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The effect of goji berry consumption on weight loss in boxers
No full textStudy Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine whether goji berry consumption has an effect on weight loss in boxers. 24 licensed boxing athletes participated in the study. Methods: Athletes were divided into four groups (Group 1: Control group; Group 2: consuming Goji Berry; Group 3: Training group; Group 4: Goji Berry consuming + Training group) by simple random sampling method. Measurements were carried out two times as pre-test and post-test within the scope of the 6-week training program (3 training per week and 75 minutes for each training). The athletes, who subjected to a diet program while spending their periods in clubs, were given goji berry fruit once a day at the same time in the form of 30 g dried fruit. Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) were calculated in the analysis of the data. The percentage of changing body composition of boxing athletes during the test was calculated with the formula "%Delta = (Post-Test - Pre-Test)/Pre-Test x 100". The difference between the body weight percentage changes of the groups was compared with the One-Way ANOVA and Two-Way repeated measures ANOVA was used in the analysis of the variables measured repeatedly (pre-test and post-test) between the groups. The significance level was set at p<0,05 and p<0,01. Results: According to the findings of the research, it was determined that the highest decrease in body mass index, fat mass and visceral fat ratio, and the highest increase in free-fat mass and basal metabolic rate per kg were in the Goji Berry consuming + Training group. Conclusion: As a result, athletes interested in sports included weight category can use goji berry fruit for body weight control and reduction, which can help them achieve body weight loss and/or control
Evaluation of the eating attitude of handball players
Get PDFStudy Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the eating attitudes of handball players according to some variables. Methods: One hundred twenty volunteer handball players participated in the study. The questionnaire consisted of the information questionnaire that determined the demographic characteristics and the eating attitude test EAT-26, which was adapted to Turkish by Devran (2014). After the scales were prepared on google-form, the research was announced on social media, and participation was provided voluntarily. When the data used in the study were analyzed with the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, the Mann-Whitney U, and Kruskal-Wallis tests, which were nonpararnetric. Results: In the study, normal eating attitudes and behaviors were observed in 83.3% of the athletes, and abnormal eating attitudes and behaviors were observed in 16.7%. When the eating attitude scores of the athletes were compared according to the variables of gender, nutrition program implementation, dietitian support, and body weight perception, a statistically significant difference was observed, and no difference was observed in terms of age, educational status, sports age, weekly training time (p <0.05). Moreover, it was found that the difference in the sub-dimensions was significant according to the gender and body weight perception variable, the eating attitude scores of females were higher than males was due to the bulimic behavior sub-dimension, and according to the bodyweight perception, it was found that the athletes who stated themselves as weak in the oral control behavior dimension (p <0.05). Conclusion: When the eating attitude scores of the athletes according to gender, nutritional program application status, dietician support variables, and body weight perception were compared, significance was found (p <0.05). It was known that eating disorders had very negative effects on athlete's health and performance. Therefore, unhealthy exercise and diet programs should be avoided and the importance of healthy nutrition should be emphasized
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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