the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of body mass index on fundamental motor skills performance in 7-8-year-old boys in hamedan. forthis purpose, 72 elementary students were selected via cluster randomization from the elementary schools of hamedan and divided into three groups: fat, normal, and thin according to percentile diagram. then, tgmd-2 was performed by children and ...

We present models for solid-solid phase transitions with surface energy that allow both smooth and sharp interfaces. The models involve the minimisation of an energy that consists of three terms: the elastic energy (a double-well potential), the smooth-interface surface energy and the sharpinterface surface energy. Existence of solutions is shown in arbitrary dimensions. The second part of the ...

Brownian motion and normal distribution have been widely used, for example, in the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing framework, to study the return of assets. However, two puzzles, emerged from many empirical investigations, have got much attention recently, namely (a) the leptokurtic feature that the return distribution of assets may have a higher peak and two (asymmetric) heavier tails than...

purpose the purpose of this study was to describe the body structure and morphological characteristics of tunisian elite handball players, and to determine the effect of these variables on functional and physical performance levels. methods a sample of 42 male handball players (mean age 21.98±3.24 years; training duration 12 years) at international level was submitted to a test battery comprisi...

Force depression (FD) is a decrease in isometric force following active muscle shortening. Despite being well characterized experimentally, its underlying mechanism remains unknown. To develop a new, genetically manipulatable experimental model that would greatly improve our ability to study the underlying mechanism(s) of FD, we tested the Drosophila jump muscle for classical FD behavior. Stead...

We describe a state-of-the-art tunable ultraviolet (UV) Raman spectrometer for the 193-270 nm spectral region. This instrument allows for steady-state and transient UV Raman measurements. We utilize a 5 kHz Ti-sapphire continuously tunable laser (approximately 20 ns pulse width) between 193 nm and 240 nm for steady-state measurements. For transient Raman measurements we utilize one Coherent Inf...

The thesis is composed of three essays on auction theory. The focus is mainly on the English auction, which is probably the format most commonly used. In the English auction, a bidder can see his opponents’ activity as the price is gradually raised starting from a very low price. When only one bidder is left, such bidder is declared the winner and pays the price at which the last but one bidder...

futures contract is one of the most important derivatives that is used in financial markets in all over the world to buy or sell an asset or commodity in the future. pricing of this tool depends on expected price of asset or commodity at the maturity date. according to this, theoretical futures pricing models try to find this expected price in order to use in the futures contract. so in this ar...

we derive closed formulas for the prices of european options andtheir sensitivities when the underlying asset follows a double-exponentialjump diffusion model, as considered by s. kou in 2002. this author hasderived the option price by making use of double series where each termrequires the computation of a sequence of special functions, such thatthe implementation remains difficult for a large...