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White Rules, Black Stars: Race, Sport, Community, And The Emergence Of Integrated Boys' High School Basketball In Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1945-1965, Christopher Michael Jannings
White Rules, Black Stars: Race, Sport, Community, And The Emergence Of Integrated Boys' High School Basketball In Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1945-1965, Christopher Michael Jannings
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Located in the southwestern corner of the state in Berrien County, the city of Benton Harbor, Michigan rests along the shores of Lake Michigan, in the heart of the Fruit Belt, and near the St. Joseph River. Not until the early 1940s did a significant number of black migrants arrive from the South and larger metropolitan areas in the North to take advantage of a booming a wartime economy, higher paying jobs, and better living conditions. The growing black presence greatly altered the social, political, cultural, and economic structure of Benton Harbor. By the late 1950s and early 1960s the …
Validation And Comparison Of Two Ankle-Mounted And Two Waist-Mounted Electronic Pedometers, Murat Karabulut
Validation And Comparison Of Two Ankle-Mounted And Two Waist-Mounted Electronic Pedometers, Murat Karabulut
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The purpose of this study was to validate and compare the accuracy of two ankle- mounted pedometers [StepWatch 3 (SW-3) and Activity Monitoring Pod 331 (AMP)] and two waist-mounted pedometers [New Lifestyles NL-2000 (NL) and Digiwalker SW-701 (DW-701)] under controlled and free-living conditions. The study had three parts: part I: walking on a treadmill at six different speeds, part II: a) evaluation of potential sources of error: leg swinging, heel tapping, and driving a car in city limits, and b) pedaling a stationary cycle ergometer, and part III: wearing pedometers for 24 hours. Ten males and 10 females walked on …