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Acute Blood Pressure Responses To Static And Dynamic Exercise: Racial Differences, Reuben Leon Wright
Acute Blood Pressure Responses To Static And Dynamic Exercise: Racial Differences, Reuben Leon Wright
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
African Americans have a higher incidence of hypertension than other racial groups. Furthermore, some research suggests that normotensive individuals who exhibit exaggerated blood pressure (BP) responses to exercise may be at risk for future hypertension. This study sought to determine if normotensive African Americans exhibited exaggerated BP responses to static exercise or dynamic exercise relative to Caucasian Americans and Asian Americans. Thirty normotensive subjects participated from each of the three racial groups (15 males and 15 females). Subjects held 30% of maximal voluntary contraction (right knee extension) for 3 minutes, and BP was recorded during the third minute. On a …
A Study To Determine The Participation Of African Americans And Spanish Americans In Graduate Studies: A Local Perspective, Angela J. Hampton
A Study To Determine The Participation Of African Americans And Spanish Americans In Graduate Studies: A Local Perspective, Angela J. Hampton
OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers
The purpose of this study was to look at the following questions: 1. Has the growth declined or increased over the last five years for African American and Spanish American students in graduate studies in the Hampton Roads area? 2. What is the difference between enrollment of Spanish Americans and African Americans in the Hampton Roads area? 3. Is the participation in graduate programs higher at historically black universities or white universities in the Hampton Roads area?
Multiple Intelligences And The Gifted Identification Of African-American Students, Oscar Scott Jr.
Multiple Intelligences And The Gifted Identification Of African-American Students, Oscar Scott Jr.
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
There have been three national reports addressing giftedness: Education of the Gifted and Talented: Report to the Congress of the United States by the U.S. Commissioner of Education (1972) AKA the Marland Report; The National Report on Identification: Assessment and Recommendations for Comprehensive Identification of Gifted and Talented Youth (1982) AKA the National Report on Identification; and National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (1993) AKA National Excellence. All have documented the underrepresentation of African-American students in programs for the gifted and talented and the disproportionate reliance on standardized intelligence and achievenent tests for gifted and talented program selection. …