The Impact of Flexibility on Balance in Rifle Athletes

Research has shown that there may be a connection between flexibility and balance when evaluating fall risk in older adults and flexibility’s effect on a balance test (Emilio, Hita-Contreras, Jiménez-Lara, Latorre-Román, & Martínez-Amat, 2014); Overmoyer & Reiser, (2015). Balance is an important component of many sport movements, and has been shown to be particularly important in shooting performance in both novice and Olympic rifle athletes (Mononen, Konttinen, Viitasalo, Era, 2007; Ball, Best, Wrigley, 2003). The purpose of this study was to find if there was a relationship between a rifle athlete’s flexibility and their balance ability, to determine if flexibility training would be beneficial to incorporate into their training program. Sixteen participants (nine females, seven males) went through two trials of ten different range of motion measurement. Between range of motion trials the participants conducted the Postural Stability Test on the Biodex Stability System (BBS, Biodex, Inc., Shirley, New York) to determine their overall stability index, a measure of their balance. The range of motion values were compared to the overall stability index. No significant correlations were found when evaluating all the participants. The male participants alone showed a stronger correlation than females when evaluating the maximum and minimum measurements of flexibility together. The lack of strong correlations between flexibility measurements and balance would require further research to determine if there is a stronger relationship between flexibility and balance

Fonte de disseminação de informações e conhecimento - observatório tecnológico da moda

No ambiente empresarial o uso das informações e dos novos conhecimentos constitui-se um valor estratégico na tomada de decisões dos negócios. Esse trabalho apresenta o Observatório Tecnológico de Moda, como instrumento de disseminação de informações e conhecimento relevantes ao setor do vestuário, tendo em vista a criação do conhecimento organizacional. Utiliza-se para isso, a pesquisa qualitativa e descritiva dos conteúdos teóricos e práticos. Constata-se que os objetivos do observatório estão sendo atingidos, pelo número de acessos ao portal, obtidos pela flexibilidade e rapidez da conexão via internet e pela constantemente atualização dos conteúdos postados

KariaNet documentation training report for participants, Beirut, Lebanon, 9-12 July 2012

Documentation efforts are not implemented often enough, for many different reasons. Aiming to enhance national and regional competences and to develop skills, the KariaNet Project, the Hilly Areas Sustainable Agriculture Development Project (HASAD) and the Centre for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture (ILEIA) joined efforts with the Ministry of Agriculture for the organization of a capacity-building process, and the initiation of a systematization process. Training material is provided to demonstrate methods of documentation for researchers, how to write, edit, and present research data and information. Some research works-in progress-are listed

Establishment of national networks in Sudan, Morocco and Algeria : final technical report (January 25, 2013 – September 30, 2013)

As part of strategies to strengthen knowledge management in the Middle East and North Africa, the project aimed at building national researcher networks in collaboration with ILEIA (Netherlands Center for Learning on Sustainable Agriculture) and its sister organization IED Afrique (Innovations Environnement Développement). Training on analysis and documentation of field experiences were carried out. Participants learned how to select an activity to document, how to describe it, how to analyze the factors behind its success or failure, how to capture and communicate the lessons learned, and finally how to integrate this methodology in daily work processes

Jurisprudência dos interesses e jurisprudência dos valores: características, diferenças, críticas e contributos à teoria dos direitos fundamentais

O Estudo das escolas jurídicas da Jurisprudência dos Conceitos e dos Valores levará aos contributos e crises para a Hermenêutica dos Direitos Fundamentais que ora pleiteiam o agir do judiciário controlado rigidamente pelas normas produzidas pelo Legislativo, ora requerem que a valoração judicial possa ter um espaço livre para sua valoração ao caso concreto. A análise destas escolas ajuda ainda na verificação de qual método de interpretação jurídica tem sido utilizado pela jurisprudência brasileira

Collection development in support of a global information network: A case study of LEISA, Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture

The objective of our presentation will be to show how, over the last 20 years ILEIA has developed a development orientated magazine which currently enjoys an international readership and reputation from primarily grey literature sources. Important elements to be highlighted will be the criteria for collecting and evaluating primary and secondary "grey" source material, the methodology underlying the editorial approach and the role of networking in this process. The context for starting and sustaining the magazine is of course the facilitating environment provided by donor funding but this does not explain the magazines current significance or impact. The mission of the Centre for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture, ILEIA, is to contribute to the alleviation of poverty, to enhance ecological sustainability and to safeguard social and cultural integrity of smallholders in developing countries through the further development and promotion of LEISA. ILEIA has chosen the collection and dissemination of information as a means of contributing to improving the development options available to farmers, by informing those either directly involved in, or indirectly affecting, rural development. ILEIA seeks to be a link that connects local level experiences to global issues and vice-versa, providing a platform for sharing of information and learning from experiences of different countries, regions and continents. The exchange of information has been facilitated through the LEISA Magazine and occasionally through other publications, videos, workshops etc. Information disseminated by ILEIA is freely available to all who wish to use and/or reproduce it. In the 1980s, when ILEIA started its magazine, the initiatives and interesting developments taking place at local level, where only available in the grey sector, in reports, memos and stories. Consistent search for this material throughout the 1980s resulted in a well-known and established collection that had enough status to attract a wide variety of material both grey and from the commercial press publishing development material. After 5 years as a relatively simple informative newsletter, a publication emerged that began more systematically to synthesize and analyze LEISA. Concepts were developed and a network was established. This network and the magazine gradually became a source of information and reference for other writers/researchers. This was in addition to providing instructive and learning material for agricultural practitioners. At the moment LEISA magazine has 20,000 subscribers in 173 countries. Looking back over the years, the LEISA magazine has established a reputation for reliability. Its status today is reflected in the fact that it has generated enough confidence in five organisations in developing countries that they have taken on the task of producing regional editions of the LEISA magazine. Evaluations and request for translation and reprinting rights reflects the status of the LEISA magazine in the world of development orientated publications. Our magazine is also a much used source of material for other more journalistic magazines, web sites and policy documents.Includes: Conference preprint, Powerpoint presentation, Abstract and Biographical notes, Pratt student commentaryXAInternationa

Sudan : stories from the field

In early 2013, a group of 22 highly motivated agricultural practitioners from all over Sudan gathered in the city of Khartoum for a workshop on documentation and communication run by ILEIA to capture, analyse and disseminate practical experiences from the field