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BIOETHICS, GENETICS AND SPORT by S. Camporesi and M. McNamee
No full textSilvia Camporesi and Mike McNamee, Bioethics, Genetics and Sport, 202
pages, paperback. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2018 (Ethics and Sport), ISBN
978-1-138-89224-
Langada Revisited
No full textThis chapter investigates burial practices and cultural identity at the cemetery of Langada on Kos and discusses the evidence for diachronic changes in the context of Koan Late Bronze Age society. More specifically, through an in-depth study of excavation data, this contribution reconsiders three significant aspects of the Langada burial arena. The first one concerns tomb type, size, shape, and spatial distribution. The second and the third aspects concern, respectively, evidence for tomb reuse and mortuary treatments. The analysis of these features is used to compare burial practices, characterize societal structure, and better understand cultural developments. The results of this research imply that the gradual formation of a Mycenaean identity on Kos was the outcome of a long-term process of integration between Greek mainland and local funerary traditions, which came to fruition during Late Helladic IIIA2 and Late Helladic IIIB. During these phases, Mycenaean identity functioned to bind a well-organized Koan society. In the successive Late Helladic IIIC period, on the other hand, the identification of greater variability in material evidence and burial practices suggests that, while Mycenaean culture remained important, Koan society had a more fluid character and a looser structure
The minimum clinically important difference for EQ-5D index: A critical review
No full textThe European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions Questionnaire (EQ-5D) is the most common instrument to value health outcomes under the patient's perspective. Several studies have investigated whether observed changes are meaningful to patients, using a variety of approaches to estimate the minimum clinically important difference (MCID). This study provides an overview of the state of art of the estimation of the MCID for the three-level EQ-5D index based on the UK scoring algorithm, critically assessing the available evidence. The interest in estimation of MCID for the EQ-5D has been increasing in recent years. However, some additional standardization in the estimation procedures may be of value, in order to enhance the ability to make comparisons across measures and disease areas. Further methodological research might also contribute to reducing gaps between theory and practice. © 2014 Informa UK Ltd
Ethics in Leisure - An Agenda for Research
No full textThe point of our brief paper today is to draw attention to the scope of ethics in leisure research (and therefore, by implication, teaching too) that is underpinned by philosophy and the rich potential it offers for academics in the next century
Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity in European Sport Science
No full textJean Camy, Patrick Fargier et Mike McNamee ont co-édité un numéro spécial de l'European Journal of Sport Science relatif à l'interdisciplinarité en Science du sport en Europe. Ce numéro spécial comprend sept articles:
- 1. Twenty years of ECSS: A scientific balancing act? (Camy, J., Fargier, P., & McNamee, M,);
- 2. Disciplinarity and sport science in Europe: A statistical and sociological study of ECSS conference abstracts (Champely, S,, Fargier, P., & Camy, J.)
- 3. Structure and dynamics of European sports science textual contents: Analysis of ECSS abstracts (1996–2014) (Hristovski, R., Aceski, A., Balague, N., Seifert, L., Tufekcievski, A, & Aguirre, C.);
- 4. Forms of interdisciplinarity in four sport science research centres in Europe (Camy, J., Fargier, P., Perrin, C., & Belli, A.);
- 5. Inter-disciplinarity in sport sciences: The neuroscience example (Fargier, P., Collet, C., Moran, A., & Massarelli, R.);
- 6. Sport science integration: An evolutionary synthesis (Balague, N., Torrents, C., Hristovski, R., & Kelso, J. A. S.);
- 7. Philosophical reflections on the mission of the European College of Sport Science: Challenges and opportunities (Loland, S., & McNamee, M.)
Anti-doping, purported rights to privacy and WADA’s whereabouts requirements : A legal analysis
No full textRecent discussions among lawyers, philosophers, policy researchers and athletes have focused on the potential threat to privacy posed by the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) whereabouts requirements. These requirements demand, among other things, that all elite athletes file their whereabouts information for the subsequent quarter on a quarterly basis and comprise data for one hour of each day when the athlete will be available and accessible for no advance notice testing at a specified location of their choosing. Failure to file one’s whereabouts, or the non-availability for testing at said location on three occasions within any 18-month period constitutes an anti-doping rule violation that is equivalent to testing positive to a banned substance, and may lead to a suspension of the athlete for a time period of between one and two years. We critically explore the extent to which WADA’s whereabouts requirements are in tension with existing legislation on privacy, with respect to UK athletes, who are simultaneously protected by UK domestic and EU law. Both UK domestic and EU law are subject to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) Article 8, which establishes a right to “respect for private and family life, home and correspondence”. We critically discuss the centrality of the whereabouts requirements in relation to WADA’s aims, and the adoption and implementation of its whereabouts rules. We conclude that as WADA’s whereabouts requirements appear to be in breach of an elite athlete’s rights under European workers’ rights, health & safety and data protection law they are also, therefore, in conflict with Article 8 of the ECHR and the UK Human Rights Act 1998. We call for specific amendments that cater for the exceptional case of elite sports labour if the WADA requirements are to be considered legitimate
Letter from J. M. McNamee, Bank of Opelika, Alabama, to General H. D. Clayton, Clayton, Alabama, July 24, 1886
No full textAsbestiform talc from a talc mine near Talcville, New York, U.S.A.: Composition, morphology, and genetic relationships with amphiboles
No full textWe analyzed the chemical composition and observed morphological relationships of mineral phases in a thin section and grain
mount of a talc-bearing amphibole schist collected at a former talc mine near Talcville, New York at scales ranging from hand sample to crystal lattice. The main mineral phases are tremolite, anthophyllite, and talc. Tremolite exists as unaltered crystals throughout the sample. Anthophyllite has an acicular habit and a series of fractures running perpendicular to crystal elongation (i.e., its c crystallographic axis). Talc occurs as a fine-grained mass in anthophyllite fractures, between acicular anthophyllite partings, and as pseudomorphs after anthophyllite, with some occurring with an asbestiform habit. Thus, the talc alterations occur both parallel and perpendicular to the elongate anthophyllite, with the latter producing very high-aspect ratio (i.e., greater than 20 times longer than wide) non-asbestiform anthophyllite particles. Based on wavelength-dispersive spectroscopy (WDS) analysis the three phases have near endmember formulas: tremolite [K0.03Na0.17Ca1.74Mn0.01Fe0.01Mg5.21Al0.03Si7.94O22(OH1.65F0.35)], anthophyllite [Na0.04Ca0.04 Mn0.04Fe0.02Mg6.96Al0.02Si7.95O22(OH1.82F0.18)], fracture-filling talc [Mg3.10Mn0.02Fe0.01Al0.01Si3.93O10(OH1.92F0.08)], and talc pseudomorph [Mg3.03Mn0.02Fe0.01Al0.01Si3.96O10(OH1.92F0.08)]. Microscopic examination in light and electron microscopes showed intergrowths of talc and anthophyllite, but it was only with the aid of high-resolution lattice imaging perpendicular to the c crystallographic axis where the formation mechanism of asbestiform talc could be ascertained
The Kos Archaeological Survey Project and the Site of Ayios Panteleimon in the Northeast Koan Region
No full textQuesto articolo presenta i risultati preliminari delle campagne 2018 e 2019 del Kos Archaeological Survey Project
- Еπιφανειακή Έρευνα στο νησί της Κω (KASP). Particolare attenzione è riservata alla scoperta del sito, precedentemente inedito, di Ayios Panteleimon, il più grande insediamento preistorico mai identificato sull’isola di Coo. Gli esiti della ricognizione sono discussi in sei sezioni, concentrate sui seguenti argomenti: i principali temi delle ricerche in corso; la metodologia del progetto; il lavoro portato a termine nel 2018 e nel 2019 nella regione nord-orientale di Coo; Ayios Panteleimon e i materiali preistorici rinvenuti nell’area del sito; Ayios Panteleimon nel più ampio contesto delle traiettorie insediative e socio-culturali di Coo nel Tardo
Bronzo (TB); i risultati preliminari del progetto e i piani per le indagini dei prossimi anni a Ayios Panteleimon. Le informazioni presentate in questo articolo dimostrano il ruolo di preminenza economica e politica esercitato da Ayios Panteleimon nella regione nordorientale di Coo durante il TB. I dati indicano che Ayios Panteleimon si distingue per le sue ricche e diverse relazioni culturali con altre aree del Mediterraneo orientale, tra cui il sudest dell’Egeo e le coste sudoccidentali dell’Anatolia, Creta, le Cicladi e la Grecia continentale. Particolarmente degne di nota sono le connessioni con le tradizioni ceramiche del Tardo Minoico (TM) IA e TM IB, che includono forme di origine cretese, importate o di manifattura locale, e vasi della cosiddetta classe Dipinta Semifine e
Impasto Light on Dark e Dark on Light, appartenente alla tradizione mista di Coo. L’importanza di queste connessioni dimostra il carattere speciale di Ayios Panteleimon nel panorama di Coo durante le fasi iniziali del TB. Il loro significativo impatto sulla cultura materiale del sito suggerisce che Ayios Panteleimon ebbe un ruolo unico nelle relazioni con Creta, inaugurando quegli intensi processi di interazione con l’Egeo occidentale, che condussero alla creazione di una identità micenea a Coo nelle fasi tarde del II millennio a.C., in particolare dal Tardo Elladico (TE) IIIA2 al TE III
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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