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Exaggerated postprandial triacylglycerol concentrations (TAG) independently predict future cardiovascular events. Acute exercise and diet interventions attenuate postprandial TAG in adults. This paper aims to examine the exercise postprandial lipemia studies published to date in young people. Nine studies satisfied the inclusion criteria adopted for this summary. The majority of studies are in boys (22% girls) and have shown a single ~60-min session of moderate-intensity exercise, performed 12-18 hours before a standardized meal, reduces postprandial TAG. Manipulations of exercise duration and intensity suggest an exercise energy expenditure dose-dependent response is not supported directly in healthy young people. Studies investigating alternative exercise bouts have reported lower postprandial TAG after simulated intermittent games activity, high-intensity interval running and cumulative 10-min blocks over several hours, which may appeal to the spontaneous physical activity habits of young people. Although extension of these initial findings is warranted, exercise may be an effective strategy to promote regular benefits in TAG metabolism in children and adolescents; this may contribute to an improved cardiovascular disease risk profile early in life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the importance of prevention in general practice, electronic clinical record systems used in Australian general practice do not present a comprehensive overview of each patient's preventive care status to general practitioners or patients. Data relevant to prevention is scattered between different parts of the patient's record. On-screen reminders to general practitioners are simplistic and easily overlooked, and no reminders are sent automatically to patients. There is no structured means to note a patient's refusal or ineligibility for a particular preventive activity. Electronic clinical record systems should be enhanced to allow patients to be invited automatically, at appropriate times, to review and respond to comprehensive information and advice about preventive care that is recommended for them. Users of electronic clinical record systems will need to lobby their software vendors to have the proposed enhancements made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is important to have reliable instruments that can evaluate the attitude towards animal welfare of elementary school students. The abuse or mistreatment of children towards vulnerable groups deserves full attention, therefore we emphasize that animals constitute a vulnerable group that needs further studies. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study aimed to validate the design of a scale that measures the attitude towards animal welfare (ABA) in 100 students from fourth to sixth grade of elementary school. It includes children between 9 to 12 years old residents of communities in the state of Sonora, Mexico. The factor analysis yielded two factors that explain 39.32% of the total variance with a Keizer-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) index of 0.86 and high internal consistency index for the total scale (0.90) and the subscales. Additionally, the confirmatory factor analysis produced an adequate practical and statistical fit in the covariance model and the second order model. The covariance analysis also evidenced convergent and divergent validity. Comparison analyzes by groups showed that sex and school grade do not influence attitudes in favor or against the animal species. Finally, we found that older children living in an extended family develop better attitudes in favor of animal care and protection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study investigated the effects of three summary writing strategies; Direct Instruction, Cognitive Strategy and Read-Test Strategy on Senior Secondary School student's achievement in English language summary writing. The study population consists of 12,766 Senior Secondary year two (SS 2) students from Edo South Senatorial District and a sample of 373 students participated in the study. Three research questions which were all hypothesized guided the conduct of the research. A pre-test and post-test quasi experimental design was used for the study. The instrument used for data collection was an Achievement Test in Summary Writing (SATSW) adopted from past West African Examination Council (WAEC) English language Paper 2 question paper. The reliability of the instrument was r.96 with an inter-rater reliability estimate of .89. Both descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, mean, standard deviation and ANCOVA were used to analyse the data. The findings revealed significant difference in achievement amongst students taught using the different strategies. The results showed that the experimental group performed better with Direct Instruction Strategy being the most effective for teaching students summary writing. Cognitive Strategy was also found to contribute to students' summary writing than the Read-Test Strategy. Thus, it was recommended that English language teachers should be exposed to training in summary writing strategies like Direct Instruction and Cognitive Strategy through workshops and seminars with the hope that this would help to enhance students' summary writing skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study introduces MediBetter, a mobile application designed to empower patients undergoing routine medication in health monitoring and medication adherence. It is a mobile application designed to serve as a supportive health technology for patients to monitor their health status and manage their routine medication. It offers three main features: text-based daily self health report, AI-based summarization of the health report, and medication taking reminder. To evaluate the quality of generated summaries generated by both the user and AI (ChatGPT), we conducted human expert evaluation process. Furthermore, we also evaluated the usefulness of existing features in the app. The experiment results show that ChatGPT-generated summaries outperformed user-generated ones, demonstrating superior informativeness, coherence, fluency, consistency, and contradiction handling. Participants found the app's features highly useful for health monitoring and medication adherence, with strong agreement on their utility.

Objective: The purpose of this commentary was to critically appraise the patellofemoral pain clinical practice guideline published by the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy in 2019 and to summarize their recommendations for chiropractic practice. Methods: Quality and reporting of this guideline was assessed with the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II (AGREE II) instrument. Three reviewers independently scored between 1-7 (strongly disagree-strongly agree) for 23 items organized into six quality domains. Results: AGREE II quality domain scores ranged between 57%-98%, with overall quality of the recommendation rated 89%. The guideline contained evidence summaries and/or recommendations for three topics: impairment/function-based diagnosis; examination; and interventions. Conclusion: Based on its methodological quality, we recommend the use of this guideline for the examination, diagnosis, and management of patellofemoral pain in chiropractic practice. A summary of recommendations from this guideline is presented for use within the scope of chiropractic practice in Canada. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author of the article defines school communicative situation as the one requiring from the student an ability to use specialised language known as the language of school education. According to regulations currently in force, improving the fluency in the said language is a task of teachers of all school subject because knowing it is one of the conditions of attaining educational success. The article presents a proposal to work on a summary that includes the determinants of school education language.

In this article, the authors present the notion of perspective as a threshold concept in business communication. Using an SoTL framework, the researchers explore the effect of teaching threshold concepts in a summary writing assignment in a foundational business communication class. Working with a close reading methodology, the authors examine the context of perspective as a threshold concept by analyzing students’ summary samples for gender bias and explore how close reading can support further research into threshold concepts in business communication.

Elderly is someone whose age is around 60-74 years, at that age, one's health tends to decrease, and it has an impact on reduced perception, cognition, and psychometry. One result of cognitive decline is a decrease in memory. Programs have been provided by the Indonesian government, such as submitting information, producing brochures, and making announcements on the health services website. But this counseling is not optimal because the elderly tend to be lazy to read this because the eyes have begun to look away from other than that the eye health of the elderly has already started to decrease. So that the health information provided by the health department can be optimized, we try to make a model that is used to summarize an article so that the article is easily understood by the elderly. To summarize the article, this study uses the term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) algorithm. By using the TF-IDF algorithm, it is hoped that the elderly will more easily read health articles. User Experience Questionnaire after the application of writing software summary is higher than before the application of writing software summary that is 25.27> 19.30.

Abstract A Summary of International Symposium on the Formation and Development of the Chinese Nation with Multi-ethnic Groups in order to Commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Publication of Fei Xiaotong’s Theory of the Chinese Nation with Multi-ethnic Groups.

Technical notes are known to be a popular method of publishing novel surgical techniques, up-to-date technological advances, and tricks of the trade in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS). The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (BJOMS) has a dedicated section for such papers, and this article explores the publication of technical notes over the last two years. In addition, comparison is made with previous reviews of technical notes in this journal a decade ago, to explore the progression of diversity and evolving topics of interest to the oral and maxillofacial surgery community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

EFL majors' academic training includes the development of academic skills, primarily academic reading and writing, which are important since English majors have to read many books and papers during their studies and often have to write papers on the basis of what they have read. This implies the students' ability to decide which parts of the text are important and will be mentioned in the paper they are writing, as well as the ability to synthesize the material in a reader-friendly manner in accordance with the Anglophone academic tradition, which heavily relies on the use of metadiscourse markers that guide the reader through the text. In order to investigate to what extent EFL majors use interactive metadiscourse markers (Hyland 2005, 2010), which concern the writer's awareness of a participating audience and address ways of organizing discourse, a research study was conducted with 59 English majors in their fifth year (MA level), who read a paper published in an academic journal and were asked to write a 250-word summary. The material was analyzed with the AntConc freeware and the results are used as a basis for pedagogical recommendations that aim at improving students' training in academic writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Main idea and summary are essential elements of reading comprehension. We report results from Grades 4 and 5 student performance on two years of state-mandated standardized reading testing which indicate that students perform statistically significantly lower on main idea and summary questions on the tests than any other question category. In this study, teacher competency was measured in a main idea task and teacher surveys were used to understand what instructional practices and materials they use to teach reading comprehension. Descriptive analyses indicate that teachers have a moderate competency for writing main ideas and many use instructional practices that are not supported by empirical evidence or reviewed by the What Works Clearinghouse. Thus, teacher knowledge and instructional practices may be malleable factors that contribute to student outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Writing is a major language skill that should be the concern of teachers and students. Some first-year English language students seem less interested in writing correct sentences and paragraphs because of the lack of grammar and writing practice in the classroom. They mostly encounter grammar use difficulties, which impede their written communication. The research question that arises in this respect is: does summarizing strategy help learners improve their grammar and writing skills? The aim is to raise teachers' awareness about the importance of summary as a strategy to help learners apply grammar rules correctly when writing. The participants were first-year students from the department of English, Dr. Tahar Mouley University- Saida. To achieve the work, the researcher applied the quantitative and qualitative research methods that resulted in excellent productions. Yet, findings displayed recurrent errors as tense verb agreement, articles misuse, and irregular verb past simple tense, in addition to mechanics and style problems. The purpose was precisely to cure these problems. Nevertheless, students showed interest and found it enjoyable to write summaries, for it offered them the opportunity not only to practice grammar rules but also to produce complete sentences, including mechanics. Subsequently, summarizing a movie, a book, an event, or a discussion could be recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the ESC congress in September 2018 in Munich, the new ESC guidelines were presented and are now available on the ESC website. The new guidelines describe the definition of myocardial infarction and covers management recommendations on following cardiovascular items: myocardial revascularisaton, cardiovascular disease during pregnancy and arterial hypertension. The present document gives a summary of these guidelines and highlights the most important recommendations and changes in the management of these diseases. It will help to increase awareness about the new guidelines and may stimulate to consult the full document for specific items. Ultimately, the authors hope that this document will enhance the implementation of new ESC guidelines in daily clinical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Precambrian and lower Paleozoic units of the Japanese basement such as the Hida Oki and South Kitakami terranes have geological affinities with the eastern Asia continent and particularly strong correlation with units of the South China block. There are also indications from units such as the Hitachi metamorphics of the Abukuma terrane and blocks in the Maizuru terrane that some material may have been derived from the North China block. In addition to magmatism, the Japanese region has seen substantial growth due to tectonic accretion. The accreted units dominantly consist of mudstone and sandstone derived from the continental margin with lesser amounts of basaltic rocks associated with siliceous deep ocean sediments and local limestone. Two main phases of accretionary activity and related metamorphism are recorded in the Jurassic Mino–Tanba–Ashio, Chichibu, and North Kitakami terranes and in the Cretaceous to Neogene Shimanto and Sanbagawa terranes. Other accreted material includes ophiolitic sequences, e.g. the Yakuno ophiolite of the Maizuru terrane, the Oeyama ophiolite of the Sangun terrane, and the Hayachine–Miyamori ophiolite of the South Kitakami terrane, and limestone‐capped ocean plateaus such as the Akiyoshi terrane. The ophiolitic units are likely derived from arc and back‐arc basin settings. There has been no continental collision in Japan, meaning the oceanic subduction record is more complete than in convergent orogens seen in intracontinental settings making this a good place to study the geological record of accretion. Hokkaido lacks most of the Paleozoic history recognized in Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, and the Ryukyu Islands to the south and its geology reflects the Cenozoic development of two convergent domains with volcanic arcs, their approach, and eventual collision. The Hidaka terrane reveals a cross section through a volcanic arc and the main accretionary complex of the convergent system is represented by the Sorachi–Yezo terrane. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the authors present the notion of perspective as a threshold concept in business communication. Using an SoTL framework, the researchers explore the effect of teaching threshold concepts in a summary writing assignment in a foundational business communication class. Working with a close reading methodology, the authors examine the context of perspective as a threshold concept by analyzing students' summary samples for gender bias and explore how close reading can support further research into threshold concepts in business communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author of the article defines school communicative situation as the one requiring from the student an ability to use specialised language known as the language of school education. According to regulations currently in force, improving the fluency in the said language is a task of teachers of all school subject because knowing it is one of the conditions of attaining educational success. The article presents a proposal to work on a summary that includes the determinants of school education language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite the rise of esports over the last decade, to date there is little effort to coordinate research related to the subject. This special issue attempts to address this gap by presenting a diversity of research exemplars from scholars both within and outside the United States The articles included herein were culled from the top peer-reviewed papers presented at the first annual Esports Research Conference (https://uciesc.org) held October 2018 at the University of California, Irvine, attended by more than 200 academic researchers and esports industry professionals. Together, the collection of articles represents the range of theoretical, methodological, and thematic perspectives in contemporary esports research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we propose a new method for graph summarization named GSSC, Graph Summarization based on both Structure and Concepts. In this method, an attributed graph is summarized by considering both of its topology and related concepts. In this method, for a given attributed graph a new graph is constructed that an edge in this new graph represents structural and conceptual similarity of its two end points. Structural and conceptual similarity of two nodes not necessarily has the equal amount of importance in the weight of the resulting edge. For example, for a special case such as query answering, structure can be more important and vice versa. Similarity of two nodes is computed based on Jaccard similarity. This method has some advantages such as flexibility, simplicity, learning capability, user-orientation that makes it a better method for graph summarization. We implemented our method and the method proposed by Bei and evaluated these two methods on real-life dataset HEP_TH. Our experimental results showed effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed method.