1RM, hand grip, 6RM, peak isokinetic torque), endurance (n = 45) (e.g., maximum push-up, sit-up, crunch repetitions), power (n = 42) (e.g., vertical jump, broad jump, medicine ball throw), and muscle architecture (n = 8) (e.g., pennation ...
At first I thought I could just throw two normal distributions at this and it would work. However, it does not work well at all and this kind of not-so-helpful fit turns out to happen a fair bit. I use the nls() function here which is easy to call. It requires a functional form...
This next excerpt describes the work of the anesthetist after the patient receives a spinal injection of novocaine, which had replaced cocaine as a pain blocker. At the start of the 1930s, the most-used anesthetic was ether, used in this account to calm the patient. Ether carried its own ...
When Haines was later arrested “A surgeon described him to have had one ball pass through his shoulder; he had extracted one and he believed there were more in his body”. The ‘wounded highwayman’ was clearly aptly named. Whoever, he was, and whatever he did, though, there is ...