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Potential relevance of a motor skill “proficiency barrier” on health-related fi...
Abrams, T. Cade; Terlizzi, Bryan M.; Meester, An de; Sacko, Ryan S.; Irwin, J. Megan; Luz, Carlos J.; Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Cordovil, RitaThis study investigated the potential impact of a motor skill proficiency barrier on measures of cardiorespiratory (CRF) and musculoskeletal (MSF) fitness in youth. A sample of 241 youth (114 girls) aged 10 - 18 years, completed the Motor Competence Assessment battery with composite scores indexed according to age- and gender-adjusted percentile scores. Motor competence (MC) levels were categorized as low (≤ 25...
Profiles of motor competence and its perception accuracy among children: associ...
Almeida, Gabriela M.; Luz, Carlos J.; Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Lopes, Vitor P.; Cordovil, RitaThe main goals of this study were to identify profiles in school-aged children based on actual Motor Competence (MC) and accuracy of Perceived Motor Competence (PMC) and to examine how children with different profiles differ in terms of Physical Fitness (PF) and Body Fat percentage (BF%). The MC of a total of 287 children (51.6% boys, aged between 6 and 10 years-old) was assessed using the Motor Competence Asse...
Relationship between motor competence, weight status, and cardiorespiratory fit...
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Cordovil, Rita; Luz, Carlos J.; Silva, Bruno; Lopes, Vitor P.Strong evidence has been found for a negative relationship between motor competence (MC) and weight status (WS), and a positive one between MC and health related fitness (HRF).
Estimation of the Best Method for the Calculation of the Subscales and Total Sc...
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Cordovil, Rita; Luz, Carlos J.; Lopes, Vitor P.; Pombo, AndréThe MCA (Motor Competence Assessment) is an instrument to assess motor competence (MC). along the lifespan. For the first time, we can assess MC from childhood to old age using the same instrument, without an age ceiling effect and of feasible and objective execution. After establishing the MCA construct validity, the six tests’ normative values from childhood to young adulthood were published, and recently, th...
Motor competence assessment (MCA) scoring method
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Luz, Carlos J.; Cordovil, Rita; Pombo, André; Lopes, Vitor P.The Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) is a quantitative test battery that assesses motor competence across the whole lifespan. It is composed of three sub-scales: locomotor, stability, and manipulative, each of them assessed by two different objectively measured tests. The MCA construct validity for children and adolescents, having normative values from 3 to 23 years of age, and the configural invariance betwee...
Siblings’ influence on the motor competence of preschoolers
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Luz, Carlos J.; Cordovil, Rita; Mendes, Rui; Alexandre, Rita; Lopes, Vitor P.The number of single-child families has been rising steadily in recent years, resulting in a childhood absent of sibling relationships. Being an only child has been shown to have a negative impact on physical fitness, somatic fitness, and motor development. In this study, we aimed to understand how living with and without siblings can impact the motor competence of children. One hundred and sixty-one children (...
Model invariance of the Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) from early childhood ...
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Cordovil, Rita; Luz, Carlos J.; Lopes, Vitor P.The Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) is an innovative instrument to assess motor competence along the lifespan. The MCA model and normative values were recently established from the age of 3-to-23 years old. The purpose of this study was to validate MCA from early childhood to young adulthood. One thousand participants representing four age groups (3–6, 7–10, 11–16, 17–22 years) with 250 participants each, wer...
Validação configural do MCA (motor competence assessment) da infância à idade a...
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Cordovil, Rita; Luz, Carlos J.; Lopes, Vitor P.O MCA é um instrumento inovador para avaliar a competência motora ao longo da vida
Motor Competence Assessment (MCA): portuguese normative values
Rodrigues, Luis Paulo; Luz, Carlos J.; Lima, Ricardo; Silva, Bruno; Lopes, Vitor P.Motor competence (MC) relationship with the developmnet of healthy life styles is well known. Nontheless, there is no established instrument able to measure this "new" construct along the life span, and the ones usually cited in the literature were mostly built for the diagnosis of children in risk for motor impairment, lack objectivity or fidelity in the assessment protocol, or do not assess the three componen...
Efficient domination through eigenvalues
Cardoso, Domingos M.; Lozin, Vadim V.; Luz, Carlos J.; Pacheco, Maria F.The paper begins with a new characterization of (k,τ)-regular sets. Then, using this result as well as the theory of star complements, we derive a simplex-like algorithm for determining whether or not a graph contains a (0,τ)-regular set. When τ = 1, this algorithm can be applied to solve the efficient dominating set problem which is known to be NP- complete. If −1 is not an eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix o...