9:30-10:00
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Communication Failures in Business
Luke Parkhurst
How businesses can run into communication problems will be explored amongst the most common communication problems. The problems being explored will be issues such as companies creating distrust with stakeholders and partners through communication, expatriates not understanding communications standards in foreign cultures, and misinterpretation of messages because of technology. Using case studies as examples of these common problems, commonalities will be of these issues discussed and recommendations for ways to avoid similar experiences. These common issues could be avoided by preparing beforehand or changing communication styles. By preparing for communications with stakeholders or partners and better training for expatriates going into different cultures, difficulties can be avoided. Technological miscommunications can be avoided by changing ones communication style and wording of messages.
10:00-10:30
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The Use of Video Analysis to Detect Kinematic Imbalances During Lifting Techniques Using App Technology
Alexander Bonitto
Lack of knowledge, appropriate technique, and experience to properly perform lifting techniques are related to decreased performance and injuries. Alex Bonitto is developing a mobile app that provides the user the ability to record, video analyzes and diagnoses each specific joint angle while performing complex movements in order to maximize performance and guarantee safety. The app gives users the ability to record exercises providing diagnosis to whether a certain technique was performed correctly biomechanically. The user can select a movement category in the app and record a video about the execution being saved and available to the user under saved video option categorized by the technique performed by the user. The default analyzer can be chosen to provide general diagnosis of what was done wrong by using the basic draw tools. For example, if the user performs a squat with an angle of 100°, these angles can be drawn from the video previously recorded. The app will provide feedback if the angle is correct or incorrect as well as recommendations how to improve performance including mobility and stability exercises. The main goal of the app is to enhance user's performance and safety in the fastest and most efficient way.
10:30-11:00
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The Effects of 8 Weeks of training on Lifting Techniques in a Sedentary Woman: A Case Study
Nicole O’Doherty
The main objective of this case study is to access if eight weeks of training would improve performance and lifting techniques in an apparently health sedentary women. It is hypothesized that both performance and technique would improve based on the feedback provided via video analysis after the strength and conditioning program period. Video-taping of participant technique will be recorded in three different moments in the program: (1) at the beginning; (2) in the fourth week of the program; and (3) in the eighth week of the program. Improvements in performance will be measured by the workload lifted and percentage of improvement. The movement technique will be analyzed by video and a check list indicating appropriate movement execution. These parameters will be compared between the beginning, fourth and eighth week of the program. The movements that will be recorded are squats, lateral pull downs, and bench press. The video analysis will be used to review, correct, and instruct the participant providing appropriate feedback as well as make the necessary adjustments in an attempt to improve performance and technique. Upon completion of the program, it is expected that the participant will improve in both performance and technique.
11:00-11:30
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Effects of Dynamic warm-up on Anaerobic Power, Anaerobic Capacity and Performance during a Wingate Anaerobic Test
Alexander Schleper, Taylor Wilkinson
The purpose of this study is to determine whether dynamic warm-up prior the Wingate Anaerobic Test (WanT) will improve anaerobic performance compared with no warm-up. Twenty healthy hockey players (10 men and 10 women) will volunteer for this study. The participants will be performing a WanT according to the National Hockey League (NHL) standards. Participants will visit the laboratory twice, in which, the test performed in each day will be randomized and counterbalanced between participants. On the first day of testing, if participants perform the WanT with prior dynamic warm-up, on the second day they will perform the WanT without warm-up and vice and versa. The warm-up will consist of 10 minutes of dynamic movements followed by the WanT comprised of 30 seconds as fast as possible with workload representing 7% of individual’s body mass for women and 9% for men in a mechanical Monark cycle ergometer. Peak power, relative peak power, anaerobic capacity, anaerobic fatigue index, and lactate concentrations will be determined to be compared between conditions. It is expected that dynamic warm-up will improve WanT performance as shown by greater peak power, relative peak power, anaerobic capacity, but with similar levels of anaerobic fatigue index and lactate concentrations.
11:30-12:00
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Social Development Practices in Education
Andrea Rice
Despite the trend of emphasizing the importance of communication skills and group learning in schools today, many students experience feelings of isolation and separation from their peers or have difficulty working collaboratively. How can teachers support students in developing their social skills and forming meaningful relationships with their peers? This presentation will evaluate strategies such as Adult Interactive Style Intervention (AISI), evaluating the potential strengths and dangers presented by these strategies. The conclusion of this research will provide insight for future and/or practicing teachers about selecting effective strategies and practices to help their students develop the skills they need to succeed.
1:30-2:00
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Ethiopian Magic Scrolls
Gabriel Gleiman
Ethiopian Magic Scrolls or Healing Scrolls were used for protection, illnesses, and banishing evil spirits or demons from a person. Because of the material that is used known as vellum made from the skin of an animal, mainly a goat, the scrolls cracks and falls apart. The oldest known scrolls that haven't fallen apart date back to late 18th century or early 19th century. Creating these scrolls is still being practiced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The scrolls have a mix of images, texts, prayers, and incantations. The images on them have origins from Islamic, Judaic, and Christian art. Even today the scrolls are still being made. The parchment used is long, narrow segmented vertical strips, usually as long as the owner of the scrolls height. They have handwritten texts, protective prayers with drawn and painted images.
2:00-2:30
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Pop up Books
Molly Cowan
Pop up books have been a part of many modern cultures. For most, it is a way of entertainment for young ones. This is a step up from simple two-dimensional art and not quite the quality of digital. It’s telling a story that can be a bit more interactive. For others, it’s an art form of which the challenge is to see how complex the final stage can be. However, like most things, pop up books didn’t start off this way. They were originally made for learning purposes like anatomy, star reading, and secret codes. The history of pop up books is very diverse and the origin is very interesting. There’s not an obtuse amount of knowledge on pop ups, but there are plenty of theories.
2:30-3:00
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The Global Impact of the Cold War
Kristen Spencer
The purpose of this work is to consider the most impactful historical event since 1500. While many events could be viewed as most important, I conclude and argue that the most significant historical event was the Cold War. Information from books and journal articles published by historians provided context and argumentation to reach the conclusion that the Cold War had the most significant impact on the world, and continues to impact the world today. The Cold War pitted the world’s two major powers, the United States and Soviet Union, against each other, and led to several proxy wars in Vietnam and Korea, major technological breakthroughs, and the overall theme of the ideological differences between Capitalism and Communism. As a result, as I will show in this presentation, the Cold War represents a worthy focus as most impactful historical episode since 1500.
3:00-3:30
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Marketing the Nazis: Three Methods of Nazi Propaganda
John Blake
A key facet of modern European history is the effectiveness of leaders to spur their citizens into following a regime with hidden and horrible motives, such as Napoleon Bonaparte, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler. How have they been able to procure such support? This paper examines the effectiveness of three forms of propaganda used by Nazi Germany leading up to and during World War II. Nazi newsreels were an important medium, and under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels, they were able to be massively successful in uniting the German people. Additionally, the Munich-Salzburg Autobahn project was a much slyer tactic to showing off the strength and power of the Nazi party, under the guise of the “modernization” of the Nazis. Finally, the projection of Hitler had a resounding impact on rousing German pride. Goebbels, through the “Fuhrer myth”, was able to project Hitler as an infallible being, which made it easier for the regime to hide its atrocities from the German people as long as possible.
3:30-4:00
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The Giant, The Rebel and the King: a study of US, Kurdish and Turkish Relations
Joshua Roberts
The research to be presented analyzes Kurdish, US, and Turkish relations, how they interact, and what events and factors shape these interactions. This research finds that the US befriends the Kurds in times of conflict outside of Turkey, even though this angers the Turkish government during these interactions. In contrast, the US and Turkey forge closer ties during conflicts that do not involve any foreign Kurdish involvement, or which involves the militant Kurdish movements in Turkey. This research is important given the current political climate of the Middle East and the Kurdish regions in Iraq and Syria in particular, as the US has found itself angering both the Kurds and Turks while supporting both at the same time. This research will help to predict what exactly the Middle East will look like in the years ahead and what factions, groups, or countries may come to power, hold new power, or be weakened by the complex US-Kurd-Turkey relations.
4:00-4:30
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For Better or For Worse: Intimate Partner Violence from 1630s to 1900
Amanda Horrocks
As a social institution, marriage has been defined in parallel with changing gender expectations throughout American history. These social and cultural expectations have included ideas about stability, compassion, romance, and kindness between spouses. However, in reality there were always ambiguities in marriage, including physical and sexual abuse as well psychological and verbal forms of aggression. This paper examines intimate partner violence as a historical phenomenon in the United States from 1630s through the 1800s.
