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  • Maternal Play Behaviors and Stress Response within a State-Based Parenting Education Program

    Creator:
    Ebadirad, Staci W.
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    The quality of parenting, in particular mother-child interactions, is important for children’s development. Sensitive and responsive interactions between the mother and child are linked to children’s language, emotion and behavioral regulation, brain development, and activity in the stress response system (NSCDC, 2007; Mintz et al., 2011, Gunnar & Quevedo, 2007)....
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    Masters Thesis
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    PARENTING PROGRAMS research examining the associations between maternal physiological responses and

  • Reduced intraabdominal fat after lower-dose treadmill training in growing female rats

    Creator:
    David, Lynne Catherine
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    The presence of an increased accumulation of intraabdominal fat (IAF) has been linked to dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hyperglycemia, which precede the development of type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD). It has been shown that IAF begins depostition during childhood. Human studies suggest that regular endurance exercise, that does...
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    Masters Thesis
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    mechanisms have been proposed to explain the physiological link between excess IAF accumulation and the

  • Poverty and child neglect : subtypes of neglect and stress as a mediator

    Creator:
    Shepherd, Jennifer R.
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    This study examined the association between poverty and child neglect. The existence of a general association has been established for some time. However, there is much debate, and little detailed research, on the specific processes that create this association. This study focused on the form of neglect that involves the...
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    Dissertation
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    parenting (Polansky, Gaudin, Ammons, & Davis, 1985; 8 Giovannoni & Billingsley, 1970; Polansky

  • An Electrophysiological Study of Attention Capture: Does Rarity Enable Capture?

    Creator:
    Noesen, Birken
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    Several behavioral studies have suggested that rarity is critical for enabling irrelevant, salient objects to capture attention. We tested this hypothesis using the event-related potential (ERP) component, N2pc, thought to reflect attentional allocation. A cue display was followed by a target display in which participants identified the letter in a...
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    Masters Thesis

  • The physiological effect of posture on cycling

    Creator:
    al-Haboubi, Muhammad
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    The objective of this research was to investigate the physiological effects of body posture on cycling. The familiar positions of bicycle riding have been the touring posture (hands stretched on top handlebar) and the racing posture (hands bent at the elbow, with the back horizontal). However, a relatively new stance...
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    Dissertation
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    The physiological effect of posture on cycling AN

  • The effect of a near-maximal effort one-hour run on preferred and optimal stride rate and vertical stiffness

    Creator:
    Hunter, Iain
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    Experienced runners naturally optimize stride rate in a manner that minimizes oxygen uptake at given running speeds. However, as runners become fatigued, preferred stride rate often decreases. Whether such changes with fatigue occur in parallel with changes in optimal stride rate is unknown. This study's focus was on determining whether...
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    Dissertation
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    times previously thought impossible. One aspect of running technique, stride rate, the number of

  • The effects of a 7-month high impact jumping intervention on bone mass in pre-pubescent boys and girls

    Creator:
    Fuchs, Robyn K.
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    High impact loading activities such as jumping, performed during childhood is advocated as one preventive method for increasing peak bone mass. Thus, we conducted a randomized intervention to examine the effect of high impact loading on bone mass in 34 pre-pubescent boys and girl over a seven month period. Participants...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Plasma B-6 vitamer changes following a 50-km ultramarathon

    Creator:
    Leonard, Scott W.
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    The purpose of this study was to measure plasma B-6 vitamers, and other factors which may affect the plasma concentrations of these vitamers under extreme physical conditions. Blood samples were drawn from 8 men and 3 women (43.7 ± 8.6 years) 30 minutes prior to the start of a 50-km...
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    Masters Thesis
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    physiological changes that are not unlike starvation. Under the stress of endurance exercise an environment is

  • Parent intervention to promote vegetable consumption by head start children

    Creator:
    Arroyo, Ines R.
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    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of parent education on increasing parental awareness of vegetable servings needed by preschool children, lowering barriers to increase vegetable consumption in their children's diets, increasing confidence in their ability to increase vegetables in their children's meals, and promoting parent-child interaction...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Exercise, nutrition, and homocysteine

    Creator:
    Joubert, Lanae Marie
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    Exercise increases B-vitamin (B6, B12, folate) dependent metabolic reactions, especially those related to energy production and the rebuilding and repairing of muscle tissue. These same B-vitamins are also important in maintaining low blood levels of homocysteine (Hcy), a cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor. Hcy levels rise when the metabolism of...
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    Dissertation