In the present study, field goal shooting skills of female basketball players were assessed in the background to their reasoning ability. The sample consists of 100 female intercollegiate basketball players (age = 21.05±1.67 yrs.). Shooting skills and reasoning ability were assessed by Johnson’s “Basketball Field Goal Speed Shooting Test” and Mixed Type Group Test of Intelligence prepared by Me...

We propose a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method for the optimal control of large-scale dynamical systems. The method uses modified multiple shooting to discretize the dynamical constraints. When these systems have relatively few parameters, the computational complexity of the modified method is much less than that of standard multiple shooting. Moreover, the proposed method is demons...

Assumption 2 (Smoothness of the control problem) We assume that the function f : Rnx×nq 7→ Rx is sufficiently smooth. Note that Lipschitz continuity guarantees the unique existence of a solution x(·) of the differential equations for fixed q by virtue of the Picard-Lindelöf theorem. As we assume unique sensitivities in the following, also the partial derivative functions ∂f ∂x , ∂f ∂q , ∂f ∂x2 ...

The shoot2.0 package implements an indirect shooting method for optimal control problems. It is speci cally designed to handle control discontinuities, with an automatic switching detection that requires no assumptions concerning the number of switchings. Special care is also devoted to the computation of the Jacobian matrix of the shooting function, using the variational system instead of clas...

BACKGROUND Practising target-shooting sport requires focused attention and motoric steadiness. A previous non-controlled pilot study suggests that children with impairing symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) benefit from participating in target-shooting sport in local shooting associations, as rated by parents and teachers. This study aims at examining if, and to which ex...

INTRODUCTION International studies have shown blood lead at levels causing health concern in recreational indoor shooters. We hypothesized that Danish recreational indoor shooters would also have a high level of blood lead, and that this could be explained by shooting characteristics and the physical environment at the shooting range. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was an environmental case study ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of vision impairment (VI) that would reduce performance in shooting; to guide development of entry criteria to visually impaired (VI) shooting. Nineteen international-level shooters without VI took part in the study. Participants shot an air rifle, while standing, toward a regulation target placed at the end of a 10 m shooting range. Cambridge ...

Mits. ? ,aged 84, was admitted into hospital on the 7th October 1890 with a previous history of having had five children and one abortion. The last child was born two years ago. She stated that she had been regular up to August last when she missed a period. About September 9th when her period was due she felt very bad suddenly, and this was followed by great pain shooting up from the left side...