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Progression of world records in master swimming
Master sports is increasingly popular nad arguably becoming more competitive worldwideinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Editorial: Coaches' role in youth sports performance: early specialization versus long-term development
Youth sports are planned sports programs for children and adolescents with designated
coaches, organized practices, and scheduled competitions. Such programs can be organized and
implemented at schools (by physical education teachers instead of coaches), as well as in other
sports organizations (i.e., federations, associations, local clubs). Primary aim should be to focus
on providing young athletes with fundamental motor skills in tandem to their maturation stage.
Indeed, these programs are aimed at mass participation rather than on developing elite athletes.
The participation in such programs during childhood and adolescence showed to have major
benefits in children’s and adolescent’s physical, psychological, and social development. On the other
hand, youth sports programs can also serve as a link to talent identification and development
programs aiming to identify young athletes with potential for success in adult/elite sport. As they
aremass orientated,many youth athletes can be observed which will increase the likelihood of talent
identification. Afterwards, these athletes can be guided to high-performance programs aiming to
achieve eventually an elite level.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Hipogonadismo de inicio tardío: revisión de conceptos y pautas diagnósticas
ResumenEl hipogonadismo de inicio tardío es un síndrome clínico y bioquímico cada vez más frecuente entre la población masculina en la edad adulta, sin embargo pocas veces es diagnosticado y por lo tanto cursa sin tratamiento entre la mayoría de los varones afectados. La asociación entre deficiencia de testosterona relacionada con la edad y el diagnóstico de hipogonadismo de inicio tardío continúa siendo un tema controversial, y su asociación con síntomas como pérdida de volumen y fuerza muscular, pérdida de la libido y la función eréctil, así como cambios en el estado afectivo e intelectual del paciente resulta insidiosa ya que en ocasiones las sintomatología es atribuida al proceso «normal» de envejecimiento, o a otras comorbilidades del paciente. El diagnóstico de hipogonadismo de inicio tardío se basa en la coexistencia de bajos niveles séricos de testosterona total o libre y síntomas sugestivos de hipogonadismo. Si bien se han desarrollado cuestionarios de cribado dirigidos a pacientes con sospecha clínica, estos cuestionarios poseen sensibilidad y especificidad limitadas para el diagnóstico de hipogonadismo de inicio tardío. El diagnóstico preciso y oportuno es de crucial importancia ya que permite restablecer los niveles de testosterona y la mejoría clínica significativa mediante la terapia de remplazo hormonal.AbstractLate-onset hypogonadism is a clinical and biochemical syndrome that is increasingly more frequent in the adult male population. However, it is rarely diagnosed and therefore goes untreated in the majority of affected men. The association between age-related testosterone deficiency and late-onset hypogonadism continues to be a subject of debate and its relation to symptoms such as loss of muscle strength and volume, loss of libido, erectile dysfunction, and changes in affective and emotional statuses of the patient are insidious, given that the symptomatology is often attributed to the “normal” aging process or other comorbidities of the patient. The diagnosis of late-onset hypogonadism is based on the coexistence of low total or free testosterone serum levels and symptoms suggestive of hypogonadism. Even though screening questionnaires directed at patients with clinical suspicion of the disease have been developed for late-onset hypogonadism, their diagnostic sensitivity and specificity is limited. Accurate and opportune diagnosis is vitally important because it enables testosterone levels to be reestablished and significant clinical improvement to be made through androgen replacement therapy
Stability analysis and prediction of pacing in elite 1500 m freestyle male swimmers
This study aimed to analyse the stability of elite male long-distance swimmers (1500 m), and to identify the main predictors related to the pace. The performance of 16 elite male swimmers (22.59 ± 2.10 years-old) participating in the 1500 m event at the 2016 (London) and 2018 (Glasgow) LEN European Aquatic Championships were analysed. The lap performance, clean swim performance, turn performance, and a set of stroke mechanics variables were assessed. The lap performance presented a significant and moderate variation with all laps included (p < 0.001) and deleting the first and last lap (p = 0.002). Swimmers were significantly faster in the first half in comparison of the second. The total turn also presented a significant and moderate variation. The hierarchical linear modelling retained the time (estimate = 0.0019, p = 0.007), stroke frequency (estimate = -27.49, p < 0.001) and stroke length (estimate = -6.55, p < 0.001) as the main predictors of the clean swim performance. By contrast to the analysis based on the lap performance, clean swim performance presented a non-significant variation. Coaches should be aware that stroke length maintenance could negatively affect the clean swim performance, whereas a small increase of stroke frequency may present a meaningful enhancement of the total race time.This project was supported by the National Funds through FCT - Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology [UIDB/DTP/04045/2020]info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Statistical disclosure control in tabular data
Data disseminated by National Statistical Agencies (NSAs) can be classified
as either microdata or tabular data. Tabular data is obtained from microdata by
crossing one or more categorical variables. Although cell tables provide aggregated
information, they also need to be protected. This chapter is a short introduction to
tabular data protection. It contains three main sections. The first one shows the different
types of tables that can be obtained, and how they are modeled. The second
describes the practical rules for detection of sensitive cells that are used by NSAs.
Finally, an overview of protection methods is provided, with a particular focus on
two of them: “cell suppression problem” and “controlled tabular adjustment”.Postprint (published version
A burst with double radio spectrum observed up to 212 GHz
We study a solar flare that occurred on September 10, 2002, in active region
NOAA 10105 starting around 14:52 UT and lasting approximately 5 minutes in the
radio range. The event was classified as M2.9 in X-rays and 1N in H\alpha.
Solar Submillimeter Telescope observations, in addition to microwave data give
us a good spectral coverage between 1.415 and 212 GHz. We combine these data
with ultraviolet images, hard and soft X-rays observations and full-disk
magnetograms. Images obtained from Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic
Imaging data are used to identify the locations of X-ray sources at different
energies and to determine the X-ray spectrum, while ultra violet images allow
us to characterize the coronal flaring region. The magnetic field evolution of
the active region is analyzed using Michelson Doppler Imager magnetograms. The
burst is detected at all available radio-frequencies. X-ray images (between 12
keV and 300 keV) reveal two compact sources and 212 GHz data, used to estimate
the radio source position, show a single compact source displaced by 25" from
one of the hard X-ray footpoints. We model the radio spectra using two
homogeneous sources, and combine this analysis with that of hard X-rays to
understand the dynamics of the particles. Relativistic particles, observed at
radio wavelengths above 50 GHz, have an electron index evolving with the
typical soft-hard-soft behaviour.Comment: Submitted to Solar Physics, 20 pages, 8 fugure
Preparation and Characterization of Homogeneous YBCO Single Crystals with Doping Level near the SC-AFM Boundary
High-purity and homogeneous YBa2Cu3Oy single crystals with carrier doping
level near the AFM-SC boundary have been obtained in the oxygen content range
between y = 6.340 and 6.370. The crystals are ortho-II phase at room
temperature and undergo the orthorhombic to tetragonal transition at about
140_Degree_C. They show sharp superconducting transitions, with Tc between 4
and 20 K. Tc changes by 0.8 K when the oxygen content y is changed by 0.001,
and is also sensitive to annealing conditions near room temperature, due to the
dependence of doping on oxygen ordering correlation lengths. Crystals with
oxygen content y lower than 6.345 are non-superconducting.Comment: 6 page
Monte Carlo study of the critical temperature for the planar rotator model with nonmagnetic impurities
We performed Monte Carlo simulations to calculate the
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) temperature for the
two-dimensional planar rotator model in the presence of nonmagnetic impurity
concentration . As expected, our calculation shows that the BKT
temperature decreases as the spin vacancies increase. There is a critical
dilution at which . The effective interaction
between a vortex-antivortex pair and a static nonmagnetic impurity is studied
analytically. A simple phenomenological argument based on the pair-impurity
interaction is proposed to justify the simulations.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, Revetex fil
Electromagnetic Response of Layered Superconductors with Broken Lattice Inversion Symmetry
We investigate the macroscopic effects of charge density waves (CDW) and
superconductivity in layered superconducting systems with broken lattice
inversion symmetry (allowing for piezoelectricity) such as two dimensional (2D)
transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD). We work with the low temperature time
dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory and study the coupling of lattice distortions
and low energy CDW collective modes to the superconducting order parameter in
the presence of electromagnetic fields. We show that superconductivity and
piezoelectricity can coexist in these singular metals. Furthermore, our study
indicates the nature of the quantum phase transition between a commensurate CDW
phase and the stripe phase that has been observed as a function of applied
pressure.Comment: 9 pages, 1 figure. Final version. Accepted in Phys.Rev.
Quantum effective potential for U(1) fields on S^2_L X S^2_L
We compute the one-loop effective potential for noncommutative U(1) gauge
fields on S^2_L X S^2_L. We show the existence of a novel phase transition in
the model from the 4-dimensional space S^2_L X S^2_L to a matrix phase where
the spheres collapse under the effect of quantum fluctuations. It is also shown
that the transition to the matrix phase occurs at infinite value of the gauge
coupling constant when the mass of the two normal components of the gauge field
on S^2_L X S^2_L is sent to infinity.Comment: 13 pages. one figur
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