Strength and functional conditioning training: analyzing practitioners' perceptions by Rafael David, António Manuel Azevedo, Paulo Eira

“…Objective: This study aims to analyze participants' perceptions regarding the motivations that lead them to either engage in or avoid strength and functional conditioning training. Methodology: The study group consisted of 189 participants from strength and/or functional training facilities (boxes), spread across three municipalities in the district of Viseu. …”
Get full text

Enhancing the functional content of eukaryotic protein interaction networks. by Gaurav Pandey, Sonali Arora, Sahil Manocha, Sean Whalen

“…The effectiveness of each measure is then estimated by comparing the quality of protein function predictions obtained from its corresponding transformed network with those from the original network. …”
Get full text

THE REPRODUCTIVE FUNCTION OF WOMEN AFTER DESTRUCTIVE OPERATIONS ON THE CERVIX by F. F. Badretdinova, V. V. Kortunova

“…Nearly one-third of pregnancies in women major group (29 women) has ended medical abortion After conization of cervix regardless of how the pregnancy was significantly more complicated by her amnion protrudes like a threat of termination, at different gestational ages. destructive interference in the cervix a little (statistically unreliable p≥0.05) affect the course of pregnancy, however, there is a dependency on the reproductive function of the type and depth of destructive interference.…”
Get full text

Prediction of protein interactions with function in protein (de-)phosphorylation. by Aimilia-Christina Vagiona, Sofia Notopoulou, Zbyněk Zdráhal, Mariane Gonçalves-Kulik, Spyros Petrakis, Miguel A Andrade-Navarro

“…Here we explore whether this mapping contains information that would allow us to predict the function of PPIs, more specifically interactions related to post-translational modification (PTM). …”
Get full text

The Evolving Landscape of Functional Models of Autism Spectrum Disorder by Jai Ranjan, Aniket Bhattacharya

Get full text

Differential lipid dependence of the function of bacterial sodium channels. by Nazzareno D'Avanzo, Emily C McCusker, Andrew M Powl, Andrew J Miles, Colin G Nichols, B A Wallace

“…NavMs and NavSp showed strong preference for different negatively-charged lipids (phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylglycerol, respectively), whilst NaChBac exhibited a more modest variation with lipid type. To investigate the molecular bases of these differences we used synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy to compare structures in liposomes of different composition, and molecular modeling and electrostatics calculations to rationalize the functional differences seen. …”
Get full text

Common coincidence and fixed points for several functions in b-metric spaces by Jayesh Tiwari, Dileep Kumar Sharma

“…The purpose of this research paper is to show the existence and uniqueness of coincidence and fixed points for more then two functions on new contraction mapping and expansive mapping in b-metric spaces. …”
Get full text

EUROPEAN CROSS-BORDER ASSOCIATIONS: ON THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF LAW by Justyna Dąbrowska

“…I focus my considerations on the concept of the law’s social function to ensure legal effectiveness. However, effectiveness should not be understood as compliance of the social results of a set of legal norms with the legislator’s intentions, but instead as the situation when the law is well embedded institutionally and leads to an increase in social and individual utility. …”
Get full text

Global change in the trophic functioning of marine food webs. by Aurore Maureaud, Didier Gascuel, Mathieu Colléter, Maria L D Palomares, Hubert Du Pontavice, Daniel Pauly, William W L Cheung

“…The development of fisheries in the oceans, and other human drivers such as climate warming, have led to changes in species abundance, assemblages, trophic interactions, and ultimately in the functioning of marine food webs. Here, using a trophodynamic approach and global databases of catches and life history traits of marine species, we tested the hypothesis that anthropogenic ecological impacts may have led to changes in the global parameters defining the transfers of biomass within the food web. …”
Get full text

Induction of Protective Genes Leads to Islet Survival and Function by Hongjun Wang, Christiane Ferran, Chiara Attanasio, Fulvio Calise, Leo E. Otterbein

“…Induction of protective genes in the recipient (e.g., heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1), A20/tumor necrosis factor alpha inducible protein3 (tnfaip3), biliverdin reductase (BVR), Bcl2, and others) or administration of one or more of the products of HO-1 to the donor, the islets themselves, and/or the recipient offers an alternative or synergistic approach to improve islet graft survival and function. …”
Get full text

Polysaccharide nanoparticles as potential immune adjuvants: Mechanism and function by Yuhong Jiang, Shanshan Qi, Canquan Mao

“…Moreover, nanoparticles not only act as antigen drug delivery vectors but also possess intrinsic adjuvant functions, revealing the dual effects of nanoparticles in augmenting antigen-specific immune responses. …”
Get full text

Clinical and functional remission assessment in patients with recurrent depression by N. N. Petrova

“…Patients and methods. The clinical and functional characteristics of remission were investigated in 121 patients with recurrent depression. …”
Get full text

A spectrum of modularity in multi‐functional gene circuits by Alba Jiménez, James Cotterell, Andreea Munteanu, James Sharpe

“…In this second class, the bi‐functionality emerges from more complex designs which are not fully decomposable into distinct modules and are consequently less intuitive to predict or understand. …”
Get full text

Intramuscular adipose tissue restricts functional muscle recovery by Alessandra M. Norris, Victoria R. Palzkill, Ambili B. Appu, Kiara E. Fierman, Christian D. Noble, Terence E. Ryan, Daniel Kopinke

“…We found that blocking IMAT after an adipogenic injury allowed muscle to regenerate more efficiently, resulting in enhanced functional recovery. …”
Get full text

FUNCTIONAL RE-MODELING INFLUENCE OF EPILEPS IN BRAIN TUMOR by A. A. Miranda, V. A. Zhadnov

“…Statistical, geometric and spectral parameters of heart rate variability as well as coherence and cross-correlational EEG analyses used to access the functional states of the patients.Results. The study revealed sympathetic predominance of the autonomic nervous system in patients with epilepsy associated brain tumors as opposed to parasympathetic predominance in non epilepsy associated brain tumors indicating significant stress to regulatory systems and depletion of subcortical reserves of the cardiovascular system, further more stretching the adaptation limits, ultimately leading to depression of autonomic regulatory mechanisms and predominance of central mechanisms of regulation and adaptation.Conclusion. …”
Get full text

THE HEMODYNAMICS AND RENAL FUNCTION BEFORE AND AFTER PULMONARY THROMBOENDARTERECTOMY by D. D. Tsyrenov, E. A. Tabakyan, K. V. Mershin, N. A. Buldakova, R. S. Akchurin

“…In cases of AKI 1-2, the complete recovery of renal function were observed. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) increased before discharge in patients with CKD and in other patients.Conclusion: the positive dynamics of renal function in patients with CTEPH after PTE is more probably associated with an increase in the С and renal perfusion.…”
Get full text

Optimization of solid-state fermentation technology of functional Monascus by SUN Qiuwan, HONG Housheng

“…To increase the yield of acidic Monacolin K in functional Monascus, the solid-state fermentation technology was optimized. …”
Get full text

A New hybrid generalized CG- method for non-linear functions by Abbas Al-Bayati, Hamsa Chilmerane

“…In this paper a new extended generalized conjugate gradient algorithm is proposed for unconstrained optimization, which is considered as anew inverse hyperbolic model .In order to improve the rate of convergence of the new technique, a new hybrid technique between the standard F/R CG-method and Sloboda CG-method using quadratic and non-quadratic models is proposed by using exact and inexact line searches. This method is more efficient and robust when applied on number of well-known nonlinear test function.…”
Get full text

A prospective clinical study of functional exercises beforearteriovenostomy by CHEN Hao, LIU Juan

“…Objective To study the effect of preoperative functional exercises on the success rate of arteriovenostomy and postoperative complications.Methods The subjects were randomly divided into two groups:preoperative non-exercise group and preoperative exercise group.The age,sex,APACHE II score and serum Cystatin C value before operation,and cephalic vein diameter,hemoglobin,platelet,albumin,and cholesterol two months before operation and on the operation day were collected.And the subjects were observed for half a year after operation.The observation indicators included the success of internal fistula surgery,the maturation time of internal fistula,the use time of internal fistula,the blood flow of the brachial artery,and postoperative complications.And the differences between the groups were analyzed.Results There were 75 patients in the non-exercise group and 76 patients in the two-month exercise group.Overall success rate of surgery was 92.1%.The success rate of preoperative exercise group was 94.7%,and that of preoperative non-exercise group was 89.3%,with statistically significant difference between the two groups(P=0.03).The preoperative exercise group had a blood flow at the fistular orifice more than the non-exercise group by 38.8 ml/min.The average fistular maturation time in the exercise group was shorter than that in the non-exercise group by 4 days,with statistically significant difference between the two groups.However,there were no significant differences between the two groups in the comparison of the use time of internal fistula and the incidence of postoperative complications.Conclusions Functional exercises before arteriovenostomy can improve the success rate of surgery and increase the brachial blood flow,but it does not prolong the survival time of internal fistula or reduce the complication incidence.…”
Get full text

Genetic modifiers of MeCP2 function in Drosophila. by Holly N Cukier, Alma M Perez, Ann L Collins, Zhaolan Zhou, Huda Y Zoghbi, Juan Botas

“…The levels of methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) are critical for normal post-natal development and function of the nervous system. Loss of function of MeCP2, a transcriptional regulator involved in chromatin remodeling, causes classic Rett syndrome (RTT) as well as other related conditions characterized by autism, learning disabilities, or mental retardation. …”
Get full text