Research was conducted to determine if a relation exists between human exertion and the ability of speech recognition software to correctly recognize human speech. Participants were asked to use voice recognition technology to input a short newspaper article in 3 portions. 1 portion of the selected article was read while the participants were rested, another portion while they were lightly exer...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate new fusiform muscle models. Each of these models treats a muscle as a system composed of parts characterized by different mechanical properties. These models explain the influence of differences in the stiffness of lateral parts and the degree of muscle model discretization. Each muscle model is described by a system of differential equations and a si...

This study assessed the nature of the perceived exertion response to treadmill running in 14 healthy 7-8 year-old children, using the Eston-Parfitt (E-P) Ratings of Perceived Exertion (RPE) scale and a marble dropping task. For the E-P scale and the marble dropping task, the relationships between the RPE and work rate were best described as linear (R2 = .96) and curvilinear (R2 = .94), respecti...

The ratings of perceived exertion are a widely accepted measure of quantifying, monitoring and regulating exercise intensity. A critical review of the perceived exertion literature since 2000 provides a useful insight into the concepts and themes that have featured prominently in the literature. In this regard, five main themes of enquiry concerning perceived exertion have emerged. These includ...

Six generations of RPC systems can be distinguished including Federated Method Invocation presented in this paper. Some of them—CORBA, Java RMI, and Web/OGSA services—support distributed objects. However, creating object wrappers implementing remote interfaces doesn’t have a great deal to do with object-oriented distributed programming. Distributed objects developed that way are usually ill-str...

BACKGROUND It is known that exertion can aggravate migraine headache. However, the relationship between exertion and migraine aura is unknown. OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between exertion and migraine aura. DESIGN Case report. SETTING Tertiary care hospital. PATIENT A 67-year-old man presented with recurrent attacks of exertion-induced hemiplegic migraine. Since the hemiparetic ...