The fatigue index, which is the MDF slope during sustained muscle contraction, decreased significantly faster in the ETTH and CTTH groups compared with that in the control (p < 0.05).
Lisa Power, policy director at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: "Britain's sexual health is on a slippery slope and without sustained local investment across the whole country it can only get worse.
In this report, we have distinguished 2 intervention effects: immediate (a sudden change in the level of the regression line at the point of intervention) and sustained (a sustained change in the slope of the regression line from the start of the intervention phase).
The following parameters were calculated: ultimate load, Fmax (i.e. the maximum force that the specimens sustain), stiffness (the slope of the linear portion of the load-deformation curve), and work to failure (Wabs; the area under the load-deformation curve until failure).
The former N.F.L. star linebacker Junior Seau crashed his sport utility vehicle down a steep slope early Monday near Carlsbad, Calif., sustaining minor injuries less than nine hours after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence.
Moreover, in the sensitivity analysis restricted to sustained viral responders, the CD4 count slope was still shallower in the cART resumption group.
It was predicted that there would be a significant slope at every time point for every outcome demonstrating sustained treatment gains for the CBT programme.
However, too small a slope in the saturation-relay may also fail to generate sustained oscillation.
Restoration of mined landscapes, for example, often aims to restore the abiotic processes that sustain ecosystem functions through the reconstruction of soils, slope, and landscape hydrology [i.e., rehabilitation (Bradshaw 1997)].
17 The 'restitution hypothesis' states that transient APD alternans will occur when the slope of the restitution curve does not equal zero, becomes sustained when it is at unity and becomes unstable when the gradient exceeds one (figure 2).
