Atletes i drets humans

El Moviment Olímpic és més que una organització esportiva i Pierre de Coubertin va comprendre el potencial de l'entrenament atlètic i de la competició per millorar en l'autorealització. En aquesta lliçó, Bruce Kidd analitza els diversos drets dels atletes respecte a la participació, el govern i la presa de decisions, així com el tema del dopatge, centrant-se en el desenvolupament d'altres drets en l'àrea dels mitjans de comunicació, la medicina i l'educació.El Movimiento Olímpico es algo más que una organización deportiva y Pierre de Coubertin comprendió el potencial del entrenamiento atlético y de la competición para mejorar en la autorealización. En esta lección, Bruce Kidd analiza los diversos derechos de los atletas respecto a la participación, el gobierno y la toma de decisiones, así como el tema del dopaje, centrándose en el desarrollo de otros derechos en el área de los medios de comunicación, la medicina y la educación.The Olympic Movement is more than a sports organisation and Pierre de Coubertin saw the potential for athletic training and competition to advance the possibilities of self-realisation. In this lesson, Bruce Kidd explores the various rights of sports people in relation to participation, governance and decision making, and to the issue of doping. Focus is then placed on the development of further rights in the area of media, medicine and education

Los derechos humanos en el deporte

Los derechos humanos en el deporte se refieren a un mandato genérico que abarca una serie de derechos relacionados entre sí. La base del movimiento a favor de los derechos radica en aceptar el concepto fundamental de que el deporte y el tiempo libre son un derecho de todos los seres humanos, necesario para su desarrollo, su salud y para el bienestar tanto de los individuos como de la sociedad. Los deportistas han luchado por el derecho a ser tratados con justicia y dignidad en todos los aspectos del entrenamiento y de la competición. Bajo la protección de las normas legales referentes a la justicia natural y sus procesos los deportistas pueden oponerse a decisiones y a formas de tratamiento que les afectan y que infringen sus derechos humanos. El tema de los derechos de los niños en el deporte requiere consideración especial. Dado que carecen de los recursos y oportunidades para poder luchar por sus derechos, los adultos deben hacerlo por ellos, para asegurarse de que todos los niños tengan acceso a actividades deportivas y de tiempo libre que sean seguras y apropiadas para su desarrollo. Aunque se ha adelantado mucho en la articulación de los derechos del deporte para todos, deportistas y niños, queda todavía mucho trabajo por hacer para que estos derechos se apliquen de forma efectiva. Además, debemos trabajar para extender los derechos humanos al asociacionismo deportivo y a la mejora de las oportunidades de vida para todos. La lucha por los derechos de los trabajadores dedicados a la fabricación de prendas deportivas es la batalla emergente en la lucha por los derechos humanos en el campo del deporte

Aspirations of Olympism : a framework for considering the athlete's experience in the Olympic Movement at the close of the twentieth century

The text corresponds to the lecture given by Prof. Kidd as part the programme of activities during his stay in Barcelona in 1996 as invited professor of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB).Aquest text correspon a la conferència donada pel Prof. Kidd com a part del programa d'activitats durant la seva estada a Barcelona el 1996, com a professor convidat per la Càtedra Internacional d'Olimpisme (COI-UAB).Este texto corresponde a la conferencia dada por el Prof. Kidd como parte del programa de actividades durante su estancia en Barcelona el 1996, como profesor invitado por la Cátedra Internacional de Olimpismo (COI-UAB)

A hot cocoon in the ultralong GRB 130925A: hints of a PopIII-like progenitor in a low density wind environment

GRB 130925A is a peculiar event characterized by an extremely long gamma-ray duration ($\approx$7 ks), as well as dramatic flaring in the X-rays for $\approx$20 ks. After this period, its X-ray afterglow shows an atypical soft spectrum with photon index $\Gamma$$\sim$4, as observed by Swift and Chandra, until $\approx 10^7$ s, when XMM-Newton observations uncover a harder spectral shape with $\Gamma$$\sim$2.5, commonly observed in GRB afterglows. We find that two distinct emission components are needed to explain the X-ray observations: a thermal component, which dominates the X-ray emission for several weeks, and a non-thermal component, consistent with a typical afterglow. A forward shock model well describes the broadband (from radio to X-rays) afterglow spectrum at various epochs. It requires an ambient medium with a very low density wind profile, consistent with that expected from a low-metallicity blue supergiant (BSG). The thermal component has a remarkably constant size and a total energy consistent with those expected by a hot cocoon surrounding the relativistic jet. We argue that the features observed in this GRB (its ultralong duration, the thermal cocoon, and the low density wind environment) are associated with a low metallicity BSG progenitor and, thus, should characterize the class of ultralong GRBs.Comment: 6 pgs, 3 figs, fig1 revised, ApJL in pres

Effect of Kinesio Tape, Rock Tape, and a Sham tape on Upper Extremity Reaction Time

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Urban stormwater inputs to an adapted coastal wetland: Role in water treatment and impacts on wetland biota

The Lake Pertobe wetland system is a semi-natural wetland that has been modified primarily for recreational use. However, this lake system receives stormwater from much of the central business district of Warrnambool City (Victoria, Australia) and serves as a buffer zone between the stormwater system and the Merri River and Merri Marine Sanctuary. This work considers the impact of stormwater inputs on Lake Pertobe and the effectiveness of the lake in protecting the associated marine sanctuary. Sediment contaminants (including heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)) and water quality parameters within the lake, groundwater and stormwater system were measured. Water quality parameters were highly variable between stormwater drains and rain events. Suspended solids rapidly settled along open drains and shortly after entering the lake. Groundwater inputs increased both salinity and dissolved nitrogen in some stormwater drains. Some evidence of bioaccumulation of metals in the food chain was identified and sediment concentrations of several PAHs were very high. The lake acted as a sink for PAHs and some metals and reductions in Escherichia coli, biological oxygen demand and total phosphorus were observed, affording some protection to the associated marine sanctuary. Nutrient retention was inadequate overall and it was identified that managing the lake primarily as a recreational facility impacted on the effectiveness of stormwater treatment in the system

Increasing the reference populations for the 55 AISNP panel: the need and benefits

Ancestry inference for an individual can only be as good as the reference populations with allele frequency data on the SNPs being used. If the most relevant ancestral population(s) does not have data available for the SNPs studied, then analyses based on DNA evidence may indicate a quite distantly related population, albeit one among the more closely related of the existing reference populations. We have added reference population allele frequencies for 14 additional population samples (with >1100 individuals studied) to the 125 population samples previously published for the Kidd Lab 55 AISNP panel. Allele frequencies are now publicly available for all 55 SNPs in ALFRED and FROG-kb for a total of 139 population samples. This Kidd Lab panel of 55 ancestry informative SNPs has been incorporated in commercial kits by both ThermoFisher Scientific and Illumina for massively parallel sequencing. Researchers employing those kits will find the enhanced set of reference populations useful