"Let's Focus" Vibes 😎
When we start to get serious about the learning, we need some wholesome vibes to kick things off right.
Here's another track I found to help us on the way.
Ready... Set.... GO!
The History
In 2006 I decided to give uni one last try. Up until then, I was convinced I was only ever going to be good at fighting. Fotunately though I met a great mentor just before graduation who confirmed to me that my grades were actually good enough to get into an Honours degree. So after graduating from the Bachelors in 2008, I enrolled into the Honours under the supervision of Prof Lexin Wang with the basic idea of physiologic efficiency in mind. He talked me into splitting the research into 2 parts, leaving the actual clinical trial part for a PhD. So in 2010 I graduated from the Honours degree and again, with the supervision and mentorship of Prof Wang, I submitted my proposal for the PhD research, which was accepted. The PhD research (comprising 10 retrospective review, a qualitative and a clinical pilot study) was completed in 2014, and the thesis can be found at the link below:
https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/ws/portalfiles/portal/9862072/91689.pdf
However the degree approval process took an unnecessarily long time, which made me consider my future options.
I began submitting abstracts for publication along the way during the PhD, with the first in 2012. In 2016, the equations from the research were presented to the industry at a conference. But it wasn't until 2017 that the PhD was actually approved. It was 2018 before I was able to get my first paper published, and during all that delay I decided that if I was going to try and make something of myself and the project, I had to try and commercialise the work.
This decision meant two things:
- I had to submit patents for the framework to gain IP legal protections (all details of patents and publications can be found in the Resources section);
- Despite having some management experience prior to all this, my skills and knowledge needed to be updated and improved.
So I began business studies and completed the first part of that in 2019. Why is all of this important? Because it demonstrates that if you really want to achieve something and believe in what you're doing, and are willing to go the distance when things take a long time, you might just succeed.
PAPE Framework: Completed Stages
2016
The first part of the framework (the physiologic and mechano-physiologic equations) were presented at a national conference to industry.
2018
Extended framework was presented at the Health Informatics Conference (HIC) along with the article publication. The extensions presented (shown to the left) included the first quantification of exhaustion and first- and second-order adaptation based on the efficiency equations.
2020
Further extensions to the framework were filed in patent form and covered rest-corrections and four-limb work output calculations.
The most important thing to understand about the framework is Work Output (WO) calculation. As we discussed yesterday, measuring a single measure like heart rate or breathing rate by itself doesn't really give a good picture of efficiency. PAPE uses equations like that on the right to link the physiology with the WO. It uses simple measures to avoid the need for expensive equipment and complex techniques. The rest of the framework is all built up from these kinds of algorithms or equations. Next time, we'll look a little more at these.
Later Today
We'll have a look at some more techy things related to the MOOVPAD project, as well as get a little creative with Blender and coding projects. And, as always, the vibes, the vibes, the beautiful vibes 😉
See you a little later.
Stay awesome,
EMH