Inspiratory muscle fatigue (IMF) may limit exercise performance. A few studies have reported that IMF occurs after short-duration swimming exercise, but whether short-duration running can induce IMF remains unclear. Intra-abdominal pressure is increased during running through diaphragmatic activation to stabilize the spine during movements of the upper limbs. This occurs along with the increase...

The large-scale and continuous monitoring of the ionospheric cusp region offered by HF radars has been exploited in order to examine the statistical location and motion of the equatorward edge of the HF radar cusp as a function of the upstream IMF BZ component. Although a considerable scatter is seen, both parameters have a clear influence from the north-south component of the IMF. Excellent ag...

Background. One of the treatment modalities for facial fractures is closed reduction technique, but treatment with intermaxillary fixation (IMF) interferes with normal nutrition, and malnutrition can affect the patient's recovery. Anthropometric measurements such as skinfold thickness and body mass index (BMI) are universal indexes for diagnosing malnutrition. Therefore, in this study we explai...

The denoising method based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD) can be broadly divided into: IMF extraction method and IMF threshold approach. Aiming to the problems of how to select IMFs in extraction method and the processing of the selected IMFs, a threshold denoising method based on EMD is put forward. In this method, the standard of IMF selection in energy viewpoint is offered, and the IM...

The large-scale and continuous monitoring of the ionospheric cusp region offered by HF radars has been exploited in order to examine the statistical location and motion of the equatorward edge of the HF radar cusp as a function of the upstream IMF BZ component. Although a considerable scatter is seen, both parameters have a clear influence from the north-south component of the IMF. Excellent ag...

The purpose of the present study was to compare a new internal mammary irradiation technique with traditional techniques for locally advanced breast cancers in terms of sparing ipsilateral lung and heart and reducing the "cold" and "hot spots"in breast tissue. The new technique uses wide tangential fields for the first eight fractions of treatment. A medial internal mammary field (IMF) of elect...

Well over a trillion dollars worth of state-owned firms have been privatized since 1980. The traditional argument is that governments choose to privatize in response to fiscal pressures. In this study, the authors examine the impact of IFI conditionality on privatization and find that IMF conditionality, in particular, has an important indirect economic benefit. Investors are willing to pay mor...

Previous reports have suggested that inferior implant malposition following primary breast augmentation is secondary to violation of the inframammary fold (IMF) and subsequent poor reconstitution of the scaffold during the initial surgical procedure. Additionally, inferior malposition may be related to occult weakness at the level of the IMF incision over time. Specifically, in an inframammary ...

Using panel data for 68 countries over the period 1975-2002 this paper examines how IMF programs, disbursed loans, and compliance with conditionality affect the risk of currency crises and the outcome of such crises. Specifically, we investigate whether countries with previous IMF intervention are more likely to experience currency crises. In a second step, we analyze the IMF’s impact on a coun...

We propose an incomplete multifrontal LU-factorization (IMF) preconditioner that extends supernodal multifrontal methods to incomplete factorizations. It can be used as a preconditioner in a Krylov-subspace method to solve large-scale sparse linear systems with an element structure; e.g., those arising from a finite element discretization of a partial differential equation. The fact that the el...