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Cureus
January 2024
Sports Physiotherapy, Ravi Nair Physiotherapy College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education & Research, Wardha, IND.
This review study investigates the advantages of plyometric training in badminton, concentrating on the effects on agility, power, speed, and overall athletic performance. It looks at the research on plyometric training in badminton, including training methods, performance effects, and potential injury prevention. The study underlines the value of plyometric training in enhancing agility, letting athletes move swiftly around the court, and producing the explosive force needed for quick and accurate strokes.
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November 2023
Adamson University, College of Science, Department of Psychology, 900 San Marcelino St., Ermita, Manila 1000, Philippines. Electronic address:
This study investigated 216 individual transcripts of faith healing experiences drawn from the healing ministries of 2 Catholic priests in the Philippines. The accounts of these healing narratives were generously provided to the researcher in hard copies for analysis by the 2 Catholic priests. The narratives were individual stories of healing experiences and written voluntarily by the healees themselves.
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November 2022
Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Nudges are small changes in the presentation of options that make a predictable impact on people's decisions. Proponents of nudges often claim that they are justified as paternalistic interventions that respect autonomy: they lead people to make better choices, while still letting them choose for themselves. However, existing work on nudges ignores the possibility of "hard choices": cases where a person prefers one option in some respects, and another in other respects, but has no all-things-considered preference between the two.
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December 2022
College of Dentistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Objectives: Billions of individuals worldwide suffer from periodontal disease, an inflammatory disease that results in hard-tissue and soft-tissue destruction. A viable therapeutic option to treat periodontal disease may be via cannabinoids that exert immunomodulatory effects, and the endocannabinoid system (ECS) is readily present in periodontal tissues that exhibit cannabinoid type 1 and 2 receptors (CB1R and CB2R). Phytocannabinoids (pCBs), which are a part of a heterogeneous group of molecules acting on cannabinoid receptors (CBR) derived from the cannabis plants, have been attributed to a wide variety of effects including anti-inflammatory activity and some pro-inflammatory effects depending on the cell type.
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December 2022
Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania.
In 2014, there were 1.8 billion young people aged 10-24 years globally, 16% of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. Young people are met with significant technological advancement but also constraints in securing stable livelihoods and broader cultural and societal changes.
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