them to high dose rosiglitazone or placebo.4 The trial effectively concealed allocation, adhered to the intention to treat principle, and achieved negligible loss to follow-up after a median follow-up of three years. The trial’s primary outcome was a composite end point of death and the diagnosis of diabetes. It was stopped early after almost 1000 primary end points had accumulated because of b...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of hypertrophy-type resistance training (RT) on upper limb fatigue resistance in young adult men and women. Fifty-eight men (22.7±3.7 years, 70.6±9.3 kg, and 176.8±6.4 cm) and 65 women (21.6±3.7 years, 58.8±11.9 kg, and 162.6±6.2 cm) underwent RT for 16 weeks. Training consisted of 10-12 whole body exercises with 3 sets of 8-12 repetitions...

We study one-arm Lévy bandits in continuous time, which have one safe arm that yields a constant payoff s, and one risky arm that can be either of type High or Low; both types yield stochastic payoffs generated by a Lévy process. The expectation of the Lévy process when the arm is High is greater than s, and lower than s if the arm is Low. The decision maker (DM) has to choose, at any given tim...

introduction: the use of multiple cameras for motion analysis and single joint motion is very difficult and needs high technology in laboratory conditions. detection of single joint motion in kinesthesia and analysis of its changes can be done by one camera at one direction. in this study, we present the validity and reliability of a new prototype simulator system used for motion analysis appli...

putative activity of hydroalcoholic and aqueous infusion extracts of echium amoenum l. was investigated in mice using the rotarod model of motor coordination and the elevated plus maze model of anxiety. the extracts were administered intraperitonealy (i.p.) once, one hour before performing the tests. preliminary phytochemical study of the plant, with standard procedures, showed that it contains...