fully explain ethnic differences in CV disease [1,2]. We tested if pulse wave velocity (PWV) and Augmentation Index (AIx) and their determinants from childhood may underlie ethnic variability in CV risk as young adults in the ‘DASH’ longitudinal...

Digital media literacy impacts not only the education sector but also the religious field, as in the case with the development of digital da’wah. On the other hand, the pandemic due to SARS-CoV-2 has affected various activities, including religious activities. Specifically, Ustaz Hanan Attaki’s (UHA)...

In this work, we investigate the representation of numbers as sums of powers of prime numbers. It is shown that all sufficiently large integers are sums of some ascending even prime powers.

This study aims to investigate the relationship of brand awareness and brand equity on the impact of students’ decision-making in selecting Higher educational institutions (HEIs). Following that, this study also seeks to examine the moderating role of digital marketing in enhancing the relationship between...

Background: The evaluation of arterial stiffness and central haemodynamics represent a new tool of cardiovascular (CV) risk stratification. Our aim was to create an integrated central pressure-stiffness risk score (ICPS score) which incorporate the predictive potential of identical parameters. Methods:...

Objective: To develop a model for the 1st trimester prediction of pre-eclampsia. Methods: In this prospective longitudinal study, women with high-risk singleton pregnancies were recruited and arterial stiffness was measured using applanation tonometry (SphygmoCor, AtCor) and compared between women who...

Purpose: Aortic blood pressure has a superior prognostic value with respect to the brachial pressure [ 1]. Nonetheless, the low efficacy of the most used non-invasive methods (i.e., approaches based on the generalized transfer function (GTF)) may hamper the detection of this superiority in population...

Objectives: Aortic reservoir function independently predicts end organ damage in cross sectional analyses. However, longitudinal associations are more important regarding causation, but this has never been examined and was the goal of this study. Methods: Aortic reservoir function (excess pressure integral...

This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of thought stopping techniques to reduce the public speaking anxiety for the students of counseling program at the Faculty of Education Science. This study was using a quantitative research approach with the experimental research type. The experiments...

The gut microbiome, an emerging mediator of host physiological function, is adversely altered by aging and many diseases, termed “gut dysbiosis.” One consequence of gut dysbiosis is elevated circulating levels of the gut-derived metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), which has been directly linked...

Wave Intensity Analysis (WIA) can provide information about the interaction between vascular and cardiac system. WIA-derived indexes have quantitative physiological meaning. We investigated age-associated changes in WIA-derived parameters in mice and correlated them with biomarkers of cardiac function. Sixteen...

The imperative of energy transition towards alternative forms to fossil fuels has meant the approval and construction of countless renewable energy projects in non-urban areas of Chile. This productive pressure has meant the accelerated creation of energy geographies that untie production and consumption...

The article discusses the issues of improving the efficiency of grain exports in foreign markets, taking into account both the volume of grain production by domestic agricultural producers and in the context of market conditions on world trading platforms. The approaches to the formation of the scientific...

System simulation has numerous applications, and plays an important role in operations management. The capability and sophistication of simulation languages have increased over the last half century. The recent progress of simulation languages from the process-oriented simulation to the object-oriented...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a valid Edgeworth expansion for the parametric bootstrap t-statistic of a linear regression process whose error terms are stationary, Gaussian, and strongly dependent time series. Under some sets of conditions on the spectral density function and the parametric...

This paper presents a new chaos-based image cipher using a plaintext-related permutation. The cat map and Lorenz system are employed to shuffle the positions of image pixels and generate the diffusion keystream, respectively. The control parameters of the cat map, i.e. the permutation key, are determined...

Wafer fabrication is a complex and lengthy process that involves hundreds of process steps with monitoring numerous process parameters at the same time for yield enhancement. Big data is automatically collected during manufacturing processes in modern wafer fabrication facility. Thus, potential useful...

This paper selects the 50 state-level poverty-stricken counties in Guizhou province as the research object, and uses financial scale, financial efficiency and financial structure to represent the level of financial development in each county, using economic growth and income distribution as controlled...

The related data analysis of China and USA shows that the work-related injuries are closely related to the proportion of each industry. High-incidence period is often in the period when the proportion of the secondary industry rises. Increasing proportion of the tertiary industry does good to decrease...

Research purpose: This paper seeks to address the question of potential determinants for capital resource productivity in the enterprise sector in Vietnam. Research motivation: Since 2000, the enterprise sector in Vietnam starts to grow rapidly; however, capital resource productivity is on the declining...

This article problematizes forms of negotiations and strategies of Islamic feminism in social media activism in three Instagram accounts: @mubadalah.id, @muslimahfeminis, and @cherbonfeminist. The main focus of this research is Muslim women’s digital contestation over opposing views on polygamy and sexual...

Website and visual-based-social media has developed a while ago, nowadays, website and social media adopts series of new practicality, together, website and visual-based-social media could perform as educational media to promote social cause, thus, perform as educational media to promote coffee culture,...

Grid was an effective tool to reduce scattering radiation to the film. based on observations at Aisyiyah Hospital, the average examination used a moving grid compared to lisholm. In some types of radiological examinations need to be considered in the selection of the grid, because the grid used at high...

Many traditional elderly apartments and other elderly service facilities have problems such as backward hardware facilities, incomplete software services and lack of human resources. With the rapid development of Internet of Things and Internet technology, intelligent design is gradually introduced into...

Corona virus is a group of viruses from the subfamily Orthocronavirinae in the Coronaviridae family and ordo Nidovirales. This group of viruses can cause disease in birds, mammals and humans. The purpose of this study is to explain the efforts to prevent the spread of Covid 19 based on Riau customary...

The amelogenins (Am) constitute about 90% of the enamel matrix proteins and play a critical role in enamel biomineralization. This study aimed to express and characterize recombinant human amelogenin (rAm) protein in the prokaryotic expression system in quantities sufficient for structural and functional...

The cultivation of pragmatic competence plays an important role in English learning. Proficiency in grammar knowledge does not ensure appropriate use of language. Devoid of pragmatic competence will certainly lead to pragmatic failure. Analyzing the pragmatic failures of Chinese English learners, this...

The light is the necessity of life for everybody. When the night comes, it is very inconvenient to turn on the light in the dark. And when the person leaves the house, he often forgets to turn off the lights which will cause huge waste of energy. In view of the lighting control method of classrooms,...

This paper intends to discuss how to make EAP teaching design in an output-driven approach based on blended learning. It firstly made a literature review about the research on EAP both in China and abroad, and then proposed the possible EAP course arrangement according to students' current learning situation....

Airflow field play an important role on the cleaning performance of the air-and-screen cleaning device of the plot harvester, and an unreasonable airflow field can lead to poor cleaning quality. In order to understand the cleaning chamber airflow distribution and improve the cleaning quality of the cleaning...

With Suning Commerce as a typical research object, this paper made a systemic analysis on the stock option incentive plan of Suning Commerce and its implementation effect, to determine the failure causes of the stock option incentive plan. The failure causes mainly include three aspects: first, fixed...

Currently, China's Internet of Things (IoT) industry has developed rapidly. In order to advocate green travel and energy saving, the Intelligent Transportation Cycling System (ITCS) provides strongly favorable conditions for the development of public bicycle. This article introduces the concept of the...

This paper proposes methods that can standardize the different content motions that use Leapmotion in order to define and recognize them. A current Gesture interface is built and used to fit the individual contents. This creates confusion among the users because each applied field uses a different motion....

High channel bit error rate, long delay and other characteristics of the satellite network, will cause the file in the process of transmission is easy to interrupt or packet loss. In order to improve the efficiency of file transfer, the server sends data once, while multiple earth station clients receive.,...

At present, specialty in comprehensive university in china, the art design is an important course in a practical. The score evaluation mainly through new model evaluation methods, evaluation forms and achievements to enrich the diversity evaluator scores organizational structure, so that the evaluation...

Several works on nonclassical fullerenes with heptagons have mainly considered the case with just one heptagon. We present several nonclassical fullerenes with pentagons, hexagons and two, three, or more heptagons.

In this paper, we studied how to improve leadership. First , this article defined leadership operating mechanisms based on core capability of corporation, summarized the concept, connotation, method, principle and research theory of Action Learning. Second, this paper formulated the model of the mechanism...

A theoretical research on Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components (LINC) is described with an improved theory to COX’s proposed in this article. Input RF signal is separated into envelope component and constant envelope angle-modulated component in the circuit. Two branches of constant envelope...

In this paper, according to current research on tender evaluation methods and bidding systems, the tender evaluation model was established and described in detail, and the framework and functions of the new bidding DSS(Decision Support System) of water projects in Tainjin were designed and illustrated,...

Shanghai is the frontier of free trade in China. While the establishment of Shanghai Free Trade Zone will bring great opportunities to the development of foreign trade enterprises in China, make two-way investment more frequently between China and the world, it also brings challenges. China's foreign...

According to the features of RMB banknote images, combining digital image processing and pattern recognition, this paper proposes a recognition method of RMB word numbers based on character features. The recognition algorithms include: image preprocessing, number region location, feature extraction and...

Back-Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) algorithm is a widely used technique implemented in many engineering disciplines. Despite solving several practical problems around the globe, BPNN still faces problems like slow convergence, network stagnancy and convergence to local minima. Many alternative ways...

In the face of increasingly stringent environmental control system and environmental capacity of limited resources, the power industry needs to seek effective environmental management tools to solve environmental constraints for future development. According to current situation of pollutant emission...

DBPs formation potential, including THMs, HAAs, HKs, chloropicrin, and chloral hydrate, of 20 amino acids was evaluated. Chlorination experiments were carried out at pH=8.0±0.1 by using phosphates buffer and performed at Cl2:N=8:1(molar ratio) at 20±1°C for a reaction duration of 24h. Chlorination experiments...

A TSMC 0.18 µm RF CMOS low-noise amplifier (LNA) for 3 GHz–5GHz ultra-wideband (UWB) applications is presented. The designed LNA employs single-ended to differential conversion and is successfully implemented using the noise-canceling technique. This paper introduces common-gate stage performance and...

In this paper, control strategy of a plug-in 4 wheel drive car is researched. According to torque request, SOC and velocity of the car, the steady work state is classified into 10 modes, which consists of 7 drive modes and 3 brake modes. The control strategy based on logic threshold realizes basic energy...

In the study of route selection, due to the diversity, fuzziness, no-determinacy and randomness of the evaluating index, it is very complex for the information processing and decision making, and the CAD system cannot solve these questions at present. This paper aims at the facts of Tianshan-Road, utilizes...