OBJECTIVE To compare aerobic capacity of young and adult elite soccer players using appropriate scaling procedures. METHODS Twenty four male adult (mean (SD) age 24 (2) years, weight 75.7 (7.2) kg, VO2max 66.6 (5.2) ml/lbm/min, where lbm is lean body mass in kg) and 21 youth (14 (0.4) years, 60.2 (7.3) kg, 66.5 (5.9) ml/lbm/min) elite soccer players took part in the study. Allometric equation...

Results from a pilot project indicate that isoflavones and exercise could have an additive effect on body composition and clinical risk factors of CVD in postmenopausal women. The objective of the present study was to assess the combined effect of exercise and isoflavones in overweight-to-obese postmenopausal women. In this double-blind randomised controlled trial, 100 overweight-to-obese (BMI ...

While the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has become a powerful numerical approach for solving complex flows, the standard LBM typically uses a square lattice grid in two spatial dimensions and cubic lattice grid in three dimensions. For inhomogeous and anisotropic flows, it is desirable to have a LBM model that utilizes a rectangular grid. There were two previous attempts to extend the multiple...

Abattoir blood meal is rich in nitrogen and its potential as a co-composting material for horse stable bedding waste was evaluated at two C/N ratios -32 (LBM, low blood meal) and 16 (HBM, high blood meal) - to improve the nutrient contents of the final compost. The mix was composted for 7 days in a 10 tonne/day in-vessel composter and cured aerobically. After 56 days ofcomposting, the ammoniaca...

Lean body mass (LBM) encompasses all metabolically active organs distributed into visceral and structural tissue compartments and collecting the bulk of N and K stores of the human body. Transthyretin (TTR) is a plasma protein mainly secreted by the liver within a trimolecular TTR-RBP-retinol complex revealing from birth to old age strikingly similar evolutionary patterns with LBM in health and...

This paper presents a method to simulate the melting and flowing phenomena with different materials in multiple phases. In such a multiphase environment, solid objects are melted because of heating and the melted liquid flows while interacting with the ambient air flow. Our simulation is based on a modified lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), where the fluid dynamics of the air flow and the melted ...

Interaction of epidermal growth factor (EGF) with its specific receptor (EGFR) was explored in the intact rat small intestine and in highly purified isolated enterocyte membrane preparations. Despite the fact that the EGF ligand is known to be present at physiological concentrations within the intestinal cavity, no significant binding of the ligand to the brush border surface was observed. Inst...

We have adopted a numerical method from computational fluid dynamics, the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), for real-time simulation and visualization of flow and amorphous phenomena, such as clouds, smoke, fire, haze, dust, radioactive plumes, and air-borne biological or chemical agents. Unlike other approaches, LBM discretizes the micro-physics of local interactions and can handle very complex ...

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is an efficient simulation technique for computational fluid mechanics and beyond. It based on a simple stream-and-collide algorithm Cartesian grids, which easily compatible with modern machine learning architectures. While it becoming increasingly clear that deep can provide decisive stimulus classical techniques, recent studies have not addressed possible co...

BACKGROUND The required dose of anesthetics is generally smaller in patients with low cardiac output (CO). A high CO decreases the blood concentration of anesthetics during induction and maintenance of anesthesia. However, a high CO may also shorten the delivery time of anesthetics to the effect site, e.g. the brain. We assessed the time required for induction of anesthesia with propofol admini...