The Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions for the Management of Frailty: A Systematic Review by Olga Theou, Liza Stathokostas, Kaitlyn P. Roland, Jennifer M. Jakobi, Christopher Patterson, Anthony A. Vandervoort, Gareth R. Jones

“…Eight electronic databases were searched for randomized controlled trials that identified their participants as “frail” either in the title, abstract, and/or text and included exercise as an independent component of the intervention. …”
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Remarkable Differential Verbal and Non-Verbal/Performance Cognitive Profiles in Homicide and Sexual Offenders with Adult Victims by Carlota Urruela, Gabriela Pérez-Reigosa, Óscar Herrero, Sergio Escorial, Roberto Colom

“…All participants completed two WAIS-III subtests to obtain reliable estimates of their verbal and non-verbal abilities. …”
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Physical Activity: Exploring Views of Older Russian-Speaking Slavic Immigrants by Janet Purath, Catherine Van Son, Cynthia F. Corbett

“…In four focus group interviews, 23 participants discussed physical activity. “Movement is life” was a theme throughout all interviews. …”
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Effectiveness of Video Self-Modeling on Hope and Daily Activities of Indonesian Youth by Nur'aini Azizah, Peter Dowrick, Tri Lestari

“…The results showed that all participants demonstrated an increase in the frequency of activities they preferred. …”
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Reflective functioning mediates the relationship between insecure adult attachment and the severity of prolonged grief symptoms by Serena Giunta, Giuseppe Mannino, Lucia Sideli, Maria C. Quattropani, Vittorio Lenzo

“… # Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted with 329 bereaved participants (51.7% females, mean age= 46.94 ± 14.62 years). …”
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Personality as a Correlate of Accentedness: The Case of Formal Setting Without Pronunciation-Focused Instruction by Małgorzata Baran-Łucarz

“…The levels of the traits were correlated with the participants’ degree of accentedness assessed by 2 judges on a 9-point Likert scale with the use of a reading task. …”
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Physical activity to prevent older adult falls: an Aotearoa New Zealand approach by Lara Vlietstra, Katrina Pōtiki Bryant, Leigh Hale, Margaret Dando, Debra Waters

“…The majority of the exercises are conducted while standing and progress to where the participant stands with feet close together, on one leg, minimises hands assisting with balance, and practice controlled movements of the body’s centre of mass and body awareness. …”
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Feasibility study of new functions in ancient urban context in Shah Abbasi of Karaj by kyarash ardestanipourhazhir

“…The results of the implementation of the Suara model showed that among the indicators identified for the social dimension, the role of owner-investor participation index with a final score of 0.224 was ranked first, for the economic dimension, the index of participation in purchase and construction and Builder in the range with a final score of 0.306 in the first rank, for the physical dimension Paying attention to meet the current needs for physical and functional change with a score of 0.416 in the first rank, and for the environmental dimension Indicator Role of New Construction in the Area Infrastructure With a score of 0.610, it is the highest.…”
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Preparing for Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Norwegian Compulsory Schools: Student Teachers’ Encounters With Multicultural Education by Artëm Ingmar Benediktsson

“…It aims to identify the ways in which the participating student teachers adjust their pedagogical strategies to integrate children’s diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds into their education. …”
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Concepções político-ideológicas e didáticopedagógicas dos participantes do IV ENESEB by Leandro Raizer, Daniel Gustavo Mocelin

“…The article presents the results of a survey conducted with the participants of the 4th National Meeting on the Teaching of Sociology in Basic Education (ENESEB) held in 2015. …”
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An action research about the effects of social-emotional learning in a second language acquisition teacher preparation course by Herrera Luis Javier Pentón

“…Finally, SEL prompted participants to reflect on their identities, ideologies, and privileges as language teachers, learners, and speakers, which resulted in making caring and constructive choices (i.e., responsible decision-making).…”
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Michael Cunningham’s The Hours : echoes of Virginia Woolf  by Linda Pillière

“…Cependant s’agit-il d’un simple pastiche ou d’une œuvre autonome, une création originale? …”
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Quantifying crowding perception at large events using beacons and surveys by Sakurako Tanida, Hyerin Kim, Claudio Feliciani, Xiaolu Jia, Akira Takahashi, Tetsuya Aikoh, Katsuhiro Nishinari

“…This study focuses on Tokyo Big Sight in Japan exhibitions to examine participants’ perceptions of peak crowding times, locations, and local density, and compare them with the actual measurements. …”
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Federated learning scheme for mobile network based on reputation evaluation mechanism and blockchain by Ming YANG, Xuexian HU, Qihui ZHANG, Jianghong WEI, Wenfen LIU

“…Federated learning is a new distributed machine learning technology, where training tasks are deployed on user side and training model parameters are sent to the server side.In the whole process, participants do not need to share their own data directly, which greatly avoids privacy issues.However, the trust relationship between mobile users in the learning model has not been established in advance, there is hidden safety when users perform cooperative train with each other.In view of the above problems, a federated learning scheme for mobile network based on reputation evaluation mechanism and blockchain was proposed.The scheme allowed the server side to use subjective logic models to evaluate the reputation of participating mobile users and provided them with credible reputation opinions sharing environment and dynamic access strategy interface based on the technique of smart contract of blockchain.Theoretical and experimental analys is results show that the scheme can enable the server side to select reliable users for training.And it can achieve more fair and effective reputation calculations, which improves the accuracy of federated learning.…”
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 by Johan Junkka

“… This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949. …”
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Damage due to ice crystallization by Menno Demmenie, Paul Kolpakov, Boaz van Casteren, Dirk Bakker, Daniel Bonn, Noushine Shahidzadeh

“…Abstract The freezing of water is one of the major causes of mechanical damage in materials during wintertime; surprisingly this happens even in situations where water only partially saturates the material so that the ice has room to grow. …”
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Staying at home : between care, (social) housing and health care by Marion Ille-Roussel

“…As we show in this article, those sectors are coming closer and may overlap. …”
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Digitalised Welfare-to-work program in Indonesia: A Prelimenary Study of The Pre-Employment Card (PECP) and Job-Loss Insurances (JLI) Programs by Fadillah Putra, Anwar Sanusi

“…The study was conducted using qualitative methods with semi-structured interviews with a total of 37 participants (14 policymakers from the Ministry of Manpower and the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, 17 training providers related to the PECP and 6 participants). …”
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Membership in and Presence of Voluntary Organisations during the Swedish Fertility Transition, 1880-1949 by Johan Junkka

“…This article investigates the association between, participation in, and exposure to voluntary organisations and marital fertility during the European fertility transition from 1880 to 1949. …”
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Enhancing resilience in sexual harassment victims using narrative exposure therapy: a single case research by Saifa Hunafa, Gian Sugiana Sugara, Muhammad Muhajirin

“…Using the Adolescent Resilience Scale, the participant showed a reduction of (d = 5.7); and using the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5), the participant showed a reduction of (d = 4.87). …”
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