Ingesting glucose during resistance training blunt accumulation of protein expression MuRF1 in vastus lateralis in healthy trained adults..

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of ingesting liquid glucose during resistance exercise on protein expression of muscle RING finger 1 (MuRF1) on healthy trained adults after 5 training sessions. Method: Thirteen healthy trained participants performed six sessions of heavy-load resistance training with ingestion of glucose or placebo in this within subject randomized clinical trial. The subjects concluded a three-week intervention, consistent of familiarization phase the first week, and two weeks of resistance exercise. The participants legs were randomized in either glucose (GLU) or placebo (PLA), ingested during or after training session. Blood samples and biopsies were taken before and after intervention. The outcome measures were protein expression on MuRF1, nutrition status, muscle strength, training volume and glucose levels in blood. All data is analyzed in R Studio. Results: Intake of glucose during resistance training led to a 26% [-0.4, -0.6] lower accumulation of protein expression MuRF1 in GLU compared to PLA (48% [0.03, 0.07] increase in post). The intervention led to an increase on total volume (PLA: 19% [0.1, 0.25], GLU: 18% [0.08, 0.24]. There was a time effect on isometric test (PLA: 8% [0.007, 0.16], GLU: 4% [-0.03, 0.12] on test 2, isokinetic 60sek (PLA: -18% [-0.25, -0.10], GLU: 9% [-0.16, -0.01] with significant difference between condition (p=0.03), and isokinetic 240sek (PLA -7% [-0.14, -0.01], GLU -5.5% [-0.1, 0.009]) on test 3. There was no difference between condition on restitution effect on isometric and isokinetic tests, but a time effect on isokinetic 60sek after 23 hours training session (p=0.02) Conclusion: Ingesting glucose supplement during resistance training decreases protein content of MuRF1 in skeletal muscl

Paintbrushes to Pruners: Tourism Professionals with a Purpose

Volunteer tourism research has studied individual motives to participating in development work overseas. There is, however, an absence of research examining what influences corporate or individual employees to volunteer for tourism related activities as ambassadors or representatives of their organization within their own country. Twenty-three interviews were conducted with tourism professionals attending the November 1 and 2, 2015 Tourism Cares event in Williams, Arizona (a town adjacent to the Grand Canyon). Findings suggest tourism professionals’ motives to volunteer (personal, relationship building and social responsibility) have linkages to the common good approach. Study implications can be beneficial for employee-volunteer management, and business ethics, as well as contribution to corporate social responsibility, sustainable tourism, and volunteer tourism research. Key Words: Corporate social responsibility, Individual social responsibility, Volunteer tourism, Sustainable tourism, Corporate volunteer programs, Business ethics, Common good approach

Pilots' use of a traffic alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 2) in simulated air carrier operations. Volume 1: Methodology, summary and conclusions

Pilots' use of and responses to a traffic alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 2) in simulated air carrier line operations are described in Volume 1. TCAS 2 monitors the positions of nearby aircraft by means of transponder interrogation, and it commands a climb or descent when conflicting aircraft are projected to reach an unsafe closest point-of-approach within 20 to 25 seconds. A different level of information about the location of other air traffic was presented to each of three groups of flight crews during their execution of eight simulated air carrier flights. A fourth group of pilots flew the same segments without TCAS 2 equipment. Traffic conflicts were generated at intervals during the flights; many of the conflict aircraft were visible to the flight crews. The TCAS equipment successfully ameliorated the seriousness of all conflicts; three of four non-TCAS crews had hazardous encounters. Response times to TCAS maneuver commands did not differ as a function of the amount of information provided, nor did response accuracy. Differences in flight experience did not appear to contribute to the small performance differences observed. Pilots used the displays of conflicting traffic to maneuver to avoid unseen traffic before maneuver advisories were issued by the TCAS equipment. The results indicate: (1) that pilots utilize TCAS effectively within the response times allocated by the TCAS logic, and (2) that TCAS 2 is an effective collision avoidance device. Volume II contains the appendices referenced in Volume I, providing details of the experiment and the results, and the text of two reports written in support of the program

Pilots' use of a traffic alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 2) in simulated air carrier operations. Volume 2: Appendices

Pilots' use of and responses to a traffic alert and collision-avoidance system (TCAS 2) in simulated air carrier line operations are discribed in Volume 1. TCAS 2 monitors the positions of nearby aircraft by means of transponder interrogation, and it commands a climb or descent which conflicting aircraft are projected to reach an unsafe closest point-of-approach within 20 to 25 seconds. A different level of information about the location of other air traffic was presented to each of three groups of flight crews during their execution of eight simulated air carrier flights. A fourth group of pilots flew the same segments without TCAS 2 equipment. Traffic conflicts were generated at intervals during the flights; many of the conflict aircraft were visible to the flight crews. The TCAS equipment successfully ameliorated the seriousness of all conflicts; three of four non-TCAS crews had hazardous encounters. Response times to TCAS maneuver commands did not differ as a function of the amount of information provided, nor did response accuracy. Differences in flight experience did not appear to contribute to the small performance differences observed. Pilots used the displays of conflicting traffic to maneuver to avoid unseen traffic before maneuver advisories were issued by the TCAS equipment. The results indicate: (1) that pilots utilize TCAS effectively within the response times allocated by the TCAS logic, and (2) that TCAS 2 is an effective collision avoidance device. Volume 2 contains the appendices referenced in Volume 1, providing details of the experiment and the results, and the text of two reports written in support of the program

Easy Table Runner

This is a how-to guide that provides instructions for making an easy table runner

The Social News System: Examining the Relationship between Psychological Sense of Community, Social Network Site Use, and News Sharing Behaviors

University of Minnesota Ph.D. May 2014. Major: Mass Communication. Advisor:Dan Sullivan. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 112 pages, appendix A.Social network sites have allowed audiences to become increasingly active in the creation, analysis and circulation of news online. News sharing is a crucial behavior to understand in an era where professionally produced content must compete with countless other information sources for attention and visibility. Numerous studies have examined the posting behaviors themselves of social media users; however research has not yet determined the underlying social-psychological reasoning behind decisions to post news stories on social network sites. This study argues that psychological sense of community offers a lens with which to understand news sharing not as a random act, but as reasoned behavior among individuals who are aware of other community members, who care about the wellbeing of the group as a whole, and who are bound together by meaningful interactions and conversations. Broadly, this study examines why audiences seek out and share news stories amongst themselves. Specifically, it proposes and tests a model that integrates three different research frameworks that have never before been brought together, enabling us to identify the roles that overall news consumption, social network site perceptions and behaviors, and psychological sense of community play in encouraging audience members to share news stories with each other on social network sites. An online survey was distributed to test the validity of the research model, returning 344 responses. The empirical analyses provide partial support for the proposed research model. News consumption and community-related outcome expectations are clearly the most important factors in predicting news sharing on Facebook. However, while respondents did report moderate levels of PSOC, its role in the news sharing model is less clear.This study advances our understanding of the behaviors and social psychological processes that impact knowledge sharing on social media, and provides insight into the value of social media and their audiences to professional news organizations. As a whole, this study contributes to a deeper understanding of how human beings make use of digital technologies and social media, and the implications of that use on the role of journalism in building an informed citizenry

DYREASSISTERT TERAPI FOR UNGE UNDER OPPHOLD VED INSTITUSJON FOR FYSISK REHABILITERING. ET PROSJEKT PÅ CATOSENTERET

Norge har økt fokus på å styrke helse- og omsorgstjenestenesinnsats ovenfor barn, unge og unge voksne med funksjonsnedsettelser.Tidligere forskning har vist at dyreassistert terapi(DAT) kan bidra til å stimulere rehabilitering. Målet med detteprosjektet var å gi økt kompetanse og kunnskap om DAT vedrehabiliteringsinstitusjon.Tretten pasienter (77% kvinner) i alderen 16 til 23 år fikk DATmed hund tre ganger i uken i fire uker. Pasienter med kroniskutmattelsessyndrom utgjorde 46% av deltakerne, de resterendevar til rehabilitering for traumer og andre typer sykdommer.Data ble samlet inn ved halvstrukturerte intervju av pasienteneog spørreskjema for 13 helsepersonell nært knyttet til pasientene.Nesten alle svarte at hunden hjalp deltakerne til å komme ibedre fysisk form, og 46% av helsepersonell mente at deltakernefikk bedre engasjement i de andre aktivitetene som inngikki rehabiliteringen. Samtlige helsepersonell var svært fornøydmed tiltaket og ville anbefale DAT med hund ved institusjonersom gir tilbud innen kompleks rehabilitering. Institusjonen hari etterkant av prosjektet innlemmet dyreassistert terapi i rehabiliteringav alle sine brukergrupper

Maternal fish and shellfish intake and pregnancy outcomes: A prospective cohort study in Brittany, France

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recommendations about risks and benefits of seafood intake during pregnancy have been published in the last decade, but the specific health effects of the different categories of seafood remain unknown. Fish and shellfish may differ according to their fatty acid content and their concentration of chemical pollutants and toxins. Not taking these particularities into account may result in underestimating of both the positive and negative effects of seafood on birth outcomes and partly explains inconsistent results on the subject.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>In the PELAGIE cohort study, including 2398 pregnant women from Brittany, we fit multiple linear and logistic regression models to examine associations of fish (salt-water fish only) and shellfish intake before pregnancy with length of gestation, birthweight, and risks of preterm births, low birthweight or small-for-gestational-age (SGA) babies.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>When fish and shellfish consumptions were considered simultaneously, we observed a decrease in the risk of SGA birth with increasing frequency of fish intake: OR = 0.57 (95%CI: 0.31 to 1.05) for women eating fish twice a week or more compared with those eating it less than once a month. The risk of SGA birth was significantly higher among women eating shellfish twice a week or more than among those eating it less than once a month: OR = 2.14 (95%CI: 1.13 to 4.07). Each additional monthly meal including fish was significantly related to an increase in gestational length of 0.02 week (95%CI: 0.002 to 0.035). No association was observed with birthweight or preterm birth.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>These results suggest that different categories of seafood may be differently associated with birth outcomes, fish consumption with increased length of gestation and shellfish consumption with decreased fetal growth.</p