This investigation was conducted to determine the effects of a physical conditioning program on clubhead speed, consistency, and putting distance control in 10 men and 6 women National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I golfers. Supervised strength, power, and flexibility training was performed 3 times per week for 11 weeks. Performance tests were conducted before and after the training...

The paper considers text independent speaker identification over the telephone using short training and testing data. Gaussian Mixture Modeling (GMM) is used in the testing phase, but the parameters of the model are taken from clusters obtained for the training data by an adequate choice of feature vectors and a distance measure without optimization in the maximum likelihood (ML) sense. This di...

The paper considers the requirement for information security within the domain of online distance learning. A generic module structure is presented which represents a high level abstraction of the different stages of the educational process. This leads into a discussion of the main security issues that must be considered at each stage. These various requirements are being addressed in practice ...

Training students in the discernment ability is an important task in distance education. To improve the training results, this chapter makes the following contributions: (1) suggests Web courseware on controversial social issues with different viewpoints for discernment training; (2) constructs the courseware for Discernment Ability using a method called DRPA. This method is presented with five...

Cost-effective and sustainable ways of continuing to improve emergency medical services and education worldwide must be pursued if the field is to continue to expand globally. Distance-based learning and the use of telecommunications advances present us with an ideal opportunity to improve international medical education. Such technologies can overcome the financial and logistic constraints of ...

PURPOSE The present study investigated the effect of maximal strength training on running economy (RE) at 70% of maximal oxygen consumption (V[spacing dot above]O2max) and time to exhaustion at maximal aerobic speed (MAS). Responses in one repetition maximum (1RM) and rate of force development (RFD) in half-squats, maximal oxygen consumption, RE, and time to exhaustion at MAS were examined. M...

In 2004, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) recognized the need to expand its outreach activities to minority students. To meet this objective, NLM sponsored a program presenting information on varied health sciences topics to minority students interested in health sciences careers. An existing initiative, NLM’s Adopt-A-School program, provided an initial foundation for this project. As par...

The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) defines distance learning (DL) as "a way of providing higher education that involves the transfer to the student's location of the materials that form the main basis of study, rather than the student moving to the location of the resource provider".

When committed to forecasting or classification tasks Neural Networks (NNs) are typically trained with respect to Euclidean distance minimisation / likelihood maximisation. This is commonly irrespective of any other end user preferences. In a number of situations, most notably time series forecasting, users may have other objectives than solely Euclidean minimisation. Users may, for example, de...