Mikä varusmiestä liikuttaa? : varusmiehen vapaa-ajan liikuntamotiivit

Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli selvittää varusmiesten motiivit harrastaa tai olla harrastamatta liikuntaa varusmiespalveluksen vapaa-ajalla sekä niiden mahdollisia muutoksia. Lisäksi selvitettiin varusmiesten kokemusta oman tulevaisuuden liikunta-aktiivisuuden ja oman fyysisen kunnon muutoksesta palvelusaikana sekä varusmiesten liikuntakerhotoiminnan merkitystä varusmiesten liikunta-aktiivisuudelle. Puolustusvoimien liikuntakoulutuksen tavoitteena on luoda varusmiehille pysyvä liikuntakipinä. Varusmiesten liikuntamotiivien tunnistaminen tukee tätä tavoitetta, sillä liikunnallinen elämätapa lähtee ihmisen omista motiiveista liikkua. Tutkimus on ryväsotantana suoritettu seurantatutkimus. Kyseessä oli määrällinen kyselytut-kimus, jossa kyselyiden tulokset käsiteltiin SPSS-ohjelmalla. Tutkimusjoukkona oli Satakunnan Tykistörykmentin saapumiserän 2/13 ja 1/14 varusmiehiä. Kyselyt toteutettiin vuoden 2014 kevään aikana kolmesti eri koulutuskausilla. Tutkimuksen lähtökohtaoletusarvona oli, että tärkein syy vapaa-ajan liikunnan harrastamiseen on siitä ansaittava kuntoisuusloma ja tärkein syy olla harrastamatta liikuntaa olisi päiväpalveluksen jälkeinen väsymys. Tutkimus osoitti, että tärkein syy harrastaa liikuntaa oli halu pysyä terveenä. Kuntoisuusloma liikuntamotiivina ei ollut merkittävä, ja sen merkitys väheni palveluksen edetessä. Liikunnan harrastamattomuuden tärkein syy palveluksen alkupuolella oli palveluksen jälkeinen väsymyksen tunne, mutta palveluksen loppupuolella se muuttui liikuntamotivaation puutteeksi. Tutkimuksen perusteella voidaan todeta, että omasta kunnosta huolehtiminen on tärkeä motiivi varusmiesten vapaa-ajan liikunnan harrastamiselle. Heikkokuntoisemmille jo pelkkä päiväpalveluksesta suoriutuminen on alussa rankkaa. Palveluksen edetessä ja kunnon kohotessa väsymys vähenee. Liikuntakoulutuksessa tulisikin kiinnittää huomiota varusmiesten motivointiin koko palveluksen ajan.

Correlation Between The Friedman Staging System And The Upper Airway Volume In Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

This study was designed to evaluate the correlation between computed tomography findings and data from the physical examination and the Friedman Staging System (FSS) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We performed a retrospective evaluation by reviewing the medical records of 33 patients (19 male and 14 female patients) with a mean body mass index of 30.38 kg/m(2) and mean age of 49.35 years. Among these patients, 14 presented with severe OSA, 7 had moderate OSA, 7 had mild OSA, and 5 were healthy. The patients were divided into 2 groups according to the FSS: Group A comprised patients with FSS stage I or II, and group B comprised patients with FSS stage III. By use of the Fisher exact test, a positive relationship between the FSS stage and apnea-hypopnea index (P = .011) and between the FSS stage and body mass index (P = .012) was found. There was no correlation between age (P = .55) and gender (P = .53) with the FSS stage. The analysis of variance test comparing the upper airway volume between the 2 groups showed P = .018. In this sample the FSS and upper airway volume showed an inverse correlation and were useful in analyzing the mechanisms of airway collapse in patients with OSA.

An algorithmic Friedman-Pippenger theorem on tree embeddings and applications

An (n, d)-expander is a graph G = (V, E) such that for every X subset of V with vertical bar X vertical bar <= 2n - 2 we have vertical bar Gamma(G)(X) vertical bar >= (d + 1) vertical bar X vertical bar. A tree T is small if it has at most n vertices and has maximum degree at most d. Friedman and Pippenger (1987) proved that any ( n; d)- expander contains every small tree. However, their elegant proof does not seem to yield an efficient algorithm for obtaining the tree. In this paper, we give an alternative result that does admit a polynomial time algorithm for finding the immersion of any small tree in subgraphs G of (N, D, lambda)-graphs Lambda, as long as G contains a positive fraction of the edges of Lambda and lambda/D is small enough. In several applications of the Friedman-Pippenger theorem, including the ones in the original paper of those authors, the (n, d)-expander G is a subgraph of an (N, D, lambda)-graph as above. Therefore, our result suffices to provide efficient algorithms for such previously non-constructive applications. As an example, we discuss a recent result of Alon, Krivelevich, and Sudakov (2007) concerning embedding nearly spanning bounded degree trees, the proof of which makes use of the Friedman-Pippenger theorem. We shall also show a construction inspired on Wigderson-Zuckerman expander graphs for which any sufficiently dense subgraph contains all trees of sizes and maximum degrees achieving essentially optimal parameters. Our algorithmic approach is based on a reduction of the tree embedding problem to a certain on-line matching problem for bipartite graphs, solved by Aggarwal et al. (1996).

Ihmisapinoiden älykkyys ja testit

Kirjoittaja kiittää Markku Javanaista TT-lehdessä 5/2004 olleesta artikkelista "Gorillan älykkyysosamäärä 70-95" -tieteellinen myytti?

Ihmisapinoiden älykkyys ja testit

Kirjoittaja kiittää Juha Valstetta TT-lehdessä 6/2004 olleista kommenteista artikkeliinsa (TT 5/2004)

Friedman's Excess energy and the McMillan-Mayer theory of solutions:Thermodynamics

In his version of the theory of multicomponent systems, Friedman used the analogy which exists between the virial expansion for the osmotic pressure obtained from the McMillan-Mayer (MM) theory of solutions in the grand canonical ensemble and the virial expansion for the pressure of a real gas. For the calculation of the thermodynamic properties of the solution, Friedman proposed a definition for the"excess free energy" that is a reminder of the ancient idea for the"osmotic work". However, the precise meaning to be attached to his free energy is, within other reasons, not well defined because in osmotic equilibrium the solution is not a closed system and for a given process the total amount of solvent in the solution varies. In this paper, an analysis based on thermodynamics is presented in order to obtain the exact and precise definition for Friedman"s excess free energy and its use in the comparison with the experimental data.

La separación de los caminos (un análisis crítico del libro homónimo de Michael Friedman)

La filosofía contemporánea se hacaracterizadopor la presencia de un dualismo esquizoide entre la tradición analítica e la tradición fenomenológico hermenéutica. El origen histórico del mismo puede ser fijado en el Congreso de Davos, el cual, por otra parte, señala el comienzo del olvido de un otro programa, la filosofía de las formas simbólicas de E. Cassirer e que hoy puede ser considerado como alternativa e posible dirección de superación del dualismo mencionado. Tal es, en síntesis, la posición defendida por M. Friedman en su reciente monografía, escrita en el contexto de la convicción de una crisis derivada del agotamiento de las tradiciones y de la subsecuente necesidad de una reorientación. El texto que ofrecemos comenta críticamente el estudio de Friedman, mostrando donde y cómo él puede y debe ser completado o, eventualmente, corregido.

Monetary Policy When Wages Are Downwardly Rigid: Friedman Meets Tobin

In a monetary economy with downwardly rigid wages, the central banker should target a low, but strictly positive, inflation rate.

Epic Sea Battle at Night: a Revolutionary Play with the Economic Thinking of Milton Friedman

The play Epic Sea Battle at Night was originally staged in 1967, to commemorate two of China’s People’s Liberation Army’s military triumphs over the Taiwanese navy two years previously. Produced at the height of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the play is an example of the exploitation of the arts as an ideological instrument, celebrating military heroism and political conviction. Stills from the play were included in, China Pictorial 11, an English language propaganda pamphlet that was distributed to Western Imperialists in order to educate them in Maoist policy. Today, these images are clear representations of ideology. More than forty years after the Cultural Revolution, the ideology under which we live, neo-liberal late-capitalism, deliberately shirks from such blatant displays of propaganda. We have supposedly the freedom to believe whatever we like in a post-ideological age, and yet core beliefs about meritocracy, individualism and competitiveness frequently go unchallenged. By juxtaposing the visual language of ideology with the text of the capitalist manifesto, the re-enactment of a scene from Epic Sea Battle at Night harnesses the aesthetics of the past so as to allow us to reconsider the alleged neutrality of the present. The design of the stage, the positioning of the actors, costumes and props of the current production closely resembled those documented in China Pictorial 11, yet the actors’ monologues belong to a completely different context. No less heroic and utopian in tone than the speech given by the political instructor of gunboat 874 in the original play, the capitalist manifesto was an attempt to give a concrete language to the shapeless ideology of the present, and to force the invisible currents that govern life today, in China as in the West, to the surface. Neither a lecture on neo-liberal economics, nor a theatrical performance of a narrative, the piece appropriated the format of the propaganda play to re-evaluate the relationship between art and politics now.

Friedman, Irene, interviewed by Nicole Mitchell on January 16, 2010: Transcript

Some themes discussed are: • Military service—(1) • Occupation—retail (2) • Occupation—Stride Rite Shoes (10) • Occupation—law (11-12) • Life in Augusta—grandparents (2) • Life in Augusta—childhood (3) • Interfaith interaction (5) • Yiddish (4) • Jewish education (5, 8, 10) • Synagogue (5) • Holidays—Christmas (5-6) • Holidays—Passover/Sukkot (6) • Dating— interfaith marriage (7-8) • Jewish Identity (5, 9-10)