INTRODUCTION The chemical components of olive fruit provide a wide range of cardiovascular benefits. Arterial stiffness is an important cardiovascular risk factor and can be assessed using the Cardio-Ankle Vascular Index (CAVI). OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the impact of a proprietary standardized olive fruit extract (SOFE) in subjects at risk for arterial stiffness. ...

Psychoacoustic research has often used headphones to reproduce sound stimuli. Recently, the spatial dimension has regained attention in basic research. Here I make a case for the importance of binaural hearing when assessing sound quality. Technological advances made it possible to accurately reproduce real and artificial sound stimuli with high spatial fidelity for their assessment. The Simula...

“Delinquent” instructions are a small number of static instructions that cause most branch prediction misses and cache misses in a program. One of the important features of those delinquent instructions is that most of them are executed in small loops. We have proposed a new scheme of multithreading called Switch-on-Future-Event Multithreading (SoFE-MT) that hides a latency of delinquent instru...

Since 2020, all scientific communities have faced the challenge of holding their regular conferences during a global pandemic. The isolation brought about by widespread remote work made it especially important to maintain our professional connections 2021 edition biennial Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) schedule, in spite challenges. After vaccines became available early and six-month po...

Small object detection is one of the research difficulties in detection, and Feature Pyramid Networks (FPN) a common feature extractor deep learning; thus, improving results small based on FPN great significance this field. In paper, SV-FPN proposed for task, which consists Object Enhancement (SOFE) Variance-guided Region Interest Fusion (VRoIF). When using as extractor, an SOFE module designed...

Most research on auditory localization has been done in either a non-reverberant environment or using virtual acoustic space presented under headphones. The Simulated Open Field Environment (SOFE) uses computer controlled loudspeakers in an anechoic chamber to create realistic auditory scenes with simulated sources and echoes. Each approach has didsadvantages; for example the anechoic environme...

the pavilion can be outlined among the most important architectural identity elements in persian gardens. usually these structures were built in the middle of the garden and at the confluence of two longitudinal and transverse axes in such a way that it could be seen from four sides to maximize the geometrical composition of the persian four-garden. although relatively different reasons for the...

This studies whether the water extract of Osmanthus fragrans can prevent noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) after exposure to a noisy environment. Twenty-four healthy factory workers in southern Taiwan were recruited. The hearing threshold was determined before and after each dosing period. Measurements of oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC), glutathione (GSH), oxidized glutathione disulfi...