Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Muscular strength of knee extensors and flexors and bilateral and ipsilateral ratio in elite male kickboxers

Background & Study Aim: Kickboxing is combat sport where the form of combat are strikes, performed by hands and legs. The aim of this study was verification of the hypothesized that the non-preferred leg of elite male kickboxers would have lower knee extensor and flexor strength and there will be a higher incidence of bilateral and unilateral strength deficit. Materials and Methods: The study involved elite kickboxing athletes (n = 17, age 23.6 ±7.1 years, body height 183.3 ±5.5 cm and body weight 80.1 ±11.8 kg). The participants’ concentric muscle contractions were tested on the isokinetic dynamometer (Cybex NORM ®, Humac, CA, USA) at angular speeds of 60, 180 and 300°·s–1. The following variables were evaluated: maximum peak muscle torque of knee extensors (PTE) and flexors (PTF) in the preferred (PL) and non-preferred leg (NL), bilateral ratio between the exerted strength of knee extensors (Q:Q) and flexors (H:H) and unilateral ratio of muscle torque for both PL and NL (H:QPL and H:QNL, respectively). Results: The results indicated a significant effect of angular velocity (λ = 0.27, F4,190 = 44.01, p<0.01, η2 = 0.48) and laterality (λ = 0.93, F2,95 = 3.36, p < 0.05, η2 = 0.07) on peak torque in male kickboxers. The comparison of PTE revealed an insignificant difference between both limbs (p>0.05). On the contrary, in PTF, kickboxers produced significantly greater muscular strength in the preferred limb at velocities of 60° and 180°·s–1 (p<0.05). The effect of angular velocity on the bilateral ratio (Q:Q ratio, H:H ratio) in kickboxers was not significant (λ = 0.98, F2,31 = 0.23, p>0.05, η2 = 0.42). We revealed a significant difference in the size of the bilateral ratio between knee extensors (Q:Q ratio) and flexors (H:H ratio) (F1,32 = 5.55, p < 0.05, η2 = 0.15). A significantly higher bilateral deficit was found in knee flexors at angular velocities of 180° and 300°·s–1 (p<0.05). A significantly higher H:Q ratio (p<0.05) was observed in favour of the preferred limb at lower angular velocities (60° or 180°·s-1, respectively). The results revealed strength asymmetries in favour of PTF when almost 60% of athletes achieved a critical value at higher velocities. The ipsilateral ratio (H:Q) was significantly lower in the non-preferred limb, which indicates a lower preparedness of the non-preferred limb. Conclusions: The research presents PTEs and PTFs in the preferred and non-preferred limb at different angular velocities. These data may serve comparative purposes for other researchers, as well as a base (criterion) of assessment for elite professional kickboxers or for comparison with other martial arts, respectively. In terms of practice, the results may be beneficial for athletes, coaches, physiotherapists, doctors and other clinical staff.
Certain Subclasses of Harmonic Multivalent Functions Involving an Integral Operator

For p ≥ 1 (p ∈ N := {1, 2, 3, · · · }), let Hp denote the set of all normalized multivalent harmonic functions f , sense preserving in the open unit disk ∆. Let SH p,λ(α, β), (0 ≤ α < p; l, λ, β ≥ 0;n ∈ N0 := N ∪ {0}) denote the family of multivalent harmonic functions satisfying: < { (1− β) Θ̃ p,λf(z) zp + β (Θ̃ p,λf(z)) ′ pzp−1 } > α p ; (z ∈ ∆), where the operator Θ̃ p,λf(z) : Hp → Hp is introduced as a generalized Catas operator (cf.[12]). In the present paper various basic properties such as coefficient conditions, growth theorem, covering theorem, extreme points, inclusion relations, neighborhood property 2 Chinhara, Gochhayat and Mishra and radius of starlikeness are discussed for the subclass ŜH n,l p,λ(α, β) of SH p,λ(α, β). Apart from this, we also show that the newly defined subclasses are closed under convolution, convex combination and invariant under generalized Bernardi-Libera-Livingston operator.
Fibre orientation effects on the tensile properties of biaxial carbon/epoxy NCF composites

Non crimp fabric composites (NCFC) are very promising materials, as they combine mechanical properties close to those of UD laminates with the possibility for relatively easy and cost-effective production methods. However, certain artefacts, e.g. resin rich zones, exist in these composites, which may have an influence on the properties. It is therefore important to systematically characterise the behaviour of these materials, and to investigate if, and if so to what degree, their performance differs from that of UD laminates or woven fabric composites.
Neonatal and Perinatal Mortality Rates in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of Misurata Teaching Hospital Ã¢Â€Â“ Libya/2013

Background: Neonatal mortality remains a major contributor to death among children younger than 5 years in developing countries. It accounts for approximately 40% of all childhood mortality in resource-poor countries. Each year, 7 million neonates globally are stillborn or dying within 30 days of birth (neonatal period). Reducing Neonatal mortality requires that interventions be readily accessible and available in the immediate perinatal period. Such countries have weak health metrics and systems, resulting in a paucity of perinatal and neonatal mortality information and a deficiency in quality of available data. Objective: This study was undertaken to determine the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) and perinatal mortality rate (PMR), causes of death, and associated risk factors among hospital live births admitted to the NICU of Misurata teaching hospital in Libya. Methods: A descriptive, retrospective study based on hospital files records. From January 2013 to December 2013, information was collected from the registration book at labour room including operating theatre and newborn admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit of Misurata teaching hospital in Libya. The information collected include, history, clinical examination, investigation, treatment and outcome.
Geochemistry of Ground Water with Special Emphasis on Fluoride and its Seasonal Variations in Parts of Nalgonda District, Telangana State, India

The study area forms a part of Nalgonda district, Telangana, which is located at a distance of 90 km away from Hyderabad. This area experiences arid to semiarid climate. The study area goes through hot climate during the summer (March–May) with a temperature range from 30oC to 46.5oC, and in winter (November–January), it varies between 14oC and 29oC. The average annual rainfall in this area is about 1,000 mm, occurring mostly during south-west monsoon (June–September). The geology of the area is mainly dominated by granite, gneiss complex, sandstone and limestone.
On Waring's Problem for Cubes and Smooth Weyl Sums

Non‐trivial estimates for fractional moments of smooth cubic Weyl sums are developed. Complemented by bounds for such sums of use on both the major and minor arcs in a Hardy‐Littlewood dissection, these estimates are applied to derive an upper bound for the sth moment of the smooth cubic Weyl sum of the expected order of magnitude as soon as s> 7.691. Related arguments demonstrate that all large integers n are represented as the sum of eight cubes of natural numbers, all of whose prime divisors are at most exp (c(log nlog log n)1/2}, for a suitable positive number c. This conclusion improves a previous result of G. Harcos in which nine cubes are required. 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification: 11P05, 11L15, 11P55.
PACE: A GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM BASED LEVEL 3 PROBABILISTIC ACCIDENT CONSEQUENCE EVALUATION PROGRAM

In the UK a new program to build nuclear power plants is commencing. In preparation Public Health England has developed a new Level 3 PSA code. The new tool called PACE incorporates advances in scientific understanding made since the last time such analysis was performed in the UK in the early 1990s. It also takes advantage of advances in computer technology including processing power, usability and specifically Geographic Information Systems. This allows PACE to utilize the spatial datasets of demographic, agricultural, economic and environmental attributes that are compiled and maintained nationally and internationally as well as incorporate a sophisticated though computationally intensive atmospheric dispersion model. PACE was implemented in the commercial GIS ArcGIS™; this decision freed the developers to concentrate on the core modeling functionality and data compilation while PACE still benefits from powerful data handling and visualization capabilities, and provides the user with a flexible and modern user interface. PACE estimates public doses, numbers of stochastic and deterministic health effects and economic costs with and without mitigating countermeasures including sheltering, evacuation, stable iodine prophylaxis, relocation, food restriction and clean-up.
A branch‐and‐price algorithm for a targeting problem

In this paper, we consider a new weapon‐target allocation problem with the objective of minimizing the overall firing cost. The problem is formulated as a nonlinear integer programming model, but it can be transformed into a linear integer programming model. We present a branch‐and‐price algorithm for the problem employing the disaggregated formulation, which has exponentially many columns denoting the feasible allocations of weapon systems to each target. A greedy‐style heuristic is used to get some initial columns to start the column generation. A branching strategy compatible with the pricing problem is also proposed. Computational results using randomly generated data show this approach is promising for the targeting problem. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2007
Gathering and Synthesizing Information During the Development of User Requirements and Engineering Specifications

Shanna Daly is an Assistant Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research focuses on idea generation, design strategies, design ethnography, creativity instruction, and engineering practitioners who return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.
Healthy Food Incentive Impacts on Direct-to-Consumer Sales: A Michigan Example

p Numerous interventions have been implemented at farmers markets across the United States in recent years in order to increase Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) redemptions. These initiatives include ensuring that farmers markets have the technological capability of accepting SNAP and implementing financial incentive programs that provide matching benefits for the redemption of SNAP benefits. While a main objective behind these initiatives is to increase revenue to direct marketing farmers, it is challenging to distinguish between the impacts of distinct interventions. This shortcoming is a significant deterrent in understanding how to effectively implement policies that enhance such objectives. We examine the impact of Double Up Food Bucks (DUFB), a prominent farmers market financial incentive program, on county-level direct-to-consumer (DTC) agricultural sales in Michigan. In our models, we distinguish between counties with farmers markets a Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. b USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service. c Michigan State University, Department of Community
Improving retail product freshness of perishable goods with strategic distribution flow management:a design for Hollander Barendrecht

This report describes the design, input and results of a model that explores what type of distribution flow type increases the retail product freshness in a perishable goods supply chain. The model evaluates di↵erent flow types in a perishable goods supply chain with one supplier and a central warehouse that supplies multiple stores. The model is based on several types of distribution flow elements which include information sharing and inventory allocation policies in the supply chain, under service level restrictions in the stores. Moreover, a business case at Hollander Barendrecht provides insights on how the distribution flow types perform, and for which type of products and stores the design is most beneficial. Furthermore the business case shows which adjustments are necessary in an existing supply chain in order to achieve the benefits of the suggested design.
Claiming Citizenship: The Political Dimension of Welfare Fraud

This article exposes the political dimension of welfare fraud by investigating—in the context of the Israeli welfare reform of 2003—how forty-nine Israeli women who live on welfare justify welfare fraud. I find that women's justifications cannot be fully explained by traditional noncompliance theories that view welfare fraud as an individual, private, criminal activity that solely reflects on the fraudster's moral character or desperate need. Instead, women's justifications for welfare fraud are better understood as a sociopolitical struggle for inclusion and deservedness—as a political act that reflects an alternative concept of citizenship with respect to women's unpaid care work.
Selecting Cases for in-Depth Study from a Survey Dataset: An Application of Ragin's Configurational Methods

While ‘establishing the phenomena’, to use Merton's phrase, is an important part of the sociological enterprise, in then accounting for such empirical regularities, theoretical models are required to understand causal processes. Both regression analysis and configurational methods applied to large datasets can establish patterns of relationships. Following a realist view, we assume that causal mechanisms have generated such patterns, and sound theoretical models are required to understand them. In-depth case studies can contribute to advancing such causal knowledge. We describe how, in the particular context of the configurational mode of analysis that characterises Ragin's Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), we have selected individuals for in-depth study with the eventual purpose of advancing causal or explanatory understanding of conjunctural empirical regularities concerning educational careers. While forms of regression analysis seek to establish the net effects of ‘independent’ variables, QCA, employing Boolean algebra, analyses the conjunctions of conditions sufficient and/or necessary for an outcome to occur. QCA aims to preserve, holistically, the features of cases and is therefore well-suited to case selection. We use QCA both to undertake an initial large scale cross-case analysis and to subsequently select cases to develop theoretical understanding via within-case analysis. Using QCA's measures of consistency with relations of sufficiency and necessity, we can classify cases as typical and deviant, with these two types of cases playing different roles in testing and developing theory. Drawing on analyses of the German SOEP dataset undertaken as part of a larger study which is applying case-based configurational methods to English and German survey datasets while undertaking subsequent in-depth interviews with selected cases, we demonstrate how QCA can be used to select cases for interview in a systematic and theoretically informed manner.
On the Emergence of Human Goal Pursuit: The Nonconscious Regulation and Motivation of Goals

Experimental research in social psychology has discovered that human goal pursuit can emerge in the absence of conscious awareness. Whereas these goal-priming effects are commonly explained in terms of habitual automatic processes, recent studies shed new light on the matter. Building on this recent work, this paper attempts to promote a more comprehensive understanding and examination of the potential mechanisms that enable people to pursue their goals in a nonconscious fashion. Specifically, it addresses (i) the human capacity to pursue goals without awareness of the activation and operation of the goal, even when habits are inadequate; and (ii) the fundamental role of positive affect in nonconsciously modulating the motivation of goals and their pursuit. Self-reflection, and the ability to become consciously aware of oneself and one’s own behavior is a uniquely human trait. This exclusive ability gives reason to assume that people’s behavior is governed by ‘consciousness’ or some other type of inner agent such as ‘the will’ or ‘the self ’. Consciousness, it is argued, plays a pivotal role in goal setting, striving, and attainment, and should especially be important when our habits established by practice do not work to attain our goals. The concept of consciousness thus forms a core aspect of modern views on the role of motivational and cognitive processes in the regulation of social behavior. Whereas the causal status of consciousness in human behavior is often taken for granted, over the last 25 years or so several lines of experimentation have discovered that our behavior is often the product of nonconscious cognitive processes – that is, processes that do not require conscious intention and attention in order to occur. We learned that impressions of people are influenced by contextual factors of which we are unaware (Bargh & Pietromonaco, 1982; Higgins, Rholes, & Jones, 1977; Srull & Wyer, 1979). Subsequently, we were confronted with the fact that social stereotypes that we have about others are activated automatically (Devine, 1989; Macrae, Milne, & Bodenhausen, 1994), and that these automatically
"Faking good" response patterns on the MMPI-2 and the Child Abuse Potential Inventory

Stephen V. Flynn "Faking Good" Response Patterns on the MMPI-2 and the Child Abuse Potential Inventory 2004/05 Dr. Janet Cahill Mental Health Counseling and Applied Psychology A significant problem for forensic evaluations is the large number of clients who respond in a defensive manner. The present study examined defensive responding patterns on two self-report measures, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) and the Child Abuse Potential Inventory (CAP). Subjects were child welfare clients undergoing a parental capacity evaluation. It was hypothesized that subjects would be less likely to attempt to portray themselves in an unrealistically positive manner (fake good) on the MMPI-2 than the CAP since the CAP items are more concerned with matters of child abuse and the MMPI-2 questions are primarily focused on Axis I and II diagnoses. It was further hypothesized that respondents who were court ordered would have higher faking good scores on both instruments. Results found the MMPI-2 had lower faking good scores compared with the CAP. No significant differences were found for any of the validity measures for court ordered status. Statistically significant patterns were found for court ordered status on some of the MMPI-2's clinical scales. Implications for the use of both instruments in forensic evaluations are discussed. Acknowledgements The author would like to thank all professors and fellow students who contributed to this study. The author is grateful to his Thesis Advisor Dr. Janet Cahill for her consistent guidance and collaboration during all phases of this research experiment and allowing the author to use the Rowan University Child and Family Assessment Clinic's Archival Data. Author would also like to thank Dr. Mary Louise Kerwin for her guidance and editing. A final thank you goes to fellow thesis advisee Shawn Carney for help during the data collection phase of this experiment.
The Influence of Principal Leadership on Classroom Instruction and Student Learning

Purpose: This study examines the influence of principal leadership in high schools on classroom instruction and student achievement through key organizational factors, including professional capacity, parent–community ties, and the school’s learning climate. It identifies paths through which leadership explains differences in achievement and instruction between schools and differences in instruction among teachers within the same school. Research Design: Multilevel structural equation modeling was used to examine the relationships among principal leadership, school organizational structures, classroom instruction, and student grades and test gains on ACT’s Education Planning and Assessment System. Measures of principal leadership and school organizational structures were collected from teacher surveys administered to all high school teachers in Chicago Public Schools in the 2006–2007 school years. Findings: Within schools, variation in classroom instruction is associated with principal leadership through multiple pathways, the strongest of which is the quality of professional development and coherence of programs. Between schools, differences in instruction and student achievement are associated with principal leadership only via the learning climate. This suggests that in high schools, establishing a safe, college-focused climate may be the most important leadership function for promoting achievement schoolwide.
Application of Entrepreneurial Marketing to the Marketing Mix: Why it Matters to SMEs in Malaysia?

Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) is an interesting subject to explore on. SME’s faced many challenges in operate their business. In the rising turbulent market and with forceful competition and tremendously increasing demanding customers, marketers struggling in predicting consumer demands which changing over the time. Traditional marketing is no longer exceedingly effective and adequate for firms to compete in highly competitive business environment and in making strategic marketing decisions. In dealing with the unpredictable and uncertainty market, firms should be more entrepreneurial in their marketing. Due to that, past studies provides a solution using Entrepreneurial Marketing (EM) for all businesses that needs for competitive advantage in a unpredictable market. Even though a number of research has been conducted on the defining characteristics of EM, but the literature still lack of discussion on practical implementation strategies particularly for those firms interested to apply these practices. This paper presents a review of the literatures on EM, highlights the overview of the EM, and then discussed the application of EM to the model of four P’s elements specifically defining characteristics of EM which are opportunity creation, innovation, personal networking, and resource leveraging. Based on the reviewing past literatures, this paper resolves by underlying that applying EM to marketing mix among SMEs or to larger firms should significantly increase the success and competitive advantage of a firm. Future study might explore on other elements of marketing mix that possibly affect the businesses performance.
Debt Structure, Private Equity Reputation, and Performance in Leveraged Buyouts

This paper provides a comprehensive study of deal characteristics and participants’ involvement in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and their impact on target firms’ performance. Using a sample of 501 U.S. LBOs completed between 1986 and 2011, I find that better post-buyout operating performance are associated with larger amount of leverage added during the LBO process, tighter LBO loan covenants, and equity contribution of target firms’ management. LBOs are more likely to exit through an IPO or a sale if they use more bank debt with tighter covenants and are sponsored by private equity firms of high reputation. These relations are robust to credit market conditions and aggregated LBO activities. The evidence suggests that the main source of value creation in LBOs is the reduced agency costs through the disciplining effect of debt, closer monitoring by lenders, and the better aligned management incentives. Private equity firms’ reputation is also important in ensuring successful deal outcomes.