The objective of the present study was to translate, adapt and validate a Brazilian Portuguese version of the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) Questionnaire. The study was carried out in two steps. The first was to translate the DASH into Portuguese and to perform cultural adaptation and the second involved the determination of the reliability and validity of the DASH for the B...

Purpose. Many strength and conditioning professionals propose that postactivation potentiation (PAP) warm-ups enhance power performance although there are few studies conducted in this regard on sprinting. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a PAP warm-up on sprint performance. Methods. Twenty-four men and women completed a 40-yard (yd) sprint pretest on four no...

Both sodium reduction and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet lower blood pressure (BP); however, the patterns of their effects on BP over time are unknown. In the DASH-Sodium trial, adults with pre-/stage 1 hypertension, not using antihypertensive medications, were randomly assigned to either a typical American diet (control) or DASH. Within their assigned diet, participant...

Lifestyle modification can reduce blood pressure and lower cardiovascular risk. Established recommendations include weight loss, sodium reduction, and increased physical activity. PREMIER studied the effects of lifestyle interventions based on established recommendations alone and with the addition of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) dietary pattern. This analysis aimed to ass...

Photolyases (PHRs) and cryptochromes (CRYs) belong to the same family known as blue-light photoreceptors. Although their amino acid sequences and corresponding structures are similar to each other, they exert different functions. PHRs function as an enzyme to repair UV-induced deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) lesions such as a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) and a (6-4) photoproduct ((6-4)pp), wh...

DASH is a realization of the PGAS (partitioned global address space) model in the form of a C++ template library. Operator overloading is used to provide global-view PGAS semantics without the need for a custom PGAS (pre-)compiler. The DASH library is implemented on top of our runtime system DART, which provides an abstraction layer on top of existing one-sided communication substrates. DART co...

Complex visual data contain discriminative structures that are difficult to be fully captured by any single feature descriptor. While recent work in domain adaptation focuses on adapting a single hand-crafted feature, it is important to perform adaptation on a hierarchy of features to exploit the richness of visual data. We propose a novel framework for domain adaptation using a sparse and hier...

Modified 2'-deoxyuridine triphosphates bearing proteinous amino acids at a C5 position were prepared, and their substrate properties were investigated for KOD Dash DNA polymerase during PCR. The modified dUTPs bearing histidyl, lysyl, glutaminyl or seryl group produced the aimed 108 nt PCR products in good yields. In contrast, the analog bearing glutamyl group did not work as a substrate for KO...

The fungal-specific heterodecameric outer kinetochore DASH complex facilitates the interaction of kinetochores with spindle microtubules. In budding yeast, where kinetochores bind a single microtubule, the DASH complex is essential, and phosphorylation of Dam1 by the Aurora kinase homologue, Ipl1, causes detachment of kinetochores from spindle microtubules. We demonstrate that in the distantly ...