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  • Determining the essential elements of golf swings used by elite golfers

    Creator:
    Fujimoto-Kanatani, Koichiro
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    The golf swing involves a complex sequence of body movements which adjust according to the demands of a given shot. The purpose of this study was to determine common characteristics and essential elements of the golf swing under various conditions. The swing patterns of thirteen elite professional golfers were analyzed...
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    the area of human performance. Through these readings, I came up with a couple of big questions: "Is

  • Factors affecting farmworkers' injuries due to use of pesticides in the United States and their relation to reentry time intervals

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    Nemati, Gholam Reza
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    More than 2.3 billion pounds of pesticides with a value of $4.1 billions are applied by farmworkers to agricultural crops each year. These chemicals applied to farm lands lead not only to acute and chronic health effects, they also enter the groundwater and food chain of populations. In recent years...
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    years increased attention has been focused on the impact of pesticides on human health and the

  • The effect of various breathing maneuvers on measurement of lung volumes for hydrostatic weighing

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    Zhu, Gaoyong
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    This study was to determine if an increase of PaC0₂, after breath-holding prior to full inspiration, could enable a person to reach the same FVC measured on land while submerged. Another purpose of this study was to explore the difference in Db and %BF between HW at RV, TLC and...
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    . Rossignol, Dr. Terry Wood, and all those in the College of Health & Human Performance who helped me

  • Validation of a cardiorespiratory fitness test for men with mental retardation

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    Rintala, Pauli Olavi
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    The purpose of this study was to validate a field test of cardiorespiratory fitness for men with mental retardation. The subjects were 19 healthy men with moderate mental retardation whose mean age was 26 years with a mean IQ of 48. Each subject underwent a maximal treadmill test utilizing a...
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  • Effects of additional load application orders on landing strategies

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    Kanatani, Koichiro
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    The investigation of force attenuation and performance strategies to respond to changing mechanical constraints helps prevent injury as well as facilitates beneficial insight to provide appropriate instruction to athletes and students. The primary purpose of the study was to assess within subject variability of landing strategies when responding to additional...
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  • Myocardial structure and function differences between steroid using and non-steroid using elite powerlifters and endurance athletes

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    Climstein, Mike
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    The purpose of this study was to compare the myocardial structure and function among endurance athletes (n.12), powerlifters/steroid users (n=5), powerlifters/non-steroid users (n=6), and sedentary controls (n=4). All subjects had a M-mode echocardiographic examination of their left ventricles under resting conditions. The echocardiographic measurements recorded and analyzed were of the...
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    , Department of cercise and Sport Science Redacted for Privacy Dean, College of Health and Human Performance

  • Management of chromium wastes in industry

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    Like, David E.
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    Chromium hydroxide sludge is the end product of the aluminum phosphate coating process used by a truck manufacturer in the Pacific Northwest. This sludge is listed as an (F019) hazardous waste by the Environmental Protection Agency, and must be landfilled in a hazardous waste landfill site. The purpose of this...
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  • The effects of using a cation exchange water softener on blood pressure

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    Kang, Ki Sung
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    Water in 70 percent of the cities in the United States is hard enough that softening is either required or recommended. It is estimated that approximately 30 percent of all homes in the United States use water softeners. Water softeners, the cation exchange types suited for residential use, exchange sodium...
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  • A comprehensive solid waste management plan for San Xavier District, Tohono O'Odham Nation

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    Quiring, Nathan
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    This study had two purposes: to determine solid waste management needs of residents and organizations of the San Xavier District Indian reservation near Tucson, Arizona; and to develop a solid waste management plan to be recommended to the San Xavier District Tribal Council. A solid waste generation study compared the...
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  • The acute effects of moderate intensity circuit weight training on lipid-lipoprotein profiles

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    Lee, Young-soo
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    Few studies have examined the acute effects of resistive-type exercise on lipid-lipoprotein profiles. This study examined the acute effects of a single session of circuit weight training (CWT) on plasma lipid-lipoprotein profiles: triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), and the ratio...
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