AIMS The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of chronic smoking on arterial stiffness at a peripheral site using pulse wave analysis. METHODS Forty two non-smokers (17 males, 25 females) of average age 20.2 +/- 1.3 year and forty five smokers (19 males, 26 females) of average age 24.3 +/- 2.4 year were included in the study. Four parameters, SI (stiffness index), RI (reflection i...

PURPOSE Research underscores how autonomy and decision-making involvement may help to enhance the quality of life of older adults; however, individuals with dementia are often excluded from decision making that is related to their daily functioning. In this study we use a modified version of the Stress Process Model to consider the stress process of individuals with chronic illness, and in part...

OBJECTIVE This study examines effects of daily use of adult day service (ADS) programs by caregivers of individuals with dementia (IWD) on a salivary biomarker of stress reactivity, dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S), and whether these effects on DHEA-S are associated with daily variability in positive mood and depressive symptoms. METHODS We used a daily diary design of 8 consecutive da...

This article is based on a Facebook post I wrote and posted March 8, 2023, about the erasure of history International Women’s Day (IWD) movement organizing in Vancouver. I’ve transformed it from rant among friends to first-person point-of-view article. For me, IWD has always been day reflecting struggles our movements; this year, need look back was made more urgent by shit that unfolded with da...

Abstract North China Plain (NCP) is a main agricultural production region in China, dominated by summer maize-winter wheat double cropping system. However, the grain yield highly depends on groundwater extraction to fulfil irrigation demand. Additionally, warming and drying tendency under climate change will further challenge water resource availability productivity. This study applied modelled...

Abstract Background The social and economic impact of dementia for the development accessible sustainable care individuals with (IwD). Physical exercise has been seen as a beneficial non-pharmacological therapy in prevention management dementia, possible benefits may not only on participants, but also indirectly their caregivers. Thus, this quasi-experimental non-randomized study aimed to analy...

The study proposes an enhanced method of computing wind drag coefficient (Cd) for extreme hurricane conditions which can be applied to precisely estimate the induced storm wave and surge. Thirty different tropical cyclone/hurricane were chosen modeled using Wave Boundary Layer Model (WBLM) Cd based on air-sea interaction concept are then subjected polynomial regression with speed as independent...

Background: Globally, irrigation water deficit (IWD) due to saline intrusion and decreased rainfed continues affect coastal cultivation regions (CCRs). Coastal lowland have increasingly frequent intrusion, resulting in the IWD as a part of climate variability. Cu Lao Dung Isle, terrain-low plain Vietanm is facing revenue loss adverse conditions recent years. Methods: The objective this study wa...

Hyperspectral remote sensing is a reliable solution for monitoring heavy metal pollution in crops. However, there are few studies on the spectral transformation and estimation of content crops using time-frequency analysis. In this study, intrinsic wavelength-scale decomposition (IWD) was proposed to decompose hyperspectral data fully exploit sensitive information implied them investigate feasi...

In this paper, a combination of simulated annealing (SA) and intelligent water drops (IWD) algorithm is used to solve the nonlinear/complex problem of simultaneous reconfiguration with optimal allocation (size and location) of wind turbine (WT) as a distributed generation (DG) and dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) as a distributed flexible AC transmission systems (DFACT) unit in a distribution sys...