Medio-Lateral Hamstring Muscle Activity in Unilateral vs. Bilateral Strength Exercises in Female Team Handball Players – A Cross-Sectional Study by Brian Sørensen, Per Aagaard, Lasse Malchow-Møller, Mette Kreutzfeldt Zebis, Jesper Bencke

“… # Methods Single-session repeated measures were obtained in a randomized manner. Twenty-three female elite team handball players were recruited. Hamstring electromyographic (EMG) activity and 3D kinematics were obtained during selected lower limb exercises (hip thrust, kettlebell swing, Romanian deadlift). …”
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Reliability, Objectivity, Validity and Reference Levels of the Austrian Balance Check (ABC)—A Novel Balance Field Test for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults to Assess Static B... by Gerald Jarnig, Reinhold Kerbl, Mireille N. M. van Poppel

“…Tests were carried out with participants from regular school classes (RSC) and elite sports school classes (ESC). A total of 1005 participants were included (age range: 6.2 to 19.8 years). …”
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«Se nos salió de las manos…». Memorias de empresarios sobre el conflicto armado en el Valle del Cauca by Luis Fernando Barón

“…Se presentan los resultados de una investigación de carácter etnográfico sobre las memorias de integrantes de la élite económica de Cali y del Valle del Cauca sobre el conflicto interno político armado. …”
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Pancreas Proapoptotic Proteases in Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis by N. B. Gubegritz, E. A. Krylova, Yu. A. Gaidar

“…Immunohistochemical typing of proapoptotic proteases was performed according to the indirect avidin-streptavidin-peroxidase reaction (“Elite”, USA) using rabbit antibodies to DNA-I and endonuclease-G (“Chemicon”, USA, 1: 500 dilution — 1: 2000, incubation 12:00, + 4 °С).Results. …”
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Candidate genes for productivity identified by genome-wide association study with indicators of class in the Russian meat merino sheep breed by A. Y. Krivoruchko, O. A. Yatsyk, E. Y. Safaryan

“…When conducting a full genome analysis of sheep, particularly promising is the study of individuals with outstanding productivity indicators – exhibition animals, representatives of the super-elite class. The aim of this study was to identify new candidate genes for economically valuable traits based on the search for single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with belonging to different evaluation classes in rams of the Russian meat merino breed. …”
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Characterizing Flow and Structure of Diabetic Retinal Neovascularization after Intravitreal Anti-VEGF Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography: A Pilot Study by Christof Haensli, Katrin Fasler, Daniel Barthelmes, Sandrine A. Zweifel

“…Retinal NV were repeatedly imaged using swept-source OCTA (Zeiss PlexElite 9000) at baseline, after initial treatment block with 3-4 monthly injections, and during a follow-up period of up to 51 weeks. …”
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Risk Factors for Stress Fractures in Female Runners: Results of a Survey by Therese E Johnston, Allison E Jakavick, Caroline A Mancuso, Kathleen C McGee, Lily Wei, Morgan L Wright, Jeremy Close, Ayako Shimada, Benjamin E Leiby

“…# Background Few studies compare women with and without stress fractures and most focus on younger, elite runners. # Hypothesis/Purpose Compare risk factors between female runners with and without a stress fracture history…”
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Fastest Race Courses for Triathletes by Mabliny Thuany, David Valero, Elias Villiger, Marilia Andrade, Katja Weiss, Pantelis T. Nikolaidis, Rodrigo Luiz Vancini, Thomas Roseman, Beat Knechtle

“…Data analysis was performed first for the full sample (all race records), and then for an elite sub-sample consisting of the top 100 males and top 100 females records in each location. …”
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“Urban by nature”: The Sokoto jihadist approach to urban planning by Stephanie Zehnle

“…But despite the private activities in mosque building among the male Jihadist elite, Sokoto lacked a state-owned and constant central mosque, because donors and their offspring personally had to care for the upkeep of the buildings. …”
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Modeling saturation exponent of underground hydrocarbon reservoirs using robust machine learning methods by Abhinav Kumar, Paul Rodrigues, A. K. Kareem, Tingneyuc Sekac, Sherzod Abdullaev, Jasgurpreet Singh Chohan, R. Manjunatha, Kumar Rethik, Shivakrishna Dasi, Mahmood Kiani

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Selective Ensemble Learning Method for Belief-Rule-Base Classification System Based on PAES by Wanling Liu, Weikun Wu, Yingming Wang, Yanggeng Fu, Yanqing Lin

“…In the base classifier selection stage, the trained base classifier is binary coded, and the number of base classifiers participating in integration and generalization error of the base classifier is used as the objective function for multi-objective optimization. Finally, the elite retention strategy and the adaptive mesh algorithm are adopted to produce the PAES optimal solution set. …”
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Enhanced Bayesian model for multienvironmental selection of winter hybrids maize: assessing grain yield using ‘ProbBreed’ by Bikas Basnet, Chitra Bahadur Kunwar, Umisha Upreti

“…Among the hybrids, DKC9149 (8.8 tons/ha) emerged as the elite with probability coefficient of (0.39), followed by NK6607(0.35 & 8.6 tons/ha). …”
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The Lost Gambit: The Third War between Israel and Egypt, its Causes and Lessons by Alek D. Epstein

“…He was personally acquainted with all of the highest representatives of Egyptian political and military elite. He had visited Israel multiple times since August, 1971. …”
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Les Archives photographiques Notman au Musée McCord by Noëlle Charpentier

“…Stanley Triggs, en s’entourant d’enseignants, étudiants et chercheurs pour la plupart anglophones, a encensé la forte valeur identitaire que pouvaient avoir les Archives pour cette classe sociale, descendante anonyme de l’élite montréalaise figurant sur les photographies. …”
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The economic situation of state farms and collective farms Altai Territory in the second half of 1980s by D. S. Orlov, A. A. Chirkov

“…At the same time, the ruling elite did not provide for a radical revision of the system of economic relations between the state and agricultural producers. …”
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Reflections on plague in African history (14th–19th c.) by Gérard Chouin

“…Although the plague is commonly described as a pandemic, historical knowledge about the initial Black Death and the many recurrent waves of the disease is largely restricted to Western Europe and the Mediterranean world, where the literate elite left an impressive documentary record that served as resource to the long-lasting and flourishing heuristic tradition of Plague Studies. …”
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Physiological profile of professional handball players regarding playing position by Mihaela Nestorova Brazanska, Vangel Ristovski, Vlatko Nedelkovski, Ljubica Dimitrievska, Jasmina Pluncevic Gligoroska

“…The aim of this study was to quantify anthropometrical and physiological characteristics in elite Macedonian handball players and compare them regarding four different playing positions. …”
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Resistance to causal agents of late blight and golden potato nematode of the modern cultivars of seed potatoes and their phytosanitary status in various agroclimatic zones of the E... by A. V. Khiutti, D. A. Rybakov, T. A. Gavrilenko, O. S. Afanasenko

“…Widespread Colletotrichum coccodes on tubers of the elite and 2nd reproductions of the potato cultivar Red Scarlett (50.0–71.4 %) was recorded in the Central District.…”
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Organic iron and iodine in laying hen diet: Performance, egg quality, thyroid hormones, antioxidant status, serum and yolk lipids, and egg iron and iodine contents by Sima Sarlak, Sayed Ali Tabeidian, Majid Toghyani, Amir Davar Foroozandeh Shahraki, Mohammad Goli, Mahmood Habibian

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Integrating Sports Massage into Pre-training Routines Can Enhance Athletic Preparedness and Performance Capacity in Kabaddi Players by Muhammad Isnandar, Farid M. Alhumary, Krzykarist Krzykarist, Restin Zega, Reymond Benedith Hutajulu, Rachel Junika Abelia Putri, Martin Hofmeister

“…A quasi-experimental design was employed involving a cohort of 20 elite kabaddi athletes (15 males and 5 females) aged between 18 and 30 years, hailing from professional teams in Medan City. …”
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