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Coaching boys’ high school teams: Female coaches’ experiences and perceptions
Get PDFResearch has suggested that a minimal number of females serve as head coaches of male teams around the world. When they do coach males, female coaches have reported having difficulty establishing credibility, being one of the only female coaches, and feeling unsupported by administrators. The current study used open-ended responses and interview data to understand the experiences and perceptions of females coaching males at the U.S. high school level, as well as addresses the perceived barriers that may prohibit females from coaching boys. In general, the female coaches interviewed felt more support from their athletic administrators, parents, and other coaches than in previous research. The female coaches stated they enjoyed coaching boys, yet they believed they needed to be physically competent in order to prove themselves while coaching a boys’ team. They also described struggling to be respected and often felt they needed to employ masculine characteristics in order to be successful. These details provide evidence of the continuing uphill climb and yet, simultaneously documents that females’ experiences coaching male athletes may be improving. Further research is recommended examining the experiences of women coaching males at the high school level in the U.S. to determine if this trend is widespread
Arithmetic local constants for abelian varieties with extra endomorphisms
Get PDFThis work generalizes the theory of arithmetic local constants, introduced by Mazur and Rubin, to better address abelian varieties with a larger endomorphism ring than ℤ. We then study the growth of the p∞- Selmer rank of our abelian variety, and we address the problem of extending the results of Mazur and Rubin to dihedral towers k ⊂ K ⊂ F in which [F : K] is not a p-power extension
Conscience and command: ethical voluntarism in John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and Karl Barth
No full textVoluntarism has become a dirty word in theological circles, with some arguing that it is responsible for everything that is wrong in modernity—from the consumerist excesses of the shopping mall to the political ambitions of Donald Trump. Yet voluntarism is multivalent, and its conflation into an expression of theological opprobrium precludes the possibilities that it offers for moral theology today. By comparing and contrasting three examples of ethical voluntarism—two from the late medieval period and one from the late modern—this presentation enables us to listen to such possibilities once again. Focusing on what these three theologians have to say about the faculty of conscience, we ask (and consider answers to) the question: To whom does the conscience belong? Or, put another way: Whose voice is it
Impartial avoidance games for generating finite groups
Get PDFWe study an impartial avoidance game introduced by Anderson and Harary. The game is played by two players who alternately select previously unselected elements of a finite group. The first player who cannot select an element without making the set of jointly-selected elements into a generating set for the group loses the game. We develop criteria on the maximal subgroups that determine the nim-numbers of these games and use our criteria to study our game for several families of groups, including nilpotent, sporadic, and symmetric groups
Not knowing where to begin? An approach for incorporating the Catholic/Benedictine mission into social science courses
No full textIn the past couple decades, many Catholic universities have placed greater emphasis on infusing the Catholic part of their mission throughout the academic curriculum. A challenging question that gets to the heart of this matter is: How are my courses at a Catholic university different than if I were teaching them elsewhere? For social scientists, such a question often elicits blank stares and silence! Indeed, allowing a religious perspective to have any bearing on our disciplinary content or how we communicate it to students is largely counter-cultural within the social sciences, particularly psychology. In this talk, I provided some rationale as to why thinking about the connections between Catholicism and the social sciences is an endeavor that faculty at a Catholic university should care about, even if one does not personally hold Catholic beliefs. I then articulated a set of ideas for how to begin incorporating elements of a Catholic perspective into your work, especially your courses
Social determinants and family health
No full textBook description: An eye-opening exploration of how socials statuses intersect to shape our identities and produce inequalities.In this fully edited and streamlined Second Edition, Susan Ferguson has carefully selected readings that open readers’ eyes to the ways that social statuses shape our experiences and impact our life chances. The anthology represents many of the leading voices in the field and reflects the many approaches used by scholars and researchers to understand this important and evolving subject. The anthology is organized around broad topics (Identity, Power and Privilege, Social Institutions, etc.), rather than categories of difference (Race, Gender, Class, Sexuality) to underscore this fundamental insight: race, class, gender, and sexuality do not exist in isolation; they often intersect with one another to produce social inequalities and form the bases of our identities in society
Coal Clinker Site in the Late Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Castle Gate, Utah, USA
Get PDFWhen sedimentary host rock is heated as a result of coal seam fires, the host rock is pyro-metamorphosed (high temperature/ low pressure) resulting in the formation of paralava, a low-grade metamorphic rock formed adjacent to coal seams. This paper describes an outcrop locality of clinker (paralava) in the Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation within the Book Cliffs coalfields of central Utah, which formed as the result of a coal seam fire
