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Articulating place: towards a conjunctural analysis of public health
No full text‘Place’ is again circulating as a policy solution to improve health, wealth and wellbeing. But while place-based policymaking is quickly becoming ‘common sense’, we stress the need to think conjuncturally about the changing place of health. By conceptualising places as open articulations—rather than straightforwardly local territories—much wider geographies come into view. In dialogue with decentred approaches to public health which take seriously competing policy narratives, we therefore situate place-based policymaking within ongoing struggles over places and their pasts. To develop our argument, we look at public health through the lens of Wigan, North West England, which has become an unlikely ‘exemplar’ for place-based reforms. Framed by different, often contradictory, narratives of loss, control, and hope, it may be the talk of the town, but we reject the politics of self-responsibilisation implicit within recent attention towards purportedly ‘left behind’ places. Instead, we foreground how Wigan has been shaped by wider forces and relations such as de-industrialisation, postcolonialism, austerity and state restructuring, as well as the pandemic. By locating the many crises, contradictions and antagonisms conditioning public health in this conjuncture, we can start to articulate political alternatives and identify possibilities for making policy otherwise
Developing coaching skills in student support practitioners
No full textThis chapter offers a case study from The Open University, UK exploring how coaching practices might be embedded in other established mechanisms of student support. Our aim is to show how the integration of coaching-informed conversations in student support services might enhance certain interactions with students to aid their progress and achievement. We begin by outlining the steps taken to review the existing skillset of (primarily) guidance practitioners working in the IAG (Information, Advice and Guidance) service. We then move on to share recommendations from a learning and development perspective about how coaching skills might be developed. This chapter will be of interest to leaders of support services in higher education looking to diversify and enhance existing support provision, as well as practitioners in guidance, careers, mental health casework and cognate areas considering continuing professional development in coaching. We seek to provide opportunities for reflection throughout this chapter to ensure readers tailor their approach according to both the needs of their students and their own institutions
Regular Long Runs and Higher Training Volumes are Associated with Better Running Economy Durability in Performance Matched Well-Trained Male Runners
No full textIntroduction
Running economy (RE) deteriorates during prolonged running (i.e. RE durability), although it is unknown if runners’ training characteristics influence RE durability. Furthermore, the extent of the decrement in neuromuscular capabilities after running could also contribute to differences in RE durability. Therefore, this study aimed to compare RE durability during a 90 min run and the decrements in neuromuscular capabilities, between athletes that did, or did not, practice regular long runs, whilst pair-matched for performance status.
Methods
Two groups of 13 male runners were recruited as long (LDT; regular long runs ≥90 min) or short distance training runners (SDT; all runs -1 ·min -1 ). Participants completed preliminary assessments to determine lactate threshold (LT) and V̇O 2 max, then on a separate occasion, a 90 min run at LT. Respiratory gases were collected every 15 min, and isometric squat peak force and countermovement jump (CMJ) were assessed before and after the run.
Results
Changes in RE occurred earlier and were larger for SDT than LDT, reaching +6.0% vs +3.1% at 90 min, respectively (p
Conclusions
This study is the first to demonstrate that the presence of long runs and higher training volumes positively affects RE durability and decrements in neuromuscular capability in performance-matched runners. These results provide important insights into how training characteristics may help explain differences in durability, although intervention studies are needed to confirm these cross-sectional findings
Transversals via regularity
No full textGiven graphs all on the same vertex set and a graph with , a copy of is \emph{transversal} or \emph{rainbow} if it contains at most one edge from each . We study the case when is spanning and explore how the regularity blow-up method, that has been so successful in the uncoloured setting, can be used to find transversals. We provide the analogues of the tools required to apply this method in the transversal setting. Our main result is a blow-up lemma for transversals that applies to separable bounded degree graphs .
Our proofs use weak regularity in the -uniform hypergraph whose edges are those where is an edge in the graph . We apply our lemma to give a large class of spanning -uniform linear hypergraphs such that any sufficiently large uniformly dense -vertex -uniform hypergraph with minimum vertex degree contains as a subhypergraph. This extends work of Lenz, Mubayi and Mycroft
Structuring the Sights and Stories of Pausanias with Wikidata
No full textThe Digital Periegesis (DP) project aims to create a multipurpose tool for archaeological, historical, and literary analysis of Pausanias by extracting from the text every significant manifestation of the classical past he records. The resulting database relates thousands of identifiable ancient places, people, collectivities, gods, objects, rituals, source texts, and events to each other and to their narrative context. Each text paragraph is linked to the geographic location the narrative implies to allow the possibility of visualizing complex special and temporal relationships in the narration that may have been clear in Pausanias’ time but are opaque to most modern readers. Capturing that narrative context requires uniquely granular mapping of the physical landscape of Greece while linking to those places the historical and legendary personalities and events that gave meaning to that landscape. Our goals could be achieved by adapting existing resources, in particular by exploiting the cross-disciplinary scope, openness, and flexibility offered by Wikidata both as a source of unique identifiers and as a relatively secure and sustainable repository of structured data extracted from the text of Pausanias
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No full textExpressive arts and design
No full textThis chapter illustrates the increasing body of research that advocates for creativity to be a crucial aspect of young children’s holistic development, highlighting specifically the benefits for society and business. In response to this, it includes a variety of ideas from contributors, highlighting how all aspects of this aspect of the EYFS have been planned, taught and evaluated. The chapter finishes with a summary of the key points to provide a takeaway for readers
A Zipf-preserving, long-range correlated surrogate for written language and other symbolic sequences
No full textAttitudes towards chiropractic: an analysis of written comments from a survey of Canadian sport and exercise medicine physicians
No full textObjective: To analyze and discuss the written survey comments of Canadian sport and exercise medicine physicians (CSPs) and their attitudes towards chiropractic, including its use for the treatment of athletes and/or Canadians who participate in sports or exercise.
Study Design: Online survey.
Subjects: Active physician members of the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine (CASEM). Seventy physicians completed the survey (11% response rate), twenty-seven (39%) left written comments.
Intervention: An invitation to complete the survey was included in the monthly newsletter emailed to all CASEM members in March and April 2023. A card with a link to the survey was distributed to all attendees of the 2023 CASEM symposium.
Outcome Measures: We administered a 49-item survey to CASEM physicians that inquired into demographic variables and their attitudes towards chiropractic. The survey included an open-ended section at the end of the survey where respondents were invited to include written comments. Our present analysis is restricted to these comments, and they are the primary outcome measure.
Results: Seventy physicians completed the survey and twenty-seven provided written comments. Our analysis revealed six themes and ten sub-themes represented in physician’s comments. Previous frameworks informed our current themes. Reported themes were: ‘variability amongst chiropractors’ (n=15), ‘personal experience with chiropractic’ (n=5), ‘concerns with chiropractic treatment’ (n=12), ‘ethicsunethical behaviour’ (n=4), ‘chiropractic training’ (n=3), ‘chiropractic terminologys are misleading’ (n=2). Subthemes that were endorsed by at least two physicians include: ‘serious adverse events’, ‘chiropractors rely on manipulation only’, ‘chiropractors treat excessively’, ‘similar treatment could be provided by physiotherapists’, ‘chiropractic is unscientific’, ‘chiropractors are poorly trained’, ‘chiropractors are well-trained’, ‘chiropractors are overly financially motivated’, ‘positive and negative personal experiences with chiropractors’.
Conclusions: Our analysis revealed a number of issues that will need to be considered for chiropractic to advance its integration into the field of sports medicine
Refugee Marketplace Discrimination: A Systematic Integrative Review
No full textThis study examines the state of research on refugees’ marketplace discrimination through a systematic integrative review of 215 publications spanning business, management, marketing, and social sciences. An intersectional analysis reveals a framework illustrating the conditions, manifestations, and proposed solutions surrounding refugee marketplace discrimination. Specifically, we identify three forms of discrimination (structural, racial, and spatial) compounded by intersecting issues of sexism, ageism, and ableism. In response, we document refugee- and host society-led initiatives and recommendations to address different facets of refugee marketplace discrimination. By synthesising fragmented insights across disciplines, the study highlights the intersectional dimensions of refugees’ marketplace discrimination, contributes a comprehensive perspective on refugee marketplace dynamics, outlines key gaps to guide future transdisciplinary research, and generates implications for business practice, public policy, and service provision