Publications by authors named "Harry Lim"
Article Synopsis
- A top-tier public university centralized its equipment sanitation and processing to tackle challenges from its growing in-vivo research operations, establishing a separate facility for automated processing in 2016.
- This new approach has resulted in significant financial benefits, estimating nearly US$54 million to date and potentially reaching US$124 million by 2028, while also reducing utility consumption dramatically over nine years.
- The centralized facility has operated without any detectable cross-contamination, indicating that equipment processing location poses less of a microbial risk than previously thought.
Psychophysiological effects of synchronous versus asynchronous music during cycling.
Med Sci Sports Exerc
February 2014
Purpose: Synchronizing movement to a musical beat may reduce the metabolic cost of exercise, but findings to date have been equivocal. Our aim was to examine the degree to which the synchronous application of music moderates the metabolic demands of a cycle ergometer task.
Methods: Twenty-three recreationally active men made two laboratory visits.
In the present study, we investigated a hypothesized quartic relationship (meaning three inflection points) between exercise heart rate (HR) and preferred music tempo. Initial theoretical predictions suggested a positive linear relationship (Iwanaga, 1995a, 1995b); however, recent experimental work has shown that as exercise HR increases, step changes and plateaus that punctuate the profile of music tempo preference may occur (Karageorghis, Jones, & Stuart, 2008). Tempi bands consisted of slow (95-100 bpm), medium (115-120 bpm), fast (135-140 bpm), and very fast (155-160 bpm) music.
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