The performance of 326 collegiate football players attending the 2000 National Football League combine was studied to determine whether draft status could be predicted from performance measurements. The combine measured height and weight along with 9 performance tests: 225-lb bench press test, 10-yd dash, 20-yd dash, 40-yd dash, 20-yd proagility shuttle, 60-yd shuttle, 3-cone drill, broad jump,...

Analysis of accidents in socio-technical systems frequently reveals unnoticed obstacles, which have grown to become the main cause of incubation and surprise at failure (Dekker, 2011). Thus far, it has proven to be a challenge to identify those unnoticed obstacles upfront among the tremendous number of events occurring during normal operations. In this article, we describe the usage of weak res...

BACKGROUND The exposure of gastric mucosa to damaging factors, such as ethanol, water restraint stress, or ischemia followed by reperfusion, produces pathological changes: inflammatory process, hemorrhagic erosions, even acute ulcers. The base of these changes is a disturbance of protective mechanisms and disrupture of gastric mucosal barrier. Previous studies pointed out the role of disturbanc...

spot blotch caused by bipolaris sorokiniana is a serious disease of barley in western canada. it has become the predominant barley leaf spot disease in the province of manitoba, canada, since 2001. a new pathotype of b. sorokiniana with virulence on seedlings of ‘resistant’ six-rowed barley cultivars grown in manitoba was recently identified. to determine the adult plant infection response of b...

OBJECTIVES The number of patients with bilateral cochlear implant (CI) has gradually increased as patients and/or parents recognize its effectiveness. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the efficacy of 29 bilateral CI out of 169 pediatric CI users, who received auditory-verbal/oral habilitation at our hearing center. METHODS We evaluated the audiological abilities 29 Japanese children ...

Termin „wiejskie ruchy społeczne” (WRS) używany jest w rożnych znaczeniach, potrzeba więc spójnej definicji konceptualizującej polityczne wiejskie społeczne. Są one pozostałością agrarnej struktury społeczno-gospodarczej. Spóźniona i niepełna rewolucja przemysłowa Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej oraz na tle regionu kolektywizacja rolnictwa Polsce spowodowały, że zachowały się przednowoczesne formy ...

Compared with moderate- and heavy-intensity exercise, the adjustment of O2 uptake (VO2) to exercise intensities that elicit peak VO2 has received relatively little attention. This study examined the VO2 response of 21 young, healthy subjects (25 +/- 6 yr; mean +/- SD) during cycle ergometer exercise to step transitions in work rate (WR) corresponding to 90, 100, and 110% of the peak WR achieved...

Aim: To investigate the effect of age-related hearing loss on visual memory.
 Material and Method: 20 participants with normal 38 were included in study. All patients older than 65 years. Pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry Benton retention test applied to all participants.
 Results: Mean score hearing-normal group 13.10±1.48 8.81±3.27 respectively. Patients divided into three gro...

The use of biostimulants in agriculture is an emerging technique that can contribute to improved production and resource efficiency. This research was carried out southern Italy evaluate the biostimulating effects seaweed extract (SW) azoxystrobin (AZ) on wild rocket subjected two water regimes (WRs) three nitrogen levels (NLs), grown pots under unheated greenhouse conditions. following treatme...