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Climbing Mechanism Design and Fuzzy PID-Based Control for a Stay Cable De-Icing Robot [PDF]
SensorsIn winter, ice is prone to forming on the surface of stay cables in cable-stayed bridges, posing a threat to their structural safety. As temperatures rise, the risk of ice shedding increases, posing a potential hazard to pedestrians and vehicular traffic.
Yaoyao Pei +6 more
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Editorial: Training and testing in climbing
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Vidar Andersen +3 more
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Comparison of selected aspects of strength conditioning among junior boulderers and speed and lead climbers [PDF]
Journal of Kinesiology and Exercise Sciences, 2022 Background: Comprehensive preparation of climbers for participation in multi-event competitions requires knowledge of the motor characteristics and fitness profiles of successful athletes competing in their individual events.
Krzysztof Sas-Nowosielski, Mateusz Gutek
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Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022 Performance diagnostics of finger strength is very relevant in climbing. The aim of our study was to find modalities for an intermittent finger flexor muscle endurance test that optimize the correlation of test performance with lead climbing performance.
Claudia Augste +2 more
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The Effects of Prioritizing Lead or Boulder Climbing Among Intermediate Climbers
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2021 This study compared the effects of prioritizing lead climbing or boulder climbing on climbing-specific strength and endurance, as well as climbing performance. Fourteen active climbers were randomized to a boulder climbing training group (BCT: age = 27.2
Nicolay Stien +5 more
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Prevalence of Disordered Eating Among International Sport Lead Rock Climbers
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 Disordered eating (DE) is characterized as a range of irregular eating patterns or behaviors, which may lead to pathological eating or a clinical eating disorder diagnosis. DE patterns are associated with a variety of negative health outcomes.
Lanae M. Joubert +2 more
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Cognitive factors that predict on-sight and red-point performance in sport climbing at youth level
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 IntroductionThe ascent of a route can be defined as being climbed on-sight or red-point. Climbing performance is measured by the grade of the personal best route that the athlete has ever climbed.MethodologyThe study examined 17 youth climbers (10 male ...
Antonia Ioana Vasile +3 more
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Changes in Larval and Imago Behavior in Lead-exposed Drosophila melanogaster [PDF]
BIO Web of ConferencesLead is a pollutant that is often found in various locations that may affect the behavior of living things. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of lead exposure on behavior changes in Drosophila melanogaster.
Hindun Iin +5 more
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Attentional Differences as a Function of Rock Climbing Performance
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between attention (using two different attention tasks) and self-reported climbing ability while considering potential confounding factors (sex, age, climbing experience, and cardiorespiratory
Inmaculada Garrido-Palomino +6 more
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Forearm muscle oxygenation during sustained isometric contractions in rock climbers
Acta Universitatis Carolinae Kinanthropologica, 2016 Background. Bouldering and lead climbing are divergent disciplines of the sport of rock climbing. Bouldering moves are short and powerful, whilst sport climbing is longer and require a greater degree of endurance. Aim.
Jan Kodejška +2 more
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