At the beginning of therapy and after it ended, all patients underwent blood chemical tests, anthropometrical measures, determination of body composition by bioelectrical impedance, spirometry, and indirect calorimetry.
We found no relationship between HR changes measured at the end of unloaded cycling and HR values measured at determination of the ventilatory threshold and VO2max.
Then the surface energies of asphalt and BOF were measured by determination of contact angles and they are further used to determine the work of adhesion.
Exposure to methylmercury was measured by determination of total mercury in the hair of the children and their mothers (geometric mean, 12.7 μg/g in Upper Maroni).
The efficiency of digestion was measured by determination of organic carbon contents in digests and they ranged from 0.10 to 0.19% for plant and animal tissues.
Lipid peroxidation was measured by determination of malondialdehyde (MDA) as an end product of lipid peroxidation.
In most previous studies, only a single nuclide, typically 10Be, is measured for determination of catchment-averaged denudation rate.
Finally, the pathogenicity of the isolates was measured by determination of mortality rates and calculation of percentage of mycoses by using Schneider-Orelli's formula (Püntener 1981).
The relative formazane concentration was measured by determination of the absorbance at 570 nm (well plate reader, Optima FluoStar).
Growth rates were measured by determination of OD600 as a function of time by using a VersaMax plate reader (Molecular Device, Sunnyvale, CA).
After centrifugation, the relative formazane concentration of the supernatant was measured by determination of the absorbance at 570 nm (well plate reader, Optima FluoStar).
