495 research outputs found
Feminine and Masculine Linguistic Comparison: Investigating Team Sports through Notre Dame University Media News Archives
This unobtrusive qualitative research was aimed to explore the linguistic differences in media news archives between male and female athletes in sport. Data was collected unobtrusively through Notre Dame University’s athletic online website where media news archives were gathered from the sports of soccer, basketball, and lacrosse in the 2019 year. Open coding was then achieved with the help of varying verbs and adjectives collected. Upon analysis, four patterns emerged from the open coding process. These themes being latent gendered linguistics, a double standard, overemphasizing qualifications of female athletes, and structural disparities. Results concluded that there continues to be major differences in the ways women are talked about in sport compared to men
Humor and Laughter May Influence Health: III. Laughter and Health Outcomes
This is part three of a four-part series reviewing the evidence on how humor influences physiological and psychological well-being. The first article included basic background information, definitions and a review of the theoretical underpinnings for this area of research. The second article discussed use of humor as a complementary therapy within various clinical samples, as well as evidence concerning how a sense of humor influences physiological and psychological wellbeing. This third article examines how laughter influences health outcomes; including muscle tension, cardio-respiratory functioning and various stress physiology measures
Humor and Laughter May Influence Health: [Part] II. Complementary Therapies and Humor in a Clinical Population
Our results support a connection between sense of humor and self-reported physical health, however, it is difficult to determine the relationship to any specific disease process. Whereas relationships between sense of humor and self-reported measures of physical well-being appear to be supported, more research is required to determine interrelationships between sense of humor and well-being
Humor and Laughter May Influence Health [Part] IV. Humor and Immune Function
This is the final article in a four part series reviewing the influence of humor and laughter on physiological and psychological well-being. This final article reviews the evidence for the effect of sense of humor, exposure to a humor stimulus and laughter on various immune system components, with a focus on the effects of laughter on natural killer cell cytotoxicity
Humor and Laughter May Influence Health: [Part] III. Laughter and Health Outcomes
This is part three of a four-part series reviewing the evidence on how humor influences physiological and psychological well-being. The first article included basic background information, definitions and a review of the theoretical underpinnings for this area of research. The second article discussed use of humor as a complementary therapy within various clinical samples, as well as evidence concerning how a sense of humor influences physiological and psychological wellbeing. This third article examines how laughter influences health outcomes; including muscle tension, cardio-respiratory functioning and various stress physiolog
Humor and Laughter May Influence Health: II. Complementary Therapies and Humor in a Clinical Population
Our results support a connection between sense of humor and self-reported physical health, however, it is difficult to determine the relationship to any specific disease process. Whereas relationships between sense of humor and self-reported measures of physical well-being appear to be supported, more research is required to determine interrelationships between sense of humor and well-being
Humor and Laughter may Influence Health. I. History and Background
Articles in both the lay and professional literature have extolled the virtues of humor, many giving the impression that the health benefits of humor are well documented by the scientific and medical community. The concept that humor or laughter can be therapeutic goes back to biblical times and this belief has received varying levels of support from the scientific community at different points in its history. Current research indicates that using humor is well accepted by the public and is frequently used as a coping mechanism. However, the scientific evidence of the benefits of using humor on various health related outcomes still leaves many questions unanswered
A Multi-Phase Approach for Product Hierarchy Forecasting in Supply Chain Management: Application to MonarchFx Inc
Hierarchical time series demands exist in many industries and are often
associated with the product, time frame, or geographic aggregations.
Traditionally, these hierarchies have been forecasted using top-down,
bottom-up, or middle-out approaches. The question we aim to answer is how to
utilize child-level forecasts to improve parent-level forecasts in a
hierarchical supply chain. Improved forecasts can be used to considerably
reduce logistics costs, especially in e-commerce. We propose a novel
multi-phase hierarchical (MPH) approach. Our method involves forecasting each
series in the hierarchy independently using machine learning models, then
combining all forecasts to allow a second phase model estimation at the parent
level. Sales data from MonarchFx Inc. (a logistics solutions provider) is used
to evaluate our approach and compare it to bottom-up and top-down methods. Our
results demonstrate an 82-90% improvement in forecast accuracy using the
proposed approach. Using the proposed method, supply chain planners can derive
more accurate forecasting models to exploit the benefit of multivariate data.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures, 8 table
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