Reviewing the Variability-Overuse Injury Hypothesis: Does Movement Variability Relate to Landing Injuries?

Purpose: Overuse injuries are common in sport, but complete understanding of injury risk factors remains incomplete. Although biomechanical studies frequently examine musculoskeletal injury mechanisms, human movement variability studies aim to better understand neuromotor functioning, with proposed connections between overuse injury mechanisms and changes in motor variability. Method: In a narrative review, we discuss the variability-overuse injury hypothesis, which suggests repeated load application leads to mechanical tissue breakdown and subsequent injury when exceeding the rate of physiological adaptation. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of this hypothesis, we incorporate concepts from motor control, neurophysiology, biomechanics, as well as research design and data analysis. We therefore summarize multiple perspectives while proposing theoretical relationships between movement variability and lower extremity overuse injuries. Results: Experimental data are presented and summarized from published experiments examining interactions between experimental task demands and movement variability in the context of drop landing movements, along with comparisons to previous movement variability studies. Conclusion: We provide a conceptual framework for sports medicine researchers interested in predicting and preventing sports injuries. Under performance conditions with greater task demands, we predict reduced trial-to-trial movement variability that could increase the likelihood of overuse injuries.     

锻炼社会支持量表的编制与信效度检验

有规律的体育锻炼对人们的身心健康具有积极的促进作用,而社会支持是影响锻炼行为的重要相关因素。因此本研究的目的在于编制和检验锻炼社会支持量表。通过结合现有研究文献和质性研究,确立了初测量表,并通过两轮定量研究,应用探索性和验证性因子分析,信度分析以及校标效度检验对该量表进行了标准化的信效度检验。结果表明锻炼社会支持量表由4个因子构成,即情感性支持、信息性支持、工具性支持、同伴性支持,共24个条目。统计分析显示,量表具有良好的结构效度、内部一致性、重测信度和校标效度。锻炼社会支持量表符合我国文化背景,可以作为在中国人群中进行锻炼社会支持测量的工具。     

我国体育健身产业研究：“十二五”回顾与“十三五”前瞻

以文献研究、理论分析为主要研究方法,对“十二五”期间我国体育健身产业研究现状进行了回顾,并对“十三五”期间的研究主题进行了瞻望。研究认为,“十二五”期间我国体育健身产业研究既取得了一定的成绩,也存在一些问题,突出表现在研究力度不大、理论借鉴不足、对市场需求关注不够等方面。在此基础上,结合国家政策以及体育健身产业的发展趋势,提出了“十三五”期间的主要研究议题,包括体育健身产业供给侧结构性改革研究、“互联网+”背景下体育健身产业研究、社会资本视角下体育健身企业发展研究以及区域体育健身产业协同发展研究等4个方面。     

融入与解放：社会化视域下的体育休闲

从个体社会化的理论视角,阐述了社会化的内涵以及中国人个体社会化的特点.指出,体育休闲是个体社会化的一种途径,它可以促进参与者社会互动交往和社会群体融入,帮助参与者更好地适应社会角色和解放个体身心,有助于参与者提升自我实践能力和养成责任意识;以"广场舞"跑吧"驴友"三项体育休闲活动为例,具体分析其对于参与者个体社会化所具有的价值和所发挥的作用,认为应注意近年来体育休闲中出现的问题,合理管控不利因素,推动国民体育休闲水平的进一步提升.     

北京区（县）体育社会组织的现状调查与分析

体育社会组织是群众体育发展的结构性支撑,在中国体育社会组织整体架构中,区（县）级体育社会组织是组织群众体育活动开展的重要平台。运用社会调查法、文献资料法和逻辑分析法,对北京市区（县）体育社会组织的基本情况进行调查,认为北京市体育社会化改革取得了长足进展,但真正实现政社分离还任重道远;体育社会组织对政府的依赖性较强,市场开发能力、向社会争取资源的能力有待提高,政府购买服务的制度尚需进一步完善。从体育社会组织加强自身能力建设,体育总会发挥相应作用、做好服务,以及政府切实做好培育与扶持工作三方面提出改善建议     

空气质量响应曲面模型在杭州市的应用

基于CMAQ模拟结果,统计、归纳出各种污染物排放控制因子与污染物浓度之间的函数关系,建立空气质量响应曲面模型RSM,通过留一法交叉验证和外部验证对模型进行可靠性验证。使用RSM,研究不同污染物的PM_2.5响应值,评估现有政策不变（Ⅰ）和政策收紧（Ⅱ）两种减排情景,发现NO_X、SO₂、NH₃和VOC对PM_2.5浓度体现明显的非线性响应特征,情景Ⅱ的减排效果明显好于情景Ⅰ,夏季的减排效果好于冬季。     

Social inclusivity,cultural diversity and online film consumption

It has been argued that the circulation of film online is a “democratising process”, evident in the breadth and depth of international film now available online, and in the greater ease of access to this content for audiences across the world. This is seen by some to present greater commercial opportunities for film-making from countries marginalised by previous distribution networks, and to foster a more globally diverse and inclusive film-viewing culture, with particular benefits for diasporic populations. Others, however, have pointed to the way in which audiences’ engagement with film online may be constrained by the economics and technology of online distribution and cultural competencies rooted in social stratification. These factors may limit how and what audiences watch, extending beyond issues of physical access to those of cultural access. As such, they raise questions regarding the demographic composition of the audience for online methods of film distribution and different types of international film. We lack sufficient understanding of these issues, however, due to the limited emphasis upon socio-demographic variables in existing academic research into online film consumption, and the limited consideration of particular film content in relevant market research. This article uses original audience research to interrogate the extent to which online distribution is able to connect audiences to a diversity of international film in comparison to other methods of distribution. It also considers some of the socio-demographic characteristics of the audiences for different methods of distribution and types of international film. In doing so, the article grants us a clearer understanding of the degree to which online film distribution fosters diversity and inclusivity through the connections it facilitates between audiences and content.     

Designing policy: collaborative policy development within the context of the European capital of culture bid process

ABSTRACT

How do ideas become policies? What route do they take from inception to implementation and what criteria are used to evaluate one set of proposals against another? This paper examines the development of the Creative Work Fellowship policy proposal in Limerick, tracing the origins of the idea, itself a contended and negotiated object, from discussions between academics and policy-makers through to scoping, pitching and scaling the policy to its eventual users. This policy idea was designed during the Intelligence Unit (IU) commissioned by Limerick2020 as part of the city’s bid to become European Capital of Culture in 2020. The IU took the form of a policy think-tank, tasked with generating insights, ideas and policy proposals into the place of culture within Limerick city and region. The IU structure created a set of actors and an epistemic community capable of both generating and using ideas effectively, chiefly through two mechanisms. The first involved a robust critique and rebuilding process that every element of the policy was exposed to; the second involved feedback from interested parties at specific stages in the process. This created a series of “policy entrepreneurs” capable of taking a fully costed and modelled policy suggestion to government. The findings presented in the paper include an analysis of the collaborative nature of this policy development process, Based on this framework, we also consider the role of the European City of Culture bid process as catalyst for policy development in a regional context, and present findings on this subject.     

Initial Communication with and Attitudes toward International Students: Testing the Mediating Effects of Friendship Formation Variables

From the theoretical perspectives of intergroup contact, predicted outcome value (POV), and similarity-attraction, this study examined U.S. host nationals’ (N = 342) communicative behaviours in a recent initial encounter with an international student and attitudes toward the student’s cultural group as a whole. Testing of two models indicated the significant sequential mediator effects of perceived similarity-social attraction and POV-social attraction between communication variables (e.g. amount of communication exchange in both models, self-disclosure in model 1, and information seeking in model 2), and intergroup attitudes (e.g. behavioural attitudes). Findings in general demonstrated that contact effects in the intercultural context varied according to specific measures of communication, the mediating mechanisms, and intergroup attitudes.     

Cultural Differences in Garnering Social Capital on Facebook: French People Prefer Close Ties and Americans Prefer Distant Ties

The link between social capital (SC) and Facebook has been widely studied in the U.S., and less is known about how students from different cultures use the site to garner SC. We measured network composition, communication on Facebook, and SC via questionnaires in France and the U.S. We found that American students have a greater proportion of distant to close ties in their networks and higher levels of bridging SC than French, the latter preferring bonding SC. A stronger relationship between SC and communication via Facebook was observed in the U.S. These findings are explained by cultural differences in relatedness.