An Approach To Testing And Teaching In Elementary Gymnastics For Secondary School Boys

It was the purpose of this study (1) to develop an experimental teaching program in beginning gymnastics for high school boys; (2) to show the relationship between selected fitness test items and the gymnastic abilities demonstrated at the end of the experimental program; and (3) to suggest areas for future research in gymnastics teaching and testing

Shell Convergence: An Interspecific Molecular Phylogeny Of Neohelix (Gastropoda: Polygyridae)

Due to convergence in Neohelix von Ihering, 1892 and Mesodon Rafinesque in Férussac,1821, species boundaries among taxa remain ambiguous. Prior hypotheses of polygyrid ancestry using morphological and behavioral characteristics by Emberton have been compared to molecular phylogeny. However, a robust interspecific phylogenetic tree for Neohelix, a highly convergent genus of land snails in Polygyridae, has not yet been attempted. During this study, authors sequenced 28 specimens of Neohelix and outgroup species, testing four mitochondrial markers and two nuclear markers for specificity. Primers for the COI locus were modified to eliminate binding site polymorphism and increase amplicon length. The COI and 16S loci produced high node support for this interspecific phylogeny, but authors recommend testing 18S to expand nuclear support. Individuals were collected from known species ranges and identified using shell morphology but were not anatomically dissected to confirm species identity. Suspected misidentification among morphologically similar species like Neohelix major, Neohelix albolabris, and Mesodon normalis was present, resulting in a paraphyletic Neohelix clade. These findings confirm the necessity of reproductive dissections for identification and suggests that current hypotheses for species ranges need further investigation

Numerical explorations of cake baking using the nonlinear heat equation

Much can be said about the culinary aspects of cake baking. How much of and which types of ingredients are used to determine the flavor of the cake. However, is flavor the only ingredient for taste? Does a dry, crumbling cake still satisfy the pallet? One can control the flavor of the batter, but once it is placed in the oven for baking, what determines the consistency of the finished dessert? We consider a simple model of the actual baking process which is based on the diffusion equation @T @t = r · (DrT) , (1) where D is the heat diffusivity of the batter and T is the temperature of the cake at time t. We begin with this model and numerically investigate solutions for various cake geometries while also looking at the effects of varying the heat diffusivity over space and time

Personal symbolism in the study of selected tales of Edgar A. Poe

The purpose of this paper is to study selected tales of Edgar Allan Poe in the light of the expressive theory of criticism. Linking of the studies of Poe's biography and his imaginative works has become more frequent and more meaningful due to the development of the sciences of psychology and psychiatry. In the expressive theory of criticism, the artist becomes the major element generating both the artistic product and the criterion by which it is to be judged. The primary source and subject matter of a work of art, therefore, are the attributes and actions of the artist's own mind; furthermore, symbols are the nearest possible representations of the feeling in the exact shape in which it exists in the mind. In this context, one may define symbolism as a form of indirect, metaphorical speech intended to carry or suggest a hidden reality. But for the purposes of my study, I have distinguished three classes of symbols: (1) the extrinsic or arbitrary symbols; (2) intrinsic or descriptive symbols; and (3) insight or interpretive symbols

The effect of real-life problem-solving training upon students' problem-solving ability

This study investigated the effect of real-life problem solving training upon high-school students' real-life problem solving ability, the level of their self concept, and their perception of the locus of control of their behavior. Also examined were sex and race differences, the relationship of real-life problem-solving ability with IQ, grade point average, and age, the effect of training upon school-related student behaviors, and students' evaluation of the training. One hundred twenty-one high school students (65 females, 56 males, 94 whites, 27 blacks) enrolled in four classes participated in the study. Based on the Separate-Sample Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design (Campbell & Stanley, 1963), the four classes were randomly assigned to the treatment and control groups. Within each class students were randomly assigned to pretest and posttest sub-groups. Students were tested one time in either the pretest or posttest sub-group. The Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Tests (1954), Tennessee Self Concept Scale (Fitts, 1965), A Locus of Control Scale for Children (Nowicki & Strickland, in press), The Problem Solving Competence Measure, and teacher and student questionnaires were used to collect data. Classes in the treatment group received two 50 minute training periods for ten consecutive school days on each of the five problem-solving stages: (a) general orientation, (b) problem definition, (c) generating alternative solutions, (d) decision making, and (e) solution testing

Story as a Weapon in Colonized America: Native American Women's Transrhetorical Fight for Land Rights

The violent collision between Native American and Euro-American politics, spirituality, economy, and community appears most prominently in each culture’s attitude toward land, which connects intimately with the position women held in each society. The social construction of land and a woman’s “place”—and the interconnectedness between the two as viewed through a Euro-American lens—conflicted so wholly with that of many Native American cultures that what resulted were wars, many fought physically on battlefields, but many others with rhetoric in speeches, books, petitions, and reports. The idea that the two cultures might fight bloody battles over land rights does not need much explanation; however, that they might come to blows as a result of how women acted in each society requires more attention. Synthesizing the heterogeneous methodologies and insights of American Indian literature, nineteenth-century women’s writing, and the history and theory of rhetoric, this dissertation articulates the transrhetorical power of Native American women: their ability to cross cultural and gendered boundaries of rhetoric. I argue that while white middleclass women such as Lydia Maria Child, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, and Margaret Fuller sought to empower themselves by speaking through Native women’s voices, indigenous writers Nancy Ward, Narcissa Owen, Sarah Winnemucca, and Gertrude Bonnin, fluidly negotiating white definitions of gender and culture, used their roles as transrhetors in order to protest land theft and to fight to reclaim territories unjustly taken by the United States government, using rhetoric as a weapon in the war over land

The effect of exercise training interventions in adult kidney transplant recipients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised control trials

Background: Kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are characterised by adverse changes in physical fitness and body composition. Post-transplant management involves being physically active, although evidence for the effect of exercise is limited. Objective: To assess the effects of exercise training interventions in KTRs. Methods: NCBI PubMed (MEDLINE) and CENTRAL (EMBASE, WHO ICTRP) databases were searched up to March 2021 to identify eligible randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that studied exercise training in adult KTRs. Outcomes included exercise capacity, strength, blood pressure, body composition, heart rate, markers of dyslipidaemia and renal function, and health-related quality of life (QoL). Results: Sixteen RCTs, containing 827 KTRs, were included. The median intervention length was 14-weeks with participants exercising between 2–7x/week. Most studies used a mixture of aerobic and resistance exercise. Significant improvements were observed in cardiorespiratory function (VO2peak) (3.21 ml/kg/min, p = 0.003), 6MWT (76.3 meters, p = 0.009), physical function (STS-60, 4.8 repetitions, p = 0.04), and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) (0.13 mg/dL, p = 0.03). A moderate increase in maximum heart rate was seen (p = 0.06). A moderate reduction in creatinine was also observed (0.14 mg/dl, p = 0.05). Isolated studies reported improvements in strength, bone health, lean mass, and QoL. Overall, studies had high risk of bias suggestive of publication bias. Conclusions: Exercise training may confer several benefits in adult KTRs, particularly by increasing cardiorespiratory function and exercise capacity, strength, HDL levels, maximum heart rate, and improving QoL. Additional long-term large sampled RCTs, incorporating complex interventions requiring both exercise and dietary behaviour change, are needed to fully understand the effects of exercise in KTRs

Porphyry Indicator Minerals (PIMS) and Porphyry Vectoring and Fertility Tools (PVFTS) – Indicators of Mineralization Styles and Recorders of Hypogene Geochemical Dispersion Halos

In the past decade, significant research efforts have been devoted to mineral chemistry studies to assist porphyry exploration. These activities can be divided into two major fields of research: (1) porphyry indicator minerals (PIMS), which aims to identify the presence of, or potential for, porphyry-style mineralization based on the chemistry of magmatic minerals such as plagioclase, zircon and apatite, or resistate hydrothermal minerals such as magnetite; and (2) porphyry vectoring and fertility tools (PVFTS), which use the chemical compositions of hydrothermal minerals such as epidote, chlorite and alunite to predict the likely direction and distance to mineralized centres, and the potential metal endowment of a mineral district. This new generation of exploration tools has been enabled by advances in laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, short wave length infrared data acquisition and data processing, and the increased availability of microanalytical techniques such as cathodoluminescence. PVFTS and PIMS show considerable promise for porphyry exploration, and are starting to be applied to the diversity of environments that host porphyry and epithermal deposits around the circum-Pacific region. Industry has consistently supported development of these tools, in the case of PVFTS encouraged by several successful “blind tests” where deposit centres have successfully been predicted from distal propylitic settings. Industry adoption is steadily increasing but is restrained by a lack of the necessary analytical equipment and expertise in commercial laboratories.Item freely available with no apparent Creative Commons License or copyright statement. The attached file is the published pdf

Conditions That Affect Sense Of Belonging In A Student Government At A Mid-Sized Private University: A Collaborative Ethnographic Study

The factors that assist college students in finding meaning, connection, and community during the undergraduate experience are nuanced and varied. Many studies have reviewed the importance of meaning and connection in the context of undergraduate experiences that, when successful, often lead to persistence and retention. In addition to meaning and connection, much has been researched and articulated about the Sense of Belonging concept, essentially combining meaning and connection while examining micro and macro influences on college students before and during undergraduate experiences. While the literature on sense of belonging in relation to involvement in student organizations has gradually emerged over the last several decades, discussions on how a sense of belonging impacts a specific subset of student organization involvement—student governments—is negligible

Porphyry indicator minerals and their mineral chemistry as vectoring and fertility tools

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