The purpose of this study was to compare peak cardiorespiratory parameters during treadmill and cycle ergometry in severely overweight youth. Twenty-one participants from the Committed to Kids Pediatric Weight Management program at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center volunteered. Participants completed peak treadmill and cycle ergometer tests on separate days. In order to exam...

In bacterial photosynthesis reaction center-light-harvesting 1 (RC-LH1) complexes trap absorbed solar energy by generating a charge separated state. Subsequent electron and proton transfers form a quinol, destined to diffuse to the cytochrome bc1 complex. In bacteria such as Rhodobacter (Rba.) sphaeroides and Rba. capsulatus the PufX polypeptide creates a channel for quinone/quinol traffic acro...

A critical feature of the intermolecular contacts that bind DNA to the histone octamer is the series of histone arginine residues that insert into the DNA minor groove at each superhelical location where the minor groove faces the histone octamer. One of these "sprocket" arginine residues, histone H4 R45, significantly affects chromatin structure in vivo and is lethal when mutated to alanine or...

Phage 34 transduces some R factors to Proteus mirabilis strain 13. These transductants can transmit the R factor by conjugation. Transduction frequencies vary from I x I ~-~/plaque-forming unit (p.f.u.) adsorbed (higher than .chromosomal marker transduction) to 5 x Io-8/p.f.u. adsorbed. Transduced drug resistance markers of other R factors were detected only in the presence of resident$factors ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of concurrent resistance and endurance cycle training on physiologic and performance parameters of cyclists. Before and after a 6-week training intervention period, 14 well-trained male cyclists completed a maximal graded exercise test, a 30-km dynamic cycling test with 3 intermittent 250-m and 1-km sprints, and a 1 repetition maximum (1RM...

We discuss deadlock in reference to a simple equational dataflow language, and devise a test (the cycle sum test) which is applied to the dependency graph of a program. We use Kahn’s extensional semantics of dataflow and give a purely extensional (non-operational) proof that no program passing the cycle sum test can ever deadlock. The proof is based on the notions of size (length) and completen...

We introduce a frequency-domain test of time reversibility, the REVERSE test. It is based on the bispectrum. We analytically establish the asymptotic distribution of the test and also explore its finite-sample properties through Monte-Carlo simulation. Following other researchers who demonstrated that the problem of business-cycle asymmetry can be stated as whether macroeconomic fluctuations ar...

sex hormone is supposed to modify pain sensitivity. the aim of the present study was to investigat, the role of 2 adrenergic receptors in nociception using formalin test. formalin test was performed by subcutaneous injection of 50 ml formalin (%2.5) solution into hind paw. animals were divided into 4 groups as control group (intact animal), sham group (received 2µl of artificial csf by icv rout...