The Effect of Music on Athletic Performance

This research study sought to find a link between listening to different music genres and the athletic performance of collegiate athletes. Thirteen college football players at a university in Arkansas participated in the study. The music group consisted of five participants, and the control non-music group consisted of eight participants. The study group listened to rap for one week, country the next week, and gospel the week after. After approximately 10 minutes of warm-up, the athletes performed a vertical jump test and a trap bar jump to measure mean power. Then they filled out two self-assessment survey questions about the previous activities: a rate of perceived exertion survey and a mood survey about the earlier exercises. Each session of testing lasted about twelve minutes in total. No significant difference was found that listening to music had on the performance of the athletes

Law and Cyber War

The internet has created enormous global changes. People can interact with others anyplace, anytime almost instantly. Much of the infrastructure including energy, healthcare, and telecommunications is interconnected globally. The world has added another domain to international conflicts: Cyber War. In this paper, we explore legal principles which would be involved in a cyber attack. Existing laws of warfare applied in the physical realm do not translate equally as well in the cyber domain. Due to the difficulty of attribution, the invisibility of borders and the need to react quickly, we may need to develop legal principles that allow immediate and appropriate responses. This is an area that needs very careful and thoughtful revie

Cyber Law Workshop: Adding a Course to Your Curriculum

The internet has created enormous changes in a number of areas including our laws. An emerging specialty within law is cyber law. Our legal system has evolved in a physical and visual world, but cyber space is largely invisible and virtual. Past legal decisions or legal precedence has been important in our system and reasoning by analogy has been used extensively. In many cases the laws applied in the physical realm do not translate equally well into cyber space. This workshop will discuss the importance of this area to an MIS/CIS/IT program, legal issues that need to be addressed, and provide a sample syllabus and other resources

Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis.

Most pandemics--eg, HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, pandemic influenza--originate in animals, are caused by viruses, and are driven to emerge by ecological, behavioural, or socioeconomic changes. Despite their substantial effects on global public health and growing understanding of the process by which they emerge, no pandemic has been predicted before infecting human beings. We review what is known about the pathogens that emerge, the hosts that they originate in, and the factors that drive their emergence. We discuss challenges to their control and new efforts to predict pandemics, target surveillance to the most crucial interfaces, and identify prevention strategies. New mathematical modelling, diagnostic, communications, and informatics technologies can identify and report hitherto unknown microbes in other species, and thus new risk assessment approaches are needed to identify microbes most likely to cause human disease. We lay out a series of research and surveillance opportunities and goals that could help to overcome these challenges and move the global pandemic strategy from response to pre-emption

The status of advanced placement English in North Carolina

The purpose of this study was to determine the status of Advanced Placement English in North Carolina. A questionnaire was prepared and distributed to the Advanced Placement English teachers in the 146 high schools in North Carolina in which the examination was given in May, 1986. Chapter I explained the major concepts, limitations, and definitions dealt with by the study. The literature related to the Advanced Placement Program was examined in Chapter II. Special emphasis was given to the content of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition Examination and the Advanced Placement English Language and Composition Examination. The focus of Chapter III was the dissemination and use of the questionnaire. The 18 concerns of the questionnaire dealt with personnel matters, curricular concerns, the relationship of the Advanced Placement Program to academically gifted programs, the selection of students, and general needs of Advanced Placement English teachers

Assessing Photoreceptor Structure Associated with Ellipsoid Zone Disruptions Visualized with Optical Coherence Tomography

Purpose: To compare images of photoreceptor layer disruptions obtained with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) in a variety of pathologic states.Methods: Five subjects with photoreceptor ellipsoid zone disruption as per OCT and clinical diagnoses of closed-globe blunt ocular trauma (n = 2), macular telangiectasia type 2 (n = 1), blue-cone monochromacy (n = 1), or cone-rod dystrophy (n = 1) were included. Images were acquired within and around photoreceptor lesions using spectral domain OCT, confocal AOSLO, and split-detector AOSLO.Results: There were substantial differences in the extent and appearance of the photoreceptor mosaic as revealed by confocal AOSLO, split-detector AOSLO, and spectral domain OCT en face view of the ellipsoid zone.Conclusion: Clinically available spectral domain OCT, viewed en face or as B-scan, may lead to misinterpretation of photoreceptor anatomy in a variety of diseases and injuries. This was demonstrated using split-detector AOSLO to reveal substantial populations of photoreceptors in areas of no, low, or ambiguous ellipsoid zone reflectivity with en face OCT and confocal AOSLO. Although it is unclear if these photoreceptors are functional, their presence offers hope for therapeutic strategies aimed at preserving or restoring photoreceptor function

Halogen containing-polymer nanocomposite compositions, methods, and products employing such compositions

The disclosure provides compositions prepared by combining nanomaterials with a halide-containing polymer, thereby forming a combined polymer matrix having dispersed nanomaterials within the matrix. The nanomaterials may be carbon-based nanotubes, in some applications. A halide-containing monomer is combined with nanotubes, and then polymerized in some compositions. In other applications, a halide-containing polymer is solution processed with nanotubes to form useful compositions in the invention. Also disclosed are probes for near field detection of radiation

Halogen containing-polymer nanocomposite compositions, methods, and products employing such compositions

The disclosure provides compositions prepared by combining nanomaterials with a halide-containing polymer, thereby forming a combined polymer matrix having dispersed nanomaterials within the matrix. The nanomaterials may be carbon-based nanotubes, in some applications. A halide-containing monomer is combined with nanotubes, and then polymerized in some compositions. In other applications, a halide-containing polymer is solution processed with nanotubes to form useful compositions in the invention. Also disclosed are probes for near field detection of radiation

Halogen Containing-Polymer Nanocomposite Compositions, Methods, and Products Employing Such Compositions

The disclosure provides compositions prepared by combining nanomaterials with a halide-containing polymer, thereby forming a combined polymer matrix having dispersed nanomaterials within the matrix. The nanomaterials may be carbon-based nanotubes, in some applications. A halide-containing monomer is combined with nanotubes, and then polymerized in some compositions. In other applications, a halide-containing polymer is solution processed with nanotubes to form useful compositions in the invention. Also disclosed are probes for near field detection of radiation