Longitudinal performance trajectories for youth female and male soccer players: 10m-sprint percentile curves adapted to biological age by Julia Hernandez, Chantal Widmer, Stephen Cobley, Dennis-Peter Born, Wolfgang Taube, Michael Romann

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Multi-Strategy Enhanced Slime Mould Algorithm for Optimization Problems by Zaixin Duan, Xuezhong Qian, Wei Song

“…The proposed algorithm employs a Bloch sphere-based elite population initialization strategy, which utilizes quantum state mapping to enhance diversity and incorporates elite selection to guarantee high-quality initial solutions, ultimately improving optimization performance. …”
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Henry Rider Haggard’s Nordicism? When Black Vikings fight alongside White Zulus in South Africa by Gilles TEULIÉ

“…Haggard evokes the Vikings but also the Norse elite warriors, the Berserkir in some of his novels. …”
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Determination of Awareness Towards Olympic Concepts of National Athletes Who Students in Dücze University Sport Sciences Faculty by Mensur Pehlivan, Ömer Sivrikaya

“…As a result, It was observed that the knowledge level of national athletes participating in the study about the Olympics was not at the level expected from elite athletes. In addition to the elite performance training given to national athletes, it has become clear that training to raise awareness about the Olympics has emerged.…”
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Research misconduct in China: towards an institutional analysis by Xinqu Zhang, Peng Wang

“…This article is written based on empirical data collected from three elite universities as well as a review of policy documents, universities’ internal documents, and news articles.…”
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Miscalculation in Proxy War: The United States and Russia in Syrian Civil War from the Neoclassical Realist Perspective by Osman ŞEN, Mehmet ŞAHİN

“…While the US political elite was misguided due to the divided structure, the Russian elite was more unified, which resulted in outcomes in favor of the latter…”
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AN ASSESSMENT OF STATE AND CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY IN DEMOCRACY: A FOCUS ON THE FOURTH REPUBLIC by Lambe Emmanuel Oyewole

“…The paper concluded that the political heist by the elite few has caused the state to neglect the interest of the populace in favour of the few elite. …”
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Optimizing Scanning in Youth Female Football: The Role of Verbal Instructions by Mirjam Hintermann, Michael Romann, Dennis Lüdin, Wolfgang Taube, Jörg Fuchslocher

“…2) Do players improve their performance in response to verbal instructions fostering scanning behavior? Methods Twenty-five elite female football players (mean ± SD age : 17.6 ± 0.7 years) from two Swiss U19 women’s national league teams participated in this study. …”
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De la resistencia gaitanista a la resistencia liberal; Villavicencio 1948- 1950 by Andrés Gómez Barrera

“…A través de la historia de Villavicencio se obtiene una amplia visión de la Violencia y del sistema socio-político, tanto de la élite regional como de los sectores populares colombianos de mediados del siglo XX. …”
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A Recent Overview of 1,2,3-Triazole-Containing Hybrids as Novel Antifungal Agents: Focusing on Synthesis, Mechanism of Action, and Structure-Activity Relationship (SAR) by Mahrokh Marzi, Mojtaba Farjam, Zahra Kazeminejad, Abolfazl Shiroudi, Amin Kouhpayeh, Elham Zarenezhad

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DEMOCRACY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST LEADERSHIP CORRUPTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: IMPLICATION FOR CONTINENTAL DEVELOPMENT by TAIWO FRANCIS AYOMOBA

“…We find that the political elite's entrenched vested interests have promoted corruption and abuse of power as instruments of governance, and have rendered the necessary statutory institutional oversight systems ineffectual. …”
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Prediction of Concrete Compressive Strength by Evolutionary Artificial Neural Networks by Mehdi Nikoo, Farshid Torabian Moghadam, Łukasz Sadowski

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Executive Function Strengths in Athletes: a Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Shuangquan Ren, Peng Shi, Xioasu Feng, Kai Zhang, Wenchao Wang

“…Athletes showed more positive inhibitory control (Z = 5.18, standardized mean difference (SMD) = −0.631, 95% confidence intervals (CI) = −0.869 to −0.392, p = 0.000) and working memory (Z = 3.42, SMD = −0.382, 95%CI = −0.601 to −0.163, p = 0.001) compared to the general group with no sports experience. Elite and sub‐elite, and sub‐elite and amateur athletes all showed more positive performance on the cognitive flexibility task compared to the latter. …”
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Comprehensive health assessment of retired martial arts athletes: bone density, dietary intake, physical activity, and wellbeing by Tasneem Alshaer, Nihad Battikhi, Adam Tawfiq Amawi, Khalid Trabelsi, Khalid Trabelsi, Haitham Jahrami, Haitham Jahrami, Philippe Bouedo, Hadeel Ali Ghazzawi

“…Therefore, this study investigates the long-term effects of elite athletic experience by comparing retired Jordanian male elite athletes (ages 40–50) with non-athletes of the same age. …”
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Effect of Gelatin-Based Edible Coatings Incorporated with Aloe vera and Black and Green Tea Extracts on the Shelf Life of Fresh-Cut Oranges by Mohsen Radi, Elham Firouzi, Hamidreza Akhavan, Sedigheh Amiri

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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NEW MODELS OF PREPARATION OF RESEARCH ENGINEERS: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS by Lyudmila N. Bannikova, Lyudmila N. Boronina, Yuriy R. Vishnevsky

“…There is a contradiction between the traditions of mass engineering education and innovative, elite training of engineers. Postgraduate and master's courses are institutional channels of recruitment and the further formation of the future engineering elite. …”
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O couro lavrado de estética mudéjar na Casa-Museu e Fundação Guerra Junqueiro – memórias do al-Andalus em terras portuguesas by Franklin Pereira

“…The connections that such motives allow highlight Portugal as a deposit of continuities and adaptations of archaic aesthetics; they have remained in the elite’s leather art c. 1500-1600 before the Renaissance motives becoming dominant.…”
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Caractérisation physico-chimique de pigments de peintures murales mochica : San José de Moro (viiie-xe siècles apr. J.-C.) by Nicola Sardos, Nino Del-Solar-Velarde, Rémy Chapoulie, Luis Jaime Castillo Butters

“…To the pre-Columbian Mochica culture, a culture that did not develop through writing, mural painting is a strong ideological vector that involves the implementers of those decorations and specialized craftsmen, as well as their sponsors, members of the ruling elite. Archaeometry allows us to answer questions regarding the pictorial technologies that were employed and to bring about pieces of information on the craftsmen who designed those decorations. …”
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Acute effects of different types of stretching exercises on explosive power: A pilot study by Sinan Seyhan, Emirkan Çelik

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the positive and negative effects of different stretching and flexing exercises on kicking acceleration performance in taekwondo. A total of 12 elite taekwondo athletes (7 boys and 5 girls) with an average age of 20.75±1.48 years, an average height of 171±10.06 cm, an average body weight of 61.8±11 kg, and an average Body Mass Index (BMI) of 21.1±2.5 kg/m2 participated in this study. …”
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Dinamika Pengelolaan Madrasah dalam Kesultanan Sambas, 1910-1945: Studi Kasus Madrasah Pedoman Islam by Sunandar Sunandar

“…The image of madrasas in Sambas is embodied by two institutions established by the elite of the palace: Madrasah Sulthaniyah (1916) and Tarbiatoel Islam (1936), projecting an elite status within society. …”
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