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A brief history of the Olympic games /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings and evidence -- Athletic events -- Combat and equestrian events -- Zeus country -- Pindar and immortality -- Body, mind, and Greek athletics -- Questions of profit and social class -- The athletes -- Women and Greek athletics -- Between the Greek and Roman worlds -- The later centuries of Olympia -- The origin and authenticity of the modern Olympic Games -- Appendix A: Chronology and schedule of the athletic circuit -- Appendix B: Technical note on discus and long jump -- Appendix C: Modern issues : the marathon and torch relay.…”
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Nonlocal Diffusion and Applications /
Table of Contents: “….-1.1 The random walk with arbitrarily long jumps -- 1.2 A payoff model.-2 An introduction to the fractional Laplacian.-2.1 Preliminary notions -- 2.2 Fractional Sobolev Inequality and Generalized Coarea Formula -- 2.3 Maximum Principle and Harnack Inequality -- 2.4 An s-harmonic function -- 2.5 All functions are locally s-harmonic up to a small error -- 2.6 A function with constant fractional Laplacian on the ball -- 3 Extension problems -- 3.1 Water wave model -- 3.2 Crystal dislocation -- 3.3 An approach to the extension problem via the Fourier transform -- 4 Nonlocal phase transitions -- 4.1 The fractional Allen-Cahn equation -- 4.2 A nonlocal version of a conjecture by De Giorgi -- 5 Nonlocal minimal surfaces -- 5.1 Graphs and s-minimal surfaces -- 5.2 Non-existence of singular cones in dimension 2 5.3 Boundary regularity -- 6 A nonlocal nonlinear stationary Schrödinger type equation -- 6.1 From the nonlocal Uncertainty Principle to a fractional weighted inequality -- Alternative proofs of some results -- A.1 Another proof of Theorem A.2 Another proof of Lemma 2.3 -- References.…”
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Specific sports-related injuries /
Table of Contents: “…Athletics, Sprints, hurdles, high jump, long jump, triple jump, distance running -- Chapter 13. …”
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Labour market policies in the era of pervasive austerity : a European perspective /
Table of Contents: “…Main aspects of the Italian labour market before and since the onset of the crisisChanges in the traditional model: from the mid-1990s until the crisis; Towards a new institutional landscape: the 'long jump' of labour market policy reforms during the economic crisis; A fragile and still incomplete path towards a new labour market policy regime; 5. …”
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Physical activity effects on the anthropological status of children, youth and adults /
Table of Contents: “…Assisted Sprint TrainingModalities Used for COD Speed Training; Resistance Training for COD Speed; Plyometrics Training for COD Speed; Specific COD Drills; Deceleration Training; Conclusion; Chapter 6 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHYSICAL FITNESS CHARACTERISTICS AND SPORTS EXPERIENCE IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE AMONG JAPANESE FEMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ; Abstract; Introduction; Participants; Testing Procedure; Handgrip Strength; Sit-Ups; Sit and Reach; Side Stepping; 20-m Shuttle Run; 50-m Sprint Run; Overhand Handball Throwing; Standing Long Jump; Statistics; Results; Discussion; Conclusion…”
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The Physics of sports /
Table of Contents: “…Bellemans ; Effect of wind and altitude on record performance in foot races, pole vault, and long jump / Cliff Frohlich ; Could an athlete run a 3-m radius "loop-the-loop?" …”
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Elements of friction theory and nanotribology /
Table of Contents: “…14.3 Lubricated friction14.4 The Burridge-Knopoff model; 14.5 Plastic flow; 14.6 Earthquakes; Part III Nanotribology; 15 Atomic-scale stick-slip; 15.1 The Prandtl-Tomlinson model; 15.2 Energy barrier; 15.3 Thermal effects; 15.4 Long jumps; 15.5 Dynamic superlubricity; 15.6 Constant driving force; 15.7 The Frenkel-Kontorova model; 15.8 Electronic and phononic friction; 16 Atomic-scale stick-slip in two dimensions; 16.1 The Prandtl-Tomlinson model in two dimensions; 16.2 Structural lubricity; 16.3 Sliding of adsorbate layers; 17 Instrumental and computational methods in nanotribology.…”
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