Article
Sport Sciences
Alan Griffin, Ian C. Kenny, Thomas M. Comyns, Helen Purtill, Caoimhe Tiernan, Eoin O'Shaughnessy, Mark Lyons
Summary: This study explores the impact of missing training load data in team sports and presents a practical and effective method of missing value imputation to address this issue. The Daily Team Mean imputation method was found to be the best-fitting across all levels of missingness, providing practitioners with a useful tool to prevent inaccurate calculations and negative consequences of missing TL data.
JOURNAL OF SPORTS SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mark Geoghegan, Kathryn Cormican, Qiong Wu
Summary: The study shows that information intensity directly impacts service performance, and team structure also affects performance; and in certain situations, the production line team design is more productive for critical operational tasks.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ana Filipa Silva, Rodrigo Ramirez-Campillo, Hugo Sarmento, Jose Afonso, Filipe Manuel Clemente
Summary: The systematic review aimed to evaluate the effects of training programs on the decision-making of youth team sports players. The results showed significantly beneficial effects of decision-making interventions on tactical behavior, with no significant effects found on technical execution. Future interventions should consider using combined approaches to develop both tactical behavior and technical execution.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Marie Hagman, Bjorn Fristrup, Remi Michelin, Peter Krustrup, Muhammad Asghar
Summary: This study found that exercise training in women can lead to anti-aging mechanisms, including maintenance of telomere length and superior mitochondrial characteristics.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Mariana Sanchez Diaz, Adrian Martin-Castellanos, Valentin E. Fernandez-Elias, Olga Lopez Torres, Jorge Lorenzo Calvo
Summary: This review examines the impact of polyphenol consumption on muscle recovery in team sport athletes. It suggests that polyphenols may have a positive effect on recovery after exercise-induced muscle damage, but the certainty of these effects in both females and males remains moderate to very low. Further research, particularly in females, is needed to confirm these findings.
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Karen Flores, Patricia Siques, Julio Brito, Silvia M. Arribas
Summary: AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) plays an important role in hypoxic pulmonary hypertension by participating in cardiovascular protection and inhibiting pulmonary artery wall overgrowth pathways, potentially serving as a therapeutic target.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Maria Gacek, Agnieszka Wojtowicz, Adam Popek
Summary: The aim of this research was to analyze the personality determinants of eating behavior among elite Polish athletes. The study found that proper eating behavior increased with neuroticism and decreased with openness to experience. The Big Five personality traits explained a large portion of the variance in athletes' general index of normal eating behavior.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Baohua Tan, Shihao Tian, Enpu Wang, Lu Xiao, Kan Cao, Beitian Zheng, Lina Luo
Summary: An agile training system based on a wireless ad hoc network was developed to evaluate the effect of improving the sensitive quality of college students. The results showed that both traditional training and agile equipment training can improve the agility quality of college students, with the latter showing better results in certain abilities. However, the improvement in motor changes and predictive decision-making ability is not as obvious as the other two abilities due to limitations in other physical qualities.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Markel Rico-Gonzalez, Filipe Manuel Clemente, Rafael Oliveira, Naia Bustamante-Hernandez, Jose Pino-Ortega
Summary: This article systematically reviews the relationship between training load, IgA levels, and upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) in team sports, emphasizing the importance of managing training load to avoid immunosuppression and URTI.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Miguel A. Lopez-Gajardo, Juan J. Pulido, Miguel A. Tapia-Serrano, Ivan Ramirez-Bravo, Francisco M. Leo
Summary: The study reveals positive relationships between perceived athlete leadership quality, inside sacrifice, and perceived performance, with team identification serving as a positive mediator between inside sacrifice and perceived performance. It emphasizes the importance of developing team identification to improve the relationships between perceived athlete leadership quality, inside sacrifice, and perceived performance.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Frowin Fasold, Andre Nicklas, Florian Seifriz, Karsten Schul, Benjamin Noeel, Paula Aschendorf, Stefanie Klatt
Summary: The performance and success of a team working towards a common goal depend on the skills of individuals and the collective coordination of their abilities. While individual gaze behavior has been well studied, the coordination of visual skills within a team has only been explored in laboratory settings, neglecting practical applications in real-world scenarios. Developing a method to analyze the coordinated gaze behavior of a team in dynamic events outside the lab, this study focuses on a three-person basketball referee team to investigate interaction patterns and behavior in group settings.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Management
David Van Bulck, Dries Goossens
Summary: To solve the scheduling problem in sports leagues, researchers have proposed several different approaches. However, current backtracking algorithms can only handle a limited set of timetable requirements. The main contribution of this paper is to demonstrate the relationship between traditional Benders' decomposition and existing approaches, and to introduce Benders' cuts for organizing backtracking. The effectiveness and versatility of the proposed framework are shown by constructing compact timetables, balancing games, and minimizing the differences in rest time for opposing teams. The quality of the obtained Benders' cuts is also discussed, along with strengthened integer programming formulations from the literature for constructing relaxed round-robin timetables.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ghaith Aloui, Souhail Hermassi, Lawrence D. Hayes, Roy J. Shephard, Mohamed Souhaiel Chelly, Rene Schwesig
Summary: The study found that incorporating biweekly upper limb loaded plyometric training using elastic bands into the in-season regimen of handball players significantly improved muscle power and throwing velocity. Therefore, such training method should be adopted as part of handball training program.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gerhard Thonhauser
Summary: This paper discusses key conceptual resources for understanding coordination processes in team sports. It explores the role of affordances provided by the environment, defines different types of affordances in sporting performances, and emphasizes the importance of collaborative intra-team coordination. The paper also introduces the concept of synergies in understanding intra-team coordination and highlights the significance of athletes' ability to participate in dynamic sequences of collective activity.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Murilo Jose de Oliveira Bueno, Maisa Silva, Sergio Augusto Cunha, Ricardo da Silva Toffee, Felipe Arruda Moura
Summary: The study evaluated the efficacy of various shape descriptors applied to images of football team organization on the pitch, finding that MFD and AllD descriptors had higher efficacy values. Additionally, the best evaluated shape descriptor MFC was applied in tactical analysis of football matches.
