Regenerative capacity appears to be impaired in sarcopenic muscle. As local growth factors and myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) modulate repair/regeneration responses after overload, we hypothesized that resistance loading (RL)-induced expression of MRFs and muscle IGF-I-related genes would be blunted in older (O) males (M) and females (F) with demonstrable sarcopenia vs. young (Y) adults. Y ...

During the last Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), Beijing, August 2009, an international group was founded aimed at developing a "toolkit for MSD prevention" within IEA and in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO). Possible users of toolkits are: members of health and safety committees, health and safety representatives, line supervisors; labor inspectors;...

The IEA Wind Task 30 OC4 (Offshore Code Comparison Collaboration Continuation) project was a continuation of the OC3 project of IEA Wind Task 23 Subtask 2, and was initiated due to the strong interest in continuing the work of OC3. The purpose of the project was to perform a benchmarking exercise of offshore wind turbine dynamics codes. OC4 consisted of two phases that were not considered in OC...