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Running economy, known as the steady-state oxygen consumption at a given submaximal intensity, has been proposed as one of the key factors differentiating East African runners from other running communities around the world. Kenyan runners have dominated m ...
The exponential growth of wearable healthcare devices market is fostered by the internetof-things (IoT) era. Connected smart biosensors enable a decentralized healthcare thatdoes not constrain the user to be in a medical facility to get a real-time insight ...
Environment-friendly lifestyles are becoming more and more popular throughout society. Part of this trend is also connected to the second-hand articles being resold over various Internet platforms. In order to figure out what this could mean in terms of re ...
Autour du terme générique « territoire apprenant », se déploient actuellement des dispositifs « géo-pédagogiques » partenariaux, hybrides, in vivo, in situ et hors les murs. Dans un contexte favorable à la « territorialisation de l’activité éducative », à ...
Annually, millions of people engage in mountain sports activities all over the world. These activities are associated with health benefits, but concurrently with a risk for injury and death. Knowledge on death rates is considered important for the categori ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a partial suppression of monocarboxylate transporter (MCT)-1 on skeletalmuscle pH, energetics, and function (MCT1(+/-) mice). Twenty-fourMCT1(+/-) and 13 wild-type (WT) mice were subjected to a re ...
Federation of American Society of Experimental Biology2017
The most important physiological mechanism mediating enhanced exercise performance is increased sympathetic, beta adrenergic receptor (beta-AR), and adenylyl cyclase (AC) activity. This is the first report of decreased AC activity mediating increased exerc ...
Background: Overuse injuries of the back are a common complaint among top athletes and of competitive alpine skiers in particular. However, there is limited understanding about the sport-specific causes of these injuries that is essential for their prevent ...
La mondialisation des échanges commerciaux, les exigences accrues des clients et les nouvelles mesures d’incitation écologique représentent autant de facteurs de stimulation d’une démarche environnementale. Le management environnemental devient donc un out ...
Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes2007
Motion capture is mainly based on standard systems using optic, magnetic or sonic technologies. In this paper, the possibility to detect useful human motion based on new techniques using different types of body-fixed sensors is shown. In particular, a comb ...