OBJECTIVES To compare the effects of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and isokinetic training on fibre type distribution and cross sectional area of the vastus lateralis muscle. METHODS Twenty four male university students were divided into two equal groups: PNF training and isokinetic training (ISO). The training regimen for the PNF group consisted of three sets of 30 repetiti...

In this paper we investigate the use of MPCinspired neural network policies for sequential decision making. We introduce an extension to the DAGGER algorithm for training such policies and show how they have improved training performance and generalization capabilities. We take advantage of this extension to show scalable and efficient training of complex planning policy architectures in contin...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of complex rehabilitation training on chronic low back pain. [Subjects and Methods] Complex rehabilitation training for lumbar isometric muscle strength was conducted for 12 weeks for males (n=10) and females (n=10) with chronic low back pain, who were aged in their 30s. [Results] Isometric strength of lumbar extension was increased ...

the purpose of this study was to determine the importance of eleven professional competencies related to needs assessment and program development; a secondary purpose was to identify the best time these competencies should be learned. the study followed a survey research design, in which 441 randomly selected extension educators in the north central region of the united states responded to a qu...

objective: this study is applied of descriptive correlative type run as field study using billings and moos (1981) standard methods questionnaires for stress coping and self-efficacy ideas of sherer et al (1981). methods: in this research, the census sampling has been done to select the students from tehran based science and research department of islamic azad university natural resources and a...

This paper formalizes a sound extension of dynamic oracles to global training, in the frame of transition-based dependency parsers. By dispensing with the precomputation of references, this extension widens the training strategies that can be entertained for such parsers; we show this by revisiting two standard training procedures, early-update and max-violation, to correct some of their search...

We describe an extension to the self-organizing map learning rule enabeling a straightforward visual representation of input data similarity in high-dimensional input structures. The general idea of the extension is to mirror the movement of weight vectors during the training process within a two-dimensional (virtual) output space. The result of the extended training algorithm allows intuitive ...

A limitation associated with communication-based interventions for problem behavior is the potential for requesting reinforcement at high rates. Multiple-schedule arrangements have been demonstrated to be effective for controlling rates of responding (Hanley, Iwata, & Thompson, 2001). In the current study, we extended previous research by teaching individuals to attend to naturally occurring di...