Design We aimed to evaluate the effect of progressive resistance training on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular strength in coronary heart disease, when compared to control or aerobic training, and when combined with aerobic training. Secondary aims were to evaluate the safety and efficacy of progressive resistance training on other physiological and clinical outcomes. Methods and results E...

This paper considers optimal design problems for the Weibull distribution, which can be used to model symmetrical or asymmetrical data, in presence of progressive interval censoring life-testing experiments. Two robust approaches, Bayesian and minimax, are proposed deal with dependence D-optimality c-optimality on unknown parameters. Meanwhile, compound method is applied ensure a compromise bet...

This paper conducts a probabilistic analysis of an important class of heuristics for multiitem capacitated lot sizing problems. We characterize the asymptotic performance of so-called progressive interval heuristics as T , the length of the planning horizon, goes to infinity, assuming the data are realizations of a stochastic process of the following type: the vector of cost parameters follows ...

External quality assessment (EQA) of D-dimer assays has been limited by a lack of standardized human-derived testing material. In 2006 and 2007, the Quality Management Program--Laboratory Services, Toronto, Canada, investigated the use of commercially prepared lyophilized human plasma spiked with human-derived D-dimer components manufactured by Affinity Biologicals, Hamilton, Canada. Four surve...