Medication and Supplement Use in Disability Football World Championships

Background Individuals with an impairment make up over 15% of the world’s population, many of whom can benefit greatly from participation in sport. The provision of medical services in disability sport is a challenging area with a lack of scientific evidence. Given the positive impact that sport can have on the people with an impairment, it is vital that measures are taken to better understand the medical issues posed by disability sport. It is well established that medications and supplements are over-used in sport, particularly within professional football, but there is no current evidence on medication or supplement use in elite disability football. Objective To examine and describe the use of medication and supplements in disability football, prior to and during international tournaments, and to identify the profile of substances used by category. Design Prospective, descriptive, cohort study. Setting International Blind Sport Association (IBSA) Football World Cup 2015 and the International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football (IFCPF) World Cup 2015. Participants Two hundred and forty-two elite level disability footballers, classified with B1 visual impairment or cerebral palsy. Methods Team clinicians were asked to document all medication and supplements taken in the 48 hours prior to each match. Results This study recorded the use of 1648 substances in 242 players, with more than half (53.1%) classified as supplements. There was an overall rate of 1.26 substances used per player per match and a medication use rate of 0.59 medications per player per match. Seventy percent (170/242) of players reported using at least one substance per tournament, with 57.9% (140/242) using at least one prescribed medication (63.6% of players at IBSA World Games and 57.7% of players at IFCPF World Cup). The most commonly prescribed category of medications was non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), representing 39.3% of all reported medications. Conclusion This study highlights the potential overuse of medication and supplements in disability football, particularly in the use of NSAIDs. These trends are comparable to previous research in FIFA World Cup competitions

President Barack Obama Responds to Gun Violence: A Rhetoric of Transformation.

Over the course of his presidency Barack Obama responded to 15 incidents of gun violence. Moments of tragedy serve as one of the greatest tests of presidential leadership as they require the chief executive to articulate a definition of tragedy that enables citizens both to understand and to work through the experience. It is through the act of definition that presidents increase their rhetorical power, thereby allowing them to advocate or advance specific policy proposals. This thesis examines seven of President Obama’s memorial speeches: Fort Hood, TX (2009); Tucson, AZ (2011); Newtown, CT (2012); Washington, D.C. Navy Yard (2013); Fort Hood, TX (2014); Charleston, SC (2015); and Orlando, FL (2016). Faced with a divided government and an increasingly polarized political scene, President Obama turned toward the American people to resolve the issue of gun violence. A close reading of the texts reveals that he constructed a rhetoric of transformation which aimed to transform the audience from passive spectators of tragedy to agents of change. President Obama sought to initiate his audiences’ transformation through the use of agency, identification, Scripture, and grace, framing tragedies generally and gun violence more specifically as events amenable to collective action

Affecting the gun debate: Art and performance as arguments for collective action

This project examines the visual and performative strategies of two anti-gun violence activist groups that emerged following the 2018 Parkland, Florida shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: March For Our Lives (MFOL) and Change The Ref (CTR). MFOL is a youth-founded organization created by students and survivors of the MSD shooting, while CTR is a youth-centered movement created by Manuel and Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin died in the Parkland shooting. While most scholarship on the gun debate focuses on the traditional rhetorical practices of elite actors, this dissertation considers the relationships among art, materiality, and rhetorical performance and how they operate in the context of youth activism in the gun debate. The practices and methods of the activists I study function as a form of encounter where the public is invited to participate in the discursive space, rather than simply addressed with well-trodden arguments. These practices have the potential to reframe a seemingly intractable public debate into one that gives audiences agency and invites participation. I analyze MFOL’s “Most Vicious Cycle” music video, its “Your Complacency Kills Us” art installation, and CTR’s Walls of Demand, 3D Activist, the Unfinished Votes, the Shotline, and American Shamecards. My analysis shows how these groups seek to identify the challenges and oppositional forces in the gun debate, locate and mobilize agency, and recommit the nation to a communal sense of care and concern.Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo termsThe student, Gabriela Tscholl, accepted the attached license on 2024-07-03 at 18:38.The student, Gabriela Tscholl, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2024-07-03 at 19:10.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2024-07-10 at 15:07.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #20944 on 2025-02-04 at 21:04:1

Det er tilladt at spille og kysse: Iscenesættelsesstrategier mellem autenticitet og spil, eksemplificeret ved iscenesættelsen Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt.

Iscenesættelsesstrategier mellem autenticitet og spil, eksemplificeret ved iscenesættelsen Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt. Miriam Tscholl beskriver sin egen forestilling Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt på borgerscenen i Dresden fra 2011, som blandede dokumentariske tekster i form af interviews med de medvirkende borgere og et udvalg af Schiller-tekster