1,012 research outputs found
Improving Movement Quality of Military Personnel to Protect Hips and Lower Limbs from Injury
No full textMusculoskeletal injury (MSKI) contributes significantly to recruit attrition during military training, where females are 1.7-times more likely to sustain a MSKI than males. The current research programme assessed movement control in military recruit cohorts to better understand the interactions between movement quality, sex and injury risk. Study-1 undertook secondary data analysis of pre-training health, fitness and movement quality of Royal Navy Phase-1 recruits (n=956), relative to prospective MSKI data i.e. injury site (location), onset (acute vs. over-use), severity and when in training (time), to generate an injury prediction model (Chapter 4). Functional Movement Screen (FMS) total score significantly contributed to the model but only accounted for 8.5% of the variation in the data. Moreover, there was no difference between the pre-training FMS scores for males (14.6±2.3) and females (14.4±2.4), despite females sustaining 1.7-times more MSKI. All further investigations adopted the Hip & Lower Limb Movement Screen (H&LLMS), as FMS lacked focus on the hip. Study-2 conducted a 3D motion capture investigation of movement quality of Army Phase-2 recruits (15 male, 15 female). Differences in H&LLMS score and kinematics were assessed under three load conditions: unloaded; loaded to 30% bodyweight; and standardised load (16 kg) (Chapter 6). Load interacted with H&LLMS scores for the “knee over toe” fault, and ankle dorsiflexion and pelvic tilt kinematics, but not with sex. Study-3 investigated the feasibility of delivering a 12-week neuromuscular control exercise intervention and its effect on movement control of a mixed-sex cohort of Phase-1 military recruits (n=127) (Chapter 7). Troops were randomly block-assigned to the intervention (INT; n=97) or control (CON; n=32) group. The INT group completed 35% of the planned weekly sessions and their movement quality improved by 7%; whilst the CON group worsened by 14% (ΔH&LLMS: CON +3.8±6; INT -2.2±7; P≤0.001). Thus, movement quality can be influenced through physical activity interventions. An interaction exists between body weight, load carriage and movement quality. Additionally, movement quality is both positively and negatively modifiable, which may influence injury risk. The present findings indicate a randomised controlled trial is warranted to determine whether neuromuscular training to improve movement quality will reduce injury risk
The Free Termination Property of Queries over Time
No full textBuilding on prior work on distributed databases and the CALM Theorem, we define and study the question of free termination: in the absence of distributed coordination, what query properties allow nodes in a distributed (database) system to unilaterally terminate execution even though they may receive additional data or messages in the future? This completeness question is complementary to the soundness questions studied in the CALM literature. We also develop a new model based on semiautomata that allows us to bridge from the relational transducer model of the CALM papers to algebraic models that are popular among software engineers (e.g. CRDTs) and of increasing interest to database theory for datalog extensions and incremental view maintenance
The Three Tiers of Executive Power in Northern Ireland
No full textThis chapter contends that there are three tiers of executive power in Northern Ireland and examines the constitutional qualities of the executive power exercisable on each of those tiers. It begins by analysing how and why primary executive power, which is vested in the UK Government, is understood in generally unitary terms. It then suggests that secondary executive power, which is vested in devolved Ministers, is best characterised as semi-siloed and comparatively conditional in nature. Finally, it submits that tertiary executive power, which is vested in devolved departments, should be conceptualised as such by virtue of the fact that it is moderated by greater conditionality than any of its superordinates
2013 Common Book Convocation: Conor Grennan, author of Little Princes: One Man\u27s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal.
No full textLittle Princes is the epic story of Conor Grennan’s battle to save the lost children of Nepal and how he found himself in the process. Part Three Cups of Tea, part Into Thin Air, Grennan’s remarkable memoir is at once gripping and inspirational, and it carries us deep into an exotic world that most readers know little about.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/commonbook/1003/thumbnail.jp
How to promote knowledge sharing in cross-functional NPD teams
No full textThis paper investigates the common issues that may arise in cross-functional new product development (NPD) teams from a Knowledge Management perspective. The study has been built around a contextualized trigger, where several factors were preventing a new-born NPD team from performing effectively. The purpose of this paper is to give insights of the main dynamics involved in the knowledge sharing process throughout the application of a systematic problem-solving approach to the case investigated by the authors. Due to the impossibility of building a universal recipe suitable for every team in every situation, this work represents a compromise trying to exemplify how to prioritise interventions in a given context, in order to provide a benchmark for similar circumstances. This paper, using an action research method within a single case context, takes shape around the advises and suggestions made by authors to Electronic Connected Ltd (disguised name), a small-medium enterprise (SME) in a situation of NPD paralysis. In particular, the paper emphasizes the importance of effective leadership and supporting environment in facilitating communication, enhancing cohesiveness, fostering joint commitment and giving direction in order to enable knowledge sharing and to leverage capabilities to conclusively deliver new products
Current, emerging and future technologies for sensing the environment
No full textThis paper reviews current technologies that are used for environmental monitoring, and presents emerging technologies that will dramatically improve our ability to obtain spatially distributed, real-time data about key indicators of environmental quality at specific locations. Futuristic approaches to environmental monitoring that employ fundamental breakthroughs in materials science to revolutionise the way we monitor our environment will also be considered. In particular, approaches employing biomimetic and 'adaptive'/'stimuli-responsive' materials will be highlighted, as these could play an important role in the realization of small, low power, low cost, autonomous sensing and communications platforms that could form the building blocks of the much vaunted environmental 'sensor web'
“Hey Skinny, Your Ribs Are Showing”: The Fitness Industry of Charles Atlas and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century United States
No full textAbout the author
Conor Heffernan is a senior of History and Political Science at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Conor has a keen interest in health and fitness and American culture in the 20th century. He hopes to further his studies into the history of physical culture in the future
Executive Lawyers and Executive Power: A New View of the Cathedral
No full textThis blog post was written as an invited contribution to the IACL-AIDC led symposium on a recently published journal article by Conor Casey and David Kenny, namely ‘The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law’ (2022) 20(2) I∙CON 664-695. For the full set of international scholarly contributions to the symposium, see: https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/wmps-gatekeepers
Executive Lawyers and Executive Power: A New View of the Cathedral
No full textThis blog post was written as an invited contribution to the IACL-AIDC led symposium on a recently published journal article by Conor Casey and David Kenny, namely ‘The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law’ (2022) 20(2) I∙CON 664-695. For the full set of international scholarly contributions to the symposium, see: https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/wmps-gatekeepers
Thank God for Free Time: A Leisure Examen
No full textHow are you using your free time? Do you have enough of it? Too much? Are you mainly using it to veg out? Or are you devoting time to growing closer to God and other people and promoting the common good? These are some of the questions that animate the scholarly work of our latest AMDG podcast guest, Dr. Conor M. Kelly. An assistant professor of theology at Marquette University, Conor is the author of the recent book “The Fullness of Free Time: A Theological Account of Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life.
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