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Relationship between objective measures of physical activity and weather: a longitudinal study
No full text Background The weather may be a barrier to physical activity but objective assessment of this hypothesis is lacking. Therefore we evaluated the effect of temperature, rain or snow, and wind speed on the daily physical activity of adults. Methods This report contains data from 25 males (BMI (mean ± SD): 28.7 ± 3.83 kg/m2) and 177 females (BMI: 29.2 ± 5.92 kg/m2) enrolled in an intervention to increase physical activity. Steps/day of the participants was measured by pedometer. Weather data were obtained from Environment Canada. A total of 8,125 observations were included in a mixed linear model analysis. Results Significant weather related variables (at the 5% level) impacting steps/day included: seasonal effects related to the interaction between weekday and month; mean temperature, total rainfall, interactions between gender, BMI and total snow, interactions between maximum wind speed and BMI, and the amount of snow on the ground. The estimated magnitudes for the various effects were modest, ranging from ~1% to ~20%. Thus for an average individual taking ~10,000 steps/day, weather-dependent changes in physical activity could reach 2,000 steps/day. Conclusion We conclude that weather had modest effects on physical activity of participants in an intervention to increase their activity. It should be stressed that these effects may be different for less or more motivated people. With this in mind, we suggest that the effect of weather on physical activity in the general population needs to be objectively assessed to better understand the barrier it poses, especially as it relates to outdoor recreation or work activities.</p
Book Review : Online teaching and learning in higher education during COVID-19. International perspectives and experiences. By Roy Y. Chan, Krishna Bista, and Ryan M. Allen
No full textObra ressenyada: Roy Y. CHAN, Krishna BISTA, Ryan M. ALLEN, Online teaching and learning in higher education during COVID-19. International perspectives and experiences. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 978036764717
Interview With Ryan Pollock
No full textRyan Pollock was raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was educated at Helias Catholic High School from 2012 to 2016. After graduating, he attended McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota, from 2016 to 2017 and majored in both guitar performance and music composition. When the school closed down unexpectedly in 2017, Ryan continued his degree at Columbia College Chicago. Currently, Ryan is a senior and majoring in music composition. Ryan has worked as a guitar instructor since 2014. In 2018, Ryan worked with Big Ten Today Show, MissouriNet/Learfield Communications as an assistant director. Between 2018 to 2020, Ryan worked with 88.1 WCRX-FM as a public affairs coordinator. He even hosts a radio show, “The Ryan Pollock Show,” every Wednesday evening, where he interviews local musicians. Also, he is currently working with WGN Radio as a producer and videographer. Ryan also created his recording company, “Kind of Red Records.” In 2020, when the Coronavirus pandemic forced Columbia to lockdown and transfer to remote learning, Ryan could no longer continue to earn his education and host the radio in-person. He presently resides back in his apartment in the South Loop of Chicago to continue his education and work digitally.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/capturingquarantine/1002/thumbnail.jp
Marianne Chan: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award. Her second collection, Leaving Biddle City, was published from Sarabande Books in July of this year. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University and teaches poetry in the Warren Wilson College MFA program for Writers
On Chan art and Zen art
No full textThis thesis analyzes the ideological construct of Zen Buddhist art and provides suggestions for reconceptualizing this construct within Buddhist visual culture. The concept of Zen art has been part of a larger strategic effort by Buddhist modernizers to adapt Japanese Buddhist institutions for survival amidst rapid political reforms in Japan. Thus, the concepts of Zen art and, by extension, Chan art largely reiterate the ideological claims of Japanese modernization. A range of objects only loosely connected to the actual religious practices of Chan or Zen Buddhism have been categorized according to highly subjective modernist aesthetics. Comparison to the actual functions of visual culture in Chan and Zen religious tradition, as well as examination of the specific criteria used to determine objects as Chan or Zen art, leads to a less political and more contextual method of interpreting objects previously subsumed under Zen art and Chan art
Inauguración del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>
No full textEl acto inaugural del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”, tuvo lugar el 6 de noviembre de 2018, en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). El Simposio fue inaugurado por el Antrop. Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, en compañía de otras autoridades del INAH así como investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Anyuon Chan
No full textabstract: Anyuon left his village in 1989 during the middle of the night.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 22Region: Bahr al GhazalThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Marianne Chan, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. After she earned her B.A. in English from Michigan State University, she went on to study poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she earned her MFA.
Marianne is the author of All Heathens, which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Between 2017-2019, she served as poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. She is a Kundiman fellow.
She lives in Norfolk, Virginia . She is married to the fiction writer Clancy McGilligan
Hong_Supplemental_Materials – Supplemental material for Pathological Personality Traits and the Experience of Daily Situations
No full textSupplemental material, Hong_Supplemental_Materials for Pathological Personality Traits and the Experience of Daily Situations by Ryan Y. Hong, Wing Yan Chan and Jacqueline Y. R. Lim in Clinical Psychological Science</p
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