BACKGROUND Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) refers to a group of congenital conditions characterized by disordered cortisol synthesis. The correlation between CAH and sports performance has been less studied before and there is very limited information regarding the impacts of this congenital disease on sports performance. Probably, there are some limitations for patients who suffer from CA...

The Rockefeller Foundation (RF) was the first private organization to have systematically envisioned and practiced public health as a world system. RF exerted extensive influence in disseminating medical science, practice policies world. It set up similar institutions many countries by working with national colonial governments, empires of Europe United States, League Nations Health Organizatio...

full integration of AI and robotics research. Following the success of the first RoboCup in 1997 at Nagoya (Kitano 1998; Noda et al. 1998) and the second RoboCup in Paris in 1998 (Asada et al. 2000; Asada and Kitano 1999), the Third Robot World Cup Soccer Games and Conferences, RoboCup-99, were held in Stockholm from 27 July to 4 August 1999 in conjunction with the Sixteenth International Joint...

Studies on rugby league injuries use a variety of definitions and methodologies. Consequently, comparisons of published studies are difficult. Researchers with an interest in understanding the epidemiology of rugby league injury participated in a majority agreement process. This paper provides suggestions for the definitions, data collection and reporting methods for future studies of rugby lea...

BACKGROUND Children and adolescents who play rugby are at increased risk of concussion and its effects. Competitive rugby union and rugby league feature as major sports in the school sport curriculum in the UK. There is a need for a thorough understanding of the epidemiology of concussion in youth rugby, the mechanisms involved in injuries and predisposing risk factors. DATA SOURCES The publi...

The objective of this study is identify key factors that determine the ticket-sales revenue of minor league baseball teams and, in doing so, to verify that marketing strategies can lead to greater success for free enterprise in this milieu. To ensure greater comparability of data between teams and hence greater relevance of the results, this study focuses upon a single grouping of minor league ...

Today, the sport of ice hockey in North America is dominated by its premier circuit, the National Hockey League (N.H.L.). However, at the beginning of this century, the sport had only begun its transformation into a commercially driven spectacle, which, according to Gruneau and Whitson, now sells everything from beer to national identity. Emerging during a period of rapid urbanization and indus...