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Background: Arterial stiffness, as measured by pulse wave velocity (PWV) is dependent on arterial blood pressure but whether this dependence varies with age is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine to what degree pressure-dependence varies with age. Methods: 83 heathy (43 females) normotensive...

Purpose: To compare augmentation index (AIx) between one Moderate-intensity continuous physical exercise (MICPE) and one High-intensity interval physical exercise (HIIPE) session in normal/high normal blood pressure (BP) (120–140 for systolic and 80–90 mmHg for diastolic). Additionally, to compare two...

Social new media platforms have promoted the new-media information dissemination mechanism, by which many people are performing themselves with different personal symbols. The American sociologist Irving Goffman proposed Dramaturgical theory, which means people in society are seen as actors performing...

Islamic Religious Education (IRE) in Higher Education (HE) is one of the studies that attracts a lot of interest and enthusiasm of researchers. Starting from the Islamic education thoughts, evaluation systems, curriculum and other contemporary discourses, namely gender, human rights, moderatism and learning...

The research purpose is to evaluate the business model of the traditional restaurant in Bakso xxx, Surakarta, Indonesia post-pandemic COVID-19. Business Model Canvas (BMC) consists of customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities,...

This research attempts to examine the impact of influence advertising attractiveness, discount and brand image on repurchase intentions with consumer satisfaction as a mediation variable for wardah products in the shopee application. The number of samples in this study were 210 respondents. Data collection...

After collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia carries out a series of economic reform. Under the condition of market economy, great changes also have occurred in colleges. This article describes changes happened in higher education and some measures to assure the quality of higher education, in order to...

The requirement for graduation design of undergraduate students is basic theoretical knowledge that reflect the characteristics of how to complexly and flexibly use all kinds of knowledge learned from different stages at the college, and then make students have a further comprehension about it, meanwhile,...

Focusing on the popular Chinese tourist destination of Sichuan in the aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake in 2008, this study attempts to explore domestic tourists’ motivations and intentions to visit a post-disaster destination. Based on a questionnaire survey, this study identifies six push factors...

Wireless sensor network localization technology is currently a hot research topic. WSN is a special self-organizing network, Range-free positioning technology at the advantages of its low cost and its simple hardware equipment has been widely concerned by the researchers. Therefore, this paper studies...

Hu proposed ecological Gengshen translation studies believe that the quality of the translation depends on the extent of conversion of multi-dimensional, that is, respect for the translation of ecological environment at the same time, pay attention to the translator of adaptation and selection. China's...

With the development trend and rapid increase of the power grid capacity, short-circuit current level is increasing rapidly. How to make sure the steady and reliable operation of the power system is a big challenge. So it is of great importance to limit the short-circuit current effectively. A new kind...

The construction of wind turbine generator set depends on the sufficient measurement of wind resources, and reasonable layout and management. Flat open terrain is the ideal condition for the operation of the wind turbine, but the actual terrain fluctuation is changeable. Because these terrains are close...

Laser tracker is an important optical instrument for precise geometric coordinate measurement in large scale. Position sensitive detector (PSD) is one core miss-distance detecting sensor of laser tracker to achieve precise cooperation target tracking. The tracking parameter calibration accuracy based...

In this paper we are discussing about the fuzz testing of network protocol. Compared with the general software vulnerability mining, the difficulty of using fuzz method to detect the protocol vulnerabilities is that the network protocol is a state machine, and the correctness of the input message has...

With the prosperous development of the next generation Internet technology and the rapid popularization of intelligent ends, cloud media will shift from "one cloud end, multi-screen" to "user-centered" "endless interaction", becoming the next transformation of Internet and serving the world more extensively....

With the advent of the information age, signal transmission has been involving many kinds of fields. During the process of voice signal transmission, there would be inevitably doped with some noise signal, but which would not happen if the very designed filter has been used. In this paper, the window...

With the development of virtual reality display technology of cultural heritage, the virtual reality display technology is developed more deeply and widely, the sense of reality and immersion put forward higher requirements, more and more people pay more attention to the attribute information of cultural...

With the rapid development of China and the increasing frequency of international exchanges, the global demand for Chinese culture is growing, and the enthusiasm for martial arts learning is also increasing rapidly. Through the practical experience of foreign martial arts teaching, combined with the...

Restricted communication in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms means that configuration needs to vary dynamically with changing tasks. We propose a mission planning model that uses a motif, a grouping of related functions, as the basic task unit. The planning model automatically generates a mission...

After years of research, foreign scholars have confirmed that the reference group has a significant impact on consumers' purchase decisions and brand preferences. In recent years, some scholars have considered that due to the impact of traditional culture, domestic consumers are more subtle in their...

The discussion of this research is learning local history has a strategic meaning in the formation of student character. History learning not only serves to provide knowledge as historical facts, but also aims to make students aware of their historical awareness. The purpose of this study is to provide...

In this paper, we introduce surface plasmons, a hot issue in the Frontiers of Science and Technology into the teaching process of "Mathematical Physics Method" course. We analyzed extensively metal nanowires, a typical plasmonic waveguide combining the separation method and numerical solution method....

In the process of tunnel excavation, in order to ensure the error between the direction of travel and the designed tunnel axis within required range, the relationship between the position of the shield and the designed axis of the tunnel should be monitored and measured in real time. The laser displacement...

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) is a representative thermosensitive polymer, whose hydrogels have broad applications. But poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogels are weak and brittle. To get higher strength hydrogels, in this paper, silica sol was utilized as nanoparticle reinforcer source to construct poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/silica...

NASA demonstrated that there are more than 500,000 pieces of space debris around the earth.It is necessary to remove the space junk because they do great harm to the aircraft. How to remove the space junk has become a universal concern.. In this paper, model is established to find the best alternative...

Internship is an important part in the teaching process of higher vocational colleges. It is very important for the hotel management profession to do the internship work. However, there are endless problems in the process of internship, which lead to the contradiction between hotels, schools and students,...

The rural house with comprehensive circulated utilization systems has been designed and built in a village around Fuxin city, which could separate production from living region. At the same time the energy circulation could be taken out. This new design mode could solve the following actual problems...

In this paper, we made the plan of a load testing, and got results by means of the LoadRunner which is an automatic testing tool. We fully considered the characteristics of the electronic commerce application, designed the reasonable test cases, and simulated the practical scenario. In the process of...

A math model is built on minimizing the maximum operation time of the equipment for the bottleneck station in which both the switching time and initial state are considered. The objective function is represented as the fitness function in adaptive generic algorithm which is proposed as a solution to...

Taking technology acceptance model (TAM) as the research framework and by means of random sampling method and questionnaire method, the author has conducted an acceptance scale survey on 340 predictive questionnaires, and made a quadratic regression analysis on the questionnaire data with the aid of...

It is difficult for students who are beginning to learn fundamental accounting to understand and memorize basic knowledge and master reverent rules and regulations. However, fundamental accounting is compulsory for accounting major, which is the basic requirement and prerequisite for accounting work....

Cooperatives as one of the economic actors in Indonesia with a total of around 154,000 units, as a business entity legally has the same obligations as other business entities such as tax payments. However, the contribution of cooperatives as taxpayers is still relatively limited. This condition is not...

As an important support platform for discipline construction, talent training, scientific research innovation and social service, large-scale precision instruments and equipment in colleges and universities have important strategic significance for supporting the development of national science and technology....

This essay is mainly focused on the 4ps model of Universal Music Group (UMG). It divides into Literature review, 4p discussion, financial analysis. The first part is about integrated marketing communication, which is a business strategy. Then it goes to the 4p part: product, price, promotion, place....

With the deepening of the reform of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises and the reform of power supply tips, the construction and improvement of medium- and long-term incentive mechanisms for state-owned power enterprises are also facing a new situation. In this regard, state-owned power companies...

Baudrillard once said in “consumer society” the body has become the most beautiful consumer goods in today’s society “, a warning. In recent years, China’s webcast industry has developed rapidly, the body of network anchorman has been commercialized, the body has become the most beautiful consumer goods...

This study intends to be an exploration of a series of effective teaching strategies of the “Greek Myths” chapter in an extended and optional course “Western Culture” in college English teaching applying the hierarchical model of critical thinking ability proposed by Wen Qiufang(2009). Through a comprehensive...

Sustainable development (SDGs) point 11 implies that the urban and community development agenda is carried out by building quality, safe and sustainable cities and settlements. The facts on the field of development of ready-to-build areas and environments ignore the principle of SDGs point 11. The purpose...

Learning anxiety refers to the inability to carry out normal learning due to excessive restlessness, fear and fear of anxiety. Through the questionnaire survey of the students in Sanming Central Primary School, it is found that the main reasons for students ‘learning anxiety are students’ excessive concern...

Blended learning can be seen as an important opportunity to redesign and redevelop the higher education curriculum, due to its advantages such as greater flexibility, autonomy, participation, and more effective learning effects. This paper analyzes both current state and trends of blended learning in...

The high number of HIV/AIDS cases cannot be separated from the problem of stigma, especially among Young womens. The stigma is formed due to ignorance, a lack of knowledge about HIV/AIDS, and misunderstandings about HIV transmission. The purpose of this study was to determine the analysis of Young womens’s...

The article, based on high-frequency trading data of A-shares and B-shares in Shanghai and Shenzhen, aims at investigating the influences of high-frequency quantitative trading (HFT) on the volatility of the Chinese stock market and proposes corresponding regulatory and improvement countermeasures, and...

In the field of relationship marketing, the concept that “the customer is always right” is not always reasonable, especially when facing aggressive customer behavior. Based on previous research on uncivilized behaviors of customers in the workplace, this paper selects the front-line service staff in...

By combining data from Chinese enterprise databases and the Chinese Statistical Yearbook of Cities, this paper calculates indicators of manufacturing upgrading, related diversification, and specialization for 287 prefecture-level and above cities in China based on panel data. Using fixed effects models,...

Northern Guangdong’s wild hot spring resources are abundant yet underdeveloped. Balancing consumption-driven demand stimulation with ecological-cultural preservation of these thermal springs constitutes the core challenge of this study. Using Shixing County in Shaoguan as a case study, we conduct field...

Background: Telomeres are short segments in chromosome ends, the length of which is reduced during cell life-cycles. We examined the association of leukocyte telomere length and short telomere proportion with hemodynamic variables. Methods: Altogether 566 subjects (279 women and 287 men) without cardiovascular...

Background: Epidemiological and animal studies suggest the potential of dietary nitrate (NO 3−) to inhibit atherogenesis. Spironolactone may improve arterial stiffness. We tested if 6 months’ intervention with dietary nitrate and spironolactone could affect carotid subclinical atherosclerosis and stiffness...

This study aims to find out the types of metaphor found on selected poems by W. H. Auden; Funeral Blues, O what is That Sound, dan O Tell Me the Truth About Love by using Lakoff and Johnson theory and to find out the meaning of each metaphor. This research used qualitative research. The data were analyzed...

Precision agriculture has greatly progressed by increasing crop output in recent years. Unfortunately, diseases caused by pests and insects often lead to big losses in fields, reducing crop yield. To fix this, fertilizers and pesticides improve crops and control insects and pests. People are worried...