The article discusses traditions of constructing hydraulic structures on difficult terrain since ancient times. Features the landscape and socioeconomic conditions territory Tajikistan have led to development engineering here over centuries from simplest local building materials – stone, tree, clay. Despite primitiveness culture, masters past could arrange large irrigation that allow transporti...

1. Masters of Clinical Science Candidate, The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Contact: [email protected] 2. Masters of Clinical Science Candidate, The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005 Contact: [email protected] 3. Research Fellow, The Joanna Briggs Institute, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, rebecca.cookjohnson@adelaid...

A facile nonlithographic method for expedient fabrication of microfluidic devices of poly(dimethylsiloxane) is described. Positive-relief masters for the molds are directly printed on smooth substrates. For the formation of connecting channels and chambers inside the polymer components of the microfluidic devices, cavity-forming elements are adhered to the surfaces of the masters. Using this no...

Experiences of competitive masters swimmers: Desired coaching characteristics and perceived benefits Gillian Ferrari, Gordon A. Bloom, Wade D. Gilbert & Jeffrey G. Caron To cite this article: Gillian Ferrari, Gordon A. Bloom, Wade D. Gilbert & Jeffrey G. Caron (2017) Experiences of competitive masters swimmers: Desired coaching characteristics and perceived benefits, International Journal of Sp...

Recently, we showed [3] that every closed hyperbolic 3–manifold M contains an essential subsurface and consequently 1.M/ contains a surface subgroup. It is therefore natural to consider the question: How many conjugacy classes of surface subgroups of genus g there are in 1.M/? This has already been considered by Masters [5], and our approach to this question builds on our previous work and impr...

OBJECTIVES Despite robust growth in participation in marathons and endurance sports among older individuals, guidance regarding pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation of these athletes is lacking. The objective of this study was to assess the utility of currently available pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation guidelines as applied to a cohort of older novice endurance athletes. ME...

Thousands of masters athletes participate quadrennially in the World Masters Games (WMG), yet this cohort of athletes remains proportionately under-investigated. Due to a growing global obesity pandemic in context of benefits of physical activity across the lifespan, the BMI trends for this unique population was of particular interest. The nexus between health, physical activity and aging is co...

Once the general decline in muscle mass, muscle strength and physical performance falls below specific thresholds, the middle aged or older adult will be diagnosed as having sarcopenia (a loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength). Sarcopenia contributes to a range of adverse events in older age including disability, hospitalisation, institutionalisation and falls. One potentially relevant but ...