In most sports, the development of elite athletes is a long-term process of talent identification and support. Typically, talent selection systems administer a multi-faceted strategy including national coach observations and varying physical and psychological tests when deciding who is chosen for talent development. The aim of this exploratory study was to evaluate the prognostic validity of ta...

BACKGROUND Unusual metastatic presentation of intra-ocular melanoma. STUDY DESIGN Case report. DISCUSSION Extra-regional lymphatic spread of intra-ocular melanoma has not been reported previously in the literature. The usual pattern of metastasis for intra-ocular melanoma is hematogenous. There are few reports of regional spread to the maxillofacial bones. We report an interesting case of a...

Soccer entails intermittent exercise with bouts of short, intense activity punctuating longer periods of low-level, moderate-intensity exercise. High levels of blood lactate may sometimes be observed during a match but the active recovery periods at submaximal exercise levels allow for its removal on a continual basis. While anaerobic efforts are evident in activity with the ball and shadowing ...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the developmental changes in performance in a repeated-sprint ability (RSA) test in young soccer players of contrasting maturity status. A total of 83 regional level Portuguese youth soccer players, aged 11-13 years at baseline was assessed annually. Stature, body mass, 7x34.2-m sprint protocol (25-s active recovery), 20-m multi-stage continuous shuttle ...

Games have evolved from the arcade coin slots of the 70s to Massively Multiplayer Online games (MMOs) costing hundreds of millions of dollars to develop. Often, MMO budgets only start to break even years after they launched. Hence the need to acquire and retain players, and have them spend extra money in the game by buying virtual items. Hence the need for business intelligence (BI) in MMOs. Be...

the aim of this study is to investigate and determine the best aja’s information confrontation methods and techniques against the extra-regional forces. according researches in various sources can be realized, trans-regional forces approaches in the world of modern communications, brought under control the international community as a village and many of the information in the fields communicat...

ABSTRACT Introduction: Medicine Ball training has a long history as to strengthen the musculature of athletes, and tennis requires high explosive muscle strength in upper limbs its athletes. Objective: Explore whether medicine ball can significantly improve forearm players. Methods: 100 professional players with mean age 21 years were selected randomly divided between experimental control group...

The game Quantum Moves was designed to pit human players against computer algorithms, combining their solutions into hybrid optimization to control a scalable quantum computer. In this midstream report, we open our design process and describe the series of constitutive building stages going into a quantum physics citizen science game. We present our approach from designing a core gameplay aroun...