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Objective: Morning blood pressure (BP) surge is considered to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. On the other hand, there is increasing evidence that central systolic pressure (CSP) is stronger correlated with target organ damage and cardiovascular events than peripheral systolic...

Addressing academic exclusion in South African higher education institutions requires a multifaceted approach, given the complex interplay of race, gender, socio-economic status, and ability. This study underscores the importance of intersectional research in fully understanding these nuanced challenges....

Objective: The assessment of control of modifiable risk factors among elderly patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) admitted to the hospital angiology ward. Methods: The results of treatment of dyslipidemia (DL), hypertension (HT), diabetes mellitus (DM) and prevalence of cigarette smoking were...

This research paper is aimed to examine how transformational leadership applied to encourage and empower workforces to do their jobs with full initiatives, autonomy, and make changes. Critical literature review analysis was used as the method in obtaining insights of this topic. It focuses on the leadership...

The aim of this study was to evaluate vascular and echocardiographic markers of hypertension (HT) in subjects with newly diagnosed HT before treatment started. We studied 32 patients with newly diagnosed HT without pharmacological therapy (HT group) and 31 healthy ones (control group). ABPM were performed...

Virtual reality (VR) technology has been highly anticipated by the consumer market since its inception. In order to be accepted by more users, researches on VR are required to focus not only on technical efficiency and expressiveness, but also on user-friendliness. According to user feedback, motion...

Computer intrusions are taking place everywhere, and have become a major concern for information security. Most intrusions to a computer system may result from illegitimate or irregular calls to the operating system, so analyzing the system-call sequences becomes an important and fundamental technique...

This paper presents a distributed terminal (finite-time) backstepping consensus control for multi-agent Euler-Lagrange systems. Terminal virtual error surfaces and virtual controls are proposed to guarantee the finite-time error consensus and formation convergence of a group of one-leader and multi-follower...

The corona virus disease in 2019 (Covid-19) globally has had a direct or indirect impact on the performance and capacity of debtors in fulfilling credit or financing payment obligations. The spread of Covid-19 also has an impact on the performance and capacity of debtors and increases credit risk which...

Being a kind of important energy and chemical raw material, natural gas can replace fossil fuel for instance coal to cut down the net CO2 discharge. For natural gas purification, separation using membrane technology are considered to be an attractive alternative method. It is necessary to remove acid...

Traditionally, dasun tunggal and garlic (Allium sativum) have been widely used as immunomodulators. Therefore, scientific research is needed to support this traditional use. The first step that needs to be done is to see the cytotoxic effect of the ethanol extract of dasun tunggal and garlic on raw 264.7...

The Pegon script is part of the richness of the Sundanese language. The state of the Sundanese spelling in the Pegon script is an arbitrary writing system. This study aims to obtain a spelling structure in the form of the Pegon script used to write Sundanese. The source of the data used is a text of...

The article concerns William Gould’s landscape parks created for Prince G.A. Potemkin in the south of Russia in the late 1770s-1780s. The method of research is based on the study of archives and bibliography. The relevance of the article is due to insufficient consideration of the stated topic in the...

Synopsis of the Golden Chamber is the earliest monograph on diagnosis and treatment of miscellaneous diseases in China, and is the representative work of “medical sage” Zhang Zhongjing to construct the theory of syndrome differentiation and treatment. The chapters are divided by the names of diseases...

Career selection can be influenced by several factors such as family factors, environmental factors, and so on. However, the relative and family factors of students can be an influence in determining their interests and career choices, so that students cannot bring out their best potential in a career....

As one of the “Four Great Chinese Classics”, San Guo Yan Yi (the Three Kingdoms) takes an important position in Chinese literature. It contains a lot of military terms like weapons, military attires and military strategies or tactics with unique Chinese cultural elements or connotations which may generate...

E.H.Gombrich is an important successor and critic of iconology theory. He not only affirmed Wolfgang K.H.Panofsky’s iconology theory, but also creatively proposed his own theory. The article is based on E.H.Gombrich’s iconology theory. It analyzes the impressionist painter Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies”...

Art is a process of providing an individual the opportunity to develop creativity. Art in early childhood education is a medium for knowing and understanding of the world around. Through art children have full opportunities to be actively involved by exploring and expressing their understanding in the...

This research focuses on early childhood literacy education and the role parents should play in it. The aim of the study was to give parents a better understanding of their role and to reduce the burden on kindergarten educators by providing basic preparation for their children before kindergarten. This...

The post office is at the core position in the course of curriculum system of sergeant education. Under the conditions of combat equipment maintenance support task for NCO academies post office class combat teaching put forward new and higher requirements, this paper on post office class curriculum content...

The goal of the paper is to introduce results of the research carried in a large industrial company and concerning leadership style assessment. The results of the research presented in the paper refer to the specific period for the company analyzed, as it went through a kind of revolution. Over the last...

English is one of the most important languages in the world. It is important because of its worldwide use. More and more people in the world choose English as a foreign language for the purpose of profession, science and international communication. For English learners, Reading is one of the basic techniques...

High expectations are placed on the ability of ICT to play an important role in reducing GHG emissions, now and in the future. Several calculations of such benefits were put forward over the last years, usually performed by the industry. Their methods and assumptions, however, remained often unspecified,...

At the present stage, with the continuous deepening of urbanization of China, the urban population increases day by day. As a result, water demand and urban sewage discharge also grow. Nowadays, some factories in peri-urban areas violate laws to discharge wastewater, which greatly threatens our water...

In order to test and measure the dual-polarized, multi-channel antenna, a system was designed according to the actual working condition of the antenna. The hardware consists of the microwave network analyzer, three-dimensional turntable, switch matrix etc. The turntable is responsible for changing the...

The voltage level of power system is continuously improved. Partial discharge (PD) test is an important means to detect the insulation performance of high voltage electrical equipment. The electromagnetic environment of the test site is complicated. The extracted PD signal is submerged by noise. In order...

this paper shows the method of using a measuring instrument based on SCPI protocol for acquisition of electric signal of electric vehicle charging interface with high accuracy, high speed and automation, analyzes current difficulty in conformance test of electric vehicle charging interface, designs a...

University library is an important part of campus culture construction, while campus culture construction of university cannot carry out without the effective advancement of library. This paper focused on the ways of university library's improvement of campus culture construction. Through those ways,...

The slope zone in M Block is promising zone of lithologic reservoir exploration, whereas the exploration result is low expectation duo to the insufficient knowledge of reservoir forming conditions and controlling factors. In order to solve exploration problem, by using log and oil testing data, the reservoir...

This article discusses the necessity of combining education and lifelong physical education in colleges, and sets out the theoretical basis of the connection between the physical education in colleges and lifelong physical education. Based on that, the paper also analyzes the problems on teaching philosophy,...

With the rapid development of Japanese economy, the stale marriage customs in history already can not adapt to the longing for the freedom of marriage of young men and women, free love gradually replaced the arranged marriage. Although the diversification of marriage marks great development of democratization...

This paper addresses the problem of two-dimensional (2D) DOA estimation in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. A dimensional reduction multiple signal classification algorithm is proposed to reduce the computational complexity. By introducing the compressive sensing (CS) theory, the high-dimensional...

Since the traditional display layout of Mongolian has its particularity and the relatively lagging of Mongolian character set included in the international coding standard, current mainstream development platforms have neither a completed set of UI components support Mongolian features, nor any well-developed...

On the basis of introducing application situation of information management in Gongchangling Mining Corporation, the advantage and disadvantage of B/S mode and C/S mode were analyzed. Respective characteristic of major developing technologies, such as JSP, ASP and PHP, had been compared. The feasibility...

Cloud technology is widely used for file sharing. Cloud systems have very desirable properties such as scalability, fault tolerance, and robustness. Several Cloud index structures have been proposed for equality queries, range queries, or other purposes. However, Cloud system is fraught with security...

Sludge with large production is difficult to be dewatered without any pretreatment. Pretreatment with ultrasound and microwave can adjust the structure of sludge and change the water form, therefore increase the water content which could be dispelled easily. Dewaterability and morphological of sludge...

Data integrity is one of the major concerns with cloud data storage for cloud user. Besides, the cloud user’s constrained computing capabilities make the task of data integrity auditing expensive and even formidable. In recent years, many public data integrity verification schemes have been proposed,...

The identity embedded technology is a method for monitoring the active network information. Other content would be prevented from tampering with any content from the source. This paper analyses the identity embedded technology in the application of the IPTV regulatory platform of Yunnan province.

This paper analyzes the PROFIBUS-DP and physical layer signals states, DP time series and other characteristics. In the past, PROFIBUS-DP HUB common problems of poor universal apply, shape communication is more time-consuming, required message analysis, Drop frame etc, this paper propose a new design...

Based on the investigation into the start-up goals of entertainment-oriented Nongjiale operators in the suburbs of Shanghai, Wuhan and Chengdu and comparative analysis of its results, conclusions were reached that the start-up goals of Nongjiale operators in the suburbs of the above three cities share...

Based on the background of the independent issuance of local governments in China, this paper uses the modified KMV model to carry on the empirical analysis to measure the credit risk of the bond. This paper analyzes and predicts the guaranteed fiscal revenue and its growth rate and volatility of the...

As the Android craze spread through the world, even the rapid development of mobile technology can not prevent applications from vulnerability abuse. The existing detection system mostly applied static analysis techniques to single application, which make a limited standard of accuracy and efficiency....

The article reveals the origins of creativity of the People's Artist of the USSR, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Efrem I. Zverkov as an artist - impressionist. It also expands the range of ideas about the creative activity of the master and shows new aspects of his landscape painting of the...

Cloud computing technology will bring to banks such advantages as cost savings, enhanced data processing capacity and improved quality of financial services. To further promote the application of cloud computing in the banking industry, the first and foremost task is to solve the security problem. Judging...

Due to the rapid development of our country, the computer network is becoming more and more rapidly, the security problem of our people on the computer is more and more attention, a series of software and various types of account are required to record on the user's personal information, all accounts...

Patents are the manifest output of nation’s market layout. This paper explores the development of five nanotechnology fields in Germany, including Nano- materials & process, nano- electronics & devices, nano- biology & medicine, nano- instrument & measurement and the others, through the analysis of nanotechnology...

This paper studied the local scour processes at subsea structures using using the computational fluid dynamics codes (OPENSOURCE CODE). The model solved the fully three-dimensional, Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equation closed with the LES model. Stokes and Cnoidal Waves were generated using Fenton’s...

PU material is promising in pervaporation application. Polyether-based PU prepolymers were used to prepare a series of PU membranes. Then, the structure and properties of the above-prepared membrane materials were characterized by means of FTIR and swelling experiment. And the performance of pervaporation...

Because of a large number of tower elements in transmission tower, and direction of cross section is complex, it is difficult to quickly set up a space model at the same direction with the actual transmission line tower structure. In this paper, using the method of vector orientation. Define tower element...

Abstract—The Chinese sentence similarity has been used widely in the field of Chinese information processing. There are many methods proposed to measure the similarity of Chinese sentences, but the accuracy of these methods is still lower. In order to improve this problem, this paper proposes an improved...