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Introduction: Intima-media thickness (IMT) of carotid and femoral artery and plaque formation are both markers of subclinical cardiovascular risk, despite these two process are not simultaneous. Our aim was to investigate their genetic and environmental background. Methods: 54 monozygotic (MZ) and 32...

Background: Low longitudinal strain of the ascending aorta (AAo) by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) predicts dilation and aortic events in Marfan syndrome (MFS) [1], possibly reflecting aortic stiffness [2]. Speckle-tracking is established for cardiac deformation, but proximal aorta applications are...

Water is one of the essential factors in fulfilling human needs. The existence of water on earth is very abundant, but the quality doesn’t meet the standards. The system value of a Drinking Water Treatment Plant (DWTP) can be seen from 3 aspects, quality, quantity, and continuity of water produced. The...

Dimensional accuracy is a critical quality attribute in fused deposition modeling (FDM). This study investigates the effect of five process parameters i.e. layer thickness, build orientation, printing speed, air gap, and nozzle temperature on the percentage error in linear dimensions of FDM-fabricated...

The swift development of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) methods has played an important role in changing the practice of agriculture especially in the context of early detection and identification of crop diseases. Timely and correct diagnosis of diseases is essential in the minimization...

The land reserve was introduced to China twenty years ago. It stimulates the real estate markets and accelerates the urban development as well as economy developing. Financing risks are concerned much during the course of land reserve development, due to their characters of huge in scale, long payment...

The heater structure plays an important role in the chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) to achieve the performance of low power consumption, and it is the most effective way to make the structure by depositing the indium tin oxide (ITO) for its heating performance and transparent property. The influence of...

Input, intake and output are the most fundamental links in second language acquisition. With the development of cognitive science and the profound investigation of psycholinguistics and applied linguistics in the past decades, intake has been the research focus for many linguistic scholars. As where...

China is undergoing a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization and a great number of migrant workers are moving into the city. However, their transformation is not complete with the geographical move. The paper is focused on two stages of migrant workers, which are geographical migration and...

The accelerated growth of the past 30 years has advanced the entrepreneurial sector in China. The surge in private wealth management services (PWM) has resulted in enhancing this segment’s pro-file globally. The ensuing tension between demand and lagging development may force change to markets and regulations....

This paper studied a motivation mechanism for attaining the target of energy conservation and emission reduction program in Xinjiang Province, China. It is known that the final goal of enterprises and governments is to realize profit maximization, based on which this paper set up a complete and imperfect...

This paper introduces a grab operation test system of a gantry crane and apply this system to compare the working performance of the new hollowed grab bucket with the traditional grab bucket. By using the data acquisition card (DAQ card), the test system collects the data of torque limiter and current...

Slope cropland and terrace are common land use types in Danjiangkou reservoir catchment areas and indoor artificial rainfall simulation methods are employed to study nutrients’ loss law of the two soils under different rainfall intensities, for the layout of soil conservation measures in farmland and...

In this paper, the GARCH (1,1) model is used for data modeling and forecasting. The GARCH (1,1) model is combined with the Mote Carlo (MC) algorithm to study European option pricing. The differences between the model data and the observed data are calculated by the GARCH-MC model. The GARCH-MC model...

The preparation technology of enzymatic peptides of Corbicula Fluminea was studied in this paper. Alcalase, Papain, Neutrase and Protamex were used under their own optimum pH value and temperature, with the same other parameters. The results indicated that Alcalase had the highest degree of hydrolysis...

institutions of higher learning professional interior design engineering, arts, the sciences compatible. Especially its graphics teaching, engineering and arts two different directions, cultivate the students each have advantages and disadvantages. With the development of the social and economic, the...

In this paper, a model to determine optimal investment strategy for foundation is introduced. Firstly, we preprocess the college data and classify, filter and fill the missing data with clustering analysis and regression method. Secondly, based on Back Propagation (BP) Neural Networks, a model of ROI...

Electrolytic codeposition technique was adopted in the deposition of NiFe-SiC coating on the stainless substrate, using nickel alloyed with iron as the binder phase with SiC as dispersed particles. The results indicated that the deposit with SiC nanoparticles was level and compact; the crystal-planes...

The public opinion situation of college network group event is barometer of harmonious campus, harmonious society. Through the establishment of an effective mechanism for grooming, network public opinion to guide public opinion and improve the regulatory mechanism to further optimize the public opinion...

To evaluate the improving effects of artificial grassland restoration measures on soil organic carbon (SOC), soil with different depths, 0-5 cm and 5-10 cm, was sampled and three components of SOC, i.e., total organic carbon (TOC) content, water soluble organic carbon (WSOC) content, and hot-water extractable...

Traditional villages have unique natural environment and cultural deposits, which have become hot spots of tourism exploitation. However, as a special landscape form and cultural connotation of rural cultural landscape, its resources have the characteristics of scarcity. In this paper, based on the perspective...

This research is aimed to determine the effect of 360° performance appraisal in decreasing social loafing in a team. 360° performance appraisal which is applied in this research is the appraisal to measure the individual job performance based on peer evaluation, leader evaluation or follower evaluation,...

The probe and measurement circuit for the liquid level measurement of ultra low temperature cylinder was designed. Liquid Nature Gas( LNG) sensor is a coaxial capacitance sensor which was used with the material of 304 stainless steel. Teflon was used as an insulating material to isolate the stainless...

The training quality of postgraduate students has always been a focus in the education industry. Proper ratio of tutor and students is the precondition for it. The existing tutor mode cannot afford the enrollment expansion. Tutor team is desired, which can eliminate the conflict between enrollment expansion...

As the system of charge on postgraduate education comes into effect, some new problems will certainly occur, which may influence the quality of cultivating postgraduates. For agricultural universities, they are short of excellent students, so it is necessary to further strengthen the construction of...

In order to detect the key nodes in the aviation network, a node detection algorithm is proposed. In view of the fallibility of previous methods, this algorithm integrates the improved closeness sorting algorithm and the importance evaluation matrix. Firstly, the model of the aviation network is constructed....

The technological superiority for the external thermal insulation system was researched and analyzed in this paper. The anti-seismic protection standards and objective of the external thermal insulation system were proposed based on the anti-seismic programming principle of nonstructural components....

Confucianism has influenced the regulating of family relations, the maintaining of social order, and the promoting of national spirit for thousands of years in the East Asian cultural circle. Though Confucianism originates in China, it is not inherited and spread as successful as in South Korea nowadays....

The study of audit fees is one of the most important issues in auditing market. Audit fees are the "economic bridge" between listed companies and accounting firms. Reasonable audit fees can improve the audit quality. This paper examines the effect of accounting firms on audit fees, and discusses whether...

In the context of national proposal of the construction of the Greater Bay Area of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, tourism cooperation between Zhuhai and Macao will be further highly integrated. The development of Zhuhai Island, water tourism projects would have new historical opportunity. According...

Based on the urbanization development index system, the paper constructs a factor analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis model of urban economic development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and conducts comprehensive evaluation on the economic development of 71 cities from Shanghai, Jiangsu,...

Self-publishing got a lot of attention for introducing a new form into the publishing industry. However, it didn't get the expected prosperity in Chinese publishing environment and exposed a lot of difficulties. The problems faced by self-publishing mainly derived from the limitation of the self-publishing...

The integration of information technolo-gy into inquiry-based physical teaching can arouse students' interest in learning, stimulate students' desire to learning, mo-bilize students’ learning initiative and en-thusiasm, form a reasonable teaching process, and realize the best teaching ef-ficiency. Combined...

Economic development as part of national development, is one of the efforts to create a just and prosperous people’s welfare based on the Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to determine the form of legal protection for customers in credit agreements...

This article examines the competitive regional development of territories through attracting and ensuring the active participation of one of the territorial subjects, which consist of members of civil society in the formation of strategic alternatives and market development. Modern problems of management...

In the new era, international relations have reached the peak of complexity, followed by a variety of international threats. This paper identifies two dominant international threats of the contemporary world, the detrimental void of international leadership and the terrorism with the possible solution....

This paper explores the experiences of refugees-based NGO in managing, advocating and promoting refugee’s capacity in the host country. The main objective of this preliminary study is to analyze how this NGO plays a pivotal role in empowering refugees group to survive in the host country local setting....

University life requires students to face new challenges. Happiness is needed by university students to face these challenges, because unhappiness can lead to problems in adjustment, mental health, lower academic performance, and deteriorating social relations. Previous studies have proven that mindfulness...

On the basis of analyzing the composition of the clothing supply chain on the E-commerce platform, The paper points out that the E-commerce platform should be the leading party in the construction of the traceability system of the clothing supply chain, and puts forward and analyzes the four-stage step-by-step...

Under the background of the continuous development of education informatization, the modern distance education system began to gradually integrate into the education and teaching of each subject, thus making the education reform into a new pattern. In recent years, in the process of optimization and...

With the gradual rise and prosperity of new network media, streaming media platform marketing has gradually become an important way to establish corporate brand image. In order to refine various marketing strategies and improve the performance of enterprises in new media so as to establish a good corporate...

With social progress and technological development, government informatization is an effective way for the government to provide public services to the public. The government APP is a typical product of government informatization. This study constructs a government APP evaluation system from the availability,...

Objective To construct a contradiction matrix for rule of law in drug safety governance, provide scientific tools for solving drug safety governance problems, and improve the level of rule of law in drug safety governance. Methods Firstly, the problems in the rule of law of drug safety governance were...

This study focuses on deep subspace clustering in a federated learning framework, aiming to address the challenge of clustering high-dimensional data with privacy protection in a distributed environment. Traditional deep clustering methods usually have difficulty dealing with complex data scenarios and...

Children with visual impairment have extremely complicated developmental issues that affect their vision, social interaction, emotions, and movement. They require unique tools and approaches for improving communication and football abilities, particularly in-game skills. One technique is to test and...

In recent years, the feminine aesthetics of the male image has triggered heated discussions and image anxiety among the public. This article aims to explore the male image aesthetics of “Generation Z” fans, who are mainly teenagers, and to explore the roots of the feminine and refined aesthetics from...

Background: Completion of ≥150 minutes/week of physical activity (PA) is recommended for cardiovascular health, but this is achieved only by ~50% of Australian adults. Assessing self-reported PA via quick single-item question is desirable for large-scale cardiovascular research and health screening....

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in ultrasound-based velocities and accelerations of the carotid atheromatous plaque between asymptomatic patients with moderate and severe stenosis, based on the assumption that plaque motion features are sensitive to cardiovascular health...

This study aims to determine the effect of OSH knowledge and the application of reward and punishment on students’ safety behavior at Berbah National Vocational School. In addition, this study also aims to determine the simultaneous effect of OSH knowledge variables and the application of rewards and...

This paper aims to explore the factors influencing the psychological status of students with financial difficulties in colleges based on a Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), and a questionnaire survey was conducted among 1218 students with financial difficulties in colleges of China. SEM was used to...