Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Toshiki Kobayashi, Mark W. P. Koh, Abu Jor, Genki Hisano, Hiroto Murata, Daisuke Ichimura, Hiroaki Hobara
Summary: The aim of this study was to assess asymmetries in individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation during the double limb stance, depending on which limb was leading. It was found that individuals with unilateral transfemoral amputation spent a longer duration in terminal double limb stance and experienced higher anteroposterior ground reaction force compared to initial double limb stance. Significant differences in asymmetry ratios were also observed between individuals with and without unilateral transfemoral amputation.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Salvatore Tedesco, Davide Alfieri, Eduardo Perez-Valero, Dimitrios-Sokratis Komaris, Luke Jordan, Marco Belcastro, John Barton, Liam Hennessy, Brendan O'Flynn
Summary: This paper introduces a novel wearable motion sensor-based system for evaluating athletic performance during running and jumping tasks. The system provides automatic activity recognition, estimation of running and jumping metrics, as well as predictions of vertical ground reaction force with sufficient accuracy to support coaches and athletes in their real-world practice.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Marcio Borgonovo-Santos, Thiago Telles, Jeff Nessler, Marcelo Peduzzi de Castro, Ricardo J. Fernandes, Joao Paulo Vilas-Boas
Summary: The study aimed to measure the kinematics and ground-reaction forces during a simulated pop-up motion of surfers and relate these variables with anthropometric characteristics. Most anthropometric-related variables showed no relationship with performance variables, except for an inverse relationship between muscle mass and pop-up total duration.
Article
Business
Daniel Lovin, Andreea Valentina Busila, Valentin Sava
Summary: The intensity of culture shock when an individual moves from one environment to another depends on the cultural differences, individual's experience and multi-cultural skills, and the locals' behavior. Individuals who move to another new environment may suffer culture shock again, but experience can help them manage new situations. Culture shock has different stages and duration, and interestingly, individuals may suffer reverse culture shock when they return to their home environment. Adapting to a new cultural context involves overcoming culture shock and it influences the psyche of individuals.
TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lori Dithurbide, Veronique Boudreault, Natalie Durand-Bush, Lucy MacLeod, Veronique Gauthier
Summary: This research examines the interplay between the mental health and mental performance of Canadian national team athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings suggest that factors such as social and environmental restrictions, psychological challenges, and public health measures have impacted athlete mental health. However, athletes with prior good mental performance skills were found to be more equipped to cope with these challenges, leading to better mental health outcomes. The pandemic also provided an opportunity for athletes to take a break from training and competition, allowing them to rest and enjoy life outside of sport. The study highlights the need for more mental health resources and better access to practitioners supporting mental performance and mental health in the Canadian sport system.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Qianqian Jiang, Wanyang Dai
Summary: A fully discrete approximation scheme is developed to simulate centered Gaussian random fields (GRFs) quickly over compact Riemannian manifolds, which can be anisotropic or isotropic. The scheme relies on truncating a series expansion based on the decay of the angular power spectrum, independent of the chosen space and time discretization. The scheme's convergence and error bounds are proven, along with their associated rates of convergence. Three simulation case studies are conducted using the Laplacian and Beltrami operators to find required surface harmonics for different geometrical structures.
COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yeqing Zhu, Di Xia, Heng Zhang
Summary: In this paper, a new method is proposed to estimate ground reaction forces (GRF) using wearable sensors for various real-world situations. The drawbacks of using force plates, such as limited activity range and high cost, are addressed. A transformer encoder is used as a feature extractor to efficiently extract temporal and spatial features from the wearable sensors. Experimental results show that using the transformer as a feature extractor improves the average error of predicted values by 32% compared to the RNN architecture and by 25% compared to the LSTM architecture. Additionally, Gate_MSE is employed to solve the problem of large peak errors in GRF prediction, and the effect of the number of wearable sensors or modes on GRF prediction is explored.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Ozcan Esen, Kazimierz Rozwadowski, Ladislav Cepicka, Tomasz Gabrys, Raci Karayigit
Summary: A short-term basketball tournament is a condensed version of international tournaments, requiring faster and adequate recovery, optimal fuelling and hydration, and potential challenges during travel. There are sport foods and ergogenic aids that can enhance basketball players' recovery and performance.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
David John Harris, Tom Arthur, Samuel James Vine, Harith Rusydin Abd Rahman, Jiayi Liu, Feng Han, Mark R. Wilson
Summary: This study aimed to understand the cognitive appraisals that mediate the relationship between pressurised performance situations and the onset of anxiety. The results showed that failure feedback and situational pressure influenced appraisals of the probability and cost of failure, which subsequently predicted the onset of anxious states.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alejandro Leiva-Arcas, Raquel Vaquero-Cristobal, Lucia Abenza-Cano, Antonio Sanchez-Pato
Summary: Research has shown that high-level female athletes in Spain are more likely than their male counterparts to receive support from Olympic athlete programs, train at High-Performance Centers, and achieve success in the Olympic Games. Although there were no significant gender differences in overall performance at the Olympics, females were more likely to reach the finals, particularly standing out in the 2016 Olympics.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Yosuke Nagashima, Kiyohiro Ehara, Yoshitomo Ehara, Ayana Mitsume, Kie Kubo, Shigeru Mineo
Summary: This study found that continuous carbohydrate intake may positively affect fatigue reduction and performance maintenance in competitive golfers.
Article
Neurosciences
Chi-Hsien Chen, Giancarlo Condello, Wei-Han Chen, Tsung-Han Liu, Antonio Tessitore, Tzyy-Yuang Shiang, Chiang Liu
Summary: This study found that wearing inclined-adaptive footwear (IAF) can improve athletes' change of direction performance. Wearing IAF shoes can increase ground reaction force, shorten contact time, and redistribute the way force is applied. These findings are important for the development of new functional footwear and improving performance in sports involving multi-directional footwork.
Article
Plant Sciences
Rajesh Yarra, Patrick J. Krysan
Summary: This review discusses the potential applications of two new transformation methodologies, GRF-GIF and GRF-GIF-BBM, in enhancing the regeneration efficiency of recalcitrant plants that have undergone genome editing.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Michel Brinkschulte, Philip Furley, Maximilian Klemp, Daniel Memmert
Summary: By analyzing a large dataset of penalty kicks, the study found that English goalkeepers do not perform significantly worse than goalkeepers from other nations, refuting the stereotype of 'England has a goalkeeper problem'.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ting-Ting Wu, Shin-Liang Lo, Hui Chen, Jeng-Sheng Yang, Hsien-Te Peng
Summary: This study aimed to analyze the effects of using arch-support insoles on the performance and plantar pressure center of compound archers. The results showed that archers wearing arch-support insoles had higher shooting scores and smaller plantar pressure center excursion. The arch-support insoles distributed plantar pressure evenly.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Physiology
James Zois, David Bishop, Rob Aughey
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS PHYSIOLOGY AND PERFORMANCE
(2015)
Article
Sport Sciences
Craig W. Pickett, Kazunori Nosaka, James Zois, Will G. Hopkins, Anthony J. Blazevich
JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH
(2018)
Article
Sport Sciences
Scott Graham, Grant Duthie, Robert Aughey, James Zois
JOURNAL OF STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING RESEARCH
(2020)
Article
Sport Sciences
Paul Macadam, Megna Mishra, Erin H. Feser, Aaron M. Uthoff, John B. Cronin, James Zois, Ryu Nagahara, Farhan Tinwala
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SPORT SCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Sport Sciences
Scott Graham, James Zois, Robert Aughey, Grant Duthie
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE IN SPORT
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Davide Ferioli, Andrea Bosio, James Zois, Antonio La Torre, Ermanno Rampinini
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Paul Macadam, John B. Cronin, Aaron M. Uthoff, Ryu Nagahara, James Zois, Shelley Diewald, Farhan Tinwala, Jono Neville
Summary: This study investigated the immediate effects of thigh attached wearable resistance on rotational work during sprinting. The findings showed that the resistance increased sprint times and led to small changes in thigh angular displacement and velocity. However, it significantly increased rotational work during all phases of the sprint.
SPORTS BIOMECHANICS
(2022)
Article
Sport Sciences
Craig W. Pickett, Chris Abbiss, James Zois, Anthony J. Blazevich
Summary: The study indicates that faster rates of acceleration and the ability to exhibit greater stroke lengths at relatively high stroke rates are determinants of 200-m kayak race performance.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Sport Sciences
Aaron Uthoff, James Zois, Roland van den Tillaar, Ryu Nagahara
Summary: The study found that BR speeds were 29% slower than FR, and most step kinematics and kinetics were different between BR and FR. The slower running speeds in BR were primarily due to lower horizontal ground reaction force application, resulting in shorter stride lengths and decreased flight times compared to FR.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Sport Sciences
Aaron M. Uthoff, Paul Macadam, James Zois, Ryu Nagahara, Jono Neville, John B. Cronin
Summary: The study found that implementing sprinting with weighted garments on the arms can provide specific overload for sprinting in 2-point starting positions, which may be relevant to a wider context of sports performance.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Yulia Fetisova, James Zois, Michael Spittle, Andrew Dawson
Summary: The study found key differences between expert and novice tennis coaches in components such as reasoning chains, concepts, and key flexion points in their internal models. The main attribute of tennis coaching expertise lies in perceiving technique as a whole movement and understanding the connection between technical elements, rather than pure technical knowledge. These findings have implications for tennis coach development and can be applied in coach education to aid novice coach development processes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCE & COACHING
(2021)
Review
Sport Sciences
Amri Hammami, James Zois, Maamer Slimani, Mark Russel, Ezdine Bouhlel
JOURNAL OF SPORTS MEDICINE AND PHYSICAL FITNESS
(2018)
Article
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Anne Klaus, Ryan Bradshaw, Warren Young, Brendan O'Brien, James Zois
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCE & COACHING
(2017)
