Exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes: 2016 evidence summary from the IOC expert group meeting, Lausanne. Part 2 - The effect of exercise on the fetus, labour and birth

This is Part 2 of 5 in the series of evidence statements from the IOC expert committee on exercise and pregnancy in recreational and elite athletes. Part 1 focused on the effects of training during pregnancy and on the management of common pregnancy-related symptoms experienced by athletes. In Part 2, we focus on maternal and fetal perinatal outcomes

Data-driven study of the enthalpy of mixing in the liquid phase

International audienceThe enthalpy of mixing in the liquid phase is a thermodynamic property reflecting interactions between elements that is key to predict phase transformations. Widely used models exist to predict it, but they have never been systematically evaluated. To address this, we collect a large amount of enthalpy of mixing data in binary liquids from a review of about 1000 thermodynamic evaluations. This allows us to clarify the prediction accuracy of Miedema's model which is state-of-the-art. We show that more accurate predictions can be obtained from a machine learning model based on LightGBM, and we provide them in 2415 binary systems. The data we collect also allows us to evaluate another empirical model to predict the excess heat capacity that we apply to 2211 binary liquids. We then extend the data collection to ternary metallic liquids and find that, when mixing is exothermic, extrapolations from the binary systems by Muggianu's model systematically lead to slight overestimations of roughly 10 % close to the equimolar composition. Therefore, our LightGBM model can provide reasonable estimates for ternary alloys and, by extension, for multicomponent alloys. Our findings extracted from rich datasets can be used to feed thermodynamic, empirical and machine learning models for material development. Our data, predictions, and code to generate machine learning descriptors from thermodynamic properties are all made available.</div