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Quality of life threats in recreational and competitive sport
No full textQuality of life threats in recreational and competitive sport Author: ass. Professor Jan Toftegaard Støckel Key words: sport, stress, depression, illness, Previous research has shown that personal issues (nutrition, injury, goals and expectations), coach-athlete issues (coach, coaching style, selection) and environmental issues (team atmosphere, support structures) are key determinants for stress, depression and illness in elite sports. In a large scale survey among 4,000 Danish athletes from recreational thru to elite sport a regression analysis show an increase in risk of self-reported stress, depression or illness (SDI) by odds ratio 6,5 in elite sport compared to recreational sport. One in eight athletes reported SDI and highest associations are related to coach behavior. The key question for this abstract is to examine whether men and women are equally vulnerable to SDI at various sport levels and secondly what types of behaviors may pose the biggest threats to athlete welfare
Quality of life threats in recreational and competitive sport
No full textQuality of life threats in recreational and competitive sport Author: ass. Professor Jan Toftegaard Støckel Key words: sport, stress, depression, illness, Previous research has shown that personal issues (nutrition, injury, goals and expectations), coach-athlete issues (coach, coaching style, selection) and environmental issues (team atmosphere, support structures) are key determinants for stress, depression and illness in elite sports. In a large scale survey among 4,000 Danish athletes from recreational thru to elite sport a regression analysis show an increase in risk of self-reported stress, depression or illness (SDI) by odds ratio 6,5 in elite sport compared to recreational sport. One in eight athletes reported SDI and highest associations are related to coach behavior. The key question for this abstract is to examine whether men and women are equally vulnerable to SDI at various sport levels and secondly what types of behaviors may pose the biggest threats to athlete welfare
The super viscoelastic response of NiTi fiber actuated low density polyethylene matrix composites
No full textA different approach to things: A critical theoretical presentation of non-Western ethnic minority women's opportunity for medical pluralism in Denmark
No full textForfatter: Michelle Toftegaard, stud. cand. san. Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi. Roskilde Universitet.Vejleder: Dr. Rashmi Singla, Institut for Mennesker og Teknologi, Roskilde Universitet.Baggrund: Den øgede internationale udvikling, i anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer, og dens integration med de respektive landes traditionelle medicin, peger i retningen af, at der nu anerkendes et behov for, at udvikle en sammenhængende og integreret tilgang til sundhed. Alene i Danmark fastslår tal, fra 2017, at 1.298.000 af den samlede danske, voksne befolkning har anvendt én eller flere former for alternativ behandling, inden for det seneste år. Med en løbende assimilering, af tidligere betragtede komplementære mediciner - og behandlingsformer, der i dag sikrer et samarbejde mellem det danske sundhedsvæsen og den alternative praksis, er der behov for en definition af denne praksis for, at åbne op for muligheden for medicinsk pluralisme, med respekt for den enkeltes værdiunivers og livsbetingelser.Formål: Nærværende speciale har til formål at undersøge og beskrive, de ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinders erfaringer med -, holdninger til og handlinger i relation til anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer. Med en forankring i den kritiske teoretiske forskningstradition har nærværende speciale desuden til formål at identificere de undertrykkende faktorer, der begrænser de ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinders autonomi, herunder de barrierer, som de oplever for idealet, i fremmelsen af egen sundhed og for at forebygge - og behandle sygdom, i relation til anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer. Nærværende speciales analytiske fund kan således tjene som et bidrag, ved at supplere den eksisterende viden, beroende på kvantitative data, i den vidensbase, som WHO efterspørger.Materialer og metode: Med en mixed methods tilgang, kombinerer nærværende speciale, empirimateriale fra 4 semistrukturerede interviews med ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinder i Danmark, med en dokumentanalyse af WHOs strategidokument WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023. For at opnå den kritiske teoretiske forskningstraditions dobbeltsidet perspektiv, inddrages såvel et oplevelses – og erfaringsperspektiv samt et betragtende perspektiv, som en strategisk tilgang i nærværende speciales analyse. Med en teoretisk referenceramme af Jürgen Habermas komplimenteres nærværende speciales analyse med hans teori om om begrebsparret systemverden/livsverden og dens karakteristika for handlings – og rationalitetstyper.Konklusion: Strategidokumentet, WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023, forsøger at udvide sin formålsrationelle styringskapacitet, på bekostning af livsverdenens kommunikative rationalitet, og efterlader brugerne af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer, i hænderne på markedets logik. Ved at stille brugerne af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer til ansvar for deres egen sundhed, trues den lige adgang til sundhed. Blandt den største barriere for idealet tilhørende de, ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinders oplevelse, i relation til anvendelsen af komplementær medicin og dens behandlingsformer, i fremmelsen af egen sundhed og for at forebygge - og behandle sygdom, er deres møde med det danske sundhedsvæsen og lægerne som repræsentant herfor. Alt imens forsøger de ikke-vestlige etniske minoritetskvinder at beskytte hinanden mod ”upålidelige” og ikke anvendelige behandlingsformer, som en strategi for fremmelsen af egen sundhed.Søgeord: Komplementær medicin og behandling, medicinsk pluralisme, sundhedsfremme, sundhedsfremmestrategi, barriere for humanisering. Author: Michelle Toftegaard, stud. cand. san. Department of People and Technology. Roskilde UniversityGuidance counselor: Dr. Rashmi Singla, Department of People and Technology, Roskilde University.Background: The increased international development in the use of complementary medicine and its therapies, as well as its integration with the respective countries' traditional medicine, point to the need to develop a coherent and integrated approach to health. In Denmark alone, figures from 2017 state that 1,288,000 citizens of the total Danish adult population have used one or more forms of alternative treatment in the past year. With an ongoing assimilation of previously considered complementary medicines and therapies, which today ensure collaboration between the Danish health service and the alternative medical practice, there is a need for a definition of this practice in order to open up the possibility of medical pluralism, with respect for the individual's concept of value and living conditions.Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to examine what experiences, attitudes and actions non-Western ethnic minority women have in relation to the use of complementary medicine and its therapies. Rooted in the critical theoretical research tradition, this thesis also aims to identify the oppressive factors that limit the autonomy of non-Western ethnic minority women, including those barriers that they experience in regards to the ideal, in nurturing their own health and in preventing and treating illness, in relation to the use of complementary medicine and its therapies. The analytical findings of this thesis can thus serve as a contribution by supplementing the existing knowledge, building upon quantitative data, in the knowledge base requested by the WHO .Materials and method: With a mixed methods approach, this thesis combines empirical data from 4 semi-structured interviews with non-western ethnic minority women in Denmark, with a document analysis of WHO's strategy document ‘WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023’. To achieve the double-sided perspective of critical theoretical research tradition, it involves both an experience perspective as well as a considerate perspective, as a strategic approach in the analysis of this thesis. With a theoretical frame of reference by Jürgen Habermas, the present thesis's analysis is complemented with his theory of about the conceptual system world / life world and its characteristics investigating types of action and rationality.Conclusion: The strategy paper, WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023, seek to expand its objective rational management capacity at the expense of the life world communicative rationality, leaving users of complementary medicine and its treatments in the hands of market forces. By equipping the users of complementary medicine and its therapies with responsibility for their own health threatens equal access to health. Investigating ideals of the non-Western ethnic minority women, they experience one of the greatest barriers in their encounter with the Danish health service and doctors as its representatives - Ideals based on the use of complementary medicine and its therapies, in promoting self-health and in preventing and treating disease. Meanwhile, the non-Western ethnic minority women are trying to protect each other from "unreliable" and inapplicable forms of treatment, as a strategy for nurturing their own health.Searchword: Complementary medicine and treatment, medical pluralism, health promotion, health promotion strategy, barrier to humanization.<br/
Composites based on jute-fibres and polypropylene matrix, their fabrication and characterisation
No full textStudies of the buckling of composite plates in compression
No full textAs part of the MARSTRUCT Network of Excellence on Marine Structures, a series of studies has been carried out into the buckling of glass fibre reinforced polymer plates with in-plane compression loading. The studies have included fabrication and testing of square, laminated panels with various thick-nesses and initial geometrical imperfections, material testing, advanced FE modelling studies and finally pa-rametric studies covering a range of slendernesses and imperfection amplitudes. The paper provides an over-view of the studies, which involved several participants in the Network
Ultrasonic measurement of elastic constants in fiber-reinforced polymer composites under influence of absorbed moisture
No full textThis paper presents an attempt to quantify hygral aging in fiber-reinforced polymer composites by the elastic constants C-11 and C-33. Quantitative ultrasonic measurements of the elastic constants for three different unidirectional as well as three different cross-ply specimens were compared. The specimens were manufactured with different moisture resistant surfaces and immersed in water for 24 h. By calculating the elastic constants, it was taken into account that hygral aging was accompanied by absorption of moisture in the polymer matrix. Moisture changed the laminate dimensions significantly, and typically moisture expansion coefficients are reported. Moreover, as the ultrasonic pulse form changed in the anisotropic materials, different broadband methods were used to calculate the elastic constants. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved
Fatigue damage accumulation and lifetime prediction of GFRP materials under block loading and stochastic loading
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