"Beyond the letter of the law": A critical discourse analysis of social rights take-up in social work.

Social work is considered a human rights-based profession. One of the major domains wherein social workers advance human rights involves carrying out actions directed at ensuring the realization of social rights of underprivileged service users. However, empirical knowledge about the actual everyday practice of social rights take-up in social work contexts is still scarce.

Mental health and exercise during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Twitter sentiment analysis.

Beyond its immediate health consequences, the COVID-19 pandemic led to an exacerbation in the mental health of the global population. Regular exercise and its lack thereof are also known to affect mental health. Tweets and their content analysis can provide information about aspects of users' lives including their health habits and mental health.

Present but Ignored: Physical Condition and Health-Related Quality of Life in College-Aged Females with Generalized Joint Hypermobility.

Background: Generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) is prevalent among young adults, necessitating effective monitoring of musculoskeletal health, particularly among college-aged females. This study aimed to identify physical fitness and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) characteristics associated with GJH.

Methods: A total of 67 participants were assessed: 26 with GJH (mean age 20.

Shifting the focus inward: Israeli social workers' participation in decision-making and their inclusion of service-users in intervention-related decisions.

Service-users' inclusion (SUI) in decision-making regarding services provided by public social services has numerous benefits for both users and providers. However, studies show a gap between the evolution of inclusive discourse and policy, and the implementation of SUI in social services' daily practice. Focusing on the organisational context, the present study is the first to empirically test the relationship between social workers' perception of the services' participative organisational culture (POC), their actual participation in organisational decision-making (SWAP) and their inclusive praxes with service-users (SUI).

Nursing professionals' mental well-being and workplace impairment during the COVID-19 crisis: A Network analysis.

Aim: To investigate the effects of years of nursing experience and mental health on work impairment among nurses during the COVID-19 crisis.

Background: During the COVID-19 crisis, nurses experience a greater psychological burden than other health care workers. Studies have not yet investigated the effects of years in nursing and mental health on potential work impairment during the COVID-19 crisis in nurses.

Effects of an 8-week basketball-specific proprioceptive training with a single-plane instability balance platform.

Background: To avoid injuries in basketball players, they are recommended to pay more attention to improve their body balance. Therefore new training methods and equipment need to be devised. This study examined the effects of an 8-week basketball-specific proprioception training program while using a new developed one plane instability balance board during warm-up for improving balance ability in basketball players.

Yoga's Effects on the Cardiovascular System of Healthy Women: Implications for Best Practices.

Context: Yoga as a form of physical activity is growing in popularity. During yoga, individuals interrupt the stress response, which is typically associated with high blood pressure (BP), impaired focus, and high levels of anxiety. Consequently, research into yoga's effects on stress should place a special emphasis upon the interplay of the nervous and cardiovascular systems during yoga practice.

Anticipation and Situation-Assessment Skills in Soccer Under Varying Degrees of Informational Constraint.

The authors tested the notion that expertise effects would be more noticeable when access to situational information was reduced by occluding (i.e., noncued) or freezing (i.

Not only static: Stabilization manoeuvres in dynamic exercises - A pilot study.

This study examined characteristics of trunk muscles electrical activity in young adults performed in the course of static and dynamic trunk muscles strengthening exercises using different lumbar spine stabilization manoeuvres. Twenty young adults (Mage = 25.5 SD = 2.

Effects of a Supportive Audience on a Handgrip Squeezing Task in Adults.

The role of social facilitation by way of audience effect in select exercise-related variables during an isometric handgrip task was assessed using a mixed design. Fifty three moderately active participants (M= 21.76 ± 5.

Passion for Academics and Problematic Health Behaviors.

According to the Dualistic Model of Passion (39), passion entails valuing, liking, and spending time on an activity. The Dualistic Model also posits two types of passion for activities: harmonious passion (individual voluntarily engages in the activity) and obsessive passion (individual is compelled to engage in the activity). The purpose of the present study was to examine the possible links between college students' passion for academic activities and problematic health behaviors including smoking, excessive drinking, exercise addiction, disordered eating, and sleepiness, which is a possible indicator of sleep deprivation.

Metastable Pain-Attention Dynamics during Incremental Exhaustive Exercise.

Pain attracts attention on the bodily regions. Attentional allocation toward pain results from the neural communication across the brain-wide network "connectome" . Connectome is intrinsically dynamic and spontaneously fluctuating on multiple time-scales.

Dynamics of Perceived Exertion in Constant-Power Cycling: Time- and Workload-Dependent Thresholds.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test the dynamics of perceived exertion shifts (PES) as a function of time and workload during constant-power cycling.

Method: Fifty-two participants assigned to 4 groups performed a cycling task at 4 different constant workloads corresponding to their individual rates of perceived exertion (RPEs = 13, 15, 17, and 19, respectively). PES ("increased"/"decreased" perceptions) without magnitude were reported when they occurred.

Local Pain Dynamics during Constant Exhaustive Exercise.

The purpose of this study was to delineate the topological dynamics of pain and discomfort during constant exercise performed until volitional exhaustion. Eleven physical education students were tested while cycling and running at a "hard" intensity level (e.g.

Intentional thought dynamics during exercise performed until volitional exhaustion.

Using a non-linear approach, intentional dynamics of thoughts were examined during constant cycling performed until volitional exhaustion. Participants (n = 12) completed two sessions at 80% Wmax. Their (1) intrinsic thought dynamics (i.

A conceptual framework for studying emotions-cognitions-performance linkage under conditions that vary in perceived pressure.

A unified conceptual framework, which integrates the structural components of human performance, such as emotional processes (i.e., feelings, mood), cognitive processes and structures (e.

Reference values for respiratory rate in the first 3 years of life.

Background: Raised respiratory rate is a useful sign to diagnose lower respiratory infections in childhood. However, the normal range for respiratory rate has not been defined in a proper, large sample.

Objective: To assess the respiratory rate in a large number of infants and young children in order to construct percentile curves by age; to determine the repeatability to the assessment using a stethoscope and compare it with observation.

Ganglioneuroblastoma and urticaria by physical agents.

A case is reported of ganglioneuroblastoma in a 5-year-old boy, who had urticaria syndrome by physical agents (water, light, cold) in the last 2 years, associated with an apparent splenomegaly. A sonography and a CT scan showed a large cystic mass with calcification near the left kidney. After surgery, it was possible to diagnose left adrenal ganglioneuroblastoma (Evans's first stage).

Counterimmunoelectrophoresis and latex particle agglutination in the etiologic diagnosis of presumed bacterial pneumonia in pediatric patients.

A commercial latex agglutination (LA) kit (Wellcogen, Wellcome Diagnostics) used to detect bacterial polysaccharide antigens (Haemophilus influenzae type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae) was compared with a modified counterimmunoelectrophoresis technique and blood culture for etiologic diagnosis of presumptive bacterial pneumonia requiring hospitalization in 60 infants and children. Serum, urine and either sputum or nasopharyngeal secretions were collected during the first 5 days of therapy for antigen detection. Blood culture was positive in 6 of 52 (11.