Rehabilitation / treatments of sports injuries

This was a conference powerpoint presentation for Nurse Practitioners A&E, Practice nurses and relevant staff in Sussex trusts about Minor injury care. This gives an overview of possible treatments and not an in depth lecture

Sports soft tissue injury

This was a powerpoint presentation to the Nurse Practitioner conference in June 2008. The aim was to give a overview of the most up to date evidence on the way soft tissue is damaged, the process of healing and from this aim at a way for best treatment

Introduction to problems of loan repayment on settlement schemes in Kenya

In 1961 Kenya embarked on a program of agricultural reform called the Million Acre Settlement Scheme providing for the transfer of ownership of land in the Rift Valley from outgoing white settlers to local farmers. These new settlers were given loans by the Kenya Government to cover the cost of the purchase of their plots and of certain development inputs. Over course of time most of these farmers have fallen heavily into arrears with repayment of their loans and this problem provides the focus for this study of problems of farmers on the settlement schemes, which has the ultimate objective of making recommendations for improving the present poor rate of repayment. Not unexpectedly overall income was found to be the crucial factor affecting rates of repayment, however the relationship of size of income to rate of repayment is not straightforward as other factors intervene, especially patterns of expenditure, and more importantly perhaps to any solution are those which indirectly affect rates of repayment through their influence on income levels. It was furthermore discovered that some loan instalments are never credited due to poor administration and that the quality of administration permeates many other variables. This is a purely introductory paper since most data is still being analysed and few figures are adduced in support of the main arguments, which should be taken as provisional in nature. For the same reason no suggestions are made herein for action to improve the situation

Emotional Prosody Communication In Long-Term Abstained Alcoholics

Emotional prosody difficulties have been found in recently detoxified alcoholics. Through three experiments, it was explored if these production and perception deficits per se continue even after a period of long-term abstinence. In Study one, 15 dry abstained alcoholics (AA) and 15 aged/educational matched healthy controls were asked to produce sentences in the six basic emotions plus neutral whilst being recorded. Results demonstrated that at an acoustic level pitch was a cue that AA struggled to modulate emotionally compared to healthy controls. The aim of Study 2 was to firstly explore on a perception level whether AA emotional utterances from Study 1 were perceived differently from those of healthy controls. A further goal was to explore how voice qualities of AA compared with healthy controls. To this aim, twenty-one naïve listeners heard randomly selected recordings from Study 1 and were asked to judge the emotion in a force-choice paradigm followed by a judgment of the speakers voice quality. Results showed naïve listeners find it more difficult to judge AA emotional utterances compared to those of healthy controls supporting acoustic results from Study 1. Listeners also rated AA voice quality as huskier, flat and less emotionally expressive than healthy controls. Finally in Study 3 abstained alcoholics perception of emotional prosody was investigated. Fifteen AA and 15 aged/educational matched healthy controls heard emotional utterances from Study 1 and were asked to identify the emotion heard in the tone of voice. Analyses showed that AA performed worse than healthy controls at judging emotional prosody. This applies to both stimuli uttered by AA or healthy controls. All these results combined demonstrate that abstained alcoholics show an emotional prosody deficit at the production and perception level. Potential reasons for this deficit are further discussed in this thesis

The Intertextual Dynamics of Colluthus' Abduction of Helen

This thesis is devoted to an intertextual study of Colluthus’ late antique epyllion, the Abduction of Helen. Colluthus is a poet whose reputation has long suffered, but is currently under rehabilitation, and the aim of this study is to build on recent scholarship in order to develop a fuller appreciation of Colluthus’ multi-faceted engagement with literary traditions and his allusive technique. Chapters are devoted to linguistic allusion, the intertextuality of genre, and the thematic intertextuality of the abduction narrative. In each chapter, a different approach to allusion and intertextuality reveals a pervasive pattern in Colluthus’ allusive poetics. Colluthus, it will be shown, was a poet who delighted in irony, but it is an irony which is almost always dependent on its relationships to model texts, generic traditions, and thematic motifs. Through the various allusive devices studied here, we find that the poet frequently creates expectations in the learned reader for the directions his narrative will take, only to deny them: he builds a pastoral world through generic parallels, only to leave it behind; he frequently alludes to the motifs and stories of abduction in classical literature, only to frame the “abduction” of Helen as a mutual romantic encounter. Through a systematic, yet necessarily selective study of Colluthus’ allusive poetics, we gain a new understanding of the Abduction of Helen as a poem defined by its ambivalence and undecidability, just like the figure of Helen herself

Wave Energy Operation And Maintenance Parametric Analysis

The Wave Energy Maintenance Model, as described in the Summary, was produced to allow the effect of variations in WEC design or in maintenance strategy on the total Operation and Maintenance (O & M) costs of wave energy array to be easily and quickly calculated and assessed. Since the model is parametric, factors can be changed and the results of the changes can be seen in the costs of the various operations. Having this facility available, an analysis of the sensitivity of the O & M costs to changes in certain parameters has been possible. The results presented in this report are not device specific. They are based on an array of devices which have the main plant items on-board the WECs. The devices may be bottom sitting or floating. The aim of the results shown here is to indicate trends in O & M costs and to provide some basic rules of thumb that can be applied to O & M costs for any device. The actual costs given are of the right order of magnitude for current devices, but do not represent the actual O & M costs of a specific device. Throughout the report, O & M costs are broken down into the same Cost Centres as used in the Model and described in the Model Summary. This report also contains an Appendix which illustrates the inter-dependancies existing between cost items in different areas of the Model. This allows the full effect of a change in parameters to be seen. It also describes the fundamental assumptions implicit in these results presented in this report

Crafting the web: Canadian Heathens and their quest for a ‘virtuous’ self

Focusing primarily on a number of small Heathen communities known as ‘kindreds’ and their ‘kith’ near Ottawa, Toronto and Montréal in Canada, this thesis approaches Heathenry as a potential means of ‘everyday’ self- and world-making. It examines the ways in which the ‘virtuous’ words and deeds of my interlocutors helped them to actively effect certain formations of self and world, and attempts to capture the significance of Heathenry as a practical process of formative interpersonal engagement and self-fashioning. Paying special attention to the ‘playful’ character of this process, it explores Heathenry as an aesthetic and ethical project of self-making – a project that produces and underpins particular kinds of ‘excellence’ and ‘authentic’ subjects. Emphasizing the creative poiesis entailed in this project, my thesis explores the ways in which Heathenry enables people to locate and orient themselves within a shared field of potentiality as subjects and agents questing for a ‘virtuous self’. I argue that both the end and means of this quest entails a reorientation in people’s aesthetic sensibility and personal ethical quality. The thesis concludes by illustrating how this highly personalized yet shared process of self formation facilitates people’s continuing journey to become increasingly ‘worthy’ Heathen subjects; that is, selves realized through their own virtuous acts of narrative objectification and those of others. As skillful and skillfully fashioned subjects, I suggest that my informants became able to experience their own potential virtuous development as a development of the ‘cosmos’ itself – a development, that is, of the very realms their quests embodied and manifested, and throughout which their virtuous selves came to be projected

Emotional Communication in Long-Term Abstained Alcoholics.

Alcoholism is associated with difficulties in perceiving emotions through nonverbal channels including prosody. The question whether these difficulties persist to long-term abstinence has, however, received little attention.In a 2-part investigation, emotional prosody production was investigated in long-term abstained alcoholics and age- and education-matched healthy controls. First, participants were asked to produce semantically neutral sentences in different emotional tones of voice. Samples were then acoustically analyzed. Next, naïve listeners were asked to recognize the emotional intention of speakers from a randomly collected subset. Voice quality indicators were also assessed by the listeners.Findings revealed emotional prosody production differences between the 2 groups. Differences were particularly apparent when looking at pitch use. Alcoholics' mean and variability of pitch differed significantly from controls' use. The use of loudness was affected to a lesser extent. Crucially, naïve raters confirmed that the intended emotion was more difficult to recognize from exemplars produced by alcoholics. Differences between the 2 groups were also found with regard to voice quality.These results suggest that emotional communication difficulties can persist long after alcoholics have quit drinking

One Health Aotearoa: a transdisciplinary initiative to improve human, animal and environmental health in New Zealand

The following article, Harrison, S., Baker, M.G., Benschop, J. et al. One Health Outlook 2, 4 (2020), was published online by BMC on31 January 2020 at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s42522-020-0011-0. It is © The Author(s) 2020, but is Open Access and is distributedunder the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), whichpermits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that appropriate credit is given to the originalauthor(s) and the source, a link is provided to the Creative Commons license, and any changes are indicated. Permission to republishthe paper here has been obtained from the authors, and no changes have been made to the text