Publications by authors named "K A Ball"

Rapid acceleration is an important quality for field-based sport athletes. Technical factors contribute to acceleration and these can be deliberately influenced by coaches through implementation of constraints, which afford particular coordinative states or induce variability generally. Lightweight wearable resistance is an emerging training tool, which can act as a constraint on acceleration.

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  • The study explored how life space mobility (LSM) at the beginning affects cognitive performance in memory, reasoning, and processing speed in older adults over a decade.
  • It involved 2,690 participants from the ACTIVE Study, primarily older women with an average age of 73.0, and used various linear mixed-effects models to analyze the data.
  • While initial results suggested that higher baseline LSM correlated with better cognitive performance, these associations weakened when accounting for other factors, indicating that LSM impacts cognitive scores but not the overall rate of cognitive decline significantly.
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What happens to macromolecules ? What drives the structure-activity relationship and stability for antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs)? These interrelated questions are increasingly relevant due to the re-emerging importance of ADCs as an impactful therapeutic modality and the gaps that exist in our understanding of ADC structural determinants that underlie ADC stability. Complex macromolecules, such as ADCs, may undergo changes due to their intricate structure as biotransformations may occur on the linker, the payload, and/or at the modified conjugation site. Furthermore, the dissection of ADC metabolism presents a substantial analytical challenge due to the difficulty in the identification or quantification of minor changes on a large macromolecule.

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Crosslinking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has the potential to map the interactome of the cell with high resolution and depth of coverage. However, current in vivo XL-MS methods are hampered by crosslinkers that demonstrate low cell permeability and require long reaction times. Consequently, interactome sampling is not high and long incubation times can distort the cell, bringing into question the validity any protein interactions identified by the method.

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