Promoting functional foods as acceptable alternatives to doping: potential for information-based social marketing approach

Abstract Background Substances with performance enhancing properties appear on a continuum, ranging from prohibited performance enhancing drugs (PED) through dietary supplements to functional foods (FF).Anti-doping messages designed to dissuade athletes from using PEDs have been typically based on moralising sport competition and/or employing scare

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The relationship between relative age effects and sex, age categories and playing positions in Brazilian National Handball Teams

Abstract Aims: This study investigated the existence of Relative Age Effect (RAE) in the selection process of male and female athletes in the Brazilian national handball teams according to age categories (U-18, U-21, and senior) and playing position (wings, backs, pivots, and goalkeepers).Methods: In order to determine RAE, athletes were divided ba

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Importance of the Danube in the Development of the European inland transport. Inland and Port Infrastructure Development in Romania

Europe currently has an extensive network of inland waterways components of the Pan European Transport Network.The Danube River with Sulina and Danube-Black Sea is part of pan European transport corridor VII.European policy in the transport sector, is subject to joint 5 Piece Queen Bookcase Bedroom decisions in the Council of the European Union.A c

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Physical investigation of gate capacitance in In0.53Ga0.47As/In0.52Al0.48As quantum-well metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors

In this paper, we Washer Suspension Guide aim to decompose gate capacitance components in InGaAs/InAlAs quantum-well (QW) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs), in an effort to physically investigate their gate capacitance (Cg).First, we verified their validity with 1-D simulation and experimental Cg data in various types of

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Sexual Transgression Space In Fujoshi Texts On X

The popularity of female fans of homosexual fiction stories, known as fujoshi in Collections Japanese, is growing and spreading to several countries, including in Indonesia.The existence of fujoshi was initially linked to the resistance movement against conventional discourse on sexuality.Now, fujoshi have created a transgressive space through text

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