Coach Evaluation From Three Perspectives: An Athletic Director, a Coach and a Consultant

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Gillham ◽  
Keith Hansen ◽  
Connor Brady
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Athletic Directors ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
College Level ◽  
International Level ◽  
Athletic Director ◽  
Stakeholder Views ◽  
Number Of Factors

Coaches are evaluated and judged on a large number of factors (Gillham, Burton, & Gillham, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to describe the views of three different professionals on coach evaluation. An athletic director and a coach from different Canadian colleges and a coaching consultant responded to the same series of questions regarding coach evaluation at the college level. Across the three professionals, the views expressed are more similar than dissimilar, with each professional emphasizing a different piece of the coach evaluation process. The information presented aligns both with coaching standards in the United States and at the International level. Stakeholder views are compared with the coaching science literature and recommendations for athletic directors and coaching scientists are provided.

Menthol Cigarettes, Tobacco Dependence, and Smoking Persistence: The Need to Examine Enhanced Cognitive Functioning as a Neuropsychological Mechanism

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 466-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy C Jao ◽  
Marcia M Tan ◽  
Phoenix A Matthews ◽  
Melissa A Simon ◽  
Robert Schnoll ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Cognitive Functioning ◽  
Basic Science ◽  
Tobacco Dependence ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Cigarette Use ◽  
Menthol Cigarette ◽  
Menthol Cigarettes

Abstract Introduction Despite the overall decline in the prevalence of cigarette use in the United States, menthol cigarette use among smokers is rising, and evidence shows that it may lead to more detrimental effects on public health than regular cigarette use. One of the mechanisms by which nicotine sustains tobacco use and dependence is due to its cognitive enhancing properties, and basic science literature suggests that menthol may also enhance nicotine’s acute effect on cognition. Aims and Methods The purpose of this review is to suggest that the cognitive enhancing effects of menthol may be a potentially important neuropsychological mechanism that has yet to be examined. In this narrative review, we provide an overview of basic science studies examining neurobiological and cognitive effects of menthol and menthol cigarette smoking. We also review studies examining menthol essential oils among humans that indicate menthol alone has acute cognitive enhancing properties. Finally, we present factors influencing the rising prevalence of menthol cigarette use among smokers and the importance of this gap in the literature to improve public health and smoking cessation treatment. Conclusions Despite the compelling evidence for menthol’s acute cognitive enhancing and reinforcing effects, this mechanism for sustaining tobacco dependence and cigarette use has yet to be examined and validated among humans. On the basis of the basic science evidence for menthol’s neurobiological effects on nicotinic receptors and neurotransmitters, perhaps clarifying menthol’s effect on cognitive performance can help to elucidate the complicated literature examining menthol and tobacco dependence. Implications Menthol cigarette use has continued to be a topic of debate among researchers and policy makers, because of its implications for understanding menthol’s contribution to nicotine dependence and smoking persistence, as well as its continued use as a prevalent flavoring in tobacco and nicotine products in the United States and internationally. As international tobacco regulation policies have begun to target menthol cigarettes, research studies need to examine how flavoring additives, specifically menthol, may acutely influence neurobiological and cognitive functioning as a potential mechanism of sustained smoking behavior to develop more effective treatments.

College Students' IQS

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 743-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Murray
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Level ◽  
College Age ◽  
Iq Scores ◽  
Local Norms

Wechsler-Bellevue IQ scores obtained by college level Ss were reviewed. Some indications suggest a rise in college students' IQ level. WAIS scores for college-age Ss in different areas of the United States were compared in the interest of gathering local norms, as an aid to guidance personnel in recommending students for college eligibility.

scholarly journals The Third Wave and the Third World

Pneuma ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Bialecki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Causal Effects ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Science Literature ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Charismatic Christianity

While a great deal of social science literature has examined the explosion of pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in the Global South as well as conservative and anti-modern forms of resurgent Christianity in the United States, little work has been done to investigate the causal effects of the former on the latter. Drawing from existing literature, interviews, and archives, this article contributes to filling that gap by arguing that in the mid-twentieth century, evangelical missionary concerns about competition from global Pentecostalism led to an intellectual crisis at the Fuller School of World Missions; this crisis in turn influenced important Third Wave figures such as John Wimber and C. Peter Wagner and is linked to key moments and developments in their thought and pedagogy.

scholarly journals Determining the Number of Refugees to Be Resettled in the United States: An Ethical and Policy Analysis of Policy-Level Stakeholder Views

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Rachel Fabi ◽  
Daniel Serwer ◽  
Namrita S. Singh ◽  
Govind Persad ◽  
Paul Spiegel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stakeholder Views ◽  
Policy Level

Predicting Policy Change in the House: A Longitudinal Analysis

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-384
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Hurley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Number Of Factors

If one were asked to describe the process of policy change in the United States in one word, that word would surely be ‘incremental’. Students of the Congressional process can point to a number of factors which account for delay in changes of policy; it is only recently that they have begun to examine the occasional departures from Congressional intractability in matter of public policy. This paper seeks to further our understanding of how internal legislative conditions can produce or inhibit policy change. While the first scholars to call attention to this phenomenon noted that policy changes followed critical realignments, others have made a more general case for the ability of Congress to pass important legislation, arguing that Congressional potential for policy change depends largely upon the interactive effects of both majority and minority size and unity. Policy changes have been enacted by those Congresses with large and/or cohesive majorities and small and/or disorganized minorities. These conditions often follow realigning elections, but occur at other times as well.

Double Game Theory: Be Described by China's Accession to the WTO and the Relations between Taiwan and the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 1044-1045 ◽  
pp. 1733-1736
Author(s):  
Lei Zheng ◽  
Yi Peng
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Game Theory ◽  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Level ◽  
Wto Accession ◽  
Domestic Level

Double Game theory attempts to combine the two levels of international relations, and explain international relations with the interaction of domestic level and the international level. The main contents of this theory was born from that background, theoretical aspects of this theory are introduced in this paper. Finally, be explained by the two cases of China's WTO accession and the relations between U.S. and Taiwan.

The Soviet Union and the Antarctic Regime

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 834-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boleslaw A. Boczek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
The West ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Social Science Literature ◽  
Antarctic Treaty ◽  
The Antarctic

Ever since the Antarctic regime began the third, crucial decade of its existence following the entry into effect of the Antarctic Treaty in 1961, interest in the frozen continent has escalated. This interest has spawned an immense social science literature, which analyzes the diverse legal, political and economic aspects of Antarctica and the surrounding oceans. The Antarctic regime has been universally and deservedly hailed both in the West and, especially, in the East as an unprecedented example of peaceful cooperation among states professing conflicting ideologies and, one might add, belonging to adversary alliances—as witnessed especially by the participation in the regime of the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet much of the pertinent scholarly writing devotes primary or exclusive attention to the position of the United States within this regime; except for incidental references in some works, not one study has appeared anywhere that deals with the position of the Soviet Union on major substantive issues arising within the context of the Antarctic regime. This study will attempt to fill this gap by comprehensively examining the topic of Soviet participation in the affairs of the southern continent.

scholarly journals The Factors Which Lead Students’ Dropout from Public Secondary Schools in Al’Ain City, Exploring It

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 152
Author(s):  
Khamis Fatima Abdulla Alkaabi ◽  
Mohd Asri Bin Mohd Noor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Local Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Al Ain ◽  
The Family

For any instructive organization, understudies are generally significant. Colleges and schools have no an incentive without students. The instructive cycle is an incorporated interaction including the family, the school and the whole local area to arrive at viable yields. There are a number of factors that negatively affect at-risk students' retention in school and graduate such as socioeconomic status. Phenomenon of dropout where thousands of students dropped out is prevalent and constant in urban schools across the United States (Brown, 2015). This research is important for academic reason; it gives academic practitioners vital information that can be utilized to develop the education. The information was collected by interviews questions with students. The information collected were analyzed by using coding, theme and sub-nodes with Nvivo program. The research showed that the factors affect in Retention of secondary stage’s students in Al Ain.

scholarly journals Castoriadis and Cognitive Linguistics: A Research Trajectory in the Form of 12 Busy Fragments

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Hastings-King
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
French Theory ◽  
The Way

If there is a problem with Castoriadis' work, it is that few know about it. In the United States, any number of factors may explain the superficiality of reception, from the way in which Castoriadis’ work moves across genres to the institutional configuration that has monopolized "French Theory" to the radical consequences entailed by his work for existing modes of information definition and organization.

scholarly journals A Critically Appraised Topic on the Tuck Jump Assessment: Does the Tuck Jump Assessment Demonstrate Interrater and Intrarater Reliability in Healthy Individuals?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-508
Author(s):  
Marissa L. Mason ◽  
Marissa N. Clemons ◽  
Kaylyn B. LaBarre ◽  
Nicole R. Szymczak ◽  
Nicole J. Chimera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Level ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Intrarater Reliability ◽  
Rater Training ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Lower Extremity Injuries ◽  
Extremity Injuries ◽  
Composite Scores

Clinical Scenario: Lower-extremity injuries in the United States costs millions of dollars each year. Athletes should be screened for neuromuscular deficits and trained to correct them. The tuck jump assessment (TJA) is a plyometric tool that can be used with athletes. Clinical Question: Does the TJA demonstrate both interrater and intrarater reliability in healthy individuals? Summary of Key Findings: Four of the 5 articles included in this critically appraised topic showed good to excellent reliability; however, caution should be taken in interpreting these results. Although composite scores of the TJA were found to be reliable, individual flaws do not demonstrate reliability on their own, with the exception of knee valgus at landing. Aspects of the TJA itself, including rater training, scoring system, playback speed, volume, and number of views allotted, need to be standardized before the reliability of this clinical assessment can be further researched. Clinical Bottom Line: The TJA has shown varying levels of reliability, from poor to excellent, for both interrater and intrarater reliability, given current research. Strength of Recommendation: According to the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine levels of evidence, there is level 2b evidence for research into the reliability of the TJA. This evidence has been demonstrated in elite, adolescent, and college-level athletics in the United Kingdom, Spain, and the United States. The recommendation of level 2b was chosen because these studies utilized cohort design for interrater and intrarater reliability across populations. An overall grade of B was recommended because there were consistent level 2 studies.

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