The aim of this study was to analyze the home advantage in the NBA playoffs from its first season, 1946/1947, to its most recent season, 2021/2022.All data was collected directly from the official NBA website.From each game we collected the season, name of the teams, final score, game location and playoff stage (first round, conference semi-finals,
Alexandre et Octavien contre Bismarck et Gengis Khan.The hardware accelerator controlled by direct memory access (DMA) is greatly influenced by the communication bandwidth from/to DRAM through on-chip buses.This paper proposes a novel performance estimation algorithm to optimize the communication schemes (CSs), which are defined by the number of di
Background.Activities like running, push-ups and sit-ups may be impacted by a higher body volume and size whether it is due to the amount of fat mass (FM) or skeletal muscle mass (SMM).The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in physical performance among muscularly developed police employees with higher body mass index (BMI) l
The Web has changed newswork dramatically.After the turn of the Millennium, the Web 2.0 was welcomed as a unique medium of participation, interaction, and democratization.Due to the increased interactivity of many websites, and the growing prominence of social networking sites such as Facebook that invited the creation and publication of user contr
Background: Noise is omnipresent in the operating room.The average noise in the operating room generally ranges between 60 and 65 dB and can sometimes exceed 100 dB, despite the ARS (Agence Régionale de Santé) and WHO (World Health Organization) recommending levels of 35 dB(A).This study aimed to evaluate the effect of different kinds of backg