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Body composition and the level of fitness in 10 to 14-year-old girls in western Hungary: the impact of the new PE curriculum

Summary Study aim: Over the last two decades, the body fat mass has been increasing and the level of physical fitness has been decreasing in school-aged children. Due to the health-related concerns that have arisen regarding school-aged children, the Hungarian government introduced everyday physical education in 2012. Since girls are more disposed to higher body fat and low fitness levels, the aim of our study was to characterise the physique, body composition and aerobic capacity of 10 to 14-year-old girls three years after the introduction of the new curriculum with daily PE lessons. Material and methods: All of the primary schools that were selected to participate in this study serve as partnership schools in the University of West Hungary’s teacher training programme (N = 8). The sample included only those upper primary school girls (10 to 14 years of age) who participated in the everyday physical education lesson (N = 543). Standard anthropometric techniques and a 20m shuttle run test were selected for the analysis. Results: An important result of this study was the finding that differences in the body composition features were consistently significant among the age groups. However, there were no differences among the age groups in the results of the 20 m multi-stage fitness test, nor in the girls’ relative aerobic capacity. Conclusions: It can be presumed that an unfavourable body composition and poor fitness occur primarily in the prepuberty years. Everyday physical education serves as a good opportunity for shaping the girls’ fitness level and body composition, and also for encouraging healthy active living.
Analysis and Design of Phase Locked Loops with insight into Wavelet Analysis

ii Acknowledgments. iv Vita . v List of Tables . viii List of Figures . ix Chapter 1: Introduction . 1 Chapter 2: PLL Design Theory . 3 2.1: Phase Locked Loop : Structure & Operation.3 2.2: Tracking and Acquisition.12 2.3: Linear PLL Model.15 2.4: PLL Noise Analysis.18 2.4.1: Reference Noise.22 2.4.2: VCO Noise.23 2.4. 3: Loop Filter Noise.25 2.4. 4: Dead Zone in PFD.25 Chapter 3: Digital PLL.27 3.1: Classical Digital PLL.30 vii 3.2: ADPLL.33 Chapter 4: Injection Locking in Oscillators.37 4.1: Injection Locking in Relaxation Oscillators.39 4.2: Injection Locking in Ring Oscillators.40 Chapter 5: Wavelet Analysis of Injection Locked Oscillators.42 5.1: Wavelet analysis of injection locked oscillator. 45 Chapter 6: Conclusions.55 References.57 Appendix A: MATLAB Code for wavelet analysis.60 Appendix B: MATLAB Commands for Importing TopSpice Data.63
Understanding user motivations influencing choice of social network sites among high school teenagers in Kenya

The popularity of Social Network Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram demonstrates the addictive appeal of online communities, particularly among teenagers. Such addictive appeal is accompanied by both positive and negative aspects, which raises the question of what influences teenagers’ choice of SNSs. This study addresses the gap in empirical research related to user gratification factors influencing choice of SNSs among high school teenagers. This was a quantitative study involving 481 respondents purposively drawn from Nairobi County. Findings revealed personal identity, surveillance and social capital significantly influencing choice of SNSs. The study recommended enhanced use of SNSs in behavior change communication among teenagers.
Free Vibration Analysis of Symmetrically Laminated Folded Plate Structures Using an Element-Free Galerkin Method

An element-free Galerkin method for the solution of free vibration of symmetrically laminated folded plate structures is introduced. Employing the mature meshfree folded plate model proposed by the author, a folded laminated plate is simulated as a composite structure of symmetric laminates that lie in different planes. Based on the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT) and the moving least-squares (MLS) approximation, the stiffness and mass matrices of the laminates are derived and supposed to obtain the stiffness and mass matrices of the entire folded laminated plate. The equation governing the free vibration behaviors of the folded laminated plate is thus established. Because of the meshfree characteristics of the proposed method, no mesh is involved to determine the stiffness and mass matrices of the laminates. Therefore, the troublesome remeshing can be avoided completely from the study of such problems as the large deformation of folded laminated plates. The calculation of several numerical examples shows that the solutions given by the proposed method are very close to those given by ANSYS, using shell elements, which proves the validity of the proposed method.
Isolation and Molecular Characterization of Chromium Resistant Fungi Having Competence to Degrade Anthracene from Industrial Effluent of South Gujarat

Fungi being robust organism makes significant contribution in natural remediation of heavy metals and xenobiotic compound. Out of the thirty three different fungi isolated twenty two isolates were found to be chromium resistant. Fungus belonging to genera Penicillium and Trichoderma sp. were highly resistant to chromium up to 2000-2500ppm. Biosorption studies of chromium evaluated using live biomass of fungi shows maximum biosorption of the Cr 6+ i.e. 74% of 1000ppm Cr 6+ after 14 days. Degradation of anthracene with four different fungus isolates were studied and of them Penicilliumsp. , Tichoderma sp. and Penicilliundecumbenshave confirmed their ability to degrade anthracene in minimal media. All the isolates were identified based on 18S rDNA gene sequencing and sequence were submitted to GenBank under accession no. KF284156-61 for Aspergillusterreus, Penicillium Sp. , Penicilliumdecumbens, Trichodermaamazonicum, Hypocreaatroviridis and Trichoderma Sp. respectively. Phylogenetic study with some Cr resistant and/or PAHs degrading fungi was also carried out by using MEGA5. In all Penicilliundecumbenshas proven to be potentially useful strain and can be used for bioremediation of industrial effluent containing chromium and anthracene.
3D self-supported nanoarchitectured arrays electrodes for lithium-ion batteries

Three-dimensional self-supported nanoarchitectured arrays electrodes (3DSNAEs) consisting of a direct growth of nanoarchitectured arrays on the conductive current collector, including homogeneous and heterogeneous nanoarchitectured arrays structures, have been currently studied as the most promising electrodes owing to their synergies resulting from the multistructure hybrid and integrating heterocomponents to address the requirements (high energy and power density) of superperformance lithium ion batteries (LIBs) applied in portable electronic consumer devices, electric vehicles, large-scale electricity storage, and so on. In the paper, recent advances in the strategies for the fabrication, selection of the different current collector substrates, and structural configuration of 3DSNAEs with different cathode and anode materials are investigated in detail. The intrinsic relationship of the unique structural characters, the conductive substrates, and electrochemical kinetic properties of 3DSNAEs is minutely analyzed. Finally, the future design trends and directions of 3DSNAEs are highlighted, which may open a new avenue of developing ideal multifunctional 3DSNAEs for further advanced LIBs.
Development and evaluation of automated system for RFID tag performance measurements

The paper discusses the development of a device for directional characteristics measurements of RFID tags marked objects. Current procedures for carrying out laboratory tests of UHF RFID devices rely on relatively high involvement of human labour associated with higher risk of measurements errors. The newly developed system that performs great part of manual operations autonomously reduces the risk of measurement errors and enables experiments to be performed faster, more accurate and in repeatable manner.
Diverging Relaxation Times of Domain Wall Motion Indicating Glassy Dynamics in Ferroelastics

Single crystals of PbZrO3 and LaAlO3 have been studied by Dynamic Mechanical Analysis measurements in the low frequency range f = 0.02-50 Hz. The complex Young's modulus exhibits a quite rich behavior and depends strongly on the direction of the applied dynamic force. The low frequency elastic response in the [110]c-direction is dominated by domain wall motion, leading to a superelastic softening effect below Tc. With decreasing temperature this superelastic softening gradually disappears, due to an increasing relaxation time τDW of domain wall motion. For PbZrO3, τDW seems to diverge at a finite temperature TVF, indicating glassy behavior of domain freezing.
Examining the Link between High Performance Human Resource Practices ( HPHRP ) and Organisational Performance : Evidence From the Jordanian Manufacturing and Financial Sectors Ms

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between High Performance Human Resource Practices (HPHRP) and organisational performance. Moreover, the study attempts to provide empirical verification of the AMO (Ability, Motivation, and Opportunity) framework as a conceptual model concerning the core components of HPHRP. A cross sectional study was conducted on Jordanian private firms operating in both financial and manufacturing sectors. The final research sample consisted of 118 questionnaires. The study provides empirical support for the conceptualisation of HPHRP based on the AMO framework. Moreover, this study shows that HPHRP are associated with an increase in financial performance and employee productivity. Overall, these findings support previous claims that the adoption of HPHRP contributes to organisational success.
Family control and the value of cash holdings

The present study investigates the effects of family control on the value of corporate cash holdings. Using a large sample of French listed firms, the results show that the value of excess cash reserves is lower in family firms than in other firms, reflecting investors’ concern about the potential misuse of cash by controlling families. We also find that the value of excess cash is lower when controlling families are involved in management and when they maintain a grip on control, indicating that investors do not expect the efficient use of cash in these firms. Our findings are consistent with the argument that the extent to which excess cash contributes to firm value is lower when dominant shareholders are likely to expropriate firm resources. Overall, family control seems to be a key determinant of cash valuation when ownership is concentrated.
Air Pollution Exposure and Osteoporosis among Retired Workers with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Background: While effects of occupational and environmental air pollution exposure on inflammation-related cardiopulmonary impairment are well documented, the association linking long-term air pollution exposure and osteoporosis risk is still unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate effects of long-term air pollution exposure on the risk of osteoporosis in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods: We collected 70 retired workers’ data from the pulmonary outpatient unit of a medical center in Taiwan and air pollution data from the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration. Associations of 1-year averaged criteria air pollutants [particulate matter with aerodynamic diameters <10 μm (PM10), ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and carbon monoxide (CO)] with the risk of osteoporosis were explored by generalized additive models. Effect modification by inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) usage was also assessed in the model. Results: After controlling for age, sex, body mass index, current smoking, drinking, ICS usage, six-minute walk distance, global initiative for chronic obstructive and smooth functions of interview date and yearly temperature, we observed that increased 1-year averaged NO2 was significantly associated with 45% higher odds of osteoporosis (odds ratio=1.451 [95% confidence interval=1.124 to 1.778]). Retired workers with ICS usage showed 44% higher odds of osteoporosis associated with increased NO2. Conclusions: The risk of developing osteoporosis among retired workers with COPD was positively associated with long-term exposure to 1-year averaged NO2. ICS usage can modify the effect of NO2 on osteoporosis risk.
New Approach to Optimization by simulating insect in wheat farms

The aim of optimization is to determine the best-suited solution to a problem under a given set of constraints. Several researchers over the decades have come up with different solutions to linear and non-linear optimization problems. Mathematically an optimization problem involves a fitness function describing the problem, under a set of constraints representing the solution space for the problem. Unfortunately, most of the traditional optimization techniques are centered around evaluating the first derivatives to locate the optima on a given constrained surface. Because of the difficulties in evaluating the first derivatives, to locate the optima for many rough and discontinuous optimization surfaces, in recent times, several derivative free optimization algorithms have emerged. The optimization problem, now-adays, is represented as an intelligent search problem, where one or more agents are employed to determine the optima on a search landscape, representing the constrained surface for the optimization problem. Almost all of the approach to solve NP-hard and NP-complete problem simulate artificial life. In this research, the behavior of eurygaster life is studied, so according to their life the new algorithm is introduced. In spite of PSO algorithm, that is used to solve continuous nonlinear functions, researchers’ algorithm is so suitable to solve both continuous and discrete functions. Eurygasters attack to grain farms and distributed over them. It is worth to mention that these insects attack to farms in groups and each group colonize in one farm. It is observed that after periods of time all of the farms in a region are occupied by these groups of eurygasters. When each group of these insects are going to seek a farm to feed on it, they consider nearly all the farms and settles on a farm which have a lowest distance with them and doesn’t have any group of eurygasters. It is clear that by distributing several groups of eurygasters, depending on the problem size, on search space of problem, the solution of the problem can be extracted. In this research, using the behavior of eurygasters, a new algorithm has been invented and has been tested on graph partitioning. The evaluation results show the advantage of researcher algorithm over ancient ones like genetic and PSO.
Industry Specifics and Consumers’ Reactions to Business Crises

Abstract Different scientific studies provide many valuable recommendations how to manage crises in order to lessen their negative effect on relations with consumers. But the question whether the same business crises management rules can be applied for different industries, or they must be adapted depending on industries specifics, has not received sufficient scientific attention. Knowledge gaps about industry specific effect on consumer reactions to business crises remain. This study focuses on understanding the differences in consumers’ reactions in business crises situations with regard to controversial evaluation in the society of “the sin industries” (alcohol, tobacco, gambling, etc.) and ordinary industries (not having controversial associations). Experimental research design, including online experiment with tobacco, beer and functional soft drinks consumers (in total 306 respondents), was chosen for competing research hypotheses testing. Empirical evidence was in line with theoretical argumentation about less negative consumers’ reactions during business crises in case of “sin industries” versus ordinary industry. This study shows that consumers attitudes, such as perception of company’s product quality, trust, social responsibility and behavioural intentions, such as intention to buy and recommend company’s products, are less negative during business crises in lower reputation “sin industries” than in ordinary industries.
Towards host-to-host meeting scheduling negotiation

This paper presents a different scheme of meeting scheduling negotiation among a large number of personnel in a heterogeneous community. This scheme, named Host-to-Host Negotiation, attempts to produce a stable schedule under uncertain personnel preferences. By collecting information from hosts’ inter organizational meeting, this study intends to guarantee personnel availability. As a consequence, personnel’s and meeting’s profile in this scheme are stored in a centralized manner. This study considers personnel preferences by adapting the Clarke Tax Mechanism, which is categorized as a non manipulated mechanism design. Finally, this paper introduces negotiation strategies based on the conflict handling mode. A host-to-host scheme can give notification if any conflict exist and lead to negotiation process with acceptable disclosed information. Nevertheless, a complete negotiation process will be more elaborated in the future works.
Evaluation of Trace Reduction Techniques for Online Trace Visualization

Software landscapes are becoming increasingly complex. Knowledge about the communication between the applications in the software landscape is often lost. The comprehension of such software systems can usually not be solved by static code analysis. The use of dynamic analysis in this process, e.g., with Kieker, leads rapidly to a large amount of trace data. For several purposes like storage or live trace visualization, e.g., with ExplorViz, these data must be reduced. This thesis addresses this issue by presenting 12 different trace reduction techniques. These techniques are based on summarization, metric-based filtering, or removing utility methods. We evaluate all techniques based on our assessment criteria, and implement the most promising techniques as filters for ExplorViz. We also experiment with 6 execution traces of different object-oriented systems and study the gain attained by these reduction techniques.
Pastoral Attitudes that Predict Numerical Church Growth

The attitudes of 92 head pastors were measured concerning 20 ministry-relevant ideas and practices, as well as information about their church’s present numerical growth. A statistical analysis found four pastoral attitudes that predict positive or negative numerical church growth. Positive predictors of numerical church growth were strong beliefs that 1) personal and corporate prayer are important and 2) transfer growth is an indicator of congregational health. Negative predictors of numerical church growth were strong beliefs in 1) the importance of preaching and 2) the importance of outreach to the community. The practical implications of these findings are discussed in light of evangelical theology.
The relationship of regional longitudinal strain changes and response to cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction and left bundle branch block

Introduction. Strain and strain rate (SR) are techniques, which provide local information on myocardial deformation. The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of strain and SR measurement in cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) response in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients. Materials and methods. The study included 35 CHF patients with QRS complex duration ≥ 120ms with LBBB morphology. Biochemical and clinical parameters were assessed before and after six months of CRT. TTE classical and tissue Doppler echocardiography parameters (longitudinal peak systolic strain — LPS and SR for basal segment of intraventricular septum and lateral wall) were evaluated. Results. Twenty-two patients (62.8%) benefited from CRT (the responders) and revealed improvement in septal and lateral LPS in the 6-month observation [-7.1 (-5.2– -11.1) vs -12.1 (-8.7– -14)%, p = 0.002; 10.4 (-6.1– -17.6) vs 13.8 (-8.9 – -17.8)%, p = 0.03; respectively]. Six months after CRT, the responders were characterised by higher increase in septal LPS comparing to the nonresponders (-4.6 ± 6.1 vs -2.4 ± 3.9%, p = 0.045). Septal LPS changes correlated positively with baseline cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) parameters: peak oxygen uptake (r = 0.6, p = 0.004), peak carbon dioxide excretion (r = 0.62, p = 0.002) and negatively with VE/VCO2 slope (r = -0.5, p = 0.037). Conclusions. LV regional LPS appears to be a good parameter reflecting the improvement of clinical status in patients treated with CRT. The responders had better improvement of septal LPS, therefore positive response to this therapy may be related to the improvement of septal contractility.
Evaluation of NS1 Antigen Detection for Early Diagnosis of Dengue Virus Infection in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Karnataka, India

Dengue has become a major global public health problem in the developing countries. The estimated risk of acquiring Dengue virus infection (DV) is approximately 2.5 billion people living mainly in urban areas (Halstead et al., 2007). DV causes various clinical symptoms ranging from asymptomatic or undifferentiated fever, known as dengue fever (DF), dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), dengue shock syndrome (DSS), leading to death, especially among children (Gubler et al.,1999). Viral isolation by culture or viral RNA detection by PCR helps in the diagnosis of recent dengue infection. But this viral isolation is very time consuming and requires specialized laboratory equipment (Sathish et al., 2003). Newer PCR types like nested reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and realtime RT-PCR have significantly reduced processing times but are expensive and technically exacting (Bessof et al., 2008). As a result, dengue culture and PCR have limited utility in routine clinical use. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 5 Number 12 (2016) pp. 710-717 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas. com
Expression analysis of immunity related genes in White Leghorn layers supplemented with probiotics and prebiotics

One hundred and forty White Leghorn layers of 22-23±0.08 weeks of age were divided randomly into seven experimental groups, having 4 replicates with 5 birds in each. Feeding trial was conducted for period of 16 weeks. During the trial, in (T1) control group layers were fed basal diet formulated as per BIS (2007) standards. While the basal diet was supplemented with probiotics (containing 5×108cfu/g of Lactobacillus fermentum, 1×109cfu/g of Bacillus spp. and 1×109cfu/g of Saccharomyces cerevisiae) @ 0.5g, 1.0g and 2.0g Kg-1 feed in T2, T3 and T4 treatment groups, respectively. In the present study the relative mRNA expression levels of immunity related genes viz. Toll like receptors (TLRs) TLR 5, TLR 21 and TNF receptor associated factor 6 (TRAF 6) was analyzed in reference to endogenous reference gene β-Actin. The study results revealed that there was significant (P