OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to characterize the kinetics of cardiac output during recovery from maximal exercise in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). BACKGROUND Recent studies have shown that oxygen uptake kinetics during recovery from exercise are delayed in patients with CHF. However, the kinetics of cardiac output during recovery from maximal exercise in CHF has not been ...

  Abstract   Recovery and recrystallization phenomena and effects of microalloying elements on these phenomena are of great importance in designing thermomechanical processes of microalloyed steels. Thus, understanding and modeling of microstructure evolution during hot deformation leads to optimize the processing conditions and to improve the product properties.   In this study, finite element...

Production of highly viscous tar sand bitumen using Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) with a pair of horizontal wells has advantages over conventional steam flooding. This paper explores the use of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as an alternative to the traditional SAGD simulation approach. Feed forward, multi-layered neural network meta-models are trained through the Back-...

6-min walk tests (6MWT) are routinely performed in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Oxygen uptake ([Formula: see text]) kinetics during 6MWT can be modeled and derived parameters provide indicators of patients' exercise capacity. Post-exercise [Formula: see text] recovery also provides important parameters of patients' fitness which has not been extensively investigat...

OBJECTIVES This study analyzed the kinetics of oxygen consumption during and after a maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. The prognostic information derived from indexes of recovery was also studied. BACKGROUND Previous studies have examined the kinetics of oxygen consumption during a short recovery period in a limited number of patients. To our knowl...

In this paper, the pulsed electromagnetic field treatment (PEFT) is designed between pre-stretching and artificial aging of thermomechanical treatment. Using electron microscopy hardness test, effect PEFT on dislocation evolution subsequent behavior spray deposited 2195 Al-Li alloy studied. The results show that although reduces Vickers microhardness specimen, it improves hardening kinetics pre...

Background. This study investigated respiratory gas exchanges and heart rate (HR) kinetics during early-phase recovery after a maximal cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) grouped according to airflow limitation. Methods. Thirty control individuals (control group: CG) and 81 COPD patients (45 with "mild" or "moderate" airflow limitat...

background and objectives: proteases are a group of enzymes that catalyze the degradation of proteins resulting in the pro- duction of their amino acid constituents. they are the most important group of industrial enzymes which account for about 60% of total enzymes in the market and produced mainly by microorganisms. the attempts were made to study the kinetic parameters of protease produced b...

Design recovery, which means extracting design documents from source code, is usually done by static analysis techniques. Analysing behaviour by static analysis is very imprecise. We combine static and dynamic analysis to increase the preciseness of our design recovery process. In this paper we present an approach to collect data for the dynamic analysis by recording method calls during a progr...