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Background: Aging and physical inactivity are associated with declines in physical fitness and cognitive function. Active video games have proven to be beneficial for the physical health of older adults, but the exact effect of active video games on...

High-intensity functional concurrent training (HIFCT) has emerged as a form of training characterized by constantly varied functional movements adapted to individual fitness levels. Previous studies have reported positive effects on muscular strength...

This study aimed to assess which multidimensional performance indexes were the best predictors of talent identification in volleyball. Fifty-five female players (age: 13.8 ± 1.81 years; mass: 55.12 ± 8.12 kg; height: 158.23 ± 7.6...

Pro-health behaviours are related to a person’s personal resources. The aim of the study was to assess the relationship between satisfaction with life (SWL), nutritional behaviours, somatic indices, and functional efficiency of senior women. Th...

Aim: There is limited information about the association between frailty, cognitive status and functional fitness in older adults living in institutions. We aimed to determine the prevalence of frailty and its association with cognitive status and fun...

Minimizing energy consumption remains a critical challenge in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) because of their reliance on nonrechargeable batteries. Clustering-based hierarchical communication has been widely adopted to address this issue by improvi...

The aim of the present study was to understand the effect of a multicomponent physical exercise program on the functional physical fitness of older people with overweight or obesity in Chile, and whether these effects were similar in women and men. F...

The purpose of the present study was to examine whether a visual stimuli program during soccer training can affect reaction time (RT), cognitive function, and physical fitness in adolescent soccer players. Thirty-eight male soccer players aged 10&nda...

The Poisson–Three-Parameter Lindley (PTPL) distribution constitutes a flexible Poisson mixture model for overdispersed count data, encompassing several classical count distributions as special or limiting cases. Despite its growing use in appli...

Background/Objectives: Self-reported function, exercise behavior, and performance-based fitness describe related but distinct aspects of health in later life. This study compared their age- and sex-specific descriptive profiles using independent Kore...

In recent times, the emergence of viral infections, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the monkeypox virus, and, most recently, the Langya virus, has highlighted the devastating effects of viral infection on human life. There has been significant progre...

This paper presents a novel method for determining parameters and uncertainty bands of nonlinear functions fitted to data obtained from measurements. In this procedure, one or two new variables are implemented to linearize this function for using the...

The purpose of this study was to assess whether the self-regulation of training intensity based on rating of perceived exertion (RPE) is a reliable method to control the intensity during metabolic conditioning sessions of functional fitness. In addit...

(1) Introduction: Physical activity is considered a key factor in maintaining functional health during aging; however, its relationship with objective measures of physical performance remains unclear. (2) Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducte...

In educational large-scale assessment studies, uniform differential item functioning (DIF) across countries often challenges the application of a common item response model, such as the two-parameter logistic (2PL) model, to all participating countri...

The expansion of tunnel scale has led to a massive demand for inspections. Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) has been widely applied in tunnel structure inspections due to its fast data acquisition speed and strong environmental adaptability. Howev...

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of chair yoga therapy on improving functional status and daily life activity scores in older female adults with knee osteoarthritis living in the community. A quasi-experimental design was adopted. In tota...

Background: Identifying multimodal interventions to counteract age-related physiological decline is a critical public health priority. This study investigated the impact of an 8-week Mat Pilates intervention (MPT) on the interplay between core stabil...

Objective: Physical exercise is associated with several benefits in the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF), associated with a reduction in patient mortality. The aim of this systematic review was to determine the effectiveness of exercise intervention...

Background: The aging society worldwide carries public and inevitable issues. Aging is accompanied by multiple diseases, and the health impacts challenge healthcare and social systems. In addition to medical treatment, exercise has been recognized as...

This study investigates the effects of low-intensity high-repetition (LI-HR) and high-intensity low-repetition (HI-LR) resistance training (RT) on functional fitness and myokines in older adults. A total of 30 participants (mean age ~76 years) were r...

Previous studies from the Netherlands, Germany, and Argentina revealed that the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and associated lockdown periods had a significant negative impact on the wellbeing and quality of life of students. The negat...

This paper presents the design and realization of a three degrees of freedom (DOFs) displacement measurement system composed of Hall sensors, which is built for the XYθz displacement measurement of the short stroke stage of the reticle stage of litho...

The aim of this case study was to quantify the magnitude of internal load, acute/chronic workload ratio (ACWR), well-being perception, and heart rate variability (HRV) following 38 weeks of functional-fitness training in a female elite athlete. The i...

Food packaging materials constitute an ever more threatening environmental pollutant. This study examined options to specifically assess the ecotoxicity of packaged wastes, such as cans, subjected to various experimental treatments (in terms of extra...

Monocular distance measurement estimates the target distance from the apparent size of a known target, and its accuracy is strongly affected by edge localization accuracy. Conventional pixel-level edge detectors provide only integer-pixel positions,...

In the current global scenario, many COVID-19 survivors present a severe deterioration in physical strength, respiratory function, and quality of life due to persistent symptoms and post-acute consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection. These alterations a...

Objectives: Shoulder injury prevalence appears to be the highest among all injuries in CrossFit (CF) athletes. Nevertheless, there is no evidence deriving from prospective studies to explain this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to document...

We evaluated the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and executive function (EF) in young adults and the mediating effects of GMV on this relationship. This study involved 217 college students. An incremental load exercise program was...

High-intensity interval running (HIIT-R) and high-intensity functional training (HIFT) are two forms of HIIT exercise that are commonly used. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of HIFT on aerobic capacity and body composition when...

The process of moving from experimental data to modeling and characterizing the dynamics and interactions in natural processes is a challenging task. This paper proposes an interactive platform for fitting data derived from experiments to mathematica...

Background: Sedentary lifestyles and their associated harmful consequences are public health concerns that impact more than half of the world’s youth population in both developed and developing countries. Methods: The Chinese Childhood Health; Activi...

The aim of this work is to implement an innovative parameterization and fitting procedure for the definition of a mathematical model useful to describe a wide range of airfoils. They are partitioned into three sections: central box, leading edge, and...

Regression analysis is widely applied in many fields of science to estimate important variables. In general, nonlinear regression is a complex optimization problem and presents intrinsic difficulties in estimating reliable parameters. Nonlinear optim...

The functional fitness training program CrossFit^® is experiencing fast-growing and widespread popularity with day-to-day varying ‘Workouts of the Day’ (WOD). Even among tactical athletes, the training program is widely applied. Nevert...

A new simple and accurate expression to approximate the modified Bessel function of the first kind $I_1(x)$ is presented in this work. This new approximation is obtained as an improvement of the multi-point quasi-rational approximation technique, MPQA....

Physical activity (PA) is essential for physical, mental, and emotional health; however, few adults engage in enough PA. Group exercise environments such as CrossFit can promote sustained exercise habits through social influence, support, and norms....

In this work, a complete fitting procedure of UV-Vis spectra of silver nanoparticles in colloidal solutions is reported. The fitting function, based on the Beer–Lambert law, Mie theory, and log-normal probability distribution of nanoparticles&r...

One of the most delicate stages of an evolutionary algorithm is the evaluation of the goodness of the solutions by some procedure providing a fitness value. However, although there are general rules, it is not always easy to find an appropriate evalu...

Only 17% of older adults meet the recommendations for two days of full body strength training that is associated with improved functional fitness; reduced risk of falls; and reduced morbidity and mortality rates. Community-based interventions are rec...

Immune fitness (i.e., adequate functioning of the immune system) is essential to maintain health, prevent and resolve disease, and improve quality of life. This article provides an overview of how to assess immune fitness. It discusses how a single-i...

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are an indispensable part of the blades used in aeroengines. Under a high-temperature service environment, the thermal oxidation stress at the interface is the main cause of thermal barrier failure. Cr³⁺ photoluminesce...

In this article, statistical properties of the root mean square deviation (RMSD) item fit statistic in item response models are studied. It is shown that RMSD estimates will indicate even misfit for items whose parametric assumption of the item respo...

Background Physical function is important for defining treatment strategies in patients with cancer and can be estimated using patient-reported outcomes (pros). Although pros are subjective, physical activity and fitness can be tested objectively wit...

The purpose of the current study is to analyze the relationships between physical fitness, selective attention, and academic performance in pre-teens. The sample here consists of 135 participants between the ages of 10 and 12 (M = 11.05; SD = 0.61),...

Human physical activities may bring potential health benefits. The aim of our study was to compare body composition, lung function and aerobic fitness as a function of age in a cross-sectional study of 277 recreational cyclists (men: n = 163, women:...

Background: Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a chronic genetic disease marked by progressive lung function decline and increased respiratory infections. Emerging evidence supports the role of physical exercise in improving lung function, aerobic capacity, and...

As an approach to feature estimation, exponential fitting has attracted research interests in mathematical modeling. Semantic networks are used for numerous applications in computers, physics, and biology. However, such applications may have fitting...

The present study examined the effects of a functional high-intensity suspension training (Functional_HIIT) on resting blood pressure, psychological well-being as well as on upper body and core strength and cardiorespiratory fitness in moderately trai...

In the present paper, we investigate an approach to intelligent support of the software white-box testing process based on an evolutionary paradigm. As a part of this approach, we solve the urgent problem of automated generation of the optimal set of...