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A Life-Course Perspective on Physical Activity Promotion: Applications and Implications

This article illustrates how a life-course perspective can be infused more fully into the research field of physical activity promotion. A life-course perspective is particularly promising in connecting, organizing, and supplementing current knowledge and can potentially stimulate and direct future research and intervention efforts by using a time-sensitive, opportunistic, and developmental approach. The first section summarizes this approach into five key life-course principles including human agency, linked lives, time and place, life-span development, and timing. The second section takes a closer look at three time-based components: trajectories, transitions, and turning points. The final section highlights some of the implications of a life-course perspective for research methods and interventions, especially among children and older adults.
The Undervaluation of Distressed Company's Equity

In a simple firm value model we consider the impact of the insolvency probability on the valuation of equity and debt, which are assumed to be not publicly traded. For the case of a distressed company, which usually has high debt and low equity, we can show that the impact becomes increasingly important. Disregarding this yields an overvaluation of debt and an undervaluation of equity. We calculate the sensitivity of equity with regard to debt, which is isomorphic to the sensitivity of a call option with regard to the strike price, and show that this sensitivity rises with increasing debt. Furthermore, we provide a numerical example of this effect.
The pledge rate research of copper and zinc inventory portfolio based on Copula-VaR method

This paper selects copper and zinc as a stock portfolio of mortgage financing. It calculates stock portfolio return risk by the value at risk method, introduces Copula function to measure the two pledges' relationship, simulates portfolio yield trend by Monte Carlo method to get Var value. At last compare Copula-Var method with traditional method, The new method can reflect more collateral prices spike characteristics, estimated loss better when value at risk. The conclusion of the study establishes the foundation for further study on the theory and methods of inventory financing portfolio.
SME Finance in Africa

This paper uses cross-country firm-level surveys to gauge access to financial services and the importance of financing constraints for African enterprises. The paper compares access to finance in Africa and other developing regions of the world, within Africa across countries, and across different groups of firms. It relates firms' access to finance to firm and banking system characteristics and discusses policy challenges.
Material selection in engineering design using choquet integral-based linguistic operators under hybrid environment

The performance of phase change materials directly influences the performance and cost of thermal energy storage, and it is the first important task to select the suitable phase change materials for use in a particular kind of applications. Due to the decision maker's knowledge field and the nature of evaluated attributes, assessments are always with different formats, which were first unified into the linguistic terms in the basic linguistic term set. Two-additive fuzzy measures were used to model criteria interactions by pairs, and the special expressions of Marichal entropy and Choquet integral were derived, more convenient to use in practice. Fuzzy measures were identified based on the maximum of Marichal entropy, and, based on the Choquet integral, the linguistic hybrid weighted geometric averaging with interaction was developed for integrating the individual attributes' ratings. The detailed decision making procedure was illustrated, with the material 33.2Cu as the optimal solution, which by comparison is reasonable and trustworthy.
Trust Authorization Monitoring Model in IoT

With strong heterogeneity and the limited computing ability of IoT nodes, this dissertation proposes a Trust Authorization Model based on detection feedback in IoT that is combined with the current trust model of IoT as well as implement storage and other tasks. By calculating and storing the cluster head node along with its strong ability to facilitate the data transmission and search for energy consumption, it prevents the local network from being limited by the computing power of the device. In terms of trust calculation, the threshold value is based on the recommendation. At the same time, the BP neural network algorithm with self-learning function is periodically detecting the interactive data stream, detecting the attack nodes, quickly implementing the response measures, and meeting the actual situation of unmanned IoT of mass devices. Simulation results show that this model has lower energy consumption than other similar models, has good coping ability for attacks such as malicious recommendation and malicious slander, and has a higher detection rate and response rate to attack nodes.
Effect of Fertilizer Concentration on the GrowthPerformance of Cassia nodosa Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.and Cassia fistula L. Seedlings under GreenhouseConditions of Kuwait

Fertilizer application is a common practice adopted in nurseries for the production of healthy seedlings since addition of the right amount of fertilizer can promote profuse flowering and foliage growth in flowering trees. Cassia nodosa Buch. -Ham. ex Roxb. (Pink shower) and Cassia fistula L. (Golden shower) are two flowering trees that are tolerant to hot arid climates and produce abundant masses of colorful flowers for long durations. Since plants require adequate amount of nutrients to ensure optimum yield, it is essential to find out the appropriate quantity of fertilizer required for the seedlings based on the plants actual growth. Therefore, the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) initiated this project to evaluate the growth response of Cassia nodosa and Cassia fistula species individually to different nutrient concentrations and to detect the best treatment among three levels of fertilization. The study revealed that both the species of Cassia exhibited maximum plant height and number of leaves when N: P: K was applied at 1g/l in a growing medium comprising of sand: peat moss: humus (1:1:1 v/v) compared to other fertilizer levels.
Study of Value Co-Creation in CoPS

Value co-creation is associated with specific investment in the context of CoPS. The feature of CoPS decides that the study of co-creation cannot execute without regarding asset specificity. This study considers that value co-creation will be associated with specific value, which is outcome of relationship value and asset specificity. Supplier and customer have a close relation, which conducts to specific investment and then it turns to obstacle for competitors. Trust, commitment and satisfaction are involved in the process of value co-creation and the process of value co-creation leads to relationship expansion.
Gravity Drainage Kinetics of Papermaking Fibrous Suspensions

The study analyses application possibilities of filtration and thickening models in evaluation of papermaking suspension drainage rate. The authors proposed their own method to estimate the drainage rate on the basis of an existing Ergun capillary model of liquid flow through a granular material. The proposed model was less sensitive to porosity changes than the Ergun model. An empirical verification proved robustness of the proposed approach. Taking into account discrepancies in the published data concerning how the drainage velocity of papermaking suspension is defined, this study examines which of the commonly applied models matches experimental results the best.
Phenomenology of TMDs

We present a review of current Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) phenomenology focusing our attention on the unpolarized TMD parton distribution function and the Sivers function. The paper introduces and comments about the new Collins-Soper-Sterman (CSS) TMD evolution formalism. We make use of a selection of results obtained by several groups to illustrate the achievements and the failures of the simple Gaussian approach and the TMD CSS evolution formalism.
DEVELOPING A CONCEPTUAL LEAN BRIEFING PROCESS MODEL FOR LEAN DESIGN MANAGEMENT

Although the concept of lean design management in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) is still evolving and open to debate, it has helped to emphasise the importance of value and waste to the design team. An essential element of lean design management is briefing. Briefing is the process by which clients express and articulate their desires, and from which the design team develop their design. From a design management perspective briefing is a crucial stage in which values are explored and value expressed; and a process that could be better managed to help eliminate uncertainty and waste in the design and construction phases. A comprehensive literature review found that, aspects of process waste relating to ineffective briefing appear to have been neglected to date, which stimulated the idea of rethinking the briefing process to address waste at its origin. The research exposed limitations with current approaches to briefing and identified the potential for change. Applying lean thinking to the briefing process, with emphasis on value and flow, appears to provide an alternative approach to the traditional methods. A conceptual lean briefing process model is introduced by the authors, using lean management principles to achieve best value from the briefing process. This work reports the outcome of the first phase of the on-going research that aims to investigate and analyse the application of lean management principles in the briefing process for lean design management implementation; and to explore its validity within Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects' by looking at the theory and the application of lean design management. It is hoped that, this study followed by the outcome of the on-going research will contribute to the theoretical understanding and practical implementation of lean design management in AEC.
Educational aspirations and choices of people from differentiated national and cultural environments: a review of recent scientific literature

The social field in the modern globalized world includes groups of people with differentiated national and cultural characteristics. These groups possess their own system of dispositions, which are primarily shaped within the context of the family. The purpose of this study is the investigation and presentation of young people’s aspirations and choices concerning their educational future as these are influenced by factors which are related to the phenomenon of migration, through a review of recent scientific literature. From the analysis of the research findings of relevant scientific papers, the influence of socio-economic, cultural and institutional factors on the formation of young people’s educational aspirations/expectations and choices emerges. Family habitus, as well as the institutional habitus that exists within the academic institutions, tend to contribute significantly to the decisions and choices young people make which define their educational course. In particular, most research findings converge on the fact that education constitutes a means of social mobility offering the opportunity to young people from underprivileged family environments to ‘transform’ and/or improve their position in the field of social stratification. As a result, young people aspire to pursue higher education studies though the mobilization of a ‘transformative’ habitus, anticipating that it will improve the terms, conditions and prospects of their life in the future.
Effects of different force moulting methods on performance, egg quality and plasma metabolites in Japanese quails

This study investigated the effects of various force moulting methods on egg physical and mechanical characteristics, plasma metabolites and performance of Japanese quails from 26 to 36 weeks of age. The treatments were: T1 (control), T2 (feed restriction), T3 (alfalfa powder), T4 (wheat screening powder, a by-product obtained after harvesting and processing of wheat). Egg production ceased completely with feed restriction and alfalfa treatments by days 4 and 3. Also, birds under feed restriction and alfalfa treatments returned to first egg at day 4 of post-moulting period. No significant differences were found in feed intake, egg mass, egg production, feed conversion ratio (FCR), and mortality of quails in response to experimental treatments after moulting (P>0.05). Feed restriction led to significantly higher egg weight in comparison to control and wheat screening treatments (P<0.01). No significant effect on egg quality was found by forced-moulting methods (P>0.05). The calcium concentration was higher (P<0.001) in control birds than in others at the end of moulting. It can be concluded that using alfalfa and to a lesser extent feed restriction may be suitable force-moulting methods in quails.
An entropy regularization method applied to the identification of wave distribution function for an ELF hiss event

An entropy regularization algorithm (ERA) has been developed to compute the waveenergy density from electromagnetic field measurements. It is based on the wave distribution function (WDF) concept. To assess its suitability and efficiency, the algorithm is applied to experimental data that has already been analyzed using other inversion techniques. The FREJA satellite data that is used consists of six spectral matrices corresponding to six time-frequency points of an ELF hiss-event spectrogram. The WDF analysis is performed on these six points and the results are compared with those obtained previously. A statistical stability analysis confirms the stability of the solutions. The WDF computation is fast and without any prespecified parameters. The regularization parameter has been chosen in accordance with the Morozov's discrepancy principle. The Generalized Cross Validation and L-curve criterions are then tentatively used to provide a fully datadriven method. However, these criterions fail to determine a suitable value of the regularization parameter. Although the entropy regularization leads to solutions that agree fairly well with those already published, some differences are observed, and these are discussed in detail. The main advantage of the ERA is to return the WDF that exhibits the largest entropy and to avoid the use of a priori models, which sometimes seem to be more accurate but without any justification.
First confirmed report of Hawksbill Sea Turtle Eretmochelys imbricata in nearshore waters of Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

The hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata; Critically Endangered) has a circumtropical distribution. In Polynesia it inhabits the waters of a great number of islands; however, up to date there are no official records for Easter Island. We document the first report of E. imbricata in Easter Island and Chile based on underwater photographs and examination of one individual. The confirmation of the presence of hawksbills extends the known distribution range for the species, increases the number of sea turtle species recorded for Chile, and highlights the need for further research on potential threats to the species and the importance of Rapa Nui as developmental and foraging habitat for hawksbills.
Predicting model of mathematics problem solving: the role of achievement goal & self-regulation strategies

The purpose of this study was to develop and test a model of math problem solving performance based on achievement goals and self- regulation strategies. 435 male and female students from first grade high schoolers in Yazd were selected. To collect data, a math test and two questionnaires were applied, i.e. achievement goals ( Elliot & Mc Gregor, 2001) and Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich et al, 1991). The results indicated that the obtained model fits the data adequately. Motivational strategies had a direct effect on problem solving. Furthermore, mastery and performance approaches had affected cognitive, metacognitive, motivational, and resource management strategies directly. Goal approaches had affected students' problem solving performance indirectly. Performance avoidance goals had no effect on motivation strategies and mathematics problem solving.
No Harm, No Foul? Justifying Bans On Safe Performance-Enhancing Drugs

Scholars such as Simon (2007; 2004) and Loland (2002) as well as the authors of the World Anti-Doping Code (2001) argue that using performance-enhancing substances is unhealthy and unfairly coercive for other athletes. Critics of the anti-doping position such as Hoberman (1995), Miah et al. (2005) and Tamburrini (2007) are quick to argue that such prohibitions, even though well-intended, constitute an unjustifiable form of paternalism. However, advocates for both of these positions assume that preserving good health and, conversely, avoiding health-related harms, lie at the centre of the debate. Given the apparent stalemate in the debate over the validity of health concerns on performance-enhancing drugs, in this essay, I investigate ethical issues of ‘harm-free’ pharmaceutical performance enhancement. Beginning with the hypothesis that a harm-free performance-enhancing drug may be produced in the future, I ask if there would still be compelling reasons for prohibiting such a drug. I address this question by providing two arguments against allowing athletes to use pharmaceutical performance-enhancing drugs – the damage to the testing and contesting of sport and the loss of internal goods that are intrinsically satisfying. These two arguments taken together, I argue, are sufficient to sustain the prohibition of pharmaceutical performance-enhancing drugs without citing their harmful side effects.
An Ethnopoetic Analysis of a Traditional Kashaya

This paper places the text of a Kashaya traditional narrative in cultural context and analyzes linguistic, poetic, and rhetorical features that contribute to its artistry. In part, this necessitates a reconstruction of the culture that gave rise to the narrative itself, in the tradition of much Native American anthropology, as both the language of the narrative and the gambling game it describes are no longer an active part of the Kashaya culture today. In the interim, the narrator of the gambling myth opened the docr to linguists and anthropologists more than three decades ago to preserve as much traditional information as possible for future generations. Brief fragments of the narrator's formal and conversational speech are included as a narrow window onto the culture at that time to illustrate the prevailing conditions that facilitated preservation of the text. The gambling game depicts a traditional gambling game between coast creatures and forest creatures. Background information is provided on the game. The differences between the traditional context of telling coyote stories and the performance that is represented by the text are described. Finally, the poetic and rhetorical structure of the text in terms of grammatical and thematic parallelism, forms of reference, morphological marking, and other narrative devices are examined. Contains 39 references. (Author/JL) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. ******************************i. **************************************** "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY
Stability analysis of delayed Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy systems: a new integral inequality approach

This paper is concerned with the problem of the stability analysis for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with interval time-varying delay. The delay is assumed to be differential with interval bounds, and has both the lower and upper bounds of the delay derivatives, in which the upper bound of delay derivative may be greater than one. By constructing some delaydependent Lyapunov functions, some stability criteria are derived by using the convex optimization method and new integral inequality techniques. Utilizing integral inequalities for quadratic functions plays a key role in the field of stability analysis for delayed T-S fuzzy systems, and some integral inequalities for quadratic functions are derived and employed in order to produce tighter bounds than what the Jensen inequality and Wirtinger-based inequality produce. Then, less conservative stability criteria are derived by using convex combination method and improved integral inequalities based on appropriate Lyapunov-Krasovskii (LK) functional. Finally, several examples are given to show the advantages of the proposed results. c ©2017 All rights reserved.
Understanding the water emission in the mid- and far-IR from protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars

Aims: We investigate which properties of protoplanetary disks around T Tauri stars affect the physics and chemistry in the regions where mid- and far-IR water lines originate and their respective line fluxes. We search for diagnostics for future observations. Methods: With the code ProDiMo, we build a series of models exploring a large parameter space, computing rotational and ro-vibrational transitions of water in nonlocal thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE). We select a sample of transitions in the mid-IR regime and the fundamental ortho and para water transitions in the far-IR. We investigate the chemistry and the local physical conditions in the line emitting regions. We calculate Spitzer spectra for each model and compare far-IR and mid-IR lines. In addition, we use mid-IR colors to tie the water line predictions to the dust continuum. Results: Parameters affecting the water line fluxes in disks by more than a factor of three are : the disk gas mass, the dust-to-gas mass ratio, the dust maximum grain size, interstellar medium (ISM) UV radiation field, the mixing parameter of Dubrulle settling, the disk flaring parameter, and the dust size distribution. The first four parameters affect the mid-IR lines much more than the far-IR lines. Conclusions: A key driver behind water spectroscopy is the dust opacity, which sets the location of the water line emitting region. We identify three types of parameters, including those (1) affecting global disk opacity and opacity function (maximum dust size and dust size distribution); (2) affecting global disk opacity (dust-to-gas mass ratio, Dubrulle settling, disk gas mass); and (3) not affecting disk opacity (flaring parameter, ISM UV radiation field, fraction of PAHs). Parameters, such as dust-to-gas ratio, ISM radiation field, and dust size distribution, affect the mid-IR lines more, while the far-IR transitions are more affected by the flaring index. The gas mass greatly affects lines in both regimes. Higher spectral resolution and line sensitivities, like from the James Webb Space Telescope, are needed to detect a statistically relevant sample of individual water lines to distinguish further between these types of parameters. Appendices are available in electronic form at http://www.aanda. org