Football in the community schemes: Exploring the effectiveness of an intervention in promoting healthful behaviour change

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of a Premier League football club’s Football in the Community (FitC) schemes intervention in promoting positive healthful behaviour change in children. Specifically, exploring the effectiveness of this intervention from the perspectives of the participants involved (i.e. the researcher, teachers, children and coaches). A range of data collection techniques were utilized including the principles of ethnography (i.e. immersion, engagement and observations), alongside conducting focus groups with the children. The results allude to the intervention merely ‘keeping active children active’ via (mostly) fun, football sessions. Results highlight the important contribution the ‘coach’ plays in the effectiveness of the intervention. Results relating to working practice (i.e. coaching practice and coach recruitment) are discussed and highlighted as areas to be addressed. FitC schemes appear to require a process of positive organizational change to increase their effectiveness in strategically attending to the health agenda

Insights into the Physiology and Ecology of the Brackish-Water-Adapted Cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena CCY9414 Based on a Genome-Transcriptome Analysis

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Refining and regaining skills in fixation/diversification stage performers: The Five-A Model

Technical change is one of many factors underpinning success in elite, fixation/diversification stage performers. Surprisingly, however, there is a dearth of research pertaining to this process or the most efficacious methods used to bring about such a change. In this paper we highlight the emergent processes, yet also the lack in mechanistic comprehension surrounding technical change, addressing issues within the motor control, sport psychology, coaching and choking literature. More importantly, we seek an understanding of how these changes can be made more secure to competitive pressure, and how this can be embedded within the process of technical change. Following this review, we propose The Five-A Model based on successful coaching techniques, psychosocial concomitants, the avoidance of choking and principles of effective behaviour change. Specific mechanisms for each stage are discussed, with a focus on the use of holistic rhythm-based cues as a possible way of internalising changes. Finally, we suggest the need for further research to examine these five stages, to aid a more comprehensive construction of the content and delivery of such a programme within the applied setting

Invariable biomass-specific primary production of taxonomically discrete picoeukaryote groups across the Atlantic Ocean

Oceanic photosynthetic picoeukaryotes (< 3 µm) are responsible for > 40% of total primary production at low latitudes such as the North-Eastern tropical Atlantic. In the world ocean, warmed by climate changes, the expected gradual shift towards smaller primary producers could render the role of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes even more important than they are today. Little is still known, however, about how the taxonomic composition of this highly diverse group affects primary production at the basin scale. Here, we combined flow cytometric cell sorting, NaH14CO3 radiotracer incubations and class-specific fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) probes to determine cell- and biomass-specific inorganic carbon fixation rates and taxonomic composition of two major photosynthetic picoeukaryote groups on a ?7500-km-long latitudinal transect across the Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic Meridional Transect, AMT19). We show that even though larger cells have, on average, cell-specific CO2 uptake rates ?5 times higher than the smaller ones, the average biomass-specific uptake is statistically similar for both groups. On the other hand, even at a high taxonomic level, i.e. class, the contributions to both groups by Prymnesiophyceae, Chrysophyceae and Pelagophyceae are significantly different (P < 0.001 in all cases). We therefore conclude that these group's carbon fixation rates are independent of the taxonomic composition of photosynthetic picoeukaryotes across the Atlantic Ocean. Because the above applies across different oceanic regions the diversity changes seem to be a secondary factor determining primary production

Orientation of medieval churches of Morava school

In this paper we present the mathematical and topographic analysis of orientation of the most significant churches (11) of Morava school, the last style in architecture of medieval Serbia whose executors were chief architects. The deviation from equinox East of the main axis of each church and the dates when the Sun rises on the physical horizon, in the extension of the main axis, have been calculated. These were the dates when the church could have been oriented towards the rising Sun. This possibility has been ruled out for four churches. As for the other churches, the matching of the mentioned dates with the patron’s days wasn’t established. The churches in monasteries Ljubostinja and Kalenic are oriented with astronomical precision towards equinox East, an admirable fact considering the tools available to the builders. Rade Borovic, the only chief architect who put his signature on his work, was the chief architect of Ljubostinja

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Analysis of loci encoding proteins of the CP43/IsiA/Pcb family.

<p><b>A.</b> Organization of the chromosomal region harboring the <i>isiA</i> and <i>psbC</i>-like genes (<i>psbC-lk1-3</i>) of <i>N. spumigena</i> and the separate <i>psbDC</i> operon. The PsaL–coding domain in <i>psbC-lk2</i> (<i>nsp37500</i>) is highlighted in orange. <b>B.</b> Phylogenetic analysis of CP43, IsiA and related chlorophyll-binding proteins from <i>N. spumigena</i> and of selected other cyanobacteria was inferred using the Minimum Evolution method. The optimal tree with the sum of branch length = 3,97009738 is shown. The percentage of replicate trees in which the associated taxa clustered in the bootstrap test (1000 replicates) are shown next to the branches. The tree is drawn to scale, with branch lengths in the same units as those of the evolutionary distances used to infer the phylogenetic tree. The evolutionary distances were computed using the Poisson correction method and are in the units of the number of amino acid substitutions per site. All positions containing gaps and missing data were eliminated from the dataset (complete deletion option). There were a total of 279 positions in the final dataset. <b>C.</b> Transcriptional organization around the <i>isiA, isiB</i> and <i>psbC</i>-like gene cluster. There are three mapped TSS in the region displayed in <b>Fig. 3A</b>, all associated with or close to the 5′ end of <i>nsp37510.</i> TSS are indicated by blue arrows and the number of cDNA reads associated with them are given as approximation for their activity. One gTSS gives rise to the 83 nt long 5′ UTR upstream of <i>nsp37510</i> (blue) and the gene or operon mRNA. An antisense RNA originates from a single aTSS in the opposite direction (purple). The third TSS is a putative nTSS driving the transcription of an ncRNA in the <i>nsp37510</i>- <i>nsp37520</i> intergenic spacer. Except for the <i>nsp37510</i> 5′ UTR, all TSS displayed are drawn with a 100 nt-long box that corresponded to the maximum read length in the dRNAseq approach.</p

Classification of the predicted <i>N. spumigena</i> CCY9414 proteome.

<p><b>A.</b> Comparison of all predicted proteins of <i>N. spumigena</i> (N_spumi) against the proteomes of other well-studied Nostocales, <i>Nostoc punctiforme</i> sp. PCC 73102 (N_punct), <i>Anabaena variabilis</i> sp. ATCC 29413 (A_var) and <i>Anabaena</i> PCC 7120 (N_7120) based on MCL clustering of BLASTp results (minimum e-value: 10^-8). The numbers refer to the number of protein clusters in each category, the numbers in brackets to the total number of individual proteins. <b>B.</b> Taxonomic top hits for the 1,098 <i>N. spumigena</i> CCY9414 singletons from part A (<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0060224#pone.0060224.s005" target="_blank">Table S3</a>) visualized by MEGAN.</p

The 50 gTSS of protein-coding genes associated with the highest number of reads.

<p>For each gTSS, the position with respect to the forward strand, the orientation (S), the number of reads, the gene ID, gene name (if known) and gene annotation is given. The gTSS are ordered according to the number of reads.</p