Designing Strategies for the Development of Health and Physical Activities of Women in Iran

: The current study aimed to design strategies to develop women’s health and physical activities in Iran. This study was drafted in the descriptive-correlational framework following an applied objective. The population of the study in the qualitative section consisted of 10 professors of sports management and sociology and in the quantitative section consisted of 160 experts (e.g., female sports managers and experts, women’s sports activists, and professors of sports management) selected through a purposive and comprehensive sampling method. Data collection was performed through a 20-items questionnaire drafted to examine the four fundamental factors of the study (e.g., management, social, economic, and cultural factors). The content validity and face validity of the questionnaire were confirmed by 10 university faculty members. The structural equation modeling in PLS software (version 3) was used to analyze the statistical data. The findings of the study indicated that among the study variables, the variable of management in the development of health and physical activities, with a correlation level of 75% and at a value of 5.696, was considered the most effective variable. Furthermore, among the essential elements of the study, in the cultural factor, the effect of the social values and beliefs in the participation of women in sports activities was reportedly at a correlation rate of 87%. In the management factor, the assignment of management roles to women in sports was at a correlation rate of 85%. In the economic factor, the element of budget allocation to women’s sports was at a correlation rate of 73%. In the social factor, the impact of the Ministry of Health and Education and the Ministry of Sports and Youth in creating sports events for the development of women’s health in the various provinces of Iran was at a correlation rate of 92%. All of the aforementioned items were among the most contributing factors in the essential elements of the study. In conclusion, it can be stated that the Ministry of Sports and Youth and the Federations of Public Sports succeeded to initiate programs in the development of Iranian women’s health and sports by employing a comprehensive plan that included allocating budget, highlighting the role of women in the sports management positions, and cooperating with different agencies and organizations.

Experimental modal analysis for the plate structures with roving inertial shaker method approach

In this article, a new roving inertial shaker method approach, using an inertial shaker, is presented to obtain a steel plate’s modal parameters with bolt connections on four sides. It aimed to emphasize the superiority of the proposed roving shaker approach over the classical, traditional hammer method on the plate-like structures. The frequency response functions (FRF), obtained from both methods, are investigated using the stabilization diagram, and the superiority of the roving shaker method is presented based on high stabilization and detecting more modes. The accelerometer’s position effect on experimental modal analysis (EMA) is investigated in the roving shaker method, which is performed using accelerometers in two different places, and obtained modal parameters are compared with experimental modal analysis validation methods. Accordingly, the results for the two separate locations are very close to each other. Finally, the experimental and numerical results are investigated according to the TEST/FEA correlation for the traditional roving hammer method and the roving shaker method. As a result, the roving shaker approach gives a better result according to the TEST/FEA correlation success than the roving hammer test. In conclusion, the high stabilization, high TEST/FEA correlation rate, and the number of modes show the roving shaker approach’s superiority.

Investigating the Relationship Between Ultrasound Criteria in Determining the Age of Postdate Pregnancy

Postdate pregnancy is a pregnancy that pasts more than forty weeks. This can be dangerous for the mother, fetus, and newborn. By knowing the most appropriate ultrasound criteria in predicting the probability of postdate pregnancy, its complications can be reduced by taking timely measures. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between ultrasound criteria in determining the age of postdate fetuses. This cross-sectional study (descriptive-analytical type) was done in Kermanshah Imam Reza Hospital on 33 pregnant women that, according to LMP and first-trimester ultrasound, pregnancy age was more than 40 weeks. Gestational age was calculated by various ultrasound criteria, including head circumference measurement (HC), Abdominal Circumference (AC), Biparietal Diameter (BPD), femur length (FL), and Transcerebellar Diameter (TCD). The findings were compared with calculated age by LMP. Data were analyzed by SPSS16 software. Correlation rate of pregnancy age based on LMP with FL (R=0.576, P<0.001), AC (R=0.208, P=0.245), BPD (R= -0.200, P=0.264), HC (R= -0.211, P=0.238) and TCD were (R=0.111, P=0.538). The pregnancy age correlation rate based on LMP with ultrasound criteria in general was (R=0.140, P=0.436). There was a direct relationship between gestational age based on LMP with FL, AC, TCD and inversely related to BPD and HC. Among the sonographic criteria, only the FL criterion was significantly correlated with LMP. In general, the correlation between gestational age based on LMP and ultrasound was not statistically significant.

New method of poultry selection

Purpose: Install the influence of the «small diameter of the egg» on the living mass and the reproductive qualities of chickens of meat crosses and the quail of meat breeds.Materials and methods. The selection was carried out along egg production and mass of eggs and additionally on the average small diameter of 5 eggs by value of ≥0.5σ from the average for the herd, while the evaluation on the basis of the «small diameter of the egg» was carried out in chickens aged 238 days of life, quails — 70 days of life. Calculated the average for each female and the average for the herd. For further reproduction, chickens carrying eggs with a small egg diameter ≥0.5σ from the average for the herd. Studies were held in SibNIP on quail and on the courses.Results. In the initial period of the egg laying, the individual variability of the small diameter of the egg — more than 10% (in the future, the figure decreased). The close correlation rate of the small egg diameter in the first half of the egg laying with such at the end of the bird's operation period was revealed. It has been established that the large diameter of the egg has a positive reliable connection with a lively mass, but negative with egg production. The reliable correlation rate of the small diameter of the egg with a live weight at a 42-day age, as well as with the derivation of eggs. The inheritance coefficients of the small diameter of the egg are comparable to the inheritance coefficients of the mass of eggs and significantly exceed those for a large diameter of the egg. The selection according to the small diameter of the eggs by ≥0.5σ from the average for the herd led to the fact that the chickens of the experimental groups reliably exceeded the live weight in the SB level of 1.57%, in the line G8 — by 1.35%. The superiority of a lively mass of quail of experienced groups was more pronounced than that of the chickens: the Pharaoh breed — by 4.15%, the Texas white breed is 4.22%. In relation to the derivation of eggs, a similar trend was traced. The derivation of eggs in quails of experienced groups was more than 4.59–4.98%; Country, respectively, 4.57–5.22%. Egg production of females of comparable groups of both chickens and quail was almost on the same level, and the difference was unreliable.Conclusion. It was established that a new method of breeding the poultry of the meat direction of productivity allows without decreasing egg production to increase the living mass of chickens of meat crosses by 1.5%, rewinds of meat breeds — by 4%, the derivation of eggs, respectively, by 4–5%. The method is intended for early prediction of females productivity during breeding selection.

Memory function of memristive Hindmarsh–Rose model driven by colored noise and electromagnetic induction

Based on the three-dimensional memristive Hindmarsh–Rose model, the effects of Gaussian colored noise and electromagnetic induction on memory function of the memristor and neural firing states are investigated in this paper. It is found that the memory function of memristor can be suppressed by a higher signal frequency, while enhanced by a relatively larger coefficient of the memristor. The memory function of memristor is destroyed by larger values of noise intensity and correlation rate between noises. The neural firing state can be transformed from the spiking state to the chaotic state with the increase of noise intensity or correlation rate. The firing states transition induced by the higher electromagnetic induction intensity is opposite to that by the stronger Gaussian colored noise.

Lithological Characterization by Simultaneous Seismic Inversion in Algerian South Eastern Field

The main goal of this paper is to characterize a reservoir situated in the southeast of Algeria based on AVO seismic inversion. The seismic inversion model has been built by the iterative method of Aki and Richards’s approximation and it has been correlated with four-existing wells in the studied zone. The correlation rate between the inversion model and logging data is good (varying from 72% to 85%). Reservoir characterization of this field has been given in detail. The lithological description is used to construct a Geomechanical model that is useful for new wells’ drilling decisions. The high correlated results allowed us to have a vision on the horizontal variation of Petrophysical parameters such as density and lithological variation of three facies clay, tight limestone, and porous limestone. Moreover, this classification is used in the best way to determine the interesting zone with higher porosity values, so that the exploration strategy becomes more efficient with minimized uncertainties. Therefore, it is highly recommended to use the constructed model to propose new wells as well-5 in this study.

Capacity of tourism and recreation clusters development in Ukrainian regions

The development of the tourism and recreation cluster should be realized in those areas of Ukraine where there is a qualitative core for their development, which we consider as a collection of valuable tourist resources. Namely the natural ones like water, balneal, forest, climate, man-made objects (historical, cultural, and infrastructural resources). The aim of the article is to define and rank the caapcity for development of tourism and recreation clusters in the regions of Ukraine. The theoretical foundation is formed by the philosophical, general scientific and specifically scientific principles and provisions of modern theory of systems, theoretical platforms of management of tourism and recreation clusters development in regions. The results of the study proved that the identification and classification of the development capacity of tourism and recreation clusters in the regions of Ukraine should not simply be focused on the identification of the status of the core of the tourism and recreation cluster, but it is the dependency and coherence of the assessment components. Naturally, correlation can have positive and negative effects. A negative correlation determines the influence that limits the possibilities of creating a tourist product in water; balneal; forest; climatic resources (with a negative correlation rate). A positive correlation is a correlation where there are additional possibilities to create a tourist product (and the correlation rate is positive). According to the above-mentioned method, the combined result makes it possible to determine the nature and direction of development of the tourism and recreation cluster, which should include: development of artificial water zones and water bodies for all age categories of visitors; development of the forest of Ukraine, based on its protection; identification of areas to be recognized as objects of the nature reserve fund, measures to be taken, and incentives to increase the number of places in hotels and similar accommodation facilities.

THE ROLE OF DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS IN FINANCIAL STABILITY

Globalization offers new challenges to the world economy, which becomes more depended on unprecedented in- crease of financial activity worldwide. Availability of information and development of technologies significantly increased capital flow in the world and role of capital and monetary markets in economy. Second half of 2007 and first half of 2008 faced import- ant events in the world economy. Among them especially no- table are US real estate crisis and global limitation of credits, devaluation of USD and strengthening of inflation processes. These global events have significant influence over financial stability. In the recent decade variability of stocks and interest rates, together with globalization of capital markets, in- creased demand on financial instruments with the purpose of distribution of risks. From this perspective, interest rate derivatives are most frequently marketed among OCT derivatives. Therefore, estimation of the role of financial derivatives instruments is very important in stability of international financial system. Purpose of research is to analyze influence of derivatives over financial crisis. Within frameworks of re- search 5 countries are studied for 1997-2010 quarterly. OLS regressive equation is used in research for empirical tests. Model includes following variables: crisis index (dependent variable), independent variables are: correlation rate of cur- rent account and GDP, correlation rate of domestic credit on private sector with GDP, correlation rate between foreign currency reserves and conditional amounts of market derivatives on the stock exchange. Empirical analysis shows us that influence of derivatives over financial stability is not unilateral and depends on characteristics of financial system of the country. Particularly, in Singapore and USA, where financial system is strong, influence of derivatives is positively reflected on financial stability, and empirical study conduct- ed on example of emerging markets, particularly, Argentina, Russia and Brazil revealed negative influence of derivatives on financial system.

HUBUNGAN ANTARA LIKUIDITAS, PENDANAAN DENGAN MANAJEMEN PERKREDITAN KSP DANATAMA JAKARTA

Research have been done based on KSP management and KSP performance. Problem loan increased in some KSP. The study proposed to further explore why this condition happened by analysis relationship between performance loan management, liquidity and funding. Research result presents liquidity rate of entity 68,81% as expected, funding rate 64,23% as expected and Loan management rate of the entity is 65,05% as expected. Result of result also present that the rate of three variables still under value as expected (more than 80%) thatswhy still need to be improve. Correlation rate between liquidity and loan management is 0,212, determination coefficient is 0,0449 or giving impact more or less than 4,49%. There is no correlation between Funding and loan management (rate is -0,0276). T-calculate is less than T-table. Correlation rate between liquidity, funding and loan management simultaneously is 0,093. This shows that liquidity factor together with funding factor giving impact to loan management more significant than partially. Impact of the two variables is 9,3%. As a result, to increase loan management rate will be more effective if increasing liquidity rate and funding rate to be implemented together other than partially instead.