The Special Judo Fitness Test (SJFT) has become the test most widely used by coaches and physical trainers for assessment of competitors' judo-specific physical aptitude and training programme prescription. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the SJFT performance indices and both maximal aerobic power and the level of blood lactate concentrations in female judo ath...

network In this article, the author proposes a novel MAC-layer protocol, called Optical Reservation Multi stations to reserve transmission slots, which is attractive for use in fiber optic networks. Unlike conventional protocols, w is mostly done using software, ORMA performs its reservation using simple and effective optical circuits. Complete desc ORMA: A High-Performance MAC Protocol for Fib...

Arthropods evolved blood-feeding lifestyles on more than 20 independent occasions. A comparison of sialomes (secretory salivary gland protein family repertoires) corroborates this and indicates that unique protein families are found for different blood-feeding lineages. Closely related lineages considered to have evolved blood-feeding behavior independently might share similar sets of protein f...

PIERRE BELON, naturalist and traveler of the 16th century, known for his publications in field botany zoology, above all account voyage to Levant (1546-1549), is also author Cronique, unpublished sixteenth century. This polemical work describes events beginning French Wars Religion that Belon witnessed. It consists a speech addressed King Charles IX two accounts sieges: Moulins imposed by Hugue...

Culture is the ongoing oroduct of the evolved osvches of individual humans living in . . . e groups. Progress in our understanding of culture as a phenomenon depends an progress in uncovering the nature of the evolved mechanisms that comprise the human psyche, including but not limited to those responsible for learning. Actual attempts to specify information processing mechanisms that could, in...