The role of the state remains underdeveloped in regional path development literature. This paper analyses how Norwegian via different roles (regulator, purchaser, owner, facilitator) directly and indirectly has enabled influenced two defence-related high-tech manufacturing regions Norway since end Second World War, notably by contributing to modification localised assets strategic coupling thos...

Aims: Hormones' response to competition and their relation to sport matches have been extensively investigated in male and less widely in female athletes. Stress is an irresistible part of every sport match which is mostly caused by competition. In the present study, female volleyball players were examined for changes in dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and salivary cortisol in response to competi...

Adolescence is often viewed as a critical period for selection in youth soccer. The present study compared the characteristics of regionally selected and non-selected under-14 players (U-14) as a group and by position. Players were classified as local (n=69) and regional (n=45). Weight, height, skinfolds, functional capacities, soccer skills and goal orientation were measured and skeletal age w...

This study evaluated force and velocity parameters of vertical jump performance in countermovement jump (CMJ) and squat jump (SJ) and compared results for sprint runners and volleyball players. Twenty-four male athletes (12 regional/national-level sprint runners and 12 national-level volleyball players) performed CMJ and SJ on a force platform. The following variables were analyzed: jump perfor...

The recent events of the “Black Friday” – the biggest online poker networks in the USA were shut down – demonstrated the necessity to make decisions about the regulation of online poker. But although online poker is a gold mine of data, until now nobody knows where the players and their money come from. It seems that the knowledge about the online poker market has not been able to keep up with ...

gangliomas extraadrenales malignos tienden a presentar márgenes irregulares con densidad heterogénea9. La gammagrafía con metayodobenzilguanidina, un análogo de las catecolaminas captado en más del 90% de los paragangliomas, puede ser utilizada para su localización y tratamiento. Esta prueba es específica, pero en ocasiones carece de sensibilidad10. El tratamiento de elección es la resección qu...

Super League (SL) and Championship (RLC) rugby league players will compete against each other in 2015 and beyond. To identify possible discrepancies, this study compared the anthropometric profile and body composition of current SL (full-time professional) and RLC (part-time semi-professional) players using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). A cross-sectional design involved DXA scans on 6...