PURPOSE Gross efficiency (GE) is coupling power production to propulsion and is an important performance-determining factor in endurance sports. Measuring GE normally requires measuring VO(2) during submaximal exercise. In this study a method is proposed to estimating GE during high-intensity exercise. METHODS Nineteen subjects completed a maximal incremental test and 2 GE tests (1 experiment...

For mobility enhancement through local stress SiGe films are very attractive candidates for the 28nm CMOS technology node. In a production environment the in-line measurements of the SiGe thickness and Ge content become key parameters. Although techniques such as XRD and SIMS are traditionally adopted as reference technique for Ge thickness and concentration there is a clear need for rapid and ...

Although a number of studies have examined the role of gastric emptying (GE) in obesity, the influences of habitual physical activity level, body composition and energy expenditure (EE) on GE have received very little consideration. In the present study, we compared GE in active and inactive males, and characterised relationships with body composition (fat mass and fat-free mass) and EE. A tota...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) glycoprotein E (gE) is essential for viral replication and is involved in cell-to-cell spread, secondary envelopment, and entry. We created a set of mutations in the gE promoter to investigate the role of viral and cellular transcriptional factors in regulation of the gE promoter. Deletion or point mutation of the two Sp1 sites in the gE promoter abolished Sp1 bindi...

OBJECTIVE To examine the blood leukocyte expression of 22 sex steroid metabolic/signaling genes according to female reproductive status. METHODS Michigan Fisheaters' Cohort participants underwent blood collection during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle or randomly in non-menstruating participants. Gene expression (GE) was measured using Taqman hydrolysis probes and quantitative RT-PCR....

Preliminary results are reported of the amorphization of Nb-Sn and Nb-Ge alloys by mechanical alloying of the elemental powders. Nb-25 at.% Sn, Nb-25 at.% Ge, and Nb-27 at.% Ge alloys were made amorphous. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) indicated a crystallization peak at 995 K for Nb-25 at.% Sn but > 1000 K for the Nb-Ge amorphous alloys. A large endothermic DSC peak and the diffractio...

Using electron microscopy and diffraction techniques, as well as first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that as much as 35% of the total Ge atoms in the cubic phase of Ge2Sb2Te5 locate in tetrahedral environments. The Ge-vacancy interactions play a crucial stabilizing role, leading to Ge-vacancy pairs and the sharing of vacancies that clusters tetrahedral Ge into domains. The Ge2Sb2Te5 s...

The paper will briefly review and discuss results of our investigations on the atomic correlations in amorphous Zn-Sb, GaSb, GaSb-Ge and Al-Ge alloys. These semiconductor alloys were prepared by solid state reactions in the course of heating the quenched highpressure phases. Structure of the final products was studied by neutron diffraction for the Al-Ge, GaSb and GaSb-Ge alloys and by transmis...

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is a neurotropic alphaherpesvirus. VZV infection of human dorsal root ganglion (DRG) xenografts in immunodeficient mice models the infection of sensory ganglia. We examined DRG infection with recombinant VZV (recombinant Oka [rOka]) and the following gE mutants: gEΔ27-90, gEΔCys, gE-AYRV, and gE-SSTT. gEΔ27-90, which lacks the gE domain that interacts with a putativ...