[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of increasing the intensity of functional electrical stimulation delivered to abdominal muscles during quiet breathing on respiratory flow, vital signs and pain in healthy subjects. [Subjects and Methods] Electrical stimulation was delivered bilaterally using one pair of high-conductivity gel-skin plate electrodes, placed on both si...

UNLABELLED Arterial stiffness is associated with cerebral flow pulsatility. Arterial stiffness increases following acute resistance exercise (RE). Whether this acute RE-induced vascular stiffening affects cerebral pulsatility remains unknown. PURPOSE To investigate the effects of acute RE on common carotid artery (CCA) stiffness and cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFv) pulsatility. METHODS E...

Recent advances in fluorescence spectrophotometry enable the analysis of river dissolved organic matter. We investigate the potential of detecting sewage pollution in a small, urbanised catchment. Downstream sampling highlighted a summer maximum in tryptophan fluorescence intensity during low flow. No correlation is observed between ammonia and tryptophan fluorescence intensity. In contrast, tw...

This study evaluated the hypothesis that active muscle blood flow is lower during exercise at a given submaximal power output after aerobic conditioning as a result of unchanged cardiac output and blunted splanchnic vasoconstriction. Eight untrained subjects (4 men, 4 women, 23-31 yr) performed high-intensity aerobic training for 9-12 wk. Leg blood flow (femoral vein thermodilution), splanchnic...

This paper brings together two research issues in optical flow estimation: the selection of the smoothing parameter and the proper treatment of the correlated noise in the partial derivatives of the image intensity. In previous work, the authors have developed an optical flow estimation method which properly treats the errors-invariables problem cause by the correlated noise in the spatiotempor...

Unsteady simulations of stagnation point flames are conducted in order to study flame turbulence interactions in a relatively simple flow environment. Flame propagation is represented using a flamelet model called the G equation. Two subgrid models are used to close the filtered G equation. The effects of significant heat release on the turbulent flow and the effect of varying turbulence intens...

We present a simple, noninvasive method for simultaneous measurement of flow velocity and inference of liquid viscosity in a microfluidic channel. We track the dynamics of a sharp front of photobleached fluorescent dye using a confocal microscope and measure the intensity at a single point downstream of the initial front position. We fit an exact solution of the advection diffusion equation to ...

The scene flow describes the motion of each 3D point between two time steps. With the arrival of new depth sensors, as the Microsoft Kinect, it is now possible to compute scene flow with a single camera, with promising repercussion in a wide range of computer vision scenarios. We propose a novel method to compute a local scene flow by tracking in a Lucas-Kanade framework. Scene flow is estimate...

The computation of an optic flow field to reconstruct a dense velocity field from a sequence of tagged MR images faces a major difficulty: a non-constant pixel intensity. In this paper, we resolved this problem by regarding the MRI sequence as density images, which adhere to a principle of conservation of intensity. Based on this principle, optic flow equations are developed based on Gaussian d...