BACKGROUND We examined aerobic and anaerobic exercise energy expenditure and excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC) between a 250 Watt, 1-minute bout of cycling and uphill treadmill running. METHODS Fourteen active to well-trained subjects volunteered for the investigation (VO2 max: 57.0 +/- 12.9 ml x kg x min(-1) cycle; 59.3 +/- 13.7 ml x kg x min(-1) run; p = 0.44). Anaerobic energy...

Al igual que la infección respiratoria aguda (IRA), enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) es de alta prevalencia en el mundo, así como también nuestro país. Ambas condiciones están dentro las principales causas morbimortalidad (1-3). La exacerbación EPOC, una hospitalización, puede tener múltiples etiologías (3-5). Actualmente, estamos viviendo impacto socioeconómico y los sistemas sal...

With successful classification of emotions we could get instant feedback from users and increase the potential of affective computing. In our approach, we aim to evaluate EEG device Emotiv EPOC and classify emotions from the data captured by this device. We proposed a method of emotion classification, which we evaluated on an existing dataset. The preliminary results show 37.72% accuracy of our...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Aviation-based crew resource management trainings to optimize non-technical skills among professionals are often suggested for health care as a way to increase patient safety. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of a 2-day classroom-based crew resource management (CRM) training at emergency departments (EDs) on explicit professional oral communication (EPOC; non-te...

Members of the family Embiotocidae exhibit a distinct gait transition from exclusively pectoral fin oscillation to combined pectoral and caudal fin propulsion with increasing swimming speed. The pectoral-caudal gait transition occurs at a threshold speed termed U(p-c). The objective of this study was to partition aerobic and anaerobic swimming costs at speeds below and above the U(p-c) in the s...

Objective: To evaluate the analytical performance of a new point-ofcare blood gas and electrolyte analyzer, the EPOC system. Materials and Methods: Evaluation of analytical precision and method comparison was conducted at the manufacturing facilities and at several locations in a 630-bed tertiary acute care hospital in New England, an intensive care unit, cardiac intensive care unit, an outpati...

The impact of preoperative nutritional status on survival in lung cancer (LC) patients with underlying chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is still unclear. We hypothesized that presurgical assessment may differentially predict mortality resectable LC moderate COPD and relatively well-preserved status. Nutritional [body mass index (BMI), blood parameters including albumin protein level...

Although exercise intensity has been identified as a major determinant of the excess postexercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), no studies have compared the EPOC after submaximal continuous running and supramaximal interval running. Eight male middle-distance runners [age = 2.1 +/- 3.1 (SD) yr; mass = 67.8 +/- 5.1 kg; maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) = 69.2 +/- 4.0 ml.kg-1.min-1] therefore comp...

We present a system for classification of nine voluntary facial actions, i.e. Neutral, Smile, Sad, Surprise, Angry, Speak, Blink, Left, and Right. The data is assessed by an Emotiv EPOC wireless EEG head-set. We derive spectral features and step function features that represent the main signal characteristics of the recorded data in a straightforward manner. With a two stage classification setu...