Movement assessments are commonly used to assess athlete's risk of injury as well as basic and specific skill movement patterns; however, dance is identified to be differing from sports because the ...average dancer's training load is higher than the athletes. This study aims to identify the difference in the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) level among traditional dancers in Malaysia. A quasi-experimental study design was adopted, which involved 66 dancers (M = 33; F = 33). The study comprised traditional dancers from three ethnic backgrounds, namely, Malay, Chinese and Indian. The descriptive analysis described the level of the dancers' FMS, as follows: Malay (M = 16.18, SD = 2.062), Chinese (M = 18.50, SD = 1.102), Indian (M = 18.23, SD = 1.445). The ANOVA analysis found a significant difference in the FMS scores among all three groups of dancers, F (2,63) = 14.026, p >.000. The deep squat, hurdle step, shoulder mobility, active straight leg raise and trunk stability tests for push-up indicated a significant difference, whereas the inline lunges test and rotational stability tests showed no significance difference. However, the Post Hoc analysis showed no significant difference between the Chinese and Indian dancers. It can be concluded that there is a difference in FMS scores between Malay, Chinese and Indian dancers. FMS may be a useful tool to help identify dancers about the risk of injury and improve their movement quality.
Student interest in surgery is of paramount importance to the future of New Zealand's surgical workforce. Internationally, the proportion of graduates pursuing surgical training has fallen over ...recent years, with a shift towards "lifestyle" specialties. Furthermore, the changing medical undergraduate curricula, stretched teaching and clinical capacity, and changes to the apprenticeship model of training all pose challenges to creating a meaningful undergraduate surgical experience. With the support of the University of the Auckland Department of Surgery, we founded the University of Auckland Surgical Interest Society (UASIS) as a means to supplement the undergraduate surgical experience and encourage surgery as a career option. Although similar developments have occurred at overseas medical schools, this student led initiative is believed to be the first in New Zealand and possibly Australia. The UASIS has five core aims. These were to develop student interest in a surgical career, promote excellence in surgical anatomy, provide greater exposure to all surgical fields, promote student involvement in surgical research and create and maintain professional and academic relationships between students and surgeons. In the first three years, membership has been overwhelmingly high and feedback very positive. The aims of the group will be described and the extent to which these were achieved. Lessons learnt from this initial experience will also be discussed in order to facilitate similar initiatives at other medical schools. We believe by working together with students, surgeons and the College; the UASIS and other surgical societies will help to promote a strong, competent and sustainable surgical workforce. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
The production of single- and multi-photon events has been studied in the reaction e(+) e(-) --> gamma(gamma) + invisible particles. The data collected with the DELPHI detector during the years 1999 ...and 2000 at centre-of-mass energies between 191 GeV and 209 GeV was combined with earlier data to search for phenomena beyond the Standard Model. The measured number of light neutrino families was consistent with three and the absence of an excess of events beyond that predicted by the Standard Model processes was used to set limits on new physics. Both model-independent searches and searches for new processes predicted by supersymmetric and extra-dimensional models have been made. Limits on new non-standard model interactions between neutrinos and electrons were also determined.
Student interest in surgery is of paramount importance to the future of New Zealand's surgical workforce. Internationally, the proportion of graduates pursuing surgical training has fallen over ...recent years, with a shift towards “lifestyle” specialties. Furthermore, the changing medical undergraduate curricula, stretched teaching and clinical capacity, and changes to the apprenticeship model of training all pose challenges to creating a meaningful undergraduate surgical experience.
With the support of the University of the Auckland Department of Surgery, we founded the University of Auckland Surgical Interest Society (UASIS) as a means to supplement the undergraduate surgical experience and encourage surgery as a career option. Although similar developments have occurred at overseas medical schools, this student led initiative is believed to be the first in New Zealand and possibly Australia.
The UASIS has five core aims. These were to develop student interest in a surgical career, promote excellence in surgical anatomy, provide greater exposure to all surgical fields, promote student involvement in surgical research and create and maintain professional and academic relationships between students and surgeons. In the first three years, membership has been overwhelmingly high and feedback very positive.
The aims of the group will be described and the extent to which these were achieved. Lessons learnt from this initial experience will also be discussed in order to facilitate similar initiatives at other medical schools. We believe by working together with students, surgeons and the College; the UASIS and other surgical societies will help to promote a strong, competent and sustainable surgical workforce.
Dietary supplementation with L-arginine enhances natural cytotoxicity in peripheral blood lymphocytes but its effect on infiltrating lymphoreticular cells within a tumour microenvironment is unknown. ...The effects of dietary supplementation with L-arginine on tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in patients with colorectal cancer were evaluated.
Eighteen patients received either a standard hospital diet (controls) or a standard diet supplemented with 30 g per day of L-arginine for 3 days before surgery. Tumour biopsies were taken at surgery and lymphocyte subsets (CD antigens) and macrophages examined immunohistochemically.
Tumours from patients receiving L-arginine contained increased numbers of specific cell subsets within the tumour which expressed CD16 (P = 0.004) and CD56 (P = 0.001) surface markers, when compared with tumours from control patients. There were no differences in the total number of T and B cells, T helper and T suppressor cells.
Dietary supplementation with L-arginine significantly alter the spectrum of TILs in human colorectal cancers in vivo. These findings have important implications for new strategies in anticancer treatment.
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