The Differences in the Performance Profiles Between Native and Foreign Players in the Chinese Basketball Association [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The aim of the study was to (i) use an clustering analysis method to classify and identify native and foreign basketball players into similar groups based on game-related statistics; (ii) use the Pearson’s Chi-square test to identify the key clusters ...
Xing Wang +6 more
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Using a Situation Awareness Approach to Identify Differences in the Performance Profiles of the World’s Top Two Squash Players and Their Opponents [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 PurposeThe pressure exerted on a squash player is a consequence of the quality of a shot coupled with the ability of the player to return the ball, namely, the coupling of the two players’ situation awareness (SA) abilities.
Stafford Murray +4 more
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Performance Profiles: A New Approach Based on Training Focused on Physical Aspects Rather than Technical–Tactical Ones [PDF]
SportsThis study aimed to identify distinct external load profiles of 23 semi-professional football players (22.52 ± 1.74 years) during four official matches (40 cases in total; 10 per match).
Amalia Campos-Redondo +4 more
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Heterogeneity in dual-career stress: an integrative person-centered and distribution-sensitive analysis of its asymmetric effects on adolescent football players [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyObjectiveThis study examined the heterogeneous nature of dual-career stress and its asymmetric associations with on adolescent athletes, aiming to: (1) identify distinct stress profiles based on academic, training, and role-conflict stressors; (2) assess
Zhengri Quan +3 more
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Effects of different levels of dietary crude protein on the physiological response, reproductive performance, blood profiles, milk composition and odor emission in gestating sows [PDF]
Animal Bioscience, 2023 Objective This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of crude protein (CP) levels on the physiological response, reproductive performance, blood profiles, milk composition and odor emission in gestating sows.
Hongjun Kim +4 more
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Adaptive Hybrid Mixed Two-Point Step Size Gradient Algorithm for Solving Non-Linear Systems
Mathematics, 2023 In this paper, a two-point step-size gradient technique is proposed by which the approximate solutions of a non-linear system are found. The two-point step-size includes two types of parameters deterministic and random.
Eltiyeb Ali, Salem Mahdi
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Supplementation plays a vital role in the growth performance of grazing heifers. We investigated the effects of maize-based concentrate supplementation on the serum metabolome in grazing heifers. Twenty-four 7-month-old heifers (211.65 ± 4.25 kg BW) were
Hao Chen +3 more
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Animal, 2019 New strategies must be developed to improve poultry performance and health. One of these strategies is the use of supplementations as sodium butyrate (SB) to improve the physiological status and then increasing the growth performance, but the best period
S.S. Elnesr, A. Ropy, A.H. Abdel-Razik
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is characterized by low temperatures and hypoxia, and this feature is more obvious in the winter. However, it is not clear how Tibetan sheep adapt to extreme cold climates. To address this, we used physiological methods combined
Qingshan Fan +6 more
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Mood profiles of amateur triathletes: Implications for mental health and performance
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Moods have been shown to be predictive of athletic performance and a reflection of mental health status. The aims of our study were (a) to compare pre-race mood scores of triathletes with population norms; (b) to compare pre-race mood scores of ...
Renée L. Parsons-Smith +5 more
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