Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
THE EFFECT OF CORE TRAINING PROGRAM ON AEROBIC ENDURANCE, BLOOD-OXYGEN SATURATİON AND FLEXIBILITY IN ADOLESCENT TAEKWONDO COMPETITORS

The purpose of the study is to detect the effect of 8 weeks core training on aerobic endurance, blood-oxygen saturation and elasticity in the male taekwondo competıtors 15 to 17 years old. A total of 30 taekwondo athletes, between 15 and 17 years old of whom were 15 experimental and 15 control groups, participated in the study. The age (year), height (cm), weight (kg) of athletes were recorded on personal information form using an electronic scale, Geonaute. While the athletes in control group were regularly proceeding on taekwondo workouts, the core training programme was applied to the ones in experimental group three days a week for an extra eight weeks. Before starting to the workouts, yo-yo aerobic endurance test in the determination of aerobic endurance measurement; pulse oximetry measuring device in the determination of measurement; sit and reach test in the determination of elasticity ability were applied After all data were collected, it was recorded as pre-test and post-test. The control group proceeded regularly on taekwondo training significance levels were accepted as 0.05 in these tests. As a result, it was determined that the core training programme had a positive effect on aerobic endurance and elasticity test, pre-test and post-test difference values of the control and experimental groups. In both of these determined differences, it was detected that the values of the experimental group were higher than the control group. However, it was observed that there was no significant difference between resting heart rate and blood oxygen saturation test, post-test and pre-test of the conrol and experimental groups. It is thought that the core training programme will help the athletes to improve their sportive performances during working season, in the process of training and competition season and to take them to an advanced level.
Application of Link Grammar Formalism in Vietnamese - English Translation

: Link grammar is a new model built for Vietnamese. This model is able to specify most of grammatical phenomena and lexical features of Vietnamese in an intuitive mode. In this paper, we discuss the ability to apply the link grammar model to automatic translation from Vietnamese into English. We also present our translation system using Annotated Disjuncts (ADJ).
What ’ s Vol Got to Do with It ?

Uncertainty plays a key role in economics, finance, and decision sciences. Financial markets, in particular derivative markets, provide fertile ground for understanding how perceptions of economic uncertainty and cashflow risk manifest themselves in asset prices. We demonstrate that the variance premium, defined as the difference between the squared VIX index and expected realized variance, captures attitudes toward uncertainty. We show conditions under which the variance premium displays significant time variation and return predictability. A calibrated, generalized Long-Run Risks model generates a variance premium with time variation and return predictability that is consistent with the data, while simultaneously matching the levels and volatilities of the market return and risk free rate. Our evidence indicates an important role for transient non-Gaussian shocks to fundamentals that affect agents’ views of economic uncertainty and prices. ∗We thank seminar participants at Wharton, the CREATES workshop ‘New Hope for the C-CAPM? ’, Imperial College, Andy Abel and our discussant George Tauchen. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Rodney White Center at the Wharton School. †The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, idrexler@wharton.upenn. edu. ‡The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, yaron@wharton.upenn. edu.
Leadership Styles Of Women Entrepreneurs: An Exploratory Study At SME Sector At Karachi

This study is an exploratory, based on leadership styles of women entrepreneurs in the SME Sector, of Karachi with an interpretive approach. The data has been collected through primary and secondary sources via in depth interviews and questionnaires on leadership styles The focus is on exploring their dominant leadership styles, influencing employees to achieve efficacy in their organizations. The study reveals that women entrepreneurs generated innovative business systems and culture which is based on their unique leadership styles that led to their success in the SME sector. The common denominators of success among these women were constant across the nature of business; size of the organization; industry; age; educational level; family support; and, previous work experience. The factors that basis to their success mainly are their shared personality traits of being hardworking, determined, dedicated, modest, challenge seekers, trend setters, motivated, innovative, multi-tasking and employee retention. The styles of leadership based on Robert Galford theory namely; ambassador, advocate, creative builder, truth seeker, experienced guide, people mover, revealed the veracity of their skills in leadership. The findings of study have a positive connotation and it will be beneficial for training and guiding of upcoming women entrepreneurs.
Les profils musculaires inertiels permettent une définition plus précise des charges d'entraînement Inertial muscular profiles allow a more accurate training loads definition

Aims of the study. – The aim of the present study was to explore the interest of inertial load-velocity and load-power relationships for establishing resistance training zones. Materials and methods. – Thirty-five subjects went twice at the laboratory. The first session was used to determine bench press one repetition maximal (1RM) while the second session was used to determine load-velocity and load-power relationships by the means of an inertial dynamometer. For each subject, four major training zones (maximal velocity, power-velocity, strength-power, maximal strength), defined from the 1RM, were compared to the corresponding training zones defined from inertial load-velocity and load-power relationships. Results. – Training zones defined from the 1RM are significantly different (P < 0,001) from the ones based on load-velocity and load-power relationships. According to load-power and load-velocity relationships results, maximal bench press velocity should be trained from 0 to 23% of the 1RM; power-velocity should be trained from 25 to 54% of the 1RM; strength-power should be trained from 54 to 82% of the 1RM and maximal strength should be trained with superior loads. Such muscular profiles defined with inertial dynamometers allow a more acute and individualised prescription for power-velocity resistance training. © 2008 Elsevier Masson SAS. Tous droits reserves.
Effect of tillage on short-term CO2 emissions from a loam soil in semiarid Aragon (NE Spain)

4 Pag. , 1 Fig., 1 Tabl. Final Seminar of the Regional Action Programme on Rainfed Agriculture (RAP-RAG), Zaragoza (Spain), 2-3 June 2003. Additional info of resource: Mediterranean rainfed agriculture: Strategies for sustainability. Proceedings of the seminar, Cantero-Martinez, C. ; Centro UdL-Institut per la Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimenteries, Lleida (Spain). Dept. Producci¢n Vegetal y Ciencia Forestal)Gabina, D. (eds.- Zaragoza (Spain): CIHEAM-IAMZ, 2004. - ISBN 2-85352-294-6. - p. 51-54
: Unraveling the role of lattice substitutions on the stabilization of the intrinsically unstable Pb

: The pyroantimonate pigments Naples Yellow and lead tin antimonate yellow are recognized as some of the most stable synthetic yellow pigments in the history of art. However, this exceptional light-fastness is in contrast with experimental evidence suggesting that this class of mixed oxides is of semiconducting nature. In this study the electronic structure and light-induced behavior of the lead pyroantimonate pigments were determined by means of a combined multi-faceted analytical and computational approach (photo-electrochemical measurements, UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, STEM-EDS, STEM-HAADF and density functional theory calculations). The results demonstrate both the semiconducting nature and the lightfastness of these pigments. Poor optical absorption and minority carrier mobility are the main properties responsible for the observed stability. In addition, novel fundamental insights into the role played by Na atoms in the stabilization of the otherwise intrinsically unstable Pb 2 Sb 2 O 7 pyrochlore were obtained.
Magnetosheath Reconnection Before Magnetopause Reconnection Driven by Interplanetary Tangential Discontinuity: A Three‐Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulation With Oblique Interplanetary Magnetic Field

Terrestrial dayside dynamics associated with a southward turning, oblique interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) carried by an interplanetary tangential discontinuity (TD) is investigated by performing a three‐dimensional global‐scale hybrid simulation systematically for cases in which the incoming solar wind TD possesses various magnetic field rotation angles ΔΦ = 90° to 180° and half widths w = 2di0 to w = 30di0, where di0 is the ion inertial length in the solar wind. Overall, the TD is compressed while being transmitted into the magnetosheath, with different compression processes downstream of the quasi‐parallel (Q‐||) and quasi‐perpendicular (Q‐⊥) shocks. It is found that magnetosheath reconnection may take place downstream of both the Q‐|| and Q‐⊥ shocks due to interaction of the directional TD with the bow shock and magnetopause, but the existence of magnetosheath reconnection depends on w and ΔΦ. Magnetosheath flux ropes are formed through three‐dimensional patchy reconnection in the thinned current sheet, with a longer rope lengths under a larger ΔΦ. There exists a dawn‐dusk asymmetry in the spatial extent of the flux ropes, which becomes more significant as ΔΦ decreases. When ΔΦ decreases to 90°, no reconnection flux ropes are found. Magnetopause reconnection is initiated when the magnetic fluxes with a southward turning IMF (on the sunward side) reach the magnetopause, and the magnetopause flux ropes can be mixed with the magnetosheath ones. Our simulation demonstrates that the effects of a southward turning of the IMF may not be a simple field direction change that leads to reconnection only at the magnetopause.
Certain structural and functional aspects of a dry Deciduous forest and Savanna

Besides describing the climo-vegetational features and degradation trends in tropical forests in India, attention is focussed on the significance of dry tropical forests and various savanna types derived from them, and maintained, due to anthropogenic pressure, A comparative account of the available information on biomass, net production and nutrient (N and P) cycling in three forests (natural Shorea in terai, and natural Anogeissus and plantation Tectona in dry deciduous regions) is given. While the plant biomass among these forests differs considerably (ca. 1:20), the differences in net production are relatively smaller (ca. 1:4), The vegetation, litter and soil nutrient pools are greatest in the Shorea forest, as also the aboveground nutrient recycle through litterfall; however, the nutrient return belowground through root mortality is greater in the relatively dry Anogeissus forest. Herbs account for bulk of the production and nutrient cycling in savanna; and the savanna in different climatic regions show functional differences.
The relationship between physical performance measures and independence in instrumental activities of daily living. The FICSIT Group. Frailty and Injury: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Trials.

OBJECTIVES Understanding the relationship between physical capacity and functional status is required to design exercise interventions to maintain independent living. This study assessed the importance of physical performance in maintaining independence in Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). DESIGN A pre-planned meta-analysis of cross-sectional data from six sites of the Frailty and Injury: Cooperative Studies of Intervention Trials (FICSIT). Linear regression was used to estimate the relationship between physical performance and IADL. PARTICIPANTS 2190 community-dwelling older subjects. MEASUREMENTS IADL was the dependent variable; gait velocity, balance function, grip strength and chair rise time were the predictor variables. Age, gender, education, falls self-efficacy, and cognitive status were covariates. RESULTS Gait velocity, balance function, and grip strength were independently related to IADL deficits, after correcting for covariates. The linear slopes were relatively steep. For gait, a decrease of 0.1 m s-1 was associated with 0.10 (95% Cl: 0.17, 0.04) increase in IADL deficits, which is equivalent to 1 ADL deficit in 10 subjects. The linear slopes for hand grip and balance were similar or steeper. In the sites where chair stand time was measured, an increase of 1 second in the time to rise was associated with a 0.14 (0.04, 0.24) increase in IADL deficits. The relationships found in the meta-analytic analysis were consistent across sites which enrolled subjects with widely varying levels of physical performance. CONCLUSION Simple measures of physical performance were strongly associated with IADL independence after correcting for many previously identified predictors of functional status. The data from this meta-analysis support testing interventions designed to improve physical performance to determine whether improved performance can maintain or improve independence in IADLs.
Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia

A new basal stereospondyl taxon from the Permian is described. The material used to erect the new taxon consists of a series of mandibles and some postcranial elements. A single badly preserved short-snouted skull is considered as referred material. Rastosuchus hammeri gen. et sp. nov. presents conical teeth along all coronoid bones, the prearticular extending anteriorly at the level of the precoronoid and enlarged anterior meckelian foramina. Based on the referred material, R. hammeri gen. et sp. nov. also presents posterior premaxillary teeth larger than anterior ones, the cultriform process of the parasphenoid compressed laterally forming a medial ventral keel, posterolateral ramus of the vomer extends posterior to the palatine tusks, and rounded orbit with flat orbital bones at the same level of the skull roof, features shared with Australerpeton cosgriffi and other rhinesuchids. Australerpeton cosgriffi and Rastosuchus hammeri gen. et sp. nov. are from the upper layers of the Rio do Rasto Formation (Paraná Basin) in the Paraná State, southern Brazil, and its deposition in freshwater continental environments is reinforced by the presence of temnospodyls amphibians.
Isolated gestational proteinuria preceding the diagnosis of preeclampsia – an observational study

Isolated gestational proteinuria preceding the diagnosis of preeclampsia – an observational study TAKAHIRO YAMADA, MANA OBATA-YASUOKA, HIROMI HAMADA, YOSUKE BABA, AKIHIDE OHKUCHI, SHUN YASUDA, KOSUKE KAWABATA, SHIORI MINAKAWA, CHIHIRO HIRAI, HIDETO KUSAKA, NAO MURABAYASHI, YUSUKE INDE, MICHIKAZU NAGURA, TAKESHI UMAZUME, ATSUO ITAKURA, MAKOTO MAEDA, NORIMASA SAGAWA, YASUMASA OHNO, SOROMON KATAOKA, KEIYA FUJIMORI, YOSHIKI KUDO, TOMOAKI IKEDA, AKIHITO NAKAI & HISANORI MINAKAMI Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hokkaido University Hospital, Sapporo, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Jichi Medical University Hospital, Shimotsuke, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hakodate Central General Hospital, Hakodate, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hiroshima University Hospital, Hiroshima, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie Chuo Medical Center, Tsu, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mie University Hospital, Tsu, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital, Tama, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ohno Ladies Clinic, Iwakura, Japan
Construction de valeurs toxicologiques de référence adaptées à la prise en compte des mélanges en évaluation des risques sanitaires : méthodes existantes et applications récentes

Derivation of toxicological reference values for taking mixtures into account in health risk assessment: Existing methods and recent applications Human beings are exposed through their environment to numerous chemicals. Several approaches to cumulative risk assessment, including the sum of hazard quotients, toxic equivalent factors (TEF), and the pointofdeparture index (PODI), have been developed to estimate the risks due to these exposures. Their principles are based on the assumption of effect or dose additivity, and their main purpose is to provide tools to help decisionmakers in a context where uncertainty predominates. They also highlight the lack of adequate data, especially for toxicity data and dose-response relations. The objective of this article is to propose a brief history of these approaches and to describe their current applications through examples from the literature. While few institutional recommendations allow mixtures to be taken into account in cumulative risk assessment approaches, manyapproacheshavebeenpublishedinrecent years.AlthoughthedevelopmentofTEFs requires precise knowledge about the toxic mechanisms of action, other approaches, less
Biosecurity Education for the Next Generation

HighlightsYouth are agents for change in biosecurity practices.47 workshops introduced biosecurity principles to youth.The curriculum was tailored for nine animal species.Biosecurity education requires continued programming. Abstract. Biosecurity education for youth involved in animal agriculture is vital for the continued success of commerce in these industries. Biosecurity workshops were developed and delivered to youth in Minnesota to encourage positive changes, with long-term outcomes of healthier animals. Learning gains were significant for all participants, and the participants retained this knowledge over time. Most participants had good intentions of making changes because of the workshops, and follow-up survey results showed that the participants implemented changes, validating that youth are agents for behavior change. However, other indicators surfaced suggesting that continued programming is needed to encourage adoption of more biosecurity practices. Keywords: Animals, Biosecurity education, Youth.
Spacecraft Debris Avoidance Using Positively Invariant Constraint Admissible Sets (Postprint)

Abstract : To cope with the growing amount of debris in the Earth orbit, spacecraft collision avoidance capabilities are necessary. In this paper, we propose an approach to debris avoidance maneuvering based on the use of safe positively invariant sets in order to steer the spacecraft, under closed-loop control, around a piece of debris. A connectivity graph of forced equilibria is computed based on the overlap of these invariant sets, and a graph search algorithm is then implemented in order to find the shortest path around the debris. Fast growth distance computation is employed for on-board real-time applicability. Simulation results are presented that illustrate this approach.
) Challenging tensions: critical, theoretical and empirical perspectives on social

Social enterprises (SE) re-invest their profits towards a social mission. They have proliferated as post-industrial economies try to meet social need with limited state funding. Scholarship has expanded accordingly, although SEs with primarily environmental objectives have been neglected. This article examines how SEs, in regions noted for wildlife-rich orchards, fund nature conservation by marketing juice and/or cider, thereby attempting to revive economic possibilities for this traditional land use. A common thread between the SEs is their initiation by conservation organisations, and it is possible to group them within models of market intervention. Three models in particular are examined that reveal different approaches and success in orchard conservation. SE scholarship is marked by a wealth of case studies, and to avoid simply adding to this richness, the paper revisits Jen Beckert’s ideas on the social order of markets. His theory that actors strive for stability through forms of co-ordination in dynamic market ‘fields’ is applied to SEs aiming to produce positive conservation outcomes – or environmental order – from their market interventions. Within limits, social order advances understanding of environmental SE by identifying the multiple challenges they juggle, and revealing the environmental outcomes of SE engagement in markets.
BUBONIC PLAGUE: HISTORICAL ASPECTS AND THERAPY

1 Laboratory of Molecular Modeling Applied to the Chemical and Biological Defense (LMCBD), Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, 22290-270, Brazil. 2 Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA (UK). 3 Chemistry department, Federal University of Lavras, CP 3037, Lavras, MG, 37200-000, Brazil. 4 Center for Basic and Applied Research, Faculty of Informatics and Management, University of Hradec Kralove, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic. 5 Laboratório de Avaliação de Substâncias Bioativas (LASSBio), Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa-Postal 68023, Ilha do Fundão, 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Brazil. 6 Biomedical Research Center, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
Machine Learning Techniques for Detecting Fraud in Credit Card Transactions

Credit cards became one of the most popular payment methods as technology advanced and e-commerce services expanded, resulting in an increase in the volume of banking transactions. Furthermore, the significant increase in the number of frauds necessitates high banking transaction costs. As a result, detecting fraudulent activities has become an intriguing topic, attracting a large number of researchers. We consider the use of class weight-tuning hyperparameters to control the weight of fraudulent and legitimate transactions in this study. We use Bayesian optimization, in particular, to optimize the hyperparameters while taking into account practical issues such as unbalanced data. We propose weight-tuning as a pre-process for unbalanced data, as well as using CatBoost and XGBoost to improve the performance of the LightGBM method by taking the voting mechanism into account. Finally, we use deep learning to fine-tune the hyperparameters, particularly our proposed weight-tuning one, in order to improve performance even further. We conducted some experiments to evaluate the proposed methods on real-world data. We use recall-precision metrics in addition to the common ROC-AUC to better cover unbalanced datasets. We use a 5-fold cross-validation method to test CatBoost, LightGBM, and XGBoost separately. Furthermore, the performance of the combined algorithms is evaluated using the majority voting ensemble learning method. According to the results, LightGBM and XGBoost achieve the best level criteria of ROC-AUC = 0.95, precision 0.79, recall 0.80, F1 score 0.79, and MCC 0.79. Also, by using deep learning and the Bayesian optimization method to tune the hyperparameters, we meet the following criteria: ROC-AUC = 0.94, precision = 0.80, recall = 0.82, F1 score = 0.81, and MCC = 0.81. This is a big improvement over the state-of-the-art methods we compared it to.