Background and Objectives: There is a shortage of criteria referent standards for tests logistic application meant to estimate the cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) children adolescents in Republic North Macedonia. The goal research was twofold: (1) To identify ability CRF estimated by 20-m shuttle-run test (20mSRT) discriminate between “healthy” “unhealthy” phenotypes (by adiposity measures such...

The problem of finding more than one optimum of a fitness function has been addressed in evolutionary computation using a wide variety of algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO). Several variants of the PSO algorithm have been developed to deal with this sort of problem with different degrees of success, but a common drawback of such approaches is that they normally add new para...

BACKGROUND Low levels of cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with high risk of non-communicable diseases and all-cause mortality. Physical activity level is the primary determinant of cardiorespiratory fitness in adults. However, knowledge on how to motivate people to engage in physical activity and maintain an active lifestyle is lacking. This study aims to investigate whether a motivatio...

The design of intelligent controllers for nonlinear systems continues to be a challenging problem, particularly when the system is uncertain or the environment noisy. A nonparametric approach which has gained success is to employ a neural network to learn about the unknown plant and fuzzy inference to compensate for the uncertainty (GANFIS control). Inherent in the design of such controllers is...

The major facilitator superfamily (MFS) effluxers are prominent mediators of antimicrobial resistance. The biochemical characterization of MFS proteins is hindered by their complex membrane environment that makes in vitro biochemical analysis challenging. Since the physicochemical properties of proteins drive the fitness of an organism, we posed the question of whether we could reverse that rel...