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Tim Noakes 'Order of Mapungubwe' award reception
No full textThe Order of Mapungubwe is one of the National Orders bestowed each year on deserving South Africans. A number of UCT academics have been honoured with this award. This series of talks was occasioned by awards to Professor Timothy Noakes and Wieland Gevers in November 2008. This video lecture can be used by self learners or as a supplement to sports science course material
Lore of Running
No full textThis updated version of Lore of Running covers everything runners, trainers, and coaches want to know about running from physiology, training, and history to health and medical considerations. Author Timothy Noakes, himself a runner, research scientist, and physician, presents comprehensive information that is firmly based on science but written in a down-to-earth way that every layperson can understand. Part I of Lore of Running explores the physiology of running. In Part II, Noakes considers all aspects of training for running. Part III, Health and Medical Considerations, provides complete information about recognizing avoiding and treating injuries.https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/prairiestriders_pubs/1207/thumbnail.jp
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
2020 UPDATE on the Critical Report and Social Media Analysis About Emeritus Professor Timothy Noakes
No full textThis paper acts as a brief update on the events and postings of 2020 regarding anti-vaccine related misinformation online.
In a recent blog post, Tim Noakes continued to spread anti-vaccine misinformation and common anti-vaccine/vaccine hesitant tropes. Such misinformation included the flawed science done by anti-vaccine activist, Brian Hooker. This was used to defend Noakes’ 2014 social media post on Twitter that also included anti-vaccine misinformation (a video directed by Andrew Wakefield with the false autism-vaccine connection and CDC “coverup” conspiracy). He calls on Nathan Geffen, PhD to remove a previous article about him due to concerns about potential falsehoods, but Noakes has failed to do this with the very factual errors he has expressed and spread, which indeed can have public health consequences. Noakes also doubles down by implying support to the discredited, flawed paper by Andrew Wakefield.
Previously, Noakes’ social media had been assessed for not just what type of anti-vaccine misinformation was spread, but how much. This included observations of an increasing relationship between those who follow Noakes on Twitter, and those who also follow anti-vaccine accounts — this relationship has continued to increase dramatically in 2020. Noakes has continued to support several anti-vaccine leaders, such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his organization Children’s Health Defense, and now recently Judy Mikovits and her documentary “Plandemic”. When assessing the overall vaccine narrative that Noakes broadcasts to his audience, it seems that 93% of it has been anti-vaccine in nature. Furthermore, in the first four months of 2020, Tim Noakes generated a maximum of ~7 million exposures to anti-vaccine misinformation. Across all tweets from August 2014 to May 7th, 2020, this number adds up to a staggering 11 million possible exposures. The claim that Noakes “is not anti-vaccine” and has not shared anti-vaccine misinformation is terribly weak and not based on the evidence.
Noakes has spread, expressed, and supported unscientific, disproven claims and the majority of what he has shared about vaccines is dangerous to public health and can cause harm to the reputation of those in his profession. Continuing to do so, as he has done, is a complete contradiction to what Noakes stands for, what others in his profession stand for, and what his own country’s regulatory body, as well as international organizations, stand for
Understanding and Quantifying Anti-Vaccine Misinformation Online: A Critical Report and Social Media Analysis About Emeritus Professor Timothy Noakes
No full textAlmost a fifth of South Africans fear that vaccines are unsafe. South Africa has indeed been a target of many anti-vaccination lobbying websites with claims and concerns regarding safety, the risk of adverse events, thimerosal, idiopathic illnesses including autism, and ‘vaccine-injured’ children. This seems to have contributed to the anti-immunization rumors and resistance within South Africa. Unfortunately, South African scientist, Timothy Noakes, has disseminated several expressions, claims, retweets, and re-publications about vaccines that are not based on truthful, accurate or up to date scientific information. This misinformation about vaccines that have been expressed, shared, and or spread can be deemed as irresponsible, unscientific, and a potential public health threat. Such information spread online can have and has had a major impact on critical thinking, vaccine acceptance, parental decisions, and even disease outbreaks. Upon analysis of Tim Noakes’ social media, there is a substantial amount of evidence for concern. From June to December 2019 there was a statistically significant increase in the number of followers Noakes gained that also aligned with anti-vaccine views. As for the content that Noakes himself has shared and expressed, 90% were Anti-Vaccine in nature, while only 10% were Pro-Vaccine. The potential maximum number of exposures to this anti-vaccine misinformation and rhetoric are in the millions, with approximately 3 million exposures in 2019 alone and 4 million in total from 2014 to 2019. The claim that Noakes has not shared anti-vaccine misinformation is terribly weak and not based on the evidence. Continuing to spread this misinformation is a complete contradiction to what Noakes stands for, what others in his profession stand for, and what his own country’s regulatory body, as well as international organizations, stand for.
This paper investigates common anti-vaccine misinformation shared by Tim Noakes and is also a social media analysis that covers anti-vaccine tropes and content. This paper also doubles as a literature review on the spread of misinformation in general, and more specifically, anti-vaccine misinformation. A separate section is dedicated to the topic of cancer misinformation which demonstrates the convergence between misleading cancer and vaccine ideologies.
The conclusions made in this paper are not all conclusive and there is room for flexibility — what is written is also meant to stimulate further input and discussion. Given the personal and emotive nature of the topic, it should be emphasized that what is written is with a non-malicious intent and should be perceived as in the interest of public health and online safety.
This case with Tim Noakes acts as a vehicle to highlight and learn more about several aspects of vaccine hesitancy, the anti-vaccine movement, social media, and misinformation in general
Evidence for complex integration and dynamic neural regulation of skeletal muscle recruitment during exercise in humans
No full textA model is proposed in which the development of physical exhaustion is a relative rather than an absolute event and the sensation of fatigue is the sensory representation of the underlying neural integrative processes. Furthermore, activity is controlled as part of a pacing strategy involving active neural calculations in a “governor” region of the brain, which integrates internal sensory signals and information from the environment to produce a homoeostatically acceptable exercise intensity. The end point of the exercise bout is the controlling variable. This is an example of a complex, non-linear, dynamic system in which physiological systems interact to regulate activity before, during, and after the exercise bout
Money piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Author
No full textMoney piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine, about the increased availability of credit for Maine\u27s small businesses
Timothy Meyer serves as a contributing author for UN report
No full textAssistant Professor Timothy Meyer served as a contributing author for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization\u27s report titled Networks for Prosperity: Connecting Development Knowledge Beyond 2015. The document, which was released during November, analyzes the nexus between the global connectedness of a country and its economic success, sustainability and government effectiveness. Meyer was one of only approximately 20 academic and practical experts from around the world selected to serve as a contributor after a global call for proposals.
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Selected Contributions of Sister Mary Berenice Beck, O.S.F. to Nursing in the United States, 1923-1956
No full textby Sister M. Timothy Costello.Typescript.Thesis (M.S.N.)--Catholic University of America.Bibliography: leaves 44-47.Also available in microfilm
The Baptismal Liturgy of Theodore of Mopsuestia
No full textTimothy A. Curtin.Typescript.Thesis (S.T.D.)--Catholic University of America, 1971.Bibliography: leaves 368-393
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