The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a self-talk intervention program on performance of wheelchair basketball drills. Twenty-two (N=22) wheelchair basketball athletes from two different clubs of the same league participated in the study. The duration of the intervention was 12 weeks and its aim was the improvement of two fundamental basketball skills, passing and dribbl...

In this study a vowel identification task, controlling for intelligibility confounds, using audio visual stimuli at different signal to noise levels as well as visual only stimuli, is conducted to investigate neural processes involved with visual gesture information for speech perception. The fMRI results suggest that visual speech gesture information may serve to facilitate speech perception u...

This thesis presents the Brisk Machine [54], a machine for executing functional languages, designed to be simple and exible to support a number of run-time execution models for the Brisk compiler. Design considerations have been made to support dynamic loading, deterministic concurrency [23, 51], distribution, debugging tools and logic programming [76]. To achieve this, the compiler's intermedi...

Integration of distributed generations (DGs) in power grids is expected to play an essential role in the infrastructure and market of electrical power systems. Microgrids are small energy systems, capable of balancing captive supply and requesting resources to retain stable service within a specific boundary. Microgrids can operate in grid-connected or islanding modes. Effective islanding detec...

The well known operator ordering ambiguity could motivate the existence of generations. This possibility is explored by exploiting the relationship between ordering and discretization rules. 1 Wilson fermion as analogy Non Commutative Geometry is not the only area knowing how to get mass terms from nowhere. Lattice theorists learnt time ago a nice trick from Wilson. Consider the forward and bac...

The next generation of Bollgard cotton was evaluated for agronomic and insecticidal efficacy under central Arizona growing conditions. Two novel lines were compared with their recurrent parents, DP50 and DP50B. There were no seasonlong differences observed among the varieties in most plant development and insect parameters. However, DP50 had significantly lower emergence than the other lines te...

This paper presents the application of Information Gap Decision Theory (IGDT) to help the Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) in choosing the supplying resources for meeting the demand of their customers. The three main energy resources are pool market, Distributed Generations (DGs) and the bilateral contracts. In deregulated environment, the DNO is faced with many uncertainties associated to...

The current and coming generations of large distributed file systems stripe data across large numbers of objectbased storage devices (OSDs). Subsequently, individual OSD workloads tend to exhibit no inter-object locality of reference. Small object sizes reduce OSD efficiency due to disk seek overheads. EBOFS, an extent and B+tree based object file system, allows arbitrarily sized objects and pr...

as my father and grandfather were also members of our great profession I thought I would try and look at life as it was since 1846 when my grandfather obtained his qualificationi of L.R.C.S. in Edinibuirgh, inci(denltally he was Presi(lent of this Society in 187576. During that early period what great names were brought before the students. Moses, the first great doctor in Egypt, laid down laws...