The Hoffmann reflex has been the tool most commonly used in exercise studies to investigate modulations in spinal excitability. However, the evolution of electromyographic responses with the increase in stimulation intensity has rarely been assessed when the muscle is active. The purpose of this study was thus to identify that part of the recruitment curve at which the investigation of the Hoff...

An increase of the serum uric acid concentration of pregnant women can indicate an EPH gestosis with a high risk. Above a uric acid level of 270 mumol/l (and of 315 mumol/l after the 32nd. week of pregnancy) and gestosis has become moderate. An increased risk for mother and fetus must then be assumed. This decision point is estimated by comparing three techniques: The ROC-curve-method and the d...

— We investigate unramified coverings of algebraic curves over a finite field, specially in relation with maximal curves and the question whether maximal curves are covered by the Hermitian curve. Résumé (Sur les revêtements non-ramifiés des courbes maximales). — Nous étudions les revêtements non-ramifiés de courbes algébriques sur un corps fini, en particulier de courbes maximales. Nous nous p...

We show that a F q 2-maximal curve of genus q(q − 3)/6 in characteristic three is unique up to F q 2-isomorphism unless an unexpected situation occurs.

This study was designed to investigate the effects of tangerine, orange, and grapefruit juice on the pharmacokinetic pattern of cyclosporine A in rats. Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into four groups to receive water, orange, tangerine, or grapefruit juices respectively. Water or juices (10 ml/kg) were given orally twice a day for 3 days. Three hours after the 5th dose, cyclosporin...

A family of maximal curves is investigated that are all quotients of the Hermitian curve. These curves provide examples of curves with the same genus, the same automorphism group and in some cases the same order sequence of the linear series associated to maximal curves, but that are not isomorphic. Dedicated with affection to Zhe-Xian Wan on the occasion of his 80-th birthday

Building on our earlier results on tropical independence and shapes of divisors in tropical linear series, we give a tropical proof of the maximal rank conjecture for quadrics. We also prove a tropical analogue of Max Noether’s theorem on quadrics containing a canonically embedded curve, and state a combinatorial conjecture about tropical independence on chains of loops that implies the maximal...

Let C be a general curve of genus g, embedded in Pr via a general linear series of degree d. In this paper, we prove the Maximal Rank Conjecture, which determines the Hilbert function of C ⊂ Pr.

For each proper divisor d of (q − √q + 1), q being a square power of a prime, maximal curves Fq-covered by the Hermitian curve of genus 1 2 ( q− √ q+1 d − 1) are constructed.

The existence of a dense linear manifold of holomorphic functions on a Jordan domain having except for zero maximal cluster set along any curve tending to the boundary with nontotal oscillation value set is shown.