Maximal O(2) consumption (Vo(2 max)) is lower in individuals with Type 2 diabetes than in sedentary nondiabetic individuals. This study aimed to determine whether the lower Vo(2 max) in diabetic patients was due to a reduction in maximal cardiac output (Q(max)) and/or peripheral O(2) extraction. After 11 Type 2 diabetic patients and 12 nondiabetic subjects, matched for age and body composition,...

In applications of graphical models arising in domains such as computer vision and signal processing, we often seek the most likely configurations of high-dimensional, continuous variables. We develop a particle-based max-product algorithm which maintains a diverse set of posterior mode hypotheses, and is robust to initialization. At each iteration, the set of hypotheses at each node is augment...

This paper discusses the new harmonic possibilities enabled through the implementation of Sethares’ theory of the dissonance curve in Max/MSP and its use in a live electronic composition by two of the authors.

The objective of this study was to identify risk markers for attenuated coronary flow velocity reserve (CFVR) that exist in healthy young men without evident atherosclerotic risk factors. Coronary blood flow velocity was measured with transthoracic Doppler echocardiography at baseline and during adenosine infusion in 37 healthy nonsmoking men [mean age, 27 yr (SD 4.0)]. Body composition and dis...

word count: 232 (Max limit = 250) Introduction word count: 678 (Max limit = 750) Discussion word count: 1427 (Max limit = 1500) Non-standard Abbreviations: P-gp, the P-glycoprotein product of the hMDR1 gene; A>B (or B>A), transport across the confluent cell monolayer when the donor chamber is apical (or basolateral) and the receiver chamber is basolateral (or apical). This article has not been ...

Larvae of the mosquito Aedes aegypti have a cluster of four ocelli on each side of the head. The visual pigment of each ocellus of mosquitoes reared in darkness was characterized by microspectrophotometry, and found to be the same. Larval mosquito rhodopsin (lambda(max) = 515 nm) upon short irradiation bleaches to a stable photoequilibrium with metarhodopsin (lambda(max) = 480 nm). On long irra...