Thesis (M.S.)--Missouri State University, 2008. / "December 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 21-22). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. / Committee Chair: Oshinski, John N.; Committee Member: Fyfe, Derek A.; Committee Member: León, Angel R.; Committee Member: Skrinjar, Oskar; Committee Member: Taylor, W. Robert.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2009. / Title from screen (viewed on August 27, 2009). Department of Medical Neuroscience, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Joseph DiMicco. Includes vita. Non-Latin script record Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-140).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Arkansas State University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 25-28). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (M.S.E.S.)--Arkansas State University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 25-28).

Orientador: Guilherme de Camargo Ferraz / Marcos Jun Watanabe / José Corrêa de Lacerda Neto / Resumo: Objetivou-se caracterizar a frequência cardíaca máxima (FCMÁX), a intensidade da prova de marcha oficial e comparar o custo de transporte (COT) e a energia metabólica (P) de equinos da raça Mangalarga Marchador (MM) de marcha picada (MP) ou batida (MB). Ao todo 22 equinos da raça MM participaram deste estudo. O experimento foi realizado em três fases: 1) teste de esforço máximo (TEM), 2) provas oficiais de marcha (POM) e 3) teste padronizado de marcha (TMP). Para caracterizar a FCMÁX, 19 equinos (14 de MB e 5 de MP) realizaram um TEM. Destes, 13 (9 de MB e 4 de MP) foram monitorados durante a POM que foi composta por 4 etapas: marcha, passo, prova funcional e estação. A média da FC de cada etapa da POM foi relacionada à FCMÁX para determinação da sua intensidade relativa. O TPM foi realizado com 14 equinos (9 de MB e 5 de MP), dos quais 11 já haviam participado das etapas anteriores. O COT e P foram calculados a partir dos valores de frequência cardíaca (FC) obtidos durante o TMP. Amostras sanguíneas foram coletadas para análise da concentração plasmática de lactato [Lac]. Aplicou-se o teste t de student e ANOVA de uma via seguida pelo teste Holm-Sidak (P<0,05). A FCMÁX média foi de 211±11 e 214±11 bpm para os grupos MB e MP, respectivamente, não havendo diferença (P>0,05) entre eles. A [Lac] aumentou em decorrência do TEM, sem diferença entre os grupos. Isto indicou que os grupos possuíam a mesma aptidão física. As etapas da POM definidas no nosso estudo diferiram quanto à i... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This study aimed to characterize the maximum heart rate (HRMÁX), the intensity of the official marcha test (OMT) and compare the cost of transport (COT) and metabolic power (P) of Mangalarga Marchador (MM) horses of marcha batida (MB) and marcha picada (MP). Twenty-two MM horses participated in this study. The experiment was conducted in three phases: 1) maximal effort test (MET), 2) official marcha test (OMT) and 3) standardized walk test (SWT). To characterize the HRMÁX, 19 horses (14 MB and 5 MP) underwent a MET. Of these, 13 (9 MB and 4 MP) were monitored during the OWT that consisted of 4 stages: walk, marcha, functional test and rest. The average HR in each stage of OMT was correlated to the HRMÁX to determine their relative intensity. The SWT was performed with 14 horses (9 MB and 5 MP), of which 11 had already participated in the previous stages. The COT and P were calculated from the heart rate values (HR) obtained during the SWT. Blood samples were collected to analyze plasma lactate concentration [Lac]. Student t test and one-way ANOVA followed by Holm-Sidak test (P <0.05) were used to analyze the results. The average HRMÁX was 211 ± 11 and 214 ± 11 bpm for the MB and MP groups, respectively, with no difference (P> 0.05) between them. The [Lac] increased as a result of MET, with no difference between groups. This indicated that horses of both groups had the same physical fitness levels. The OMT stages defined in our study differed regarding the relative intensity o... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

This study concerns machine-to-machine (M2M) applications that use smartcards. More specifically,The Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) smart card is used for the purpose of monitoring a continuousnetwork connection between a host device and a server. Multicom Security is a security company thatoffers several secure communication connection services (e.g. payment transactions, alarm signals). Themonitoring of these connections is carried out with continuous heart-beat messages sent from thedevice to a server. Today they provide this heart-beat service through logic in their own manufactureddevices, but they have a desire to place the logic on a SIM card in order to be able to move such serviceswith this card and not with a device. Such services can then also be offered on devices not necessarilymanufactured by Multicom Security.The work consisted of investigation of current telecommunication standards, papers regardingsmartcard applications and the current monitoring service, in order to consider possible solutions toimplement a proof of concept of such solution and evaluate it. One aspect of the study was to checkwhether the implemented solution was general and would work in different mobile equipments and alsoto determine the limitations of such smartcard applications.Three solutions were considered for implementation of which one was successfully implemented andtested. The successful heart-beat application was developed using a network subscription enabled JavaCard smart card and using SMS as bearer for the heart-beat messages. By evaluating the solution withbasic tests of functionality, robustness, performance and compatibility the solution was considered to begeneral and compliant with most new mobile equipments. The evaluation was performed in realenvironment with the application running on an actual SIM card with network subscription tested indifferent mobile devices such as cell phones, built-in communication modules and alarm control panels.An alternative solution based on GRPS instead of SMS was also realized but the tests could not becarried out completely due to lack of access to the SIM card implementation by the card provider.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Dissertation (MA (HMS))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Biokinetics, Sport and Leisure Sciences / unrestricted

Boucharq and Corson (1976) found that subjects required to lower heart rate to avoid the loss of money used the strategy of attending to meaningless stimulation twice as often as subjects required to lower heart rates to obtain money, and that subjects decreasing heart rate to avoid the loss of money performed significantly better than subjects required to lower heart rate to obtain money. Seven male and seven female undergraduates participated in a study designed to test the hypothesis that visual focusing on meaningless stimulation and biofeedback would produce larger heart rate decreases than biofeedback alone. Each subject attended three baseline sessions followed by six treatment sessions in which subjects experienced either biofeedback and the meaningless stimulus, or biofeedback alone. The principal dependent measure was heart rate, although frontalis EMG, and EEG Alpha/Theta production were recorded for correlation with heart rate. The results showed that the biofeedback and meaningless stimulus group showed significantly higher heart rates on four of the six treatment sessions when compared to the biofeedback alone group, although neither group evidenced a learning curve. Correlations between heart rate and EMG, and heart rate and EEG frequencies were nonsignificant for all sessions. The findings of this study do not support Bouchard and Corson's (1976) hypothesis that subjects who learned to reduce heart rate did so by focusing attention on meaningless stimulation.