Sentence examples for contraction effort from inspiring English sources

Selig's election to a second term would come as baseball is mired in a contraction effort that has become messy and confusing.

Some small nations will doubtless make new contributions to the carbon contraction effort as they realise the vulnerability of their own economies to a hotter world.

But Selig's contraction efforts have failed, at least for now, and with Minnesota politicians considering spending public money to build a stadium, Pohlad has begun negotiating with local bidders as well.

Firstly, two maximal voluntary contractions (MVC) were performed using 5 s ramp isometric hip extensor contraction efforts.

14 After practicing stable isometric contraction efforts, single maximal contractions of each muscle were recorded according to Daniels and Worthingham's Muscle Testing.

In an attempt to improve the postoperative patient recovery profile of pain, swelling, and bruising, and to enhance skin contraction, physician effort, and effectiveness in secondary and fibrous cases, newer generations of energy-assisted liposuction technologies have been developed.

These were performed as "warm-up" contractions in an attempt to minimise the risk of participant injury and facilitate muscle force production during subsequent maximum effort contraction [ 38, 39].

A 2-minute rest period was given between each maximum effort contraction.

Prior to maximum effort contractions, a series of four submaximal quadriceps contractions (25%, 50 %, 500 %and75%5 % of perceived maximum effort) were performed, with a 1-minute rest given between each contraction.

Thus low effort contractions correlate with the degree of beta (13 30 Hz) band suppression whereas high effort contractions correlate with the degree of gamma (55 90 Hz) band synchronisation.

While muscle contraction in voluntary efforts has been widely investigated, little is known about contraction during neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES).