BACKGROUND The present study aimed to investigate the concomitant effects of Ramadan intermittent fast (RIF) and muscle fatigue on neuromuscular performances and reaction times in young trained athletes. METHODS Eight karate players (17.2 ± 0.5 years) were tested on three sessions: during a control period (S1: one week before Ramadan), and during the first (S2) and the fourth week of RIF (S3)...

The ability to understand speech in 27 hearing impaired children was assessed using the BKB/A Picture Related Sentence test for children. The mean sentence score for the group was 72% (range 100-18%). Language scores (CELF-R) and Verbal Scale IQ (WISC-R) scores were significantly below the norm (72.8 and 89.2 respectively). Performance Scale IQ scores were slightly above the norm (106.3). Sente...

Mailing address: Rua Minas Gerais, 99, ap. 704, Edifício Maria Del Carmem, Centro – 86020-060 – Londrina, PR, Brasil E-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Karate practice can promote beneficial adaptations on the health-related components of physical fitness. Among the components, the maximum oxygen uptake ( O2max) is an important indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness, as it is also a stron...

BACKGROUND Karate is a public sport that has athletes in various age ranges and abundant active sport clubs in Iran. The pattern of injury in this sport in Iranian athletes seems different from other countries. OBJECTIVES This study was performed with the purpose of considering the incidence and type of injury of karate athletes aged below 30 years from Tehran, Iran clubs. MATERIALS AND MET...

Sir, Recently, our group conducted a supplementary study on urinary abnormalities following karate (kumite) competitions in professional female athletes. In a previous issue of NDT Plus [1], our group presented data showing significantly increased proteinuria of a mixed type (albumin and beta2-microglobulin or B2M) with prominence of albumin, as a glomerular urine protein, in 18 professional (1...

We present a simple stochastic agent-based community finding algorithm. Our algorithm is tested on network data from the Zachary karate club study, data from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables , and data obtained from a musical piece by J.S. Bach. In all three cases, the algorithm partitions the vertices of the graph sensibly.