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Monitoring work intensities during resistance training using a session RPE scale

DAY, M.L. Monitoring work intensities during resistance training using a session RPE scale. MS in Human Performance, 'May 2003,33pp. (C. Foster) This study investigated the reliability of the session RPE scale to quantify work during high intensity (HIP), moderate intensity (MIP), and low intensity (LIP) resistance training. Nine men (24.7 + 3.8 years) and 10 women (22.1 rt 2.6 years) performed each intensity twice. Each protocol consisted of one set of five exercises: back squat, bench press, overhead press, biceps curl, and triceps pushdown. The HIP consisted of 4-5 repetitions at 90% of the subject's 1 repetition maximum (I-RM). The MIP consisted of 10 repetitions at 70% 1-RM and the LIP consisted of 15 repetitions at 50% 1-RM. RPE wm collected following the completion of each set and thirty minutes post-exercise (session WE). Session RPE was higher for the HIP than MIP and LIP (p<0.05). Performing fewer repetitions at a higher intensity is perceived to be more difficult than performing more repetitions at a lower intensity. The intraclass correlation coefficient for the session RPE was 0.88. The session RPE is a reliable method to quantify various intensities of resistance training. COLLEGE OF HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION, RECREATION, AND TEACHER EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE THESIS FINAL ORAL CEFENSE FORM Candidate: Meghan Lee Dav We recommend acceptance of this thesis in partial hlfiliment of this candidate's requirements for the degree: Master of Science in Hwxan Performance The candidate has successhlly completed the thesis final oral defense. Thesis Committee Chairperson Signature Date ,Aflch. + I2 I 1 3 1 4 Thesis ~ommitt& Member Signature Date 1 % b-1 2 / 3 ~ 0 z Thesis Committee Member Signature Date This thesis is approved by the College of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Teacher Education. 1 -2 '3 . (? 3 of Health, Physical Education, Date Recreation, and Teacher Education >m, ~11~(c~~& /. A 3 03 Dean of W a t e Studies Date
Perceived Risk of Crime in the Czech Republic

The authors examine models of the perceived increased risk of crime in the Czech Republic derived from both American criminology and research on the perception of risk. The sample is 740 households in the 1994 Czech Republic, with 577 husband and wife respondents, 146 single female household heads, and 17 single male household heads. Measures include criminal victimization, personal characteristics associated with exposure and vulnerability to crime, trust in government, economic stress, as well as perceived increased risk of crime since the postcommunist transformation. A victimology model of the perceived increased risk of crime based on exposure and vulnerability to crime is confirmed for the Czech Republic. Trust in government is also an independent and complementary contribution to explaining perceived increased risk of crime. The discussion includes an interpretation of the findings and their relevance to cross-national comparisons of perceived risk of crime.
Passive imaging using distributed apertures in multiple-scattering environments

We develop a new passive image formation method capable of exploiting information about multiple scattering in the environment, as well as statistics of the objects to be imaged, additive noise and clutter, using measurements from a sparse array of receivers that rely on illumination sources of opportunity. The array of receivers can be distributed spatially in an arbitrary fashion with several hundred wavelengths apart. We use a physics-based approach to model a multiple-scattering environment and develop a statistical model that relates measurements in a given receiver to measurements in other receivers. The model is based on back-propagating measurements in a given receiver to a hypothetical target location and then forward propagating to another receiver location based on the Green's function of the background environment. We next address the imaging problem as a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for an unknown target location. The GLRT framework allows a priori scene, clutter and noise information to be incorporated into the problem formulation, as well as non-Gaussian data likelihood and a priori models. We address the spatially resolved hypothesis testing problem by constraining the associated discriminant functional to be linear and by maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio of the test statistics. We use the resulting spatially resolved test statistic to form the image. We present the resolution analysis of our imaging algorithms for free-space and a multiple-scattering environment model. Our analysis demonstrates the improvements in the point spread function and the signal-to-noise ratio of the reconstructed images when multiple scattering is exploited, as well as the potential artifacts and limitations. We present numerical experiments to demonstrate the performance of the resulting algorithms and to validate the theoretical findings.
The Effect of Neuromuscular Training on the Incidence of Knee Injury in Female Athletes

To prospectively evaluate the effect of neuromuscular training on the incidence of knee injury in female athletes, we monitored two groups of female athletes, one trained before sports participation and the other not trained, and a group of untrained male athletes throughout the high school soccer, volleyball, and basketball seasons. Weekly reports included the number of practice and competition exposures and mechanism of injury. There were 14 serious knee injuries in the 1263 athletes tracked through the study. Ten of 463 untrained female athletes sustained serious knee injuries (8 noncontact), 2 of 366 trained female athletes sustained serious knee injuries (0 noncontact), and 2 of 434 male athletes sustained serious knee injuries (1 noncontact). The knee injury incidence per 1000 athlete-exposures was 0.43 in untrained female athletes, 0.12 in trained female athletes, and 0.09 in male athletes (P 0.02, chi-square analysis). Untrained female athletes had a 3.6 times higher incidence of knee injury than trained female athletes (P 0.05) and 4.8 times higher than male athletes (P 0.03). The incidence of knee injury in trained female athletes was not significantly different from that in untrained male athletes (P 0.86). The difference in the incidence of noncontact injuries between the female groups was also significant (P 0.01). This prospective study demonstrated a decreased incidence of knee injury in female athletes after a specific plyometric training program.
Dry Eye Syndrome in Menopause and Perimenopausal Age Group

Dry eye disease (DED) is a multifactorial ocular surface disease that causes symptoms of ocular pain, discomfort, and decreased visual acuity. It significantly affects quality of life of patients. It is more prevalent in the females and is being specifically in the menopausal and postmenopausal age group. This is believed to be due to the changes in balance of sex hormones. Sex hormones – estrogens and androgens – influence production of all components of the tear film including aqueous layer, lipid, and mucin. Various mechanisms such as decrease in hormonal levels, shift in feedback mechanisms, and changes in receptor receptivity interplay to alter the ocular surface homeostasis and subsequently result in DED. Several studies have suggested potential role of hormone replacement therapy in menopause-associated dry eye symptoms. The purpose of this review is to help the non ophthalmic physicians about DED encountered commonly in menopausal age group. It is important for primary care physicians to understand DED due to its high prevalence, often debilitating symptoms and the potentially preventable and treatable nature of the condition.
Impact of random failures and attacks on Poisson and power-law random networks

It has appeared recently that the underlying degree distribution of networks may play a crucial role concerning their robustness. Previous work insisted on the fact that power-law degree distributions induce high resilience to random failures but high sensitivity to attack strategies, while Poisson degree distributions are quite sensitive in both cases. Then much work has been done to extend these results. We aim here at studying in depth these results, their origin, and limitations. We review in detail previous contributions in a unified framework, and identify the approximations on which these results rely. We then present new results aimed at clarifying some important aspects. We also provide extensive rigorous experiments which help evaluate the relevance of the analytic results. We reach the conclusion that, even if the basic results are clearly important, they are in practice much less striking than generally thought. The differences between random failures and attacks are not so huge and can be explained with simple facts. Likewise, the differences in the behaviors induced by power-law and Poisson distributions are not as striking as often claimed.
Understanding End-Users’ Acceptance of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System in Project-Based Sectors

This study aims at providing an alternative view of users' enterprise resource planning (ERP) acceptance. Despite the large body of literature, there are still empirical inquiries to investigate the ERP system implementation from end-users' perspectives as well as from different organizational contexts. To address these issues, we set a project-based sector as our population of interest and seek to understand how project management practices are interrelated with end-users' cognitive perception, and in the end, with their behavioral intention of using the ERP system. In doing so, this study incorporates the best practices of ERP system implementation projects, internal support, external (consultant) support, and functionality selection, into the extended technology acceptance model (TAM) that includes belief constructs and socioenvironmental construct (subjective norm). The empirical analyses show that managerial practices and socioenvironmental factor are significantly related to the original TAM variables in the context of ERP system. One of the interesting findings is the negative effect of consultant support on perceived usefulness, but positive effect on the perceived ease of use, suggesting a useful reference for future research. This study extends the existing literature by investigating potential managerial and socioenvironmental factors affecting user adoption behavior in a different organizational context. This study would also benefit project-based sectors by offering valuable managerial insights that enable them to appreciate and improve end-users' ERP system acceptance and utilization.
Amendment of sediments with a carbonaceous resin reduces bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

We evaluated the effectiveness of Amersorbb®, a carbonaceous resin, in reducing bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in contaminated sediments collected from the field. In laboratory studies, sediment pore‐water concentrations of eight unsubstituted PAHs were significantly decreased after resin addition. Reduced PAH concentrations in oligochaete tissues from a laboratory bioaccumulation test, along with increased survival/reproduction and reduced photo‐enhanced toxicity and sediment avoidance, also resulted from sediment treatment with Ambersorb. Resin amendment also decreased pore‐water PAH concentrations in field deployed sediments but did not improve benthic invertebrate colonization. Prediction of partitioning of PAHs between solid and aqueous phases in the test sediments was complicated by the presence of coal and soot. However, accurate predictions of bioavailability were achieved based on pore‐water chemistry. Overall, these studies show that the addition of high affinity sorbents effectively reduces pore‐water PAH concentrations and bioavailability and suggests that sorbent addition may serve as an option for in situ remediation of some contaminated sediments.
Validation of Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) – a prospective multicenter study

Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) is the first questionnaire that assesses simultaneously allergic rhinitis and asthma control in children. It was recently developed, but redundancy of questions and its psychometric properties were not assessed. This study aimed to (i) establish the final version of the CARATKids questionnaire and (ii) evaluate its reliability, responsiveness, cross‐sectional validity, and longitudinal validity.
Clustering approach to detect mRNA-degradation patterns from DNA–microarray gene-expression data

DNA-microarray based gene-expression analysis is based on hybridization events between messenger RNA (mRNA) and single stranded DNA probes. In oligo nucleotide DNA-microarrays the probes consist of approximately 20 to 80 nucleotides long DNA-molecules. Consequently, several unique probes perfectly matching each single open reading frame (ORF) of monoor polycistronic mRNA are usually used. If these probes are distributed over the whole length of the mRNA molecule, information about mRNA-degradation patterns can be gathered with data clustering methods. Here we report analysis of expression of 1107 open reading frames from the cyanobacterium Nostoc PCC 7120. Each open reading frame was covered by 10 unique 25 nucleotides long probes and analyzed by 4 independent DNA-microarray experiments. Both the positional information and the absolute expression value for each probe were used to infer clusters of transcripts that show similar expression patterns. Hierarchical and fuzzy k-means clustering yielded comparable results. Our results suggest that several different mRNA-degradation mechanisms, specific for certain transcripts, work in concert.
The Cheating Heart: Scientific Explorations of Infidelity

Given the potential negative ramifications of infidelity, it is not surprising that researchers have attempted to delineate its root causes. Historically, descriptive approaches have simply identified the demographics of who is unfaithful and how often. However, recent developments in both evolutionary and investment-model research have greatly furthered understanding of infidelity. The field could gain additional insight by examining the similarities of these prominent approaches.
Postural Effects on Brain Hemodynamics in Unilateral Cerebral Artery Occlusive Disease: A Positron Emission Tomography Study

To investigate effect of assuming of upright posture on brain hemodynamics in patients with unilateral internal carotid or middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO), local tissue oxygen extraction fraction (OEF), and postural changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during supine and sitting conditions were examined using positron emission tomography (PET) with 15O-gas steady-state method and H215O autoradiographic method. A total of 22 minor stroke patients at relatively early stages participated. The regions of interest method was used for analyzing levels of perfusion and oxygen metabolic parameters, and postural rCBF change within MCAO group was investigated using statistical parametric mapping. Region of interest analyses showed significant rCBF reduction in the cortical and subcortical regions distal to the artery occlusion in CAO patients during sitting. Regression analyses showed that magnitudes of rCBF reduction in those areas were correlated positively with OEF values and inversely with metabolic rates of oxygen (P < 0.05). Statistical parametric mapping for MCAO patients demonstrated further rCBF reduction by sitting in the occlusion-side MCA territory. The current study suggested that assumption of upright posture could exert an adverse effect on local perfusion in hemodynamically compromised patients with major cerebral vessel occlusion, possibly caused by impairment of local autoregulation.
Function of Serum Complement in Drinking Water Arsenic Toxicity

Serum complement function was evaluated in 125 affected subjects suffering from drinking water arsenic toxicity. Their mean duration of exposure was 7.4 ± 5.3 yrs, and the levels of arsenic in drinking water and urine samples were 216 ± 211 and 223 ± 302 μg/L, respectively. The mean bactericidal activity of complement from the arsenic patients was 92% and that in the unexposed controls was 99% (P < 0.01), but heat-inactivated serum showed slightly elevated activity than in controls. In patients, the mean complement C3 was 1.56 g/L, and C4 was 0.29 g/L compared to 1.68 g/L and 0.25 g/L, respectively, in the controls. The mean IgG in the arsenic patients was 24.3 g/L that was highly significantly elevated (P < 0.001). Arsenic patients showed a significant direct correlation between C3 and bactericidal activity (P = 0.014). Elevated levels of C4 indicated underutilization and possibly impaired activity of the classical complement pathway. We conclude reduced function of serum complement in drinking water arsenic toxicity.
The Need for Longitudinal, Intensive Social Skill Intervention

In this article, we suggest the need to embed social skills intervention within the more general context of long-term early intervention efforts that promote all dimensions of developmental performance. Although the field has advanced on many fronts during the last 30 years, we believe that the limits of isolated social skills training over brief periods of time have been reached. To support the call for more comprehensive and intensive intervention efforts, we offer preliminary results from an 18-year study to address the social and related needs of young children with autism. Contrary to the usually gloomy picture of social skills intervention evaluated across time and contexts, the former clients of the LEAP program demonstrate evidence of sustained growth and development over nearly two decades.
Analysis of Physical Therapy Goals in a School-based Setting: A Pilot Study

The purpose of this pilot study was to analyze physical therapy goals for students receiving services in the school setting and to determine if these goals are measurable and context specific. The Individualized Education Program (IEP) of 32 students receiving physical therapy services was analyzed to determine the type of task and context that were specified, and the type of measurement criteria used. Goals were categorized using a Goal Analysis Form developed for the study. Generally, goals were centered on task performance; however, most goals (72%) were not context specific, and few goals (6%) addressed academic tasks. The majority of goals (84%) utilized measurement criteria; the most commonly used criterion was level of independence (49%). The Goal Analysis Form is a tool that can be used to analyze the extent to which IEP goals are context specific and measurable. Therapists in school settings are expected to formulate goals that are measurable and context specific.
The Acquisition of Mental Orthographic Representations for Reading and Spelling Development

Word-level reading and spelling skills support reading comprehension and writing composition. Accurate and fluent word-level reading and spelling are facilitated when individuals have clear mental orthographic representations (MOR) that permit them to quickly recognize and recall the visual representation of a word, freeing up memory and attentional resources for comprehending or composing text. It is interesting that the role MOR development plays in early literacy development has received minimal attention. This article, based on a presentation at the 2007 Katharine G. Butler Symposium on Child Language, first reviews the literature that supports a sequential view of MOR acquisition followed by recent findings that support MOR development as a unique and independently developing skill. A general overview of three investigations designed to determine the independence and contribution of MOR development to children’s acquisition of word-level literacy skills is provided. Suggestions for further research and initial clinical implications are made based on the results of the investigations and the current literature on MOR development.
Addressing the concerns of the lacks family: quantification of kin genomic privacy

The rapid progress in human-genome sequencing is leading to a high availability of genomic data. This data is notoriously very sensitive and stable in time. It is also highly correlated among relatives. A growing number of genomes are becoming accessible online (e.g., because of leakage, or after their posting on genome-sharing websites). What are then the implications for kin genomic privacy? We formalize the problem and detail an efficient reconstruction attack based on graphical models and belief propagation. With this approach, an attacker can infer the genomes of the relatives of an individual whose genome is observed, relying notably on Mendel's Laws and statistical relationships between the nucleotides (on the DNA sequence). Then, to quantify the level of genomic privacy as a result of the proposed inference attack, we discuss possible definitions of genomic privacy metrics. Genomic data reveals Mendelian diseases and the likelihood of developing degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's. We also introduce the quantification of health privacy, specifically the measure of how well the predisposition to a disease is concealed from an attacker. We evaluate our approach on actual genomic data from a pedigree and show the threat extent by combining data gathered from a genome-sharing website and from an online social network.
The Role Of Uncertainty In Cloud Computing Continuance: Antecedents, Mitigators, And Consequences

While initial acceptance of information systems (IS) is an important step, the elimination of an upfront commitment implies that the success of cloud-based services depends on customers’ continued use rather than the initial adoption. Even in long term business relationships, it is difficult for users to judge the true qualities, intentions and actions of cloud providers. Drawing on principal-agency theory, we therefore establish users’ uncertainty perceptions as a key driver of cloud computing continuance. We identify privacy, security and availability concerns as the major sources of these uncertainties. In a survey among 143 users of cloud storage services, we find empirical evidence that trust is the primary mitigator of privacy and security concerns while low switching costs reduce availability concerns. Overall, our study confirms that the principal-agent theory is a very fruitful theoretical perspective to explain post-adoption phenomena in an IT world where digital services begin to substitute IT products. Our results provide guidance for providers on how to successfully manage customers’ concerns in this highly competitive market.
An Innovative Language Treatment for a Child with High-Functioning Autism

This study describes, and determines the effectiveness of, an innovative treatment sequence designed to facilitate semantic/pragmatic language development in a child with high-functioning autism. The independent variable was a treatment sequence emphasizing video vignettes and role-plays. Dependent variables included efficient gaze, responding without delays, and topic maintenance. Findings and practitioner applications are provided.