This study identified the shortand long-term effects of using a shooting strap on the accuracy of free throws performed by U15 female basketball players during training and competition. Thirty six female basketball player volunteers (aged 14.3±0.5 years) from the Lithuanian Schoolchildren Basketball League were randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group. The experimental group...

The shoot2.0 package implements an indirect shooting method for optimal control problems. It is speci cally designed to handle control discontinuities, with an automatic switching detection that requires no assumptions concerning the number of switchings. Special care is also devoted to the computation of the Jacobian matrix of the shooting function, using the variational system instead of clas...

We present an algorithm for locating a query point q in an arrangement of n hyperplanes in Rd. The size of the data structure is O(n”) and the time to answer any query is O(log n). Unlike previous data structures, our solution will also report, in addition to the face of the arrangement that contains q, the first hyperplane that is hit (if any) by shooting the point q in some fixed direction. A...

In this paper the accuracy of two machine learning algorithms including SVM and Bayesian Network are investigated as two important algorithms in diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease. We use Parkinson's disease data in the University of California, Irvine (UCI). In order to optimize the SVM algorithm, different kernel functions and C parameters have been used and our results show that SVM with C par...

Architectural walkthroughs require fast global illumination algorithms and also accurate results from certain viewpoints. This paper introduces a global illumination method that combines several strategies to meet the contradicting criteria of architectural walkthroughs. The methods include parallel and perspective ray-bundle shooting and ray shooting. Each method is designed to randomly approx...

MUSCOD (MU ltiple Shooting COde for Direct Optimal Control) is the implementation of an algorithm for the direct solution of optimal control problems. The method is based on multiple shooting combined with a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) technique; its original version was developed in the early 1980s by Plitt under the supervision of Bock Plitt81, Bock84]. The following report is inte...

In this paper we present an output-sensitive algorithm to maintain the view of a set of c-oriented polyhedra under insertions into or deletions from the set. (A set of polyhedra is c-oriented ifthe number of different orientations of its edges is bounded by some constant c.) Cyclic overlap in the scene is aJlowed and the polyhedra may even intersect. The time needed for an update is 0« k + 1) l...

TV conference systems have been widely used recently. A participant of each site proceeds with a TV conference using video image on a screen and voice of a partner site. In this case, a fixed video camera shoots a scene of a site in general. The video image taken by a fixed camera, however, is lacking in changes. Also the fixed camera does not take shots efficiency that the participants of a pa...

--Current research on radiosity has concentrated on increasing the accuracy and the speed of the solution. Although algorithmic and meshing techniques decrea,se the execution time, still excessive computational power is required for complex scenes. Hence, parallelism can be exploited for speeding up the method further. This paper aims at providing a thorough examination of parallelism in the ba...