Exercise training increases skeletal muscle expression of metabolic proteins improving the oxidative capacity. Adaptations in skeletal muscle by pharmacologically induced activation of 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) are dependent on the AMPKα2 subunit. We hypothesized that exercise training-induced increases in exercise capacity and expression of metabolic proteins, as well as acute exe...

Genomic signal processing (GSP) refers to the use of digital signal processing (DSP) tools for analyzing genomic data such as DNA sequences. A possible application of GSP that has not been fully explored is the computation of the distance between a pair of sequences. In this work we present GAFD, a novel GSP alignment-free distance computation method. We introduce a DNA sequence-to-signal mappi...

In this paper we consider the minimal energy problem on the sphere S for Riesz potentials with external …elds. Fundamental existence, uniqueness, and characterization results are derived about the associated equilibrium measure. The discrete problem and the corresponding weighted Fekete points are investigated. As an application we obtain the separation of the minimal senergy points for d 2 < s...

Supported in part by a CGAT (Canadian Genome Analysis and Technology) grant. Work done while the author was at McMaster University and University of Waterloo. Supported in part by NSF grant 9205982 and CGAT. Supported in part by NSERC Operating Grant OGP0046613 and CGAT. Supported in part by the NSERC Operating Grant OGP0046506 and CGAT. Supported in part by CGAT and NSERC Internation Fellowshi...

The aim of this study was to develop a new application based on the "individual distances" method to analyse swimming races, and to compare it with the traditional "fixed distances" method. One hundred and seventy-nine national level 100 m (four strokes) performances obtained from the 2008 "Open Comunidad de Madrid" (Spain) were analysed using a two-dimensional Direct Linear Transformation (2D-...

In this contribution, I review the current observational evidence for the existence of filaments of Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (WHIM). In particular, I first focus on the controversial issue of the identification of the z ∼ 0 highly ionized far-ultraviolet (i.e. OVI) and X-ray (i.e. OVII, OVIII and NeIX) absorbers with either a very tenuous and diffuse WHIM filament, or with much denser cond...

We study a one-dimensional innnite system of particles driven by a constant positive force F which acts only on the leftmost particle and which is regarded as the tracer particle. All other particles are eld neutral, do not interact among themselves, and independently of each other with probability 0 < p 1 are either perfectly inelastic and "stick" to the t.p. after the rst collision, or with p...

The image motion eld for an observer moving through a static environment de pends on the observer s translational and rotational velocities along with the distances to surface points Given such a motion eld as input we have recently introduced sub space methods for the recovery of the observer s motion and the depth structure of the scene This class of methods involve splitting the equations de...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of shear stress (SS) in plaque regression. BACKGROUND A condition favorable to the development of atherosclerotic lesions is low oscillating SS. In the descending thoracic aorta, the relationship between plaque distribution and SS has never been characterized. The regression of plaque as the result of lipid-lowering therapy is a...