This study examines gender differences and laterality in maximal handgrip strength and controlled force exertion (CFE) in young adults. The subjects were 75 healthy young males (mean age 19.6 ± 1.6 yrs.) and 50 healthy young females (mean age 20.9 ± 1.9 yrs.). Maximal handgrip strength was measured twice. The subjects performed the CFE test three times after one practice trial. They matched the...

OBJECTIVE To clarify whether, in healthy individuals, practicing yoga can modify maximal inspiratory pressure and spirometric indices when compared with the practice of aerobic exercise. MEYHODS: A controlled clinical trial. A total of 31 healthy volunteers were allocated to practice aerobic exercise (n = 15) or to practice yoga (n = 16). Those in the first group served as controls and engaged ...

BACKGROUND Catheter-related infections cause increased morbidity, mortality, and health care costs. Infection control experts advocate using maximal sterile barriers to reduce the incidence of these infections. Low compliance rates suggest that clinicians are not convinced or are not aware that available data support adopting this more cumbersome, time-consuming, and relatively more expensive t...

we give a new proof of the well known wedderburn's little theorem (1905) that a finite‎ ‎division ring is commutative‎. ‎we apply the concept of frobenius kernel in frobenius representation theorem in finite group‎ ‎theory to build a proof‎.

some servers are to be located at nodes of a network. demand for services of these servers is located at each node and a subset of the nodes is to be chosen to locate one server in each. each customer selects a server with a probability dependent on distance and a certain amount of benefit is achieved after giving service to the customer. customers may waive receiving service with a known proba...

epilepsy is the most frequnt nearological affiction and afflicts 1% about of the worlds population. currently there is an urgent need for the development of novel anticonvulsants with higher levels of potency and lower levels of toxicity. in this paper, a series of new 6-(substituted-phenyl)thiazolo[3,2-b][1,2,4]triazole derivatives were synthesized and tested for their anticonvulsant activity ...

We consider Initial-Boundary value problems associated with nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation in three independent variables, in a general setting wherein the forcing function is a sum of two monotonic functions. Employing natural lower-upper and coupled lower-upper solutions, we develop iterative schemes which converge uniformly and monotonically to the minimal-maximal and cou...

Let (α, β) ⊂ R denote the maximal interval of existence of solution for the initial-value problem

In this paper, we analyze the evolution of a small-world network and its subsequent transformation to a random network using the idea of link rewiring under the well-known Watts-Strogatz model for complex networks. Every link u-v in the regular network is considered for rewiring with a certain probability and if chosen for rewiring, the link u-v is removed from the network and the node u is con...

We prove that the number of minimal transversals (and also the number of maximal independent sets) in a 3-uniform hypergraph with n vertices is at most c, where c ≈ 1.6702. The best known lower bound for this number, due to Tomescu, is ad, where d = 10 1 5 ≈ 1.5849 and a is a constant.