The Influence of Performance Success, Skill Level, and Gender on the Causal Attributions of Recreational Golfers

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of performance success, skill level, and gender on the causal attributions made by recreational golfers. Skill level was determined by handicap, and performance success was the golfer’s estimation of whether the particular round of golf was successful or unsuccessful. It was hypothesized that the causal attributions that recreational golfers made would be more internal, stable, and personally controllable after a successful performance than after an unsuccessful performance. Male and female golfers (N=101), from age 19 to 73, with an average age of 39, playing recreationally completed the Causal Dimension Scale-ll after completing a nine or eighteen hole round. Two-way analyses of variance (gender by performance success) revealed that attributions made for successful performances were perceived as significantly more personally controllable than unsuccessful performances regardless of gender. Male golfers attributed their performance to less externally controllable reasons than females regardless of performance success. The stability of attributions made depended upon both gender and performance success. Male attributions for successful performance were significantly more stable than male attributions for unsuccessful performance, and female attributions for unsuccessful performance were significantly more stable than male attributions for unsuccessful performance. Males with medium handicaps made attributions that were more internal than those with high handicaps and also attributed their performance to factors less controllable by others than did either the high or low handicap groups

The Rapid Transition from Face-To-Face to Online Education Due to COVID-19: Observations of Higher Education Faculty in Texas

The COVID-19 pandemic has made a profound impact on education on a global scale. Disruptions and changes in modalities in the delivery of education, both in higher education and pk12 environments, have potentially forever changed the expectations of education systems. This study discusses the rapid transition to online education due to the pandemic from the lenses of higher education faculty in Texas

CROSS-CULTURAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH: THE CASE OF EASTERN EUROPE AND THE USSR

This paper discusses the specific problems and issues involved in studying information technologies in Eastern Europe and the USSR in the more general context of cross-cultural information technology (IT) research. The results reported are based on eight years of research into international information technologies by the Mosaic Group at the University of Arizona. The problems of doing this kind of work, where field and empirical studies are often impractical, are examined. Four analytical techniques, supported by a computer-based research environment, are advanced as means to solve these problems

Core Losses in Co-Rich Inductors with Tunable Permeability

High frequency, low loss power systems enable electrified aircraft propulsion. Filter inductors that reduce noise in high current systems can account for 50% of the motor drive mass. Efficient inductor cores with tunable permeability reduce system mass by producing less heat, that removes heat sink mass. Requirements for filter inductors vary based on the chosen topology, but all inductor cores must operate below saturation levels. As the saturation flux density is limited (less than ~2 T), high differential current applications require cores with low relative permeabilities. The large induced anisotropies possible in Co-rich metal amorphous nanocomposite materials enables gapless inductors with relative permeabilities down to ~20. These materials have fine grain size ~8nm with a faulted, close packed structure. The impact of different processing methods on core losses are presented along with comparison to other low permeability soft magnetic materials

Bostonia

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

Canada-Africa Relations in Changing Core-Periphery Dynamics: A Chance to "Come Back" Differently

The Department of Foreign Affairs Canada sees the dynamism at play across the African continent as calling out for Canadian engagement. Africa in the twenty-first century is no longer the continent emerging from colonial rule; it seeks new forms of relationships with international partners. The African Development Bank, for instance, has identified five priorities for inclusive growth on the continent. The challenges are huge, as is the potential for transformative change. But the conditions for international collaboration in achieving these goals have changed; African leaders are seeking new forms of associations and teamwork. Canada has an opportunity to "come back" differently if it can look beyond its narrow mining interests and become an active partner working with public authorities in need of new and bold international partnerships. Unfortunately, Trudeau's "Canada is back" campaign does not look set to change the status quo. And, in a world where the political economic power is moving east, African countries do not have much reason to listen to Canada

Corporate sponsorship and secondary school athletics

grantor: University of TorontoAs financial constraints for public education across North America tighten, schools must look for creative ways to raise money to support school athletic programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the emerging role of selected companies in the Greater Toronto Area in the sponsorship of secondary school extra-curricular athletic programs. The study consists of five focal areas including: the corporate interest level for sponsorship, company motives for sponsorship, corporate decision-making with regard to sponsorship, soliciting corporate sponsorship and the expected nature of corporate sponsorship of secondary school athletic programs. For this study, questionnaires were mailed to 50 companies in the Greater Toronto Area. Thirty of these companies were considered to be large in size and 20 were considered small in size. The overall response rate was 60%. Companies were randomly selected from business directories as well as from personal business contacts of the author. As budgetary constraints tighten, it appears as though corporate involvement in schools will continue to become more prevalent. With proper regulation, this increase involvement has the potential to greatly benefit secondary school student-athletes across Ontario. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)M.Ed

Discovery of locostatin: A small molecule inhibitor of cell migration and adhesion.

Discovery of locostatin: A small molecule inhibitor of cell migration and adhesion