Circadian phenotype influence on neuromuscular performance in male volleyball players

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Humanizing Intensive Care : Toward a Human-Centered Care ICU Model

Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. All rights reserved.This change in the management model is transforming the reality of the ICUs, adding value to the experience of patients, families, and professionals. There is still a long way to go, but we are moving toward evolving into human-centered ICU model.Non peer reviewe

Beta-Blockers after Myocardial Infarction without Reduced Ejection Fraction

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Boredom and Desire : When Locke Felt Uneasy and Leopardi Yawned

Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This article explores John Locke’s innovative reflections on desire and uneasiness, pleasure and pain, and investigates how Locke’s considerations affect Giacomo Leopardi and his theoretical work on the same categories. To justify this filiation, I emphasize Francesco Soave’s important translation of “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” as a mediating influence for Leopardi’s re-elaboration of these concepts. I firstly focus on the importance that desire and uneasiness acquire in Locke’s treatise and the relevance of these categories for eighteen-century hedonism. I then turn to Leopardi’s discussion of “teoria del piacere” and analyze how it dialogues with and diverges from Locke’s perspective. While Locke generally assigns precedence to uneasiness, Leopardi reclaims the prominence of desire through his specific understanding of noia. Rather than coinciding with an unpleasant discomfort to remove, Leopardi’s noia embodies the vibrating protension of desire toward a constitutionally unreachable infinite pleasure. By ascribing an a-dialectical character to noia, Leopardi subverts the stance shared by Locke, classic hedonism, and Romanticism with regard to desire and uneasiness, along with pleasure and pain. Indeed, Leopardi’s noia corresponds to a desire that is not sublated through the consummation brought about by either the delight of pleasure or the discomfort of pain.Non peer reviewe

Shear-Wave Elastography Supports That Muscle Stiffness Should Not Be Considered a Criterion to Determine the Presence of Myofascial Trigger Points in the Infraspinatus Muscle

Publisher Copyright: © Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.Objective – This study aimed to determine latent myofascial trigger points and asymptomatic surrounding areas differences in pain pressure thresholds and shear-wave elastography metrics differences. Design – Latent myofascial trigger points and asymptomatic control points were identified within the infraspinatus muscle. A blinded examiner assessed the pain pressure thresholds and acquired three shear-wave elastography images of each location. Pain pressure threshold and shear-wave elastography scores were compared by location (myofascial trigger point and control) and gender. Finally, correlations among demographics, pain pressure thresholds, and shear-wave elastography data were calculated. Results – Forty participants were analyzed. Pain pressure thresholds were significantly lower in latent myofascial trigger points compared with control points in males (P = 0.003) and females (P 0.05) nor between males and females (myofascial trigger point and control points, P > 0.05). In contrast with the accepted myofascial trigger point definition, those areas with greater pain pressure thresholds exhibited greater stiffness via shear-wave elastography (P < 0.01). Conclusions – Although pain pressure threshold scores indicated significant differences in hyperirritability between latent myofascial trigger points and control points, shear-wave elastography measurements revealed no significant differences in muscle stiffness. Furthermore, muscle stiffness was significantly associated with greater pain pressure threshold scores, challenging the hypothesis that stiffer areas can be identified as myofascial trigger points or sources of pain.Peer reviewe

Muscular strength and power and endurance performance at loads exceeding 25% of one-repetition maximum are unaffected by time-of-day in resistance-trained male participants

Publisher Copyright: © 2025 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.The aim of this study was to examine the influence of the time-of-day on muscular strength, power and endurance performance in resistance-trained individuals. Fourteen resistance-trained males (age: 26.3 ± 6.7 years) underwent a randomized, counterbalanced cross-over trial. After a familiarization session, participants underwent two trials performing in the morning (9:00 h) and in the evening (18:00 h) a muscular strength and power assessment for bench press and back squat exercises at 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, and 100% of one-repetition maximum (1RM). Then, muscular endurance was assessed for both exercises at 65%1RM, performing one set until failure. Once completed, isometric strength and vertical jump capacity (CMJ) tests were also performed. Only back squat exercise at 25% 1RM reported higher performance in the evening compared to the morning at mean velocity and mean and peak power (11–13%, p = 0.018–0.031, g = 1.91–2.20). Also, CMJ power was higher in the evening compared to the morning trial (2.5%, p = 0.002, g = 0.23). No statistical differences were found in the remaining loads, exercises or tests. In conclusion, circadian rhythm affects muscular strength and power performance at low (≤25% 1RM) but not moderate-to-higher loads in resistance-trained male participants, an effect observed in lower-body (e.g. back squat and vertical jump) but not in upper-body exercises (e.g. bench press).Non peer reviewe

Shear Wave Elastography for Measuring the Stiffness of Latent Trigger Points and Surrounding Areas in the Infraspinatus Muscle : Intra- and Interexaminer Reliability Analysis

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Caleido. El mito de la torre bella: viaje hacia el conocimiento

El ser humano sigue interpelando hoy, como siempre, a lo desconocido, a través de las diferentes disci-plinas artísticas. Pero ¿qué preguntas se hace el hombre en la sociedad actual? ¿Ha cambiado su forma de preguntar? ¿Es posible la representación artística de lo numinoso en la escena contemporánea? ¿De qué forma se refleja en el arte moderno la comunicación del hombre del siglo xxi con lo religioso? Este trabajo plantea un análisis comparado entre La Odisea de Homero y la película 2001: Odisea del espacio, del director Stanley Kubrick. El propósito de esta propuesta es poner en comunicación lo especular con lo espectacular: establecer un diálogo entre la literatura y el cine, de manera que, partiendo de La Odisea de Homero, puedan evaluarse con exactitud los procedimientos de adaptación utilizados por Stanley Kubrick para rodar 2001: Odisea del espacio. Se tomará la obra arquitectónica Caleido como espacio simbólico de representación, poniéndola en conexión con el mito de la creación simbolizado en el icó-nico monolito de la película 2001: Odisea del espacio, monolito en el que se inspiraron los estudios de arquitectura Fenwick Iribarren y Serrano-Suñer para edificar la llamada quinta torre: Caleido.18 p

Burnet, Kant y la teología física: : A propósito de un libro de S. J. Gould

El artículo estudia algunos aspectos del pensamiento de S.J. Gould, valorando positivamente el alcance del principio de los llamados “magisterios no superponibles” y su toma de posición crítica sobre la pretendida inconciliabilidad entre ciencia y fe, a pesar de la ausencia en su pensamiento de la filosofía como mediación imprescindible entre las referidas instancias epistemológicas. En conexión con ello se presentan algunos aspectos procedentes de la historia de la ciencia, en particular el concordismo de Thomas Burnet, la emergente nueva teología natural, llamada entonces teología física, y la aguda crítica de Kant de esta nueva teología, tan caracterísitca de la cultura científica y cristiana de la Inglaterra del siglo XVII.Peer reviewe

Excellent long-term device survival of inflatable penile prosthesis over 27 years

Publisher Copyright: ©The Author(s)(2025)The study aimed to assess the long-term device survival of a 3-piece inflatable penile prosthesis (PP) in patients with erectile dysfunction (ED). This retrospective observational longitudinal study involved patients with drug-refractory ED who underwent primary 3-piece inflatable PP implantation at a single center from 1992 to 2019. The outcomes included complications of various inflatable PP models, and Kaplan–Meier analysis was used to estimate the probability of PP survival. Of the total 426 patients, 140 (32.9%) were implanted in the period of 1992–2000, 128 (30.0%) in the period of 2001–2008, and 158 (37.1%) in the period of 2009–2019. The PP used in the study included AMS 700 CX (62.0%, n = 264), AMS 700 CXR (7.7%, n = 33), AMS Ultrex Plus (10.3%, n = 44), and Alpha I (20.0%, n = 85). The overall complication rate was 28.2% (120/426), and the majority happened after 6 months. The causes of device removal included mechanical failure (11.0%, n = 47), infection (3.9%, n = 17), cylinder extrusion (6.3%, n = 27), and unspecified (0.2%, n = 1). Of the total mechanical failures (n = 47), 18 (38.3%) occurred in the cylinders, 10 (21.3%) occurred in the pump, 7 (14.9%) occurred in the reservoir, 6 (12.8%) occurred in the connections, and 6 (12.8%) were nonspecific. Global average survival rates of the PP at 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, and 15 years were 96.2%, 86.7%, 77.5%, and 58.7%, respectively. The 3-piece inflatable PP has an excellent device survival rate at 5 years and 10 years.Non peer reviewe