It has been a process for Katie Lou Samuelson. Former Huskies often reach stardom in the WNBA, but it doesn’t necessarily come overnight.
“It’s just time,” Chicago Sky coach James Wade said before Samuelson’s first game back in Connecticut as a pro, against the Sun on Tuesday night. “We have a deep roster, it’s going to take her a little time for her to get situated in the league. And we knew that. The injury she had set her back, we’re just trying to get her back to where she was before that.”
It was Leiter who directed Manning to trainer Mickey Brueckner, who has gotten positive results for Red Sox pitcher and former Seton Hall Prep star Rick Porcello and for Leiter’s 97 mph-throwing son Jack, who will be a freshman at Vanderbilt this fall.
The Eagles’ 36-year-old running back remembers when the NFL didn’t know what to do with diminutive playmakers who excelled in space. His career has lasted long enough for him to play in an era of football perfectly suited to his talents.
A decision by a high school baseball coach to rest his star pitcher in a crucial qualifying game for the prestigious national tournament has the Japanese sports fraternity up in arms.
The gamble ended in defeat, and the Ofunato High School was inundated with phone calls from people demanding an explanation.
It sparked harsh criticism of the coach but also a wider debate about the popular tournament’s win-at-all-costs approach, with even Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish weighing in.
Designing injury prevention programs is a top priority for coaching staff in the pursuit to reduce the incidence of injuries. A recent review published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine analyzed 24 systematic reviews in order to identify the exercise combinations that are most effective to prevent an injury. The study assessed the effectiveness of combining different technical, strength, agility, plyometric, balance, stretching, and warm-up exercises in terms of their ability to reduce the rate of lower extremity injuries. A joint analysis demonstrated that interventions which combine different exercises were the most effective to reduce the injury incidence in the lower extremities, including ankle, knee, and anterior cruciate ligament injuries. From the programs studied, eleven were shown to be effective to reduce injuries, ten of which were comprised mainly of strength and balance exercises. Regarding injury to the anterior cruciate ligament – one of the most significant and well-studied lower extremity injuries – it was determined that agility and plyometric exercises in combination with strength and balance exercises were beneficial to reduce the injury incidence.
The independent baseball Atlantic League announced that will it will use robot umpires to call balls and strikes during games for the remainder of this season. The robot umpires “uses the TrackMan, a network of calibrated lasers that work to call strikes and balls that (if all goes well) are accurate to each hitter’s unique strike zone.” The Atlantic first used robot umpires during its All-Star Game earlier in July and will start using them full-time on Thursday.
The idea of using machines instead of humans for specific tasks is something we are familiar with at B6A. For example, our Media Analysis Platform (MAP) leverages machine learning to identify and classify logo activations in linear, OTT, digital, and social video / images. The reason we adapted this approach is that machines have the ability to be more accurate and analyze content more quickly than humans particularly when logos are moving quickly across the screen (i.e., NASCAR races or even NBA jersey patches).
This is a similar thesis to using robot umpires. More specifically, professional baseball players routinely pitch baseballs in excess of 90 mph which provides human umpires four-tenths of a second to analyze a pitch for a ball or strike. While this is an extremely small amount of time for a human, the typical computer central processing unit (CPU) “can execute 1,800,000,000 instructions” per second. This means four-tenths of a second is a relatively long time for a machine to analyze this information.
PhysIQ has received 510(k) clearance for an algorithm facilitating cloud-based analysis of patients’ continuous ambulatory respiration rates, according to an update to the FDA’s device clearance database that was confirmed by the company to MobiHealthNews.
This regulatory clearance is the company’s third, and like its predecessors uses artificial intelligence to characterize raw sensor data as actionable vital signs readings.
Our eyes are amazing organs, able to focus on near and far objects in an instant. For those that aren’t born with perfect vision, there are excellent options in the form of glasses or contacts, but as helpful as they can be, they don’t come close to matching the versatility of the human eye — especially if multiple prescriptions are involved. Researchers at the University of California San Diego, however, have been working on a better alternative that could vastly improve corrected vision: a smart contact lens capable of switching its focus on near and far objects based on eye movements.
Performance of the entire system.
The prototype lens reads electrooculographic signals (electric potential that exists within one’s eyes) for control, via electrodes placed in the skin around the wearer’s eyes. This allows it to detect where a person is looking and adjust accordingly. It could even potentially pick up on blinking signals, acting not just as a corrective device, but as a telephoto lens-style augmentation.
A wireless, wearable monitor built with stretchable electronics could allow comfortable, long-term health monitoring of adults, babies and small children without concern for skin injury or allergic reactions caused by conventional adhesive sensors with conductive gels.
The soft and conformable monitor can broadcast electrocardiogram (ECG), heart rate, respiratory rate and motion activity data as much as 15 meters to a portable recording device such as a smartphone or tablet computer. The electronics are mounted on a stretchable substrate and connected to gold, skin-like electrodes through printed connectors that can stretch with the medical film in which they are embedded.
“This health monitor has a key advantage for young children who are always moving, since the soft conformal device can accommodate that activity with a gentle integration onto the skin,” said Woon-Hong Yeo, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “This is designed to meet the electronic health monitoring needs of people whose sensitive skin may be harmed by conventional monitors.”
The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) is home to the only Division I NCAA ice hockey team in the Southeast – a fact that still surprises many people who don’t associate the winter sport with Alabama’s heat and humidity. But the team’s presence in the Tennessee Valley is more than just a source of pride for the campus community; it’s also a boon for faculty members in the College of Education’s Department of Kinesiology, who don’t have to travel far to find willing subjects for their research into maximizing player performance both on and off the ice.
Over the past couple of years, two assistant professors of exercise science – Dr. Paul Whitehead and Dr. Ryan Conners – have taken advantage of the team’s co-location to conduct a series of studies using their complementary expertise. “Paul has a background as a former ice hockey player with an emphasis on biomechanical research, and I have a background as a certified athletic trainer with an emphasis on ice hockey performance and exercise physiology,” says Dr. Conners. “So shortly after Paul’s arrival at UAH in 2017, we realized it would be a great opportunity for us to perform collaborative research with the hockey team.”
… Aspetar is a hospital. Yet once you are inside, it soon becomes clear there is something quite different about this place, which is at the very cutting edge of sports injury treatment and rehabilitation.
It is a place where human body parts are imported for cutting edge medical science research and where some of the world’s biggest sporting names – Angel di Maria, Neymar, Mo Farah, Yaya Toure, Amir Khan and Sam Warburton included – have been treated.
If Nasa has its Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, the sports medicine world has Aspetar.
When you eat, you also feed your microbiome and influence the structure of the microbial community in the gut. How all this is connected to health and disease is one of the interests of Dr. Li Jiao and her colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine. In this work they found an association between diet quality and microbiome composition in human colonic mucosa that provides a strategy that can contribute to reducing the risk of chronic diseases.
“In this study, rather than looking at individual diets, we focused on dietary patterns as defined by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI)-2005 and how they relate to the microbiome,” said Jiao, associate professor of medicine–gastroenterology and member of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine. “In a previous study, we found that HEI-2005 is associated with reduced risk of pancreatic cancer.”
… a University of Manchester project in association with a Premier League club has delved into a huge data set to determine the time it takes for players to settle-in when transitioning to a different league in a new country. The team found that not only are there differences in transition times between the leagues, but the position of the player also heavily impacts on their initial form.
Speculation in the transfer market isn’t an exact science, but new data analysis suggests it could be. With access to a wealth of valuable data from Opta, the team found several striking statistics based on years of comparative information on individual performances.
Upon transferring a forward player to England from another European league, a Premier League club can expect that player to take 6 matches to adjust if they transfer from Spain, or 18 matches if they transfer from France or the Netherlands.