The aim of this study was to provide an answer to the question whether and how age, body height, body mass, body mass index and results from fitness tests are related to sport skill level and gender of the participants of the Olympic volleyball tournament. Two-Way ANOVA was used to find the dependency of the variables on the factor of sport skill level (A--teams which took places 1 to 4, B--pla...

Correspondence Intrathecal drug spread Editor—I read with interest the review by Hocking and Wildsmith 1 on intrathecal drug spread. I feel they omitted to mention an important aspect of drug spread that could have a bearing for all blocks. They quite rightly stated that vasoconstrictors added to intrathe-cal local anaesthetic could prolong the duration of a block, although not affect the heigh...

Most of the existing box-counting methods for measuring fractal features are only applicable to square images or images with each dimension equal to the power of 2 and require that the box at the top of the box stack of each image block is of the same height as that of other boxes in the same stack, which gives rise to inaccurate estimation of fractal dimension. In this paper, we propose a more...

1D nanocaterpillar structures were spontaneously formed during the synthesis of fully conjugated poly(2,5-dihexyloxy-1,4-phenylene)-block-polythiophene due to the strong π-π interactions between the polythiophene blocks. With the elongation of the polythiophene block, nanostructures evolved from nanospheres to nanocaterpillars and their length and height increased with good control.

BACKGROUND Corticosteroids interact with neuromuscular blocking agents. However, experimental data are contradictory: enhancement and attenuation of the neuromuscular block has been observed. This study tested the influence of long-term medication with prednisolone on atracurium-induced neuromuscular block. METHODS Sixty patients with chronic inflammatory bowel disease undergoing elective abd...

Our project is to implement an agent that learns to play Tetris in an adversarial environment. The Tetris game was invented by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985. The version we use is a 2-dimensional game that consists of a board with a fixed size and a sequence of bocks of different sizes. Whenever the game provides a new block, the player has a certain amount of time steps to place the block on the boa...

Many plant breeding trials often include a large number of genotypes with possibly no repeated field plots. Ineffective control of field variation could result in an inflated residual variance and/or biased estimation/prediction of genetic effects. Three hundred thirty seven (337) multi-parental spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) F2 hybrids were grown in two locations in South Dakota without r...

Proof-of-Stake (PoS) protocols have been actively researched for the past five years. PoS finds direct applicability in open blockchain platforms and has been seen as a strong candidate to replace the largely inefficient Proof of Work mechanism that is currently plugged in most existing open blockchains. Although a number of PoS variants have been proposed, these protocols suffer from a number ...

We have studied the dose-response relationships for neostigmine and edrophonium during antagonism of neuromuscular block induced by mivacurium chloride. Sixty-four ASA group I or II adults were given mivacurium 0.15 mg kg-1 during fentanyl-thiopentone-nitrous oxide-isoflurane anaesthesia. Train-of-four stimulation (TOF) was applied to the ulnar nerve every 10 s, and the force of contraction of ...

INTRODUCTION Bupivacaine is anesthetic often used in spinal anesthesia in the hyperbaric form (with factory-made incorporated 8.25% glucose), and in isobaric form without additives, (so-called "plain"). Baricity manipulation of local anesthetic is made for the better match of necessary and achieved level of sensor block. Too high block is unnecessary and can compromise the patient's hemodynamic...