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There is need of improvement the quality of the play and the performances continually, above all the motor skills. The tests that have been made to the male young athletes, are easy to administer and are intended to investigate two different motor skills (general coordinative and specific coordinative). The purpose of this study is to monitor and to evaluate the improvement of the performance on a sample of fifteen male young soccer players of 12-13 years old. Method is experimental and has to carry out the usual parameters for monitoring the trainings. Data were collected during eight weeks. All data detected were expressed as average ± SD on: height (162.8 ± 3.45), Weight (54.6 ± 3.21), body mass index (20.6 ± 1.72) and using some field tests (Harre test, Precision shooting test and Control test of ball). Analysis of statistical data has been conducted with Test-t to check the differences between pre-test and post-test (at the beginning and at the end of a month of specific training). The significant differences have been fixed in p < .05. The results show that there is a significant difference between the performance pre and post training, in the three tests conducted. This study analyse and evaluate the reduction or the improvement of the performance, allowing at the coaches of monitor the training process.

Corporate headquarters, which occupy the top of enterprise organizational hierarchies became the subject of an increased interest in last three decades. Until now, post-transformation economies suffer from a distinct cognitive gap in this respect. The main objective of this paper is to analyse and interpret the development of the spatial pattern of top 100 biggest companies in the Czech Republic. Both quantitative and qualitative dimension of this issue will be investigated in the frame of this article. The basic territorial level we examine is constituted by self-governing regions. Finally, particular managerial and regionally-orientated recommendations for both largest enterprises and public administration will be formulated. Highlights for public administration, management and planning: Foreign owners of largest enterprises perceive the location decision-making as much more complex and versatile process than their Czech counterparts. Owners from advanced economies accentuate soft location factors more intensely than their domestic peers. Regional authorities should develop more initiatives and improve their institutional density to become investor-friendly and bait the corporate headquarters. Both regional authorities and enterprise managements should concentrate on the creation of milieu conducive to quality labour. Web of Science 12 2 83 76

A detailed neuropsychological assessment plays an important role in the diagnostic process of mild cognitive impairment. However, available brief cognitive screening tests for this clinical population are administered and interpreted based mainly, or exclusively, on total achievement scores. This score based approach can lead to erroneous clinical interpretations unless we also pay attention to the test taking behaviour or to the type of errors committed during the test performance. The goals of the current review are to present the grounds for the process-based approach to neuropsychological assessment, to offer a brief review of the evidence obtained so far regarding its usefulness, and to show the results of a systematic review of existing screening and neuropsychological assessment tools, some of which were already created and/or modified using this approach, and others that may benefit in their screening properties if they underwent modifications according to a process-based approach. It is expected that, in a relatively short period of time, process-based approach versions of screening tools will be available. These modified versions will not alter substantially the standard administration procedure, but will provide a way for scoring and interpretation that goes beyond total scores. This will allow clarifying with higher accuracy the underlying cognitive components involved in the successful or unsuccessful performance in cognitive tasks, and thus will facilitate an early diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment.

Submitted by Guilherme Lemeszenski (guilherme@nead.unesp.br) on 2013-08-22T19:06:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 S1516-35982005000300040.pdf: 57206 bytes, checksum: 6914781d401758d50f44beee3bc76bea (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-08-22T19:06:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 S1516-35982005000300040.pdf: 57206 bytes, checksum: 6914781d401758d50f44beee3bc76bea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-01 Made available in DSpace on 2013-09-30T17:41:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 S1516-35982005000300040.pdf: 57206 bytes, checksum: 6914781d401758d50f44beee3bc76bea (MD5) S1516-35982005000300040.pdf.txt: 43641 bytes, checksum: 48ef51fe1fabba08a85bc41ad45580a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-01 Submitted by Vitor Silverio Rodrigues (vitorsrodrigues@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2014-05-20T13:12:25Z No. of bitstreams: 2 S1516-35982005000300040.pdf: 57206 bytes, checksum: 6914781d401758d50f44beee3bc76bea (MD5) S1516-35982005000300040.pdf.txt: 43641 bytes, checksum: 48ef51fe1fabba08a85bc41ad45580a6 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-20T13:12:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 S1516-35982005000300040.pdf: 57206 bytes, checksum: 6914781d401758d50f44beee3bc76bea (MD5) S1516-35982005000300040.pdf.txt: 43641 bytes, checksum: 48ef51fe1fabba08a85bc41ad45580a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-06-01 Cordeiros criados em regime de pasto, provenientes de ovelhas Romney acasaladas com três raças paternas (Romney, East Friesian x (Finn x Texel) e Finn x Poll Dorset), foram avaliados quanto às características de qualidade da carne. Os cordeiros foram abatidos aos 150 e 300 dias de idade, cada lote com 15 animais de cada raça paterna, totalizando 90 animais. A carne dos cordeiros Romney foi mais macia que a dos demais genótipos. O pH final do músculo Semimembranosus dos cordeiros abatidos mais precocemente foi superior (5,61) ao dos abatidos mais tardiamente (5,58), entretanto estes últimos apresentaram carne com menor maciez (11,16 kg) que os abatidos aos 150 dias de idade (7,45 kg). Com relação à cor, a luminosidade da carne de cordeiros abatidos aos 150 dias foi maior (38,20) que a dos abatidos mais tardiamente (36,80), mas não foi afetada pelo genótipo. Concluiu-se que o genótipo e a idade de abate influíram na produção e qualidade da carne ovina. Lambs born from Romney ewes and sired by Romney, East Friesian x (Finn x Texel), and Finn x Poll Dorset, under pasture grazing system, were evaluated for meat quality. Animals were slaughtered at two age groups (150 and 300 days), each group with 15 animals of each sire breed, in a total of 90 animals. The meat from Romney lambs was more tenderness than those from the other genotypes. The final pH in semimembranosus muscle of younger lambs was higher (5.61) than those in muscle from older lambs (5.58). But, these last showed meat less tenderness (11.16 kg) than that from lambs slaughtered at 150 days of age (7.45 kg). In relation to meat color, the luminosity of meat from lambs slaughtered at 150 days was higher (38.20) than that from lambs slaughtered later (36.80), but this trait was not affected by genotype. In conclusion, both genotype and slaughter age influenced quantitative aspects of lamb carcass and lamb meat quality characteristics. Unesp Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias Departamento de Zootecnia Massey University Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health Sultan Qaboos University College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences Unesp FCAV Unesp Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias Departamento de Zootecnia Unesp FCAV

The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00028-014-0242-6. In two recent papers, the authors have studied conditions on the relaxation parameters in order to guarantee the stability or instability of solutions for the Taylor approximations to dual-phase-lag and three-phase-lag heat conduction equations. However, for several limit cases relating to the parameters, the kind of stability was unclear. Here, we analyze these limit cases and clarify whether we can expect exponential or slow decay for the solutions. Moreover, rather general well-posedness results for three-phase-lag models are presented. Finally, the exponential stability expected by spectral analysis is rigorously proved exemplarily.

In this study, we analyzed 22 strawberry and soil samples after their collection over the course of 2 years to compare the residue profiles from organic farming to integrated pest management practices in Portugal. For sample preparation, we used the citrate-buffered version of the quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) method. We applied three different methods for analysis: (i) 27 pesticides were targeted using LC-MS/MS; (ii) 143 were targeted using low pressure GC - tandem mass spectrometry (LP-GC-MS/MS); and (iii) More than > 600 pesticides were screened in a targeted and untargeted approach using comprehensive, two-dimensional gas chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC × GC-TOF-MS). Comparison was made of the analyses using the different methods for the shared samples. The results were similar, thereby providing satisfactory confirmation of both similarly positive and negative findings. No pesticides were found in the organic-farmed samples. In samples from integrated pest management practices, 9 pesticides were determined and confirmed to be present ranging from 2 µg kg-1 for fluazifop-p-butyl to 50 µg kg-1 for fenpropathrin. Concentrations of residues in strawberries were less than European maximum residue limits.

El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar los diferentes aspectos cuantitativos y cualitativos que explican la cultura de consumo actual de hortalizas en las familias residentes en la zona sur-sur de Costa Rica. Este trabajo expone resultados relacionados a la caracterización realizada en el 2011 en familias residentes en la denominada zona sur-sur de Costa Rica sobre la cultura de consumo de productos hortícolas. Se aplicaron cuestionarios a una muestra estratificada de familias; lo que permitió establecer la valoración de los precios de mercado, por parte de las familias, para consumir estos alimentos, donde se determinó un valor máximo de US$1,74 millones por semana. Los principales rubros de consumo de acuerdo al valor pagado fueron el tomate, la papa, el plátano, la cebolla y el brócoli, para citar los cinco principales. También fue posible establecer valoraciones cualitativas sobre el consumo de estos productos; por ejemplo se determinó que para el 71,2% de las familias, la frescura representa la característica de mayor valor, además, el principal sitio donde los núcleos familiares realizan las compras de estos alimentos corresponde a supermercados (38,4% de los casos). The objective of this work was to determine the various quantitative and qualitative aspects that explain the culture of vegetable consumption of families living in the so-called south-south region of Costa Rica. This work presents results from the characterization of horticulture products consumption culture performed in 2011 amongst families that live in the region known as south-south Costa Rica. Through surveys applied to a stratified sample of families, market prices were determined for home consumption of these foods, which determined a maximum value of US$1,74 million per week, where the main items of consumption according to the amount paid would be the tomato, potato, plantain, onion and broccoli to name the top five. Qualitative assessments of the consumption of these products were also possible to establish, for example, 71.2% of families in the study area indicated that freshness was the most valuable property for purchase, amongst other traits such as the main place to acquire these foods, were the supermarket was the most common corresponding to 38.4% of cases. Universidad de Costa Rica/[736-A7-059]/UCR/Costa Rica UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Agroalimentarias::Estación Experimental Agrícola Fabio Baudrit Moreno (EEAFBM) UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Agroalimentarias::Centro de Investigación en Economía Agrícola y Desarrollo Agroempresarial (CIEDA)

Different aspects and (dis)advantages of the use of qualitative and quantitative methods in studying ethnic relations will be presented in the analysis of the case of conflict and peace processes in some multiethnic areas in Croatia. The paper starts with a brief overview of the use of different methods, separately or combined, in research aimed at explaining processes and dynamics of phenomena covered by research in historiography and historical sociology. The authors especially focus on the understanding of the importance of studying time as a dynamic process, through time series, i.e. quantitatively, or narrative interviews / oral history, i.e. qualitatively. The central question is: what are (dis)advantages of the both methods in the attempt at explaining of causality of social phenomena such as conflict and peace between different ethnic groups? In the second part of the paper a possible answer to the question will be pursued on the example of research on conflict and peace areas in Croatia in 1990s. A particular attention will be given to how quantitative and how qualitative analysis of the attitudes of respondents elucidates processes predating conflict and peace respectively, and the dynamics of conflict and peace on the whole. Also, is it true that – as claimed by many authors – qualitative analysis is inclined more to theoretical approaches such as ethnomethodology, constructionism, and path dependence, and is less deterministic, while quantitative analysis prefers functionalism, rational choice and similar, i.e. more deterministic, approaches? Does the case-study in Croatia corroborate such theoretical-methodological alignments? If so, what the combination of the use of different methods, as demonstrated in the case-study, elicits theoretically? Just another portion of eclecticism or an opportunity for creating a new theoretical approach?

There is a group of communication services that use resources from multiple domains in order to deliver their service. Authorization of the end-user is important for such services, because several domains are involved. There are no current solutions for delivering authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) to multi-domain services. In our study we present two architectures for the delivery of AAA to such services. The architectures are analyzed on their qualitative aspects. A result of this analysis is that direct interconnection of AAA servers is an effective architectural solution. In current multi-domain IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architectures, direct interconnection of AAA servers, such as the Home Subscriber Servers (HSS), is not yet possible. In this paper we argue and recommend to extend the IMS specification by adding a new interface to HSS in order to support the direct interconnection of HSS/AAA servers located in different IMS administrative domains.