The objective of this research was to use a pedal force decomposition approach to quantify the amount of negative muscular crank torque generated by a group of competitive cyclists across a range of pedaling rates. We hypothesized that negative muscular crank torque increases at high pedaling rates as a result of the activation dynamics associated with muscle force development and the need for ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of remote patient monitoring (RPM) on the outcome of chronic heart failure (HF) patients. BACKGROUND RPM via regularly scheduled structured telephone contact between patients and health care providers or electronic transfer of physiological data using remote access technology via remote external, wearable, or implantable electronic...

The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of variability of training on the acquisition of motor skill of closed loop type tracking task using Rotary Pursuit, and to determine if there was a bilateral transfer effect to the non-dominant hand following practice with the dominant hand. Twelve healthy volunteer students (5 males and 7 females, aged 25 to 37) were randomly divided ...

INTRODUCTION Some pathological conditions described in astronauts, such as cardiovascular deconditioning, represent the adaptive response to the absence of gravity and are partially due to the effects exerted by microgravity (μg) at the cellular level. Since endothelial cells are crucial in the maintenance of the functional integrity of the vascular wall, it is noteworthy that we described endo...

Muscle fiber conduction velocity (MFCV) provides indications on motor unit recruitment strategies due to the relation between conduction velocity and fiber diameter. The aim of this study was to investigate MFCV of thigh muscles during cycling at varying power outputs, pedal rates, and external forces. Twelve healthy male participants aged between 19 and 30 yr cycled on an electronically braked...

As the complexity of the examined systems increases and as the data set sizes of the typical application programs grow, it becomes more and more difficult to simulate these systems in detail. Architecture simulators which typically model a system at a very abstract level may take several hours to simulate a second of the execution of the target system , while detailed cycle-by-cycle simulators ...