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The effect of supplementing regular training with short-duration sprint-agility training on sprint-ability performance in university level badminton players
Authors: Mishra Amrita , Sharvani Belle 
Published: June 2024

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:
The badminton being a highly explosive sport involves a unique movement technique and strength with a combination of speed (anaerobic fitness) and endurance (aerobic fitness). Strength, power, agility, and flexibility are key components of fitness as a part of a player’s fitness training. This training helps to promote recovery from exercise as well as restoring muscle energy for the next bout of activity.

OBJECTIVE:
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of supplementary regular training and short-duration sprint-agility training versus regular training on sprint-ability performance in university-level badminton players.

METHODOLOGY:
Thirty university-level badminton players were selected randomly and divided into Group A as regular training along with short-duration sprint-agility training and Group B as regular training group. Groups A and B received regular training for 5 days for 4 weeks and short-duration sprint-agility training for 2 days a week, respectively. Pre- and postset of performance tests were conducted which consist of 10-m sprint, 20-m sprint, 300-m shuttle run, badminton-specific repeated-agility sprint-ability test, and 20-m multistage shuttle run test for oxygen consumption (VO2).

RESULTS:
There was a significant increase between both the groups in badminton shuttle distance (Group-A 34.51% >Group-B 13.87%), 20 m sprint time (Group-A 15.02% >Group-B 9.57%), and VO2 max (Group-A 5.61% >Group-B 3.94%).

CONCLUSION:
Supplementing regular training with sessions of short-duration sprint training led to substantial increase in repeated-agility sprint performance which helps to restore muscle energy and improve activity performance in university-level badminton players.
Estrategias didácticas para la educación superior en modalidad virtual
Authors: Martínez de Guzmán Benigna Lorena 
Published: June 2024

PROBLEMA: la educación virtual va más allá de utilizar plataformas virtuales, gestores académicos y otras herramientas tecnológicas; se requiere de estrategias didácticas que permitan alcanzar los objetivos definidos en la planificación de contenidos. OBJETIVO: identificar las estrategias didácticas esenciales a emplear en los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje en la educación virtual. MÉTODO: el método de investigación es teórico porque se fundamenta en una teoría previa, racional y sistemática; tiene un enfoque de tipo cualitativo y descriptivo que busca caracterizar las estrategias didácticas en la educación virtual. La muestra documental es discrecional y se consideran quince artículos relacionados a la temática de investigación estrategias didácticas en la educación superior en modalidad virtual. RESULTADOS: la revisión de documentos científicos permite identificar diferentes estrategias didácticas que pueden ser utilizadas en la educación virtual. CONCLUSIÓN: no se puede establecer una sola estrategia didáctica, sino que es a conveniencia del docente la elección de la estrategia que se acople a los requerimientos y/o particularidades del área de enseñanza, del tipo de contenido, de los estilos de aprendizaje del estudiante y a los recursos tecnológicos que disponen.
Controlled Fluid Flow Without Controlling Pump Through Arduino
Authors: Ali Shamsher , Gillani Syed Muhammad Daniyal , Zain Syed Muhammad , Khan Sudais Ahamd 
Published: June 2024

Various industries like chemical, energy, nuclear, process, manufacturing, healthcare, and agriculture require the flow rate to be controlled. It may be constant, steady state, or between the specific upper and lower range. This article explained the development of a cost-effective fluid flow control system using an Arduino microcontroller. The direct use of the pump is not good because there are a lot of challenges (corrosion, power fluctuations, pressure leak) with the pump, and with time as it gets old, the chances of getting good, desired flow from it are not possible. We achieved the controlled flow rate (volume rate and mass rate) in a very precise and cost-effective manner because the flow corresponding to the height is steadier and more constant than getting steady flow from the pump. Hence, our solution is that we don’t get direct flow from the pump but from tank B. Tank B must be very carefully designed (especially its height and cross section) to get the desired value of the flow rate from it. As per Bernoulli’s theorem, the flow velocity has a direct relation with the height. We just used the pump to refill tank B up to the desired level. In this case, the flow rate only varies when there is a larger change in the head of the tank from which it is coming (it is tank B in our case). The pump automatically becomes ON when the flow rate drops below 2 and fills tank B again to the height which corresponds to the flow rate 3, and when the flow rate becomes 3, the pump becomes OFF automatically. The process is repeated until the desired process is completed. After completion, the valve from tank B can be closed. The hardware integrations, software programming logic, and physical experimental setup are discussed.

Received: 23 March 2024 | Revised: 23 May 2024 | Accepted: 12 June 2024

Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement
Data available on request from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Author Contribution Statement
Shamsher Ali: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Data curation, Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Project administration; Syed Muhammad Daniyal Gillani: Methodology, Investigation, Writing - original draft; Syed Muhammad Zain: Formal analysis, Visualization; Sudais Ahamd Khan: Resources.
Do Pro-Environmental Factors Lead to Customers' Purchase Intention of Home Energy Management System? The Moderating Effects of Energy-Efficient Habits
Authors: Zidehsaraei Maryam , Zidehsaraei Minoo , Esfandiar Kourosh 
Published: June 2024

Environmental challenges, encompassing climate change and global warming, compel consumers to alter their consumption habits. Although there has been a notable surge in consumer awareness regarding pro-environmental practices, especially concerning home energy, there remains a lack of comprehensive research exploring the factors affecting consumers' willingness to adopt or invest in home energy management system (HEMS) technology. Notably, there have been no studies focused on the factors influencing HEMS purchase intentions (PI) in the Iranian context. Grounded in the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and the norm activation model (NAM), this research delves into PI of Iranian households regarding HEMS, categorizing it as a type of eco-friendly behavior. It specifically analyzes the influence of factors such as attitude (ATT), social norms (SN), perceived behavioral control (PBC), awareness of consequences (AOC), personal norms (PN), and energy-efficient habits (EEH). Moreover, this research scrutinizes the potential moderating effects of EEH on the association among ATT, PBC, and PI. Using structural equation modeling, an innovative integrated model was tested based on data collected from 220 Iranian residents. The findings revealed that ATT, SN, AOC, and EEH significantly contribute to the purchase intention of HEMS among Iranians. Additionally, both AOC and SN were found to influence PN. These insights offer a fresh perspective on the pro-environmental determinants shaping the HEMS purchase decisions of Iranian consumers.

Received: 24 March 2024 | Revised: 14 May 2024 | Accepted: 16 June 2024

Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement
Data available on request from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Author Contribution Statement
Maryam Zidehsaraei: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project administration. Minoo Zidehsaraei: Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Visualization. Kourosh Esfandiar: Conceptualization, Validation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing.
Test Anxiety Among STEM Students: The Case of Higher Education in Bangladesh
Authors: Roy Goutam , Tanni Sanjida Akter , Rahman Arifur , Dutta Sushmita 
Published: June 2024

Tests or examinations are an essential part of education, creating test anxiety among students. Several studies identified a negative correlation between test anxiety and STEM students' academic performance in higher education, and female students in STEM subjects showed more test anxiety before and during an examination. Studies also identified that STEM students could pay less attention to their examinations due to test anxiety. Such evidence in the context of Bangladeshi universities is yet to be understood. This study investigated the level of test anxiety among Bangladeshi university students of STEM subjects., including gender differences and the relationship between test anxiety and academic performance. We considered the quantitative research design to understand the status of test anxiety among undergraduate STEM students. A survey was conducted online from two STEM departments of a private university in Bangladesh using the shorter version of the CAEX test anxiety instrument, and a total of 246 undergraduate students participated. The findings show that Bangladeshi undergraduate STEM students generally felt slight anxiety during or before the examination. Female students were more anxious before or during a test than male students, and no significant relationship was found between test anxiety and academic achievement. The study reflects the need to conduct further research to understand the physiological, cognitive, and psychological factors leading to test anxiety among university students, as well as establishes a demand to identify the reasons behind having no relationship between test anxiety and students' academic performance.

Received: 19 March 2024 | Revised: 6 June 2024 | Accepted: 17 June 2024

Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to this work.

Data Availability Statement
The data used to support the findings of this study are available upon request to the corresponding author.
Locating the Kingdom of God
Authors: Wenell Karen J. 
Published: June 2024

This book offers a new, multidisciplinary way of thinking about the Kingdom of God which fully recognises its sociological and spatial significance in performing boundaries of the sacred. Though spatial-critical perspectives have been increasingly recognised as important across many disciplines, the significance of non-physical religious spaces and their correspondence to boundaries of the sacred has not been explored fully, and never using the specific example of the Kingdom of God. Wenell considers the diverse and sometimes contradictory articulation of the Kingdom in the gospels as well as the ways that Kingdom language frames contemporary ethical debates. Her study of the Kingdom is located within the wider study of religion, affording the opportunity to investigate connections between space, belonging and the sacred.
Wenell structures her investigation in four key areas that engage with the Kingdom in different, but theoretically interconnected ways. She begins by setting out a theory of sacred space that is capable of including the Kingdom, and establishing key concepts such as boundary, performance, physical/non-physical spatiality, spokespersons and controversy. Wenell then focuses on the synoptic gospels and the origins of the Kingdom, noting aspects of uncertainty as well as areas of agreement and controversy over boundaries of the sacred in these uniquely interrelated texts. The third and fourth areas of investigation move into cultural reception, considering instances where the Kingdom is formative for identity and ethical relationships both in individual and wider group belonging terms. Specific reference is made to issues of ethical consuming and displacement, placing the Kingdom in dialogue with Bauman’s discussion of a society of consumers, and Arendt’s notion of equitable co-habitation of the earth.
New Global Realism
Authors: Lazzari Gabriele 
Published: June 2024

A comparative study of contemporary realist novels that employ totality as a method and a formal principle to represent the social and economic inequalities of the present, this book examines writing in English, Italian, Kannada, and Spanish by authors from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, India and Mexico.
By theorizing four modalities of totalization employed by contemporary realist writers, this book explores the current resurgence of realism and challenges critical approaches that consider it naive or formally unsophisticated. Instead, it argues that realist novels offer a self-conscious and serious representation of the world we inhabit while actively envisioning new social designs and political configurations. Through comparative studies of novels by Fernanda Melchor, NoViolet Bulawayo, Vivek Shanbhag, Nicola Lagioia, Igiaba Scego, Yaa Gyasi and Roberto Bolaño, this book further explains why realism can be a powerful antidote to the skepticism about the possibility of making truth-claims in humanist research.
Philosophical Health
Authors: Miranda Luis de 
Published: June 2024

What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body, self, belonging, possibility, purpose, and the philosophical sense.
Luis de Miranda, inspired by nearly a decade of practice as a philosophical counsellor – with individuals, groups, institutions, NGO’s and corporations – offers a pragmatic open system that is supported with evidence from psychological science, various philosophical traditions or contemporary theories, as well as fascinating real stories from world wisdom.
Meaning in action is clearly the new way ahead for philosophy, rediscovered here as the responsible and practical big sister – if not queen – of all disciplines and ways of life. The international philosophical health movement is the long-awaited response, globally and locally, to the overall confusion the world fell into due to mindless processes and unexamined behaviour. This book shows us how, in a spirit of compossibility and oneness in diversity we now can, at last, intercreate a harmonious, rich, and diverse planetary civilisation.
Sugar and the Indian Ocean World
Authors: Daito Norifumi 
Published: June 2024

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity.The study of sugar has, until now, focused mainly on its significant growth in European markets from the mid-17th century and, more recently, parallel developments in East Asia. In this book, Daito how the sugar trade also developed in, and became important to, the Indian Ocean World.
Studying how the consumption of sugar wavered after the brutal overthrow of the Safavid dynasty in 1722, this book shows how the Dutch East India Company and the trading network responded to political upheavals in the region and, consequently, the changing trading conditions. Arguing that sugar continued to be imported and consumed despite these political disturbances,Sugar and the Indian Ocean Worldproves this was not a period of economic stagnation for the region, and shows how sugar became an important intersection between socio-cultural practices and the Indian Ocean economy.
Kairós
Authors: Marramao Giacomo 
Published: June 2024

Shedding new light on the fundamental philosophical problem of time, leading Italian philosopher Giacomo Marramao offers a solution to today’s 24/7 culture.
If we were asked to name the social syndrome of our age under capitalism, it would no doubt be “rush”. Intentional animals as we are, we experience the meaningless acceleration of time, which devours instants and misses its target just like its opposite, undue hesitation. For Marramao, rush and slowness or rashness and hesitation are two mirror forms ofuntimeliness: two unsuitable ways of seizing time.
Through engagement with sources including Heidegger, Bergson, Saint Paul the Apostle, Newtonian physics, and postmodern theory, Marramao calls for a change to how we perceive time. Delving into the Greek and Roman concepts oftempus, chronos,andaión,he argues that there should be no opposition between the scientific-objective time and the existential-subjective one. As such, he introduces his own theory ofkairós,or “due time”, as the notion of fertile and decisivetimeliness. A timely decision, Marramao advances, is generated by the productive tension between opposites: a tension created equally by swiftness and caution, promptness and conformity with the action’s purpose.
Originally published in 1992, this updated edition ofKairós: In Defence of “Due Time''includes a new preface speaking to today’s social and political climate, as well as an introduction by Marramao himself, in which he reflects on his long engagement with temporality fromPower and Secularizationup until today.
EU Trade and Investment Treaty-Making Post-Lisbon
Authors: Kübek Gesa 
Published: June 2024

This book offers the first thorough legal analysis of the practice of mixity since the Lisbon Treaty, providing the perspectives of international, EU, and national law.
It sets out a detailed theoretical understanding of mixity, the common commercial policy, and the recent case law of the EU Court of Justice. It assesses recent practice and current challenges, such as the non-ratification of mixed agreements, ensuring parliamentary participation in EU treaty-making, the new architecture for concluding EU trade and investment agreements, as well as the new trade agreement between the EU and the UK post-Brexit. In so doing, the author argues that in the field of trade and investment, mixity is no longer a procedural technique to overcome legal uncertainties about competence allocations between the EU and the Member States. Instead, mixity has become a deliberate substantive design choice. This brings a fresh and innovative perspective to a key tenet of EU external relations law.
Kantha
Authors: Kaul Ekta 
Published: June 2024

A beautiful book on the tradition of kantha, a Bengali embroidery technique with a rich heritage rooted in storytelling and upcycling, with inspiration and techniques for contemporary makers.The word ‘kantha’ refers to both the style of running stitch, as well as the finished cloth: quilted textiles made from multiple layers of cast-off cloth, traditionally embroidered with threads pulled out from the borders of old saris and dhotis. These beautiful fabrics were created exclusively by women in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.
In this richly illustrated book, textile artist Ekta Kaul explores the history of the kantha tradition and finds objects of extraordinary beauty. She goes on to look at how the kantha spirit is inspiring artists today and discusses creative techniques to help you develop your own interpretations, alongside a dictionary of fundamental kantha stitches with supporting images and instructions.
Steeped in the ethos of sustainability, emotional repair and mindful making, kantha will lead you to uncover a slower and more thoughtful approach to stitching.
Bojagi
Authors: Lee Youngmin 
Published: June 2024

A creative guide to a unique and beautiful form of Korean art, steeped in ancient tradition.
Bojagi are textiles that wrap, cover, carry, or store objects. Some are made from whole pieces of fabric and some are patched together from small scraps of cloth - they are a unique form of Korean textile art. The careful arrangement of shapes and colours shows an abstract composition which has made bojagi popular with textile artists and quilters today.
In this book, experienced artist and educator Youngmin Lee gives you comprehensive step-by-step instructions on traditional bojagi techniques and materials, and provides a history of the art form in Korean culture - which dates back to the Joseon dynasty - where it continues to occupy a prominent place in the daily lives of Koreans. Learn hand stitch techniques, seam finishes and decorative motifs on a range of materials from ramie, hemp and cotton to silk and naturally dyed, eco-printed materials.
Youngmin introduces a variety of beautifully illustrated projects, with a modern twist - from gift wrap to wall hangings to cushions and clothing - whilst always being true to ancient Korean textile traditions.
The Reagan Presidency and the Politics of Race
Authors: Laham Nicholas 
Published: June 2024

Laham analyzes perhaps the most politically controversial element of Reagan's conservative agenda, involving his attempt to curtail federal enforcement of civil rights laws. The book focuses on the major initiatives Reagan pursued in his attempt to curb enforcement of those laws: first, his efforts to reform affirmative action by prohibiting mandatory employer use of minority and white female hiring goals, and second, his veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act.
Reagan's academic critics argue that the president was politically motivated in his efforts to curtail federal enforcement of civil rights laws by his desire to appeal for the support of working-class whites, many of whom harbor racial resentments against minorities. Reagan's historical reputation suffers from his attempt to curb enforcement of those laws, which has fostered charges by his critics that he was cynical and manipulative, though outwardly pleasant and likable; a president who shamelessley played the race card for his own political gain. Laham challenges the conventional notion that Reagan was an ardent practitioner of the politics of racial division. Rather, he argues that Reagan's civil rights policy was determined by his philosophical commitment to colorblind justice and limited government, two core principles of his conservative agenda. This is a controversial survey important to students and scholars of contemporary American politics, public policy, and race relations.