OBJECTIVES Successes of the professional athlete as individuals and team, across codes of football are contingent upon performance measures. The aim of the study was to examine associations between comfort and performance. DESIGN Prospective measures of lower limb comfort and coach rating performance criterion. Comfort and performance associations were described using Pearson's correlation co...

The Meeting, convened to finalize the text of the document, was attended by representatives of professional associations and societies concerned with general practice/family medicine, representatives of the medical and nursing professions as a whole, and experts who had contributed to the preparation of the draft Charter. The Meeting discussed the concepts and intentions of the document, the re...

There are large variations in reported diabetes prevalence within United Kingdom (UK) populations. Linear regression was used to investigate whether population characteristics could explain the variation in prevalence between 19 practices with relatively complete diagnostic recording. Population obesity and South Asian ethnicity largely explained observed variation in prevalence (adjusted R2 = ...

a. “Consensus Statement on Dignity in Illness, Disability, and Dying and a Response to the UNESCO Universal Draft Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights” was the product of a Colloquium of the International Association of Catholic Bioethicists (IACB), held in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), June 26–30, 2005. b. An introduction to the consensus statement is provided here by William Sullivan,...

The imposition of the new General Practice contract, with all the acrimony it has engendered, has obscured another change in General Practice, which has far-reaching potential. This is the explosive rise in job-sharing seen recently, exemplified by the figures for Devon FHSA, which has seen a rise from 4 jobsharing GPs, in two years, to 28 by June, 1991 (personal communication, Devon FHSA). In ...

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This paper addresses two questions concerning homwowner association dues: (1) whether professional management of a homeowners' association positively affects the amount of dues paid by its members; and (2) if so, what is the an economic justification for the difference. If a group of homeowner associations is being run efficiently, it is logical to speculate that the members of different associ...

• Several international academic associations engaged in the study of technological innovation processes and innovation management have been consolidated: ALTEC (Asociación Latino-Iberoamericana de Gestión Tecnológica), IAMOT (The International Association for Management of Technology), ISPIM (The International Society for Professional Innovation Management), PICMET (Portland International Conf...

s of unseen materials (mainly papers presented at or reports of meetings of professional associations) 8 Articles in the proceedings of international symposia 7 Articles in the international institute of tropical Agriculture Research Highlights 4 Articles in the proceedings of international colloquia 1