BACKGROUND The increasing age of coronary artery disease (CAD) patients and the occurrence of sarcopenia in the elderly population accompanied by 'fear of moving' and hospitalization in these patients often results in a substantial loss of skeletal muscle mass and muscle strength. Cardiac rehabilitation can improve exercise tolerance and muscle strength in CAD patients but less data describe ev...

BACKGROUND Previously undiagnosed diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, and insulin resistance are common in patients with acute myocardial infarction and coronary heart disease (CHD) and might be involved in early restenosis after stent implantation. To evaluate whether markers of insulin resistance syndrome, including leptin, and endothelial dysfunction are related to increased rate of early ...

With few exceptions, the two issues of algorithm design and fault tolerance for processor arrays have been dealt with separately, in that algorithm developers have assumed the availability of complete fault-free arrays and fault tolerance techniques have aimed at restoring such complete arrays by reconfiguring faulty ones. We present the design of robust algorithms that run efficiently on compl...

Assistant Research Scientist, Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&I Univ., Kingsville, Texas; Staff Research Associate, Professor of Soil Physics, and Staff Research Associate, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California. Abstract: Eighty collections of Prosopis have been screened in field experiments for biomass production, frost tolerance, and heat/drought toler...

Single-pass honing is an important machining method for finish of holes, which can meet the requirement high efficiency and consistency holes. Characterization life prediction single-pass tool are necessary to improve accuracy holes honed, especially dimension accuracy. a single layer abrasive with fixed dimension, still remains problematic characterization prediction. For fuel injection nozzle...

Maternal obesity in women is increasing worldwide. The objective of this study was to evaluate differences in adipose tissue metabolism and function in adult male offspring from obese and control fed mothers subjected to an ad libitum feeding challenge. We developed a model in which obese ewes were fed 150% of feed provided for controls from 60 days before mating to term. All ewes were fed to r...

Studies conducted by the Cambridge Radio Observatory Committee during the past two years show that a large steerable telescope can be constructed at lower cost and with higher precision if the antenna is protected from the environment by a radome. These studies also indicate that the extremely high pointing precision (10 arc-sec) needed to make effective use of a large aperture at wavelengths a...

Treatment options for eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) include drugs, diets and esophageal dilation. Esophageal dilation can be performed using either through-the-scope balloons or wire-guided bougies. Dilation can lead to long-lasting symptom improvement in EoE patients presenting with esophageal strictures. Esophageal strictures are most often diagnosed when the 8- to 9-mm outer diameter adult ...