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Will Hopkins (with thanks to Mary Ann Wallace)
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Will Hopkins (with thanks to Mary Ann Wallace) |
The
Encyclopedia of Sports Medicine and
Science has three new articles. In
Sudden Death and
Exercise, Tim Noakes explains the paradox of the short-term
increase and long-term decrease in risk of death associated with
exercise. David Swain provides a sound theoretical framework for a
practical method to enhance cycling performance by varying output
power in
Cycling:
Uphill and Downhill. My article on
Training:
Quantification in Competitive Sports outlines issues in the
measurement and analysis of athletic training and includes
downloadable PowerPoint questionnaires and other forms for recording
training data.
We have four articles on
a diverse range of topics in the News pages: In
Ice Jackets are Cool, David Martin and
colleagues from the Australian Institute of Sport report on
development of a pre-cooling strategy that helped Australian athletes
at Atlanta. Ferret reports on
a newly discovered gene for human performance, the possibility of a
blood sample being frozen away for improved drug testing in the
future, a biased review of strength training, and what tests are
worth doing on competitive athletes. This month's
History Maker by Frank
Katch reminds us that even in the past it was not uncommon for
scientific research to be accepted without adequate review. Justus
von Liebig dominated the field of chemistry in the early 1800s and
proposed theories about the role of protein in exercise, yet never
performed experiments to test them. In spite of this, his theories
were accepted until experiments by others proved them wrong. Ken
Daley's newsletter has his usual
mix of useful links and news, including an item on the retention of
copyright by authors of scientific papers.
The only addition to
A New View of
Statistics this issue is a brief note on how to represent a
confidence interval using the ± sign. See the second paragraph
in the example. And don't forget last issue's cool way to
convert a p value
into confidence limits.
Alfred Zommers and
volunteers have checked out and updated most of our
Net Links over the last two
weeks. To track down a colleague or a course, use our new links to
universities/higher
education. Our link for
conferences now goes straight to the pages hosted
by SportQuest/SIRC. Check out the SportQuest/SIRC site
for one month of free access to
SportDiscus on the Web (the best database for
publications on sport and exercise).
Messages to the Sportscience mailing list have
not been appearing on our Forum page, owing to problems at the site that
hosts our messages on the Web (www.reference.com). All is now fixed.
Our search form for email list
messages is still out of action for the same reason, but it will
be OK by Nov 26 at the latest.
The puzzle of the unreliable linking to sportsci.org
has finally been solved. It turns out we had an incorrect listing for
our main server with InterNic (the people who register the domain
names). In effect we were operating on the backup server, which was
not monitored as closely as the main server to ensure it was running
OK. All fixed now, we hope.