Background: Lower body positive pressure (LBPP) emerges for rehabilitation practice tool athletic and orthopedic conditions. However, LBPP may provide an opportunity therapeutic intervention gait training in neurological Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of on ambulation ability, speed, walking endurance, dynamic static balance, quality life individuals with chronic stroke. Methods: Parti...

Minimum Weight Triangulation problem (MWT) is to nd a set of edges of minimum total length that triangulates a given set of points in the plane. Although some properties of MWT have been proved and many heuristics proposed, polyno-miality (and)/or NP-completness of MWT problem is still unsolved. The problem belongs to the few open problems from the book GaJo]. In this paper we present results i...

Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a significant complication and is poor prognostic factor for sarcoidosis. We evaluated various tests of diagnosis and treatment as well as the associations between PH and value of six-minute walk test (6 MWT) in sarcoidosis patients. Methods: This study was conducted with fifty patients with sarcoidosis. We grouped patients according to echocardiogra...

In this study, design, implementation, and power performance analyses of a micro wind turbine (MWT) system are presented. An original permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) that reduced cogging torque was employed as a generator in the MWT. A novel blade form offering better performance at low wind speeds was also utilized for the MWT blades. Power performance analyses of the MWT were ca...

AIMS The 6-min walk test (6-MWT) is used to estimate functional capacity. However, in elderly patients with chronic heart failure (CHF): (i) 1 year reproducibility of the 6-MWT; (ii) sensitivity of the 6-MWT to self-perceived changes in symptoms of heart failure; and (iii) implications for patient numbers required for studies using the 6-MWT as an endpoint have not been described. METHODS AND...

We performed a comparative study to select the efficient mother wavelet (MWT) basis functions that optimally represent the signal characteristics of the electrical activity of the human brain during a working memory (WM) task recorded through electro-encephalography (EEG). Nineteen EEG electrodes were placed on the scalp following the 10-20 system. These electrodes were then grouped into five r...

BACKGROUND The 6-minute walk test (6 MWT) is used to measure exercise capacity and assess prognosis in interstitial lung disease (ILD). Although the 6 MWT is usually considered to be a test of submaximal exercise capacity in ILD, the physiological load imposed by this test is not well described and 6 MWT outcomes are poorly understood. This study aimed to compare cardiorespiratory responses to ...

Microwave thermography (MWT) has many advantages including strong penetrability, selective heating, volumetric heating, significant energy savings, uniform heating, and good thermal efficiency. MWT has received growing interest due to its potential to overcome some of the limitations of microwave nondestructive testing (NDT) and thermal NDT. Moreover, during the last few decades MWT has attract...

Estimates of genetic parameters were obtained from two samples of weights and heights of mature cows provided by the American Angus Association. The first sample consisted of 23,658 records for mature weight (MWT) and 13,012 for mature height (MHT) and the second sample consisted of 23,698 records for MWT and 13,310 for MHT. The four-generation pedigree file included 43,105 animals for the firs...

Given a set S of n points, we show that the length of 1) the minimum weight triangulation (MWT ) of the minimum weight convex partition (MWCP ) of S (TMWCP ) is at most Θ(n) longer than the MWT of S if collinearity of two or more edges is allowed and Θ(log n) otherwise, 2) the MWT of the minimum spanning tree (MST ) of the MWCP of S (Tmst(MWCP )) is at most Θ(n) longer than the MWT of S if coll...