OBJECTIVES To determine the immediate effects of applied forearm Kinesio taping on maximal grip strength and force sense of healthy collegiate athletes. DESIGN Single group, repeated measures study. SETTING Clinical sports medicine laboratory at a university hospital. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-one healthy collegiate athletes voluntarily participated in this study. All subjects were male (averag...

t has often been demonstrated that greater improvements in key performance factors (anaerobic capacity, maximal aerobic power [MAP] and aerobic endurance) in most of the so called ‘aerobic’ sports such as cross country, middle and long distance running can be achieved through training programmes that include intermittent sessions. In fact, as shown in Table 1, when doing continuous exercise, on...

BACKGROUND Current literature suggests that novices reach a plateau after two to seven trials when training on the MIST VR laparoscopic virtual reality system. We hypothesize that significant benefit may be gained through additional training. MATERIALS AND METHODS Second-year medical students (n = 12) voluntarily enrolled under an IRB-approved protocol for MIST VR training. All subjects compl...

In this paper we derive maximal pointwise Hölder estimates for the Kohn’s Laplacian on strongly pseudoconvex CR manifolds of class C3 using the Tanaka-Webster Pseudohermitian metric. The estimates can be used to improve the Boutet De Monvel’s embedding theorem for strongly pseudoconvex compact CR manifolds of real dimension greater or equal to five with less smoothness assumption.

This study assessed whether video self-modeling improves running performance and influences the rate of perceived exertion and heart rate response. Twelve men (M age=26.8 yr., SD=6; M body mass index=22.1 kg.m(-2), SD=1) performed a time to exhaustion running test at 100 percent maximal aerobic velocity while focusing on a video self-modeling loop to synchronize their stride. Compared to the co...

The aim of this study was to compare the speed fluctuation and the drag force in young swimmers between genders. Twenty-three young pubertal swimmers (12 boys and 11 girls) volunteered as subjects. Speed fluctuation was measured using a kinematical mechanical method (i.e., speedo-meter) during a maximal 25-m front crawl bout. Active drag, active drag coefficient and power needed to overcome dra...

We show that a maximal inequality holds for the non-tangential maximal operator on Dirichlet spaces with harmonic weights on the open unit disc. We then investigate two notions of Carleson measures on these spaces and use the maximal inequality to give characterizations of the Carleson measures in terms of an associated capacity.

For a hyperbolic 3-manifold M with a torus boundary component, all but finitely many Dehn fillings on the torus component yield hyperbolic 3manifolds. In this paper, we will focus on the situation where M has two exceptional Dehn fillings, both of which yield toroidal manifolds. For such situation, Gordon gave an upper bound for the distance between two slopes of Dehn fillings. In particular, i...

In this paper we consider the vector-valued extension of the Fefferman-Stein-Stronberg sharp maximal inequality under growth condition. As an application we obtain the vectorvalued extension of the boundedness of the commutator. Furthermore we prove the boundedness of the commutator.

Maximal oxygen uptake VO(2max)) is considered the optimal method to assess aerobic fitness. The measurement of VO(2max), however, requires special equipment and training. Maximal exercise testing with determination of maximal power output offers a more simple approach. This study explores the relationship between [Vdot]O(2max) and maximal power output in 247 children (139 boys and 108 girls) ag...