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Post-activation performance enhancement remains a topic of debate in sport science. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of lower-body plyometric conditioning activity (CA) with a self-selected intra-complex rest interval on upper and lower-body volleyball specific performance. Eleven resistance-trained... |
The goal of the proposed coordinated distributed multiple attack (CDMA) is to strike a selected adversarial network and render its services useless. In this attack a number of compromised systems are used as facilitators in a coordinated manner to launch an attack on a victim's host or network. By distributing the atta... |
This article proposes an algorithm for express solutions in nonlinear structural dynamics. Our strategy is to adopt a typical time integrator and accept the solution after a constant number of iterations using a constant Jacobian matrix. Its success may not be initially obvious, but we demonstrate that the proposed alg... |
I. Introduction Hegel's political philosophy is best understood as being both moderate and critical in character. While the recent scholarship is partially correct in its “centrist-reformist” image of Hegel's political philosophy, I argue that this image is incomplete. Hegel's project in the Philosophy of Right is mode... |
Bearing damages make the biggest proportion of faults affecting AC electrical motors. There are various subdivisions of the bearing faults but one of them is the induced bearing and shaft currents in the machines. These currents cannot be fully avoided, yet with the development of power electronic control of the machin... |
600 Background: Two recent randomized studies with anastrozole, as single agent or with an unspecified cytotoxic, produced an objective response rate (RR) of 24 and 39.5% by ultra-sound (US) [baseline primary tumor diameters (PTD) of 2.6 cm (median) and 3.6 cm (mean), respectively] in LA BC. This trial assessed the eff... |
METHODS |
55 assessable HR+ patients (pts) with LA breast cancer (tumor size > 3 cm) were expected, including 10 with pharmacokinetics (PK). Pts received 3 (if progression or complete response) to 6 courses of NVBo at day 1(D1) and 8 every 3 weeks (60 mg/m2 escalated to 80 mg/ m2 at cycle 2) with 1 mg of A daily. Both US (primar... |
RESULTS |
Between July 2005 and June 2008, 60 women were enrolled. The first 58 pts were analyzed: at baseline, median age 64.9 years, median and mean PTD 3.7 and 4 cm, respectively; 59% N1-2(17% N2), with a feasible breast conservative surgery (BCS) in only 12%; 19% were inoperable. The RR was 59% (95% CI 45-71%) by US and 69% ... |
CONCLUSIONS |
NBVo plus A led to an increased RR compared with previous experiences with A alone or not (IMPACT, PROACT trials). The operability rate was notably improved from baseline in this population with unfavorable characteristics and BCS was slightly increased. This combination treatment was well tolerated and pts could benef... |
Fifty consecutive patients with allergic asthma and/or rhinitis in Madison. Wisconsin, were tested intradermally with a house dust extract (1:100) and with a Dermatophagoides farinae antigen (1:2000). The close relationship between the two skin test results (mite and house dust) suggests that both contain the same cros... |
Isolates of anaerobic fungi obtained from the rumen, duodenum and faeces of sheep were identified as Piromyces mae based on their morphological characteristics observed using light microscopy. There was no significant morphological variation among the isolates of P. mae from the rumen, duodenum and faeces. Isozymes of ... |
Purpose: Advanced melanoma resists all current therapies, and metastases in the liver are particularly problematic. Prevalent resistance factors include elevated glutathione (GSH) and increased expression of bcl-2 in melanoma cells. GSH has pleiotropic effects promoting cell growth and broad resistance to therapy, wher... |
1 Author’s Note: I would like publicly to thank the students in my fall 2006 graduate seminar on “Globalization and Democratic Theory” at Indiana University (Bloomington) for a series of lively discussions on Habermas’s writings on globalization. As they will see, they “won” the argument, since many of their astute cri... |
Abstract Rhinitis and asthma are the most common respiratory diseases in children. We assessed whether airway inflammation markers were associated with nasal allergies and self-reported symptoms of wheeze and rhinitis in 130 children 6–12 year old in an epidemiological context. Independent of sex and age, the fraction ... |
For an aircraft flying in atmosphere a BP neural network controller based on the active control technology is designed. The design goal is to reject the influence of a rotary gust disturbance to the normal overload of the aircraft. In order to improve the dynamic response of such aircraft, the active control technology... |
The sharing economy manifesto emphasises sharing underused resources as a means to build stronger communities. This manifesto has however received strong critiques that claim these markets are all about access as opposed to sharing, and that consumers are after utilitarian, as opposed to social, value. Being able to a... |
Prior Upper Body Exercise Impairs 4-km Cycling Time-Trial Performance Without Altering Neuromuscular Function |
ABSTRACT Purpose: This study investigated the effects of previous exhaustive upper body exercise on performance and neuromuscular fatigue following a 4-km cycling time-trial (4-km TT). Methods: Eight recreational cyclists performed a 4-km TT with (ARMPRE) or without (CONTR) a previous arm-crank maximal incremental test... |
The new fifth generation (5G) mobile cellular network brings enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine type communication (e.g. IoT), critical machine type communication and fixed wireless access and will accommodate new services and applications such as augmented reality, and seamless streaming to all. 5G will boost ... |
Repeatedly measured plasma homovanillic acid concentration, as a clinically available index of central dopaminergic activity in a patient with temporal lobe epilepsy during a drug-free period, was significantly correlated with seizure frequency in the week immediately following, but not preceding, blood sampling days. ... |
Purpose of review To evaluate new developments in the diagnosis and management of large vessel vasculitis, and to explore its relationship to atherosclerosis. Recent findings Although large vessel inflammatory disorders (giant cell arteritis and Takayasu arteritis) are the most common form of systemic vasculitis in adu... |
ABSTARCT The efficiency of soaking cotton cv. Giza 45 seeds in five concentrations of salicylic acid and potassium silicate (5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 mg L−1 against Rotylenchulus reniformis infection showed a significant (P < 0.05) improvement in the tested plant parameters that was distinct in soaked seeds in salicylic ac... |
Many emerging data mining applications require a proximity (similarity) join between points in a high-dimensional domain. We present a new algorithm that utilizes a new data structure, called the-kd tree, for fast spatial proximity joins on high-dimensional points. This data structure reduces the number of neighboring ... |
Service semantic annotation is advancing quickly in recent years. However, the task of yielding semantics knowledge becomes a bottleneck of semantic annotation. In this paper, we present a new method for extracting tags from WSDL files and mining semantic relationships between tags. It is foundation of building ontolog... |
High intensity and high quality muon beams are needed for next generation lepton flavour violation experiments. Such beams can be produced by sending a short proton pulse to a pion production target, capturing the pions and performing RF phase rotation on the resulting muon beam in an FFAG ring. Such a solution was pro... |
Many neuroscience studies have found brain differences lead to the gender differences in behavior and cognitive ability. Functional connectivity is a common and effective measure to characterize brain. Most current studies based on fMRI functional connectivity basically assumed temporal stationarity across the duration... |
Summary The sensitivity of RESOLVE data to highly conductive targets is examined. Modelling results from synthetic data across horizontal plates suggest that RESOLVE data detect highly conductive structures, but don’t resolve their conductances and time-constants if those values exceed 500 S and 8 ms, respectively. A R... |
older unimmunised ones should have exaggerated rather than diminished the apparent protective effect of the vaccine. I was careful, however, not to claim that my study demonstrated a lack of protective effects of vaccination to the younger children. I did discover that the only seriously ill infants were too young to h... |
We report the case of a 56-year-old male suffering from acute urine retention after a period of increasing dysuria. Physical examination, TRUS and CT showed the presence of a multilocular cystic mass in the space above the prostate and behind the bladder. Pathological findings following surgical exploration indicated a... |
umber of bins in ression metric” etc., oft, Inc., 2005). improvements value check by pared to the single factors and d orthogonal signs assured that all combinations were systematically tested. Replicates, necessary to estimate the within-combination variance, were obtained from multiple (3...10) , we randomly split th... |
Objectives To provide estimates of the global burden of disease attributable to non-optimal blood pressure by age and sex for adults aged ≥ 30 years, by WHO subregion. Methods Estimates of attributable burden were made using population impact fractions, which used data on mean systolic blood pressure levels, disease bu... |
EX Lup is the prototype of a class of pre-main-sequence eruptive stars defined by their repetitive outbursts lasting several months. In 2008 January–September EX Lup underwent its historically largest outburst, brightening by about 4 mag in visual light. In previous studies we discovered ongoing silicate crystal format... |
A single‐crystal x‐ray diffraction analysis of Boc‐L‐Ala‐D‐aIle‐L‐Ile‐OMe has been carried out. The analysis has shown (a) that the tripeptide molecules have in part an α‐extended conformation, the torsion angles of the L‐Ala and D‐aIle residues being φ1 = −75.1° and ψ1 = −25.8° and φ2 = 67.3° and ψ2 = 44.1°, respectiv... |
James M. Cain and the songwriter Al Dubin were drafted into the army and served on the Western Front during World War I. Both men would go on to play major roles in the making of American popular culture during the interwar period: Cain writing the noir bestsellers The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity, D... |
Learning to play optimally against any mixture over a diverse set of strategies is of important practical interests in competitive games. In this paper, we propose simplex-NeuPL that satisfies two desiderata simultaneously : i) learning a population of strategically diverse basis policies, represented by a single condit... |
The concept of manipulation of the vascular bed to either increase or decrease the number of blood vessels has attracted considerable interest. This review focuses on angiogenesis as a therapeutic target, particularly in the context of cancer and arthritis, as well as on promoting angiogenesis in cardiovascular disease... |
Activated recombinant factor VII (rFVIIa) has been successfully employed to control bleeding in haemophilia patients with inhibitors to factor VIII or IX (1) and in patients with thrombocytopenia (2). It has also been used for the treatment of a patient with abnormal platelet function (3). Until recently, repeated thre... |
Subclavian vein puncture for accessing right heart is a common procedure and is normally considered safe in the hands of an expert. It has been the usual approach for endocavitary pacemaker lead placement since the early days [1,2]. However, subclavian venepuncture is not without complications, starting from mild subcu... |
This study studies Chinese households’ decision between buying or renting a primary residence from a risk hedging perspective. Although homeownership means bearing house price risk, it eliminates exposure to rent risk. Our empirical results suggest that the homeownership rate increases with the rent volatility of livin... |
Chapter 12 showed how to circumvent two major stumbling blocks of the LGCA approach: statistical noise and exponential complexity of the collision rule. Yet, the ensuing LB still remains connected to low Reynolds flows, due to the low collisionality of the underlying LGCA rules. The high-viscosity barrier was broken ju... |
Our understanding of the genetic architecture of iris color is still limited. This is partly related to difficulties associated with obtaining quantitative measurements of eye color. Here we introduce a new automated method for measuring iris color using high resolution photographs. This method extracts color measureme... |
Abstract In a recent article in this journal, Henderson and Phillips (2007) argue that Malaysian industrialization is ‘stalling’ because it is locked into low- to medium-technology operations. They attribute this to an affirmative policy that sidelined the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) capabl... |
For not-for-profit organizations (NPO) that compete on billable services (like most Singaporean hospitals), the nature, importance, and practice of strategy differs little from for-profit organizations. Yet there are few case studies on strategy in NPO or in long term care (LTC), where NPO are state-contracted vis-à-vi... |
Tilapias are among the most important aquaculture commodities worldwide. Commercial production of tilapia is based on monosex culture of males. Current methods for producing all-male fingerlings, including hormone treatments and genetic manipulations, are not entirely reliable, in part because of the genetic complexity... |
The design and implementation of effective systems devoted to the thermal comfort management in a building is a challenging task because they require to consider both objective and subjective parameters, tied for instance to human profile and behavior. This paper presents a novel approach for the management of thermal ... |
Artificial intelligence has the characteristics of system, process and complexity.The current research on artificial intelligence governance capability usually only focuses on specific objects or types, and rarely studies governance capability from a system perspective.In this paper,the concept of artificial intelligen... |
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