The objectives of this study were to 1) identify the independent effects of exercise (aerobic or resistance training) and weight loss on whole body insulin sensitivity and 2) determine if aerobic or resistance training would be more successful for maintaining improved whole body insulin sensitivity 1 yr following weight loss. Subjects were 97 healthy, premenopausal women, body mass index (BMI) ...

Our goals in the present study were to test an adaptation of a Cognitive Bias Modification program to reduce anxiety sensitivity, and to evaluate the causal relationships between interpretation bias of physiological cues, anxiety sensitivity, and anxiety and avoidance associated with interoceptive exposures. Participants with elevated anxiety sensitivity who endorsed having a panic attack or li...

A framework for activity classification using inertial sensors mounted on ankle foot orthoses (AFOs) is presented. A decision tree-nearest neighbor algorithm classifies activities using subject-specific training. Eight volunteer subjects wore modified bilateral AFOs with shank and foot mounted triaxial accelerometers and gyroscopes. The AFOs were fitted with hardware to induce different gait pe...

In this paper, we study the sensitivity of CNN outputs with respect to image transformations and noise in the area of fine-grained recognition. In particular, we answer the following questions (1) how sensitive are CNNs with respect to image transformations encountered during wild image capture?; (2) can we increase the robustness of CNNs with respect to image degradations? and (3) how can we p...

Reductions in blood pressure that are associated with exercise training have been hypothesized to be the result of a sustained postexertional vascular alteration following single bouts of exercise. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a decrease in vascular sensitivity to vasoconstrictor agonists occurs after a single bout of exercise and whether this vascular alteration is sustai...

OBJECTIVE To assess performance of radiologists and rheumatologists in detecting sacroiliitis METHODS 100 rheumatologists and 23 radiologists participated. One set of films was used for each assessment, another for training, and the third for confidence judgment. Films of HLA-B27+ patients with AS were used to assess sensitivity. For specificity films of healthy HLA-B27- relatives were includ...

Reduced vessel density in adipose tissue and skeletal muscle is associated with obesity and may result in decreased perfusion, decreased oxygen consumption, and insulin resistance. In the presence of VEGFA, Angiopoietin-2 (Angpt2) and Angiopoietin-1 (Angpt1) are central determinants of angiogenesis, with greater Angpt2:Angpt1 ratios promoting angiogenesis. In skeletal muscle, exercise training ...

In pattern classification problem, one trains a classifier to recognize future unseen samples using a training dataset. Practically, one should not expect the trained classifier could correctly recognize samples dissimilar to the training dataset. Therefore, finding the generalization capability of a classifier for those unseen samples may not help in improving the classifiers accuracy. The loc...