ultra-endurance mountain running has become extremely popular in recent years, and the energy cost is one of the factors that influence the final performance. the aim of this study was to determine if the energy cost of uphill running (uphill cr) can be calculated from level cr (energy cost of running in mlo2.kg-1.mn-1) in a heterogeneous group of mountain ultra-endurance runners using the di p...

Nest building was measured in "active" (housed with access to running wheels) and "sedentary" (without wheel access) mice (Mus domesticus) from four replicate lines selected for 10 generations for high voluntary wheel-running behavior, and from four randombred control lines. Based on previous studies of mice bidirectionally selected for thermoregulatory nest building, it was hypothesized that n...

This study examined differences in center of pressure (COP) trajectories between shod and barefoot running. Ten habitually shod runners ran continuous laps under both shod and barefoot conditions. The COP trajectory was calculated in the global coordinate system but then transformed to the anatomic coordinate system of the foot. The anterior-posterior and medio-lateral positions and excursions ...

This paper revises notions related to Language Resources and Technologies (LRT), including a brief overview of some resources developed worldwide and with a special focus on Romanian language. It then describes a joined Romanian, Moldavian, English initiative aimed at developing electronically coded resources for Romanian language, tools for their maintenance and usage, as well as for the creat...

It has been shown that prior experience with a task improves temporal prediction, even when the amount of prior experience with the task is often limited. The present study targeted the role of extensive training on temporal prediction. Expert and intermediate runners had to predict the time of a 5 km running competition. Furthermore, after the race's completion, participants had to estimate th...

In this article we consider a pq-dimensional random vector x distributed normally with mean vector θ and the covariance matrix Λ, assumed to be positive definite. On the basis of N independent observations on the random vector x, we wish to estimate parameters and test the hypothesis H: Λ = Ψ ⊗Σ, where Ψ = (ψij) : q × q and Σ = (σij) : p × p, and Λ = (ψijΣ), the Kronecker product of Ψ and Σ. Th...

BACKGROUND Studies of endurance running have typically involved elite athletes, small sample sizes and measures that require special expertise or equipment. METHODS We examined factors associated with race performance and explored methods for race time prediction using information routinely available to a recreational runner. An Internet survey was used to collect data from recreational endur...

BACKGROUND The age of peak performance in elite endurance athletes has been investigated for elite marathoners, but not for elite Ironman triathletes. The aim of this study was to analyze the age of peak performance in swimming (3.8 km), cycling (180 km), running (42 km), and overall race time for elite female and male Ironman triathletes competing in Ironman Switzerland, a qualifier for the Ir...

We study the finely tuned SSM, recently proposed by Arkani-Hamed and Dimopoulos, at the one loop level. The runnings of the four gaugino Yukawa couplings, the µ term, the gaugino masses, and the Higgs quartic coupling are computed. The Higgs mass is found to be 130 – 170 GeV for M s > 10 6 GeV. If the Yukawa coupling constants are measured at the 1% level, this can determine the SUSY breaking s...