Objective: To describe to what degree and in what plane biomechanical alterations occur during the performance of the Scapular Retraction test (SRT) and Scapular Assistance Test (SAT). Design: Laboratory Pilot Study Participants: Eight symptomatic and 7 asymptomatic subjects were instrumented with electromagnetic sensors. Main Outcome Measures: The SRT and SAT were performed with the scapula st...

– The final result of the project is to create a 2D model mine plan based on results geophysical measurements. ERT was chosen as primary method in this due fact that voids and air have very high resistivity (3,3 ∙ 1016Ωm). Voids are well recognizable results. Using Seismic Refraction Tomography (SRT) planned some profiles. SRT rarely used archaeogeophysical research.

Aims: Adverse-effects of psychological therapies are rarely recorded or considered. Sleep Restriction Therapy (SRT), an effective component of cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia, limits time-in-bed and may result in reduced total sleep time. Clinical evidence suggests that daytime impairment may be experienced by patients in the acute treatment period, yet there has been little systemati...

A conventional measure to determine the ability to understand speech in noisy backgrounds is the so-called speech reception threshold (SRT) for sentences. It yields the signal-to-noise ratio (in dB) for which half of the sentences are correctly perceived. The SRT defines to what degree speech must be audible to a listener in order to become just intelligible. There are indications that elderly ...

BACKGROUND The ideal prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling time (PSADT) threshold for identifying patients at high-risk for poor clinical outcome following salvage radiation therapy (SRT) has not been well established. We sought to assess what PSADT threshold is most clinically prognostic in this setting. METHODS 575 patients who received SRT at a single institution for biochemical recurre...

PURPOSE Retrospective analyses of patients with stage I-II thymic epithelial tumors (TET) who were treated with either surgery alone (S) or surgery plus postoperative radiation therapy (SRT) were conducted to evaluate the role of adjuvant radiation therapy (RT). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 110 stage I-II TET patients following complete resection were included in this study. Postoperative...

This study was conducted to clarify the toxic effects of sertraline (SRT) on the reproductive system of male rats and to elucidate the underlying mechanisms. Rats were treated orally with SRT at doses of 5, 10, and 20 mg kg-1 for 28 consecutive days. At the end of the treatment period, sperm concentration, sperm motility, and sperm morphology were investigated by computer-assisted sperm analysi...

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the reliability and validity of the steep ramp test (SRT), a feasible, maximal exercise test on a cycle ergometer that does not require the use of respiratory gas analysis, in healthy children and adolescents. METHODS Seventy-five children were randomly divided in a reliability group (n = 37, 17 boys and 20 girls; mean ± SD age = 13.86 ± 3.22 yr), which per...

Increased diastolic SR Ca2+ leak (J(leak)) could depress contractility in heart failure, but there are conflicting reports regarding the J(leak) magnitude even in normal, intact myocytes. We have developed a novel approach to measure SR Ca2+ leak in intact, isolated ventricular myocytes. After stimulation, myocytes were exposed to 0 Na+, 0 Ca2+ solution +/-1 mmol/L tetracaine (to block resting ...

Increased diastolic SR Ca leak (Jleak) could depress contractility in heart failure, but there are conflicting reports regarding the Jleak magnitude even in normal, intact myocytes. We have developed a novel approach to measure SR Ca leak in intact, isolated ventricular myocytes. After stimulation, myocytes were exposed to 0 Na , 0 Ca solution 1 mmol/L tetracaine (to block resting leak). Total ...