The Effects of Selected Training Intensities and Durations on Blood Cholesterol and Selected Anthropometric Measurements

Physical inactivity, due to automation and our busy mode of living, has contributed to a health problem in modern society. When obesity, high-fat diets, cigarette smoking, and stress are added, the end-product is an alarming increase in incidence of diseases of the heart and lungs. Admittedly, such diseases are multifactorial in cause, but inactivity appears to assume an increasingly important role. Exercise in relation to preventative and rehabilitative medicine, however, is a new and rapid changing field of research. Consequently, the knowledge concerning physical conditioning and training programs is limited and inadequate. Therefore, educators in health and physical education are expected to apply modern specific techniques and provide the much needed data. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of various training intensities and durations on blood cholesterol percentage body fat and body weight. (A concurrent study was conducted where the parameters of maximal oxygen uptake, maximal oxygen pulse, maximal pulmonary ventilation, maximal heart rate, ventilation equivalence for oxygen, and forced expiratory volume in one second were studied.

Effect Of Residual Bend In Coiled Tubing Buckling For Horizontal Wells

Coiled tubing has been continuously used successfully around the world. Various of companies has proven its advantage during drilling operation which cause this advance drilling technology a very important part specially on drilling underbalance well, workover, slimhole drilling and re-entry wells. Drilling with coiled tubing saves time and cost of operation thus increases profit. Selection of which how long coil tubing string shall be used in drilling varies with depth of the reservoir. However, in the life of coiled tubing string a residual bend exist. Initially coiled tubing is not straight tubing when placed inside a wellbore as it has a certain residual bend which is bound to happen. This paper’s aim is to explain how this residual bend that is present in coiled tubing affect on string maximum length before lock-up occurs on tubing

Barnehagelæreres kompetanse på barn med en språkforstyrrelse.

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Barriers and Challenges in Distanced-Learning in Developing World

The purpose of this study is to identify the difficulties and impediments that educational institutions in underdeveloped nations confront. Distance learning is critical to sustaining education during the COVID-19 epidemic. This creates a number of difficulties when implementing remote learning. One of the difficulties encountered is a lack of contact with instructors throughout the learning process, which results in a less effective learning process

DoS and DDoS mitigation using Variational Autoencoders

DoS and DDoS attacks have been growing in size and number over the last decade and existing solutions to mitigate these attacks are largely inefficient. Compared to other types of malicious cyber attacks, DoS and DDoS attacks are particularly challenging to combat. Because of their ability to mask themselves as legitimate traffic, it has proven difficult to develop methods to detect these types of attacks on a packet or flow level. In this paper, we explore the potential of Variational Autoencoders to serve as a component within an intelligent security solution that differentiates between normal and malicious traffic. The motivation behind resorting to Variational Autoencoders is that unlike normal encoders that would code an input flow as a single point, they encode a flow as a distribution over the latent space which avoids overfitting. Intuitively, this allows a Variational Autoencoder to not only learn latent representations of seen input features, but to generalize in a way that allows for an interpretation of unseen flows and flow features with slight variations. Two methods based on the ability of Variational Autoencoders to learn latent representations from network traffic flows of both benign and malicious traffic, are proposed. The first method resorts to a classifier based on the latent encodings obtained from Variational Autoencoders learned from traffic traces. The second method is an anomaly detection method, where the Variational Autoencoder is used to learn the abstract feature representations of exclusively legitimate traffic. Anomalies are then filtered out by relying on the reconstruction loss of the Variational Autoencoder. In this sense, the construction loss of the autoencoder is fed as input to a classifier that outputs the class of the traffic including benign and malign, and eventually the attack type. Thus, the second approach operates with two separate training processes on two separate data sources: the first training involving only legitimate traffic, and the second training involving all traffic classes. This is different from the first approach which operates only a single training process on the whole traffic dataset. Thus, the autoencoder of the first approach aspires to learn a general feature representation of the flows while the autoencoder of the second approach aims to exclusively learn a representation of the benign traffic. The second approach is thus more susceptible to finding zero day attacks and discovering new attacks as anomalies. Both of the proposed methods have been thoroughly tested on two separate datasets with a similar feature space. The results show that both methods are promising, with the classifier-based method being slightly superior to the anomaly-based one

Digital sikkerhetskultur i en hybrid hverdag

I mars 2020 ble tusenvis av arbeidstagere sendt på hjemmekontor over natten. Virksomheter så seg nødt til å digitalisere og implementerte ny teknologi i rekordfart. Mange ansatte opplevde å ikke få veiledning om hvordan de skulle arbeide sikkert hjemmefra. Dette i sammenheng med utviklingen med den økte digitaliseringen av samfunnet, så har vi sett en fremvekst av digitale trusler. Koronapandemien var med på å skjerpe det nasjonale risikobildet. Dette var med på å forme problemstillingen til denne oppgaven: Hvilke elementer ved digital sikkerhetskultur bør virksomheter prioritere ved hybride kontorløsninger? Metodikken for denne oppgaven har vært en kvalitativ, eksplorativ fremgangsmåte. Det er gjennomført flere dybdeintervjuer av informanter med relevant kompetanse i relevante stillinger, som ble vurdert til å representere virksomheter som ble påvirket av den nye normalen. Denne nye normalen representeres i denne oppgaven som hybridkontoret. Det er brukt blant annet litteraturstudier, analyser av spørreundersøkelser gjennomført av blant annet NSM og deres rapport Nordmenn og digital sikkerhetskultur, samt andre spørreundersøkelser og studier med hjemmekontor, for å kunne besvare problemstillingen. Funn gjort i intervjuene og i analyse av spørreundersøkelser m.m, har blitt vurdert og drøftet opp mot det teoretiske grunnlaget som oppgaven lener seg på. Det er for øvrig verd å merke seg at selv om det finnes utbredt forskning på hjemmekontor og dens effekt på mennesker er det dog færre studier av utfordringene knyttet til digital sikkerhetskultur, hybridkontoret og den nye normalen. Denne nye normale medfører både muligheter og utfordringer. For eksempel kan ansatte endre sin adferd, væremåte og holdninger når at de ikke lengre er til stede på kontoret, og ikke deltar i gruppedynamikken og organisasjonskulturen. Videre kan hybride kontorløsning medføre endringer for hvordan en må prioritere for å ivareta og arbeide med en den digital sikkerhetskultur. Tidligere var flertallet av ansatte «under samme tak», men med hybridkontor vil spredningen av de ansatte kunne føre til at det ikke bare må benyttes andre metodikker for samhandling og kommunikasjon, men også andre vesentlige endringer for hvordan ansatte ledes. Studier viser også at forlenget hjemme eller hybridkontor påvirker den ansattes adferd og holdninger, og på sikt vil kunne medføre at en får en større sannsynlighet for at det oppstår uønskede hendelser med tap av informasjon, kompromittering av konfidensialitet og integritet. Løsningen på problemstillingene som oppstår kan finnes i at virksomhetsledere i større grad må jobbe ut ifra tillit og en situasjonsbestemt tilnærming med tettere grad av oppfølging. Videre er det indikasjoner på at ledere i større grad må involvere de ansatte, og kommunisere bredere. Like viktig kan det også være at ledere går foran og er gode eksempler for de ansatte – litt enkelt sagt må de «være gode bjellesauer», samt at man må skape forståelse for hvorfor det er viktig å gjennomføre tiltakene eller følge de forskjellige prosessene, heller enn å fortelle at det må gjøres på den ene eller andre måten

The Psychometric Properties of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale - Brief

Previous psychometric analyses of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale and the abbreviated version (FMPS–Brief) have resulted in inconsistent findings regarding the scale’s bidimensionality or unidimensionality. Different studies evaluating the scale with different statistical analyses and comparative samples report different results and recommendations. This study assessed the FMPS-B’s psychometric properties by conducting both confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and pure bifactor modeling in order to address previous findings and guide future use of the scale. The results indicate that the two-factor model is the best fit. Going forward, the FMPS-B’s subfactors “strivings” and “evaluative concerns” may be studied separately. Implications for future research and challenges in bifactor modeling are discussed.publishedVersio

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A Randomized Control Trial of a Brief Self-Compassion Intervention for Perfectionism, Anxiety, Depression, and Body Image

Objective: Due to a rise in perfectionistic tendencies and growing concerns about the increase in mental health conditions among students this study aimed to examine the effects of a brief intervention in self-compassion on maladaptive perfectionism, anxiety, depression, and body image. Methods: The intervention consisted of four seminars and a silent half-day retreat with short lectures and relevant experiential practices from Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). This randomized wait-list control trial was pre-registered at Clinicaltrials.gov (ID: NCT03453437, Unique Protocol ID: UiBMSC2018). University students were randomly assigned to the intervention group and wait-list control group and filled out surveys weekly. A repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the groups pre- and post-treatment. Mixed level modeling was used to analyze changes in all outcome measures over time. Results: Eighty-nine participants completed the intervention. Results of the ANOVA showed significant post-intervention reductions in maladaptive perfectionistic tendencies and symptoms of depression and anxiety, in addition to increased self-compassion and improved body image in the intervention group as compared to the wait-list group. Mixed level modeling showed statistically significant changes in self-compassion, maladaptive perfectionism, adaptive perfectionism, anxiety, and depression but not body image. Only the mixed level modeling showed small but significant changes to adaptive perfectionism, also called strivings. Implications of different changes to maladaptive perfectionism than adaptive perfectionism are discussed.publishedVersio