Rockfish are commercially and recreationally important, yet due to the in habitat depths at which rockfish inhabit, little is known about their ecology. As a consequence, management of rockfish population as a fishery resource is a work in progress. In particular, changes in physiological condition aver the course of the year is poorly described. This study examined 19 different species of Sebastes from the Southern California Bight over four seasons (late summer, fall, winter, and spring) using metabolic enzyme assays. Enzymes used were lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), malate dehydrogenase (MDH), pyruvate kinase (PK), and citrate synthase (CS). Some muscle composition data (percent water, percent protein, percent lipid, and protein as a percentage of wet mass) were also used to help interpret the enzyme data. Enzyme activity was lowest in the summer when expressed as activity per gram wet weight but when it was expressed per gram protein the trend was reversed. We found that the rockfish tend to have the highest protein as a percentage of wet mass (P%WM) in the spring right before the upwelling period begins and have the lowest P%WM in late summer after the peak of upwelling. Their metabolic poise (represented as CS/LDH) grouped according to locomotory habit (benthic or bentho-pelagic). A mass and oxygen consumption plot also showed that the species group according to locomotory habit. With those known to be benthic grouped together and those species that are known to more actively swimming had higher values. This knowledge could be used to infer whether a rockfish that hasn't been well studied is benthic or bentho-pelagic.

As we are currently in the information age, people expect access to information to exist by default. In order to facilitate the communication of knowledge, efficient networks must be built. In particular, the networks must be built satisfying some constraints while minimizing cost or time. These constraints often make these problems NP-hard. In this thesis, we investigate two different sets of problems: communicating information quickly and building cheap networks. In the communication problems, the goal is to minimize the number of rounds of communication. In the network design problems the goal is to construct a network of minimum cost.

Title: The Influence of the Dance Sport on Poise Objectives: The main goal of this diploma work is the creation of coordination maps of selected muscular structures in the body, its evaluation and assessment of the impact of the dance sport on poise. The research deals with the kinesiological analysis of muscle activation affecting postural stabilization of the dance couple. Methods: Method of the surface electromyography combinated with kinematography analysis used synchronized video recording has intended level of postural muscle activity in dance. Results: Interpretation of the coordination maps selected muscular structures was founded that dance sport may result in muscle imbalances in the torso. Keywords: Dance sport, Poise, Surface electromyography, Posture, Muscle disbalance

The main task of this thesis was an examination of breathing stereotypes on selected students of Pedagogical faculty aged from 19 to 25. The other objective was to develop an intervention programme according to which the selected students participated in six weeks lasting workouts that were focused on breath training with consecutive heightening of their physical efficiency. A method of content analysis was used for analysing literature and a method of content synthesis was used for application of gathered information and for creating the intervention programme. For the examination of breathing stereotypes a muscle dynamometer was used which is able to record a movement dynamics and simultaneously to record a breathing activity dynamics. The vital capacity was measured through a forced expiratory vital capacity (FVC) when also a value of one second exhale was recorded (FEV1). This test was performed in standing upright position on the machine Spirometr Otthon, evaluation was processed in the Thorsoft programme. The study was participated by six students who at first passed out an entrance examination where the main values were defined, then the intervention programme and after the end of it the participants underwent a checking (output) examination. During processing of the thesis it was confirmed that the developed intervention programme, which is based on aerobic exercises and completed with resistance training, has a factual and statistical significant effect on strengthening the respiratory muscles which are activated by the diaphragmatic breathing within resting breathing and deepened breathing. For the determination of the substantive significance the Cohen's d was used, then the paired Student´s t test for dependent samples.

TITLE OF THESIS: Analysis of postural functions and posture in triathletes aged 10-15 years. OBJECTIVES OF THESIS: The aim of this work is to analyze the condition of the musculoskeletal system and posture in triathletes aged 10-15 years and based on that to create a health compensation program and then verify and be able to objectify the main musculoskeletal problems, recommend and provide remedies. METHODS USED: In my diploma thesis I used in testing the level of motor skills tests tested by CTA for the age group of triathletes 8-15 years and then I compared them according to the table determining the level of assumptions using T-points. I used a ray graph to summarize the average results of the group. I tested the analysis of postural functions and posture using physiotherapeutic tests according to the authors Jaroš and Lomíček, and I used Matthias' test as a supplement. During testing according to Jaroš and Lomíček, I used a plumb line, protractor and grid to make the evaluation as accurate as possible. During the physiotherapy measurements, I took photos and videos, thanks to which I was able to better identify postural defects, however they could not be presented in the diploma thesis. I recorded the individual results in tables. RESULTS: My research showed that regular application of a...

Pervasive use of GPUs across multiple disciplines is a result of continuous adaptation of the GPU architectures to address the needs of upcoming application domains. One such vital improvement is the introduction of the on-chip cache hierarchy, used primarily to filter the high bandwidth demand to the off-chip memory. However, in contrast to traditional CPUs, the cache hierarchy in GPUs is presented with significantly different challenges such as cache thrashing and bandwidth bottlenecks, arising due to small caches and high levels of memory traffic. These challenges lead to severe congestion across the memory hierarchy, resulting in high memory access latencies. In memory-intensive applications, such high memory access latencies often get exposed and can no longer be hidden through multithreading, and therefore adversely impact system performance. In this thesis, we address the inefficiencies across the memory hierarchy in GPUs that lead to such high levels of congestion. We identify three major factors contributing to poor memory system performance: first, disproportionate and insufficient bandwidth resources in the cache hierarchy; second, poor cache management policies; and third, high levels of multithreading. In order to revitalize the memory hierarchy by addressing the above limitations, we propose a three-pronged approach. First, we characterize the bandwidth bottlenecks present across the memory hierarchy in GPUs and identify the architectural parameters that are most critical in alleviating congestion. Subsequently, we explore the architectural design space to mitigate the bandwidth bottlenecks in a cost-effective manner. Second, we identify significant inter-core reuse in GPUs, presenting an opportunity to reuse data among the L1s. We exploit this reuse by connecting the L1 caches with a lightweight ring network to facilitate inter-core communication of shared data. We show that this technique reduces traffic to the L2 cache, freeing up the bandwidth for other accesses. Third, we present Poise, a machine learning approach to mitigate cache thrashing and bandwidth bottlenecks by altering the levels of multi-threading. Poise comprises a supervised learning model that is trained offline on a set of profiled kernels to make good warp scheduling decisions. Subsequently, a hardware inference engine is used to predict good warp scheduling decisions at runtime using the model learned during training. In summary, we address the problem of bandwidth bottlenecks across the memory hierarchy in GPUs by exploring how to best scale, supplement and utilize the existing bandwidth resources. These techniques provide an effective and comprehensive methodology to mitigate the bandwidth bottlenecks in the GPU memory hierarchy.

Specialiosios pedagogikos fizinio ugdymo didaktikos srityje stinga tyrimų, analizuojančių vidutinę proto negalę turinčių vaikų fizinio ugdymo turinį, orientuotą į tai, kad ir vidutinę proto negalę turintiems vaikams, tikslingai parenkant fizinio ugdymo turinį (fizines ypatybes lavinančius pratimus), įvedant ir emocinio pasitenkinimo momentų (muzika, šokis, žaidimai) plėtotųsi kiekybiniai ir kokybiniai fizinių ypatybių rodikliai. Iškelta hipotezė, teigianti, jog tiriamosios grupės interesus ir poreikius atitinkanti mūsų sudaryta eksperimentinė fizinio ugdymo programa bus priimtinesnė sutrikusio intelekto vaikams dėl įdomesnių, emocionalesnių, patrauklesnių, nenusibodusių aerobikos pratimų derinimo prie muzikinio fono. Kokybiniu eksperimentu buvo atliktas tyrimas, kurio tikslas - ištirti vidutiniškai sutrikusio intelekto vaikams sudarytos aerobikos taikymo per fizinės veiklos pamokas programos priimtinumą jų emocinei raiškai ir motorikos lavinimui. Atlikta kokybinė duomenų analizė. Tyrime dalyvavo Šiaulių specialiosios mokyklos 7-14 metų ugdytiniai, vidutiniškai sutrikusio intelekto, turintys įvairių kompleksinių sutrikimų ( endokrininės sistemos sutrikimas, nutukimas, netaisyklinga laikysena, plokščiapadiškumas, akių ligos, Autizmo sindromas ), vaikų cerebrinį paralyžių ir kt. Tyrime dalyvavo 10 vaikų. Empirinėje dalyje testavimo būdu buvo nustatinėjami šie tyrimo objekto kintamieji: fizinės ypatybės - judesių koordinacija ir pusiausvyra (Eurofit‘o modifikuoti testai)... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The special school teacher’s physical upbringing didactics, remit lacks research these are analyzing intrinsic mind disability having children physical peculiarity purport, orientative for this, that and for unimpressive mind disability having children, expediently choose physical upbringing purports (physical features which educate routine), introductional and emotional changing moments (music, dance, games) developing quantitative and qualitative physical features exponents. There dislodged hypothesis, proposing, that searching group interests and requirements corresponding our made experimental physical upbringing program, will be more accepted for the disturbed intellect people (children) for more interesting, more emotional, more attractive, not boring aerobic routine turing by the musical context. The qualitative experiment was transacting research, which purpose is- explore ardinary disturbed intellect children made by the aerobical uses too physical lesson programs, admissibility for them emotional expression and the motorical training. Made qualitative information analysis. In analysis contested Šiauliai special school 7-14 years school-child, middily disturbed intellect, having variously complexive flusters. In research contested 10 schoochilds. In the empirintitive sections contestitive temper were designating these exploratory object rotationals: physical features – movement coordination and balance (Eurofit’s modifitive tests), posture (Heoger’s modifical... [to full text]