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Expanding Perspectives Through Flight: Transformation Of Fear Through Arational Ways Of Knowing, Barbara Bickel
Expanding Perspectives Through Flight: Transformation Of Fear Through Arational Ways Of Knowing, Barbara Bickel
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Danger and fear permeates all parts of our lives during this time of the COVID-19 pandemic. This arts-based auto-ethnographic writing explores living in a perpetual liminal space of unknowing is a disorienting experience at collective and individual levels. Living with and through the pandemic experience has offered a novel opportunity to stop and face both life and death from alternative perspectives. It gives rise to the question: Can we face our fear and relearn how to be in flight to gain greater perspectives rather than for escape and avoidance as only victims? The gift of symbolic and mythological flight offers …
Cross Court View: Comparison Of Body Image During Competition, Timothy M. Kelly
Cross Court View: Comparison Of Body Image During Competition, Timothy M. Kelly
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There are many studies on body image but few focus on the body image of athletes. Further, there are few studies on the effects of appearance on athletic performance. Past studies have focused on internalization or body image dissatisfaction. None have gathered data about competition to see if body image and appearance of competitors effects athletic performance. Using an 18 question adapted Likert survey and two qualitative questions we explored whether appearance of the other competitors has an impact on athletic performance. The study was conducted using 50 division I female athletes from the softball, volleyball, tennis, swimming and diving, …
The Author Is Absent: Toward Emergent Narrative Event Environments, Dimitar O. Velkov 3030359
The Author Is Absent: Toward Emergent Narrative Event Environments, Dimitar O. Velkov 3030359
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Creating an emergent narrative or one which is not predetermined by the controlling figure of the game designer, but instead frees the audience to guide and control the story has been a major interest in the field game design studies of virtual world storytelling. “The Author Is Absent” is an art project that interprets an emergent narrative problem through the prism of performance arts, and mainly the happenings of Alan Kaprow. The following paper provides a theoretical groundwork and some historical examples of previous attempts in the same tradition. It then goes on to elucidate the formal aspects of the …
Crip Pessimism: The Language Of Dis/Ability And The Culture That Isn't, Michael L. Selck
Crip Pessimism: The Language Of Dis/Ability And The Culture That Isn't, Michael L. Selck
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Acute Effects Of Theacrine Supplementation On Muscular Strength And Muscular Endurance, Caleb J. Snyder
Acute Effects Of Theacrine Supplementation On Muscular Strength And Muscular Endurance, Caleb J. Snyder
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There are many performance-enhancing supplements on the market. Theacrine (1,3,7,9-tetramethyluric acid) is a new product similar to caffeine. Both are purine alkaloids thought to act as adenosine receptor antagonists. It has been reported to increase subjective energy levels among other beneficial effects, but has not yet been tested on muscular strength and muscular endurance. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study, eleven healthy resistance trained college-aged males received a 200mg dose of theacrine or a placebo. One-repetition max (1RM) and maximal repetition tests were performed after supplementation. A one-way repeated measures analysis of variance was completed between the treatments (placebo, …
Dietary Habits And Nutritional Knowledge: The Importance Of Sports Nutrition Professionals, Sieger M. Giroux
Dietary Habits And Nutritional Knowledge: The Importance Of Sports Nutrition Professionals, Sieger M. Giroux
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Persistence In Commodity Etf Performance, Binghui Li
Persistence In Commodity Etf Performance, Binghui Li
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Commodities ETFs have became popular investments since first introduced in the market. This type of funds provide investors a simple way to gain exposure to commodities, and these types of funds are considered as an asset class to diversify investment portfolios and as a hedge against economic recessions. With more capital invested in commodities ETFs by investors, argument about the efficiency in commodity ETF market are heated debate by economists. This paper developed a reasonable method to explore persistence in commodity ETFs. 30 commodities ETFs, which ranked high in terms of large assets, are selected during the period of 2008 …
Some Queer Bodies, Per Se: An Explication Of Actors' Bodies In Ichor & The Four Humours Present: Percy Per Se Himself Presenting: Fopulous! Or All Is Vanity (A Tragicomedy Of Manners In Five Acts With Narrated Interludes And Dancing), Bennett P. Whitaker
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This paper locates bodies' centrality to performance studies and interrogates those bodies present in one aesthetic performance, Fopulous, employing a queered version of David Graver's typification in "The Actor's Bodies."