Hypertrophy of the left ventricle may be associated with altered left ventricular filling dynamics. To test whether isometric and isotonic training affect left ventricular filling differently at rest and during isometric stress, 38 males, 13 long distance runners, eight weight-lifters, eight hypertensive patients and nine age-matched healthy male controls with a mean age of 30 +/- 7 years, were...

Word reduction by weak syllable omission is a fairly common phenomenon in several populations, including normally developing children, children with Specific Language Impairment, and adults with aphasia. A recent study (Carter & Clopper, submitted) has shown that normal adults reduce words using strategies similar to those used by the above-mentioned populations and that these strategies vary t...

Venous stenosis is a significant problem in arteriovenous fistulae, likely due to anatomical configuration and wall shear stress profiles. To identify linkages between wall shear stress and the magnitude and pattern of vascular stenosis, we produced curved and straight fistulae in a pig model. A complete wall stress profile was calculated for the curved configuration and correlated with luminal...

Abiotic stresses adversely affect cellular homeostasis, impairing overall growth and development of plants. These initial stress signals activate downstream signalling processes, which, subsequently, activate stress-responsive mechanisms to re-establish homeostasis. Dehydrins (DHNs) play an important role in combating dehydration stress. Rice (Oryza sativa L.), which is a paddy crop, is suscept...

Online Social Networks (OSN) are not only a popular communication and entertainment platform but also a means of self-representation. In this paper, we adopt an interdisciplinary approach combining Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and user-generated content classification techniques with a user-driven stress test as applied to a Greek community of OSN users. The main goal of the paper is to stu...

Inserting a screw into a long bone introduces a stress riser that can predispose the bone to fracture. Where multiple screws are inserted this vulnerability may be increased. It is thought that the pattern of screw insertion plays an important part in determining the susceptibility of the bone to stress fracture. In order to study the importance of pattern of screw insertion, third generation c...

The rupture process and tectonic surroundings of the 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake are both complex in a way that might be related to the heterogeneous stress field of the Longmen Shan region. In this study, we construct dynamic models with heterogeneous initial stress to reproduce a kinematic inversion result by Wen et al. (2012) and investigate the physical mechanisms of the variable slip ...