Re-elections will resolve conflict

THE crisis that has plagued MIC for months is coming to an end, and its leaders should waste no time in rebuild­ing the party

Ahmad is sending a message to Hadi

The contest for the Pas pres­idency next month, the first in five decades, was a clear signal there was growing dissent against Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang's leadership, political an­ analysts said

New cabinet solidifies PM's position

DATUK Seri Najib Razak's successful restructuring of the cabinet is the cherry on the cake for the prime minister after scoring a string of major breakthroughs in recent months

New cabinet will lead BN into GEM

THE unveiling of the new cabinet lineup marks an important first step by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in charting Barisan Nasional's course towards the 14th General Election

Trump would ruin bilateral ties

REPUBLICAN candidate Donald Trump's victory in the race to the White House could hugely alter the relations that the United States have with the Muslim world

The Cognitive, Affective, and Somatic Empathy Scales (CASES): Cross-Cultural Replication and Specificity to Different Forms of Aggression and Victimization

A psychometrically sound measure of empathy that captures its multifaceted nature is critical in furthering research on empathy. The only instrument that assesses three domains of empathy together with positive and negative valence empathy is the newly developed 30-item cognitive, affective, and somatic empathy scales (CASES). The current study examines the cross-culture generalizability of CASES in Hong Kong and explores links between empathy and different forms of aggression and peer victimization. A sample of 4,676 Hong Kong youth (62% male) completed CASES, alongside measures of reactive/proactive aggression and multidimensional peer victimization. A subsample of youth (n = 2,321–2,464) and their parents completed additional instruments for testing the validity of CASES. We replicated most of the concurrent, convergent, and discriminant validity findings in the original development of CASES. Proactive aggression was most strongly linked to affective empathy, whereas reactive aggression was most strongly linked to somatic empathy. Differential associations were revealed between subscales of CASES and forms of peer victimization. Findings provide cross-cultural generalizability for a brief self-report instrument that captures the multifaceted nature of empathy. The multifaceted nature of empathy is further supported by differential associations with forms of aggression and victimization

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Waking up the silent majority: TOUCH CHALLENGE: Global Movement of Moderates Foundation should focus on this group, says CEO

A Veteran politician and re­spected Islamic scholar,Nasharudin Mat Isa is no stranger to big challenges

In vivo oscillations of the soleus muscle can be quantified using b-mode ultrasound imaging during walking and running in humans

Impact forces, due to the foot contacting the ground during locomotion, can be considered input signals to the body that must be dissipated to prevent impact-related injuries. One proposed mechanism employed by the body to damp the impact is through vibrations of the skeletal muscles. However, there is yet to be direct in vivo measures of muscle oscillations during locomotion. This study investigated the use of 2D ultrasound imaging to quantify transverse muscle oscillations (deep-superficial displacement of the muscle boundary relative to the skin) in response to impact forces elicited by walking and running at a range of speeds. Increases in vertical impact forces with faster walking and running was consistent with changes in both magnitude and frequency in the measured oscillations of the soleus muscle; one of the main human ankle plantar flexors. Muscle oscillations contained more higher frequency components at fast running (50% signal power in frequencies below ~ 14 Hz) compared with slow walking (50% signal power contained in frequencies below ~ 5 Hz). This study provides a platform for ultrasound imaging to examine muscle oscillation responses to impact forces induced by changes in external interfaces such as shoe material, locomotion type and ground surface properties