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Music Therapy Practice in the Southwestern Region of the American Music Therapy Association: Making a Living in a Dynamic, Complex Field

Music Therapy Practice in the Southwestern Region of the American Music Therapy Association: Making a Living in a Dynamic, Complex Field Get access Lee D. Lacy, Lee D. Lacy Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Nancy Ann Hadsell Nancy Ann Hadsell Texas Woman's University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Music Therapy Perspectives, Volume 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 110–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/mtp/21.2.110 Published: 01 November 2003

From Playing Child to Aging Mentor: The Role of Human Studies in my Development as a Scholar

Human Studies, the official journal of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences (SPHS), has been with me as a beacon, guide, comfort, and joy for more than twenty years. I first came to know of the journal and SPHS in the 1980s from Professor Richard Owsley, a philosophy colleague at the University of North Texas. He encouraged me to attend a meeting of SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) at Northwestern University. (SPHS met along with SPEP.) When I used lack of travel funds as an excuse for not going, he said, "But you have a credit card, don't you?" At that time I was a professor at Texas Woman's University, where I taught graduate courses in phenomenology, hermeneutics and ethnomethodology in a Ph.D. program in sociology, under the rubric "qualitative methods." Within a few years, I became known as "the one who teaches phenomenology and all those other strange things." (These were the words of a friendly but staunchly positivist colleague.) Students from other graduate departments, such as dance, nursing, education, and psychology, often enrolled in my courses because they found that by using phenomenologically informed approaches they could find ways of researching what most interested them. As a respected scholarly journal, Human Studies validated what I was teaching, giving life and viability to reaching beyond what C. Wright Mills called "quantophrenia" and "abstracted grand theories" (Mills, 1959). Articles and issues featuring topics such as conversation analysis, hermeneutics, or current continental thinking provided avenues for students to access research rarely taught out? side of special enclaves. I had been interested in Schutz's phenomenological sociology since gradu? ate school, which I attended in the 1970's but there were no courses offered which included Schutz' work. As an American social scientist, I had been well trained in statistical techniques, including path and regression analysis, math? ematical modeling, experimental design, and survey research design. Path analysis diagrams show the degree of relationship between variables. We were required at that time to perform the regression beta coefficients on a hand

ANDROSTENEDIONE SUPPLEMENTATION AND POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of androst-4-ene-3,17-dione (ANDROSTENEDIONE) supplementation in an animal model of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD). It is hypothesized that androstenedione, because it is only one enzymatic reaction from testosterone conversion, may be an anabolic agent capable of elevating serum testosterone above normal levels, and because of this, androstenedione may exacerbate the disease state of ADPKD. Two groups of female PKD rats and two groups of male PKD rats were used (n = 18 females; n = 18 males). One group of females were supplemented with androstenedione in chow (n = 9) while the female controls received chow only (n = 9). Male rats were grouped in the same fashion. Rats were observed for a six-week period, from age 4 - 10 weeks. At the end of the six-week period, rats were euthanized via decapitation for total blood volume. Male rats receiving androstenedione had increased serum estrone concentrations compared to controls (p < 0.02) and female rats had increased serum testosterone concentrations compared to controls (p < 0.03). All rats receiving androstenedione supplementation had higher serum estradiol concentrations than controls (p < 0.02). Serum creatinine was significantly affected by gender, genotype, or treatment but rats with PKD had significantly increased serum creatinine concentration. Urinary creatine was increased in controls (p < 0.01) and was greater in males than females (p < 0.03). Total protein was decreased in females compared with males (p < 0.002). Concentration of serum urea nitrogen was increased among males and polycystic animals (p < 0.001). Urinary urea nitrogen was decreased in control males (p < 0.03) and androstenedione-supplemented females. Total kidney weight was increased among male and polycystic animals (p < 0.05). These data suggest androstenedione supplementation may promote estrogenization among males and androgenization among females and thereby exert a limited protective effect on males with PKD while exacerbating effects of PKD in females. Supported by Texas Woman's University Human Nutrition Research

Anatomy Online: The Start of a Certificate Program in Womenʼs Health

Dr Petterborg is Associate Professor, School of Physical Therapy, Texas Woman's University, 8194 Walnut Hill Ln, Dallas, TX 75231-4365 ([email protected]).

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Comparison of the University of California (Los Angeles) shoulder scale and the simple shulder test with shoulder pain and disability index: Single‐administration reliability and validity. (Texas Woman's University, Houston, TX) Phys Ther. 2000;80:759–768.This study compared 2 shoulder measures—the University of California‐Los Angeles (UCLA) Shoulder Scale and the Simple Shoulder Test (SST)—with the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI). One hundred ninety‐two patients with shoulder disorders were recruited from one physician's office to complete the self‐report sections of the 3 scales. Cronbach alpha values and standard errors of measurements (SEM) were calculated for each of the multi‐item subscales. Validity was examined through calculation of correlation coefficients among the 3 scales. Factor analysis was completed to assess the underlying constructs of the SPADI and SST. Cronbach alpha values ranged from 0.85 to 0.95. The SEM values for the multi‐item scales ranged from 4.75 to 11.65. Evidence for validity to reflect function was indicated by the correlation between the SST and the SPADI disability subscale. The factor analysis of the SPADI revealed loading on 1 factor, whereas the SST loaded on 2 factors. Conclude that all scales demonstrated good internal consistency, suggesting that all items for each scale measure the same constract. However, SEMS for all scales were high. Factor loading was consistent, suggesting that patients may not distinguish between pain and function. Comment by Philip S. Sizer Jr., MED, PT.Clinical practitioners are leaning toward evaluating functional status versus a pure‐impairment‐based approach to appraising shoulder limitations. Several scales have been developed for the evaluation of shoulder function, including the University of California Los Angeles Shoulder Scale (UCLA), the Simple Shoulder Test (SST), and the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI). Investigations demonstrating the psychometric properties of these scales are limited in number. These investigators attempted to assess those properties, including internal consistency, reliability, and validity for all 3 scales. The analyses demonstrated internal consistency and construct homogeneity for the SPADI. However, all 3 scales demonstrated rather large standard errors of measure, which questions the reliability of the scales for measurement of an individual's progress. Regarding construct validity, the SPADI does not appear to distinguish between pain and dysfunction, disqualifying its use as a gold standard for comparison with other scales. While the SST purports to measure a single construct, the data suggests that it appears to measure 2 different constructs namely function and comfort. Additionally, the analyses appear to demonstrate that, while the scales may attempt to measure the same constructs, they apparently do not. Finally, the authors suggest that the precision of the UCLA scale is inferior to the other 2 scales and insufficient for following the progress of individual patients in the clinical setting.

Introduction

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnn BurkhardtJennifer R. Johnson was a graduate student in the School of Occupational Therapy, Texas Woman's University, Houston, TX at the time of this study. She is currently employed as an Occupational Therapist at Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, LADebra Stewart is Lecturer, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University and staff therapist at Erinoak Centre, Missis-sauga, Ontario. She is currently completing a MSc (Design, Measurement and Evaluation) at McMaster University.Ronald L. Mace (deceased, June 29, 1998) was also affiliated with The Center for Universal Design, School of Design, North Carolina University.Lois Rosage and Geraldine Shaw are Occupational Therapist Consultants who provide evaluations for the housing programs at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging.Debbie Rand is Occupational Therapist, Beit Rivka Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital, Petach Tikva, Israel. She completed this study in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree in Occupational Therapy, School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her mailing address is 50 Heh B'Eyar Street, Apartment 5, Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel, 48056.

Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff.

Journal Article Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff. By Nancy Beck Young and Lewis L. Gould. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1997. xvi, 224 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-87611-159-2.) Get access Dorothy D. DeMoss Dorothy D. DeMoss Texas Woman's University Denton, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999, Pages 860–861, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567193 Published: 01 September 1999

Creating Local Knowledge in an Electronic Community: A Learning Project

Creating Local Knowledge in an Electronic Community: A Learning ProjectFrank ThomasFrank ThomasTexas Woman's University.Address correspondence to Frank Thomas, Texas Woman's University, at [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:May 2016https://doi.org/10.1521/jsyt.1999.18.3.69PDFPDF PLUS ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations About Previous article Next article FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Cited byCited byCheryl L. Storm1. Special Section: Opening Our Lives to TechnologyOnline publication date: 1 June 2005. Go to citation Crossref Laura Muscato Maggio, Ron Chenail and Tracy Todd2. Teaching Family Therapy In an Electronic AgeOnline publication date: 1 June 2005. Go to citation Crossref Volume 18Issue 3Sep 1999 Information© 1999 Guilford Publications Inc.PDF download

Correlation of spasticity with hyperactive stretch reflexes and motor dysfunction in hemiplegia

Objectives: To study the correlation between spasticity and motor dysfunction in the wrist-hand unit of adult hemiplegic patients, and to investigate the correlation between clinical spasticity and hyperactive stretch reflexes. Study Design: A survey study with a sequential case series of subjects. Setting: Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, School of Physical Therapy, Texas Woman's University, Houston, TX. Subjects: Sequential sample recruited from local stroke support groups: 10 patients with chronic hemiplegia caused by cerebral vascular accident who had various degrees of spasticity in the wrist joint. Outcome Measures: Modified Ashworth Scale, amplitudes of stretch reflexes for wrist flexors, grip strength, active range of motion of the wrist joint, and Fugl-Meyer test. Results: Strong reverse correlation was found between spasticity and grip strength, the Fugl-Meyer test scores, and the Box and Blocks test scores ( p = .001 to .005). Results also indicated a strong and consistent correlation between spasticity and reflexive electromyographic activities of the stretch reflex recorded from active muscles ( p = .005 and .007), but not between spasticity and torque response of the stretch reflex. Conclusions: The degree of wrist spasticity is associated with impaired hand function in hemiplegic patients, and hyperactive electromyographic response of the stretch reflex, recorded from active muscles, is a valid indicator of spasticity.

Marxism and Social Movements: Theory and Practice for Social Justice

T. R. YOUNG Texas Women's University Lehmann, Jennifer M. 1994. Durkheim and Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. Orloff, Ann Shola. 1993. and the Social Rights of Citizenship: Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States. American Sociological Review 58:303-328. Quadagno, Jill. 1994. Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermirled the War on Poverty. New York: Oxford University Press. Reskin, Barbara F. and Patricia A. Roos. 1990. Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explainirlg Women's Inroads into Male Occupations. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Risman, Barbara J. 1987. Intimate Relationships from a Microstructural Perspective: Men Who Mother. Gender and Society 1: 6-32. Rossi, Alice S. 1984. and Parenthood. American Sociological Review 49: 1-19. Smith-Lovin, Lynn and J. Miller McPherson. 1993. Are Who You Know: A Network Approach To Gender. Pp. 223-51 in Theory on Gender/Femirlism on Theory, edited by Paula England. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Spelman, Elizabeth V. 1988. Inesserltial Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought. Boston: Beacon Press. Sprague, Joey and Mary K. Zimmerman. 1993. Overcoming Dualisms: A Feminist Agenda for Sociological Methodology. Pp. 255-80 in Theory orl Gender/Feminism on Theory, edited by Paula England. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Tannen, Deborah. 1990. You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversatiorl. New York: Ballantine Books. Tong, Rosemarie. 1998. Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introdmctiorl. 2d Ed. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Tuana, Nancy. 1993. Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and Philosophical Conceptiorls of Woman's Nature Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Udry, Richard S. 1994. The Nature of Gender. Demography 31 : 561-73. Walby, Sylvia. 1986. Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. West, Candace and Sarah Fenstermaker. 1993. Power, Inequality and the Accomplishment of Gender: An Ethnomethodological View. Pp. 151-74 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory, edited by Paula England. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Williams, Christine L. 1993. Psychoanalytic Theory and the Sociology of Gender. Pp. 13149 in Theory on Gender/Feminism on Theory, edited by Paula England. New York: Aldine de Gruyter. Wright, Erik Olin. 1997. Class Counts: Comparative Studwies in Class Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

The NSF Foundation Coalition: The First Five Years

AbstractThe Foundation Coalition was funded in 1993 as the fifth coalition in the National Science Foundation's Engineering Education Coalitions Program. The member institutions—Arizona State University, Maricopa Community College District, Rose‐Hulman Institute of Technology, Texas A&amp;M University, Texas A&amp;M University ‐ Kingsville, Texas Woman's University, and the University of Alabama—have developed improved curricula and learning environment models that are based on four primary thrusts: integration of subject matter within the curriculum, cooperative and active learning, technology‐enabled learning, and continuous improvement through assessment and evaluation. This paper discusses the first five years of Coalition activities and major accomplishments to date.

Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield (review)

302CIVIL WAR HISTORY culminated in Hardship and Hope. The anthology gives birth to a multicultural and interdisciplinary approach to an era of dramatic change, not only for the women of Missouri. The selections cover nineteenth- and twentieth-century Missouri women; the sources are "primarily private writings," many of which are out of print and which represent the innumerable significant contributions of Missouri women and the manner in which their lives paralleled many critical historical events. Selections embody letters and unpublished journals of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne, Laura IngallsWilder, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, Virginia Fackler Creel, Kate Chopin, CarryA. Nation, and others. Elizabeth Keckley, who was bom into slavery in 1 8 1 8, narrates the scope ofher humiliations as a slave and her feelings of deep affection for Mary Todd Lincoln. Another section sets forth a speech by Phoebe Wilson Couzins as she recounts her experiences as the first female law student at the St. Louis Law School ofWashington University, "the vanguard to a higher civilization, where soul and mind is to be the only criterion of nobility and worth." In 1 887 Couzins was appointed by President Grover Cleveland to become the first woman U. S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Missouri. Waal and Komer have provided introductions to each woman. For clarity, editorial omissions are recorded, mainly to avoid redundancies. Footnotes support the authors' conclusions, and a selected bibliography is included. This collection , taken as a whole, is of high quality and will be of interest to scholars as well as the general reader. Nonetheless, the reader may find that the choices are too brief to present an unambiguous portrayal. These books examine and challenge the stereotypical images of nineteenthcentury women as they introduce the reader to many aspects ofour recent social history. The legacies of these women, written in their memoirs or discovered through their documents, are a substantial heritage for future generations. Issues of women's history, whether categorical or generalized, race related or class divided, need to be scrutinized for details and facts that can add to the overall sum of these parts. We need to find meaning in the smallest and most inconsequential activity of all possible forms of women's history. This means, "that somewhere between the diversity and the similarity lies the substance of women's history." Marsha Maro Campbell Texas Woman's University Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield. By Thomas H. O'Connor. (Boston : Northeastern University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 313. $26.95.) This book seeks to fill a significant gap in Civil War historiography and the equally rich literature on Boston. Although the city and many of its notable residents have figured prominently in the study of the sectional conflict, Boston has not previously found a chronicler of its wartime experience. The focus offers opportunities that go far beyond a case study of a large Northern commu- book reviews303 nity, for the conflicts and transformations within the "city set upon a hill) are essential to understanding the development of American identity, including the redefinition ofAmerican nationhood during the Civil War. Inviting comparison to Emory M. Thomas's The Confederate State ofRichmond ( 1 97 1 ) and Margaret Leech's Reveille in Washington (1941), O'Connor strives to connect local and national dimensions in his narrative of the capital of New England. The strongest passages detail the complex response of Irish Americans to the war and emphasize that the Unionism of Catholic Bishop John B. Fitzpatrick and the heroism of Irish American soldiers like Colonel Thomas Cass and the 9th Massachusetts regiment helped to soothe YankeeIrish tensions. Far too often, however, the perspective of Civil War Boston is merely Northern rather than Bostonian. Relying heavily on secondary sources, many paragraphs recount political news from Washington, supplemented with commentary from Boston newspapers; many other paragraphs rehash battles, supplemented with notes on the involvement of Massachusetts regiments. For example, in discussing one of the most dramatic wartime encounters between Boston culture and a competing regional voice, O'Connor devotes two perfunctory sentences to Edward Everett's oration at Gettysburg and eleven sentences to Lincoln's address. A comparable Irish American example is Patrick Gilmore, whose cultural significance Lawrence Levine has highlighted inHighbrow...

Dissertations of Note

Dissertations of Note Rachel Fordyce (bio) Barron, Frances Marlene. "Doing Books in the Social Context of Montessori Early Childhood Classrooms: Children 'Reading' Without Teachers." Ph.D. diss. New York University, 1995. 261 pp. DAI 56:4332A. This ethnographic study, involving children aged 2.9 through 5, tries to determine how children respond to books in individual as well as group settings. Not surprisingly her outcome suggests that children's interaction with books is most successful and frequent when teachers create an environment where books are valued and where the classroom is "flooded" with books. Blyn, Roslyn. "The Folkgames of Celtic-Speaking Children: A History and Classification System." Ph.D. diss. University of Pennsylvania, 1995. 350 pp. DAI 56:1924A. Blyn suggests that "children's play activities in the Celtic-speaking areas has been over-represented in print due to the desire to present an image that distinguishes the Celts from other ethnic groups." She includes a classification system that combines native Celtic terms with a folk taxonomy. Bronzel, Patrishajoy. "An Analysis of Selected Gifted Early Adolescent Protagonists in Children's and Young Adult Literature." Ed.D. diss. Columbia University Teachers College, 1995. 282 pp. DAI 56:4301A. Bronzel analyzes five gifted protagonists, aged ten through fifteen, in realistic late-twentieth-century fiction. She finds, in a study that surveys many more works than are focused on in the dissertation, that there is a male gender bias in books about gifted children, that the books tend to be limited "in scope of plot and characterization," but that they do reflect the "chaotic reality that is experienced by the gifted early adolescent." Burmeister, LaVern. "Response to Literature: The Influence of Primary Caregivers' Belief Systems on Eighth Graders' Response to Short Stories." Ph.D. diss. University of California, Riverside, 1995. 154 pp. DAI 56:3034A. The dissertation indicates that children's value systems are clearly influenced by their parents' beliefs, although students may not be fully aware of the influence or the extent of it. Burmeister also finds that students "appear to respond to literature based on the roles they perceive for themselves within the family." Carico, Kathleen Marie. "Responses of Four Adolescent Females to Adolescent Fiction with Strong Female Characters." Ph.D. diss. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. 266 pp. DAI 55:3119A. Carico's research, based on Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and Katherine Paterson's Lyddie, is informed by Louise Rosenblatt's perception of literature "as human experience and a medium for exploration," as well as the work of Richard Beach. She is concerned with "the enhancement of women's confidence by a validation of their experiences . . . through demonstrations of social constructions of meaning." Castañeda, Maria Anita. "A Look at Hispanic Children's Reading Choices and Interests: A Descriptive Study." Ph.D. diss. Texas Woman's University, 1995. 141 pp. DAI 56:3448A. In a semester-long study of five 8- and 9-year-old students Castañeda discovered that the genres they most preferred were realistic fiction, fantasy, and folktales, as well as information and concept books, and that a teacher's influence [End Page 239] on what students read is much more pervasive than a parent's. She also finds that preferences of both sexes are similar although boys had a stronger preference for legends than girls, and girls liked rhymed text better than boys did. Cleary, Beth M. "'Making the Gods' Voices Yell': Performing Theories of the Bread and Puppet Theatre." Ph.D. diss. University of California, Berkeley, 1994. 226 pp. DAI 56:1584A. Cleary's dissertation is an in-depth analysis of the thirty-year history of the Bread and Puppet Theatre and its founder, Peter Schumann, based on the four years she worked with the theatre. She demonstrates how Schumann draws on sophisticated cultural critics, such as Hannah Arendt, Ernst Bloch, and Herbert Marcuse. He "yolks his papier-mache mass spectacle aesthetics to their sophisticated mass culture ideas [and] asserts the necessity and urgency of [a] critical relationship between the individual and mass culture." Collins, Pansy Hillin. "Children Responding to Crisis Literature: Fifth Graders and Bridge to Terabithia." Ph.D. diss. University of Missouri—Columbia, 1993. 217 pp...

The Arthurian Myth of Quest and Magic ed. by William E. Tanner (review)

REVIEWS113 This is Queen Isolt's tale, not Gwenivere's, Tristans, not Lancelot's: but since men know This version best, I tell it also so. (136) This volume is a welcome addition to any Arthurian library and should help to place Masefield firmly in the tradition of Arthurian innovators and enthusiasts. If one were to use this work in a course, however, it would be useful—as it would be with the other volumes in this series—to see more editorial assistance, such as dates of composition and publication (when applicable) and even more important, explanatory notes for the less familiar references and details contained in the poems themselves. As it is, an insttuctorwould need to supplya great deal to undergraduates unfamiliarwith Masefield's predessesors and especiallywith his more obscure sources. REBECCA A. UMLAND University ofNebraska at Kearney William E. tanner, ed., The Arthurian Myth ofQuest andMagic. Dallas: Caxton's Modern Arts Press, 1993. Paper. Pp. viii, 145. isbn: 0-9635769-0-9. Honoring the pedagogical and scholatly achievements ofLavon B.Fulwiler, Cornaro Professor Emérita, Texas Woman's University, thisfestschrift offers disparate visions ofArthuriana, ranging from studies ofMalory, Tennyson, andTwain to explorations of Arthurian themes in contemporary novels and films. Apart from Fulwiler's autobiographical sketch, The Quest in Progress: A Twentieth-Century Enfances? TheArthurian Myth contains rwelve briefessays, several ofwhich (the works by Joe D. Thomas and Turner S. Kobler) provide no formal scholarly apparatus. Five essays are traditional literary applications, both medieval and post-medieval, of the Arthurian legend. While Fulwiler's The Myth Fulfilled' focuses on Arthur's identification with Christ and on the king's heroism and quest, notably in Malory's LeMorteDarthur, Donna Shelton's essay ("Malory's Use ofDream Vision' ) scrutinizes Malory's dream landscape so as to unveil 'the recurring themes ofstruggle, quest, and perseverance' (p. 26). Following these critical forays into Malory's world, James E. Barcus supplies a perceptive assessment of The Idylb ofthe King in '[Re]playing and [Re]writing the Quest inTennyson's "Gareth and Lynette."' Subverting any idealized reading ofthis tale as an affirmation ofVictorian pieties, Batcus claims thatTennyson at once embraces and challenges 'the bases for the founding ofthe Round Table, the authority forArthur's kingship, and the reality and stability ofCamelot' (p. 36). Two final tecastings of the Arthurian legend are found in Joe D. Thomas's ? Ball of Twain-Told Yarn' and in Frances Hernandez's 'Reflecrions on the Concept of the Grail.' While Thomas explores Hank Morgan's role in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, a satiric 'anti-romance' (p. 69), Hernandez attempts to unlock the mysteries ofthe Grail symbol in numerous English and continental works. The remaining seven essays in The Arthurian Myth focus on contemprary reweavings ofArthurian characters and themes into novels and films. In the Tangled Web ofTime,' William E. Tanner employs the semiotic theories ofEco and Kristeva 114ARTHURIANA as well as spatial-temporal frameworks to intepret both T. H. Whites The Once and Future King and The Book ofMerlyn. Tracing Merlyn's backward existence in time, Tanner offers a provocative argument for rhe novels' 'magical, curvilinear, webbed and chronological concepts oftime' (p. 52). The essays by Bob Dowell and Turner S. Kobler, on the contemporary Arthurian novel, are oflimited usefulness to Arthurian students and scholars. Dowell provides a conjectural analysis of John Steinbeck's preoccupation with the Arthurian legend, while Kobler ('King Arthur and Popular Culture') supplies general commentary, usually plot summaries, on the novels of Maty Stewart, Stephen Lawhead, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Patricia Kennealy. More focused and illuminating readings, however, are penned by Paul A. Lister and Sallye J. Sheppeard. In 'Sir Walker and Sir Lancelot,' for example, Lister argues convincingly that Walker Percy repudiates 'Southern Stoicism' (pp. 79-80)—the contemporary offshoot of the Arthurian mythos—because this regional philosophy violates Christian principles and fashions a retreat from reality. Sheppeard ('Arthur and the Goddess: Cultural Crisis in The Mists ofAvalon), however, hears a feminist voice in Bradley's novel, 'the voice ofpre-Christian and pre-Cekic tradition in Europe and Britain' (p. 94). Then exploring Morgaine's complaint against 'patriarchal Christianity' (p. 102), Sheppeard demonstrates cogently that a mythological schism develops, wherein...

THE EFFECTS OF A BOUT OF STRENGTH TRAINING ON GLUCOSE AND INSULIN RESPONSES IN SEDENTARY WOMEN

Dept. of Kinesiology, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX, and The Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research, Dallas, TX.

THE ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES WHILE ON AND OFF ANTIPARKINSONIAN MEDICATIONS.

School of Physical Therapy, Texas Woman's University, Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.

A new Deputy Editor

I am Very Pleased to Inform Our Readers that Scott Hasson, Director of Advanced Studies at Texas Woman's University of Physical Therapy, has accepted our invitation to become Deputy Editor of Physiotherapy 7heory and Practice. Without doubt the journal's future as an international physiotherapy/physical therapy research journal will be significantly enhanced by his appointment.

1994 Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance (Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, 3–6 November 1994)

1994 Annual Conference of the Congress on Research in Dance <i>(Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, 3–6 November 1994)</i>

NPs as Entrepreneurs: Three Case Histories

1Professor of nursing emeritus, Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX. 2Nursing instructor in the department of nursing, Pueblo Community College, Pueblo, CO.

Texas Woman's University and White House Communications on the Internet

During the course of the 1992 United States Presidential campaign, electronic discussion lists were established on Bitnet which allowed "subscribers" to openly discuss issues relevant to each candidate's campaign. A discussion list was formed for each of the three candidates. In the summer of 1992, the Clinton and Bush campaigns began posting full-text documents (speeches, interviews, platform positions, etc.) to each respective list on Bitnet, making available information that was almost nonexistent in any other format to faculty and students at Texas Woman's University. It was soon discovered that these documents were available elsewhere, but only through the Internet, and they were readily accessible for the taking. Organizations such as the federally sponsored Hermes Project and the National Public Telecmuting Network (NPTN) also provided access to these documents. The reference department at TWU soon took advantage of this information, and with the realization that most of the university community was still alien to electronic file transfer and Bitnet discussion lists, decided to make these documents available in a more traditional manner by retrieving them either through the discussion list or through one if the their organizations providing campaign documents via the Intemet. This article documents the reference department as an instrumental part in using the IInternet in the acquisistion of these campaign documents both before and after the November election for use by faculty and students, as well as members of the city Denton, Texas.