scholarly journals Difference in Personality Traits and Symptom Intensity According to the Trigger-Based Classification of Throwing Yips in Baseball Players

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshiyuki Aoyama ◽  
Kazumichi Ae ◽  
Hiroto Souma ◽  
Kazuhiro Miyata ◽  
Kazuhiro Kajita ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Prospective Studies ◽  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
Symptom Intensity ◽  
Initial Onset ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory ◽  
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The triggers of initial onset of yips symptoms can be broadly divided into psychological and non-psychological factors; however, a trigger-based classification of yips has not been established. This study aims to obtain insight into the prevention of yips by clarifying whether there are differences in symptoms and personality traits according to a trigger-based classification of yips in baseball players. A total of 107 college baseball players responded to a questionnaire assessing the presence or absence of yips and its symptoms. They were classified into the psychologically triggered yips group, the non-psychologically triggered yips group, and the non-yips group based on the presence or absence of yips and the triggers of its initial onset. Additionally, we compared whether personality traits examined by the NEO Five-Factor Inventory differed across these three groups. The psychologically triggered yips group had significantly higher agreeableness scores compared with the non-yips group, whereas the non-psychologically triggered yips group had significantly higher neuroticism scores compared with the psychologically triggered yips group. In the non-psychologically triggered yips group, there was a significantly higher frequency of throwing errors than in the psychologically triggered yips group, with a tendency to develop yips symptoms gradually. Since the trigger-based classification of yips is closely related to the strength of the yips symptoms and the players' personality traits, the results of this study contribute to a better understanding of the symptoms of yips and establishment of the prevention of yips. Large prospective studies are necessary to determine the causal relationship between a trigger-based classification of yips and the personality traits and symptoms of athletes with yips.

Classification of Infant Vocalizations by Untrained Listeners

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (9) ◽  
pp. 3265-3275
Author(s):  
Heather L. Ramsdell-Hudock ◽  
Anne S. Warlaumont ◽  
Lindsey E. Foss ◽  
Candice Perry
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Additional Insight ◽  
Listener Responses ◽  
Infant Vocalization ◽  
Early Infant ◽  
Infant Vocalizations ◽  
Audio Recordings ◽  
Speech And Language Development ◽  
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Purpose To better enable communication among researchers, clinicians, and caregivers, we aimed to assess how untrained listeners classify early infant vocalization types in comparison to terms currently used by researchers and clinicians. Method Listeners were caregivers with no prior formal education in speech and language development. A 1st group of listeners reported on clinician/researcher-classified vowel, squeal, growl, raspberry, whisper, laugh, and cry vocalizations obtained from archived video/audio recordings of 10 infants from 4 through 12 months of age. A list of commonly used terms was generated based on listener responses and the standard research terminology. A 2nd group of listeners was presented with the same vocalizations and asked to select terms from the list that they thought best described the sounds. Results Classifications of the vocalizations by listeners largely overlapped with published categorical descriptors and yielded additional insight into alternate terms commonly used. The biggest discrepancies were found for the vowel category. Conclusion Prior research has shown that caregivers are accurate in identifying canonical babbling, a major prelinguistic vocalization milestone occurring at about 6–7 months of age. This indicates that caregivers are also well attuned to even earlier emerging vocalization types. This supports the value of continuing basic and clinical research on the vocal types infants produce in the 1st months of life and on their potential diagnostic utility, and may also help improve communication between speech-language pathologists and families.

Classification of Observations through Combination of the Dimension Reduction and the Cluster Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Hyeuk Kim
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Unsupervised Learning ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Baseball Players ◽  
Partitioning Around Medoids ◽  
Different Characteristics

Unsupervised learning in machine learning divides data into several groups. The observations in the same group have similar characteristics and the observations in the different groups have the different characteristics. In the paper, we classify data by partitioning around medoids which have some advantages over the k-means clustering. We apply it to baseball players in Korea Baseball League. We also apply the principal component analysis to data and draw the graph using two components for axis. We interpret the meaning of the clustering graphically through the procedure. The combination of the partitioning around medoids and the principal component analysis can be used to any other data and the approach makes us to figure out the characteristics easily.

scholarly journals Ecotoxicological Assessment of Microplastics in Freshwater Sources—A Review

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Martina Miloloža ◽  
Dajana Kučić Grgić ◽  
Tomislav Bolanča ◽  
Šime Ukić ◽  
Matija Cvetnić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Problem ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Inorganic Pollutants ◽  
Ecotoxicological Assessment ◽  
Characterization Methods ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
Micro Organisms ◽  
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High living standards and a comfortable modern way of life are related to an increased usage of various plastic products, yielding eventually the generation of an increased amount of plastic debris in the environment. A special concern is on microplastics (MPs), recently classified as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). This review focuses on MPs’ adverse effects on the environment based on their bioactivity. Hence, the main topic covered is MPs’ ecotoxicity on various aquatic (micro)organisms such as bacteria, algae, daphnids, and fish. The cumulative toxic effects caused by MPs and adsorbed organic/inorganic pollutants are presented and critically discussed. Since MPs’ bioactivity, including ecotoxicity, is strongly influenced by their properties (e.g., types, size, shapes), the most common classification of MPs types present in freshwater are provided, along with their main characteristics. The review includes also the sources of MPs discharge in the environment and the currently available characterization methods for monitoring MPs, including identification and quantification, to obtain a broader insight into the complex problem caused by the presence of MPs in the environment.

Classification of senior tourists according to personality traits

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 539-556
Author(s):  
Felix Elvis Otoo ◽  
Seongseop (Sam) Kim ◽  
Jerome Agrusa ◽  
Joseph Lema
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits

scholarly journals Analysis of Personality Traits in Patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1631
Author(s):  
Fatima Roso-Bas ◽  
Maria Dolores Alonso-Llobregat ◽  
Leyre Bento ◽  
Blanca Sanchez-Gonzalez ◽  
Ines Herraez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Hodgkin Lymphoma ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Response To Treatment ◽  
Personality Profiles ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Distribution Width ◽  
Potential Link ◽  
Proinflammatory Activity ◽  
Neo Five Factor Inventory

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a highly-curable malignancy mostly affecting young people. As far as we know, there is no published study that has analyzed personality profiles in HL nor their potential role in lymphomagenesis, natural history, or response to treatment. We aim to explore the personality traits of HL patients, as well as the prevalence of mental disorders and suicide ideas. We retrospectively identified all alive HL patients from three centers (Son Espases and Son Llatzer University Hospitals and Hospital del Mar of Barcelona) for using NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) and Personality Inventory for DSM-5 Brief Form. Patients with HL showed significantly higher neuroticism scores and lower conscientiousness, extraversion, and openness. Considering maladaptive personality traits, HL patients showed higher levels of detachment and psychoticism. All of these translated into the fact that HL patients showed more than double the prevalence of mental illnesses (41%) and more than triple the prevalence of suicidal ideation or attempts than the general population (15 and 6%, respectively). An exploratory analysis of biomarkers associated with HL personality traits showed that higher scores of neuroticism correlated with more elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and red cell distribution width (RDW), suggesting a potential link between neuroticism and proinflammatory activity in HL.

scholarly journals Geometrically rational real conic bundles and very transitive actions

2010 ◽  
Vol 147 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémy Blanc ◽  
Frédéric Mangolte
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Groups ◽  
Algebraic Surfaces ◽  
Algebraic Models ◽  
Transitive Automorphism ◽  
Real Locus ◽  
Real Algebraic Surfaces ◽  
Conic Bundles ◽  
Transitive Actions ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractIn this article we study the transitivity of the group of automorphisms of real algebraic surfaces. We characterize real algebraic surfaces with very transitive automorphism groups. We give applications to the classification of real algebraic models of compact surfaces: these applications yield new insight into the geometry of the real locus, proving several surprising facts on this geometry. This geometry can be thought of as a half-way point between the biregular and birational geometries.

Permutation Min-Entropy and Statistical Complexity Analysis of Electricity Spot Price

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 1550040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingju Fan ◽  
Dan Li
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Complexity Analysis ◽  
Spot Price ◽  
Temporal Correlations ◽  
Price Series ◽  
Statistical Complexity ◽  
Electricity Spot Price ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Refined Classification

In this study, we investigate the subtle temporal dynamics of California 1999–2000 spot price series based on permutation min-entropy (PME) and complexity-entropy causality plane. The dynamical transitions of price series are captured and the temporal correlations of price series are also discriminated by the recently introduced PME. Moreover, utilizing the CECP, we provide a refined classification of the monthly price dynamics and obtain an insight into the stochastic nature of price series. The results uncover that the spot price signal presents diverse temporal correlations and exhibits a higher stochastic behavior during the periods of crisis.

scholarly journals تخصيص العام بالأدلة المنفصلة " دراسـة تطبيقية "

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-64
Author(s):  
الهادي جار النبي أحمد
Keyword(s):  
Applied Study ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

The study entitled specifying prevalent utterance by separate evidence as applied study upon disagreement of fundamentalists in specifying prevalent utterance by separate evidence which might appear to be an obvious problem for the one who made aware of this disagreement particularly if he is not one of the specialists in jurisprudence. Accordingly, the main objective of this research is to identify this disagreement and to have by then insight into it through induction, analysis, and classification to find out whether it is influential disagreement when it runs into application on branches of jurisprudence or it is an only non-influential disagreement of utterance on the purpose of causing controversy along with overcoming in debate as in the case of much disagreements of fundamentalists. It is obviously that self-contained determinants in terms of numbers have been tackled so that a part of fundamentalists indicated them as nine in number, some others divided them into two sections, while others accounted them as four in number, namely mind, sense, text, and custom and by then considering remnants as branches affiliated to each other. In so far as the matter gets to this point, the researcher did not think that it should be indicated determinants as four in number and by then branches them out, but it was thought better to take trace of ancient fundamentalists in their classification. A number of results were reached by the study; some of the most important ones were: no consensus of opinion that achieved terms of being real consensus found relevant to these self-contained determinants, but all determinants have been tackled by disagreement despite the fact that some fundamentalists depicted the determinants as acquiescence in a part of their statements. Based on the results of the research, it was clearly found that it is a disagreement of utterance not disagreement of intangible content, as well as it has no influence on the classification of jurisprudence.

scholarly journals New Insight into the Prevalence and Risk Factors for Three Distinct Hoof Conformation Traits in UK Commercial Sheep Flocks

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Caroline M. Best ◽  
Janet Roden ◽  
Kate Phillips ◽  
Alison Z. Pyatt ◽  
Malgorzata C. Behnke
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Prospective Studies ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Predisposing Factors ◽  
Farm Level ◽  
Time Points ◽  
First Time ◽  
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Lameness in sheep continues to be a global health, welfare and economic concern. Damaged, misshapen or overgrown feet have the potential to cause lameness either directly, or indirectly. There is a lack of understanding of the predisposing factors for different hoof conformation traits in sheep. Our exploratory study aimed to investigate the prevalence of, and risk factors for, three distinct hoof conformation traits relating to the sole and heel, hoof wall, and hoof wall overgrowth. Feet of 400 ewes from four UK commercial sheep farms were inspected at four time points across 12 months. For each conformation trait, a four-point ordinal system was used to score each individual claw, and foot-level scores were calculated. We present 92.4% of foot-level observations to be affected by ≥1 conformation traits. Whilst hoof conformation traits were correlated to some degree, a unique set of sheep-, foot- and farm-level factors were associated with each distinct conformation trait. We provide, for the first time, key insight into the multifaceted and multifactorial aetiology of hoof conformation in sheep, building upon previous landmark studies. Our results inform hypotheses for future prospective studies investigating the risk factors for adverse hoof conformation in sheep.

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