conclusions the two treatment methods had similar effects and there were no significant difference between them, while significant improvement was seen in the experimental groups compared with the control group. background shortness of skeletal muscles may cause musculoskeletal disorders of body; improvement of these muscles may improve posture and body function. objectives the aim of this stud...

It has been reported that triangular-shaped positive pressure pulses applied to the airway (high-frequency inflation, HFI) stimulates pulmonary stretch receptors and prolongs expiratory duration. In the present experiment, changes in the integrated curve of expiratory activity induced by HFI were investigated. Duration until the onset of the expiratory activity (E1 stage) was unchanged. In the ...

We present SiFTO, a new empirical method for modeling Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) light curves by manipulating a spectral template. We make use of high-redshift SN data when training the model, allowing us to extend it bluer than rest frame U . This increases the utility of our high-redshift SN observations by allowing us to use more of the available data. We find that when the shape of the lig...

Eccentric exercise is characterized by initial unfavorable effects such as subcellular muscle damage, pain, reduced fiber excitability, and initial muscle weakness. However, stretch combined with overload, as in eccentric contractions, is an effective stimulus for inducing physiological and neural adaptations to training. Eccentric exercise-induced adaptations include muscle hypertrophy, increa...

BACKGROUND Different types of exercises can help manage chronic neck pain. Supervised exercise interventions are widely used, but these protocols require substantial resources. The aim of this trial, which focused on adherence, was to evaluate two home exercise interventions. METHODS This parallel group randomized controlled trial included 57 women randomly allocated into two groups - a stren...

Objectives—To investigate the eVect of diVerent durations of stretching (five or 15 seconds) on active and passive range of motion (ROM) in the lower extremity during a five week flexibility training programme. Method—Twenty four university sport club members (19 men, five women), with a mean (SD) age of 20.5 (1.35) years, were randomly assigned to one of three groups (two treatment and one con...

Stretch fabric provides good formability and does not restrict the movement of body for increased tension levels. The major expectations a wearer in an apparel are high level mechanical comfort aesthetics. prediction shrinkage stretch is very complex unexplored topic. There no existing formulas that can effectively predict fabrics. purpose this paper to develop novel model based on artificial n...

The authors investigated the effect of physical exercise on reflex excitability in a controlled intervention study. Healthy participants (N = 21) performed 4 weeks of either power training (ballistic strength training) or balance training (sensorimotor training [SMT]). Both training regimens enhanced balance control and rate of force development, whereas reductions in peak-to-peak amplitudes of...

Synthesis of face images from visual attributes is an important problem in computer vision and biometrics due to its applications law enforcement entertainment. Recent advances deep generative networks have made it possible synthesize high-quality attributes. However, existing methods are specifically designed for generating unimodal (i.e visible faces) In this paper, we propose a novel adversa...