Elena-Andreea Trandafirescu, Vladimir Potop, Ilie Mihai
et al.
Background and Study Aim. Fear of failure, choking under pressure, financial disparities in income, and concerns related to body image and social pressure may intensify on-field challenges. These factors make the competitive environment particularly demanding for female soccer players. The aim of the current review is to map the available evidence on anxiety in women's football over the past decade and to identify interventions designed to manage anxiety among female soccer players.
Material and Methods. A scoping review was conducted following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. An extensive search was carried out across four major databases for publications dated between 2014 and 2024. Two independent reviewers screened titles and abstracts, followed by full-text screening and data extraction. Any disagreements were resolved by a third researcher. The findings were tabulated and synthesized in a narrative format. The study was pre-registered on the Open Science Framework.
Results. The search yielded 2885 unique records. A total of 21 texts were reviewed in full, and the final sample included 14 studies. Some of the records included mentioned modifications to psychosocial interventions, such as Virtual Reality (VR) relaxation sessions, pre-exercise sporting massage, and psychological training programs (including psycho-neuromuscular theory and visualization techniques). These interventions led to a reduction in anxiety, though their effectiveness varied significantly across different approaches. Our results suggest that research on women's football may disproportionately focus on psychological interventions for managing anxiety. This highlights the need for broader investigations into other factors that influence athletes' performance and well-being.
Conclusions. This scoping review helps clarify the current landscape of anxiety research in women's soccer. It highlights both promising interventions and gaps in the research over the past decade. Although the body of evidence on anxiety interventions is small, it suggests that psychological interventions may be effective in reducing anxiety among female soccer players.
This study aims to explore the effects of forest travel activities on university students’ stress affection. Forty volunteer university students participated in this study. All participants were asked to complete physiological (Heart Rate Variability) and psychological (Brief Profile of Mood State and State–Trait Anxiety Inventory) tests before and after the travel activities. The results reported that students’ heart rates were significantly lower after the forest travel activities than before. All domains of negative mood and anxiety decreased from the pre-test to the post-test. This study found that university students could feel less stressed if they went on forest travel activities.
Andrew Austin McDonnell, Andrea Page, Stephanie Bews-Pugh
et al.
BackgroundParents and carers supporting a family member presenting with behaviors of concern experience heightened stress. The Low Arousal Approach is a crisis management strategy which recognizes that stress, or physiological arousal, can be expressed through behaviors of concern. This approach aims to equip parents and carers to manage behaviors in a person-centered and non-confrontational way. There is a paucity of published research exploring the experiences of families applying this approach.MethodsSeventeen parents who had received training in the Low Arousal Approach were interviewed to gain their perspectives on supporting their family members using this approach.ResultsThematic analysis revealed themes relating to parental stress, which was related to external pressures, isolation, family stress, and challenges in their caring role. They described encountering negative narratives relating to self-criticism and negative judgments from others. Training in the Low Arousal Approach was related to being empowered through access to evidence, increased confidence, and increased ability to advocate for their family member’s needs. Low Arousal was described as a “lifestyle” that enabled increased coping for the family unit as a whole.Discussion/conclusionFindings indicate that it is vitally important to recognize the views of parents and carers, and these are equally as important as the views of professionals. We must understand parents’ and carers’ needs in order to provide adequate support.
Ulema ve münevver bu çalışmada Osmanlı klasik çağı ile Tanzimat sonrası modernleşme sürecini temsil eden iki aydın tipidir. Bu iki tip aynı zamanda dönemlerinin düşünce yapısını, olaylara bakış açısını ve Osmanlı tasavvurunu da temsil etmektedir. Doğası gereği bu iki aydın tipi arasında bir farklılıktan ve çekişmeden söz edilebilir. Bu durum pek çok konuda kendini göstermektedir. Bu çalışmada bu düşünce ve bakış açısı farkının merkezine Kürt dili özelinde yerel dilleri koyacağız: Osmanlı’nın klasik döneminde geleneksel tarzda eğitim almış uleması ile modern dönemde Batılı tarzda eğitim almış münevverinin başta Kürtçe olmak üzere Osmanlı’da konuşulan yerel dillere bakış açısını inceleyeceğiz. “Bu iki eğitimli grup Osmanlı’nın mevcut durumunda ve gelecek planlamasında Kürtleri ve Kürt dilini nereye koyuyordu?” sorusuna cevap arayacağız. Osmanlı klasik çağında imparatorluk atmosferi içinde sıradan bir olgu olan çok dilliliğin Tanzimat sonrası dönemde nasıl çözülmesi gereken bir “sorun” hâline geldiğini örneklerle inceleyeceğiz. Bu bağlamda Gelibolulu Âli, Evliya Çelebi, Namık Kemal, Şemseddin Sâmi, Babanzade İsmail Hakkı, Said-i Meşhûr, Abdullah Cevdet, Ziya Gökalp gibi şahsiyetler ile İstanbul’da yayımlanan Kürd Teavün ve Terakki Gazetesi, Rojî Kurd dergisi, Serbestî gazetesi ve Diyarbekir’de neşredilen Peymân gazetesi başlıca araştırma kaynaklarımız olacak.
Alberto Borboni, Roberto Pagani, Samuele Sandrini
et al.
Safety plays a key role in human–robot interactions in collaborative robot (cobot) applications. This paper provides a general procedure to guarantee safe workstations allowing human operations, robot contributions, the dynamical environment, and time-variant objects in a set of collaborative robotic tasks. The proposed methodology focuses on the contribution and the mapping of reference frames. Multiple reference frame representation agents are defined at the same time by considering egocentric, allocentric, and route-centric perspectives. The agents are processed to provide a minimal and effective assessment of the ongoing human–robot interactions. The proposed formulation is based on the generalization and proper synthesis of multiple cooperating reference frame agents at the same time. Accordingly, it is possible to achieve a real-time assessment of the safety-related implications through the implementation and fast calculation of proper safety-related quantitative indices. This allows us to define and promptly regulate the controlling parameters of the involved cobot without velocity limitations that are recognized as the main disadvantage. A set of experiments has been realized and investigated to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the research by using a seven-DOF anthropomorphic arm in combination with a psychometric test. The acquired results agree with the current literature in terms of the kinematic, position, and velocity aspects; use measurement methods based on tests provided to the operator; and introduce novel features of work cell arranging, including the use of virtual instrumentation. Finally, the associated analytical–topological treatments have enabled the development of a safe and comfortable measure to the human–robot relation with satisfactory experimental results compared to previous research. Nevertheless, the robot posture, human perception, and learning technologies would have to apply research from multidisciplinary fields such as psychology, gesture, communication, and social sciences in order to be prepared for positioning in real-world applications that offer new challenges for cobot applications.
Durante o período em que foi maniqueu, Agostinho compartilhou da ideia de que o mundo tem sua origem na junção de duas substâncias ontológicas, Deus e as Trevas, ambas de natureza corpórea. Ao encontrar Ambrósio, em Milão, este o fez pensar na possibilidade de se falar numa substância não corpórea, puramente espiritual, e que o mundo tem um único princípio – Deus, que criou tudo ex nihilo. Entretanto, no que concerne à origem do mal, isso não resolvia o problema; pelo contrário, aumentava ainda mais, pois, se há apenas uma única origem ontológica de tudo - Deus, que criou tudo do nada, como não atribuir a Este a origem do mal? Foi só no encontro com o neoplatonismo, também em Milão, que Agostinho confirmaria, filosoficamente, a noção de “substância espiritual”, que ouvira de Ambrósio, e, mais do que isto, despertaria para possibilidade de se falar ontologicamente do mal, não como ser, mas como não-ser ou nada. Entretanto, apesar de Plotino ter definido o não-ser (ou o nada) como o “ilimitado”, o “informe”, o “indeterminado”, isso, para Agostinho, ainda não resolvia plenamente o problema do mal, por tratar-se ainda de uma explicação natural, quando o coloca na matéria. De qualquer maneira, a partir daí, começou a pensar o mal como que “um tirar fora”, uma privação. Finalmente, no cristianismo, encontrou um lugar para o mal como algo totalmente imaterial, na livre vontade humana, que acontecer como ausência, defecção, do Bem - o não-ser.
Amirhossein Ghaderi, Matthias Niemeier, John Douglas Crawford
Various models (e.g., scalar, state-dependent network, and vector models) have been proposed to explain the global aspects of time perception, but they have not been tested against specific visual phenomena like perisaccadic time compression and novel stimulus time dilation. Here, in two separate experiments (N = 31), we tested how the perceived duration of a novel stimulus is influenced by 1) a simultaneous saccade, in combination with 2) a prior series of repeated stimuli in human participants. This yielded a novel behavioral interaction: pre-saccadic stimulus repetition neutralizes perisaccadic time compression. We then tested these results against simulations of the above models. Our data yielded low correlations against scalar model simulations, high but non-specific correlations for our feedforward neural network, and correlations that were both high and specific for a vector model based on identity of objective and subjective time. These results demonstrate the power of global time perception models in explaining disparate empirical phenomena and suggest that subjective time has a similar essence to time's physical vector.
Penelitian ini bertujuan melakukan kajian dari perspektif teologi Kristen terhadap konsep budaya Batak tentang otoritas perempuan sebagai Ibu dalam pembentukan karakter unggul dalam keluarga Batak. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif. Penelitian dilakukan di Pematangsiantar pada bulan Nopember-Desember 2022 dengan empat orang informan. Dua di antaranya adalah tokoh perempuan Batak di lingkungan gereja dan sekolah teologi, dua lainnya adalah pemuda dari keluarga Batak. Dari penelitian ini ditemukan adanya tiga peran ibu yang memiliki otoritas dalam pembentukan karakter unggul pada anak. Ketiga peran tersebut adalah sipartangiang (pendoa), mendidik anak-anak untuk rajin berdoa, parsonduk bolon (menyiapkan kebutuhan makanan), mendidik anak-anak untuk memikul tanggung jawab terhadap kehidupan bersama, Ina Soripada (Ibu yang terhormat), mendidik anak-anak untuk sopan, jujur, dan berintegritas. Melalui ketiga peran ini, nampak bahwa ibu Batak memiliki otoritas untuk menjalankan pendidikan karakter unggul bagi anak-anak. Terbukti bahwa anak-anak yang berasal dari keluarga dengan ibu yang demikian memiliki karakter unggul yang berbeda-beda dari teman-teman sebayanya.
Gabriel G. de la Torre, Miguel A. Ramallo, Sara Gonzalez-Torre
et al.
Communication styles are the three communication patterns that result from merging the verbal elements of communication, the non-verbal elements and the paraverbal elements. The objective of this study was to test what effect different communication styles have on attention performance in primary school children. We administered the assertive behavior scale for children (CABS), the symbol digit modalities test (SDMT) and the d2 attention test to a sample of 77 participants of primary school. A statistically significant and proportional correlation was found between the assertive communication style and the total number of correct answers of the SDMT. We also found positive correlations between the assertive communication style and d2 attention test performance. Children with an assertive communication style have better attention performance than children with passive or aggressive communication styles.
Abstract Background Whilst there are comprehensive guidelines for the rehabilitation of people with severe impairments from stroke, there has been less attention on the health and rehabilitation needs of people with minor stroke. Our study will assess whether a new multi-component service pathway using an integrated model based around primary care will reduce unmet need following minor stroke compared with usual care 1 and 3 months post-hospital discharge. Methods One hundred ten patients with minor stroke will be recruited within a parallel, randomised controlled trial design comparing a new service pathway and usual care. The new service pathway will comprise a self-management kit, customised General Practitioner checklist, and a series of minor stroke educational topics. Participants will complete assessments pre-hospital discharge and 1 and 3 months later. The primary outcome measure will be the Survey of Unmet Needs and Service Usage. Secondary outcome measures will include assessments of ability, adjustment and participation; social group connectedness; return to work; health-related quality of life; and perceptions of the new service pathway (intervention group only). Mixed model repeated measures will be used to analyse within and between group differences at each time point. Return to work will be analysed using Chi square tests. Perceptions of the new service pathway will be analysed qualitatively. Dissemination of results The project will produce an evidence-based, multicomponent service pathway for minor stroke patients, applicable to other health services nationally and internationally. Dissemination will include publications and presentations. Trial registration Prospectively registered - Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12619000133134p) 30 January 2019.
Este artículo propone un análisis de la estética del paisaje en la obra del escritor Gabriel Miró. Para ello se investiga el significado y valor atribuido al paisaje en la trilogía novelesca (Del vivir, Libro de Sigüenza, Años y Leguas) de Sigüenza, héroe modernista de su paisaje literario, así como en el ensayo Sigüenza y el mirador azul. La visión del paisaje en Miró se reconstruye a través del diálogo con diferentes fuentes culturales y filosóficas (especialmente, Giner de los Ríos y Ortega y Gasset). El paisaje mironiano muestra así la evolución desde una inicial actitud panteísta hacia una posterior mirada fenomenológica y hermenéutica.
This cloth-bound, large-format book set is a quest to understand and apply the
contents of a groundbreaking fourth/tenth-century treatise that reformed Arabic
penmanship and established the canon of calligraphy applied to this day.
Muhamad ibn Ali ibn Muqla’s treatise The Proportioned Script acts as the esoteric
center of a riddle not unlike the unraveling of a lost book through other
books as seen in Umberto Echo’s The Name of the Rose. In this case, The Proportioned
Script is but a succinct treatise, for Ibn Muqla’s two explanatory
manuscripts detailing the proportions and methods are lost – and can only be
retraced through subsequent studies and drawn reconstruction.
Why such a monumental effort to unravel a single small treatise on Arabic
penmanship? As the authors explain, it was and is the canon of proportion in
writing and reveals a great deal about the sociocultural context and the importance
of script related to faith. Hence the title of the book. The Cosmic Script
is clearly the result of significant research. The two authors met over four
decades ago, during which Moustafa completed an MA and a PhD on the subject.
They collaborated for eight years on unraveling The Proportioned Script
through other sources and reconstructed the canon of letters by a detailed geometric
analysis and Moustafa’s own artistic practice of application.
The first volume includes an introduction and seven chapters outlining
the historical and spiritual background of the Arabic script in terms of ancient
pre-Islamic influences. The second volume contains an introduction and
twenty-one chapters, of which nineteen cover the specific letter families and
outline sources and specific graphics for each letter’s formulation.
“Decoding the “Geometry of Letters,” the introduction to the first volume,
describes Ibn Muqla as having invented the theory of proportioned script that
transformed this art form and had a significant impact upon the culture of the
Abbasid era and beyond. He derived his system from the scribal dot (square
in form, on an angle) and thus, according to the authors, linked prophecy, writing,
and geometry with the sacred dimensions. The elevated rank of the pen
and writing were underscored by the first revealed Qur’anic verses and the
sacred status of the physical Qur’an. The authors argued that geometry bridged ...
El objetivo de esta investigación es contribuir al conocimiento de la obra arquitectónica legada por el nieto de Leonardo de Figueroa al servicio de la diócesis hispalense, particularizando el estudio en la barroca Écija. Antonio de Figueroa, mal conocido como Antonio Matías, a pesar de ser el más prolífico maestro mayor del arzobispado en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, no ha merecido el debido interés por parte de la historiografía, manteniéndose hasta nuestros días diversas incógnitas sobre su obra, algunas de las cuales se ponen de manifiesto en la ciudad astigitana. Al efecto de aclararlas, se documentan aquí sus intervenciones en cinco de las parroquias, destacando el inédito proyecto de Antonio de Figueroa para la realización del cuerpo de iglesia y capilla sacramental de Santa María, culminando la obra iniciada por su padre Ambrosio. El estudio se completa con la aportación de otros datos novedosos, referidos tanto al maestro como al proceso constructivo de los referidos templos.
Human dignity is one of the most fundamental ideas in the entire international human
rights system. As from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in 1948, the concept of
the human dignity become used as a tool to protect the basic needs of humans. The other
formal instruments of international human rights also make reference to dignity. Whereas
international law widely accepted the inherence of dignity, controversies still arise around
the source of the dignity. Polish lawmakers, on the other hand, have no doubt about the
fact the concept of dignity comes from natural law. Poland, in her Constitution, refers to
the teaching of John Paul II about the source, value and meaning of human dignity. There
is no doubt that concept of human dignity, even when it is controversial, is the most widely
accepted by all religions and political society in the world.
Vivimos en el mundo del consumismo. Dilapidamos cultura, al igual que las relaciones, y los valores también se han convertido en objeto de dispendio. En la rutina educativa, el ritmo y presiones a las que se ve sometido el docente imposibilita una transformación por medio de la acción pedagógica, quedando contenidos y valores en meros compartimentos vacíos de toda cavilación. Por esta razón, se hace necesario un proceso reflexivo acerca del papel que está jugando la educación actual en la conformación de los ciudadanos del mañana, así como de sus propias señas de identidad.
The text is a review on the thesis, presented for the degree of Doctor of theology. It is dedicated to an actual theme — the problem of the personality which prototype is God Himself. The study of the priest topics that are quite popular in the academic philosophical community are discussed (for example, questions of apophatic and cataphatic theology, themes of Christian individualismus, and other axiological problems). The reviewer gives an overview of the content of the thesis, shares his critical observations and, in general, assumes the work as of good quality, that could promote mutual enrichment of theology and secular scholarship.
George A. Miller’s presidential address to the American Psychological Association in 1969 urged psychologists “to give psychology away” in order to solve social problems related to human health and welfare, and has since become a standard reference for calls for social responsibility. But Miller also envisioned a psychological revolution that would ultimately change humankind’s concept of itself. In the decades that followed, according to numerous historical studies, psychology’s influence was vital to the conduct of self-governing that resulted in a globalised therapeutic culture. Yet, professional psychology’s self-perception, in Norway and around the world, continues to rest on the modernist assumption of psychology being something underrepresented and external to society. I argue that the psychological revolution that Miller foresaw should lead responsible professionals to revise the ethical framework; in fact, the moral justice of “taking psychology away” should now be seriously considered.
This text presents the challenges that the modern world poses for the Orthodox Church. In every historical period, the Church has struggled with internal and external problems. While preserving its traditions and historical foundations, the theology of the Orthodox Church struggles with contemporary problems by showing the current, contemporary teaching about God, man and the world.
César Merino Soto, Dora Pflucker Muñoz, Diana Riaño-Hernández
El Inventario de Depresión Estado-Rasgo (IDER) evalúa de forma breve distintos síntomas depresivos. El objetivo es evaluar algunas propiedades psicométricas del IDER en Perú. La muestra estuvo formada por 314 estudiantes entre 11 y 18 años de secundaria en un colegio limeño. Los resultados indican una estructura bidimensional –que corresponde con la delimitación conceptual del inventario original–. Sin embargo, algunos ítems presentaron cargas comparativamente bajas, probablemente debido a variaciones culturales. Adicionalmente, la consistencia interna para la dimensión de Estado y Rasgo presentó valores alfa de Cronbach de 0.76 y 0.68, respectivamente. El cuestionario IDER satisface el criterio de invariabilidad de la estructura interna y puede dar una alternativa favorable para el diagnóstico y evaluación de la depresión en adolescentes peruanos.