The purpose of this study was to comparatively investigate the energy expenditure of jumping on sand and on a firm surface. Eight male university volleyball players were recruited in this study and performed 3 sets of 10 repetitive jumps on sand (the S condition), and also on a force platform (the F condition). The subjects jumped every two seconds during a set, and the interval between sets wa...

we classify the paracontact riemannian manifolds that their rieman-nian curvature satisfies in the certain condition and we show that thisclassification is hold for the special cases semi-symmetric and locally sym-metric spaces. finally we study paracontact riemannian manifolds satis-fying r(x, ξ).s = 0, where s is the ricci tensor.

a definition of two jointly asymptotically nonexpansive mappings s and t on uniformly convex banach space e is studied to approximate common fixed points of two such mappings through weak and strong convergence of an ishikawa type iteration scheme generated by s and t on a bounded closed and convex subset of e. as a consequence of the notion of two jointly asymptotically nonexpansive maps, we c...

For any simple connected graph $G=(V,E)$, a defensive alliance is a subset $S$ of $V$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $vin S$ has at most one more neighbour in $V-S$ than it has in $S$. The minimum cardinality of any defensive alliance in $G$ is called the alliance number of $G$, denoted $a(G)$. In this paper, we introduce a new type of alliance number called $k$-strong alliance numb...

The S-adic conjecture postulates the existence of a condition C such that a sequence has linear complexity if and only if it is an S-adic sequence satisfying C for some finite set S of morphisms. We present an overview of the factor complexity of S-adic sequences and we give some examples that either illustrate some interesting properties, or that are counterexamples to what might seem to be a ...

A learning rule is uncoupled if a player does not condition his strategy on the opponent’s payo¤s. It is radically uncoupled if a player does not condition his strategy on the opponent’s actions or payo¤s. We demonstrate a family of simple, radically uncoupled learning rules whose period-by-period behavior comes arbitrarily close to Nash equilibrium behavior in any …nite two-person game. Keywor...

‎Let $R$ be a ring‎ ‎with the Jacobson radical $J(R)$ and let $picolon Rto R/J(R)$ be‎ the canonical map‎. ‎Then $pi$ induces an order preserving group homomorphism‎ ‎$K_0picolon K_0(R)to K_0(R/J(R))$ and an‎ ‎affine continuous map $S(K_0pi)$ between the state space $St(R/J(R))$ and the‎ ‎state space $St(R).$‎ ‎In this paper‎, ‎we consider the natural affine map $S(K_0pi).$ We give a condition ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of heat exposure in the absence of hyperthermia on power output during repeated cycling sprints. Seven males performed four 10-s cycling sprints interspersed by 30 s of active recovery on a cycle ergometer in hot-dry and thermoneutral environments. Changes in rectal temperature were similar under the two ambient conditions. The mean 2-s power...