Sustained carrying could result in muscular fatigue of the upper limb. Ten male and ten female subjects were recruited for measurements of isometric arm strength before and during carrying a load for a period of 4 minutes. Two levels of load of carrying were tested for each of the male and female subjects. Exponential function based predictive equations for the isometric arm strength were estab...

Students in a calculus-based mechanics course at MIT were given the conceptual Force Concept Inventory (FCI) test both at the start and the end of the course. Gains in student scores are correlated with individual use of the different components in the course: small-group tutorial sessions, written problem sets, an interactive web-based problem set, collaborative work and number of sessions vie...

PURPOSE To describe the clinical features, histologic findings, flow cytometric immunophenotypes, and molecular profiles of ocular adnexal lymphoid proliferations. STUDY DESIGN Prospective noncomparative case series. PARTICIPANTS Forty-three patients suspected of having ocular adnexal lymphoid proliferations were biopsied and prospectively evaluated. METHODS Provisional diagnoses were mad...

BACKGROUND The role of plasminogen system components in focal cerebral ischemic infarction (FCI) was studied in mice deficient in plasminogen (Plg-/-), in tissue or urokinase plasminogen activator (tPA-/- or uPA-/-), or in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 or alpha2-antiplasmin (PAI-1(-/-) or alpha2-AP-/-). METHODS AND RESULTS FCI was produced by ligation of the left middle cerebral artery an...

Frequent closed itemsets (FCI) play an important role in pruning redundant rules fast. Therefore, a lot of algorithms for mining FCI have been developed. Algorithms based on vertical data formats have some advantages in that they require scan databases once and compute the support of itemsets fast. Recent years, BitTable (Dong & Han, 2007) and IndexBitTable (Song, Yang, & Xu, 2008) approaches h...

In the dual-coolant lead lithium (DCLL) blanket, the key element is the flow channel insert (FCI) made of a silicon carbide composite (SiCf /SiC), which serves as electric and thermal insulator. The most important magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and thermal issues of the FCI, associated with MHD flows and heat transfer in the poloidal channel of the blanket, were studied with numerical simulations us...

As a method to shorten the test time of Force Concept Inventory (FCI), we suggest use computerized adaptive testing (CAT). CAT is process administering on computer, with items (i.e., questions) selected based upon responses examinee prior items. In so doing, length can be significantly shortened. step develop CAT-based version FCI (FCI-CAT), examined optimal FCI-CAT such that accuracy and preci...

The Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) is an equatorial planetary-scale circulation system coupled with a multiscale convective complex, and it moves eastward slowly (about 5 m s) with a horizontal quadrupole vortex and vertical rearward-tilted structure. The nature and role of scale interaction (SI) is one of the elusive aspects of the MJO dynamics. Here a prototype theoretical model is formulate...

1 Information Technology Department, FCI, Cairo University 5 Ahamed Zewal Street, Orman, Giza, Egypt 2 Information System Department, CBA, Kuwait University, Kuwait [email protected], [email protected] 3 Computer Science Department, University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 S. University Ave. Little Rock, Arkansas 72204, USA [email protected] 4 Biology Department, Emory University 1510 ...

BACKGROUND Measures of multimorbidity are often applied to source data, populations or outcomes outside the scope of their original developmental work. As the development of a multimorbidity measure is influenced by the population and outcome used, these influences should be taken into account when selecting a multimorbidity index. The aim of this study was to compare the strength of the associ...