Sporting embodiment: sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology

Whilst in recent years sports studies have addressed the calls ‘to bring the body back in’ to theorisations of sport and physical activity, the ‘promise of phenomenology’ remains largely under-realised with regard to sporting embodiment. Relatively few accounts are grounded in the ‘flesh’ of the lived sporting body, and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such analysis. A wide-ranging, multi-stranded, and interpretatively contested perspective, phenomenology in general has been taken up and utilised in very different ways within different disciplinary fields. The purpose of this article is to consider some selected phenomenological threads, key qualities of the phenomenological method, and the potential for existentialist phenomenology in particular to contribute fresh perspectives to the sociological study of embodiment in sport and exercise. It offers one way to convey the ‘essences’, corporeal immediacy and textured sensuosity of the lived sporting body. The use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is also critically addressed. Key words: phenomenology; existentialist phenomenology; interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA); sporting embodiment; the lived-body; Merleau-Pont

Moral courage in the workplace: moving to and from the desire and decision to act

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Maximum curves and isolated points of entire functions

Given M(r; f) =maxjzj=r (jf(z)j) , curves belonging to the set of points M = fz : jf(z)j = M(jzj; f)g were de�ned by Hardy to be maximum curves. Clunie asked the question as to whether the set M could also contain isolated points. This paper shows that maximum curves consist of analytic arcs and determines a necessary condition for such curves to intersect. Given two entire functions f1(z) and f2(z), if the maximum curve of f1(z) is the real axis, conditions are found so that the real axis is also a maximum curve for the product function f1(z)f2(z). By means of these results an entire function of in�nite order is constructed for which the set M has an in�nite number of isolated points. A polynomial is also constructed with an isolated point

Fossil frogs from the central highlands of Papua New Guinea

Characteristic features of the pelves of 15 species of extant New Guinean highland frogs (Hylidae and Microhylidae) are described and figured. Ilia among species in these families were found to be relatively invariate with similar sized species often indistinguishable; thus fossil species diversity is therefore likely to be underestimated in such deposits. Nine-two disarticulated ilia from the highland Nombe rockshelter deposit represent a minimum of six species: two Hylidae and four Microhylidae; most of these ilia were deposited in the late Pleistocene before significant human activity at the site. Problems of drawing conclusions about the Pleistocene frog fauna of the area, especially what the main predator was, from such a small sample and limited understanding of the site taphonomy are discussed. © AAP

Protocolo de reabilitação acelerada após reconstrução de ligamento cruzado anterior - dados normativos

OBJETIVO: Avaliar os resultados obtidos com o protocolo de reabilitação acelerada, adaptado às condições de clínica, em pacientes submetidos à operação de reconstrução do ligamento cruzado anterior. MÉTODOS: Foram incluídos 30 pacientes, praticantes de atividade esportiva recreacional, submetidos à operação de reconstrução do ligamento cruzado anterior por meio do tendão patelar. Todos fizeram a reabilitação com o mesmo protocolo de tratamento e no mesmo local. A avaliação isocinética em diferentes ângulos foi realizada antes da operação e no 4° mês de pós-operatório utilizando dinamômetro isocinético computadorizado da marca Cybex Norm. RESULTADOS: As avaliações no pré-operatório em média demonstraram: pico de torque flexor 93% a 60°/s e 97,3% a 180°/s; extensor 87,3% a 60°/s e 94,7% a 180°/s; potência nos músculos flexores de 93,3% e nos extensores de 96,7%; trabalho muscular dos flexores de 91,7% e nos extensores de 90,3%; o ângulo do pico de torque flexor de 28,7°, na musculatura extensora o ângulo foi de 62,2°; pico de torque excêntrico nos flexores de 78,3% e nos extensores de 12,8%. Com quatro meses de pós-operatório os resultados obtidos em média foram: pico de torque flexor 95,4% a 60°/s e 97,1% 180°/s; extensor 70% a 60°/s e 75,7% a 180°/s; potência nos músculos flexores de 97,1% e nos extensores de 79,8%; trabalho muscular dos flexores de 94,2% e nos extensores de 94,2%; pico de torque excêntrico dos flexores de 84% e nos extensores de 24,2%; o ângulo do pico de torque flexor foi a 27,3°; na musculatura extensora o ângulo foi de 61,7°. CONCLUSÃO: Os resultados demonstraram que os pacientes tratados com o protocolo adaptado apresentam resultados semelhantes aos obtidos com o protocolo original em relação às condições musculares