The purpose of this study was to evaluate changes in anaerobic endurance in elite First-league soccer players throughout 2 consecutive seasons, in 2 phases, with and without high-intensity situational drills. Eighteen soccer players were tested before and after the 8-week summer conditioning and again in the next season. The measured variables included 300-yard shuttle run test, maximal heart r...

A solution to the problems of resource allocation and scheduling of loading and unloading operations in a container terminal is presented. The two problems are formulated and solved hierarchically. First, the solution of the resource allocation problem returns, over a number of work shifts, a set of quay cranes used to load and unload containers from the moored ships and the set of yard cranes ...

Container ports have been faced under increasing development during last 10 years. In such systems, the container transportation system has the most important effect on the total system. Therefore, there is a continuous need for the optimal use of equipment and facilities in the ports. Regarding the several complicated structure and activities in container ports, this paper evaluates and compar...

Events, Times, and Entries Follow: 2:36: Shot Put — Deal, Glassie, Hartman, Everett, all Rice; Garrett, Texas; Sutton , Arkansas; Wilson, Baylor; Pope, S. M. U.; Cook, T. C. U.; Thomason, A. and M. High Jump—Baggett, Barnes, Davidson, all Texas; Walters, Creasey, Andrews, all Baylor; Marshall, Rice; Dreiss, Finley, Connatser, all A. and M. Pole Vault—Lay, Rice; Bryan, Edmunds, Wakefield, all Te...

In this paper we combine an integer programming approach and a computer simulation tool to successfully develop and verify an improved classification schedule for a real-world train classification instance. First, we derive an integer program for computing train classification schedules based on an earlier developed bitstring representation of such schedules. We show how to incorporate various ...

Container terminals world wide are trying to expand capacity and increase performance at a minimum of investments. Often the container terminal operations are changing to meet increased customer demands as well as to adapt to new technologies. The increasing costs of container terminal development do justify the use of computer simulation to assist in planning and policy making. A flexible simu...

BACKGROUND Although injuries at school are an important issue in public health, environmental factors in schools and school yards have seldom been the focus of school injury research. The goal of our investigation was to examine the effect of environmental factors on school injuries. METHODS Nine comprehensive Finnish schools registered school injuries over a period of two school years. Injur...

This paper considers the effectiveness of a truck appointment system in improving the yard efficiency of the container terminal. This research uses truck appointment information to improve the import container retrieval operation and reduce container rehandles by adopting an advanced container location assignment algorithm. By reducing the container rehandles, the terminal could improve yard cr...

Rail-rail transshipment yards are an emerging and more e cient alternative to traditional shunting yards. Instead of a time-consuming reshu ing of railcars via shunting hills, in these modern yards, huge gantry cranes tranship containers between di erent freight trains. As multiple cranes process the trains in parallel, it is an important operational task to avoid interferences among cranes. To...

Perimeter treatments with Termidor® were evaluated for efficacy in reducing outdoor infestations of Argentine ants around homes in southern California. Treatments were applied according to the amended Termidor® label restrictions, accepted by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation in 2009, limiting applications to the structure and not more than one foot away. The two variables of in...