Inspiring Sport Participation: The Demonstration Effect.

The Olympic and Paralympic Games can inspire some people to play more sport. 1- Are politicians and Games organisers telling the whole story about sport participation legacies? 2- Is getting people who are already interested in sport to play more a good enough legacy? 3- Do the Olympic and Paralympic Games put some people off playing sport

Live Sites: Bringing Places to People

Live Sites can bring national festivals alive in local communities and promote community wellbeing 1- How can Live Sites help promote an inclusive ‘family model’ of community? 2- What strategies can bring places to people through Live Sites to promote community wellbeing? 3- How can local partners ensure Live Sites are seen as benefitting communities rather than commercial interests

The Games in Schools: PE & Cross Curricular Impacts

School-based initiatives are the most effective way to use the Games to engage and excite children and young people. 1- Can short school based initiatives have a longer-term impact on sport participation, learning and behaviour? 2- Are there Olympic and Paralympic themes beyond sport that can engage and excite children and young people? 3- Is it realistic to try to use the Games to get children and young people who don’t like sport to play more

Paralympic Narratives- Perceptions of Disability

The Paralympic Games have the potential to change popular perceptions of disability. 1- Is the specific legacy potential of the Paralympic Games taken seriously by politicians and Games organisers? 2- Could stories about the Paralympic Games and disabled athletes have a negative impact on disabled people? 3- Is it asking too much of the Paralympic Games to change people’s attitudes towards disability

Getting the Nation Moving: The Festival Effect

The Olympic and Paralympic Games can be used to encourage people to think about becoming more active. 1. Can the Olympic Games encourage physical activity among those who don't like sport? 2. how can the Games be promoted as being 'beyond sport' when they are an elite sport competition? 3. Does an emphasis on exercise and trying to persuade people to get healthy put some people off participating

Measuring an Olympic and Paralympic Effect on Sport Participation

An Olympic and Paralympic effect on sport participation has never been robustly measured. 1- Is it possible to find out whether Olympic and Paralympic Games have caused sport participation changes? 2- Can national surveys tell us if sport participation changes are due to the Games? 3- Can thinking about what might have happened without the Games help us to find out if there has been a Games effect on participation

A UK-Wide Legacy? Leveraging the Olympic and Paralympic Values.

The Olympic and Paralympic values can be used to help develop a UK-wide legacy. 1- Are the 2012 Games just about legacies in London, or can the rest of the country also benefit from the Games? 2- Why do politicians prefer to talk about UK-wide economic legacies rather than social and cultural legacies? 3- How valuable and important are social, cultural and health legacies in comparison to economic legacies

How Will We Know if the Games Benefit Young People?

The only effective way to find out if the Games benefit young people is to ask them. 1- Is it possible to find out whether the Olympic and Paralympic Games have benefitted young people? 2- Should Games organisers and politicians tell us more about how they are going to measure whether they have delivered their promises? 3- Why is using London 2012 to benefit young people important? Isn’t organising Games that people enjoy watching enough

Understanding Olympic Tourism Flows

The Olympic and Paralympic Games provide few direct tourism benefits outside the host city. 1- How valuable and useful are pre-Games predictions of Olympic tourism impacts that might take place? 2- Does it matter that the host city gets tourism benefits, but the rest of the host country often loses out? 3- How can Games hosts be persuaded to measure and account for negative and neutral tourism impacts

A TaqMan qPCR method for detecting kdr resistance in Aphis gossypii demonstrates improved sensitivity compared to conventional PCR–RFLP

© 2015, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glover, has emerged as a prominent pest in Australian cotton production, and monitoring pesticide resistance including pyrethroids in field populations is crucial for its sustainable management. We examined the distribution of kdr resistance in 35 field-collected A. gossypii populations and used TaqMan qPCR assays with pooled samples. The study demonstrated proof of concept that pooled insect qPCR methodology provided effective detection with better sensitivity than individual PCR–RFLP genotyping techniques for the kdr resistance allele. The practical outcome is that routine resistance monitoring can examine more sites while increasing the likelihood of detecting incipient resistance at those sites. More importantly, the method is adaptable to any genetically caused resistance and so not limited to A. gossypii or even insect control. It cannot be overstressed that the ability to detected resistance at very low frequencies is critical to all sustainable resistance management. Early detection of resistance provides critical time for the modification of chemical use prior to potential insecticide control failure