This research investigated the implications that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the menstrual cycle and any contributing factors to these changes. A questionnaire was completed by 559 eumenorrheic participants, capturing detail on menstrual cycle symptoms and characteristics prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period. Over half of all participants reported to have experienced…Continue Reading How Lifestyle Changes during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Affected the Pattern and Symptoms of the Menstrual Cycle
Year: 2022
Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour with Retirement in Maltese Civil Servants: A Dialectical Mixed-Method Study
Retirement is a life event that can influence physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour (SB) and can be used as an opportunity to promote positive lifestyle choices. The aims of this study were to (a) to identify changes in PA and SB resulting from retirement and (b) to explore predictors of any changes in PA…Continue Reading Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour with Retirement in Maltese Civil Servants: A Dialectical Mixed-Method Study
The Alleviation of Perceptual Blindness During Driving in Urban Areas Guided by Saccades Recommendation
In advanced industrial applications, computational visual attention models (CVAMs) could predict visual attention very similarly to actual human attention allocation. This has been used as a very important component of technology in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Given that the biological inspiration of the driving-related CVAMs could be obtained from skilled drivers in complex driving…Continue Reading The Alleviation of Perceptual Blindness During Driving in Urban Areas Guided by Saccades Recommendation
How did the Prime Minister win a vote in Parliament and lose her authority?
It is remarkable that after a series of U-turns on key policy announcements and the resignation of two senior members of her Cabinet, the event which may well have precipitated the Prime Minister’s resignation was a parliamentary vote on an opposition motion which the Government actually won. To be sure, many would argue that the…Continue Reading How did the Prime Minister win a vote in Parliament and lose her authority?
The acquisition but not adaptation of contextual memories is enhanced in action video-game players
Visual search is facilitated when a target item is positioned within an invariant arrangement of task-irrelevant distractor elements (relative to non-repeated arrangements), because learnt target-distractor spatial associations guide visual search. While such configural search templates stored in long-term memory (LTM) cue focal attention towards the search-for target after only a few display repetitions, adaptation of existing configural…Continue Reading The acquisition but not adaptation of contextual memories is enhanced in action video-game players
Progressive constitutional deliberation: Political equality, social inequalities and democracy’s legitimacy challenge
Social inequalities fuel a debate about the meaning of political equality. Formal procedural equality is criticised for reproducing discriminatory outcomes against disadvantaged groups but affirmative action, particularly in the form of group quotas, is also contested. When opposing conceptions of substantive equality support divergent views about which procedural rule genuinely respects political equality, democracies cannot…Continue Reading Progressive constitutional deliberation: Political equality, social inequalities and democracy’s legitimacy challenge
6th RSA MICaRD Research Network Symposium
‘Hospitality, Community and Welcome: Researching working lives, representations and everyday realities of migrants’ University of Lincoln, 29-30th September 2022 Migration researchers from across the UK and Europe will join colleagues at the University later this month at an inter-disciplinary migration conference. The next Regional Studies Association MICaRD research network event will be hosted by Lincoln…Continue Reading 6th RSA MICaRD Research Network Symposium
Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women
Technological and economic globalisation has been suggested as a cause of increasing rates of body dissatisfaction and eating disorders globally, especially as regards the impact of mass media on internalised body ideals. This process is rarely observed in action, however. The current work investigates multiple aspects of body ideals, body image, sociocultural attitudes and eating…Continue Reading Sociocultural drivers of body image and eating disorder risk in rural Nicaraguan women
Reliability of electromyography during 2000 m rowing ergometry
This study aimed to investigate the reliability of surface electromyography (EMG) assessed at seven muscles during three repeated 2000 m rowing ergometer sessions. Twelve male well-trained rowers participated in a repeated measures design, performing three 2000 m rowing ergometer sessions interspersed by 3–7 days (S1, S2, S3). Surface electrodes were attached to the gastrocnemius, biceps femoris, gluteus maximus,…Continue Reading Reliability of electromyography during 2000 m rowing ergometry