Behavioral manipulations such as housing in an enriched environment have been shown to increase brain weight and visual cortical thickness. The present study was designed to test whether skill learning or repetitive movements can alter the thickness of the motor cortex. One group of 6-mo-old Long-Evans female rats learned motor skills on an obstacle course that increased in difficulty over trai...

Un ultimo ringraziamento va a Lui, non si gioca a dadi qui, c'` e il Suo sogno per ognuno di noi, a noi non resta che viverlo.

Background and Objectives: Given the limited number of studies on Ramadan fasting and military performance, we conducted this study to identify the effect of Ramadan fasting on physical fitness performances in army cadets. Methods: Twenty healthy males were randomly selected from a larger sample group. The subjects were divided into fasting (n=10) and non-fasting (n=10) groups. They performed v...

under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract In this paper, we give an a posteriori error estimates with constitutive law for some obstacle problem. The error estimator involves some parameter ε appeared in some penalized equation.

The aim of a soccer game is to score more goals than the opponent does. The chances of doing so increase when all the own players are continuously present on the field. In the RoboCup Standard Platform League (SPL), the only reasons for players not to participate in a game are that they either have been penalized or they have not been ready for the match in the first place. This paper presents ...