Amateur wrestling at the high school and collegiate level in the United States often involves exercise and thermal dehydration as well as food and fluid restriction to "make weight". Available evidence suggests this is the opposite of what is optimal for high-intensity exercise performance. A high-intensity taper will substantially improve performance when conducted after a period of high-volum...

Yamamura, Eiji—Is body mass human capital in sumo? Outcome of globalization and formation of human capital in Japan Sumo wrestling is a traditional fighting sport in Japan and has been popular since the 18th century (the Edo period). Using a data set for all sumo wrestlers in the post-World War II period, this paper investigates how wrestlers’ body mass index (BMI) is associated with their win ...

The present study includes 50 patients symptomatic for tuberculous meningitis and 15 patients with meningitis other than tuberculosis The CSF specimens were subjected for ADA titer estimation, AFB smear preparation and molecular characterization by Nested-PCR for IS6110 gene. Out of 50 specimens 2 came AFB smear positive whereas 29 specimens came positive for Tuberculosis (TB) PCR and 21were ne...

In blackhole physics, the statistical dynamical description of the concept of blackhole entropy is still absence. In this paper, we discuss this problem and sets a number of questions about blackhole entropy whose complete answers are not available at present.

The study of rare resonances with strange content produced in p+p and p+Nb collisions at 3.5 GeV kinetic energy has recently been addressed by the HADES collaboration at GSI. Here we present the results obtained for the Σ(1385) resonance produced in p+p collisions at 3.5 GeV. The spectral function and the differential cross-section of the resonance could be evaluated. With a nominal mass of 138...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Number of metastatic lymph nodes has a strong prognostic value in the course of breast cancer treatment, morbidity and mortality. This study was undertaken to determine the association between axillary lymph node metastasis and several variables such as age, tumour size, grade, lymphovascular invasion, oestrogen and progesterone receptor expression and HER2/neu status in...