Many exercise protocols are in use in clinical cardiology, but no single test is applicable to the wide range of patients' exercise capacity. A new protocol was devised that starts at a low workload and increases by 15% of the previous workload every minute. This is the first protocol to be based on exponential rather than linear increments in workload. The new protocol (standardised exponentia...

In a previous report by Kennedy and Speck (1955), it was shown that the addition of corn steep liquor to milk stimulated the growth of several species of lactic acid bacteria. Additional studies (Kennedy et al., 1955) have shown the stimulatory factor to be different from other stimulatory factors reported for the lactic acid organisms. These investigators also observed that corn steep appeared...

In this work, the effects of medium composition and fermentation parameters on the simultaneous production of mycelial biomass and exopolymer by medicinal mushroom Hericium erinaceus CZ-2 were investigated in shake flask cultures using one-factor-at-a-time method and orthogonal array design. Results showed that the most suitable carbon, nitrogen, mineral sources, and cofactors for the mycelial ...