Minhao Liu,1 Cui-Zu Chang,1,2 Zuocheng Zhang,1 Yi Zhang,2 Wei Ruan,1 Ke He,2,* Li-li Wang,2 Xi Chen,1 Jin-Feng Jia,1 Shou-Cheng Zhang,3,4 Qi-Kun Xue,1,2 Xucun Ma,2 and Yayu Wang1,† 1Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 2Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Repu...

*State Key Lab for Medical Genomics and Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation Lab, Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Rui Jin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, 197 Rui Jin Road II, Shanghai 200025, China; ‡Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, 351 Guo Shou Jing Road, Pudong, Shanghai 201203, China; §State Key Lab for Genetic Engineering, FuDan University, 220 Han Dan R...

Background Low back pain (LBP) is a common pain syndrome in athletes, responsible for 28% of missed training days/year. Psychosocial factors contribute to chronic pain development. This study aims to investigate the transferability of psychosocial screening tools developed in the general population to athletes and to define athlete-specific thresholds. Methods Data from a prospective multicen...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Intensive regular physical exercise training is associated with a physiological changes in left ventricular (LV) morphology and functions. This cardiac remodeling observed in the athletes is associated with the specific haemodynamic requirements of the exercise undertaken. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of endurance training on cardiac morphol...

PURPOSE To anticipate outstanding athletic outcomes, the selection process of elite athletes simultaneously considers psychophysiological and technical parameters. This study aimed to investigate whether selected and nonselected athletes for the Italian national taekwondo team could be discriminated by means of sport specific performances and psychophysiological responses to training. PARTICI...

This project supplies support for an additional graduate student, Mr. David Schuster, on experimental investigations on quantum coherence, entanglement, and quantum computation in a solid-state, electronic realization of quantum bits based on superconducting single-electron devices, namely the single Cooper-pair box. Mr. Schuster has developed a process for fabrication of Al/AlOx/Al tunnel qubi...

OBJECTIVE We sought to study the functional, clinical and prognostic implications of marked repolarization abnormalities (MRA) sometimes seen in athletes' electrocardiograms (ECGs). BACKGROUND The clinical meaning of ECG MRA in athletes is unknown. No relationship has been drawn between either training intensity or any particular type of sport and MRA. Athletes are usually symptom free and do...

We aimed to describe the relationship between BMI and the subcutaneous adipose tissue topography within young athletes and non-athletic controls, to comparatively evaluate the diagnostic powers of subcutaneous adipose tissue thicknesses at different body sites, furthermore to explore appropriate cut-offs to discriminate between athletes and controls. Measurements were determined in 64 males and...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of hypertension among collegiate football athletes is not well described. METHODS AND RESULTS A retrospective cohort of all male athletes who participated in varsity athletics at a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I university between 1999 and 2012 was examined through chart review. Mandatory annual preparticipation physical examinations included blo...

Sport provides a context in which mate choice can be facilitated by the display of athletic prowess. Previous work has shown that, for females, team sport athletes are more desirable as mates than individual sport athletes and non-participants. In the present study, the perceptions of males and females were examined regarding potential mates based on sport participation. It was predicted that t...