278 research outputs found
Advanced Necklace for Real-Time PPG Monitoring in Drivers
No full textMonitoring heart rate (HR) through photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is a challenging task due to the complexities involved, even during routine daily activities. These signals can indeed be heavily contaminated by significant motion artifacts resulting from the subjects’ movements, which can lead to inaccurate heart rate estimations. In this paper, our objective is to present an innovative necklace sensor that employs low-computational-cost algorithms for heart rate estimation in individuals performing non-abrupt movements, specifically drivers. Our solution facilitates the acquisition of signals with limited motion artifacts and provides acceptable heart rate estimations at a low computational cost. More specifically, we propose a wearable sensor necklace for assessing a driver’s well-being by providing information about the driver’s physiological condition and potential stress indicators through HR data. This innovative necklace enables real-time HR monitoring within a sleek and ergonomic design, facilitating seamless and continuous data gathering while driving. Prioritizing user comfort, the necklace’s design ensures ease of wear, allowing for extended use without disrupting driving activities. The collected physiological data can be transmitted wirelessly to a mobile application for instant analysis and visualization. To evaluate the sensor’s performance, two algorithms for estimating the HR from PPG signals are implemented in a microcontroller: a modified version of the mountaineer’s algorithm and a sliding discrete Fourier transform. The goal of these algorithms is to detect meaningful peaks corresponding to each heartbeat by using signal processing techniques to remove noise and motion artifacts. The developed design is validated through experiments conducted in a simulated driving environment in our lab, during which drivers wore the sensor necklace. These experiments demonstrate the reliability of the wearable sensor necklace in capturing dynamic changes in HR levels associated with driving-induced stress. The algorithms integrated into the sensor are optimized for low computational cost and effectively remove motion artifacts that occur when users move their heads
«Generati da una parola di verità» (Ge 1,18). Scritti in onore di Rinaldo Fabris nel suo 70º compleanno. [Reseña]
No full textrESEÑA DE Santi GRASSO y Ermenegildo MANICARDI
(a cura di), «Generati da una parola
di verità» (Ge 1,18). Scritti in onore
di Rinaldo Fabris nel suo 70° compleanno,
EDB, Bologna 2006, 426 pp., 17 x
24, ISBN 88-10-30235-4
Advanced Necklace for Real-Time PPG Monitoring in Drivers
No full textMonitoring heart rate (HR) through photoplethysmography (PPG) signals is a challenging task due to the complexities involved, even during routine daily activities. These signals can indeed be heavily contaminated by significant motion artifacts resulting from the subjects’ movements, which can lead to inaccurate heart rate estimations. In this paper, our objective is to present an innovative necklace sensor that employs low-computational-cost algorithms for heart rate estimation in individuals performing non-abrupt movements, specifically drivers. Our solution facilitates the acquisition of signals with limited motion artifacts and provides acceptable heart rate estimations at a low computational cost. More specifically, we propose a wearable sensor necklace for assessing a driver’s well-being by providing information about the driver’s physiological condition and potential stress indicators through HR data. This innovative necklace enables real-time HR monitoring within a sleek and ergonomic design, facilitating seamless and continuous data gathering while driving. Prioritizing user comfort, the necklace’s design ensures ease of wear, allowing for extended use without disrupting driving activities. The collected physiological data can be transmitted wirelessly to a mobile application for instant analysis and visualization. To evaluate the sensor’s performance, two algorithms for estimating the HR from PPG signals are implemented in a microcontroller: a modified version of the mountaineer’s algorithm and a sliding discrete Fourier transform. The goal of these algorithms is to detect meaningful peaks corresponding to each heartbeat by using signal processing techniques to remove noise and motion artifacts. The developed design is validated through experiments conducted in a simulated driving environment in our lab, during which drivers wore the sensor necklace. These experiments demonstrate the reliability of the wearable sensor necklace in capturing dynamic changes in HR levels associated with driving-induced stress. The algorithms integrated into the sensor are optimized for low computational cost and effectively remove motion artifacts that occur when users move their heads
Su un inedito disegno per il pulpito della cattedrale di Cosenza di Andrea Maggiore, Niccolò Ciolli e Antonio Grasso
No full textThis contribution analyzes a completely unknown 16th century drawing. In the document, the author identifies a lost project for a pulpit in the Cathedral of Cosenza, draw up by Andrea Maggiore, Niccolò Ciolli and Antonio Grasso. The reconstruction of the drawing’s origin is possible thanks to some valuable indications on the document itself. The discovery allows us to re-analyze the personality of Andrea Maggiore, and his first known work, in the context of the Calabrian renaissance.Andrea Maggiore is especially important for the introduction of coloured marble altars in the region. His works are framed in the general phenomenon of the introduction of a new architectural language in southern Italy with an important reference to the role of his clients: a powerful and sometimes foreign cultural élite.Il contributo analizza un disegno del tutto inedito che l'autore ha potuto identificare nel progetto finora ritenuto perduto per il pulpito della cattedrale di Cosenza e attribuire ai toscani Andrea Maggiore, Niccolò Ciolli e Antonio Grasso. L’attribuzione è stata possibile grazie ad alcune preziose indicazioni contenute nel documento che hanno consentito di ricostruirne il preciso ambito di provenienza.Si è così potuta così restituire con completezza la vicenda della prima importante commessa di Andrea Maggiore a Cosenza ampliando la conoscenza della figura dell’autore stesso, già individuato come personaggio cardine del periodo della controriforma calabrese con particolare riferimento all’uso di marmi mischi che sarà così importante a partire dal XVII sec. Il pulpito e l’opera di Andrea Maggiore sono quindi stati inquadrati nel contesto dei rapporti con le committenze e di introduzione dei nuovi linguaggi nel sud Italia e in Calabria
Spigolature linguistiche da Verga a Silvana Grasso
No full textIn this work, emphasis is placed on the need to frame Grasso's work between a writing tradition that has the Verga model as its watermark and her personal linguistic innovation. A comparative analysis of two texts is conducted: La Lupa by Giovanni Verga and Il bastardo di Mautàna by Silvana Grasso. The two works allow us to observe a stratified composition of the language, which for both authors enjoys references to the dialect drawn from a linguistic heritage mediated by literature and popular traditions, but in the case of Grasso also contains numerous autochthonisms, not present in Verga . Silvana Grasso takes up and exaggerates the key themes of Verga's work, but proposes a new writing, which takes the form of a recognizable style upon opening the book, thanks to the use of expressions and stylistic features that the author draws directly from her linguistic micro-area and which he is not afraid to use, unlike Verga, who prefers to hide dialect forms and lexemes, faithful to his poetics, and prefers a standard dialect mediated through literature. A lexical and morphosyntactic analysis is conducted in order to show how Grasso's language takes up and exaggerates the two tracks of the Verga language through an extreme use of aulicisms and the addition of dysphemisms
Eupholus bhaskarai Grasso 2020, sp. nov.
No full textEupholus bhaskarai sp. nov. (Plate 1: A-B; Figs. 1-4, 9, 11) Holotype (male): [Indonesia], Irian Jaya, Jayapura province, Klaisu, South Gresi, V.2019 local collector, in MGC. Paratypes (5 males, 4 females (one female marked as “allotype”)): same date and location as holotype, in KPC, MGC and STMI. Diagnosis: An Eupholus species with a large, vertical stripe that starts by pronotum and ends at 2/3 of the elytra. Sometimes the stripe appears just visible, because of this, is easy to confuse Eupholus bhaskarai sp. nov. with Eupholus loriae (Gestro, 1902). Description: total length 19.92 mm; pronotum+elytron 14.82 mm. Head dorsal surface covered with green and light blue metallic oval scales, sometimes milky except for glabrous areas located between and laterally behind the eyes. Distance between the eyes 2.12 mm. Rostrum width at the base 1.68 mm, 3.50 mm height, maximum width in front of antennal insertion. Dorsal area densely covered with suboval light green and light blue scales, interspersed with subrecumbent setiform scales; medially with low glabrous costa. Antennal scrobe complete in not dilated pterigo. Apex of the rostrum with suberect yellowish colored setae. Epistome heart-shaped with no ridges and with elongated scales posteriorly, glabrous anteriorly. Antenna with funicle+club 7.43 mm; scape and funicle densely covered with suboval green and light blue scales mixed with witish setae. Funicle slender and elongate. Scape retracted ends at 1/3 of the eye. Funicles covered with whitish setae. Club dark brown. Pronotum base 4.81 mm, 3.68 mm height; characterized in the dorsal part by wide black glabrous median depression, more deep in median area. Two lateral glabrous stripes give way for two subequal areas covered by subrotund light blue and green scales. Scutellum glabrous and almost covered by elytra. Elytron distance between the humeri 6,30 mm, 11,14 mm height. Humeri callosity with rectangular projection; a glabrous ridge continue behind humeral callus to 1/3 of elytron. Almost completely absent apical calluses. Median longitudinal and glabra stripe, large at base and thinner towards the scutellum, likely to connect itself with the one wich starts at base of the pronotum; elytron densely covered with light blue-green circular scales, strial punctures deeply impressed and quite large, with subrotund shape. Thoracic venter densely squamose with green and light blue, round to lanceolate and recumbent scales. Posteriorly, area between forecoxae process glabrous. Legs evenly covered by green light blue round scales on femora and tibiae, scales become blue-violet and interspersed with setae, elongated and lying on the tarsi. Genitalia. Aedeagus (Figs. 1-2) with subparallel sides until apical orifice, then in quite straight line converging to rounded apex. In lateral view somewhat of weakly swollen and quite truncate. Endophallus with symmetrical transfer apparatus as in picture 3. Tegmen with two thin and elongated paramers, barely rounded at apex (Fig. 4). Differential diagnosis: as mentioned E. bhaskarai sp. nov looks relationed to E. loriae (Gestro, 1902) from which often differs by the presence of the large glabrous median and longitudinal stripe on the elytra. A larger and deeper strial punctures, a glabrous elytral suture only up to 2/3 of elytra (E. loriae has all glabrous elytra suture) and a different genitalia as in figs. 1-4 and 5-8 with illustrated tegmen by both species as in figs. 4, 8 make possible to confirm validity of E. bhaskarai sp. nov. It is often possible to observe a glabrous transversal band in apical calluses for E. bhaskarai (as in plate 1: B) and could be easy to think it is barely hinted in apical calluses of E. loriae but this feature is never showed and as Gestro writes for this last species, both the glabrous stripes laterally on pronotum are dispersed with points which has reddish setae inside; instead E. bhaskarai has easy to see black setae in the same place. Distribution: the new species is known from [Indonesia], Irian Jaya, Jayapura province, Klaisu, South Gresi. Etymology: this species is named in honor of Edy Bhaskara (East Java, Indonesia) who helped the author to recognize the new species.Published as part of Grasso, Matteo, 2020, A New Species Of Eupholus Boisduval (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) From West New Guinea, pp. 1-10 in Munis Entomology & Zoology 15 (1) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.376193
Procedure for the automatic post-processing of ERANOS results into a format ready for visualization with Paraview
No full textThe present report describes and lists a procedure – made of ERANOS input files, shell scripts and a fortran code – meant for the automatic post-processing of a full core calculation performed with ERANOS, so as to extract some significant flux and power distributions in the core and to write down these into a format (*.csv) ready for input to the famous visualization software Paraview.
All sources and sample input files can be obtained upon request to the author ([email protected])
Models of Physical Activity: Active Lifestyle Promotion for adults and elderly people affected by Chronic Obstruction Pulmonary Disease
No full textBackground e obiettivi
L’intolleranza all’esercizio fisico (ES), la sintomatologia e gli effetti extra-polmonari incrementano il rischio di disabilità, bassa qualità della vita (QoL) e sedentarietà nel paziente affetto da Broncopneumopatia Cronica Ostruttiva (BPCO). In riabilitazione respiratoria l’ES è considerato il principale intervento non farmacologico per incrementare la salute e la capacità di esercizio nei pazienti. Sfortunatamente, si rilevano pochi interventi strutturati di attività fisica (AF). Inoltre, un numero elevato di pazienti declina la partecipazione. Le ragioni di abbandono o non partecipazione sono state poco investigate. Inoltre, esiste un considerevole dibatto riguardo l’efficacia dei diversi modelli applicativi di AF nell’incrementare i parametri salute correlati (PSC) dei pazienti BPCO e il loro impatto sul mantenimento a lungo termine di uno stile di vita attivo. Infine, l’AF quotidiana, i PSC, la forza muscolare e la performance motoria dei pazienti BPCO sono intimamente correlati. Sebbene la disfunzione muscoolare sia presente in tutti i pazienti BPCO, è stato osservato che la contrazione eccentrica (ECC) è più elevata nei BPCO rispetto ai soggetti sani (HC). La maggior parte delle ricerche del settore hanno utilizzato parametri isometrici i concentrici (CON), però poco è conosciuto riguardo all’associazione tra forza ECC e alte velocità di contrazione nei pazienti BPCO. Pertanto gli studi proposti vogliono evidenziare le motivazioni e le barriere che riducono il reclutamento e impediscono a pazienti BPCO di acquisire uno stile di vita attivo. Inoltre, si vogliono verificare le modifiche ai PSC ottenute da due modelli di attività fisica adattata (AFA) specifici per BPCO e il loro impatto nell’acquisizione di uno stile di vita attivo. Infine si vogliono investigate le performance muscolari CON ed ECC degli arti inferiori dei pazienti BPCO a diverse velocità di contrazione.
Metodi
1° studio: single-centre, multi-practice, parallel-group trial clinico randomizzato. 269 maschi affetti da BPCO males sono stati sottoposti a screening per individuare 132 pazienti elegibili. I 38 soggetti reclutati hanno compilato il questionario EMI-2.
2° studio: trial longitudinale, randomizzato. Sono state effettuate valutazioni ad inizio (T1), dopo 3 mesi (T2), 6 mesi (T3) and a 3 mesi di follow up (T4). La composizione corporea e il contenuto minerale osseo (BMC) tramite DXA, i parametri motori (6MWT, Leg press, leg extension, chest press e biceps curl 1RM, flessibilità del cingolo scapolo-omerale e della schiena, e l’equilibrio), lo stile di vita (IPAQ e registrazione SenseWear PRO-2) e la QoL (questionario MRF-26) sono stati investigati.
3° stadio: studio osservazionale, caso/controllo, cross over. Misure di architettura muscolare, contrazione CON ed ECC del quadricipite a diverse velocità (30deg/sec, 210 deg/sec), stile di vita e PSC di 35 pazienti con BPCO sono state confrontati con quelli rilevati in 25 soggetti sani di controllo (HC).
Risultati
1° studio: la principale causa che impedisce la partecipazione è dovuta al non rispetto dei criteri di inclusione (65.53%). La mancanza di interesse (8.94%), di tempo disponibile (6.81%) e la difficoltà a raggiungere le strutture sportive (1.7%) sono le principali ragioni che inducono il paziente ad abbandonare il programma. Il reclutamento dello studio ha un’aderenza molto elevata (25.7%) in confronto alla letteratura di riferimento, confermato anche dal numero esiguo di drop out (10.52%). Bassi livelli iniziali di motivazione intrinseca da parte dei pazienti con BPCO sono stati rilevati (media 81.69pt ±48.08), sebbene miglioramenti statisticamente significativi si osservino solo nel gruppo FC dopo la partecipazione ad interventi di AF dopo 3 mesi (+43.99%, p<0.05) e 6 mesi (+47.42%, p<0.05). A 3 mesi modificano gli item socio/emotivi (p<0.01), di gestione ponderale (p<0.05) e di piacevolezza (p<0.01), riconfermandosi a 6 mesi (socio/emotivi p<0.01, piacevolezza p<0.05).
2° studio: 7 pazienti abbandono il programma nei 9 mesi. A breve termine, il gruppo FC incrementa significativamente i parametri di %BMC (0.112 ±0.029, p<0.01), Biceps curl 1RM (1.9kg ±0.6, p<0.05), Chest press 1RM (8.1kg ±1.7, p<0.001) ed equilibrio (48.5sec ±14.2, p<0.05). Modificazioni significative si rilevano nel gruppo EDU, i.e. grasso corporeo (-736.4g ±240.0, p<0.05), BMI (-0.332 ±0.106, p<0.05), Leg Extension 1RM (7.2kg ±2.4, p<0.05), Chest Press 1RM (6.1kg±1.7, p<0.05) e mobilità della spalla (2.7cm ±0.7, p<0.01). Il gruppo CG modifica i parametri di BMI (-0.588 ±0.157, p<0.01), grasso corporeo (-1086.4g ±365, p<0.05), and massa totale (-1849.8g ±494.1 p<0.01). A lungo termine, FC modifica significativamente %BMC (0.071 ±0.024 p<0.05), Chest Press 1RM (9.8kg ±2.4, p<0.01), equilibrio (57.0sec±13.3, p<0.01), quantità di attività moderata (1024 ±272, p<0.01), tempo totale in attività sedentaria (-3.3 ±0.7, p<0.01) and MRF-26 (-2.3 ±0.7, p<0.05). Il gruppo EDU riduce la percezione di sforzo al 6MWT (-1.37 ±0.41 p<0.05) e il tempo totale in attività sedentaria (-3.6 ±0.7, p=0.000), aumentando l’attività di cammino (618 ±208, p<0.05) e l’MRF-26 (-2.1 ±0.7, p<0.05). Al termine del follow up, il gruppo FC riduce i parametri di %BMC (-0.069 ±0.020 p<0.05), 6MWT (-48.2 ±14.8, p<0.05), Leg Extension 1RM (-9.3 ±2.8, p<0.05), Chest Press 1RM (-11.6 ±2.1, p=0.000), flessibilità del busto (-3.8 ±0.9, p<0.01) ed equilibrio (-21.0 ±7 p<0.05). Il gruppo EDU group riduce i parametri di Leg Press 1RM (-32.6 ±9.1, p<0.05), Leg Extension 1RM (-10+5 ±1.9, p<0.001), Chest Press 1RM (-14.3 ±1.3, p=0.000), flessibilità del cingolo scapolo-omerale (-4.3 ±1.3, p<0.05), tempo totale in attività sedentaria (-3.5 ±0.9, p<0.01) and MRF-26 (-2.9 ±0.8, p<0.05). anche il gruppo CG dimostra riduzioni al Chest Press 1RM (-10.9 ±2.6, p<0.01). Nessuna modificazione è stata osservata con il SenseWear PRO-2.
3° studio: I soggetti del gruppo HC presentano valori più elevati in termini di capacità d’esercizio, i.e. 6MWT (p<0.001) e 1RM alla Leg Press (p<0.05), rispetto ai pazienti BPCO. Solo il torque CON a 30deg/s è più elevato nei soggetti HC rispetto ai BPCO (p<0.05). Nessuna differenza statisticamente significativa è stata rilevata tra i gruppi per i parametri di architettura muscolare, torque CON a 210 deg/sec e nei toque ECC. Differenze significative si evidenziano nel rapporto tra torque ECC e CON (30 deg/sec p<0.001; 210 deg/sec p<0.01). Correlazioni significative sono state osservate tra FEV1 e 6MWT (0.719 p<0.001), 1RM Leg Press (0.449 p<0.001), torque a 30 deg/sec (0.427 p<0.01; 0.280 p<0.05), a 210 deg/sec (0.285 p<0.05; 0.276 p<0.05) and rapporto ECC/CON di torque ad entrambe le velocità (-0.562 p<0.001; -0.292 p<0.05). Le medesime osservazioni sono state rilevate tra FEV1/FVC e i parametri investigati.
Conclusioni
La principale barriera è rappresentata dai criteri di inclusione. La pratica di reclutamento effettuata da un singolo specialista sembra essere la più efficace. La supervisione dello specialista in AFA e l’aumento della collaborazione tra clinici e specialisti AFA potrebbe incrementare la partecipazione dei pazienti BPCO. Semplici modelli applicativi di AFA possono risultano efficaci ad incrementare sia la motivazione all’ES e sia alcuni dei PSC specifici per BPCO. Questi miglioramenti sembrano essere apportati prevalentemente dai “well rounded program”. Il supporto dello specialista APA risulta necessario per poter mantenere a lungo termine i guadagni ottenuti con l’ES. Invece, i miglioramenti di capacità funzionale non sembrano modificare lo stile di vita. Sebbene i pazienti BPCO siano caratterizzati da basse performance dei PSC, ridotta capacità di contrazione CON e stile di vita inattivo rispetto ai soggetti HC, sembrano preservare la contrazione ECC e il torque nelle contrazioni ad alta velocità. Ulteriori ricerche sembrano essere necessarie.Background and aims
Exercise intolerance, symptoms and extra-pulmonary effects may increase patients disabilities, affecting quality of life (QoL) and reducing maintenance of an active lifestyle. Exercise training (ExT) is considered the most effective non-pharmacological intervention to improve COPD patients health and exercise capacity. Unfortunately, there are few available health-care structured programs of physical activity (PA) and a considerable proportion of eligible patients decline participation or drop out. Reasons for decline and drop-out from ExT programs have seldom been investigated. Moreover, a considerable debate continues about what kind of model of PA and ExT intervention is more effective to improve COPD patients’ health related parameters (HRQL), and to maintain long-term active lifestyle. Finally, evidences support notions that daily physical activity (DPA), HRQL, muscle strength and performance are likely intimately interlinked. Although, muscle wasting is common in COPD patients across all disease stages, it has been observed that eccentric contraction (ECC) results greater compared to healthy control subjects. Majority of COPD leg muscle function’s research has used isometric or concentric (CON) quadriceps torque, but there is lack of knowledge about associa¬tion between ECC muscle strength and fast-velocity muscle contractions in COPD patients. Therefore, we would to outline motivation and barriers which reduced COPD patients recruitment in ExT program and hindered an active lifestyle acquisition. Secondly, it would be verify short and long-term modifications of several HRQL provided by two different and easily applied-field models of adapted fitness activity (APA) for COPD patients to evaluate long-term active-lifestyle maintenance. Finally, we would to investigate COPD patients lower limb strength performances as a function of contraction modalities and velocities comparing with healthy control (HC).
Methods
Fist study: single-centre, multi-practice, randomized, parallel-group clinical trial. 269 COPD males were screened to establish 132 eligible patients. 38 recruited COPD patients were administrated by EMI-2 questionnaire. Recruitment steps were recorded in order to assess patients’ motivation of decline or drop out. Second study: longitudinal randomized controlled trial, in which baseline (T1), 3 months (T2), 6 months (T3) and 3 months of follow up (T4) evaluations were performed. Body composition and bone mass content, i.e. BMC (DXA scanner), functional health-related (6MWT, Leg press, leg extension, chest press and biceps curl 1RM, shoulder and lower back flexibility and balance), lifestyle (IPAQ questionnaire and SenseWear PRO-2 assessment) and quality of life (MRF-26 questionnaire) parameters were administrated. 38 COPD patients were randomized and assigned to one of the three evaluation groups: Fitness Center based group (FC=13), Educational PA group (EDU=12) and Control group (CG=13). Third study: case/control research, cross over and observational trial. Architectural muscle measurements, CON and ECC quadriceps contractions at different velocities (30deg/sec, 210 deg/sec), lifestyle and health-related parameters of COPD patients (N=35) and HC (N=25) subjects were recorded.
Results
First study: major cause of not-participation was mismatched inclusion criteria (65.53%). No-interest in exercise training (8.94%), lack of available time (6.81%) and inability to access at the PA structures (1.7%) were most commonly cited reasons to drop out. Recruitment showed higher adherence (25.7%) compared to literature, also confirmed by lower number of drop out (10.52%). Low score of intrinsic motivation towards PA were recorded (mean 81.69pt ±48.08) and significant improvements in EMI-2 were observed after 3 months (+43.99%, p<0.05) and 6 months of ExT (+47.42%, p<0.05) by FC group. Significant increases in Socio/Emotional (p<0.01), Weight management (p<0.05) and Enjoyment items (p<0.01) were recorded after 3 months. Socio/Emotional aspects (p<0.01) and Enjoyment items (p<0.05) improved after 6 months.
Second study: 7 patients dropped out. At short term, FC group shows significant improvement in %BMC (0.112 ±0.029, p<0.01), Biceps curl 1RM (1.9kg ±0.6, p<0.05), Chest press 1RM (8.1kg ±1.7, p<0.001) and Balance test (48.5sec ±14.2, p<0.05). EDU group shows significant modification in Fat (-736.4g ±240.0, p<0.05), BMI (-0.332 ±0.106, p<0.05), Leg Extension 1RM (7.2kg ±2.4, p<0.05), Chest Press 1RM (6.1kg±1.7, p<0.05) and Shoulder flexibility (2.7cm ±0.7, p<0.01). The CG group shows significant differences in BMI (-0.588 ±0.157, p<0.01), Fat (-1086.4g ±365, p<0.05), and Total Body Mass (-1849.8g ±494.1 p<0.01). At long-term, FC modified significantly %BMC (0.071 ±0.024 p<0.05), Chest Press 1RM (9.8kg ±2.4, p<0.01), Balance (57.0sec±13.3, p<0.01), IPAQ moderate activity (1024 ±272, p<0.01), IPAQ sedentary hours (-3.3 ±0.7, p<0.01) and MRF-26 (-2.3 ±0.7, p<0.05). EDU group recorded modifications in 6MWT Borg scale (-1.37 ±0.41 p<0.05), IPAQ walking activity (618 ±208, p<0.05), IPAQ sedentary hours (-3.6 ±0.7, p=0.000) and MRF-26 (-2.1 ±0.7, p<0.05). CG group did not shows significant differences. At follow up, FC shows significant changes in %BMC (-0.069 ±0.020 p<0.05), 6MWD (-48.2 ±14.8, p<0.05), Leg Extension 1RM (-9.3 ±2.8, p<0.05), Chest Press 1RM (-11.6 ±2.1, p=0.000), Sit & Reach (-3.8 ±0.9, p<0.01), Balance (-21.0 ±7 p<0.05). EDU group shows significant modification in 6MWT Borg score (-1.36 ±0.41 p<0.05), Leg Press 1RM (-32.6 ±9.1, p<0.05), Leg Extension 1RM (-10+5 ±1.9, p<0.001), Chest Press 1RM (-14.3 ±1.3, p=0.000), Back Scratch (-4.3 ±1.3, p<0.05), IPAQ sedentary hours (-3.5 ±0.9, p<0.01) and MRF-26 (-2.9 ±0.8, p<0.05). CG group shows significant difference in Chest Press 1RM (-10.9 ±2.6, p<0.01). No significant modification were observed in SenseWear PRO-2 administration.
Third study: HC subjects were significantly different in exercise capacity, i.e. 6MWT (p<0.001) and 1RM Leg Press (p<0.05), than COPD patients. Only CON 30deg/s peak torque was significantly higher in HC compared to COPD (p<0.05). No differences in muscle architecture, fast CON and/or e ECC torque were observed between groups. Significant differences were found between groups in ECC/CON torque ratio (30 deg/sec p<0.001; 210 deg/sec p<0.01). Finally, significant correlations were found between FEV1 and 6MWT (0.719 p<0.001), 1RM Leg Press (0.449 p<0.001), peak torque contraction at 30 deg/sec (0.427 p<0.01; 0.280 p<0.05), at 210 deg/sec (0.285 p<0.05; 0.276 p<0.05) and ECC/CON peak torque ratio at both velocities (-0.562 p<0.001; -0.292 p<0.05). Same results were observed between FEV1/FVC and parameters assessed.
Conclusions
Recruit COPD patients becomes very challenging. Cause of not-participation was related to mismatched inclusion criteria. Great effort practice of recruitment, managed by only one person, seems to be more effective. Supervision of ExT specialist and incresed level of liaison between specialist physicians and healthcare professionals could be useful to increase participation. An easily applied-field models of COPD specific APA training could be efficient in order to improve some of COPD-specific HRQL. These improvements seem to be better provide by a “well rounded” APA program. APA exercise specialist support is necessary to maintain long-term significant health’s gains. Whereas, improvement in functional exercise capacity does not automatically turn into a more active lifestyle. COPD patients are characterized by lower health related parameters and lifestyle. Also COPD performed lower CON contraction compared to HC. COPD preserved ECC contractions and fast concentric torque. We hypothesize that COPD males develop a favorable profile to minimize strength loss likely due to neural-muscular modification. Further studies are aimed
Procedure for the computation of the main kinetic parameters with ERANOS and JEFF3.1
No full textThe present report describes and lists an ERANOS procedure to compute the effective fraction of delayed neutrons (βeff) downstream a full-core calculation, using the JEFF3.1 neutron data library and the 8-families structure associated to the latter.
All source and input files can be obtained upon request to the author ([email protected])
Le maître et le disciple envoyés à Israël et aux nations. Analyse rhétorique biblique de Mt 10,1-42
No full textIntroduction Il est incontestable que le chapitre 10 de Matthieu constitue une unité au sein du récit de l’Évangile. Il est cependant difficile de trouver une structure admise par les auteurs qui ont tenté d’en dégager la composition. Parmi eux on peut citer Ulrich Luz, William D. Davies – Dale C. Allison, Jean Radermakers, Donald Hagner, Massimo Grilli – Cordula Langner, Rinaldo Fabris, Schuyler Brown, Dorothy Jean Weaver, Joachim Gnilka, Craig S. Keener, Santi Grasso. Ces auteurs réagissent..
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