The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of Small-Sided Games (SSG) vs. Interval Training (IT) in soccer training on aerobic fitness and physical enjoyment in youth elite soccer players during the last 8 weeks of the season. Seventeen U-16 male soccer players (age = 15.5 ± 0.6 years, and 8.5 years of experience) of a Spanish First Division club academy were randomized to 2 different...

The smartphone sensors provide extraordinary user experience in various Android apps, e.g. sport apps, gravity sensing games. Recent works have been proposed to launch powerful sensor-based attacks such as location tracing and sound eavesdropping. The use of sensors does not require any permission in Android apps, so these attacks are very difficult to be noticed by the app users. Furthermore, ...

The 17th Session of the SPARC Scientific Steering Group (SSG) was held at the University of Kyoto, hosted by SSG member Professor Masato Shiotani. This year the SPARC SSG meeting was held concurrently with the IGAC SSC meeting in the same location. These meetings were immediately preceded by a local workshop, jointly sponsored by the Japanese SPARC and IGAC communities. This workshop was well a...

Sodium stibogluconate (SSG) in the dose of 20 mg/kg body weight daily intramuscularly for 20-30 days is recommended by WHO as the first line drug for Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Relapses following therapy and unresponsiveness to the higher doses of SSG are still a problem in north Bihar. Serious toxicity of SSG including myocarditis, sudden death and renal failure have also been reporte...

Wetland indicator status (WIS) describes the habitat affinity of plant species and is used in wetland delineations and resource inventories. Understanding how species-level functional traits vary across WIS categories may improve designations, elucidate mechanisms of adaptation, and explain habitat optima and niche. We investigated differences in species-level traits of riparian flora across WI...

BACKGROUND Leishmania donovani is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes a lethal systemic disease, visceral leishmaniasis (VL), and is transmitted between mammalian hosts by phlebotomine sandflies. Leishmania expertly survives in these 'hostile' environments with a unique redox system protecting against oxidative damage, and host manipulation skills suppressing oxidative outbursts of ...