Successful training for endurance running events depends on the optimal connection of training exercises and the transfer of training effects. Not every stimulus will automatically lead to an improvement in running performance. This survey examines the optimal connection of endurance and strength properties and training transfer in the annual training cycle of elite distance runners, applying a...

DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this thesis to my Director and Program Coordinator Dr. Robert Frisina Jr. who has encouraged me and stood by my side in my tough times and to my parents, brother and soul-sister, who have been my four pillars of support through all the high and low tides in my life. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my major professor Dr. David...

Every year millions of people around the world train for, and compete in, the marathon. As race-day approaches, and training schedules begin to wind down, many participants will turn their attention to their race strategy, as they strive to achieve their best time. To help with this, in this paper we describe a novel application of case-based reasoning to address the dual task of: (1) predictin...

I first met my friend and co-worker Tory Parsons in the autumn of 1972 when I first visited Penn State University . We had several long mathematical discussions and I visited him at his home and met his "boss" and "epsilons" which, if I remember right, were quite small at that time . We shared a common interest in graph theory in general and in Ramsey theory in particular . He wrote a nice surv...

U–Pb ages of individual detrital zircon grains from deltaic and turbidite sandstones of the lower to middle Pennsylvanian Haymond Formation (Marathon basin, west Texas) range from 320 Ma to 3 Ga, indicating a mixed provenance broadly similar to that of Ouachita Carboniferous turbidites and related fluvio-deltaic facies of Arkansas–Oklahoma. Differences with the Ouachita assemblage are attribute...

Supervisor(s): Prim. Priv. Doz. Dr. Robert Winker Department(s): Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna Health and Prevention Center, Sanatorium Hera Thesis committee: Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. Michael Kundi Institute of Environmental Health, Center of Public Health, Medical University of Vienna Univ. Doz. Dr. Georg Endler Labors.at Current academic degree: Mag. rer. nat., BS...

The opportunity was taken to find out what happened to a group of runners during and after a provincial marathon race and to assess the influence of various factors on the problems and rate of recovery. METHOD AND RESULTS There were 415 entrants to the 1983 Guildford Marathon disclosing a true intent to run the full marathon by entering the second circuit of the course and 386 (93%) completed t...

Voegelin did not publish an extended volume on Greek tragedy. In his writings, there is a brief account of tragedy in The New Science of Politics, and a more extensive chapter on the subject in The World of the Polis.1 [1] In each case, the bulk of Voegelin�s analysis is concerned with Aeschylus, but in neither case is his analysis comprehensive. His comments in New Science amount to a few page...

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