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Exercise-induced respiratory muscle work: Effects on blood flow, fatigue and performance
This is the post print version of this article. The official published version can be obtained from the link below.In healthy subjects, heavy intensity endurance exercise places substantial demands on the respiratory muscles as breathing frequency, ventilation and the work of breathing rise over time. In the highly trained subject working at high absolute work rates, the ventilatory demand often causes varying degrees of expiratory flow limitation, sometimes accompanied by lung hyperinflation and, therefore, increased elastic work of breathing. Time-dependant increases in effort perceptions for both dyspnea and limb discomfort accompany these increased ventilatory demands. Similar responses to endurance exercise but at much lower exercise intensities also occur in patients with COPD and CHF. Note that these responses significantly influence exercise performance times in both health and disease. This effect was demonstrated by the marked reductions in the rate of rise of effort perceptions and the enhanced exercise performance times elicited by unloading the respiratory muscles using pressure support ventilation or proportional assist mechanical ventilation. In healthy fit subjects, unloading the inspiratory work of breathing by about one half increased performance by an average of 14% (Harms et al. 2000), and in CHF and COPD patients performance time more than doubled with respiratory muscle unloading (O’Donnell et al. 2001). Why are effort perceptions of limb discomfort markedly reduced and exercise performance increased when the respiratory muscles are unloaded? Our hypothesis is shown in Fig. 1
Zehn Jahre Euro - Bewährung in der Finanzkrise
Vom 13. bis 15. Februar 2009 fand in der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing unter der Leitung von Wolfgang Quaisser die Tagung "Zehn Jahre Euro - Bewährung in der Finanzkrise" statt. Einige der dort vorgestellten Referate sind hier dokumentiert. Joachim Starbatty, Universität Tübingen und Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft, weist auf die negativen Aspekte der Währungsunion hin. Die gegenwärtige Finanzkrise enthülle den wahren Charakter der Währungsunion: Sie stelle eine kostenlose Rückversicherung der schwachen, inflationierten und hochverschuldeten EWU-und EU-Länder dar. Jürgen Jerger, Universität Regensburg und Osteuropa-Institut, Regensburg, befasst sich mit der Frage, wie wünschenswert - vor dem Hintergrund der aktuellen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise - eine baldige Übernahme des Euro in den restlichen EU-Ländern sei. Theo Waigel, Bundesfinanzminister a. D., unterstreicht, dass gerade in dem schwierigen Umfeld der Finanzmarktkrise und des konjunkturellen Einbruchs in Europa der Stabilitätspakt der geeignete Rahmen für haushaltspolitische Koordinierungen im Eurogebiet sei. Für Jürgen Stark, Europäische Zentralbank, haben der Euro und die gemeinsame europäische Geldpolitik in den letzten zehn Jahren eine Entwicklung vollzogen, "die selbst für ausgewiesene Optimisten undenkbar schien". Den Nicht-Euroländern der EU sei aber von einer voreiligen und überhasteten Einführung des Euro abzuraten. Manfred J.M. Neumann, Universität Bonn, setzt sich kritisch mit der Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank auseinander. Es sei die Frage zu stellen, ob die EZB nicht im Windschatten der Fed über Jahre hin eine zu expansive Niedrigzinspolitik geführt und damit ihrerseits Bedingungen geschaffen habe, die zum Entstehen der schweren internationalen Finanzmarktkrise beigetragen hätten.Euro, Finanzkrise, Geldmenge, Zentralbank, Währungsunion, Geldpolitik, Europäische Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion, EU-Stabilitätspakt, EU-Staaten
Absence of lattice strain anomalies at the electronic topological transition in zinc at high pressure
High pressure structural distortions of the hexagonal close packed (hcp)
element zinc have been a subject of controversy. Earlier experimental results
and theory showed a large anomaly in lattice strain with compression in zinc at
about 10 GPa which was explained theoretically by a change in Fermi surface
topology. Later hydrostatic experiments showed no such anomaly, resulting in a
discrepancy between theory and experiment. We have computed the compression and
lattice strain of hcp zinc over a wide range of compressions using the
linearized augmented plane wave (LAPW) method paying special attention to
k-point convergence. We find that the behavior of the lattice strain is
strongly dependent on k-point sampling, and with large k-point sets the
previously computed anomaly in lattice parameters under compression disappears,
in agreement with recent experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, Phys. Rev. B (in press
A Laser Frequency Comb System for Absolute Calibration of the VTT Echelle Spectrograph
A wavelength calibration system based on a laser frequency comb (LFC) was
developed in a co-operation between the Kiepenheuer-Institut f\"ur
Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany and the Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur Quantenoptik,
Garching, Germany for permanent installation at the German Vacuum Tower
Telescope (VTT) on Tenerife, Canary Islands. The system was installed
successfully in October 2011. By simultaneously recording the spectra from the
Sun and the LFC, for each exposure a calibration curve can be derived from the
known frequencies of the comb modes that is suitable for absolute calibration
at the meters per second level. We briefly summarize some topics in solar
physics that benefit from absolute spectroscopy and point out the advantages of
LFC compared to traditional calibration techniques. We also sketch the basic
setup of the VTT calibration system and its integration with the existing
echelle spectrograph.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures; Solar Physics 277 (2012
Potato cultivar response to seasonal drought patterns
The ability to minimize potato yield and quality losses due to drought can be greatly improved by understanding the relative responses of different cultivars to seasonal variations in water supply. To address this need, we initiated a two year field experiment to determine the responses of the six potato cultivars to different seasonal drought patterns, including 1) full season irrigation at 100% ET, 2) irrigation at 100% ET terminated during late bulking , 3) full season irrigation at 70% ET , 4) irrigation at 70% ET terminated during late bulking , and 5) a gradual reduction in irrigation from 100% ET during tuber initiation through early bulking, to 70% ET during mid-bulking, and 50% ET through late bulking. GemStar Russet and Ranger Russet, two medium-late maturing cultivars, generally produced the highest yields across the range of drought treatments, but both were fairly sensitive to changes in drought severity. Alturas, a late maturing cultivar, produced relatively high yields with full irrigation, but exhibited the greatest sensitivity to increasing drought severity, particularly when severe late-season water deficits were imposed. Yields for the early maturing cultivar Russet Norkotah were relatively low overall, but it was the least sensitive to changes in drought severity, particularly when late season drought was imposed. Russet Burbank produced comparatively high total yields across the range of drought treatments, but U.S. No. 1 yields were substantially reduced by each seasonal drought pattern. However, it was less sensitive to changes in drought severity than GemStar Russet, Ranger Russet and Alturas. Total and U.S. No. 1 yields for Summit Russet were low for each drought treatment and it exhibited intermediate sensitivity to changes in drought severity. GemStar Russet had the highest water use efficiency based on U.S. No. 1 yield
An approximate renormalization-group transformation for Hamiltonian systems with three degrees of freedom
We construct an approximate renormalization transformation that combines
Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM)and renormalization-group techniques, to analyze
instabilities in Hamiltonian systems with three degrees of freedom. This scheme
is implemented both for isoenergetically nondegenerate and for degenerate
Hamiltonians. For the spiral mean frequency vector, we find numerically that
the iterations of the transformation on nondegenerate Hamiltonians tend to
degenerate ones on the critical surface. As a consequence, isoenergetically
degenerate and nondegenerate Hamiltonians belong to the same universality
class, and thus the corresponding critical invariant tori have the same type of
scaling properties. We numerically investigate the structure of the attracting
set on the critical surface and find that it is a strange nonchaotic attractor.
We compute exponents that characterize its universality class.Comment: 10 pages typeset using REVTeX, 7 PS figure
Fractal Properties of Robust Strange Nonchaotic Attractors in Maps of Two or More Dimensions
We consider the existence of robust strange nonchaotic attractors (SNA's) in
a simple class of quasiperiodically forced systems. Rigorous results are
presented demonstrating that the resulting attractors are strange in the sense
that their box-counting dimension is N+1 while their information dimension is
N. We also show how these properties are manifested in numerical experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 14 figure
Computing gravitational waves from slightly nonspherical stellar collapse to black hole: Odd-parity perturbation
Nonspherical stellar collapse to a black hole is one of the most promising
gravitational wave sources for gravitational wave detectors. We numerically
study gravitational waves from a slightly nonspherical stellar collapse to a
black hole in linearized Einstein theory. We adopt a spherically collapsing
star as the zeroth-order solution and gravitational waves are computed using
perturbation theory on the spherical background. In this paper we focus on the
perturbation of odd-parity modes. Using the polytropic equations of state with
polytropic indices and 3, we qualitatively study gravitational waves
emitted during the collapse of neutron stars and supermassive stars to black
holes from a marginally stable equilibrium configuration. Since the matter
perturbation profiles can be chosen arbitrarily, we provide a few types for
them. For , the gravitational waveforms are mainly characterized by a
black hole quasinormal mode ringing, irrespective of perturbation profiles
given initially. However, for , the waveforms depend strongly on the
initial perturbation profiles. In other words, the gravitational waveforms
strongly depend on the stellar configuration and, in turn, on the ad hoc choice
of the functional form of the perturbation in the case of supermassive stars.Comment: 31 pages, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, typos and minor
errors correcte
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Evolutions with Black Hole Excision
We present a numerical code designed to study astrophysical phenomena
involving dynamical spacetimes containing black holes in the presence of
relativistic hydrodynamic matter. We present evolutions of the collapse of a
fluid star from the onset of collapse to the settling of the resulting black
hole to a final stationary state. In order to evolve stably after the black
hole forms, we excise a region inside the hole before a singularity is
encountered. This excision region is introduced after the appearance of an
apparent horizon, but while a significant amount of matter remains outside the
hole. We test our code by evolving accurately a vacuum Schwarzschild black
hole, a relativistic Bondi accretion flow onto a black hole, Oppenheimer-Snyder
dust collapse, and the collapse of nonrotating and rotating stars. These
systems are tracked reliably for hundreds of M following excision, where M is
the mass of the black hole. We perform these tests both in axisymmetry and in
full 3+1 dimensions. We then apply our code to study the effect of the stellar
spin parameter J/M^2 on the final outcome of gravitational collapse of rapidly
rotating n = 1 polytropes. We find that a black hole forms only if J/M^2<1, in
agreement with previous simulations. When J/M^2>1, the collapsing star forms a
torus which fragments into nonaxisymmetric clumps, capable of generating
appreciable ``splash'' gravitational radiation.Comment: 17 pages, 14 figures, submitted to PR
A guided tour of asynchronous cellular automata
Research on asynchronous cellular automata has received a great amount of
attention these last years and has turned to a thriving field. We survey the
recent research that has been carried out on this topic and present a wide
state of the art where computing and modelling issues are both represented.Comment: To appear in the Journal of Cellular Automat
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