Previous isolated muscle studies examining the effects of ageing on contractility have used isometric protocols, which have been shown to have poor relevance to dynamic muscle performance in vivo. The present study uniquely uses the work-loop technique for a more realistic estimation of in vivo muscle function to examine changes in mammalian skeletal muscle mechanical properties with age. Measu...

Aspirin administration to normal subjects resulted in a reduction in gastric prostaglandin E (PGE) output. Both PGE concentration and gastric juice volume were decreased. Gastric acid output also decreased, although the difference was not statistically significant. An increased sensitivity of the PGE system to inhibition by aspirin at 11 p.m., midnight, and 1am was observed.

surgery is often complicated by profound hypotension (mean arterial pressure [MAP] ≤70 mm Hg). Often, shock after cardiotomy is associated with low cardiac output syndrome (also termed low-output heart failure). These patients are best treated with volume resuscitation, afterload reduction, and inotropic support. However, some patients remain hypotensive because of systemic vasodilation. Recent...

Lattice reduction algorithms have numerous applications in number theory, algebra, as well as in cryptanalysis. The most famous algorithm for lattice reduction is the LLL algorithm. In polynomial time it computes a reduced basis with provable output quality. One early improvement of the LLL algorithm was LLL with deep insertions (DeepLLL). The output of this version of LLL has higher quality in...

This paper presents Simultaneous variation and control of the output voltage and frequency, reduction in the harmonic components in load currents. These inherent features have to be employed in many industrial applications such as variable speed drives, uninterruptible power supplies and other power conversion systems. However, the reduction of the harmonic components in output currents and vol...

In this study a directional output distance function which incorporates both desirable and undesirable output is employed to investigate the impact of privatization experienced by the Taiwan Motor Transport Company (TMTC). For the first time, we measure efficiency changes before and after privatization while treating transport risk as a joint but undesirable output. The empirical results demons...

The effects of substituting an infusion of salbutamol for isoprenaline were studied in 12 patients needing circulatory support after valve replacement surgery. The cardiac output rose while the heart rate remained unaltered. There was a reduction in systemic vascular resistance, and though the oxygen uptake tended to rise the increase in cardiac output was proportionately greater so that the ar...

This paper presents an approach to reduction noise of speech voice commanded automatic wheel chair using a technique based on the fuzzy ARTMAP neural network (FAMNN). The measurable output noisy speech with 5dB, 1dB, -1dB, -5dB and -10dB SNR level is obtained as the contaminated signal of the interference to compare with the output data of the filter. The white noise source is acquired as the i...

This paper presents an integrated approach to the modeling and control of aircraft with flexible wings. The coupled aircraft rigid body dynamics with a high-order elastic wing model can be represented in a finite dimensional state-space form. Given a set of desired output covariance, a model reduction process is performed by using the weighted Modal Cost Analysis (MCA). A dynamic output feedbac...