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Holistically assessing dismounted warfighter military performance: bridging science and operational relevancy
Full text linkDismounted warfighter physical and cognitive performance is complex, involving interdependent domains such as mobility, lethality, survivability and sustainability. This article provides an overview of topics presented during the ‘holistically assessing dismounted infantry performance: bridging science and operational relevancy’ session of the sixth International Congress on Soldiers’ Physical Performance, held in London, UK, 2023. These topics include the investigation of multivariate aspects of dismounted performance at both the individual warfighter and squad levels. Discussion includes a general approach to quantifying warfighter and squad-level dismounted performance, specific body-worn sensors used to investigate performance, including heart rate variability and movement mechanics, a specific investigation into the effect of hearing acuity on individual and group performance, and lastly moving towards predicting performance with body-worn sensors
Anthocyanin-rich New Zealand blackcurrant extract reduces treadmill running-induced gastrointestinal symptoms in the heat: pilot observations
Full text linkWe examined the effect of anthocyanin-rich New Zealand black-currant (NZBC) extract on running-induced gastrointestinal symp-toms in the heat. Recreationally active men (n = 12, age: 28 ± 6 yr,BMI: 24.5 ± 1.8 kg·m−2, _VO2max: 56 ± 6 mL·kg−1·min−1) volunteered.Participants dosed with 7 days of NZBC extract (CurraNZ®) (210 mganthocyanins) or placebo. Exercise consisted of treadmill runningfor one hr at 65% _VO2max (34.1 ± 0.1°C, 40.8 ± 0.2% relative humidity)with the recording of gastrointestinal symptoms during and at60 min following recovery in normal conditions. With placebo, 11participants (92%) reported gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. belch-ing, stitch), and this was reduced to four participants (25%) withNZBC extract. Using a modified visual analog scale, the accumu-lated score of gastrointestinal symptoms was lower with 7-dayintake of NZBC extract (placebo: 112, NZBC extract: 54, p = 0.04).The prevalence of upper, lower and other gastrointestinal symp-toms was reduced (upper, placebo: 75%, NZBC extract: 25%; lower:placebo: 25%, NZBC extract: 17%; other, placebo: 50%, NZBCextract: 25%). With placebo, only two participants reported severesymptoms (one participant for dizziness and nausea with thatparticipant still reporting those in the NZBC extract condition).Seven-day intake of New Zealand blackcurrant extract reducedthe incidence of gastrointestinal symptoms during 1-h of runningin hot environmental conditions. Future research should examinethe efficacy of NZBC extract on exercise-associated gastrointestinalsymptoms in conditions in which gastrointestinal symptoms can be expected to be severe
How children draw, write and tell about portraying mixed emotions in themselves and others children
Full text linkChildren alter their drawings in multiple ways depending on whether they are drawing happy, sad or mixed happy and sad experiences. However, their explanations of why they may use features to show emotions may be overlooked in interpretation. The present study therefore used the Draw Write Tell paradigm which integrates children’s explanations of feature use to explore children’s drawn representations of mixed emotional experiences. 92 (42 boys, 50 girls) children between the ages of 6-8 years (6 years 4 months- 7 years 11 months, M = 7 years 2 months, SD= 3 months) were recruited on the basis of age from mainstream schools across the South East and South West of the UK. Children were allocated to one of two conditions hearing either a vignette about themselves (n=46, 22 girls) or another age and gender matched child (n=47, 27 girls). Following a mixed emotion presence interview, all children competed the Draw Write Tell process. 11 themes of how children explained how they drew mixed emotion experiences emerged following an exhaustive thematic analysis indicating individual, prosocial and cultural influences on their drawing choices. The importance of using this approach when interpreting children’s drawings of emotional experiences is discussed
Emotional intelligence, helping others and generativity: perspectives of community sport coaches
No full textCommunity sport coaches in the UK and elsewhere are typically tasked with improving the personal/social development, life skills and life chances of young and disadvantaged participants. Interestingly, whilst emotional intelligence is frequently used within performance sport coaching literature as a precept of effective practice, there remains little related to specific usage within the community sport context, or to how more humanistic interpretations/approaches may underpin applied practice. In order to further understanding in these areas, this study used a qualitative framework and undertook semi-structured interviews with nine highly experienced community sport coaches. Results revealed values of empathic, humanistic, sharing approaches, illustrated and explained by their motivations to help others that needed support and, without necessarily always explicitly operationalizing it as such, their recognition and use of emotional intelligence. The implications for these are discussed within the pape
MultiAgency, prospective, exploratory, non-intervention, cohort Study on Human Impact Exposure oNboard high-speed boats (MASHIEN): protocol
Full text linkIntroduction: High-speed boat operations expose personnel to slamming-induced impacts, which can lead to musculoskeletal injuries and cognitive impairments. Despite existing safety measures, regulations and. protocols, the risk of injuries remains significant. The MultiAgency, prospective, exploratory, non-intervention, cohort Study on Human Impact Exposure oNboard high-speed boats study aims to investigate the nature and magnitude of these impacts, their acute and long-term health effects, and potential injury prevention strategies to improve operational safety and performance.
Methods and analysis: This is an ongoing multicentre, prospective, non-intervention, observational cohort study. The first participant was enrolled on 23 August 2024. High-speed boat operators log self-reported pain data via a smartphone app, using a Visual Analogue Scale and pain drawings. Triaxial accelerometers are installed on boat hulls and worn by participants to measure impact exposure. Data analysis assesses correlations between exposure and reported pain, enabling the identification of risk factors and the development of safety guidelines for high-speed boat operations.
Ethics and dissemination: The study has received ethical approval from the relevant ethics committees, including the Swedish Ethics Review Authority (no. 2022-04931-01). All participants will provide informed consent before enrolment. The findings will be disseminated through technical reports, articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and direct engagement with military and maritime stakeholders to enhance training protocols and safety measures.
Trial registration number: NCT05299736
Malign velocities: accelerationism and capitalism: 2nd Edition
No full textWe are told our lives are too fast, subject to the accelerating demand that we innovate more, work more, enjoy more, produce more, and consume more. That’s one familiar story. Another, stranger, story is told here: of those who think we haven’t gone fast enough. Instead of rejecting the increasing tempo of capitalist production they argue that we should embrace and accelerate it. Rejecting this conclusion, Malign Velocities tracks this 'accelerationism' as the symptom of the misery and pain of labour under capitalism. Retracing a series of historical moments of accelerationism - the Italian Futurism; communist accelerationism after the Russian Revolution; the 'cyberpunk phuturism' of the ’90s and ’00s; the unconscious fantasies of our integration with machines; the apocalyptic accelerationism of the post-2008 moment of crisis; and the terminal moment of negative accelerationism - suggests the pleasures and pains of speed signal the need to disengage, negate, and develop a new politics that truly challenges the supposed pleasures of speed
Art as a deterritorialising vehicle for a nomadic physiotherapy
Full text linkThis chapter proposes the need for redefined, transdisciplinary approaches to art and health education and research. We question physiotherapy education which continues to
privilege biomedical knowledge and marginalises cultural, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, we propose a nomadic practice and advocate education, practice and research that creates lines of flight which break through the control of discipline, context or methodology, and consequent outcomes.
We explore how transdisciplinary education can use the creative approaches of art to create a counterculture that draws on aspects of new materialism to consider how art can offer opportunities to explore movement and non- interactions. We illuminate what this might make possible within physiotherapy and advocate moving towards a nomadic therapeutic practice that is becoming.
The chapter recognises how emerging transdisciplinary research can prioritise approaches that embrace the unexpected and highlight examples of the human and non-human as co- generators of knowledge. In advocating creative process as an alternative to territorialized physiotherapy practices enclosed within disciplinary criteria, we suggest communicable forms of knowledge in new, more productive forms
Last word: on transformative justice
No full textReflection on truth and reconciliation processes in South Africa, Rwanda and Canada, with discussions of the differences between retributive, restorative, transitional and transformative justice; and the importance of cultural events to post-genocide healin
The psychology of esports: Trends, challenges, and future directions
Full text linkThis rapid review examines how sport and exercise psychology (SEP) research has engaged with esports over the last five years, highlighting the academic acceptance of esports in SEP journals and on the psychological factors that influence esports performance and well-being. In addition to searching for recent empirical studies, we identified systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and scoping reviews to capture the breadth of existing syntheses. Following rapid review guidelines (Sabiston et al., 2022) and adapting the PRISMA framework (Page et al., 2021), two systematic searches were conducted in the Web of Science Core Collection and EBSCO host (SPORTDiscus) databases. First, we identified 13 syntheses of the esports literature highlighting the main topics of interest across scholars in relation to SEP. Then, we identified 125 relevant peer-reviewed empirical publications on esports in SEP context, of which 18 appeared in SEP-specific journals. Findings reveal increasing academic attention in affective, cognitive-motor processes, team dynamics, training structures, and health behaviors (e.g., mental health, physical activity, sleep, nutrition) unique to esports while revealing the need for theoretical and methodological attention. Overall, we highlighted how esports and SEP appear to benefit one another in a reciprocal way. Esports offer a controlled, data-rich performance environment for testing and refining SEP theories. Meanwhile, SEP principles enhance professionalism in esports by informing evidence-based training methods and well-being initiatives. Future research should consider longitudinal designs, open science practices, and interdisciplinary collaboration such as data science, sleep medicine, and nutrition to address the nuanced psychological demands in this rapidly evolving performance domain