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THE USE OF THE WALKING IMPAIRMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (WIQ) IN PATIENTS WITH LOWER LIMB ISCHEMIA STAGE IIB ACCORDING TO THE FONTAINE CLASSIFICATION

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Fiodorenko-Dumas Ż., Majewska Pulsakowska M., Paprocka-Borowicz M., Dumas I.

Journal of Physical Education & Health - Social Perspective

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2016

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vol. 5

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issue 8

5-11

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Chronic lower limb ischemia significantly impairs the everyday functioning of the patient as it progresses. Patients complain of the inability to walk longer distances, climb stairs or walk briskly. The aim of this study was to assess the influence of chronic lower limb ischemia on the long-term results measured using the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ), as well as to establish a relationship between our results and selected variables, i.e. BMI (Body Mass Index), ICD (Intermittent Claudication Index), ACD (Absolute Claudication Index) and gender. Materials and Methods. The research group consisted of 50 individuals diagnosed with lower limb ischemia stage IIb according to the Fontaine classification. All of the patients experienced intermittent claudication after walking a distance of less than 200 m. The mean age was 64,4±6,0 years for men (n=38) and 62,7±6,9 years for women (n=12). BMI for both sexes was 27,1±4,1 kg/m². The study used the WIQ questionnaire, which consists of 21 items and evaluates walking speed, walking distance and stair climbing. In order to obtain information concerning gender, age and BMI of the patients, an original survey was created and distributed. In addition, the patients were evaluated using the treadmill stress test, which helps to determine the severity of claudication among patients. Results. Our research showed no correlation between the WIQ score and the gender of the patient. A statistically significant correlation was found between ICD, ACD and WIQ scores (rho=0,760, rho=0,770). No relationship was observed between the BMI and WIQ score (p=0,612). Scores in the individual WIQ domains strongly correlated with the total score obtained in the questionnaire. Conclusions. The WIQ questionnaire proved to be a reliable tool for assessing motor function and disorders in patients with chronic lower limb ischemia. The results of the treadmill stress test complied with the score of the questionnaire. There was no correlation between the WIQ score and gender, as well as with the BMI of the patients.

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Walking in the city: A case study of the streets in Brno

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Kočková J.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 26

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issue 4

422-439

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This paper is an ethnographic study of everyday walking practice in the city. The research was conducted in 2014-2015 in selected streets of Brno city and was based on a hybrid method of shared walking (go-along) coupled with observations and semi-structured interviews. As urban walking is recognized as a significant mode of travel, this paper aims to expand existing knowledge by contributing qualitative data. The key influence is the work of Michel de Certeau (1984) who understands walking as a practice of everyday life. Everyday walking helps shape physical spaces and this subsequently affects human behavior. In this article I will discuss how people relate to walking, how they act in urban space and what importance they attach to their behavior. Another aim is to ascertain how pedestrians behave while performing their everyday routine and how they interact with drivers and cyclists.

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Re-treating. First steps

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Sławek T.

Anthropos?

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2016

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issue 25 Na uboczu

1-13

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Universe reverberates with steps. Once steps fall silent, the world reaches its end. Beginning with this quotation from Vasilij Rozanov we try to investigate walking and its various modalities which constitute also modalities of thinking. Reading Nietzsche's dedication to walking and nomadic lifestyle, we understand walking, "gehen", as a specific harmony achieved between body and thought as well as between body and its situatedness. It is a peculiar manner of walking, the irrationality of Chaplin's or Groucho Marx's gait, that marks a point of crisis in the systematic structure of the organization of Western society.

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Kilka spojrzeń na przedstawienia Innej Szkoły Teatralnej (2010-2019)

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Hasiuk M.

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna

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2021

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issue 162

163-198

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The text is a proposal to present the specifics of activities carried out by Węgajty Theatre in the formula of the Other Theatre School, in the second decade of its existence – the years 2010-2019. The author uses categories such as process, road / walking, performative theatre, rhapsodic structure, artivism, in an attempt to present the way of creating performances in Węgajty. She employs the proposed terms with reference to the findings made in various areas of knowledge by such artists as: Arnold Mindell, Rebecca Solnit, Tadeusz Pawłowski, Jean-Paul Sarrazac as well as the practice of Ricardo Dominguez, for example. What constitutes a significant element of the research material are unpublished interviews with the founders of Węgajty Theatre and its associates conducted by the author and Joanna Kocemba-Żebrowska in the years 2018-2020.

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Severin the Walker and his Dark Path: Declinations of the Act of Walking in Paul Leppin’s Severins Gang in die Finsternis

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Giordano M. D.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

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2021

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issue 12

73-82

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This paper investigates the themes of walking and wandering in Paul Leppin’s novel Severins Gang in die Finsternis by analysing their occurrence and aesthetic connotation. The act of walking and the exploration of urban landscape are strongly present in the novel, which is set in Prague and is characterised by several depictions of the milieu; therefore, the text has been analysed from this angle in numerous previous studies, mainly mentioning the elements of flanerie appearing in the narration. The present study discusses the problematic aspects in defining the protagonist of the novel as flaneur, suggesting alternative interpretations that can describe the aesthetic experience of Severin’s walking more exhaustively. The analysis mainly follows Francesco Careri’s research on the aesthetics of walking, which are summarized in his work Walkscapes. Walking as Aesthetic Practice. Following the same methodological approach, the paper also analyses occurrences of the act of walking other than Severin’s walkabouts, focusing especially on the presence of processions throughout the text.

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Nositelé paměti nebo zdroje falešných představ? Naučné stezky v ČR v etnologické perspektivě

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Pauknerová K., Woitsch J.

Studia Ethnologica Pragensia

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2017

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issue 1

66-95

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Educational trails are marked tourist trails placed in naturally or culturally remarkable places where selected significant phenomena and objects are specifically explained. On the most general level, we can understand educational trails as an expression of a modernist relationship to the natural and cultural heritage. The oldest educational trails were built in Germany and the USA in the 1920s and 1930s, the oldest Czech educational trails date from the late 1960s. After 1990, resp. 2000 we can observe, due to the strong wave of new regionalism and environmentalism in the Czech Republic and the mass support of building educational trails from various subsidiary programs, an unusual boom in building educational trails. Their number on our territory can be estimated at almost 1000. Academic attention that has been devoted to the educational trails so far can be described as quite inadequate. The study is therefore, on one hand, introduction into the study of educational trails and, on the other hand, demonstration of one of the possible interpretative approaches to this phenomenon through a case study focused on the content of two trails in central and western Bohemia. The initial method of the study is content analysis (or comparison of content analyzes) of relevant educational trails. The aim is both to verify the „truth“ of the facts presented on the trails, and to find out what role they play or can play in identifying and perceiving cultural (especially historical) and natural phenomena by tourists and other „users“ of these trails. In the study, we try to verify the hypothesis of a different concept of the presentation of historical events and historical cultural landscape in the areas affected by the transfer of the German-speaking population after Second World War and traditionally Czech inland areas where the transfer did not take place. On the theoretical level, the contribution is based mainly on the critical epistemological positions of the anthropology of landscape and historical ethnology, historical and ethnological study of memory and partly of the recent ethnological works devoted to the relationship of tourism and historical memory in Central Eastern Europe.

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Walking in Circles: Making Stories out of Landscapes

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Cracknell L.

Postscriptum Polonistyczne

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2021

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vol. 27

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issue 1

171-190

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W swoim artykule autorka opisuje, w jaki sposób piesze wędrówki przyczyniły się do powstania jej powieści Call of the Undertow wydanej w 2013. Nawiązując również do swojej wcześniejszej książki – Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory, pokazuje, że powrót na znane już szlaki może stać się inspiracją do powstania dzieła z pogranicza „wspomnień, trawelogu i literackiej medytacji”. W obu książkach Cracknell w złożony sposób przygląda się przyrodzie, historii społecznej, lokalnym społecznościom i ich wewnętrznym układom, przyjmując w swoich książkach metody badawcze, które wyjaśnia w niniejszym artykule. Fascynują ją światy graniczne i odkrywanie jednostkowych historii kobiet, które mają odwagę podważać zasadność granic i podziałów. Dla Cracknell, ruch jest niezbędnym elementem w procesie twórczym, a w Doubling Back staje się on wręcz głównym tematem jej rozważań. W „Chodząc w kółko: Krajobrazowe opowieści”, autorka zadaje pytanie o rodzaj tekstu, który pozwala na bardziej cielesne doświadczenie podróżnicze, zastanawiając się również, czy czytelnik sam powinien być wędrowcem, aby lepiej i pełniej zrozumieć relacje z odbywanych przez innych podróżników pieszych wypraw.

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Using the example of her novel, Call of The Undertow, published in 2013, Linda Cracknell writes about how repeated walks in a new place rich with possibility resulted in a fictional narrative out of observation and sensation. She also draws on her non-fiction book, Doubling Back: Ten Paths Trodden in Memory, a book described as a combination of ‘memoir, travelogue and literary meditation’, inspired by re-treading former journeys on foot taken by herself or by others.Both books have involved a ‘multiple gaze’ across nature, social history, communities and inner lives, and share some creative methods. In both she’s attracted to liminal worlds, exploration and often to women who challenge boundaries. Motion is necessary to this writer’s imaginative writing, but in Doubling Back, the motion has itself become the subject. For the writer, the craft is similar but fiction feels a greater transformation of the material. For the reader, which kind of text provides a more visceral experience of having travelled herself, and is it necessary for the reader to be a walker in order to fully engage with accounts of journeys on foot?

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Poblask albo wędrówki Sebalda

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Macfarlane R., Heydel M.

Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa

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2014

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vol. 68

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issue 3-4(306-307)

193-195

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This text comes from the catalogue: Waterlog. Journeys Around An Exhibition (ed. Steven Bode, Jeremy Millar, Nina Ernst, Film and Video Umbrella, London 2007).

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Du Paria à l’Émigré : une typologie des vagabonds post-révolutionnaires

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Sert H.

Quêtes littéraires

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2014

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issue 4

18-27

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The « great detention » analysed by Michel Foucault shows the fear societies have of wanderers and tramps. During the wholeclassical period, political and religious elites try to lock up people who don’t have neither home nor work, thinking that they are a danger to society’s order. Arts and literature represent this threat, reinforcing the negativity of wandering and mobility in minds. However, there is a time in French history leading to question this doxa. A political revolution turns these representations round. The French Revolution changes the camp of suspicion towards wandering. Starting from 1789, old elites, ironically, find themselves out in the streets with nothing. These people, the Émigrés, are the ones creating literature during the revolutionary period. This phenomenonaffects writing at this time, and arises ethical and aesthetic questions. The texts written in exile trying to answer these questions create a new sensibility which is going to influence the minds of the 19th century.

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The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life

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Williams T.

American, British and Canadian Studies Journal

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2013

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vol. 20

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issue 1

224-238

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Creative writing happens in and alongside the writer’s everyday life, but little attention has been paid to the relationship between the two and the contribution made by everyday activities in enabling and shaping creative practice. The work of the anthropologist Tim Ingold supports the argument that creative writing research must consider the bodily lived experience of the writer in order fully to understand and develop creative practice. Dog-walking is one activity which shapes my own creative practice, both by its influence on my social and cultural identity and by providing a time and space for specific acts instrumental to the writing process to occur. The complex socio-cultural context of rural dog-walking may be examined both through critical reflection and creative work. The use of dog-walking for reflection and unconscious creative thought is considered in relation to Romantic models of writing and walking through landscape. While dog-walking is a specific activity with its own peculiarities, the study provides a case study for creative writers to use in developing their own practice in relation to other everyday activities from running and swimming to shopping, gardening and washing up.

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THE USE OF THE WALKING IMPAIRMENT QUESTIONNAIRE (WIQ) IN PATIENTS WITH LOWER LIMB ISCHEMIA STAGE IIB ACCORDING TO THE FONTAINE CLASSIFICATION

Walking in the city: A case study of the streets in Brno

Re-treating. First steps

Kilka spojrzeń na przedstawienia Innej Szkoły Teatralnej (2010-2019)

Severin the Walker and his Dark Path: Declinations of the Act of Walking in Paul Leppin’s Severins Gang in die Finsternis

Nositelé paměti nebo zdroje falešných představ? Naučné stezky v ČR v etnologické perspektivě

Walking in Circles: Making Stories out of Landscapes

Poblask albo wędrówki Sebalda

Du Paria à l’Émigré : une typologie des vagabonds post-révolutionnaires

The Writer Walking the Dog: Creative Writing Practice and Everyday Life