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Manchester Metropolitan University
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About: Manchester Metropolitan University is a education organization based out in Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 5435 authors who have published 16202 publications receiving 442561 citations. The organization is also known as: Manchester Polytechnic & MMU.
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TL;DR: The remaining impression materials studied showed greater surface deterioration on casts following disinfection with sodium hypochlorite than immersion in Perform, and all disinfection procedures selected proved appropriate for antibacterial purposes.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the way in which environmental factors and public perceptions influence airport development, together with methods of managing environmental capacity, and suggest that more attention needs to be given to defining and finding commercially viable ways of working within environmental limits.
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TL;DR: The present results show that repeated contractions induce tendon creep, which substantially affects the geometry of the in-series contracting muscles, thus altering their potential for force and joint moment generation.
Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of repeated contractions on the geometry of human skeletal muscle. Six men performed two sets (sets Aand B) of 10 repeated isometric plantarflexi...
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TL;DR: The kinetics of oxygen uptake was examined comprehensively during treadmill running across the moderate, heavy and severe exercise intensity domains.
Abstract: The purpose of the present study was to examine comprehensively the kinetics of oxygen uptake (
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) during treadmill running across the moderate, heavy and severe exercise intensity domains. Nine subjects [mean (SD age, 27 (7) years; mass, 69.8 (9.0) kg; maximum % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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, 4,137 (697) ml·min–1] performed a series of "square-wave" rest-to-exercise transitions of 6 min duration at running speeds equivalent to 80% and 100% of the % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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at lactate threshold (LT; moderate exercise); and at 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% of the difference between the % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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(Δ, heavy and severe exercise). Critical velocity (CV) was also determined using four maximal treadmill runs designed to result in exhaustion in 2–15 min. The % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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response was modelled using non-linear regression techniques. As expected, the amplitude of the % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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primary component increased with exercise intensity [from 1,868 (136) ml·min–1 at 80% LT to 3,296 (218) ml·min–1 at 100% Δ, P<0.05]. However, there was a non-significant trend for the "gain" of the primary component to decrease as exercise intensity increased [181 (7) ml·kg–1·km–1 at 80% LT to 160 (6) ml·kg–1·km–1 at 100% Δ]. The time constant of the primary component was not different between supra-LT running speeds (mean value range = 17.9–19.1 s), but was significantly shorter during the 80% LT trial [12.7 (1.4) s, P<0.05]. The % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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slow component increased with exercise intensity from 139 (39) ml·min–1 at 20% Δ to 487 (57) ml·min–1 at 80% Δ (P<0.05), but decreased to 317 (84) ml·min–1 during the 100% Δ trial (P<0.05). During both the 80% Δ and 100% Δ trials, the % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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[4,152 (242) ml·min–1 and 4,154 (114) ml·min–1, respectively]. Our results suggest that the "gain" of the primary component is not constant as exercise intensity increases across the moderate, heavy and severe domains of treadmill running. These intensity-dependent changes in the amplitudes and kinetics of the % MathType!MTEF!2!1!+-
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response profiles may be associated with the changing patterns of muscle fibre recruitment that occur as exercise intensity increases.
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TL;DR: A novel apparatus, composed of a controllable treadmill, a computer, and an ultrasonic range finder, is proposed to help investigation of many aspects of spontaneous locomotion and seems to be approximately 30% higher than the speed that minimizes the metabolic energy cost of walking, obtained from the literature, at all the investigated gradients.
Abstract: A novel apparatus, composed by a controllable treadmill, a computer, and an ultrasonic range finder, is here proposed to help investigation of many aspects of spontaneous locomotion. The accelerati...
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David T. Felson | 153 | 861 | 133514 |
João Carvalho | 126 | 1278 | 77017 |
Andrew M. Jones | 103 | 764 | 37253 |
Michael C. Carroll | 100 | 399 | 34818 |
Mark Conner | 98 | 379 | 47672 |
Richard P. Bentall | 94 | 431 | 30580 |
Michael Wooldridge | 87 | 543 | 50675 |
Lina Badimon | 86 | 682 | 35774 |
Ian Parker | 85 | 432 | 28166 |
Kamaruzzaman Sopian | 84 | 989 | 25293 |
Keith Davids | 84 | 604 | 25038 |
Richard Baker | 83 | 514 | 22970 |
Joan Montaner | 80 | 489 | 22413 |
Stuart Robert Batten | 78 | 325 | 24097 |
Craig E. Banks | 77 | 569 | 27520 |