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An Examination of Physical Exercise and its Impact on Augmenting Self-Determination Levels of College-Aged Students
Research has demonstrated a positive link with motivation, physical exercise, and academic success. A current trend within higher education has been to increase student retention as well as deemphasize physical education. Students, who possess a higher degree of self-determined behavior, sustain greater overall success. Administrators have intensified efforts focusing on student retention; however, little research exists connecting physical exercise with self-determination and how these elements could provide solutions to address this problem. Motivation is an element, which drives people to accomplish a task and has the propensity to change when engaged in physical exercise. The motivational reasons why people participate in physical exercise has been a topic of research for several years; however, research examining the impact physical exercise may or may not have on altering motivation, particularly self-determination, is scarce. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of physical exercise on augmenting self-determination levels of college-aged students. The researcher conducted a comparative quantitative study. Participants (N = 13) completed the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire (BREQ) in a pre and post method. The data were analyzed using a paired-samples t-test, and 84% demonstrated a positive shift along the motivation continuum in the direction towards self-determined behavior when post results were compared to pre results. Results from this study suggests that higher education leaders should devote more research into the potential effects physical education could have on self-determination levels of college students as an aim to increase student retention as well as reinforce the importance of physical education
Balanced Steady-State Free Precession Techniques Improve Detection of Residual Germ Cell Tumor for Treatment Planning
Holographic Approach to Regge Trajectory and Rotating D5 brane
We study the Regge trajectories of holographic mesons and baryons by
considering rotating strings and D5 brane, which is introduced as the baryon
vertex. Our model is based on the type IIB superstring theory with the
background of asymptotic . This background is dual to a
confining supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with gauge condensate,
, which determines the tension of the linear potential between the quark
and anti-quark. Then the slope of the meson trajectory () is given
by this condensate as at large spin . This
relation is compatible with the other theoretical results and experiments. For
the baryon, we show the importance of spinning baryon vertex to obtain a Regge
slope compatible with the one of and series. In both cases, mesons
and baryons, the trajectories are shifted to large mass side with the same
slope for increasing current quark mass.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figure
Physical Response Functions of Strongly Coupled Massive Quantum Liquids
We study physical properties of strongly coupled massive quantum liquids from
their spectral functions using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The generic model
that we consider is dense, heavy fundamental matter coupled to SU(N_c) super
Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature above the deconfinement phase
transition but below the scale set by the baryon number density. In this setup,
we study the current-current correlators of the baryon number density using new
techniques that employ a scaling behavior in the dual geometry. Our results,
the AC conductivity, the quasi-particle spectrum and the Drude-limit parameters
like the relaxation time are simple temperature-independent expressions that
depend only on the mass-squared to density ratio and display a crossover
between a baryon- and meson-dominated regime. We concentrated on the
(2+1)-dimensional defect case, but in principle our results can also be
generalized straightforwardly to other cases.Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures, extra paragraph and figure are added in
response to referee's comment
Incidental cardiac findings on computed tomography imaging of the thorax
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Investigation of pulmonary pathology with computed tomography also allows visualisation of the heart and major vessels. We sought to explore whether clinically relevant cardiac pathology could be identified on computed tomography pulmonary angiograms (CTPA) requested for the exclusion of pulmonary embolism (PE). 100 consecutive CT contrast-enhanced pulmonary angiograms carried out for exclusion of PE at a single centre were assessed retrospectively by two cardiologists.</p> <p>Findings</p> <p>Evidence of PE was reported in 5% of scans. Incidental cardiac findings included: aortic wall calcification (54%), coronary calcification (46%), cardiomegaly (41%), atrial dilatation (18%), mitral annulus calcification (15%), right ventricular dilatation (11%), aortic dilatation (8%) and right ventricular thrombus (1%). Apart from 3 (3%) reports describing cardiomegaly, no other cardiac findings were described in radiologists' reports. Other reported pulmonary abnormalities included: lung nodules (14%), lobar collapse/consolidation (8%), pleural effusion (2%), lobar collapse/consolidation (8%), emphysema (6%) and pleural calcification (4%).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>CTPAs requested for the exclusion of PE have a high yield of cardiac abnormalities. Although these abnormalities may not have implications for acute clinical management, they may, nevertheless, be important in long-term care.</p
Effective Theory Approach to the Spontaneous Breakdown of Lorentz Invariance
We generalize the coset construction of Callan, Coleman, Wess and Zumino to
theories in which the Lorentz group is spontaneously broken down to one of its
subgroups. This allows us to write down the most general low-energy effective
Lagrangian in which Lorentz invariance is non-linearly realized, and to explore
the consequences of broken Lorentz symmetry without having to make any
assumptions about the mechanism that triggers the breaking. We carry out the
construction both in flat space, in which the Lorentz group is a global
spacetime symmetry, and in a generally covariant theory, in which the Lorentz
group can be treated as a local internal symmetry. As an illustration of this
formalism, we construct the most general effective field theory in which the
rotation group remains unbroken, and show that the latter is just the
Einstein-aether theory.Comment: 45 pages, no figures
Proposal of an extended t-J Hamiltonian for high-Tc cuprates from ab initio calculations on embedded clusters
A series of accurate ab initio calculations on Cu_pO-q finite clusters,
properly embedded on the Madelung potential of the infinite lattice, have been
performed in order to determine the local effective interactions in the CuO_2
planes of La_{2-x}Sr_xCuO_4 compounds. The values of the first-neighbor
interactions, magnetic coupling (J_{NN}=125 meV) and hopping integral
(t_{NN}=-555 meV), have been confirmed. Important additional effects are
evidenced, concerning essentially the second-neighbor hopping integral
t_{NNN}=+110meV, the displacement of a singlet toward an adjacent colinear
hole, h_{SD}^{abc}=-80 meV, a non-negligible hole-hole repulsion
V_{NN}-V_{NNN}=0.8 eV and a strong anisotropic effect of the presence of an
adjacent hole on the values of the first-neighbor interactions. The dependence
of J_{NN} and t_{NN} on the position of neighbor hole(s) has been rationalized
from the two-band model and checked from a series of additional ab initio
calculations. An extended t-J model Hamiltonian has been proposed on the basis
of these results. It is argued that the here-proposed three-body effects may
play a role in the charge/spin separation observed in these compounds, that is,
in the formation and dynamic of stripes.Comment: 24 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Exploring Norms in Agile Software Teams
The majority of software developers work in teams and are thus influenced by team norms. Norms are shared expectations of how to behave and regulate the interaction between team members. Our aim of this study is to gain more knowledge about team norms in software teams and to increase the understanding of how norms influence teamwork in agile software development projects. We conducted a study of norms in four agile teams located in Norway and Malaysia. The analysis of 22 interviews revealed that we could extract a varied set of both injunctive and descriptive norms. Our results suggest that team norms have an important role in enabling team performance.acceptedVersio
Unrequested Findings on Cardiac Computed Tomography: Looking Beyond the Heart
Objectives: To determine the prevalence of clinically relevant unrequested extra-cardiac imaging findings on cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) and explanatory factors thereof. Methods: A systematic review of studies drawn from online electronic databases followed by meta-analysis with metaregression was performed. The prevalence of clinically relevant unrequested findings and potentially explanatory variables were extracted (proportion of smokers, mean age of patients, use of full FOV, proportion of men, years since publication). Results: Nineteen radiological studies comprising 12922 patients met the inclusion criteria. The pooled prevalence of clinically relevant unrequested findings was 13 % (95 % confidence interval 9–18, range: 3–39%). The large differences in prevalence observed were not explained by the predefined (potentially explanatory) variables. Conclusions: Clinically relevant extra-cardiac findings are common in patients undergoing routine cardiac CT, and their prevalence differs substantially between studies. These differences may be due to unreported factors such as different definitions of clinical relevance and differences between populations. We present suggestions for basic reporting whic
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