Offensive language has arisen to be a big issue to the health of both online communities and their users. To the online community, the spread of offensive language undermines its reputation, drives users away, and even directly affects its growth. To users, viewing offensive language brings negative influence to their mental health, especially for children and youth. When offensive language is ...

Research suggesting that disgust has a role in psychiatric illness has emerged (Phillips et al, 1998). Although a well-developed theory of disgust exists in the literature (Rozin & Fallon, 1987), it does not indicate how extreme disgust reactions relate to psychopathology. Briefly, disgust is readily distinguished from other emotions, has robust behavioural correlates such as avoidance and dist...

An offensive alliance in a graph Γ = (V,E) is a set of vertices S ⊂ V where for every vertex v in its boundary it holds that the majority of vertices in v’s closed neighborhood are in S. In the case of strong offensive alliance, strict majority is required. An alliance S is called global if it affects every vertex in V \S, that is, S is a dominating set of Γ. The offensive alliance number ao(Γ)...

For a graph G = (V,E), a non-empty set S ⊆ V is a global offensive alliance if for every v ∈ V − S, at least half of the vertices from the closed neighborhood of v are in S. A set S ⊆ V is a global strong offensive alliance if for each vertex v ∈ V −S, a strict majority of the vertices of the closed neighborhood of v are in S. The cardinality of a minimum global (strong) offensive alliance of a...

this paper highlights the folk perception of impoliteness among ghanaians in view of watts’ (2003) notion of first order impoliteness. the study showed that impoliteness is not just an opposite of politeness, but the manifestation of non-cooperation, disapproval, and mutual antipathy through certain communicative behaviours that signal disrespect. these communicative behaviours include ‘interru...

BACKGROUND Shoulder injuries remain one of the most common injuries among collegiate football athletes. Offensive linemen in particular are prone to posterior labral pathology. PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of shoulder bracing in collegiate offensive linemen with respect to injury prevention, severity, and lost playing time. STUDY DESIGN Cohort study; Level of evidence, 3. METHODS Offe...

The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of quality of opposition and game period, considered independently and interactively, on team performance in offensive sequences ending in a shot on goal by a Portuguese professional association football team. A total of 155 offensive sequences were sampled from ten matches involving a team from the Portuguese Premier League during the 2009-2010 se...

The present study aimed to analyze the interaction and main effects of deliberate practice experience and small-sided game format (3 vs. 3 and 6 vs. 6 plus goalkeepers) on the offensive performance of young soccer players. Twenty-eight U-15 male players were divided into 2 groups according to their deliberate practice experience in soccer (i.e., years of experience in federation soccer): Non-Ex...