Do momentum strategies work? Australian evidence

Australian football player work rate: evidence of fatigue and pacing?

UNLABELLED Previous research has suggested elite Australian footballers undertake pacing strategies to preserve high intensity activity later in matches. However, this research used GPS with slow sample rates, did not express performance relative to minutes played during games and used lowly ranked players. METHODS Therefore in this study movement was recorded by GPS at 5 Hz. Running performa...

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Developmental Psychology Managing Work and Family: Do Control Strategies Help?

When do open-loop strategies for combustion control work?

This paper addresses open-loop control strategies that involve a low frequency modulation of the fuel injection for suppression of pressure oscillations in combustion systems. Such a strategy has been employed in a number of recent investigations including [1]-[5]. Using a physically based model, analytical explanations for the effectiveness of such a low pulsing strategy are provided in this p...

Managing work and family: Do control strategies help?

How can we effectively manage competing obligations from work and family without becoming overwhelmed? This question inspires the current study by examining control strategies that may facilitate better work-life balance, with a specific focus on the role of lowered aspirations and positive reappraisals, attitudes that underlie adaptive coping behaviors. Data from the Midlife in the United Stat...