The aim of this study was to track and analyze the 200-m Freestyle performance stability throughout elite swimmer’s career. 29 Portuguese male top-50 were analyzed for seven consecutive seasons between 12 and 18 years old. Best performances were collected from ranking tables. Longitudinal assessment was performed based on two approaches: (i) mean stability was analyzed by descriptive statistics...

INTRODUCTION Many athletes and others who are not necessarily overweight still would like to lose weight. They include athletes whose performances might benefit from reductions in body weight and/or fat. As examples, a runner expends less energy if body weight is lowered, and a basketball player who reduces body weight may be able to jump higher for rebounds. In addition, wrestlers and other at...

Many address lookup methods on the IP routers have been recently proposed to improve the packet forwarding capability; nevertheless, their performance prediction is very limited because of lack of considering actual traffic characteristics in their evaluations. It is necessary to consider actual traffic to predict more realistic performances on routers, specially in case of layers 3 and 4 switc...

Informational Efficiency of Credit Default Swap and Stock Markets: The Impact of Credit Rating Announcements This Paper analyses the response of stock and credit default swap (CDS) markets to rating announcements by the three major rating agencies during 2000-2. Applying event study methodology, we examine whether and how strongly these markets respond to rating announcements in terms of abnorm...

The purpose of the present study is to develop appropriate scoring scales for each of the defined stages of the writing process, and also to determine to what extent these scoring scales can reliably and validly assess the performances of EFL learners in an academic writing task. Two hundred and two students’ writing samples were collected after a step-by-step process oriented essay writing ins...

In this paper we present a functionality and a structure of a symbol table manager for debugging HPF programs. The manager retrieves information from executable les generated by diierent Fortran 77/90 and HPF compilers and converts it into an internal representation independent of le format, which is accessed by the debugging system.

The operational rating system in building energy performance certificates (EPCs) has been used for systematically monitoring and diagnosing the energy performance in the operation and maintenance phases of existing buildings. However, there are several limitations of the conventional operational rating system, which can be subdivided into three aspects: (i) building category; (ii) region catego...

In this paper we consider a local area network (LAN) of dual mode service where one is a token bus and the other is a carrier sense multiple access with a collision detection (CSMA/CD) bus. The objective of the paper is to find the overall cell/packet dropping probability of a dual mode LAN for finite length queue M/G/1(m) traffic. Here, the offered traffic of the LAN is taken to be the equival...