The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between motivation, engagement and personal and social responsibility among athletes. Based on the literature, a survey was conducted including measures of motivation, considering task orientation and ego orientation, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and amotivation. We also measured the components of engagement (dedication, confidence...

School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, B bris.ac.uk AstraZeneca, Alderley Park, Maccleseld, C AstraZeneca, Pepparedsleden 1, Mölndal, 4 † Electronic supplementary information ( and characterisation data for all compou 1438660. For ESI and crystallographic dat DOI: 10.1039/c6sc04466b ‡ These authors contributed equally. § Author to whom correspondence shou structures of 3b and Pd[(Sa,S)-L-...

Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan 700, R.O.C. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University Kaohsiung County, Taiwan 840, R.O.C. E-mail: [email protected] Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 811, R.O.C. E-...

Congjun Wu, Han-dong Chen, Jiang-piang Hu, and Shou-Cheng Zhang Department of Physics, McCullough Building, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4045, USA Department of Applied Physics, McCullough Building, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4045, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-1547, USA (Received 9 Decemb...

CHI-LU YANG∗,‡, YEIM-KUAN CHANG∗,§, YU-TSO CHEN∗,¶, CHIH-PING CHU∗,‖ and CHI-CHANG CHEN†,∗∗ ∗Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan †Department of Information Engineering, I-Shou University National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan ‡[email protected] §[email protected] ¶[email protected] ‖[email protected]...

BACKGROUND Widespread use of supplements is observed among world athletes in different fields. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and determinants of using supplements among body builder athletes. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on 250 men and 250 women from 30 different bodybuilding clubs. Participants were asked to complete a self-administered standardized...

Wallace J. Hopp • Seyed M. R. Iravani • Biying Shou Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA 4R Systems, 1400 Liberty Ridge Drive, Suite 102, Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087, USA [email protected] • iravani...

Chang-Hua Lien is with Department of Electrical Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 840, R.O.C. Ker-Wei Yu is with Department of Marine Engineering National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan 811, R.O.C. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Engineers (Revised, paper no. 05167 (EL-0534), Short paper) Stability Criteria for Neutral Systems with Time-Varying Delays and Nonlinear Unce...