Clinical innovation: wider collaboration on lymphoedema research is needed — footwear and gait analysis

Extending teams that research and manage lymphoedema to include orthotists and podiatrists may extend our understanding of the condition and component parts of treatment. New technology, some of which is low cost, enables an increasing range of data and outcome measures. This article highlights the reality of a shortage of studies involving gait analysis and a lack of consideration of the impact of inappropriate footwear on exercise as a key component of lymphoedema management

BUILDING A WORKFORCE WHICH HAS THE RESILIENCE TO DEAL WITH THE DEMANDS OF POLICING

On November 23, 2022, Chief Constable (C.C.) Chris Rowley for Lancashire Constabulary presented Building a Workforce Which Has the Resilience to Deal with the Demands of Policing. The key points discussed were the conceptualization of resilience, the need for and benefit of resilience training for individuals in law enforcement, and strategies for building and maintaining resilience in organisations and individuals.   Received: 2022-12-28Revised: 2022-12-3

An Examination of Significant Issues in Naval Maintenance

AbstractThis paper summarises qualitative research undertaken within the “In-Service” stage of the lifecycle of Royal Navy surface ships and submarines. Whilst In-Service, Royal Navy vessels will typically cycle through three phases, i.e. Tasking, Upkeep and Regeneration. A series of semi-structured recorded interviews conducted with key stakeholders in each phase identifies and highlights common issues encountered whilst In-Service. Having identified common issues, e.g. risk, obsolescence, manpower availability, etc. additional interviews were undertaken to triangulate the results with other safety critical companies operating and maintaining complex systems, i.e. a power company operating an advanced gas-cooled nuclear reactor, rail infrastructure and Europe's largest regional airline

2-Minimal subgroups in classical groups: Linear and unitary groups

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Validity of Freely Available Mobile Applications for Recording Resting Heart Rate

This study examined the accuracy of mobile applications that measure heart rate by comparing results to a Polar heart rate monitor. Volunteers had their heart rate measured via four different methods whilst being simultaneously recorded with the Polar monitor; 1) manual (MAN), 2) Tap the Pulse (TAP), 3) Cardiio (CAR), 4) What’s my Heart Rate (WMHR). There were no significant differences between any of the methods and Polar monitor (p ≥ 0.159), with WMHR having the strongest relationship (r2 = 0.918) followed by MAN (r2 = 0.851), CAR (r2 = 0.646) andTAP (r2 = 0.636) respectively

An investigation into a contactless photoplethysmographic mobile application to record heart rate post-exercise: Implications for field testing

to record post-exercise heart rate and estimate maximal aerobic capacity after the Queen’s College Step Test. It was hypothesised that the CPA may present a cost effective heart rate measurement tool for educators and practitioners with limited access to specialised laboratory equipment. Materials and Methods: seventeen participants (eleven males and six females, 28 ± 9 years, 75.5 ± 15.5 kg, 173.6 ± 9.8 cm) had their heart rate measured immediately after the 3-min test simultaneously using the CPA, a wireless heart rate monitor (HRM) and manually via palpation of the radial artery (MAN). Results: both the CPA and MAN measurements had high variance compared to the HRM (CV = 31 and 11% respectively, ES = 1.79 and 0.65 respectively), and there were no significant correlations between the methods. Maximal oxygen consumption was estimated 17% higher in CPA compared to HRM (p < 0.001). Conclusions: in conclusion it is recommended that field practitioners should exercise caution and assess the accuracy of new freely available technologies if they are to be used in practice

Temporal trends in spider communities at the UK Environmental Change Network Cairngorm field station, 2007-2019: data analysis report

This report details the trends in spider abundance at the Environmental Change Network (ECN) Cairngorms site over 13 years (2007-2019). Spiders were collected from pitfall traps in three habitats (pine woodland, wind-clipped heath, bog) in the Allt a’Mharcaidh catchment near Feshiebridge in the Western regions of the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. Data was collected using standard ECN protocol, and all collected spider specimens were identified by the same expert araneologist for consistency. The spider communities were diverse, but typical of upland sites in the region, whilst a number of species present were either nationally rare, scarce, or amber listed due to nationwide declines. Over the relatively short period of monitoring none of the 96 species recorded at the site were found to be declining in abundance, whilst 16 species increased. The woodland community had the highest richness of species, consistent with this habitat being the most ecologically accessible to generalist species. Overall, however, abundances were similar across spider communities occupying the woodland, bog and heath habitats. The woodland community also appears to be becoming increasingly stable over time, relative to the heath and bog communities, both of which appeared to show extensive community change in 2013, which lasted for five years. This is likely a response to environmental extremes that occurred during the autumn of 2012 and spring / summer of 2013, but further exploratory research is required

An extensible approach to high-quality multilingual typesetting

International audienceWe propose to create and study a new model for the micro-typography part of automated multilingual typesetting. This new model will support quality typesetting for a number of modern and ancient scripts. The major innovations in the proposal are: the process is refined into four phases, each dependent on a multidimensional tree-structured context summarizing the current linguistic and cultural environment. The four phases are: preparing the input stream for typesetting; segmenting the stream into clusters (words); typesetting these clusters; and then recombining the clusters into a typeset text stream. The context is pervasive throughout the process; the algorithms used in each phase are context-dependent, as are the meanings of fundamental entities such as language, script, font and character