In Catalonia (Spain), each university is required by law to offer lecturers a learning framework. This requirement is met by specialized centers: at our technical university, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) this center is the Institute for Education Sciences (ICE), to which the authors of this article belong. This institute offers training to both new and senior lecturers. This train...

Training Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) can be very slow for big data. In this paper, we present a new training method for CRFs called Empirical Training which is motivated by the concept of co-occurrence rate. We show that the standard training (unregularized) can have many maximum likelihood estimations (MLEs). Empirical training has a unique closed form MLE which is also a MLE of the stand...

Background It has previously been shown that isotonic strength training can improve driver performance among golfers, though few studies have investigated effects of strength training on swing kinematics together with driver performance. In this study we investigated whether isokinetic rotational training could improve driver performance and swing kinematic variables amongst elite golfers. Me...

The success of exploration-based training is likely to be strongly influenced by what activities the learner undertakes during training. This paper presents a study of the activities undertaken during training by 51 experienced computer users learning to use an application package through exercises, exploration or a combined approach to training. Results suggest that exploration learners practi...

The overall objective of this review was to investigate the role and development of sprinting speed in soccer. Time-motion analyses show that short sprints occur frequently during soccer games. Straight sprinting is the most frequent action before goals, both for the scoring and assisting player. Straight-line sprinting velocity (both acceleration and maximal sprinting speed), certain agility s...

Training data preparation. We used all the training video frames from J-HMDB-21 dataset to train both appearanceand flow-based SSD networks. As UCF10124 has larger training set, we used every 4-th frame from each training video along with their associated ground-truth labels and bounding boxes. Frames that do not contain any human action annotation (background frames) were not used in training....

Participation of masters athletes (>30 years) in sprint running (100-400 m) and sprint track cycling (200 m, team sprint, 1-km) has increased significantly over recent decades. With aging, sprint and endurance performance gradually declines. The present review focuses upon the effects of resistance training on sprint and endurance performance and its physiological determinants in masters athlet...