Sterling Clint Hilton

This study evaluated how preparing for an interval workout, while wearing a cooling vest, affects core temperature (Tc), heart rate (HR), and interval time in long-distance runners. Nineteen male collegiate cross-country runners exercised under two different conditions: (a) wearing a Nike PreCool" ice vest for one hour prior to the workout (30 minutes resting with the vest and 30 minutes while performing their warm-up); and (b) a control condition utilizing a traditional warm-up. Subjects performed 8 ? 1000 m intervals. HR and Tc were measured prior to warm-up, immediately before the first interval, and after each interval. Tc measured before the first interval was significantly lower in the vest condition (difference = 0.37? ? 0.2?C). Differences persisted through the sixth interval. Differences in HR and interval times were nonsignificant between conditions for all intervals. Wearing an ice vest prior to and during warm-up effectively lowers Tc during long-distance interval training.

Was my doctoral student. A portion of dissertation.An investigation of the rationales and characteristics of "Russian" parents in choosing between Estonian, all Russian, or bilingual educational settings for their children. This is an important laboratory of the second language acquisition theories and rationales of parents because there is open choice in Estonia at this point. Findings include that the identification of self as Russian or Estonian "culturally" is very predictive and more complicated and nuanced by earlier "Russification" practices. Parental attitudes about group identification and target culture and parent culture and economic viability interact in novel ways and are synergistically more powerful predictors than socio-linguistic theory might have predicted or accounted for.