BACKGROUND Over the last two decades, morphological cardiac changes induced by athletic conditioning have been of great interest. Therefore, several studies have been orchestrated to delineate electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography, and heart rate variability (HRV) findings in athletes. PURPOSE To assess the ECG, echocardiography, and HRV in a group of dynamic and static type athletes. ...

Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis Sieb. et Zucc.) is the most important forest vegetation in northeast China. The timber quality of this tree species largely driven by branch growth and distribution within crown. Thus, developing diameter length models, especially those that include competition indices, essential. A total 48 trees were selected to conduct destructive measurements characteristics. T...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the influence of lung volume on dependent lung opacity seen at thin-section CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS In thirteen healthy volunteers, thin-section CT scans were performed at three levels (upper, mid, and lower portion of the lung) and at different lung volumes (10, 30, 50, and 100% vital capacity), using spirometric gated CT. Using a three-point scale, two radiologists d...

OBJECTIVES Vocal cord palsy seen in some patients with multiple system atrophy may result from neuronopathy of the recurrent laryngeal nerve. METHODS Six controls and six patients with multiple system atrophy, four with and two without vocal cord palsy were studied. The number of myelinated nerve fibres were counted and fibre diameter histograms were established for the motor and sensory divi...

BACKGROUND The groin flap, based on the superficial circumflex iliac artery, was the first successful free flap. However, its popularity was lost essentially due to variable arterial anatomy. Clinical applications of perforator flap based on superficial circumflex iliac artery suggest that a dominant perforator based on his deep branch is enough to supply a large groin flap. METHODS Fresh cad...

Our main aim was to study the mylohyoid nerve, but during cadaveric dissections an unnamed branch of the lingual nerve was encountered incidentally. Dissections of sublingual and pterygomandibular spaces on 13 cadavers preserved in formalin showed an unnamed branch present bilaterally in 11 specimens, which had not been identified before in any of the anatomical textbooks. The branch extended h...

Forest resource inventories must include wood quality information to support the optimum use of wood fibre. The objective of this study was to develop models relating maximum live branch diameter (MBD), which affects lumber value, to tree and stand characteristics that can be measured through current and emerging remote sensing technologies. Using non-linear mixed effects models for six Canadia...

Watermelon (Citrullus vulgaris Schard) is a horticultural commodity rich in nutrients that are beneficial to human health. One of the efforts increase watermelon productivity by applying organic mulch and pruning branch. This research was held July-October 2022 at Garden Faculty Agriculture, Universitas Pembangunan Nasional "Veteran" Yogyakarta, Wedomartani. Field experiments using method compi...

In the main part of our study we examined the changes of the retinal branch vessel diameters during dark and light adaptation. We used a "hybrid" technique, using the newly developed Retinal Vessel Analyzer (RVA) to analyze recordings of images made with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) employing near-infrared illumination. Since there have been no previous reports of using SLO data with t...

Root diameter, a critical indicator of root physiological function, varies greatly among tree species, but the underlying mechanism of this high variability is unclear. Here, we sampled 50 tree species across tropical and temperate zones in China, and measured root morphological and anatomical traits along the first five branch orders in each species. Our objectives were (i) to reveal the relat...