What Factors Influence the Imposter Phenomenon amongst Collegiate Flight Students?

The need for commercial airline pilots has been increasing significantly, and with the mandatory retirements projected in the next decade, the airline pilot workforce will have an injection of younger pilots. Previous research has studied the effects and prevalence of the Imposter Phenomenon (IP) in young professionals, especially graduate students, and academics. The phenomenon is particularly prevalent for female graduate students and academics. The purpose of this study is to observe the prevalence of the Imposter Phenomenon in collegiate pilots. Participants for the study are recruited from amongst collegiate flight students enrolled in a 4-year aviation university in Florida. A multiple regression analysis using backward stepwise regression will be employed to determine which factors influence the presence of Imposter Phenomenon in collegiate Part 141 pilots. 11 factors are tested as potential predictors (independent variables) in the study. These are age, gender, ethnicity, education level, total flight hours, pilot certification level, personality, measure of self-efficacy, measure self-handicapping, and perceived organizational support. The dependent variable will the participants level of Imposter Phenomenon, measured by using the 20-question validated Clance (1985) Imposter Phenomenon scale. The data collection process in currently underway, with the data analysis and results being completed and compiled by the end of 2019. This is an initial study in a line of future studies seeking to collect data from outside the collegiate pilot population, with the objective of creating a prediction model of Imposter Phenomenon within the United States pilot population

What Factors Influence the Imposter Phenomenon amongst Collegiate Flight Students?

The need for commercial airline pilots has been increasing significantly, and with the mandatory retirements projected in the next decade, the airline pilot workforce will have an injection of younger pilots. Previous research has studied the effects and prevalence of the Imposter Phenomenon (IP) in young professionals, especially graduate students, and academics. The phenomenon is particularly prevalent for female graduate students and academics. The purpose of this study is to observe the prevalence of the Imposter Phenomenon in collegiate pilots. Participants for the study are recruited from amongst collegiate flight students enrolled in a 4-year aviation university in Florida. A multiple regression analysis using backward stepwise regression will be employed to determine which factors influence the presence of Imposter Phenomenon in collegiate Part 141 pilots. 11 factors are tested as potential predictors (independent variables) in the study. These are age, gender, ethnicity, education level, total flight hours, pilot certification level, personality, measure of self-efficacy, measure self-handicapping, and perceived organizational support. The dependent variable will the participants level of Imposter Phenomenon, measured by using the 20-question validated Clance (1985) Imposter Phenomenon scale. The data collection process in currently underway, with the data analysis and results being completed and compiled by the end of 2019. This is an initial study in a line of future studies seeking to collect data from outside the collegiate pilot population, with the objective of creating a prediction model of Imposter Phenomenon within the United States pilot population

What Factors Influence the Imposter Phenomenon amongst Collegiate Flight Students?

The need for commercial airline pilots has been increasing significantly, and with the mandatory retirements projected in the next decade, the airline pilot workforce will have an injection of younger pilots. Previous research has studied the effects and prevalence of the Imposter Phenomenon (IP) in young professionals, especially graduate students, and academics. The phenomenon is particularly prevalent for female graduate students and academics. The purpose of this study is to observe the prevalence of the Imposter Phenomenon in collegiate pilots. Participants for the study are recruited from amongst collegiate flight students enrolled in a 4-year aviation university in Florida. A multiple regression analysis using backward stepwise regression will be employed to determine which factors influence the presence of Imposter Phenomenon in collegiate Part 141 pilots. 11 factors are tested as potential predictors (independent variables) in the study. These are age, gender, ethnicity, education level, total flight hours, pilot certification level, personality, measure of self-efficacy, measure self-handicapping, and perceived organizational support. The dependent variable will the participants level of Imposter Phenomenon, measured by using the 20-question validated Clance (1985) Imposter Phenomenon scale. The data collection process in currently underway, with the data analysis and results being completed and compiled by the end of 2019. This is an initial study in a line of future studies seeking to collect data from outside the collegiate pilot population, with the objective of creating a prediction model of Imposter Phenomenon within the United States pilot population

The HERITAGE Family Study: A Review of the Effects of Exercise Training on Cardiometabolic Health, With Insights Into Molecular Transducers

The aim of the HERITAGE Family Study was to investigate individual differences in response to a standardized endurance exercise program, the role of familial aggregation, and the genetics of response levels of cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk factors. Here we summarize the findings and their potential implications for cardiometabolic health and cardiorespiratory fitness. It begins with overviews of background and planning, recruitment, testing and exercise program protocol, quality control measures, and other relevant organizational issues. A summary of findings is then provided on cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise hemodynamics, insulin and glucose metabolism, lipid and lipoprotein profiles, adiposity and abdominal visceral fat, blood levels of steroids and other hormones, markers of oxidative stress, skeletal muscle morphology and metabolic indicators, and resting metabolic rate. These summaries document the extent of the individual differences in response to a standardized and fully monitored endurance exercise program and document the importance of familial aggregation and heritability level for exercise response traits. Findings from genomic markers, muscle gene expression studies, and proteomic and metabolomics explorations are reviewed, along with lessons learned from a bioinformatics-driven analysis pipeline. The new opportunities being pursued in integrative -omics and physiology have extended considerably the expected life of HERITAGE and are being discussed in relation to the original conceptual model of the study

Kinetics, dose-response, and excretion of methylmercury in free-living adult Cory's shearwaters

We evaluated methylmercury (MHg) kinetics, dose-responses, and excretion in free-living adult Cory's shearwaters using a nondestructive multi-tissue approach. Elimination of MHg in blood comprised an initial fast phase, with half-time of 1 d, and a slow terminal phase with half-time between 44 and 65 d. Molt was a crucial factor in determining the rate of MHg elimination. Half-times were independent of dose. A relationship between steady-state blood concentrations and dietary intake of MHS was derived. Ratios between Hg concentrations in eggs or hatchlings' plumage and parental blood were independent of dose, with tissue-blood partition coefficients identical to those in controls. Dose-response relationships were linear. Females were subjected to Hg concentrations 18% higher than males but exhibited a 10% lower dose-response in blood. The difference is not fully accounted for by excretion into the egg and may be due to unidentified sex-related differences in physiology. Excretion rates into plumage showed no dose dependency but were higher (33% of intake) in birds exposed during molt than in birds dosed 2 months before the start of molt. Hg excretion through the skin in exfoliated epidermal cells that adsorb into plumage was estimated, to represent 8% of the intake. The results of this study may be used in advanced modeling of the kinetics of MHg in adult birds to fill the current gap of a bioenergetic model for avian exposure to MH