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This paper explores the relationship that elective course offerings and requirements have on student success through graduation rates. The purpose of this study is to better understand the effect that elective courses have on a student's academic success. This research focused on the Big 9 conference of southeastern Minnesota Public High Schools, which consisted of nine different school districts. These districts paralleled the makeup and diversity of districts around the state. All data reviewed was public information and included resources such as the Minnesota Department of Education's Report Card database, and course catalogs from each district in the study. Graduation rates from 2017-19 were compared to the amount of elective courses required to graduate, as well as the amount of elective courses offered in each district. Data was compared through the Pearson correlation coefficient. Results indicated little to no correlation between the number of elective courses offered and graduation rates. A moderate positive correlation was seen between the required number of elective credits to graduate in comparison to graduation rates. This research has concluded that increasing the number of electives required for graduation would have a positive relationship to student success through improved graduation rates. The number of elective courses to select from however does not strongly influence student success. Implications for school leaders and state legislators include the importance of a stronger consideration of elective courses for future cohorts of Minnesota High School students through improved funding and graduation requirements.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Phenomenology and Performance -- Part II: Phenomenology of Performance -- Part III: Performance as Phenomenology/Phenomenology as Performance -- References -- Part I Performance and Phenomenology -- Chapter 2 The Essential Question: So What's Phenomenological About Performance Phenomenology? -- Introduction -- The Essentiality of Essentialism to Phenomenology -- The Essences of Phenomenology -- Some Important Forebears -- The Future -- References -- Chapter 3 Phenomenological Methodology and Aesthetic Experience: Essential Clarifications and Their Implications -- Introduction -- Phenomenological Understandings of Kinaesthesia and Movement -- Aesthetic Experience, the Phenomenological Reduction and the Natural Attitude -- Aesthetic Creativity and the Qualitative Dynamics of Movement -- References -- Chapter 4 The Unnamed Origin of the Performative in Heidegger's Interpretation of Aristotelian Phronēsis -- Introduction -- A Note on the Performative -- The Question of the Priority of Phronēsis -- The Performative Structure of Phronēsis -- Conclusions and Further Directions -- References -- Part II Phenomenology of Performance -- Chapter 5 A Phenomenology of Being Seen -- Phenomenology as a Method -- Being Seen in Performance -- First Approximation: Beginning -- Second Approximation: Somatic Practices of Performance -- Third Approximation: Being Seen in Performance -- Fourth Approximation: A Hermeneutics of Being Seen -- Fifth Approximation: Being Seen in Butoh -- On Being Seen: Performance Maps for Somatic Experiencing -- Map for Appearing and Disappearing -- Map for Being Present: Conscious Use of Being Seen -- Map for Being Seen by Nature -- Mapping the Eyes with a Partner -- Values of Being Seen in Performance -- References.

This study examined the effects of weight training on aggression levels in adult males incarcerated in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ). Of the 240 voluntary participants, 202 completed two psychometric instruments to assess changes in aggression levels. Measures of verbal aggression, hostility, and anger significantly decreased in the weight-training group, whereas vigor scores significantly decreased in the non-weight-training group. Results offer some support to the belief that engaging in weight training, or at least engaging in voluntary physical activity, may have an effect on reducing inmate aggression levels.

INTRODUCTION: Invasive fungal infections (IFI) are associated with high morbidity and mortality. A better method of risk stratifying trauma patients for combat-related IFI is needed to improve clinical outcomes while minimizing morbidity related to overtreatment. We sought to develop combat-related IFI clinical decision support (CDS) tools to assist providers to make treatment decisions both near the point of injury and subsequently at definitive treatment centers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We utilized a training dataset containing information from 227 combat-injured military personnel to build a Bayesian belief network (BBN) to predict the likelihood of developing IFI using information available at the point of initial resuscitation (THEATER model) and in the tertiary care setting (MEDCEN model). After selecting BBN models, external validation used a separate test dataset of 350 wounded warriors. Furthermore, the performance of the BBN models was compared with a "two-rule model" alone (based on physician experience) and combinations of the BBN models plus the two-rule model. The two-rule model contains plausible IFI criteria, but it has not been formally evaluated, and they are not currently actual clinical guidelines. RESULTS: We found receiver operating characteristic areas under the curve (AUC) of 0.70 (95% CI: [0.62, 0.77]) and 0.68 (95% CI: [0.59, 0.76]) for the THEATER and MEDCEN BBN models, respectively, on cross-validation. External validation with the highest AUC BBN models produced THEATER AUC of 0.68 (95% CI: [0.58, 0.78]) and MEDCEN AUC of 0.67 (95% CI: [0.57, 0.78]). With the incorporation of two-rule model in low IFI-prevalence populations, external validation AUC increased to 0.77 (95% CI: [0.69, 0.84]) for the THEATER model and 0.76 (95% CI:[0.68, 0.85]) for the LRMC model. The two-rule model alone has an AUC of 0.72 (95% CI: [0.63, 0.81]). CONCLUSIONS: Overall, the IFI tools produced clinically useful, robust models. However, the clinical utility of these models is highly dependent upon the ...