OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the acute hemodynamic responses to multiple sets of passive stretching exercises performed with and without the Valsalva maneuver.METHODS: Fifteen healthy men aged 21 to 29 years with poor flexibility performed stretching protocols comprising 10 sets of maximal passive unilateral hip flexion, sustained for 30 seco
Digital Elevation Model (DEM)-based mountain vertex extraction is one of the most useful DEM applications, providing important information to properly characterize topographic features.Current vertex-extraction techniques have considerable limitations, such as yielding low-accuracy results and generating false mountain vertices.To overcome these li
The shortage of registered nurses (RNs) is a challenging situation in many developed and developing countries, and this poise pads in bulk phenomenon is expected to exacerbate in the coming years, given the rise in life expectancy at birth.Many scholars emphasize the importance of RNs in achieving quality care, preventing complications, and achievi
ABSTRACT Uncultured and therefore uncharacterized Bacteroidetes lineages are ubiquitous in many natural ecosystems which specialize in lignocellulose degradation.However, their metabolic contribution remains mysterious, as well-studied here cultured Bacteroidetes have been shown to degrade only soluble polysaccharides within the human distal gut an