The effects of perceived gender coaching styles of female coaches on extrinsic motivation of female athletes on team sports

This study investigated the effect of perceived gender coaching style and gender stereotypes on the extrinsic motivation of female athletes. A t-test was utilized, with Masculine and feminine coaching styles as independent variables. The research question asked whether female athlete’s extrinsic motivation could be affect based on the type of gender coaching style used by female head coaches. H1 predicted that a masculine coaching style, respectively, would negatively influence the extrinsic motivation of female athletes. Fifty-four college female athletes filled out an online survey consisting of The Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) (Pelletier, Fortier, Vallerand, Tuson, Biere, and Blaise, 1995) and Bem’s Short Sex Role Inventory (BSSI) (Aicher & Sagas, 2010). Results suggested both types of coaches were able to have similar impacts on the extrinsic motivation of their athletes. The hypothesis was not supported

Perfect

Perfectionism can be a form of trauma that composition instructors should be aware of in some high-achieving students

The Effectiveness of Combined Appointments and Influenza Immunization Rates in a Rural WIC Population

Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive retrospective study was to examine predictors and barriers to influenza immunizations receipt in a low-income WIC population. Method: A quality improvement project was conducted in October 2010 in which 129 caregivers of children having WIC appointments were randomly assigned to receive (a) influenza immunizations at the time of the WIC visit or (b) educational materials and a later immunization. Caregivers completed a survey about their perceptions of influenza immunizations. Tanahashi’s access to care model (1978) was used to identify predictors (acceptability, accessibility, availability, and effectiveness) of influenza immunizations. Analysis: In analysis of data collected from September to November 2010 the chi-square test was performed to assess the relationship between group assignment and immunization receipt. Logistic regression was used to examine the relationship of the dependent variable, immunization receipt, with the potential variables of acceptability, accessibility, availability, and effectiveness. Results: Participants who received only the educational materials and an opportunity to receive an immunization at a later date were less than half as likely to get immunized (15.6%) as those who were offered a same day influenza immunization (39.3%). There was a statistically significant association between whether or not influenza immunization was offered at the time of the WIC appointment and the rate of influenza immunization, χ2 (1)=7.905, p=.005. The acceptability scale (Tanahashi’s model) was a significant predictor (AOR = 2.261, p = .019) of immunization receipt but items measuring accessibility, availability, and effectiveness were not significant predictors (ps all \u3e .16). Conclusions: These findings suggest that offering immunizations at the time of a WIC appointment may increase overall rates of childhood immunizations. Further research with Tanahashi’s model is needed

From Swiffers to Swastikas: How the #tradwife movement of conventional gender roles became synonymous with white supremacy

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Caring for Your Hand Burn

This patient education handout shares information on caring for a hand burn

The Constitution Commandeth: Thou Shalt Not Protect the Same Subject Matter Under Design Patent and Trade Dress Laws

For many years and still currently, it has been assumed—and even expressly asserted—that it is perfectly permissible to “stack” various legal theories (concurrently or consecutively) to protect nonfunctional “designs” for products. This is despite infrequent but cogent arguments that the available theories, notably design patents and product design trade dress—both of which are based upon federal statutes—are not Constitutionally compatible due to at least the concept of Superfluity. The authors of this article carefully examine the origin, nature, and meaning of these two types of IP protections in the context of their two Constitutional bases—the Patent/Copyright Clause and the Commerce Clause—and conclude that, indeed, “stacked” protections are not Constitutionally permissible; the authors then recommend a workable solution which they dub, the “Kewanee Kompromise.

A Bimanual Teleoperation Framework for Light Duty Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator Systems

In an effort to lower the barrier to entry in underwater manipulation, this paper presents an open-source, user-friendly framework for bimanual teleoperation of a light-duty underwater vehicle-manipulator system (UVMS). This framework allows for the control of the vehicle along with two manipulators and their end-effectors using two low-cost haptic devices. The UVMS kinematics are derived in order to create an independent resolved motion rate controller for each manipulator, which optimally controls the joint positions to achieve a desired end-effector pose. This desired pose is computed in real-time using a teleoperation controller developed to process the dual haptic device input from the user. A physics-based simulation environment is used to implement this framework for two example tasks as well as provide data for error analysis of user commands. The first task illustrates the functionality of the framework through motion control of the vehicle and manipulators using only the haptic devices. The second task is to grasp an object using both manipulators simultaneously, demonstrating precision and coordination using the framework. The framework code is available at https://github.com/stevens-armlab/uvms_bimanual_sim.Comment: 8 pages, 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR 2024), accepte