The Ministry of Sound, which started life as a London club less than ten years ago, by 2002 had the largest global dance record label and the most popular music website in the world, and published the UK's fastest growing music magazine, Ministry. It now promotes club events around the globe and broadcasts its radio show on 50 stations in 32 countries, thus becoming the world's most famous danc...

It may not go down in history as the ‘miracle of London’ but the 2012 Paralympic Games truly brought about changes in attitudes towards people with disabilities that will be enduring. Going into the Games there were doubters, ‘do not carers’ and people ignorant to the achievements of Paralympians. The Olympic Games was an unqualified success but how would the nation and people around the world ...

The human body is designed for movement and capable of incredible athletic and sporting achievements. Attempts to improve the ability to perform on the athletic stage are never-ending and involve a serious dedication to training. Athletes, coaches, support personnel, and scientists are constantly experimenting with new ways to improve training and its applicability to performance. Nutrition is ...

Using a videogame to simulate encounters with potentially hostile targets, three studies tested a model in which racial bias in shoot/don’t-shoot decisions reflects accessibility of the stereotype linking Blacks to danger. Study 1 experimentally manipulated the race-danger association by asking participants to read newspaper stories about Black (vs. White) criminals. As predicted, exposure to s...

Introduction Anaerobic power is power used in high-intensity bouts of exercise lasting fewer than ten seconds; which is the peak amount of time for phosphocreatine reserves to empty as a primary fuel source. It is expressed in terms of watts of force per kilogram of bodyweight. Power is considered a crucial component in overall athleticism. Ample power tends to be a key difference maker in shor...

The link between athleticism and academic performance has always been an area where educators are keen to investigate. Knowing whether students benefit from the impact of sports involvement is a huge advantage in engaging learners from a variety of backgrounds. In doing a recent literature review I have found that students who are involved in sports benefit in a variety of ways, not only academ...

Diversity is widely celebrated and pursued in parts of American society, particularly within academe. Diversity is clearly associated with moral goods, such as justice, and with practical goods, such as the variety and quality of ideas. But from a social psychological point of view, diversity ought to cause a number of problems, such as divisiveness and conflict. A resolution of this paradox is...

Beef cow efficiency is a century’s old debate on what the criteria, certain phenotypic traits, and definition of an “efficient” cow. However, we do know that energy utilization by the cow herd is proportionally large compared to the rest of the sector, which accounts up to 70 to 75% of dietary energy for maintenance with the residual used for pregnancy, lactation, activity and adaptation to the...

S (alphabetical order) Francine Abe '03 and Sara Miller '03 Shryril O’Steen, Biology Sex and Survival: An Evolutionary Approach to the Study of the Guppy, Poecilia Reticulata Trinidad guppies, Poecilia reticulata, are used as a model system to study the process of evolution because their unique natural environment has allowed variable traits to evolve in separate populations of high and low pre...

Building on existing literature on fan studies, this ethnography examines the multiple modes of engagement between the audience and the performers/producers at live professional wrestling events. This study identifies five ways in which fans interact with the pro wrestling texts at live events: as spectators, as critics, as performers, as community members, and as theorists, and also suggests t...