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Making The Best Years of Our Lives
Released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an
immediate success. Life magazine called it \"the first big,
good movie of the post-war era\" to tackle the \"veterans problem.\"
Today we call that problem PTSD, but in the initial aftermath of
World War II, the modern language of war trauma did not exist. The
film earned the producer Samuel Goldwyn his only Best Picture
Academy Award. It offered the injured director, William Wyler, a
triumphant postwar return to Hollywood. And for Harold Russell, a
double amputee who costarred with Fredric March and Dana Andrews,
the film provided a surprising second act.
Award-winning author Alison Macor illuminates the film's journey
from script to screen and describes how this authentic motion
picture moved audiences worldwide. General Omar Bradley believed
The Best Years of Our Lives would help \"the American
people to build an even better democracy\" following the war, and
the movie inspired broad reflection on reintegrating the walking
wounded. But the film's nuanced critique of American ideals also
made it a target, and the picture and its creators were swept up in
the anti-Communist witch hunts of the late 1940s. In this
authoritative history, Macor chronicles the making and meaning of a
film that changed America.
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Running footwear matters: decoding the influence of running shoe characteristics on physiology, biomechanics and running performance (PhD Academy Award)
Objective 2 The main results were a higher reduction in running performance in a time limit test at vVO2max, than in running economy at 85% and 95% of the second ventilatory threshold (VT2) when 100 g extra were added to each shoe (p<0.05). [...]the increased mass of the shoe did not affect at lower running intensities (75% of VT2). [...]after optimally increasing the LBS using a carbon curved fibre plate, the trained group was favoured to a greater extent (3.80% when running at 9 km/hour and 3.24% when running at 13 km/hour) than the national-level runners (1% and 2.11% increase when running at 13 km/hour and 17 km/hour, respectively), although with a similar improvement in the 3000 m test in both groups. [...]this type of footwear could have large impacts at higher speeds relative to each runner level.7 Finally, regarding the midsole material of AFT, PEBA shoe condition improved running economy by 1.88% compared with the EVA condition when the AFT was new (p<0.05). Choosing the lightest shoes to optimise running performance at submaximal intensities but especially at higher intensities (ie, vVo2max).5 Selecting shoes with an intermediate stiffness range (~35 n·mm-1) to improve the running economy.6 Ensuring you have a PEBA midsole combined with a full curve carbon fibre plate to improve running economy and running performance by different mechanisms (figure 1B) mainly affecting the metatarsophalangeal and ankle joints.6 Use an AFT EVA midsole for training that will experience less wear process with the accumulation of kilometres. General recommendations suggest a shoe life range between 400 km and 500 km for racing shoes, such as AFT.9 However, our results demonstrate different changes in AFT with PEBA and EVA midsole properties after 450 km of road running, leading to changes in running economy and minor kinematic adaptations. [...]shoe companies could create AFT with EVA midsole for training offering longer shoe life and design AFT with PEBA and full curved carbon fibre plate for competition days to improve running performance.
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And the winner is--
As Brynn struggles to maintain her relationship with Jordan while starring in a professional play, Nat has a huge fight with Tori while in Los Angeles to attend the Academy Awards with her father, who was nominated as Best Actor.
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Innovative approaches to injury prevention and performance enhancement in running: insights from PhD research on hamstring strengthening, running biomechanics and energetics, and wearable technology (PhD Academy Award)
[...]I quantified running technique and tissue loading inside a lab setting and developed methods to quantify and alter running biomechanics and tissue loading in-field. There is a critical need to develop better tools for preventing these injuries, particularly tools that can be used in the field rather than being confined to laboratory settings. [...]there is also a need for a better understanding of the way by which we can increase the capacity of tissues to handle repetitive loading. [...]I also combined musculoskeletal modelling with wearables and machine learning to estimate tissue loading and damage during various running conditions (figure 1),7 with two further studies detailing the results of a large-scale in-field randomised controlled trial that investigated the effect of real-time wearable-based technique feedback on running injuries1 and running performance.8 Figure 1. The studies demonstrated that wireless instrumented insoles that provide runners with real-time feedback on their running technique help to reduce the risk of injury. [...]these insoles can quantify mechanical loading and damage at common running injury locations. [...]the insights into acute muscle forces, behaviour and activation during hamstring strengthening exercises can also be used to optimise training.
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50 Oscar nights : iconic stars & filmmakers on their career-defining wins
\"Dave Karger--Turner Classic Movies on-air host, entertainment media darling, and the Oscars expert--offers a one-of-a-kind collection of original interviews with an A-list lineup of Oscar winners discussing the highs, lows, and never-before-told tales of Hollywood's most storied awards show\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Speech analysis for assessing physical competence under the concept of physical literacy (PhD Academy Award)
Traditional methods, such as heart rate monitoring or physical performance tests, are often impractical in remote or resource-limited settings.1 Speech, being a naturally occurring and easily accessible output of human exertion, provides a unique opportunity to capture real-time physiological responses to physical activity.2 By analysing vocal changes induced by exercise, this study aimed to create a practical solution for assessing physical competence without the need for specialised equipment or extensive setup, requiring only a portable audio recording device (eg, smartphone or digital recorder) and standard speech analysis software. In Phase 1, 31 participants performed a series of physical activities with progressively increasing intensity—including the Canadian Agility and Movement Skill Assessment, plank test and Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run3—during which I conducted an acoustic analysis of speech features, such as fundamental frequency, speech rate, voice quality and pause duration, as participants engaged in a series of progressively intense physical activity. In Phase 3, the study expanded to 66 participants (33 male participants, 33 female participants), integrating deep learning algorithms, specifically a convolutional neural network with two convolutional layers and ReLU activations6 (figure 1), to predict individual physical competence scores from postexercise speech data.
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Motor retraining by real-time sonic feedback: understanding strategies of low impact running (PhD Academy Award)
The aims of this thesis were (1) to develop and (2) to validate a wearable system for impact reduction with the use of real-time music-based biofeedback and (3) to evaluate its effectiveness in a gait retraining context and to gain insight into possible strategies for low impact running. PTAs were reliable within and between sessions, correlated to the maximum vertical loading rate of the ground reaction force and changed as the speed changed during level running.1 Perceptible auditory biofeedback can consist of pink noise superimposed on temposynchronised music.2 PTA decreased (−27%, −2.96g) without significantly changing the running cadence in a single session of 20-min running with the music-based biofeedback system.3 The major change in PTA occurred after approximately eight minutes, though the time to the major reduction varied considerably between participants.4 PTA decreased (-26%, -2.77g) in the experimental group and did not change significantly in the control group at the end of a three-week running programme.5 We found no group differences in running cadence between the start and the end of the running programme. In a large group of rearfoot strikers, runners demonstrating a greater strike index generally had a greater PTA and maximum vertical loading rate.6 A pronounced rearfoot strike partially explained the remarkably low vertical loading rate of a long-distance runner who completed 100 marathons in 100 days.7 The three-dimensional resultant PTA was greater in non-rearfoot strikes compared with rearfoot strikes, which was due to a greater fore-after tibial acceleration reflecting a more sudden decrease of the forward momentum of the lower leg following touchdown.8 Time–force waveforms of the vertical ground reaction force of two subjects suggest that different motor strategies exist to diminish PTA of high impact runners.
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