Applied Exercise Physiology: a serendipitous personal journey toward a place that didn’t exist when the journey started

Applied exercise physiology is a rich profession in much of the developed world in the early 21st century.  However, in the early 1970’s there was no such profession, just the scientific discipline of exercise physiology.  Linked to the 1975 publication of the first edition of ACSM’s Guidelines for Graded Exercise Testing and Exercise Prescription, the authors career has been linked to a serendipitous series of events that have seen the development of the profession of applied exercise physiology.  Taken as a whole, these parallel stories inform us of the importance of serendipity within the process of scientific discovery.A fisiologia do exercício aplicada é uma profissão rica em grande parte do mundo, desenvolvido no início do século XXI. No entanto, no início dos anos 1970 não havia tal profissão, apenas a disciplina científica fisiologia do exercício. Ligado à publicação de 1975 da primeira edição das diretrizes do ACSM para os testes do exercício e a prescrição do exercício, a carreira do autor foi ligada a uma série de descobertas afortunadas dos eventos que viram o desenvolvimento da profissão da fisiologia do exercício aplicada. Tomadas como um todo, essas histórias paralelas nos informam da importância das descobertas afortunadas no processo científico

Arts industries do not cause gentrification- they tend to chase it.

Gentrification has been long thought to be sparked by artists and artistic businesses that move into poorer areas. But new research from Carl Grodach, Nicole Foster, and James Murdoch finds that we need to rewrite the story of arts-led gentrification. In a study of the 30 largest US metros, they find that art industries generally do not cause gentrification and the associated displacement of poorer residents. In fact, gentrified places tend to attract the arts, the reverse of the traditionally assumed relationship

The importance of neighborhood context in arts-led development

This article contributes to the creative city–community development arts policy debate by examining the association of arts organizations to various neighborhood contexts in New York City. Results from multivariate regression analyses show that arts organizations regardless of type are positioned to serve the creative class rather than play a community development role. Notably, only a small subset of locally focused organizations and organizations with smaller expenditures locate in disadvantaged and immigrant neighborhoods where they might play a direct role in community development. Instead, most arts organizations tend to locate in the most highly urbanized, amenities-rich areas with young working singles and creative industries. These findings raise important questions for incorporating the arts into neighborhood planning efforts

English Machine Reading Comprehension Datasets: A Survey

This paper surveys 60 English Machine Reading Comprehension datasets, with a view to providing a convenient resource for other researchers interested in this problem. We categorize the datasets according to their question and answer form and compare them across various dimensions including size, vocabulary, data source, method of creation, human performance level, and first question word. Our analysis reveals that Wikipedia is by far the most common data source and that there is a relative lack of why, when, and where questions across datasets.Comment: Will appear at EMNLP 2021. Dataset survey paper: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables + attachmen

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Art spaces, art places: Examining neighborhood preferences of New York arts organizations

This report builds on and extends a diverse literature that examines the location patterns of the arts and creative industries through analysis of a database of arts nonprofit organizations from the New York State Cultural Data Project. We confirm the link between arts organizations and the urban core and creative economy, but challenge the assumption that arts tend to locate in ethnic and disadvantaged neighborhoods. By identifying key neighborhood attributes associated with distinct types of arts organizations, we can better identify potential sites conducive to nurturing additional artistic activity and inform strategies to engage organizations in neighborhoods that are underserved in the arts