The "trophic level enrichment" between diet and body results in an overall increase in nitrogen isotopic values as the food chain is ascended. Quantifying the diet-body Δ(15) N spacing has proved difficult, particularly for humans. The value is usually assumed to be +3-5‰ in the archaeological literature. We report here the first (to our knowledge) data from humans on isotopically known diets, ...

Abstract Purpose By analyzing external workloads with machine learning models (ML), it is now possible to predict injuries, but a moderate accuracy. The increment of the prediction ability nowadays mandatory reduce high number false positives. aim this study was investigate if players’ blood sample profiles could increase predictive trained only on training workloads. Method Eighteen elite socc...

Item Count Technique (ICT) serves the purpose of estimating the proportion of the people with stigmatizing attributes using the indirect questioning method. An improved ICT has been recently proposed in the literature (not requiring two subsamples and hence free from finding optimum subsample sizes unlike the usual ICT) in a classical framework that performs better than the usual ICT and the Wa...

Alleles, genotypes and haplotypes (combinations of alleles) have been widely used in gene-disease association studies. More recently, association studies using diplotypes (haplotype pairs on homologous chromosomes) have become increasingly common. This article reviews the rationale of the four types of association analyses and discusses the situations in which diplotype-based analyses are more ...