1.2 Melt Phase System Initialization. Isolated chains in the fully extended conformation were first subjected to elevated temperature (800 K) simulations using Langevin dynamics (damping parameter = 3800 fs, time step = 2 fs). Random conformations were outputted on nanosecond intervals. This protocol resulted in 60 uncorrelated chain conformation for each polymer simulated. These chains were ne...

This study determined if 6-weeks vitamin D2 supplementation (vitD2, 3800 IU/day) had an influence on muscle function, eccentric exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD), and delayed onset of muscle soreness (DOMS) in National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) NASCAR pit crew athletes. Subjects were randomized to vitD2 (n=13) and placebo (n=15), and ingested supplements (double-blind) ...

Objective To assess the cost effectiveness of adding spinal manipulation, exercise classes, or manipulation followed by exercise (“combined treatment”) to “best care” in general practice for patients consulting with low back pain. Design Stochastic cost utility analysis alongside pragmatic randomised trial with factorial design. Setting 181 general practices and 63 community settings for physic...

A new architecture for the Hitachi super technical server SR8000 has been developed. The performance of the SR8000 is 8 GFLOPS in each node, which is a RISCbased SMP, and 1 TFLOPS when up to 128 nodes are connected with an interconnect network. A node of the SR8000 provides a new COMPAS (CO-operative MicroProcessors in single Address Space) architecture and improved PVP (Pseudo Vector Processin...

BACKGROUND Fractional exhaled NO (FENO) is a marker of airway inflammation. For successful use of this marker it is important to have reference ranges from different healthy populations. The aim of this study was to establish these in healthy Tibetan adults who had always lived at high altitude on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 145 healthy Tibetan subjects,...

Extensive studies have been done on mechanisms of acute mountain sickness (AMS), but AMS biomarkers are still little known. In the present study, we used cytokine arrays analysis to identify novel AMS-associated biomarkers in human plasma. Peripheral blood samples from 23 healthy volunteers were collected and AMS symptoms diagnosed using the Lake Louise Questionnaire (LLQ) after exposure to a h...