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Mrs. Cary L. Mitchell
No full textMrs. Cary L. Mitchell, new secretary of the Fort Worth Art Center School, looks at a photograph of author Somerset Maugham by Ida Kar. Fort Worth Star-Telegram Morning January 8, 1967.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1960s/3568/thumbnail.jp
Entry angle during jump landing changes biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury
No full textACL injuries are common among athletes. The injury usually occurs during sport movements involving sudden direction changes when landing and cutting. Twenty-one healthy females performed a series of jump-land-jump movements. They jumped from a 28 cm box onto two in-ground force platforms, followed by a maximal vertical jump. The direction of the first jump was tested with seven entry angles, jumping to the right (90 R, 60 R and 30 R), straight forward (0), and jumping to the left (90 L, 60 L and 30 L). Kinematic and kinetic data were recorded for data analysis. During the first 100 ms of landing, participants had significantly smaller peak knee flexion angles, larger initial knee valgus angles and larger peak knee joint external valgus moments when jumping to the right (90 R, 60 R and 30 R) compared to straight forward (0), and jumping to the left (90 L, 60 L and 30 L). Thus, entry angles to the right may increase the risk of ACL injury in the right knee. We suggest that these types of jumps should be used with caution during ACL rehabilitation, but may be useful for testing ACL risk factors in healthy individuals.This accepted article is published as Shekoofe Saadat, Mitchell L. Stephenson & Jason C. Gillette (2022) Entry angle during jump landing changes biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury, Sports Biomechanics, DOI: 10.1080/14763141.2022.2088399. Posted with permission
Kolob Canyon Review Literature Spring 2012
No full textStaff: Editor-in-Chief Caitlin "Kitti" Erickson. Literature Submissions Editor Landon Gray Mitchell. Art Director Christina Longhurst. Production & Design Editor Tori Leavitt. Advertising Director Joe Rawlings. Art Submissions Editor Jake Dyreng. Layout and Design Staff Jake Dyrent, Tori Leavitt, Christina Longhurst, Joe Rawlings. Literary Staff Janae Borjesson, Chelsea Brown, Sorina Cornia, Adam L. Crosby, Cailtlin Erickson, Candice Gibby, Noah Hopkins, Matt Howard, Dana LeCheminant, Landon Gray Mitchell, Jamie Nelson, Brittany Pierce, James Pollard, Jessica Toro. Faculty Advisors Jeff Hanson, Wynne Summers. Literature: "Gastronomic Tour," Adam L. Crosby; "Rainstorm," Joseph Dockstader; "in my fossilizing arms," Adan Bojorquez; "Sunday Morning," S. Katie Hill; "Knees in the Breeze: An Airborne Story," Brittany Pierce; "Blue Hole," Amber Melissa Jacobsen; "Shell Collection," Maariya Rhodes; "(W)hole," Trynn Sylvester; "Elgin Unexplored," Wes Stephenson; "Once Upon a Crime," Robert Durborow and Mythical Madness; "Societal," Lewis Lopez; "Registry," Caitlin Erickson; "Emotion," Shea Diepeveen; "Cosmic Promanade [sic]," Jessica Jones; "Immortal Bond," Taylor Cardinal; "Atom," Jamie Nelson; "The Bait Shop Sestina," Wes Stephenson; "Divorce and Pop Culture," David Baxley; "Sunflower," Kimberly Stapley; "Carnival," Kimberly Stapley; "Deal with the Devil," Ellie H. Anderson; "Heartbeats," Kirstin M. Bone; "Moth," Hannah Skousen; "La Playa," Adam L. Crosby; "Yankee Meadow, Parowan Canyon, Utah," Mellissa Hunt; "Rainstorm," S. Katie Hill; "Auburn," Caitlin Erickson; "Life from my Mother's Hands," Mellissa Hunt; "Fifteen," Adell May DeGraffenried Kirkman; "Blended," Kearney Wood; "Cornered," Sorina Cornia; "Nothing to Fear, Nothing to Lose," Amanda Lynn Hanson; "The Butterfly," Brandi Nielsen; "To a Solitary Young Pine Tree, Sprouting Among Shrubs on the Canyon Floor," Wes Stephenson; "To All the Girls With 'Pretty Faces,'" Chelsea Jones; "Sketch," Caitlin Erickson; "Eyes," Amber Melissa Jacobsen; "My Special One," Landon Gray Mitchell; "Final Detail," S. Katie Hill. Mission Statement: The Kolob Canyon Review is an art and literary journal that showcases outstanding work of Southern Utah University students, faculty, and alumni. It serves as undergraduate scholarship in that is assembled once a year by a staff composed of interdepartmental students and a faculty advisor who collaborate in the selection of artistic works of a professional standard. The purpose of the Review is to recognize quality pieces of art and literature, increase artistic consciousness, and uphold a local venue in which creativity can be published and shared. Acknowle[d]gements: We would like to thank Brad Cook, SUU Provost; the Department of Art and Design; the Department of English; Brian Cottam, Associate Director of Regional Services; James W. Harrison, Director of Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values; the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery; the SUU Student Association; Paragon Press; Wynne Summers; Reece Summers; Jeff Hanson; Joi Simpson; and all those who educate, challenge, and encourage student creativity
Group portrait of staff
No full textFront row, left to right: Holly Howard, Jon Harper, Amy McDevitt, Diane Neuss, Barbara W. McFarlane, Francine F. Curran, Janeen Ward, Laura Ngai. Second row, left to right: Linda Stephenson, Connie Hamada, Darrell Brewer, Barbara Catrow, Chris A. Carlsen, ?, Karen L. McLeese, ?. Third row, left to right: Heather B. Striebel, Ellen Ouyang, Uta Roth, Bonnie L. Mitchell, Jim Logue, ?, ?, ?, ?. Back row, left to right: ?, Mark DePew, Lee E. Teitelbaum, Lee R. Warthen, John Bevan, Joseph Dover, Edward D. "Ned" Spurgeon
Shoulder Muscular Fatigue From Static Posture Concurrently Reduces Cognitive Attentional Resources
No full textObjective: The goal of this work is to determine whether muscular fatigue concurrently reduces cognitive attentional resources in technical tasks for healthy adults.
Background: Muscular fatigue is common in the workplace but often dissociated with cognitive performance. A corpus of literature demonstrates a link between muscular fatigue and cognitive function, but few investigations demonstrate that the instigation of the former degrades the latter in a way that may affect technical task completion. For example, laparoscopic surgery increases muscular fatigue, which may risk attentional capacity reduction and undermine surgical outcomes.
Method: A total of 26 healthy participants completed a dual-task cognitive assessment of attentional resources while concurrently statically fatiguing their shoulder musculature until volitional failure, in a similar loading pattern observed in laparoscopic procedures. Continuous and discrete monitoring task performance was recorded to reflect attentional resources.
Results: Electromyography of the anterior deltoid and descending trapezius, as well as self-assessment surveys indicated fatigue occurrence; continuous tracking error, tracking velocity, and response time significantly increased with muscular fatigue.
Conclusion: Muscular fatigue concurrently degrades cognitive attentional resources.
Application: Complex tasks that rely on muscular and cognitive performance should consider interventions to reduce muscular fatigue to also preserve cognitive performance.This is a manuscript of an article published as Stephenson, Mitchell L., Alec G. Ostrander, Hamid Norasi, and Michael C. Dorneich. "Shoulder muscular fatigue from static posture concurrently reduces cognitive attentional resources." Human Factors 62, no. 4 (2020). DOI: 10.1177%2F0018720819852509. Posted with permission.</p
Building the case for culturally specific prenatal through grade 3 strategies in Oregon
No full textprepared by Callie H. Lambarth, Amanda Cross-Hemmer, Lorelei Mitchell, Beth L. Green and Kate Normand.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 30, 2019).Covers OCLC #1134399567 and OCLC #1134399474.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Publicpension governance and performance : lessons for developing countries
No full textThe author examines the relationship between public sector pension plan performance and management practices to improve the design and governance of public pensions in developing countries. Understanding this relationship is important because better yields on public pension plan investment reduce the need for additional taxes to support retirees - and well-funded plans stand a better chance of paying promised benefits. The author's model relates investment returns on public pension assets, as well as plan funding status, to features characterizing the pension systems'governance structure and authority, using new data set on U.S. state and local public sector plans. The following findings stand out. The higher the fraction of retirees elected to the pension board, the stronger the negative effect on investment return in 1990, and the more variable the returns. Systems fared about the same whether they had in-house or external money managers, or independent performance analysis (even if the external managers were drawn from the top 10). But public pensions performed better when fund and actuarial computations were done by professional actuarial and investment counselors rather than relying on former or current employees to choose investment strategies. Social investment rules hurt public pension yields. Public pension plans which mandated that a certain portion of investments be director to instate projects generated much lower returns. The data show that many public pension systems funded their plans satisfactorily but others did not. The results show the following. Fiscal stress reduced stock funding ratios. Stock funding rates were lower, the higher the fraction of elected retirees and elected active workers represented on the pension system board. Stock funding ratios were higher when a system had in-house actuaries, when the board authorized benefit levels, and when board members had liability insurance. Stock funding rates were unaltered by state statutes guaranteering that benefits be guaranteed by law, or by legally set funding requirements, or by the state's ability to carry budget deficits from one year to the next. Nor did they vary when dedicated or special taxes were earmarked for pension revenue. Policymakers in developing countries can profit from the mistakes made and lessons learned by U.S. pension analysis. Although no single package of pension plan practices can optimize investment performance for all systems across all time periods, care must be taken when designing the regulatory and investment environment in which these plans operate. Developing countries should study the work of the U.S. Government Accounting Standards Board. The author discusses some of the complex issues that must be confronted when establishing funding norms for defined benefit pension plans in the public sector.ICT Policy and Strategies,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Pensions&Retirement Systems,Economic Stabilization
Keynote Address
No full textMitchell L. Stevens is an Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Organizational Behavior and Sociology at Stanford, where he also serves as Director of Digital Research and Planning. He studies the organization of US higher education, the quantification of academic performance, and alternative school forms. The author of prize-winning studies of home education and selective college admissions, he currently is writing a book about how US research universities organize research and teaching about the rest of the world. He serves as the third Director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research, a cooperative institution that has brought more than 500 scholars to Stanford over a quarter century and catalyzes organizational scholarship worldwide
How do men and women define sexual desire and sexual arousal?
No full textThe purpose of this study was to understand how men and women define sexual desire and sexual arousal and how they distinguish between the two. The authors conducted 32 semi-structured interviews with individuals in South East England, using a purposive sampling strategy to maximize the variation in experience of sexual function across the group. The authors identified three criteria that participants used to define and distinguish between desire and arousal: the sequence in which they occurred; whether the mind or the body (or both) were engaged; and the extent to which feelings of desire or arousal were responsive (in response to person or stimulus) and motivational (oriented toward a goal). Most participants attempted to distinguish between desire and arousal when prompted, but often with difficulty. Participants commonly felt that desire preceded arousal; some felt that desire was "mind" and arousal "body"; and many felt that both desire and arousal were responsive and motivational. However, the authors identified numerous times when these distinctions were reversed or the differences between terms were blurred. The results support recent proposals to merge the two diagnostic categories of female sexual arousal disorder and hyposexual desire disorder into a single diagnostic category
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