Santa Fe Community College

Abstract More needs to be known about intervention strategies that mentors incorporate into their practices to promote wellbeing of their mentees in various fields. This chapter reports on a qualitative pilot study conducted with seven experienced mentors from education, health, psychology, engineering, and business. The conceptual framework was based on the measurable indicators of wellbeing identified in the literature—positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. One research question requested mentors’ use of interventions to promote their client and colleague mentees’ wellbeing in their professional practice. Findings revealed that mentors incorporated theories of human growth and development, hierarchy of needs, attachment, positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, and awareness integration theories that support the use of interventions for mentees’ wellbeing. Studies exploring mentors’ creative processes in developing, teaching, and evaluating the benefit of interventions to promote wellbeing are recommended.

ABSTRACT Purpose: Peripheral heart action (PHA) is a style of circuit training that alternates upper and lower body resistance exercises with minimal rest between sets. The purpose of this study was to compare the metabolic demands of PHA to traditional hypertrophy training (TRAD) and to provide between sex comparison for both types of resistance training (RT). Methods: Twenty resistance-trained individuals underwent two bouts of volume-load matched RT: PHA and TRAD. We measured oxygen uptake (VO2), heart rate (HR), blood lactate (BL) concentration, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), and duration of each session. Results: PHA elicited significantly greater %VO2max (p < .001), %HRmax (p < .001), RPE (p < .001), and EPOC (p < .001) compared to TRAD. PHA was also completed in less time (p < .001). Compared to TRAD, BL was significantly higher at mid-exercise (p < .001), post-exercise (p < .001), and 5-min post-exercise (p < .001) during PHA. There were no between-sex differences for BL at any time-point for TRAD. However, during PHA, BL was significantly higher for males at mid-exercise (p = .04), post-exercise (p = .02), and 5-min post-exercise (p = .002). No between-sex differences were detected for HR, VO2, RPE, or duration for either style of RT. Conclusions: PHA is a time-effective and metabolically demanding circuit that may lead to strength and cardiorespiratory adaptations. Males produced more BL than females during PHA, but not TRAD, suggesting that they incurred more metabolic stress during the bout of circuit training.

Review of the Brazilian film, Bacurau.

Revised! SS-AGR-86, an 8-page fact sheet by A. M. Fox, D. R. Gordon, J. A. Dusky, L. Tyson, R. K. Stocker, K. A. Langeland, and A. L. Cooper, provides a history, justification, and summary of the IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida’s Natural Areas. Includes references. Published by the UF Department of Agronomy, November 2009.

Richard Kadel misuses the meaning of “theory” as applied by most scientists today. Theory as used today hardly means “speculation based on incomplete knowledge.” In Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science (National Academy Press, 1998, available at http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98), a theory in science is defined as “a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses.” Laws are “typically descriptions of how the physical world behaves under certain circumstances.”There is no suggestion that either is more certain than the other. In fact, when I teach my geology, physical science, and Earth science students about the scientific method, I stress that both laws and theories are as certain as we can make them, both are testable, and in the light of new evidence, both can be modified, overturned, or replaced. The big difference is that a theory is usually explanatory, while a law is usually descriptive and often quantifiable.To define a theory as speculation is to fall into the trap that many nonscientists have fallen into when dealing with such controversial theories as evolution. There are generally enormous amounts of data to support theories and laws. Without that data, we usually refer to “hypotheses” to suggest the greater degree of uncertainty. In fact, most laws and theories start out as hypotheses.I do agree that Einstein’s formulations should be called laws. However, that’s not because they are more certain now; it’s because they are quantifiable and descriptive. But we still need to refer to Einstein’s theories as well, because they explain why the formulations work.© 2007 American Institute of Physics.