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Insights on Older Adults’ Willingness, Motives and Experiences regarding Participation in HCI research

User-centered and Participatory Design approaches have become widespread within HCI, also when designing digital media for older adults. These methodologies are seen as crucial to adapt technology design to older people's needs and increase their acceptance of digital technology. Nevertheless, it is often difficult to reach a diverse group of older people, for instance, people with limited technology skills, limited mobility, or cognitive issues. In addition, gerontologists criticized lately how older people's participation unfolds in technology design projects, e.g. that people are pushed into the role of users. Little is known about the motivations and needs of older adults regarding their participation in HCI research. To close this gap, we conducted an online survey (N=46) and semi-structured interviews (N=8) focusing on motivations, willingness and experiences regarding participation. Results show that people are generally willing to participate due to interest in the topic, learning new things and social bonding. However, despite the conceptions within HCI that long-term engagement is crucial within participatory design, older people in the study preferred less commitment and more open formats.
Obesity and life events: the hypothesis of psychological phenotypes

Psychological studies on obesity have focused on finding common traits in the population of people with obesity, such as personality traits. In contrast, in the field of medicine, it is pointed out that individuals with obesity can be very different from each other, e.g. in terms of their metabolic profile, which gives rise to different phenotypes. This article proposes a clinical and theoretical observation of the role of life events in the development of obesity. Obesity patients indeed report differentiated life and weight control histories. The proposal is to distinguish these types of patients into two psychological phenotypes at initial assessment, as surgical and post-surgical outcomes may differ. While from a mental health point of view, identifying these elements may be an indicator to send the patient to effective and targeted psychological treatments
HOST RESPONSE TO Meloidogyne incognita INFECTION OF SEMI-TEMPERATE CARROT, CELERY AND SWEET PEPPER CULTIVARS COMMONLY GROWN IN THE HIGHLANDS OF BENGUET PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES

Although the Philippines is a tropical country, 80% of semi-temperate vegetables are produced in the highlands (Cordillera) in northern Luzon. Due to the increasing yield losses caused by root-knot nematodes (RKN; Meloidogyne spp.) to these crops, a greenhouse experiment was conducted to evaluate the host response (resistance and tolerance) to Meloidogyne incognita infection of semi-temperate carrot, celery, and sweet pepper cultivars commonly grown in the Cordillera. The cultivars were inoculated with 1,500 eggs of M. incognita and the plants harvested 8 and 16 weeks after inoculation (WAI). Host response was determined based on the resistance index (RI; combining severity of root galling and number of eggs masses), the percentage change in plant growth and yield between inoculated and uninoculated plants. During the early stage of infection, the carrot cultivars were classified as either highly resistant or immune at 8 WAI. However, post-infectional response at 16 WAI showed the cultivars Caroline, Chunhong and Lucky Kuroda were classified as intermediate while Argo Super Kuroda and Royal Chantenay as moderately susceptible, and New Kuroda, New Kurodagosun and Victoria as susceptible. The celery cultivars Tall Utah Supreme and Utah 52-70 R Imp showed some resistance at 8 WAI, however, both cultivars were classified as susceptible at 16 WAI. The sweet pepper cultivar California Wonder was classified as moderately susceptible while Smooth Cayene and Yolo Wonder were classified as susceptible and highly susceptible, respectively at 8 WAI. The production of semi-temperate vegetables in the Cordillera is highly valuable. Knowledge of their host response to nematodes will assist farmers to minimize yield losses.
Relationships between horizontal jump tests and sprint performance

Athletic performance assessments are important for identifying physical giftedness, monitoring athlete progress and supporting training recommendations. Sprint performance is a key component in athlete success both in athletics and field-based sports, and talent identification testing batteries often include sprint and jump assessments. Jumping and sprinting share a number of similar characteristics and research has shown that the relationships between sprint and jump tests depend on the recorded segment of the sprinting task, type of jump performed, and the speed and sex of the athlete. The majority of this research has been conducted in small, single sex, similar athlete cohorts and there has yet to be an analysis of a large cohor multi-sport population with both male and female groups. Understanding the relationships between sprint ability and horizontal jump performance, based on large groups of athletes separated by sex can provide great insight into the shared and independent value of sprint and jump performance tests to support athlete testing and development. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between horizontal jump tests and sprint performance within different athlete sexes and sprint ability. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study with a large population sample of multisport athletes, with differing sprint and jump abilities. The associations and relationships between horizontal jump performance in standing broad jump (SBJ) and standing triple jump (STJ) with 0-10m and 30-40m sprint time in a group of athletes participating in a talent identification event were investigated in this study. Correlations and linear regressions were assessed with athletes grouped only by sex (male (n = 742), and female (n = 610)), and then grouped by sex and speed (fast = -0.5 SD , slow = +0.5 SD ) for both 0-10m and 30-40m time separately. When grouped only by sex there were very
An optimization method for brake instability reduction with fuzzy-boundary interval variables

In some special engineering circumstances, it is likely that all parameters of an uncertain automotive structure can only be treated as interval variables due to limited knowledge, but meanwhile their lower and upper bounds can just be modeled as fuzzy variables rather than as deterministic values due to ambiguous information. To handle this dual uncertainties case, a reliability-based optimization method with fuzzy-boundary interval variables is developed in this study, and it is further extended to carry out squeal instability analysis and reduction of brake involving both limited and vague information. In the proposed method, fuzzy-boundary interval variables are utilized to cope with the above dual uncertainties of structure parameters and help to build up the structure response analysis model. First, the structure responses are derived on the basis of α-cut strategy, Taylor series expansion, subinterval analysis, and central difference method. Then, with the aid of fuzzy possibility theory, a reliability analysis model of structure response is developed, which can make use of extra reliability information and thus quantify the reliability more accurately. Next, a reliability-based optimization model involving fuzzy-boundary interval variables is established by integrating the uncertain response analysis model and the reliability analysis model. Finally, the proposed method is extended to carry out automotive brake squeal instability analysis and optimization. The numerical investigations demonstrate the applicability and effectiveness of the proposed method.
Multiclass Probability Estimation With Support Vector Machines

Abstract Multiclass classification and probability estimation have important applications in data analytics. Support vector machines (SVMs) have shown great success in various real-world problems due to their high classification accuracy. However, one main limitation of standard SVMs is that they do not provide class probability estimates, and thus fail to offer uncertainty measure about class prediction. In this article, we propose a simple yet effective framework to endow kernel SVMs with the feature of multiclass probability estimation. The new probability estimator does not rely on any parametric assumption on the data distribution, therefore, it is flexible and robust. Theoretically, we show that the proposed estimator is asymptotically consistent. Computationally, the new procedure can be conveniently implemented using standard SVM softwares. Our extensive numerical studies demonstrate competitive performance of the new estimator when compared with existing methods such as multiple logistic regression, linear discrimination analysis, tree-based methods, and random forest, under various classification settings. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
«Eduball» as an innovative interdisciplinary pedagogical method in physical education. Review of the evidence-based research

Recently, there has been an increase in interest in physical activity, which is associated with its positive effect on academic and cognitive abilities. There is a large body of evidence that physical activity affects both physiological and cognitive development. One of the progressive methods that combines physical activity with academic learning and involves the development and improvement of children’s cognitive abilities through movement and play is the EduBall method. This is an innovative approach to teaching, based on an interdisciplinary model of teaching physical education. Objective. To present the results of twenty-year research into the implementation of an innovative interdisciplinary approach in physical education, the EduBall method. Methods. Analysis, synthesis, generalization and comparison of scientific and methodical literature. Results. Using the keywords «educational balls» and «EduBall», the articles presenting the results of research on the implementation of the EduBall method in physical education classes were retrieved and processed. The impact of the method on physical fitness and motor skills, as well as on children’s cognitive functions was examined. The obtained results showed that the use of the EduBall method in physical education classes affects the physical fitness of children to the same extent as the traditional physical education program. However, the method has a greater positive effect on general body coordination, hand-eye coordination, time-spatial orientation, the level of development of coordination of both hands, and locomotor skills in primary school
Primary Health Care Providers’ Perspectives: Facilitating Older Patients’ Access to Community Support Services

RÉSUMÉ Le but de l’étude examiné dans cet article était de comprendre comment les professionnels des soins de santé qui ne sont pas médecins, mais travaillent dans des milieux primaires canadiens de soins de santé, facilitent l’accès des personnes âgées aux services de soutien communautaire (SSC). L’utilisation de SSC a un impact positif pour les clients, mais ils restent sous-utilisés en raison du manque de prise de conscience. En utilisant une approche descriptive qualitative, nous avons interrogé 20 professionnels de la santé de diverses disciplines et modèles de soins de santé primaires sur les processus qu’ils utilisent pour lier les patients âgés à SSC. Les participants ont collaboré intensivement avec des collègues professionnels au sein et à l’extérieur de leurs organisations pour trouver SSC pertinents. Ils faisaient participer activement les patients et leurs familles à faire ces liens et ont assuré le suivi. Il est troublant de constater qu’ils comptaient sur les ressources périmées et des stratégies de recherche inefficaces pour trouver les SSC. Nos résultats peuvent être utilisés pour développer des ressources et des approches afin de mieux soutenir les fournisseurs de soins de santé primaires en reliant les adultes âgés à des CSS pertinents. ABSTRACT The purpose of the study examined in this article was to understand how non-physician health care professionals working in Canadian primary health care settings facilitate older persons’ access to community support services (CSSs). The use of CSSs has positive impacts for clients, yet they are underused from lack of awareness. Using a qualitative description approach, we interviewed 20 health care professionals from various disciplines and primary health care models about the processes they use to link older patients to CSSs. Participants collaborated extensively with interprofessional colleagues within and outside their organizations to find relevant CSSs. They actively engaged patients and families in making these linkages and ensured follow-up. It was troubling to find that they relied on out-of-date resources and inefficient search strategies to find CSSs. Our findings can be used to develop resources and approaches to better support primary health care providers in linking older adults to relevant CSSs.
A primary evaluation of Syrian forest damage since 2011: a case study of Alhamam and Alboz forest sites

Forests and trees make vital contributions to well-being, economic activities, ecosystem functioning and global system dynamics. There has been a lack of studies on the evaluation of the drivers of Syrian forest damage during the current conflict. This study estimated the damage since 2011 in the Alhamam and Alboz forest sites in Idlib province of Syria and evaluated the drivers of this damage. A multidimensional approach to damage assessment was developed which combined forest plot inventories, remotely sensed satellite image analysis, questionnaires and focus groups to enable a comparison of the forest from 2011 and 2017. The plot inventory data and remote sensing analysis provided estimates of forest damage and loss whilst focus groups and questionnaires provided vital information on the drivers of forest loss which is required for developing reforestation programmes. Overall, forest inventory data and satellite image analysis results indicated a reduction in tree cover, density and plant diversity. The results indicate a much higher loss of forest than is available from global products such as Global Forest Watch due to the prevalence in Syria of low-density Oak forests such as Alhamam not being classed as forest. The results of questionnaires and focus groups showed that the main cause of damage was an increased demand for fire-wood driven by a lack of fuel oil and increased unemployment, reduced household incomes and general price rises, making fuel more unaffordable. Respondents to surveys generally understood the importance of trees and forests and overtime the local knowledge of the importance of forest resources had not changed. This multidimensional approach indicates a reduced capacity of institutions to protect forests and will help to establish strategic plans to serve and protect the forest in the future.
The Implementation Of Banking Risk Management In ASEAN Countries

The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of credit risk, liquidity risk and interest rate on the performance of banks through capital adequacy. Banking companies in five Southeast Asian countries were used as data source in this quantitative research. The total sample obtained was 175 from 2014 to 2020. This Predictive and exploratory inquiry used Partial Least Squares (PLS) Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with WarpPLS 7.0 application. The study found that credit risk significantly affected bank performance. The VAF calculation to see whether the capital adequacy as a mediator can be categorised as partial mediation or not also showed a similar finding. A mediation test was carried out using the VAF method where the conditions were 20% < VAF < 80%. From the results of data analysis, capital adequacy showed to be able to mediate the indirect impact of credit risk on bank performance. The result, therefore, validated the Commercial Loan hypothesis, which states that if a bank's productive assets, which consist of short-term loans, are distributed in normal business activities, bank liquidity will be ensured. This study indicated that credit risk in Southeast Asian Countries requires sufficient capital reserves to reduce the occurrence of credit risk which will have an impact on decreasing bank performance.
Gradient of shortening and vertical-axis rotations in the Southern Pyrenees (Spain), insights from a synthesis of paleomagnetic data

Los cortes compensados y restituidos son la aproximacion necesaria para calcular el acortamiento (SH) en sistemas compresivos. De la misma manera, los vectores paleomagneticos permiten controlar las rotaciones de eje vertical (VAR). Cuando SH varia a lo largo de la direccion de una cuna orogenica, con frecuencia se relaciona el gradiente de acortamiento con VAR. Ambas variables se pueden relacionar con modelos trigonometricos sobre el mapa que permiten: 1) corregir el efecto de movimientos fuera de plano que producen errores en la estimacion tradicional de SH y 2) calcular la diferencia de acortamiento entre dos cortes geologicos utilizando los valores de VAR. Para controlar VAR, se ha realizado una compilacion de datos paleomagneticos en la Zona Surpirinaica (Sierras Interiores, Cuancas de Jaca-Pamplona y Ainsa y Sierras Exteriores). El area de estudio esta limitada por dos cortes geologicos compensadas a escala cortical (Cotiella y Anso) que atraviesan la cadena en una direccion NNE-SSW, perpendicular a la traza de los principales cabalgamientos. Los datos paleomagneticos se agrupan en 48 sectores (con entre 4-13 estaciones por sector) que proporcionan una valor robusto de VAR. Los valores de rotacion varian entre +1 y +67 dependiendo de la unidad estructural. Asumiendo que la deformacion interna es despreciable, los margenes de error en el calculo de SH se han estimado teniendo en cuenta los valores de rotacion a lo largo de cada corte (modelo 1). Dependiendo de los angulos de confianza de la rotacion (a95) y del promedio de la rotacion, los errores de acortamiento varian entre 1% en Anso a 23% en Cotiella (0.3 y 10.2 km respectivamente). Por otra parte, el gradiente de acortamiento esperado entre las dos secciones se ha calculado a partir de los valores de rotacion entre las mismas (modelo 2). El caculo independiente de SH en la seccion de Cotiella, introduce errores de entre 4% a 54% (3.8 y 47.4 km respectivamente) en relacion con el acortamiento estimado original (88 km a partir del corte compensado). La estimacion de SH depende en gran medida del valor de rotacion elegido. Debido a la construccion grafica de estos modelos, el acortamiento obtenido a partir de los cortes compensados siempre estara sobrestimado.
Changes in Traffic Characteristics Affected by Number of Lanes on Freeways

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of the number of lanes on freeway traffic characteristics. Methodologically, we provide a better understanding of the relationship between freeway traffic characteristics and its number of lanes upon the empirical analysis. The empirical research is validated upon the extensive field survey of traffic flow in Beijing and Shanghai. More significant improvements are observed on two-lane (in one direction) freeways, then on three-lane freeways as compared to those on four-lane freeways. In congested traffic conditions, at the same densities, both flow rate per lane and average speed decrease with increasing number of lanes on uninterrupted freeway segments. Based on the difference among the speed-density relationships, two different arguments on whether building a wide road or building a number of narrow roads are interpreted. Further it indicates that, the change of lane-changing activity and its associated disturbance to traffic stream causes significant differences in traffic operational characteristics on different-lane freeways. The results of the researches are the background support that tends to revise the highway capacity manuals, optimize planning and design of road network, and improve supervision and control of traffic network.
COMMENT Intravenous Beta-Blockade for Limiting Myocardial Infarct Size Rejuvenation of a Concept *

A fter coronary thrombosis, the quantity of heart muscle that becomes necrotic (i.e., myocardial infarct size [MIS]) is an important determinant of left ventricular (LV) function and long-term clinical outcome (1). Clearly, early reperfusion of the occluded artery limits MIS and improves LV function and post-infarction survival. Substantial efforts have been directed toward developing adjunctive pharmacological therapies to further limit MIS. Numerous agents showed promise in experimental animal models, but many of these drugs failed to reduce MIS or improve outcomes in clinical trials (2). However, recent work by investigators at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) in Madrid and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York suggest that drugs tested in animal experiments and clinical studies more than 40 years ago now deserve renewed attention (3). In 1969 and in the early 1970s, studies by Braunwald et al. (4), Maroko et al. (5), Reimer et al. (6), and Rasmussen et al. (7) showed that in open-chest anesthetized dogs, early intravenous (IV) administration of beta-blockers reducedMIS. Onemechanism suggested at the time was that beta-blockers reduce the oxygen demand of ischemic, but not yet irreversibly injured,
Effect of Aerobic Training on Immune and Hormonal Responses to 30 Hours of Sleep Deprivation in Young Women

Background: Sleep deprivation might suppress the immune system by stimulating stress hormones and increasing susceptibility to infection. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of 8 weeks of aerobic training on immune and hormonal responses to 30 hours of sleep deprivation in young women. Methods: In this semi-experimental study, 21 young women aged 20 - 40 years were divided into control (n = 10) and aerobic training (n = 11) groups. The study was conducted in three separate stages. In the first stage, after 30 hours of sleep deprivation, blood sampling was performed. After 2 days, the subjects in the training group followed an aerobic training protocol consisting of 30 - 50 minutes of continuous running 3 days a week for 8 weeks with an intensity of 50 - 65% of the heart rate reserve (HRR). At least 48 hours after the last training session, the subjects in both control and training groups were deprived of sleep for 30 hours, and the blood samples were taken again. Leukocyte counts, serum immunoglobulin A (IgA), immunoglobulin G (IgG), and cortisol concentrations were measured. Results: The results showed that in the aerobic training group, the leukocytes count (P = 0.0001), serum IgA (P = 0.0001), and cortisol (P = 0.023) concentrations decreased significantly, compared to the control group (P < 0.05). However, serum IgG concentrations did not change significantly in both aerobic and control training groups during the intervention period (P = 0.084). Conclusions: According to the results of this study, it can be said that moderate-intensity aerobic training attenuated the disruption of immune and hormonal responses to 30 hours of sleep deprivation in young women.
Years Later : The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study Association of Physical Activity in Childhood and Early Adulthood With Carotid Artery Online

Kristiina S. Pälve, Katja Pahkala, Costan G. Magnussen, Teemu Koivistoinen, Markus Juonala, Mika Elasticity 21 Years Later: The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study Association of Physical Activity in Childhood and Early Adulthood With Carotid Artery Online ISSN: 2047-9980 Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Journal of the American Heart Association The doi: 10.1161/JAHA.113. 000594 2014;3:e000594; originally published April 22, 2014; J Am Heart Assoc. http://jaha.ahajournals. org/content/3/2/e000594 World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located on the