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Many Mongolian people suffer from non-communicable chronic diseases. In order to plan preventive strategies against such diseases, we designed a community-based prospective cohort study of chronic diseases, called the Moncohort study, in Mongolia. This is the first nationwide large-scale cohort study...

With the increasing availability of pen-based user interfaces, we often come upon multiple data sets of online handwritten scripts such as letters, words, etc., that are collected based on a viable interface. In this paper, we set forward a new method for online handwritten Arabic scripts recognition....

Objective: Inflammation and early arterial damage are the possible mechanisms responsible for increased cardiovascular risk (CVR) in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between C-reactive protein (CRP) and arterial parameters of macro- and...

Background: Prehypertensive subjects have a markedly increased risk of developing hypertension compared to normotensive subjects. Prehypertension is therefore an excellent model to study hemodynamics and arterial stiffness in the development of hypertension. Methods: We assessed hemodynamics and arterial...

Background: Serum uric acid (UA) plays a key role in the development and progression of hypertension. We investigated the association of UA levels and indices of arterial function in a cohort of newly diagnosed, never treated hypertensive subjects. Methods: 1225 patients with a new diagnosis of mild...

Elevated aortic pulse wave velocity (aoPWV) is an independent predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. There are, however, no widely accepted normal or reference values for aoPWV. The aim of this work was to define these values. Patients and methods: AoPWV was assessed in several patient...

Based on daily precipitation data of 174 meteorological stations near civil airports in China, flight data over the same period (1994-2013) and other relevant airport data, this paper carries out a study on risk analysis of rainstorm at Chinese civil airports. We use the platform of ARCGIS, analyze the...

The arrangement of R&D refers to the issue of the linkage between structural holes in a network. In order to examine the linkages between multiple R&D projects in a company, we use the patent information as the index of R&D capability and examine the change of R&D network structures by social network...

The simple model of the non-linear DNA dynamics [4] is pursued in order to study the local untwisting of DNA double helix. It is shown how the advancing RNA polymerase may force the motion of the torsional solitary wave along DNA.

In the framework of a multidimensional superposition principle involving an analytical approach to nonlinear PDEs, a numerical technique for the analysis of soliton invari- ant manifolds is developed. This experimental methodology is based on the use of computer simulation data of soliton–perturbation...

Probability density estimation (PDF) is a task of primary importance in many contexts, including Bayesian learning and novelty detection. Despite the wide variety of methods at disposal to estimate PDF, only a few of them are widely used in practice by data analysts. Among the most used methods are the...

For acceptable risk and risk acceptance criteria, concepts and definition methods were proposed. Determination principles and application status including ALARP were investigated. Differences between long-distance oil/gas transportation pipeline and other industrial facilities in risk tendency, degree...

Background: The methodology of the gold standard for measuring aortic stiffness, carotid–femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV), has been revised in respect to the choice of distance measure. In order to clarify whether increased aortic stiffness is present in obese children and adolescents we investigated...

The proper diagnostic approach for acute bronchiolitis is one of the significant controversial aspects among clinicians in the pediatric field. The radiographic evaluation of the classic presentation has a limited role and may expose patients to unnecessary procedures. Despite the presence of evidence-based...

This paper introduces a low-cost indoor localization system using sound spectrum of light fingerprint. An Artificial Intelligence (AI), algorithm will be implemented in a low-cost Micro-Control Unit (MCU), to perform the localization function. The unique light fingerprints with complex and tiny differences...

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of unmatched scale and severity. A continued state of crisis has been met with poor public adherence to preventive measures and difficulty implementing public health policy. This study aims to identify and evaluate the factors underlying such a response. Thus, it assesses...

Introduction: Arterial tree alteration is the cornerstone of diabetes complications and its mechanical parameters are impaired. Objective: Which are aortic pulse wave velocity determinants in a diabetic population? Methods: We studied 132 diabetic patients. They entered the day hospital to have a cardiovascular...

Background: Insulin resistance is a feature of essential hypertension. The interrelationships of indices of insulin resistance and arterial function in euglycaemic, never-treated hypertensives has not been addressed. To this end, we investigated the correlations of two insulin resistance indices (HOMA:...

Introduction: The elevated level of C reactive protein (CRP) is associated with increased arterial stiffness in general population. However, it is uncertain whether CRP is related to arterial stiffness in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: We studied 63 RA women...

Introduction: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a cluster of metabolic abnormalities strongly associated with atherosclerosis and increased risk of CV events. Atherosclerotic plaques (AP) and its echolucency (ECL) can be detected using ultrasound (US) and evaluated by grey scale median analysis (GSM). ECL...

Project management methods have been developed from industry practices and international standards to ensure a higher rate of success for information technology projects. These have been widely used in large organisations effectively. However, when projects are implemented in a small or medium-sized...

We propose a novel approach by utilizing human-computer interaction data to extract user interests from web-based learning systems. The proposed approach is based on user access and a wearable context recognition system. Under our approach, a series of screen images are captured by an imaging device...

Built on Xu and Quaddus’s39 model of adoption and continued use of knowledge management systems, this paper develops a model of Australian consumers’ adoption and use of the Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record (PCEHR) system. Factors and variables of the developed model are discussed in detail,...

Energy indicators for sustainable development which were introduced by the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2005 were used in this study to determine a renewable energy perspective for Turkey. The decision making includes social, economic, and environmental factors which affect each other resulting...

Internet-derived information has been recently recognized as a valuable tool for epidemiological investigation. Google Trends, a Google Inc. portal, generates data on geographical and temporal patterns according to specified keywords. The aim of this study was to compare the reliability of Google Trends...

Background: Sub-Saharan African countries have urged grassroots input to improve research capacity. In East Africa, MicroResearch is fostering local ability to find sustainable solutions for community health problems. At 5 years, the following reports its progress. Methods: The MicroResearch program...

Chlorination is a chemical method for water disinfection that has been proved to be highly effective in controlling waterborne diarrheal diseases. Most studies have focused on wells’ chlorination or later at household level, whereas there have been relatively few researches evaluating the treatment of...

This paper introduces the practical guidelines for function point analysis in the Republic of Korea. Korean government recommends that Function Point Analysis should be adopted as a standard method for measuring the functional size of software. Function Point was proposed by an international organization....

Ecological agriculture is a major reform in the history of world agriculture. The study of ecological agriculture benefits is of great significance to the development of ecological agriculture. In this paper, by referring to the evaluation index system of ecological agriculture at home and abroad, and...

In this paper some generalized exponential-type chain estimators have been proposed for the finite population mean in the presence of nonresponse under stratified two-phase sampling when mean of another auxiliary variable is readily available. The expressions for the bias and mean square error of proposed...