In an experimental study on the changes in descending drive during muscle fatigue, Semmler et al. (2013) investigated intermuscular (EMG–EMG) coherence in elbow muscles after eccentric exercise. They reported a broadband increase in coherence with fatigue in all elbow flexor muscle pairs and suggested that these changes reflect increased common oscillatory input to the elbow flexors. This inter...

BACKGROUND Improvement of appropriate bed use and access to intensive care (ICU) beds is essential in optimizing utilization of ICU capacity. The introduction of an intermediate care unit (IMC) integrated in the ICU care may improve this utilization. METHOD In a before-after prospective intervention study in a university hospital mixed ICU, the impact of introducing a six-bed mixed IMC unit s...

The small outline transistor (SOT) devices which were interconnected with 20 lm copper bonding wire and encapsulated with commercial epoxy molding compound (EMC) have been used in a series of reliability tests which including the thermal shock test, the electrical service life test, and the isothermal aging test. Isolated IMC spots were found at the bonding interface during the thermal shock te...

Current SAT-based Model Checking is based on two major approaches: Interpolation-based (Imc) (global, with unrollings) and Property Directed Reachability/IC3 (Pdr) (local, without unrollings). Imc generates candidate invariants using interpolation over an unrolling of a system, without putting any restrictions on the SAT-solver’s search. Pdr generates candidate invariants by a local search over...

The structural organization and thermomechanical properties of nanocomposites prepared from interpolyelectrolyte-metal complex (IMC) involving anionic polyelectrolyte, pectin and AgNO3, and cationic polyelectrolyte, poly(4-vinylpyridine), have been investigated using the methods of wide- and small-angle X-ray scattering and thermomechanical analysis. It is established that chemical reduction of...

BACKGROUND Delirium is characterized by acute cognitive impairment. We examined the association of delirium with long-term cognitive trajectories in older adults with Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS We evaluated prospectively collected data from a nested cohort of hospitalized patients with AD (n = 263) in the Massachusetts Alzheimer Disease Research Center patient registry between January 1, 1...

A report describing the credentialing and training of stentors in the Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs Stenting Trial (CREST) was recently presented at the 2009 International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association (San Diego, Calif, Feb 18-20, 2009). CREST is an ongoing randomized clinical trial comparing carotid endarterectomy and carotid artery stenting (CAS) in stroke...

Forty-eight Polish Landrace pigs (initially 32.43 ± 0.70 kg live weight) were assigned to a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial arrangement in order to assess the effects of the rearing system (outdoor v. indoor), diet (with corn grain silage v. without corn grain silage) and gender (barrows v. gilts) on performance, carcass traits, meat quality and intramuscular collagen (IMC) characteristics. During the tria...