The purpose of this study was to clarify the effect body composition, particularly fat percentage (BF%) and fat-free mass (FFM), on physical fitness players’ on-court performance in U-14 elite Portuguese basketball players. A total 166 male players (age, 13.80 ± 0.38 years) 131 female 13.57 0.55 from under-14 (U-14) regional teams were evaluated. Differences between composition groups, regardin...

Optical based methods for non-invasive measurement of regional blood flow tend to incorrectly assess cerebral blood flow, due to contribution of extra-cerebral tissues to the obtained signal. We demonstrate that spectral analysis of phase-coded light signals, tagged by specific ultrasound patterns, enables differentiation of flow patterns at different depths. Validation of the model is conducte...

ITE JOURNAL / JANUARY 2001 THE NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON Transportation Operations has identified the need for cultural transitions within transportation organizations from traditional project-driven orientations to approaches focused on continuous systems performance and customer service.1 Institutional change, facilitating interjurisdictional cooperation to provide seamless transportation services...

The UTˆ2 bot, which had a humanness rating of 27.2727% in BotPrize 2010, is based on two core ideas: (1) multiobjective neuroevolution is used to learn skilled combat behavior, but filters on the available combat actions ensure that the behavior is still human-like despite being evolved for performance, and (2) a database of traces of human play is used to help the bot get unstuck when its navi...

Corruption is defined in an occupational choice model as extra fees that must be paid by some entrepreneurs. Higher corruption leads to lower wages and total output. Income inequality follows a Kuznets relationship with both corruption and income. Two types of decentralization of the bribe-setters are distinguished, regional and bureaucratic. When mobility is imperfect, bureaucratic decentraliz...

Human activities have degraded biogeographical barriers to dispersal resulting in the spread and naturalization of increasing numbers of nonnative invasive species. One correlate of invasiveness within a region is residence time or time since introduction. Plant species that were introduced into Europe prior to AD 1500 (European archaeophytes) that were subsequently introduced into North Americ...

This paper introduces a novel approach to support processes within generic platforms for virtual enterprises (VEs): the contextbased approach. The main advantage of the approach lies in its generic capacity, which allows the users to define processes flexibly and to support their own virtual enterprises. Constructs such as contexts and subcontexts are used to define processes and can be stored ...

Individuals vary within a species in many ecologically important ways, but the causes and consequences of such variation are often poorly understood. Foraging behavior is among the most profitable and risky activities in which organisms engage and is expected to be under strong selection. Among social insects there is evidence that within-colony variation in traits such as foraging behavior can...

Forecasting future performance in youth table tennis players based on current performance is complex due to, among other things, differences between youth players in growth, development, maturity, context and table tennis experience. Talent development programmes might benefit from an assessment of underlying perceptuo-motor skills for table tennis, which is hypothesized to determine the player...