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Exploring adaptations to the modified shuttle walking test
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Objective: The 10 m modified shuttle walking test
(MSWT) is recommended to determine the functional
capacity in older individuals and for patients entering
cardiac rehabilitation. Participants are required to
negotiate around cones set 1 m from the end markers.
However, consistent comments indicate that for some
individuals manoeuvring around the cones can be
quite difficult. Therefore, the objective of this study
was to explore differences within and between noncardiac
and postmyocardial infarction (MI) males
during MSWT with and without the cones.
Design: Comparative study.
Participants: 20 post-MI (64.8±6.6, range
51–74 years) and 20 non-cardiac male controls
(64.1±5.7, range 52–74 years) participated.
Methods: Participants performed MSWT with and
without cones. Throughout, the participants expired
air, and the heart rate (bpm) (HR) and ratings of
perceived exertion (RPE) were measured. Participant
protocol preference was recorded verbatim.
Results: One-way analysis of variance found no
significant difference in VO2 peak (cones 20.4±5.1 vs nocones
21.9±4.8 ml/kg/min, p=0.197) or distance ambulated
(cones 631.8±132.9 m vs no-cones 662.4±164.1 m,
p=0.371) between protocols or groups. Analysis comparing
lines of regression showed a significant trajectory difference
in VO2 (ml/kg/min) (p<0.01) between protocols with higher
HR (p<0.01) and respiratory exchange ratio (RER, p<0.001)
values during cones. RPEs were higher for post-MIs versus
controls during both protocols (p<0.05). Post-MIs taking
?-blockers produce significantly lower HR values. The ?2
analysis found no significant difference in protocol
preference (no-cones: all n=25, 63%; post-MIs n=13, 65%;
and controls n=12, 60%).
Conclusions: Post-MIs found both protocols
subjectively harder than controls with no significant
difference in the VO2 peak. However, both groups worked
at a lesser percentage of their anaerobic threshold during
no-cones protocol as indicated by lower RER values.
Importantly, for the post-MIs, this would reduce their risk
of functional impairment. Therefore, though more
research is required, indicators at present are more
favourable for the use of the no-cones with post-MIs
Romantic Dialogues: Writing the Self in De Quincey and Woolf
Get PDFVirginia Woolf has been recognised as a pioneering modernist writer creating a new literary voice. It is not unusual to discover in Woolf’s writings the aesthetic and literary traces of those past traditions and influences which have been woven into her modern narratives. One significant, but often overlooked, influence comes from the Romantic period and the essayist, Thomas De Quincey. De Quincey’s stylish essays inspire Woolf’s art. Both writers’ fascination with representing the self (and their devotion to creating a literary thinking about, and narrative of, the subject) indicates a shared affinity between these two writers in spite of important cultural, historical, and social differences between them. My treatment of the self in De Quincey and Woolf is aware of the aesthetic and literary affinities between them and those cultural and historical differences that divide them. Tracing important connections between these two important writers sheds light on the larger concerns and patterns of both the literary scenes of Romanticism and Modernism.
Six chapters in three sections focus on three main aspects of the self central to De Quincey and Woolf—the art of literature, the representation of time and the question of autobiographical writing. Chapter One and Two investigate De Quincey’s literature of power and Woolf’s art of fiction to examine the relationship between literary representation and the self. Chapter Three and Four discuss issues of time and self in De Quincey and Woolf. The final two chapters contend that De Quincey’s and Woolf’s reflections on literary representation, and time as a philosophical problem are embodied in their writings of the self across their respective literary careers. A project of this kind is alert to and enriches a recent burgeoning critical interest from Romanticists and Modernists alike in the exchanges, interchanges, bequests, and legacies of Romanticism to Modernism
Letter from Kate Dole, Cincinnati, Ohio, to Sir, May 1888
No full textA letter written by Kate Dole of Cincinnati, Ohio, in which she sends the remedy for a nosebleed to her friend
Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf: Common Ground
No full text Convergences in the work of Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf range from literary influences and political alignments, to a shared approach to narrative point of view, structure, or conceptual use of words. Common ground includes existentialist preoccupations and tropes, a pacifism which did not hinder support for the left in the Spanish Civil War, the linking of feminism and decolonization, an affinity with anarchism, the identification of the normativity of fascism, and a determination to represent deviant sexualities and affects. Making evident the importance of the connection, O'Brien conceived and designed The Flower of May (1953), one of her most experimental and misunderstood novels, to paid homage to Woolf's oeuvre. </jats:p
Metabolic equivalents for post-myocardial infarction patients during graded treadmill walking
Get PDFVirginia Woolf in Context
No full textAs a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context – whether historical, cultural, or theoretical – is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualised today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political, and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender, and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire, and war. A valuable critical touchstone for researchers, the volume will also complement graduate scholarship in English literature, literary theory, context studies, and modernism and postcolonial studies
The dialectic of self and other in Montaigne, Proust and Woolf
Get PDFThis thesis investigates the construction of identity in relation to an other. It considers three
writers who, working at moments when the nature of selfhood was an urgent issue, conduct
profound and original enquiries into the question of self- construction, and seeks both to
reassess their contributions to this debate, and, in bringing their preoccupations and methods
to bear upon each other, to open up new ways of approaching and reading their work.
Considering a range of socio-cultural and religious forms of otherness -- the cannibal, the
witch, the Jew, the aristocrat, the woman, the divine -- it embraces material from a number of
important modem critical fields, and suggests how these topics might be combined to offer a
coherent statement about the enduring issue of s elf- fashioning.
The thesis seeks to map out a trajectory of decreasing investment in external communities,
and an increasing perception of the self as a source and agent in the construction of identity.
Looking in turn at the work of Montaigne, Proust and Woolf, it argues that where the Essais
construct complex orders which appropriate the other to reinforce the identity of the self,
Proust and Woolf increasingly, although gradually, and by no means always successfully,
attempt to negotiate a less precisely- engaged relationship between other and self, and to
assign the other a less constitutive role in the realization and expression of identity. The
thesis also considers more briefly contexts in which this trajectory is reversed. To the extent
that they examine modernist subjectivity, Proust and Woolf articulate an anxiety about the
separation of self and world which leads to an attempted recuperation of the integrated orders
depicted by Montaigne
Autobiography, chocolate creams and letterpress printing
No full textIn response to the call for printed works on paper to recognise the creative contribution made by the Woolfs and the Hogarth Press to printing, art, literature and book culture as part of the 27th annual international conference Virginia Woolf and the World of Books (June 29-July 3 2017), at the University of Reading, UK, this article describes the collaborative process between an academic and artist in response to the theme author as publisher . The first part describes the steps from idea development, design, locating and accessing a working printing press in Ireland; the second part, based on direct observation, describes the technical aspects of typesetting and letterpress printing, design in relation to the artistic process in adding an image to the letterpress text as well as providing a brief history of Ponc Press. The third part reflects on the possible meanings of chocolate creams to Leonard Woolf, why they book-end his autobiography Beginning Again and how the work of visualizing chocolate creams, re-representing autobiography, touches on Leonard s Jewish and English identity
Valedictory Address: Kate Farrington
No full textValedictory Address given by Kate Farrington on May 9, 2002
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