Static and dynamic single leg postural control performance during dual-task paradigms

ABSTRACTCombining dynamic postural control assessments and cognitive tasks may give clinicians a more accurate indication of postural control under sport-like conditions compared to single-task assessments. We examined postural control, cognitive and squatting performance of healthy individuals during static and dynamic postural control assessments in single- and dual-task paradigms. Thirty participants (female = 22, male = 8; age = 20.8 ± 1.6 years, height = 157.9 ± 13.0 cm, mass = 67.8 ± 20.6 kg) completed single-leg stance and single-leg squat assessments on a force plate individually (single-task) and concurrently (dual-task) with two cognitive assessments, a modified Stroop test and the Brooks Spatial Memory Test. Outcomes included centre of pressure speed, 95% confidence ellipse, squat depth and speed and cognitive test measures (percentage of correct answers and reaction time). Postural control performance varied between postural control assessments and testing paradigms. Participants did not squat..

word~river literary review (2013)

wordriver is a literary journal dedicated to the poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction of adjunct, part-time and fulltime instructors teaching under a semester or yearly contract in our universities, colleges, and community colleges worldwide. Graduate student teachers who have used up their teaching assistant time and are teaching with adjunct contracts for the remainder of their graduate program are also eligible. We’re looking for work that demonstrates the creativity and craft of adjunct/part-time instructors in English and other disciplines. We reserve first publication rights and onetime anthology publication rights for all work published. We do not accept simultaneous submissions.https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/word_river/1004/thumbnail.jp

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the AND-2A core, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica.

During the 2007 – 2008 austral spring season, the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project recovered a core 1138 metres long (AND-2A) from a location in the southern McMurdo Sound near the Dailey Islands. This core contains a range of lithologies, including various types of terrigenous clastic diamictite, conglomerate and breccia, sandstone and mudrocks, volcanic lava, pyroclastic and reworked volcanic sedimentary rocks, and diatomite. The succession is divided into fourteen lithostratigraphic units (LSUs), two of which (LSUs 1 and 8) are further subdivided into three and four sub-units, respectively, based on changes in abundance of lithologies. Thirteen lithofacies are recognized, ranging from diatomite and bioturbated, fossil-bearing mudrocks (representing most ice-distal environments) through interlaminated sandstone-mudrock facies and sandstone with varying dispersed gravel components, to diamictite and conglomerate (representing most ice-proximal environments), and also lava, volcanic breccia and volcanic sedimentary rocks representing extrusion, fragmentation, fallout and reworking of material from basaltic volcanic activity. Three distinct types (‘motifs’) of vertical facies stacking patterns are recognized, recording glacial advance-retreat-advance cycles with varying degrees of facies preservation. Carbonate, pyrite and zeolites are the principal secondary mineral phases in the core. The pyrite overprint is particularly prominent in the lower half of the core, where it typically obscures stratification and sediment texture. Studies of modern aeolian sediment deposition onto McMurdo Sound sea-ice reveal that between 7600 and 24 000 kg km-2 of terrigenous clastic material is being stored on the sea-ice in this region