BACKGROUND Abbott Diabetes Care introduced the FreeStyle Lite blood glucose monitoring system, which simplifies the management of diabetes. The FreeStyle Lite system relies on FreeStyle technology but eliminates the need for coding the meter for individual strip lots. The meter is precoded for the FreeStyle Lite strips. FreeStyle systems use coulometry technology where the glucose signal is cal...

This paper introduces Freestyle, a randomized and variable round version of the ChaCha cipher. Freestyle uses the concept of hash based halting condition where a decryption attempt with an incorrect key is likely to take longer time to halt. This makes Freestyle resistant to key-guessing attacks i.e. brute-force and dictionary based attacks. Freestyle demonstrates a novel approach for ciphertex...

Professional wrestling has become the latest fad among children and adolescents. There is a concern among the public and school personnel, including teachers, school psychologists, and counselors, that it influences children's behavior in an aggressive manner. It is also thought that children perceive wrestling as reality instead of perceiving it as fantasy. With the majority of children and ad...

Introduction. Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) is one of the biophotonic techniques which can be used to monitor oxygenation and haemodynamics in a variety of human tissues, including skeletal muscle. Due to the differing light absorption properties of oxygenated haemoglobin (Hb02) and deoxygenated haemoglobin (HHb), in the near-infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum (see Figure 1), sh...

BACKGROUND The age of peak swim performance has been investigated for freestyle swimmers for distances ranging from 50 m to 1500 m among swimmers aged 19 to 99 years. However, studies have yet to investigate the 10 to 19 year-old age group. The aims of the present study were (1) to investigate the age range of peak freestyle swim speed, and (2) to find differences in age range and peak freestyl...

Emerging from a legitimate contest regulated by a set of rules, professional wrestling is today a fictional product, where no actual competition takes place. Those same rules serve as a setting for a particular kind of narration: the kayfabe, the fictional framework for all professional wrestling’s narrative, a fictional world with the characteristic of having a 1:1 ratio between real time and ...

Introduction: The age of peak freestyle swimming speed was reported to be at ~17 years for women and ~19 years for men. However, the age of peak swimming speed for other strokes such as butterfly is not known. Objectives: We investigated whether the age of peak swimming speed and peak swimming speed changed across years in elite butterfly and freestyle swimmers at national level (Switzerland) b...

This study aims to compare the physical and physiological profiles between elite men women wrestlers of free style category. The research group consist twenty-nine twenty-one freestyle who camped for performance tests at Turkish Olympic Preparation Center in Ankara 2 months before European Wrestling Championship Budapest on March 28-April 3, 2022. Subjects performed leg arm Wingate anaerobic te...

BACKGROUND Glutaraldehyde-preserved bioprosthetic heart valve substitutes have limited performance and longevity due to tissue degeneration and calcification. The Freestyle valve (Medtronic Heart Valves, Inc, Minneapolis, MN) combines zero fixation pressure and proportional, variant-amino oleic acid (AOA) as antidegeneration and antimineralization measures. The aim of this study was to compare ...

Recent studies reported different ages for peak freestyle swimming performances for 50 m and 1,500 m. The aims of the present study were (i) to determine the age of peak freestyle swimming speed for distances including 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, and 1,500 m and to (ii) analyze the sex difference in peak freestyle swimming speed for all distances between 50 m and 1,500 m for elite female ...