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, 2006 Evolutionary car racing (ECR) is extended to the case of two cars racing on the same track. A sensor representation is devised, and various methods of evolving car controllers for competitive racing are explored. ECR can be combined with co-evolution in a wide variety of ways, and one aspect which is explored here is the relative-absolute fitness ...
Julian Togelius, Simon M. Lucas
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Global Bioethics, 2003 In front of the continuous distribution (in "clines") of the morphological or biochemical characters, which makes any racial demarcation arbitrary, anthropologists prefer to reject the typological concept. In anthropology, we need to objectively study human variability; from this point of view racial classification, proposing pseudo-solutions to non ...
Susanne, Charles, Rebato, Esther
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Animals, 2015 There is increasing controversy about the use of the whip as a performance aid in Thoroughbred horseracing and its impact on horse welfare. This paper offers a critical analysis of the British Horseracing Authority’s (BHA) 2011 Report Responsible ...
Bidda Jones +3 more
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Animals, 2023 The Thoroughbred racing industry faces new and competing pressures to operate within a modern, changing society. Three major moderators drive the focus and productivity of the industry worldwide: economic sustainability, horse biology and social licence ...
Kylie A. Legg +4 more
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Physical Education of Students, 2013 The aim was to improve the process of preparation of skiers in preparation for higher achievements. It is spotted urgency of introduction of individualization in the training process, the principles and directions of realization.
L.A. Vorfolomeeva
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Physiological Reports, 2020 We examined the effects of high‐intensity training in normobaric hypoxia on aerobic capacity and exercise performance in horses and the individual response to normoxic and hypoxic training.
Kazutaka Mukai +5 more
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Physiological Reports, 2021 We investigated whether moderate‐intensity training of horses in moderate hypoxia for 4 weeks elicits greater adaptations in exercise performance, aerobic capacity, and glycolytic/oxidative metabolism in skeletal muscle compared to normoxic training.
Kazutaka Mukai +5 more
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Development of Equipment for Ski Mountaineering, a New Olympic Event
Applied Sciences, 2023 Ski mountaineering, a new Olympic winter sport involving both climbing and descending snowy slopes, requires considerable physical and technical abilities, as well as highly specialized equipment.
Lorenzo Bortolan +4 more
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Animals, 2021 This study aimed to examine thirteen seasons of flat racing starts (n = 388,964) in the context of an ecological system and identify metrics that describe the inherent characteristics and constraints of the New Zealand Thoroughbred racing industry ...
Kylie A. Legg +3 more
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The Review of Economic Studies, 1987 The paper presents two models of races in which there is both technological uncertainty and strategic interaction between competitors as the race unfolds. Most of the existing literature examines one or other of these features, but not the two combined.
Harris, C, Vickers, J
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