The primary aim of this investigation was to determine which cycling training device, Rollers or Trainers, was most effective in improving 10-km time trial. Eight male and 6 female volunteers (N = 14; age = 23.6 ± 4.6 yrs; height = 172.7 ± 9.9 cm; body mass = 68.4 ± 10.4 kg; % body fat = 16.9 ± 7.7; VO2max = 61.0 ± 9.4 ml·kg-1·min-1) provided informed consent prior to participation. Participant...

Notation Definition t 0 [0, 1] Time within the software life cycle [0,1] q Quality of the old perpetual software product ρ New perpetual software quality improvement ratio over the old version θ The SaaS initial quality improvement ratio over the old perpetual software, 1 < θ < ρ α Rate of software quality improvement for the SaaS product pu One-time upgrade price for existing users to upgrade ...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

Many real-time systems have timing requirements that are diicult to fulll if the system is implemented b y software running on a microprocessor. One way to remedy this problem is to implement the most time-critical parts in application-speciic integrated circuits instead. Hardwareesoftware codesign aims at providing support for the designer of such a heterogeneously implemented system, and espe...

OBJECTIVE To assess the sensitivity, specificity, and feasibility of a new chemiluminescence immunoassay (CLIA) in the diagnosis of syphilis. METHODS At first, a retrospective study was conducted, using 135 documented cases of syphilis and 30 potentially interfering samples and 80 normal sera. A prospective study was also performed by testing 2, 071 unselected samples for routine screening fo...

Reputable pig breeding programmes have been very successful in reducing production costs over the last twenty years through significant genetic progress in a wide variety of traits including growth, feed conversion, reduced backfat thickness and, over the last decade, litter size and litters per sow per year [1] . However, with some notable exceptions, genetic progress in many meat and eating q...

A field experiment was conducted in the experimental field of Genetics and Plant Breeding Department, Sher-e Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh to study variability in 10 F4 lines obtained through intervarietal crosses along with 8 released varieties of Brassica rapa. Significant variation was observed among all the genotypes for all the characters studied. Considering genetic pa...