conclusions the tsi analysis in patients with cad may be considered an interesting parameter in addition to the conventional echocardiographic parameters during ese. background stress echocardiography represents one of the best possible imaging choice for the diagnosis and stratification of patients with coronary artery disease (cad). however, this imaging technique presents some limitations su...

Fundamental frequency (F0) peak delay (henceforth peak delay) refers to the phenomenon that an F0 peak sometimes occurs after the syllable it is associated with either lexically or prosodically. Although peak delay has been reported for various languages, the mechanism of its occurrence has so far remained unclear. In Mandarin, peak delay has been found to occur regularly in the rising (R) tone...

Wang, R, Hoffman, JR, Sadres, E, Bartolomei, S, Muddle, TWD, Fukuda, DH, and Stout, JR. Evaluating upper-body strength and power from a single test: the ballistic push-up. J Strength Cond Res 31(5): 1338-1345, 2017-The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of the ballistic push-up (BPU) exercise and to develop a prediction model for both maximal strength (1 repetition maximum [1R...

A large sample of daily electricity consumption and pricing data are available from a pilot study conducted by BC Hydro in British Columbia (Canada) of its residential customers under optional time-varying pricing and remotely-activated load-control devices for the four winter months of November 2007– February 2008. We use those data to estimate the elasticity of substitution r, defined as the ...

This pilot study assessed the effects of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and cardiorespiratory fitness on plasma neuropeptide Y (NPY), allopregnanolone and pregnanolone (ALLO), cortisol, and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and their association with pain sensitivity. Medication-free trauma-exposed participants were either healthy (n = 7) or experiencing comorbid chronic pain/posttraumatic stres...

Earlier studies have shown substantial nonuniformity in normal left ventricular (LV) myocardial function concerning both the degree of shortening and timing of shortening. We hypothesized that nonuniform LV function may be related to nonuniform prestretch induced by atrial contraction. Eleven healthy human subjects were studied using MRI myocardial tagging and strain analysis. The amount of cir...

The relationships between 30m sprint time and performance on a non-motorized treadmill test, as well as a vertical jump test were determined in the present investigation. Seventy-eight physically active men and women (22.9±2.7 y; 73.0±14.7 kg; 170.7±10.4 cm) performed a 30-s maximal sprint on the Curve™ non-motorized treadmill (TM) following one familiarization trial. Pearson product-moment cor...

abstract one of the techniques that has been used in different areas of sciences, and probably would be able to simulate complicated process of rainfall-run off is artificial neural network (ann). the purpose of this research is to evaluate the applicability of ann in rainfall- run off simulation and the comparison of the results to those produced by hec-hms model in azam river basin of herat i...

We have calculated r-process nucleosynthesis in a new supernova model, which is driven by acoustic power generated in the inner core. In our results, plenty of actinide and the third peak elements are generated. However, light r-process elements around the first and second peak are overproduced. Our present results indicate that further studies of the r-process in this model are desirable.

Tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) is increased in patients with cardiac cachexia, a condition associated with reduced peripheral blood flow both at rest and after interventions causing vasodilation. By contrast, in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), higher TNF levels are associated with a greater capacity for vasodilation in the arm. To clarify the relationship between peripheral...