Stroke is the leading cause of disability worldwide. It often leads to mobility limitations resulting from deficits in muscle performance. While reduced muscle strength and rate of force production have been reported, little is known about the power generating capability of people after stroke and its relationship to mobility. Research in other populations has found that measures of muscle power may have a greater association with activity performance than do measures of muscle force alone. Consequently, in an attempt to optimise power, investigators have focused on identifying ideal parameters within which to train for power. One such parameter is the identification of the loading level at which maximal power is generated. Literature reporting optimal loads from both young athletic and healthy older populations has yielded mixed results, making the applicability to a hemiparetic population difficult. The purpose of this study was to investigate muscle power performance at differing loads and to determine at what load muscle power is best elicited in hemiparetic and age and gender matched control groups. A secondary aim was to ascertain whether there is a relationship between the muscle power values obtained and activities such as gait, stair climbing and standing from a chair. Twenty nine hemiparetic volunteers and twenty nine age and gender matched controls were evaluated. Involved and uninvolved legs of the stroke group and a comparison leg of the control group underwent testing. Leg press muscle power was measured using a modified supine leg press machine at 30%, 50% and 70% of a one-repetition maximum (1-RM) load. Participants were positioned on the leg press machine and asked to push, with a single leg, as hard and as fast as they could. Data was collected via a mounted force platform and a linear transducer connected to a platform on which the participants lay. From these, power was able to be calculated. The activities were timed while being performed as fast as possible. The results showed that peak muscle power values differed significantly between the involved, uninvolved and control legs. Peak leg power in all three leg groups was greatest when pushing against a load of 30% of 1-RM. Involved leg peak power tested at 30% of 1-RM (Mean:240; SD:145 W) was significantly lower (p<0.05) than the uninvolved leg (Mean:506; SD:243 W). Both the involved and uninvolved legs generated significantly lower peak power (p<0.05) than the control leg (Mean:757; SD:292 W). Correlations were found between the involved leg peak power and gait speed and involved leg peak power and stair climbing (r=0.6-0.7, p<0.05). No correlation was found between paretic leg peak power and chair stands. The control group leg peak power demonstrated significant associations with the performance of all three activities.In summary, there were significant differences between the involved and the uninvolved leg in power production after stroke. As well, there are significant differences between the uninvolved leg and the leg of those not affected by stroke. Power was related to a number of activities.

Stroke is the leading cause of disability worldwide. It often leads to mobility limitations resulting from deficits in muscle performance. While reduced muscle strength and rate of force production have been reported, little is known about the power generating capability of people after stroke and its relationship to mobility. Research in other populations has found that measures of muscle power may have a greater association with activity performance than do measures of muscle force alone. Consequently, in an attempt to optimise power, investigators have focused on identifying ideal parameters within which to train for power. One such parameter is the identification of the loading level at which maximal power is generated. Literature reporting optimal loads from both young athletic and healthy older populations has yielded mixed results, making the applicability to a hemiparetic population difficult. The purpose of this study was to investigate muscle power performance at differing loads and to determine at what load muscle power is best elicited in hemiparetic and age and gender matched control groups. A secondary aim was to ascertain whether there is a relationship between the muscle power values obtained and activities such as gait, stair climbing and standing from a chair. Twenty nine hemiparetic volunteers and twenty nine age and gender matched controls were evaluated. Involved and uninvolved legs of the stroke group and a comparison leg of the control group underwent testing. Leg press muscle power was measured using a modified supine leg press machine at 30%, 50% and 70% of a one-repetition maximum (1-RM) load. Participants were positioned on the leg press machine and asked to push, with a single leg, as hard and as fast as they could. Data was collected via a mounted force platform and a linear transducer connected to a platform on which the participants lay. From these, power was able to be calculated. The activities were timed while being performed as fast as possible. The results showed that peak muscle power values differed significantly between the involved, uninvolved and control legs. Peak leg power in all three leg groups was greatest when pushing against a load of 30% of 1-RM. Involved leg peak power tested at 30% of 1-RM (Mean:240; SD:145 W) was significantly lower (p<0.05) than the uninvolved leg (Mean:506; SD:243 W). Both the involved and uninvolved legs generated significantly lower peak power (p<0.05) than the control leg (Mean:757; SD:292 W). Correlations were found between the involved leg peak power and gait speed and involved leg peak power and stair climbing (r=0.6-0.7, p<0.05). No correlation was found between paretic leg peak power and chair stands. The control group leg peak power demonstrated significant associations with the performance of all three activities.In summary, there were significant differences between the involved and the uninvolved leg in power production after stroke. As well, there are significant differences between the uninvolved leg and the leg of those not affected by stroke. Power was related to a number of activities.

Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva relationen mellan smärta och vardagsaktiviteter hos vuxna personer med RA. Frågeställningarna fokuserar på att besvara hur smärta påverkar vardags­aktiviteter samt hur vardagsaktiviteter påverkar smärta hos vuxna personer med RA. Metod: Metoden scoping review har använts för att besvara syftet genom att kartlägga och sammanfatta aktuella artiklar inom området. Resultat: Resultatet av studien är att smärta påverkar vardagsaktiviteter såväl som att vardags­aktiviteter påverkar smärta. Smärta påverkar olika typer av vardagsaktiviteter, men i störst grad sociala aktiviteter och fritidsaktiviteter. Aktiviteter kunde leda till ökad smärta. Personer med RA använde aktiviteter som distraktion från smärta. Olika strategier kunde användas för utfö­rande av aktiviteter trots smärta.  Slutsats: Smärta påverkar mängden och typen av aktiviteter som finns i aktivitetsmönstret hos personer med RA på ett negativt sätt, vilket kan leda till dålig aktivitetsbalans, som i sin tur leder till försämrad hälsa och välbefinnande. Aktiviteter kunde också påverkar smärta negativt, exempelvis utfördes ofta för stor mäng av aktiviteter under symptomfria perioder, vilket ledde till ökad smärta, men även försämrad aktivitetsbalans. Strategier som personerna med RA använde var att utföra aktiviteter som distraktion från och/eller trots smärta. Dessa aktiviteter hade ett personligt värde enligt ValMOs värdedimensioner. / Aim: The aim of the study is to describe the relationship between pain and everyday activities in adults with RA. The two issues focus on answering how pain affect everyday activities and how everyday activities affect pain in adults with RA. Method: The method scoping review, was applied to answer the aim and the issues through charting and summarizing current articles within the subject. Result: The result of the study was that pain affect everyday activities as well as everyday activi­ties affect pain. Pain affect different types of activities, but above all social activities and leisure activities. Activities could lead to increased pain. Different strategies were used to perform activities despite pain. Conslusion: Pain affect the amount and type of activities in the activity pattern in adults with RA in a negative way, which can lead to poor activity balance, which in turn leads to worsened health and wellbeing. Activities could affect pain negatively as well, for example a big amount of activities were performed during symptom free periods, which in turn could lead to both increased pain but also poor activity balance. Strategies that were used were to perform activi­ties as a distraction to and/or despite pain. These activities had a personal value and had a personal value according to the value dimensions of ValMO.

Människor i alla åldrar använder mobiltelefoner och sociala medier. I och med ökad tillgång till digitala medier är det viktigt att förstå vilka effekter detta har på barns aktivitetsmönster. Syftet med studien var att beskriva hur barns mobilanvändning påverkar deras aktivitetsmönster, baserat på vårdnadshavares upplevelser. Metoden som användes var kvalitativ design. Som urvalsstrategi valdes snöbollsurvalet. Deltagarna i studien bestod av fem kvinnliga vårdnadshavare, vars tioåriga barn använder mobiltelefoner dagligen. Datainsamlingen genomfördes med semistrukturerade intervjuer och databearbetningen utfördes utifrån en kvalitativ induktiv innehållsanalys. Resultatet visade att tioåriga barn fördröjer, glömmer bort eller undviker att utföra dagliga aktiviteter samt vanor och rutiner till följd av mobilanvändningen. Slutsatsen blev att barns mobilanvändning har en negativ påverkan på deras vardagliga aktivitetsmönster. / People of all ages make use of mobile phones and social media. With increased access to digital media it is important to understand the effects this has on activity patterns in children. The purpose of the study is to describe how children's mobile use affects their activity patterns, based on legal guardian´s experiences. The method used was qualitative design. Snowball sampling was used as a selection strategy. The participants consisted of five female legal guardian´s whose ten-year-old children use mobile phones daily. Data collection was performed with semi-structured interviews and data processing based on a qualitative inductive content analysis. The results showed that ten-year-old children delay, forget or avoid performing in daily activities, habits and routines because of mobile phone use. The conclusion was that children's mobile phone use affect negatively on their everyday activity patterns.

This thesis is concerned with the phenomenon of passivity in literature, particularly with how it manifests itself through actions, stagnation and means of existence of chosen literary characters and subjects. It concentrates on such figures that are inactive or apathetic, whose actions lack the clearly articulated meaning and purpose and it often seems that they vegetate rather than live an active life. The main theme is the relationship between passivity and activity and turning the passivity into a creative principle. The thesis applies the performative theory on the literary text and sees passivity of the literary characters or subjects as a means of their art performance which offers new interpretations of examining texts and the passivity in general. Methodologically the thesis is based especially on the performative theory of Erika Fischer-Lichte, but also on the anthropological research of transition rituals, theoretical concepts of mediality, John Austin's speech-act theory or on selected philosophical thesis of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. As primary texts for the analysis serve the short story The Overcoat (Шинель, 1842) by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, the novella Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville, The Book...

Introducción. El objetivo del presente estudio es determinar si existe correlación entre los conocimientos sobre las consecuencias de la obesidad y el grado de actividad física de las personas. Métodos. Se realizó un estudio transversal analítico durante los años 2013 y 2014. Participaron 215 alumnos de pregrado seleccionados por conveniencia no relacionados a carreras del campo de la salud en una universidad de Lima, Perú. Se evaluó el grado de actividad física utilizando el International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) y el nivel de conocimientos sobre consecuencias de la obesidad utilizando la escala Obesity Risk Knowledge-10 (ORK-10). También, se consignó las fuentes de información de donde obtuvieron el conocimiento para responder dicho cuestionario. Resultados. La mediana de edad fue 20 (rango intercuartílico=4) y 63% eran mujeres. De acuerdo al IPAQ, 53,9% realizaban actividad física alta, 35,4%, moderada y 10,7%, leve. Se encontró una correlación muy baja (rs=0,06) entre el puntaje del ORK-10 y la cantidad de equivalentes metabólicos/minuto consumidos por semana, pero no era significativa (p=0,38). Las personas informadas por medios de comunicación y por personal de salud obtuvieron mayores puntajes en el ORK- 10 que quienes se informaron por otras vías (p<0,05). Conclusiones. La correlación entre los conocimientos sobre consecuencias de la obesidad y el grado de actividad física es muy baja. Es necesario utilizar enfoques multidisciplinarios que incluyan todos los determinantes de la realización de actividad física para poder lograr cambios en la conducta de la población.