The paper deals with the results of the studies aimed to validate the criterion of prediction of human tolerance to longitudinal tailward accelerations on the basis of structural changes in cardiac rhythm recorded directly during exposure. The experiments have been done on centrifuge with recording the sequences of cardiac intervals at rest and each stage of exposure with successively increasin...

The objective of this paper is to present some recent chronobiological findings related to shift and night worker adaptation. First, some key chronobiological concepts concerning the human species are presented. The authors then discuss the possible impacts of work schedules on shift workers' and night workers' health. Finally, countermeasures that might allow adjusting the workers' biological ...

Given a smooth projective curve X, we give effective very ampleness bounds for generalized theta divisors on the moduli spaces SUX(r, d) and UX(r, d) of semistable vector bundles of rank r and degree d on X with fixed, respectively arbitrary, determinant.

OBJECTIVES To assess the success of electrical cardioversion for the treatment of new-onset atrial fibrillation in critically ill patients and to evaluate the stability of sinus rhythm in responders during the subsequent 24 hours. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Twelve-bed cardiosurgical ICU at a university hospital. PATIENTS Seventy-two consecutive patients with postoperative new-ons...

Durational patterns provide cues to linguistic structure, thus so variations in rhythm skills may have consequences for language development. Understanding individual differences in rhythm skills, therefore, could help explain variability in language abilities across the population. We investigated the neural foundations of rhythmic proficiency and its relation to language skills in young adult...

[Purpose] We compared ankle temporal motor coordination between stroke, spinal disease and healthy elderly groups, and investigated the relationship between motor impairments and gait speed. [Subjects] Twenty-four patients with stroke, 19 post-operative spinal disease patients and 17 healthy elderly subjects participated. [Methods] Ankle temporal motor coordination of the three groups was asses...