UNLABELLED In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) the changes in respiratory thoracoabdominal mechanics result from both hyperinflation and functional and structural skeletal muscle alterations. AIM Evaluation of the particularities of respiratory movement in COPD and identification of inter-relations between respiratory thoraco-abdominal mechanics and clinical and functional respira...

AND GEOFFREY B. MCFADDEN5 Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030-4422, USA Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsbur...

a Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto, 100 St. George St., Room 5047, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3G3 b Tartu Observatory, Tõravere, 61602 Estonia c Department of Geography and Environment & Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University, 675 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA d Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences Department, University of Massachusetts ...

Curtis J. Broadbent,1,2,3 Kevin Marshall,4 Christian Weedbrook,5 and John C. Howell2,3 1Rochester Theory Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA 2Center for Coherence and Quantum Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA 4Department of Physics, University o...

Retrieval of forest chlorophyll content using canopy structure parameters derived from multi-angle data: the measurement concept of combining nadir hyperspectral and off-nadir multispectral data Anita Simic a , Jing M. Chen a & Thomas L. Noland b a Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada b Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario...

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTROL AS ANTIDOTE TO POLITICS IN THE PURSUIT OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES MARKUS KREUTZER,* JORGE WALTER,3 and LAURA B. CARDINAL4 1 Institute of Management, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2 Department of Management and Economics, EBS University, Wiesbaden, Germany 3 Department of Strategic Management and Public Policy, School of Business, The George Washington Un...

Mark S. Byrd, Daniel A. Lidar, Lian-Ao Wu, and Paolo Zanardi Physics Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4401, USA Chemical Physics Theory Group, Chemistry Department, and Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6 Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI), Villa Gualino, Viale ...

Hallal and Azevedo are with the post-graduate program in Epidemiology, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil. Parra and Brownson are with the Prevention Research Center in St. Louis, and the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis. Pratt is with the Physical Activity and Health Branch, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, Centers for Disea...