Florin Cazan

Ovidius University | UOC · Faculty of Physical Education and Sport

The demands of the school day, which includes multiple lessons, require sustained attention from students; this can be challenging, especially for young children. Concentration of attention is a critical cognitive function that impacts learning. This study involved 129 healthy schoolchildren aged 8-10 years (spanning grades 2 and 3) from a regular...

Higher education has received increasing attention from researchers due to a marked growth and differentiation over the last forty years. Recent data (Eurydice, 2020) show that the student population in higher education is mostly female, except in Germany, Greece and Liechtenstein, and there is a higher number of men attending Bachelor’s degrees, w...

Aim—The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of the Burpee exercise on the endurance and short-term memory of adolescents aged 15–16 years. Methods—The experiment was performed in a coeducational school in Kirov (Russia). The four-month study involved 52 adolescents of both genders. During the study period, 30 physical education lessons w...

This study aimed at examining the concurrent validity and reliability of the multi-point method and the two-point method’s variations for estimating the one-repetition maximum (1RM) in the deadlift and squat exercises and to determine the accuracy of which optimal two loads can be used for the two-point method protocol. Thirteen resistance-trained...

Aim. Use of inertial flywheel for multi-directional movements in certain sporting conditions leads to greater improvements in performance compared to conventional training. The aim of this study was to investigate effectiveness of flywheel resistance exercises on oxidative stress and record level of 100m backstroke for young swimmers. Methods. The...

This paper aims to determine the level of motivation in the case of both professional and amateur female soccer players in Romania. We have designed and administered a motivation questionnare (“Assessing motivation for soccer practice”) to a sample of 75 female subjects, comprising 25 professional and 50 amateur soccer players in the Romanian leagu...

The aims of this study were to analyze the within-group weekly metabolic power average (wMPA), weekly acceleration zones (wAcZ), and weekly deceleration zones (wDcZ), in starter and non-starter professional soccer players, based on different periods of the full season (pre-, early-, mid-, and end-season). Twenty-one professional soccer players (age...

In this paper, we will make a fact-finding study on the game model of peripheral players in the 2018- 2019 competition year, a more objective analysis of the performance of the players and the team. The main task of the study was to study the parameters of the game model of the players who work in the positions of point guard (position 1), shooting...

Underwater digital communication and sonars rely on basic signal detection. The problem with underwater signal detection is that of the extremely expensive equipments. In this paper we propose both a low cost solution for signal detection, which practically consists in integrating and adapting the already existing equipments and methods for underwa...