Coleman pages

Psychology strikes out: Coleman R. Griffith and the Chicago Cubs.

Coleman R. Griffith is widely known as the father of sport psychology in the United States. He directed the Research in Athletics Laboratory at the University of Illinois in the late 1920s and early 1930s and produced many articles and books on the psychology of sport. In 1938, P. K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, hired him to help improve the team's performance. Griffith and an assistant ...

Parental Education and Investment in Children’s Human Capital in Rural China

The landmark study of race and education in the United States known as the "Coleman Report" (Coleman et al. 1966) concluded that family characteristics are more important determinants of educational achievement than school quality or teacher experience, particularly in the early stages of schooling. From this result sprang two prominent lines of academic inquiry. The first focuses on so-called ...

Down Syndrome Research and Practice Volume 2 Number 3 Pages 112-115

Yet, although it is very difficult to detect just by physical examination, it is most important that the clinician pick up developing thyroid disease in children and adults with Down’s syndrome. Hypothyroidism can affect a child with Down’s syndrome at any age as was shown in a study where none of the cases had yet presented with clinical signs; the hypothyroidism already present in the childre...

Chapter 3 . 24 XWRAPComposer : A Multi - Page Data Extraction Service

We present a service-oriented architecture and a set of techniques for developing wrapper code generators, including the methodology of designing an effective wrapper program construction facility and a concrete implementation, called XWRAPComposer. Our wrapper generation framework has two unique design goals. First, we explicitly separate tasks of building wrappers that are specific to a Web s...

Recent advances in electrospinning of some selected biopolymers (pages 70 to 78)