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Selected Physical Fitness Characteristics of Professional Baseball Players
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The Interrelationships of Fitness Characteristics in Division 1 Athletes
… the interrelationships of several important fitness characteristics in Division 1 athletes. Sport performance magnitude is the summation of an individual athlete’s technical, psychological, and fitness characteristics. Athletes who excel in any or all characteristics perform better in their …
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Anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of badminton players in Icelandic youth national teams
… to analyse which anthropometrical and physical fitness parameters characterize Icelandic youth badminton players, and ii) to determine if training of physical fitness has been sufficient for Icelandic youth badminton players. Data was collected from 21 Icelandic youth national team badminton …
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Phenotypic and genetic evaluation of fitness characteristics in sheep under a range environment
The objectives of this dissertation were to evaluate genetic and environmental relationships between lamb and ewe traits including body weight, fleece weight and quality, prolificacy, body condition, ewe stayability and lamb survival. Average heritability estimates for lamb birth weight (BWT), …
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The relationship between training/match load and injuries in academy players during a provincial under 19 rugby union season
… rugby players has an impact on their fitness characteristics, training load, match load and injury profiles. Although many studies have been conducted on senior rugby union players, not much is known about junior players as they make the transition into the senior ranks. The aim of …
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Physical Activity and Fitness in Children with Developmental Disorder
… DCD often experience compromised health-related fitness components such as cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Purpose: To better understand the physical activity and fitness characteristics of children with probable DCD (pDCD), with a particular focus on CRF. Specifically: (1) to present a synopsis …
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Enhancing strategies to optimise body composition and nutrition in professional rugby union players
… RU players. Study One assessed the physical and fitness characteristics of elite male professional RU players from New Zealand (NZ) by primary playing position. Study Two examined the physical characteristics of elite female RU union players from NZ between and within different playing positions. …
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Fat oxidation at rest and during exercise in postmenopausal middle eastern and white women
… and FORmax, hormone levels, anthropometric characteristics, physical activity (PA) levels and cardiometabolic risk factors between Middle Eastern (ME) and W postmenopausal women. Results: Significant differences between groups were observed are as follows; the ME women were younger (p= …
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EPSPS gene duplication in Palmer amaranth: relative fitness, inheritance, and duplication mechanism of the glyphosate resistance trait
… and EPSPS protein production impacts relative fitness of the resistant plants was one objective of this research. Through greenhouse studies comparing high EPSPS copy GR plants with single copy sensitive plants, no difference was observed for any of the fitness characteristics measured. Both …
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The relationship between fitness, morphological characteristics, skills and performance in men's fast pitch softball
… approaches, development of sport specific fitness and skills training programmes, team selections and talent identification in young players. Despite the fact that fast pitch softball is an established sport with a long history, it has received little scientific attention. It does for …
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Mathematical modelling of host-disease-drug interactions in HIV disease
… drugs, in particular, time-dependent characteristics of HIV therapy such as pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and also in understanding the impact of drug efficacy on mutation dynamics. In this thesis, we develop an integrated model of in vivo viral dynamics incorporating …
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The assessment of the efficacy of the mobile training system after implementation in South African rugby playing schools
… aim of this study was to determine whether the fitness characteristics associated with rugby, changed in players after the MSTS was given to a school for several months. Training of players was not controlled or supervised by any personal outside the infrastructure of the school. A secondary aim …
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Combatting the war on sleep: Investigating sleep and recovery in the military
… This thesis aimed to investigate the physical fitness levels, sleep, and recovery of military personnel (Army, Navy, and Air Force), which have been deemed as essential for daily task completion and safe operation during military training and deployment. The physical fitness levels of trainees …
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Physical fitness in school-aged children
Physical fitness is an important marker of health that enables people to carry out activities of daily living with vigour and alertness but without undue fatigue and with sufficient reserve to enjoy active leisure pursuits and to meet unforeseen emergencies. Especially, due to scientific findings …