The Relationship between Aerobic Fitness and Concussion Risk, Severity, and Recovery in High School Football

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of aerobic fitness level on concussion risk, severity and recovery in high school football players. Participants (N=158) completed aerobic fitness (i.e., estimated VO2 max) and baseline neurocognitive tests (i.e., ImPACT). Concussed athletes completed ImPACT every 24-72 hours until they were asymptomatic or returned to baseline levels. A post-season questionnaire assessed unreported concussions and symptoms. Twenty players incurred concussions. Previously concussed athletes were 3.71 times more likely to be concussed than those with no concussion history. Severely concussed participants reported lingering symptoms. Previously concussed athletes high in aerobic fitness reported fewer symptoms than those low in aerobic fitness. Non-significant trends suggested that aerobic fitness might be related to faster recovery times and fewer symptoms. Twenty-eight percent (n= 38) of non-concussed participants reported a potential concussion and symptoms that were not recorded by medical staff during the season

Historical and Current Population Trends of Herring Gulls (\u3ci\u3eLarus argentatus\u3c/i\u3e) and Great Black-backed Gulls (\u3ci\u3eLarus marinus\u3c/i\u3e) in the New York Bight, USA

During the 20th century, gull populations in North America experienced considerable changes in abundance and geographic ranges. The objective of this study was to describe population trends of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus) and Great Black-backed Gulls (L. marinus) in the New York Bight, USA, over a 40-year period (1974-2013). A variety of data sources using different survey methods provided estimates of the number of breeding pairs for both species. In the Long Island portion of the New York Bight, overall Herring and Great Black-backed gull nesting populations appear to have fluctuated considerably in size during this time period, and the largest numbers of breeding individuals of these two species occurred in the 1980s. In coastal New Jersey, the Herring Gull nesting population has remained relatively constant, whereas the Great Black-backed Gull nesting population has increased. Individual nesting colonies are dynamic and can vary in size considerably during even short time periods. Several factors, including sea-level changes and the availability of anthropogenic food sources (i.e., at landfills and fisheries by-catch), likely have strongly influenced individual colonies and the overall Herring and Great Blackbacked gull breeding populations in the New York Bight

"Tumesahaulika" : performing development in post-conflict Mtwara

Following the discovery of sizable offshore petroleum deposits off the southeastern coast of Mtwara Region in Tanzania, state and private-sector representatives assured Mtwara residents that they would see intensive government investment in local infrastructure and industry. In light of these pledges, Mtwara residents anticipated that gas refineries, processing plants, and new infrastructure would soon bring employment opportunities to the historically underdeveloped southeast. By 2012, however, state plans to transport the gas from Mtwara to metropolitan Dar es Salaam via a pipeline threatened expectations of regional revitalization. Following official state confirmation of the pipeline in May 2013, residents mounted a series of demonstrations to oppose the government plan from which they had largely been excluded. In response to the protest, the central government deployed the national guard in an unprecedented exercise of military power.In this dissertation, I argue that the 2013 protest reflect the existence and influence of two national development imaginaries that evoke conflicting understandings of development, citizenship, and the state. On one hand, many government workers and CSO officers promoted images of the state as unbeholden to citizen demands for widespread, enduring development as entailed within the neoliberal-extractivist imaginary. In line with the social-development imaginary, however, Mtwara residents interpreted government promises of natural gas wealth as state recognition for Mtwara's sustained underdevelopment and past nationalistic sacrifices. Through their protests, Mtwara residents challenged the central government's vision for national development through state authorization of global capital investment in natural resource extraction.Drawing from semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and focus group sessions conducted from February 2015 to March 2016 in Mtwara and Dar es Salaam, I trace Mtwara residents' invocations of the two development imaginaries across three critical settings: the development work of three Mtwara-based civil society organizations; the bureaucratic procedure and protocol of local government offices; and residents' memorialization of the 2013 violence. According to literature (Ferguson 2005, 2006), concentrated areas of global capital investment in extractive projects form enclaves, dis-embedded from the historical and moral contexts of their host countries. Communities in Mtwara, however, sought to complicate the production of a dis-embedded mineral enclave by continuing to make development claims on the state.Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Anthropology, 2021Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237

Creación del Instituto de Educación Superior Tecnológico Público “Pedro Vilcapaza”, distrito de San Miguel - Provincia de San Román - departamento de Puno

El distrito de San Miguel, creado en junio del 2016, debería generar un desarrollo educativo, en el ámbito urbano-rural, la creación del Instituto.de Educación Superior-Tecnológico-Público “Pedro Vilcapaza” promoverá la enseñanza integral de los estudiantes, en el distrito de San Miguel, el género femenino es superior al masculino, es decir, aun la prevalencia que más del 50% de la población sin estudio pertenece al grupo femenino. Asimismo; en el distrito de San.Miguel se evidencia que 4,177 hab. (7.05%) alcanzaron a estudiar superior no universitaria: 9,252 personas (15.62%) tiene educación universitaria respectivamente, asimismo, se observó que la modalidad técnico-productiva tuvo un auge en el año 2018, el mismo que se vio afectada para el año 2020. Mediante la búsqueda de información se tubo como objetivo, conocer la importancia de la demanda educativa del grado superior tecnológico del distrito de San-Miguel, por medio de la carencia educativa al acceso de la información y adquisición de conocimientos, siendo ideal la creación del Instituto de Educación-Superior- Tecnológico en el Distrito de San.Miguel, ya que cuenta con una limitada, acceso a la educación

Traumatic axonal injury and persistent emotional lability in an adolescent following moderate traumatic brain injury: A case study

A 15-year-old male was treated secondary to sustaining a moderate traumatic brain injury (moderate TBI). Symptom self-report, and computerized and paper-and-pencil-based neurocognitive, vestibular/ocular motor, and imaging data were used throughout to document impairment and recovery. The patient demonstrated persistent emotional lability concurrent with vestibular impairment. In addition to clinical evaluation and management, the patient also underwent susceptibility-weighted imaging, which revealed axonal shearing across the corpus callo-sum and areas innervating the prefrontal cortex. Paper-and-pencil neurocognitive measures revealed persisting deficits, despite normal-appearing computerized test results. Implications of this case underline the importance of an integrative evaluation process including clinical interview, neurocognitive and vestibular/ocular physical therapy, and advanced neuroimaging, especially in cases with atypical presentation

Individual and Combined Effects of LD and ADHD on Computerized Neurocognitive Concussion Test Performance: Evidence for Separate Norms

Decreased neurocognitive performance in individuals with self-reported attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disability (LD) is well documented in the neuropsychological research literature. Previous studies employing paper-and-pencil neurocognitive assessments report lower performance in individuals with ADHD and LD. The purpose of the current study was to examine the influence of a self-reported diagnosis of LD, ADHD, and combined LD/ADHD on baseline computerized neurocognitive testing (CNT) used for the concussion assessment. Results revealed athletes with a self-reported diagnosis of LD, ADHD, and/or combined LD/ADHD demonstrated lower performance on baseline CNT and reported larger numbers of symptoms than did control athletes without these diagnoses. These findings provide evidence for the development of separate normative data for athletes with LD, ADHD, and LD/ADHD diagnoses on CNT batteries commonly used for concussion managemen

Project Safe Flight: Making New York Safe for Migratory Birds

More than 100 species of migratory birds pass through New York City during spring and fall migrations. Located at the nexus of several migratory routes, New York City’s tall buildings and reflective glass pose a serious threat to over 100 species of migratory birds. Since 1997, NYC Audubon has led Project Safe Flight (PSF), a volunteer-based citizen-science project, with the goal of monitoring and mitigating bird collisions. We examined 16 years of PSF data, during which volunteers collected over 6,000 birds of 126 different species. The top two species, White-throated Sparrow and Common Yellowthroat, make up 23% of all collisions. The fall migration has a higher average number of collisions than spring. Distinct phenological trends in species composition are apparent, with American Woodcock making up the majority of early spring collisions and Dark-eyed Junco being the most common in late fall. Because birds may be overlooked by volunteers or be taken by scavengers or maintenance crews after collisions, we performed a persistence study and found that the recovery of bird carcasses was highly variable between sites. This ongoing study is important in developing a database of bird collisions to help elucidate and reduce the causes of urban bird collisions

Gestión de inventario para mejorar la productividad en almacén de la empresa SEALERS.S. A en Ate 2022

El objetivo de la investigación es determinar que la gestión de inventario mejora la productividad en almacén de la empresa SEALERS S.A en Ate, 2022. El problema es la demoran en la atención de almacén en la entrega de los materiales, donde se implementó el modelo de la cantidad económica de pedido y la planificación de requerimiento de materiales, ayudando mejorar el nivel de cumplimiento y la optimizando del tiempo de atención. el tipo de investigación es aplicada y el tipo de diseño es pre experimental, la población de estudio es la atención de pedidos diarios que se realiza al transcurso del año 2022 en el almacén en la corporación SEALERS. S.A, nuestra técnica es el análisis de contenidos y observación, nuestro instrumento es el sotfware de la empresa que es un ERP. En el análisis inferencial se utilizó el software estadístico SPSS V24. En el análisis descriptivo se utilizó tablas de Excel antes y después. El resultado de productividad es un incremento de 27 %. Se concluyó que la gestión de inventario mejora positivamente la productividad en almacén de la empresa SEALERS S.A, porque aplicando las herramientas desarrolladas se llega aumento de la productividad

Returning Individuals to Activities and Participation...It's What We Do!

The evidence regarding the optimal rehabilitation management of concussion is clearly evolving. When can someone return to school, to work, to recreational exercise for fun, or to activities that could put them at risk for another injury like bike riding, ice skating, or trail running? We would argue that these questions, especially as they relate to physical activity, have long been our focus as physical therapists

Assessing Symptoms in Adolescents Following Sport-Related Concussion: A Comparison of Four Different Approaches

This study compared post-concussion symptom endorsements on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale (PCSS) between a clinical open-ended interview, clinician-guided PCSS, parent-report PCSS, and computer-based PCSS in youth athletes with sport-related concussion (SRC). Participants included 54 patients aged 13–17 years (M¼ 15.19, SD¼ 1.29, 51.8% male) with a diagnosed SRC seen at a concussion clinic. Participants were administered a computer-based version (COMP) of the PCSS followed by clinical open-ended symptom interview (OPEN) and clinician-guided PCSS (GUIDED). Participants’ parents concurrently and independently endorsed their children’s symptoms by completing the PCSS in the waiting room (PARENT). Total number of symptoms reported and total symptom severity score were analyzed and compared across the four PCSS administration methods. Results revealed significantly lower total number of symptoms for OPEN compared to GUIDED (p¼ .002), PARENT (p\u3c .001), and COMP (p¼ .006); and significantly lower total severity score for OPEN compared to GUIDED (p¼ .04) and PARENT (p \u3c .001). These data support using the PCSS as a structured method of assessing post-concussion symptoms and question the utility of unstructured interview methods for assessing symptoms in youth athletes with SRC