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The COVID-19 crisis also affected elite sport severely, as elite athletes either stopped or drastically reduced their training regimen due to the lack of competitions and the mandatory lockdown. The aim of this study was to test whether heart rate variability was a reliable index of training load, which was dramatically altered due to the mandatory lockdown that occurred as a consequence of the COVID-19. Training (volume and intensity) and heart rate variability of sixteen professional male (n = 8; body mass index = 22.2 ± 2.0) and female cyclists (n = 8; body mass index = 20.3 ± 1.1) before (4 weeks), during (7 weeks), and after (4 weeks) the mandatory lockdown in Spain were monitored. Individual analyses showed that the mandatory lockdown caused reliable reductions in training volume in 13 subjects (–96 to –7% reductions in minutes), that were followed by an increase after the lockdown in all subjects (5 to 270%). In contrast, changes in training load were not homogenous across individuals. Moreover, such changes were not matched by comparable variations in heart rate variability. A mixed model of the heart rate variability as a function of training volume and intensity revealed no significant modulation by these two variables, and subject specific effects on the slope. In this study, we did not find evidence of association between heart rate variability and training load and/or intensity as many previous reports have suggested, even if training conditions changed dramatically overnight. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction. Le vélo a gagné en popularité au cours de la pandémie de COVID-19, sans que l'on connaisse l'impact de cette situation sur les blessures chez les cyclistes. Nous avons étudié l'effet des confinements sur les hospitalisations associées à des blessures à vélo. Méthodologie. Nous avons relevé les cas d'hospitalisation pour blessure à vélo au Québec (Canada) entre avril 2006 et mars 2021. Nous avons utilisé des rapports de taux (RT) et des intervalles de confiance (IC) à 95 % pour comparer les taux d'hospitalisation par type de blessure subie à vélo et par site anatomique au cours de deux vagues de la pandémie. Nous avons appliqué un modèle de régression de type séries chronologiques interrompues afin d'évaluer l'effet des confinements sur les taux mensuels d'hospitalisation associés aux blessures à vélo, en fonction de l'âge, du sexe et d'autres caractéristiques. Résultats. Il y a eu 2 020 hospitalisations pour blessure à vélo entre mars 2020 et mars 2021, dont 617 pendant le premier confinement et 67 pendant le deuxième confinement. Par rapport à la période prépandémique, la plus grande augmentation du risque de blessures liées aux déplacements à vélo pendant le premier confinement a concerné les fractures (RT = 1,44; IC à 95 % : 1,26 à 1,64) et les lésions traumatiques à la tête et au cou (RT = 1,59; IC à 95 % : 1,19 à 2,12). Lors de chaque mois durant le premier confinement, les taux d'hospitalisation pour blessure à vélo ont été considérablement plus élevés qu'en période prépandémique chez les adultes, les adolescents et les personnes vivant dans des quartiers favorisés sur le plan socioéconomique ainsi que dans des quartiers à faible densité de population dite racisée. Aucune association avec les blessures à vélo n'a été constatée lors du deuxième confinement. Conclusion. Le premier confinement a déclenché une augmentation marquée des hospitalisations pour blessures à vélo, en particulier chez les adultes, les adolescents et les personnes vivant dans des quartiers plus favorisés sur le plan socioéconomique et à plus faible densité de population dite racisée. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The cinematographic work of the director Carlos Velo (1966) refers to the text of the same title, Pedro Páramo, of the writer Juan Rulfo (1955). Velo's film decodes the meaning of the preceding work, where it is very difficult to differentiate between life and death. In order to achieve this, the director incorporates some of the elements that define the conception of the new «fantastic», according to the multidisciplinary current developed in different theoretical approaches. Similarly, special attention is paid to the treatment of the present, continuum temporalis, and the past, non continuum temporalis, as well as to elements related to memory that refer to the past histories of the characters' lives in Velo's film. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper frames the embodied experience of bicycling using theories of performativity and materiality. In doing so, the paper provides insights into embodied processes that regulate the gendered and classed cycling body across age. Drawing from interviews completed with newcomers to Toronto enrolled in a bicycle mentorship program, this paper highlights how context-specific social norms exist around who is read as cycling appropriately. Two norms consistently discussed are that cycling can be at odds with femininity and that it is a symbol of poverty. These norms act as discursive regulatory frameworks for gender and class performativity. Cycling can also be an experience of 'intense embodiment' in that it can bring the absent body back into consciousness. This experience is dynamic and elicits diverse emotions. Furthermore, cycling is not only found to increase people's awareness of their materiality, but also their bodily fluids challenge the notion of 'secure' bodily boundaries. These material processes can be gendered and/or classed, and can affect access to mobility and public space. By studying identity formation processes as they relate to cycling, this paper sheds light on the power-laden underpinnings of identity-based differences in cycling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el nuevo ecosistema mediático, las redes sociales se convierten en espacios clave para canalizar creencias políticas de odio, ideologías y acciones. Dada la escasez de trabajos empíricos en España sobre el discurso islamófobo en las redes sociales, esta investigación ofrece un análisis cuantitativo riguroso de la conversación social en Twitter generada a raíz de la campaña lanzada en 2019 bajo el título «Quítale las etiquetas al velo», con la que la Fundación Al Fanar para el Conocimiento Árabe, con apoyo de Twitter, pretendió desarticular las visiones estereotipadas de la mujer musulmana. Se llevó a cabo un análisis cuantitativo del impacto generado por el tuit principal de la campaña y la emisión de los dos hilos de información posteriores. La muestra (N = 1.545) la conformaron cada uno de los comentarios registrados en el tuit inicial de la campaña (N = 747) y en los dos hilos posteriores (N = 603 y N = 195). Se intenta averiguar quién participó en la conversación, los temas, el tono y la principal acción que la definió. Posteriormente, se realizó un análisis crítico del discurso de los cinco tuits más determinantes en cada una de las acciones. Los resultados demostraron una superioridad occidental que califica al islam de manera despectiva. La interacción social entre los participantes fue escasa y se detectaron acciones islamófobas coordinadas de tipo ideológico en los contenidos promocionados por Twitter.

This study critically examines how development interventions are imagined for singular places and subjects through a political process of product scripting that reconfigures the socio-technical meaning of second-hand objects from unwanted commodities to solutions that are appropriate for sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the flow of second-hand goods demonstrates how development subjects are imagined to be adult, economically productive, rural beings. The paper finds that the second-hand mountain bicycle is inserted into an imagined place with a predetermined purpose that does not attend to alternative and heterogeneous urban and rural identities and needs. The paper highlights the compromises undertaken in designing development interventions as they are entangled with processes of waste recycling, commodification and philanthropy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: To show that a local event can have an international reputation.Design / methodology / approach: We will see through the analysis of the routes, the organization of the event and the proposed animations how much Angers velo vintage can have at international and local levelResearch and practical limitations / implications: We will rely solely on published news articles and researches published.

Introduction One of the main challenge for the second generation of immigrants is represented by the construction of an identity on the base of a double cultural membership. This construction is the result, on the one hand, of the cultural transmission of their parents and, on the other hand, of the assimilative claim made by western society towards them. In addition, in the case of second generations of immigrants who grew up in families confessing the Islamic faith, the complexity of identity construction can be exacerbated by the presence of a religion that is difficult to reconcile within Western societies. Among the challenges that these young people have to face, for Muslim women emerges a further difficulty from the choice to wear the veil, a practice often considered by the natives as a subordination of women to the will of men. The aim of the study was to investigate the role of Islam in the construction of a religious identity through a focus on the main differences between young Muslim men and women. Method In a qualitative study, through semi-structured interviews, the role of the Islamic religion in the identity construction in a sample of 20 second generation young Moroccans (F = 10; age 18-27; M = 21; SD = 2.3) was investigated. Results The results showed a relationship between the gender of the participants and the way they expressed religion. For young Muslim men, is considered an inherited cultural aspect. For young Muslims women, instead, the Islamic religious identity is conceived as a support for the affirmation of a multicultural identity, mainly through the free choice to wear the veil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction: "Velo" is a product that belongs to a new type of tobacco originating from Scandinavian countries. According to the law of the Republic of Croatia, it is a smokeless tobacco product. Usage of this product has been increasing in recent years. The product is intended to be used orally in the form of a pad placed in the upper maxillary vestibule area. Case report: A twenty-two-year-old male, self-initiated, arrives at the Department of oral medicine at the University Hospital of Split due to a change in the area of the maxillary vestibule. Anamnestically, the patient denies the existence of any other systemic disease, drug allergy, or allergies to xylitol, cellulose and sodium alginate. He states that he is a former tobacco smoker who only uses oral smokeless tobacco products ("Velo"). The patient noticed changes in the form of a textural shift in oral mucosa after using several packages of oral smokeless tobacco product. He also emphasizes that mentioned changes gradually started to cover more significant areas of his oral mucosa as well as his personal feeling of pain while brushing his teeth. Executed clinical examination of the patient's maxillary vestibule region has shown non-symmetric hyperkeratotic plaques with an erythematous surface. The patient confirms that the area where changes in his oral mucosa are located matches the most frequent part of his "Velo" patches application. The toluidine test was negative, and the patient was advised to stop using the product immediately. At the control examination in 14 days, in which he didn't use an oral smokeless tobacco product, the patient's oral mucosa changes regressed spontaneously. Conclusion: In this case, it can be concluded that the usage of an oral smokeless tobacco product ("Velo"), which is packaged in the form of oral pads, caused hyperkeratotic and erythematous lesions of the oral mucosa. By ending consumption of this product for two weeks, spontaneous lesion regression has occurred. By reviewing several published scientific papers regarding the same issue, we conclude that the long period of usage of smokeless tobacco products could potentially be associated with the appearance of potentially malignant lesions on the oral mucosa. Therefore, we consider that every healthcare worker must point out the harmful health effects of smokeless tobacco products on patients' oral mucosa, as they are not printed on the product packaging. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Réplica al artículo anterior titulado “El velo, la apariencia y algo demasiado grande” y publicado en este mismo número

Reply to the above article entitled "The veil, the appearance and something too big" and published in this Issue

Nietzsche's philosophy indicates something too large which makes every vital decision painful. This is the tragic nature of existence, to which understanding gets nothing. However Art takes this to want and to suffer at the same time. That is the reason why it is a sublime experience. Sublime because it is impossible: impossible to show the totality, to show it all the time or to show all at the same time. If that experience is impossible, only the veil that covers can be showed through Art. This Art finds also paradoxically joy in destruction and it is an illusion that extends a veil of beauty over what is too large

La filosofía de Nietzsche apunta hacia algo demasiado grande que torna dolorosa cada decisión vital. Se trata del carácter trágico de la existencia, ante la cual la comprensión nada consigue. Sin embargo el arte asume este querer y sufrir al mismo tiempo y que es por ello una experiencia sublime por imposible: imposible porque quiere presentar la totalidad, presentar todo el tiempo o todo al tiempo. Si la experiencia no es posible, sólo cabe presentar el velo que la cubre mediante un arte que, también de modo paradójico, encuentra alegría en la destrucción, y que es una ilusión que extiende un velo de belleza sobre lo demasiado grande

This paper uses Queer theory, specifically literature on Bowers v. Hardwick, to analyze debates over legislation proposed in Quebec regarding covered faces. Queer theory sheds light on legal responses to the veil. Parliamentary debates in Quebec reconstitute the polity, notably as secular and united. The paper highlights the contradictory and unstable character of four binaries: legislative text versus social practice, act versus status, majority versus minority, and knowable versus unknowable. As with contradictory propositions about homosexuality, contradiction does not undermine discourse but makes it stronger and more agile. Este artículo utiliza la teoría Queer, más concretamente la literatura sobre Bowers vs. Hardwick, para analizar los debates sobre la legislación propuesta en Quebec en relación al velo. La teoría Queer arroja luz sobre las respuestas legales al velo. Los debates parlamentarios en Quebec reconstituyen la forma de gobierno, especialmente como secular y unido. El documento pone de relieve el carácter contradictorio e inestable de cuatro binarios: texto legislativo frente a las prácticas sociales; legislación frente a estado; mayoría versus minoría; y conocible frente a incognoscible. Al igual que con las proposiciones contradictorias acerca de la homosexualidad, la contradicción no socava el discurso, sino que lo hace más fuerte y más ágil.

Knowledge of the beam properties in proton therapy through beam monitoring is essential, ensuring an effective dose delivery to the patient. In clinical practice, currently used interceptive ionisation chambers require daily calibration and suffer from a slow response time. A new non-invasive method for dose online monitoring is under development based on the silicon multi-strip sensor LHCb VELO (VErtex LOcator), originally used for the LHCb experiment at CERN. The proposed method relies on proton beam halo measurements. Several changes in the system setup were necessary to operate the VELO module as a standalone system outside of the LHC environment and are described in this paper. A new cooling, venting and positioning system was designed. Several hardware and software changes realised a synchronised readout with a locally constructed Faraday Cup and the RF frequency of a medical cyclotron with quasi-online monitoring. The adapted VELO module will be integrated at the 60 MeV proton therapy beamline at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC), UK and the capability as a beam monitor will be assessed by measuring the beam current and by monitoring the beam profile along the beamline in spring 2019.