The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of Small-Sided Games (SSG) vs. Interval Training (IT) in soccer training on aerobic fitness and physical enjoyment in youth elite soccer players during the last 8 weeks of the season. Seventeen U-16 male soccer players (age = 15.5 ± 0.6 years, and 8.5 years of experience) of a Spanish First Division club academy were randomized to 2 different...

The smartphone sensors provide extraordinary user experience in various Android apps, e.g. sport apps, gravity sensing games. Recent works have been proposed to launch powerful sensor-based attacks such as location tracing and sound eavesdropping. The use of sensors does not require any permission in Android apps, so these attacks are very difficult to be noticed by the app users. Furthermore, ...

The 17th Session of the SPARC Scientific Steering Group (SSG) was held at the University of Kyoto, hosted by SSG member Professor Masato Shiotani. This year the SPARC SSG meeting was held concurrently with the IGAC SSC meeting in the same location. These meetings were immediately preceded by a local workshop, jointly sponsored by the Japanese SPARC and IGAC communities. This workshop was well a...

Sodium stibogluconate (SSG) in the dose of 20 mg/kg body weight daily intramuscularly for 20-30 days is recommended by WHO as the first line drug for Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL). Relapses following therapy and unresponsiveness to the higher doses of SSG are still a problem in north Bihar. Serious toxicity of SSG including myocarditis, sudden death and renal failure have also been reporte...

Wetland indicator status (WIS) describes the habitat affinity of plant species and is used in wetland delineations and resource inventories. Understanding how species-level functional traits vary across WIS categories may improve designations, elucidate mechanisms of adaptation, and explain habitat optima and niche. We investigated differences in species-level traits of riparian flora across WI...

BACKGROUND Leishmania donovani is an intracellular protozoan parasite that causes a lethal systemic disease, visceral leishmaniasis (VL), and is transmitted between mammalian hosts by phlebotomine sandflies. Leishmania expertly survives in these 'hostile' environments with a unique redox system protecting against oxidative damage, and host manipulation skills suppressing oxidative outbursts of ...

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is an evolutionary algorithm known for its simplicity and effectiveness in solving various optimization problems. PSO should have strong yet balanced exploration and exploitation capabilities to enhance its performance. A superior solution guided PSO (SSG-PSO) framework integrated with an individual level based mutation operator and different local search techn...

PURPOSE The main objective of this study was to investigate the efficacy of both programmed (speed, agility, and quickness; SAQ) and random (small-sided games; SSG) conditioning methods on selected neuromuscular and physical performance variables. METHODS Twenty volunteers (21.1 +/- 4.0 y, 1.71 +/- 0.09 m, 66.7 +/- 9.9 kg; mean +/- SD) completed the study. The study design used two physically...

Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders (NH/PI; e.g., Samoan and Chuukese) have higher type 2 diabetes prevalence compared to other groups in Hawai'i. Partners in Care (PIC), a culturally tailored, community-based, diabetes self-management education intervention (DSME), is effective at improving participants' glycemic control and self-care behaviors. Maintenance of improvements is challeng...

(14 ), which takes place after neutral pH is restored for the DTT reduction and mBBr conjugation. Measured basal GSSPs in human and rat RBCs are very low, and only a few previous reports found relatively close values (23 ). Conversely, most authors reported higher concentrations; one reason for these discrepancies could be that samples were frozen before the ESI-MS determination. It is possible...