Dysfunction of hip stabilizing muscles such as quadratus femoris (QF) is identified as a potential source of lower extremity injury during functional tasks like running. Despite these assumptions, there are currently no electromyography (EMG) data that establish the burst activity profile of QF during any functional task like walking or running. The objectives of this study were to characterize...

UNLABELLED The objective is to find a practical balance between quality and performance for daily high volume whole slide imaging. We evaluated whole slide images created by various scanners at different compression factors to determine the best suitable quality factor (QF) needed for pathological images of special stains. METHOD We scanned two sets of eight special stains slides each at 0.50...

. . l 'be&t imd~in i te~ard~en~th (FWL) state-space digital comp&satordesign~r~b lem is investigated. Instead of the usual sensitivity measure, it h argued that it may be desirable to mini&e a frequency weighted sensitivity measure over all similarity bmformations. The set of optimal realizations minimizing this weighted sensitivity b completely chaacterized, and an algorithm is proposed to fin...

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Using data collected from six basins located across two hydrologically contrasting agricultural catchments, this study investigated whether transport metrics alone provide better estimates of storm phosphorus (P) loss from basins than critical source area (CSA) metrics which combine source factors as well. Concentrations and loads of P in quickflow (QF) were measured at basin outlets during fou...

The age-related decrease in human skeletal muscle mass; i.e. sarcopenia, has received much attention, but an age-related increase in the ratio of adipose tissue to muscle tissue has received noticeably less. A few studies have shown that ultrasonographic echo intensity, an index of the adipose-to-muscle ratio, is negatively associated with functional capacity, but the best parameters by which t...

Queso fresco (QF) is a handmade cheese consumed and produced in Latin America. In Mexico, QF production is associated with a microbiological risk. The aim of the study was to determine the incidence and characterization of Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp., and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in QF from retail markets of the north-western State of Sinaloa, Mexico, and to ass...

We assessed the efficacy and tolerance of switching to monotherapy with quetiapine fumarate (QF) in treatmentresistant schizophrenia with other antipsychotics, including atypical ones. QF treatment was maintained for 8 weeks. The PANSS scores improved at least 40% over this period. QF was well tolerated without the presence of serious adverse effects. Switching to QF in these patients may there...

BACKGROUND The quadratus femoris (QF) muscle is a possible source of lower buttock pain as evidenced by what is known about the pathophysiology of ischiofemoral impingement syndrome. However, there are few reports about the interventional management of the QF muscle as a pain generator. OBJECTIVE To describe an ultrasound-guided QF muscle injection technique in patients with lower buttock pai...

After fixing a marking (V,W ) of a quasi-Fuchsian punctured torus group G, the complex length λV and the complex twist τV,W parameters define a holomorphic embedding of the quasi-Fuchsian space QF of punctured tori into C2. It is called the complex Fenchel-Nielsen coordinates of QF . For c ∈ C, let Qγ,c be the affine subspace of C2 defined by the linear equation λV = c. Then we can consider the...