The social identity approach has become an important framework for understanding effective leadership in sport contexts. More specifically, leaders’ identity leadership (i.e., their capacity to cultivate shared social identity — a shared sense of ‘we’ — in their teams) is argued to be an important basis for effective leadership. The present study is the first to longitudinally examine the relative impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ identity leadership on athletes’ identification with their team. In addition, we tested whether athletes’ team identification mediated the relationships with ...
Eric D. Crandall, Cynthia Riginos, Chris E. Bird, Libby Liggins
Aim: To test hypothesized biogeographic partitions of the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean with phylogeographic data from 56 taxa, and to evaluate the strength and nature of barriers emerging from this test. Location: The Indo-Pacific Ocean. Time Period: Pliocene through the Holocene. Major Taxa Studied: 56 marine species. Methods: We tested eight biogeographic hypotheses for partitioning of the Indo-Pacific using a novel modification to analysis of molecular variance. Putative barriers to gene flow emerging from this analysis were evaluated for pairwise ΦST, and these ΦST distributions were ...
Aim The formation history of Africa’s current river basins remains largely unknown. In order to date changes in landscape and climate, we studied the biogeography of the African freshwater fish with the largest natural distribution. We also validated biogeographic units. Location Continental Africa. Taxon Clarias gariepinus sl. Methods We investigated mitochondrial cytb sequences of 443 individuals from 97 localities, using a haplotype network and a genetic landscape analysis. We inferred a dated phylogeny using maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference approaches and reconstructed ancestral ...
ELECTA Ghent Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer coupler measurement data, used for the paper "Polymers as a Capacitive Wireless Power Transfer Medium". This dataset contains raw data of the measured coupler capacitance and leakage resistance, for seven different media: six polymers (polycarbonate, epratal, epramid, PTFE, multilene and epratex) and air. All measurements were made for a frequency range of 400kHz to 10MHz. The coupling itself consists of 4 metal plates, each measuring 30 cm by 30 cm, with a medium in between of 2mm thick. The measurements are performed at a temperature of 22.4°C ...
Additional file 2: Table S1. Concentrations of cytokines within the BALF of vaccinated animals infected with H1N1 PR8 influenza. Values show the median concentration (pg/ml) with interquartile range (Q1–Q3) of the indicated cytokine or chemokine for the respective group. ND, not detected.
Background Bedaquiline is a core drug for treatment of rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis. Few genomic variants have been statistically associated with bedaquiline resistance. Alternative approaches for determining the genotypic-phenotypic association are needed to guide clinical care. Methods Using published phenotype data for variants in Rv0678, atpE, pepQ and Rv1979c genes in 756 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates and survey data of the opinion of 33 experts, we applied Bayesian methods to estimate the posterior probability of bedaquiline resistance and corresponding 95% credible ...
Table S1. Linear regression analysis of the association between the levels of baseline CMV IgG and the absolute counts of the senescence-prone T-cells, adjusted for age. Note: CMV = cytomegalovirus; SEB = standard error of the unstandardized regression coefficient. Table S2. Linear regression analysis of the association between the levels of baseline CMV IgG and the proportion of the senescence-prone T-cells, adjusted for age. Note: CMV = cytomegalovirus; SEB = standard error of the unstandardized regression coefficient. Table S3. Percentage and absolute counts of T-cell subsets at baseline ...
Parasites may have strong eco-evolutionary interactions with their hosts. Consequently, they may contribute to host diversification. The radiation of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria provides a good model to study the role of parasites in the early stages of speciation. We investigated patterns of macroparasite infection in a community of 17 sympatric cichlids from a recent radiation and 2 older species from 2 non-radiating lineages, to explore the opportunity for parasite-mediated speciation. Host species had different parasite infection profiles, which were only partially explained by ...