OBJECTIVE To correlate anthropometric data and respiratory muscle strength (RMS) of normal-weight and obese women. METHODS The sample consisted of 103 sedentary women, divided into two groups: 57 obese and 46 normal-weight women. Waist circumference (WC) and hip circumference (HC) were measured to calculate the waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), and maximal respiratory pressures (Pmax) were determined...

BACKGROUND A previous cross-sectional study found reduced lung function among over weight and obese students in Zanjan city. However, there is no reliable evidence about the respiratory function of underweight and normal weight students. The objective of this study was to evaluate lung function and develop prediction equations in underweight and normal weight female young adults residing in Sol...

RESULTSdAt baseline, patients showed modestly reduced nerve conduction velocities and amplitudes compared with healthy subjects, but all were free of clinical neuropathy. At followup, clinical neuropathy was present in nine (15%) patients. These patients had a more pronounced reduction in peroneal motor nerve conduction velocity (MCV), medianMCV, and sural sensory nerve action potential at base...

OBJECTIVE To examine variables related with publication bias assessment in a sample of systematic reviews with meta-analysis on cardiovascular diseases. DESIGN Systematic review of meta-analyses. SETTING Journals indexed in Medline and the Cochrane Library. STUDY POPULATION 225 reviews with meta-analysis published between 1990 and 2002. DATA COLLECTION Data from meta-analyses were gathe...

This article presents the results of a seismic risk assessment of the bridge network in Charleston, South Carolina and the surrounding counties to support emergency planning efforts, and for prioritization of bridge retrofit. This study includes an inventory analysis of the approximately 375 bridges in the Charleston area, and convolution of the seismic hazard with fragility curves analytically...

In the hiring process at companies, decision makers have underused the methods of the multi-criteria decision-making processes of selection of personnel. Therefore, this paper aims to establish a framework for the selection of candidates during the process of the recruitment and selection of personnel based on the SWARA and ARAS methods under uncertainties. The usability and efficiency of the p...

Several types of weighted-automata models and formalisms to specify and verify constraints on accumulated weights have been studied in the past. The lack of monotonicity for weight functions with positive and negative values as well as for ratios of the accumulated values of non-negative weight functions renders many verification problems to be undecidable or computationally hard. Our contribut...

Green energy projects contribute to sustainable economic development of countries with the employment environmentally friendly production strategies. However, environmental priorities should be examined for this situation. Therefore, priority analysis executed issues while implementing green investment projects. Accordingly, study aims at proposing a unique decision-making model based on orthop...

Oilfields must increase their production due to the current price of oil barrels. The sale these oilfields by big companies enabled new enter exploration and segment brownfields gas through subsea intervention projects. However, projects require specific product development that involves technical requirements engineering department analyze. This research aims apply SWARA-MOORA-3NAG multicriter...

The present study aims to analyze the impact of COVID-19 outbreak resulting in Cold Supply Chain (CSC) disruptions and shed new light on potential opportunities yielded from pandemic. In addition, work also explore most appropriate strategies minimize CSC disruption due repurpose create conditions as they were before CSCs has been analyzed theoretically empirically, considering seven broader as...