PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between CK variability and body composition and muscle damage markers following eccentric exercise. METHODS Total 119 healthy male subjects were recruited to perform 50 eccentric contractions consisted of 2 sets of 25 contractions. Then, blood creatine kinase (CK) activity was analyzed to divide into three groups based on th...

The role of the medical intern or resident has long been evolving. Beginning in the late 19th century, residency was a relatively informal and unstructured system of training. By the early 21st century, residency and postgraduate medical training have evolved into sophisticated, resource-intensive programs, which are now mandatory for licensure in most countries, including Canada. The formaliza...

The convergence theory of the Successive Overrelaxation (SOR) iterative method for the solution of nonsingular linear systems Ax = b, when the matrix A has a block p X P partitioned p-cyclic form, is well documented. However, when A is singular the corresponding theory is far behind that for the nonsingular case. Our purpose in this paper is to extend the p-cyclic SOR theory to consistent singu...

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.), a perennial forage crop with high nutritional content, is widely distributed in various environments worldwide. We recently demonstrated that the sweetpotato Orange gene (IbOr) is involved in increasing carotenoid accumulation and enhancing resistance to multiple abiotic stresses. In this study, in an effort to improve the nutritional quality and environmental stre...

This study presents a synchronized output regulation (SOR) strategy for controlling inverters operating in grid-connected and stand-alone modes. As a concept of networked dynamic systems, SOR involves nodes with outputs that are synchronized but display a desirable wave shape. Under the SOR strategy, inverter and utility are regarded as two nodes that comprise the simplest network. These two no...

Successive Over-Relaxation (SOR) is a method used extensively for solving partial diierential equations by nite diierence. Compared with the Jacobi method for the same class of problems, SOR (of which the Gauss-Seidel method is a special case) ooers faster convergence. All of the schemes of parallelizing SOR proposed require two-way communication between neighbor processors. The number of the m...

Sorafenib (SOR) is a promising treatment for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the precise mechanisms of toxicity and drug resistance have not been fully explored and new strategies are urgently needed for HCC therapy. Meloxicam (MEL) is a selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor which elicits antitumor effects in human HCC cells. In the present study, we investigated the in...

Effects of plasticizer types and whey protein concentrate (WPC) as coatings were evaluated on internal quality shelf life eggs stored for 42 days. Eggs coated with WPC at 8 % solution combined the plasticizers glycerol (GLY), sorbitol (SOR), propylene glycol (PRO). The 20 °C. Weight loss, Haugh Unit (HU), albumen yolk pH, index (YI) weekly from day 0 to After, electron microscopy eggshell struc...