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Testing the validity of 360-video for analysing visual exploratory activity in soccer
Get PDFExtended reality (XR) technologies present new opportunities to measure sports performance in 34 immersive, representative environments. This study aimed to i) assess the construct and face validity 35 of a 360-video simulation for capturing visual exploratory activity (VEA) in women’s soccer and ii) 36 understand players’ perceptions of acceptability and tolerability of the simulation. Eleven sub-elite 37 women’s soccer players and eleven novices viewed 40 soccer videos in a head-mounted display. 38 Footage was recorded using a stationary GoPro 360 Max camera at eye height in six pitch locations. 39 Participants verbalised and acted out an action response. VEA was measured by the number of ‘scans’ 40 away from the ball before it reached the 360-video camera. Participants answered open-ended 41 questions on acceptability, physical fidelity, and tolerability. Mann-Whitney U tests compared scan 42 frequency and actions per trial between the two groups. Results supported construct and face validity, 43 with good acceptability, tolerability, and physical fidelity. Soccer players (Mdn = 0.31 scans/s) had 44 significantly higher scan frequencies than novices (Mdn = 0.06 scans/s, p < 0.001) and generated 45 significantly more detailed responses per trial (p < 0.001). 360-video offers a valid, acceptable method 46 for capturing VEA. Future work should assess its efficacy for skill development
“You don't have to be a survivor of abuse to be worried about smears”: cervical screening experience of forensic inpatients.
Get PDFPurpose: Childhood trauma, especially sexual abuse is linked to higher health risks including cervical cancer. Forensic inpatients often have complex trauma histories placing them at increased risk of cervical cancer. The uptake of screening in patient forensic inpatient services is sub-optimal, although little is known about their experiences. This study focuses on the cervical screening experiences of people nursed in forensic service inpatients. This group present with unique health challenges and are an under-researched and vulnerable population with a higher risk of cervical cancer
Method: A qualitative study used purposive sampling to recruit eight participants from two NHS secure forensic services. All participants were inpatients detained under the Mental Health Act (1983, revised 2007) in Women’s pathways. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews and was analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.
Results: Two superordinate themes were developed: (1) Internal Conflict linked past experiences to screening beliefs, and (2) Manufacturing Control showed how individuals employed strategies to feel psychological ready for screening.
Conclusion: This study aimed to understand the facilitators and barriers to cervical screening among forensic in-patients and identify ways to improve their experiences to increase engagement in screening. The results identify how participants experiences prior to and within forensic services impact cervical screening uptake. Forensic inpatients require psychological readiness and feelings of control and safety to engage in cervical screening to minimise examinations reminding or re-enacting their trauma history. Systemic factors can enhance safety perceptions and encourage screening in this group
The sustained attention paradox: a critical commentary on the theoretical impossibility of perfect vigilance
Get PDFThe human capacity for sustained attention represents a critical cognitive paradox: while essential for numerous high-stakes tasks, perfect vigilance is fundamentally impossible. This commentary explores the theoretical impossibility of maintaining uninterrupted attention, drawing from extensive interdisciplinary research in cognitive science, neuroscience, and psychology. Multiple converging lines of evidence demonstrate that sustained attention is constrained by neural, biological, and cognitive limitations. Neural mechanisms reveal that attention operates through rhythmic oscillations, with inherent fluctuations in frontoparietal networks and default mode network interactions. Neurochemical systems and cellular adaptation effects further underscore the impossibility of continuous, perfect vigilance. Empirical research across domains—including aviation, healthcare, industrial safety, and security—consistently demonstrates rapid declines in attention performance over time, regardless of individual expertise or motivation. Even elite performers like military personnel and experienced meditators exhibit inevitable attention lapses. This paper presents an argument against traditional approaches that seek to overcome these limitations through training or willpower. Instead, it advocates for designing human-technology systems that work harmoniously with cognitive constraints. This requires developing adaptive automation, understanding individual and cultural attention variations, and creating frameworks that strategically balance human capabilities with technological support
Establishing innocence when computer data indicates guilt
Get PDFThe Post Office scandal has been widely described as the UK’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice. During the period between 1999 and 2015 over 900 people were convicted of theft and false accounting offences. These convictions were based on data from the faulty Horizon IT system. Whilst the statutory Post Office inquiry continues to examine the wide-ranging failings that led to these convictions, one area that deserves consideration is how the repeal of section 69 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Evidence from Computer Records) enabled these convictions to be possible and whether the section should be reinstated.
This paper argues that a reinstatement of the dictum that ‘the computer is always wrong,’ unless proved otherwise, is not without its problems and will not resolve the issues that have come to the fore following the Post Office cases
Georges Bataille Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949–1951
No full textIn the aftermath of World War II, French thinker and writer Georges Bataille forged a singular path through the moral and political impasses of his age. In 1946, animated by ‘a need to live events in an increasingly conscious way’, and to reject any compartmentalization of intellectual life, Bataille founded the journal Critique. Continuing the publication of his postwar writings, this second book in a three-volume collection of Bataille’s work collects his essays and reviews from the years 1949 to 1951.
In this period of intellectual isolation and intense reflection, Bataille developed and refined his genealogy of morality through a sustained reflection on the fate of the sacred in the modern world. He offered a critique of the limits of existing morality, especially in its denial of excess, while sketching the lineaments of a new hyper-morality. Bataille’s wide-ranging reflections are true to the intellectual mission of Critique, which he founded as a space open to the broadest considerations of the present. As well as discussing significant figures like Samuel Beckett, André Gide, and René Char, Bataille also offers fascinating reflections on American politics, Nazism, existentialism, materialism, and play.
The connecting thread in these diverse essays remains Bataille’s concern with the extremes of human experience and the possibilities of transcending the limits of societies founded on utility and restraint. His writings remain a provocative incitement to rethink the boundaries we impose on expression and existence
Interview: Karen Stevens on characterisation, class and ‘Brilliant Blue'
No full textJoe Bedford interview series 'Writers on Research'. Author Karen Stevens discusses the research process behind her short story collection Brilliant Blue (Barbican Press, 2025)
Development and validation of the Limerence Questionnaire (LQ-11)
Get PDFLimerence is an overwhelming and debilitating experience involving the intense and often obsessive attachment towards a person who becomes the limerent object, which when left unharnessed, typically results in negative outcomes. At present, there are no published measures to assess the construct of limerence. To address this gap, we developed a short self-report measure to measure limerence (The Limerence Questionnaire-11; LQ-11). This paper reports two studies with data from two different samples (Study 1, = 269; Study 2, = 401) of participants that had experienced or were currently experiencing limerence. Results from the exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor structure comprising of ' ' and ' (Study 1). Confirmatory Factor Analysis subsequently confirmed a two-factor structure with excellent internal reliability (Study 2). Results demonstrated that the LQ-11 had good concurrent, convergent and discriminant validity. The LQ-11 is an easily administrable questionnaire for potential use in both interpersonal research domains and in clinical and therapeutic settings
Staying with the trouble, a rhizomatic approach to posthuman methods: assemblages and becoming in the posthuman walking project
Get PDFPersistent pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Research into pain experiences often adopts a humanistic perspective, predominantly relying on interview data and rarely engaging with real-world contexts. The Posthuman Walking Project brought together a transdisciplinary network of individuals with lived experiences of pain alongside academics and clinicians from five countries to collectively explore how posthuman philosophies might challenge human-centered paradigms. Specifically, we used mobile phone video footage to investigate the more-than- human entanglements of walking in the landscape when experiencing pain. This paper reflects on our engagement with the uncertainty and multifaceted nature of exploratory methods and how the process of “becoming posthuman” did not follow a pre-determined path. We outline our rhizomatic methodological approach, emphasizing the contributions of walker-partners, project development meetings, and the value of allowing methods to remain responsive and emergent. Finally, we discuss the complexities of studying the assemblage of humans, walking, pain, and landscape, illuminating the transformative potential of posthuman frameworks in understanding lived experiences of pain
Water as metaphor
Get PDFReflections on spiritual, sociopolitical and emotional metaphors involving water, as expressed in sacred texts and creative work by contemporary American, English, French, Israeli, Iranian, Kurdish, and Palestinian writers
The effectiveness of early weight bearing and mobilisation in post-operative ankle open reduction internal fixation patients: a systematic literature review
Get PDFPurpose: Whilst stable ankle fractures can be managed conservatively, unstable fractures are often treated with surgical intervention with Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF). Traditional post-operative management strategies includes immobilisation and non-weight bearing, new research may indicate this is associated with poor outcomes. This systematic review aims to identify if different weight-bearing and mobilisation post-surgery protocols have positive outcomes on post-ORIF patients with secondary aims to review rates of infection.
Methods: A systematic literature review was completed of randomised controlled trials identified through search strategies from of SPORTDiscuss, CINAHL, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine, MEDLINE and OpenAIRE databases with the final search completed on the 16th of Feburary 2024. Inclusion criteria were as follows, published in 2000 or sooner, peer-reviewed journal articles and the study protocol is a randomised control trial, Furthermore all patients must have received an ankle ORIF procedure. . Quality appraisal was then completed on all included controlled trials using the PEDro scale. Data extraction was then manually performed by the author.
Results: Four randomised controlled trials were included in this study. Amongst the four studies, two found statistically significant differences in favour of early weight bearing at six weeks for functional outcomes (P = 0.0007 and P = <0.001 respectively). Additionally one of the two studies that found effectiveness in early stage EWB also found significant differences in eight weeks (P = 0.002), 12 weeks (P = 0.004) and 12 months (P = 0.02) in the per-protocol analysis all in favour of EWB against NWB. The mean difference between the two groups was 4.4 (95% CI, 0.8-8.1) at the 12-month follow-up. The other included studies found no significant differences regarding functional outcomes at any time frame postoperatively.
Conclusion(s): Based on the findings of the included literature there is some evidence to suggest that early weight-bearing post-ORIF has some effect in increasing functional outcome scores within the first six weeks. However long-term effects of early weight bearing appear to be minimal. Evidence suggests that early weight bearing does not have a significant effect on complications or rates of infection.
Impact: With current evidence, it can be recommended that early weight bearing would result in better short-term outcome measures in those that underwent an ORIF operation with little complication