The effects of target distance on kinematic sequence of the short game in male collegiate golfers.

Golf is an international sport that has become increasingly more popular in recent times. Previous literature has shown that golf approach shots are crucial to the success of elite golfers. However, there is no known publication investigating distances less than 100 yards, known as the short game.

Relationship between backpack load location, sex, anthropometric and body composition factors with postural sway in healthy young adults.

Objective: Evaluate the effect of backpack load location on postural sway and correlate sway path length (PL) to anthropometrics and body composition.

Methods: Fifteen participants aged 18-25 stood on a force plate with backpack load located high (LH), low (LL) or without backpack (NL). Body composition and anthropometric variables were correlated to PL.

Assessment of Mental Health and Coping Disparities Among Racial and Ethnic Groups Amid COVID-19 From the "How Right Now" Campaign.

Objectives: How Right Now (HRN) is an evidence-based, culturally responsive communication campaign developed to facilitate coping and resilience among US groups disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. To inform the development of this campaign, we examined patterns in emotional health, stress, and coping strategies among HRN's audiences, focusing on differences among racial and ethnic groups.

Methods: We used a national probability panel, AmeriSpeak, to collect survey data from HRN's priority audience members in English and Spanish at 2 time points (May 2020 and May 2021).

The effect of posture on neck proprioception and head/neck stabilization in asymptomatic participants.

Objective: We sought to determine the effect of different body postures on neck proprioception and head/neck stabilization.

Methods: Twelve healthy college students completed a head repositioning task and a 'head still' task while wearing a headpiece (helmet) with laser fixed on top during standing, kneeling, sitting, and sitting with stabilization. Video data of the laser dot coordinates on a projection screen were obtained to examine the accuracy of the two tasks.

Neurologic injuries following road traffic accidents in the Dominican Republic: Examining causes and potential solutions.

Road traffic accidents (RTAs) are the number one cause of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) worldwide. This study examines RTA-related TBIs in the Dominican Republic, a country in the Caribbean with the highest RTA fatality rate in the Western Hemisphere. We interviewed 117 adult patients or medical guardians of patients admitted to Hospital Traumatológico Dr.

The Auckland alcohol detoxification outcome study: Measuring changes in quality of life in individuals completing a medicated withdrawal from alcohol in a detoxification unit.

Aim: To measure outcomes in Quality of Life in alcohol dependent patients' following a medicated withdrawal from alcohol.

Methods: 79 patients that were admitted to a detoxification unit in Auckland, New Zealand between March 2016 and September 2016 were assessed for severity of alcohol dependence using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and Severity of Alcohol Dependency Questionnaire (SADQ) and Quality of Life (QOL) using the World Health Organisation Quality of Life-abbreviated version of the WHOQOL 100 New Zealand version (WHOQOL-BREF NZ). Patients were followed up at three months and 12 months and an estimate of drinking behavior and the WHO-QOL BREF NZ were completed via telephone interview.

Evaluation of a PGP3 ELISA for surveillance of the burden of Chlamydia infection in women from Australia and Samoa.

Serological assays can be used to investigate the population burden of infection and potentially sequelae from Chlamydia. We investigated the PGP3 ELISA as a sero-epidemiological tool for infection or sub-fertility in Australian and Samoan women. The PGP3 ELISA absorbance levels were compared between groups of women with infertility, fertile, and current chlamydial infections.

Hemodynamic consequences of extremity injuries following a terrorist bombing attack: retrospective cohort study.

Background: Extremities are commonly injured following bomb explosions. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of hemorrhagic shock (HS) in victims of explosion suffering from extremity injuries.

Methods: Retrospective study based on a cohort of patient records maintained in one hospital's mass casualty registry.

Temporal more than spatial regulation of sway is important for posture in response to an ultra-compliant surface.

Background And Aim: Many people use balance training as a rehabilitation or habilitation modality. Although the time course of changes to temporal and spatial aspects of postural sway over the initial weeks of such training is as yet unclear. Particularly, we sought to explore the effects of training on sway during a dynamic task of stance on an ultra-compliant surface.

Effects of plyometrics performed during warm-up on 20 and 40 m sprint performance.

Background: Postactivation potentiation in the form of a plyometric during warm-ups have been shown to improve performance in some speed/power events. This study aimed to determine if a plyometric during warm up can increase sprint performance in a 20 and 40 m sprint.

Methods: In this study we measured sprint times of 10 male track and field athletes over distances of 20 and 40 m after warm-ups with and without a plyometric exercise.

Prevalence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Samoan women aged 18 to 29 and assessment of possible risk factors: a community-based study.

Background: Knowledge about genital Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections in the Pacific is limited. In this study we investigated CT infection in Samoan women.

Methods: We recruited women having unprotected sex aged 18 to 29 years from 41 Samoan villages.

The acute effects of static stretching on the sprint performance of collegiate men in the 60- and 100-m dash after a dynamic warm-up.

Previous research has shown that static stretching has an inhibitory effect on sprinting performances up to 50 m. The purpose of this study was to see what would happen to these effects at longer distances such as those seen in competition. This study used a within-subjects design to investigate the effects of passive static stretching vs.

A major trauma centre is a specialty hospital not a hospital of specialties.

Background: High estimates of preventable death rates have renewed the impetus for national regionalization of trauma care. Institution of a specialist multidisciplinary trauma service and performance improvement programme was hypothesized to have resulted in improved outcomes for severely injured patients.

Methods: This was a comparative analysis of data from the Royal London Hospital (RLH) trauma registry and Trauma Audit and Research Network (England and Wales), 2000-2005.

Pre-hospital and in-hospital thoracostomy: indications and complications.

Introduction: Pleural drainage with chest tube insertion for thoracic trauma is a common and often life-saving technique. Although considered a simple procedure, complication rates have been reported to be 2-25%. We conducted a prospective cohort observational study of emergency pleural drainage procedures to validate the indications for pre-hospital thoracostomy and to identify complications from both pre- and in-hospital thoracostomies.

Gender bias on the effects of instruction on kinematic and kinetic jump parameters of high-level athletes.

The purposes of this study were to examine gender differences during drop jumps, to evaluate the effect of a set of simple instructions on kinematic and kinetic parameters during a drop jump, and to determine if there are gender differences in the effects of instruction on those parameters. Twenty-five basketball players, 13 men and 12 women, performed drop jumps from a box (height 30.5 cm) after being asked to perform a land and jump movement as they normally would do when aiming at maximum jump height.

Gender bias in jumping kinetics in National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball players.

The purposes of this study are to examine gender differences in the contribution of the arm swing to jump height in men and women basketball players and to examine the role of upper-body strength in the contribution of arm swing to jump height. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I basketball players (men n = 13, women n = 12) performed 4 jumping movements: squat jumps with hands on hips (SNA) and with arm swings (SA) and countermovement jumps with hands on hips and with arm swings (CMA). Differences were found between the jump heights of men and women.

Gender bias in the effects of arms and countermovement on jumping performance.

The ability to jump high is considered important in a number of sports. It is commonly accepted that the use of the arms and a counter movement increase jump height. In some sport situations (e.

The validation of a portable force plate for measuring force-time data during jumping and landing tasks.

The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of a portable force plate when analyzing jumping and landing tasks. Subjects performed 3 drop vertical jumps and 3 drop landings on both a standard strain gauge laboratory force plate and a portable force plate. In contrast to typical laboratory installed force plates, the portable 6-component force plate can be easily transported and used onsite at various training or data collection sites and incorporates Hall effect technology.

Reduction in critical mortality in urban mass casualty incidents: analysis of triage, surge, and resource use after the London bombings on July 7, 2005.

Background: The terrorist bombings in London on July 7, 2005, produced the largest mass casualty event in the UK since World War 2. The aim of this study was to analyse the prehospital and in-hospital response to the incident and identify system processes that optimise resource use and reduce critical mortality.

Methods: This study was a retrospective analysis of the London-wide prehospital response and the in-hospital response of one academic trauma centre.

Millimeter-Wave Spectra and Global Torsion-Rotation Analysis for the CH(3)OD Isotopomer of Methanol.

New millimeter-wave and microwave measurements for CH(3)OD have been combined with previous literature data and with an extended body of Fourier transform far-infrared observations in a full global analysis of the first two torsional states (v(t) = 0 and 1) of the ground vibrational state. The fitted CH(3)OD data set contained 564 microwave and millimeter-wave lines and 4664 far-infrared lines, representing the most recent available information in the quantum number ranges J View Article and Find Full Text PDF

New Measurements and Assignments in the Millimeter-Wave Spectrum of CD3OH.

The ground state rotational spectrum of CD3OH has been revisited in the millimeter-wave range. A total of 216 transition frequencies have been measured and assigned in the 117-179 GHz spectral range, including about 40 transitions previously reported. The spectrum was recorded at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany using a frequency modulated millimeter-wave spectrometer.

Global Fit of Torsion-Rotation Transitions in the Ground and First Excited Torsional States of CD3OH Methanol.

A global analysis of reported microwave (MW) millimeter wave (MMW), and Fourier-transform far-infrared (FTFIR) spectra of the CD3OH isotopic species of methanol has been carried out for the first two torsional states (nut = 0 below the barrier and nut = 1 straddling the barrier) of the ground vibrational state. The CD3OH data set contains 472 MW and MMW lines and 5320 FTFIR lines, representing the most recent available information in the quantum number ranges J View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The management of penetrating injuries of the anterior triangle of the neck.

The management of penetrating injuries of the anterior triangle of the neck is controversial and poses several problems. A policy of mandatory neck exploration of these injuries is followed in the Department of General Surgery at the State Hospital, Windhoek. A retrospective study of patients presenting to one of the four surgical firms at The State Hospital was performed to see if this policy was justified.