Southern Paiute people stipulate that when the world was formed, the Creator gave them sole possession of the lands that constitute the traditional Southern Paiute nation and the Creator gave them the responsibilities to tend to the land, resources, and each other. As a result, from these stewardship duties, Southern Paiute people developed complex socio-ecological methods for promoting and maintaining both ecological and spiritual balance. One method was used by medicine people or Puha'gants and it involved them traveling to special ceremonial areas to acquire knowledge and power. These journeys required Puha'gants to undergo intense purification and preparation and they traveled along designated trails to places far away from their home communities. The pilgrimage process allowed the pilgrims to gain knowledge and power at their destination places to use in ceremonies to restore balance and promote sustainability in their home communities. My dissertation study examines six pilgrimage trails across Southern Paiute territory in an effort to understand this process. As a way to frame my discussion, this analysis draws upon four concepts--(1) Southern Paiute place logic, (2) cultural landscapes, (3) pilgrimage, and (4) communitas. For trail systems under study, I examine the types of places visited and their associated performance characteristics, and specifically the types of relationships pilgrims, or Puhahivats with each other, the places visited, and objects used.

Background: There are no core outcome domain or measurement sets for Total Joint Replacement (TJR) clinical trials. Our objective was to achieve an International consensus by orthopaedic surgeons on the OMERACT core domain/area set for TJR clinical trials. Methods: We conducted surveys of two orthopaedic surgeon cohorts, which included (1) the leadership of international orthopaedic societies and surgeons (IOS; cohort 1), and (2) the members of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons' Outcome Special Interest Group (AAOS-Outcome SIG), and/or the Outcome Research Interest Group of the Orthopaedic Research Society (ORS; cohort 2). Participants rated OMERACT-endorsed preliminary core area set for TJR clinical trials on a 1 to 9 scale, indicating 1-3 as domain of limited importance, 4-6 being important, but not critical, and 7-9 being critical. Results: Eighteen survey participants from the IOS group and 69 participants from the AAOS-Outcome SIG/ORS groups completed the survey questionnaire. The median (interquartile range [IQR]) scores were seven or higher for all six proposed preliminary core areas/domains across both groups, IOS and AAOS-Outcome SIG/ORS, respectively: pain, 8 [8, 9] and 8 [7, 9]; function, 8 [8, 8] and 8 [7, 9]; patient satisfaction, 8 [7, 9] and 8 [7, 8]; revision surgery, 7 [6, 9] and 8 [6, 8]; adverse events, 7 [5, 8] and 7 [6, 9]; and death, 7 [7, 9] and 8 [5, 9]. Respective median scores were lower for two additional optional domains: patient participation, 6.5 [5, 7] and 6 [5, 8]; and cost, 6 [5, 7] and 6 [5, 7]. Conclusions: This study showed that two independent surveys dervied from three groups of orthopaedic surgeons with international representation endorsed a preliminary/draft OMERACT core domain/area set for Joint Replacement clinical trials.

Title: Kinesiology analysis of the horizontal jump in bike trial Cíle práce: The aim of this thesis is to verify the use of non-specific strength-training funds for the development of horizontal jump in bike trial. Methods: Content analysis of documents Method interview with assistant work Mgr. Marek Jelinek Ph.D. Method interview with the technician when recording data Case Study riders The method of data collection using surface electromyography Data Analysis Data processing software MS Excel - evaluation of differences of values sized muscle action potential in the different types of exercise Synthesis - making inferences and discussions Results: The list of exercises for developing strength abilities of the lower limbs, which are part of non-specific resources and influence the development of the horizontal jump in cyklotrial. Ranking exercises, which are in accordance with the measured values for effective development of horizontal jump in bike trial. The exercises are sorted from highest values aktivity of all muscles: 1st Squat with free weights 2nd Jump from second place 3rd Deadlift 4th Plyometrie 5th High Jump 6th Legpress Key words: Cycling trails, biking, surface electromyography.

Master of Public Health / Department of Kinesiology / Katie M. Heinrich / Background and Purpose: Trails can help increase community physical activity levels but little is known about the role that collaborations play in building a trail. Social network analysis may be a useful tool to examine collaborations among various stakeholders, such as municipal public works, parks and recreation, community organizations, hospitals, local businesses, universities, and schools. The purpose of this project is threefold: a) to identify the number and type of organizations involved in trail building, b) to examine the centrality and density of social networks in the trail building process and c) to determine whether collaborations differ between the three phases of trail building (generation, grant funding and construction). Methods: Thirty-four successful trail project builders funded by the Sunflower Foundation of Kansas participated in an online survey designed to explore collaborations throughout the trail building process. Social network analysis adapted from procedures developed by Wickizer and colleagues (1993) was used to identify key organizations in building trails, to estimate the overall density and centrality of connections between the organizations, and to determine differences in collaborations by project phase. Results: Fifteen different groups (e.g. non-profit community organizations, city parks and recreation department, city public works, schools) were identified as part of the trail building process. Non-profit community organizations were most central to trail building during all three phases (generation (.36) grant writing (.38), and construction (.41)). All three phases of trail building were only weakly connected as indicated by density of social network scores measured during the generation (5.7%), grant writing (6.2%) and construction phases (7.5%). Centrality of social networks was high for all three phases of the trail building process, the generation phase (0.32) the grant writing phase (0.27) and the construction phase (0.36). Conclusions: This exploratory analysis suggests Social Network Analysis may be a useful tool to study organizations that collaborate to build trails for physical activity. During the distinct phases of trail-building, the role of collaborations changed. Some organizations were more important in the planning phase, grant writing or construction, while others (e.g. non-profit community organizations) were important throughout the entire process. Additionally, the density of social network increased as the trail projects progressed. The relationships between organizations were often weak but provided a flow of necessary information and skills to successfully build a trail. Future research should attempt to understand these time-dependent collaborations and encourage them in future trail and other built environment projects that support physical activity.

A Master’s research project submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in GIS and Remote Sensing. Johannesburg, 2017. / Recent initiatives by the city of Johannesburg to increase non-motorised transport through the installation of bicycle infrastructure were conducted without consulting the cycling preferences of the public. This study distributed a cycling preference survey, achieving fair reliability using the weighted Kappa statistic, in which potential users indicated the most important spatial factors for ideal cycling routes through Likert-scale answers. Importance rankings derived by Likert sums were combined with variability-explaining rankings derived by modified principal component analysis using polychoric correlation coefficients to produce a final list of retained spatial variables. These variables were quantified using secondary spatial data sets which were dichotomized into Boolean operators for network attributes in ArcGIS Network Analyst. The solved routes using the spatial factors derived by survey respondents were significantly different from the simple shortest-path routes between pre-defined origin and destination nodes. Shortcomings in the directness of the solved routes qualify their use as an initial step for non-motorised transport planning rather than a strict, unmodifiable route for bicycle lanes. Further experimentation with higher quality spatial data, custom routing algorithms, and a larger survey population may yield improved results in the future. The incorporation of local cyclists and future cyclists are a key factor in bicycle route design that should be included in non-motorised transport planning. / LG2018

As bird-watching gains popularity, there have been various techniques utilized by tourism planners to attract birdwatchers. One method of drawing birders to a specific region is through the development of a birding trail. Although there are many birding trails with varying levels of success, there was little research as to how birding trails should be designed, implemented and managed. Perhaps, a new and viable approach to birding trail development would be to plan them as tourism product clubs. A product club is an association of tourism service providers working together to deliver an integrated service. Product clubs have been successfully implemented in Barbados with golf tourism and in Spain with winery tourism. However, the concept of a product club has never been applied to bird-watching tourism. Therefore, this research tested the idea of utilizing the product club concept for bird-watching tourism. The methodology had three separate phases. Phase one involved interviewing officials of existing tourism trails, to see how they planned and managed their trails. These interviews illustrated how and what is involved with tourism trail planning and management. Phase two involved the choice of a case study location, the County of Essex and Chatham-Kent in Ontario. Phase three was planning the trail by forming an Advisory Committee consisting of key industry, non-government and government stakeholders. The Advisory Committee assisted with the following key decisions: trail size and scope, selection of birding sites, choosing accessory tourism service institutions, developing a product club oversight organization, marketing the product club, and the management, evaluation and monitoring of the trail. The thesis provides recommendations that can be used to implement a birding trail as a tourism product club. The research findings concluded that a birding trail can be planned and managed as tourism product clubs.

A Study of the Relationships Among Employees' Personality Trails, Organizational Commitment and Job Involvement in Non-Profit Organizations. Since Taiwan has rescinded martial law, the Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) are blustery, vigorous development, regardless of all has the obvious growth in quantity or in the social influence. How to maintain the good organization achievements in multitudinous NPOs? Makes good use of the management concept and the management technology should be indispensable. The social welfare organization belongs to the crowd service work, also is the manpower highly crowded occupation. If they do not have fully the manpower, the work is difficult to carry out, and then will affect the service quality which provides. Therefore, regarding the human resources integrity plan and the management is extremely important in the NPOs. The research motive is to discuss how will the social welfare organization organize suitable ¡§the employee¡¨ to place on the suitable seat in order to sufficiently display function, and how will the employees¡¦organization mission and the organizational commitment affect job involvement. The anticipation findings might take the superintendent in the future in the human resources policy the reference. The target of this study is the members of the Non-Profit Organizations¡¦(NPO) employees in Taiwan. The study is focused on the relations between the personality traits ,organizational commitment and job involvement of the institute. The purpose is to provide the NPO managers and employees with reference materials of boosting organizational commitment and job involvement. To fulfill the purpose, survey research is selected as the main method of this study after a serial related studying. On the other hand, through evaluating the content validity and analyzing the items and factors of the pre-test result, we can promote the Reliability and Validity of the questionnaire. The result shows that the Reliability and Validity of the study method is efficient. The statistical method includes the description analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis,the different analysis, the correlation analysis, and stepwise regression analysis, the research result mainly include four followings: 1.Different individual attribute employees have the part differences on personality traits, job involvement, job satisfaction and organization commitment. 2.The personality traits and job involvement have extremely positive correlation; the job involvement and personality traits have extremely positive correlation; the job involvement and organizationcommitment have extremely positive correlation. 3.The factor of influence job involvement is personality traits; the fators of influence organization commitment is personality traits; the factor of job involvement is organization commitment. 4.Organization commitment have mediating effect between the Job involvement and personality traits.

Thesis (M.L.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

This presentation is was given at the Great Basin Conference in 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This talk presents key findings from the 2005 report: Yanawant: Paiute Places and Landscapes in the Arizona Strip Volume One of the Arizona Strip Landscapes and Place Name Study (Stoffle et al. 2005). This talk focuses on pilgrimage trails in the Arizona Strip.

This presentation is was given at the Great Basin Conference in 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This talk presents key findings from the report- Ha`tata (The Backbone of the River): American Indian Ethnographic Studies Regarding the Hoover Dam Bypass Project (Stoffle et al. 2000). This talk highlights the pilgrimage trails to Sugarloaf Mountain.