Isometric electrical stimulation was delivered to rabbit dorsiflexor muscles at 10 Hz for 1 s on and 1 s off over 30 min, 5 days/wk for 3 wk to induce an increase in muscle oxidative capacity. Stimulation-trained muscles as well as untrained muscles were then subjected to a 30-min eccentric exercise bout to test whether increased oxidative capacity provided a protective effect against muscle in...

BACKGROUND Fresh whole blood (FrWB) is routinely used in the resuscitation of combat casualties in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. However, studies have shown high rates (20%-40%) of transfusion-associated microchimerism (TA-MC) in civilian trauma patients receiving allogenic red blood cell (RBC) transfusions. We explored the incidence of TA-MC in combat casualties recei...

Structures contributing to force transmission in muscle are reviewed combining some historical and relatively recently published experimental data. Also, effects of aponeurotomy and tenotomy are reviewed shortly as well as some new experimental results regarding these interventions that reinforce the concept of myofascial force transmission. The review is also illustrated by some new images of ...

We utilized a metal tantalum (Ta) ball-probe to measure the electrical properties of vertical-aligned one-dimensional (1D) nickel-oxide (NiO) nanorods. The 1D NiO nanorods (on average, ~105 nm wide and ~700 nm long) are synthesized using the hot-filament metal-oxide vapor deposition (HFMOVD) technique, and they are cubic phased and have a wide bandgap of 3.68 eV. When the 1D NiO nanorods are ar...

We consider the problem of transferring data with a xed level of reliability over a discrete time channel whose characteristics vary with time, with a constraint on the average delay su ered by the data and a constraint on peak transmitter power. We assume that the channel state is known to the transmitter at the beginning of each slot, and seek transmission policies that minimize the average p...

Abstract Variational data assimilation requires implementing the tangent-linear and adjoint (TA/AD) version of any operator. This intrinsically hampers use complicated observations. Here, we assess a new data-driven approach to assimilate acoustic underwater propagation measurements (Transmission Loss, TL) into regional ocean forecasting system. TL depend on underlying sound speed fields, mostl...

Wheat, pretreated by 60Co gamma irradiation, was dried by hot-air with irradiation dosage 0-3 kGy, drying temperature 40-60 °C, and initial moisture contents 19-25% (drying basis). The drying characteristics and dried qualities of wheat were evaluated based on drying time, average dehydration rate, wet gluten content (WGC), moisture content of wet gluten (MCWG)and titratable acidity (TA). A qua...

The effects of six particulate metals (Al, Ti, Zr, Nb, Ta and Cr) on cell viability and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity were studied in vitro using two types of osteoblast-like cells, MG-63 and HOS cells. The cell viability in the presence of Al, Ti and Zr was depressed at lower concentrations than in the presence of Nb, Ta and Cr. The average sizes of the Al, Ti, Zr, Nb, Ta and Cr particul...

This is the first of two parts, where we report the structure determination of a novel family of cluster-based intermetallic phases of unprecedented complexity: cF444-Al(63.6)Ta(36.4) (AT-19), a = 19.1663 (1) A, V = 7040 A3, cF(5928-x)-Al(56.6)Cu(3.9)Ta(39.5), x = 20 (ACT-45), a = 45.376 (1) A, V = 93,428 A(3) and cF(23,256-x)-Al(55.4)Cu(5.4)Ta(39.1), x = 122 (ACT-71), a = 71.490 (4) A, V = 365...