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Unveiling Corruption's Influence on Insider Trading: US Insights

Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between state‐level political corruption and firm‐level insider trading in the United States. State corruption is proxied using Department of Justice court cases involving corrupt activities. The findings reveal a positive and statistically significant association between political corruption and insider ...
Ahmed Al‐Hadi, Baban Eulaiwi, Hidaya Al Lawati, Grantley Taylor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The use of fitness testing to predict occupational performance in tactical personnel: A critical review [PDF]

, 2019
PURPOSE: To identify, analyse and synthesise research studies that examined the correlation between fitness tests and occupational task performance in tactical personnel (police, fire, military).
Dawes, Jay, Lockie, Robert G., Movshovich, Jason, Orr, Rob Marc, Sakurai, Takato, Schram, Ben, Scott, Jordan   +6 more
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility of OpenPose markerless motion analysis in a real athletics competition

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
This study tested the performance of OpenPose on footage collected by two cameras at 200 Hz from a real-life competitive setting by comparing it with manually analyzed data in SIMI motion.
Neil J. Cronin, Neil J. Cronin, Josh Walker, Catherine B. Tucker, Gareth Nicholson, Mark Cooke, Stéphane Merlino, Athanassios Bissas, Athanassios Bissas   +8 more
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Revealed Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Athletics [PDF]

Using entries in the 2005 IAAF rankings as a measure of a country’s success in athletics, we analyse intercountry differences in athletic specialisation (measured through an index for revealed symmetric comparative advantage). A Tobit II model identifies
Bruno Heyndels, Cindy Du Bois
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Field-based tests for the assessment of physical fitness in children and adolescents practicing sport: A systematic review within the ESA program [PDF]

, 2019
High levels of physical fitness (PF) can positively affect both health and cognitive function, thus monitoring its levels in youth can help increase health and quality of life in adult populations later on.
Alesi M., Basile M., Bianco A., Demetriou Y., Feka K., Genchi R., Gomez-Lopez M., Kirkar M., Kizilyalli M., Lakicevic N., Loureiro N., Pajaujene S., Pausic J., Petrigna L., Rada A., Ribeiro A., Sahin F.N., Sanchez G.F.L., Silva C., Sturm D.J., Tabacchi G., Teixeira E., Zuoziene I.J.   +22 more
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A highly abundant circular RNA from the RMST locus plays a role in posterior fossa ependymoma pathogenesis

Brain Pathology, EarlyView.
circRMST (hsa_circ_0099634) is by far the most abundant isoform from the RMST locus. It is highly expressed in cancer cells throughout ependymoma patient samples and is located in the cytoplasm. circRMST knockdown causes cell cycle arrest and induces differentiation, and it is a marker for poor prognosis. The figure is made using BioRender.
Ulvi Ahmadov, Charlotte W. Udengaard, Stine M. Vissing, Silke D. Nielsen, Kim‐Gwendolyn Dietrich, Benedicte Parm Ulhøi, Lasse S. Kristensen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individualizing Strength Training Using the Vertical Force-Velocity Profile in Vertical Jumping and its Effect on Athletic Performance: A Systematic Review

Physical Education Theory and Methodology
Background. The individualization of strength training represents a promising strategy for enhancing performance in high-speed actions, such as jumping and sprinting.
Sergio Lopez-Betancourt, Camilo García-Torres, Daniel Alejandro López-Galvis, Juan Manuel Monsalve, Andres Rojas-Jaramillo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

PROPRIOCEPTIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION STRETCHING VERSUS STATIC STRETCHING ON SPRINTING PERFORMANCE AMONG COLLEGIATE SPRINTERS

International Journal of Physiotherapy, 2015
Background: A warm-up is important part of preparation for sprinting. There is popularity of doing stretching as part of warm up before athletic activity.
Jayaram Maharjan, H. S. Mallikarjunaiah
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Story2Board: A Training‐Free Approach for Expressive Visual Storytelling

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present Story2Board, a training‐free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing.
D. Dinkevich, M. Levy, O. Avrahami, D. Samuel, D. Lischinski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source