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 News Kinesiology 40(2008) 2:207-210207The 5th International Scientifi c Conference on Kinesiology, under the title “Kinesiology Research Trends and Applications”, was held in Zagreb from 10th to 14th September, 2008, at the Faculty of Ki-nesiology, University of Zagreb and the projection hall of the Student Residence Stjepan Radić. It was organized by the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in cooperation with the Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Facul-ty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, Comenius Univer-sity, Bratislava, Slovakia. As with all the previous Conferences it was organized under the tradition-al high patronage of the Croatian Academy of Sci-ences and Arts. The Conference work was organized in 14 sec-tions: Adapted Physical Activity and Sport for the Disabled; Biology and Medicine of Sport and Ex-ercise; Biomechanics and Motor Control; History of Sport and Olympic Movement; Management of Sport; Philosophy of Sport; Physical Condition-ing; Physical Education; Psychology of Sport; Re-search Methodology; Sociology of Sport; Sport for All, Fitness and Health; and Top-level Sport. More than 400 scientists – scholars, researchers, novices and postgraduate students, as well as practitioners of kinesiology in education, sport, physical recrea-tion, kinesitherapy and the Armed Forces, all from Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Bulgar-ia, Byelorussia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Esto-nia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, It-aly, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America participated in the four day conference programme. In four plena-ry, fourteen thematic parallel sessions and thirteen poster sessions there were more than 130 oral and 90 poster presentations. An impressive number of 239 articles were printed in the Proceedings Book which contained 1012 pages. Along with the Pro-ceedings Book, a CD with an electronic version of the articles, which allows for browsing by a key word, the authors’ name, a title and a country, was also printed and distributed at the Conference. The Scientifi c Committee consisted of 59 members from 16 countries and 3 continents. The Organiz-ing Committee had contacted 50 potential key-note speakers and 42 accepted the invitation and came to the Conference. A total number of 246 scientifi c REPORT ON THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON KINESIOLOGY “KINESIOLOGY RESEARCH TRENDS AND APPLICATIONS”contributions were received to the Conference Of-fi ce out of which 239 were published after the in-ternational peer review procedure. Peer reviewing was done by 55 scientists from 11 countries. The Conference offi cially started on September 10th 2008 at 7:00 pm at the Opening Ceremony in the Croatian National Theatre with 500 participants and invited guests present. Croatian folklore assem-bly “Lado” opened the ceremony with their famous folk dance performances after which Prof. Dinko Vuleta, PhD, Dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology, formally declared the Conference on Kinesiology open and introduced the guests of honour. A worm welcome to all the participants and guests of the conference was given by the welcome speeches of FCA Zvonko Kustić, representative of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Art, Aleksa Bjeliš, Rec-tor of the University of Zagreb, Radovan Fuchs, the State Secretary in the Ministry of Science, Educa-tion and Sport and Dragan Milanović, the President of the Organizing Committee. Two eminent scien-tists appeared in the scientifi c programme of the Opening Ceremony with their presentations. Prof. Erich Müller, from Austria (Department of Sport Science and Kinesiology, University of Salzburg) opened the plenary session with the theme “Sport Science in Europe – History and Perspectives” and Prof. Jay R. Hoffman from the USA (College of New Jersey, Ewing, NY) presented his contribution entitled “Maximizing athletic performance: obser-vations on periodization and variation”.On the fi rst conference day (Thursday, Septem-ber 11th) 6 out of 14 conference sections were intro-duced: Top-level Sport, Management of Sport, His-tory of Sport and the Olympic Movement, Physi-cal Conditioning, Psychology of Sport and Adapted Physical Activity and Sport for the disabled. In the Zagreb, Croatia, September 10-14, 2008Radovan FuchsNews Kinesiology 40(2008) 2:207-210208the audience at their exhibits to present them per-sonally. Poster session chairpersons of each section also reviewed the posters and presented their eval-uations to the Section Editors. All poster displays were well attended and offered time for discussion among the scientists. The afternoon scientifi c programme continued with three plenary presentations. Prof. Inigo Mujika from Spain opened it with the presentation “Scien-tifi c bases of tapering for competition”. Prof. Horst Strohkendl from Germany presented his contribu-tion under the title “Adapted physical activities and sport for the disabled” and Prof. Giovani Buccino from Italy ended the plenary session with his pres-entation “Language processing and the activity of the motor system”.In the afternoon parallel sessions Physical Con-ditioning, Psychology of Sport and Adapted Phys-ical Activity and Sport for the Disabled sections were introduced to the audience. The introductory and key-note speakers for the Physical Conditioning sections were Prof. Nicolas Terrados from Spain with the presentation “New aspects of altitude training, genes and health”, Prof. Lee E. Brown from USA with “Variable ve-locity training in the periodized model”, Prof. Nejc Šarabon from Slovenia with “Balance and function-al joint stability as important elements in physical conditioning and injury prevention”, Prof. Sergej Ostojić from Serbia with “Correlates of success in basketball: physiological profi ling of elite players” and Prof. Julio Calleja from Spain with “Is hyper-thermia a limiting factor during long endurance competitions in top-level athletes?”.On Friday, the second day of the Conference, three sections were introduced: Sport for All: Fit-ness and Health-Related Activities, Research Meth-odology and Biomechanics and Motor Control. The plenary session of the day offered four very inter-esting lectures. Prof. Tommi Vasankari from Fin-land gave a lecture on “Current challenge in HEPA”, Prof. Petr Blahuš from the Czech Republic spoke about “Some myths and misunderstanding in test reliability: methodological foundations”, Prof. Mark plenary part appeared Prof. Erich Müller from Aus-tria with the presentation “Biomechanics and sport – challenge on performance and safety”, Prof. Barry Drust from the United Kingdom with the presen-tation “Promoting endurance training adaptations through nutritional interventions: low-carbohydrate training”, Prof. Claude Sobry from France with the presentation “Sport management, a model of profes-sional diversifi cation in sport science studies” and Prof. Roland Renson from Belgium with the presen-tation “From kinesiology to kinesiology 1854-2008: looking backwards to look forwards”. Top-level Sport, Management of Sport and History of the Sport and the Olympic Movement sections worked in the morning sessions. The Top-level Sport section was organized in two ses-sions: the morning and the afternoon term. Intro-ductory speaker for the morning session was Prof. Włodzmierz Starosta from Poland with the presen-tation “Advanced left-handed athletes of different sport discipline in the motor education system for right-handed persons” and for the afternoon ses-sion Prof. Anita Hökelmann from Germany with the presentation “New perspectives for perform-ance analysis in gymnastics, handball and skiing”. A total of 36 scientifi c contributions were published in the Proceedings book under this section and all of them were presented. Management of Sport section was organized in the morning session only and the introductory speaker was Prof. Jakob Bednarik from Slovenia with the presentation “Analysis of the income struc-ture of sports organizations and expenditure of the Slovenian population for sport as a possible research approach to economic aspects of sport”.History of Sport and the Olympic Movement section was also organized only in the morning ses-sion with Prof. Tomaž Pavlin from Slovenia as the introductory speaker. He presented his contribution under the title “Sport, the notion of modern, time-appropriate physical education”.The poster sessions, with all six sections of the fi rst day, were organized in the early afternoon. The authors were obligated to be at the disposal of Croatian folklore assembly “Lado” News Kinesiology 40(2008) 2:207-210209THEMATIC SECTIONSPRESENTATIONPODIUM POSTERAdapted Physical Activity and Sport for the Disabled 5 2Biology and Medicine of Sport and Exercise 11 13Biomechanics and Motor Control 12 5Management of Sport 12 3History of Sport and Olympic Movement 13 1Physical Conditioning 2 13Physical Education 11 24Psychology of Sport 5 5Research Methodology 11 11Sociology of Sport and Philosophy of Sport 12 4Sport for All, Fitness and Health 11 5Top-level Sport 17 24Kinesiology in the Armed Forces / 9L. Latash from the USA introduced “Hierarchies of synergies in human movements” and Prof. Ross Sanders from the United Kingdom closed with his presentation “Advancing swimming science with CARE”.Introductory speakers then opened the section work in three parallel sessions. Prof. Fiona Bull from the United Kingdom introduced the section Sport for All: Fitness and Health-Related Activities with the presentation “Promoting participation in physical activity, sports and exercise: a public per-spective”. The Research Methodology section was introduced by Prof. Mike Hughes from the United Kingdom with his work entitled “Notational anal-ysis of soccer” and the Biomechanics and Motor Control section was introduced by Prof. Slobodan Jarić from the USA with the presentation “Force coordination in manipulation tasks: effects of the grasping technique”. The poster sessions of all three sections of the day were very successfully organ-ized afterwards. In the evening hours all the deans and vice deans of the co-operational faculties from Sara-jevo, Bratislava and Ljubljana, as well as all the introductory and key-note speakers and Section Editors joined together on the dean’s dinner in the fabulous Gjalski castle, nearby Zagreb.On the last day of the Conference, Saturday, September 13th, the last four sections were intro-duced to the participants: Biology and Medicine of Sport and Exercise, Physical Education, Sociology of Sport and Philosophy of Sport and Kinesiology in the Armed Forces. In the plenary session Prof. Toivo Jurimae from Estonia spoke about “Measure-ment of body composition in sport”, Prof. Branislav Antala from Slovakia presented his work entitled “School physical education curriculum changes in Slovakia in an international context” and fi nally Prof. Otmar Weiss from Austria presented his con-tribution entitled “Sport as a social phenomenon”. The introductory speakers for the sections held in the parallel sessions were Prof. Marcello Faina from Italy with the contribution “The purpose of exercise testing (functional diagnostics) in team sports” for the Biology and Medicine of Sports and Exercise section, Prof. Maurizio Sibilio from Italy with the presentation “The motor sport eval-uation in primary school in Italy” for the Physical Education section and Prof. Milan Hosta from Slov-enia with the presentation “An outline for further synthesis of new play-sport culture”. The work of Kinesiology in the Armed Forces was organized through poster presentations. The Conference was formally declared con-cluded at the Closing Ceremony on Saturday at 7 p.m. The president of the Scientifi c Committee, Prof. Franjo Prot, gave a short report of the four day work of the Conference. After the report the Young Researchers Awards were ceremonially de-clared. This year the reward for young researchers was, for the fi rst time, named the Young Research Award Miloš Mraković in honour of the late profes-sor Miloš Mraković who was the “father” of kinesi-ology as a science in Croatia. The Young Research-ers Award Committee, the members of which were Prof. Jan Borms from Belgium, Prof. Bart Van-reusel from Belgium and Prof. Julio Calleja from Spain, gave the fi rst reward for podium presenta-tion to Dalibor Veber from Croatia for his contribu-tion entitled “Training induced oxidative damage in professional soccer players”. The second prize in the oral presentation category was given to Zrinka Greblo from the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb who participated with the contribution entitled “Relationship between exercise frequency and self-perceived mental health”. The third prize went to Pavle Mikulić from the Faculty of Kinesi-ology, University of Zagreb, for his presentation entitled “Aerobic power as related to physical ma-turity in 12-year old male rowers”. Matteo Bertuc-co from the Faculty of Exercise and Sport Sci-ence, University of Ve-rona, Italy received the Miloš Mraković Award for his poster presen-tation entitled “The fi tts’ law and the an-ticipatory postural ad-justment”. The YRA sponsors were Mr Ivi-ca Olić, a member of the Croatian nation-al football team, and Mr Mirko Filipović, Croatia’s most famous ultimate fi ghter.News Kinesiology 40(2008) 2:207-210210On Friday, September 12, 2008 at 6.30 p.m., and during the 5th International Conference on Kinesiol-ogy, the small amphitheatre of the Faculty of Kinesi-ology hosted the Editorial Board members and some honourable guests on the occasion of the international Editorial Board and Advisory Board members Meeting. After Opatija in 2005 the members gathered again and this time on the premises of publishing institution of the journal. Among the 50 people present we must proudly emphasise the presence of the 24 guests, mostly intro-ductory and key note speakers attending the Conference, who happily joined in the Editorial Board Meeting, ac-cepted Editorial Board membership and/or made cer-tain contributions to the work of the meeting by making some excellent suggestions. The Meeting was opened with the delightful news of Thomson Scientifi c’s intention to subject our scien-tifi c journal to evaluation for possible inclusion in some of their most highly estimated cited products. In an at-mosphere of collaboration the crucial moments that had taken place since the last Editorial Board Meeting were enumerated, such as: increased fi nancial support by the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport, the commencement of the offi ce of the Junior Editor as the fi rst professional in the journal, as well as the opening of the internet edition of points. It was also announced that the Open Journal System as the new journal man-agement and publishing system will be utilized in order to improve and enhance the infl ow, review, editing and distribution procedure. The Meeting introduced some very important issues regarding the future of the journal. A new section dispo-sition was proposed and some very interesting sugges-tions were made. The discussion led to the conclusion that the new section disposition shall be set in the next year, mostly in accordance with the journal’s income in the recent years and the year to come. It was pointed out that, with the possible inclusion in the Web of Science, the number of article submissions would increase and therefore it was suggested to engage Section Editors in the evaluation procedure as well as in editing. To further improve the quality of the journal a referee list widening was also proposed. The members of the Editorial Board and guests were asked to promote the journal Kinesiol-ogy among their colleagues and propose experts in the specifi c fi elds of kinesiology as referees for the journal. As a possible inclusion in the Thomson Reuters’s scien-tifi c citation bases would generate an increased number of incoming articles, it was mentioned that the body of referees needs to be enlarged in order to alleviate the task of the already overburdened peer reviewers. In conclusion, Prof. Dragan Milanović, Editor-in-Chief, thanked everyone for coming and participating in the discussion. The next Editorial Board Meeting was announced for the year 2011, within the framework of the 6th Conference on Kinesiology. THE JOURNAL KINESIOLOGY’S EDITORIAL BOARD MEETINGThe members of the Editorial Board and their guests: In front (from the left): Daniel Bok, Vłodzimierz Starosta, Darija Omrčen, Mirna Andrijašević, Ludmila Zapletalová, Fiona Bull, Marija Rakovac, Henriette Dancs, Anita Hökelmann, Mike HughesIn the back (from the left): Elizabeth Harrison Paj, Petr Blahuš, Kenneth L. Swalgin, Željka Jaklinović, Lubor Tomanek, Tomaž Pavlin, Slobodan Jarić, Miroslav Holienka, Igor Jukić, Jay R. Hoffman, Jan Borms, Otmar Weiss, Claude Sobry, Dragan Milanović, Lee E. Brown, Dinko Vuleta, Stjepan Heimer, Milan Čoh, Bart Vanreusel, Renata Barić, Ivan Prskalo, Tommi Vasankari, Vladimir Medved, Branislav Antala, Leonid Dragunov, Daniela Dasheva, Horst Strohkendl, Nikola Hadjiev, Roland Renson, Vitaly A. Kashuba, Srećko Sertić, Roman Kalina, Bartłomiej Barczyński, Toivo Jürimäe 

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