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Background: Timing errors during Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP) support can be detrimental when interfering with cardiac function. In vivo hemodynamics and left ventricular (LV) function were monitored during premature IAB inflation, and the associated mechanisms investigated with Wave Intensity Analysis. Methods:...

To what degree elevated pulsatile components of blood pressure arise from a primary interaction of ventricular contraction with the impedance of the arterial tree or from more complex phenomena involving backward wave travel in the arterial tree is unknown. We used wave intensity analysis to explore...

Compared with other countries, especially China, United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, Australia’s online retail fall behind in terms of both its sale and percentage contribution to the total retail. This paper analyses David Jones, which is typical of large department store chains, and Australian...

We present an extension of a family of second-order integrable mappings to the case where the variables do not commute. In every case we introduce a commutation rule which is consistent with the mapping evolution. Through the proper ordering of variables we ensure the existence of an invariant in the...

This paper shows that several integrable lattices can be transformed into coupled biliear differential-difference equations by introducing auxiliary variables. By testing the Bäcklund transformations for this type of coupled bilinear equations, a new integrable lattice is found. By using the Bäcklund...

Electromagnetic wave propagation through cold collision free plasma is studied using the nonlinear perturbation method. It is found that the equations can be reduced to the modified Kortweg-de Vries equation.

Large classes of Lie solutions of the MHD equations describing the flows of a viscous homogeneous incompressible fluid of finite electrical conductivity are constructed. These classes contain a number of arbitrary functions of time and the general solutions of the heat equation.

The symmetry classification and reduction of a non–stationary spherically symmetric energy–transport model for semiconductors was investigated by Molati and Wafo Soh (2005). In this work the exact solutions of the reduced model in the stationary case are constructed.

With the development of urbanization, the amount of municipal solid waste is increasing. Landfill is the main method for disposing the urban garbage at present in China. But the secure landfill site is not safe completely because it has a lot of risks threatening surrounding environment. After types...

In this paper, we study and classify the conservation laws of the Jaulent–Miodek equations and other systems of KdV type equations which arises in, inter alia, shallow water equations. The main focus of the paper is the construction of the conservation laws as a consequence of the interplay between symmetry...

Environmental factors, pesticides, alcohol and smoking are linked to asthma in children. The association of toxic substances exposure with asthma has not been evaluated. Our objective is to assess such associations among children aged less than 16 years old. This is a cross-sectional study, conducted...

Introduction: Risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD) are multifactorial. Previous research has reported a high prevalence of CVD risk factors in tea-garden workers. This study was conducted to assess prevalence and level of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors among tea-garden and general population...

This study examines the feasibility of using a smartphone application (app) to conduct surveys among travellers during the Hajj pilgrimage, where the use of apps has not been evaluated for infectious disease surveillance. A longitudinal study was conducted among pilgrims at the Hajj 2014 using an iPhone...

LINEX weighted k-means is a version of weighted k-means clustering, which computes the weights of features in each cluster automatically. Determining which entity is belonged to which cluster depends on the cluster centers. In this study, the asymmetric LINEX loss function is used to compute the dissimilarity...

Each year millions of pilgrims perform the annual Hajj from more than 180 countries around the world. This is one of the largest mass gathering events and may result in the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases. As such, there are mandatory vaccinations for the pilgrims such as meningococcal vaccines....

Geranium wilfordii Maxim is a commonly used traditional medicine and as decoction pieces in drinks for treating acute and chronic rheumatalgia. Earlier research showed it could inhibit xanthine oxidase and had a strong antioxidative activity. In this study, four compounds namely, corilagin, geraniin,...

Sleeping on the wheels due to drowsiness is one of the major causes of death tolls all over the world. The objective of this research article is to classify drowsiness with alertness based on the Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals using spectral and band power features. A publicly available ULg DROZY...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has critically struck healthcare systems and burdened emergency services. To date, there is no accurate and rapid point-of-care diagnostic test. This study aimed to investigate Lung Ultrasound (LUS) against Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction...

To analyze the gap between the Baoji population’s climate change risk perception and the scientifically measured intensity, danger degree, vulnerability, and exposure of climate change risk based on the basic elements of risk assessment, this paper combines analytic hierarchy process and the Bayesian...

As is well-known, any ordinary differential equation in one dimension can be cast as the Euler–Lagrange equation of an appropriate Lagrangian. Additionally, if the initial equation is autonomous, the Lagrangian can always be chosen to be time-independent. In two dimensions, however, the situation is...

The analysis of lactoferrin separation will be an important application in prospect. To develop a new strategy for the detection of lactoferrin, this work adopted the method of uncoated Capillary Electrophoresis (CE), through optimizing the parameters of background electrolyte, pH, surfactant, buffers...

Objectives: To examine the relationship between arterial stiffness and diastolic function in healthy normotensive subjects. Methods: For this study, 43 male (40±10 years) and 64 female (40±9 years) subjects were recruited. All were lifelong non-smokers, normolipidaemic, normoglycaemic and had normal...

Objectives: We investigate associations between central hemodynamics and complications in type 1 diabetes. Methods: Cross-sectional study, 676 type 1 diabetes patients, mean±SD age 55±13, 375(56%) male. Central hemodynamics measured by pulse wave analyses (PWA) (SphygmoCor (Atcor Medical, Australia)...

Aim: Important prognostic significance of day-night brachial blood pressure (BP) decline for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality has been established. It is little known about diurnal variations of arterial stiffness parameters – augmentation index (AI@75) and aortic pulse wave velocity (PWV) as the...

Objective: There are sex differences in resting central pulse wave velocity (cPWV) but it is unclear if there are sex differences in the response to exercise. We evaluated potential sex differences of two measures of arterial stiffness and central pressures before and following maximal exercise. Methods:...

Wireless Sensors Networks (WSNs) are utilized in many diverse applications ranging from security, environmental monitoring, landslide detection, patient monitoring, reconnaissance operations, structural health monitoring and smart buildings. Since in many applications the WSN nodes are randomly deployed,...

For monitoring the early stage of crop growth in China, this paper presents a photosynthesis-based monitoring model for grain production. Not only the normalized difference vegetation index and elements such as the growing degree day are considered, the factors of sunshine and the cost of water resource...

Herein, we propose a method for recognizing human emotions that utilizes the standardized mean value of facial expression intensity obtained from a thermal image and the standardized mean value of the time at utterance. In this study, the emotions of one subject could be discerned with 76.5% accuracy...

Multimedia conferencing is increasingly becoming a very important and popular application over Internet. Due to the complexity of asynchronous communications and handle large and dynamically concurrent processes for multimedia conferencing, which confront relevant challenge to achieve sufficient correctness...