Abstract Timber diaphragms in existing buildings are often too flexible their plane, and can thus potentially cause out-of-plane collapses of walls during earthquakes. A very efficient retrofitting method to increase in-plane stiffness energy dissipation is the overlay plywood panels. However, usual characterization floors by means a general equivalent shear cannot account for nonlinearity diss...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of a community-based aquatic exercise program on physical performance among adults with mild to moderate intellectual disability (ID). Twenty-two community-dwelling adults with mild to moderate ID volunteered to participate in this study. Participants completed an 8-week aquatic exercise program (2 days/wk, 1 hr/session). Measures of physi...

The fully open state of heterotypic gap junction channels formed by pairing cells expressing connexin 32 (Cx32) with those expressing connexin 26 (Cx26) rectifies in a way that cannot be predicted from the current-voltage (I-V) relation of either homotypic channel. Using a molecular genetic analysis, we demonstrate that charged amino acids positioned in the amino terminus (M1 and D2) and first ...

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the effect supervised and home-based clinical Pilates exercises on physical fitness, psychosocial status, exercise beliefs in healthy women. Methods: Thirty-eight women (mean age=29.95±7.16 years) were divided into two groups: group (N=19) (N=19). Physical fitness assessed with modified push-up, sit-up, sit stand, anterior plank, lateral Biering-Sor...

Modified IAI00843-07 Version2 1 2 A recombinant Holo-toxoid Vaccine against Botulism 3 4 Christina L. Pier, William H. Tepp, Marite Bradshaw, Eric A. Johnson, Joseph 5 T. Barbieri, and Michael R. Baldwin*. 6 7 Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin and 8 Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Medical College of 9 Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 10 11 *...

This article explores the notion of ecological sustainability in the context of public health education and the contribution Universities can make in creating environments that include ecologically sustainable practices. It considers the important role of environmental health in building a sustainable future for the population as a central plank of public health. It presents the evidence for th...

5 Authors: 6 Markus Plank, Joseph Snider, Erik Kaestner, Eric Halgren, Howard Poizner 7 8 Departments / Institutions: 9 Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD; Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, UCSD; 10 Departments of Radiology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, UCSD; Co-senior authors 11 12 Abbreviated title: 13 EEG correlates of spatial cognitive mapping 14 15 Corresponding author: 16 Howard...