INTRODUCTION Maximum oxygen consumption shows the maximum oxygen rate of muscle oxygenation that is acceptable in many cases, to measure the fitness between person and the desired job. Given that medical emergencies are important, and difficult jobs in emergency situations require people with high physical ability and readiness for the job, the aim of this study was to evaluate the maximum oxyg...

A famous “curious identity” of Wallis gives a representation of the constant π in terms of a simply structured infinite product of fractions. Sondow and Yi [Amer. Math. Monthly 117 (2010), 912-917] identified a general scheme for evaluating Wallis-type infinite products. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss an interpretation of the scheme by means of Pólya urn models.

BACKGROUND The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the microindentation hardness and chemical composition of residual dentin left at the cavity bottom following removal of carious dentin using the Carisolv chemomechanical and Er:YAG laser caries excavation methods in comparison with the conventional tungsten-carbide bur excavation. METHODS Sixty-nine extracted permanent teeth with occl...

Objective Contralateral suppression of oto acoustic emission (OAE) is referred as activation of efferent system. Previous literature mentioned about the importance of contralateral suppression of OAEs as a tool to assess efferent system in different groups of population. There is dearth of literature to explore the efferent system function in experienced musicians exposed to rock music using TE...

RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY B type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a hormone released in response to stretching of the ventricular wall. The role of BNP as a biomarker of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) has not been clarified. OBJECTIVE To determine if plasma BNP concentrations correlate with the severity of BPD. METHODS This prospective observational case control study included 60 preterm infant...

We give a short new proof of a version of the Kruskal-Katona theorem due to Lovász. Our method can be extended to a stability result, describing the approximate structure of configurations that are close to being extremal, which answers a question of Mubayi. This in turn leads to another combinatorial proof of a stability theorem for intersecting families, which was originally obtained by Fried...