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The long-term impact of overuse injuries on life-long participation in sport and health status

- Cook, Jill, Finch, Caroline

Authors: Cook, Jill , Finch, Caroline
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Sport participation: Health benefits, injuries and psychological effects p. 85-104
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Description: Overuse injuries are common in many sports and it is well known that they can negatively influence ongoing participation in sport, especially during the period when people recover and rehabilitate from these injuries. Much less is recognised about the longer-term impact of these overuse injuries, with most focus in the literature appearing to be on the outcomes of acute, traumatic injuries. This chapter provides an overview of the available evidence that links overuse injuries to restriction of sport participation and other physical activities in both the short term and longer term, as well as the associated health issues that may be associated with this. In particular, residual musculoskeletal deficits that might affect future joint and tendon health and injury risk are reviewed. By drawing on models describing the chronicity of problems such as poor tendon health and osteoarthritis and the recently presenting LOAD (List of All Deficits) injury outcome framework, this chapter presents a new conceptual approach towards understanding the significant impact of overuse injuries that arise during sport on subsequent health and sports participation across the lifespan.

Trends in high pressure processing of foods: Food quality and bioactive components

- Gamlath, Shirani, Wakeling, Lara

Authors: Gamlath, Shirani , Wakeling, Lara
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: New Topics in Food Engineering p. 109-138
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Description: High pressure processing (HPP) is a non-thermal food processing technology that offers great potential for the processing of a wide range of food products. Application of HPP can inactivate micro-organisms, affect food-related enzymes and modify structures with minimal changes to nutritional and sensory quality aspects of foods. The effects of high pressure on the inactivation of micro-organisms in food have been thoroughly reviewed. Recent research on HPP has mainly focused on fruits and vegetables with an emphasis on food quality and bioactive components. This chapter highlights the current trends in HPP research and provides a summary of the available findings on the effect of HPP on chemical, nutritional and bioactive components and health related properties of a wider range of commodities. Strategies to maintain the quality attributes and health related components in HPP foods and identification of the gaps for future research in HPP are also discussed. © 2011 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.

VFR travellers of the future

- Backer, Elisa

Authors: Backer, Elisa
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Tourism and demography p. 73-86
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Description: The purpose of this chapter is to : Highlight the importance of visiting friends and relatives (VFR) travel now and in the future; Discuss key demographic trends related to VFR travel and analyse the findings from a study of VFR tourism to two Australian including destinations, including: VFR travellers represent a substanial form of solo-travellers and single-person households are forecast to grow in the future. VFR travel represents a hidden form of travel for children travelling without parents (linked with emerging niche market, the 'grand-traveller'); VFR travelly utilise commercial accomodation, and their usage of this is likely to increase; VFR travel has important social benefits to families; VFR travel will grow as a market segment for older travellers, especially those in the final stages of the family life cycle.
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Web technologies and reasoning communities

- Miller, Charlynn, Smith, Philip

Authors: Miller, Charlynn , Smith, Philip
Date: 2011
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Technologies for supporting reasoning communities and collaborative decision-making p. 397-411
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Description: The popularity of the Internet, coupled with a reduction in traditional community participation has resulted in maturation in the way that people use Web 2.0 technologies to support communities. Reasoning communities come together to make decisions or form courses of action on particular topics. This chapter investigates how traditional Web (1.0), Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies can be used to support the four phases of the process that reasoning communities typically undergo to achieve their results.
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'Wonderland', planning in a populist Queensland 1931-78

- McConville, Chris

Authors: McConville, Chris
Date: 2010
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Cities, Citizens and Environmental Reform : Histories of Australian Town Planning Associations. p. 287-312
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Description: In Queensland, popular movements for planning had arisen in the 1910s - noble enterprises, driven by hopes for fairness and equality. Bereft of common purpose and popular interest by 1962, the most influential of these organisations, the Queensland Town Planning Association (QTPA), collapsed.

A new stochastic model based approach for object identification and segmentation in textured color image

- Islam, Mofakharul, Watters, Paul

Authors: Islam, Mofakharul , Watters, Paul
Date: 2010
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation p. 309-314
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Description: We investigate and propose a novel stochastic model based approach to implement a robust unsupervised color image content understanding technique that segments a color textured image into its constituent parts automatically and meaningfully. The aim of this work is to detection and identification of different objects in a color image using image segmentation. Image segments or objects are produced using precise color information, texture information and neighborhood relationships among neighboring image pixels. As a whole, in this particular work, the problem we want to investigate is to implement a robust Maximum a posteriori (MAP) based unsupervised color textured image segmentation approach using Cluster Ensembles, MRF model and Daubechies wavelet transform for identification and segmentation of image contents or objects. In addition,Cluster Ensemble has been utilizedfor introducing a robust technique for finding the number of components in an image automatically. The experimental results reveal that the proposed model is able to find the accurate number of objects or components in a color image and can produce more accurate and faithful segmentation of different meaningful objects from relatively complex background. Finally, we have compared our results with another similar existing segmentation approach.

An exploration of police use of firearms in Australia

- Baker, David

Authors: Baker, David
Date: 2010
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Police Use of Force: A Global perspective p. 141-151
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Description: Police Use of Force: A Global Perspective is a fascinating, international exploration of police use of force, firearms, and less-than-lethal weapons in nations around the world. The book is comprised of three sections: the first focuses on the use of force generally, the second explores firearms and deadly force, and the final section considers less-than-lethal weapons, including pepper spray, TASERs, and other emerging technologies currently on the horizon. The essays gathered here will provide readers with an understanding of the vast differences in how police use force in various countries, as well as why police use force differently under different forms of government. Topics covered include use-of-force definitions, training procedures, policy issues, abuse of police authority, use of force during interrogations, and the use of firearms by armed and unarmed police forces. Finally, there is an essay focusing on how shooting and killing a suspect impacts an officer in the months and years that follow. "From the publisher"

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