Cheuvront SN, Kenefick RW, Montain SJ, Sawka MN. Mechanisms of aerobic performance impairment with heat stress and dehydration. J Appl Physiol 109: 1989–1995, 2010. First published August 5, 2010; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00367.2010.—Environmental heat stress can challenge the limits of human cardiovascular and temperature regulation, body fluid balance, and thus aerobic performance. This minir...

The purification of 45 KDa EMBP and the production of monospecific anti-serum is described. 45 KDa EMBP was purified by relatively simple methods using ion exchange HPLC (TSK-GEL DEAE-5PW column) and size exclusion HPLC (TSK-GEL G3000SW column). The results clearly demonstrated the speed and simplicity of the method using these columns, compared to previously-described methods for purification ...

The goal of the study was to investigate separation mechanism of selected "essential" amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, threonine, tryptophan, proline, and glycine) and vitamin B6 in hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) with the evaporative light scattering detection. Chromatographic measurements were made on three different HILIC columns: amide-silica (TSK-gel Amide-80), amino...

Abstract: This paper discusses short-term electricity-load forecasting using an extreme learning machine (ELM) with automatic knowledge representation from a given input-output data set. For this purpose, we use a Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK)-based ELM to develop a systematic approach to generating if-then rules, while the conventional ELM operates without knowledge information. The TSK-ELM design ...

This paper gives some known theoretical results about fuzzy rule-based classifiers and offers a few new ones. The ability of Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy classifiers to match exactly and to approximate classification boundaries is discussed. The lemma by Klawonn and Klement about the exact match of a classification boundary in R (2) is extended from monotonous to arbitrary functions. Equivale...

The TSK model introduced by Takagi Sugeno and Kang TSK fuzzy reasoning is associated with fuzzy rules that have a special format with a func tional type consequent instead of the fuzzy consequent that normally appears in the MamdamiModel In this way the TSK approach tries to decompose the input space into subspaces and then approximate the system in each subspace by a simple linear regression m...

This preliminary study aimed to assess skin temperature (Tsk) asymmetries before and after on-court training in elite young tennis players find the correlation between these demographic data, racquet characteristics, pain fatigue variation. Thermal images of nine were taken two a half hours standardised training. correlated age, years experience, weight, string tension, body mass index (BMI), v...

To achieve an effective and safe operation on the machine system where the human interacts with the machine mutually, there is a need for the machine to understand the human state, especially cognitive state, when the human’s operation task demands an intensive cognitive activity. Due to a well-known fact with the human being, a highly uncertain cognitive state and behavior as well as expressio...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the degree of kinesiophobia in patients with chronic pain, to examine differences in kinesiophobia and other pain-related characteristics between men and women, and to examine differences in pain-related characteristics between patients with high and low levels of kinesiophobia. DESIGN Postal survey. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS Eighty-eight men and 173 women with chronic musc...

Accuracy in processing time estimation of different manufacturing operations is fundamental to get more competitive prices and higher profits in an industry. The manufacturing times of a machine depend on several input variables and, for each class or type of product, a regression function for that machine can be defined. Time estimations are used for implementing production plans. These plans ...