REASON FOR PERFORMING STUDY Foot stance in grazing significantly influences hoof conformation and development from foal to yearling age. OBJECTIVES To conduct a longitudinal study to establish if the relationship between motor laterality and uneven front feet persisted in 3-year-old horses at the time of studbook selection and to investigate if such laterality and unevenness might influence t...

This paper presents a programming language that includes paradigms that are usually associated with declarative languages, such as sets, rules and search, into an imperative (functional) language. Although these paradigms are separately well-known and available under various programming environments, the originality of the CLAIRE language comes from the tight integration, which yields interesti...

Performers with a left-orientation have a greater likelihood of obtaining elite levels of performance in many interactive sports. This study examined whether combat stance orientation was related to skill and success in Mixed Martial Arts fighters. Data were extracted for 1468 mixed martial artists from a reliable and valid online data source. Measures included fighting stance, win percentage a...

Distributed multimedia applications have emerged at an increasing rate during the last decade in several domains (video conferencing, e-health, virtual meeting rooms, etc). This has created several new challenging problems related to data integration and fragmentation, user-oriented and adaptive interfaces, real time and network performances, etc. In this article, we focus on the problem of dat...

This paper presents a technique that can be used in designing an equivalent PI controller to different classes of the known Iterative Learning Control (ILC) namely P-type and high order ILCs. The equivalent PI controller can be explicitly represented in the z domain in contrast to the time domain based ILC, which gives another potential for stability analysis. Moreover, the derived PI controlle...

− The new generation of implanted neuroprostheses allows muscles to be controlled with fine accuracy, high selectivity and the repeatability of the muscle’s response can be achieved. Thus, the closed loop control of such systems becomes possible. The SUAW project succeeded in the implantation of an advanced neuroprosthetic device on two patients, but the movement generation remains open loop an...

Previous research has shown that hand and foot preferences do not develop in parallel in children and it has been discovered that in children foot preference stabilizes later. Therefore, the aim of this study is to verify whether the differences in stabilization will also be manifested through less consistent results of selected skilled foot performance tests in a comparison with selected skill...

Appropriate nutrition is an essential prerequisite for effective improvement of athletic performance, conditioning, recovery from fatigue after exercise, and avoidance of injury. Nutritional supplements containing carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, and minerals have been widely used in various sporting fields to provide a boost to the recommended daily allowance. In addition, several natural fo...

The behavioural and cognitive effects of oligofructose-enriched inulin at the doses of 5 and 10 % in the diet, orally ingested daily during 2 weeks, were investigated using a functional observational battery (FOB) and the light extinction test in male Wistar rats. Control rats received a standard diet and were tested in the same test situations. The behavioural effects were assessed 2 d before ...

The brain's information processing power is limited by its energy supply but the allocation of cortical energy use between conscious and unconscious information processing is unknown. We calculate, from electrophysiological data in primates, that conscious perception reflects surprisingly small local alterations in mean cortical neuronal firing rate and energy consumption: perceiving visual sti...