background: physical exercises can influence some anthropometric and fitness components differently. the aim of present study was to evaluate how a relatively long‑term training program in 11‑14‑year‑old male iranian students affects their anthropometric and motor performance measures. methods: measurements were conducted on the anthropometric and fitness components of participants (n = 28) pri...

We study numerically a model for shear bands that is loosely based on anti-plane shearing of granular material. In the model, a shear band is idealized to a jump discontinuity in the solution to the dynamic PDE. We do not explicitly incorporate small scale eeects within the shear band into the model{rather at the shear band we impose a jump condition which includes a length parameter modeling t...

Markov jump processes can be used to model the effective dynamics of observables in applications ranging from molecular dynamics to finance. In this paper we present a different method which allows the inverse modeling of Markov jump processes based on incomplete observations in time: We consider the case of a given time series of the discretely observed jump process. We show how to compute eff...

When nonwetting fluid displaces wetting fluid in a porous rock many rapid pore-scale displacement events occur. These events are often referred to as Haines jumps and any drainage process in porous media is an ensemble of such events. However, the relevance of Haines jumps for larger scale models is often questioned. A common counter argument is that the high fluid velocities caused by a Haines...

Women began contesting the 3000 m steeplechase during the 1990's using barriers of different dimensions than men. Whenever a new event is introduced for women, consideration should be taken as to whether different technique or training methods should be utilized. This study investigated three aspects of hurdling technique: 1) Differences in the ratio of the landing step to the penultimate step ...

I analyze the hierarchy of large cardinals between a supercompact cardinal and an almost-huge cardinal. Many of these cardinals are defined by modifying the definition of a high-jump cardinal. A high-jump cardinal is defined as the critical point of an elementary embedding j : V → M such that M is closed under sequences of length sup{ j(f)(κ) | f : κ→ κ }. Some of the other cardinals analyzed i...

Presence of steps in radial stilling basins affect positively or negatively the characteristics of the free hydraulic jumps depending upon the type of the step, the height of the step, the position of the step in the basin and the dominant flow conditions. The effects of all these factors on the characteristics of the free radial hydraulic B-jump are addressed through the present experimental i...

For an undirected graph and a fixed integer k, a 2-matching is said to be Ck-free if it has no cycle of length k or less. In particular, a C4-free 2-matching in a bipartite graph is called a square-free 2-matching. The problem of finding a maximum Ck-free 2-matching in a bipartite graph is NP-hard when k ≥ 6, and polynomially solvable when k = 4. Also, the problem of finding a maximum-weight Ck...