peer reviewed / Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is fundamental in sports video understanding, enhancing augmented graphics, scene understanding, and game state reconstruction. Despite remarkable progress in autonomous driving and indoor scene understanding, there is currently a lack of MDE datasets tailored for sports. Furthermore, most existing d...
A review of Alex Wong's Prehistoric: The Audacious and Improbable Origin Story of the Toronto Raptors (Triumph Books, 2023)
Objectives:To analyze the effects of a 52-week physical exercise program on strength-speed manifestations in Russian child basketball players between 12 and 13 years old. Methods. Single-blind randomized, parallel, controlled trial conducted at secondary school No. 60 in Kirov, Russia. The Russian basketball-playing children were divided into a con...
Sleep and autonomic nervous system (ANS) influence each other in a bidirectional fashion. Importantly, it has been proposed that sleep has a beneficial regulatory influence over cardiovascular activity, which is mostly controlled by autonomic regulation through the activity of sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways of the ANS. A well-established ...
Tato diplomová práce se věnuje objasnění úskalí organizování basketbalových sportovních akcí v závislosti na místě konání a popisu vývoje pořádaní benefičních sbírek s těmito akcemi souvisejícími. Tyto akce pořádá spolek UniEvents z.s. V teoretické části byly vymezeny základní pojmy související s organizací těchto akcí. Praktická část se zaměřila n...
The aim of this thesis was to study the effects of basketball on bone health parameters in adult men. Two studies were conducted. The first study revealed that even after cessation, professional basketball practice for at least 10 years will induce residual effects on bone variables when compared to the control group. Additionally, it demonstrated ...
Even though coach behavior is known to affect learning, it is unclear which specific nonverbal behavior might optimize the teaching of a tactical content in basketball. Using eye-tracking technology, recall construction paradigm, and subjective ratings of mental effort, the present study investigated the question of whether the coach’s eye gaze wou...
ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to compare bone health parameters (bone mineral content [BMC], bone mineral density [BMD], geometric indices of femoral neck [FN] strength (cross-sectional area [CSA], cross-sectional moment of inertia [CSMI], section modulus [Z], buckling ratio [BR] and strength index [SI]) and composite indices of FN strengt...
