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Objectives. The BPGUIDE study was a prospective, blinded-endpoint study in 286 hypertensive patients randomised to treatment decisions guided by best-practice usual care (n = 142) or in addition by central BP measurement (n = 144; using SphygmoCor) over twelve months. This study aimed to undertake a...

Figure 1AA and CCA pulse waveform measured during 6 heartbeats in 1 volunteer. Cardiac and arterial function is reflected in the distension (change in diameter) waveforms of central arteries. For analyses, commonly the distension waveform of the common carotid artery (CCA) is used, as the CCA is superficial...

Mean ambulatory pulse pressure (PP) is a potent predictor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality. Objectives. Investigating prognostic significance of elastic and non-elastic PP components Methods. Using a generalized nonlinear pressure–volume relationship in arteries (Fig. 1), PP can be split into...

Atherosclerosis is a pathological process affecting arterial elasticity. The rabbit is one of the most widely used animal models for atherosclerosis research. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a method for the automatic assessment of local vascular stiffness in rabbits. An off-line...

Objective. We have shown that regression of brachial stiffness is inversely related to aortic stiffness in dialysis patients. In this study, we sequentially examine the impact of aortic stiffness, brachial stiffness and aortic-brachial stiffness mismatch on mortality in dialysis patients. Design and...

Compare the WSN with other conventional network system, the changing or charging the existing battery of sensor node within WSN is a tough job. Therefore, since last decade the effort has been made to design and introduce a large number of communication protocol for WSN with given concern on the performance...

In the Propp-based story generation mechanisms and the integrated narrative generation system which we have been developing, the former functions is a module in the latter. These systems have used respective event generation mechanisms to generated events which are the most important units in a narrative...

The Singular Manifold Method (SMM) is applied to an equation in 2 + 1 dimensions [13] that can be considered as a generalization of the sine-Gordon equation. SMM is useful to prove that the equation has two Painlevé branches and, therefore, it can be considered as the modified version of an equation...

We introduce the notion of a ghost characteristic for nonlocal differential equations. Ghosts are essential for maintaining the validity of the Jacobi identity for the charateristics of nonlocal vector fields.

The paper presents a survey of some new results concerning the approach to construction of explicit solutions for nonlinear evolution equations du/dt = F[u], proposed in [1, 2].

Effects of geometric constraints on a steady flow potential are described by an elliptic- hyperbolic generalization of the harmonic map equations. Sufficient conditions are given for global triviality.

The aim of this paper is to investigate intuitionistic fuzzy multiple attribute decision making problems with preference information on alternatives, in which the information on attribute weights is completely unknown and the attribute values and preference information on alternatives take the form of...

Ebola viruses (family: Filoviridae) are the cause of Ebola virus disease (EVD), a highly fatal illness characterised by haemorrhagic fever syndrome in both humans and non-human primates (NHPs). West Africa was the epicentre of the 2013–2015 EVD epidemic which caused the death of over 11,000 people, including...

In military organization, the synchronization in the parade is important for showing their majesty. However, we do not have any quantitative evaluation methods for the parade. In this research, as a first step of the quantitative evaluation for the parade, we propose an evaluation method focusing on...

This paper proposes a framework for constructing pet knowledge maps. The schema concept layer is designed and built top-down, and the data layer is constructed from knowledge extracted from semi-structured and unstructured data. In the aspect of entity extraction of unstructured data, a symptom-named...

Low Birth Weight (LBW) is a major risk factor for neonatal and infant mortality worldwide. In 2015, the LBW rate was 22.6% in Bangladesh. The present study was conducted to estimate the rate of LBW in urban Dhaka and to observe its association with maternal age and socioeconomic status. This retrospective...

This study sought to examine the relationship between knowledge, attitude, and acceptance of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine among students in selected universities in Nigeria. An anonymous survey was conducted online among Nigeria students. The questionnaire collected demographic characteristics,...

We answered an old question: does there exist a mechanical system with 3 degrees of freedom, except for the Coulomb system, which has 6 first integrals generating the Lie algebra 𝔬(4) by means of the Poisson brackets? A system which is not centrally symmetric, but has 6 first integrals generating Lie...

Background: Men with CAD have been shown to have abnormal arterial stiffness. Arterial function may change over time, according to treatment; the prognostic value of these changes has not been investigated. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to assess whether an improvement of lager artery...

Arterial baroreflex sensitivity (BS) is dependent on distension rate of baroreceptors, itself dependent on arterial stiffness. Differences in BS between younger and older subjects, and normotensive and hypertensive patients may be explained by differences in arterial stiffness. The objective was to demonstrate...

Objectives. Retinal vessel analysis is a valid diagnostic tool to detect subclinical signs of atherosclerosis in the cerebrovascular microcirculation as early as childhood. The aim of the study was to investigate the association between specific obesity-related biomarkers and retinal vessel diameters...

Background: According to the 2007 European Society of Hypertension guidelines, measurement of arterial stiffness (AS) is recommended in patients with arterial hypertension (HT). The carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) appears to be the “gold standard” for evaluation on vascular changes in these...

Large artery stiffening is widely accepted as a determinant of ISH in the population with a predictive power of CV events has been shown to be beyond traditional risk scores. However, its clinical role in is still limited perhaps due to the lack of established reference values and methodological uniformity....

Aim: The assessment of aortic stiffness in young and middle aged men with coronary artery disease (CAD). Materials and methods: This study was carried out in 49 CAD patients aged 43,5±4,8 years with coronary artery stenosis diagnosed by angiography and 29 healthy volunteers (the control group) aged...

Relations between central versus brachial blood pressure and major cardiovascular disease (CVD) events remain controversial. Central measures derived using radial tonometry and a generalized transfer function as implemented using the SphygmoCor device may better predict CVD risk compared to central pressures...

We proposed an approach to error recovery that uses the concepts of task stratification and error classification. In our method, errors are classified according to the estimated cause into several categories, such as modeling and planning errors. When an error is classified correctly, this increases...

A Flash-based simulator of CPU scheduling has been developed and utilized for educational visualization in the class of university lecture. We have designed and implemented it with Flash-based scripting language in order to execute it as a stand-alone application as well as in various browsing environment...

To provide users with more suitable and personalized service, personalization is widely used in various fields. Current e-Learning systems search for learning resources using information search technology, based on the keywords that selected or inputted by the user. Due to lack of semantic analysis for...

In this paper, we for the first time propose an framework of intelligent mathematics, which consists of factor space, information diffusion, and internet of intelligences. This paper demonstrates how to use intelligent mathematics to describe earthquake risk perception. The concept of earthquake risk...