Background. Training in any sport aims to maximize athletes’ physical capacity. Objectives. This study aimed to determine the effects of two training programs, functional training, and weight training, on the physical capacity of university baseball players. Methods. The participants included 10 university baseball players, divided into the functional training group (FTG, n=5) and the weight ...

There is mounting evidence of the value of task-specific training as a neuromotor intervention in neurological rehabilitation. The evidence is founded in the psychology of motor skill learning and in the neuroscience of experience-dependent and learning-dependent neural plastic changes in the brain in animals and humans. Further, there is growing empirical evidence for the effectiveness of task...

PURPOSE The main purpose of this study was to compare the effect of a specific resistance training program (throwing movement with a pulley device) with the effect of regular training (throwing with regular balls) on overarm throwing velocity under various conditions. METHODS The training forms were matched for total training load, ie, impulse generated on the ball or pulley device. Both trai...

The present study examines whether reading fluency benefits more from repeated reading of a limited set of words or from practicing reading with many different words. A group of 37 reading delayed Dutch children repeatedly read the same 20 words with limited exposure duration, whereas another group of 37 poor readers received the same reading exercises with 400 different words. Results demonstr...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A comprehensive training program to develop tobacco-specific standardized patient instructors (SPIs) was implemented and evaluated at Wake Forest University. METHODS Descriptive statistics were used to assess SPIs' experience with the training program and medical students' perceptions of the SPI-student interaction. Two standardized scales, used to assess student per...

Lisa Harvey and colleagues have made a major contribution to the rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries so it is a pleasure to have a chance to engage with them in a discussion of some aspects of their paper (Harvey et al 2011). The aim of this study was to investigate whether people with recently acquired paraplegia benefit from an intensive motor training program aimed at improving unsupporte...

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we re-examine the effect of formal on-the-job training on mobility patterns of young American workers. By employing parametric duration models, we evaluate the economic impact of training on productive time with an employer. Confirming previous studies, we find a positive and statistically significant impact of formal on-the-job ...

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills that are sufficiently general to be potentially useful for competitors. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in industry-specific human capital, then make wage offers for each others’ trained employees and finally engage in imperfect product market competition. Equilibria with ...

Super-resolution addresses the problem of image upscaling by reconstructing high-resolution output images from low-resolution input images. One successful approach for this problem is based on random forests. However, this approach has a large memory footprint, since complex models are required to achieve high accuracy. To overcome this drawback, we present a novel method for constructing rando...

The logistical and operational challenges to improve public health practice capacity across Africa are well documented. This report describes Kenya's Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program's (KFELTP) experience in implementing frontline public health worker training to transfer knowledge and practical skills that help strengthen their abilities to detect, document, respond to, and r...