Adolescent physical self-perceptions, sport/exercise and lifestyle physical activity

Purpose – Domain and sub-domain physical self-perceptions have been associated with adolescent moderate intensity physical activity although the association with different types of adolescent moderate intensity physical activity remains unclear. This study seeks to examine the relationship between personal self-perceptions and adolescent sport/exercise and lifestyle moderate intensity physical activity frequency. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 122, 13-to-14 year-old, English adolescents from Leeds, West Yorkshire (58 boys and 64 girls) had their personal self-perceptions, sport/exercise and lifestyle moderate intensity physical activity assessed. Findings – No significant positive relationships were found between boys' personal self-perceptions and lifestyle moderate intensity physical activity. However, a range of weak (r?=?0.34-0.42) but significant relationships (p?<?0.01) were found between personal self perceptions and boys' sport/exercise frequency. In contrast, only perceptions of strength competence were significantly related to girls' sport/exercise frequencies (r?=?0.28; p?<?0.05), while all personal self perceptions scales were significantly related to girls' lifestyle moderate intensity physical activity (r?=?0.26-0.32; p?<?0.05). Research limitations/implications – The use of correlation analyses by this study placed limitations on the extent to which cause-effect relationships were established. Furthermore, girls' sport/exercise was poorly distributed, which may have led to the non-significant relationship found between this activity type and personal self-perceptions. The presence of a significant relationship between these two variables should therefore not be discounted. Originality/value – This study seems to be the first to investigate and identify variations in the personal self-perceptions – moderate intensity physical activity relationship relative to activity type. Although more research is required, findings have implications for practitioners aiming to tailor physical activity interventions to this group and researchers aiming to match specific correlates to different types of adolescent physical activity

The Paradox of Compacts: final report to the Home Office on monitoring the impact of Compacts

The Compact is an important building block in achieving a better relationship between Government and the voluntary and community sector. We are fully committed to partnership working with the sector and increasing their role in civil society and in the delivery of public s e rvices. The Compact helps us to work better together, so that we can better meet the needs of communities

The Ursinus Weekly, November 18, 1963

Background information for theatre in the round given • Evening School serving 628 • Soviet youth will speak November 21 • Young Republicans begin to roll • Discussion of US - Mid East relations Wed. • Senior Ball set for Friday; Southern plantation theme • Priest to talk on Neo-Catholicism • Study abroad in Vienna, Freiburg, Paris for 1 year • MSGA provides bus to Lebanon Valley game • Peace Corps official to be on campus Tuesday • Federal aid to education debate presented to PSEA • St. Gabriel\u27s tour November 19; More volunteers needed • Weekly editors to hear Scranton • UC debating team to go to Temple • Editorial: As usual; WSGA begins long awaited action • Have you read: Youngblood Hawke • Barnforbjuden - movie censorship • Raymond Talbot part-time reading instructor • Letters to the editor • Second career conference slated • Geologist links God and science • Thai student talks at Kaffee Klatsch • Greek gleanings • WSGA holds open meeting; Women asked to lend support • Lebanon Valley wrecks UC bid for winning season • Hockey team ends undefeated, 6-1 • Good week for UC soccer team • Player of the week: Bill Siebenson • Interview: Bill Megillhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1258/thumbnail.jp

Challenging Industry to Innovate! How the Government Can Apply Transparency, Collaboration, Unencumbered Communication, and Dynamic Engagement Through Challenge-Based Acquisition

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Challenging Industry to Innovate! How the Government Can Apply Transparency, Collaboration, Unencumbered Communication, and Dynamic Engagement Through Challenge-Based Acquisition

Excerpt from the Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Acquisition Research SymposiumThe Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Telecommunications Advanced Research and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Systems (TARDyS3) program demanded new ideas and novel approaches for sharing electromagnetic spectrum between the Department of Defense and commercial industry. To solve this problem, DISA created an acquisition structure that focused on building transparency, collaborating, and actively communicating with industry across the entire acquisition. This focus on dynamically engaging vendors and encouraging innovation allowed DISA to rapidly deploy high-quality and user-approved capabilities. Dynamic engagement involves a two-way exchange of ideas, listening to industry by seeking input, and conveying the government’s ideas and motivations to potential vendors, while innovation centricity consists of encouraging vendors to solve problems with unique solutions, providing a framework for future acquisitions. Dynamic engagement, coupled with innovation centricity, powerfully engages the vendor community to solve hard problems. Combining innovation with communication creates a vendor community that is motivated to meet the government’s needs, and it accelerates risk mitigation. Furthermore, it can improve product quality and shortens delivery time lines at a reasonable price. For these reasons, future programs should consider incorporating dynamic engagement and innovation-centric approaches at the core of their acquisition strategies.Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

Probability estimates for the unique childhood leukemia cluster in Fallon, Nevada, and risks near other U.S. Military aviation facilities.

A unique cluster of childhood leukemia has recently occurred around the city of Fallon in Churchill County, Nevada. From 1999 to 2001, 11 cases were diagnosed in this county of 23,982 people. Exposures related to a nearby naval air station such as jet fuel or an infectious agent carried by naval aviators have been hypothesized as potential causes. The possibility that the cluster could be attributed to chance was also considered. We used data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER) to examine the likelihood that chance could explain this cluster. We also used SEER and California Cancer Registry data to evaluate rates of childhood leukemia in other U.S. counties with military aviation facilities. The age-standardized rate ratio (RR) in Churchill County was 12.0 [95% confidence interval (CI), 6.0-21.4; p = 4.3 times symbol 10(-9)]. A cluster of this magnitude would be expected to occur in the United States by chance about once every 22,000 years. The age-standardized RR for the five cases diagnosed after the cluster was first reported was 11.2 (95% CI, 3.6-26.3). In contrast, the incidence rate was not increased in all other U.S. counties with military aviation bases (RR = 1.04; 95% CI, 0.97-1.12) or in the subset of rural counties with military aviation bases (RR = 0.72; 95% CI, 0.48-1.08). These findings suggest that the Churchill County cluster was unlikely due to chance, but no general increase in childhood leukemia was found in other U.S. counties with military aviation bases

The Ursinus Weekly, March 1, 1965

Junior class extends invitation to Carousel: Al Raymond band at Sunnybrook • Pi Nu Epsilon sponsors annual Greek song fest • Students and faculty contribute to art show: Prizes awarded to varied entries in 3 day exhibit • Spring Festival adopts South Pacific theme, selects committees • WSGA plans to adopt a child • Students to dramatize un-American hearing • Collegeville coffee house provides weekend activity • Whitians greet scholastic women in biannual tea • Rushing, or - a puzzled frosh asks Why am I so popular? • Baseball season starts tomorrow • Editorial: Cheating • Frosh to receive colors in annual ceremony • Letters to the editor • Customs: Its development and its demise • Bears end week 1 for 2; Finish season 8-9: Troster and Parker standouts • Ursinus splits two games; Beats Beaver, loses to W.C. • Ursinus matmen lose two; Swath. & Drexel are close • Badminton team • Year in review • Advice columnhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1241/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 7, 1963

Burst water pipes in 724 lead to semi-evacuation • Speaker from GE will discuss US in space race • PSEA features talks by grad, student teachers • Ed Myers selected representative to National Committee for Youth • College laments death of director Douthett • Psychiatry topic of pre-med meeting • Dolman attends forum on education problems • New heating & power plant now in service • Cub & Key, men\u27s honorary, now accepting applications • Curtain Club version of Antigone scheduled for second semester • Dr. Vorrath concludes discussion of changes in Spanish courses • Schweiker talks on GOP future • Leber open house a Christmas highlight • Chessmen compete in national event • Lynne Maloney, Miss Penna. \u2761, wed last month • Editorial: Unjust, unfair, unwise • Letters to the editor • Snyder to train Civil Defense people • Wrestlers open season Saturday by smashing scared Fords 31-3 • Ursinus gridmen named to MAC all-star teams • Netmen downed by Haverford 72-56 • Intramural story • Ursinus women\u27s club honors Marion Spanglerhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1284/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, November 19, 1962

Surprise, it\u27s \u2763 named theme for Senior Ball on November 30 • Ground will be broken second semester for UC\u27s new million dollar dining hall • Peace Corps agent to visit campus • Fall play termed entertaining • Konick discusses teaching devices • Ursinus alumni hit $240,000 mark in fund drive • Dean Rothenberger attends conference • New Life\u27s Haymen speaks in chapel • Whitians hold tea for upperclass women • Lesley Frost discusses poetry in Forum talk • Moretz and Gladstone elected co-editors of the 1964 Ruby • Stephen Blickman joins recent Koffee Klatch • Virus infection hits many UC students • Student concert held last week • Hungarian prof visits campus • Editorial: Good luck, Mort! • Critical review of John Hersey\u27s wartime novel A bell for Adano • Letters to the editor • Dr. Armstrong tells Weekly of plans for third European travel seminar • Clock over UC\u27s library entrance termed unique piece of machinery • Soccermen drop season finales to Drexel, F&M • Goalie Cliff Kuhn plays fearlessly • Football season in retrospect • Wrestling begins with new coach • Ping-pong tournament progresses under WAA • Greek gleaningshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1281/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, January 11, 1965

Football players receive awards at banquet: Tony Motto gets All-ECAC • Ursinus to send delegation to Model UN • Weekly names Sam Walker sports editor • Faculty Forum to present concert, lecture recital: 20th century American music, subject • Three placed in teaching positions • Pre-meds to hear two Sacred Heart pathologists • World\u27s Fair invites college talent to perform • Pi Nu Epsilon, music fraternity, initiates eight • Norristown man named to vacancy in Treas. Office • Good band, decorations add to great TG dance • The best TV show in the world • Editorial: Our large small college • Bob Dylan: Alone and indifferent • J. D. Salinger writes for The Ursinus Weekly • Anthem, a warning to society • The Doanes report on teaching in the South • Bears drop two, F&M-Swarthmore; Troster\u27s thirty points rock PMC • Matmen drop opener to Del. • Soccer team puts three on All-MAC • Y Commission sponsors film on discrimination • Greek gleanings • Letters to the editor • Kaffee Klatsch debates Negro block bustinghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1238/thumbnail.jp