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I love going to church. Although it feels strange, it is nice to come to Northridge on Sundays where I have no official responsibilities. It was great. I was able to sit with two of my daughters and listen to the other daughter help lead worship.
We missed last Sunday as we were out of town, but we listened as we drove home on Sunday. I love that you can see and/or listen to the sermon or the entire service. We watched last week's HERE. (Full service HERE; just the sermon HERE)
Today, I was able to meet a lot of people without being distracted to try to remember my sermon and feeling the stress of the delivery. I love Sundays like today. I thought about going to the Greece campus, but wanted to sit in church with my fam.
The baptism – awesome! The band – amazing (and 100% volunteers, in case you wondered). Meeting with people before, between, and after services – a blessing.
Then there was the sermon. I LOVED IT! Whenever someone speaks – I always get the inside scoop well before you get to hear it. So I knew what was coming, but it really blew me away this AM.
Some of my "aha!" moments:
- Whenever we evalaute the Author of LIfe based on purposes that were never his intention, we're going to reach faulty conclusions. (Wow, I've done THAT many times.)
- God's silence does not equal God's absence. (I will use this in counseling a lot!)
- It takes more faith to endure a "no" from God than to acquire a "yes." (That is SO true!)
Loved church today! I am looking forward to teaching again next week, but I love Sundays like this too.
To see the entire service from today – go HERE. (available later today)
To see the sermon from today – go HERE. (available later today)


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(Does this look like the face of a man who is pumped for Wrestlemania? PicProps: BloodyElbow)
Right on schedule, the Internets are in full-on meltdown mode this Monday morning concerning all things Brock Lesnar. Lesnar fans who talked him up as an unstoppable juggernaut as late as Friday afternoon are now backtracking, suddenly focusing more on his inexperience than his otherworldly physical prowess. Cain Velasquez supporters are getting their gloat on, as well they should, after Velasquez put a king sized beating on Lesnar at UFC 121. We blogging scumbags are attacking the former champ's striking skills, his game plan and his training camp. Many of us are wondering aloud about Lesnar's future in the sport, how he'll rebound from this and what in the bejeezus is going to happen to our precious heavyweight rankings now.
For his part, UFC President Dana White is insinuating that the whitetail deer population of southwestern Minnesota might be a bit inflated come spring, since he believes Lesnar will cancel much of his planned time off in order to get back in the gym and back in the Octagon ASAP. Then there's this goddamned Undertaker thing, which is threatening to take on a life of its own.
First, the real stuff. White told the cast of ESPN's MMA Live on Saturday night that he thinks this pretty embarrassing loss will light a fire in Lesnar. He said that he wouldn't be surprised if Lesnar's scheduled vacation time fell by the wayside in favor of rededicating himself to MMA.
"We're going to find out the real competitive side of Brock Lesnar here," White said. "I have a feeling, knowing him, his plans are going to be cut short. I think obviously he's going to go hunting and spend some time with his family, but I think we'll see him back a lot sooner than what we had planned."
Now rumors are starting to emerge that maybe Lesnar's "plans" also included a one-off WWE match with The Undertaker at Wrestlemania next March or April. A herd of Online types are calling bullshit on Mark Calaway's bizarre and brief confrontation with Lesnar on Saturday night, which was captured on film by Ariel Helwani and later posted on AOL's MMAFighting.com. That gossip even had enough legs to nab publication by the UK Sun.
If that's true, allow me to say: Nicely done, WWE. Indeed, the Undertaker was acting pretty weird at UFC 121. He attempted to sell some kind of personal beef with Lesnar during the interview with Helwani, but then sounded far more complementary of his former pro-wrestling co-worker in this later video spot with Fight! Magazine. Besides, the 45-year-old Calaway trying to hype a wrestling angle with Lesnar makes a lot more sense than him legitimately trying to get in Lesnar's face immediately following the UFC main event.
Maybe the two wrestlers had some kind of post-fight confrontation planned that Lesnar scrapped after the loss. That would certainly explain the Undertaker asking the dejected and dethroned former champion, "You want to do it?" as he made his somber walk from the cage to the locker room. Whatever the case, we can be reasonably assured that Helwani and AOL had nothing to do with it and that The Undertaker acted alone.
When Helwani later asked White about the possibility of Lesnar making another WWE appearance, the UFC Prez squirmed a little bit before answering.
"I don't know if he is or isn't," White said. "I would find that hard to believe. The Undertaker has been coming for a long time … If those guys were going back and forth, it's because they're friends."
While a Lesnar Wrestlemania spot certainly makes sense for Vince McMahon and his flagging company, the two sides didn't part ways on good terms back in 2004 and there's no way to know how much healing has gone on between the two since. Obviously, the WWE would throw a boatload of money at Lesnar for one night's work in order to get a rub off him and the swelling popularity of the UFC.
That said, it doesn't seem to make sense at all for White and/or for Lesnar's future in MMA. All Brock's talk during the recent "UFC Primetime" specials about how he "just wanted to be a gladiator" and become the best MMA fighter he could be sure didn't make it sound like any more fake fighting was in his future. As MMA fans – and let's face it, the sport is more interesting with Lesnar in it than not – let's hope this isn't true. You think the dude looked unprepared for Velasquez, imagine what his training will be like if he's trying to split time between two jobs.

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Reclaiming Fiduciary Balance for the 21st Century - NSFM Roundtables with Keith Johnson for Asset Owners and their Advisors
London: 19 March 2012 from 9.30am
Amsterdam: 23 March 2012 from 12.30pm
Boston: 30 March 2012 time to be confimed
The Fiduciary Duty Working Group of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets (NSFM), co-sponsored by the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management at the University of Toronto, invites you to a roundtable which will identify practical steps that pension fund trustees and their advisors can implement to better integrate their fiduciary duties into pension fund investment and risk management.
The event will be chaired by NSFM Director Keith Johnson, fiduciary duty expert and advisor to CalPERS, the largest US pension fund.
For further details please follow this link.
The next generation gap: equity and fairness - NSFM Director, Ed Waitzer reports on finding new models to collaboratively address the challenges of inequality.
In the not-too-distant future, we will look back at existing governance frameworks (public as well as private) and think of them as having been, at best, quaint. How did we allow privatized returns to become so untethered from socialized risks? How did we allow the severe imbalances that are likely to preoccupy policy-makers for coming generations? Most agree that we need to find new models to collaboratively address these challenges at a global level. What emerges must focus on addressing inequalities, including those between current and future generations.
The View from Davos 2012
NSFM Participant Matthew Kiernan laments the fact that despite the official theme of this year's World Economic Forum in Davos - The Great Transformation - there was actually precious little transformational rhetoric (much less concrete calls for action) to be had in the official sessions.
The new Inflection Points newsletter is online at http://inflectionpointcm.com/
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Mingyi Liu
Rated 4.8 out of 5
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Rated 3 out of 5
by Quicksaver,
5 years ago
I've tried Fastest Search in the past (maybe about a year ago? I'm not entirely certain). At the time I did not much enjoy it, but seeing as it is the Pick of the Month for this month, I decided to give it another go. I'm sad to say I'm still disappointed.
In short: It is an add-on full of potential and many nice features, wrapped in a very un-appealing and difficult to use package, which takes far longer and more effort to learn to use than it should. Needs much more work in this area!
First of all, my reaction upon installing it is the same as it was last time, I looked at the menu that pops up after clicking the FS icon for three seconds then mutter "Wow..." It is not intuitive at all, and only after I've accustomed myself to what kind of features the add-on provides, does its organization become apparent; up to that point I was lost. It has too many colors, too many divisions, too many bolds, too many links...
There are things that I expected to find in the add-on but couldn't, maybe they're there or maybe they're not (I finally found the search-list by hitting Shift+Enter when searching, took me a while). I've been watching the video and I've been reading all the FAQs and docs provided, I'm not halfway done on either and I can tell you this with certainty: I've spent far more time than I normally would to customize anything in my firefox. Normally I would have given up long ago, I am only continuing because I've already started writing the review and feel like I should finish.
Biggest let-downs:
- The so called "Find in all tabs" feature is nothing more than a glorified tab switcher, it gives you a popup dialog to choose a tab to switch to, and all it does is automatically run whatever search on it. The only difference here from the default behavior is the "automatically" part. This is not what I expected when I read "Find in all tabs" at all and I don't find it any useful at all either. I would expect (at least!) something like the Match List (Shift+Enter) to appear, with a list of all matches on all tabs. Also, the "restrictions" dialog that always pops up is a real bother, and I didn't find a way to disable that, although to be honest I haven't checked very thoroughly for it. I seriously would hope it can be disabled, hitting enter twice, and sometimes more, to run a search is just wrong!
- It always seems to start a new search in a page from the first result, sometimes I prefer it to search from the point where I click or where I left off previously, like it does by default in firefox (I don't mean "Find Again", I mean a different search altogether).
- The search UI elements (results count, the results distribution bar thing on the right, etc) is very visually un-appealing and intrusive. They are just there, huge and with lots and lots of colors, and above the webpage taking space and covering it. This is especially problematic for the FS's search panel, which appears in front of the webpage covering a large chunk of it up. Also, the distribution bar thing on the right can cover up the scrollbar in frameset webpages (your own FAQ is one such example, the scrollbar is only barely visible for me because of it). For someone who prefers simple things, this is a big no-no.
- You are imposing on the user a very intrusive and visually un-appealing UI. This is subjective of course, it's only my personal opinion, maybe others disagree. But the search UI elements from my previous point, together with all the cluttered and messy preferences dialogs, reminds me of how Windows 95 and 98 used to look. If all of firefox looked like this, I would switch to chrome...
- Features like the drag&drop images and links capabilities have no business being in a search-related add-on. If I was a user looking for features like these, I would never expect to find them in an add-on called "Fastest -> Search <-". Placing these features in a separate add-on would greatly improve FS, as it would unclutter it a bit, thus making it simpler to learn to use, as well as promote these features more efficiently when they're in their own add-on.
The first time I tried FS was for the Regex search feature, and since I know my way about the inner-workings of firefox and add-ons I eventually managed to get to it and disable everything else I didn't need. I know many casual users (in real life), and I can assure you none of them would take the time needed to just figure this out. A 40-minute video is just too long! I'm a power user, I know a lot of the inner working of the search and find capabilities of firefox, and as a person I'm very patient; I gave up 11 minutes and something into the video... Seriously, it's too big, I suggest you break that thing up into many smaller bits! For most people, 5 minutes for configuration and learning to use is already too long, and that is with a direct and intuitive UI and documentation, which, I'm sorry to say, is not the case with your add-on.
As a fellow add-on developer to another, I commend you on the multitude of features you offer, I realize the amount of work you have put into it and I'm sure all your users greatly appreciate it. However, I believe you are making a very serious and wrong assumption about your potential users: you assume everyone will take a large portion of time to learn how to properly configure and use your add-on, and this, together with all the other things I mentioned, is the main reason why I think FS does not deserve even 4 stars!
It truly is an add-on full of potential, if you addressed these issues somehow, I would definitely re-think my whole review. But as it is now I just can't agree with this choice as Pick of the Month. As a firefox user, I would still use a combination of Omnibar and my own FindBar Tweak over FS. I realize it sounds a bit suspicious of me to say this, seeing as I'm the developer of FBT, but I do think both of these alternative add-ons are much more visually appealing and better integrated with firefox than FS is.
High points (these are pretty much the only reason why my rating is not lower):
- Regex search, that's nice!
- Location bar/search engine related features are a nice alternative to add-ons like Omnibar (although, if pressed, I would still choose Omnibar over FS, as it shows both the search suggestions and the bookmarks/history results in the same list, whereas with FS I have to choose every time between one or the other by adding search engine keywords, or maybe by some other way I didn't even find)
- I haven't tried the text recognition feature, but at least in concept I find it very interesting, so it deserves a plus here as well.
Developer response
5 years ago
I appreciate a detailed review, but I think yours is biased. As usual to all reviews that raise questions or issues, I'm replying point by point:
1. Unusual and difficult to navigate options system - this one I explained on the FAQ page (http://mingyi.org/FastestSearch/faq.html) and to other reviewers before. I find it annoying ONLY when you need to change a lot of settings in several different sub options panels in a row, and such a scenario only happens to a new user that wants to customize a lot, which fits your profile. But as time progresses, you'd need to change few options and accessing those few options this way is hands down faster than thru the Addon Manager. I actually hope other addons can do that, especially when Addon Manager SOMETIMES takes a minute to open and freezes Firefox (if you have 20+ addons).
2. Find all tabs only lists tabs where match was found - indeed, this is not ideal. But I've explained in the video, which you said you watched, it's mainly due to performance reasons for the regex support, which searches slow (if user has dozens of tabs that finds thousands of results per tab, it's a real problem). But "a glorified tab switcher" is NOT a good summary of this feature. Which tab switch supports regex, whole word search, + tab title/url search with its own regex support? Which tab switcher instantly highlights search results on each switched tab along with a result list (if so chosen in Text Search Settings - I'm surprised you didn't find it. This is clearly a text search feature, shouldn't take much time to find at all)?
3. Search UI elements not good looking and taking too space. FS is not graphically appealing, I agree with that. The default search panel does take more space than Firefox findbar. BUT, very importantly you can use the small search panel option (in Text Search Settings), which is smaller than Firefox's own Findbar and do not reduce viewing area, or Find-as-you-type. I don't see any addon offering a smaller search panel, not to mention this functional.
4. Imposing ugly UI on user - I would welcome help in improving this aspect - but don't call me IMPOSING ugly UI on user. I don't impose anything, I provide FREE and feature-rich service to user, with a UI that is as much as my poor graphical capability allows. If you don't like it, either try to help out or do not use it.
5. Drag-n-drop shouldn't be in FS. That's a decision for me, isn't it? If you check FS's categories, one of which is "Download Management". Where did you find that I ever said this addon is search only? If I had decided to do that, I would've named this addon "Nothing But Search".
6. User only wants regex and it's hard to disable everything else. You only need to spend ONE minute to read addon description on AMO to know to go to FAQ to find out how to disable a certain feature (another 2 minutes read at most). No need to watch the 40 mins video (which was indexed BTW in the video description), and rest assured, most users don't just want regex only, or regex at all. I would expect a grateful and/or gracious person to appreciate that I put in regex capability in this addon, rather than saying "I only want regex, why do you put other stuff in". I never said this is regex-only. Ever.
7. Assumption on users spending time to learn. Yes, most users DON'T want to learn. But I'm NOT forcing them to learn. The defaults pre-packed already offers intuitive text search with many options, custom engine search in locationbar or Smart Searchbox with many prepacked engines along with suggest feature, and auto copy/middle click paste + drag-n-drop open link/save image. For those who don't want to learn, they can intuitively get how to use them. Have you ever seen a complex piece of software that takes no learning curve for ALL features? Even the really simple Microsoft Word has so many books out detailing its features. My in-place linked documentation for nearly every option is way better than reading a book or a separate long doc, so I'm baffled by your complaint about the links and video. So you'd rather read a long book about many features? How do you propose to make the complex options "intuitive"?
8. Omnibar and FBT more visually appealing - hard to say. Omnibar doesn't have much UI (it's just in the dropdown of locationbar). FBT's find in all tabs/match list presentation is highly functional, but visually that fuchsia color is pretty ugly and the match list is just as plainly styled as my match list in FS. The current hit highlight is Firefox's default text highlight that's bland and hard to see. I regard the visual aspect vs these 2 addons merely personal preference.
9. Omnibar + FBT is better than FS. That's highly debatable. I agree that FBT has a MUCH more functional Find in All Tabs result presentation - the best in all Firefox addons for this feature. But what FS lacks is features that need improvement, not the features themselves. What FBT and Omnibar lack is the entire features. FBT doesn't support regex, whole-word search, restricting search to only links or table or other elements, restrict search to only certain tabs (how can a tab-searching addon not offer that?), or find-as-you-type. FBT doesn't add much to Firefox's own search on current tab (except for count and highlight, which FS does a better job). You can't even invoke a result list if you're only searching current tab. When the result list is showing, the visible area of page is largely reduced (in FS you can move the result/summary list panel to another screen even!). Omnibar mixes engine suggest with URLs and bookmarks, it's rather messy (but you think it's a nice feature, so clearly this is personal preference). When I type "g music" in locationbar, I'd much rather see Google's suggest on the keyword "music", rather than having to scroll down the locationbar dropdown to find and figure out if and what are the Google suggests. Not to mention that Omnibar covers only one small feature area of what FS offers, and does not handle adding/editing/ranking engine (and Firefox's has shortcomings) and it's no more intuitive to users how to use it without reading docs compared to FS in the feature Omnibar offers. Just to name a few issues.
10. FS should not be pick of month. This is entirely subjective. You're clearly proud of your FBT addon and felt it was better than FS, while IMO, it's only better in one out of the dozens of features that FS offers, and FBT simply doesn't have the features FS offer. FS covers all the main features of 'InstantFox', 'InstantFirefox', 'Add to Search Bar', 'AutoCopy', 'QuickDrag', 'Super DragandGo', 'OmniBar', 'Dictionary Tooltip', map/weather addons, text search addons, and FBT. In most cases, it even beats those addons. If FS doesn't deserve to be a pick of the month, why are many of these addons featured by AMO at all? Note: I don't claim FS does everything they offer, and FS doesn't do everything better compared to them, but it does all the main things and offers many unique features too. Not to mention that FS is all original coding, not rewrite of others' code.
As a fellow addon developer, I find we're quite different. When a user (maybe it's actually you) noted FBT to me back in June, I commended the Find in All Tabs in FBT and pointed out the issues of FBT to the user (and 10 days later FBT's new release addressed one or two of my criticism). I do like my FS much better than FBT, but I don't go put a negative review on FBT and feel justified to talk down other people's hard work. Your addon has a very well done major feature, that's enough for me to not give you 3 star for lacking all the other really important features and having some issues (i.e., no result list if searching just current tab, highlight remains after closing findbar - intuitively it should be gone, ugly color, annoying "bull's eye" focusing on result, too much space taken by the immovable result list, when user click on "find in all tabs" button, all hits are found but hits in current tab are not highlighted even if "highlght all" is active ...). And I won't go question an addon should or should not be chosen as pick of the month after seeing its monstrous list of features, most of them done well and thoughtfully and some so uniquely and I myself enjoy it (like regex). It's just not me.
You might feel that your review/rating is justified, but I hope you reconsider after my reasoning.
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soulblighter wrote:If Z2123 is not autochthonous to India, it could be from the White Huns or Kushanas...or even earlier.
I have a feeling that the expansions of Z2122, Z2123 and Z2124 were initially facilitated by various empires that stretched all the way from Anatolia and the North Caucasus to India (for example, Medes, Achaemenid, Seleucid, Parthian and Sassanid), and then by secondary Turkic expansions from this region. You'd know better how Indian Z2123 fits into all that.
In any case, I suspect there still ought to be a good number of Z2124 (Z2122-, Z2123-) in Iran and surrounds today.
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A blast of freezing precipitation expected to arrive Tuesday could scatter snow and ice across Georgia from metro Atlanta to southern parts of the state normally immune to winter accumulation such as Americus and Savannah.
Much of the state was placed under a winter storm watch for Tuesday and Wednesday. The National Weather Service said cities including Atlanta, Americus, Columbus and Macon could see up to 2 inches of snow with the first flakes at midmorning Tuesday. Farther east, 3 inches of snow or more was possible in places including Vidalia, Dublin, Milledgeville and Sylvania. There was also a threat of treacherous conditions farther south, where freezing rain and sleet could form up to ½ inch of ice in the Savannah area.
"The snowfall amounts are going to matter very little in this situation because of the ice potential," said Jason Deese, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Peachtree City. "Some parts of the state may end up seeing the greatest impact just because they get more ice than snow."
That drastic change in the weather comes just a day after people were walking St. Simons Island beach in shorts and dining at sidewalk tables at restaurants in Brunswick.
Dan and Connie Synakowski of upstate New York were walking along St. Simons' beach under a cloudless sky.
"It's just a great January day," she said.
Just down the beach from them, College of Coastal Georgia student Craig Cross had a couple of towels spread and was shirtless and in shorts as he did homework. Cross said he just moved from Alabama to attend Coastal Georgia and was enjoying the one-day break from winter.
Forecasters were predicting snow and ice from Texas to the Carolinas by mid-week as precipitation moving in from the south met with cold air already chilling the region.
Computer models were having a hard time predicting exactly what areas would get hit and how much snow and ice to expect, Deese said. But it looked like few parts of Georgia would be spared.
On Monday morning, the Weather Service expanded its winter storm watch area farther north to include metro Atlanta, where roads could start getting icy in time for the evening rush hour Tuesday. Georgia Department of Transportation spokesman Mark McKinnon said crews in the Atlanta area were ready.
"Our equipment is already prepared from the previous close calls we have had this year," McKinnon said. "So all we need to do now is watch the weather and based on that, we will decide when and where to deploy our crews."
There was also a chance of freezing rain and sleet across Southern Georgia from Albany to Alma.
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Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Print version ISSN 1806-3713
J. bras. pneumol. vol.38 no.5 São Paulo Sept./Oct. 2012
Muscle strength as a determinant of oxygen uptake efficiency and maximal metabolic response in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD*
Paulo de Tarso Guerrero MüllerI; Carlos Alberto de Assis ViegasII; Luiz Armando Pereira PatuscoIII
IProfessor. Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul School of Medicine, Campo Grande, Brazil
IIProfessor. University of Brasília School of Medicine, Brasília, Brazil
IIIProfessor. Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul School of Medicine, Campo Grande, Brazil
OBJECTIVE: To compare the behavior of the oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) with that of oxygen uptake at peak exertion (VO2peak).
METHODS: This was a prospective cross-sectional study involving 21 patients (15 men) with mild-to-moderate COPD undergoing spirometry, handgrip strength (HGS) testing, cardiopulmonary exercise testing, and determination of lactate at peak exertion (LACpeak).
RESULTS: Mean weight was 66.7 ± 13.6 kg, and mean age was 60.7 ± 7.8 years. With the exception of FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratio (75.8 ± 18.6 of predicted and 56.6 ± 8.8, respectively), all spirometric variables were normal, as was HGS. The patients exhibited significant metabolic and hemodynamic stress, as evidenced by the means (% of predicted) for VO2peak (93.1 ± 15.4), maximum HR (92.5 ± 10.4), and OUES (99.4 ± 24.4), as well as for the gas exchange rate (1.2 ± 0.1). The correlation between VO2peak and OUES was significant (r = 0.747; p < 0.0001). The correlation between HGS and VO2peak (r = 0.734; p < 0.0001) was more significant than was that between HGS and OUES (r = 0.453; p < 0.05). Similar results were found regarding the correlations of VO2peak and OUES with MIP. Although LACpeak correlated significantly with VO2peak (r = -0.731; p < 0.0001), only LACpeak/maximum power correlated significantly with OUES (r = -0.605; p = 0.004).
CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that, in mild-to-moderate COPD, VO2 determinants other than overall muscle strength have a greater impact on OUES than on VO2peak.
Keywords: Respiratory function tests; Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive; Muscle strength; Oxygen consumption.
Worldwide, COPD is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, causing significant musculoskeletal morbidity and reducing quality of life.(1) The main methods for evaluating and monitoring the effectiveness of COPD treatment are assessment of exercise capacity and assessment of respiratory and peripheral muscle strength.(1) Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is one of the most important methods in this context because it combines comprehensive cardiopulmonary and metabolic analyses, including oxygen consumption (VO2) and gas exchange; however, useful variables such as oxygen uptake efficiency have been little studied in patients with COPD.
Oxygen uptake efficiency, i.e., the VO2 required in order to meet a given ventilatory demand, can be determined by calculating the ratio between VO2 and minute ventilation (VE) or by log-transforming VE (log10VE), thus obtaining the derivative of the VO2/VE ratio-known as the oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES)-as proposed by Baba et al.(2) A more recent study has described another way of determining the relationship between VO2 and VE, i.e., by calculating the oxygen uptake efficiency plateau.(3)
The OUES can play an important role in the assessment of aerobic capacity based on submaximal data obtained after pharmacological or non-pharmacological intervention in patients whose exercise capacity is more limited. Maximal effort on CPET might be inappropriate, increasing risks and patient discomfort. In addition, stage I/II COPD commonly overlaps with other diseases, such as heart failure, diabetes, and peripheral vascular disease, the presence of multiple comorbidities therefore compromising the assessment of maximal exercise capacity.(4)
Although some studies have analyzed the OUES in normal individuals and in adults with heart failure,(5,6) only one study has done so in patients with COPD.(7) The study focused on the role of dynamic hyperinflation (DH) in reducing the OUES, the role of muscle strength not having been evaluated. Considering that the OUES is independent of maximal effort, the authors suggested that DH plays an important role in decreasing cardiac output (indirectly assessed by measuring SpO2) and in peripheral perfusion; DH was reported as being the principal cause of reduced OUES, and the role of overall muscle strength was not taken into consideration.(7)
The OUES depends on the development of metabolic acidosis, on muscle mass, on oxygen extraction and use, and on physiological pulmonary dead space, which is affected by lung perfusion and structural integrity.(8) It has been suggested that the relationship between muscle strength and OUES depends on muscle mass. However, to our knowledge, this has never been investigated.
Maximal metabolic response to CPET depends on the exercise protocol, encouragement, type of ergometer, peripheral muscle strength, and respiratory muscle strength.(8,9) (Overall) muscle strength is more preserved in the early stages of COPD.(9,10) Therefore, a relevant question is the extent to which a more preserved muscle function, less susceptible to the limiting influence of DH in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD,(11) is a determinant of maximal metabolic response, as evaluated by the lactate level and peak VO2 (VO2peak), in comparison with a submaximal variable reported as being independent of maximal effort, i.e., OUES.
The objective of the present study was to compare the behavior of the OUES with that of the gold standard (VO2peak) in a population of outpatients diagnosed with stage I/II COPD in accordance with the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) criteria. We chose to study patients with stage I/II COPD in order to avoid the strong effects of DH on the cardiocirculatory profile of patients with severe COPD. Considering that VO2 efficiency is a variable that depends less on maximal effort during exercise in order to be assessed, we hypothesized that the correlation of this variable with parameters of (peripheral and respiratory) muscle strength at rest and maximal lactate levels was lower.
This was a prospective cross-sectional study involving patients recruited from among those being treated at a COPD outpatient clinic or at a smoking outpatient clinic and referred for spirometry. All patients had been diagnosed with stage I/II COPD in accordance with the GOLD criteria(1) and had a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio < 70% of predicted and an FEV1 > 50% of predicted, in accordance with reference values for the Brazilian population.(12)
The criteria for patient selection were as follows: being > 40 years of age; having a smoking history or being a smoker of > 10 pack-years; having experienced no exacerbations in the four weeks preceding the tests; being able to perform exercise tests; being able, from a cardiovascular and metabolic standpoint, to perform the exercise tests; not having coronary/peripheral ischemia, diabetes, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, rheumatic disease, neurological disease, asthma, cognitive deficit, or obstructive sleep apnea; and not using beta-blockers to control mild systemic arterial hypertension. All of the patients gave written informed consent. The study protocol was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul.
In the first visit, the patients received information on the tests and the following were performed: physical examination; anthropometric data collection; anamnesis (including history of comorbidities and current use of medications); spirometry; measurement of lung volumes and maximal respiratory pressures; handgrip strength (HGS) testing; and arterial blood gas analysis, with appropriate intervals between tests in order to prevent muscle fatigue or discomfort. In the second visit, the patients underwent CPET, capillary blood samples being collected before and after testing. Spirometry and bronchodilator testing were performed in accordance with national guidelines,(13) with a MasterScreen PFT spirometer (Jaeger, Würzburg, Germany). For bronchodilator testing, 400 µg of inhaled albuterol were used. Lung volumes were determined with the same spirometer and the multiple-breath closed-circuit helium dilution technique for calculating functional residual capacity in accordance with national guidelines and reference values for the Brazilian population.(13,14)
Maximal respiratory pressures were measured in accordance with national guidelines,(13) with a digital manometer (model MVD 300; Globalmed, Porto Alegre, Brazil), the signals being read and recorded through individual ducts and precision of 1 cmH2O. A 2-mm hole in the circuit prevented false measurements due to involuntary contractions of the cheeks. The results were provided in cmH2O, and the graphs obtained gave us an idea of the quality of the test. Before the actual test, each patient performed 2-3 measurements in order to become familiar with it. The predicted values were those of Neder et al.(15)
A dynamometer (Jamar; Preston, Jackson, MI, USA) was used in order to measure HGS. The patients were placed in a sitting position, with the arm adducted and parallel to the trunk, the elbow flexed at 90º, and the forearm and wrist in a neutral position. Three measurements were performed, at least 1 min apart, alternating between the dominant and non-dominant arms; the highest value was recorded.(16) Reference values for the Brazilian population were derived from those of Novaes et al.(17) In order to measure blood gases and arterial blood pH, we used an ABL 5 gas analyzer (Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark) under anaerobic conditions, through radial artery puncture, in accordance with international recommendations.(18)
For CPET, we used the criteria and protocols recommended in national guidelines.(13) The test was performed in a metabolic system (Oxycon Delta system; Jaeger, Würzburg, Germany) with a mixing chamber for proportional ergospirometry. The system was connected to a program (OxyconLAB; Jaeger) and a cycle ergometer (ER 900; ergoline GmbH., Bitz, Germany) with electromagnetic brakes, the workload and protocol being generated by the program. Calibration was performed before each test, in accordance with the manufacturer protocols, and biological calibration was performed every three months. We defined VO2peak as the mean of the last 15 s at peak exertion. Symptom-limited maximal exercise tolerance was defined as intolerable shortness of breath or leg fatigue preventing cycling at > 50 breaths/min. Maximal voluntary ventilation (MVV) was estimated by multiplying FEV1 by 37.5.(15) The anaerobic threshold (AT) was determined by the V-slope method.(19) The test protocol (incremental ramp protocol) was individualized on the basis of the Wasserman formula to increase the workload and on the basis of the predicted maximal VO2,(20) the predicted value being based on the reference values for the Brazilian population proposed by Neder et al.(21) Lactate was determined from a fingertip blood sample by reflectance photometry (660 nm) with a portable system (Accutrend Lactate; Roche, Mannheim, Germany).
The results are expressed as mean ± SD, and the normality of data distribution was evaluated by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Correlations among variables were established by Pearson's correlation coefficient. In order to calculate the OUES, we log-transformed VE (log10VE) and performed a simple regression analysis:
VO2 = a × logVE + b
where "a" represents the OUES in L and "b" is a constant.
For this calculation, we used the entire period of exercise, because it has been shown that the logarithmic transformation of VE reduces the slope because of the anaerobic wave.(2) Maximal metabolic response was measured by VO2peak and by the ratio between lactate at peak exertion (LACpeak), in mM, and maximum power, in W. Maximum power was used in order to adjust for possible gender bias in aerobic capacity.
The data related to anthropometric variables, spirometry, lung volumes, muscle strength, and blood gas analysis in the study population are shown in Table 1. The study sample consisted of 21 patients (15 men), the mean age being 60.7 ± 7.8 years. Lung volumes, peripheral muscle strength, and respiratory muscle strength (all in % of predicted) were within the normal range, as were PaO2 and PaCO2 at rest.
The means of the metabolic, ventilatory, and hemodynamic values selected at peak exertion are shown in Table 2. The values of VO2peak, maximum power, and maximum HR, all in% of predicted, were consistent with those expected for a population of patients with mild-to-moderate COPD. Only 2 patients showed a > 4% drop in SpO2 during exercise, and 7 patients showed evidence of airflow limitation. Of those 7 patients, 1 was female (VE/MVV > 0.75) and 6 were male (VE/MVV > 0.85).
It was impossible to determine the AT in 1 patient only (FEV1 = 51.2% of predicted). For the remaining patients, the mean VO2 at the AT was 1.1 ± 0.3 L/min, its correlation with the OUES being unusually high (r = 0.899; p < 0.0001). The OUES correlated significantly with VO2peak (r = 0.747; p < 0.0001). Although there are no reference values for the OUES in the Brazilian population, the mean OUES found in the present study (99.4 ± 24.4% of predicted) was consistent with the normal range reported in one study.(21)
Table 3 presents the coefficients of correlation of variables at rest/during exercise with peripheral/respiratory muscle strength variables in the study population. As can be seen in Table 3, OUES and weight-indexed OUES, respectively, showed a weaker correlation with peripheral muscle strength (r = 0.453, p < 0.05; and r = 0.345, p > 0.05) and MIP (r = 0.532 and r = 0.454; p < 0.05 for both) than did VO2peak and weight-indexed VO2peak, respectively (r = 0.734, p < 0.0001 and r = 0.641, p < 0.01; and r = 0.733, p < 0.0001 and r = 0.681, p < 0.01; Figure 1).
We found no significant correlation between OUES and LACpeak. However, we found a significant negative correlation between OUES and LACpeak corrected for maximum exercise power (r = -0.605 and p = 0.004; Figure 2), as well as between LACpeak/maximum power and VO2peak (r = -0.720 and p < 0.0001; Figure 2). In addition, we found moderate correlations between HGS and SpO2 at peak exertion (r = 0.653 and p < 0.01; Table 3) and between SpO2 at peak exertion and MIP (r = 0.585 and p < 0.01; Table 3).
The principal finding of the present study is that VO2peak correlates better with peripheral and respiratory muscle strength than with the OUES in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD. In addition, the mean OUES was found to be normal for this group of patients with mild-to-moderate COPD, although one third of the patients showed some degree of airflow limitation during cycle ergometer exercise. Some of our findings are consistent with previous findings showing generally preserved aerobic capacity (VO2peak) in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD.(22)
Some of the advantages of using the OUES in healthy and ill individuals alike are as follows:
There are no significant differences between the results obtained with a cycle ergometer and those obtained with a treadmill.(3)
Reproducibility studies have found an extremely high coefficient of variation for the submaximal variable VO2 at the AT, which varies according to the calculation method used.(8)
The OUES can be obtained with submaximal exercise, showing high correlation with VO2peak.(8,23,24)
The OUES has been shown to be more stable and reproducible than VO2peak, especially after training and rehabilitation.(8)
However, further studies involving patients with COPD are needed.
Regarding the correlation between OUES and VO2peak, our findings are consistent with those reported in a recent review of the OUES, in which the correlation coefficient was found to range from 0.72 to 0.96 across the studies.(8) However, our finding of an unexpectedly strong correlation between VO2 at the AT and OUES is at odds with those of that review, in which the correlation coefficient was found to range from 0.66 to 0.78 across the studies.(8) Possible explanations for this difference include the type of disease studied, the size of the clinical population, and the criteria for determining VO2 at the AT. In this aspect, because OUES is a submaximal measurement, it has the advantage of reflecting the effects of metabolic acidosis and those of physiological pulmonary dead space, whereas VO2 at the AT primarily reflects the distribution of blood flow to the exercising muscles.(2)
The OUES estimates the efficiency of ventilation in relation to VO2, a higher slope translating to greater ventilatory efficiency. In fact, the OUES reflects the absolute rate of increase in VO2 for a tenfold increase in ventilation.(25) The increase in ventilation in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD is also limited by DH.(26,27) Because a greater ventilatory demand is one of the determinants of DH, it is reasonable to assume that a proportion of patients in the present study showed DH during exercise, given that 33% of the patients showed evidence of airflow limitation (VE/MVV > 0.75). In theory, this can lead to decreased venous return, worsening the uneven distribution of ventilation, as has been suggested to occur in patients with mild COPD.(26) This could generate a ventilatory inefficiency that is disproportionate to the relatively preserved muscle strength of these patients. However, we do not believe that this effect was significant in our study sample; the mean OUES was found to be within the normal range, and only 1 patient had SpO2 < 80% of the predicted value. Therefore, if any given patient in our sample did present with DH, it probably did not affect the OUES significantly, unlike what was seen in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD, in whom DH caused a significant reduction in the OUES.(7)
Although we found a high correlation between LACpeak and variables such as VO2peak and maximum power, we found no significant correlation between maximal lactate levels and OUES. There are two possible explanations for this finding. First, because OUES is a submaximal variable, it might represent an independent linear system, as was demonstrated for other submaximal variables, such as the variable tau in the analysis of oxygen deficit and the primary gain of aerobic efficiency (∆VO2/∆power) during exercise testing at a constant workload, these variables having been found to be independent of the maximal lactate levels achieved.(28) Second, the OUES might be significantly lower in females.(29) The latter hypothesis gains strength when LACpeak is adjusted for maximum power, LACpeak thus correlating significantly with the OUES. This indicates that the oxidative capacity of the muscles adjusted for the workload, at maximal metabolic rate during exercise, significantly reflects oxygen uptake efficiency. The small number of individuals in our sample does not allow us to perform a separate analysis of the possible causes of this difference.
We found a correlation between peripheral muscle strength (HGS) and SpO2 at peak exertion. This finding is consistent with those reported by Celli et al.(30) in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD at peak exertion. Those authors also found a significant correlation between muscle strength and SpO2 at rest, suggesting a more direct relationship between loss of peripheral muscle function and loss of cardiac muscle function. Although COPD was more severe in the patients investigated in the abovementioned study, mean SpO2 values were higher in that study than in ours (10.6 ± 3.7 mL/heartbeat vs. 9.1 ± 2.8 mL/heartbeat), as were mean HGS values (37.8 ± 7.5 kgf vs. 35.5 ± 11.6 kgf). This can be partly attributed to the fact that that study included male patients only.
One of the limitations of the present study is the small number of patients in our clinical sample, which was partly due to the difficulty in finding patients in the early stages of the disease for inclusion in the study. Another limitation is the type of peripheral muscle strength studied. Although there is a controversial correlation between muscle strength as assessed by HGS testing and muscle strength as assessed by isokinetic dynamometry of leg muscles, arm muscle strength is more preserved in patients with COPD and does not reflect well the potential impact of the various etiologic factors involved in muscle function loss. Nevertheless, changes in arm muscle strength limit activities of daily living in such patients and are involved in ventilatory adjustments; in addition, for an equal work rate, ventilation and VO2 are generally higher for arm exercises than for leg exercises.(10) Because our laboratory is not equipped for isokinetic dynamometry, we were unable to evaluate leg muscle strength. We also recognize that the inclusion of female patients in the present study posed a challenge for the analysis of the results. However, it is known that the respiratory pattern of healthy females during incremental exercise is a tachypneic pattern, which therefore results in greater ventilatory inefficiency during submaximal exercise.(20) Further studies are needed in order to determine whether greater ventilatory inefficiency during submaximal exercise in females is accompanied by lower OUES values.
On the basis of the results of the present study, we conclude that the correlations of OUES with peripheral muscle strength and respiratory muscle strength are weaker than are those of VO2peak with peripheral muscle strength and respiratory muscle strength in patients with mild-to-moderate COPD. The high correlation between OUES and VO2peak suggests that the former is a physiological variable that is more dependent on other determinants of VO2, such as gas exchange and lung perfusion, and less dependent on the baseline muscle strength of individuals.
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Correspondence to:
Paulo de Tarso Guerrero Müller
Avenida Filinto Müller, s/n, Campus da Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Faculdade de Medicina
Vila Ipiranga, CEP 79070-900, Campo Grande, MS, Brasil.
Tel. 55 67 3345-3149 or 55 67 9291-0441
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Submitted: 8 March 2012
Accepted, after review: 15 August 2012.
Financial support: None.
* Study carried out at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Brazil.


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