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Background: Aiming point analysis systems (APAS) are commonly used in sports shooting but face four main challenges: they do not account for intra-session variations, they overlook inter-individual shooter preferences, they ignore compensation mechanisms of technical features, and they do not respect the real shot location at the target. Methods: To address the first three challenges, we developed and validated an automated approach detector algorithm (ADA) for movement phase detection. When compared to three independent expert ratings, the ADA demonstrated a high correlation (r = .811). Building on the ADA and addressing challenge 3 and 4, this study applied cluster-analysis and ANOVA to determine the performance relevance of compensation-sensitive shot styles using datasets from a single athlete and 26 advanced to elite level athletes. Results: Significant performance differences in shot styles for both datasets, with each shot style distinctively differing from the others could be found. Conclusions: Shot styles which allow for compensation and intra-individual movement phase differences exhibit performance variations. Coaches and athletes should emphasize holistic training, focusing on combinations of features that allow for compensation.

Most of the new investors, who are dominated by millennial investors, do not understand the basics of the capital market, so they have to suffer losses. Therefore, a strategy for investing in mutual funds is needed. This study aims to compare the performance of return-chasing investments with the buy-and-hold strategy in providing the best return to stock mutual fund investors. Beers (2020) states that "buy-and-hold" is a strategy in which investors buy stocks (or other types of securities, such as exchange-traded funds) and hold them for a long time regardless of market fluctuations. The data used is the net asset value of mutual funds which is then processed to obtain rank one based on annual returns. Simulations will be carried out to see the investment results of the two strategies and then the Wilcoxon signed-rank statistical test will be carried out on the profit/loss percentage to see the significance of the difference. The results of statistical tests show that there is no significant difference in investment returns between the chase return and buy and hold strategies. This result indicates the chasing return strategy provides much better investment returns than the buy-and-hold strategy for five periods on mutual fund instruments. The implication of this research for investors in using a chasing return strategy is that investors must use technical analysis, namely analyzing and finding out which mutual funds have the best prospects in that year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we examine a distinctive multimodal phenomenon: a participant, gazing at a recipient, raising both eyebrows upon the completion of their own turn at talk – that is, in the transition space between turns at talk (Sacks, Schegloff and Jefferson, 1974). We find that speakers deploy eyebrow raises in two related but distinct practices. In the first, the eyebrows are raised and held as the speaker presses the recipient to respond to a disaffiliative action (e.g. a challenge); in the second, the eyebrows are raised and quickly released in a so-called eyebrow flash as the speaker invites a response to an affiliative action (e.g. a joke). The former practice is essentially combative, the latter collusive. Although the two practices differ in their durational properties and in the kinds of actions that they serve, they also have something in common: they invoke a shared knowledge or understanding between speaker and recipient.

Introduction: This study aimed to compare the rates of agitation-related interventions associated with initial holding versus continuation of home stimulant(s) in a child and adolescent population at the time of admission to an inpatient psychiatric facility. Methods: This retrospective chart review included patients less than 18 years of age who were admitted to an academic medical center between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018. Patients were divided into 2 groups: those continued on their home stimulant(s) and those who had them held. We compared both groups on agitation-related outcomes by examining the difference in the number of level I or II events or as-needed medication administrations. Mechanical restraints and closed-door seclusions were grouped as level I events, and level II events consisted of nonmechanical restraint. Results: The analysis included 169 patients. In total, 126 (75%) patients were continued on their home stimulant, and 43 (25%) had them held. The occurrence of the composite endpoint of level I or II events or as-needed intramuscular medication administration was numerically higher in the group that had their home stimulant held (27.9% vs 23%; P =.52). Level I events were also numerically higher but not statistically significant in the group that had their home stimulant held (16.3% vs 11.9%; P = .46). Discussion: The composite outcome of as-needed intramuscular medication administration and level I or II events was numerically higher in the group that had their home stimulant held. Use of a larger sample size and adjusted analyses may help elucidate covariates that impact agitation-related outcomes.

Recently, shipyards have been booming in the product carrier (PC) market of the global shipbuilding industry. Due to the rising market conditions, orders for large container vessels and PCs are also steadily increasing. According to the industry, freight rates for LR tankers (70K) and MR tankers (50K) in the shipbuilding industry have rose to the highest level during the previous year. In order to secure the competitiveness of PCs, various core items are required, and Korean shipbuilders have been leading the market for a long time based on their knowledge of the design and production of low-fuel ships. In recent years, there have been frequent cases of coating cracks in the cargo hold after sea trial. All relevant rules presented by the classification so far are structural design, safety evaluation, and inspection standards, and coating cracks are considered a problem for coating makers. In other words, they must establish a standard coating measure agreed upon by all parties (owner, shipbuilder, and coating maker); therefore, solutions have been proposed by each shipping company. In this study, the causes of coating cracks occurring in the cargo hold of PCs during tank tests in sea trials were analyzed and measures to prevent them were studied. The main point of this study is assumed that coating crack are caused by mechanical load induced by structural behavior, and the numerical analysis methodology is newly introduced. Based on the results of the numerical analysis, it was confirmed that there is a high probability of coating cracks in the critical area where high stress occurs in the cargo hold. Therefore, the results obtained in this study will be useful to prevent coating cracks in future PC designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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By reversing the questions and focusing on the perpetrator's behavior, the notion of coercive control revolutionizes the apprehension and understanding of violence within the family for all its members. This heuristic approach, which represents a genuine paradigm shift, has legal, semiological and diagnostic effects. It creates a new professional ecosystem that enables us to respond differently to two fundamental missions: caring and justice., (Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Recently, shipyards have been booming in the product carrier (PC) market of the global shipbuilding industry. Due to the rising market conditions, orders for large container vessels and PCs are also steadily increasing. According to the industry, freight rates for LR tankers (70K) and MR tankers (50K) in the shipbuilding industry have rose to the highest level during the previous year. In order to secure the competitiveness of PCs, various core items are required, and Korean shipbuilders have been leading the market for a long time based on their knowledge of the design and production of low-fuel ships. In recent years, there have been frequent cases of coating cracks in the cargo hold after sea trial. All relevant rules presented by the classification so far are structural design, safety evaluation, and inspection standards, and coating cracks are considered a problem for coating makers. In other words, they must establish a standard coating measure agreed upon by all parties (owner, shipbuilder, and coating maker); therefore, solutions have been proposed by each shipping company. In this study, the causes of coating cracks occurring in the cargo hold of PCs during tank tests in sea trials were analyzed and measures to prevent them were studied. The main point of this study is assumed that coating crack are caused by mechanical load induced by structural behavior, and the numerical analysis methodology is newly introduced. Based on the results of the numerical analysis, it was confirmed that there is a high probability of coating cracks in the critical area where high stress occurs in the cargo hold. Therefore, the results obtained in this study will be useful to prevent coating cracks in future PC designs.

This essay argues that the African American literature of the nadir, written during a moment when concepts of evolution and departures from linear time were deployed to the detriment of black life as well as in its defense, is a rich archive for analyzing the unpredictable politics of multiple temporalities. I discuss several books from the period before focusing on Charles W. Chesnutt's 1901 novel The Marrow of Tradition, in which white supremacists weaponize nonlinear temporalities while punctual black characters express faith in linear progressive historical time. This novel, I argue, ultimately suggests a genre of temporality that neither appears as a type of linear time nor ruptures it utterly, and the book implies that temporal suspensions or holds can potentially be useful--not as inherently liberatory but as means of making way for productive disagreement. Within the novel, I identify a provocative fermata, theorized here (drawing on the work of Christina Sharpe, Hortense Spillers, and Édouard Glissant) as a temporal hold, that both exists within and ruptures linear time. This essay, then, responds to the common association of linear time with oppressive institutions and nonlinear time with liberation; instead, I argue for an expansive conception of critical temporality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we investigated how various teaching behaviors influence student interest as a situational variable. Specifically, we studied how behaviors related to catch interest (i.e., ephemeral aspects of the learning environment such as instructor humor, nonverbal immediacy, intellectual stimulation) and hold interest (i.e., features of the environment that empower students to reach their personal goals including content relevance and meaningfulness) predicted students’ sustained attention and autonomous motivation. As anticipated, results of a structural regression model indicated that catch interest was linked to students’ sustained attention in class. Conversely, hold interest was related to students’ autonomous motivation. Our results suggest that if teachers want to ensure they maximize student motivation inside the classroom and beyond, they might consider diversifying their teaching behaviors to target both the catch and hold aspects of students’ situational interest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

La cateterización venosa central (CVC) debe ser realizada por profesionales médicos capacitados y/o supervisados en caso de inexperiencia, siguiendo estrictos protocolos de actuación para prevenir incidentes. La incidencia de complicaciones es de hasta un 15%, algunas potencialmente mortales; estas pueden ser difíciles de evitar, mientras que otras se producen por errores humanos y por lo tanto son susceptibles de intervención y totalmente evitables. Presentamos el caso de una canalización de una vía central con pérdida de alambre-guía de manera inadvertida, descubierta de forma accidental en estudio de imagen por evolución tórpida en postoperatorio, así como la propuesta de un checklist para su prevención. ABSTRACT Central venous catheterisation (CVC) must be must be conducted by professionals who have appropriate knowledge and/or monitored if they´ re not skilled enough, according with strict guidelines in order to prevent incidents. The incidence of complications is up to 15%, some of them potentially fatal; these may be difficult to avoid, while others are due to human failure and therefore amenable to intervention and completely avoidables. A case report of unoticed canalisation of a central line losing the guidewire is presented; discovered by accident in an image test due to torpid postoperatory evolution, as well as the proposal of a checklist to its prevention.

High-level sports are cadenced by multiple deadlines at regular intervals, while operating variously in the short, medium and long-term. In this context, we examine the sense of time among fencers of the "Pôle France". The purpose is to understand how they project themselves into the future, and how it impacts the ways they manage their time in everyday life. In a first part, we show that the fencers anticipate the future in a variety of ways. The different levels of scope and accuracy of their projections allows identifying three profiles of athletes. Next, we underline that the pursuit of sporting goals induces a complete reorganization of the time, linked to the necessity for the fencers to manage their physical capital. This often implies a long and strategic learning process. Lastly, we highlight the difficulties linked to the articulation of temporalities related to sporting careers on the one hand, and studies or professional careers on the other hand.

To enable future in-space cryogenic fuel depots, efficient methods are required for the tank chilldown and transfer process to minimize the amount of consumed propellant. This paper presents a transient charge–hold–vent (CHV) analytical model which is compared against the single set of liquid hydrogen tank chilldown data. The model solves conservation of mass and energy, uses quasi-unsteady steps in time to simulate natural convection and jet impingement heat transfer, and tracks two-phase fluid thermodynamic properties as the chilldown process evolves. The additional cooling potential made available through a cyclic tank venting process is also calculated in the code. The flexible code can simulate multiple CHV cycles, be used to optimize tank geometry and nozzle location, and provide predictions on the amount of propellant mass used for each cycle. This model compares within 7% of the liquid hydrogen tank chilldown experimental data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study is concerned with the organisation of gestural phases of non-movement, in particular the prolonged hold and provisional home position, as accountably and in situ produced segments of behaviour. Through fine-grained transcriptions and multimodal analysis of videotaped conversation in natural and everyday settings, it is found that movement phases may be exploited by participants in order to indicate that a pursued trajectory or line of action is maintained, suspended or abandoned. Also, through constant monitoring, participants may adjust the location of non-movement as the interaction unfolds in time. It is argued that various possible locations of non-movement are arranged along a continuum ranging from the space of gesticulation to a relaxed rest position and that these locations reflect various degrees of involvement or claim of speakership in the gesturer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Price in commercial gambling is effectively the house edge of the game. For electronic gaming machines (EGMs), house edge is the hold percentage. The paper tracks changes in hold percentage for club and hotel EGM gambling in Australia. We use real gambling turnover and revenue data to show that hold generally falls over time, save for the State of Victoria between 1993 and 2009. In Victoria, hold fell during the roll-out phase of the sector, before rising steadily. We examine local level data, finding that hold varied considerably by gaming operator across the period, before converging. The unique owner/operator corporate duopoly that existed in Victoria is posed as a potential explanation for aggregate price changes. We then calculate estimates of the monetary value of changes in hold percentage. We find increased hold can lead to substantial monetary redistributions of gamblers' stakes toward the house and away from gamblers. Policy options to protect gamblers from the unfairness of undetectable price rises are discussed, including the possibility of a more tightly regulated hold percentage, a tax on windfall profits derived from raising hold, and tying game identities to particular hold percentages. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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In August 2010, the M.D. Anderson Library at the University of Houston stopped recalling books. Patron complaints prompted Information and Access Services staff to reexamine the recalls process. In order to provide better customer service, recalls were eliminated in favor of Interlibrary Loans. This new service was called “QuickLoan.” Modifications were made to the OPAC so that the catalog record for a checked-out item would prominently display a button labeled “QuickLoan.” Patrons can press this button, and an ILL request form is prepopulated. In its first year, QuickLoan has seen increasing usage and has been received favorably by library patrons. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Abstract: Through a reflection on “contrainte par corps” (civil imprisonment, litterally: bodily constraint), and on the “unconscious addictive identifications”, the author questions the manner in which addicted subjects try to build up a “substitution body”. Our intention is to demonstrate how the addictive process aims at the construction of a new body: by making a “foreign body”, incorporating a toxic foreign body is an intent to self-medicate, in order to remove the hold of a primordial other. All these clinical and theoretical elements, developed in this article, raise the question of the status of the “substitutive treatments” that medical doctors prescribe to addicted patients, as the articulation of these with therapies proposed by clinical psychologists. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

What do chaplains do? The rising interest in relation to spiritual care leaves questions: what activities (if any) are intrinsic to chaplaincy? Where (if at all) does the spiritual merge with the religious? And how does this relate to the overall pursuit of holistic well-being? As an investigative and reflective exercise, interviews were conducted with palliative care chaplains. The resulting data suggests a focus of activity around the eliciting, holding and representing of the stories of patients and their families, all exercised with reference to the multi-disciplinary team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background Cell and gene therapies are medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within its Center of Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) in the Office of Cellular, Tissue, and Gene Therapy (OCTGT). Clinical research using cell and gene therapies in the United States must be conducted under an Investigational New Drug (IND) application. After an initial, 30-day review FDA either places an IND on clinical hold or allows the IND to proceed. Methods We reviewed letters sent by OCTGT to IND sponsors that were placed on clinical hold. We categorized each deficiency and determined its frequency. Results We found that similar deficiencies existed across IND applications and we tabulated the most common deficiencies. Discussion We discussed the deficiencies and the resources that can help individuals avoid those deficiencies. We believe that awareness of the common deficiencies along with the applicable resources can reduce the frequency of clinical holds and allow clinical studies to proceed without delay. We also believe that this information will guide the FDA as to how to facilitate development of safe and effective cell and gene therapies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]