The paper sought to determine the exercise intensity where the slow component of oxygen uptake (Vo(2)) first appears in decremental work load exercise (DLE). Incremental work load exercise (ILE) was performed with an increment rate of 15 watts (W) per minute. In DLE, power outputs were decreased by 15 W per minute, from 120 (DLE(120)), 160 (DLE(160)), 200 (DLE(200)) and 240 (DLE(240)) W, respec...

We introduce Eigen Evolution Pooling, an efficient method to aggregate a sequence of feature vectors. Eigen evolution pooling is designed to produce compact feature representations for a sequence of feature vectors, while maximally preserving as much information about the sequence as possible, especially the temporal evolution of the features over time. Eigen evolution pooling is a general pool...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to develop a regression model to estimate the heart rate at the lactate threshold (HRLT) and the heart rate at the ventilatory threshold (HRVT) using the heart rate threshold (HRT), and to test the validity of the regression model. METHODS We performed a graded exercise test with a treadmill in 220 normal individuals (men: 112, women: 108) aged 20-59 year...

[Purpose] To verify the identification of the anaerobic threshold through the double product breakpoint (DPBP) method for individuals with type 2 diabetes. [Subjects and Methods] Nine individuals with T2D (7 females; age=63.2 ± 8.9 y) and 10 non-diabetic (ND) (7 females; age=58.3 ± 7.8 y) performed an incremental exercise test on a cycle ergometer. Heart rate (HR), blood pressure (BP) and expir...

Deformations in handwritten characters have classdependent tendencies. For example, characters of class “A” are often deformed by global slant transformation and never deformed to be similar to “R”. In this paper, the extraction and the utilization of such tendencies called eigen-deformations are investigated for better performance of elastic matching based recognition systems. The eigen-deform...

At low background intensities fovea1 increment thresholds obtained against briefly presented backgrounds are mediated by the initial appearance of the background and increment fields. and at high intensities by a short-term hom~hromati~ afterimage. Masking the afterimages shows that the thresholds mediated by the initial image are a ~ntinuousIy accelerating function of background intensity, whe...

Ramp rates for incremental ramp rate exercise testing are not standardised. The ramp rate may influence the values obtained during exercise testing. We compared a slow ramp rate (SR) (3watts/minute) to a fast ramp rate (FR) (20 watts/minute) in 8 fit non elite cyclists using cycle ergometry. We measured peak power ,oxygen consumption (VO2) at anaerobic threshold (AT) and maximum aerobic capacit...

With an increase in mining depth and production, the intensity and frequency of outburst of coal and gas have a tendency to increase. Estimating the intensity of outbursts of coal and gas plays an important role because of its relation with the risk value. In this paper, we described the semiquantitative relations between major parameters and intensity of outburst based on physical experiments....