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An expert-novice comparison of lifeguard specific vigilance performance
Get PDFLifeguards must maintain alertness and monitor an aquatic space across extended periods. However, lifeguard research has yet to investigate a lifeguard’s ability to maintain performance over time and whether this is influenced by years of certified experience or the detection difficulty of a drowning incident. The aim of this study was to examine whether lifeguard experience, drown duration, bather number, and time on task influences drowning detection performance. A total of 30 participants took part in nine 60-minute lifeguard specific tasks that included eleven drowning events occurring at five-minute intervals. Each task had manipulated conditions that acted as the independent variables, including bather number and drowning duration. The experienced group detected a greater number of drowning events per task, compared to novice and naïve groups. Findings further highlighted that time, bather number, and drowning duration has a substantial influence on lifeguard specific drowning detection performance. It is hoped that the outcome of the study will have applied application in highlighting the critical need for lifeguard organisations to be aware of a lifeguard’s capacity to sustain attention, and for researchers to explore methods for minimising any decrement in vigilance performance
An examination of the challenge/threat state and sport-performance relationship while controlling for past performance
No full textA challenge state is associated with superior performance compared to a threat state in a variety of performance domains (e.g., sport, aviation, education). However, in the challenge and threat (C/T) literature, between-subjects variability in past performance is often inconsistently controlled for. Here, we aimed to investigate the effects of C/T states on performance using two methods to control for past performance. Experiment 1 used previous performance statistics in a between-subjects design and Experiment 2 used a within-subject design. In Experiment 1, regression analysis showed that cardiovascular correlates of C/T states predicted cricket batting performance in 45 amateur cricketers. In Experiment 2, between- and within-subject analysis found that past performance was the only predictor of subsequent golf putting performance in 40 noncompetitive golfers. Taken together, the findings challenge the role that C/T states play in predicting performance under pressure after controlling for past performance
Covid 19 research: The impact on babies and their families
No full textIn part one of a new series by Louisa Johnson she investigates the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on families with babies. This series of articles will discuss the qualitative data found during an investigation of parents' positive and negative experiences with having a baby during a global pandemic. To read Louisa's introduction to her research and some of her initial prior research on pregnancy during the coronavirus pandemic please go to this month's student spotlight in the Practice Insight supplement: https://www.earlyyearseducator.co.uk/practice%20insight/article/student-spotlight-babies-born-during-the-covid-19-pandemi
A theology of chaplaincy from below: changing the locus of theological agency
Get PDFThe article argues that a theology of chaplaincy needs to identify, analyse, and evaluate the theological reflection undertaken by their chaplaincy clients. Chaplains, when questioned about their theological ideas, usually speak briefly about notions such as a ‘ministry of presence’ or ‘incarnational ministry or theology’ to explain and justify their commitment to the welfare and pastoral care of their clients. In our research project, we interviewed chaplaincy clients discussing with them their theological ideas. And what became apparent was that in the seafaring context, it is not only chaplains who are theological agents; theology is also being produced by the seafarers. Previously seafarers have been a neglected presence in any discussion of a theology of chaplaincy, as, in fact, have other clients be they patients in hospitals, prisoners, school pupils, or university students. We identified and vocalised this client theology and in the second half of the article, we explore the implications for a ‘theology of chaplaincy’ of listening to and dialoguing with the theology produced by chaplaincy clients. This includes a discussion of how we conceive of the chaplaincy space and what ethical questions are raised when the clients’ theology is taken seriously
Multisensory Music Performance with Cymatic Images
Get PDFJill Jarman completed the musical composition Resonance for solo cello in 2022 with the intention that it would be heard, seen, and felt as a multisensory experience. The cellist Laura Ritchie produced cymatic images for each of the musical pitches in the work, compiled them in a video, and rehearsed to be able to perform the first live synchronized multisensory performance with integrated mathematically accurate cymatic images. The cymatic images were generated using a tonescope emulator in the Cymatic Frequency Emulator software package. Images were compiled and arranged on screen in time and space to create a visual representation of the musical sounds. The resulting video accompanied live performances to enable the audience to have a full experience of the musical notes in physical, visual, and aural forms. Challenges of production and opportunities for future applications of this research are discussed
The Matter of Language: Abstraction and Poetry
No full textIf the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the centre of thought, the twenty-first century has, so far, been the century of matter. The Matter of Language is a critical intervention that aims to return to the relationship between language and matter to think our present moment as one dominated by abstractions that rule our lives. The abstractions of value are not to be countered by a turn to the dignity of matter beyond determination, or to the purely subversive value of language. Instead, the relationships between matter and language, particularly as expressed by poetry, offer us a critical purchase on abstraction. In a series of dated chapters, that form punctual moments of intervention, this book both rehabilitates key thinkers, like Marx, Freud and Saussure, and engages with poetic thinking on matter, in David Jones, Diane di Prima, William Blake, Leslie Kaplan, and others. It is a matter of understanding language as a site of struggle, which is intimately bound to the material, but also crucial in formulating and expressing the material and the abstractions that shape language and matter. Working between theory and poetry The Matter of Language reconceives notions of alienation and class struggle as essential modes of reading and analysis for our fractured present
Charting the spiritual experience in jazz
Get PDFThis article examines the spiritual dimension of jazz performance by looking at first-person accounts of improvising musicians and locating their experiential descriptions within a spiritual framework. The spiritual context is here defined as the realm of invisible processes that support and underpin the visible and auditory dimensions of improvised music. By collating evidence through first-person accounts, a series of themes emerge (wonderment, force, inspiration, letting go, happening, connection, being yourself, meaning and staying in the present), which, when seen as parts of a holistic process, can provide important components that are often missed in jazz education and jazz performance
Recovery effects of foam rolling on psychophysiological responses in Thai national male ice hockey players
Get PDFWe examined the short-term effects of foam rolling (FR), dynamic stretching (DS), and passive rest (PR) following simulated ice hockey exercise (IHE) on heart rate (HR), blood lactate (BL), leg choice reaction time (CRTleg), rating of perceived exertion (RPE), and global rating of change (GRC) in elite ice hockey players. The study followed a randomized cross-over design. Fifteen national male ice hockey players were assigned to the FR, DS, or PR interventions for 10 mins following 35-min of simulated IHE. HR and BL were obtained at 0-, 5- and 10-min post-intervention. CRTleg and RPE were assessed pre-and post-intervention. GRC was evaluated post-intervention. The PR decreased HR faster than the DS at 5 min post-treatment. Whereas the FR and DS reduced BL levels faster than the PR at 5- and 10-min post-treatment. There was no difference in CRTleg among the FR, DS, and PR. The FR had lower RPE scores compared to the DS and PR post-treatment. As perceptual aspects, the FR was the most preferred treatment by ice hockey athletes. The FR and DS exerted more beneficial effects on BL but not on HR by the passive rest. The FR showed the most effective treatment on the psychological demands by improving RPE and perceptual responses over the DS and PR. Thus, the FR could be used as a choice for post-game recovery treatment on improving physiological and perceptual responses following an intense match-play in ice hockey players
Crisis and criticism: literary, cultural and political essays, 2009–2021
No full textCrisis and Criticism is a series of interventions from 2009 to 2021 engaging with the literary, cultural and political responses to the capitalist crisis of 2007–8. Challenging the tendency to treat crisis as natural and beyond human control, this book interrogates our cultural understanding of crisis and suggests the necessity of ruthless criticism of the existing world. While responses to crisis have retreated from the critical, choosing to inhabit apocalyptic fantasies instead, only a critical understanding of the causes of crisis within capitalism itself can promise their eventual overcoming
Building a sustainable healthcare workforce through innovative social partnerships
Get PDFOn 30 June 2023, NHS England (2023) published the first comprehensive, long-term NHS
workforce plan. There is an urgent need for a sustainable, strategic action to address the
current workforce vacancies seen across all healthcare providers in England. Educational
heads in local universities are integral to supporting this, via social partnerships brokered
between key leaders. Integrated care boards and healthcare providers can collaborate to
enable a resilient response to this crisis, but this requires flexible and creative direction
across all stakeholders, with a civic and societal approach to improving the health and
social care of the local population