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Stories of success: Cultural narratives and personal stories of elite and professional athletes
Using a narrative methodology to explore the stories Olympic and elite athletes tell about success, we identified three alternatives to the dominant conception of success as the achievement of performance outcomes. In these alternatives, success is storied as: (1) âI did the best that I couldâ â a controllable and sustainable story of effort and application; (2) âItâs the closest thing you can get to flyingâ â a story where success relates to embodied experience and discovery; (3) âPeople I made the journey withâ â which prioritises relationships and connection between people. We reflect on three key insights: (1) success is a multidimensional concept, broader than the singular conception encapsulated within the dominant performance narrative; (2) through various narrative strategies, experienced athletes resist cultural pressures towards a singular conception of success; (3) for long-term performance and well-being, it is necessary to work towards multiple forms of success over time and across contexts
We haven't got a seat on the bus for you or All the seats are mine: Narratives and career transitions in professional golf
In this article we explore how the stories an athlete tells throughout life in sport affect her career transition experiences. We base our enquiry on a social constructionist conception of narrative theory which holds that storytelling is integral to the creation and maintenance of identity and sense of self. Life stories were gathered through interviews with two professional women golfers (Christiana and Kandy) over a sixâyear period. Through a narrative analysis of structure and form we explored each participantâs stories of living in and withdrawing from professional golf. We suggest Christiana told monological performanceâoriented stories which, while aligning with the culture of elite sport, resulted in an exclusive athletic identity and foreclosure of alternative selves and roles. On withdrawal, Christiana experienced narrative wreckage, identity collapse, mental health difficulties and considerable psychological trauma. In contrast, Kandy told dialogical discoveryâoriented stories which, while being in tension with the dominant performance narrative, created and sustained a multidimensional identity and self. Her stories and identity remained intact, authentic and continuous on withdrawal from tournament golf and she experienced few psychological problems
Evaluating Detection of an Inhalational Anthrax Outbreak
One-sentence summary for table of contents: When syndromic surveillance detected a substantial proportion of outbreaks before clinical case finding, false-positive results occurred
Emergency Department Use Among Older Adults With Dementia
Although persons with dementia are frequently hospitalized, relatively little is known about the health profile, patterns of health care use, and mortality rates for patients with dementia who access care in the emergency department (ED). We linked data from our hospital system with Medicare and Medicaid claims, Minimum Data Set, and Outcome and Assessment Information Set data to evaluate 175,652 ED visits made by 10,354 individuals with dementia and 15,020 individuals without dementia over 11 years. Survival rates after ED visits and associated charges were examined. Patients with dementia visited the ED more frequently, were hospitalized more often than patients without dementia, and had an increased odds of returning to the ED within 30 days of an index ED visit compared with persons who never had a dementia diagnosis (odds ratio, 2.29; P<0.001). Survival rates differed significantly between patients by dementia status (P<0.001). Mean Medicare payments for ED services were significantly higher among patients with dementia. These results show that older adults with dementia are frequent ED visitors who have greater comorbidity, incur higher charges, are admitted to hospitals at higher rates, return to EDs at higher rates, and have higher mortality after an ED visit than patients without dementia
A Parsec-Scale Galactic 3D Dust Map out to 1.25 kpc from the Sun
High-resolution 3D maps of interstellar dust are critical for probing the
underlying physics shaping the structure of the interstellar medium, and for
foreground correction of astrophysical observations affected by dust. We aim to
construct a new 3D map of the spatial distribution of interstellar dust
extinction out to a distance of 1.25 kpc from the Sun. We leverage distance and
extinction estimates to 54 million nearby stars derived from the Gaia BP/RP
spectra. Using the stellar distance and extinction information, we infer the
spatial distribution of dust extinction. We model the logarithmic dust
extinction with a Gaussian Process in a spherical coordinate system via
Iterative Charted Refinement and a correlation kernel inferred in previous
work. We probe our 661 million dimensional posterior distribution using the
variational inference method MGVI. Our 3D dust map achieves an angular
resolution of 14' (Nside = 256). We sample the dust extinction in 516 distance
bins spanning 69 pc to 1250 pc. We obtain a maximum distance resolution of 0.4
pc at 69 pc and a minimum distance resolution of 7 pc at 1.25 kpc. Our map
resolves the internal structure of hundreds of molecular clouds in the solar
neighborhood and will be broadly useful for studies of star formation, Galactic
structure, and young stellar populations. It is available for download in a
variety of coordinate systems at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8187943 and can
also be queried via the publicly available dustmaps Python package
FORMATION OF A HEMOLYTICALLY ACTIVE CELLULAR INTERMEDIATE BY THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PROPERDIN FACTORS B AND D AND THE ACTIVATED THIRD COMPONENT OF COMPLEMENT
Formation mechanisms of carbonate concretions of the Monterey Formation: Analyses of clumped isotopes, iron, sulfur and carbon
Carbonate concretions can form as a result of organic matter degradation within sediments. However, the ability to determine
specific processes and formation temperatures of particular concretions has remained elusive. Here, we employ concentrations
of carbonate-associated sulfate (CAS), δ^(34)S_(CAS) and clumped isotopes (along with more traditional approaches) to characterize
the nature of concretion authigenesis within the Miocene Monterey Formation
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