scholarly journals CHANGE-OF-DIRECTION DEFICIT IN COLLEGIATE WOMEN’S RUGBY UNION PLAYERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Lockie

Change-of-direction (COD) ability is an essential component of rugby union. As most COD tests use total time to measure COD performance, the COD deficit has been developed as a metric to isolate COD ability independent of linear sprint speed. This study investigated relationships between sprint time, 505 time, and COD deficit in collegiate women’s rugby union players. Seventeen players from the one team performed a 20-m sprint (0-5, 0-10, and 0-20 m intervals were measured), and the 505 from each leg. The COD deficit for both legs was calculated as the difference between average 505 and 10-m time. Correlations were calculated between the 505 and COD deficit with the sprint intervals (p ≤ 0.05). To compare 505 time and COD deficit, z-scores were derived; the difference in these scores were evaluated for each participant. The COD deficit did not correlate with the sprint interval times (r = -0.370 to -0.045). Right-leg 505 time did correlate with the 0-10 and 0-20 m intervals (r = 0.483-552). Six of 17 participants for the left leg, and five of 17 for the right leg, were classified differently for COD ability when comparing standardized scores for 505 time versus COD deficit. More than half the participants (53-59%) had meaningful differences between 505 time and COD deficit for each leg. These results suggested that the COD deficit may be a more isolated measure of COD ability and provided a different measure of this ability compared to 505 time in collegiate women’s rugby union players.

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 654
Author(s):  
Morwenna Hoeks

Disjunctive questions are ambiguous: they can either be interpreted as polar questions (PolQs), as open disjunctive questions (OpenQs), or as closed alternative questions (ClosedQ). The goal of this paper is to show that the difference in interpretation between these questions can be derived via effects of focus marking directly. In doing so, the proposal brings out the striking parallel between the prosody of questions with foci/contrastive topics on the one hand and that of alternative questions on the other. Unlike previous approaches, this proposal does not rely on structural differences between AltQs and PolQs derived via ellipsis or syntactic movement. To show how this works out, an account of focus and contrastive topic marking in questions is put forward in which f-marking in questions determines what constitutes a possible answer by signaling what the speaker's QUD is like. By imposing a congruence condition between f-marked questions and their answers that requires answers to resolve the question itself as well as its signaled QUD, we predict the right answerhood conditions for disjunctive questions.


2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 377-395
Author(s):  
Agostino Marchetto

The contribution starts with a status quaestionis which concerns its title about the hermeneutics of Vatican ii, well based in historical background. The roots are grounded in the difference between “event” and “occurrence” – in italian “evento” e “avvenimento”. This is linked with the change in the perspective of historiography realized in the first part of the last century. The vision of continuity (see “Annales”) was put aside, introducing the one of “events”, which are linked with “ruptures” and not continuity in the course of history. With this frame we can understand that in the one of the Church there must be consideration for the hermeneutics expressed finally in the formula of the title closed by a question mark, that is: D.H.: rupture or reform and renewal in the continuity of the unique subject the Church? The answer is: no rupture in discontinuity but reform and renewal. The initial input of the contribution are the speeches of Pope Francis in the U.S.A. and U.N., an answer to the actual Sitz im Leben as far as religious freedom in nowadays society, 50 years after D.H., in a moment in which more attention is given to the texts of Vatican ii, concretely avoiding to consider “the Council of the Press” (Pope Benedict) instead of the one “of the conciliar Fathers” (= participants). The procedure of the author is certainly inspired by the volume Vatican ii. La liberté religieuse, ed. by J. Hamer and Y. Congar. The first point of attention therefore in the analysis is “homogeneous evolution of the pontifical doctrine on the matter”. It is a fundamental vision which allows even a dogmatic evolution, if it is homogeneous. In fact, the Declaration represented a development of the doctrine, a step forward in the progress of civilization, a progress in the catholic doctrine but in the line of no contradiction. And at this point the thoughts of the two fundamental pillars allowing this step forward are presented; they are J. Courtney Murray and P. Pavan. Very important is the Courtney’s statement in this regard, the following: “The doctrine of D.H. is in plenitude traditional, but it is also new, in the sense that tradition is always a developing and progressive tradition”. The author presents later on some essential elements of the right to religious freedom, with the most important and solemn affirmation in the text (N. 2): This Vatican Council declares that the human person has the right to religious freedom. It is truly an historical affirmation in the life of the Church and also for the human family. It follows the study of the relation between religious freedom and the public powers and the illustration of the education to exercise freedom under the light of the Revelation. In the final part of the essay the author analyses…some consequences of D.H. without forgetting a judgment about the actual situation of religious freedom in the world which is becoming always more serious and worrying. Here two citations of Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, Secretary of the Relations with the States of the Papal Secretariat, are exemplary, that is: “Unfortunately we have to admit that for years the question of the violence against Christians was not taken in serious consideration. – He concluded: Even if we cannot speak of persecution in the old continent [Europe] nevertheless we must not underestimate the rather alarming phenomenon of the intolerance of religious character”.


2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-163
Author(s):  
Marko Pišev

In the 1980s numerous debates were held in the House of Lords on the scientific research of embryos, with certain participants attempting to point out the difference between two styles of thought, namely, religious and scientific thought. Yet was the conflict in the House of Lords between two styles of thinking, or rather between the proponents of the scientific approach, on the one hand, and the proponents of religious thought, on the other, for intellectual and moral domination in society? Clearly, these debates hinted at something beyond and something more complex than a mere concern about embryos. What was actually being problematized? Or, to put it differently, to what extent does the use of bioreproductive technologies call into question the notions and issues of ethics, procreation and kinship, regardless of the religious dogma that considers the possibilities of their application? This paper will be confined to an analysis of Islamic dogma and any correspondences between this dogma and certain aspects of the new reproductive technologies. Still, in order to be able to discuss the relation between the new reproductive technologies and Islamic ethics, it is necessary to devote the greater part of this paper to an interpretation of how man is perceived in the context of the Koran.


2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Ridayati Ridayati

The increasing of the vehicles flow on Yogya-Solo street causing congestion at some points in the Klaten district. The main cause of the congestion is the number of traffic violations which lead to the accidents. Bendogantungan, south Klaten, is one of the most congested point in this district. This study is aimed to determine the causes and the effects of traffic light violations and to examine the difference o f traffic light violations based on the point of violations in the intersection of bendogantungan, Yogya-Solo street. The results show that the practical mind-set of Klaten community in driving has created an instant community. Many people of that community have not realized yet on the importance of traffic regulation, this causes the number of accident. The result of analysis using SPSS 15 shows that there is a significant difference between the one way traffic violation at Empu Sedah street and eastward of Yogya-Solo street. The difference also appears between the one way traffic violations at Empu Sedah street and the westward of Yogya-Solo street. It also happens between the right turn of Ki Ageng Pandanaran street and the westward of Yogya-Solo street.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (88) ◽  
pp. 208
Author(s):  
Aleksandrs Baikovs

The paper deals with the category of “values”, the right as a value, and fundamental values of law; including freedom, justice, and equality are analyzed.The relevance of the research is determined not only by the apparent lack of exploration of the problem but also by the fact that the value of right and legal values determine direction and meaning, as well as the content of the rules of law, which is their normative expression, and, ultimately, appearing as a kind of basis for the legal culture, the source of the legal consciousness’s formation and establishing a legal order, ensuring the efficiency of legal regulations due to the using the embodiment in reality of freedom, justice, equality.Legal norms themselves acquire the importance of values and become the subject of evaluation. Among values themselves, which act as an ideal justification of the rules of law, the rules of law themselves and assessments, on the one hand, there are not only close ties but also mutual transitions. Therefore, both their interrelated explanations and differentiation are necessary.In this regard, the role and importance of rights and of the abovestated legal values, including the historically-legal aspect, their historical conditionality are disclosed, the semantic content and the importance in the establishment of the legitimacy regime are analyzed, the points of view expressed in the  research literature on the nature of legal values, signs, hierarchy,  the role in social and normative regulation are considered, the difference between value and the object of value or good is emphasized.


1989 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 451-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob Sadé ◽  
Susan Kremer ◽  
Anat Shatz ◽  
Irena Levit

The extent of mastoid pneumatization in 150 otosclerotic ears was compared with that of 150 healthy control ears. The size of mastoid pneumatization was measured by use of the Schüller lateral x-ray projection with the help of computed planimetry. The measurements showed the average pneumatized area in otosclerotic ears to be 17.4 ± 5 cm2, in contrast to 12.9 ± 4 cm2 for the healthy control ears. The difference between the two groups was highly significant (p<.0001). While both groups showed a bell-shaped distribution of the measured pneumatized area, the curve of the otosclerotic ears was shifted significantly to the right. Our findings indicate a link between otosclerosis on the one hand and highly pneumatized mastoids on the other. This link between a hereditary disease and a specific type of pneumatization points to the likelihood that heredity also plays some role in determining the final type of pneumatization.


1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 831-834 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fudin ◽  
Darryl B. Feldman

Geometrical stimuli (48 6-item arrays of familiar forms, e.g., circle), tachistoscopically presented in the right or left visual field, were more accurately perceived in the right than left visual field by 15 college students. Targets about half the length of the displays exposed here were perceived with equal facility in both visual fields (Bryden, 1960). Results suggest that length of array might affect the difference in perceptual accuracy of forms shown in the right and left visual fields. Figures in the right visual field were predominantly processed from left to right, and forms in the left visual field from right to left. Since more symbols were identified in the right than left visual field, the left to right encoding sequence may be more efficient than a right to left movement. Limited experience of most Ss in reading symbols from left to right is probably only one factor. Extensive experience reading alphabetical material from left to right might have developed the physiological mechanism underpinning this sequence more than the one serving the opposite movement.


1965 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 102-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Axel Seeberg

A small Corinthian phiale mesomphalos of which a few joining sherds were found at Perachora, had been decorated outside with animals in a rather perfunctory style, and inside with a figure-scene, a frieze with the figures' feet towards the centre of the bowl (plate XXIIIa). The surface was finished differently inside and outside, a striking instance, as J. K. Brock points out, of variation in technique without chronological implications. Surface-finish and painted decoration together also exemplify how a change in the entire approach of Corinthian artists—both potter and painter, in this case—will often accompany a change of subject-matter. The filling-ornaments enhance the difference: outside, a rather dense filling of the usual solid shapes; inside, a dot-rosette only.The subject of the inside picture is described as ‘three padded dancers, the one in the middle holding a horn’. Padded dancers are undoubtedly present, the best-preserved figure (on the right) is wholly typical, except for his excited gesture indicating that something unusual is afoot. But his neighbour is different. Nude, slim-waisted, strong-limbed, he comes striding in from the left, turning his head towards the quarter whence he came. He too has lively arms, their length expressively exaggerated; in his right hand he holds what could certainly be a misdrawn horn, though it should be said that padded dancers take better care of their drink.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Darrall-Jones ◽  
Gregory Roe ◽  
Shane Carney ◽  
Ryan Clayton ◽  
Padraic Phibbs ◽  
...  

Purpose:To evaluate the difference in performance of the 30-15 Intermittent Fitness Test (30–15IFT) across 4 squads in a professional rugby union club in the UK and consider body mass in the interpretation of the end velocity of the 30-15IFT (VIFT).Methods:One hundred fourteen rugby union players completed the 30-15IFT midseason.Results:VIFT demonstrated small and possibly lower (ES = –0.33; 4/29/67) values in the under 16s compared with the under 21s, with further comparisons unclear. With body mass included as a covariate, all differences were moderate to large and very likely to almost certainly lower in the squads with lower body mass, with the exception of comparisons between senior and under-21 squads.Conclusions:The data demonstrate that there appears to be a ceiling to the VIFT attained in rugby union players that does not increase from under-16 to senior level. However, the associated increases in body mass with increased playing level suggest that the ability to perform high-intensity running increases with age, although not translating into greater VIFT due to the detrimental effect of body mass on change of direction. Practitioners should be aware that VIFT is unlikely to improve, but it needs to be monitored during periods where increases in body mass are evident.


Obiter ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Reghard Brits

The purpose of this note is to consider a case that came before a full bench of the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Grahamstown – namely, Business Partners Limited v Mahamba ((4568/2016) [2019] ZAECGHC 17 (26 February 2019)). The case touched on the age-old debate surrounding the validity of parate executie (summary execution or private sale) clauses in agreements that hypothecate property as security for the payment of a debt. Even though such clauses are popular in pledge agreements pertaining to movable property (including the hypothecation of incorporeal movables via a cession in securitatem debiti), this case involved a mortgage bond pertaining to immovable property. Moreover, as explained below, the impugned clause in casu technically was not a parate executie clause but an agreement entered into after the debtor defaulted on a loan.A parate executie clause generally seeks to entitle the secured creditor to dispose of the hypothecated property through a private sale – that is, without going through the normal court processes – when the debtor defaults on payment obligations under the loan agreement. The validity of parate executie clauses has been debated since at least Roman-Dutch times, while the debate has also featured in modern South African case law and literature. More recently a constitutional dimension has been added to (and has revived) the controversy by virtue of the right of access to courts guaranteed in section 34 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution). There is also a significant difference depending on whether a pledge of movable or a mortgage of immovable property is involved. It is moreover necessary to distinguish between parate executie clauses included in the bond itself and agreements subsequent to a debtor’s default in terms of which a debtor authorised a creditor to sell the property without having to go through the court processes.In view of the judgment in Business Partners v Mahamba (supra), it is arguably necessary to revisit the matter and to clarify some aspects surrounding parate executie clauses, such as the circumstances under which they are valid and invalid as well as how they differ from similar contractual arrangements between debtors and creditors. It is also necessary to affirm the difference in this regard between pledges of movable and mortgages of immovable property. The case note also comments on the implications, in the residential mortgage foreclosure context, of the difference between parate executie clauses in mortgage agreements, on the one hand, and post-default agreements allowing a creditor to sell the property privately, on the other.


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