Body Fatness and Performance Differences between Men and Women

Students who can regulate their own learning are proposed to gain the most out of education, yet research into the impact of self-regulated learning skills on performance shows mixed results. This study supports the link between self-regulated learning and performance, while providing evidence of grade- or age-related differences. Australian students from Grades 5 to 8 completed mathematics or reading comprehension assessments and self-regulated learning questionnaires, with each response ranked on a hierarchy of quality. All assessments were psychometrically analysed and validated. In each cohort and overall, higher performing students reported higher levels of self-regulated learning. Still, age-related differences outweighed performance differences, resulting in significantly lower reported usage of self-regulated learning skills in Grade 7 students compared to those in Grades 5, 6 and 8. These findings suggest that either age or school organisational differences mediate students’ self-regulated learning, counteracting ability-related associations.

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Weavers & Warriors? Gender and Online Identity in 1997 and 2007 V1.0

Transforming Cultures eJournal ◽

10.5130/tfc.v2i2.637 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Deirdre Ruane

Keyword(s):

Preliminary Investigation ◽

The Body ◽

Internet Technology ◽

Online Identity ◽

Men And Women ◽

Online Interactions ◽

And Performance ◽

And Gender ◽

Set Up ◽

Active Exploration

In 1997 the Internet was seen by many as a tool for radical reinterpretation of physicality and gender. Cybertheorists predicted we would leave our bodies behind and interact online as disembodied minds, and that the technology would reshape the way we saw ourselves. However, physicality has proved to be an inextricable part of all our interactions. Changing Internet technology has allowed Net users to find a myriad ways to perform and express their gender online. In this paper I consider attitudes to gender on the Net in 1997, when the main concerns were the imbalance between men and women online and whether it was possible or desirable to bring the body into online interactions. In much of the discourse surrounding gender online, a simple binary was assumed to exist. I go on to consider the extent to which those attitudes have changed today. Through my own experience of setting up a women’s community on Livejournal, and my observations of a men’s community set up in response, I conclude that though traditional attitudes to gender have largely translated to the Net and the binary is still the default view, some shifts have occurred. For example, between 1997 and today there seems to have been a fundamental change in perceptions of women’s attitudes to adversarial debate, and an increase in awareness of genders beyond the binary. In addition, experience and preliminary investigation lead me toward a hypothesis that today’s female-identified Net users are engaged in more conscious and active exploration and performance of their gender online than male-identified users are.

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A Relationship between Innovation Capability and Performance: Differences in Firm Development Stages

Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship ◽

10.16972/apjbve.13.2.201804.91 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 91-100

Author(s):

Kang, Shinhyung ◽

Sangmoon Park

Keyword(s):

Innovation Capability ◽

Development Stages ◽

Performance Differences ◽

And Performance ◽

Firm Development

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Choice of Pole and Ski Lengths Among Elite Cross-Country Skiers: The Influence of Sex and Performance Level

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living ◽

10.3389/fspor.2021.654864 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

Per-Øyvind Torvik ◽

Roland van den Tillaar ◽

Øyvind Sandbakk

Keyword(s):

Body Height ◽

Sprint Performance ◽

Performance Level ◽

Whole Body ◽

Men And Women ◽

Male And Female ◽

Secondary Purpose ◽

Double Poling ◽

Cross Country ◽

And Performance

Cross-country (XC) skiers employ whole-body exercise to generate speed through poles and skis. The choice of optimal pole and ski lengths are therefore of high importance. The aim of this study was to document pole and ski lengths among elite male and female cross-country skiers in the classical and skating styles and to investigate sex differences in body-height-normalized pole and ski lengths. Our secondary purpose was to correlate body-height-normalized pole and ski lengths with performance level within both sexes. In total, Norwegian men and women (n = 87 and 36, respectively), participating in the Norwegian XC championship 2020, were investigated. Most athletes used poles close to the length allowed by the International Ski Federation (FIS) in the classical style among both sexes, with men using slightly longer poles than women (p < 0.05). Body-height-normalized pole lengths in skating were similar in men and women (around 90% of body height). Women used relatively longer ski lengths than men in both styles (p < 0.05). Women showed moderate correlations (r = 0.43, p < 0.05) between body-height-normalized pole lengths and sprint performance. Male and female cross-country skiers use as long classical ski poles as possible within the current regulations, while they use skating poles similar to recommendations given by the industry. The fact that men use longer body-height-normalized poles than women, where there is a correlation between pole length and sprint performance, indicate that faster women are able to better utilize the potential of using longer poles when double-poling. However, while women use relatively longer skis than men, no correlation with performance occurred for any of the sexes.

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Voices of Thunder

On Freedom and the Will to Adorn ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646909.003.0003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 36-83

Author(s):

Cheryl A. Wall

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

African American ◽

Literary Genre ◽

Rhetorical Strategies ◽

Oral Performance ◽

Men And Women ◽

David Walker ◽

And Performance ◽

Written Word ◽

Maria Stewart

This chapter accounts for the centrality of nineteenth-century black oral culture to the development of the essay as a distinct African American literary genre. The author illustrates how the sermons and orations of nineteenth-century men and women such as David Walker, Maria Stewart, Henry Highland Garnet, Frances Harper, and Fredrick Douglass laid the foundation for the African American essay. It is shown how these authors combined accounts of their personal experience with traditions of oral performance. Because the line between the spoken and written word was blurred by nineteenth-century conventions, these authors blended various rhetorical and performance strategies to shape the art of the essay. In doing so, these writers became “voices of thunder.”The essayists discussed in this chapter used biblical references and appropriated democratic discourse to advance anti-slavery agendas. They appropriated the rhetoric of the founding documents of the American republic and remade them into the rhetoric of counterrevolution. Their works emphasized the material realities of life in America for blacks, both enslaved and free. Their expressions of freedom, and the rhetorical strategies they modelled informed the work of their literary descendants.

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