BACKGROUND The prevalence of patellar tendinopathy is elevated in elite soccer compared to less explosive sports. While the burden of training hours and load is comparably high in youth elite players (age < 23 years), little is known about the prevalence of patellar tendinopathy at this age. There is only little data available on the influence of age, the amount of training, the position on the...

Studies have reported that older females have impaired heat loss responses during work in the heat compared to young females. However, it remains unclear at what level of heat stress these differences occur. Therefore, we examined whole-body heat loss [evaporative (HE) and dry heat loss, via direct calorimetry] and changes in body heat storage (∆Hb, via direct and indirect calorimetry) in 10 yo...

Department of Mathematics, Qaemshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qaemshahr, Iran Business Systems and Analytics Department, Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA Business Information Systems Department, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Paderborn, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany Young Researchers and Elite Club,...

Rouhollah Heydari*, Mohammad Hosseini, Mohammad Alimoradi and Sanaz Zarabi Razi Herbal Medicines Research Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences PO Bo x 68149-89468, Khorrsamabad, Iran. Young Researchers and Elite Club, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran. Department of Chemistr...

BACKGROUND It has been established that excellence in sports with short and long exercise duration requires a high proportion of fast-twitch (FT) or type-II fibers and slow-twitch (ST) or type-I fibers, respectively. Until today, the muscle biopsy method is still accepted as gold standard to measure muscle fiber type composition. Because of its invasive nature and high sampling variance, it wou...

Different human-like cardiomyopathies associated to β-adrenergic stimulation are experimentally modeled in animals through variations in dose, route, and duration of administration of different cardiotoxic drugs. However, associated changes in the vasculature and their relation to systemic inflammation, and the influence of cardiovascular diseases risk factors (gender and age) upon them are sel...

Through the use of parabiosis in mice, aging-related deterioration of skeletal muscle and liver has been linked to a loss of systemic factors that support adult stem or progenitor cell activity. Since aging-related ovarian failure has recently been attributed, at least in part, to a loss of de-novo oocyte-containing follicle formation associated with declining oogonial stem cell activity, herei...

The paper presents morphological description of horse remains from the elite burial complex Tsaram dated to Xiongnu period. is located in Kyakhtinsky district Republic Buryatia (Russia) and consists one central № 7 accompanying funerary objects. In grave pit largest a typical Han chariot was found, which damaged during later intrusions. skeletal (skull, two cervical vertebrae, metapodials phala...

INTERFACE is an integrated software implemented in Matlab© and created to speed-up the procedure for building an emotive/expressive talking head. Various processing tools, working on dynamic articulatory data physically extracted by an optotracking 3D movement analyzer called ELITE, were implemented to build the animation engine and also to create the correct WAV and FAP files needed for the an...

conclusions the current study findings suggest that the iranian central obesity making dietary pattern is directly associated with waist circumference (marker of central obesity), while lacto vegetarian dietary pattern is reversely associated with weight, waist circumference and bmi. special obesity pattern in iranian young females can be justified by iranian central obesity making dietary patt...