Sit down, you're rocking the boat.

A randomized trial of rocking-chair motion on the effect of postoperative ileus duration in patients with cancer recovering from abdominal surgery.

Patients who undergo abdominal surgery experience a phenomenon commonly called postoperative ileus (POI). Standard of care requires patients to get out of bed, sit in a chair, and begin ambulating the first postoperative day. No evidence supports standard care activities reduce POI duration. Rocking-chair motion has shown promise in reducing POI duration. Sixty-six participants were randomized ...

Training the left ventricle with preserved ejection fraction or cardiorespiratory fitness? Rocking the boat.

Rocking together: dynamics of intentional and unintentional interpersonal coordination.

The current study investigated the interpersonal coordination that occurred between two people when sitting side-by-side in rocking chairs. In two experiments participant pairs rocked in chairs that had the same or different natural periods. By instructing pairs to coordinate their movements inphase or antiphase, Experiment 1 investigated whether the stable patterns of intentional interpersonal...

Rocking the boat An approach to facilitate formation of effective student teams

Teamwork has been identified as an important skill for Software Engineering. Apart from being a skill required by industry for Software Engieering, teamwork is extensively applied in educational settings to support collaborative learning in all disciplines. We describe a process we applied for teaching teamwork in a Software Engineering module. We dubbed the process rocking the boat. Our object...

Rocking Rotation of a Rigid Disk Embedded in a Transversely Isotropic Half-Space

The asymmetric problem of rocking rotation of a circular rigid disk embedded in a finite depth of a transversely isotropic half-space is analytically addressed. The rigid disk is assumed to be in frictionless contact with the elastic half-space. By virtue of appropriate Green's functions, the mixed boundary value problem is written as a dual integral equation. Employing further mathematical tec...