It has been reported that eccentric training of knee extensors is effective for improving blood insulin sensitivity and lipid profiles to a greater extent than concentric training in young women. However, it is not known whether this is also the case for elderly individuals. Thus, the present study tested the hypothesis that eccentric training of the knee extensors would improve physical functi...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the impact of hypertension with or without diabetes on left ventricular (LV) remodeling in rural Chinese population. METHODS A total of 10,270 participants were classified into control group, hypertension without diabetes (HT) group, and hypertension with diabetes (HT + DM) group. We compared clinical characteristics and echocardiographic paramet...

The effect of specific cavity dimensions of circular concentric Helmholtz resonators is investigated theoretically, computationally, and experimentally. Three analytical models are employed in this study: ~1! A two-dimensional model developed to account for the nonplanar wave propagation in both the neck and the cavity; ~2! a one-dimensional solution developed for the limit of small cavity leng...

Frankenberg NT, Lamb GD, Vissing K, Murphy RM. Subcellular fractionation reveals HSP72 does not associate with SERCA in human skeletal muscle following damaging eccentric and concentric exercise. J Appl Physiol 116: 1503–1511, 2013. First published April 25, 2013; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.00161.2013.—Through its upregulation and/or translocation, heat shock protein 72 (HSP72) is involved in pro...

In this paper, we describe an image-based rendering technique called Inverse Concentric Mosaics (ICM), which is based on Concentric Mosaics (CM) [11]. While CMs allow scenes to be viewed from inside looking out, ICM permits the user to visualize objects from the outside looking in. ICM has the following advantages: viewpoints of objects can be changed in a continuous manner and at interactive s...