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Low Back Pain Among College Athletes - A Survey Of Basketball Players, Swimmers, Track And Field Athletes And Nonathletic Controls, Nicholas Bacon

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Study Design. Cross-sectional survey among athletes competing at the collegiate level in basketball, swimming, and track and field, as well as a matched nonathletic control group. Objective. To compare the prevalence of low back pain between sports: basketball, swimming, and track and field, as well as nonathletic control group. Summary of Background Data. With conflicting reports, it is not clear whether athletes are at higher risk for low back pain when compared to nonathletic counterparts. Some literature has found that low back pain was less common in former elite athletes when compared to nonathletes; however, much of the literature supports …

An Examination Of The Role Of Anxiety And Obsessive-Compulsive Features In Muscle Dysmorphia Symptomatology, Christopher Chandler

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Although Muscle Dsymorphia (MD) has received more attention in recent years, it still lacks an official classification. The current study incorporates trait anxiety and obsessive-compulsive features into an etiological model of MD in the hopes of establishing them as reliable predictors of such MD symptomatology as drive for muscularity, social physique anxiety, and negative body attitude (self). This model was based upon previous research that has linked trait anxiety and obsessive-compulsive features to eating disorders (ED). In this model, it was predicted that trait anxiety and obsessive-compulsive features would predict overall MD symptomatology, drive for muscularity, social physique anxiety, and …

2007 Winter Public Record, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

Public Record

No abstract provided.

Blaming For Columbine: Conceptions Of Agency In The Contemporary United States, Claudia Strauss

Pitzer Faculty Publications and Research

Modern Westerners are supposed to embrace a notion of unfettered personal agency. An analysis of public commentary (interviews, editorials, and online message boards) in the United States about the Columbine school shootings shows that the voluntarist cultural model of persons as autonomous agents, while certainly very important, is just one of a number of cultural models Americans use to explain human action and has particular political and interpersonal uses. We might think that conceptions as basic as those of personhood and agency would be hegemonic: both singular and internalized as unexamined, taken for‐granted assumptions. In some contexts, voluntarist ideas about …

Recovering Spiritual Direction In The Protestant Tradition, Morris Dirks

Doctor of Ministry

The purpose of this dissertation is to foster a commitment to the development of spiritual direction in the ongoing care of pastors within the Protestant tradition. The need to recover this practice, once well established in the church, is made obvious by the increasing challenges faced in ministry and the spiritual and emotional impact now experienced by pastors. More and more leaders are losing their way as a result of the unchecked stress fostered by the overwhelming expectations, whether real or perceived, which are placed on them. Pastoral responsibilities have been significantly compounded by the increasing programmatic and executive functions …

Dietary Canola Oil Suppressed Growth Of Implanted Mda-Mb 231 Human Breast Tumors In Nude Mice, W. Elaine Hardman

Biochemistry and Microbiology

Long chain omega 3 (n-3) fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and/or docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), have been shown to suppress growth of most cancer cells. In vivo, alpha linolenic acid (ALA, 18:3n-3) can be converted to EPA or DHA. We hypothesized that substituting canola oil (10% ALA) for the corn oil (1% ALA) in the diet of cancer bearing mice would slow tumor growth by increasing n-3 fatty acids in the diet. Sixty nude mice received MDA-MB 231 human breast cancer cells and were fed a diet containing 8% w/w corn oil until the mean tumor volume was 60 mm ³ . …

The Cutting Edge, November/December 2007, Vol. 17 Issue 6, The Society Of American Fight Directors

The Cutting Edge

No abstract provided.

07: Community Dialogue Handbook, Alliance For Truth And Racial Reconciliation

Website Content

We are the People We Have Been Waiting For is a resource guide produced by the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.

10. Find A Consultant, Alliance For Truth And Racial Reconciliation

Website Content

No abstract provided.

Equity Offerings By Firms That Emerged From Bankruptcy, Surendranath Jory, Jeff Madura

The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance

Entrepreneurship is not only used to create a business idea, but also to restructure a business in response to environmental conditions. Firms that issue equity after emerging from bankruptcy are unique in that they exhibit less asymmetric information than other firms that issue equity. They were previously subject to the SEC disclosure requirements when they had publicly-traded securities, and were required to disclose information about their assets, liabilities, and governance while operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy laws. Our analysis determines that the mean underpricing of the firms that engaged in public stock offerings after emerging from bankruptcy is 4.49 percent, …

Lpe Center News, December 2007

Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center: Newsletters

In this issue:

• Dry Manure Housing Systems for Beef and Dairy Featured in the January, 2008 Webcast

•. Survey to Determine Air Quality Webcast Topics

• Report Outlines Policy Changes to Clean Up the Chesapeake Bay

•.Virginia Project Offers Incentives for Improved Feed Management on Dairy Farms

Disaster Recovery Planning: What Section 404 Audits Reveal, Dana R. Hermanson, Daniel M. Ivancevich, Susan H. Ivancevich

Faculty Articles

This article summarizes U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act section 404 internal control reports that reveal material weaknesses due to inadequate disaster recovery planning. According to the authors, Section 404 applies to public companies with over $75 million in public float. They advise that auditors evaluating internal control over financial reporting must consider key information technology-related risks and controls that affect financial reporting, including issues related to disaster recovery planning.

Hog Producers' Risk Management Attitudes And Desire For Additional Risk Management Education, George F. Patrick, Amy J. Peiter, Thomas O. Knight, Keith H. Coble, Alan Baquet

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

Hog producers in Indiana and Nebraska were surveyed about sources of risk, effectiveness of risk management strategies, and prior participation in and desire for additional risk management education. Ownership of hogs by the producer, size of the operation, and age did have significant effects on ratings of both sources of risk and effectiveness of risk management strategies. Probit analysis found age, prior attendance, knowledge and prior use of the tool, level of integration, and concern about price and performance risk have significant effects on interest in further education about production contracts, futures and options, packer marketing contracts, and financial management.

Ard News December 2007

Agricultural Research Division: News and Annual Reports

Contents:

Comments from the Dean
William G. Whitmore Student Travel Endowment
David H. and Annie E. Larrick Fund, 2008
Undergraduate Honors Research Program
Mussehl Endowment
New or Revised Projects September and October 2007
Proposals Submitted for Federal Grants September and October 2007
Grants and Contracts Received for September and October 2007

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Show & Tell On The Internet: Will Janet & George Set The Standard? Fcc Censorship & Converging Technologies, E. Judson Jennings

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

My Place Or Yours: Copyright, Place-Shifting, & The Slingbox: A Legislative Proposal, Jessica L. Talar

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Do Consumers Have The Right To Space-Shift, As They Do Time-Shift, Their Television Content? Intellectual Property Rights In The Face Of New Technology, Adi Schnaps

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Hockey's Cold War - Russia's Defiance Of The Iihf And The Evgeny Malkin Saga, Chris Miller

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

The James Frey Scandal: A Million Frivolous Lawsuits, Stacey A. Hyman

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Employer Newsletter December 2007, Office Of Cooperative Education And Career Services

RIT Digital Archives

Spring Career Fair Dates Scheduled||RIT to Open Dubai Campus in Fall 2008||Join Us In a New Global Partnership||Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration||Destler Inauguration Celebrates Legacy of Leaders||"A Bright Idea" by Digital Rochester||RIT News||Recruiting Updates

Markov Processes In Single Molecule Fluorescence, David Talaga

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

This article examines the current status of Markov processes in single molecule fluorescence. For molecular dynamics to be described by a Markov process, the Markov process must include all states involved in the dynamics and the first-passage time (FPT) distributions out of those states must be describable by a simple exponential law. The observation of non-exponential FPT distributions or other evidence of non-Markovian dynamics is common in single molecule studies and offers an opportunity to expand the Markov model to include new dynamics or states that improve understanding of the system.

The Effects Of Background Music On The Reading Performance Of Taiwanese Esl Students, Peter Chou

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to see what kinds of effects classical music and hip hop music have on the performance of a second language reading comprehension test in Taiwanese college students. According to Kahneman' s ( 1973) capacity model for attention, one may fail to perfonn an activity because the supply of attention needed for multiple tasks does not meet the demand needed to perfom1 each of the tasks. This explains why students perform better or worse on different cognitive tasks with certain types of background media. An experiment involving 123 participants from a medium size college in …

Heop In Touch Newsletter, Winter 2007, Higher Education Opportunity Program

RIT Digital Archives

HEOP Holiday Happenings||From the Director's Desk||HEOP 3.0+ Honors||Alumni Spotlight||HEOP Workshops||LEAP Events||Winter Quarter Opportunities

Print Review, Print Industry Center, Patricia Cost

RIT Digital Archives

The PrintReview is produced quarterly exclusively for Affiliates of the Printing Industry Center at RIT.

News From Hope College, Volume 39.3: December, 2007, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Criminal Law, Franklin J. Hogue, Laura D. Hogue

Mercer Law Review

As in previous years, we cannot comment on every development in criminal law in Georgia that occurred this past year through appellate opinions and statutory changes. We cannot even footnote all of them. Instead, we have chosen cases that are the most important or the most interesting or those that may have the widest application to the future course of criminal practice and procedure. We hope this Article is useful to our colleagues who practice criminal law.

Shake & Bake: Dual-Use Chemicals, Contexts, And The Illegality Of American White Phosphorus Attacks In Iraq, Joseph D. Tessier

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] “On November 29, 2005, in a Department of Defense press conference with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Gen. Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Pace stated that white phosphorus “is a legitimate tool of the military,” and can be used for illumination, smoke, and incendiary purposes. Incredibly, the Department of Defense released an addendum to the press conference clarifying that white phosphorus was not used as an incendiary weapon. According to General Pace, “it was well within the law of war to use white phosphorus . . . for marking and screening.” This was …

Sold Downstream: Free Speech, Fair Use, And Anti-Circumvention Law, R. Terry Parker

The University of New Hampshire Law Review

[Excerpt] “Here’s a hypo. Living in Asia, I purchased a shameful amount of music and movies, all legit purchases through reputable stores, HMV and Tower Records, but little of which will get reissued. I wanted to preserve my collection but software in the discs prevented me from ripping backup copies to my computer. Lacking the technological savvy to get around this software myself, I purchased and used a product to help me circumvent these controls. Discuss.

Courts agree that copying the music and movies here is infringement but that fair use may provide a defense. However, courts do not agree …

Synthesis And Characterization Of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles, Kazuaki Yano

Material Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Ferromagnetic nanoparticles and their bimagnetic nanoparticles with uniform size distribution have drawn great attention in the past decades because of their unique magnetic properties and potential applications in high density recording media, exchange-spring permanent magnets and biotechnology. In this thesis, synthesis and characterization of ferromagnetic nanoparticles (FePt, Sm-Co system) and bimagnetic nanoparticles (FePt/Fe3O4, FePt/Au) are reported. FePt nanoparticles with different sizes and compositions were successfully synthesized via chemical synthesis. FePt particle size was tuned to a range of from 3 nm to 8 nm with 1 nm accuracy by changing the surfactant to Pt precursor ratio. By optimizing the amount …