The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of a new stair sprinting power (SSP) test and, in addition, develop norms for college-age students. Two hundred twenty-seven college-age volunteers participated in the study (ages: males, [Latin capital letter X with macron above] = 21.6 +/- 2.264 years; females, [Latin capital letter X with macron above] = 22.3 +/- 4.214 yea...

The object of this study is to present our experience in dealing with coarctation of the aorta and to discuss policy in the management of individual patients who have widely varying ages and symptoms, sometimes complicated by additional lesions. Surgical treatment, which is on a national basis, was developed rather hesitantly at first, but is now practised with confidence. Forty-four cases have...

OBJECTIVE To examine how autonomy and pubertal status explain age decreases in maternal involvement in type 1 diabetes management across adolescence, how they relate to metabolic control, and the reasons that guide declines in maternal involvement. METHODS One hundred twenty-seven children ages 10-15 years with type 1 diabetes and their mothers participated. Data included maternal and child r...

Utterances of two adults males were analyzed and synthesized by a fast Fourier Transforms method. Each of the two voices was synthesized in each of the twenty-seven combinations of three levels each of rate, mean FO, and variance of FO (a total of fifty-four "voices" generated from two). The effects of the rate, mean FO, and variance of FO manipulations, the interactive effects of rate and vari...

In January of 1997, Health Level Seven (HL7) began developing Version 3.0 of its standard. The Version 3 effort represents a transformation of the way that HL7 and its Technical Committees will develop future HL7 information interchange standards. This transformation involves applying object-oriented modelling to the development and specification of information interchange standards. This paper...

Vesicles composed of a phosphatidylethanolamine derivative with a cyclopropyl-containing interfacial region are twenty-seven times less permeable than vesicles composed of a closely related analogue.

In this paper we address the problem of projective reconstruction of structure and motion given only image data. In particular we investigate three novel minimal combinations of points and lines over three views, and give complete solutions and reconstructionmethods for two of these cases: “four points and three lines in three views”, and “two points and six lines in three views”. We show that ...

were improved but twenty-seven (30%/) were no better. Patients with a well-functioning gallbladder, demonstrated radiologically, were relieved significantly more often than those with a poor or non-functioning gallbladder. Fatty food precipitated the symptoms in the majority of patients. These figures suggest that there is neither a direct causal relationship between gallstones and flatulent dy...

Saliency refers to the character of an object standing out, hence easily capturing someone’s attention. This concept, when applied to music, can be interpreted in a way that a highly salient instrument sound will more likely draw a listener’s attention than other concurrent instruments. That is, we might expect in turn that a highly salient instrument timbre will be more easily identified from ...