[Purpose] This study investigated the effects of mid, and high exercise intensities on hemodynamic responses and cardiac events during two exercise types of treadmill exercise (TM) and cycle ergometer exercises (CE) in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). [Subjects] Patients who had percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ACS and were participating in cardiac rehabilitation program...

This study evaluated a new multiplex kit, Luminex NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel, for respiratory pathogens and compared it with xTAG RVP Fast v2 and FilmArray Respiratory Panel using nasopharyngeal aspirate specimens and culture isolates of different swine/avian-origin influenza A subtypes (H2N2, H5N1, H7N9, H5N6, and H9N2). NxTAG RPP gave sensitivity of 95.2%, specificity of 99.6%, PPV of 9...

Relativistic Pseudopotentionals (RPPs) are a new form of relativistic effective core potentials (RECP) that are based on extending the usual two-space representation of atomic electrons (core and valence) to three spaces: core, outer core, and valence. The RPP has embedded within it the so-called small-core RECP, viz., one that relegates the outer core electrons to the valence space. The RPP is...

Given an instance of the Rural Postman Problem (RPP) together with its optimal solution, we study the problem of finding a good feasible solution after a perturbation of the instance has occurred. We refer to this problem as the reoptimization of the RPP. We first consider the case where a new required edge is added. Second, we address the case where an edge (required or not) is removed. We sho...

INTRODUCTION Recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RPP) is a rare benign neoplasm caused by human papillomavirus (HPV). RPP is characterized by recurrent proliferation of the papillomata in the respiratory tract. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS Retrospective analysis of all adult patients with diagnosis of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis admitted to our endoscopic unit between 2000 and 2013 with ...

BACKGROUND This study aims to investigate factors related to suicide in a unique clinical population with more chronic psychopathology than many outpatient samples. METHOD One hundred and five adult outpatients were included in the current study. We predicted that higher scores on the resolved plans and preparation (RPP) factor of the Beck Suicide Scale [Beck, A.T., Kovacs, M., Weissman, M., ...

Cardiac ischemia and angina pectoris are commonly experienced during exertion in a cold environment. In the current study we tested the hypotheses that oropharyngeal afferent blockade (i.e., local anesthesia of the upper airway with lidocaine) as well as systemic β-adrenergic receptor blockade (i.e., intravenous propranolol) would improve the balance between myocardial oxygen supply and demand ...

Employing part-level features for pedestrian image description offers fine-grained information and has been verified as beneficial for person retrieval in very recent literature. A prerequisite of part discovery is that each part should be well located. Instead of using external cues, e.g., pose estimation, to directly locate parts, this paper lays emphasis on the content consistency within eac...

We sought to determine how the aging left ventricle (LV) responds to sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation. Three separate echocardiographic experiments were conducted in 11 healthy young (26 ± 1 yr) and 11 healthy older (64 ± 1 yr) adults. Tissue Doppler imaging was used to measure systolic myocardial velocity (S(m)), early diastolic myocardial velocity (E(m)), and late diastolic myocard...

PURPOSE This investigation aimed to quantify the typical variation for kinetic and kinematic variables measured during loaded jump squats. METHODS Thirteen professional athletes performed six maximal effort countermovement jumps on four occasions. Testing occurred over 2 d, twice per day (8 AM and 2 PM) separated by 7 d, with the same procedures replicated on each occasion. Jump height, peak ...