EXCESSIVE SLEEPINESS IS DEFINED AS SLEEPINESS OCCURRING IN A SITUATION WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL WOULD BE EXPECTED TO BE AWAKE AND ALERT. It is a chronic problem for about 5% of the general population,1, 2 and it is the most common complaint evaluated by sleep disorder centers.1, 3 The most common causes of sleepiness include partial sleep deprivation, fragmented sleep and medication effects. Sleepine...

Introduction: Elderly has a slower walking speed and an increased risk of falling. Decreased muscle mass strength contribute to decreasing the ability produce accuracy responses maintain balance reduce speed. The Otago exercise program is fall prevention for elderly consist lower limb strengthening exercises exercises. This study aims find effects eight weeks on Methods: research pre post-test ...

This report summarizes work to examine interstage heating and cooling options for multiple reheat helium Brayton cycle power conversion system (PCS) designs. Previous work has demonstrated that thermal powers in the range of 2400 MWt can be readily derived from combining multiple single-expansion units derived from the 600-MWt, vertical shaft gas-turbine module helium reactor (GT-MHR). This PCS...

Previous studies reported on the association of left ventricular mass index (LVMI) with urinary sodium or with circulating or urinary aldosterone. We investigated the independent associations of LVMI with the urinary excretion of both sodium and aldosterone. We randomly recruited 317 untreated subjects from a white population (45.1% women; mean age 48.2 years). Measurements included echocardiog...

Calculated energy consumed in 284 cow yr by individually fed Angus, Charolais and reciprocal cross cows was partitioned into m~intenance, weight change and milk production requirements. Total digestible nutrient (TDN) consumed in 94 heifer yr was partitioned into maintenance and weight change requirements. The cow year was subdivided into midgestation, late gestation and lactation periods that ...

We consider practical methods for the problem of finding a minimum-weight triangulation (MWT) of a planar point set, a classic problem of computational geometry with many applications. While Mulzer and Rote proved in 2006 that computing an MWT is NP-hard, Beirouti and Snoeyink showed in 1998 that computing provably optimal solutions for MWT instances of up to 80,000 uniformly distributed points...

A multi-proxy approach was used to examine the geomorphic dynamics and environmental history of an upper deltaic floodplain tract in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California. Three long cores were collected from the McCormack– Williamson Tract (MWT) and these cores were analyzed for bulk density, loss-on-ignition, fine (clay and silt) content, Al concentration, magnetic susceptibility, poll...

Abstract Purpose For this study, we aimed to compare dynamic hyperinflation measured by cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), a six-minute walking test (6-MWT), and manually paced tachypnea (MPT) in patients with severe emphysema who were treated endobronchial coils. Additionally, investigated whether changed after treatment Methods Dynamic was CPET, 6-MWT, an MPT 29 before coil treatment. R...

This study is to establish a model of rat tibial osteocarcinoma pain, intrathecally inject specific ERK1/2 inhibitors SCH772984, observe the analgesic effect, and discuss the influence of ERK-P90RSK-Fos signal path in bone cancer pain. Forty female SD rats were randomly divided into 5 groups. Establish a bone cancer pain model after putting the intrathecal tube 5d and determine the rats' mechan...

objective(s): as heat, pain is one of the most common clinical symptoms. generally, calcitonin (ct) is prescribed as an analgesic agent for the treatment of pain, especially for the pain caused by osteoporosis or primary and metastatic bone tumor. however, the detailed mechanism remains unknown.materials and methods: in this study, chronic constriction injury (cci) rat model was created, and ho...