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The Anchor Index
This index contains listings of articles in The Anchor. The Anchor is a newspaper put out by Hope College students. It contains articles written by students about Hope College events, people, issues, etc. Note: This is a rough index. It contains tens of thousands of references and was prepared by past and present volunteer staff
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Incidence of Injury in Professional Female Soccer
The epidemiology of injury in male professional football is well documented and has been used as a basis to monitor injury trends and implement injury prevention strategies. There are no systematic reviews that have investigated injury incidence in women’s professional football. Therefore, the extent of injury burden in women’s professional football remains unknown. PURPOSE: The primary aim of this study was to calculate an overall incidence rate of injury in senior female professional soccer. The secondary aims were to provide an incidence rate for training and match play. METHODS: PubMed, Discover, EBSCO, Embase and ScienceDirect electronic databases were searched from inception to September 2018. Two reviewers independently assessed study quality using the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology statement using a 22-item STROBE checklist. Seven prospective studies (n=1137 professional players) were combined in a pooled analysis of injury incidence using a mixed effects model. Heterogeneity was evaluated using the Cochrane Q statistic and I2. RESULTS: The epidemiological incidence proportion over one season was 0.62 (95% CI 0.59 - 0.64). Mean total incidence of injury was 3.15 (95% CI 1.54 - 4.75) injuries per 1000 hours. The mean incidence of injury during match play was 10.72 (95% CI 9.11 - 12.33) and during training was 2.21 (95% CI 0.96 - 3.45). Data analysis found a significant level of heterogeneity (total Incidence, X2 = 16.57 P < 0.05; I2 = 63.8%) and during subsequent sub group analyses in those studies reviewed (match incidence, X2 = 76.4 (d.f. = 7), P <0.05; I2 = 90.8%, training incidence, X2 = 16.97 (d.f. = 7), P < 0.05; I2 = 58.8%). Appraisal of the study methodologies revealed inconsistency in the use of injury terminology, data collection procedures and calculation of exposure by researchers. Such inconsistencies likely contribute to the large variance in the incidence and prevalence of injury reported. CONCLUSIONS: The estimated risk of sustaining at least one injury over one football season is 62%. Continued reporting of heterogeneous results in population samples limits meaningful comparison of studies. Standardising the criteria used to attribute injury and activity coupled with more accurate methods of calculating exposure will overcome such limitations
Malaysian bilateral trade relations and economic growth
This paper examines the structure and trends of Malaysian bilateral exports and imports and then investigates
whether these bilateral exports and imports have caused Malaysian economic growth. Although the structure of
Malaysia’s trade has changed quite significantly over the last three decades, the direction of Malaysia’s trade
remains generally the same. Broadly, ASEAN, the EU, East Asia, the US and Japan continue to be the
Malaysia’s major trading partners. The Granger causality tests have shown that it is the bilateral imports that
have caused economic growth in Malaysia rather than the bilateral exports
Exchange rate misalignments in ASEAN-5 countries
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the exchange rate misalignments for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines,
Singapore and Thailand before the currency crisis. By employing the sticky-price monetary exchange rate model
in the environment of vector error-correction, the results indicate that the Indonesia rupiah, Malaysian ringgit,
Philippines peso and Singapore dollar were overvalued before the currency crisis while Thai baht was
undervalued on the eve of the crisis. However, they suffered modest misalignment. Therefore, little evidence of
exchange misalignment is found to exist in 1997:2. In particular, Indonesia rupiah, Malaysia ringgit, Philippines
peso and Singapore dollar were only overvalued about 1 to 4 percent against US dollar while the Thai baht was
only 2 percent undervalued against US dollar
Advances in Computational Social Science and Social Simulation
Aquesta conferència és la celebració conjunta de la "10th Artificial Economics Conference AE", la "10th Conference of the European Social Simulation Association ESSA" i la "1st Simulating the Past to Understand Human History SPUHH".Conferència organitzada pel Laboratory for Socio-Historical Dynamics Simulation (LSDS-UAB) de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.Readers will find results of recent research on computational social science and social simulation economics, management, sociology,and history written by leading experts in the field. SOCIAL SIMULATION (former ESSA) conferences constitute annual events which serve as an international platform for the exchange of ideas and discussion of cutting edge research in the field of social simulations, both from the theoretical as well as applied perspective, and the 2014 edition benefits from the cross-fertilization of three different research communities into one single event. The volume consists of 122 articles, corresponding to most of the contributions to the conferences, in three different formats: short abstracts (presentation of work-in-progress research), posters (presentation of models and results), and full papers (presentation of social simulation research including results and discussion). The compilation is completed with indexing lists to help finding articles by title, author and thematic content. We are convinced that this book will serve interested readers as a useful compendium which presents in a nutshell the most recent advances at the frontiers of computational social sciences and social simulation researc