The Development and Present Status of the Intramural Sports Program for Men in the Schools of the North Central Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the South Dakota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

In light of the accepted benefits derived from participation in the intramural sports program, educators and physical educators are quite concerned about the present status of intramural sports and are seeking means for the improvement of intramural sports. This can be done by scrutinizing the intramural sports program in two intercollegiate athletic conferences and discovering ways and means of improvement. They are also aware of the great contribution, which the intramural sports program presents, if properly organized and administered. There is always a constant alertness to the various trends and forces which contribute to the intramural sports program. It is the purpose of this study to determine the present status of the intramural sports program for men in two intercollegiate athletic conferences and to obtain ideas as to methods employed in their administration. Through this study the author hopes to find variations which exist due to differences in local situations. Through this compilation of methods and opinions, directors may compare their policies with those of other schools, with the possibility of adding new concepts to their program. This may help them to improve their particular program thereby elevating the intramural sports program to a higher level

A New Testament Study of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit with Special Reference to the Wesleyan Doctrine of Entire Sanctification

There ha s long existed a difference of opinion regarding the relationship of the gifts of the Holy Spirit to His work of entire sanctification in the heart of the Christian believer. Some groups have tended to overrate the place of gifts while others have seemingly rejected them altogether

God's sons and the logic of the Covenant : divine sonship in 'Jubilees' and Romans

This thesis attempts to understand Paul’s deployment of divine sonship language with respect to the community of believers by bringing Romans into sustained conversation with one text from the Jewish tradition, namely, The Book of Jubilees. I argue throughout that a comparison between divine sonship in the two texts is justified because both authors collocate with the theme of “God’s sons” the same series of motifs, including a divinely given spirit, law fulfillment, renewed creation, and Abrahamic descent. My central thesis is that Paul assumes certain characteristics of the sons of God in the logic of Romans, and that Paul shares similar assumptions with the author of Jubilees. In other words, one can detect a narrative substructure underlying Paul’s descriptions of the “sons of God” that demonstrates marked similarities with the narrative of the sons of God in Jubilees. Just as the explicit logic of covenant membership in Jubilees holds together the collocation of motifs including divine sonship, the giving of the divine spirit, law fulfillment, new creation, and Abrahamic descent, so an analogous, though implicit, covenantal logic in Romans brings together the same motifs. This does not mean, however, that the two authors bring together the collocation of motifs in the same manner. In fact, reading Jubilees and Romans together highlights clear differences in conclusions. Nevertheless, these differences only further serve to illustrate that both Paul and Jubilees work with similar assumptions about the sons of God despite their theological differences

High-speed, high-frequency ultrasound, \u3ci\u3ein utero\u3c/i\u3e vector-flow imaging of mouse embryos

Real-time imaging of the embryonic murine cardiovascular system is challenging due to the small size of the mouse embryo and rapid heart rate. High-frequency, linear-array ultrasound systems designed for small-animal imaging provide high-frame-rate and Doppler modes but are limited in regards to the field of view that can be imaged at fine-temporal and -spatial resolution. Here, a plane-wave imaging method was used to obtain high-speed image data from in utero mouse embryos and multi-angle, vector-flow algorithms were applied to the data to provide information on blood flow patterns in major organs. An 18-MHz linear array was used to acquire plane-wave data at absolute frame rates ≥10 kHz using a set of fixed transmission angles. After beamforming, vector-flow processing and image compounding, effective frame rates were on the order of 2 kHz. Data were acquired from the embryonic liver, heart and umbilical cord. Vector-flow results clearly revealed the complex nature of blood-flow patterns in the embryo with fine-temporal and -spatial resolution

An Alternative Method to Deduce Bubble Dynamics in Single Bubble Sonoluminescence Experiments

In this paper we present an experimental approach that allows to deduce the important dynamical parameters of single sonoluminescing bubbles (pressure amplitude, ambient radius, radius-time curve) The technique is based on a few previously confirmed theoretical assumptions and requires the knowledge of quantities such as the amplitude of the electric excitation and the phase of the flashes in the acoustic period. These quantities are easily measurable by a digital oscilloscope, avoiding the cost of expensive lasers, or ultrafast cameras of previous methods. We show the technique on a particular example and compare the results with conventional Mie scattering. We find that within the experimental uncertainties these two techniques provide similar results.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.

Machine Independence of Ultrasound-Based Quantification of Vitreous Echodensities

PURPOSE: Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) provides objective indices of Vision Degrading Myodesopsia (VDM) that correlate with contrast sensitivity (CS). To date, QUS methods were only tested on a single ultrasound machine. Here, we evaluate whether QUS measurements are machine independent. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 47 eyes (24 subjects; age = 53.2 ± 14.4 years) were evaluated with Freiburg acuity contrast testing (%Weber), and ultrasonography using 2 machines: one with a 15-MHz single-element transducer and one with a 5-ring, 20-MHz annular-array. Images were acquired from each system in sequential scans. Artifact-free, log-compressed envelope data were processed to yield three parameters (mean amplitude, M; energy, E; and percentage filled by echodensities, P50) and a composite score (C). A B-mode normalization method was applied to the 20-MHz datasets to match QUS parameters at both frequencies. Statistical analyses were performed to evaluate correlations among CS, E, M, P50, and C for both machines. RESULTS: QUS parameters from each machine correlated with CS (R ≥ 0.57, P \u3c 0.001) and there was correlation between machines (R ≥ 0.84, P \u3c 0.001). Correlations between CS and QUS parameters were statistically similar for both machines (P ≥ 0.14) except when the 20-MHz data were normalized (P = 0.04). Reproducibility of QUS parameters computed from 20-MHz data were satisfactory (52.3%-96.3%) with intraclass correlation values exceeding 0.80 (P \u3c 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: The high correlation between QUS parameters from both machines combined with a statistically similar correlation to CS suggests QUS is an effective, machine-independent, quantitative measure of vitreous echodensities. TRANSLATIONAL RELEVANCE: QUS may be applied across clinical ophthalmic ultrasound scanners and imaging frequencies to effectively evaluate VDM