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Maternal sensitivity in early childhood and body mass index in adolescence: A population-based study on the role of self-regulation as a mediator
Maternal sensitivity has been implicated in various aspects of child health and development, including overweight. However, long-term effects, the role of paternal sensitivity and the explanatory pathways are unclear. This study examined whether maternal sensitivity in early childhood is prospectively associated with adolescent body mass index and whether children's self-regulation mediates this relation. Data from 540 children and their mothers were available from a large cohort study in the Netherlands. Maternal sensitivity was assessed at child ages 1, 3, and at 4 years paternal sensitivity was also included. Children's self-regulation skills were observed at age 3, eating behaviour was assessed at 10 years, and child BMI was measured at 13 years. Longitudinal structural equation modelling was applied. The cross-sectional association between maternal sensitivity and child self-regulation was significant, while lower levels of self-regulation and higher levels of food responsiveness and restrained eating predicted a higher child BMI at 13 years. Furthermore, a direct association of paternal sensitivity at 4 years with BMI at 13 years was found, but only in girls. Maternal sensitivity was not directly associated with child BMI after adjusting for covariates. Our findings showed the importance of self-regulation in the early years for subsequent weight development. Nevertheless, as self-regulation could not explain the relationship between parenting and child weight, research should focus on the contribution of other contextual factors, such as feeding styles and the social environment, to this relationship.The general design of Generation R Study is made possible by financial support from the Erasmus Medical Center and the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZonMW), the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the Ministry of Youth and Families. The current study was made possible by a grant awarded to Patricia Bravo by the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID)/Scholarship Program/DOCTORADO BECAS CHILE/2019–72200575 and by a grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (Mental Health Care Research Program, Fellowship 636320005 to Pauline W. Jansen). The funders had no role in the design and conduct of the study or the writing of the report. All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest
Broad-based root-knot nematode resistance identified in cowpea gene-pool two
U suvremenom svijetu ekonomije i nepredvidivih promjena svaka organizacija primorana je proširivati svoje znanje i neprestano učiti. Sposobnost učenja je jedinstvena karakteristika svakog ljudskog bića, ali organizacije kao same, u kojima ljudi funkcioniraju tijekom svog života tu sposobnost nemaju. To može dovesti do nedostatka ideja vodilja koje ona treba pružiti dođu u situaciju da ne razumiju i ne mogu se suočiti s nastalom promjenom ili situacijom. Tu dolazi do povezanosti sa motivacijom, koja je jedna od temeljnih čimbenika uspješne i ugledne ogranizacije. Ona se može odrediti kao proces pokretanja aktivnosti radi ostvarenja određenih ciljeva te usmjeravanja aktivnosti na određene objekte i reguliranje načina na koji će se postupiti. Kako bi poduzeće učilo, mora napredovati, a kako bi napredovalo, mora postojati motivacija među zaposlenicima. Ovim se radom ističu upravljanje ljudskim potencijalima te naravno motivacija kao jedna od njih, a temeljni cilj istraživanja je spoznati nešto više o unaprjeđivanju i obrazovanju zaposlenika te analiziranje uloge motivacije u tvrtci Atlantic Grupa d.d.In the modern world of fast-paced economics and unpredictable changes, each organization has been forced to expand its knowledge and to continuously learn. Learning is a unique feature of every human being, but organizations like themselves, in which people work throughout their lives, do not have that ability. This can lead to a lack of idea of the guideline that needs to come into a situation that they do not understand and can not cope with the change or situation that is being created. Here comes to the connection with motivation, which is one of the fundamental factors of successful and reputable encounters. It can be defined as a process of initiating activities to achieve certain goals and directing activities to specific objects and regulating how to act. In order for an enterprise to learn, it must progress, and in order to progress, there must be motivation among employees. This paper emphasizes human resource management and of course motivation as one of them, and the main goal of the research is to know more about improving and educating employees and analyzing the role of motivation at Atlantic Grupa d.d
First simultaneous optical/near-infrared imaging of an X-ray selected, high-redshift cluster of galaxies with GROND: the galaxy population of XMMU J0338.7+0030 at z=1.1
The XMM-Newton Distant Cluster Project is a serendipitous survey for clusters
of galaxies at redshifts z>=0.8 based on deep archival XMM-Newton observations.
... Low-significance candidate high-z clusters are followed up with the
seven-channel imager GROND (Gamma-Ray Burst Optical and Near-Infrared Detector)
that is mounted at a 2m-class telescope. ... The test case is XMMU
J0338.7+0030, suggested to be at z~1.45+/-0.15 from the analysis of the z-H vs
H colour-magnitude diagram obtained from the follow-up imaging. Later VLT-FORS2
spectroscopy enabled us to identify four members, which set this cluster at
z=1.097+/-0.002. To reach a better knowledge of its galaxy population, we
observed XMMU J0338.7+0030 with GROND for about 6 hr. The publicly available
photo-z code le Phare was used. The Ks-band number counts of the non-stellar
sources out of the 832 detected down to z'~26 AB-mag in the 3.9x4.3 square
arcmin region of XMMU J0338.7+0030 imaged at all GROND bands clearly exceed
those computed in deep fields/survey areas at ~20.5 - 22.5 AB-mag. The
photo-z's of the three imaged spectroscopic members yield z=1.12+/-0.09. The
spatial distribution and the properties of the GROND sources with a photo-z in
the range 1.01 - 1.23 confirm the correspondence of the X-ray source with a
galaxy over-density at a significance of at least 4.3 sigma. Candidate members
that are spectro-photometrically classified as elliptical galaxies define a red
locus in the i'-z' vs z' colour-magnitude diagram that is consistent with the
red sequence of the cluster RDCS J0910+5422 at z=1.106. XMMU J0338.7+0030 hosts
also a population of bluer late-type spirals and irregulars. The starbursts
among the photometric members populate both loci, consistently with previous
results. The analysis of the available data set indicates that XMMU
J0338.7+0030 is a low-mass cluster (M_200 ~ 1E14 M_sun) at z=1.1. (Abridged)Comment: accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Main Journal, 27
pages, 24 figures, 1 tabl
Highlights from the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Pierre Auger Observatory is the world's largest cosmic ray observatory.
Our current exposure reaches nearly 40,000 km str and provides us with an
unprecedented quality data set. The performance and stability of the detectors
and their enhancements are described. Data analyses have led to a number of
major breakthroughs. Among these we discuss the energy spectrum and the
searches for large-scale anisotropies. We present analyses of our X
data and show how it can be interpreted in terms of mass composition. We also
describe some new analyses that extract mass sensitive parameters from the 100%
duty cycle SD data. A coherent interpretation of all these recent results opens
new directions. The consequences regarding the cosmic ray composition and the
properties of UHECR sources are briefly discussed.Comment: 9 pages, 12 figures, talk given at the 33rd International Cosmic Ray
Conference, Rio de Janeiro 201
Ultrahigh-energy neutrino follow-up of Gravitational Wave events GW150914 and GW151226 with the Pierre Auger Observatory
On September 14, 2015 the Advanced LIGO detectors observed their first
gravitational-wave (GW) transient GW150914. This was followed by a second GW
event observed on December 26, 2015. Both events were inferred to have arisen
from the merger of black holes in binary systems. Such a system may emit
neutrinos if there are magnetic fields and disk debris remaining from the
formation of the two black holes. With the surface detector array of the Pierre
Auger Observatory we can search for neutrinos with energy above 100 PeV from
point-like sources across the sky with equatorial declination from about -65
deg. to +60 deg., and in particular from a fraction of the 90% confidence-level
(CL) inferred positions in the sky of GW150914 and GW151226. A targeted search
for highly-inclined extensive air showers, produced either by interactions of
downward-going neutrinos of all flavors in the atmosphere or by the decays of
tau leptons originating from tau-neutrino interactions in the Earth's crust
(Earth-skimming neutrinos), yielded no candidates in the Auger data collected
within s around or 1 day after the coordinated universal time (UTC)
of GW150914 and GW151226, as well as in the same search periods relative to the
UTC time of the GW candidate event LVT151012. From the non-observation we
constrain the amount of energy radiated in ultrahigh-energy neutrinos from such
remarkable events.Comment: Published version. Added journal reference and DOI. Added Report
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A search for point sources of EeV photons
Measurements of air showers made using the hybrid technique developed with
the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a
sensitive search for point sources of EeV photons anywhere in the exposed sky.
A multivariate analysis reduces the background of hadronic cosmic rays. The
search is sensitive to a declination band from -85{\deg} to +20{\deg}, in an
energy range from 10^17.3 eV to 10^18.5 eV. No photon point source has been
detected. An upper limit on the photon flux has been derived for every
direction. The mean value of the energy flux limit that results from this,
assuming a photon spectral index of -2, is 0.06 eV cm^-2 s^-1, and no celestial
direction exceeds 0.25 eV cm^-2 s^-1. These upper limits constrain scenarios in
which EeV cosmic ray protons are emitted by non-transient sources in the
Galaxy.Comment: 28 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical
Journa
Multi-resolution anisotropy studies of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory
We report a multi-resolution search for anisotropies in the arrival
directions of cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with local
zenith angles up to and energies in excess of 4 EeV ( eV). This search is conducted by measuring the angular power spectrum
and performing a needlet wavelet analysis in two independent energy ranges.
Both analyses are complementary since the angular power spectrum achieves a
better performance in identifying large-scale patterns while the needlet
wavelet analysis, considering the parameters used in this work, presents a
higher efficiency in detecting smaller-scale anisotropies, potentially
providing directional information on any observed anisotropies. No deviation
from isotropy is observed on any angular scale in the energy range between 4
and 8 EeV. Above 8 EeV, an indication for a dipole moment is captured; while no
other deviation from isotropy is observed for moments beyond the dipole one.
The corresponding -values obtained after accounting for searches blindly
performed at several angular scales, are in the case of
the angular power spectrum, and in the case of the needlet
analysis. While these results are consistent with previous reports making use
of the same data set, they provide extensions of the previous works through the
thorough scans of the angular scales.Comment: Published version. Added journal reference and DOI. Added Report
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Reconstruction of inclined air showers detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory
We describe the method devised to reconstruct inclined cosmic-ray air showers
with zenith angles greater than detected with the surface array of
the Pierre Auger Observatory. The measured signals at the ground level are
fitted to muon density distributions predicted with atmospheric cascade models
to obtain the relative shower size as an overall normalization parameter. The
method is evaluated using simulated showers to test its performance. The energy
of the cosmic rays is calibrated using a sub-sample of events reconstructed
with both the fluorescence and surface array techniques. The reconstruction
method described here provides the basis of complementary analyses including an
independent measurement of the energy spectrum of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
using very inclined events collected by the Pierre Auger Observatory.Comment: 27 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of
Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP
Calibration of the Logarithmic-Periodic Dipole Antenna (LPDA) Radio Stations at the Pierre Auger Observatory using an Octocopter
An in-situ calibration of a logarithmic periodic dipole antenna with a
frequency coverage of 30 MHz to 80 MHz is performed. Such antennas are part of
a radio station system used for detection of cosmic ray induced air showers at
the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory, the so-called
Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA). The directional and frequency
characteristics of the broadband antenna are investigated using a remotely
piloted aircraft (RPA) carrying a small transmitting antenna. The antenna
sensitivity is described by the vector effective length relating the measured
voltage with the electric-field components perpendicular to the incoming signal
direction. The horizontal and meridional components are determined with an
overall uncertainty of 7.4^{+0.9}_{-0.3} % and 10.3^{+2.8}_{-1.7} %
respectively. The measurement is used to correct a simulated response of the
frequency and directional response of the antenna. In addition, the influence
of the ground conductivity and permittivity on the antenna response is
simulated. Both have a negligible influence given the ground conditions
measured at the detector site. The overall uncertainties of the vector
effective length components result in an uncertainty of 8.8^{+2.1}_{-1.3} % in
the square root of the energy fluence for incoming signal directions with
zenith angles smaller than 60{\deg}.Comment: Published version. Updated online abstract only. Manuscript is
unchanged with respect to v2. 39 pages, 15 figures, 2 table
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