Muscle Characteristics and Substrate Energetics in Lifelong Endurance Athletes.

PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to explore the effect of lifelong aerobic exercise (i.e., chronic training) on skeletal muscle substrate stores (intramyocellular triglyceride [IMTG] and glycogen), skeletal muscle phenotypes, and oxidative capacity (ox), in older endurance-trained master athletes (OA) compared with noncompetitive recreational younger (YA) athletes matched by frequency and mode of training. METHODS: Thirteen OA (64.8 ± 4.9 yr) exercising 5 times per week or more were compared with 14 YA (27.8 ± 4.9 yr) males and females. IMTG, glycogen, fiber types, succinate dehydrogenase, and capillarization were measured by immunohistochemistry in vastus lateralis biopsies. Fat-ox and carbohydrate (CHO)-ox were measured by indirect calorimetry before and after an insulin clamp and during a cycle ergometer graded maximal test. RESULTS: V˙O2peak was lower in OA than YA. The OA had greater IMTG in all fiber types and lower glycogen stores than YA. This was reflected in greater proportion of type I and less type II fibers in OA. Type I fibers were similar in size, whereas type II fibers were smaller in OA compared with YA. Both groups had similar succinate dehydrogenase content. Numbers of capillaries per fiber were reduced in OA but with a higher number of capillaries per area. Metabolic flexibility and insulin sensitivity were similar in both groups. Exercise metabolic efficiency was higher in OA. At moderate exercise intensities, carbohydrate-ox was lower in OA but with similar Fat-ox. CONCLUSIONS: Lifelong exercise is associated with higher IMTG content in all muscle fibers and higher metabolic efficiency during exercise that are not explained by differences in muscle fibers types and other muscle characteristics when comparing older with younger athletes matched by exercise mode and frequency.

Cycling Time Trial Is More Altered in Hypobaric than Normobaric Hypoxia

PURPOSE: Slight physiological differences between acute exposure in normobaric hypoxia (NH) and hypobaric hypoxia (HH) have been reported. Taken together, these differences suggest different physiological responses to hypoxic exposure to a simulated altitude (NH) versus a terrestrial altitude (HH). For this purpose, in the present study, we aimed to directly compare the time-trial performance after acute hypoxia exposure (26 h, 3450 min) by the same subjects under three different conditions: NH, HH, and normobaric normoxia (NN). Based on all of the preceding studies examining the differences among these hypoxic conditions, we hypothesized greater performance impairment in HH than in NH. METHODS: The experimental design consisted of three sessions: NN (Sion: FiO2, 20.93), NH (Sion, hypoxic room: FiO2, 13.6%; barometric pressure, 716 mm Hg), and HH (Jungfraujoch: FiO2, 20.93; barometric pressure, 481 mm Hg). The performance was evaluated at the end of each session with a cycle time trial of 250 kJ. RESULTS: The mean time trial duration in NN was significantly shorter than under the two hypoxic conditions (P < 0.001). In addition, the mean duration in NH was significantly shorter than that in HH (P < 0.01). The mean pulse oxygen saturation during the time trial was significantly lower for HH than for NH (P < 0.05), and it was significantly higher in NN than for the two other sessions (P < 0.001). CONCLUSION: As previously suggested, HH seems to be a more stressful stimulus, and NH and HH should not be used interchangeability when endurance performance is the main objective. The principal factor in this performance difference between hypoxic conditions seemed to be the lower peripheral oxygen saturation in HH at rest, as well as during exercise.

Similar Hemoglobin Mass Response in Hypobaric and Normobaric Hypoxia in Athletes

PURPOSE: To compare hemoglobin mass (Hbmass) changes during an 18-d live high-train low (LHTL) altitude training camp in normobaric hypoxia (NH) and hypobaric hypoxia (HH). METHODS: Twenty-eight well-trained male triathletes were split into three groups (NH: n = 10, HH: n = 11, control [CON]: n = 7) and participated in an 18-d LHTL camp. NH and HH slept at 2250 m, whereas CON slept, and all groups trained at altitudes <1200 m. Hbmass was measured in duplicate with the optimized carbon monoxide rebreathing method before (pre-), immediately after (post-) (hypoxic dose: 316 vs 238 h for HH and NH), and at day 13 in HH (230 h, hypoxic dose matched to 18-d NH). Running (3-km run) and cycling (incremental cycling test) performances were measured pre and post. RESULTS: Hbmass increased similar in HH (+4.4%, P < 0.001 at day 13; +4.5%, P < 0.001 at day 18) and NH (+4.1%, P < 0.001) compared with CON (+1.9%, P = 0.08). There was a wide variability in individual Hbmass responses in HH (-0.1% to +10.6%) and NH (-1.4% to +7.7%). Postrunning time decreased in HH (-3.9%, P < 0.001), NH (-3.3%, P < 0.001), and CON (-2.1%, P = 0.03), whereas cycling performance changed nonsignificantly in HH and NH (+2.4%, P > 0.08) and remained unchanged in CON (+0.2%, P = 0.89). CONCLUSION: HH and NH evoked similar Hbmass increases for the same hypoxic dose and after 18-d LHTL. The wide variability in individual Hbmass responses in HH and NH emphasizes the importance of individual Hbmass evaluation of altitude training.

Otto Engströmin kokoelma

Lääketieteen professori Otto Engströmin (1853-1919) kokoelma sisältää noin 6 000 nidettä lääketieteellistä kirjallisuutta. Kokoelma on kattava läpileikkaus gynekologian ja obstetriikan kehityksestä Euroopassa neljän vuosisadan aikana. Kokoelmaan kuuluu useita harvinaiskirjoja. Joukossa on runsaasti ranskalaisia väitöskirjoja. Engströmin kokoelman kirjoissa on kaksi erilaista exlibristä, toisen on suunnitellut Akseli Gallen-Kallela ja toisen Albert Edelfelt. Engströmille kuuluneet inkunaabelit on siirretty inkunaabelikokoelmaan.

Mir iskusstva 1-2 (1899)

Venäjällä syntyi 1800-luvun lopulla taiteilijaryhmiä, joista ehkä tunnetuin on Mir iskusstva eli Taiteen maailma. Ryhmä järjesti omia näyttelyitä, koska sen nuoret jäsenet olivat vielä sen verran tuntemattomia, että heitä ei kelpuutettu isoihin näyttelyihin. Vuosisadan taitteessa erilaisille ryhmille oli luonnollista julkaista omaa lehteä. Mir iskusstva –ryhmän keulahahmoihin kuulunut A. Benua kirjoitti: 'kirjoitan, siis olen'. Ryhmän idea oli 'taide ei ole ylellisyyttä, se on kansan aikaansaannosta ja sille luotua'. Päätoimittaja Sergej Djagilevin ajatuksena oli tehdä venäläistä maalaustaidetta tunnetuksi Pariisissa. Ryhmällä olikin suuri välittävä merkitys: se vei tietoa venäläisestä taiteesta Eurooppaan ja toi eurooppalaisen taiteen osaksi venäläistä taide-elämää. Myös suomalaisen taiteen kannalta tällä ryhmällä oli merkitystä. Heidän lehdessään esiteltiin Suomen taiteen suuret nimet: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, Pekka Halonen, Väinö Blomstedt, Eero Järnefelt, Magnus Enckell, Ville Wallgren. Vuonna 1898 Djagilev esitteli laajasti suomalaista taidetta perustamansa lehden ensimmäisessä numerossa. Nuoret pietarilaistaiteilijat olivat ihastuksissaan erityisesti Gallen-Kallelan edustamasta romantiikasta. Suomen taide ja arkkitehtuuri olivat myöhemminkin hyvin esillä lehdessä. Vuonna 1904, joka oli lehden viimeinen ilmestymisvuosi, esiteltiin suomalaisten taiteilijoiden vuoden 1903 näyttelyä.

Mir iskusstva 3-4 (1899)

Venäjällä syntyi 1800-luvun lopulla taiteilijaryhmiä, joista ehkä tunnetuin on Mir iskusstva eli Taiteen maailma. Ryhmä järjesti omia näyttelyitä, koska sen nuoret jäsenet olivat vielä sen verran tuntemattomia, että heitä ei kelpuutettu isoihin näyttelyihin. Vuosisadan taitteessa erilaisille ryhmille oli luonnollista julkaista omaa lehteä. Mir iskusstva –ryhmän keulahahmoihin kuulunut A. Benua kirjoitti: 'kirjoitan, siis olen'. Ryhmän idea oli 'taide ei ole ylellisyyttä, se on kansan aikaansaannosta ja sille luotua'. Päätoimittaja Sergej Djagilevin ajatuksena oli tehdä venäläistä maalaustaidetta tunnetuksi Pariisissa. Ryhmällä olikin suuri välittävä merkitys: se vei tietoa venäläisestä taiteesta Eurooppaan ja toi eurooppalaisen taiteen osaksi venäläistä taide-elämää. Myös suomalaisen taiteen kannalta tällä ryhmällä oli merkitystä. Heidän lehdessään esiteltiin Suomen taiteen suuret nimet: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, Pekka Halonen, Väinö Blomstedt, Eero Järnefelt, Magnus Enckell, Ville Wallgren. Vuonna 1898 Djagilev esitteli laajasti suomalaista taidetta perustamansa lehden ensimmäisessä numerossa. Nuoret pietarilaistaiteilijat olivat ihastuksissaan erityisesti Gallen-Kallelan edustamasta romantiikasta. Suomen taide ja arkkitehtuuri olivat myöhemminkin hyvin esillä lehdessä. Vuonna 1904, joka oli lehden viimeinen ilmestymisvuosi, esiteltiin suomalaisten taiteilijoiden vuoden 1903 näyttelyä.

Mir iskusstva 5 (1899)

Venäjällä syntyi 1800-luvun lopulla taiteilijaryhmiä, joista ehkä tunnetuin on Mir iskusstva eli Taiteen maailma. Ryhmä järjesti omia näyttelyitä, koska sen nuoret jäsenet olivat vielä sen verran tuntemattomia, että heitä ei kelpuutettu isoihin näyttelyihin. Vuosisadan taitteessa erilaisille ryhmille oli luonnollista julkaista omaa lehteä. Mir iskusstva –ryhmän keulahahmoihin kuulunut A. Benua kirjoitti: 'kirjoitan, siis olen'. Ryhmän idea oli 'taide ei ole ylellisyyttä, se on kansan aikaansaannosta ja sille luotua'. Päätoimittaja Sergej Djagilevin ajatuksena oli tehdä venäläistä maalaustaidetta tunnetuksi Pariisissa. Ryhmällä olikin suuri välittävä merkitys: se vei tietoa venäläisestä taiteesta Eurooppaan ja toi eurooppalaisen taiteen osaksi venäläistä taide-elämää. Myös suomalaisen taiteen kannalta tällä ryhmällä oli merkitystä. Heidän lehdessään esiteltiin Suomen taiteen suuret nimet: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Albert Edelfelt, Pekka Halonen, Väinö Blomstedt, Eero Järnefelt, Magnus Enckell, Ville Wallgren. Vuonna 1898 Djagilev esitteli laajasti suomalaista taidetta perustamansa lehden ensimmäisessä numerossa. Nuoret pietarilaistaiteilijat olivat ihastuksissaan erityisesti Gallen-Kallelan edustamasta romantiikasta. Suomen taide ja arkkitehtuuri olivat myöhemminkin hyvin esillä lehdessä. Vuonna 1904, joka oli lehden viimeinen ilmestymisvuosi, esiteltiin suomalaisten taiteilijoiden vuoden 1903 näyttelyä.

The Detector Control Systems for the CMS Resistive Plate Chamber at LHC

The RPC Detector Control System (RCS) is the main subject of this PhD work. The project, involving the Lappeenranta University of Technology, the Warsaw University and INFN of Naples, is aimed to integrate the different subsystems for the RPC detector and its trigger chain in order to develop a common framework to control and monitoring the different parts. In this project, I have been strongly involved during the last three years on the hardware and software development, construction and commissioning as main responsible and coordinator. The CMS Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC) system consists of 912 double-gap chambers at its start-up in middle of 2008. A continuous control and monitoring of the detector, the trigger and all the ancillary sub-systems (high voltages, low voltages, environmental, gas, and cooling), is required to achieve the operational stability and reliability of a so large and complex detector and trigger system. Role of the RPC Detector Control System is to monitor the detector conditions and performance, control and monitor all subsystems related to RPC and their electronics and store all the information in a dedicated database, called Condition DB. Therefore the RPC DCS system has to assure the safe and correct operation of the sub-detectors during all CMS life time (more than 10 year), detect abnormal and harmful situations and take protective and automatic actions to minimize consequential damages. The analysis of the requirements and project challenges, the architecture design and its development as well as the calibration and commissioning phases represent themain tasks of the work developed for this PhD thesis. Different technologies, middleware and solutions has been studied and adopted in the design and development of the different components and a big challenging consisted in the integration of these different parts each other and in the general CMS control system and data acquisition framework. Therefore, the RCS installation and commissioning phase as well as its performance and the first results, obtained during the last three years CMS cosmic runs, will be

Similitudines nonnullae Sacri Codicis e regno animali

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Quantitative structure-retention relationships analysis of retention index of essential oils

Genetic algorithm and multiple linear regression (GA-MLR), partial least square (GA-PLS), kernel PLS (GA-KPLS) and Levenberg-Marquardt artificial neural network (L-M ANN) techniques were used to investigate the correlation between retention index (RI) and descriptors for 116 diverse compounds in essential oils of six Stachys species. The correlation coefficient LGO-CV (Q²) between experimental and predicted RI for test set by GA-MLR, GA-PLS, GA-KPLS and L-M ANN was 0.886, 0.912, 0.937 and 0.964, respectively. This is the first research on the QSRR of the essential oil compounds against the RI using the GA-KPLS and L-M ANN.

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Nursing Ethics Education in Finland from the Perspective of Codes of Ethics

The purpose of this study was to analyze nursing ethics education from the perspective of nurses’ codes of ethics in the basic nursing education programmes in polytechnics in Finland with the following research questions: What is known about nurses’ codes in practice and education, what contents of the codes are taught, what teaching and evaluation methods are used, which demographic variables are associated with the teaching, what is nurse educators’ adequacy of knowledge to teach the codes and nursing students’ knowledge of and ability to apply the codes, and what are participants’ opinions of the need and applicability of the codes, and their importance in nursing ethics education. The aim of the study was to identify strengths and possible problem areas in teaching of the codes and nursing ethics in general. The knowledge gained from this study can be used for developing nursing ethics curricula and teaching of ethics in theory and practice. The data collection was targeted to all polytechnics in Finland providing basic nursing education (i.e. Bachelor of Health Care). The target groups were all nurse educators teaching ethics and all graduating nursing students in the academic year of 2006. A total of 183 educators and 214 students from 24 polytechnics participated. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire with four open-ended questions, designed for this study. The data was analysed by SPSS (14.0) and the open-ended questions by inductive content analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data. Inferential statistics were used to estimate the differences between the participant groups. The reliability of the questionnaire was estimated with Cronbach’s coefficient alpha. The literature review revealed that empirical research on the codes was scarce, and minimal in the area of education. Teaching of nurses’ codes themselves and the embedded ethical concepts was extensive, teaching of the functions of the codes and related laws and agreements was moderate, but teaching of the codes of other health care professions was modest. Issues related to the nurse-patient relationship were emphasised. Wider social dimensions of the codes were less emphasized. Educators’ and students’ descriptions of teaching emphasized mainly the same teaching contents, but there were statistically significant differences between the groups in that educators assessed their teaching to be more extensive than what students had perceived it had been. T he use of teaching and evaluation methods was rather narrow and conventional. However, educators’ and students’ descriptions of the used methods differed statistically significantly. Students’ knowledge of the codes and their ability to apply them in practice was assessed as mediocre by educators and by students themselves. Most educators assessed their own knowledge of the codes as adequate to teach the codes, as did most of the students. Educators who regarded their knowledge as adequate taught the codes more extensively than those who assessed their knowledge as less adequate. Also students who assessed their educators’ knowledge as adequate perceived the teaching of the codes to be more extensive. Otherwise educators’ and students’ demographic variables had little association with their descriptions of the teaching. According to the participants, nurses need their own codes, and they are also regarded as applicable in practice. The codes are an important element in nursing ethics education, but their teaching needs development. Further research should focus on the organization of ethics teaching in the curricula, the teaching process, and on the evaluation of the effectiveness of ethics education and on educators’ competence. Also the meaning and functions of the codes at all levels of nursing deserve attention. More versatile use of research methods would be beneficial in gaining new knowledge.

Comparação de métodos para a detecção de Fusarium graminearum em sementes de trigo (Triticum aestivum L.)

O objetivo deste trabalho foi comparar diferentes métodos utilizados para a detecção de Fusarium graminearum em sementes de trigo. Foram empregados 22 tratamentos: papel de filtro (PFC) com congelamento; papel de filtro (PF); PF mais 0,02% de 2,4 - D; meio semi-seletivo (MSS); MSS mais 0,02% de 2,4 - D; MSS mais KCl (-0,8 MPa); KCl, NaCl, manitol e sacarose nos potenciais osmóticos de -0,4, -0,6, -0,8 e -1,0 MPa. O delineamento estatístico empregado foi o inteiramente casualizado, com quatro repetições (duas placas mais substrato com 25 sementes cada/repetição). Não houve diferenças significativas entre os diferentes métodos empregados e o método do PF com congelamento das sementes, considerado o método padrão para o teste de sanidade de sementes de gramíneas, na detecção de F. graminearum em sementes de trigo.