Preventing and Recognizing Anorexia Athletics - For Coaches and Athletes

High school athletes are uniquely vulnerable to developing disordered eating. Athletes in general have a higher incidence of eating disorders than does the general population and over 90% of new eating disorders are diagnosed in individuals under 25 years of age. Even in sub-clinical eating disorders, the long-term health consequences can be dire. High school coaches and athletes are aware of eating disorders as a concept but do not regularly receive education of anorexia athletica, its signs and symptoms, and how to intervene in suspected cases. This project created a 10 min YouTube video that high school coaches and athletes can use to develop basic recognition and early intervention skills.https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/1082/thumbnail.jp

Impact of time of sowing, temperature and irrigation on faba bean (Vicia faba) productivity in northern NSW

Faba bean is a significant rotation crop in northern NSW and is susceptible to drought while the reproductive structures are sensitive to high temperatures. For high yield, early sowing allows accumulation of a large biomass and avoidance of terminal stress. Trials at Breeza and Narrabri in North West New South Wales examined the influence of sowing date on yield components, maturity, pod distribution and biomass production and at Breeza the influence of irrigation was also examined. Tagged plants were used to study pod development in relationship to temperature regimes. Sowing in early May produced the highest yield and seed weight at both sites. At Breeza the latest sowing date produced greater yield than the earliest and this was associated with very high final biomass at the earliest sowing date. At Narrabri the earliest sowing date yielded similar to the latest indicating that early sowing was less detrimental to yield at Narrabri. Poor yield in late sown material is likely due to terminal stress and is more likely in less favourable locations and seasons. Poor yield in early sown material is likely due to production of excessive biomass in favourable seasons and locations. Irrigation had no impact on yield but reduced harvest index and seed weight. Lower seed weight overall was observed at the Breeza site possibly as a result of intraplant competition. The quickest maturing genotype, gave the highest yield and seed weight at both sites. Dry matter production was greater with early sowing, higher moisture and warmer temperatures. In contrast to other studies, a weak relationship between biomass and yield was observed. Production of pods was maximized with average daily temperatures in the range of 12.5 – 13.5 °C, daily maximum in the range 23.5 – 25.5 °C and daily minimum in the range of 3 – 4 °C

A Method of Continuous Sterilization of Instruments, Together With Aseptic Hypodermic Medication

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Selected aspects of the use of simple instruments in the music curriculum of the elementary school

It was the purpose of this study to (1) investigate the use and value of the simple instrument program in the elementary school and (2) provide or suggest musical experiences through the medium of this program that will help children to get at the inner essence of music through a process of musical growth. These experiences should be in agreement with the modern philosophy of music education. An attempt was made to present these experiences in such a manner that they can be readily utilized by any teacher in the primary grades

Rural children are more likely to live in cohabiting-couple households

As cohabiting increases nationwide, new data show that the growing rate of children in these households is most pronounced in rural areas. This brief analyzes recent U.S. Census Bureau data to explore these trends and patterns

Do MBA degrees matter? A study of boards of directors in Australia\u27s top 200 companies

Pfeffer and Fong (2002) suggest that &ldquo;business school enrolments have soared and business education has become a big business&rdquo;. The Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree has often been held out to be useful in the career development of managers. The highest level that managers can aspire to, is to be a director of a large public company. This study investigates how many directors within the boards of Australia&rsquo;s top 200 companies by market capitalization hold an MBA degree. We find that larger companies have proportionally more MBA holding directors than smaller companies. Interestingly we also find that proportionally more women hold MBAs than men; nearly one in five women directors hold an MBA within the top 200 companies dataset.<br /

The Ultraviolet Attenuation Law in Backlit Spiral Galaxies

(Abridged) The effective extinction law (attenuation behavior) in galaxies in the emitted ultraviolet is well known only for actively star-forming objects and combines effects of the grain properties, fine structure in the dust distribution, and relative distributions of stars and dust. We use GALEX, XMM Optical Monitor, and HST data to explore the UV attenuation in the outer parts of spiral disks which are backlit by other UV-bright galaxies, starting with candidates provided by Galaxy Zoo participants. Our analysis incorporates galaxy symmetry, using non-overlapping regions of each galaxy to derive error estimates on the attenuation measurements. The entire sample has an attenuation law close to the Calzetti et al. (1994) form; the UV slope for the overall sample is substantially shallower than found by Wild et al. (2011), a reasonable match to the more distant galaxies in our sample but not to the weighted combination including NGC 2207. The nearby, bright spiral NGC 2207 alone gives accuracy almost equal to the rest of our sample, and its outer arms have a very low level of foreground starlight. This "grey" law can be produced from the distribution of dust alone, without a necessary contribution from differential escape of stars from dense clouds. The extrapolation needed to compare attenution between backlit galaxies at moderate redshifts, and local systems from SDSS data, is mild enough to allow use of galaxy overlaps to trace the cosmic history of dust. For NGC 2207, the covering factor of clouds with small optical attenuation becomes a dominant factor farther into the ultraviolet, which opens the possibility that widespread diffuse dust dominates over dust in star-forming regions deep into the ultraviolet. Comparison with published radiative-transfer models indicates that the role of dust clumping dominates over differences in grain populations, at this spatial resolution.Comment: In press, Astronomical Journa