Challenge and threat states predict future performance; however, no research has examined their immediate effect on motor task performance. The present study examined the effect of challenge and threat states on golf putting performance and several possible mechanisms. One hundred twenty-seven participants were assigned to a challenge or threat group and performed six putts during which emotion...

It is hypothetized that the algebra of the configuration of twenty-seven lines lying on a general cubic surface underlines the dimensional hierarchy of heterotic string spacetimes.

My search for answers began in Birmingham in 1932 with the scientific humanity of Leonard Parsons; it found its main direction in James Spence's Newcastle where, for fifteen of my twenty-seven years there I crossed almost daily the frontier between home and hospital to make some 3,000 visits to every kind of family in every circumstance of life. Then clinical and academic colleagues brought the...

In Norway, children and adolescents consume only about half of the national five-a-day recommendation. There are also rather large social inequalities in health, and in eating behaviours. In order to increase fruit and vegetable (FV) intake, a subscription programme was initiated in 1996 and made nationwide in 2003, and a free programme (without parental payment) has been implemented nationwide...

Résumé G. E. Brooks — Un schéma provisoire de l'histoire de l'Afrique occidentale, fondé sur sept périodes climatiques (de ca. 9000 av. J.-C. au XIXe siècle). Examen de l'évolution historique de l'Ouest africain au cours des sept ères climatiques s'étendant sur onze millénaires. Une périodisation construite à partir des changements climatiques fournit un éclairage significatif sur des phénomène...

BACKGROUND Auditory temporal processing and reading. AIM To analyse the potential correlations between reading acquisition, phonological awareness, and auditory temporal processing in Brazilian children with dyslexia. METHOD This study evaluated sixty children, nine to twelve years of age, divided into two groups: a control group of twenty seven children without dyslexia and a study group o...