In recent years, there has been growing interest in automated tracking and detection of sports activities. Researchers have shown that providing activity information to individuals during their exercise routines can greatly help them achieving goals. particular, such would maximize workout efficiency prevent overreaching overtraining. This paper presents the development a novel multipurpose wea...

The main goal of any conditioning programme in athletic horses is to improve performance by inducing physiological changes within the animal's body. Equine skeletal muscles have a considerable potential to adapt during training and these adaptations have important physiological implications that influence stamina, strength and speed. Although there is an extensive specialized literature in this...

Research on atrial fibrillation (AF), a common heart arrhythmia in the elderly, over many decades has resulted in a literature of more than 16,000 articles indexed in Medline. An exploratory Medline search was conducted in which the subheadings for epidemiology and etiology of AF were combined to form a small subset of the initial records. Further computer-assisted selection led to a few articl...

BACKGROUND It has been reported that high intensity long term training in elite athletes may increase risk of immune function. OBJECTIVES This study is to examine training effects on immunoglobulin and changes of physiological stress and physical fitness level induced by increased cold stress during 12-week winter off-season training in elite Judoists. PATIENTS AND METHODS Twenty-nine male ...

Physical activity is involved in increasing health potential. However, sports practice a state of well-being may depend on the management emotions. The purpose present study was to analyse relationship between type exercise and alexithymia. Three groups people were analyzed for study: triathlon practitioners, practicing Tai Chi, sedentary people. All participants assessed both physical level re...

BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric condition that typically manifests in compulsive urges to perform irrational or excessive avoidance behaviors. A recent account has suggested that compulsivity in OCD might arise from excessive stimulus-response habit formation, rendering behavior insensitive to goal value. We tested if OCD patients have a bias toward habits using ...