BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to verify concurrent validity of the Gyko inertial sensor system for the assessment of vertical jump height. METHODS Nineteen female sub-elite youth soccer players (mean age: 14.7 ± 0.6 years) performed three trials of countermovement (CMJ) and squat jumps (SJ), respectively. Maximal vertical jump height was simultaneously quantified with the Gyko s...

Methods: Results of a survey of 62 participants (40 females, 22 males), aged 13 to 20, from seven different countries of the Caribbean community participating in the CHLP, were analyzed. Participants rated changes due to the CHLP in nineteen different lifestyle variables targeted over the course of the program on a 1 (made it much worse) through 3 (did not affect it) to 5 (improved it a lot) Li...

The inaugural Meeting of the Bank was held in Nassau, Bahamas in JanuaryFebruary 1970, and it is appropriate that we should come back to our starting place to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary. The fact that we have a record turn-out amply confirms what is well known the charm of this capital city and the warmth and hospitality of the people of this most northerly of our borrowing Member Countries.

colorectal cancer remains one of the major cancer- related deaths despite progress in the treatment during past decades. detection of disease at earlier stages reduces its mortality. the aim of current study was to investigate expression of cytokeratin 19 (ck19), cytokeratin 20 (ck20) and guanylyl cyclase c (gcc) mrna in peripheral blood of non- metastatic colorectal cancer patients which may r...

انقلاب صنعتی که به تدریج از اوایل قرن 19 در فرانسه آغاز گردید در نیمه قرن جای خود را در زندگی و کار مردم پیدا کرد. رمان نویسان و به خصوص واقع گرایان نیز با توجه به اهمیت فراوان این پدیده توجه خود را به آن معطوف داشتند. در حالی که بورژوازی شروع به بهره برداری از این انقلاب نمود و روز به روز فربه تر گردید، جمعیت کارگری بوجود آمده در دل این پدیده به نان شب خود هم محتاج بود. علاوه بر رنج کارکردن در...