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  • The relationship between biorhythms and injuries to college football participants

    Creator:
    Jun, Tae Won
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    Purpose: The general problem was to determine the relationship between biorhythms and injuries to college football participants representing Oregon State University. Procedures: The population consisted of one hundred and ninty two football players representing Oregon State University who participated in the intercollegiate football seasons of 1981 and 1982. Injury data...
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    College Football Participants Redacted for Privacy Abstract approved: Richard F. Irvin Purpose: The

  • The relationship between biorhythms and injuries in female college gymnastic participants

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    Chiang, Kai-sun
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    Biorhythm theory proponents believe that humans have a 23-day physical cycle, a 28-day emotional cycle, and a 33-day intellectual cycle. According to biorhythm theories a person in the positive portion of any single cycle, the performance potential is enhanced for those tasks related to that particular rhythm. When each cycle...
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    in Female College Gymnaq4c Participants Redacted for PrivacyAbstract approved: Richard F. Irvin

  • Una Perspectiva Etnica de la Sociedad Americana

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    Perez, Alfred F.
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    The existence of the ethnic "barrios" (ghettos) across American society is proof of the legacy of racism, injustice and inequality in society today. In this thesis, the human experiences of Native, African, Mexican, and Asian people, are presented to contradict the notion that the "American Dream" is for all. In...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Alfred F. Perez, Jr. for the

  • Self-evaluation of secondary school health teachers as compared to classroom student evaluation of the same teachers

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    Brock, Michael S.
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    Sixteen secondary school health teachers evaluated their own course teaching performance. Students in each of these courses evaluated the same teacher and the results were compared. An adapted version of a teacher rating form developed by the School of Agriculture, Oregon State University, was used by all study participants. Teacher...
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    compared to classroom student evaluation of the same teacher AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Michael Steven

  • Comparative cinematographic analysis of depth jumping and long jump take-off as performed by male college long jumpers

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    Hicks, Douglas Michael, 1950-
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    Six male college long jumpers volunteered as subjects to determine the kinematic differences between depth jumps from 0.75 m and 1.10 m, and long jump take-off. The variables examined were approach and take-off vertical, horizontal and resultant velocities with contact time and angles of take-off. Subjects undertook six depth jump...
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    Depth Jumping and Long Jump Take-off as Performed by Male College Long Jumpers by Douglas Michael

  • Physicians' attitudes toward hearing aids

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    Van Kessel, Jeanette M.
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    The central purpose of this study was to examine physicians' knowledge of and attitudes toward hearing aids. This study was conducted with 71 general practitioners affiliated with Scarborough General Hospital in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. Attitude was measured by a 5-point Likert-type scale developed for the study. Knowledge was measured through...
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    members of the M.A.I.S. committee, including Drs. Wayne Courtney, David Lawson, Michael Coo len, my

  • The Experiences of Student-Athletes from Marginalized Communities Through Critical Dialogic Spaces

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    Ekabutr, Amanda S.
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    On top of time demanding athletic and academic constraints, Division I student-athletes must balance many social identities, that include their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, social class, religious affiliation, etc. This study attempts to fill the gap by providing student-athletes with marginalized identities a platform to (1) offer their own...
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    completing this thesis. I would also like to acknowledge my committee members: Robert Thompson, Michael

  • Identified Influences on Second Generation Latina/os on Their Pathway Through Community College

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    Jaime-Diaz, Jesus
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    The purpose of this study is to determine factors that encourage second generation Latina/os to obtain a community college education. A critical qualitative ethnography focused on "Testimonio" was used in conducting this study. The key findings were formulated around three critical research questions. In relation to each research question, three...
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    , (d) acquiring the English language, (e) cultural identity, (f) peer and family influence in

  • Effectiveness of three methods of expanding sex-role perceptions to a more androgynous state

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    Van Winkle, Christine Ann
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    Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of three methods of changing vocational educators' sex-role perceptions of themselves and their sex-role perceptions of males and females to a more androgynous state. The hypotheses tested were: (1) there is no difference in sex -role...
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    adaptation of the BSRI, for running the analysis of covariance. The F-statistic tested the hypotheses for

  • Technological progress, disacculturation, and our public schools

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    Morita, Sally J.
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    The problems facing our nation's public schools today cannot be divorced from our enthusiasm for technology and the positive relationship we believe it shares with our perception of progress. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy, author Jeremy Rifkin argues that the development of increasingly "efficient"...
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