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Assessment Of Physical Activity And Sedentary Behavior Using Wearable Sensors: Measurement Considerations And Clinical Applications, Amanda Hickey
Assessment Of Physical Activity And Sedentary Behavior Using Wearable Sensors: Measurement Considerations And Clinical Applications, Amanda Hickey
Doctoral Dissertations
The aims of study one of this dissertation were two-fold: 1) To understand the variability of sedentary behavior (SB) throughout a seven-day measurement period and 2) To determine the number of days of SB measurement required to reliably estimate seven-days of measurement. To address these aims, we utilized activPAL (AP) data from two existing data sets from the Physical Activity (PA) and Health Laboratory. Data were from 62 adults and 34 adolescents who had seven consecutive days of valid monitor wear. We found that adults were more sedentary on weekdays compared to weekend days, but there were no differences by …
A Glance Into How The Cold War And Governmental Loyalty Investigations Came To Affect A Leading U.S. Radiation Geneticist: Lewis J. Stadler’S Nightmare, Edward J. Calabrese
A Glance Into How The Cold War And Governmental Loyalty Investigations Came To Affect A Leading U.S. Radiation Geneticist: Lewis J. Stadler’S Nightmare, Edward J. Calabrese
Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Publication Series
This paper describes an episode in the life of the prominent plant radiation geneticist, Lewis J. Stadler (1897–1954) during which he became a target of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning loyalty to the United States due to possible associations with the communist party. The research is based on considerable private correspondence of Dr. Stadler, the FBI interrogatory questions and Dr. Stadler’s answers and letters of support for Dr. Stadler by leading scientists such as, Hermann J. Muller.