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Effects of Participation in Goal Setting When Task Ability and Goal Difficulty are Held Constant
Undergraduate psychology students (N = 60) were randomly assigned to do-your-best, assigned, or participative goal-setting conditions. The sample was split at the mean on the basis of scores received on a clerical test, resulting in low- and high-ability groups. Specific Goals led to higher performance than did the do-your-best goals. With task ability and goal difficulty held, constant, there was no significant difference between the assigned and participative conditions on goal attainment, goal acceptance, or performance.
When the groups were split on ability, only the low ability group performed significantly better than the do-your-best group. Two reasons are suggested to explain this difference. First, low-ability subjects may have recognized an opportunity to improve\u27 performance over trials, and set or were, assigned higher goals relative to high-ability subjects. Second, low-ability subjects accepted their performance goals to a greater extent than did the subjects in the high ability group
Water Quality Sampling, Analysis and Annual Load Determinations for TSS, Nitrogen and Phosphorus at the Washington County Road 76 Bridge on Ballard Creek
The Illinois River Basin has experienced water quality impairment from non-point source pollution for many years. This fact was well documented in the State of Arkansas\u27 Water Quality Assessment report, the Soil Conservation Service River Basin Study, and several University of Arkansas studies. Thirty-seven sub-watersheds have been identified by the SCS in the Arkansas portion of the Illinois River basin. In the Arkansas portion of the Basin, the Illinois River, Evansville Creek, Baron Fork, Cincinnati Creek, Muddy Fork, Moores Creek, Clear Creek, Osage Creek and Flint Creek were all classified as not supporting their designated use as primary contact recreation streams. The identified causes of the impairment were: sediment, bacteria and nutrients. In 1997, the University of Arkansas completed a project that estimated the phosphorus loading from each of the thirty-seven sub-watersheds. This project also prioritized watersheds for implementation work based on phosphorus loads, nitrogen loads and total suspended solids loads per unit area. The thirty-seven sub-watersheds were grouped into Low (16), Medium (10) and High (11) categories based on phosphorus loadings. If all the sub-watersheds above the median value for on phosphorus loading in the Illinois River basin were brought down to the current median value for phosphorus loading, this reduction would result in the agreed to 40% reduction of phosphorus at the state line. The selection of a sub-watershed for targeted intensive voluntary BMP implementation was based on the following criteria: a) the sub-watershed had to be above the current median value for phosphorus loading, b) there would be no sewage treatment plant in the sub-watershed, and c) land user interest. The Upper Ballard Creek watershed met all these requirements. The watershed covers 6700 hectares. The creek is listed in the High category with a unit area loading of 1.75 kg. per hectare per year. The median value for the thirty-seven watersheds is 0.73 kg. per hectare per year
Water Quality Sampling, Analysis and Annual Load Determinations for TSS, Nitrogen and Phosphorus at the Washington County Road 195 Bridge on the West Fork of the White River, 2004 Annual Report
A water quality sampling station was installed at the Washington County road 195 bridge on the West Fork of the White River just above the confluence of the three main forks of the Upper White River in December 2001. The Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) was approved by EPA Region six on March 2002 and sampling was begun at that time. This station is coordinated with a USGS gauging station at the same location. This station was instrumented to collect samples at sufficient intervals across the hydrograph to accurately estimate the flux of total suspended solids, nitrogen and phosphorus into the upper end of Beaver Lake from the West Fork of the White River. The West Fork is listed on Arkansas\u27 1998 303d list as impaired from sediment. The Upper White was designated as the states highest priority watershed in the 1999 Unified Watershed Assessment. Accurate determination of stream nutrients and sediment is critical for future determinations of TMDLs, effectiveness of best management practices and trends in water quality
Miss Snell\u27s Way: A Life-Affirming Organic Model Created in Sport
This 156 page dissertation by Robin G. Cash, Ursinus College Class of 1972, was submitted to the faculty of Fielding Graduate Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Human and Organizational Systems.
The dissertation explores a women’s way of coaching and being in sport that existed prior to Title IX. It considers a shift from an organic to a mechanistic coaching approach. An alternative model based on the concept of organicism and underlying principles of relational power, life-affirming actions, and inclusiveness of all beings is presented. This new model emerged from three sources: (a) personal experience; (b) material from 18 interviews with former student-athletes of Eleanor Frost Snell, who coached at Ursinus College from 1931 to 1972; and (c) the literature of systems theory, systemic thinking, and Chinese philosophy. The life-affirming organic model re-visions sport, where sport is an important site for transformation not only of our individual selves but also of our human cultures.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/snell_docs/1001/thumbnail.jp
Circumnuclear Gas in Seyfert 1 Galaxies: Morphology, Kinematics, and Direct Measurement of Black Hole Masses
(Abridged) The two-dimensional distribution and kinematics of the molecular,
ionized, and highly ionized gas in the nuclear regions of Seyfert 1 galaxies
have been measured using high spatial resolution (~0''.09) near-infrared
spectroscopy from NIRSPEC with adaptive optics on the Keck telescope. Molecular
hydrogen, H2, is detected in all nine Seyfert 1 galaxies and, in the majority
of galaxies, has a spatially resolved flux distribution. In contrast, the
narrow component of the BrG emission has a distribution consistent with that of
the K-band continuum. In general, the kinematics of H2 are consistent with thin
disk rotation, with a velocity gradient of over 100 km/s measured across the
central 0''.5 in three galaxies, and across the central 1''.5 in two galaxies.
The kinematics of BrG are in agreement with the H2 rotation, except in all four
cases the central 0''.5 is either blue- or redshifted by more than 75 km/s. The
highly ionized gas, measured with the [Ca VIII] and [Si VII] coronal lines, is
spatially and kinematically consistent with BrG in the central 0''.5. Dynamical
models have been fitted to the two-dimensional H2 kinematics, taking into
account the stellar mass distribution, the emission line flux distribution, and
the point spread function. For NGC 3227 the modeling indicates a black hole
mass of Mbh = 2.0{+1.0/-0.4} x 10^7 Msun, and for NGC 4151 Mbh =
3.0{+0.75/-2.2} x 10^7 Msun. In NGC 7469 the best fit model gives Mbh < 5.0 x
10^7 Msun. In all three galaxies, modeling suggests a near face-on disk
inclination angle, which is consistent with the unification theory of active
galaxies. The direct black hole mass estimates verify that masses determined
from the technique of reverberation mapping are accurate to within a factor of
three with no additional systematic errors.Comment: 43 pages, including 47 figures; Accepted for publication in ApJ. All
2-D maps (in high resolution) are available at
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ehicks . Minor changes to the text and updated
reverberation mapped black hole mass estimates; the conclusions are unchange
Water Quality Sampling, Analysis and Annual Load Determinations for TSS, Nitrogen and Phosphorus at the Washington County Road 76 Bridge on Ballard Creek
The Illinois River Basin has experienced water quality impairment from non-point source pollution for many years. This fact was well documented in the State of Arkansas\u27 Water Quality Assessment report, the Soil Conservation Service River Basin Study, and several University of Arkansas, Fayetteville studies. Thirty-seven sub-watersheds have been identified by the SCS in the Arkansas portion of the Illinois River basin. In the Arkansas portion of the Basin, the Illinois River, Evansville Creek, Baron Fork, Cincinnati Creek, Muddy Fork, Moores Creek, Clear Creek, Osage Creek and Flint Creek were all classified as not supporting their designated use as primary contact recreation streams. The identified causes of the impairment were: sediment, bacteria and nutrients. In 1997, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville completed a project that estimated the phosphorus loading from each of the thirty-seven sub-watersheds. This project also prioritized watersheds for implementation work based on phosphorus loads, nitrogen loads and total suspended solids loads per unit area. The thirty-seven sub-watersheds were grouped into Low (16), Medium (10) and High (11) categories based on phosphorus loadings. If all the sub-watersheds above the median value for on phosphorus loading in the Illinois River basin were brought down to the current median value for phosphorus loading, this reduction would result in the agreed to 40% reduction of phosphorus at the state line. The selection of a sub-watershed for targeted intensive voluntary BMP implementation was based on the following criteria: a) the sub-watershed had to be above the current median value for phosphorus loading, b) there would be no sewage treatment plant in the sub-watershed, and c) land user interest. The Upper Ballard Creek watershed met all these requirements. The watershed covers 6700 hectares. The creek is listed in the High category with a unit area loading of 1.75 kg. per hectare per year. The median value for the thirty-seven watersheds is 0.73 kg. per hectare per year
Does the gamma-ray flux of the blazar 3C 454.3 vary on sub-hour timescales?
In the early days of April 2010, the blazar 3C 454.3 (z=0.859) underwent a
strong gamma-ray outburst, reaching fluxes (E > 100 MeV) in excess of 10^-5 ph
cm^-2 s^-1. The Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope performed a 200 ks long pointed
observation starting from 5 April 2010 19:38 UTC. This allowed us to try
probing the variability of the gamma-ray emission on timescales of hours or
less. We found the variability on a few hours timescale. On sub-hour timescale
we found no evidence of significant variability, although the present
statistics is not yet conclusive and further observations are needed.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication on MNRAS. Section 1
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