11 research outputs found
UTJECAJ UMORA NA PRECIZNOST I KINEMATIČKE PARAMETRE ŠUTA U KOŠARCI
The main objective of this study was to establish
whether fatigue has an effect on accuracy during
basketball shooting. Aside from basketball shooting
accuracy, two very important kinematic parameters were
also examined as they have an effect on the level of
accuracy during shooting: the speed of performing the
actual shot and the angle at which the ball enters into the
basket after a jump shot is performed.
In conducting this research one examinee was
observed, a member of the Croatian U16 National
Basketball Team. This research included a precisely
defined protocol according to which the following
parameters were established: the accuracy of basketball
shooting (ratio between successful and missed shots), the
speed of performing the shot and the angle of entry of the
ball into the basket. The physiological load was
determined by performing the standardised specific
protocol which the examinee performed until exhaustion.
The results which were obtained indicate that there
are no significant changes in the accuracy during one
point, two point or three point shooting under the
influence of physical fatigue. The obtained results of
kinematic parameters indicate that there are statistically
significant differences in the shooting speed before and
after loading in two point and three point shots. During
performing free throws the angle of entry of the ball into
the basket changes, whereas the accuracy remains
unchanged.Glavni cilj ovog istraživanja bio je utvrditi ima li
umor utjecaj na preciznost šuta u košarci. Osim
preciznosti takoðer su analizirana i dva vrlo važna
kinematička parametra za koja su dosadašnja istraživanja
utvrdila utjecaj na preciznost šuta: brzina izvoðenja
samog šuta i kut pri kojem lopta ulazi u koš nakon skok
šuta.
U provedbi ovog istraživanja sudjelovao je jedan
ispitanik, čan Hrvatske U16 košarkaške reprezentacije.
Istraživanje ukljuèuje precizno definiran protokol prema
kojem su uspostavljeni sljedeći parametri: preciznost šuta
(omjer izmeðu uspješnih i neuspješnih šuteva), brzina
izvedbe šuta i kut ulaska lopte u koš. Umor je izazvan
izvoðenjem standardiziranog protokola fiziološkog
opterećenja trčanjem koji ispitanik obavlja do
iscrpljenosti.
Dobiveni rezultati pokazuju da nema značajne
promjene u preciznosti šuta za jedan, dva ili tri poena pod
utjecajem tjelesnog umora. Dobiveni rezultati
kinematičkih parametara pokazuju da postoje statistički
značajne razlike u brzini šuta prije i poslije opterećenja pri
šutu za dva i tri poena. Tijekom izvoðenja slobodnih
bacanja kut ulaska lopte u koš se mijenja ali bez promjene
preciznosti
Measuring the Dielectric Constant of Paper Using a Parallel Plate Capacitor
This article is a result of measuring the dielectric constant of a dielectric used in studying the influence of dielectrics on the antennae reflection coefficients. A paper having a density of 0.797 g/cm3, moisture content of 0% and temperature of 210C, is used as a dielectric. Although the literature provides a lot of data on the dielectric properties of wood and paper, without direct measurement of the dielectric constant it is impossible to know its amount for the dielectric used in the defined frequency range. Dielectric constant measurements are performed in the frequency range from 100 Hz to 100 kHz, while the frequency range of its impact on the aperture antenna reflection coefficients is up to 2 GHz. The frequency range from 100 KHz to 10 GHz is interpolated and fitted by using measurements and available literature data and by respecting physical influences and phenomena and functional changes of the dielectric constant of paper within the given range
Radiološke dijagnostičke metode kod transplantacije bubrega
Radiological diagnostic methods have a significant role in the preoperative and postoperative care of patients after kidney transplantation. Improvement and innovations in technology, but also the growing experience of the radiologists who deal with kidney transplant patients as part of the transplant team lead to earlier detection of complications in the postoperative period, which are the leading cause of transplant failure. In this article, we describe, through diagnostic imaging examples, detailed evaluation of all possible complications that can occur after kidney transplantation, with evaluation of different possible diagnostic methods that can be used in the preoperative assessment and postoperative follow up and care of the transplanted patient. The goal of this article is to demonstrate and summarize in detail the possible complications of renal transplantation and how to best diagnostically approach them, with special reference to ultrasound which is the main imaging method for this group of conditions.Radiološke dijagnostičke metode imaju značajnu ulogu u prijeoperacijskom i poslijeoperacijskom razdoblju kod bolesnika s transplantiranim bubregom. Sve bolje tehnološke mogućnosti i inovacije, ali i sve veće iskustvo radiologa koji se kao sastavni dio transplantacijskog tima bave transplantiranim bolesnicima dovode do ranog prepoznavnja poslijetransplantacijskih komplikacija, najznačajnijeg uzroka propadanja transplantiranog organa. U ovom članku predstavljamo kroz primjere detaljan prikaz svih mogućih komplikacija te analizu mogućnosti različitih dijagnostičkih metoda koje se primjenjuju u pripremi za transplantaciju i poslijetransplantacijskoj obradi i praćenju transplantiranog bolesnika. Cilj ovoga članka je detaljno prikazati i sistematizirati moguće komplikacije te kako im dijagnostički pristupiti, s naglaskom na ultrazvuk koji ima glavnu ulogu u dijagnostici ovih stanja
Primary malignant melanoma of gallbladder
Gallbladder primary malignant melanoma (GPMM) is a rare and controversial entity. The existing controversy on the subject appears mainly because of the lack of deinitive objective criteriaof primitivity. Objective criteria proposed by the speciic literature for distinguishing GPMM from secondary gallbladder melanoma include the exclusion of previous primitive melanoma, absence of synchronous involment of other sites, the unicity of lesion, its polipoid or papilary shape and the presence of a junctional melanocitary component. After laparoscopic cholecystectomy in one of our patients, dark polypus inside the gallbladder was found. A malignant melanoma was diagnosed according to all ive criteria for GPMM
5th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Kinesiology research trends and applications : proceedings book
Approaching the time of the 50th anniversary of the successful work in the mission of high education and research
of the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, we are exceptionally happy and satisfi ed that all the organisational
and programme tasks and goals of the 5th International Scientifi c Conference on Kinesiology have been accomplished.
Although our University is a large and among the oldest in the area, our Faculty is a relatively young, small institution
of academic education from a small country in transition, which is facing and struggling with typical problems of the
era and specifi c social processes. However, all previous efforts of our predecessors, even as far back as the 19th century,
but especially of dear doyennes an doyens of kinesiology, as well as the establishing and organisation of the Conference,
no matter how inexperienced it might have seemed in the beginning, back in the year 1997 in Dubrovnik, enables us
nowadays to be peer members of the circle of internationally recognized and well-known institutions and organizations of
sport/exercise science, or kinesiology. With no false modesty, it is a considerable achievement of our scholars, researchers,
associates, other employees and last, but by no means the least important, our partners - students. A great contribution
of our foreign colleagues should be recognized and accentuated here – nothing of the previously mentioned would have
been possible without their good will, open minds and enormous interest in our work and advances. We cannot exclude a
contribution of our famous athletes and their sport achievements. This is the right place to express our deepest appreciation
and gratitude to them all and our wishes for continuation and expansion of the cooperation in many fi elds.
The science fi eld we are interested in is so diverse, broad, complex; it investigates the very essence of life – the
movement and everything needed for its realisation – its purpose, its origins, conditions, its means - from the molecular
level to the level of anatomy, synergy of hundreds processes within a being, even to social proportions and effects of
moving or not moving.
All the previous conferences were exceptional opportunities for broadening of scientifi c insights into this miraculous,
beautiful phenomenon of physical activity and its effects – its perfection when performed by sport artists, as seen at the
XXIX Olympic Games, its joyfulness when happy children enjoy being competent to be in motion, or when we see eager
people who enjoy life and nature because they have enough energy and they are healthy thanks to an active lifestyle.
Ever better positioning of our science worldwide is obvious – the last example is from Croatia – in any sense, from
the legislative to fi nancial, in the Croatian structure of sciences, kinesiology has become equal to physics, economics,
medicine, biology, law, sociology and many others. Such a position facilitates inter- and crossdisciplinarity and mobility
of scientists and students within Croatia and abroad.
The rationale of the 5th meeting on kinesiology is “Kinesiology research trends and applications“ ascends from the
very heart of kinesiology, which embraces numerous theoretical, developmental and applicative research issues. Namely,
the ultimate purposes of that research is to know and understand human beings and to apply the fi ndings in everyday
practice of education, sports, health promotion, recreation, tourism, and kinesitherapy.
The Conference will work in usual plenary and parallel sessions addressing fourteen comprehensive kinesiological
topics: adapted physical activity and sport for the disabled; biology and medicine of sport and exercise; biomechanics and
motor control; history of sport and the Olympic movement; management of sport; tourism and sport; members of the armed
forces kinesiology; physical conditioning and fi tness; physical education; psychology of sport; research methodology;
sociology of sport; philosophy of sport; Sport for all and health-related activities; and top-level sport. Certain areas will
be addressed at the Conference for the fi rst time, like philosophy of sport, Olympic movement and kinesiology applied to
armed forces. In these Proceedings all the positively reviewed contributions are published: communications and poster
presentations.
We are very happy and proud because of the response of the invited 42 lecturers, worldwide famous experts in their
areas of scientifi c interests who will undoubtedly throw new light on only seemingly already investigated issues, on the
one hand, an on the other, bring the latest advances in research and theory, thus inspiring, especially young, researchers
to learn and go ever further. After all, who knows where the frontier is?
Proceedings Book contains 239 contributions, which were submitted by the submission deadline, written by 421
authors from 40 countries from all the continents. Besides the presenters, we also expect participants without contributions,
among them a lot of graduate, doctoral and postdoctoral students from Croatia and abroad for whom the Pre-Conference
School of Kinesiology for Postgraduate and Doctoral Students has been also organised prior to the Conference.
Many thanks go to the members of the Organising and Programme Committees who did not spare their effort to
prepare and realize the Conference and the Proceedings. Deep gratitude also goes to the team of reviewers, fi fty fi ve of
them who carefully evaluated the contributions.
The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is for the fourth time the patron of the Conference that is quite in line
with the respectable position kinesiology/sport science has earned in the very meticulous scientifi c community
The Faculty wishes to express gratitude to the cooperative institutions: the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia, the Faculty of PE and Sport, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Faculty of PE and Sport,
University of Comenius, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Several government institutions supported the organisation of the Conference. We are grateful to: the Ministry of
Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, the Croatian Olympic Committee and the Croatian University
Sport Association.
After Dubrovnik and Opatija, dear participants, you have the opportunity to get acquainted with the Croatian capital
– Zagreb, and our institution of higher education – with its facilities, its surroundings, other people working in it, our
students, our laboratories, lecture rooms, library, etc. This opportunity to really know us will probably increase exchange
rates among scholars and students.
We wish you feel welcome and come back many times
8th international scientific conference on kinesiology: 20th anniversary : proceedings
We are exceptionally happy that we can greet you once more on this occasion. The Faculty of Kinesiology,
as a proud member of the University of Zagreb and a higher education institution that is 57 years old, is
organizing The International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology for the 8th time. Identically as three years
ago, this is a good opportunity to remember some important anniversaries. First of all, this year we celebrate
160 years since Nicolas Dally published his work in 1857 under the title “Kinesiology – Science of Movement
in Relation to Education, Hygiene and Therapy”. This was the first book that introduced Kinesiology
as a science of movement. The second important anniversary is 20 years since the establishment of our
Conference. In 1997 the first International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology was held in Dubrovnik.
Until today a great number of leading experts in the field of contemporary kinesiology were keynote lectures
and presenters of the most important scientific breakthroughs in the field.
Once again, the Conference will be a great opportunity for broadening of scientific insights into this
miraculous, beautiful phenomenon of physical activity and its effects – its perfection when performed by
sport artists, as seen at the XXXI Olympic Games, its joyfulness when happy children enjoy being competent
to be in motion, or when we see eager people who enjoy life and nature because they have enough energy
and they are healthy thanks to an active lifestyle. We are especially proud of the 17th place on the medal
list thanks to the ten Olympic medals won by Croatian athletes.
All fundamental and applied fields of our science will be discussed within 10 tentative sessions and 3
Satellite symposiums. The ultimate purpose of papers or abstracts published in this Proceedings book is
to know and understand human beings and to apply the findings in everyday practice of education, sports,
health promotion, recreation, sports management and kinesitherapy. The Proceedings Book contains 249
contributions, which were submitted by the submission deadline, written by 557 authors from 30 countries
from all over the world. We expect a number of graduate, doctoral and postdoctoral students from Croatia
and abroad for whom the Conference School of Kinesiology for Postgraduate and Doctoral Students will
be organised during the Conference.
From the very beginning the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts has given its highly respected
patronage to the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of sciences.
Special thanks go to our partner institutions: Beijing Sports University, China and the Faculty of Sports
Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, to our collaboration institutions: the Lithuanian
University of Educational Sciences, Lithuania, the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
and the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. We wish to express much
gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, participants, members of the Organisation and Program Committee,
Section Editors, technical support staff, and sponsors for their contributions, time and effort inbuilt in the
quality of the 8th International Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings.
We wish success in the conference work to all the participants and a pleasant time in Opatija. Convinced
that the Conference will give the expected impetus to further cooperation between scholars and institutions,
we are looking forward in advance to meeting you again at the 9th International Conference on Kinesiology
in 2020.
Organising Committe
8th international scientific conference on kinesiology: 20th anniversary : proceedings
We are exceptionally happy that we can greet you once more on this occasion. The Faculty of Kinesiology,
as a proud member of the University of Zagreb and a higher education institution that is 57 years old, is
organizing The International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology for the 8th time. Identically as three years
ago, this is a good opportunity to remember some important anniversaries. First of all, this year we celebrate
160 years since Nicolas Dally published his work in 1857 under the title “Kinesiology – Science of Movement
in Relation to Education, Hygiene and Therapy”. This was the first book that introduced Kinesiology
as a science of movement. The second important anniversary is 20 years since the establishment of our
Conference. In 1997 the first International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology was held in Dubrovnik.
Until today a great number of leading experts in the field of contemporary kinesiology were keynote lectures
and presenters of the most important scientific breakthroughs in the field.
Once again, the Conference will be a great opportunity for broadening of scientific insights into this
miraculous, beautiful phenomenon of physical activity and its effects – its perfection when performed by
sport artists, as seen at the XXXI Olympic Games, its joyfulness when happy children enjoy being competent
to be in motion, or when we see eager people who enjoy life and nature because they have enough energy
and they are healthy thanks to an active lifestyle. We are especially proud of the 17th place on the medal
list thanks to the ten Olympic medals won by Croatian athletes.
All fundamental and applied fields of our science will be discussed within 10 tentative sessions and 3
Satellite symposiums. The ultimate purpose of papers or abstracts published in this Proceedings book is
to know and understand human beings and to apply the findings in everyday practice of education, sports,
health promotion, recreation, sports management and kinesitherapy. The Proceedings Book contains 249
contributions, which were submitted by the submission deadline, written by 557 authors from 30 countries
from all over the world. We expect a number of graduate, doctoral and postdoctoral students from Croatia
and abroad for whom the Conference School of Kinesiology for Postgraduate and Doctoral Students will
be organised during the Conference.
From the very beginning the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts has given its highly respected
patronage to the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of sciences.
Special thanks go to our partner institutions: Beijing Sports University, China and the Faculty of Sports
Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, to our collaboration institutions: the Lithuanian
University of Educational Sciences, Lithuania, the Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
and the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. We wish to express much
gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, participants, members of the Organisation and Program Committee,
Section Editors, technical support staff, and sponsors for their contributions, time and effort inbuilt in the
quality of the 8th International Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings.
We wish success in the conference work to all the participants and a pleasant time in Opatija. Convinced
that the Conference will give the expected impetus to further cooperation between scholars and institutions,
we are looking forward in advance to meeting you again at the 9th International Conference on Kinesiology
in 2020.
Organising Committe
6th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Integrative power of kinesiology : proceedings book
The Faculty of Kinesiology University of Zagreb is organising the International Conference on Kinesiology for the
sixth time. Everything began more than 15 years ago when the initiators – Prof. Milanović, still bursting with new ideas,
and the late Prof. Mraković, started to advocate the idea of an international conference as a forum for kinesiologists or
sport scientists, as a place where their research findings could be presented and discussed, as a meeting point of globally
recognized scientists, or authorities in their field of research and research novices. In those days, in 1997, before the First
Conference in Dubrovnik, it all seemed so surreal. However, this conference is alive; it grows and becomes ever more
sophisticated. Therefore, it is feasible to expect that the forthcoming discussions, talks, dialogues, or whatever kind of idea
exchange will result, as they have until now, with new research ideas, insights, research teams and projects the eventual
outcome of which is further advances in kinesiology and the cognate and adjacent scientific areas.
The motto of this year’s conference is the “Integrative Power of Kinesiology“. It indicates the close relationships
among various scientific fields when they contribute to the promotion of physical exercise and various kinds of physical
activities in the areas of kinesiological education, high performance sports, kinesiological recreation, health-enhanced
kinesiology, kinesitherapy and rehabilitation, sport for physically and mentally challenged persons, school sports, military
kinesiology, and many others.
Simultaneously with the organisation of the 6th Conference, the Faculty of Kinesiology is celebrating the 40th anniversary
of the publication of the scientific journal KINESIOLOGY. Nowadays it is a recognized international scientific journal
with an IF of 0.525 for the year 2010.
The Conference and the journal KINESIOLOGY have contributed considerably to the affirmation of the name
“kinesiology” in the neighbouring European areas. Although both are focused on science, the Conference and the
accompanying regular KINESIOLOGY International Editorial Board meetings have also been opportunities for scholars
and institution delegates from all over the world to establish close personal contacts, thus opening doors for joint research
projects. The basic scientific concept of the Conference, with the working sections that cover the fundamental and
applicative disciplines of kinesiology, has been kept from the beginning. This year’s conference will have 12 oral and
poster sections in the framework of which the delegates will present 220 full text contributions and abstracts written by
300 authors from 32 countries. Each presented and published paper or abstract has been subjected to a review process
performed by at least two prominent referees.
For the first time the Conference is hosting a satellite symposium HEPA (Health Enhanced Physical Activity). The
purpose of the symposium is to inform delegates from the neighbouring countries, which have not yet become HEPA
association member countries, with the basic principles and directives of the movement and to encourage them to
become promoters of the idea of health-oriented physical activity in their communities. The World Health Organization
has stimulated the design of the Croatian National Action Plan for the implementation and improvement of HEPA in the
Republic of Croatia. A presentation of the Action Plan and the planned round table should also be stimulating to colleagues
to undertake similar steps in their communities.
From the very beginning the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts has given its highly respected patronage
to the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of sciences. The organisation of
such conferences would not be viable without the powerful support from the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education
and Sport and the University of Zagreb. The patronage and support are indicators of a notable position the Conference
and its organiser, the Faculty of Kinesiology University of Zagreb (established in 1959), have in the Croatian academic
and research community.
We wish to express much gratitude to all the authors of the papers, reviewers, conference participants, members
of the Organisation Committee, Section Leaders, Section Secretaries, technical support staff, and sponsors for their
contributions, time and effort inbuilt in the quality of the 6th Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings. Our special
gratitude goes to the Croatian Office of the World Health Organization.
We wish success in the conference work to all the participants and enjoyable time in Opatija. We are convinced the
Conference will give the expected impetus to further cooperation between scholars and institutions. Looking forward in
advance to meeting you again at the 7th International Conference on Kinesiology in 2014
7th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Fundamental and applied kinesiology - steps forward : proceedings
It is our pleasure to greet you on behalf of the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb. Quite a number of
significant anniversaries in this year are related to sport, physical education and kinesiology in Croatia. The most important
anniversary is the 55th birthday of the College of Physical Culture/Faculty of Physical Culture/Faculty of Kinesiology
establishment in 1959. However, the tradition of physical education teachers’ education in Croatia is much longer than
that. Namely, in 1874, the Croatian Falcon (Hrvatski sokol) was founded and in 1894, first course for gymnastic teachers
was organised as the first higher education course in the field of kinesiology in Croatia. Along with these important
anniversaries, this year we are marking the 17th birthday of our Conference on kinesiology, dear Reader, and you are one
of the most important reasons why is this so. From the first Conference in Dubrovnik in 1997 up nowadays, many changes
in our science have occurred as well as in the practice of physical exercise and sports along with innumerable changes in
political and social dimensions of modern life. However, we are deeply convinced that one thing has remained unchanged;
that is the passion for investigation and knowledge acquisition, the need for new discoveries and love for kinesiology as
the main field of our research. Also, we are assured that our ideas about the conference as a meeting point of distinguished
scientists, leading researchers in different fields of our science and young investigators have become reality.
We expect discussions and exchange of ideas that should result, as they have before, in new research ideas, insights,
and research teams and projects the eventual outcome of which would be further advances in kinesiology and in cognate
and adjacent scientific areas. The Conference will work under the motto “Fundamental and applied kinesiology - steps
forward” in usual plenary and parallel sessions addressing ten comprehensive kinesiological topics: adaptation of human
organism to disuse and ageing; adapted physical activity and kinesitherapy; biology and medicine of sport and exercise;
biomechanics and motor control; physical education; kinesiological (sports) recreation; kinesiology of top-level sport;
management of sport; kinesiology and social sciences (sociology, psychology, history, philosophy) and kinesiology in
physical conditioning. Certain areas will be addressed at the Conference for the first time, like adaptation of human
organism to disuse and ageing. All the papers that have got positive reviews, performed by at least two respectable referees,
are published in these proceedings. The best papers, so recognized by the peer reviewers, will be published in the journal
Kinesiology supplement. Two significant satellite symposiums are going to be held during this year Conference under
the titles: University Sport and Health Kinesiology. Both symposia are aiming at provoking experts from these areas to
find solutions and answers to recent problems in these specific fields
From the very beginning, the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts has been giving its high patronage to
the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of different areas in science. We are
proud to have partners and cooperating institutions like Beijing Sports University (China), Faculty of Sport Studies
Masaryk University, Brno (the Czech Republic), Science and Research Centre, University of Primorska (Slovenia) and
Lithuanian Sports University. Also, our conference is supported by a number of important organisations in the field of
kinesiology such as: the European College of Sport Science (ECSS), International Association for Physical Education in
Higher Education (AIESEP), International Federation of Physical Education (FIEP), and International Network of Sport
and Health Sciences (INSHS).
This year the assembly of kinesiologists from 32 countries will discuss diverse aspects of a variety of kinesiological
issues presented in 220 papers and abstracts written by 514 authors. The Proceedings and Abstract Book is a reminder of
the research findings accomplished in the field of kinesiology, or sport sciences, or kinetics, or kinanthropology throughout
the past three years. The presented papers are a basis and a probable starting point for future findings and inferences since
they cover a wide range of anthropological (understood in the widest sense), methodological and didactic investigations
in the areas of physical education, competitive sport, kinesiological recreation, and kinesitherapy.
We wish to express exceptional gratitude to all the authors of papers, reviewers, conference participants, members
of the Organising and Programme Committee, Section Editors and technical support staff for their contributions, time
and effort inbuilt in quality of the 7th Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings.
Looking forward to meeting you again at the 8th International Conference on Kinesiology in 2017.
Organising Committe
6th International Scientific Conference on Kinesiology: Integrative power of kinesiology : proceedings book
The Faculty of Kinesiology University of Zagreb is organising the International Conference on Kinesiology for the
sixth time. Everything began more than 15 years ago when the initiators – Prof. Milanović, still bursting with new ideas,
and the late Prof. Mraković, started to advocate the idea of an international conference as a forum for kinesiologists or
sport scientists, as a place where their research findings could be presented and discussed, as a meeting point of globally
recognized scientists, or authorities in their field of research and research novices. In those days, in 1997, before the First
Conference in Dubrovnik, it all seemed so surreal. However, this conference is alive; it grows and becomes ever more
sophisticated. Therefore, it is feasible to expect that the forthcoming discussions, talks, dialogues, or whatever kind of idea
exchange will result, as they have until now, with new research ideas, insights, research teams and projects the eventual
outcome of which is further advances in kinesiology and the cognate and adjacent scientific areas.
The motto of this year’s conference is the “Integrative Power of Kinesiology“. It indicates the close relationships
among various scientific fields when they contribute to the promotion of physical exercise and various kinds of physical
activities in the areas of kinesiological education, high performance sports, kinesiological recreation, health-enhanced
kinesiology, kinesitherapy and rehabilitation, sport for physically and mentally challenged persons, school sports, military
kinesiology, and many others.
Simultaneously with the organisation of the 6th Conference, the Faculty of Kinesiology is celebrating the 40th anniversary
of the publication of the scientific journal KINESIOLOGY. Nowadays it is a recognized international scientific journal
with an IF of 0.525 for the year 2010.
The Conference and the journal KINESIOLOGY have contributed considerably to the affirmation of the name
“kinesiology” in the neighbouring European areas. Although both are focused on science, the Conference and the
accompanying regular KINESIOLOGY International Editorial Board meetings have also been opportunities for scholars
and institution delegates from all over the world to establish close personal contacts, thus opening doors for joint research
projects. The basic scientific concept of the Conference, with the working sections that cover the fundamental and
applicative disciplines of kinesiology, has been kept from the beginning. This year’s conference will have 12 oral and
poster sections in the framework of which the delegates will present 220 full text contributions and abstracts written by
300 authors from 32 countries. Each presented and published paper or abstract has been subjected to a review process
performed by at least two prominent referees.
For the first time the Conference is hosting a satellite symposium HEPA (Health Enhanced Physical Activity). The
purpose of the symposium is to inform delegates from the neighbouring countries, which have not yet become HEPA
association member countries, with the basic principles and directives of the movement and to encourage them to
become promoters of the idea of health-oriented physical activity in their communities. The World Health Organization
has stimulated the design of the Croatian National Action Plan for the implementation and improvement of HEPA in the
Republic of Croatia. A presentation of the Action Plan and the planned round table should also be stimulating to colleagues
to undertake similar steps in their communities.
From the very beginning the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts has given its highly respected patronage
to the Conference, thus underpinning the recognition of kinesiology in the structure of sciences. The organisation of
such conferences would not be viable without the powerful support from the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education
and Sport and the University of Zagreb. The patronage and support are indicators of a notable position the Conference
and its organiser, the Faculty of Kinesiology University of Zagreb (established in 1959), have in the Croatian academic
and research community.
We wish to express much gratitude to all the authors of the papers, reviewers, conference participants, members
of the Organisation Committee, Section Leaders, Section Secretaries, technical support staff, and sponsors for their
contributions, time and effort inbuilt in the quality of the 6th Conference on Kinesiology and its Proceedings. Our special
gratitude goes to the Croatian Office of the World Health Organization.
We wish success in the conference work to all the participants and enjoyable time in Opatija. We are convinced the
Conference will give the expected impetus to further cooperation between scholars and institutions. Looking forward in
advance to meeting you again at the 7th International Conference on Kinesiology in 2014