To investigate the relationships between race performance and parameters at the optimal power output for lactate removal, 10 male triathletes were examined. Exercise intensities for lactate removal were defined by calculating 50% of difference (DeltaT) between running velocity (V(r)) at individual anaerobic threshold (IAT) and at individual ventilatory threshold (IVT), then choosing 3 V(r): at ...

The present study examined the performance of pediatric cochlear implant (CI) users on easy (high frequency words from low density neighborhoods) and hard (low frequency words from high density neighborhoods) words on the monosyllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (LNT) and Multi-syllabic Lexical Neighborhood Test (MLNT). The easy—hard effect (the superior performance on easy words compared to hard...

Modeling long-range epidemic spreading in a random environment, we consider a quenched, disordered, d-dimensional contact process with infection rates decaying with distance as 1/rd+σ. We study the dynamical behavior of the model at and below the epidemic threshold by a variant of the strong-disorder renormalization-group method and by Monte Carlo simulations in one and two spatial dimensions. ...

Strict environmental regulations on air quality coupled with a consumer desire for more efficient engines has forced the automotive industry to start developing more advanced emissions aftertreatment technologies. Of the common diesel exhaust treatment methods for NOx removal, Lean NOx Traps (LNT) have been recognized as the most practical for use in small displacement engines. The current stat...

We study the computational power of polynomial threshold functions, that is, threshold functions of real polynomials over the boolean cube. We provide two new results bounding the computational power of this model. Our first result shows that low-degree polynomial threshold functions cannot approximate any function with many influential variables. We provide a couple of examples where this tech...

Our discussion so far has assumed that each agent has quasi-linear utility, meaning that it acts to maximize its valuation vi(ω) for the chosen outcome ω minus the payment pi that it has to make. Thus, a bidder’s utility is a linear function of the payment made. We have placed no restrictions on payments, other than the minimal conditions that they are nonnegative and no more than the bid bi(ω)...

There is strong evidence in favor for zonal flow suppression of the Ion-Temperature-Gradient (ITG) mode turbulence, specifically close to the linear stability threshold. The present letter attempts to analytically calculate the effects of zonal flow suppression of the ITG turbulence through deriving a modified dispersion relation including the back-reaction of the zonal flows on the ITG turbule...

Lipoproteins serve essential roles in the bacterial cell envelope. The posttranslational modification pathway leading to lipoprotein synthesis involves three enzymes. All are potential targets for the development of new antibiotics. Here we report the crystal structure of the last enzyme in the pathway, apolipoprotein N-acyltransferase, Lnt, responsible for adding a third acyl chain to the lipo...

For xed integers k 3 and hypergraphs G on N vertices, which contain edges of cardinalities at most k, and are uncrowded, i.e., do not contain cycles of lengths 2; 3, or 4, and with average degree for the i-element edges bounded by O(T i 1 (lnT )(k i)=(k 1)), i = 3; : : : ; k, for some number T 1, we show that the independence number (G) satis es (G) = ((N=T ) (lnT )1=(k 1)). Moreover, an indepe...