867 research outputs found
A solidarity–care ethics and human flourishing approach to the COVID-19 pandemic: a UK perspective
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic illustrates that standard assessments of human well-being fail in the face of substantial social disruptions. To overcome this problem, we focused on two human flourishing frameworks: the Shultz et al. (Handbook of community well-being research (pp. 403–421). Springer, 2017) macromarketing framework and the Shabbir et al. (Journal of Macromarketing, 41(2), 181–193, 2021) solidarity–care framework. As these frameworks share commensurable theoretical assumptions, we fused them. We then used the fused framework to evaluate how the United Kingdom’s COVID-19 responses affected community flourishing. Specifically, we examined the effect of two competing social forces—Brexit and the Black Lives Matter movement—on pulling Britons toward a flourishing or distressed community
Kinematic Sequence Differences Between Trained Baseball Players and Untrained Adolescent Individuals.
No full textGromeier M, Wukelic C, Machak S, Shultz S. Kinematic Sequence Differences Between Trained Baseball Players and Untrained Adolescent Individuals. In: Northwest Biomechanics Symposium 2023. 2023
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No full textModelling individual variability in cognitive development
No full textInvestigating variability in reasoning tasks can provide insights into key issues in the study of cognitive development. These include the mechanisms that underlie developmental transitions, and the distinction between individual differences and developmental disorders. We explored the mechanistic basis of variability in two connectionist models of cognitive development, a model of the Piagetian balance scale task (McClelland, 1989) and a model of the Piagetian conservation task (Shultz, 1998). For the balance scale task, we began with a simple feed-forward connectionist model and training patterns based on McClelland (1989). We investigated computational parameters, problem encodings, and training environments that contributed to variability in development, both across groups and within individuals. We report on the parameters that affect the complexity of reasoning and the nature of ‘rule’ transitions exhibited by networks learning to reason about balance scale problems. For the conservation task, we took the task structure and problem encoding of Shultz (1998) as our base model. We examined the computational parameters, problem encodings, and training environments that contributed to variability in development, in particular examining the parameters that affected the emergence of abstraction. We relate the findings to existing cognitive theories on the causes of individual differences in development
Tractor and Machinery Instructor Training: Impact of Sequential Professional Development
No full textVocational and technical education programs continue to play a pivotal role in the development of workers‘ occupational safety and health skills in all industries (Schulte et al., 2005). The Agricultural Safety Education Initiative was first conducted in the summer of 2017 as a multiple year “Train the Trainer” program to improve teachers‘ tractor and machinery knowledge. The training was organized around the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operations Program (NSTMOP) Curriculum (Pate et al., 2019). The agricultural safety education training was offered again during the summers of 2018 and 2019. Each seminar focused training activities on a specific safety theme. The safety theme for 2018 was All-terrain Vehicle Stability and Operation for Agricultural Tasks. The safety theme of the 2019 training was hitching/backing tractors and implement connections. The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of an agricultural safety education professional development model designed to increase instructors‘ knowledge to serve youth in developing safety competencies related to tractors and machinery operations. A total of 85 teachers participated in year three of the training program. Over half (57.6%, f = 49) of the participants identified as female. The average test score for all teachers was 41.9 out of 50 (SD = 3.62). Teachers who attended the training for the first time in 2019 scored lowered (40.8, SD = 4.41) than teachers who had attended the training during all three offerings (43.2, SD = 3.00). This difference approached statistical significance (Kruskal-Wallis H was 5.91 (2) p = .052). A benefit for participating teachers in this professional development was focused on higher order instructional or alternative assessment methods for tractor and machinery safety.This meeting paper is from Lawver, Rebecca G., Michael L. Pate, Scott W. Smalley, Dustin K. Perry, and Alyx Shultz. "Tractor and Machinery Instructor Training: Impact of Sequential Professional Development." In 2021 ASABE Annual International Virtual Meeting. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2021. doi:10.13031/aim.202100427. Posted with permission.</p
Interpreting and Comparing the Representations of Hermes in Ancient Greece and Archangel Michael in Macedonian Folk Beliefs
No full textThis paper provides a comparative interpretation of the Ancient Greek image of Hermes as a mythological figure with the image of Archangel Michael as a highly revered Orthodox saint in modern Macedonian society. The goal of this research is to show the similarities and the differences between these two characters and how these images are understood today in modern society. By comparing the representations of these two characters, popularly accepted as soul reapers and psychopomps and regularly portrayed holding a stick, and then through the comparison of the days that mark their celebration, the aim of this paper is to show that rudiments of Macedonian folk beliefs and customs associated with this saint, although modified, are still strongly present in the Macedonian tradition.
DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00011.
Interpreting and Comparing the Representations of Hermes in Ancient Greece and Archangel Michael in Macedonian Folk Beliefs
No full textThis paper provides a comparative interpretation of the Ancient Greek image of Hermes as a mythological figure with the image of Archangel Michael as a highly revered Orthodox saint in modern Macedonian society. The goal of this research is to show the similarities and the differences between these two characters and how these images are understood today in modern society. By comparing the representations of these two characters, popularly accepted as soul reapers and psychopomps and regularly portrayed holding a stick, and then through the comparison of the days that mark their celebration, the aim of this paper is to show that rudiments of Macedonian folk beliefs and customs associated with this saint, although modified, are still strongly present in the Macedonian tradition.
DOI: 10.5958/2347-6869.2018.00011.
Effects of pediatric obesity on joint kinematics and kinetics during 2 walking cadences
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To determine whether differences existed in lower-extremity joint biomechanics during self-selected walking cadence (SW) and fast walking cadence (FW) in overweight- and normal-weight children.----------\ud
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Survey.----------\ud
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Institutional gait study center.----------\ud
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Participants (N=20; mean age ± SD, 10.4±1.6y) from referred and volunteer samples were classified based on body mass index percentiles and stratified by age and sex. Exclusion criteria were a history of diabetes, neuromuscular disorder, or recent lower-extremity injury.----------\ud
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Main Outcome Measures:\ud
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Sagittal, frontal, and transverse plane angular displacements (degrees) and peak moments (newton meters) at the hip, knee, and ankle joints.----------\ud
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The level of significance was set at P less than .008. Compared with normal-weight children, overweight children had greater absolute peak joint moments at the hip (flexor, extensor, abductor, external rotator), the knee (flexor, extensor, abductor, adductor, internal rotator), and the ankle (plantarflexor, inverter, external/internal rotators). After including body weight as a covariate, overweight children had greater peak ankle dorsiflexor moments than normal-weight children. No kinematic differences existed between groups. Greater peak hip extensor moments and less peak ankle inverter moments occurred during FW than SW. There was greater angular displacement during hip flexion as well as less angular displacement at the hip (extension, abduction), knee (flexion, extension), and ankle (plantarflexion, inversion) during FW than SW.----------\ud
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Overweight children experienced increased joint moments, which can have long-term orthopedic implications and suggest a need for more nonweight-bearing activities within exercise prescription. The percent of increase in joint moments from SW to FW was not different for overweight and normal-weight children. These findings can be used in developing an exercise prescription that must involve weight-bearing activity
10 Sept 1864 Santa Fe, list of warrants sold to D. A. Shultz
No full textBusiness records, family letters, and records from his appointment as Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of New Mexic
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