Eileen Tuff Diaries, 1920-1947

Iowa native whose family settled near Rugby, North Dakota in 1899. Eileen Tuff kept diaries of her life on the farm, spanning from 1920 to 1947. Her diaries give us a detailed description of life on a farm in North Dakota during the first half of the twentieth century. They show how independent the family was, especially in terms of growing their own food

Renewable power for lean desktops in media applications

An integration of solar microgeneration to supply a low-power IT desktop, using the Power over Ethernet standards IEEE 802.3af/at as a low power distribution network avoiding transformer losses from DC generation to mains power AC and back to low-voltage DC and hence maximising efficiency. The resulting design points to applications in media technology where reducing grid power consumption is critical for improving sustainability, or where there are supply constraints, and indicates new directions in how we manage and consume power for IT devices

Prism vergence measurements following adaptation to a base out prism

This study examines the effect of adaptation on the prism vergence range following an induced deviation. Five young adult subjects, with normal binocular functions, underwent fusional verfence testing to base in prisms before and after wearing a 10(Δ) base out Fresnel prism. The Fresnel prism was worn for a period of 2, 5, or 10 min on each of three separate occasions. The base in fusional vergence showed no statistical difference before or after adaptation, for any of the time periods. Also there was no difference in the ranges obtained over the three time periods. It was concluded that, even after a 2 min period of adaptation, fusional vergences return to a similar level as before the horizontal deviation was induced

Antecedents and Outcomes of Sports Coaches’ Interpersonal Behaviours: Examining External and Internal Control from a Self-Determination Theory Perspective.

Grounded in Self-Determination Theory, the aim of this thesis was to examine the antecedents and outcomes of internally and externally controlling coach behaviours. Despite the known presence of controlling behaviours within sport, there has been an absence of research on these two controlling dimensions and their co-occurrence within a competitive environment. These limitations were addressed through three separate studies that included athletes and coaches from university sport clubs. Study 1 applied a Person-Centred Approach (PCA) to identify coaches’ perceptions of their combined use of autonomy-supportive, internally, and externally controlling behaviours, and associations with their basic psychological needs, motivation, and pressures within their working environment. Study 2 used a PCA to examine the three coaching behaviours from the athlete’s perspective, exploring their predictive utility for adaptive and maladaptive outcomes. Finally, study 3 investigated the relationships of negative athlete outcomes, with congruent and incongruent coach-athlete dyad perceptions of internally and externally controlling coach behaviours. The emergence of a range of coach behaviour profiles in study 1 and 2 supports the importance of adopting a PCA to explore the distinct controlling dimensions; finding combinations of external control and autonomy-support were associated more positively with outcomes in comparison to the use of internal control. Study 2 and 3 revealed that moderate perceptions of internally and externally controlling coach behaviours were more positively associated with athlete outcomes, in contrast to lower perceptions. Therefore, implying that the different controlling coaching behaviours must always be considered and understood when identifying the most adaptive profile in relation to athlete being coached. Additionally, an initial indication of the need for future research to continue to explore relationships among congruent and incongruent coach-athlete dyad perceptions was supported. Across the three studies, support for the distinctive presence that both internal and external control have within the competitive sport environment was evident

Famous Battles of the Civil War

A set of one hundred collecting cards featuring images from Battle of the American Civil War. The set is enclosed in a sealed package.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/3101/thumbnail.jp

Children’s Poster Contest on Healthy Eating

Objective: To encourage children in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades to learn about good nutrition and display their knowledge in an attractive poster. Method: A children’s poster contest was conducted through schools in the Washington, DC metro area in conjunction with the 2004 National Health Education Week’s campaign, “Healthy Eating – Every Bite Counts!”. Posters were judged on a 100 point scale, and six winners were chosen for each grade level. The children with the winning posters received cash prizes and were honored at an awards ceremony at the Society for Public Health Education’s (SOPHE) annual meeting. Results: Eligible entries were received from 76 students at 14 schools in the Arlington, VA and Washington, DC school districts. Almost all of the posters showed a good knowledge of nutrition by the students. Conclusion: National Health Education Week themes that are specific to children should encourage participation among schools, teachers, and parents. Partnerships offer possibilities for dissemination of public health education campaigns. A children’s poster contest about healthy eating in schools in the Washington, DC area was successful in gaining 76 entries from 14 schools, and children displayed a high level of knowledge of which foods were healthy for them and a high level of creativity and artistic talent

Port of Portland Pump Station

This project focused on the preliminary design of a pump station.https://pilotscholars.up.edu/egr_project/1024/thumbnail.jp

Teacher perception of character education

ix, 95 leaves ; 29 cmThis study explores teachers’ understanding of character education, their perceived role in curriculum development, implementation effectiveness, and their teaching practices. This two-part investigation surveys teachers from two schools, followed by an interview process with six of those participants. The school staffs of one elementary school and one elementary-junior-high school were surveyed to provide a general overview of teacher understanding of expectations, their knowledge of character traits identified in the curriculum goals of their Board of Education, and opinions about how their current teaching practice addresses the development of character. The interview data provided indepth information about teacher interpretation of character by their Western Canadian urban Public Board, details about their current teaching practices, including techniques and strategies incorporated, and their feelings about how character education should be taught in the school. The research revealed that teachers were generally unaware of the board’s curriculum expectations of the 11 character traits to be taught in school. There were mixed responses about who was responsible for teaching character: Some felt the responsibility was on the parents, while others felt it should be all adults. The study found that teachers were, in fact, currently teaching and assessing students on many of the traits identified as being significant as part of the hidden, lived curriculum

The evolution and ecology of land ownership

Land ownership norms play a central role in social-ecological systems, and have been studied extensively as a component of ethnographies. Yet only recently has the distribution of land ownership norms across cultures been examined from evolutionary and ecological perspectives. Here we incorporate evolutionary and macroecological modelling to test associations between land ownership norms and environmental, subsistence, and cultural contact predictors for societies in the Bantu language family. We find that Bantu land ownership norms likely evolved on a unilinear trajectory, but not necessarily one requiring consistent increase in exclusivity as suggested by prior theory. Our macroecological analyses suggest that Bantu societies are more likely to have some form of ownership when their neighbors also do. We also find an effect of environmental productivity, supporting resource defensibility theory, which posits that land ownership is more likely where productivity is predictable. We find less support for a proposed link between agricultural intensification and land ownership. Overall, we demonstrate the value of combining analytical approaches from evolution and ecology to test diverse hypotheses on land ownership across a range of disciplines.1. Introduction 2. Materials and methods 2.1 Data 2.2 Phylogenetic analyses of evolution of land ownership 2.3 Multi-model inference of drivers of spatial patterns in land ownership 3. Results 3.1 Evolutionary trajectories of land ownership 3.2 Drivers of spatial variation in land ownership 4. Discussio

Need Satisfaction and Need Frustration as Distinct and Potentially Co-Occurring Constructs: Need Profiles Examined in Physical Education and Sport

We explored the combined relationships between need satisfaction and need frustration and their simultaneous associations with motivation, well-being, and ill-being. Data from two cross-sectional samples that represent different physical activity contexts, physical education (N = 274; Mage = 14.18 ± 1.42 years) and leisure-time sport (N = 160; Mage = 22.98 ± 8.79 years), are reported. The identification of distinctive subgroups (need profiles) which had unique associations with motivation, well-being, and ill-being provided evidence for the distinct, yet co-occurring nature of need satisfaction and need frustration and the asymmetrical relationship between need satisfaction and need frustration. Our results suggest that experiencing need satisfaction without need frustration was the most adaptive need profile. Experiences of need satisfaction partly countered the effects of need frustration on motivation, well-being, and ill-being. The current study enhances our understanding of people’s psychological need experiences, motivation, and psychological health though highlighting the importance of examining need satisfaction and need frustration in combination rather than isolation