281 research outputs found
Ergogenic Effect of Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation During Rest and Submaximal Exercise
International Journal of Exercise Science 12(3): 203-213, 2019. The primary aim of this investigation was to determine the ergogenic effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) amongst twenty apparently healthy males during submaximal exercise. In Session 1, 20 participants (Age = 35.0 ± 15.0 yrs; Height = 179.9 ± 8.5 cm; Body Mass = 85.4 ± 12.0 kg) were familiarized with all equipment. Sessions 2-4 included the following randomized 5-min trials a) Rest and Rest+NMES, b) Rest, Arms-Only, Arms+NMES, and c) Rest, Arms+Legs, Arms+Legs+NMES. Physiological variables collected during rest and submaximal exercise were volume of oxygen (VO2), heart rate (HR), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP), respiratory exchange ratio (RER), and rate pressure product (RPP). Paired sample t-test was used to determine significant mean differences between the NMES and non-NMES trials. Bonferroni post-hoc analysis established alpha at 0.008. From the 18 paired t-tests, the only observed significant mean difference (t(19) = -6.4, p \u3c 0.001) was RER values between the Arms-Only trial compared to the Arms+NMES trial (0.94 and 1.00, respectively). While RER displayed a significant difference, from a practical perspective, however, these differences were deemed non-physiologically significant. Viewed in concert, findings from this study suggests that NMES utilization does not evoke an acute ergogenic effect amongst an apparently healthy male population
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Casino CRM: Issues and Some Implementation
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software allows companies to manage their contact with their customers. It is critical for every industry to have a wealth of information about each customer’s preferences. CRM allows companies to integrate customer information with marketing promotions that results in higher profitability for the company. For the gaming industry, CRM software has allowed them to manage their customers’ preferences, track their expenditures, and provide them with offers and services that generate value for each customer. However, technology must be supplemented by a customer-centric organizational policy to fully realize the benefits of CR
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Check 21: The New Technological Drive Towards Paperless Banking
Over the last decade, banks have spent a great deal of resources on technology improvements. With decreasing interest rate spreads, banks are being forced to look for new ways to increase profits. Recently, new legislation was passed that will allow banks to become more efficient in check truncation through technology. The new legislation is commonly referred to as Check 21. If used properly. Check 21 will increase employee efficiency and reduce other operational costs such as courier services. This paper examines the short history of Check 21 and discusses how technology affects banks profitability. Key areas where banks can become more efficient with the help of the new technology will also be determined. The paper will give ROl, NPV, and IRR estimates for what the new technology investments will provide. There is also a checklist for managers that will help determine the best technology for their banks
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Electronic Medical Record System: Current Status and Its Use to Support Universal Healthcare System
Information technology’s use in the United States healthcare marketplace, known as health IT (HIT), significantly lags behind that of other industries and leaves much room for improvement. While many industries already use information technology (IT) to improve efficiency, the healthcare industry has not made any significant progress toward widespread use of HIT. Although some hospitals and physician clinics have begun using HIT, the industry as a whole is still pessimistic toward the improvement and implementation of costly HIT functions such as electronic medical records (EMR) and their interoperability in current and future healthcare systems. As federal mandate requires all healthcare providers to implement EMR system by 2014, this study suggests an integrated framework that would make EMR a vital component to ensure the success of the new universal healthcare system
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Strategies for Successfully Implementing a Virtualization Project: A Case with Vmware
Virtualization has become one of the hottest information technologies in the past few years. Yet, despite the proclaimed cost savings and efficiency improvement, implementation of the virtualization involves high degree of uncertainty, and consequently a great possibility of failures. Experience from managing the VMware based project activities at several companies are reported as the examples to illustrate how to increase the chance of successfully implementing a virtualization project
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Mobile Commerce: Assessing New Business Opportunities
Mobile commerce has become the latest topic for today. Business organizations have been restlessly evaluating the revenue potential of the m-commerce market and developing business models to exploit the huge profit potential of this new market. In this project we try to provide an overview of the fundamentals about m-commerce. This paper attempts to help business managers, particularly those without IT background, to understand the key elements and basic concepts of m-commerce and to assess the impact of m-commerce on current and future businesses as well as to identify new business opportunities
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Implementing Self-Service Technology To Gain Competitive Advantages
Choosing, implementing and managing effective self-service technologies are challenging tasks for most firms. While some self-service technologies could be quickly adopted, others are resisted. This paper examines what a firm should consider in order to encourage customers to at least try, and eventually adopt, the SST offered by a firm into the customer\u27s regular routine. Factors that encourage the customer to try a new self-service technology for the first time and factors impact customer satisfaction and dissatisfaction will be addressed. A practical guideline for developing and implementing successful SST will be proposed
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