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Journal articles on the topic "Exercise practitioner"
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Kyei-Frimpong, Jamie, Jane Blood-Siegfried, Ruvini Wijetilaka, and Abigail Gendler. "Exercise as medicine: Providing practitioner guidance on exercise prescription." Preventive Medicine Reports 22 (June 2021): 101323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101323.
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Costanzo, Dino G. "Optimizing Employability for the Exercise Practitioner." ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal 11, no. 6 (November 2007): 33–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/01.fit.0000298454.55555.23.
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Jenkins, Mary, John Mallett, Carmel O'Neill, Mairead McFadden, and Helen Baird. "Insights into ‘Practice’ Communication: An Interactional Approach." British Journal of Occupational Therapy 57, no. 8 (August 1994): 297–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030802269405700804.
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This article presents data collected in actual occupational therapy practice settings. The purpose of this naturalistic exercise is to provide a better understanding of the characteristics of best practice across the spectrum of practitioners - diplomates, graduates, students and assistants - by exploring the relationships between practitioner and client and noting individual, intragroup and intergroup differences. Two Independent observers viewed and audio-taped eight treatment sessions undertaken by two practitioners from each group. Characterising the interactional process indicated that best practice arises when there is a more egalitarian relationship between practitioner and client and where the practitioner not only encourages but also invites client participation. This behaviour was most evident among diplomates.
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Barry, Henry C., and Scott W. Eathorne. "Exercise and aging: Issues for the Practitioner." Medical Clinics of North America 78, no. 2 (March 1994): 357–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0025-7125(16)30164-x.
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Tompkins, Tawnya Horsley, Basia Belza, and Marie-Annette Brown. "Nurse practitioner practice patterns for exercise counseling." Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 21, no. 2 (February 2009): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-7599.2008.00388.x.
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Santa Mina, D., C. M. Sabiston, D. Au, A. J. Fong, L. C. Capozzi, D. Langelier, M. Chasen, et al. "Connecting people with cancer to physical activity and exercise programs: a pathway to create accessibility and engagement." Current Oncology 25, no. 2 (April 30, 2018): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.3747/co.25.3977.
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Recent guidelines concerning exercise for people with cancer provide evidence-based direction for exercise assessment and prescription for clinicians and their patients. Although the guidelines promote exercise integration into clinical care for people with cancer, they do not support strategies for bridging the guidelines with related resources or programs. Exercise program accessibility remains a challenge in implementing the guidelines, but that challenge might be mitigated with conceptual frameworks (“pathways”) that connect patients with exercise-related resources. In the present paper, we describe a pathway model and related resources that were developed by an expert panel of practitioners and researchers in the field of exercise and rehabilitation in oncology and that support the transition from health care practitioner to exercise programs or services for people with cancer. The model acknowledges the nuanced distinctions between research and exercise programming, as well as physical activity promotion, that, depending on the available programming in the local community or region, might influence practitioner use. Furthermore, the pathway identifies and provides examples of processes for referral, screening, medical clearance, and programming for people after a cancer diagnosis. The pathway supports the implementation of exercise guidelines and should serve as a model of enhanced care delivery to increase the health and well-being of people with cancer.
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Simon, Gail. "Distinctions in Practitioner Research between Professional Practice and Research Practice." Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice 5, no. 2 (December 19, 2022): 82–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.28963/5.2.8.
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Practitioners undertaking research into their professional practice and those involved in evaluating it often struggle to identify distinctions between the professional practice under investigation and the research practice used to study it. This paper identifies ten areas of distinction between professional practice and research practice. It provides some example questions under each of the ten categories. These questions can be adapted for practitioner researchers as both a preparation exercise and to develop documentation to submit with research proposals or research ethics applications. The paper starts with a definition of practitioner research and then gives a brief history of practitioner research followed by reflections on the relationship between academic and professional knowledge and decolonising practitioner research. The material in this paper was originally delivered at the 7th International Conference on Professional and Practice Based Doctorates, UKCGE, 25th February 2021 (Simon, 2021).
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Henrotin, Yves, Cedric Tits, Jérôme Paul, Pierre Gramme, Thibault Helleputte, Alberto Migliore, Pascal Richette, et al. "Retreatment with Hyaluronic Acid Viscosupplementation in Knee Osteoarthritis: Agreement between EUROVISCO Guidelines and Current Medical Practice." CARTILAGE 13, no. 1_suppl (October 25, 2021): 1696S—1701S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19476035211053827.
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Objectives This work studied if and how current clinical practice agrees with European Viscosupplementation Consensus Group (EUROVISCO) recommendations and how this agreement might be different according to physician’s specialization. In addition, this work aimed to identify key decision factors that practitioners consider in their decision to retreat or not a patient with hyaluronic acid viscosupplementation. Methods Practitioners have been invited by e-mail to participate in an online exercise on viscosupplementation retreatment. They received a fictional patient case at random among a set of predefined fictional cases. The platform asked the practitioner if he/she would retreat the patient with viscosupplementation or not. To take a decision, the practitioner could select questions among a list of predefined questions. Among them, some were related to criteria used in the EUROVISCO decision tree and others served as confounding factors. Results A total of 506 practitioners participated to the exercise, of which 399 gave their decision about the case assigned to them by the platform. The observed agreement between practitioner decisions and EUROVISCO recommendations was 58.89 ± 4.95% (95% confidence interval [CI]). Overall, the decision to retreat was taken in 47.87% of the cases, while the EUROVISCO guidelines follow-up would have led to 55.89% retreatment for the same cases ( P = 0.03). Conclusions In current practice, physicians tended to reinject their patients less than recommended, although EUROVISCO guidelines for viscosupplementation retreatment consider decision criteria that clearly correspond to those of practitioners in real life. These include the patients’ willingness to be treated or the patients’ perception of the effectiveness of the treatment.
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Mayor, David, Lara McClure, and J. Clayton McClure. "Individual Differences in Responsiveness to Acupuncture: An Exploratory Survey of Practitioner Opinion." Medicines 5, no. 3 (August 6, 2018): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicines5030085.
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Background: Previous research has considered the impact of personal and situational factors on treatment responses. This article documents the first phase of a four-stage project on patient characteristics that may influence responsiveness to acupuncture treatment, reporting results from an exploratory practitioner survey. Methods: Acupuncture practitioners from various medical professions were recruited through professional organisations to complete an online survey about their demographics and attitudes as well as 60 questions on specific factors that might influence treatment. They gave categorical (“Yes”, “No”, and “Don’t know”) and free-text responses. Quantitative and qualitative (thematic) analyses were then conducted. Results: There were more affirmative than negative or uncertain responses overall. Certain characteristics, including ability to relax, exercise and diet, were most often considered relevant. Younger and male practitioners were more likely to respond negatively. Limited support was found for groupings between characteristics. Qualitative data provide explanatory depth. Response fatigue was evident over the course of the survey. Conclusions: Targeting and reminders may benefit uptake when conducting survey research. Practitioner characteristics influence their appreciation of patient characteristics. Factors consistently viewed as important included ability to relax, exercise and diet. Acupuncture practitioners may benefit from additional training in certain areas. Surveys may produce more informative results if reduced in length and complexity.
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Shaughnessy, Michael F. "Patient Compliance- Practitioner to Patient Communication." Psychiatry 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 25–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.46619/psy.2021.1.1005.
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Quite often, health care workers have to prompt, encourage and communicate certain concerns about patient’s health and well-being. These concerns can involve medication, diet, exercise, stress, and related factors. This paper will review the issues revolving around the communication and prompting as to life-style changes, dietary changes and medication regimens.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Exercise practitioner"
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Smock, Carissa Ruby. "Provider Acceptance, Training, and Utilization of Place-Based Exercise Prescriptions." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1492008967709141.
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Pitts, Shantell Yvette. "Self-care and School Psychologists: A Qualitative Study Examining Burnout Prevention and Career Satisfaction." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1533219362221909.
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Cottrell, Elizabeth. "General practitioners' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours regarding exercise for chronic knee pain." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2389/.
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Patients with chronic knee pain (CKP) frequently present to general practitioners (GPs). Exercise, a core management approach for CKP, reduces pain and improves functioning. To maximise patient outcomes, GPs should practise in line with best evidence recommendations. Using an underpinning model (developed using behavioural theory), this thesis describes the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of GPs regarding the use of exercise for patients with CKP. A systematic review revealed a paucity of published studies specifically examining this topic. Available data suggested that GPs’ attitudes and beliefs about exercise for CKP varied widely, exercise appeared to be underused and its implementation by GPs was unclear. The need to concurrently and specifically investigate the attitudes, beliefs and behaviours of GPs regarding exercise for CKP was identified. A vignette-based pilot questionnaire survey of 800 UK GPs was undertaken to refine the survey tool and methods and to inform the required sample size for the main survey. The subsequent main survey of 5000 UK GPs revealed that exercise was used by most GPs for CKP. However, methods employed to initiate exercise within an individual patient’s management plan were variable and imperfectly aligned with evidence-based recommendations. Attitudes and beliefs about exercise for CKP were generally positive; however GPs expressed some uncertainty about safety and efficacy, particularly regarding local exercise (e.g. strengthening, range-of-movement, stretching). Although some elements of the underpinning model (e.g. role and identity) predicted GPs’ behaviour, others (e.g. beliefs about capabilities) performed less well. To maximise the clinical outcomes of patients with CKP, recommendations from this research include: development of educational, organisational change and/or behaviour change strategies to improve initiation of individualised exercise, and clarification of GPs’ role, in this context. Approaches to better understand the key influences on GPs’ behaviour are required; a greater focus on decision-making theory may be valuable.
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Bergström, Julia, and Felicia Särnö. "Inkludering av nya motionärer på motionsanläggningar : Motionärers föreställningar om människor som inte motionerar." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Idrotts- och hälsovetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-22615.
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Syfte Syftet var att undersöka vad aktiva-motionärer anser om vardags-motionärer avseende livsstil, karaktärsdrag och hälsostatus. Metod För att inkludera vardags-motionärer på motionsanläggningar där motionärer finns bör man lösa upp barriärer till motion. Det kan därför vara av nytta att ta reda på om och i så fall vad aktiva-motionärer anser om vardags-motionärer. Detta för att kunna veta om förändringen ska ske hos aktiva-motionärer eller vardags-motionärer för att möjliggöra inkludering av vardagsmotionärer på motionsanläggningar där aktiva-motionärer finns. Detta genomfördes med en kvalitativt inriktad undersökning genom en intervjustudie i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultat Respondenterna anger att hälsa är en upplevd balans såväl psykiskt som fysiskt. I motsats till detta innebär ohälsa obalans. Konsekvenserna av denna obalans nämnde respondenterna som trötthet, sämre koncentration, övervikt, lättare att drabbas av sjukdomar samt försämrad livskvalité. Det respondenterna nämnde om en vardags-motionär är att denna individ sällan gör mer än vad det behöver i vardagen, är ohälsosamma, innehar obalans och kan drabbas av konsekvenserna som nämns ovan. Slutsats Undersökningen visar att det finns åsikter hos aktiva-motionärer om vardags-motionärer. Dock uttalar sig aktiva-motionärer ogärna om hur vardags-motionärer är som personer, men beskriver enklare deras leverne. Det undersökningen därmed kan konstatera är att andras åsikter är en befogad barriär till varför motion inte bedrivs. Om denna barriär är något som syns utåt på anläggningarna är dock svårt att säga.Purpose The main purpose of this study was to research the practitioners of physical exercise (PPE) opinions about non-practitioners of physical exercise (NPPE), regarding their health, lifestyle and characteristics. Method To enable inclusion of NPPE to training facilities where PPE attend, knowledge of the PPEs’ opinions about NPPE are needed. NPPE often mention that the opinions of PPE discourage them from start to perform physical exercise at training facilities. Therefore, it was necessary to research if these opinions make an actual barrier for the start of exercise in NPPEs. To contribute this knowledge of opinions this study was a qualitative interview study with semi structured interviews. Result The respondents described health as a state of experienced balance between physical and physiological health. Unhealthiness was described by the opposite; imbalance. The consequences of this described imbalance are mentioned as fatigue, lack in concentration, overweight, high risk in diseases and decreased quality of life. What the respondents mentioned about a NPPE as an individual, were that they only did what's necessary, are unhealthy, lead an unbalanced lifestyle and suffer a higher risk of afflict the consequences mentioned above. Conclusion This study shows that the PPE do have opinions about NPPE. What is shown most clearly is that the respondents are more confident describing unhealthiness or the lifestyle choices associated with an unhealthy lifestyle, rather than describing the characteristics of unhealthy individuals. The study examines that the PPEs’ opinions about NPPE could be an actual barrier for NPPE to start performing physical exercise at training facilities where PPE perform their physical exercise. If these opinions are reflected in the environment of the training facilities, is not defined through this study and would require further research.
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Miller, Sally May. "Tai Chi for Driving Health: Cognitive and Physical Function Related to Safe Driving Performance among Older Tai Chi Practitioners." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/594928.
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By the year 2030 it is estimated that one in five licensed drivers in the United States will be over the age of 65. Driving allows engagement in the community for shopping, banking, maintaining social connections, and accessing health care. However, age-related decline can impact many of the cognitive processes and physical abilities necessary for safe driving performance. Exercise has beneficial effects on specific cognitive processes and physical function, many of which are related to safe driving performance. Tai Chi exercise is known to benefit cognitive and physical function and may influence safe driving performance. The aims of this observational study were to: 1) examine relationships between Tai Chi exercise habits, cognitive processes and physical function related to safe driving performance, 2) compare cognitive processes and physical function related to safe driving performance to normative reference values, and 3) explore potential predictors of safe driving performance. Fifty-eight current Tai Chi practitioners (mean age = 72.9), with a median of greater than three years of Tai Chi practice were recruited from community Tai Chi classes and Tai Chi events. Participants completed a study packet describing self-reported Tai Chi and non-Tai Chi exercise habits, driving habits, self-report measures of dispositional mindfulness (Mindful Attention Awareness Scale, MAAS) and overall well-being (Vitality Plus Scale, VPS), personal history, and health history. Investigator-administered study measures included the DrivingHealth InventoryTM, digit span tests, the Driving Scenes Test, and the Right Foot Tapping test. Statistically significant correlations were found between several study measures. Compared to normative reference values participants performed better on several cognitive and physical measures, and on the MAAS and the VPS measures. Small to large effect sizes were calculated. The strongest predictor of safe driving performance was the digit span backward. Tai Chi exercise has the potential to positively impact cognitive processes and physical function related to safe driving performance through aerobic exercise mechanisms, development of mindfulness, and beneficial influence on overall vitality. The results of this study support the need for further investigation of Tai Chi exercise as a strategy to maintain safe driving performance in older adults.
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Greene, Mark A. "Rethinking biokinetics: a philosophical critique concerning the roles and responsibilities of practitioners and patients." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/10381.
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The specialist responsible for providing prescribed exercise as a form of medicine to the South African population is the biokineticist. Biokinetics is a relatively new profession developed in response to empirical research supporting exercise as medicine. Although the role of the biokineticist is clearly defined by the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA), there is still confusion concerning this profession and its services. At present, the dominant medicalscientific and capitalist-economic discourses offer a narrowly mechanistic and instrumental understanding of the human body and its treatment, which contributes to this confusion. This dissertation proposes a new point of departure, enriched by historical and philosophical understandings of the human body, from which the biokineticist can begin to redefine him/herself. The study aims to shift biokinetics as a practice away from the reductionist and dehumanising influences of instrumentalist, scientific and neoliberal capitalist-economic discourses, and to restore to biokineticists, and their clients, the ability they need to interact as relatively autonomous individuals. The study draws on the ideas of Michel Foucault, specifically on his notions for ‘discipline’, ‘docility’, and ‘the care of the self’ (1991; 2005), as well as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and their ideas of ‘becoming’ and ‘rhizomatic thinking’ (1983; 1987); ultimately presenting a philosophically enriched, holistic representation of the human body. From here recommendations for best practice in contemporary biokinetics are suggested that encourage interactions and connections between the professional and his/her patients, which move beyond the mere physiological interpretations currently dominating health discourse.
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Hill, Hayd'n. "Does Foam Rolling have a Positive Effect on Performance and Recovery from Post Exercise Induced Muscle Damage: A Systematic Review of the Literature to Guide Practitioners on the use of Foam Rolling." Master's thesis, Faculty of Health Sciences, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30074.
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Foam rolling is a form of myofascial release performed by the individual using their body weight, as opposed to the pressure being applied by the clinician. Foam rolling is currently used by athletes at all levels, from recreational to elite athletes. Foam rolling is used as a warm up to aid performance and/or recovery. This study aims to review the literature to determine if foam rolling enhances performance, positively affects recovery from exercise induced muscle damage, and whether there is a consensus on the protocol to achieve performance and recovery enhancement. Seven electronic databases, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Pubmed Central, Pubmed, ISI Web of Science, Medline and Scopus, were searched using terms related to foam rolling between January 2006 and April 2017. Published articles that included foam rolling as a recovery intervention and/or a performance enhancing tool were included in the study and assessed using the PEDro scale for methodological quality ratings. This dissertation will consolidate and add to the knowledge on the use of foam rolling. It will highlight when foam rolling should be used and recommend a specific protocol that should be used for performance and/or recovery purposes. This may address the confusion around when foam rolling should be used and show foam rolling to be effective as a recovery tool or for enhancing performance. This may help with better management of athletes by sports personnel, and in turn improve their performance and enhance their recovery. A total of 33 articles met the inclusion criterion and were systematically reviewed. There is evidence supporting the use of foam rolling in a warm-up consisting of dynamic stretching and an active warm-up to enhance performance; mainly through its effects on flexibility while maintaining muscle contractility. There is also evidence supporting the use of foam rolling to enhance recovery from exercise induced muscle damage and delayed onset of muscle soreness, with its main effects being the shortening of time to return to baseline performance, flexibility and pressure pain threshold. The mechanism by which foam rolling acts seems to be a neural response to pressure exerted. Sixty to ninety seconds of foam rolling may suffice to achieve the above desired effects. Further research is needed to determine the exact mechanisms of action of foam rolling, as well as the risks that may be associated with foam rolling.
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Chen, Xin. "L’évaluation de la loi du 1er février 2012 concernant l’acquisition du plein exercice pour les médecins à diplôme hors Union européenne." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCB123/document.
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La Procédure d'Autorisation d'Exercice est un dispositif qui concerne l'ensemble des praticiens à diplôme hors Union Européenne. Elle a été instaurée en 2007 par la loi CMU du 27 juillet 1999, complétée par la Loi de Financement de la Sécurité Sociale du 21 décembre 2008, modifiée par la loi 2012-157 du 1er février 2012. La dernière loi concernée, la loi n°2016-1888 du 28 décembre 2016 de modernisation, de développement et de protection des territoires de montagne, met fin à la régularisation de ces praticiens. Depuis l'exécution de la loi 2012-157 du 1er février 2012 jusqu'à la fin de l'année 2016, la Procédure d'Autorisation d'Exercice compte 26562 inscriptions et 14647 présentations dont 4866 reçus aux Epreuves de Vérification des Connaissances à la Procédure d'Autorisation d'Exercice. Nous avons étudié les résultats des Epreuves de Vérification des Connaissances avec des analyses approfondies. Entre 2012 et 2016, la liste A a reçu le plus grand nombre de candidats aux Epreuves de Vérification des Connaissances, soit 21123 inscriptions, 10007 présentations. Le taux de réussite de la liste A varie entre 15% et 19%, sachant que la liste A est une liste qui recueille tous les nouveaux arrivants, les Epreuves de Vérification des Connaissances pour cette liste est un concours. La liste B a reçu 562 inscriptions, dont 413 présentations entre 2012 et 2016 avec un taux de réussite de 24% à 41%. Les épreuves pour cette liste sont sous forme d'examen. La liste C a reçu 4877 inscriptions, dont 4227 présentations entre 2012 et 2016 et le taux de réussite est de 56% à 80%. La liste C est aussi un examen qui recueille tous les praticiens à diplôme hors Union Européenne qui sont déjà installés en France. Nous avons observé que la disparition de la liste C est en partie due au dispositif de la Procédure d'Autorisation d'Exercice qui permet la régularisation des praticiens à diplôme hors Union Européenne. La loi 2012-157 du 1er février 2012 qui modifie les conditions et le périmètre de participation des candidats aux Epreuves de Vérification des Connaissances est une des causes de transfert des candidats de la Liste A à la Liste C. Enfin, les praticiens inscrits au tableau de l'Ordre des médecins, et provenant de la Procédure d'Autorisation d'Exercice, occupent une proportion qui est d'environ 10% dans certains départements en France. Ce chiffre montre le nombre de ces praticiens est quasiment aussi important qu'avant et que leur présence est demandée dans la France entière. Dans certains départements, nous avons pu constater que la présence de praticiens à diplôme hors Union Européenne augmente la densité médicale territoriale en France, démontrant l'importance de leur présence au niveau local, ainsi que dans les zones rurales et de montagnes. Le seul contrôle de l'entrée des praticiens à diplôme hors Union Européenne n'est pas suffisant ; la formation continue de ces praticiens devrait être envisagée afin d'améliorer leur niveau médical d'exercice, et la réorientation territoriale d'installation pourrait être une solution qui augmenterait l'offre de soins au niveau localThe "Authorization Exercise Procedure" is a device that concerns all doctors with diplomas outside the European Union. It was introduced in 2007 by law "CMU of 27 July 1999", supplemented by "Law of Social Security Financing" of 21 December 2008, amended by the Law "2012-157 of 1 February 2012", The last law concerned, was No. 2016-1888 of 28 December 2016 on the modernization, development and protection of mountain territories, put an end to the regularization of these doctors. Since the implementation of Law 2012-157 from 1 February 2012 to the end of 2016, the Fiscal Authorization Procedure has 26,562 registrations and 14,647 presentations, of which 4866 were received in the Knowledge Verification Exercise Authorization Procedure. We examined the results of the Knowledge Verification tests with in-depth analyzes. Between 2012 and 2016, List A received the highest number of candidates for the Knowledge Test, 21123 registrations, 10007 presentations. The success rate of List A varies between 15% and 19%, knowing that List A is a list that collects all newcomers, the Knowledge Testing tests for this list is a competition. List B received 562 entries, including 413 entries between 2012 and 2016 with a pass rate of 24% to 41%. The tests for this list are in the form of an examination. List C received 4877 entries, of which 4,227 entries between 2012 and 2016 and the success rate is 56% to 80%. List C is also an examination that gathers all the doctors with diplomas outside the European Union who are already established in France. We have observed that the disappearance of the list C is partly due to the device of the Exercise Authorization Procedure which allows the regularization of the doctors with diploma outside the European Union. Law 2012-157 of February 1, 2012, which modifies the conditions and the perimeter of participation of the candidates in the tests of verification of the Knowledge is one of the causes of transfer of the candidates from List A to List C. Finally, the doctors registered on the board of the French Medical Association, and coming from The Exercise Authorization Procedure, occupy a proportion which is about 10% in certain departments in France. This figure shows the number of these doctors is almost as important as before and that their presence is demanded in the whole of France. In some départements, we have seen that the presence of doctors with diplomas outside the European Union increases the territorial medical density in France, demonstrating the importance of their presence at the local level, as well as in rural and mountain areas. The only control of the entry of doctors with diplomas outside the European Union is not sufficient; The continuing training of these doctors should be considered in order to improve their medical level of practice and the territorial reorientation of the facility could be a solution that would increase the supply of care at the local level
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Mousquès, Julien. "Soins primaires et performance : de la variabilité des pratiques des médecins généralistes au rôle de l'organisation des soins." Thesis, Paris 9, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA090061/document.
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La recherche économique considère le médecin généraliste comme un agent offrant à l’échange information et services intellectuels en santé à des principaux. L’imparfaite convergence entre leurs objectifs, comme la présence d’incertitudes et d’asymétries d’information, conduisent le médecin à « fixer » les quantités, l’effort fourni et la qualité des soins et services rendus. Cette thèse vise à identifier le rôle des caractéristiques des généralistes, de leur mode d’exercice ou d’organisation, sur la performance de leur activité, en s’appuyant sur trois articles. Le premier analyse les déterminants de la variabilité de prescription d’antibiotiques pour rhinopharyngite aiguë, le second évalue l’impact du travail en équipe avec des infirmières sur la qualité et l’efficience des soins pour les patients diabétiques, et le troisième évalue l’impact de l’exercice regroupé pluriprofessionnel sur l’activité et l’efficience productive des généralistes et l’efficience des recours aux soins ambulatoires de leurs patients. Ces travaux de recherche permettent d’interroger la faiblesse relative de la régulation de l’offre de soins ambulatoire en France en matière de politique de maîtrise de l’évolution des dépenses de santé en comparaison de celle portant sur la demandeAccording to economic research, the general practitioner is considered as an agent that offered information and intellectual services in health to principals. Imperfect convergence between their objectives, like the presence of uncertainties and information asymmetries, lead the physician “to fix” the quantities, the effort and the quality of the care and services delivered. Based on three articles, this thesis aims at identifying the role of the characteristics of the general practitioners and of their practice organization, on activity performance. The first articles analyzes the determinants of the antibiotic prescription for acute rhinopharyngitis variability, the second evaluates the impact of team working with nurses on the quality and the efficiency of the care for diabetic patients, and the third evaluates the impact of multi-professional group practices on the activity and the productive efficiency of GPs and on the utilization of ambulatory health care and by their patients. These researches question the relative weakness of the ambulatory health care regulation in France in terms of health care expenditure containment policies in comparison with that bearing on demand
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Chung, Chi-Ming, and 鍾啟明. "The Practitioner of Ultimate Competitive Sport and Lifelong Exercise—KE, MING-MAO." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6de3e8.
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Athletics is not only the mother of sports but also the first event that the Republic of China took part in the Olympic Games. Numerous athletes made their peak performance in the Olympic Games, but few could continue to shine in the field after retiring. This research is a case study of KE, MING-MAO, who took part in the 19th Olympic Games Mexico and the 6th Asian Games Bangkok. He is also the first athlete breaking the record of 50 seconds in domestic 400m sprint and the domestic record holder of 200 meters and 400 meters in Masters Athletics. The aims of this research are as follows:(1) To understand Mr. KE, MING-MAO’s life story and studying process.(2) To understand how Mr. KE was trained and what domestic events he’s been in.(3) To understand what international events Mr. KE has joined.(4) To understand Mr. KE’s interest in Go game and how he trains his students. After the study plan was made, literature analysis and in-depth interview were adopted. The results of this research are as followed:(1) Despite the poverty in childhood, Mr. KE, MING-MAO didn’t give up his study and graduated from Taiwan Provincial Sports College with the faith in athletics and the support of his family.(2) Since the sophomore year of the senior high school, Mr. KE had won gold medals in all the domestic 400m sprints and has remained to be undefeated in Masters Athletic events. He shows great sportsmanship by sparing no effort in every event.(3) Mr. KE worked hard to realize his dreams and achieved his goals of taking part in the Asian Games and the Olympic Games. Though he didn’t win any prize, the concept of lifelong exercise has influenced him. (4) Besides cultivating top athletes like HSIEH,CHIN-CHANG, Mr. KE popularizes the concepts of lifelong exercise and popular movement as well. Go game is Mr. KE’s another specialty, and this is the best example of breaking the myth “to be all brawn and no brain.”
Books on the topic "Exercise practitioner"
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1944-, Kleitz Ch, ed. Mammography: 83 radiological exercises for students and practitioners. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
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Case studies in corrections: Examples, exercises, discussion points, and practitioner interviews. Durham, N.C: Carolina Academic Press, 2011.
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Applied exercise psychology: A practitioner's guide to improving client health and fitness. New York, NY: Springer Pub., 2006.
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Radiology of the hand: 147 radiological exercises for students and practitioners. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1987.
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Ultrasound of the abdomen: 114 radiological exercises for students and practitioners. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
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Radiodiagnosis of the skull: 103 radiological exercises for students and practitioners. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.
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Pearson, Dympna. Weight management: A practitioner's guide. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
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F, Cattin, ed. Cervical spine: Tricks and traps : 60 radiological exercises for students and practitioners. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1990.
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Hutter, R. I. (Vana), and J. R. (Rob) Pijpers. "Practitioner development." In Applied Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 215–32. First Edition. | New York: Routledge, 2020. |: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429503702-14.
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Knowles, Zoe, Andy Miles, Emma Huntley, Gareth Picknell, Stephen D. Mellalieu, Sheldon Hanton, Emily Ryall, et al. "The Reflective Sport and Exercise Science Practitioner." In Reflective Practice in the Sport and Exercise Sciences, 27–37. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003198758-4.
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Valentine, Jo A., and Gail A. Bolan. "Naming the Patient: Partner Notification and Congenital Syphilis." In Public Health Ethics Analysis, 195–206. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92080-7_14.
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AbstractUrgent public health problems often compel Public health professionals into situations where individual rights and population health are seemingly in conflict. Legal actions that impact an individual’s behavior may be ethically justified, but the exercise of authority alone, despite being legal, may not always be the best option. Public health interventions are more effective when practitioners have gained an individual’s trust and compliance becomes voluntary. Cooperation, not confrontation, at the individual and at the community levels, is as necessary as authority. Applying an ethical framework in the case of partner notification (PN) for sexually transmitted disease intervention supports the process of relationship-building between the practitioner and the client and leads to more successful disease intervention and prevention, promoting public health, and improving trust between local health departments and the communities they serve.
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Carvalho, Gizela, Henrique C. Carvalho, Débora D. F. M. Rocco, Letícia P. Moreira, Marcos Tadeu T. Pacheco, and Landulfo Silveira. "Identification of Metabolites in Urine of Physical Exercise Practitioners by Raman Spectroscopy." In XXVI Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering, 821–24. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2517-5_126.
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Christensen, Line Søgaard. "Homo Repetitivus and Anthropotechnics: Exercise Systems, Elite Practitioners, and Teaching Missions in the Hebrew Bible." In »What is Human?«, 45–64. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666531194.45.
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Gato, Maria Assunção, Elisabete Tomaz, Pedro Costa, Ana Rita Cruz, and Margarida Perestrelo. "An impact self-assessment tool for creative tourism with insights from its application to the CREATOUR ® project." In Creative tourism: activating cultural resources and engaging creative travellers, 225–38. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789243536.0029.
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Abstract Considering the small scale of creative tourism, the limited resources in any specific case, and the high engagement level of stakeholders, a self-assessment exercise (i.e. carried out by the organizers/promoters of creative tourism activities) is most appropriate in order to monitor activities and results. Thus, within the CREATOUR ® project, a self-assessment process for creative tourism initiatives was developed, beginning with an initial diagnosis and proceeding to an assessment of outcomes and impacts. The process and tools were co-developed between researchers and practitioners to help various types of creative tourism organizers to measure, monitor, and evaluate the course of their activities in order to improve management and decisionmaking processes. The main objective was to assist practitioners and stakeholder organizations to become more aware of the intentional and unintentional effects generated by creative tourism activities, highlighting the potential benefits of artistic, cultural, and creative experiences for territorial development. This article is divided into three parts: part I outlines the development of the self-assessment process and tools; part II presents a synthesis of overall findings from the CREATOUR ® project resulting from this self-assessment process; and part III lists take-aways for practitioners.
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Huang, Shuyan, Qiongqiong Liu, Jiahao Chen, Xiangen Hu, Zitao Liu, and Weiqi Luo. "A Design of a Simple Yet Effective Exercise Recommendation System in K-12 Online Learning." In Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium, 208–12. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_36.
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Bakas, Fiona Eva, Tiago Vinagre de Castro, and Ana Osredkar. "User-centred design for creative tourism prototyping: the Maribor experience." In Creative tourism: activating cultural resources and engaging creative travellers, 93–104. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789243536.0013.
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Abstract This chapter discusses how the principles of usercentred design and emotional mapping can be used to help tourism and culture practitioners design prototypes of creative tourism experiences. Creative tourism is a novel interpretation of cultural tourism that incorporates within the tourism experience the dimensions of active participation, creative self-expression, learning, and community engagement (Duxbury and Richards, 2019), underlined by an immersive connection to place. On one hand, to create successful creative tourism experiences, it is important that the tourism experience designers empathize with the end users/participants and identify with their needs and motivations. By adopting a user-centred design approach, this empathy can be achieved in practical ways and then included in the design of the final tourism experience. On the other hand, emotional mapping deepens engagement with places, fostered by a multisensorial immersive exploring exercise that challenges participants to link places to their own emotions and feelings.
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van Nes, Akkelies, and Claudia Yamu. "Space Syntax Applied in Urban Practice." In Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies, 213–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59140-3_7.
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AbstractIn this chapter, we discuss the application of space syntax in consultancyforurbanplanningdesign and practice. First, we present the scientific challenges to tying general understandings and theoriesto urban planning and design practice. Some elementary principles for communicating results from research and theories to practitioners are demonstrated. We further explain the principles for successful master planning and the principles for designing vital and safe public realms related to the use of space syntax. This is followed by a discussion on how to avoid common errors when planning for vital neighbourhoods and cities. We present examples from practice where space syntax has played a major role. These include regenerating Trafalgar Square in London, evaluating various proposals for a new road link in the Dutch city of Leiden, developing strategies for the whole province of North Holland, and densification strategies in the Norwegian town of Bergen. In the conclusion, we discuss major pitfalls when applying space syntax to urban design and planning projects in practice. Exercises are provided at the end of the chapter.
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Tigard, Daniel W. "Big Data and the Threat to Moral Responsibility in Healthcare." In Datenreiche Medizin und das Problem der Einwilligung, 11–25. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62987-1_2.
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AbstractTechnological innovations in healthcare, perhaps now more than ever, are posing decisive opportunities for improvements in diagnostics, treatment, and overall quality of life. The use of artificial intelligence and big data processing, in particular, stands to revolutionize healthcare systems as we once knew them. But what effect do these technologies have on human agency and moral responsibility in healthcare? How can patients, practitioners, and the general public best respond to potential obscurities in responsibility? In this paper, I investigate the social and ethical challenges arising with newfound medical technologies, specifically the ways in which artificially intelligent systems may be threatening moral responsibility in the delivery of healthcare. I argue that if our ability to locate responsibility becomes threatened, we are left with a difficult choice of trade-offs. In short, it might seem that we should exercise extreme caution or even restraint in our use of state-of-the-art systems, but thereby lose out on such benefits as improved quality of care. Alternatively, we could embrace novel healthcare technologies but in doing so we might need to loosen our commitment to locating moral responsibility when patients come to harm; for even if harms are fewer – say, as a result of data-driven diagnostics – it may be unclear who or what is responsible when things go wrong. What is clear, at least, is that the shift toward artificial intelligence and big data calls for significant revisions in expectations on how, if at all, we might locate notions of responsibility in emerging models of healthcare.
Conference papers on the topic "Exercise practitioner"
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Waszkowski, Robert, Tadeusz Nowicki, and Agata Chodowska Wasilewska. "Designing and Implementing Simulation Exercises for State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001632.
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The paper presents business processes related to the work of sanitary services in cases of an epidemic of foodborne diseases. On their basis, simulation exercises according to given scenarios were developed. The work is related to the implementation of a project financed by the National Center for Research and Development. The activities of the staff of the county-level State Sanitary Inspectorate were analyzed in terms of actions taken in crisis situations related to the emergence of a large food poisoning outbreak or an epidemic of food-borne infectious disease. The same analysis was carried out in the scope of actions performed by individual teams participating in the simulation exercises. The result of the analysis was presented in the form of business process diagrams made in BPMN notation. The architecture of the simulation exercise support system assumes the use of a number of components responsible for the preparation of data and exercise scenarios, the implementation of exercises in training teams, supervision by exercise management, monitoring of the current course of the exercise, and review after activities.Business processes perfectly illustrate what activities are performed by individual groups of people during exercises and allow for monitoring and measuring indicators of the team’s work effectiveness. Business processes have been divided into two groups of processes. The first group of processes concerns activities performed only by persons exercising. These are processes that describe the activities performed during an epidemiological inquiry. In this case, describing the activities in the form of a process allows the practitioners to increase the speed of reaction in making decisions that directly affect the course of the investigation because they have at their disposal the entire range of data processed by the process along with the full picture of the situation.The second group of business processes describes the activities of the teams for preparing exercises, play-offs, and evaluating the results in the form of a simulation exercise scenario. The activities listed in this group of processes allow the participants of the above-mentioned teams for the efficient management of the tasks of the training team, for monitoring their activities, and for full control of the simulation. The training preparation team receives tasks related to the preparation of the environment and data for a given exercise scenario and the commissioning of individual system components at the start of the simulation exercises. The play-off team receives tasks related to the preparation of answers to the questions of the practitioners, reactions to decisions made by the practitioner team, and the control of the simulation time. The results analysis team receives tasks related to the analysis of the history of processes, the analysis of decisions and actions, the assessment of the course of exercises, and the skills of the training team. Each team receives a full range of data processed by individual processes in this group.The processes of both groups are interconnected. Activities undertaken by the training team within the processes of the first group directly affect the appearance of activities in the processes of the second group. Mutual communication within the performed tasks allows for simulation exercises in accordance with the modeled exercise scenario. The simulation exercise support system records each action and decision of the participants in the history of the processes along with the exact timestamp and a record of who performed the action. The concept of the AAR subsystem (after action review) is based on historical data of tasks performed within the framework of the processes, enabling the reconstruction of the course of the exercise with the possibility of starting the exercise from a selected moment. The paper will also present the methodology of designing interfaces for a system of computer-aided simulation exercises.
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Kardon, Joshua B. "Forensic Engineering: Risks of Performance-Based Engineering for Sustainability or Resilience." In IABSE Symposium, Guimarães 2019: Towards a Resilient Built Environment Risk and Asset Management. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/guimaraes.2019.0775.
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<p>Professional engineers in the US may be found negligent and therefore liable for damages arising from failure to exercise a level of care, diligence, and skill exercised by other reputable practitioners in similar circumstances. If the professional engineer has accepted the obligation to design for sustainability or resilience, where those terms or performance levels are ill-defined or open to interpretation depending on assumptions or outcomes, the professional engineer may be accepting an extreme or uninsurable risk.</p><p>This paper describes the standard of care, which is the measure of a practitioner’s performance as it relates to professional negligence. It examines the relationship between the standard of care and design for sustainability or resilience. The paper addresses 1) a discussion of the sources of the practitioner’s responsibility to design for sustainability or resilience, 2) an explanation of the concept of the standard of care, and 3) the professional liability pitfalls inherent in that design effort. The subject may be unique to professional practice in societies where litigation is used to allocate responsibility for damages, but it may also be universally relevant for practitioners wishing to understand professional responsibilities for such designs.</p>
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"SESinNZ: reconnecting Academics and Practitioners." In Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand Annual Conference 2017. The Journal of Sport and Exercise Science, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.36905/jses.2017.01.01.
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"SESinNZ: reconnecting Academics and Practitioners." In Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand Annual Conference 2017. The Journal of Sport and Exercise Science, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36905/jses.2019.0001.
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Pacheco de Lima, Arthur, and Priscilla Gonçalves de Azevedo. "Thebenefitsofballetfitnessonthequality oflifeofitspractitioners." In 7th International Congress on Scientific Knowledge. Biológicas & Saúde, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25242/8868113820212407.
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BalletFitnessisaphysicalactivitythatincludesclassicballetmovementsassociatedwithaerobic training, which may have gained in muscle hypertrophy. This work aims tounderstandthecontributionofBalletFitness,itsinfluence,andbenefitsforthequalityoflife of its practitioner, in the physical, social and mental aspects. As a methodologicalstrategy, we used a systematic literature review, as well as the analysis of works suchasarticles, dissertations, theses, and course completion papers researched through the term"Ballet Fitness" in Portuguese, between the years 2016 to 2021, in the database: GoogleAcademic, Scielo and BVS. Among the results obtained, it was found that Ballet Fitnesscanbeused topromotethe qualityoflifeofits practitioners,asit isanactivitythathas adirect relationship to personal achievement, through exercises typical of a classic balletclass associated with exercises practiced in gyms. It was possible to conclude that in thephysical aspects, Ballet Fitness provides a significant difference in the results of arm,chest,hipcircumference,increaseddisposition,bodydefinition,weightloss,improvementinphysicalconditioningandendurance,increasedflexibility,improvementin mobility, the enhancement of physical fitness and strength of the lower limbs. In thesocial aspects, the creation of bonds of friendship between the practitioners of BalletFitness was found, and the reason for making people more confident, not only in theclassroomenvironmentbutinsocietyingeneral. Inthementalaspects,itwaspossibletoobserve personal satisfaction through the realization of a dream, which is the practice ofballet through physical activity,reduction in the level of stress, pleasure in the practice,feeling of accomplishment, and, mainly, improvement in self-esteem. And in terms ofquality of life, it was possible to positively observe the perception of individuals abouttheirpositioninthepracticeofBalletFitness,withinthecontextofthecultureandvaluessystems in which it is inserted and in relation to its goals, expectations, standards, andconcerns.
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Kardon, Joshua B. "Forensic Engineering: Professional Liability Risks of Engineering Sustainable Materials and Systems, Designing for Durability, and Pushing Materials to Their Limits." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.1815.
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<p>Professional engineers in the US may be found negligent and therefore liable for damages arising from failure to exercise a level of care, diligence, and skill exercised by other reputable practitioners in similar circumstances in an effort to accomplish the purpose for which the professional engineer was hired. If the professional engineer has accepted the obligation to design for sustainability or durability, or where materials, elements, or assemblies are intended by design to be “pushed to their limits” in normal service, the professional engineer may be accepting an extreme or uninsurable risk.</p><p>The subject of this paper is the standard of care and the relationship between the standard of care and design for sustainability or durability, or design where the engineered features are expected to be “pushed to their limits” in normal service. The paper’s contents include 1) an explanation of the concept of the standard of care, and 2) the professional liability pitfalls inherent in a design effort intended to result in sustainability or durability, or intended to achieve limit-state behavior in normal service. The subject is relevant for practitioners wishing to understand professional responsibilities for such designs.</p>
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Vanem, Erik, and Arne Bang Huseby. "Environmental Contours Based on a Direct Sampling Approach and the IFORM Approach: Contribution to a Benchmark Study." In ASME 2020 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2020-18041.
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Abstract Environmental contours are often applied in probabilistic structural reliability analysis to identify extreme environmental conditions that may give rise to extreme loads and responses. It represents an approximate method for performing long-term extreme response analyses in cases where full long-term analyses are not feasible due to computationally heavy and time-demanding response calculations. There are various methods for deriving environmental contours given a set of metocean data. These relate to different approaches for modelling the joint behaviour of the metocean variables, i.e., a joint distribution function fitted to the data, but also different ways of establishing the environmental contour given a joint distribution for the environmental variables. In light of this, a benchmark exercise was announced at OMAE 2019 [1], asking for contributions from different practitioners involved with environmental contours. Various bivariate datasets are provided and two exercises are specified for which different solutions are elicited. The first part of the exercise concerns the estimation of the actual contours, whereas the second part relates to the uncertainty characterization of the contours in light of sampling variability. This paper is a response to this announcement and provides one contribution to these benchmark exercises; environmental contours based on a direct sampling approach as well as contours based on the IFORM approach will be presented. Both sets of contours are based on the same models for the joint distribution of the environmental variables, i.e., a conditional model where the joint distribution is modelled as a product of a marginal model for one variable and a conditional model for the other. Both the joint modelling of the environmental variables and the different approaches to estimate environmental contours are described in this paper and the results for the provided datasets are shown.
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Gashenko, Olga Viacheslavovna. "Health preparation of the elderly population by the special complex." In All-Russian Scientific Conference with International Participation. Publishing house Sreda, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31483/r-75821.
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The article discusses the state of health and ways ofhealing the elderly, medical and social problems faced by this category of citizens. A study was conducted to identify the incidence rate and to determine the effectiveness of the introduction of a special complex for the elderly, statistics were collected together with general practitioners and general practitioners of clinics in Vladivostok. Conclusions were drawn that a special set of exercises has no contraindications and is generally available to the elderly.
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Wang, Lulu, Ahmed Al-Jumaily, and Andrew Kilding. "Computer-Aided Diagnostic Tool for Lung Diseases." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-50550.
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Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) and Exercise-induced asthma (EIA) are used synonymously to describe acute lung airway narrowing occurring during and/or after exercise. Tools usually used by health practitioners to assess the severity of EIB or EIA symptoms include bronchodilator tests and various bronchial provocation procedures including spirometer and eucapnic voluntary hyperpnoea (EVH) challenge system, there is no tool that is able to monitor the severity of acute lung airway narrowing. This study aims to design a graphical user interface (GUI) to monitor the severity of acute lung airway narrowing using MATLAB software. The GUI will present the measurement data into a simple and user-friendly program consisting of patient information, EVH test analysis and detection of EIA and EIB. Success of this project widens the usage of EVH challenge in medical areas and the GUI may serve as a new clinical computer-aided diagnostic tool to help healthcare professionals non-invasively monitor the severity of asthma, EIA and EIB.
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Haselsteiner, Andreas F., Ryan G. Coe, Lance Manuel, Phong T. T. Nguyen, Nevin Martin, and Aubrey Eckert-Gallup. "A Benchmarking Exercise on Estimating Extreme Environmental Conditions: Methodology and Baseline Results." In ASME 2019 38th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2019-96523.
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Abstract A wide range of methods have been proposed for the derivation of environmental contours for marine structures that must meet reliability targets. An environmental contour is a set of joint extremes of environmental conditions associated with a target return period. In general, environmental contour methods help with the prediction of some future critical combinations of environmental conditions (e.g., wind, waves, current) at a location of interest based on a limited dataset, thus allowing designers to ensure a prescribed structural reliability. In fact, some of these contour methods are specifically recommended by technical specifications and standards as part of a design process. This paper outlines the rules and procedures for a collaborative benchmarking exercise — focused on open comparison — in which researchers are invited to develop and present their own contour derivation approaches based on common datasets that will be available to all. Hindcast and observational datasets are considered and two exercises are planned: One focuses on applying environmental contour methods to a wide range of datasets and the other focuses on uncertainty characterization. Besides describing the benchmark’s methodology, this paper presents baseline results of computed contours following current recommendations. The overall goals of this endeavor are: (i) to work towards the development of more robust statistical models and contour construction methods, (ii) to encourage increased discussion in the international research community and among practitioners, and (iii) to support ongoing efforts to improve technical specifications and standards.
Reports on the topic "Exercise practitioner"
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Schwantes, Jon M., Matthew Douglas, Shannon M. Morley, David Hill, Paul Thompson, Peter Santi, Paul L. Gassman, et al. Joint IAEA/NNSA International Workshop Nuclear Forensics Methodologies for Practitioners 2013 Scenario Based Exercise – Version 4.0 Instructor’s Manual. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), October 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/1115842.
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Phillips, Jake. Understanding the impact of inspection on probation. Sheffield Hallam University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7190/shu.hkcij.05.2021.
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This research sought to understand the impact of probation inspection on probation policy, practice and practitioners. This important but neglected area of study has significant ramifications because the Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation has considerable power to influence policy through its inspection regime and research activities. The study utilised a mixed methodological approach comprising observations of inspections and interviews with people who work in probation, the Inspectorate and external stakeholders. In total, 77 people were interviewed or took part in focus groups. Probation practitioners, managers and leaders were interviewed in the weeks after an inspection to find out how they experienced the process of inspection. Staff at HMI Probation were interviewed to understand what inspection is for and how it works. External stakeholders representing people from the voluntary sector, politics and other non-departmental bodies were interviewed to find out how they used the work of inspection in their own roles. Finally, leaders within the National Probation Service and Her Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service were interviewed to see how inspection impacts on policy more broadly. The data were analysed thematically with five key themes being identified. Overall, participants were positive about the way inspection is carried out in the field of probation. The main findings are: 1. Inspection places a burden on practitioners and organisations. Practitioners talked about the anxiety that a looming inspection created and how management teams created additional pressures which were hard to cope with on top of already high workloads. Staff responsible for managing the inspection and with leadership positions talked about the amount of time the process of inspection took up. Importantly, inspection was seen to take people away from their day jobs and meant other priorities were side-lined, even if temporarily. However, the case interviews that practitioners take part in were seen as incredibly valuable exercises which gave staff the opportunity to reflect on their practice and receive positive feedback and validation for their work. 2. Providers said that the findings and conclusions from inspections were often accurate and, to some extent, unsurprising. However, they sometimes find it difficult to implement recommendations due to reports failing to take context into account. Negative reports have a serious impact on staff morale, especially for CRCs and there was concern about the impact of negative findings on a provider’s reputation. 3. External stakeholders value the work of the Inspectorate. The Inspectorate is seen to generate highly valid and meaningful data which stakeholders can use in their own roles. This can include pushing for policy reform or holding government to account from different perspectives. In particular, thematic inspections were seen to be useful here. 4. The regulatory landscape in probation is complex with an array of actors working to hold providers to account. When compared to other forms of regulation such as audit or contract management the Inspectorate was perceived positively due to its methodological approach as well as the way it reflects the values of probation itself. 5. Overall, the inspectorate appears to garner considerable legitimacy from those it inspects. This should, in theory, support the way it can impact on policy and practice. There are some areas for development here though such as more engagement with service users. While recognising that the Inspectorate has made a concerted effort to do this in the last two years participants all felt that more needs to be done to increase that trust between the inspectorate and service users. Overall, the Inspectorate was seen to be independent and 3 impartial although this belief was less prevalent amongst people in CRCs who argued that the Inspectorate has been biased towards supporting its own arguments around reversing the now failed policy of Transforming Rehabilitation. There was some debate amongst participants about how the Inspectorate could, or should, enforce compliance with its recommendations although most people were happy with the primarily relational way of encouraging compliance with sanctions for non-compliance being considered relatively unnecessary. To conclude, the work of the Inspectorate has a significant impact on probation policy, practice and practitioners. The majority of participants were positive about the process of inspection and the Inspectorate more broadly, notwithstanding some of the issues raised in the findings. There are some developments which the Inspectorate could consider to reduce the burden inspection places on providers and practitioners and enhance its impact such as amending the frequency of inspection, improving the feedback given to practitioners and providing more localised feedback, and working to reduce or limit perceptions of bias amongst people in CRCs. The Inspectorate could also do more to capture the impact it has on providers and practitioners – both positive and negative - through existing procedures that are in place such as post-case interview surveys and tracking the implementation of recommendations.