Previous research indicates that the motion of the golf club is not planar and that the plane traced out by the club is different than that of the golfer's hands. The aim of the present study was to investigate how the position of the club, relative to the golfer's swing plane, influences the motion of the club by using a four-segment (torso, upper arm, forearm, and club), three-dimensional for...

Recent studies using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have proposed that the brain's white matter is organized as a rich club, whereby the most highly connected regions of the brain are also highly connected to each other. Here we use both functional and diffusion-weighted MRI in the human brain to investigate whether the rich club phenomena is present with functional connectivity, and how this...

Club drugs are substances commonly used at nightclubs, music festivals, raves, and dance parties to enhance social intimacy and sensory stimulation. The most widely used club drugs are 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), also known as ecstasy; gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB); flunitrazepam (Rohypnol); and ketamine (Ketalar). These drugs are popular because of their low cost and convenient dis...

Breakfast clubs are widely promoted as having a beneficial impact on children's behavior at the start of the school day, which can be conducive to their learning within the classroom. However, the few available studies that have considered the impact of breakfast club attendance on children's behavior have yielded mixed results and no studies to date have directly observed children's behavior w...

This report describes Pennsylvania's 9-year experience in implementing training programs to strengthen public health response to emerging infectious diseases. During the biannual 3-5-day-long Pennsylvania Public Health Institute (PHI) events, which have been held since 2000, courses have covered topics such as emerging infectious disease outbreaks, monitoring of antimicrobial-resistant pathogen...

László Z. Varga Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. on leave from: KFKI Research Institute for Measurement and Computing Techniques, Budapest POB 49, 1525 Hungary, OTKA F4064. Nick R. Jennings Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, Mile End Road, Lon...

PROLOGUE Clinical toxicology is a topic instructed at some level in most colleges of pharmacy. Traditionally, instruction involves an array of commonly encountered toxic ingestions that might include: acetaminophen, tricyclic antidepressants, and benzodiazepines. Recently, an emerging group of chemicals known as “club drugs” have become increasingly popular substances of abuse. Commonly cited i...

the aim of this study is to assess the status of strategic thinking among directors of private sport clubs in shiraz city based on goldman model. the methodology used here is descriptive-analytic and data are collected through literature studies and survey. the target population of the study included all private sport clubs offering more than three types of sports (90 clubs) and the sampling me...