The Wingate Anaerobic Test (WAnT) has been used in many studies to determine anaerobic performance. However, there has been poor reporting of warm-up protocols and limited consistency between warm-up methods that have been used. With the WAnT being such a commonly-used test, consistency in warm-up methods is essential in order to compare results across studies. Therefore, this study was designe...

This article investigates the static behavior of functionally graded plate under mechanical loads by using a new quasi 3D model. The theory is designated as fifth-order shear and normal deformation theory (FOSNDT). Properties of functionally graded material are graded across the transverse direction by using the rule of mixture i.e. power-law. The effect of thickness stretching is considered to...

This study aimed to compare the effect of different static stretching durations followed by dynamic stretching on repeated sprint ability (RSA) and change of direction (COD). Twenty-five participants performed the RSA and COD tests in a randomized order. After a 5 min aerobic warm up, participants performed one of the three static stretching protocols of 30 s, 60 s or 90 s total duration (3 str...

The image of the license plate is located and segmented by some digital-image processing technologies such as gray-scale processing, gray-scale stretching and filtering, edge detection, morphological processing, Hough transformation etc. According to the characteristics of the license plate, binary matrix of character image sets the fuzzy matrix, and based on the principle of proximity computin...

Stretching is often included as part of a warm-up procedure for basketball activity. However, the efficacy of stretching with respect to sport performance has come into question. We determined the effects of 4 different warm-up protocols followed by 20 minutes of basketball activity on flexibility and vertical jump height. Subjects participated in 6 weeks (2 times per week) of warm-up and baske...

1. ABSTRACT MHD visco-elastic boundary layer flow problem past a stretching plate with heat transfer is investigated. The basic equations governing the flow and heat transfer are in the form of partial differential equations which have been reduced to a set of non linear ordinary differential equations by applying suitable similarity transfer. The effect of various physical parameter, magnetic ...

An incompressible MHD flow of two-dimensional upper-convected Maxwell fluid over a porous stretching plate with suction is studied. The nonlinear differential equation is solved approximately by means of the Optimal Homotopy Asymptotic Method (OHAM). Multiple solutions are given, showing a very good agreement between the analytical and numerical solutions. This procedure is very efficient in pr...