Exercise tests are important to characterise chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients and predict their prognosis, but are often not available outside of rehabilitation or research settings. Our aim was to assess the predictive performance of the sit-to-stand and handgrip strength tests. The prospective cohort study in Dutch and Swiss primary care settings included a broad spectrum of pat...

. We introduce two novel procedures to test the nullity of the slope function in the functional linear model with real output. The test statistics combine multiple testing ideas and random projections of the input data through functional Principal Component Analysis. Interestingly, the procedures are completely datadriven and do not require any prior knowledge on the smoothness of the slope nor...

Electroretinography (ERG) is an established diagnostic technique in clinical ophthalmology and provides objective information about retinal function. This technique is also applied in basic research, where animal models of hereditary retinopathies have significantly contributed to our understanding of the composition of ERG responses in general and how retinal degenerative pathologies alter ret...

The analysis how the functional fault tests detect structural faults at gate-level shows that the stuck-at fault coverage is much higher than transition fault coverage. The aim of the paper is to discover the reasons of this phenomenon and to propose the techniques of functional delay test quality improvement. We suggest, by transformation of pin pair test into functional delay test, to use var...

The testing phase is becoming the most crucial part of the overall design process, which delays the timeto-market of the digital devices. In order to reduce the complexity of test generation and to decrease the time-tomarket, one needs to begin the test design at higher levels of abstraction. In this paper a new approach for functional delay test enrichment is described. The test enrichment pro...

Cardiovascular disease is the most prevalent disease mainly in the Western society and becoming the leading cause of death worldwide. Standard methods by which healthcare providers screen for cardiovascular disease have only minimally reduced the burden of disease while exponentially increasing costs. As such, more specific and individualized methods for functionally assessing cardiovascular th...

In most software cost estimation models, software size is the key cost driver. Such models use either a technical measure of software size, based on lines of code, or alternatively a functional size measure which can be known earlier in the software life cycle. However, even though Function Points is the most widely used functional size measure in the MIS domain, practitioners have often pointe...

background: parkinson's disease as a progressive disorder of the nervous system leads to the disability of postural control system. objectives: in the present study the effects of pilates exercises on functional balance in patients with parkinson's was investigated. materials and methods: this control trial included 30 patients with idiopathic parkinson's disease who were selecte...

objectives: falling in the elderly is common and dynamic balance has direct effect abstract  on it. therefore, we decided to study the effect of functional training on dynamic balance in healthy elderly women. methods & materials: thirty healthy elderly women were purposefully selected as subjects and then randomly divided into two equal groups (control and experimental groups). the dynamic bal...

The aims of the present study were to investigate the shape and strength of the force-velocity relationships observed in different functional movement tests and explore the parameters depicting force, velocity and power producing capacities of the tested muscles. Twelve subjects were tested on maximum performance in vertical jumps, cycling, bench press throws, and bench pulls performed against ...