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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Stress test"”.
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Prediction of performance time on a treadmill stress test following a Bruce protocol
… data, could be developed to predict treadmill test time when following a Bruce protocol. One hundred and eight subjects completed the questionnaire and performed treadmill tests. A stepwise regression analysis was used to develop equations from the research parameters established on the …
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A Novel Cognitive Stress Test for the Detection of Early Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans
… impairment (aMCI), on a novel cognitive stress test, the Loewenstein-Acevedo Scale of Semantic Interference and Learning (LASSI-L) and found that those with aMCI exhibit more impairment in their initial learning and storage of information and suffer from proactive semantic interference …
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Liquidity facilities and signaling
… IMF CCL as the introduction of an imperfect stress test that countries may voluntarily take. If the stress test is good enough, the IMF generates a Pareto improvement by providing target economies with a cheaper way to separate from weaker economies. However, if the quality of the stress test …
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The Effects of Acute Psychosocial Stress on Cognitive Performance
… was to examine the effects of acute psychosocial stress on cognitive performance. Psychosocial stress evolves from the perceived presence of a social evaluative threat and results in the activation of the home hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. As part of this reaction the stress hormone …
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Robust optimization for portfolio risk : a ravisit of worst-case risk management procedures after Basel III award.
… encourage us to construct a forward-looking stress test procedure based on robust portfolio optimization under regime switches. For this purpose, the Markov chain process is embedded into robust optimization procedure in order to stress regime transition matrix. In addition, assets returns, …
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Reduce Inappropriate Cardiac Stress Testing by Improving Adherence to Educational Guidelines
… for nuclear and non-nuclear cardiac stress testing to promote appropriate test selection and improve patient outcomes. Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, with coronary artery disease responsible for more than half of all …
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Stress and decision-making in a Developing world context
This paper gauges the effect of physiological stress on time preference in the urban poor from informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Using a standardized psychosocial stress challenge (the Trier social stress test (TSST)) to induce stress in a randomized setting, we attempt to estimate the effect …
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Circulatory, hormonal, and metabolic effects of arbutamine compared to exercise in persons with known or suspected coronary artery disease
The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that arbutamine, a specific B₁-adrenergic agonist, will not cause different circulatory and physiologic effects than the less specific endogenous catecholamines released in response to an exercise stress test in persons with known or suspected …
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Correlation of three standard shear tests for unidirectional glass-epoxy composites
… experimentally by three standard shear tests. The tests consisted of short beam interlaminar shear tests, saw-cut shear tests, and torsion tests on circumferentially wound cylinders. Test results show that the short beam interlaminar shear tests and the torsion tests of circumferentially …
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Studio e validazione di una nuova metodica per la valutazione dello stato di forma
… 77 years. All subjects performed two different tests: for being scientifically acknowledged, the first one was used as a reference and it was a stress test (CPX). During the entire test, heart rate and gas exchange were recorded continuously; the second, the actual object of this study, was a …
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Supervisory Risk Assessment in a Basel Environment:The Stress Testing of Banks in Botswana
The study uses stress testing to determine the need, if any, for additional capital and/or provisioning for commercial banks in Botswana. The aim is to probe the use of supervisory stress testing as a mitigating factor to some concerns that have been raised with the Basel capital adequacy ratio …
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Probing the influence of relative humidity and temperature on the sulfonated silica ceramic carbon electrode for PEM fuel cell operation
… of its hydrophilic and durable nature. Fuel cell testing and diagnostic tools like cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy have been utilized to evaluate polarization losses of different membrane electrode assembly (MEA) configurations for various operating conditions. The …
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Experimental Analysis on Aging of Integrated Circuits
… circuits due to NBTI and HCI effects on a 90nm test chips. From the experiments conducted, frequency degradation due to NBTI is about 2.5% - 3% after the chip is stressed using burn-in at an elevated voltage of 1.8 volts and 135°C temperature. AC stress test was also performed by providing AC …
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Análise da Utilização de Produtos Ambientalmente Amigáveis como Inibidores de Corrosão em Ambientes Contendo CO2
… From an experimental design, eight blends were tested. In addition, the effects of shear stress, test duration, pH value and the iron carbonate film previously formed on the metal surface were also evaluated. The results indicated which blends are stable and capable to provide corrosion …
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Risk Management in Air Traffic Applications: Data-Driven Modeling, Prediction, and Generation of Realistic Weather Disruptions and Other Unfavorable Conditions
… and using them to make predictions, and generate test cases to stress-test proposed design decisions. In this thesis, we develop a hierarchical Bayesian model for air traffic network operations, and investigate methods for learning these models in data-constrained settings, by extend existing work …
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Fast Reducer Hyperobjects
… performance of a benchmark suite designed to stress-test reducers sees a geometric average improvement of 25.74% and a maximum improvement of 88.32%. This thesis also investigates ``commutative'' reducers, a proposed reducer optimization premised on restricted semantics, but finds they yield a …
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The effects of hyaluronic acid and exercise on equine skeletal muscle
… muscle of horses performing a single exercise stress test, a commercial sodium hyaluronate (HA) treatment was administered and tested for anti-inflammatory properties. Unfit, adult Thoroughbreds were intravenously injected three times with HA or received no injection at all (CON) over a 3-week …
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Housing Market, Banking Sector and Macroeconomy in China
… we employ a credit risk and macroeconomic stress test to investigate the vulnerability of the commercial banks in China. Our originality here is the integration of both the role of shadow banking and housing market related loans in the commercial banks’ stress test scenarios at the macro …
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Feasibility Of An Exercise Intervention For Homeless Cocaine-Using Men
… completed an initial graded exercise “stress” test. Standardized, vigorous-intensity exercise intervention sessions were held 3 times per week for 6 weeks at a homeless shelter. Heart rate/blood pressure were assessed before/after each exercise session. Urine drug screens were …
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