Bet on Your Colleagues: Cross-Campus Collaboration to Deliver Presentation Skills Workshops

At a large public university, the library\u27s presentations skills workshop is a popular session attended and requested by students. When only one instructor was delivering the workshop, the program\u27s availability was limited by the librarian\u27s schedule. When requests were submitted for the workshop to occur in multiple locations, several librarians joined together to collaborate across campuses and modalities. Presentation skills can be especially difficult to foster in a university setting where students are expected to give presentations but there are few opportunities to find sufficient guidance. In the absence of broader institutional support, the library has taken up this role to provide the only marketed presentation skills workshop at the university. To meet the demand for this workshop, partnership and collaboration is key. As we bet on our colleagues, our team of librarians considered a few questions while we developed our own personal versions on how to teach the workshop. 1. How do we scale it to reach a large audience? 2. Which audiences do we target? 3. How do you establish effective collaboration strategies across a distance? This poster explores potential ideas to consider as well as outline our chosen solutions. Information is included regarding what topics to address for a presentation skills workshop, how to frame the workshop, and how to collaborate across campuses and into the online environment.Poster presented at the Florida Library Association Conference 2019 at Double Tree, Orlando, FL

THE EFFECTS OF AN EXERCISE INTERVENTION ON THE BIOMECHANICS OF AN ATHLETIC GROIN PAIN COHORT DURING THE LATERAL HURDLE HOP

The purpose of this study was to determine the kinematic and kinetic variables that may be of importance in the investigation of athletic groin pain (AGP). This was achieved by examining the 3D kinematics and kinetics of 70 AGP patients, recorded during a lateral hurdle hop, pre and post a successful exercise rehabilitation program. Results from the Copenhagen Hip and Groin Outcome Score questionnaire demonstrated significant improvements in 5 out of the 6 subscales. Analysis of characterising phases was used to examine kinematic and kinetic changes. Multiple significant changes were identified in both angles at the pelvis, hip and thorax and moments at the hip. Findings of this study provide an insight into the kinematic and kinetic variables of importance in AGP

Search Engine Optimisation in UK news production

This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Journalism Practice, 5(4), 462 - 477, 2011, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17512786.2010.551020.This paper represents an exploratory study into an emerging culture in UK online newsrooms—the practice of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), which assesses its impact on news production. Comprising a short-term participant observational case study at a national online news publisher, and a series of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with SEO professionals at three further UK media organisations, the author sets out to establish how SEO is operationalised in the newsroom, and what consequences these practices have for online news production. SEO practice is found to be varied and application is not universal. Not all UK news organisations are making the most of SEO even though some publishers take a highly sophisticated approach. Efforts are constrained by time, resources and management support, as well as off-page technical issues. SEO policy is found, in some cases, to inform editorial policy, but there is resistance to the principal of SEO driving decision-making. Several themes are established which call for further research

The importance of skin–to–skin contact for early initiation of breastfeeding in Nigeria and Bangladesh

Skin–to–skin contact (SSC) between mother and newborn offers numerous protective effects, however it is an intervention that has been under–utilized. Our objectives are to understand which newborns in Bangladesh and Nigeria receive SSC and whether SSC is associated with the early initiation of breastfeeding

CHANGES IN THE BIOMECHANICS OF A REACTIVE CUTTING MANOEUVRE IN AN ATHLETIC GROIN PAIN COHORT FOLLOWING A SUCCESSFUL REHABILITATION INTERVENTION

Athletic groin pain (AGP) is prevalent in field sports that require rapid changes of direction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the kinetic and kinematic changes that occurred in an unplanned reactive cutting manoeuvre following a successful rehabilitation intervention. Kinematics and kinetics were analysed using statistical parametric mapping in 23 patients before and after an exercise intervention programme. Significant improvements were found in all subscales of the Copenhagen Hip and Groin Outcome Score and biomechanical changes were identified at the pelvis, knee and ankle. These findings provide insight into mechanical variables of potential importance in AGP as identified during a manoeuvre based on a common sporting task

Athletic groin pain: a biomechanical diagnosis

Introduction: Chronic athletic groin pain is commonly experienced in a range of football codes including soccer (Holmich et al. 2014) and gaelic football (Murphy et al. 2012). Much debate surrounds the specific aetiology of AGP but several authors have implicated, at least in part, abnormal movement control and loading in and around the hip and pelvis during play (Rabe et al. 2010, Pizarri et al. 2008). Movement control during change of direction cutting is of particular interest as it is this dynamic movement that is frequently associated with groin pain development (Falvey et al. 2009). No previous studies have attempted to describe the key characteristics of cutting mechanics that may be prevalent in AGP populations, that is, what are the potential biomechanical diagnoses that exist in this cohort. Purpose: To describe the key characteristics of three dimensional cutting mechanics that exist within a large cohort of AGP patients. Methods: Four hundred (n = 400) recreational field sports players diagnosed with chronic athletic groin pain were recruited (mean ± SD: age, 27 ± 8 years; height, 1.80 ± 0.06m; mass, 81.9 ± 9.4 kg; time with groin pain, 66.2 ± 96.7 weeks). The study attained ethical approval and participants completed and signed an informed consent form before taking part. Participants underwent biomechanical testing before commencing rehabilitation. Testing involved three trials (both left and right side) of a change-of-direction cut. For the cut, participants ran as fast as possible for five meters toward a marker placed on the floor and performed an approximate 75° cut before running maximally to the finish. An eight camera 3D motion analysis system (Vicon - Bonita B10, UK), synchronized with two 40x60cm force platforms (AMTI – BP400600, USA), collected biomechanical data. Data analysis utilized the mean of each participant’s three trials on the symptomatic side, or for those with bi-lateral groin pain (n = 80), the side that was most symptomatic. A cluster analysis was undertaken using kinematic data as input (ankle, knee, hip, pelvis and trunk angles). Repeated measure ANOVAs with bonferroni post-hoc corrections were then used to determine between sub-group differences in biomechanical variables of interest. A significance level of (α = 0.05) was adopted. Results: Three distinct subgroups were created: C1 (containing 40% of participants), C2 (containing 15% of participants) and C3 (containing 45% of participants). C1 had significantly greater hip flexion and hip-pelvo-trunk rotation than C2 and C3. C3 and C2 had significantly greater hip-pelvo-trunk lateral side flexion than C1. C2 had significantly greater trunk flexion than both C1 and C3. Conclusion: Different sub-groups existed within the large cohort that exhibited distinctive cutting mechanics. Our findings may go some way toward identifying the potential cutting characteristics/diagnoses that exist in AGP patients. Rehabilitation specilaists may look to utilise such information when attempting to affect their patients cutting mechanics. Future studies are required to confirm the clinical relevance of the cutting characteristics/diagnoses identified herein. An examination of the effects of individualising groin rehabilitation programs based on a cutting mechanics assessment appears warrented. Given the inter-individual differences in cutting mechanics observed, caution is advised in the use of traditional group based analyses in future AGP biomechanical studies. This is due to the potential masking of significant findings when using heterogenous data (Bates 2005). Clustering techniques, such as employed here, may be useful in identifying homogenous sub-groups before undertaking more traditional statistical analyses

A comparison of asymmetry in athletic groin pain patients and elite rugby union players using analysis of characterising phases

This study compared levels of inter limb asymmetry between field sports players with athletic groin pain and international rugby union players. Three dimensional kinematics and kinetics were recorded for the single leg hurdle hop and side cut movement. Analysis of characterising phases was utilised to identify significant differences in asymmetry between the two groups. The rugby union group had significantly greater asymmetry in some kinematic variables and hip kinetic variables at the beginning of the exercises. Overall however, the athletic groin pain group displayed greater asymmetry, particularly in hip moments compared with the rugby union group. These results suggest that an aspect of rehabilitation for athletic groin pain should focus on reducing asymmetric hip moments

A COMPARISON OF ASYMMETRY IN ATHLETIC GROIN PAIN PATIENTS AND ELITE RUGBY UNION PLAYERS USING ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERISING PHASES

This study compared levels of inter limb asymmetry between field sports players with athletic groin pain and international rugby union players. Three dimensional kinematics and kinetics were recorded for the single leg hurdle hop and side cut movement. Analysis of characterising phases was utilised to identify significant differences in asymmetry between the two groups. The rugby union group had significantly greater asymmetry in some kinematic variables and hip kinetic variables at the beginning of the exercises. Overall however, the athletic groin pain group displayed greater asymmetry, particularly in hip moments compared with the rugby union group. These results suggest that an aspect of rehabilitation for athletic groin pain should focus on reducing asymmetric hip moments