Background To examine the effects of daily weighted vest use during a dietary weight loss intervention, on (a) hip and spine bone mineral density (aBMD), and (b) biomarkers of bone turnover, in older adults with obesity. Methods 37 older (70.1 ± 3.0 years) adults with obesity (BMI=35.3 ± 2.9) underwent a 22 week dietary weight loss intervention (1100-1300 kcal/day) with (Diet+Vest; n=20) or w...

UNLABELLED The present study investigated the effects of pre-cooling for on- court, tennis-specific conditioning training in the heat. Eight highly-trained tennis players performed two on-court conditioning sessions in 35°C, 55% Relative Humidity. Sessions were randomised, involved either a pre-cooling or control session, and consisted of 30-min of court- based, tennis movement drills. Pre-cool...

In the heat, a positive body heat storage and the associated increase in core body temperature elicit the reflex physiological thermoregulatory mechanisms of sweating and cutaneous vasodilation in order to enhance heat dissipation. However under circumstances where these mechanisms cannot facilitate a sufficiently high rate of heat loss, core body temperature continually rises, and if left unch...

We fitted a halo-vest on patients with a fracture of the odontoid process of the axis and evaluated the effects of conservative treatment on cervical muscular atrophy and the number and type of patient complaints after bone union. Four patients had Anderson Type II fractures and 6 patients had Type III fractures. Bone union was observed in all patients within 3 months after injury. After halo-v...

Building distributed embedded systems from scratch is not cost-effective. Instead, designing and building these systems by using domain specific components has promise. However, in using components, the most difficult issues are ensuring that hidden dependencies won't cause failures and that non-functional properties such as real-time performance are being met. We have built the VEST toolkit wh...

This study was investigated the role that endothelial function and systemic vascular resistance (SVR) play in determining cardiac function reserve during exercise by a new ambulatory radionuclide monitoring system (VEST) in patients with heart disease. The study population consisted of 32 patients. The patients had cardiopulmonary stress testing using the treadmill Ramp protocol and the VEST. T...

VEST is a set of four stream cipher families submitted by S. O’Neil, B. Gittins and H. Landman to the eSTREAM call for stream cipher proposals of the European project ECRYPT. The state of any family member is made of three components: a counter, a counter diffusor and a core accumulator. We show that collisions can be found in the counter during the IV Setup. Moreover they can be combined with ...