Ten right-handed patients with Parkinson's disease and 9 normal subjects performed five different types of movements as rapidly as possible in their own time: isotonic elbow flexion through an angle of 15 deg ('flex'); isometric squeezing of a force transducer between thumb and fingers ('squeeze'); isotonic finger flexion ('cut'); simultaneous performance of both 'flex' and 'squeeze'; simultane...

Renewable energy sources are becoming more important as the world’s supply of fossil fuels decrease and also due to environmental concerns. Since 2003, when the ethanol-gasoline flex fuel car became commercially available in Brazil, the growth of this market has been significant, to the point where currently 40% of the fuel consumption in Brazil is from renewable biofuels. This has been made po...

The development of an expert system for sewage treatment works management SewEx is described. This was built with the flex expert system toolkit. The system allows the diagnosis of problems in sewage sites which are managed by Welsh Water and accesses the surface assets database over a company network. Other uses of SewEx, such as what–if scenarios, maintenance and refurbishment are also outlin...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the efficacy and safety of insulin degludec (IDeg) once daily (OD), varying injection timing day to day in subjects with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This 26-week, open-label, treat-to-target, noninferiority trial compared IDeg forced flexible (Forced-Flex) OD (given in a fixed schedule with a minimum 8 and maximum 40 hours between doses) with...

FLEX is a new cost e ective, \locality aware" load balancing solution for a shared web hosting service implemented on a cluster of machines [3]. FLEX allocates hosted web sites to di erent machines in the cluster based on the sites' processing and memory requirements which are estimated using the site logs. Appropriate routing of requests can be achieved by using the DNS infrastructure, since e...

FLEX is a concept for a fully OH suppressed near infrared integral field spectrograph, being developed at the AAO. FLEX will be the first instrument to employ fibre Bragg gratings for OH suppression, a radical new technology which cleanly suppresses the atmospheric OH emission lines at 30dB whilst maintaining a high overall throughout of ~90%. In this paper we simulate the expected performance ...

INTRODUCTION The use of videolaryngoscopes is recommended for morbidly obese patients. The aim of the study was to evaluate the Levitan FPS optical stylet (Levitan) vs Lafy-Flex videolaryngoscope (Lary-Flex) in a group of MO patients. METHODS Seventy-nine MO (BMI > 40 kg m(-2)) patients scheduled for bariatric surgery were included in the study and randomly allocated to the Levitan FPS or Lar...

FLEX is a user interface to relational databases that can be used satisfactorily by users with different levels of expertise. FLEX is based on a formal query language, but is tolerant of incorrect input. It never rejects queries; instead, it adapts flexibly and transparently to their level of correctness and well-formedness, providing interpretations of corresponding accuracy and specificity. T...

Purpose To evaluate the biomechanical stability of ex vivo porcine corneas after femtosecond lenticule extraction (FLEx) and small incision lenticule extraction (SmILE) refractive surgeries. Methods Forty-five porcine eyes were equally divided into three groups: Groups 1 and 2 were treated with FLEx and SmILE procedure, respectively. Group 3 served as control. A refractive correction of -14 d...