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Sea Change - Tai Timu Tai Pari, Independent Review Panel Final Review Report
No full textSeaChange Tai Timu Tai Pari is the stakeholder-led marine spatial planning ("MSP") project for the Hauraki Gulf. The project has been in progress for approximately three years. The Hauraki Gulf is a very significant area to mana whenua, the communities of the Gulf and to New Zealanders more generally. The Hauraki Gulf is a taonga, and marine spatial planning provides an opportunity for a structured and collaborative approach to planning for the protection and sustainable use of that taonga. The project was launched following recognition of a long term decline in the Hauraki Gulf environment and contesting aspirations to use the gulf resources. The aspiration through SeaChange Tai Timu Tai Pari is to enhance the health, productivity and sustainability of the Hauraki Gulf – the mauri. Ultimately, the long term attainment of the aspiration will depend on planning associated with surrounding lands and activities. The MSP development process is the responsibility of the Stakeholder Working Group (SWG). This is a unique approach internationally, notable for the scale of the undertaking with many sector representatives engaged directly and representatives of other sectors consulted during the planning process. The SWG has benefitted from interaction with the Hauraki 100 process and a cross section of interested parties. The SeaChange Tai Timu Tai Pari Independent Review Panel ("Panel") was appointed by the Project Steering Group in July 2014. The composition of the Panel is set out in Appendix One. The Panel’s role has been to conduct interviews and review materials to assess progress of the planning process, and to provide recommendations to assist the project participants to produce a high quality pla
Comparison of electrical activity of lateral and medial stabilizers of the patella and further diagnostically relevant risk factors in athletes with and without patellofemoral pain and in a Tai Chi group
No full textKhoshraftar Yazdi N. Comparison of electrical activity of lateral and medial stabilizers of the patella and further diagnostically relevant risk factors in athletes with and without patellofemoral pain and in a Tai Chi group. Bielefeld (Germany): Bielefeld University; 2010.Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is a term for a variety of pathologies or anatomical abnormalities leading to a type of anterior knee pain and is the most common single diagnosis among runners and in sport medicine centers. Despite this high incidence, the exact cause of these disorders remains enigmatic.
The major complain of patients with PFPS is retropatellar pain during activities such as running, squatting, going up and down stairs, prolonged sitting, cycling, and jumping.
Some of risk factors in athletes with PFPS were considered and compared with athletes without PFPS in the present study. In addition, since Tai Chi (TC) helps or reduces the load on the lower limbs joints, particularly in knee, a TC group was chosen to compare with the two other groups
Dramatherapy, Tai Chi & Embodiment
No full textThis paper will consider potential theoretical, philosophical and pragmatic connections between Dramatherapy (Jones: 1996) and Tai Chi (Pang Jeng & Inn: 1985); I will specifically consider these connections from the Western perspective of embodiment (Shaw: 2003, Jones: 1996). Dramatherapy is a creative drama based psychological therapy. Tai Chi is an ancient form of martial art. Both approaches use movement and from a Western perspective that ‘embodiment’ could be central to both disciplines. I am interested in how embodiment through movement is a potential connection between these two seemingly very different disciplines, and how these may offer shared knowledge. I will acknowledge that the two disciplines come from very different backgrounds and philosophies and recognise that it is impossible not to generalise in a short article such as this. The aim is to compare and contrast these two disciplines based on my empirical experience of them. As a European trained Dramatherapist I approach this paper from a Western perspective, acknowledging the differing opinions and viewpoints between Eastern and Western philosophies and practice. The aim is to begin to consider some synthesis between a Western creative based therapy and an Eastern form of martial art; acknowledging that both use movement at their core.This paper will consider potential theoretical, philosophical and pragmatic connections between
Dramatherapy (Jones: 1996) and Tai Chi (Pang Jeng & Inn: 1985); I will specifically consider
these connections from the Western perspective of embodiment (Shaw: 2003, Jones: 1996). Dramatherapy
is a creative drama based psychological therapy. Tai Chi is an ancient form of martial
art. Both approaches use movement and from a Western perspective that ‘embodiment’ could be
central to both disciplines. I am interested in how embodiment through movement is a potential
connection between these two seemingly very different disciplines, and how these may offer
shared knowledge.
I will acknowledge that the two disciplines come from very different backgrounds and
philosophies and recognise that it is impossible not to generalise in a short article such as this.
The aim is to compare and contrast these two disciplines based on my empirical experience of
them. As a European trained Dramatherapist I approach this paper from a Western perspective,
acknowledging the differing opinions and viewpoints between Eastern and Western philosophies
and practice. The aim is to begin to consider some synthesis between a Western creative based
therapy and an Eastern form of martial art; acknowledging that both use movement at their core
Economic analysis of Tai Chi as a means of preventing falls and falls related injuries among older adults, CHERE Working Paper 2006/4
No full textThis study has examined the costs and consequences of a randomised controlled trial of a community based Tai Chi program for people over 60 years of age. The hypothesis for the trial was that compared to non-participants, participants in the Tai Chi program would have fewer falls and may experience additional health and other benefits. In terms of resource use it was anticipated that the Tai Chi program would use additional resources in terms of running costs but was expected to save resources as a result of falls prevented. Data for this economic evaluation were collected prospectively alongside the randomised controlled trial. The aim of this evaluation was to investigate the cost-effectiveness of Tai Chi as means of preventing falls in elderly people living in the community. Costs included were those of the Tai Chi trial and health service utilisation (including GP and specialist and other consultations, tests, hospitalisations and medications). Effectiveness was measured as the number of participants in the intervention and control groups, all participants and the number of falls avoided. SPSS was used to analyse the data; Fisher?s exact and the student?s t-test were used to test differences between the intervention and control groups. From the perspective of NSW Health, the cost of providing Tai Chi as part of this trial (24795). Only a small proportion used health services and this mostly involved the use of over-the-counter pain relieving medication and GP consultations. Only 3 people were admitted to hospital. There were no significant differences between the study and control groups in terms of utilisation and costs except in terms of overall costs where the control group costs were significantly more than the study group (p=0.43). However, this difference was driven by the cost of one admission to hospital. In the trial 3/216 falls resulted in hospitalisation. This means that for every 100 falls avoided, 1.4 serious falls were prevented. Assuming that Tai Chi would continue to prevent falls at the same rate as the trial, 740 individuals would need to participate in Tai Chi to avoid 100 falls and 1.4 serious falls. The value of avoiding a small number of serious falls must be weighed against the high cost of treating and managing the consequences of such falls.Tai chi, economic aspects, Australia
sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361241228340 – Supplemental material for Challenges and advances in the medical treatment of granulomatous amebic encephalitis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361241228340 for Challenges and advances in the medical treatment of granulomatous amebic encephalitis by Natasha Spottiswoode, Julia C. Haston, Natasha W. Hanners, Katherine Gruenberg, Annie Kim, Joseph L. DeRisi and Michael R. Wilson in Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease</p
sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361221095679 – Supplemental material for Mortality, healthcare resource utilization, and cost among Medicare beneficiaries with Clostridioides difficile infection with and without sepsis
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361221095679 for Mortality, healthcare resource utilization, and cost among Medicare beneficiaries with Clostridioides difficile infection with and without sepsis by Alpesh Amin, Winnie W. Nelson, Jill Dreyfus, Anny C. Wong, Iman Mohammadi, Christie Teigland, David N. Dahdal and Paul Feuerstadt in Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease</p
sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361211053929 – Supplemental material for Hepatitis C outreach project and cross-sectional epidemiology in high-risk populations in Trondheim, Norway
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361211053929 for Hepatitis C outreach project and cross-sectional epidemiology in high-risk populations in Trondheim, Norway by Raisa Hannula, Jonas Söderholm, Therese Svendsen, Maja Skaland, Svein A. Nordbø, Harald Steinum and Jan K. Damås in Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease</p
The Milky Way as Optical Phenomenon: Perception and Photography in the Drawings of Anton Pannekoek
No full textOne of Anton Pannekoek’s main scientific projects was to provide a representation of the appearance of the Milky Way – an object he believed to be an optical illusion. This paper elucidates how Pannekoek thought the Milky Way appearance was formed by a combination of human psychology and physiology, and why he attributed such significance to it. In doing so, it explores the connections between Pannekoek’s scientific methodology and his socialist epistemology. The paper also outlines the various techniques Pannekoek employed in his research. To observe the Milky Way, he used both extrafocal photography and visual observations by himself and others. To represent the results, he combined naturalistic drawings with verbal descriptions, numerical tables, and isophotic diagrams
Northern Tai Subgrouping in Diachronic Perspectives: Evidence from Yongnan Zhuang
No full textYongnan Zhuang (YN), a Tai language group registered in the list of Central Tai (CT), frequently share more certain phonological/lexical innovations with Northern Tai (NT) languages, and this has led its affiliation of CT or NT to be debatable. Based on its robust contrastive aspirated initial stops, which lack in NT but are well-developed in CT languages, Chinese linguists have conventionally grouped it as a sub-group of Southern Zhuang of CT (Zhang et al. 1999). On the other hand, Pittayaporn (2009:298) suggests a new Tai tree diagram containing ten terminal nodes (subgroups), including B, C, I and J which are conventionally grouped in Yongnan Zhuang, based on that each subgroup has a cluster of several innovation. Rejecting to grouping above, this paper suggests that YN should be first grouped with NT languages to form a NT-YN sub-branch of which the CT-Southwestern Tai (SWT) sub-branch is a sister. Agreeing with Liang and Zhang (1996) and Pittayaporn (2009), initial aspiration in CT-SWT languages is suggested to be of post-proto-Tai innovation. That languages from YN have developed robust initial aspiration is nothing more than an areal feature shared with the languages from the CT-SWT sub-branch due to the later contact. Furthermore, evidence from the diachronic hierarchies of linguistic innovations involved in tonal behaviors, initial and vocalic behaviors, as well as exclusive lexical items suggests that YN is an efficient subgroup under NT, instead of a cluster of dialects separated into several subgroups. As an inspiration, it is crucial for language classification to subgroup languages from the same family by using the criterion of shared innovation on diachronic hierarchies and orders. Reference Liang, Min & Zhang Junru. 1996. 侗台语族概论. [An introduction to the Kam-Tai Languages]. Beijing: China Social Sciences Publishing House.] Pittayawat Pittayaporn. 2009. The phonology of Proto-Tai. New York: Cornell University dissertation. Zhang, Junru, Liang Min, Ouyang Jueya, Zheng Yiqing, Li Xulian & Xie Jianyou. 1999. 壮语方言研究. [Zhuang Dialect Research]. (Chinese minority language dialect research series.) Chengdu: Sichuan Ethnic Publishing House
sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361231161157 – Supplemental material for Anti-G protein antibodies targeting the RSV G protein CX3C chemokine region improve the interferon response
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tai-10.1177_20499361231161157 for Anti-G protein antibodies targeting the RSV G protein CX3C chemokine region improve the interferon response by Harrison C. Bergeron, Lawrence M. Kauvar and Ralph A. Tripp in Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease</p
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