Alien Registration- Dickinson, Sarah (Houlton, Aroostook County)

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Functional Movement Screen and its Link to Sports Injury in Butler University Division I Student Athletes

The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a physical assessment made up of seven fundamental movements which are designed to evaluate an individual’s functional movement patterns. The seven subtests target mobility and stability to identify limitations or asymmetries in normal movement (O’Conner et al., 2011). It is suspected that individuals who continue to use substandard movements during training are more susceptible to musculoskeletal injury (Chorba et al., 2010). In this study, FMS data from Butler University’s Division I men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, and cross-country teams were analyzed to investigate potential correlation with injury prevalence, sports team, and gender. Research from the past 15 years has assessed the use of FMS data as a tool to predict sports related injury along with other variables. Since injury can be both physically and mentally detrimental for student athletes, it would be ideal to avoid it. This would allow athletic trainers to target areas of weakness specific to each sport and incorporate corrective movements into strength training to improve mobility and stability. This study includes secondary data analysis from Butler University’s athletic department. Butler University’s athletic department and the Institutional Review Board approved the release of de-identified data for 122 student athlete participants including their FMS score, injury prior to FMS testing, injury following FMS testing, sports team, and gender. The data from 65 males and 57 females was then compiled and analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics Software. In summary, this study found a positive small correlation between Total FMS Scores for Butler University Division I student athletes (men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, and cross-country teams), and the number of musculoskeletal injuries reported from athletics. The study consisted of 65 male and 57 female student athletes, where on average male student athletes scored higher on FMS testing than female student athletes. Lastly, it was found that there was no difference between the average number of athletic related musculoskeletal injuries between the two genders

Effect of pre-ovulatory follicle size on oocyte transcript abundance in beef cows

Inadequate oocyte competence is a potential explanation for reduced pregnancy rates and(or) increased late embryonic mortality when small dominant follicles are induced to ovulate prematurely with gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) in beef cows. Previous studies have shown that follicle size at GnRH- induced ovulation may affect oocyte competence, as higher fertilization rates and higher embryo quality were reported after induction of ovulation in large ([greater than or equal to]12.5mm) compared to small (12.5 mm; no estrus expression), and Spontaneous (11.6-13.9 mm; estrus expression and endogenous gonadotropin surge). Cumulus-oocyte complexes were collected after trans-vaginal aspiration, and oocytes were fully denuded of surrounding cumulus cells. RNA was later extracted from pools of 4 oocytes (n= 6 oocyte pools from both small and large follicles; n=5 oocyte pools from the spontaneous (control) group) and submitted for sequencing on an Illumina HiSeq 2000 (single reads, 100 bases per read) to generate an average of 8,363,823 raw reads per pool that were aligned to a Bos Taurus transcriptome from NCBI, with additional annotations, and the bovine genome (Cow_3.1_btau_4.6.1_Y_ncbi)

Review of Gender Differences in Learning Styles: Suggestions for Information Technology Education

According to the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT), only 21% of information and computer science degrees were awarded to women in 2006 (NCWIT, 2007). In the past decade, higher education has experienced a rapid decline in the number of women involved in the information sciences, particularly computer science (Bank, 2007). A number of social and educational factors have been considered barriers to women entering science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields and this area has been well studied in the literature. However, research examining the relationship between gender differences and learning styles in the context of these technical fields is limited. According to Kolb (1976), people decide on a major based on how well the norms of the major fit with their individual learning styles. This paper presents gender differences in learning styles and recommends teaching methodologies most preferred for female learners in information science and technology courses

Exploring Law's Manifestations in Private/Public Places

The importance of 'place' for mental and physical wellbeing is well-documented. Yet profound social, economic, and technological changes increasingly challenge those who regulate, own, fund, develop, manage, operationalise, and/or use places. This generates tensions between competing stakeholder interests and potentially affects the continued existence of different places. I present my research against a backdrop of combined cross-disciplinary concepts that include: space and place, legal geography, temporality, legal pluralism and governance. I examine gaps in the literature around the interactions between regulatory forces and exhibited behaviours, and their potential influence on the future existence of particular places. The overarching aim of the research programme is to explore law's manifestations in private/public places. To achieve this, I developed a grounded theory research strategy. I also implemented multiple methods, including law in action, doctrinal and empirical approaches, to generate robust findings and minimise methods bias. My collection of seven publications demonstrates an overarching theme of place-sustainability. The research programme makes a four-fold contribution. First, it adopts a specific combination of perspectives and methods for investigating: perceived manifestations of law; the law's quest to achieve a balance of stakeholder interests; relationships between place-related regulatory forces and exhibited behaviours; inter-stakeholder tensions; and, their combined influence on the future existence of places. Second, it demonstrates how a multi-disciplinary approach can be used to generate new understandings of place-sustainability within the context of a particular range of private/public places. Third, it evidences the complex nature of place-sustainability, particularly around: the enduring prioritisation of property ownership and occupation, the tensions between competing stakeholder interests, and the general inefficacy of a black-letter approach. Fourth, it details recommendations for combining legislative development, collaborative working, and supporting structural and cultural change to ease inter-stakeholder tensions and support place-sustainability within the context of a dynamic environment

The Christchurch earthquakes 2010, 2011: Geographies of an event

This study provides a commentary of the Christchurch earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 as a theoretical (as well as empirical) event. Drawing on the ideas of Alain Badiou, it represents the earthquakes and their aftershocks as a rupturing of the established order of things; a distinctive space in which fidelity to the event has the potential to unleash new beginnings and imaginations. Qualitative research by the authors with older people and third sector organisations in Christchurch provides initial evidence of the mundane encounters with the truth of the event, and of the fostering of alternative subjectivities and creative participatory practices that arise in fidelity to the event