The History of Boys Basketball at Oakland High School from 1958-1979

This study is an historical account of the boy’s basketball program at the school from 1958-1979, with particular attention given to the 1958-1959 season. Even though the school had participated in interscholastic basketball since 1922 the school experienced its two best winning seasons for boy’s basketball during the time period of 1958-1979. The study consists of six chapters. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter followed by four chapters on the coaching eras of eight of the basketball coaches at the Oakland, Illinois High School. Chapter six is a summary containing an overview of this study. The chapters on the coaching eras are organized according to coaches’ tenures rather than by decades or by any set number of years. The number of years covered in each chapter ranges from one to four years of coaching tenure. Each chapter is divided into single seasons. For each year there is an introduction, a list of scores for that year, and a summary of the year. In addition to the list of scores, the date of the game and site of the game is included when possible. Following the scores, the coach’s name, the team won-loss record and the cumulative won-loss record of the coach is given. A list of varsity players follows the cumulative won-loss record. Chapter 2 includes the coaching era of Bill Myers (1958-1960), who produced the most outstanding team in the school’s history. The team of the 1958-1959 season was conference champions, conference tournament champions, regional winners, and advanced to the state of Illinois High School Association supersectional where it was defeated by Centralia. Chapter 3 includes the coaching eras of Andy Pullen (1961-1963), and George Pohl (1964-1966), during which the teams experienced a progressive decline in wins and losses. The coaching eras of Bob Durham (1967-1969), Larry Simon (1970), Jim Bush (1971), Bob Bejeck (1972), and Don Jordan (1973-1975), make up chapter four. Chapter four includes a period during which the teams’ records varied from modest success to a disappointing number of victories. Chapter five includes the coaching era of Mike Church, who produced the second most winning team in the school’s history. The team of the 1978-1979 season finished second in the conference, losing a number of games by only one point, never losing two games in succession, and never losing a home game. The sources of reference for the scores in each year were yearbooks, newspapers, personal interviews, and scorebooks. When possible, the scores were cross-checked for accuracy. The Charleston Times-Courier, and the Oakland Ledger Messenger were used as the newspaper sources as well as the Champaign News Gazette and Champaign Courier. Personal interviews were used as a source for details on the highlights of games but not for the actual scores of the games

IMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS ON ATTITUDES TOWARD FOOD IRRADIATION

Irradiation of food products is one of several techniques that reduce the risk of food-borne illness. Despite its advantages, the technique has been used sparingly because consumers are wary about this technology. A logit model is used to evaluate the impacts of demographic factors on attitudes toward purchasing foods that have been irradiated and toward paying more for irradiated foods. An important finding of this study is that consumers who are familiar with irradiation are significantly more likely to buy and pay more for irradiated products than those who have never heard of irradiation. This implies that educational programs aimed at informing consumers about the benefits of irradiation can work.Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Using Video Feedback to Measure Self-Efficacy

When a student has a high sense of self-efficacy, foreseeing success and providing positive guides and supports for performing the skill will usually occur. A low self-efficacy tends to predict failure and anticipation of what could go wrong. Videotape feedback provided to students has reported favorable outcomes. Self-efficacy could alter performance in learning a psychomotor competency skill (PCS). The purpose of this study was a) to assess the self-efficacy of athletic training students in learning to perform a PCS; and b) to measure the impact on self-efficacy by implementing an educational intervention of video feedback in learning to perform a PCS. An intact cohort of level I (lower-level) students within a CAATE-accredited entry-level master athletic training educational program learned and performed an upper body neurological screening. Throughout the study students also completed the Self-efficacy questionnaire (n=5 trials/times). Group mean for self-efficacy from baseline (M = 6.14; ± 2.04) to post-intervention (M = 9.51; ± 0.70) increased. One-way ANOVA indicated a significant effect using Wilks’ Lambda post hoc, with alpha set at .001 (.05/5 = .001). Significant differences of improved self-efficacy between trials one and four, one and five, and two and five were found, all following the educational intervention. The use of video feedback could increase self-efficacy when learning to perform a PCS

Monolingual Teachers with Monolingual and Bilingual Pupils: an Interaction Analysis

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there was a significant difference in the verbal interactions of the monolingual teacher with monolingual and bilingual students in the classroom. Five monolingual teachers from a mid-size urban school were selected to participate in the study. Each teacher was observed on six different occasions and their verbal interactions for a ten-minute period of time during each session was recorded using Withall\u27s Social-Emotional Climate Index. No significant difference was found to exist between the verbal interactions of the monolingual teachers with monolingual and bilingual students

You Learn How To Act : The Impact of Service with Elders on Student Learning

This paper describes a project in which faculty linked with two agencies to facilitate student learning about communication with elders. Data on student learning was collected via survey, focus groups and reflective writing. Survey results showed that the five most important benefits students rated themselves as gaining from the service learning experience were: volunteering time to help others, improving oral communication skills, developing new skills, and developing awareness of social problems. Themes derived from focus group interviews were: \u27\u27you learn how to act, and a different dimension of a person . Analysis of data revealed that service learning assists beginning nursing students to improve oral communication skills with elders, develop sensitivity to aging issues and eases transition to a clinical course focused on aging

Use of Video Feedback in the Training of Pre-Service Teachers

The purpose of this study was to use video feedback in the training of pre-service clinical educators. Thirty athletic training teacher participants were randomly placed in one of three equal groups where they were provided with the following interventions: a) teaching seminar and opportunity to observe video of teaching; b) teaching seminar; and c) control group. These groups were videotaped for eight consecutive weeks while teaching clinical skills. The researchers analyzed the feedback provided by the teachers using a modified version of the Fishman’s Augmented Feedback Instrument. Allowing teachers the opportunity to view their videotapes with guided feedback showed that the teachers provided more total feedback to their students in a clinical setting. The two groups, seminar and control, provided similar amounts of feedback to their students. Unlike previous studies, it was noted that males provided more total feedback than females. Traditional teacher development may not be the ideal method to train clinical educators. The study’s results demonstrate that a focused workshop on effective teaching skills cannot be used as a stand-alone intervention to improve the frequency of feedback provided by clinical educators. However, further research in this area is needed to assist in improving the training of pre-service clinical educators

A Study of the Criteria Used Most and Least by a Selected Group of Professional Nurses to Judge Whether a Patient was Dying

This study investigated the criteria which were used most and least by a selected group of professional nurses to judge whether a patient was dying. It was assumed that nurses made these kinds of judgments and acted upon them in planning for patient care. The purposes of the study were: (1) to determine the frequency with which certain criteria were used by these nurses to decide that a patient was dying, (2) to clarify the components of nursing decisions about dying patients, and (3) to contribute to an operational definition of nursing judgments about dying patients. The Q-sort method was employed for the study. Statements written within the categories of recorded, intuitive, objective, and diagnostic data were sorted from most descriptive to least descriptive of the dying patient by twenty selected professional nurses on the medical and surgical units in a university medical center hospital. Analysis was carried out by comparing (1) the response patterns of the Individual subjects grouped by length of nursing experience, and (2) the means and standard deviations of individual items and their categories. Results of the study showed that the subjects used objective data most frequently and intuitive data least frequently in making a judgment that a patient was dying. Both the type and the length of previous nursing experiences were found to be crucial factors in the judgments by the nurse. The more experienced nurses responded more consistently within categories. The less experienced nurses tended to rely more on the decisions of others through recorded data. The criteria of immediacy and Irreversibility of death were used most by nurses in making their decisions. The role of intuition was felt to be ambiguous since responses to items in this category were highly variable. An operational definition using twelve items from the sort was devised for illustrative purposes. Recommendations for further research were made on the basis of findings of the study

Effect of Temperature, Cell Concentration, and Split Dose Gamma Radiation on the Radiosensitivity of Listeria Monocytogenes.

Among food-borne pathogens, Listeria monocytogenes is one of the more resistant to food processing methods, including irradiation. USFDA approval for irradiation of processed meat and seafood products likely to contain Listeria spp. is $\u3c$3 kGy gamma radiation. The incidence of L. monocytogenes in food products varies between 5-30% and at levels \u3c10\sp4 CFU/g. With the capacity of this bacterium to multiply at refrigeration temperatures and the zero tolerance level mandated by the USFDA it becomes imperative to maximize the efficiency of the irradiation process. The first purpose of this study was to determine if initial cell concentration and/or temperature at time of irradiation influences the radiosensitivity of L. monocytogenes. Secondly, to determine whether split dose application would effect the radiation response of this bacterium. Concentrations of 10\sp3, 10\sp6 and 10\sp9 cfu/ml of L. monocytogenes Scott A, were suspended in tryptic soy broth and exposed to 0-5 kGy gamma (1.25MeV) radiation at 20, 4, and -80\sp\circ{\rm C}. Split doses were applied in equal portions to initial cell concentrations of 10\sp6 and 10\sp9 at the same temperatures. Surviving cells under the various conditions were enumerated and irradiation D-values were calculated from linear regression curves. At all temperatures, cell concentrations of 10\sp3{\rm CFU/ml} were reduced to non recoverable levels with 2 kGy gamma radiation. The irradiation D-value of 0.43 kGy for frozen (-80\sp\circ{\rm C}) cultures of 10\sp6 CFU/ml was significantly lower (p $\u3c$ 0.05) than the D-values (0.58 and 0.62 kGy) for the same cell concentration at the other two temperatures (20\sp\circ and 4\sp\circ{\rm C}, respectively). For higher cell concentration of 10\sp9 cfu/ml, a D-value of 0.42 kGy was obtained for both 4\sp\circ{\rm C} and -80\sp\circ{\rm C} these were significantly lower (p $\u3c$ 0.05) than 0.50 kGy for 20\sp\circ{\rm C} suspensions. With both cell concentrations, the lowest D-values were obtained when cells were irradiated in the frozen state indicating a that primary cell damage was due to direct effects of irradiation. Split doses of 1 and 2 hours time between fractions approached the generation times for this bacterium and were significantly reduced at 20\sp\circ{\rm C}. However, there was no consistent trend in reductions at 4\sp\circ or -80\sp\circ{\rm C}. Split dose application of irradiation to food pathogens should be further explored

Directed differentiation of rhesus monkey ES cells into pancreatic cell phenotypes

Embryonic stem cells (ES) can self-replicate and differentiate into all cell types including insulin-producing, beta-like cells and could, therefore, be used to treat diabetes mellitus. To date, results of stem cell differentiation into beta cells have been debated, largely due to difficulties in defining the identity of a beta cell. We have recently differentiated non-human primate (rhesus) embryonic stem (rES) cell lines into insulin producing, beta-like cells with the beta cell growth factor, Exendin-4 and using C-peptide as a phenotype marker. Cell development was characterized at each stage by gene and protein expression. Insulin, NKX6.1 and glucagon mRNA were expressed in stage 4 cells but not in early undifferentiated cells. We concluded that rES cells could be differentiated ex vivo to insulin producing cells. These differentiated rES cells could be used to develop a non-human primate model for evaluating cell therapy to treat diabetes. To facilitate the identification of beta-like cells and to track the cells post-transplantation, we have developed a marker gene construct: fusing the human insulin promoter (HIP) to the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene. This construct was transfected into stage 3 rES derived cells and subsequent GFP expression was identified in C-peptide positive cells, thereby substantiating endogenous insulin production by rES derived cells. Using this GFP detection system, we will enrich our population of insulin producing rES derived cells and track these cells post-transplantation in the non-human primate model

An Integrated Early Year Professional Status Pathway Pilot Project: Centre for Early Childhood, Institute of Education

This report aims to introduce a research project that has been built on the basis of an evaluation of a pilot project “An Integrated Early Year Professional Status Pathway”, which is being carried out at the Centre for Early Childhood (CEC) (2008-2010). This paper explains the background of the research, ideas that underpin its theoretical and methodological framework and some of the initial findings. The research team will be producing further reports expanding on the research processes and findings in more detail