The purpose of this study was to analyze the infl uence of intellectual impairment (II) on game-related statistics which best contribute to success in basketball. Offi cial game-related statistics were gathered from 6 male teams (n = 63 players) during the 13 games played in the World II-Basketball Championships (Ankara 2013). Variables were normalized to 100 ball possessions and descriptive st...

Concussions and subconcussive impacts sustained in American football have been associated with short- and long-term neurological impairment, but differences in head impact outcomes across playing positions are not well understood. The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine has identified playing position as a key risk factor for concussion in football and one for which additional research...

The circular economy strategy is closely linked to the EU's efforts achieve a radical reduction in amount of waste going landfills. It wrong think, that packaging should be used within industry, as many have suggested strict sense producer responsibility. Schumpeter saw creative destruction one ofthe preconditions for development. offensive. must transformed from stock flow significant improvem...

A dominating set S of a graph G is a global (strong) defensive alliance if for every vertex v ∈ S, the number of neighbors v has in S plus one is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has in V \ S. The dominating set S is a global (strong) offensive alliance if for every vertex v ∈ V \ S, the number of neighbors v has in S is at least (greater than) the number of neighbors it has i...

Male Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) treated with low-dose (0.5 mg/kg/day) cocaine throughout adolescence (P27-P56) display highly escalated offensive aggression. The current study examined whether adolescent cocaine exposure influenced the immunohistochemical localization of glutamic acid decarboxylase-65 (GAD65), the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GAB...

In today’s data-driven world, programmers routinely incorporate user data into complex algorithms, heuristics, and application pipelines. While often beneficial, this practice can have unintended and detrimental consequences, such as the discriminatory effects identified in Staples’ online pricing algorithm and the racially offensive labels recently found in Google’s image tagger. We argue that...

The aim of the present study was to identify groups of offensive performance indicators which best discriminated between a match score (favourable, balanced or unfavourable) in water polo. The sample comprised 88 regular season games (2011-2014) from the Spanish Professional Water Polo League. The offensive performance indicators were clustered in five groups: Attacks in relation to the differe...

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.06.017 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 519 746 8631. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.P. Eibach In modern liberal societies people are generally reluctant to morally condemn acts that they find personally distasteful so long as those acts are not harmful or unfair to others. However, in providing character educatio...

Internet trolling has become a popularly used term to describe the posting of any content on the Internet which is provocative or offensive. This is different from the original meaning online in the 1990s, which referred to the posting of provocative messages for humourous effect. Those systems operators (sysops) who run online communities are finding they are being targeted because of abuse po...

Arginine vasopressin (AVP) has been implicated in a variety of physiological and behavioral responses to stress. Synthesis of receptor-selective AVP agonist and antagonist compounds allows differential analysis of the specific roles of particular receptor subtypes with respect to these responses. Here, effects of the recently synthesized AVP V1b selective antagonist, SSR149415, were examined fo...