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Coventry University

EducationCoventry, United Kingdom
About: Coventry University is a education organization based out in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Higher education. The organization has 4964 authors who have published 12700 publications receiving 255898 citations. The organization is also known as: Lanchester Polytechnic & Coventry Polytechnic.


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TL;DR: Scientists and practitioners need to consider interventions which develop functional movement skills alongside physical activity and weight management strategies in children in order to reduce the risks of orthopaedic abnormality arising from suboptimal movement patterns in later life.
Abstract: Although prior studies have suggested that overweight and obesity in childhood are associated with poorer functional movement performance, no study appears to have examined this issue in a pediatric population. The relations between BMI, ambulatory physical activity and functional movement screen (FMS) performance were compared in 58, 10-11-year-old children. Total FMS score was significantly, negatively correlated with BMI (P = .0001) and positively related to PA (P = .029). Normal weight children scored significantly better for total FMS score compared to children classified as overweight/obese (P = .0001). Mean ± S.D. of FMS scores were 15.5 ± 2.2 and 10.6 ± 2.1 in normal weight and overweight/obese children, respectively. BMI and PA were also significant predictors of functional movement (P = .0001, Adjusted R(2) = .602) with BMI and PA predicting 52.9% and 7.3% of the variance in total FMS score, respectively. The results of this study highlight that ambulatory physical activity and weight status are significant predictors of functional movement in British children. Scientists and practitioners therefore need to consider interventions which develop functional movement skills alongside physical activity and weight management strategies in children in order to reduce the risks of orthopaedic abnormality arising from suboptimal movement patterns in later life.

75 citations

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TL;DR: The European Agroecology Knowledge Exchange Network (EAKEN) as mentioned in this paper is linked to the global network of La Via Campesina and builds on the strong experiences and traditions of popular education in Latin American peasant movements.
Abstract: Agroecology has been proposed as a key building block for food sovereignty. This article examines the meaning, practices and potentials of ‘transformative agroecology learning’ as a collective strategy for food system transformation. Our study is based on our qualitative and action research with the European Coordination of Via Campesina to develop the European Agroecology Knowledge Exchange Network (EAKEN). This network is linked to the global network of La Via Campesina and builds on the strong experiences and traditions of popular education in Latin American peasant movements. Rather than focusing on agroecology education as a process of individual learning, we analyse how a transformative agroecology education can be strengthened as a critical repertoire of action used by social movements to advance food sovereignty. Our analysis contributes a new theory of transformative agroecology learning based on four key characteristics or qualities: horizontalism; dialogo de saberes (wisdom dialogues); combining practical and political knowledge; and building social movement networks. While these different elements of transformative agroecology learning were present across EAKEN, they were unevenly developed and, in many cases, not systematized. The framework can help to strategically and reflexively systematize and strengthen a transformative agroecology learning approach as a key building block for food sovereignty.

75 citations

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Lynn Clouder1
TL;DR: How reflective practice is currently conceptualised and interpreted by practising physiotherapists and undergraduate physiotherapy students is described, which highlights both contextual differences in patterns of reflection among practitioners and practical differences in modes of reflection of practitioners and students.
Abstract: Physiotherapy, like many other professions, has adopted the notion of reflective practice as a desirable and necessary attribute of the competent practitioner. This article describes how reflective practice is currently conceptualised and interpreted by practising physiotherapists and undergraduate physiotherapy students. The research, which took the form of qualitative interviews and workshops, highlights both contextual differences in patterns of reflection among practitioners and practical differences in modes of reflection of practitioners and students. Findings are contextualised by reference to the demands of the task-oriented culture characteristic of the current National Health Service. The potential of reflective practice as a social and political tool for practitioners in the workplace, if reconceptualised as a dialogical process, is examined. Although these issues are debated and illustrated with reference to physiotherapy practice, they are likely to have wider relevance for other professions ...

75 citations

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Joan A. Lees1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the causes of non-additivity of certain magnetic measurements and the failure of the linear modelling of the sources of the mixtures, including both natural environmental materials and synthetic compounds.
Abstract: SUMMARY Mineral magnetic properties have been used recently to classify and to attempt to quantify the sources of sediments through environmental systems. Linear modelling techniques could be used with a wide range of concentration-dependent magnetic measurements to quantify the sources of sediments. To investigate wider application of linear modelling techniques using mineral magnetic properties, research has been conducted using laboratory mixtures of up to six source materials, including both natural environmental materials and synthetic compounds. While six sources may seem ambitious, this figure was used as an absolute upper limit rather than giving a real prospect of mathematically unmixing six sources. It has been found that even with the most magnetically differentiable materials, large errors are encountered when modelling the sources of the mixtures. This paper investigates the causes of ‘non-additivity’ of certain magnetic measurements and the failure of the linear modelling of the sources of the mixtures. Possible reasons for this failure include source homogeneity, calibration and linearity of equipment, magnetic viscosity of materials and/or the changing physical characteristics of the source materials once mixed together (interaction effects). In testing linear additivity, low-frequency susceptibility is the most reliable mineral magnetic measurement, while remanence measurements suffer from a systematic error in the expected results. Results have shown that in the best controlled conditions where the sources are identified and are artificially mixed together, the results of linear modelling are quite poor and at best four sources can be ‘unmixed’ with reasonable success. It is suggested that interaction within the mixtures, especially when containing highly ferrimagnetic burnt environmental materials, causes some of the non-additivity phenomena.

75 citations

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TL;DR: Comparison of a wider range of Australian mouse isolates with United Kingdom and Spanish isolates from mice and cattle and also an Australian bat-derived Cryptosporidium isolate revealed that the “mouse” genotype is conserved across geographic areas.
Abstract: A 298-bp region of the Cryptosporidium parvum 18S rRNA gene and a 390-bp region of the acetyl coenzyme A synthetase gene were sequenced for a range of Cryptosporidium isolates from wild house mice (Mus domesticus), a bat (Myotus adversus), and cattle from different geographical areas. Previous research has identified a distinct genotype, referred to as the “mouse”-derived Cryptosporidium genotype, common to isolates from Australian mice. Comparison of a wider range of Australian mouse isolates with United Kingdom and Spanish isolates from mice and cattle and also an Australian bat-derived Cryptosporidium isolate revealed that the “mouse” genotype is conserved across geographic areas. Mice are also susceptible to infection with the “cattle” Cryptosporidium genotype, which has important implications for their role as reservoirs of infection for humans and domestic animals.

75 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Xiang Zhang1541733117576
Zidong Wang12291450717
Stephen Joseph9548545357
Andrew Smith87102534127
John F. Allen7940123214
Craig E. Banks7756927520
Philip L. Smith7529124842
Tim H. Sparks6931519997
Nadine E. Foster6832018475
Michael G. Burton6651916736
Sarah E Lamb6539528825
Michael Gleeson6523417603
David Alexander6552016504
Timothy J. Mason6522515810
David S.G. Thomas6322814796
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202360
2022217
20211,419
20201,267
20191,097
20181,013