This study compared the kinetic roles of the upper extremities in racket impact force generation between the open stance (OS) and square stance (SS) for tennis players with different skill levels in two-handed backhand strokes. Twelve male tennis players were divided into an advanced group (AG) (L3-L2 skill level) and intermediate group (IG) (L7-L6 skill level), and their data were used in a th...

In the present study we have estimated the temporal elongation of the plantar aponeurosis (PA) during normal walking using a subject-specific multi-segment rigid-body model of the foot. As previous studies have suggested that muscular forces at the ankle can pre-load the PA prior to heel-strike, the main purpose of the current study was to test, through modelling, whether there is any tension p...

politicians adopt a variety of linguistic strategies in their speeches to connect with their audience. to name one, appraisal, as a system of interpersonal meaning, is concerned with evaluation where resources are used for negotiating social relationships. despite their significance in shaping texts, there have hardly been any extensive inventories of appraisal tools contrasting electoral speec...

Fact checking is an essential challenge when combating fake news. Identifying documents that agree or disagree with a particular statement (claim) core task in this process. In context, stance detection aims at identifying the position (stance) of document towards claim. Most approaches address through classification models do not consider highly imbalanced class distribution. Therefore, they a...

Goats and other quadrupeds must modulate the work output of their muscles to accommodate the changing mechanical demands associated with locomotion in their natural environments. This study examined which hindlimb joint moments goats use to generate and absorb mechanical energy on level and sloped surfaces over a range of locomotor speeds. Ground reaction forces and the three-dimensional locati...

the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

Ladyman, Lipton, and Teller on The Empirical Stance Bas C. van Fraassen I. What is a stance? 1. The argument 2 What is a stance, in general? A. "Stance" and non-philosophical stances B. Role and unity of a stance 3. What is a philosophical stance? 4. What is an empiricist stance? II. Metaphysics III. Voluntarism A. Ladyman's challenge: counterinductive strategies B. The challenge concerning tol...