BACKGROUND Phonomyography (PMG) is a novel method to monitor neuromuscular block. It is non-invasive and can be applied to any muscle. It can be used interchangeably with mechanomyography (MMG). The staircase phenomenon has not been investigated for this method or at the corrugator supercilii muscle. The purpose of this work was to determine the staircase effect at three different muscles using...

Abstract It is now recognized that high-temperature superconducting (HTS) technology has a significant potential for future magnetic levitation (Maglev) transit system applications due to the advantages of self-stable levitation, being free electric power and drag vehicle motion, simplicity. This article provides characterization method experimental transport Maglev module developed at Universi...

Frailty has been shown to be an independent negative predictor of surgical outcomes in geriatric patients. Traditional measurements muscle strength and mass are impractical emergency settings, computed tomography (CT)-measured skeletal proposed as alternative. However, the cutoff values for low still unknown, their impact on abdominal emergencies elderly population is unclear. A total 462 young...

Given a familyP 1⁄4 fP 1; . . . ; Pmg of m polygonal regions (possibly intersecting) in the plane, we consider the problem of locating a straight line ‘ intersecting the convex hull of P and such that minkd(Pk,‘) is maximal. We give an algorithm that solves the problem in time O((m + n logm) logn) using O(m + n) space, where n is the total number of vertices of P1, . . . ,Pm. The previous best ...

This paper seeks to determine the factors energising economic growth using balanced panel data between 1997 and 2017 from 44 developing economies. The heterogeneous estimator, namely pool mean group (PMG) estimator is utilised analyse data. We find national leadership, telecommunication technology finance significantly impact growth. Additionally, effects of on are both contingents upon exempla...

This study describes a novel strategy to regulate the metabolic flux for lactic acid production in Lactobacillus casei. The ldhL gene encoding L-lactate dehydrogenase (L-LDH) was overexpressed in L. casei, and a two-stage oxygen supply strategy (TOS) that maintained a medium oxygen supply level during the early fermentation phase, and a low oxygen supply level in the later phase was carried out...

A number of proposals have been made as to how Java can be changed to support parameterized types. We present a new proposal that does not try to provide more powerful constructs or cleaner semantics, but instead minimizes the changes that need to be made to existing Java compilers. In particular, we found that changing only one method in Sun's Java compiler already results in a reasonable impl...

Glycoprotein Biosynthesis, Race Specific Determinants, Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea, Lipid-Intermediates, Tunicamycin, Diumycin Extracellular glycoproteins have been claimed to represent the specificity determinants within different races o f Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea (formerly P. m. var. sojae) specifically infective in different soybean cultivars. Microsomal preparati...