A preliminary evaluation of the associations among functional performance tasks and quality of life in obese and healthy weight youth     

Matthew S. Briggs  Sharon Bout-Tabaku  Jackie Buell  Susan White  Patricia F. Rosenstein 《Journal of sports sciences》2019,37(1):20-28

The associations among lower extremity functional performance and quality of life in obese youth are unknown. The aims of this study were to compare lower extremity strength, lower extremity functional performance, and health related quality of life between obese and healthy-weight youth and evaluate the relationships between lower extremity performance and health related quality of life in obese youth. Twenty obese and 20 age and sex matched healthy-weight youth were recruited. Peak torque of the major lower extremity muscles were measured. Functional performance was measured with single leg hop and single leg balance tests. The Paediatric Quality of Life questionnaire's physical and psychosocial health subscales were used. Paired t-tests and multiple regression analyses were performed. Obese youth demonstrated decreased peak torque in all muscles measured (P < 0.05), poorer functional performance (P < 0.05), and worse physical health related quality of life (P < 0.05) compared to healthy-weight youth. Lower extremity functional performance was associated with aspects of quality of life in the obese group (P = 0.002), but not in the healthy-weight group (P < 0.05). These results may assist in encouraging best practices in the promotion of exercise, physical activity, and quality of life in obese youth.  相似文献   

Book Review | Licensing and Managing Electronic Resources. By Becky Albitz. Chandos Information Professional Series. Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2008. 182 pp. price not reported soft cover ISBN 9781843344322     

Jackie R. Esposito 《Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services》2009,33(4):133

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Using Scopus to Study Researchers’ Citing Behavior for Local Collection Decisions: A Focus on Psychology     

Irene Ke  Jackie Bronicki 《图书馆管理杂志》2015,55(3):165-178

In recent years, the University of Houston has engaged in a campus-wide effort to raise the university to Tier-One status. The initiative has led to a significant increase in faculty's research output in the field of psychology. This dynamic change inspired the Psychology Librarian and Collection Coordinator to embark on a citation analysis to investigate two questions: how has faculty been using information for their research and how does the library's collection meet the research needs of faculty? In addition to reporting these findings, the article also describes how to use features in Scopus to simplify the data collection process.  相似文献   

Jonathan Zimmerman. Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education. Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. 202 pp. Cloth $29.95.          下载免费PDF全文

Jackie M. Blount 《History of education quarterly》2015,55(4):523-526

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The role of culture in program improvement     

Sally Lubeck  Patricia Jessup  Mary deVries  Jackie Post 《Early childhood research quarterly》2001,16(4):233

In this article, we draw on work in three Head Start programs over three years to consider how “culture” plays a role in program improvement. Through close attention to discourse we attempt to show how culture takes shape through dynamic interactions in particular contexts, constituting identities, structuring social relations, and privileging particular forms of knowledge. We argue for the importance of illuminating the forces that shape our lives and bringing our own ideologies to conscious awareness, in order to become actors in our social milieus. Articulation between general mandates and local needs and goals would then entail ongoing dialogue in a “culturally situated model of school/program effectiveness” (Fuller & Clarke, 1994, p. 121).  相似文献   

Web of Dreams     

Jackie Cook 《English in Education》1991,25(3):59-70

Answering the question “How much theory does it take to read this month's bestseller?” Jackie Cook here demonstrates that a book like Web of Dreams by Virginia Andrews - one of secondary school students' favourite authors, according to a recently published APU survey¹— defies most teacherly prejudices about “formula” writing.  相似文献   

Civic Science for Public Use: Mind in the Making and Vroom          下载免费PDF全文

Ellen Galinsky  Jackie Bezos  Megan McClelland  Stephanie M. Carlson  Philip D. Zelazo 《Child development》2017,88(5):1409-1418

Mind in the Making and Vroom are partner initiatives that exemplify a unique “civic science” approach to “bringing developmental science into the world.” Mind in the Making offers families and professionals working with children 0–8 access to developmental research, by engaging them in an active process of professional development and community outreach. Vroom is an outreach and communication initiative that brings “brain building basics” to communities, inviting parents to participate in the science of early learning through partnerships with trusted entities. These initiatives use collaborative, iterative processes in disseminating findings and implications of child development research. Preliminary evidence shows early promise of these initiatives to help promote engaged learning and life skills based on executive function in adults and children.  相似文献   

The parental bonding experiences of sex offenders: a comparison between child molesters and rapists     

Craissati J  McClurg G  Browne K 《Child abuse & neglect》2002,26(9):909-921

OBJECTIVE: It has often been hypothesized that because of a lack of early satisfactory attachments, sex offenders grow up unable to form relationships with adults, which makes them susceptible to pursue intimacy in maladaptive ways. This research aims to empirically examine the parental bonding patterns for a group of sex offenders, comparing child molesters and rapists. METHOD: Seventy-six men convicted of a sexual offense (57 child molesters and 19 rapists) completed the parental bonding instrument (PBI), and were assessed by means of a semi-structured clinical interview. RESULTS: Affectionless control style of parental bonding was highly prevalent amongst the sex offenders. There was some suggestion that low parental care was associated with childhood abuse and disturbances, particularly for child molesters. High overprotection in mothers was linked with parental separation and sex play with male peers in childhood. CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to replicate the study with non-sexual offenders as a comparison group, and to establish whether the PBI provides a useful adjunct to studies of adult romantic attachment in sex offenders.  相似文献   

Empowering or disempowering the international Ph.D. student? Constructions of the dependent and independent learner   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jackie Goode 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2007,28(5):589-603

There is in higher education a powerful discourse of ‘independent learning’. While there may be pedagogical rationales to support the desirability of increased independence at the tertiary stage, it may also serve other institutional agendas, such as functioning as a way for academic staff to ‘manage’ the frustrations experienced as teachers as a result of pressures to prioritise research. However, the individualisation of learning constituted by this discourse under‐emphasises the collaborative nature of learning. Academic success and failure are neither the property of the individual students nor of the instruction they receive, but lie rather in the relationships between students and the practices in which they and their teachers engage during the course of their ongoing interactions. The learning experiences of international doctoral students are used here to illustrate ways in which discourses of dependence and independence can operate to disempower students.  相似文献   

Improving Elementary Grade Students’ Science and Social Studies Vocabulary Knowledge Depth,Reading Comprehension,and Argumentative Writing: a Conceptual Replication     

Kim  James S.  Relyea  Jackie Eunjung  Burkhauser  Mary A.  Scherer  Ethan  Rich  Patrick 《Educational Psychology Review》2021,33(4):1935-1964

Educational Psychology Review - This experimental study aimed to replicate and extend a previous efficacy study of an elementary grade content literacy intervention that demonstrated positive...  相似文献